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...For the purpose of implementing and administering this chapter, the director of environmental protection may adopt, amend, and rescind rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The rules shall be consistent with, equivalent in scope, content, and coverage to, and no more stringent than the requirements of section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act Amendments and any regulations adopted pursuant to that sect...

...(A) Effective upon the date that the United States environmental protection agency delegates the program created under section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act Amendments to the environmental protection agency of this state, an owner or operator of a stationary source that has a covered process shall develop and submit a risk management plan no later than the latest of the following: (1) Not later than ten days after the...

...(A) In addition to complying with section 3753.03 of the Revised Code, the owner or operator of a stationary source at which one or more covered processes are present, as part of the owner or operator's risk management program, shall comply with program 1, program 2, or program 3 requirements established under this section or with a combination of those requirements. An owner or operator shall determine which of thos...

...(A) Except as provided in division (G) of this section, an owner or operator who is required to submit a risk management plan under this chapter shall pay annually to the environmental protection agency a fee of fifty dollars together with any of the following applicable fees: (1) A fee of sixty-five dollars if a covered process in the stationary source includes propane and propane is the only regulated substance at...

...No person shall violate any provision of this chapter or a rule adopted or order issued under it.

...The director of environmental protection or the director's authorized representative, upon proper identification and upon stating the purpose and necessity of an inspection, may enter at reasonable times upon any private or public property, real or personal, to inspect, investigate, obtain samples, and examine and copy records to determine compliance with this chapter and rules adopted or orders issued under it. The ...

...The director of environmental protection may issue orders requiring an owner or operator who is subject to this chapter to abate a violation of section 3753.06 of the Revised Code. The director may issue such orders as final orders without issuing a proposed action under section 3745.07 of the Revised Code and, notwithstanding section 119.06 of the Revised Code, without the necessity to hold an adjudication hearing. ...

...(A) The attorney general or the prosecuting attorney of the county or director of law of the city where a violation has occurred or is occurring, upon written request of the director of environmental protection, shall prosecute to termination any person who has violated division (D) of section 3753.03 of the Revised Code or shall bring an action for injunction against any person who has violated or is violating secti...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Harm" means injury to, death of, or loss to person or property. (2) "Tort action" means a civil action for damages for harm, but does not include a civil action for damages for a breach of contract or other agreement between persons or for a breach of a warranty that exists pursuant to the Revised Code or the common law of this state. (B) The state, and any officer or employee of ...

...Whoever purposely violates division (D) of section 3753.03 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than twenty thousand dollars and imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. Each day of violation is a separate offense.

...As used in sections 3761.01 to 3761.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Mob" means a collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to anyone, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law. (B) "Lynching" means an act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person. (C) "Serious injury" means such injury a...

...A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missles, or in any other manner, may recover from the county in which the assault is made, damages not to exceed one thousand dollars.

...A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault is made, a sum of not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum of not to exceed one thousand dollars; or, if such injury results in permanent disability to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum of not to exceed five thousand dollars.

...Sections 3761.01 to 3761.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall apply to a person suffering death or injury from a mob while it is attempting to lynch another person. Such person, or his legal representatives, shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such mob.

...When a recovery is had under sections 3761.02 to 3761.05, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the court shall include as a part of its judgment an order requiring the board of county commissioners to include the amount of the judgment in the next succeeding tax levy for such county.

...The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover from any of the persons composing a mob the amount of a judgment and costs rendered against it, under sections 3761.01 to 3761.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code, in favor of the legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at a lynching is a member of the mob and is liable under this section.

...If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs, rendered against it under sections 3761.01 to 3761.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code, from the county from which the mob came, unless there was contributory negligence on...

...Actions for the recoveries provided in sections 3761.01 to 3761.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code, must be commenced, within two years from the date of the lynching, in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault.

...Sections 3761.01 to 3761.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein.

...No person shall unite with two or more others to commit a misdemeanor while wearing white caps, masks, or other disguise.

...(A) As used in this section, "mob" has the same meaning as in section 3761.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The chief administrative officer of a political subdivision with police powers, when engaged in suppressing a riot or a mob or when there is a clear and present danger of a riot or a mob, may cordon off any area or areas threatened by the riot or the mob and prohibit persons from entering the cordoned off area or ...

...Whoever violates section 3761.12 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree.

...(A) All promises, agreements, notes, bills, bonds, or other contracts, mortgages, or other securities, when the whole or part of the consideration thereof is for money or other valuable thing won or lost, laid, staked, or betted at or upon a game of any kind, or upon a horse race or cockfights, sport or pastime, or on a wager, or for the repayment of money lent or advanced at the time of a game, play, or wager, for t...

...If a person, by playing a game, or by a wager, loses to another, money or other thing of value, and pays or delivers it or a part thereof, to the winner thereof, such person losing and paying or delivering, within six months after such loss and payment or delivery, may sue for and recover such money or thing of value or part thereof, from the winner thereof, with costs of suit. Neither this section nor section 3763....

...In the prosecution of an action under sections 3763.02 of the Revised Code, the plaintiff need only allege that the defendant is indebted to the plaintiff for, or received to the plaintiff's use, the money so lost and paid, or converted the goods won of the plaintiff to the defendant's use, whereby the plaintiff's action accrued to him, without setting forth the special matter.

...No officer, agent, or other person acting for or in behalf of a railroad company operating ten or more miles of its railroad for the carrying or transporting of passengers or freight over its railroad within this state which fails to erect and maintain telegraph or telephone wires in complete working order for use and operation along its railroad, with an office and proper means of communication by such wires at each...

