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...ion completed and made available to the public under Titles XVIII and XIX of the "Social Security Act," 49 Stat. 620 (1935), 42 U.S.C. 301, as amended, and any rules promulgated under Titles XVIII and XIX, including such reports that result from life safety code and health inspections during the preceding three years, and shall post prominently within the home a notice of this requirement.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Nursing facility" has the same meaning as in section 5165.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Deficiency" and "survey" have the same meanings as in section 5165.60 of the Revised Code. (3) "Title XIX" and "Title XVIII" have the same meanings as in section 5165.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of health is hereby designated the state agency responsible for establishing and...

...Where a nursing home licensed under this Chapter is operated in a building that was leased pursuant to a written lease agreement entered into on or before January 1, 1970, and where the lease agreement does not expressly determine or state the identity of the party that owns the nursing home business, operating rights, certificate of need, or legal rights associated with ownership and operation of the nursing home be...

...pients. The program may be funded with public funds appropriated by the general assembly for the purpose of the program or any funds appropriated for nursing home licensure.

...(A) Before the director of health can issue a license to operate a nursing home to an entering operator, all of the following requirements must be satisfied: (1) The entering operator completes a change of operator license application on a form prescribed by the director and pays the applicable fee as determined by the director. Any fee required by the director under division (A)(1) of this section shall be cre...

...(A) As used in this section, "survey" has the same meaning as in section 5165.60 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of health shall investigate within ten working days after referral, in accordance with procedures and criteria to be established by the department of health and the department of aging, any unresolved complaint that the office of the state long-term care ombudsman has investigated and found ...

...(A) As used in this section, "person" has the same meaning as in section 1.59 of the Revised Code. (B) The director of health shall enforce the provisions of sections 3721.01 to 3721.13 and 3721.99 of the Revised Code and may issue orders to secure compliance with the provisions of these sections and the rules adopted under them. The director may hold hearings, issue subpoenas, compel testimony, and make adjudicatio...

...to identify such an individual is not a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code, and is not subject to inspection and copying under section 1347.08 of the Revised Code. (C)(1) If the director, or an agency or individual to whom the director is required by court order or for administration or enforcement of a statute relating to homes to release information described in division (A)(1) of...

...The state fire marshal shall enforce all statutes and rules pertaining to fire safety in homes and shall adopt rules pertaining to fire safety in homes as the marshal determines necessary. The rules adopted by the marshal shall be in addition to those fire safety rules that the board of building standards and the director of health are empowered to adopt. In the event of a dispute between the marshal and anothe...

...(A) The director of health shall adopt and publish rules governing the operation of homes, which shall have uniform application throughout the state, and shall prescribe standards for homes with respect to, but not limited to, the following matters: (1) The minimum space requirements for occupants and equipping of the buildings in which homes are housed so as to ensure healthful, safe, sanitary, and comfortab...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Advisory committee" means the advisory committee on immunization practices of the United States centers for disease control and prevention or a successor committee or agency. (2) "Certified nurse-midwife," "clinical nurse specialist," and "certified nurse practitioner" have the same meanings as in section 4723.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Physician" means an individual authoriz...

...The director of health may not deny a nursing home license to a facility seeking a license under this chapter as a nursing home on the grounds that the facility does not satisfy a requirement established in rules adopted under section 3721.04 of the Revised Code regarding the toilet rooms and dining and recreational areas of nursing homes if all of the following requirements are met: (A) The facility seeks a ...

...No person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation shall: (A) Operate a home as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code without obtaining a license from the director of health; (B) Violate any of the conditions or requirements necessary for licensing after the license has been issued; (C) Operate a home after the license for such has been revoked by the director of health; (D) Interfere with the ins...

...No county home or district home licensed under section 3721.07 of the Revised Code shall do any of the following: (A) Violate any of the conditions or requirements necessary for licensing after the license has been issued; (B) Continue operation after its license has been revoked by the director of health; (C) Fail to be open for an inspection, or interfere with an inspection, by a state or local official performi...

...No public official or employee shall place any person in, or recommend that any person be placed in, or directly or indirectly cause any person to be placed in any home as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code which is being operated without a license from the director of health or from a political subdivision certified pursuant to section 3721.09 of the Revised Code.

