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...s; (W) The right to participate in the political process; (X) The right to refuse to participate in medical, psychological, or other research or experiments.

...It is the intent of the general assembly that all individuals being served on the effective date of this section through the array of adult day services that exists on that date, including services delivered in a sheltered workshop, be fully informed of any new home and community-based services and their option to receive those services. It is also the intent of the general assembly that those individuals be permitte...

...board of developmental disabilities, or political subdivision that provides services, either directly or through a contract, to persons with developmental disabilities shall give each provider a copy of the list of rights contained in section 5123.62 of the Revised Code. Each public and private provider of services shall carry out the requirements of this section in addition to any other posting or notification requi...

...(A) Every provider of services to persons with developmental disabilities shall establish policies and programs to ensure that all staff members are familiar with the rights enumerated in section 5123.62 of the Revised Code and observe those rights in their contacts with persons receiving services. Any policy, procedure, or rule of the provider that conflicts with any of the rights enumerated shall be null and void. ...

...In addition to the rights specified in section 5123.62 of the Revised Code, individuals with developmental disabilities who can safely self-administer medication or receive assistance with self-administration of medication have the right to self-administer medication or receive assistance with the self-administration of medication. The department of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules as it considers necessa...

...(A) As used in this section, "developmental disabilities personnel" and "prescribed medication" have the same meanings as in section 5123.41 of the Revised Code. (B) Developmental disabilities personnel who are not specifically authorized by other provisions of the Revised Code to provide assistance in the self-administration of prescribed medication may, under this section, provide that assistance as part of the s...

...This chapter shall be liberally interpreted to accomplish the following purposes: (A) To promote the human dignity and to protect the constitutional rights of persons with developmental disabilities in the state; (B) To encourage the development of the ability and potential of each person with a developmental disability in the state to the fullest possible extent, no matter how severe the degree of disability; (C)...

...(A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, any person who is eighteen years of age or older and who is or believes self to be a person with an intellectual disability may make written application to the managing officer of any institution for voluntary admission. Except as provided in division (D) of this section, the application may be made on behalf of a minor by a parent or guardian, and on behalf of ...

...(A) As used in this section, "mental illness" has the same meaning as in section 5122.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The managing officer of an institution, with the concurrence of the chief program director, may admit into a specialized treatment unit for minors a minor ages ten to seventeen who is in behavior crisis and has serious behavioral challenges if one of the following applies: (1) The minor has an intelle...

...(A) A resident admitted pursuant to section 5123.69 of the Revised Code who requests his own release or whose release is requested in writing by his counsel, legal guardian, parent, spouse, or adult next of kin shall be released forthwith except that: (1) If a resident was admitted on his own application and the request for release is made by a person other than the resident, release may be made conditional upon the...

...(A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, any person in the community who is eighteen years of age or older and who is or believes self to be a person with an intellectual disability may make written application to the managing officer of any institution for temporary admission for short-term care. The application may be made on behalf of a minor by a parent or guardian, and on behalf of an adult adjudi...

...(A)(1) Proceedings for the involuntary institutionalization of a person pursuant to sections 5123.71 to 5123.76 of the Revised Code shall be commenced by the filing of an affidavit with the probate division of the court of common pleas of the county where the person resides or where the person is institutionalized, in the manner and form prescribed by the department of developmental disabilities either on information...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Emergency" means either of the following that creates a risk of substantial harm to an individual or others if action is not taken within thirty days: (a) Health and safety conditions that pose a serious risk of immediate harm or death to the individual or others; (b) Changes in the emotional or physical condition of an individual that necessitates substantial accommod...

...The director of developmental disabilities shall designate a person to present the case on behalf of the state at the hearings provided for in sections 5123.75 and 5123.76 of the Revised Code. The designee of the director also may present the case on behalf of the state in any other hearing provided for in this chapter.

...(A) After receipt of the affidavit required by section 5123.71 of the Revised Code, the court shall cause written notice, by mail or otherwise, of any hearing the court directs, to be given to all of the following persons: (1) The respondent; (2) The respondent's legal guardian, if any; (3) The respondent's spouse, if address is known; (4) The person filing the affidavit; (5) Any one person designated...

...(A) On receipt of an affidavit under section 5123.71 of the Revised Code, the probate division of the court of common pleas may, if it has probable cause to believe that the person named in the affidavit is a person with an intellectual disability subject to institutionalization by court order and that emergency institutionalization is required, do any of the following: (1) Issue a temporary order of detention order...

...A respondent who is involuntarily placed in an institution or other place as designated in section 5123.77 of the Revised Code or with respect to whom proceedings have been instituted under section 5123.71 of the Revised Code shall, on request of the respondent, the respondent's guardian, or the respondent's counsel, or upon the court's own motion, be afforded a hearing to determine whether there is probable cause to...

