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...(A) The department of children and youth shall conduct a site visit of a residential facility at least annually to ensure certification compliance. The department may conduct a site visit more than once a year in accordance with rules adopted under division (B) of this section. The department is not required to provide advance notification to the residential facility of a site visit. (B) Not later than ninety days ...

...Each operator of a residential facility shall establish a twenty-four-hour emergency on-call procedure to respond to contact from hospitals, law enforcement officers, and first responders regarding emergencies involving a child under the care and supervision of the facility.

... Code to determine whether the training requirements are adequately responsive to the needs of residential facilities, based on the results of the review under division (B)(1) of this section. (C) If the director determines that Chapter 5101:2-9 of the Ohio Administrative Code should be updated pursuant to a review under division (B)(2) of this section, the director shall adopt or modify rules in accordance with Ch...

... create a standard form to be used by a public children services agency or private child placing agency with custody of a child placed in a residential facility to convey information necessary to support the child's education. (B)(1) A public children services agency or private child placing agency with custody of a child shall complete the form under division (A) of this section for each child the agency places in...

...r 119. of the Revised Code to establish requirements regarding all of the following for group homes: (1) The use of the Ohio professional registry, as operated by the Ohio child care resource and referral association or its successor organization or entity, to complete background checks or criminal records checks pursuant to section 2151.86, 5103.037, 5103.0310, or 5103.053 of the Revised Code for any owner, board ...

...The department of children and youth shall administer funds received under Title IV-B of the "Social Security Act," 81 Stat. 821 (1967), 42 U.S.C.A. 620, as amended, and the "Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act," 88 Stat. 4 (1974), 42 U.S.C.A. 5101, as amended. In administering these funds, the department may establish a child welfare services program and a child abuse and neglect prevention and adoption reform ...

...s to or enter into contracts with other public or private entities.

...epartment of veterans affairs, the Ohio public employee retirement system, the Ohio police and fire pension fund, the state teachers retirement system of Ohio, the school employees retirement system of Ohio, or the Ohio highway patrol retirement system. If the child is eligible for or receiving such benefits, the agency shall not use the child's benefits to pay for or reimburse the agency, county, or state for any co...

...There is hereby created the foster care and adoption initiatives fund. The fund shall be in the custody of the treasurer of state, but shall not be part of the state treasury. The fund shall consist of moneys collected under section 2919.1912 of the Revised Code. All interest earned on the fund shall be credited to the fund. The purpose of the fund is to provide funding for foster care and adoption services and initi...

...o receive a payment; (2) Eligibility requirements a public children services agency or private child placing agency must meet to enter into an agreement with the department; (3) Eligibility requirements that a child who is the subject of an agreement must meet; (4) Other administrative and operational requirements.

...a person for compliance with any of the requirements imposed under this section or any of the rules adopted under division (H) of this section. (D) No certified children's crisis care facility shall do any of the following: (1) Provide residential care to a preteen for more than one hundred twenty days in a calendar year; (2) Provide residential care to a preteen for more than ninety consecutive days, which ...

...The department of children and youth may apply to the United States secretary of health and human services for a federal grant under the "Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act," 42 U.S.C. 5116, and the "Family First Prevention Services Act," 42 U.S.C. 50711, 50723, and 50741, to assist children's crisis care facilities certified under section 5103.13 of the Revised Code in providing temporary residential and other...

...The department of children and youth shall enforce sections 2151.39, 5103.15, and 5103.16 of the Revised Code.

...ent between a parent and an agency, the requirements of section 5103.151 of the Revised Code are met. The agency requesting the approval of the permanent surrender agreement shall file with the court an original or amended case plan, prepared pursuant to section 2151.412 of the Revised Code, at the same time that it files its request for the approval of the permanent surrender agreement. (4) Notwithstanding divisio...

...approving the parent's agreement with a public children services agency or private child placing agency under division (B)(1) of section 5103.15 of the Revised Code: (1) Appear personally before the court; (2) Sign the component of the form prescribed under division (A)(1)(a) of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code; (3) Check either the "yes" or "no" space provided on the component of the form prescribed und...

