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...ss that is operated by a public school, educational service center, or county board of developmental disabilities in which fifty per cent of the students in the class are children with disabilities. (B) Notwithstanding any change to administrative rule adopted by the state board of education prescribing licensure qualifications for teaching a public school preschool integrated class, a teacher who is licensed to t...

...Code and in rules of the state board of education.

...The board of education of a school district shall provide home instruction for children with disabilities who are at least three years of age and less than twenty-two years of age and who are unable to attend school, even with the help of special transportation. The board may arrange for the provision of home instruction for a child by a cooperative agreement or contract with a county board of developmental disabili...

...of one school district receives special education from another district, the board of education of the district providing the education, subject to division (C) of this section, may require the payment by the board of education of the district of residence of a sum not to exceed one of the following, as applicable: (1) For any child except a preschool child with a disability described in division (A)(2) of this se...

...of one school district receives special education from another district and the per capita cost to the educating district for that child exceeds the sum of the amount received by the educating district for that child under division (A) of section 3317.08 of the Revised Code and the amount received by the district from the department of education and workforce for that child, then the board of education of the distric...

...n, including court costs and reasonable attorney's fees. If the prosecuting attorney or city director of law represents the board in such action, costs and reasonable attorney's fees awarded by the court, based upon the time spent preparing and presenting the case by the prosecuting attorney, director, or a designee of either, shall be deposited in the county or city general fund.

... developmental disabilities for special education, but another district is responsible for tuition under section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code and the child is not a resident of the territory served by the county board of developmental disabilities, the board may charge the district responsible for tuition with the educational costs in excess of the per pupil amount received by the board under Chapter 3317. ...

...has offered a free appropriate public education to that child. As used in this section, "unilateral placement" means withdrawing a child with a disability from a program or facility operated by the district of residence or from a program or facility with which the district of residence has arranged for education of the child and instead enrolling that child in another program or facility that is not a h...

...The department of education and workforce may arrange to pay to any board of education, the board for any children with disabilities who are not residents of the district but for whom the district is providing special education. Payments shall be made in accordance with rules and standards of the state board of education.

...The department of education and workforce shall: (A) Provide supervision and technical assistance to school districts in all accepted methods of educating children with disabilities who have hearing impairments, including the oral, manual, and total communication methods, with no demonstrable bias toward any one method over another; (B) Consult with employees of school districts and chartered nonpublic schools ...

...If any special education program provided pursuant to this chapter or Chapter 3325. of the Revised Code serves a student with a visual impairment for whom instruction in braille reading and writing is specified as appropriate pursuant to division (A)(2) of section 3323.011 of the Revised Code, the entity providing the program shall integrate the use of braille reading and writing into the student's entire c...

... the first time under an individualized education program, the school district in which that student is enrolled shall require the student to undergo a comprehensive eye examination performed either by an optometrist licensed under Chapter 4725. of the Revised Code or by a physician authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery who is comprehen...

...he first day of July, the department of education and workforce, in consultation with the department of children and youth, shall electronically report to the general assembly the number of preschool children with disabilities who received services for which the department of education made a payment to any provider during the previous fiscal year, disaggregated according to each area of developmental deficiency iden...

... committee. (B)(1) The department of education and workforce shall establish the Ohio dyslexia committee which shall consist of the following members: (a) A school district superintendent appointed by the director of education and workforce; (b) An elementary school principal appointed by the director; (c) A classroom teacher appointed by the director. The teacher shall have an appropriate certification a...

...xia. (4) Report to the department of education and workforce the results of screening measures administered under this section. In addition, districts and schools may utilize any best practices and recommendations contained in the guidebook developed under division (C) of section 3323.25 of the Revised Code.

...As used in sections 3323.31 to 3323.35 of the Revised Code, "autism and low incidence disabilities" includes any of the following: (A) Autism; (B) Hearing impairment; (C) Multiple disabilities; (D) Orthopedic disability; (E) Other health impairment; (F) Traumatic brain injury; (G) Visual impairment.

