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...The following entities or persons, while acting in an official capacity on behalf of any of the entities, shall take possession of a child delivered in accordance with section 2151.3516 of the Revised Code: (A) A law enforcement agency, a peace officer employed by the agency, or a peace officer support employee; (B) A hospital or a person granted the privilege to practice at, or employed by, the hospital; (C...

...(A) On taking possession of a child pursuant to section 2151.3517 of the Revised Code, a law enforcement agency, hospital, or emergency medical service organization shall do all the following: (1) Perform any act necessary to protect the child's health or safety; (2) Notify the public children services agency of the county in which the agency, hospital, or organization is located that the child has been taken i...

...ion 5153.16 of the Revised Code; (H) Prepare and keep written records of the investigation of the child, of the care and treatment afforded the child, and any other records required by the department of children and youth.

...When a public children services agency files a motion pursuant to division (E) of section 2151.3519 of the Revised Code, the juvenile court shall hold an emergency hearing as soon as possible to determine whether the child was delivered in accordance with section 2151.3516 of the Revised Code. The court shall give notice to the parents of the child in accordance with Rule 16 of the Rules of Juvenile Procedure. If the...

...If a juvenile court adjudicates a child a deserted child, the court shall commit the child to the temporary custody of a public children services agency or a private child placing agency. The court shall consider the order committing the child to the temporary custody of the agency to be an order of disposition issued under division (A)(2) of section 2151.353 of the Revised Code with respect to a child adjudicated a ...

...hild, except that there is a rebuttable presumption that it is not in the child's best interest to return the child to the natural parents.

...hild adjudicated a deserted child shall prepare case plans, conduct investigations, conduct periodic administrative reviews of case plans, and provide services for the deserted child as if the child were adjudicated a neglected child and shall follow the same procedures under this chapter in performing those functions as if the deserted child was a neglected child.

...(A) A parent does not commit a criminal offense under the laws of this state and shall not be subject to criminal prosecution in this state for the act of voluntarily delivering a child under section 2151.3516 of the Revised Code. (B) A person who delivers or attempts to deliver a child who has suffered any physical or mental wound, injury, disability, or condition of a nature that reasonably indicates abuse or negl...

...(A) A parent who voluntarily delivers a child under section 2151.3516 of the Revised Code has the absolute right to remain anonymous. The anonymity of a parent who voluntarily delivers a child does not affect any duty imposed under section 2151.3517 or 2151.3518 of the Revised Code. A parent who voluntarily delivers a child may leave the place at which the parent delivers the child at any time after the delivery of t...

...(A) The director of children and youth shall promulgate forms designed to gather pertinent medical information concerning a deserted child and the child's parents. The forms shall clearly and unambiguously state on each page that the information requested is to facilitate medical care for the child, that the forms may be fully or partially completed or left blank, that completing the forms or parts of the forms is co...

...All of the following apply to a parent who voluntarily delivers a child under section 2151.3516 of the Revised Code: (A) The parent may complete all or any part of the medical information forms made available under section 2151.3518 of the Revised Code. (B) The parent may deliver the fully or partially completed forms at the same time as delivering the child or at a later time. (C) The parent is not required...

...(A) No person described in section 2151.3517 of the Revised Code and no other person employed by an entity described in that section shall do the following with respect to a parent who voluntarily delivers a child under that section: (1) Coerce or otherwise try to force the parent into revealing the identity of the child's parents; (2) Pursue or follow the parent after the parent leaves the place at which the child...

...If a child is adjudicated a deserted child and a person indicates to the court that the person is the parent of the child and that the person seeks to be reunited with the child, the court that adjudicated the child shall require the person, at the person's expense, to submit to a DNA test to verify that the person is a parent of the child.

...(A) The director of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code governing newborn safety incubators provided by entities described in section 2151.3517 of the Revised Code. The rules shall provide for all of the following: (1) Design and function requirements that include the following: (a) Take into account installation at a facility operated by a law enforcement agency, hospit...

...d Code to take possession of a child is present at the facility where the incubator is located to take possession of a child placed in the incubator. (2) An alternate peace officer, peace officer support employee, hospital employee, or emergency medical service worker is dispatched by a secondary alarm that triggers a 9-1-1 call, in accordance with division (A)(1)(f) of section 2151.3532 of the Revised Code, when ...

...Except as provided in section 2151.361 of the Revised Code, when a child has been committed as provided by this chapter or Chapter 2152. of the Revised Code, the juvenile court shall issue an order pursuant to Chapters 3119., 3121., 3123., and 3125. of the Revised Code requiring that the parent, guardian, or person charged with the child's support pay for the care, support, maintenance, and education of the child. Th...

