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...(A) As used in this section, "social service professional" has the same meaning as in section 959.07 of the Revised Code. (B) For a first or subsequent violation of division (B)(1) of section 959.07 of the Revised Code by a social service professional, the entity with responsibility for employment oversight of that social service professional, as applicable, shall at minimum issue a confidential written warning to ...

...r or state plan amendment relating to a public assistance benefit program to the appropriate federal entity, the director of job and family services shall submit a copy of the waiver or state plan amendment to the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, and the chairpersons of the relevant house of representatives and senate committees with jurisdiction over the subject matter of the wai...

...The department of job and family services shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to govern the implementation of individual development account programs under sections 329.11 to 329.14 of the Revised Code by county departments of job and family services, which shall include rules covering both of the following: (A) Imposing a penalty for unauthorized use of matching contributions; (...

...mily services shall compile a report on public assistance programs in this state, including the following information: (1) Regarding the supplemental nutrition assistance program: (a) The number of accounts with high balances, as determined by the department; (b) The number of out-of-state transactions; (c) The number of transactions when the final amount processed was a whole dollar amount without additi...

...(A) Whoever violates division (A) of section 5101.27 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (B) Whoever violates division (A) of section 5101.63 or division (C)(2) of section 5101.631 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.

...ation, society, association, or agency, public or private, that receives or cares for children for two or more consecutive weeks; (b) Any individual, including the operator of a foster home, who, for hire, gain, or reward, receives or cares for children for two or more consecutive weeks, unless the individual is related to them by blood or marriage; (c) Any individual not in the regular employ of a court, or of...

...(A) As used in this section, a "scholars residential center" is a center that meets all of the following: (1) The center is a certified affiliate in good standing of a national organization with a mission to help underserved children in middle school and high school in a comprehensive manner that is academically focused and service-oriented and in a family-like setting. (2) The center is private and not-for-pro...

...r homes and specialized foster homes to public children services agencies, private child placing agencies, or private noncustodial agencies. (2) The director shall adopt rules that require a foster caregiver or other individual certified to operate a foster home under this section to notify the recommending agency that the foster caregiver or other individual is licensed to operate a type B family child care home ...

...Except as provided in section 5103.033 of the Revised Code, the department of children and youth may not issue a certificate under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code to a foster home unless the prospective foster caregiver successfully completes preplacement training through a preplacement training program approved by the department of children and youth under section 5103.038 of the Revised Code or preplacement tra...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and in section 5103.033 of the Revised Code, the department of children and youth may revoke a foster home certificate under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code if the foster caregiver fails to successfully complete continuing training in accordance with the foster caregiver's needs assessment and continuing training plan developed and implemented under section 5...

...e of a child who is in the custody of a public children services agency or private child placing agency pursuant to an agreement entered into under section 5103.15 of the Revised Code regarding a child who was less than six months of age on the date the agreement was executed if the prospective foster caregiver or foster caregiver successfully completes the following: (1) A preplacement training program approved u...

...(A) Private child placing agencies and private noncustodial agencies operating a preplacement or continuing training program approved by the department of children and youth under section 5103.038 of the Revised Code shall make the program available to a prospective foster caregiver or foster caregiver without regard to the type of recommending agency from which the prospective foster caregiver or foster caregiver se...

...A public children services agency, private child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency acting as a recommending agency for a foster caregiver shall develop and implement a written needs assessment and continuing training plan for the foster caregiver in accordance with rules adopted under section 5103.0316 of the Revised Code.

...(A) For the purpose of determining whether a prospective foster caregiver or foster caregiver has satisfied the requirement of section 5103.031 or 5103.032 of the Revised Code, a recommending agency shall accept training obtained from either of the following: (1) Any preplacement or continuing training program approved by the department of children and youth under section 5103.038 of the Revised Code; (2) The O...

...rtment of justice national sex offender public web site. (B) The institution or association may refuse to hire or appoint a person as board president, or as an administrator or officer as follows: (1) Based solely on the findings of the summary report described in division (B)(1)(a) of section 5103.18 of the Revised Code or the results of the search described in division (A)(4) of this section; (2) Based on ...

...(A) Every other year by a date specified in rules adopted under section 5103.0316 of the Revised Code, each private child placing agency and private noncustodial agency that seeks to operate a preplacement training program or continuing training program under section 5103.034 of the Revised Code shall submit to the department of children and youth a proposal outlining the program. The proposal may be the same as, a m...

...on 5103.02 of the Revised Code. (2) A public children services agency receives a report pursuant to section 2151.421 of the Revised Code, and the person alleged to have inflicted abuse or neglect on the child who is the subject of the report is any of the following: (a) A principal of the institution or association; (b) An employee or volunteer of the institution or association who has not immediately been plac...