... shall be subject to subpoena by either party. (8) The court shall examine the sufficiency of all documents filed and shall inform the respondent, if present, and the respondent's counsel of the nature of the content of the documents and the reason for which the respondent is being held or for which the respondent's placement is being sought. (9) The court shall receive only relevant, competent, and material eviden...

...(A) Pending removal to an institution, a person taken into custody or ordered to be institutionalized pursuant to this chapter may be held in the person's home, a certified foster home, licensed rest or nursing home, a county home, or a facility used for detention, but the person shall be kept separate from persons charged with or convicted of penal offenses. (B) Whenever any person is taken into custody under this ...

...(A) Notwithstanding a finding pursuant to section 5123.76 of the Revised Code that a person is a person with an intellectual disability subject to institutionalization by court order, the managing officer of an institution, with the concurrence of the chief program director, shall, except as provided in division (C) of this section, grant a discharge without the consent or the authorization of any court upon a deter...

...(A) When the chief program director of an institution for persons with i ntellectual disabilities considers that it is in the best interest of a resident, the managing officer may permit the resident to leave the institution on a trial visit. The trial visit shall be for the period of time the managing officer determines. (B) The managing officer, upon releasing a resident on trial visit, may impose such requireme...

...If neither a discharged resident, nor a resident granted trial visit, nor the persons requesting the resident's trial visit or discharge are financially able to bear the expense of the resident's trial visit or discharge, the managing officer of an institution under the control of the department of developmental disabilities may then provide actual traveling and escort expenses to the township of which t...

...When an involuntarily committed resident of an institution for persons with intellectual disabilities is absent without leave, an order shall be issued within five days after the resident's absence requiring the resident to be taken into custody by any health or police officer, or sheriff and transported to the institution from which the resident is absent. The order may be issued by the director o...

...The managing officer of an institution under the control of the department of developmental disabilities shall immediately report the removal, death, absence without leave, discharge, or trial visit of any resident, or return of an absent without leave or visiting resident to the department, the probate judge of the county from which such resident was institutionalized, and the probate judge of the county of ...

...(A) Any person who has been institutionalized under this chapter may, at any time after discharge from such institution, make application to the managing officer of any public institution for habilitation and care if such person feels the person is in need of such services. If the chief program director determines the applicant to be in need of such services, the managing officer may provide such services as are requ...

...the candidate's candidacy; (3) Regular party assessments made by a party against its own candidates. (B) No person shall coerce, intimidate, or cause harm to another person by an act or failure to act, or shall threaten to coerce, intimidate, or cause harm to another person, because that other person makes or does not make a contribution to a candidate, campaign committee, political party, legislative campaign fund...

...mination as a candidate of a political party for election to any of the offices to be voted for at the general election to be held in such year, or if the number of persons filing such declarations of candidacy for nominations as candidates of one political party for election to such offices does not exceed, as to any such office, the number of candidates which such political party is entitled to nominate as i...

...al convention of the person's political party shall file with the person's declaration of candidacy and certificate a statement in writing signed by the person in which the person shall state the person's first and second choices for nomination as the candidate of the person's party for the presidency of the United States. The secretary of state shall not permit any declaration of candidacy and certificate of a candi...

...th or is not a member of the political party whose ballot the person desires to vote. Such party affiliation shall be determined by examining the elector's voting record for the current year and the immediately preceding two calendar years as shown on the voter's registration card, using the standards of affiliation specified in the seventh paragraph of section 3513.05 of the Revised Code. Division (A)(3) of t...

...l office in this state. (2) "Political party" means only a major political party. (B) A state political party may sell or lease its contributor, membership, or mailing lists, or any other lists upon which the party and a financial institution may agree, to any financial institution for either or both of the following purposes: (1) Allowing the financial institution to use the name or logo of the political party on...

... legislative campaign fund, a political party, a political action committee with ten or more members, a political contributing entity with ten or more members, or a limited political action committee or limited political contributing entity that spends in excess of the designated amount on a related or the same or similar political publication in support of or opposition to a candidate or a ballot issue or question; ...

...de, and "entity" includes any political party and any "continuing association" as defined in division (C)(4) of section 3517.01 of the Revised Code or "political action committee" as defined in division (C)(8) of that section that is primarily associated with that political party. For purposes of this division, contributions to any continuing association or any political action committee that is primarily associated ...

...y election as candidates of a political party or who were nominated in accordance with section 3513.02 of the Revised Code, and the names of all candidates for election to offices who were nominated by nominating petitions, except candidates for the office of judge of a municipal court, county court, or court of common pleas, for member of a board of education, for municipal offices, and for township offices. (B) T...