...Every person desiring to operate a home and the superintendent or administrator of each county home or district home for which a license as a residential care facility is sought shall apply for a license to the director of health. The director shall issue a license for the home, if after investigation of the applicant and, if required by section 3721.02 of the Revised Code, inspection of the home, the following...

...The buildings in which a home is housed shall be equipped with both an automatic fire extinguishing system and fire alarm system. Such systems shall conform to standards set forth in the regulations of the board of building standards and the state fire marshal. The time for compliance with the requirements imposed by this section shall be January 1, 1975, except that the date for compliance with the automatic...

...f overhead paging for matters of urgent public safety or urgent clinical operations. The nursing home shall develop a written policy regarding its use of overhead paging and make the policy available to staff, residents, and residents' families.

...(A) The director of health may petition the court of common pleas of the county in which the home is located for an order enjoining any person from operating a home without a license or enjoining a county home or district home that has had its license revoked from continuing to operate. The court shall have jurisdiction to grant such injunctive relief upon a showing that the respondent named in the petition is operat...

...Sections 3721.02, 3721.03, 3721.04, 3721.05, 3721.051, 3721.07, and 3721.08 of the Revised Code and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto are not applicable in political subdivisions which the director of health, by annual certification, determines have adopted and are enforcing their own standards which are equal to or greater in their requirements than those of sections 3721.02, 3721.03, 3721.04, 3721.05, 3721.0...

...As used in sections 3721.10 to 3721.18 of the Revised Code: (A) "Home" means all of the following: (1) A home as defined in section 3721.01 of the Revised Code; (2) Any facility or part of a facility not defined as a home under section 3721.01 of the Revised Code that is a skilled nursing facility or nursing facility, both as defined in section 5165.01 of the Revised Code; (3) A county home or district home opera...

...(A) The director of the department of health shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to govern procedures for the implementation of sections 3721.10 to 3721.17 of the Revised Code. (B) The director may adopt, amend, and repeal substantive rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code defining with reasonable specificity acts that violate division (A) of section 3721.13 of the Revised Code.

...(A) The administrator of a home shall: (1) With the advice of residents, their sponsors, or both, establish and review at least annually, written policies regarding the applicability and implementation of residents' rights under sections 3721.10 to 3721.17 of the Revised Code, the responsibilities of residents regarding the rights, and the home's grievance procedure established under division (A)(2) of this s...

...equest made under this section is not a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and shall not be made available to any person other than the following: (1) The individual who is the subject of the criminal records check or the individual's representative; (2) The chief administrator of the home or program requesting the criminal records check or the administrator's representative; (...

...Before an individual is admitted as a resident to a home, the home's administrator shall search for the individual's name in the internet-based sex offender and child-victim offender database established under division (A)(11) of section 2950.13 of the Revised Code. If the search results identify the individual as a sex offender and the individual is admitted as a resident to the home, the administrator shall ...

...ithin the time frame established in the public safety program of the owner. (B) Unless a facility actually is uncovered or probed by the utility or excavator, any indications of the depth of the facility shall be treated as estimates only. (C)(1) Except as provided in division (C)(2) of this section, a utility shall mark its underground facilities using the following color codes: Type of Underground...

...(A) When making excavations using traditional or trenchless technologies, the excavator shall do all of the following: (1) Maintain reasonable clearance between any underground facility and the cutting edge or point of powered equipment; (2) Protect and preserve the markings of tolerance zones of underground utility facilities until those markings are no longer required for proper and safe excavations; (3) W...

...(A) When a utility marks its underground utility facilities in accordance with section 3781.29 of the Revised Code, the utility may request that the excavator provide prior notice to the utility of the actual commencement of the excavation. An excavator that receives a request for notice under this division shall provide the notice to the utility at least one full working day prior to the commencement of excava...

... to existing utility services within a public right-of-way shall comply with permit requirements of the public authority that has jurisdiction over that right-of-way. (B) A developer or the designer employed by the developer shall not require, as a condition for entering into a contract for a project that will require excavation, that responsibility for performance of duties imposed under sections 3781.25 to ...