...The Franklin county educational service center shall establish the Ohio center for autism and low incidence. The center shall administer programs and coordinate services for infants, preschool and school-age children, and adults with autism and low incidence disabilities. The center's principal focus shall be programs and services for persons with autism. The center shall be under the direction of an executive ...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall contract with an entity to administer programs and coordinate services for infants, preschool and school-age children, and adults with autism and low incidence disabilities. The entity shall be selected by the director of education and workforce in consultation with the director of children and youth and the advisory board established under section 3323.33 of the Re...

...The director of education and workforce shall establish an advisory board to assist and advise the Franklin county educational service center in the operation of the Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence and the director in selecting an entity to administer programs and coordinate services for individuals with autism and low incidence disabilities as required by section 3323.32 of the Revised Code and to provide t...

...nd consult with institutions of higher education in development and implementation of courses for educators and other professionals serving persons with autism and low incidence disabilities; (C) Collaborate with parent and professional organizations; (D) Create and implement programs for professional development, technical assistance, intervention services, and research in the treatment of persons with autism...

...rends, policies, services, and current educational interventions; (C) Respond to requests for information from parents and educators of children with autism and low incidence disabilities.

...ed" means approved by the department of education and workforce and included on the list compiled by the department under section 3324.02 of the Revised Code. (B) "Gifted" means students who perform or show potential for performing at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared to others of their age, experience, or environment and who are identified under division (A), (B), (C), or (D) of section 3324....

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall construct lists of existing assessment instruments it approves for use by school districts, and may include on the lists and make available to school districts additional assessment instruments developed by the department. Wherever possible, the department shall approve assessment instruments that utilize nationally recognized standards for scoring or are nationally...

...The board of education of each school district shall identify gifted students in grades kindergarten through twelve as follows: (A) A student shall be identified as exhibiting "superior cognitive ability" if the student did either of the following within the preceding twenty-four months: (1) Scored two standard deviations above the mean, minus the standard error of measurement, on an approved individual standar...

...The board of education of each school district shall adopt a plan by January 1, 2000, for identifying gifted students. The plan shall be submitted to the department of education and workforce for approval. The department shall approve the plan within sixty days if it contains all of the following: (A) A description of the assessment instruments from the list adopted by the department that the district will use to ...

...Whoever violates division (A)(1) or (2) of section 4705.07 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Railroad" has the same meaning as in section 4907.02 of the Revised Code. (B) "Motor carrier" has the same meaning as in section 4923.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Motor vehicle" and "public highway" have the same meanings as in section 4921.01 of the Revised Code. (D) "Ohio coal research and development costs" means all reasonable costs associated with a facility or project unde...

...(A) As used in this chapter, "public utility" includes every corporation, company, copartnership, person, or association, the lessees, trustees, or receivers of the foregoing, defined in section 4905.03 of the Revised Code, including any public utility that operates its utility not for profit, except the following: (1) An electric light company that operates its utility not for profit; (2) A public utility, other t...

...pplying electricity for light, heat, or power purposes to consumers within this state, including supplying electric transmission service for electricity delivered to consumers in this state, but excluding a regional transmission organization approved by the federal energy regulatory commission; (D) A gas company, when engaged in the business of supplying artificial gas for lighting, power, or heating purposes to c...

...s commission is hereby vested with the power and jurisdiction to supervise and regulate public utilities and railroads, to require all public utilities to furnish their products and render all services exacted by the commission or by law, and to promulgate and enforce all orders relating to the protection, welfare, and safety of railroad employees and the traveling public, including the apportionment between r...

...(A) The public utilities commission has exclusive jurisdiction to enforce, in accordance with Chapter 4913. of the Revised Code, section 153.64, divisions (A) and (B) of section 3781.26, sections 3781.27 and 3781.28 to 3781.32, and Chapter 4913. of the Revised Code. (B) The commission's enforcement authority described in division (A) of this section is limited to actions specifically authorized by Chapter 4913. of t...