...date's name. The name of the political party of a candidate nominated at a primary election, nominated by petition under section 3517.012 of the Revised Code, or certified by a party committee shall be printed in ten point lightface upper and lower case type and shall be separated by a two point blank space. The name of each candidate shall be indented one space within the enclosed rectangular space, and the n...

...ial, or general election, any political party supporting candidates to be voted upon at such election and any group of five or more candidates may appoint to the board of elections or to any of the precincts in the county or city one person, a qualified elector, who shall serve as observer for such party or such candidates during the casting of the ballots and during the counting of the ballots; provided that separat...

...county central committee of a political party in a particular county may determine, not later than one hundred twenty days prior to the next primary election at which candidates for member of the county central committee are elected, that each person desiring to become a candidate for election as a member of the county central committee of that party in that county shall file a declaration of candidacy as required by...

...person voted as a member of a different political party at any primary election within the current year and the immediately preceding two calendar years. (B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, either of the following persons may be candidates for nomination of any political party at a party primary: (1) A person who does not hold an elective office; (2) A person who holds an elective office other than o...

...olling committees of a major political party shall be elected by direct vote of the members of the party, except as otherwise provided in section 3517.05 of the Revised Code. Their names shall be placed upon the official ballot, and, notwithstanding division (B) of section 3513.23 of the Revised Code, the persons receiving the highest number of votes for committeepersons shall be the members of those controlli...

... members shall be of the same political party. (8) No commission member shall have any affiliation with an Ohio casino operator or facility or with a sports gaming proprietor, mobile management services provider, or management services provider licensed under Chapter 3775. of the Revised Code. (C) Commission members shall serve four-year terms, except that when the governor makes initial appointments to the commi...

...tion 187.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Party official" means any person who holds an elective or appointive post in a political party in the United States or this state, by virtue of which the person directs, conducts, or participates in directing or conducting party affairs at any level of responsibility. (D) "Official proceeding" means any proceeding before a legislative, judicial, administrative, or other g...

...nt. (C) No person for the benefit of a political party, campaign committee, legislative campaign fund, political action committee, or political contributing entity shall coerce any contribution in consideration of either of the following: (1) Appointing or securing, maintaining, or renewing the appointment of any person to any public office, employment, or agency; (2) Preferring, or maintaining the status of, any...

...eign country; (c) A foreign political party; (d) A person, other than an individual, that is organized under the laws of, or has its principal place of business in, a foreign country. (B) No foreign national shall, directly or indirectly through any person or entity, do any of the following: (1) Make a contribution, expenditure, or independent expenditure in support of or opposition to a candidate for any ele...

...ship, or other committee of a political party or an officer of the executive committee of the state central committee, a county central committee, or a district, city, township, or other committee of a political party; (d) Be a legislative agent as defined in section 101.70 of the Revised Code or an executive agency lobbyist as defined in section 121.60 of the Revised Code; (e) Solicit or be involved in solicitin...

...tion, or contribution for any political party, for the governor or his campaign committee, or for any candidate for public office or his campaign committee from a person known by the solicitor to be a deputy registrar under contract with the registrar of motor vehicles. (C) Neither the registrar nor any person shall award a deputy registrar contract to a person, or promise to do so, because that person pays an asses...

...ing committees of each major political party or organization shall be a state central committee consisting of two members, one a man and one a woman, representing either each congressional district in the state or each senatorial district in the state, as the outgoing committee determines; a county central committee consisting of one member from each election precinct in the county, or of one member from each w...

...No political party or group which advocates, either directly or indirectly, the overthrow, by force or violence, of our local, state, or national government or which carries on a program of sedition or treason by radio, speech, or press or which has in any manner any connection with any foreign government or power or which in any manner has any connection with any group or organization so connected or so advocating t...

... shall be members of the same political party. The speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint three members of the house of representatives to the committee, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party. The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint three members to the committee, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party. Memb...

...ll not be members of the same political party; (2) Two members of the house of representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, both of whom shall not be members of the same political party; (3) Four members appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, not more than three of whom shall be members of the same political party, one of whom shall be the chief of staf...

...om may be members of the same political party; (B) Three members of the house of representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, not more than two of whom may be members of the same political party; (C) Three members appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party, one of whom shall represent the ...

...ntatives, one from each major political party, to be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, and two members of the senate, one from each major political party, to be appointed by the president of the senate. (2) The governor shall appoint one member with experience in residential housing construction; one with experience in residential housing mortgage lending, loan servicing, or brokering at an ...