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...The bridge commission of any county or city may provide by resolution for the issuance of bridge revenue refunding bonds of such county or city, payable solely from revenues, for the purpose of refunding any bonds then outstanding which have been issued under Chapter 5593. of the Revised Code, including the payment of any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of redemption of su...

...t or resolution, to be performed by the commission or any officer thereof, including the fixing, charging, and collecting of tolls.

...Chapter 5593. of the Revised Code shall provide an additional and alternative method for the doing of the things authorized by such chapter and shall be regarded as supplementary and additional to powers conferred by other laws, and shall not be regarded as in derogation of any powers now existing.

...The bridge commission of any county or city may adopt such bylaws and rules as it determines advisable for the control and regulation of each bridge constructed or acquired by it, for the protection and preservation of property under its jurisdiction and control, and for the maintenance and preservation of good order within the property under its control. Such bylaws and rules shall be published in a newspaper of gen...

...ubdivision, and all public agencies and commissions of the state notwithstanding any contrary law may lease, lend, grant, or convey to a bridge commission, at its request, upon such terms as the proper authorities of such municipal corporations, other political subdivisions, or public agencies and commissions of the state determines reasonable and fair, and without the necessity for an advertisement, order of court, ...

... and maintenance of bridges by a bridge commission constitutes the performance of essential governmental functions, the commission shall not be required to pay any taxes or assessments upon any bridge or upon any property acquired or used by the commission under Chapter 5593. of the Revised Code, or upon the income therefrom, and the bonds issued under such chapter, their transfer, and the income therefrom, including...

...When all bridge bonds issued under sections 5593.01 to 5593.24 of the Revised Code, in connection with any bridge and the interest thereon have been paid, or a sufficient amount for the payment of all such bonds and the interest thereon, to the maturity thereof has been set aside in trust for the benefit of the bondholders, such bridge shall become part of the state highway system, shall thereafter be maintained by t...

...All final actions of a bridge commission shall be journalized and such journal shall be open to the inspection of the public at all reasonable times.

...Whoever violates section 5593.20 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than fifty dollars for a first offense; for each subsequent offense such person shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars.

...As used in sections 5901.01 to 5901.37 of the Revised Code: (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, "veteran" means either of the following: (1) A former member of the armed forces of the United States who served on active military duty and received an honorable discharge or honorable separation, a member of the armed forces of the United States who died on active military duty, or a membe...

... ending in four and nine. The terms immediately preceding the initial appointments made under divisions (A) to (E) of this section may be for periods of less than five years. The appointing authority shall remove a member who fails to maintain certification or whose certification is revoked by the director of veterans services.

...n and in which the veterans service commission submits a budget request under section 5901.11 of the Revised Code for the ensuing fiscal year that exceeds twenty-five-thousandths of one per cent of the assessed value of property in the county or the amount appropriated to the commission from the county general fund in the current fiscal year by more than ten per ...

...The veterans service commission shall select one of its members as president, one as vice-president, and one as secretary. The commission shall meet at least once each month. A judge of the court of common pleas may remove, for cause, any member of the commission appointed under section 5901.02 of the Revised Code, and shall fill vacancies occurring among memberships appointed under that section for the unexpired t...

...itemized statement, the board of county commissioners shall allow the persons composing the veterans service commission their reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of their duties, and shall fix a fair compensation for their services. The county auditor shall issue a warrant upon the county treasurer for the amount so allowed.

...uary in each year, the veterans service commission may appoint for the county a veterans service committee, consisting of at least three persons who are residents of the county, whose duties shall be set forth by the commission. Such persons shall be veterans, one of whom shall be designated as chairperson of the county veterans service committee. The commission shall fill all vacancies that occur in any such committ...

...The veterans service commission may employ an executive director, who shall be a veteran and shall be employed in the unclassified service, and such investigators and clerks as are necessary to perform the duties of the commission. Each investigator and clerk shall be a veteran or, if a qualified veteran is not available, the spouse, surviving spouse, child, or parent of a veteran. Each shall be employed in the class...

...The veterans service commission shall employ one or more county veterans service officers, one of whom may act as executive director. Each service officer shall be a veteran. Within sixty days after the date of initial employment, each service officer shall file a copy of the officer's form DD214 with the department of veterans services in accordance with guidelines established by the director of that department. Eac...

...Each applicant for financial assistance under sections 5901.02 to 5901.15 of the Revised Code shall be a veteran, an active-duty member of the armed forces of the United States, or the spouse, surviving spouse, dependent parent, minor child, or ward of a veteran or active-duty member of the armed forces of the United States, who has been a bona fide resident of the county in which application is being made for at lea...