...Regarding advanced services or internet protocol-enabled service as defined by federal law, including federal regulations, the public utilities commission shall not exercise any jurisdiction over those services that is prohibited by, or is inconsistent with its jurisdiction under, federal law, including federal regulations.

...The jurisdiction, supervision, powers, and duties of the public utilities commission extend to every public utility and railroad, the plant or property of which lies wholly within this state and when the property of a public utility or railroad lies partly within and partly without this state to that part of such plant or property which lies within this state; to the persons or companies owning, leasing, or ope...

...e, and lines of any public utility. The power to inspect includes the power to prescribe any rule or order that the commission finds necessary for protection of the public safety. In order to assist the commission in the performance of its duties under this chapter, authorized employees of the motor carrier enforcement unit, created under section 5503.34 of the Revised Code in the division of state highway patr...

...spection by interested parties or their attorneys.

...A substantial compliance by the public utilities commission with the requirements of Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4927. of the Revised Code is sufficient to give effect to all its rules and orders. Those rules and orders shall not be declared inoperative, illegal, or void for an omission of a technical nature. And, those chapters do not affect, modify, or repeal any law fixing t...

...(A) For the sole purpose of maintaining and administering the public utilities commission and exercising its supervision and jurisdiction over the railroads and public utilities of this state, an amount equivalent to the appropriation from the public utilities fund created under division (B) of this section to the public utilities commission for railroad and public utilities regulation in each fiscal year shall be a...

...A railroad company that violates section 4905.10, 4907.13, or 4907.15 of the Revised Code shall forfeit to the state one thousand dollars, and twenty-five dollars for each day the company fails to comply with a requirement of any such section. The forfeiture does not release the company from the assessment provided in section 4905.10 of the Revised Code.

...ection 4905.99 of the Revised Code. The attorney general shall enforce such section upon request of the public utilities commission by mandamus or other appropriate proceedings.

...(A)(1) Every public utility shall file an annual report with the public utilities commission. The report shall be filed at the time and in the form prescribed by the commission, shall be duly verified, and shall cover the yearly period fixed by the commission. The commission shall prescribe the character of the information to be embodied in the annual report, and shall furnish to each public utility a blank for...

...Each public utility shall furnish to the public utilities commission, in such form and at such times as the commission requires, such accounts, reports, and information as shall show completely and in detail the entire operation of the public utility in furnishing the unit of its product or service to the public.

...When and as required by the public utilities commission, every public utility shall file with it a copy of any contract, agreement, or arrangement, in writing, with any other public utility relating in any way to the construction, maintenance, or use of its plant or property, or to any service, rate, or charge.

...The public utilities commission shall keep informed of all new construction, extensions, and additions to the property of public utilities, and may prescribe the necessary forms, regulations, and instructions to the officers and employees of such public utilities for the keeping of construction accounts. Such construction accounts shall clearly distinguish all operating expenses and new construction.

...Every public utility shall carry a proper and adequate depreciation or deferred maintenance account, whenever the public utilities commission, after investigation, determines that a depreciation account can be reasonably required. The commission shall ascertain, determine, and prescribe what are proper and adequate charges for depreciation of the several classes of property for each public utility. The charge f...

...The moneys for depreciation charges provided for by section 4905.18 of the Revised Code shall be set aside out of the earnings and carried as a depreciation fund. The moneys in such fund may be expended in new construction, extensions, or additions to the property of the public utility, or may be invested. If such moneys are invested, the income from the investment shall also be carried in the depreciation fund. Such...

...of, pumping station, generating plant, power station, sewage treatment plant, or service station of a public utility, or the service rendered thereby that has once been laid, constructed, opened, and used for public business, nor shall any such facility be closed for traffic or service thereon, therein, or thereover except as provided in section 4905.21 of the Revised Code. Any railroad or public utility viola...