...(A) If the parents of a child enter into an agreement with a public children services agency or private child placing agency to place the child into the temporary custody of the agency or the child is committed as provided by this chapter, the juvenile court, at its discretion, may issue an order pursuant to Chapters 3119., 3121., 3123., and 3125. of the Revised Code requiring that the parents pay for the care, suppo...

...(A)(1) In the manner prescribed by division (C)(1) or (2) of section 3313.64 of the Revised Code, as applicable, the court, at the time of making any order that removes a child from the child's own home or that vests legal or permanent custody of the child in a person other than the child's parent or a government agency, shall determine the school district that is to bear the cost of educating the child. The court sh...

...At any time the juvenile judge may require from an association receiving or desiring to receive children, such reports, information, and statements as he deems necessary. He may at any time require from an association or institution reports, information, or statements concerning any child committed to it by such judge under sections 2151.01 to 2151.54, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...Subject to sections 2151.353 and 2151.412 to 2151.421 of the Revised Code, and any other provision of law that specifies a different duration for a dispositional order, all dispositional orders made by the court under this chapter shall be temporary and shall continue for a period that is designated by the court in its order, until terminated or modified by the court or until the child attains twenty-one years of ag...

...No person, association or agency, public or private, of another state, incorporated or otherwise, shall place a child in a family home or with an agency or institution within the boundaries of this state, either for temporary or permanent care or custody or for adoption, unless such person or association has furnished the department of children and youth with a medical and social history of the child, pertinent infor...

...quest of the judge, when the child is represented by an attorney, or when a trial is requested the prosecuting attorney shall assist the court in presenting the evidence at any hearing or proceeding concerning an alleged or adjudicated delinquent, unruly, abused, neglected, or dependent child or juvenile traffic offender.

...f a sibling group or subsequent to the previous placement of a sibling, the agency is strongly encouraged to make reasonable efforts to place the siblings together, unless it would be contrary to the siblings' best interest or well-being. If siblings are not placed together, the agency should make reasonable efforts to ensure the siblings maintain frequent connections through visitation or other ongoing intera...

... and private child placing agency shall prepare and maintain a case plan for any child to whom the agency is providing services and to whom any of the following applies: (1) The agency filed a complaint pursuant to section 2151.27 of the Revised Code alleging that the child is an abused, neglected, or dependent child; (2) The agency has temporary or permanent custody of the child; (3) The child is living at ...

...hild placing agencies and the child was previously in the temporary custody of an equivalent agency in another state, the agency with custody of the child shall apply the time in temporary custody in the other state to the time in temporary custody in this state and, except as provided in division (D)(3) of this section, if the time spent in temporary custody equals twelve or more months of a consecutive twenty-two-m...

...The prosecuting attorney shall represent the county treasurer in all proceedings authorized by sections 323.49 and 323.50 of the Revised Code. Upon motion of the prosecuting attorney, any such proceeding shall be taken out of its order upon the docket and assigned for trial at the earliest practicable day. Neither the treasurer nor the prosecuting attorney shall be entitled to any additional compensation for the ser...

...The county treasurer may open as many tax receiving offices as are necessary for the expedient collection of taxes. The treasurer or his deputies may attend at such offices and receive payment of all taxes, or if adequate security protection is afforded all county funds involved, he may appoint a bank or bank cashier, without compensation, as his agent or deputy for the collection of taxes. The reasonable and necess...

...h accounting and reporting requirements prescribed by the auditor of state. (B) The records of the financial institution are subject to examination by the auditor of state to the same extent as if the services that the financial institution has agreed to perform were being performed by the treasurer of state.

...rer may fix the time and place at which taxes will be received, as provided in section 323.61 of the Revised Code. Notice of such time and place shall be given by publication using at least one of the following methods: (A) In the print or digital edition of a newspaper of general circulation in the municipal corporation within which the tax receiving office is located or, if no such newspaper exists, in a newspape...

...on any money received in the payment of taxes, as provided by section 323.61 of the Revised Code. A bank receiving any such deposits shall deposit with or pledge to the treasurer such securities as he deems sufficient to meet the requirements of section 135.37 of the Revised Code. The liability of the treasurer for any losses of money so collected or deposited shall be the same as provided in section 135.39 of the R...

... prima-facie evidence and a rebuttable presumption that may be rebutted to the county board of revision that a parcel of land is unoccupied if, at the time the county auditor makes the certification under section 5721.011 of the Revised Code, the parcel is not agricultural land, and two or more of the following apply: (a) At the time of the inspection of the parcel by a county, municipal corporation, or towns...

...ose the state's lien for real estate taxes upon abandoned land in the county and, upon the complaint of a certificate holder or county land reutilization corporation, foreclose the lien of the state or the certificate holder held under sections 5721.30 to 5721.43 of the Revised Code. The board shall order disposition of the abandoned land by public auction or by other conveyance in th...

