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...ceptable as security for the deposit of public moneys. Such bonds, notes, and other written instruments may be issued in coupon or in registered form or both, as the issuing commission may determine. Provisions may be made for the registration of any of the bonds, notes, or other written instruments in the name of the owner as to principal alone and as to both principal and interest, and for exchange between those i...

...Upon completion of any buildings as defined in section 3347.03 of the Revised Code, such building shall be rented by the housing commission to students, instructors, faculty members, the administration and maintenance staff of the university with which the commission is identified, or any of such groups, for the residence of themselves and their families, upon such terms of rental as is determined by the commission.

...The rentals received from a building as defined in section 3347.03 of the Revised Code, after paying the costs of operation, administration, maintenance, and repair and necessary fiscal agency charges applicable to each such property, shall be placed in a separate sinking fund which is hereby pledged to and charged with the payment of interest and principal of the bonds, notes, or other written instruments issued in ...

...In the event that bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness issued pursuant to section 3347.04 of the Revised Code are secured by a trust agreement between the issuing commission and a corporate trustee, as determined by the commission in its resolution authorizing their issuance, the revenues received by the issuing commission from the buildings referred to in section 3347.03 of the Revised Code, shall be ple...

...When sufficient funds have been received from the revenues from buildings provided in section 3347.07 of the Revised Code to pay bonds, notes, or other written instruments issued with respect to such buildings and accrued interest, the said buildings and the lands whereon the same are situated, shall be conveyed to the state by the housing commission owning and operating the same for the use and benefit of the univer...

...Each commission created by section 3347.01 of the Revised Code may lease or sublease real property and buildings for suitable housing, dormitory, dining hall, and recreational accommodations for students, members of the faculty, the administration and maintenance staff, and their spouses and children, of the university with which each commission is identified, on such terms as the commission determines, provided, tha...

...(A) Real property or buildings a university housing commission identifies as a property site for development or redevelopment under section 3347.09 of the Revised Code may be situated within or outside of the political subdivision in which the administrative offices of the university identified with the commission are principally located. (B) If located entirely outside of the political subdivision, but not less tha...

...Each commission created by section 3347.01 of the Revised Code may, upon such consideration, terms, and conditions as are approved by it, grant to any municipal corporation or county, or transfer to the director of transportation, the right to use in perpetuity or for such period of time as such commission shall specify, any lands owned by it or under its supervision or control for any street, road, or highway purpos...

...ated by the United States department of health and human services under the special focus facility program. (13) "Special focus facility program" means the program conducted by the United States secretary of health and human services pursuant to section 1919(f)(10) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396r(f)(10). (14) "Real and present danger" means immediate danger of serious physical or life-threatening ...

...dministered to the individual by a home health agency certified under Title XVIII of the "Social Security Act," 79 Stat. 620 (1965), 42 U.S.C. 1395, as amended; a hospice care program licensed under Chapter 3712. of the Revised Code; or a member of the staff of the residential care facility who is qualified to perform medication administration. Medication may be administered in a residential care facility only by the...

...A residential care facility may enter into a risk agreement with a resident or the resident's sponsor. Under a risk agreement, the resident or sponsor and the facility agree to share responsibility for making and implementing decisions affecting the scope and quantity of services provided by the facility to the resident. The facility also agrees to identify the risks inherent in a decision made by a resident or spons...

...lated adults. (B)(1) The director of health shall license homes and establish procedures to be followed in inspecting and licensing homes. The director may inspect a home at any time. The director may enter at any time, for the purposes of investigation, any institution, residence, facility, or other structure that has been reported to the director or that the director has reasonable cause to believe is operating ...

...s that result from life safety code and health inspections during the preceding three years, and shall post prominently within the home a notice of this requirement.

...he Revised Code. (B) The department of health is hereby designated the state agency responsible for establishing and maintaining health standards and serving as the state survey agency for the purposes of Title XVIII and Title XIX. The department shall carry out these functions in accordance with the regulations, guidelines, and procedures issued under Title XVIII and Title XIX by the United States secretary o...

...ating the nursing home, the director of health shall not grant a certificate of need under sections 3702.51 to 3702.62 of the Revised Code to relocate any of the nursing facility beds or the license from the owner's real estate in or on which the beds are located unless the lessee or person in possession of the facility obtains the voluntary written consent of the owner or sublessor of the real estate to such relocat...

...pients. The program may be funded with public funds appropriated by the general assembly for the purpose of the program or any funds appropriated for nursing home licensure.

...(A) Before the director of health can issue a license to operate a nursing home to an entering operator, all of the following requirements must be satisfied: (1) The entering operator completes a change of operator license application on a form prescribed by the director and pays the applicable fee as determined by the director. Any fee required by the director under division (A)(1) of this section shall be cre...

