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...Sections 4123.021 to 4123.024 and 4123.031 to 4123.037 of the Revised Code shall be administered by the bureau of workers' compensation. Administrative and other costs, including awards of benefits and compensation, whether lump sum or recurring payments, shall be disbursed from the state insurance fund. At the end of each six months of each fiscal year, the administrator of workers' compensation shall certify to t...

...e request or order of a duly authorized public official of the state, or any institution or agency thereof, or any political subdivision thereof, including a county, township, or municipal corporation, in time of emergency shall be entitled to all the benefits of Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. Any payments made from the state insurance fund pursuant to this section shall be charged to the surplus fund as created ...

... workers' compensation, a self-insuring public employer for the peace officers, firefighters, and emergency medical workers employed by or volunteering for that self-insuring public employer, or a detention facility that is a self-insuring employer for the facility's employees, including corrections officers, shall pay the costs of conducting post-exposure medical diagnostic services, consistent with the standards of...

... to the same benefits, payable from the public insurance fund, which are accorded to employees as defined in division (A) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code. For the purpose of statistical and like information, the bureau shall keep a separate record of the experience of the individual risks and groups of similar risks under such contracts.

...As used in sections 4123.031 to 4123.037 of the Revised Code: (A) "Emergency management worker" means anyone who has been duly registered for service pursuant to section 5502.34 of the Revised Code, in connection with the development, maintenance, and operation of any state or local emergency management agency authorized by law and who has met the minimum requirements as set forth in sections 4123.031 to 4123.037 of...

...Every emergency management worker shall, with respect to the performance of his duties as such emergency management worker, be in the employment of the state or political subdivision for purposes of sections 4123.01 to 4123.94 of the Revised Code, and every emergency management worker or, in case of death, his dependents shall be entitled to the benefits payable on account of total disability, loss of member, or deat...

...Any emergency management worker who suffers an accidental injury while performing emergency management duties, as defined herein, shall be compensated for any total disability or loss of member and his dependents shall be compensated for any death resulting from such an injury on the same basis as provided for workers, employees, and their dependents under sections 4123.01 to 4123.94 of the Revised Code. This sectio...

...For the purpose of determining benefits accruing under section 4123.033 of the Revised Code, an emergency management worker who receives no monetary compensation for emergency management services rendered shall qualify for maximum benefits applicable with respect to accidental injury or death provided for workers and employees under sections 4123.01 to 4123.94 of the Revised Code in the fiscal year applicable.

...The decision of the industrial commission as to all facts, except questions of dependency and whether the accident occurred in the course of claimant's emergency management service, is final and any emergency management worker or his dependents claiming benefits under sections 4123.031 to 4123.037 of the Revised Code is not entitled to any appeal from such decision.

...articipation of said claimant or of the individual whose participation forms the basis for the claim in the respective emergency management activity during or as a result of which a claim for injury or death is made. (D) The written registration of such worker and a copy of the loyalty oath duly subscribed shall be filed with the state, local, municipal, township, county, area, or other authorized emergency manageme...

...th administered under the provisions of Public Law No. 268, 82nd Congress, insofar as the federal loyalty oath is concerned. (B) Any person who has executed the federal oath under the provisions of Public Law No. 268, 82nd Congress prior to September 29, 1955, is considered to have complied with the requirements for the execution of loyalty oath as required under sections 5502.21 to 5502.51 of the Revised Code.

...As used in this section and section 4123.039 of the Revised Code: (A) "Apprentice" and "apprenticeship agreement" have the meaning defined in section 4139.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Related and supplemental instructions" means training offered, conducted, supervised, or given under the sponsorship of any joint apprenticeship committee or other sponsoring organization to apprentices, which training is given in a...

