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...(A) The director of children and youth may periodically conduct a random sampling of child day camps to determine compliance with section 5104.013 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) No child day camp shall fail to comply with section 5104.013 of the Revised Code in regards to a person it appoints or employs. (2) If the director determines that a camp has violated division (B)(1) of this section, the director shall do ...

...e an approved child day camp to receive public moneys pursuant to sections 5104.30 to 5104.39 of the Revised Code. The department of children and youth may charge a reasonable fee to inspect a child day camp to determine whether that child day camp meets the standards set forth in this section or in the rules adopted under this section. The department shall approve any child day camp that meets both of the following:...

...shall permit any person to smoke in any indoor or outdoor space that is part of the center. The administrator of a child care center shall post in a conspicuous place at the main entrance of the center a notice stating that smoking is prohibited in any indoor or outdoor space that is part of the center, except under the conditions described in division (C) of this section. (B) Except as otherwise provided in di...

...g and development programs that provide publicly funded child care and are linked to achieving and maintaining quality standards; (5) Parent and consumer education to help parents learn about program quality and ratings so they can make informed choices on behalf of their children. (B) The step up to quality program shall have the following goals: (1) Increasing the number of low-income children, special nee...

...(A) This section establishes standards and conditions for rating the following early learning and development programs in the step up to quality program: (1) A licensed child care center operating a head start or early head start program; (2) A licensed child care center accredited by the national association for the education of young children, or its successor organization; (3) A licensed type A or type B fam...

...apter 5107. of the Revised Code; (3) Individuals who would be participating in the Ohio works first program if not for a sanction under section 5107.16 of the Revised Code and who continue to participate in a work activity, developmental activity, or alternative work activity pursuant to an assignment under section 5107.42 of the Revised Code; (4) A family receiving publicly funded child care on October 1, 1997...

...mily child care homes for recipients of publicly funded child care. A program established under this section may include any of the following: (A) Recruitment of parents interested in organizing a parent cooperative child care center or parent cooperative type A family child care home; (B) Provision of technical assistance in organizing a parent cooperative child care center or parent cooperative type A family ...

...ition to establishing payment rates for publicly funded child care providers in each odd-numbered year, as required by section 5104.30 of the Revised Code, the director of children and youth may contract with a third-party entity to analyze information regarding the prices charged for child care for the subsequent even-numbered year.

...e publicly funded child care only to an individual who resides in an Ohio county that borders the state in which the provider is located. (B) Publicly funded child care may be provided in a child's own home only by an in-home aide. (C)(1) Except as provided in division (C)(2) of this section, a licensed child care program may provide publicly funded child care only if the program is rated through the step up to...

...vidence that a provider has employed an individual who is ineligible for employment under section 5104.013 of the Revised Code and the provider has not released the individual from employment upon notice that the individual is ineligible, the department may terminate immediately the contract entered into under this section to provide publicly funded child care. (F) Any decision by the department concerning publicl...

...n making eligibility determinations for publicly funded child care. The form shall be as brief and simple as practicable. (B) In administering the process of applying for publicly funded child care, the county department of job and family services shall implement policies designed to ensure that the application process is as accessible to the public as possible. These policies shall include making the application ...

...aking determinations of eligibility for publicly funded child care. Under those procedures, the eligibility determination for each applicant shall be made no later than thirty calendar days from the date the county department receives a completed application for publicly funded child care. Each applicant shall be notified promptly of the results of the eligibility determination. An applicant aggrieved by a decision o...

...section 5104.34 of the Revised Code for publicly funded child care is valid for one year. (B) The county department of job and family services shall adjust the appropriate level of a fee charged under division (B) of section 5104.34 of the Revised Code if a caretaker parent reports changes in income, family size, or both.

...161 of the Revised Code; (2) Recruit individuals and groups interested in certification as in-home aides or in developing and operating suitable licensed child care centers, type A family child care homes, or licensed type B family child care homes, especially in areas with high concentrations of recipients of public assistance, and for that purpose provide consultation to interested individuals and groups on requ...

...The licensee or administrator of a child care center, type A family child care home, or licensed type B family child care home, an in-home aide providing child care services, the director or administrator of an approved child day camp, and a border state child care provider shall keep a record for each eligible child enrolled with the center, home, in-home aide, camp, or provider, to be made available to the county d...