...ot less than seventy-two hours before a public children services agency or private child placing agency enters into an agreement with a parent under division (B) of section 5103.15 of the Revised Code, an assessor shall meet in person with the parent and do both of the following: (A) Provide the parent with a copy of the written materials about adoption prepared by the department of children and youth under divisi...

...(A)(1) A juvenile court shall conduct a review hearing of an agreement the court approves under division (B)(1) of section 5103.15 of the Revised Code once every seven months after the agreement is entered into if a final decree or interlocutory order of adoption for the child who is the subject of the agreement has not been issued or become final and the agreement is still in effect. (2) A juvenile court shall con...

...As used in this section, "children with special needs" has the same meaning as in rules adopted under section 5153.163 of the Revised Code. If the department of job and family services determines that money in the putative father registry fund created under section 2101.16 of the Revised Code is more than is needed to perform its duties related to the putative father registry, the department may transfer surplus m...

...release is in a form that satisfies the requirements of the immigration and naturalization service of the United States department of justice for purposes of immigration to this country pursuant to section 101(b)(1)(F) of the "Immigration and Nationality Act," 75 Stat. 650 (1961), 8 U.S.C. 1101 (b)(1)(F), as amended or reenacted. If the parent or parents of the child are deceased or have abandoned the child, as de...

.... If a private child placing agency or public children services agency has placed a child in a foster home or with a relative of the child, other than a parent of the child, the agency shall notify the child's foster caregiver or relative if the agency seeks permanent custody of the child, or, if the agency already has permanent custody of the child, seeks to place the child for adoption. The notice also shall infor...

...chment, and social activities. (2) A public children services agency, private child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency that serves as the child's custodian or as the supervising agency for the resource caregiver shall be immune from liability in a civil action to recover damages for injury, death, or loss to person or property that result from a resource caregiver's or agency's decisions using a reason...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to establish and enforce a resource family bill of rights for resource families providing care for individuals who are in the custody or care and placement of an agency that provides Title IV-E reimbursable services pursuant to sections 5103.03 to 5103.181 of the Revised Code. (B) If the rights of the res...

...ection 5103.03 of the Revised Code or a public children services agency, shall advertise that the person or government entity will adopt children or place them in foster homes, hold out inducements to parents to part with their offspring or in any manner knowingly become a party to the separation of a child from the child's parents or guardians, except through a juvenile court or probate court commitment. (C) The ...

...ld is subject and in regards to which a public children services agency has done one of the following: (a) Determined that abuse or neglect occurred; (b) Initiated an investigation, and the investigation is ongoing; (c) Initiated an investigation, and the agency was unable to determine whether abuse or neglect occurred. (2) The summary report required under division (A) of this section shall not contain a...

...rtment of justice national sex offender public web site regarding the prospective or current foster caregiver and all persons eighteen years of age or older who reside with the prospective or current foster caregiver. Certification may be denied based solely on the results of the search. (B) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code necessary for the i...

...(A) If a public children services agency receives a report of child abuse or neglect under section 2151.421 of the Revised Code, or a report that a child may be a dependent child, and is denied reasonable access to the child by a parent, guardian, custodian, or caregiver of the child, or to any other information necessary to determine if the child is, or at risk of becoming, an abused, neglected, or dependent child, ...

...stody of any of the following: (a) A public children services agency; (b) A private child placing agency; (c) Either parent; (d) A relative residing within or outside the state; (e) A probation officer for placement in a certified foster home; (f) Any other person approved by the court. (3) Award legal custody of the child to either parent or to any other person who, prior to the dispositional he...

...A qualified organization shall develop and implement written policies and procedures for host family training. Training shall include all of the following topics: (A) The legal rights and responsibilities of host families; (B) The qualified organization's policies and procedures regarding host families; (C) The effects that separation and attachment issues have on children and their families; (D) The effects ...

...ucted in accordance with the applicable requirements of the state in which the home is located, and documents the preparation and the suitability of the placement resource for placement of a child in accordance with the laws and requirements of the state in which the home is located. (G) "Indian tribe" means any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community of Indians recognized as eligible for...