...e Revised Code. (B) The department of health shall investigate within ten working days after referral, in accordance with procedures and criteria to be established by the department of health and the department of aging, any unresolved complaint that the office of the state long-term care ombudsman has investigated and found to be valid and refers to the department of health. This requirement does not superse...

... the Revised Code. (B) The director of health shall enforce the provisions of sections 3721.01 to 3721.13 and 3721.99 of the Revised Code and may issue orders to secure compliance with the provisions of these sections and the rules adopted under them. The director may hold hearings, issue subpoenas, compel testimony, and make adjudications. The director may issue an order revoking a license in the event the directo...

...to identify such an individual is not a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code, and is not subject to inspection and copying under section 1347.08 of the Revised Code. (C)(1) If the director, or an agency or individual to whom the director is required by court order or for administration or enforcement of a statute relating to homes to release information described in division (A)(1) of...

...building standards and the director of health are empowered to adopt. In the event of a dispute between the marshal and another officer having responsibilities under sections 3721.01 to 3721.09 of the Revised Code with respect to the interpretation or application of a specific fire safety statute or rule, the interpretation of the marshal shall prevail.

...(A) The director of health shall adopt and publish rules governing the operation of homes, which shall have uniform application throughout the state, and shall prescribe standards for homes with respect to, but not limited to, the following matters: (1) The minimum space requirements for occupants and equipping of the buildings in which homes are housed so as to ensure healthful, safe, sanitary, and comfortab...

...fuse vaccination. (D) The director of health may adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as the director considers appropriate to implement this section.

...The director of health may not deny a nursing home license to a facility seeking a license under this chapter as a nursing home on the grounds that the facility does not satisfy a requirement established in rules adopted under section 3721.04 of the Revised Code regarding the toilet rooms and dining and recreational areas of nursing homes if all of the following requirements are met: (A) The facility seeks a ...

...btaining a license from the director of health; (B) Violate any of the conditions or requirements necessary for licensing after the license has been issued; (C) Operate a home after the license for such has been revoked by the director of health; (D) Interfere with the inspection of a licensed home by any state or local official when he is performing duties required of him by Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code. Al...

...(A) Each public authority planning to contract for professional design services or design-build services shall encourage professional design firms and design-build firms to submit a statement of qualifications and update the statements at regular intervals. (B) Notwithstanding any contrary requirements in sections 153.65 to 153.70 of the Revised Code, for every design-build contract, each public authority pla...

...Each public authority planning to contract for professional design services or design-build services shall publicly announce all contracts available from it for such services. The announcements shall: (A) Be made in a uniform and consistent manner and shall be made sufficiently in advance of the time that responses must be received from qualified professional design firms or design-build firms for the firms t...

...Any public authority planning to contract for professional design services may institute prequalification requirements for professional design firms seeking to provide services to the public authority and may require that each prequalified firm maintain a current statement of qualifications on file with the public authority. The prequalification requirements shall be based on factors such as those set out in division...

...ssional design services contract, each public authority planning to contract for professional design services shall evaluate the statements of qualifications submitted by professional design firms specifically regarding the project, and may hold discussions with individual firms to explore further the firms' statements of qualifications, the scope and nature of the services the firms would provide, and the var...

...No public authority planning to contract for professional design services under section 153.69 of the Revised Code shall require any form of fee estimate, fee proposal, or other estimate or measure of compensation prior to selecting and ranking professional design firms, except in instances when firms are selected and ranked by a state agency from a list of prequalified firms created under section 153.68 of the Revis...

...For every design-build contract, the public authority planning to contract for design-build services shall first obtain the services of a criteria architect or engineer by doing either of the following: (A) Contracting for the services consistent with sections 153.65 to 153.70 of the Revised Code; (B) Obtaining the services through an architect or engineer who is an employee of the public authority.

...1) For every design-build contract, the public authority planning to contract for design-build services, in consultation with the criteria architect or engineer, shall evaluate the statements of qualifications submitted by design-build firms specifically regarding the project, including the design-build firm's proposed architect or engineer of record. (2) For projects valued at less than four million dollars, the ...

...ides professional design services to a public authority to assist that public authority in evaluating the design-build requirements provided to the public authority by a design-build firm pursuant to section 153.692 of the Revised Code, that professional design firm shall not provide any design-build services pursuant to the design-build contract under section 153.693 of the Revised Code for the project for wh...

...ering professional design services to a public authority or to a design-build firm, including a criteria architect or engineer and person performing architect or engineer of record services, shall have and maintain, or be covered by, during the period the services are rendered, a professional liability insurance policy or policies with a company or companies that are authorized to do business in this state and that a...