...(A) In addition to the duties described in division (D) of section 5104.30 of the Revised Code, the director of children and youth shall engage in activities to do the following: (1) Encourage the establishment and licensure of family child care homes in this state, especially in areas with the greatest need for child care; (2) Connect families and caretaker parents in need of child care with family child care ho...

...nt and county departments in recruiting individuals and groups to become providers of child care; (E) Procedures to be followed in establishing state or local programs designed to assist individuals who are eligible for publicly funded child care in identifying the resources available to them and to refer the individuals to appropriate sources to obtain child care; (F) Procedures to deal with fraud and abuse co...

...tablishing criteria for eligibility for publicly funded child care, the director of children and youth may prescribe the amount, duration, and scope of benefits available as publicly funded child care.

...ure for monitoring the expenditures for publicly funded child care to ensure that expenditures do not exceed the available federal and state funds for publicly funded child care. The department of children and youth, with the assistance of the office of budget and management, shall monitor the anticipated future expenditures for publicly funded child care and shall compare those anticipated future expenditures to ava...

...le adopted under this chapter regarding publicly funded child care until the later of thirty days after the effective date of the rule or thirty days after the county department receives notice of the rule if such notification is required under this chapter.

...etaker who are otherwise ineligible for publicly funded child care are eligible for homeless child care for twelve months.

...de establishing a payment procedure for publicly funded child care. (B) The director, by rule adopted in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code, may establish a methodology for allocating the state and federal funds appropriated for publicly funded child care.

...ource for child care services into the public assistance fund established under section 5101.161 of the Revised Code.

...On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the department of children and youth shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50 of the Revised Code and any applicable rules adopted under section 3123.63 of the Revised Code with respect to a license or certificate issued pursuant to this chapter.

...The department of children and youth shall license a preschool program pursuant to sections 3301.52 to 3301.59 of the Revised Code.

...When a grade crossing is on a county line road, the boards of county commissioners of the counties in which such crossing is situated may join in all the proceedings necessary for the abolition of such grade crossing. That part of the cost of making such change in the crossing and of keeping it in repair which is not agreed to be paid by the railroad company shall be paid by the counties in equal proportions. The mo...

...Any municipal corporation may raise or lower, or cause to be raised or lowered, the grade of any street or way owned by it, either within or without its municipal limits, above or below railroad tracks, and may require any railroad company operating a railroad across such streets or ways to raise or lower the grade of its tracks and may construct ways or crossings above the tracks of any railroad, or require the rail...

...When the legislative authority of a municipal corporation deems it necessary in the abolishment of grade crossings to change the location of any street, alley, road, or way such legislative authority may relocate such street, alley, road, or way, or any part thereof, may vacate the whole or any portion of such street, alley, road, or way abandoned by such relocation, and cause the improvements contemplated to be plac...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, for the purpose of making or causing a crossing improvement to be made, by ordinance may require the railroad company, in co-operation with the engineer of the municipal corporation, or the engineer designated in such ordinance, to prepare and submit to such legislative authority, within three months unless longer time is mutually agreed upon in writing, plans and...

...If at the expiration of three months from the passage of the ordinance referred to in section 4957.12 of the Revised Code, the railroad company has refused or failed to co-operate in the preparation of plans and specifications, or if the engineer of the municipal corporation, or engineer designated in such ordinance by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, and the company fail to agree upon the plan...

...Either the municipal corporation or the railroad company, after the expiration of three months from the passage of the ordinance referred to by section 4957.12 of the Revised Code, may apply to the court of common pleas by petition accompanied by the necessary plans prepared by the municipal corporation or company, asking that any grade crossing be abolished. Such plans must show the grades to be established for such...

...her the security and convenience of the public require that alterations be made in the crossing or the approaches to it, or in the location of the railroad or public way, or any grades thereof, so as to avoid a crossing at common grade, or that such crossings, or any of them, be discontinued with or without building a new way in substitution therefor, and whether such plans or any of them are reasonable and practicab...

...If the court finds that the public security and convenience require the changes to be made, and that the plans presented by the petitioner or any of the parties answering thereto are reasonable and practicable, as provided in section 4957.15 of the Revised Code, it shall order the changes to be made in accordance with the most reasonable and practicable plan presented to the court. The municipal corporation shall be ...

