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...At the time of reception and at other times the director determines to be appropriate, the department of rehabilitation and correction may examine and test a prisoner for tuberculosis, HIV infection, hepatitis, including but not limited to hepatitis A, B, and C, and other contagious diseases. The department may test and treat involuntarily a prisoner in a state correctional institution who refuses to be tested or tre...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Mental illness" means a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation, or memory that grossly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality, or ability to meet the ordinary demands of life. (2) "Person with a mental illness subject to hospitalization" means a person with a mental illness to whom any of the following applies because of the person's men...

...(A) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall have exclusive direction and control of the care and treatment of seriously mentally ill inmates who are in the department's custody. The department shall enter into any arrangements it considers desirable on such matters, including but not limited to both of the following: (1) The monitoring of such services by another state agency or agencies; (2) A...

...A minor whose case is transferred for criminal prosecution pursuant to section 2152.12 of the Revised Code, who is prosecuted as an adult and is convicted of or pleads guilty to one or more offenses in that case, and who is sentenced to a prison term or term of imprisonment in a state correctional institution for one or more of those offenses shall be considered emancipated for the purpose of consenting to medical tr...

...Any person who is required to report abuse or neglect of a child under eighteen years of age that is reasonably suspected or believed to have occurred or the threat of which is reasonably suspected or believed to exist pursuant to division (A) of section 2151.421 of the Revised Code, any person who is permitted to report or cause a report to be made of reasonably suspected abuse or neglect of a child under eighteen y...

...nt of administrative services, classify public buildings, offices, and institutions and determine the kinds, patterns, designs, and qualities of articles to be manufactured for use therein, which shall be uniform for each class, so far as practicable. Whenever the department of rehabilitation and correction gives written notice to the superintendent of purchases and printing, or other official having authority to pu...

...osited in the services and agricultural fund created pursuant to section 5120.29 of the Revised Code. The department may require institutions under its control, when they have proper lands and labor, to undertake intensive agriculture, may rent lands for the production of supplies for any of the institutions that have surplus labor, and may rent lands for the production of crops for sale, when it can be done to adva...

...The department of agriculture, department of health, and Ohio state university shall cooperate with the department of rehabilitation and correction in making such cooperative tests as are necessary to determine the quality, strength, and purity of supplies, the value and use of farm lands, or conditions and needs of mechanical equipment.

...onfidential and shall not be considered public records as defined in section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (F) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, records of inmates committed to the department of rehabilitation and correction as well as records of persons under the supervision of the adult parole authority shall not be considered public records as defined in section 149.43 of the Revised Co...

...ce records are confidential and are not public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code, and shall be used only in the course of the proper functions of a quality assurance program. (2) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, no person who possesses or has access to quality assurance records and who knows that the records are quality assurance records shall wilfully disclose the contents of the r...

...Notwithstanding division (A) of section 5120.21 of the Revised Code, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall share the records described in that division with the director of job and family services to the extent necessary to effectuate the data matching agreements required under sections 4141.287 and 5101.041 of the Revised Code.

...be deposited into the property receipts fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury. Money in the fund shall be used for any expenses necessary to provide housing of department employees, including but not limited to expenses for the acquisition, construction, operation, maintenance, repair, reconstruction, or demolition of land and buildings. (C) The division may enter into a lease or agreement with a state...

...osited in the services and agricultural fund or the Ohio penal industries manufacturing fund created pursuant to section 5120.29 of the Revised Code and shall be used and accounted for as provided in that section.

...tive services adopts. All bids shall be publicly opened on the day and hour and at the place specified in the advertisement. Preference shall be given to bidders in localities wherein the institution is located if the price is fair and reasonable and not greater than the usual price. Bids not meeting the specifications shall be rejected. The department of administrative services may require such security as it cons...

...y the general assembly and of all other funds, together with the disposition of such funds. The department shall prescribe the form of vouchers, records, and methods of keeping accounts at each of the institutions, which shall be as nearly uniform as possible. The department may examine the records of each institution, at any time. The department may authorize any of its bookkeepers, accountants, or employees to ex...

...surer of state shall have charge of all funds under the jurisdiction of the department of rehabilitation and correction and shall pay out the funds only in accordance with this chapter. (B) The department shall cause to be furnished a contract of indemnity to cover all moneys and funds received by it or by its managing officers, employees, or agents while the moneys or funds are in the possession of the managing off...

...The department of rehabilitation and correction may assign, among the correctional and penal institutions under its control and in accordance with the rules adopted pursuant to division (B) of section 5145.03 of the Revised Code, the industries to be carried on by the institutions, having due regard to the location and convenience of the industries, other institutions to be supplied, to the machinery in the instituti...

...posited into the institutional services fund created pursuant to division (A) of section 5120.29 of the Revised Code and shall be used and accounted for as provided in that section and division (B) of section 5145.03 of the Revised Code. (C) Any money received by the department of rehabilitation and correction for articles manufactured and agricultural products produced in penal and correctional institutions shall b...

...e treasury, the institutional services fund, which shall be used for the: (1) Purchase of material, supplies, and equipment and the erection and extension of buildings used in services provided between institutions of the department of rehabilitation and correction; (2) Payment of compensation to employees necessary to carry on institutional services; (3) Payment of prisoners confined in state correctional ...

...The department of rehabilitation and correction may make any investigations that are necessary in the performance of its duties, and to that end the director of rehabilitation and correction shall have the same power as a judge of a county court to administer oaths and to enforce the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books or papers. The department shall keep a record of the investig...

...The department of rehabilitation and correction may appoint and commission any competent agency or person, to serve without compensation, as a special agent, investigator, or representative to perform a designated duty for and in behalf of the department. Specific credentials shall be given by the department to each person so designated, and each credential shall state: (A) The name; (B) Agency with which such pers...

...In its annual report, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall include a complete financial statement of the various institutions under its control. The report shall state, as to each such institution, whether: (A) The moneys appropriated have been economically and judiciously expended; (B) The objects of the several institutions have been accomplished; (C) The laws in relation to such institutions ha...

...The annual report of the department of rehabilitation and correction shall include a list of the officers and agents employed, and the condition of the state institutions under its control. Such report may include statistics and information in regard to correctional institutions of this or other states.

...(A) Not later than the first day of April of each year, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall prepare an annual report covering the preceding calendar year that does all of the following: (1) Indicates the total number of persons sentenced to any institution, division, or place under its control and management who are delivered within that calendar year to its custody and control; (2) Indicat...

...Sec. 5120.34. The department of rehabilitation and correction shall make rules for the nonpartisan management of the institutions under its control. Any officer or employee of the department or any officer or employee of any institution under its control, who, by solicitation or otherwise, exerts his influence, directly or indirectly, to induce any other officer or employee of any such institutions to adopt his poli...