...For the purposes of sections 4123.038 and 4123.039 of the Revised Code, every apprentice with respect to his related and supplemental instructions, and every pre-apprentice, entry-level trainee, or journeyman trainee shall be in the employment of whichever of the following desires to secure workers' compensation in respect to the apprentice: (A) A joint apprenticeship committee; (B) Any sponsoring organization off...

...This chapter applies to employers and their employees engaged in intrastate commerce and also in interstate and foreign commerce, for whom a rule of liability or method of compensation has been or may be established by congress, only to the extent that their mutual connection with intrastate work may be and is clearly separable and distinguishable from interstate or foreign commerce, and then only when such employer ...

... rules to regulate and provide for the kind and character of notices, and the services thereof, in cases of injury, occupational disease, or death resulting from either, to employees, the nature and extent of the proofs and evidence, and the method of taking and furnishing the same, and to establish the right to benefits or compensation from the state insurance fund, the forms of application of those claiming to be e...

...The industrial commission shall adopt rules concerning the payment of attorney's fees and shall protect parties against unfair fees. The commission shall fix the amount of fees in the event of a controversy in respect thereto. The commission and the bureau of workers' compensation shall prominently display in all areas of an office which claimants frequent a notice to the effect that the commission has statutory auth...

...The administrator of the bureau of workers' compensation shall prepare and furnish blank forms of application for benefits or compensation from the state insurance fund, reports of injury, disability or occupational disease, notices to employers and employees, proofs of injury, disease, disability or death, proofs of medical attendance and hospital and nursing care, and proofs of employment and wage earnings, and oth...

...Each member of the industrial commission, and its deputies, supervisors, directors, and secretaries, appointed by the commission, and employees of the bureau of workers' compensation designated by the administrator of workers' compensation, may for the purposes contemplated by this chapter, administer oaths, certify to official acts, take testimony or depositions, conduct hearings, inquiries, and investigations, issu...

...In claims filed before the industrial commission or the bureau of workers' compensation by injured employees and the dependents of killed employees on account of injury or death sustained by such employees in the course of their employment, the commission and bureau may cause depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for the taking of depositions in civi...

...The industrial commission shall not be bound by the usual common law or statutory rules of evidence or by any technical or formal rules of procedure, other than as provided in sections 4123.01 to 4123.94, inclusive, of the Revised Code, but may make an investigation in such manner as in its judgment is best calculated to ascertain the substantial rights of the parties and to carry out justly the spirit of such sectio...

...ion, by a stenographer appointed by the industrial commission, being certified by such stenographer to be a true and correct transcript of the testimony on the investigation or of a particular witness, or of a specific part of such testimony, carefully compared by him with his original notes, and to be a correct statement of the evidence and proceedings had on such investigation so purporting to be taken and subscrib...

...on fails to comply with an order of the industrial commission or subpoena issued by the commission or its secretary or the bureau of workers' compensation, or any of their inspectors, or examiners, or on the refusal of a witness to testify to any matter regarding which he may be lawfully interrogated, or if any person refuses to permit an inspection, the probate judge of the county in which the person resides, on app...

...in obedience to a subpoena, before the industrial commission or its secretary or district or staff hearing officers, the administrator of workers' compensation, or any inspector or examiner of the commission or administrator, shall receive the fees and mileage provided for under section 119.094 of the Revised Code, which shall be paid from the state insurance fund on the approval of any two members of the comm...

.... of the Revised Code on account of, an individual employee who meets the requirements of this section. The employer shall make an application on forms provided by the bureau of workers' compensation which forms may be those used by or similar to those used by the United States internal revenue service for the purpose of granting an exemption from payment of social security taxes under 26 U.S.C.A. 1402(g) of the Inte...

...The bureau of workers' compensation may make necessary expenditures to obtain statistical and other information to establish the classes provided for in section 4123.29 of the Revised Code. The salaries and compensation of all of the actuaries, accountants, inspectors, examiners, experts, clerks, physicians, nurses, stenographers, and other assistants of the bureau, and all other expenses of the bureau, including t...