...ne, pumping station, generating plant, power station, sewage treatment plant, or service station, referred to in section 4905.20 of the Revised Code, shall make application to the public utilities commission in writing. The commission shall thereupon cause reasonable notice of the application to be given, stating the time and place fixed by the commission for the hearing of the application. Upon the hearing o...

...Every public utility shall furnish necessary and adequate service and facilities, and every public utility shall furnish and provide with respect to its business such instrumentalities and facilities, as are adequate and in all respects just and reasonable. All charges made or demanded for any service rendered, or to be rendered, shall be just, reasonable, and not more than the charges allowed by law or by order of t...

...Upon complaint in writing against any public utility by any person, firm, or corporation, or upon the initiative or complaint of the public utilities commission, that any rate, fare, charge, toll, rental, schedule, classification, or service, or any joint rate, fare, charge, toll, rental, schedule, classification, or service rendered, charged, demanded, exacted, or proposed to be rendered, charged, demanded, or exact...

...The public utilities commission shall operate a telephone call center for consumer complaints, to receive complaints by any person, firm, or corporation against any public utility. The commission shall expeditiously provide the consumers' counsel with all information concerning residential consumer complaints received by the commission in the operation of the telephone call center and with any materials produced in t...

...The Central state university shall be supported by such sums and in such manner as the general assembly provides.

...eveland state university have no voting power on the board. Student members shall not be considered as members of the board in determining whether a quorum is present. Student members shall not be entitled to attend executive sessions of the board. The student members of the board shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, from a group of five candidates selected pursuant to ...

...The board of trustees of Cleveland state university shall annually elect from their members a chairperson and a vice-chairperson; and they may also appoint a secretary of the board, a treasurer, and such other officers of the university as the interest of the university requires, who may be members of the board. The treasurer, before entering upon the discharge of official duties, shall give bond to the s...

...The board of trustees of Cleveland state university shall employ, fix the compensation of, and remove the president and such number of professors, teachers, and other employees as may be deemed necessary. The board shall do all things necessary for the creation, proper maintenance, and successful and continuous operation of the university. The board may accept donations of lands and moneys for the purposes of such un...

...The board of trustees of Cleveland state university may receive and hold in trust, for the use and benefit of the university, any grant or devise of land, and any donation or bequest of money or other personal property, to be applied to the general or special use of the university, unless otherwise directed in the donation or bequest. The board of trustees of Cleveland state university may make and enter into all con...

...The general assembly shall support Cleveland state university by such sums and in such manner as it may provide, but support may also come from other sources.

...The board of trustees of the Cleveland state university shall acquire all the property and assets of the Cleveland-Marshall law school and shall operate such law school as part of the Cleveland state university. The board of trustees of the Cleveland state university shall enter into a contract with the Cleveland-Marshall law school setting forth the terms and conditions of the transfer of the law school to the unive...

...the Levin college of public affairs and education. The center shall conduct teaching and research in the historical ideas, traditions, and texts that have shaped the American constitutional order and society. (2) The center shall establish bylaws requiring the center to do all of the following: (a) Educate students by means of free, open, and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth; (b) Affirm its du...

...Except as provided in sections 3333.17, 3333.32, and 3333.42 of the Revised Code, the board of trustees of a state university or college, as defined in section 3345.12 of the Revised Code, may charge reasonable tuition for the attendance of pupils who are nonresidents of Ohio.

...y" means a public institution of higher education which is a body politic and corporate. Each of the following institutions of higher education shall be recognized as a state university: university of Akron, Bowling Green state university, Central state university, university of Cincinnati, Cleveland state university, Kent state university, Miami university, northeast Ohio medical university, Ohio university, Ohio st...

... section, "state institution of higher education" has the same meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. Beginning in the 2008-2009 academic year, each state institution of higher education shall include in each statement of estimated or actual charges owed by a student enrolled in the institution an itemized list of the instructional fees, general fees, special purpose fees, service charges, fines,...