... neglects to comply with the orders or findings made by the court as provided in section 4957.16 of the Revised Code, the court may enforce its orders or findings by either mandamus or mandatory injunction, or as for contempt of court, as the necessity of the case requires, upon the application of either party to such proceedings.

...The cost of constructing a crossing improvement authorized, including the making of ways, crossings, or viaducts, above or below the railroad tracks, and the raising or lowering of the grades of the railroad tracks and sidetracks for such distance as is required by such municipal corporation and made necessary by such improvement, together with the cost of land or property purchased or appropriated, and damages to ow...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, by ordinance, prescribe the manner and time of payment by a railroad company of the proportion of the cost of a crossing improvement which the company is required to pay.

...y abutting upon any street, highway, or public place, the grade of which will be changed by the proposed improvement.

...The laws relating to the manner of service of the notices, the filing of claims for damages, and the effect of failure to file the claims, shall apply to the notice provided in section 4957.20 of the Revised Code and to all claims for damages by reason of the proposed improvement. After the expiration of the time for the filing of the claims, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, when claims have be...

...Any way, crossing, or viaduct constructed over a railroad track in any municipal corporation shall be of such height as not to be of less than twenty-one feet in the clear from the top surface of the rails in the railroad track to the lowest point or projection of such overhead way, crossing, or viaduct, unless the railroad company consents to, or the court of common pleas orders, a less height. In no event shall suc...

..., or any right, title, or interest in a public street, alley, or other way, required for the erection of piers or supports in any municipal corporation, necessitated by a proposed improvement, shall be purchased or appropriated by the municipal corporation or railroad company in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The land or property required to make any alteration i...

...ept in repair as follows: (A) When the public way crosses a railroad by an overhead bridge, the cost of maintenance must be borne by the municipal corporation; (B) When the public way passes under the railroad, the bridge and its abutments shall be kept and maintained by the railroad company, and the public way and its approaches shall be maintained and kept in repair by the municipal corporation in which they are ...

...e made, crosses at grade or otherwise a public street or the right of way of any railroad company at a point where it has been determined to construct such improvements, the municipal corporation by ordinance may require such street railway company to bear a reasonable proportion of the cost assumed by it in making the improvement, not exceeding one half of the portion payable by the municipal corporation, which shal...

...A street railway company shall keep in repair at its own expense all tracks affected by the improvement referred to by section 4957.25 of the Revised Code and all construction work of whatever character necessary to support such tracks.

...Except as provided in sections 4957.30 to 4957.32, inclusive, of the Revised Code, all crossings constructed after May 3, 1904, whether of highways by railroads, or of railroads by highways, shall be above or below the grade thereof.

...Every railroad company building a new line of road under its charter powers across a highway shall construct it above or below the grade of the highway, unless it is allowed to build it at grade as provided in sections 4957.30 to 4957.32, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Such company may exercise the power contained in its charter and the general laws for altering the grade and location of highways in order to avoid g...

...Every municipal corporation or other authority building a highway across an existing railroad shall construct it above or below the grade of such railroad, unless allowed to build at grade as provided by sections 4957.30 to 4957.32, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The cost of such work shall be paid, unless otherwise agreed upon, eighty-five per cent by such municipal corporation or other authority, and fifteen per c...

...to divert, change, or alter an existing public highway, a petition shall be presented by the party desiring such construction or diversion, to the court of common pleas of the county within which the crossing or diversion is situated. If it is the authority constructing a highway asking for the right to cross a railroad, the railroad company shall be the defendant. If it is a railroad company asking for the right to ...

...d by law, and all such orders shall be binding upon the parties and be observed by them. All costs and expenses of the proceedings shall be ascertained and allowed by the court of common pleas and be paid by such party as it decides, or apportioned by the court between the parties, and may be collected by execution out of such court.

...Appeals may be taken from the decision of the court of common pleas to the court of appeals in proceedings under section 4957.31 of the Revised Code, as in civil actions. The decision of that court shall be final and conclusive. In both the court of common pleas and court of appeals, proceedings brought under this section and section 4957.31 of the Revised Code shall be advanced over other civil causes.

...ties at terminal or other points across public highways at the grade thereof. Such signposts and signals shall be employed for the protection of such crossings as are prescribed for railroad crossings of public highways.