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...The director of agriculture may adopt rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, to administer and enforce sections 3715.80 to 3715.86 of the Revised Code. If rules are adopted, the rules shall be no more restrictive than the regulations promulgated under the federal "Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act," 52 Stat. 1040 (1938), 21 U.S.C.A. 301, et seq., as amended.

...A dietary supplement is not considered a "food additive" within the meaning given in the federal "Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act," 21 U.S.C.A. 321(s), as amended.

...The state board of pharmacy shall, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, adopt rules as necessary to give effect to sections 3715.89 and 3715.90 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Whoever violates section 3715.13 or 3715.38 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (B) Whoever violates section 3715.22, 3715.25, or 3715.27 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (C) Whoever violates section 3715.23 or 3715.34 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree. (D) Whoever violates section 3715.52 or 3715.65 of the Revised Code ...

...The following acts and the causing thereof are hereby prohibited: (A) The sale or delivery for sale of any misbranded package of a hazardous substance; (B) The alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration, or removal of the whole or any part of the label of, or the doing of any other act with respect to a hazardous substance, if such act is done while the substance is held for sale and which results in the haz...

...No person shall do either of the following, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that any person may suffer physical harm or be seriously inconvenienced or annoyed thereby: (A) Place a pin, needle, razor blade, glass, laxative, drug of abuse, or other harmful or hazardous object or substance in any food or confection; (B) Furnish to any person any food or confection which has been adulterated in violation ...

...As used in this section, "health-related licensing board" means a state board authorized to issue a license to engage in the practice of a licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs. A health-related licensing board may adopt rules limiting the amount of an opioid analgesic that may be prescribed pursuant to a single prescription by an individual licensed by the board. The rules shall be adopted in ...

...Prescriptions, orders, and records, required by Chapter 3719. of the Revised Code, and stocks of dangerous drugs and controlled substances, shall be open for inspection only to federal, state, county, and municipal officers, and employees of the state board of pharmacy whose duty it is to enforce the laws of this state or of the United States relating to controlled substances. Such prescriptions, orders, records, and...

...(A) A peace officer may sell any controlled substance in the performance of the officer's official duties only if either of the following applies: (1) A peace officer may sell any controlled substance in the performance of the officer's official duties if all of the following apply: (a) Prior approval for the sale has been given by the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the sale takes place, in any ...

...No person shall be prosecuted for a violation of this chapter if the person has been acquitted or convicted under the federal drug abuse control laws of the same act or omission which, it is alleged, constitutes a violation of this chapter.

...Sections 3719.32 and 3719.33 of the Revised Code do not apply to substances sold or delivered upon the order or prescription of a person believed by the seller or deliverer to be a licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs.

...The state board of pharmacy shall enforce sections 3719.30 to 3719.35 of the Revised Code. If the board has information that any of those sections has been violated, it shall investigate, and upon probable cause appearing, shall file a complaint and prosecute the offender. Fines assessed and collected under prosecutions commenced by the board shall be paid to the executive director of the state board of pharmacy, an...

...or service when provided in either an inpatient setting or an outpatient department setting, as applicable: (a) The gross charge; (b) The de-identified minimum negotiated charge; (c) The de-identified maximum negotiated charge; (d) The discounted cash price; (e) The payor-specific negotiated charge, listed by the name of the third-party payor and health plan associated with the charge and displayed in a man...

...ision of that shoppable service in an inpatient setting, an outpatient department setting, or in both of those settings, as applicable; (2) Indicate if one or more of the shoppable services specified by the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services is not provided by the hospital. (D) The list shall satisfy the following conditions, as applicable: (1) Be displayed in the same manner prescribed by...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Chronic nuisance property" means a property on which three or more nuisance activities have occurred during any consecutive six-month period. (2) "Deadly weapon" and "firearm" have the same meanings as in section 2923.11 of the Revised Code. (3) "Nuisance activity" includes all of the following: (a) A felony drug abuse offense as defined in section 2925.01 of the Revised Code; (...

...) of this section that is provided in a patient's place of residence used as the patient's home; (2) Any activity that requires the person performing the activity to be routinely alone with a patient or to routinely have access to a patient's personal property or financial documents regarding a patient; (3) For each home health agency individually, any other routine service or activity that the chief administra...

...(A) A licensed fountain device retailer is authorized to possess fountain devices and sell fountain devices at retail pursuant to this section: (1) A licensed retailer's displays for fountain devices shall be limited to three hundred square feet. No single fountain device display shall exceed one hundred fifty square feet, and each display must be placed at least twenty-five feet from any other highly flammable mat...