...ted by the governor; (11) The general public, appointed by the governor; (12) The hazardous liquids pipeline industry, appointed by the governor; (13) Designers, developers, or surveyors, appointed by the governor; (14) OHIO811, as a nonvoting advisory member with duties described by section 3781.361 of the Revised Code, appointed by the governor. (C) The president of the senate, the speaker of the house of...

...A member of the underground technical committee who has a conflict of interest in a particular review under section 4913.15 of the Revised Code shall declare the conflict to the committee and recuse self from committee discussions and voting regarding that review.

...tion that is open and accessible to the public. (C) Before convening a meeting by teleconference or video conference, the committee shall send, via electronic mail, or United States postal service, a copy of meeting-related documents to each committee member. (D) The minutes of each meeting shall specify who was attending by teleconference, who was attending by video conference, and who was physically present. ...

...A member of the underground technical committee is not subject to the disclosure requirements of sections 102.02 and 102.021 of the Revised Code by virtue of membership on the committee.

...he following: (1) Coordinate with the public utilities commission in carrying out its duties under Chapter 4913. of the Revised Code; (2) Provide subject matter expertise when requested during inquiries conducted under section 4913.09 of the Revised Code; (3) Review reports in accordance with section 4913.15 of the Revised Code; (4) Make recommendations under sections 4913.15 and 4913.16 of the Revised Code; ...

...(A) The OHIO811 nonvoting advisory member appointed to the underground technical committee under division (B)(14) of section 3781.34 of the Revised Code shall do the following: (1) Provide support to the committee during discussions regarding the enforcement provisions of the Ohio underground protection service law; (2) Provide subject matter expertise and education regarding the "Contact 811 Before You Dig" proc...

...Every member of the underground technical committee shall be immune, individually and jointly, from civil liability for any act or omission done or made in performance of the member's duties while serving as a member of the committee, but only in the absence of willful misconduct.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Adequate welding standards" means specifications, guidelines, tests, and other methods used to ensure that all structural steel welds meet, at minimum, the codes and standards for such welds established in the American welding society structural steel welding code D1.1 and the nonresidential building code adopted under section 3781.10 of the Revised Code. (2) "Certified welding i...

... her baby in any location of a place of public accommodation wherein the mother otherwise is permitted. "Place of public accommodation" has the same meaning as in section 4112.01 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Whoever violates division (E) of section 3781.111 of the Revised Code shall be issued a warning for a first offense. On each subsequent offense, the person shall be fined twenty-five dollars for each parking location that is not properly marked or whose markings are not properly maintained. (B) Whoever violates this chapter or any rule adopted or order issued pursuant to it that relates to the construction, alte...

...As used in sections 3783.01 to 3783.07, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Electrical safety inspector" means a person who is certified as provided in Chapter 3783. of the Revised Code. (B) The "practice of electrical inspection" includes any ascertainment of compliance with the Ohio building code, or the electrical code of a political subdivision of this state by a person, who, for compensation, inspects the c...

...ty owned or leased by the utility or on public highways, streets, roads, etc., or by established rights on private property; (F) Installations of elevators, dumbwaiters, and escalators as regulated by the bureau of workers' compensation.

...(A) The board of building standards shall issue a certificate of competency as an electrical safety inspector to any person who successfully passes an examination pursuant to division (B) of this section or who qualifies for renewal pursuant to section 3783.04 of the Revised Code. Each certificate of competency issued by the board shall be signed by the chairperson and the secretary of the board and shall show on its...

...All certificates of competency issued to electrical safety inspectors shall expire three years from the date of issuance unless renewed according to the standard renewal procedure of sections 4745.01 to 4745.03 of the Revised Code. The board of building standards shall establish the amount of the renewal fee. Each renewal certificate shall be signed by the chairman and the secretary of the board, and shall show on i...

...The board of building standards, in accordance with Chapters 119., 3781., and 3791. of the Revised Code, shall adopt, amend, or repeal such rules as may be reasonably necessary to administer this chapter. All fees collected by the board pursuant to this chapter shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the industrial compliance operating fund created in section 121.084 of the Revised Code.

