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...(A) As used in this section, "county office" means any officer, department, board, commission, or agency of a county. (B) There is hereby created in each county a county law library resources board. The board shall consist of five members who shall be appointed and hold office as provided in section 307.511 of the Revised Code. Beginning on January 1, 2010, subject to app...

...ted as follows: (1) The prosecuting attorney of the county shall appoint one member whose initial term shall expire on December 31, 2010. (2) The administrative judges or presiding judges of all municipal courts and county courts within the county shall meet to appoint one member who is an attorney licensed to practice law in the state and in good standing before the supreme court of Ohio an...

...Within fifteen days after July 1, 2009, the county law library resources board shall hold its initial meeting at the office of the board of county commissioners at a time that the chairperson of the county law library resources board determines. Thereafter, the board shall meet at least four times a year, as determined by the chairperson or at any other time as deter...

...(A) The county law library resources board shall prepare an annual estimate of the revenue and expenditures of the board for the calendar year commencing January 1, 2010, and for each year thereafter, and shall submit that estimate to the board of county commissioners as provided in section 5705.28 of the Revised Code. The estimate of expenses shall be sufficient to provide for ...

...There is hereby created in each county treasury a county law library resources fund, effective January 1, 2010. The fund shall receive all revenue that is required to be deposited into the fund pursuant to division (D)(1) of section 307.51 and section 307.515 of the Revised Code, appropriated to the fund from the general fund by the board of county commissioners pursuant to ...

... court, its clerk, and the prosecuting attorney of that court in state cases, shall be retained by the clerk of that municipal court and shall be deposited by the clerk each month in the county law library resources fund that is created under section 307.514 of the Revised Code in the county in which that municipal corporation is located. The sum that the clerk of the municipal court deposits in the county law ...

...(A) Upon the recommendation of the county law library resources boards of two or more adjacent counties, the boards of county commissioners of those counties may enter into a contract to form a multi-county law library resources commission for the purpose of collaborating on behalf of the member counties in carrying out any or all of the duties and responsibilities conferred upon a county law librar...

...Upon the certificate of the prosecuting attorney or his assistant that the services of an expert or the testimony of expert witnesses in the examination or trial of a person accused of the commission of crime, or before the grand jury, were or will be necessary to the proper administration of justice, the board of county commissioners may allow and pay the expert such compensation as it deems just and proper and as ...

...Whenever, in the issuing of bonds by the board of county commissioners or by the board of township trustees, the signature of the county auditor is necessary, either to such bonds or to any documents or certificates in connection therewith, and by reason of the absence or disability of the auditor it is impossible to obtain his signature, on application by the board of county commissioners or by the board of township...

...All bonds issued by the board of county commissioners shall be correctly numbered in the order in which issued, and registered by the county auditor in a book provided by him and kept in his office. All warrants drawn upon the county treasurer for the payment of the principal and interest on such bonds shall specify the fund on which they are drawn. Upon delivering to the holder of any such bond a warrant upon the t...

...(A) No claims against the county shall be paid otherwise than upon the allowance of the board of county commissioners, upon the warrant, including an electronic warrant authorizing direct deposit for payment of a county obligation in accordance with division (F) of section 9.37 of the Revised Code, of the county auditor, except in those cases in which the amount due is fixed by law or is authorized to be fixed by som...

...A person aggrieved by the decision of the board of county commissioners may appeal to the court of common pleas, as provided by and under the authority of Chapter 2506. of the Revised Code. The court shall advance such appeal when perfected for immediate trial. Where a board of county commissioners has adopted administrative regulations pursuant to various enabling sections of the Revised Code, such regulations may ...

...(A) Notwithstanding any contrary provision in another section of the Revised Code, section 303.12 of the Revised Code, or any vote of the electors on a petition for zoning referendum, a county may settle any court action by a consent decree or court-approved settlement agreement which may include an agreement to rezone any property involved in the action as provided in the decree or court-approved settlement agreemen...

...If the county owns any securities of the United States, or any other securities, and they have been lost, destroyed, or stolen, the board of county commissioners, if necessary for the procuring of duplicates or for the recovery of the amount of such certificates, may execute and deliver on behalf of the county bonds of indemnity to the United States, or other person, corporation, or municipal corporation bound to pay...

...The board of county commissioners may have any of the records or books in the office of the county auditor, county recorder, or county engineer, transcribed into other books by the officers having charge of such books. The records and books so made shall have the same force and be as valid in law as evidence as the records and books from which they were taken.

...When a record, journal, or other book belonging to any of the courts, is so worn or defaced as to require transcribing, the board of county commissioners shall order it done by the officer in charge of such records.

...(A) The board of county commissioners may allow a physician or surgeon making a post mortem examination at the instance of the coroner or other officer such compensation as it deems proper. (B) A board of county commissioners may appropriate annually an amount to any municipal corporation within the county to be used to compensate or recruit physicians or other medical personnel who provide medical services for resi...

...Each public or private hospital, reformatory home, house of detention, private asylum, and correctional institution shall be open at all times to the inspection of the board of county commissioners or the board of health of the general health district or the city health district in which the institution is situated.

... (6) "Crime prevention services" means educational programs and materials to help avoid and prevent the commission of criminal acts in the future. (7) "Victim and offender mediation services" means services designed to provide victims the opportunity for a meeting to ask questions, express feelings, or discuss restitution agreements with the convicted offenders or delinquent juveniles involved in the crimes against...

...A board of county commissioners shall appoint a health commissioner of the board of health of a city or general health district that is entirely or partially located in the county in which the board of county commissioners is located to establish a child fatality review board to review the deaths of children under eighteen years of age. The boards of county commissioners of two or more counties may, by adopting a joi...

...(A) The health commissioner of the board of health of a city or a general health district who is appointed under section 307.621 of the Revised Code to establish the child fatality review board shall select six members to serve on the child fatality review board along with the commissioner. The review board shall consist of the following: (1) A county coroner or designee; (2) The chief of police of a police depar...

...The purpose of the child fatality review board is to decrease the incidence of preventable child deaths by doing all of the following: (A) Promoting cooperation, collaboration, and communication between all groups, professions, agencies, or entities that serve families and children; (B) Maintaining a comprehensive database of all child deaths that occur in the county or region served by the child fatality review bo...

...The board of county commissioners, or if a regional child fatality review board is established, the group of health commissioners appointed to select the health commissioner to establish the regional review board, shall designate either the health commissioner that establishes the review board or a representative of the health commissioner to convene meetings and be the chairperson of the review board. If a regional ...

...death is pending unless the prosecuting attorney agrees to allow the review. The law enforcement agency conducting the criminal investigation, on the conclusion of the investigation, and the prosecuting attorney prosecuting the case, on the conclusion of the prosecution, shall notify the chairperson of the review board of the conclusion.

...(A) By the first day of April of each year, the person convening the child fatality review board shall prepare and submit to the Ohio department of health a report that summarizes the following information with respect to the child deaths that were reviewed by the review board in the previous calendar year: (1) The cause of death; (2) Factors contributing to death; (3) Age; (4) Sex; (5) Race; (6) The ge...