...The attorney general shall adopt, in accordance with Chapter 119. or pursuant to section 109.74 of the Revised Code, rules governing the training of peace officers in the handling of missing children, missing persons, and child abuse and neglect cases. The rules shall specify the amount of that training necessary for the satisfactory completion of basic training programs at approved peace officer training school...

...(A) A public children services agency shall determine as soon as practicable if a parent, guardian, or custodian of a child who is subject to an investigation under section 2151.421 or 2151.422 of the Revised Code is in the armed forces. (B) If the agency determines that the parent, guardian, or custodian is in the armed forces, the agency shall notify the appropriate authority of that armed force in which the pare...

...th shall be members of the board. Eight public members shall be appointed by the governor. These members shall be persons with demonstrated knowledge in programs for children, shall be representative of the demographic composition of this state, and, to the extent practicable, shall be representative of the following categories: the educational community; the legal community; the social work community; the medical co...

...istrict, educational service center, public or nonpublic school, or county board of developmental disabilities where the employee works any physical or mental wound, injury, disability, or condition of a nature that constitutes abuse or neglect of the child. (B) Whoever violates division (B) of section 3314.403 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...l district, educational service center, public or nonpublic school, or county board of developmental disabilities where the employee works any physical or mental wound, injury, disability, or condition of a nature that constitutes abuse or neglect of the child. (D) Whoever violates division (B) or (D) of section 3319.317 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...istrict, educational service center, public or nonpublic school, or county board of developmental disabilities where the employee works any physical or mental wound, injury, disability, or condition of a nature that constitutes abuse or neglect of the child. (B) Whoever violates division (B) of section 3326.243 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

... district, educational service center, public or nonpublic school, or county board of developmental disabilities where the employee works any physical or mental wound, injury, disability, or condition of a nature that constitutes abuse or neglect of the child. (B) Whoever violates division (B) of section 3328.193 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

... licensed type B home does not meet the requirements of section 5104.013 of the Revised Code. (B) The department shall serve a written order of suspension on the licensee as described in sections 119.05 and 119.07 of the Revised Code. The licensee may request an adjudicatory hearing before the department pursuant to sections 119.06 to 119.12 of the Revised Code. (C) Any summary suspension imposed under this sec...

...istrict, educational service center, public or nonpublic school, or county board of developmental disabilities where the employee works any physical or mental wound, injury, disability, or condition of a nature that constitutes abuse or neglect of the child.

...nse involving misconduct in office by a public servant, at any time while the accused remains a public servant, or within two years thereafter; (b) For an offense by a person who is not a public servant but whose offense is directly related to the misconduct in office of a public servant, at any time while that public servant remains a public servant, or within two years thereafter. (2) As used in this division...

...Failure to follow the procedure set forth in the memorandum of understanding by the concerned officials is not grounds for, and shall not result in, the dismissal of any charges or complaint arising from any reported case of abuse or neglect or the suppression of any evidence obtained as a result of any reported child abuse or child neglect and does not give, and shall not be construed as giving, any rights or any gr...

...ions of the board shall be conducted in public meetings. A majority of the members appointed to the board constitute a quorum. A majority of the quorum is required to make all decisions of the board. (E) With respect to funding, all of the following apply: (1) The board may apply for and accept federal and other funds for the purpose of funding child abuse and child neglect prevention programs. (2) The board...

...(A) The children's trust fund board may deny funding or allocate a reduced amount of funds on a pro-rated daily basis to a child abuse and child neglect regional prevention council for the fiscal year for which a regional prevention plan was required to be developed under any of the following circumstances: (1) If a council fails to submit to the board a regional prevention plan pursuant to section 3109.174 of the R...

...(A) Each child abuse and child neglect regional prevention council may request from the children's trust fund board up to five thousand dollars for each county within the council's region to be used as one-time, start-up costs for the establishment and operation of a children's advocacy center to serve each county in the region or a center to serve two or more contiguous counties within the region. (B) On receipt ...

... all of the following: (1) Operation requirements for child abuse and child neglect regional prevention councils; (2) The manner in which boards of county commissioners are to appoint council members; (3) The form and manner by which councils are to submit regional prevention plans. (B) The department may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code regarding the following: (1) Dutie...