...The director of health, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt and may amend or rescind rules doing all of the following: (A) Listing types of radioactive material for which licensure by its handler is required and types of radiation-generating equipment for which registration by its handler is required, and establishing requirements governing them. Rules adopted under division (A) of this...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Public school" means any of the following: a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district; community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code; STEM school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code; or college-preparatory boarding school established under Chapter 3328. of the Revised Code. (2) "State institution of higher education...

...(A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Marijuana" means marihuana as defined in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Medical marijuana" means marijuana that is cultivated, processed, dispensed, tested, possessed, or used for a medical purpose. (3) "Academic medical center" has the same meaning as in section 4731.297 of the Revised Code. (4) "Drug database" means the database established and maintained by the stat...

...aregivers; (9) A member who represents patients; (10) A member who represents agriculture; (11) A member who represents persons involved in the treatment of alcohol and drug addiction; (12) A member who engages in academic research. (B) The governor shall appoint the members described in divisions (A)(1), (2), (4), (10), (11), and (12) of this section. The senate president shall appoint the members described in ...

... accounts to be used only by registered patients and caregivers at licensed dispensaries as well as by all license holders under this chapter. The system may include record-keeping and accounting functions that identify all parties involved in those transactions. The purpose of the system is to prevent all of the following: (1) Revenue from the sale of marijuana from going to criminal enterprises, gangs, and cartels...

...he effective date of this amendment , a patient seeking to use medical marijuana or a caregiver seeking to assist a patient in the use or administration of medical marijuana shall apply to the state board of pharmacy for registration. On and after one hundred eighty days following the effective date of this amendment , a patient seeking to use medical marijuana or a caregiver seeking to assist a patient in the use or...

...tail dispensary; (b) The name of the patient and caregiver, if any; (c) The name of the physician who recommended treatment with medical marijuana; (d) The directions for use, if any, as recommended by the physician; (e) The date on which the medical marijuana was dispensed; (f) The quantity, strength, kind, or form of medical marijuana contained in the package. (C) When operating a licensed retail ...

...A pharmacy may do any of the following when a pharmacy audit is performed: (A) Validate a pharmacy record by using original or photocopied records from hospitals, physicians, or other health care providers; (B) Validate one or more claims for payment for the provision of dangerous drugs or pharmacy services by using either of the following: (1) An original pharmacy record or photocopy of the record; (2) An origin...

...ides medical and rehabilitative care to patients who require an average length of stay greater than twenty-five days and is classified by the centers for medicare and medicaid services as a long-term care hospital pursuant to 42 C.F.R. 412.23(e); (c) A county home or district home operated pursuant to Chapter 5155. of the Revised Code; (d) A residential facility licensed under section 5119.34 of the Revised Code th...

...des medical and rehabilitative care to patients who require an average length of stay greater than twenty-five days and is classified by the centers for medicare and medicaid services as a long-term care hospital pursuant to 42 C.F.R. 412.23(e); (3) County homes and district homes operated pursuant to Chapter 5155. of the Revised Code; (4) Residential facilities licensed under section 5119.34 of the Revised C...

...r the component; (3) Assessment of any patient liability payment pursuant to rules adopted by the department under this section. The appeal shall be made in accordance with section 173.56 of the Revised Code and rules adopted pursuant to that section. (B) An individual who is an applicant for or participant or former participant in the state-funded component of the PASSPORT program may not bring an appeal under th...

...r the component; (3) Assessment of any patient liability payment pursuant to rules adopted by the department under this section. The appeal shall be made in accordance with section 173.56 of the Revised Code and rules adopted pursuant to that section. (B) An individual who is an applicant for or participant or former participant in the state-funded component of the assisted living program may not bring an appeal u...

...ophic-only plans, as defined under the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," 124 Stat. 119, 42 U.S.C. 18022 and any related regulations, are not subject to the limits prescribed in division (D) of this section, provided that such plans meet all applicable minimum federal requirements. (E) A health insuring corporation shall not impose lifetime maximums on basic health care services. However, a health in...

...ed unacceptable quality of care, fraud, patient abuse, loss of clinical privileges, loss of professional liability coverage, incompetence, or loss of authority to practice in the participating provider's field; or if a governmental action has impaired the participating provider's ability to practice. (E) Divisions (A) to (D) of this section apply only to providers who are natural persons. (F)(1) Nothing in this s...

...or professional advice to an individual patient. This division does not prevent a hospital, as defined in section 3727.01 of the Revised Code, insurer, as defined in section 3999.36 of the Revised Code, or intermediary organization, as defined in section 1751.01 of the Revised Code, from entering into a contract with a professional association described in this division that includes a provision requiring utilizat...