...No person shall engage in the practice of electrical inspection in this state unless he is the holder of a certificate of competency as an electrical safety inspector issued under Chapter 3783. of the Revised Code. Any person practicing or offering to practice electrical inspection shall show proof of his certification upon request as provided by rules of the board of building standards.

...The board, upon its own motion or upon a written complaint of any person affected by enforcement, may investigate the actions of any electrical safety inspector and may revoke or suspend the certificate of any electrical safety inspector for reasons that shall be established by regulations adopted by the board. Hearings shall be held and appeals permitted on any such proceedings for revocation or suspension of a cert...

...On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the board of building standards 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 certificate issued pursuant to this chapter.

...Whoever violates section 3783.06 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars.

...No owners, officers, member of a board or committee, or other person shall construct, erect, build, or equip an opera house, hall, theater, church, schoolhouse, college, academy, seminary, infirmary, sanitarium, children's home, hospital, medical institute, asylum, memorial building, armory, assembly hall, or other building used for the assemblage or betterment of people in any municipal corporation, county, or towns...

...No owner, or person having the control as an officer or member of a board or committee or otherwise of any opera house, hall, theater, church, schoolhouse, college, academy, seminary, infirmary, sanitarium, children's home, hospital, medical institute, asylum, memorial building, armory, assembly hall, or other building for the assemblage or betterment of people shall fail to obey any order of the state fire mar...

...The department of administrative services may adopt, amend, and rescind rules pertaining to lands under the supervision of the department in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

...All bids, proposals, and contracts received by the director of administrative services shall be indorsed, filed, and preserved in his office. Copies of contracts for work or materials, water privileges or lands on which such privileges are to be used, leases, and all other contracts entered into by the director shall be filed and recorded in his office within thirty days from their execution.

...The department of administrative services may lease land belonging to or under the control or jurisdiction of a state university, not required nor to be required for use of the university, to a developer in accordance with this section. "Developer," as used in this section, means a person, partnership, association, corporation, or community improvement corporation established pursuant to Chapter 1724. of the Re...

...ertaining to the administration of the public works.

...There is hereby established in the state treasury the theater equipment maintenance fund. All appropriate theater-related revenues of the department of administrative services, as determined by the department, shall be credited to that fund and to any accounts created in that fund with the department's approval. All appropriate theater-related expenses of the department, as determined by the department, includi...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the Ohio facilities construction commission fund, consisting of transfers of moneys authorized by the general assembly and revenues received by the Ohio facilities construction commission under section 123.21 of the Revised Code. Investment earnings on moneys in the fund shall be credited to the fund. Moneys in the fund may be used by the commission, in performing its...

...cost for any projects, improvements, or public buildings to be constructed by state agencies that may be authorized by legislative appropriations or any other funds made available therefor, provided that the construction of the projects, improvements, or public buildings is a statutory duty of the commission. This section does not require the independent employment of an architect or engineer as provided by section 1...

...outh services; (7) The department of public safety; (8) The department of transportation; (9) The department of veterans services; (10) The bureau of workers' compensation; (11) The department of administrative services; (12) Ohio deaf and blind education services. (B) A state agency that wishes to administer a project under division (A) of this section shall submit a request for authorization th...

...n may accept and administer grants from public and private sources for carrying out any of its duties under this section. (C) No state agency, department, division, bureau, office, unit, board, commission, authority, quasi-governmental entity, or institution shall construct or cause to be constructed, within the limits prescribed in this section, a state-funded facility without a proper life-cycle cost analysis as c...

...(A) As used in this section, "institution of higher education" means a state university or college, as defined in section 3345.12 of the Revised Code, or a state community college. (B) The Ohio facilities construction commission shall establish a local administration competency certification program to certify institutions of higher education to administer capital facilities projects pursuant to section 3345....

...the construction or improvement of the public works of the state, and shall fix all rentals and collect all tolls, rents, fines, commissions, fees, and other revenues arising from any source in the construction or improvement of the public works of the state. (B) Deposits made to the commission's fund in the state treasury under section 123.201 of the Revised Code shall consist of money received by the commis...