...e shall provide the veterans service commission with a statement concerning the applicant's household income and the amount of real and personal taxable property, stocks, bonds, moneys on hand loaned or deposited in any bank or elsewhere, shares in building associations, mortgages, notes, or other articles of value from which the applicant derives an income or revenue. The statement ...

... May in each year, the veterans service commission shall meet and determine in an itemized manner the probable amount necessary for the aid and financial assistance of persons entitled to such aid and assistance and for the operation of the veterans service office for the ensuing year. After determining the probable amount necessary for such purposes, the commission shall prepare and submit a budget in the manner spe...

...erson certified by the veterans service commission to the county auditor, the auditor shall issue a warrant upon the county treasurer for the allowance awarded to that person by the commission. Upon proper cause shown, the commission may appoint a suitable person to draw, receipt for, and properly expend the allowance made to any person under sections 5901.02 to 5901.15 of the Revised Code, after the voucher or certi...

...ll adopt and implement rules to grant immediate assistance, financial or otherwise, to any person entitled to it under sections 5901.02 to 5901.14 of the Revised Code, and to any member, spouse, or dependent of any member of the Ohio national guard, the Ohio military reserve, the Ohio naval militia, or a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States serving active military duty because of an executive or...

...ganization exists, the veterans service commission of any county shall purchase or provide a veterans plot in any cemetery in such county or municipal corporation where no burial plot is provided, for the burial, removal, and reinterment of the bodies of neglected and indigent veterans. The expense of such purchase shall be filed with and audited by the county auditor, who shall issue a warrant for it upon the count...

...On and after the interment of the remains of one or more deceased veterans in a veterans plot, the reasonable expenses of the care of the grave shall be annually provided for by the municipal corporation or township in which the remains are buried, and shall be paid annually to the cemetery association in which the remains may be interred, removed, or reinterred.

...resented to the county veterans service commission signed by the officers of a local or state veterans organization, or by a majority of a memorial committee of any municipal corporation in which one or more such organizations exist, or by veterans in townships or villages in which no veterans organization exists. Such petition shall contain: (A) The name of the deceased veteran or veterans whose remains are sought ...

...The director of developmental disabilities may issue an adjudication order in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to terminate a supported living certificate if the certificate holder has not billed for supported living for twelve consecutive months.

...f this state for the five-year period immediately prior to the date that the applicant applies for issuance or renewal of the supported living certificate, the director shall require the applicant to request that the superintendent obtain information from the federal bureau of investigation as a part of the criminal records check. If the applicant presents proof to the director that the applicant has been a resident ...

...(A) All of the following apply if the department of medicaid, pursuant to section 5164.38 of the Revised Code, refuses to enter into, terminates, or refuses to revalidate a provider agreement that authorizes a person or government entity to provide supported living under the medicaid program: (1) In the case of a refusal to enter into a provider agreement, the person or government entity's application to provide med...

...The director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing all of the following: (A) The extent to which a county board of developmental disabilities may provide supported living; (B) The application process for obtaining a supported living certificate under section 5123.161 of the Revised Code; (C) The certification standards a person or government entity m...

...dopted under it causes or presents an immediate danger of causing serious injury, harm, impairment, or death to the individual or individuals; (2) The certificate holder does not remove the conditions that caused or presented an immediate danger of causing serious injury, harm, impairment, or death to the individual or individuals before the order is issued. (B) An order issued under division (A) of this section ...

...The department of developmental disabilities may provide for the custody, supervision, control, treatment, and training of persons with developmental disabilities elsewhere than within the enclosure of an institution under its jurisdiction, if the department so determines with respect to any individual or group of individuals. In all such cases, the department shall ensure adequate and proper supervision for the prot...

...As used in this section, "respite care" means appropriate, short-term, temporary care provided to a person with a developmental disability to sustain the family structure or to meet planned or emergency needs of the family. The department of developmental disabilities shall provide respite care services to persons with developmental disabilities for the purpose of promoting self-sufficiency and normalization, preven...

...The department of developmental disabilities may enter into a contract with a person or government agency to provide residential services to individuals with developmental disabilities in need of residential services. To be eligible to enter into a contract with the department under this section, a person or government entity and the home in which the residential services are provided must meet all applicable standar...

...lerk of the appropriate board of county commissioners and the fiscal officer of the appropriate board of township trustees. The director shall not issue the license for ten days after mailing the notice, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, in order to give the notified local officials time in which to comment on the proposed issuance. Any legislative authority of a municipal corporation, board of ...