...ces required for the care of transplant patients.

...s and to encourage them to assist their patients in making declarations of anatomical gifts; (8) Development of statewide hospital training programs to encourage and facilitate compliance with sections 2108.14 and 2108.15 of the Revised Code; (9) Reimbursement of the bureau of motor vehicles for the administrative costs incurred in the performance of duties under section 4501.028 of the Revised Code; (10) Reimb...

...bly attempt to delay, the transfer of a patient in violation of division (B) of section 2133.23 of the Revised Code. (2) No person shall purposely conceal, cancel, deface, or obliterate the DNR identification of another person without the consent of the other person. (3) No person shall purposely falsify or forge a revocation of a declaration that is the basis of the DNR identification of another person or purposel...

...re facility in which the declarant is a patient receiving its services or a resident. (C) Divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section do not apply if the declarant and proxy are related by blood, marriage, or adoption. (D) A proxy may withdraw from a declaration prior to the declaration becoming operative by giving notice to the declarant. If the declaration is operative, a proxy may withdraw by giving written notice ...

...re facility in which the declarant is a patient receiving its services or a resident; (3) A person related to the declarant by blood, marriage, or adoption; (4) A person named as a proxy in the declarant's declaration.

...) The declarant has been committed as a patient under Chapter 2945. or 5122. of the Revised Code, and, if the court knows of the declaration, the committing court acknowledges the existence of the declaration and specifically orders treatment in a manner contrary to the declaration. (2) An emergency situation endangers the life or health of the declarant or others.

...a voluntary or involuntary mentally ill patient under Chapter 5122. of the Revised Code, is or has been institutionalized under Chapter 5123. of the Revised Code, or is receiving or has received psychotropic or other medication, even if the child might become incompetent to proceed without that medication.

... as to affect the life or health of the patient. (C)(1) This section does not create a new cause of action or substantive legal right against a health care provider or emergency medical technician. (2) This section does not affect any immunities from civil liability or defenses established by another section of the Revised Code or available at common law to which a health care provider or emergency medical techn...

...ty of testimony or evidence relating to patient care that is within an individual's personal knowledge. (3) Divisions (A) and (B)(1) and (2) of this section do not affect a privileged communication between an attorney and the attorney's client as described in section 2317.02 of the Revised Code.

...food service operation to any customer, patient, or other person in the ordinary course of business, by a public or private school, college, university, or other educational institution to a student or another person on the premises in the ordinary course of the operation of the institution, or by a fraternal, veteran's, or other organization to its members or other persons on the premises in the ordinary course of t...

...abolite of a controlled substance in a patient's whole blood, blood serum or plasma, breath, or urine at any time relevant to a criminal offense that is submitted in a criminal action or proceeding in accordance with division (B)(2)(b) or (B)(3)(b) of section 2317.02 of the Revised Code.

...he health care services provided to the patient in any civil action based on a medical claim are not admissible as evidence for or against any party in the action and may not be used to establish a standard of care or breach of that standard of care in the action.

...As used in sections 2903.33 to 2903.36 of the Revised Code: (A) "Care facility" means any of the following: (1) Any "home" as defined in section 3721.10 of the Revised Code; (2) Any "residential facility" as defined in section 5123.19 of the Revised Code; (3) Any institution or facility operated or provided by the department of mental health and addiction services or by the department of developmental disab...

...ighteen. (N) "Mental health client or patient" has the same meaning as in section 2305.51 of the Revised Code. (O) "Mental health professional" has the same meaning as in section 2305.115 of the Revised Code. (P) "Sado-masochistic abuse" means flagellation or torture by or upon a person or the condition of being fettered, bound, or otherwise physically restrained. (Q) "Place where a person has a reasonable ex...

...gency medical services, or nonemergency patient transport services in this state, to any nonprofit corporation engaged in this state in the development of public interest and understanding of the economic benefits resulting from the building of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway, and to any nonprofit ombudsman corporation engaged in this state in assisting citizens in dealing with governments, including political su...

...xaminations or treatment records of its patients. The county hospital shall participate, at the request of the county microfilming board, in purchasing film and equipment and in entering into contracts for services for microfilming.

...aminations or treatment records of its patients. The county hospital shall participate, at the request of the county automatic data processing board, in purchasing film and equipment and in entering into contracts for services for microfilming. (B) In the resolution expanding the duties of the county automatic data processing board adopted under this section, the board of county commissioners shall designate t...

...l laws, maintain the confidentiality of patient-identifying information obtained in the course of providing health services.