...As used in this chapter, "dependent child" means any child: (A) Who is homeless or destitute or without adequate parental care, through no fault of the child's parents, guardian, or custodian; (B) Who lacks adequate parental care by reason of the mental or physical condition of the child's parents, guardian, or custodian; (C) Whose condition or environment is such as to warrant the state, in the interests of the c...

...The court may consider any of the following factors in determining whether to grant a deviation pursuant to section 3119.22 of the Revised Code: (A) Special and unusual needs of the child or children, including needs arising from the physical or psychological condition of the child or children; (B) Other court-ordered payments; (C) Extended parenting time or extraordinary costs associated with parenting time, i...

...(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...

...; (c) The provision of assistance to public and private organizations, boards of education, nonpublic schools, preschools, child care facilities, and law enforcement agencies in planning and implementing voluntary programs to fingerprint children. (2) The establishment and operation of a toll-free telephone line for supplemental reports of missing children and reports of sightings of missing children; (3) Up...

...The department of children and youth shall administer funds received under Title IV-B of the "Social Security Act," 81 Stat. 821 (1967), 42 U.S.C.A. 620, as amended, and the "Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act," 88 Stat. 4 (1974), 42 U.S.C.A. 5101, as amended. In administering these funds, the department may establish a child welfare services program and a child abuse and neglect prevention and adoption reform ...

...ld is subject and in regards to which a public children services agency has done one of the following: (a) Determined that abuse or neglect occurred; (b) Initiated an investigation, and the investigation is ongoing; (c) Initiated an investigation, and the agency was unable to determine whether abuse or neglect occurred. (2) The summary report required under division (A) of this section shall not contain a...

...The department of rehabilitation and correction shall provide for the needs of persons with mental illnesses and persons with intellectual disabilities who are incarcerated in state correctional institutions. The department may designate an institution or a unit within an institution for the custody, care, special training, treatment, and rehabilitation of persons with mental illnesses or persons with intellectual di...

...(A) The following divisions are hereby established in the department of rehabilitation and correction: (1) The division of business administration; (2) The division of parole and community services. (B) The director of rehabilitation and correction may establish offices, divisions in addition to those specified in division (A) of this section, bureaus, and other administrative units within the department of rehabi...

...al disabilities; (9) The director of public safety; (10) The director of youth services; (11) The chancellor of higher education; (12) A representative or member of the governor's staff; (13) The executive director of the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency; (14) The director of the department of commerce; (15) The executive director of a health care licensing board created under T...

...The department of rehabilitation and correction shall require any of its employees and each officer and employee of every institution under its control who may be charged with custody or control of any money or property belonging to the state or who is required to give bond, to give a surety company bond, properly conditioned, in a sum to be fixed by the department which when approved by the department, shall be file...

...Under the supervision and control of the director of rehabilitation and correction, the division of business administration shall do all of the following: (A) Submit the budgets for the several divisions of the department of rehabilitation and correction, as prepared by the respective chiefs of those divisions, to the director. The director, with the assistance of the chief of the division of business adminis...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the education services fund. The department of rehabilitation and correction shall deposit into the fund all state revenues it receives from the Ohio department of education and workforce. Any money in the fund shall solely be used to pay educational expenses incurred by the department.

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the adult and juvenile correctional facilities bond retirement fund. The fund shall receive proceeds derived from the sale of state adult or juvenile correctional facilities. Investment income with respect to moneys on deposit in the fund shall be retained by the fund. No investment of moneys in, or transfer of moneys from, the fund shall be made if the effect of the inve...

...Revised Code; (8) Contracting with a public or private agency or a department or political subdivision of the state that operates a licensed halfway house or community residential center for the provision of housing, supervision, and other services to parolees, releasees, persons placed under a residential sanction, persons under transitional control, and other eligible offenders in accordance with section 2967.14...

...As used in sections 5120.102 to 5120.105 of the Revised Code: (A) "Private, nonprofit organization" means a private association, organization, corporation, or other entity that is exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(a) and is described in section 501(c) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 501, as amended. (B) "Governmental agency" means a state agency; a munic...

...ely affect the exclusion of interest on public obligations or on fractionalized interests in public obligations from gross income for federal income tax purposes, or the classification or qualification of the public obligations or the interest on or fractionalized interests in public obligations for, or their exemption from, other treatment under the Internal Revenue Code. (C) The director of rehabilitation and corr...