...rtment of justice national sex offender public web site regarding the person; (2) Obtain a summary report of a search of the uniform statewide automated child welfare information system in accordance with divisions (A) and (B) of section 5103.18 of the Revised Code. (B) An institution or association, as defined in division (A)(1)(a) of section 5103.02 of the Revised Code, that is not a residential facility, as ...

...A public children services agency, private child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency acting as a recommending agency for a foster caregiver shall reimburse the foster caregiver in a lump sum for attending a preplacement training program operated under section 5103.034 or 5103.30 of the Revised Code and shall reimburse the foster caregiver a stipend for attending a continuing training program operated under...

...Except as provided in section 5103.303 of the Revised Code, the department of children and youth shall compensate a private child placing agency or private noncustodial agency for the cost of procuring or operating preplacement and continuing training programs approved by the department of children and youth under section 5103.038 of the Revised Code for prospective foster caregivers and foster caregivers who are rec...

...The department of children and youth shall adopt rules regarding the compensation of a recommending agency for any training the agency requires a foster caregiver to undergo as a condition of the agency recommending the department certify the foster caregiver's foster home under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code if the training is in excess of the training required under section 5103.031 of the Revised Code. The...

...The department of children and youth shall seek federal financial participation for the cost of making payments under section 5103.0312 of the Revised Code and allowances under sections 5103.0313 and 5103.303 of the Revised Code. The department shall notify the governor, president of the senate, minority leader of the senate, speaker of the house of representatives, and minority leader of the house of representatives...

...The department of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary for the efficient administration of sections 5103.031 to 5103.0316 of the Revised Code. The rules shall provide for all of the following: (A) For the purpose of section 5103.038 of the Revised Code, the date by which a private child placing agency or private noncustodial agency that seeks to oper...

...The director of children and youth shall adopt rules concerning the maximum number of children a foster home may receive and any exceptions to the maximum number.

...Any certified foster home shall be considered to be a residential use of property for purposes of municipal, county, and township zoning and shall be a permitted use in all zoning districts in which residential uses are permitted. No municipal, county, or township zoning regulation shall require a conditional permit or any other special exception certification for any certified foster home.

...If any public utility or railroad does, or causes to be done, any act or thing prohibited by Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4927. of the Revised Code, or declared to be unlawful, or omits to do any act or thing required by the provisions of those chapters, or by order of the public utilities commission, the public utility or railroad is liable to the person, firm, or corporation injured...

...to own, operate, manage, or control any public utility which is an electric light company, gas company, water-works company, sewage disposal system company, or heating and cooling company shall be granted or transferred to any corporation not incorporated under the laws of this state.

...A company formed to acquire property or to transact business that would be subject to Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4927. of the Revised Code, and a company owning or possessing franchises for any of the purposes contemplated in those chapters, are subject to those chapters' provisions, although no property has been acquired, no business has been transacted, or no franchises have...

...All forfeitures under Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4925. of the Revised Code are cumulative, and a suit for and recovery of one does not bar the recovery of any other.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Public utility" means any electric light company, as the same is defined in sections 4905.02 and 4905.03 of the Revised Code. (2) "Public utility facility" means any electric line having a voltage of twenty-two thousand or more volts used or to be used by an electric light company and supporting structures, fixtures, and appurtenances connected to, used in direct connection with, o...

...The public utilities commission shall initiate programs that will promote and encourage conservation of energy and a reduction in the growth rate of energy consumption, promote economic efficiencies, and take into account long-run incremental costs. Notwithstanding sections 4905.31, 4905.33, 4905.35, and 4909.151 of the Revised Code, the commission shall examine and issue written findings on the declining block rate ...

...one or electric light company that is a public utility as defined by section 4905.02 of the Revised Code and, subject to section 4927.15 of the Revised Code, every incumbent local exchange carrier as defined by section 4927.01 of the Revised Code shall permit, upon reasonable terms and conditions and the payment of reasonable charges, the attachment of any wire, cable, facility, or apparatus to its poles, pedestals, ...

...istribution or ancillary service. (2) "Public telecommunications service" means the transmission by a telephone company, by electromagnetic or other means, of signs, signals, writings, images, sounds, messages, or data originating in this state regardless of actual call routing, but does not include a system, including its construction, maintenance, or operation, for the provision of telecommunications service, or a...

...(A) The public utilities commission, upon complaint by any person or complaint or initiative of the commission, has jurisdiction under section 4905.26 of the Revised Code regarding any violation of division (B) of section 4905.72 of the Revised Code by a public utility. (B) Upon complaint or initiative under division (A) of this section, if the commission finds, after notice and hearing pursuant to section 49...