...(A) Any public authority planning to contract for professional design services or design-build services may adopt, amend, or rescind rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, to implement sections 153.66 to 153.70 of the Revised Code. (B) Sections 153.66 to 153.70 of the Revised Code do not apply to any of the following: (1) Any project with an estimated professional design fee of twenty-five ...

...tracted for design-build services by a public authority may do either of the following: (A) Perform design, construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction work pursuant to such contract; (B) Perform professional design services when contracted by a public authority for design-build services even if the design-build firm is not a professional design firm.

...services or design-build services by a public authority prevail in the event of any conflict with any other provision of this chapter.

...eration, repair, or reconstruction of a public improvement entered into on or after April 16, 1993, shall be deemed to include the provisions contained in division (B) of this section. (B)(1) In regard to any bond filed by the contractor for the work contracted, the contracting authority, in its sole discretion, may reduce the bond required by twenty-five per cent of the total amount of the bond after at leas...

...r preparatory work in connection with a public improvement, a public authority may require, via a provision in a public improvement contract or subcontract, that the professional design firm indemnify the public authority and its officers and employees for liabilities the public authority, officer, or employee incurs for the death of or injury to a third party that is proximately caused by the provision of the work, ...

...(A) As used in this section, "public improvement" means any of the following: (1) A road, bridge, highway, street, or tunnel; (2) A waste water treatment system or water supply system; (3) A solid waste disposal facility or a storm water and sanitary collection, storage, and treatment facility; (4) Any structure or work constructed by a state agency or by another person on behalf of a state agency pursuant to a c...

...(A) Whoever violates section 153.58 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars. (B) A person who purchases or provides steel products in violation of division (A) of section 153.011 of the Revised Code shall pay a civil penalty equal to one and one-half times the purchase price of the steel products purchased or provided in violation of that section.

...ter: (A) "Alliance" or "small employer health care alliance" means an existing or newly created organization that has been granted a certificate of authority by the superintendent of insurance under section 1731.021 of the Revised Code and that is either of the following: (1) A chamber of commerce, trade association, professional organization, or any other organization that has all of the following characteristics:...

...dependents and families is of paramount public importance to the economic and general welfare of the people of the state, that rising costs of health care have made it difficult for small employers to provide for health care benefits, that the creation of alliances of small employers to bargain with insurers better assures the obtaining of adequate coverage and benefits under health benefit plans at affordable costs ...

...July 1, 1996, shall sponsor an alliance health care program without first obtaining a certificate of authority from the superintendent of insurance. (B) Application for a certificate of authority to sponsor an alliance program shall be made by an organization in writing and in the form prescribed by the superintendent. (C) The superintendent shall, within ninety days after receipt of an application filed pursuant t...

...(A) A small employer health care alliance may do any of the following: (1) Negotiate and enter into agreements with one or more insurers for the insurers to offer and provide one or more health benefit plans to small employers for their employees and retirees, and the dependents and members of the families of such employees and retirees, which coverage may be made available to enrolled small employers without regar...

...under the program in furtherance of the public purposes stated in section 1731.02 of the Revised Code. (C) Neither an alliance program nor an agreement between an alliance and an insurer is itself a policy or contract of insurance, or a certificate, indorsement, rider, or application forming any part of a policy, contract, or certificate of insurance. Chapters 3905., 3933., and 3959. of the Revised Code do not apply...

..., submits a request for a proposal on a health benefit plan to at least three insurers and does not receive at least one reasonably responsive proposal within ninety days from the date the last such request is submitted, the superintendent, at the request of such alliance, may require that insurers offer proposals to such alliance for health benefit plans for the small employers within such alliance. Such proposals s...

...(A) No health benefit plan offered or provided by an insurer to a small employer under a qualified alliance program is subject to any law that does any of the following: (1) Inhibits the insurer from selectively contracting with providers or groups of providers with respect to health care service or benefits; (2) Imposes any restrictions on the ability of the insurer to negotiate with providers regarding the level ...

... eligible employees or retirees under a health benefit plan provided by the insurer under a qualified alliance program shall not be considered "premiums received" or "premium rate payments received" for purposes of division (A) of section 5725.18 and division (A) of section 5729.03 of the Revised Code, and are exempt from any other tax or excise in this state.

...rolled small employer to an insurer for health benefit plan coverage under a qualified alliance program are fully deductible in determining taxes payable by such small employer in this state on or measured by net income. Without limiting the foregoing: (A) With respect to such a small employer that is subject to the income tax imposed by section 5747.02 of the Revised Code, such premiums are to be deducted in determ...