... except when an emergency exists and immediate transfer is necessary. (4) Make periodic reports on the status of the residential program to the appropriate state agency, county board of developmental disabilities, parents, guardians, and residents; (5) Compromise demands or claims; (6) Generally do such acts respecting the residential facility as the court authorizes. (K) Neither the receiver nor the departme...

...(A) A person or government agency operating, on September 10, 2012, an ICF/IID pursuant to a nursing home license issued under Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code shall do both of the following as a condition of continuing to operate the ICF/IID on and after July 1, 2013: (1) Not later than February 1, 2013, apply to the director of developmental disabilities for a residential facility license under section 512...

...The director of developmental disabilities shall include on the internet web site maintained by the department of developmental disabilities a searchable database of vacancies in licensed residential facilities. Each person or government entity operating a licensed residential facility shall provide current and accurate vacancy information to the department in accordance with procedures that the director shall establ...

...In the case of an individual who resides in a residential facility and is preparing to move into an independent living arrangement and the individual's liable relative, the department of developmental disabilities may waive the support collection requirements of sections 5121.04 and 5123.122 of the Revised Code for the purpose of allowing income or resources to be used to acquire items necessary for independent...

...(A) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, the director of developmental disabilities shall not issue a license under section 5123.19 of the Revised Code on or after July 1, 2003, if issuance will result in there being more beds in all residential facilities licensed under that section than is permitted under division (B) of this section. (B) The maximum number of beds for the purpose of division (A) of...

...Neither an applicant for an initial residential facility license under section 5123.19 of the Revised Code nor an applicant for a modification of an existing residential facility license under that section is required to obtain approval of a plan for the proposed new residential facility or modification to the existing residential facility pursuant to section 5123.042 of the Revised Code if all of the followin...

...(A) As used in this section, "date of the commitment" means the date that an individual specified in division (B) of this section begins to reside in a state-operated ICF/IID after being committed to the ICF/IID pursuant to sections 5123.71 to 5123.76 of the Revised Code. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, whenever a resident of a residential facility is committed to a state-operated ICF/IID pur...

...No person or government agency shall operate a residential facility or receive an individual with a developmental disability as a resident of a residential facility unless the facility is licensed under section 5123.19 of the Revised Code, and no person or governmental agency shall operate a respite care home or receive an individual with a developmental disability in a respite care home unless the home is certified ...

... had the care or custody of the minor immediately prior to the minor's commitment. Whenever a consenting voluntary resident is transferred, the notification shall be given only at the resident's request. The managing officer shall advise a voluntary resident who is being transferred that the patient may decide if such a notification shall be given. In all such transfers, due consideration shall be given to the ...

...When it is necessary for an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities to acquire any real estate, right-of-way, or easement in real estate in order to accomplish the purposes for which it was organized or is being conducted, and the department is unable to agree with the owner of such property upon the price to be paid therefor, such property may be appropriated in the...

...The department of developmental disabilities shall determine and direct what lands belonging to institutions under its control shall be cultivated. The department of agriculture, the department of health, and the Ohio state university shall cooperate with the department of developmental disabilities, and the managing officer of each institution mentioned in section 5123.03 of the Revised Code, in making su...

...A person, firm, or corporation may file a petition in the court of common pleas of the county in which an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities is located, in which petition the desire to erect or carry on at a less distance than that prescribed in section 3767.19 of the Revised Code shall be set forth, the business prohibited, the precise point of its establishm...

...The department of administrative services shall purchase all supplies needed for the proper support and maintenance of the institutions under the control of the department of developmental disabilities in accordance with the competitive selection procedures of Chapter 125. of the Revised Code and such rules as the department of administrative services adopts. All bids shall be publicly opened on the day and ...

...The treasurer of state shall have charge of all funds under the jurisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities and shall pay out the same only in accordance with Chapter 5123. of the Revised Code. 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 such moneys or funds are in...

...The director of developmental disabilities may accept, hold, and administer in trust on behalf of the state, if it is for the public interest, any grant, devise, gift, or bequest of money or property made to the state for the use or benefit of any institution under the jurisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities or for the use and benefit of persons with developmental disabilities who are under the c...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this division, money or property deposited with managing officers of institutions under the jurisdiction of the department of developmental disabilities by any resident under the department's control or by relatives, guardians, conservators, and others for the special benefit of such resident, as well as all other funds and all other income paid to the resident, to the resi...