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...(A) All certificates, applications, records, and reports made for the purpose of this chapter and sections 2945.38, 2945.39, 2945.40, 2945.401, and 2945.402 of the Revised Code, other than court journal entries or court docket entries, and directly or indirectly identifying a patient or former patient or person whose hospitalization or commitment has been sought under this chapter, shall be kept confidential and shal...

... provided in this division, and are not public records. (C) The attorney general, by rule adopted under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall prescribe and make available to all probate judges and all chief clinical officers a form to be used by them for the purpose of making the notifications required by division (A) of this section.

...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 willfully disclose the contents of the ...

...from the chief clinical officer of any public hospital relating to the admission, examination, diagnosis, release, or discharge of any patient; visit each such hospital regularly to review the admission procedures of all new patients admitted between visits; investigate by personal visit complaints made by any patient or by any person on behalf of a patient; and adopt such rules as are reasonably necessary to ...

...(A) Persons, including, but not limited to, boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services and community mental health services providers, acting in good faith, either upon actual knowledge or information thought by them to be reliable, who procedurally or physically assist in the hospitalization or discharge, determination of appropriate placement, court-ordered treatment, or in judicial proceed...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Facility or provider" means, in the context of a person committed to the department of mental health and addiction services under sections 2945.37 to 2945.402 of the Revised Code, any entity in which the department of mental health and addiction services places such a person. (2) "Person committed to the department" means a person committed to the department of mental health ...

...(A) In a case in which the jurisdiction of a court has not been specifically given or the procedure provided for, the court in the county in which a person alleged to be mentally ill is found shall have full, complete, and general jurisdiction to make disposition of such person in accordance with the procedure prescribed by Chapter 5122. of the Revised Code. (B) When an affidavit is filed in the court as provided in...

...rt. The receiving court shall enter and record the commitment order. The certified commitment order is prima facie evidence of the residence of the person. When the residence of the person cannot be established as represented by the ordering court, the matter of residence shall be referred to the department of mental health and addiction services for investigation and determination.

...Each individual now or formerly hospitalized pursuant to this chapter or former Chapter 5123. of the Revised Code, is entitled to an adjudication of competency or incompetency or termination of guardianship upon written request by any such individual, his guardian, or the chief clinical officer to the probate court. The court, on its own motion, may initiate such a hearing. Upon filing of such application, or on the...

...found to be dependent or neglected, the public children's services agency in the county of residence has final guardianship authority and responsibility. (B) In no case shall the guardianship of a person with a mental illness be assigned to the chief medical officer or any staff member of a hospital, board, or provider from which the person is receiving mental health services.

...The court, upon making an order hospitalizing a person under this chapter, shall immediately transmit to the chief clinical officer of the hospital, copies, under his official seal, of court papers in the case, including the certificate of the medical witnesses and of his findings in the case. Upon hospitalization, the chief clinical officer of the hospital to which the patient is admitted shall take possession of a...

...Nothing in this chapter limits any rights, privileges, or immunities under the constitution, and laws of the United States or this state.

...ns are before the court, all filing and recording fees shall be waived. (8) To a referee who is appointed to conduct proceedings under this chapter that involve a respondent whose domicile is or, before the respondent's hospitalization, was not the county in which the proceedings are held, compensation as fixed by the probate division, but not more than the compensation paid for similar proceedings for respondents...

...al health and addiction services. (C) "Record" has the same meaning as in section 149.011 of the Revised Code. (D) "State agency" means every organized body, office, or agency established by the laws of the state for the exercise of any function of state government.

...t complete compilations possible using records in the department's possession and records obtained in accordance with section 5122.46 of the Revised Code.

...vices, provide the department access to records and information in the possession of the Ohio history connection or state agency for purposes of creating compilations.

.... The department shall not disclose any record or information used to create a compilation except as provided in sections 149.43 and 5122.31 of the Revised Code.

...A person who violates division (B)(2) of section 5122.32 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than two thousand five hundred dollars on a first offense and not more than twenty thousand dollars on a subsequent offense.

...ce from a private agency that maintains records of assistance given. A person having a legal settlement in the state shall be considered as having legal settlement in the assistance area in which the person resides. No adult person coming into this state and having a spouse or minor children residing in another state shall obtain a legal settlement in this state as long as the spouse or minor children are receiving p...

...The director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to do both of the following: (A) Define "developmental delay"; (B) For the purpose of division (Q)(4)(c) of section 5123.01 and division (F)(4)(c) of section 5126.01 of the Revised Code, specify how to determine whether a person six years of age or older has a substantial functional limitation in a...

...(A) As used in this section, "preschool child with a disability" has the same meaning as in section 3323.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the department of developmental disabilities shall make eligibility determinations in accordance with the definition of "developmental disability" contained in section 5123.01 of the Revised Code. The department may adopt rules in acc...

...The provisions of this chapter regarding institutionalization apply to a person who is found incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity and is committed pursuant to section 2945.39, 2945.40, 2945.401, or 2945.402 of the Revised Code to the extent that the provisions are not in conflict with any provision of sections 2945.37 to 2945.402 of the Revised Code. If a provision of this chapte...

...Whenever the department or director of mental retardation and developmental disabilities is referred to or designated in any statute, rule, contract, grant, or other document, the reference or designation is deemed to refer to the department or director of developmental disabilities, as the case may be. Whenever "mental retardation" or any derivation of that term is referred to or designated in any statute, rule, c...

...the state. These programs shall include public awareness, prevention, assessment, treatment, training, and care. (B) Provide administrative leadership for statewide services; (C) Develop and maintain, to the extent feasible, data on all services and programs that governmental and private agencies provide for persons with developmental disabilities; (D) Provide leadership to local authorities in planning and ...

...(A) As used in this section, "mentally retarded individual" and "specialized services" have the same meanings as in section 5165.03 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section and rules adopted under division (E)(3) of this section, for purposes of section 5165.03 of the Revised Code, the department of developmental disabilities shall determine in accordance with section ...