...or advertisement, auction, competitive bidding, court order, or other action or formality otherwise required by law. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code, the director shall make each lease or sublease to or from the Ohio public facilities commission or halfway house organization in accordance with Chapter 154. of the Revised Code. (C) The director, by a sale, lease, sublease, release, or ot...

...(A) The Ohio facilities construction commission shall provide for the construction of a halfway house facility in conformity with Chapter 153. of the Revised Code, except that construction services may be provided by the department of rehabilitation and correction. (B) The director of rehabilitation and correction may enter into an agreement with a halfway house organization for the management of a halfway ho...

...Within the department of rehabilitation and correction, there shall be established and maintained a bureau of examination and classification. The bureau shall conduct or provide for sociological, psychological, and psychiatric examination of each inmate of the correctional institutions. The examination shall be made as soon as possible after each inmate is admitted to any of the institutions, and further examinations...

...hose proposals that satisfy the minimum requirements contained in section 2301.52 of the Revised Code; and administer the program for state financial assistance to the facilities and programs in accordance with section 5120.112 of the Revised Code.

...(A) The division of parole and community services shall accept applications for state financial assistance for the renovation, maintenance, and operation of proposed and approved community-based correctional facilities and programs and district community-based correctional facilities and programs that are filed in accordance with section 2301.56 of the Revised Code. The division, upon receipt of an application for a ...

...(A) For each inmate committed to the department of rehabilitation and correction, except as provided in division (B) of this section, the department shall prepare a written reentry plan for the inmate to help guide the inmate's rehabilitation program during imprisonment, to assist in the inmate's reentry into the community, and to assess the inmate's needs upon release. (B) Division (A) of this section does n...

...(A) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall select a single validated risk assessment tool for adult offenders. This assessment tool shall be used by the following entities: (1) Municipal courts, when the particular court orders an assessment of an offender for sentencing or another purpose; (2) Common pleas courts, when the particular court orders an assessment of an offender for sentencing or anothe...

... confidential information and are not a public record. No person shall disclose any report generated by or data collected in the risk assessment tool except as provided in division (A) of this section. (C) As used in this section, "public record" has the same meaning as in section 149.43 of the Revised Code.

...n behalf of the state, if it is for the public interest, any grant, gift, devise, or bequest of money or property made to or for the use or benefit of any institution described in section 5120.05 of the Revised Code. The department shall keep such gift, grant, devise, or bequest as a distinct property or fund, and shall invest the same, if in money, in the manner provided by law. The department may deposit in a prope...

...Each managing officer of an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of rehabilitation and correction as described in section 5120.05 of the Revised Code, with the approval of the director of the department of rehabilitation and correction, may establish local institution funds designated as follows: (A) Industrial and entertainment fund created and maintained for the entertainment and welfare of the inm...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the prisoner programs fund. The director of rehabilitation and correction shall deposit in the fund all moneys received by the department from commissions on telephone systems and services provided to prisoners in relation to electronic mail, prisoner trust fund deposits, and the purchase of music, digital music players, and other electronic devices. The money i...

...(A) The department of rehabilitation and correction, upon receipt of a certified copy of the judgment of a court of record in an action in which a prisoner was a party that orders a prisoner to pay a stated obligation, may apply toward payment of the obligation money that belongs to a prisoner and that is in the account kept for the prisoner by the department. The department may transmit the prisoner's funds directly...

...Each managing officer of an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of rehabilitation and correction, based upon a recommendation of the institution's joint labor management committee, may establish a local institution fund that shall be designated the vending commission fund and that shall be created and maintained for the benefit and welfare of the employees of that institution. The fund shall receive ...

...(A) If a person who was convicted of or pleaded guilty to an offense escapes from a correctional institution in this state under the control of the department of rehabilitation and correction or otherwise escapes from the custody of the department, the department immediately after the escape shall report the escape, by telephone and in writing, to all local law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction in the county in ...

...The department of rehabilitation and correction shall regulate the admission and discharge of inmates in the institutions described in section 5120.05 of the Revised Code.