...nds in support thereof, shall have full power and authority on all matters relative to the administration of such college or university. The board of trustees of any such college or university may delegate any administrative authority to the president of any such college or university, or to such other administrative personnel as may be designated or appointed therefor by the board of trustees.

...(A) No state institution of higher education shall take any action or enforce any policy that would deny a religious student group any benefit available to any other student group based on the religious student group's requirement that its leaders or members adhere to its sincerely held religious beliefs or standards of conduct. (B) As used in this section: (1) "Benefits" include, without limitation: (a) Rec...

...ction, each state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, annually shall prepare and post on its publicly accessible web site a report that includes at least all of the following information, to the extent practicable: (1) An itemized list of the estimated or actual charges of the instructional fees, general fees, special purpose fees, service charges, fines, and other f...

...ees of each state institution of higher education as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code shall adopt a textbook selection policy for faculty to follow in selecting and assigning textbooks and other instructional materials for use in courses offered by the institution. The policy shall include faculty responsibilities and actions faculty may take in selecting and assigning textbooks and other instructional...

...Each state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, shall adopt a policy that reasonably accommodates the sincerely held religious beliefs and practices of individual students with regard to all examinations or other academic requirements and absences for reasons of faith or religious or spiritual belief system. The policy shall satisfy all of the following conditions: (A...

...s section, "state institution of higher education" has the same meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. (B) A state institution of higher education shall not withhold a student's official transcripts from a potential employer because the student owes money to the institution, provided the student has authorized the transcripts to be sent to the employer and the employer affirms to the institution that ...

...No state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, shall charge an additional fee to a student for an employee of the university, or an entity contracting with the institution, to complete any academic activity associated with regular coursework, including grading student assignments.

...e qualifying student's expected monthly education loan payment upon graduation based on the student loans described in division (C)(3)(b) of this section; (6) The income range between the twenty-fifth and seventy-fifth percentiles for all of the following: (a) The state university's most recent cohort of graduates; (b) The state university's cohort of graduates who graduated five years prior to the qualifying s...

...loyees of a state institution of higher education and their invited guests. (3) "Expressive activities" means any lawful verbal, written, audiovisual, or electronic means by which individuals may communicate ideas, including all forms of peaceful assembly, protests, speeches, distribution of literature, carrying and displaying signs, and circulating petitions. (4) "Harassment" means unwelcome conduct that is so s...

...ed Code, no state institution of higher education, or any of its administrators acting in their official capacity, shall prohibit any individual from engaging in noncommercial expressive activity on campus, so long as the individual's conduct is lawful and does not materially and substantially disrupt the functioning of the institution. (B) No state institution of higher education shall charge security fees to a st...

...ampuses of state institutions of higher education are public forums for campus communities. (2) State institutions of higher education shall not create "free speech zones" or designate other outdoor areas of campuses where expressive activities are prohibited. (3) State institutions of higher education may maintain and enforce reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions specifically developed in service of a ...

...a manner that complies with the "Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974," 88 Stat. 571, 20 U.S.C. 1232g, each state institution of higher education shall submit to the governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and president of the senate a report detailing its course of action in accordance with sections 3345.0212 and 3345.0213 of the Revised Code. The report shall contain the following informatio...

...nsated by a state institution of higher education, and regardless of political affiliation, who is tasked with providing scholarship, academic research, or teaching. For purposes of this part, the term "faculty" includes tenured and nontenured professors, adjunct professors, visiting professors, lecturers, graduate student instructors, and those in comparable positions, however titled. For purposes of this section, t...

...The expenditure of all moneys under sections 3345.01 to 3345.07 of the Revised Code, or for the purpose of carrying out such sections raised or secured from any source, shall be subject to the audit of the auditor of state, the cost thereof to be paid by the university or college audited.