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...(A) The board of hospital commissioners shall have the entire management and control of a hospital erected under sections 749.02 to 749.14 of the Revised Code, when completed and ready for use, and shall assume and continue the operation of the hospital. Subject to the ordinances of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, the board shall establish rules for the hospital's government, and the admission...

...Notwithstanding any conflicting provision of sections 749.09 to 749.14 and 749.26 to 749.31 of the Revised Code, Chapter 153. of the Revised Code, or any other competitive bidding requirement specified in the Revised Code that requires a public authority to enter into separate contracts for the design and construction of a public improvement. (A) A board of hospital commissioners or a board of hospital trustees may...

...(A) The state, except as provided in division (B) of this section, shall indemnify an officer or employee from liability incurred in the performance of official duties by paying any judgment in, or amount negotiated in settlement of, any civil action arising under federal law, the law of another state, or the law of a foreign jurisdiction. The reasonableness of the amount of any consent judgment or settlement is subj...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Agricultural product" means any of the following items that is produced for testing or research in the context of a product development program in conjunction or coordination with a private research facility, a university, or any federal, state, or local governmental agency or that is produced for personal, commercial, pharmaceutical, or educational purposes: field crop or fi...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Bonds" means bonds, notes, or other forms of evidences of obligation issued in temporary or definitive form, including refunding bonds and notes and bonds and notes issued in anticipation of the issuance of bonds and renewal notes. (B) "Bond proceedings" means the resolution or ordinance or the trust agreement or indenture of mortgage, or combination thereof, authorizing or providing f...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Active ingredient" means any ingredient that will prevent, destroy, kill, repel, control, or mitigate any pest, or that will act as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant. (B) "Adulterated" shall apply to any pesticide if its strength or purity is less than or greater than the professed standard or quality as expressed on its labeling or under which it is sold, if any substance ha...

...(A) The director of agriculture may issue a handler's license, or renewal thereof, upon the payment of the prescribed application fee, if the director is satisfied that the applicant meets the standards of financial responsibility required under this section and has complied with this chapter and the rules adopted under it. (B)(1) Each applicant for a handler's license, or renewal thereof, shall have and main...

...(A) The director of agriculture shall deny an application for a license that is submitted under section 956.04 or 956.05 of the Revised Code for either of the following reasons: (1) The applicant for the license has violated any provision of this chapter or a rule adopted under it if the violation materially threatens the health or welfare of a dog. (2) The applicant has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a d...

...The director of the legislative service commission shall arrange with the proper officials of the Ohio state university, the Ohio history connection, the supreme court law library, and the Ohio state library, for the use of general books and references in their custody, and the proper officials of the Ohio state university, the Ohio history connection, and the Ohio state library are hereby directed to lend to the com...

...(A) The director of the legislative service commission shall be the codifier of the rules of the administrative agencies of the state. When a rule is filed under section 111.15 or 119.04 of the Revised Code, the director or the director's designee shall examine the rule. If the rule is not numbered or if the numbering of the rule is not in conformity with the system established by the director, the director shall gi...

...The "Register of Ohio" is an electronic publication that functions as a gazette to which members of the public may readily resort for notice of and information about rule-making processes. The director of the legislative service commission shall publish the register. The register is to include all rule-making documents that are required by statute to be published in the register. The director shall display the regist...

...The director of the legislative service commission may request an agency to provide the director with assistance that is within the agency's competence and that is reasonably necessary to ensure the director's successful, efficient, and timely electronic publication of the register of Ohio.

...To recover a portion of the cost of publishing the register of Ohio, the director of the legislative service commission may seek reimbursement from an agency of actual costs the director incurs in publishing the agency's documents in the register. The amount sought for reimbursement is to be an amount proportional to the internet space allocated to the agency for publishing the agency's documents in the register, and...

...The register of Ohio fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The director of the legislative service commission shall use money in the fund to defray costs of publishing the register of Ohio. Investment earnings of the fund are to be credited to the fund.

...The director of the legislative service commission shall establish and maintain, and enhance and improve, an electronic rule-filing system connecting: (A) The legislative service commission, the joint committee on agency rule review, and the secretary of state; (B) The governor, the senate and house of representatives, and the clerks of the senate and house of representatives; (C) Each agency that files rules and ...

...If there is an expected or unexpected shut down of the whole or part of the electronic rule-filing system, such as for maintenance or because of hardware or software failure, the director of the legislative service commission may temporarily authorize an agency that is required to file rules and other rule-making and rule-related documents exclusively in electronic form nevertheless to file rules and other rule-makin...

...If a rule currently in effect is obsolete because the rule was adopted by an agency that is no longer in existence and jurisdiction over the rule has not been transferred to another agency, and if that status is verified by the executive director of the joint committee on agency rule review, the executive director shall prepare, for consideration of the joint committee, a motion that the director of the legislative s...

...There is hereby created, in the legislative branch of government, the Ohio legislative service commission consisting of fourteen members as follows: six members shall be members of the senate appointed by the president of the senate, not more than four of whom shall be members of the same political party; six members shall be members of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house of representat...

...The Ohio legislative service commission may appoint committees consisting of members of the general assembly and such citizens having special knowledge on a particular subject as the commission may determine, to study and report on assigned subjects. At least one member of the commission shall be a member of each committee. No committee study or report shall be published by the commission until such study or report ...

...The Ohio legislative service commission shall: (A) Conduct research, make investigations, and secure information or data on any subject and make reports thereon to the general assembly; (B) Ascertain facts and make reports concerning the state budget, the revenues and expenditures of the state, and of the organization and functions of the state, its departments, subdivisions, and agencies; (C) Make surveys, invest...

...The director of the legislative service commission shall be the codifier of the laws of the state. When an act of a general and permanent nature passed by the general assembly becomes a law and is filed with the secretary of state, such director shall examine the same and if there is no sectional numbering on the act or if such numbering is not in conformity with the Revised Code, the director shall give such section...

...(A) If a bill introduced in the general assembly appears to affect the revenues or expenditures of the state, a county, municipal corporation, township, school district, or other governmental entity of the state, the Ohio legislative budget office of the Ohio legislative service commission shall, before the bill is recommended for passage by the house committee or the senate committee of the general assembly to which...

...(A) As used in this section, "committee" means any standing or select committee of the general assembly or of either house of the general assembly. (B) Within five days after the effective date of this section, the legislative service commission shall meet to determine whether divisions (C) and (D) of this section should be implemented. If the commission determines that divisions (C) and (D) of this section should b...

...In addition to its duties under section 103.14 of the Revised Code, the legislative service commission shall, in accordance with this section, review all bills assigned to a committee of the general assembly, complete the appropriate local impact statements required by this section, and compile and distribute these statements as required by division (D) of this section. (A) Subject to division (F) of this section, ...

...As used in sections 103.144 to 103.146 of the Revised Code: (A) "Mandated benefit" means the following, when considered in the context of a sickness and accident insurance policy or a health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement: (1) Any required coverage for a specific medical or health-related service, treatment, medication, or practice; (2) Any required coverage for the services of specific h...