...n or making available of culture to the public. (I) "Manage," "operate," or "management" means the provision of, or the exercise of control over the provision of, activities: (1) Relating to culture for an Ohio cultural facility, including as applicable, but not limited to, providing for displays, exhibitions, specimens, and models; booking of artists, performances, or presentations; scheduling; and hiring or contr...

...ion of sport and athletic events to the public at the facility. (F) In addition to the requirements of division (E) of this section, no state funds, including any state bond proceeds, shall be spent on any Ohio sports facility that is a motorsports complex, unless, with respect to that facility, both of the following apply: (1) Motorsports events shall be presented at the facility pursuant to a lease entered into w...

...The Ohio cultural and sports facility performance grant fund is created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of all money remitted by the director of commerce under division (I) of section 169.08 of the Revised Code and amounts appropriated by the general assembly. The money in the fund shall be used as performance grants for Ohio cultural facility, Ohio sports facility, and major sports facility projects in...

...The theater in the Vern Riffe center for government and the arts in Columbus, formerly known as the capitol theatre, shall be known as the Speaker Jo Ann Davidson theatre.

..., costs and expenses for or relating to publication and printing, postage, delivery, preliminary and final official statements, offering circulars, and informational statements, travel and transportation, underwriters, placement agents, investment bankers, paying agents, registrars, authenticating agents, remarketing agents, custodians, clearing agencies or corporations, securities depositories, financial advisory se...

...issuer, and fractionalized interests in public obligations, subject to applicable provisions for registration or of the proceedings, are negotiable instruments and securities under Chapters 1303. and 1308. of the Revised Code, notwithstanding that the promise to pay debt charges on the particular securities or fractionalized interests may be limited to payment out of a particular fund or the proceeds from a par...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Large local educational agency" and "qualified school construction bond" have the same meaning as in section 54F of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. 54F. (2) "National limit" means, as applicable, the limitation on the aggregate amount of qualified school construction bonds that may be issued by the states each calendar year under section 54F of the Internal Revenue Code. (3) ...

...kers' compensation, the state teachers, public employees, and school employees retirement systems, and the Ohio police and fire pension fund, notwithstanding any other provisions of the Revised Code or rules adopted pursuant to those provisions by any agency of the state with respect to investments by them; (2) Eligible as security for the repayment of the deposit of public moneys. (B) Section 9.96 of the Revised C...

...(A) As used in this chapter, "net indebtedness" means, as determined pursuant to this section, the principal amount of the outstanding securities of a subdivision less the amount held in a bond retirement fund to the extent such amount is not taken into account in determining the principal amount outstanding under division (AA) of section 133.01 of the Revised Code. For purposes of this definition, the principal amou...

...ditorium, museum, trade show, and other public attraction facilities; (k) Facilities for natural resources exploration, development, recovery, use, and sale; (l) Correctional and detention facilities, including multicounty-municipal jails, and related rehabilitation facilities. (2) Securities issued for the purpose of purchasing, constructing, improving, or extending water or sanitary or surface and storm water se...

...estroyed, or condemned by a constituted public authority, or that such buildings or facilities are partially constructed, or so constructed or planned as to require additions and improvements to them before the buildings or facilities are usable for their intended purpose, or that corrections to permanent improvements are necessary to remove or prevent health or safety hazards. (b) Existing fiscal and net indebted...

...(A) This section applies only to a school district that satisfies all of the following conditions: (1) The district, prior to June 30, 2007, undertook a classroom facilities project under section 3318.37 of the Revised Code. (2) The district will undertake a subsequent classroom facilities project under section 3318.37 of the Revised Code that will consist of a single building housing grades six through twelve....

...ditorium, museum, trade show, and other public attraction facilities; (g) Facilities for natural resources exploration, development, recovery, use, and sale; (h) Correctional and detention facilities and related rehabilitation facilities. (3) Securities issued for the purpose of purchasing, constructing, improving, or extending water or sanitary or surface and storm water sewerage systems or facilities, or a...

...(A) In addition to any power to issue securities under other provisions of the Revised Code for the purposes, a county may issue revenue securities as authorized in this section. (B) A county may issue revenue securities to fund or refund revenue securities previously issued, or for any purposes for which it could issue self-supporting securities and, without limitation, any of the following general purposes: (1...