...No agent of a railroad company shall knowingly divert or permit freight under his control to be diverted from the railroads over which it is ordered to be conveyed by the shipper of such freight. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

...No railroad employee who has a seniority roster date on the effective date of the repeal of sections 4999.07 and 4999.08 of the Revised Code shall be removed from his employment or have his seniority rights or vacation or other fringe benefits reduced by reason of such repeal. Any carrier which violates this section shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five thousand dollars. The public utilities co...

...(A) As used in the Revised Code, the "department of public welfare" and the "department of human services" mean the department of job and family services and the "director of public welfare" and the "director of human services" mean the director of job and family services. Except as provided in section 5160.011 of the Revised Code, whenever the department or director of public welfare or the department or direc...

...The director of job and family services is the executive head of the department of job and family services. All duties conferred on the various work units of the department by law or by order of the director shall be performed under such rules as the director prescribes, and shall be under the director's control.

...The assistant directors of the department of job and family services shall exercise the powers and perform the duties which the director of job and family services may order. The director is authorized to designate which assistant director shall act as director in the absence or disability of the director or in case of a vacancy in the position of director.

...(A) Notwithstanding any provision of law or regulation to the contrary, in order to improve the timeliness of public assistance benefit deliveries, to maximize operational efficiencies, increase cost savings, and minimize fraud, the department of job and family services may contract with a third-party commercial consumer reporting agency, in accordance with the "Fair Credit Reporting Act," 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq., for...

...(A) The director of job and family services shall enter into the following data matching agreements: (1) An agreement with the department of rehabilitation and correction, under which the director of rehabilitation and correction is required to provide the director of job and family services with a searchable list, updated weekly, identifying all persons committed to the several institutions governed by the departm...

...(A) As used in this section, "public assistance benefits" means all of the following: (1) Supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits; (2) Benefits funded in part by the temporary assistance for needy families block grant; (3) Cash assistance provided through the Ohio works first program; (4) Benefits provided by the medicaid program; (5) Publicly funded child care as defined in section 5104.01 of th...

...The director of job and family services may appoint such employees as are necessary for the efficient operation of the department of job and family services. The director may prescribe the title and duties of the employees.

...If the director of job and family services determines that a position with the department of job and family services can best be filled in accordance with division (A)(2) of section 124.30 of the Revised Code or without regard to a residency requirement established by a rule adopted by the director of administrative services, the director of job and family services shall provide the director of administrative service...

...The director of job and family services may establish work units within the department of job and family services as necessary for the efficient operation of the department. The director shall appoint the chief of each work unit.

...(A) There is hereby established in the department of job and family services the office of human services innovation. The office shall develop recommendations, as described in division (B) of this section, regarding the coordination and reform of state programs to assist the residents of this state in preparing for life and the dignity of work and to promote individual responsibility and work opportunity. The dire...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the support services federal operating fund. The fund shall consist of federal funds the department of job and family services receives and that the director of job and family services determines are appropriate for deposit into the fund. Money in the fund shall be used to pay the federal share of both of the following: (A) The department's costs for computer projects; ...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the support services state operating fund. The fund shall consist of payments made to the fund from other appropriation items by intrastate transfer voucher. Money in the fund shall be used to pay for both of the following: (A) The department of job and family services' costs for computer projects; (B) The operating costs of the parts of the department that provide gene...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the human services projects fund. The fund may consist of intrastate agency transfers, nonfederal grants, and other similar revenue sources. The department of job and family services shall use the fund to support program and administrative expenses related to the implementation of human services initiatives within the department.

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the ODJFS audit settlements and contingency fund. The fund shall be used to pay for required audits, settlements, contingencies, and other related expenses. As necessary for the purposes of the fund, the director of job and family services may request the director of budget and management to transfer money from any of the funds used by the department of job and family ser...

...If the department of job and family services receives money from a refund or reconciliation related to the medicaid program, the department shall transfer the money to the department of medicaid for deposit into the refunds and reconciliation fund created under section 5162.65 of the Revised Code.

...The director of job and family services may require any of the employees of the department of job and family services who may be charged with custody or control of any public money or property or who is required to give bond, to give a bond, properly conditioned, in a sum to be fixed by the director which when approved by the director, shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. The cost of such bonds, wh...

...(A) When the director of job and family services or the director of children and youth is authorized by the Revised Code to adopt a rule, the director shall adopt the rule in accordance with the following: (1) Chapter 119. of the Revised Code if any of the following apply: (a) The rule concerns the administration or enforcement of Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code; (b) The rule concerns a program administere...

...The director of job and family services may expend funds appropriated or available to the department of job and family services from public or private entities, including other governmental agencies; public or private institutions, organizations, agencies, and corporations; and individuals. For purposes of this section, the director may enter into contracts or agreements with public and private entities and make gran...

...(A) This section establishes the order of priority to be followed by the department of job and family services when distributing funds for the purpose of providing family planning services, including funds the department receives through Title XX of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2337 (1974), 42 U.S.C. 1397, as amended, and funds the department receives through Title IV-A of the "Social Security Act," 110 ...

...al subdivision of the state; a private, nonprofit entity; a school district; a private school; or a public or private institution of higher education. (2) "Federal financial participation" means the federal government's share of expenditures made by an entity in implementing a program administered by the department of job and family services. (B) At the request of any public entity having authority to implement...

...The foundation grant fund is hereby created in the state treasury. Money the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth receives from private foundations in support of pilot projects that promote exemplary programs for enhancing the health, safety, and well-being of children and families shall be credited to the fund. The applicable department may expend the money on such projects, ...

...The department of job and family services or department of children and youth may enter into contracts to maximize federal revenue without the expenditure of state money. In selecting private entities with which to contract, the applicable department shall engage in a request for proposals process. The applicable department, subject to the approval of the controlling board, may also directly enter into contracts with...