... for those impositions in the manner prescribed by sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code. (2) If a certificate holder or county land reutilization corporation compiles a list of parcels under division (A) of this section that the certificate holder determines to be abandoned lands suitable for disposition under sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code, the certificate holder or cor...

...(A)(1) For each parcel subject to foreclosure under sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code, the prosecuting attorney shall cause a title search to be conducted for the purpose of identifying any lienholders or other persons having a legal or equitable ownership interest or other security interest of record in such abandoned land. (2) If a certificate holder or a county la...

...the parcel has appeared on a delinquent tax list or delinquent vacant land tax list published pursuant to division (B) of section 5721.03 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) In accordance with Civil Rule 4, the clerk of court promptly shall serve notice of the summons and the complaint filed under division (A) of this section to the last known address of the record owner of the abandoned land and to the last known address...

...l or the county prosecuting attorney, representing the county treasurer, or upon its own motion. (2) A court of common pleas or municipal court may order that a proceeding arising from a complaint filed under sections 323.25 to 323.28 or Chapter 5721. of the Revised Code be transferred to a county board of revision if the court determines that the real property that is the subject of the complaint is abandoned...

...r the county auditor to remove from the tax list and duplicate amounts the board finds invalid or not supported by a preponderance of the evidence. The auditor shall remove all such amounts from the tax list and duplicate as ordered by the board of revision, including any impositions asserted under sections 715.26 and 715.261 of the Revised Code. (B) If, on or before the fourteenth day after service of proces...

...osure, the parcel may be disposed of as prescribed by division (G) of section 323.73 of the Revised Code. If the board of revision, upon its own motion or pursuant to a hearing under division (A)(2) of this section, determines that the impositions against a parcel do not exceed the fair market value of the parcel as shown by the county auditor's then-current valuation of the parcel, the parcel shall not be dis...

... (C) of this section, that in order to preserve the lienholder's or other person's security interest of record in the land, the abandoned land should not be disposed of as provided in sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code and the case should be transferred to a court pursuant to section 323.691 of the Revised Code. (B) If the record owner or another person having a legal or equitable ownership interest...

...it of the county treasurer's delinquent tax and assessment collection fund to reimburse the fund for costs paid from the fund for the transfer, redemption, or sale of abandoned land at public auction. Not more than one-half of the twenty per cent may be used by the treasurer for community development, nuisance abatement, foreclosure prevention, demolition, and related services or distributed by the treasurer to a lan...

...nsfer under this section, all liens for taxes due at the time the deed of the property is conveyed to a purchaser or transferred to a community development organization, school district, municipal corporation, county, or township, and liens subordinate to liens for taxes, shall be deemed satisfied and discharged. (G) Any parcel that has been advertised and offered for sale pursuant to foreclosure proceedings and ha...

... time of the sale or transfer and shall prepare the deed conveying title to the parcel or execute the deed prepared by the board for that purpose. That officer or the prosecuting attorney or treasurer is authorized to record on behalf of that purchaser or transferee the deed conveying title to the parcel, notwithstanding that the deed may not actually have been delivered to the purchaser or transferee prior to ...

...Upon the sale of abandoned land at public auction pursuant to section 323.73 or 323.74 of the Revised Code, or upon the county board of revision's order to the sheriff to transfer abandoned land to a community development organization, school district, municipal corporation, county, or township under section 323.74 of the Revised Code, any common law or statutory right of redemption shall ...

... no consideration other than the costs prescribed in section 323.75 of the Revised Code or those costs to which the electing subdivision or corporation and the county treasurer mutually agree. The conveyance shall be confirmed, and any common law or statutory right of redemption forever terminated, upon the filing with the clerk of court the order of confirmation based on the adjudication of fore...

...ounty in which the property is located, prescribe the form of bids, and accept bids over a period of at least three weeks. (2) Upon a sale of property pursuant to division (D)(1) of this section, the municipal corporation, township, county, school district, community development organization, or county land reutilization corporation that sold the property shall calculate the sum of the taxes, assessments, penalties...

...Any party to any proceeding instituted pursuant to sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code who is aggrieved in any of the proceedings of the county board of revision under those sections may file an appeal in the court of common pleas pursuant to Chapters 2505. and 2506. of the Revised Code upon a final order of foreclosure and forfeiture by the board. A final order of foreclosure and forfeiture occurs up...

...Whoever violates division (D), (E), or (F) of section 323.153 or division (B) of section 323.159 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.

.... The prosecuting attorney shall be the president of such board and the county auditor shall be its secretary.

...and the interest maturing thereon. All taxes, assessments, and other moneys collected for such purposes, or held in the county treasury to the credit of the sinking fund, shall be subject to investment and disbursement by such board. For the satisfaction of any obligation under its supervision, the board may sell or use any of the securities in its possession or disburse any of the money under its control.

...ty auditor shall report to the board of trustees of the sinking fund the amount in the county treasury to the credit of the sinking fund.