...No public utility shall knowingly engage in a persistent practice or pattern of conduct of violating division (B) of section 4905.72 of the Revised Code.

...n agent designated or authorized by the public utility to accept payment, the payment shall not be considered past due regardless of whether or not it is received in the company offices by the due date.

... Revised Code, or, as authorized by the public utilities commission, any affiliate of such a company, that provides any telephone service program implemented after March 27, 1991, to aid persons with communicative impairments in accessing the telephone network shall be allowed a tax credit for the costs of any such program under section 5733.56 of the Revised Code. Relative to any such program, the commission, in acc...

...tation and among those carriers in the public interest; (B) Promote safe and secure service by motor carriers, without unjust discriminations, undue preferences or advantages, and unfair or destructive competitive practices; (C) Improve the relations between, and coordinate transportation by and regulation of, motor carriers and other carriers; (D) Develop and preserve a highway transportation system properl...

...The public utilities commission shall: (A) Supervise and regulate each motor carrier; (B) Regulate the safety of operation of each motor carrier, and of each intermodal equipment provider as defined in section 4923.041 of the Revised Code; (C) Adopt reasonable safety rules applicable to the highway transportation of persons or property in interstate and intrastate commerce by motor carriers; (D) Adopt safety rule...

...ovider" means an entity selected by the public utilities commission as the provider of telecommunications relay service for this state as part of the commission's intrastate telecommunications relay service program certified pursuant to federal law. (B) For the sole purpose of funding telecommunications relay service, the commission shall, not earlier than January 1, 2009, impose on and collect from each servi...

...quest of an electric light company, the public utilities commission shall provide information and assistance to the electric light company in obtaining any bonus, extension, or other Phase I sulfur dioxide emission allowance that the company may be eligible to receive from the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency under Title IV of the "Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990," 104 Stat. 2584, 4...

...in the biomass energy program fund, the public utilities commission shall maintain a program to promote the development and use of biomass energy. (B) The biomass energy program fund is hereby created in the state treasury. Money received by the commission for the program maintained under this section shall be credited to the fund, and used for that program.

... section 4781.01 of the Revised Code; a public or publicly subsidized housing project; an apartment complex; a condominium complex; a college or university; an office complex; a shopping center; a hotel; an industrial park; and a race track. (B) "Gas" means natural gas, flammable gas, or gas which is toxic or corrosive. (C) "Gathering line" and the "gathering of gas" have the same meaning as in the Natural Gas Pipe...

...For the purpose of protecting the public safety with respect to intrastate pipe-lines used by any operator: (A) The public utilities commission shall: (1) Adopt, and may amend or rescind, rules to carry out sections 4905.90 to 4905.96 of the Revised Code, including rules concerning pipe-line safety, drug testing, and enforcement procedures. The commission shall adopt these rules only after notice and opportu...

...sion (A)(2) of this section: (a) The public utilities commission shall require an operator of either of the following types of pipelines that was completely constructed on or after September 10, 2012, and that transports gas produced by a horizontal well to comply with the applicable pipe design requirements of 49 C.F.R. 192 subpart C: (i) A gas gathering pipeline; (ii) A processing plant gas stub pipeline. ...

...ection 4905.10 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall assess against all operators an amount equal to the appropriation in each fiscal year from the pipe-line safety fund. The assessment against each operator shall be based on the total Mcfs of gas it supplied or delivered in this state during the calendar year next preceding the assessment. The commission shall not assess against any operator an ...

...Each operator shall do all of the following: (A) Comply with sections 4905.90 to 4905.96 of the Revised Code and the pipe-line safety code. For the purpose of that compliance, the act or omission of any officer, employee, or agent of an operator, while acting within the scope of his duties or employment, is deemed the act or omission of the operator. (B) Establish and maintain any record, make any report, and provi...

...to perform a safety inspection when the public interest so requires, when an operator of a master-meter system has violated or failed to comply with division (B) of this section or has failed to conduct any safety inspection required by sections 4905.90 to 4905.96 of the Revised Code and the pipe-line safety code, or upon request of the operator of the master-meter system. When the commission directs or orders a safe...

...ivision (C) of this section: (1) The public utilities commission, regarding any proceeding under this section, shall provide reasonable notice and the opportunity for a hearing in accordance with rules adopted under section 4901.13 of the Revised Code. (2) Sections 4903.02 to 4903.082, 4903.09 to 4903.16, and 4903.20 to 4903.23 of the Revised Code apply to all proceedings and orders of the commission under t...

... the written request of or order by the public utilities commission, the attorney general shall bring a civil action against an operator in the name of the state to enforce orders of the commission issued under section 4905.95 of the Revised Code, including orders assessing forfeitures under division (B)(1) of that section, and for other appropriate relief, including a temporary restraining order or a preliminary or ...