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...The superintendent of insurance may exempt any domestic health insuring corporation from the application of sections 1753.31 to 1753.43 of the Revised Code, if the health insuring corporation meets all of the following requirements: (A) The health insuring corporation writes direct business in this state only. (B) The health insuring corporation assumes no reinsurance in excess of five per cent of direct premium wr...

...The superintendent of insurance may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as are reasonably necessary for the implementation and operation of sections 1753.31 to 1753.43 of the Revised Code.

...(A) As used in sections 339.01 to 339.17 of the Revised Code: (1) "Hospital facilities" has the meaning given in section 140.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "County hospital" includes all of the county hospital's branches and hospital facilities, wherever located. (3) "Outpatient health facility" means a facility where medical care and preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, or palliative items or service...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Area served by the hospital" means the geographic area, whether or not included within the county, from which a county hospital regularly draws patients. (2) "Appointing authority" means the board of county commissioners, the probate judge of the county senior in point of service, and the judge, other than the probate judge of the county senior in point of service, of the court o...

...Whenever the building and facilities of a county home are suitable for use as a hospital, the board of county commissioners may designate said county home a county hospital. Thereafter, Chapter 339. of the Revised Code shall govern the operation of such facility, provided, that the members of the board of county commissioners or their designees shall serve ex officio as members of the board of trustees. The appointme...

...The board of county hospital trustees shall have complete charge of the selection and purchase or lease of a site or sites for a county hospital, taking title or leasehold interest to such site or sites in the name of the county, the selection of plans and specifications, the determination and erection of all necessary buildings on such site or sites, and of the selection and installation of all necessary and proper ...

...Notwithstanding section 135.351 of the Revised Code, all funds, including any and all interest income, arising from a special tax levy or general obligation bond issue for the purchase, appropriation, or construction of a county hospital, and contributions thereto, shall be placed in the county treasury to the credit of a fund to be known as the "county hospital building fund." Such fund shall be paid out on the orde...

...(A) A board of county hospital trustees may adopt, annually, bidding procedures and purchasing or leasing policies provided through a joint purchasing arrangement sponsored by a nonprofit organization, for services, supplies, and equipment, that are routinely used in the operation of the hospital and that cost in excess of the amount specified in section 307.86 of the Revised Code as the amount above which purchases ...

...(A) The board of county hospital trustees, upon completion of construction or leasing and equipping of a county hospital, shall assume and continue the operation of the hospital. (B) The board of county hospital trustees shall have the entire management and control of the county hospital. The board may in writing delegate its management and control of the county hospital to the administrator of the county hospital e...

...(A) As used in this section, "charter county hospital" means a county hospital based in a county that has adopted a charter under Section 3 of Article X, Ohio Constitution. (B) The board of county hospital trustees of a charter county hospital shall hold and administer all money received from the operation of the county hospital, including money arising from rendering medical services to patients, whether received f...

...(A) As used in this section, "charter county hospital" means a county hospital based in a county that has adopted a charter under Section 3 of Article X, Ohio Constitution. (B) All rights to, interests in, and income from intellectual property, including discoveries, inventions, or patents, that result from research or investigation conducted in an experiment station, bureau, laboratory, research facility, or other ...

...(A) The board of county hospital trustees shall provide for the administration of the county hospital by directly employing a hospital administrator or by entering into a contract for the management of the hospital under which an administrator is provided. When an administrator is employed directly, the board shall adopt a job description delineating the administrator's powers and duties and the board may pay t...

...The board of county hospital trustees may receive any gift, bequest, or devise of real or personal property in trust for the erection, improvement, or support of the county hospital, and administer the said property and the proceeds thereof in the manner required by law or the instrument creating such trust. Before receiving such trust property, the board shall give additional bond in such amount as the board of coun...

...When the county hospital has been fully completed and sufficiently equipped for occupancy, in lieu of sections 339.06 to 339.08 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners of any county, on adoption of a resolution under section 339.091 of the Revised Code, may, upon such terms as are agreed upon between the board and a constituted and empowered nonsectarian Ohio corporation, organized for charitable pur...

...Before the board of county commissioners, board of county hospital trustees, or county hospital commission may enter into an initial agreement for the acquisition, operation, or lease under section 140.03, 140.05, 339.09, or 339.14 of the Revised Code of a county hospital operated by a board of county hospital trustees under section 339.06 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall review the ...

...(A) The board of county hospital trustees of a county hospital may do either of the following: (1) Form, or acquire control of, a domestic nonprofit corporation or a domestic nonprofit limited liability company; (2) Be a partner, member, owner, associate, or participant in a nonprofit enterprise or nonprofit venture. (B) A board of county hospital trustees of a county hospital forming, acquiring, or becoming...

...The board of county commissioners may enter into an agreement with one or more corporations or associations organized for charitable purposes or for the purpose of maintaining and operating a hospital in any county in which such hospital has been established, for the care of indigent persons who are sick or have disabilities, including indigent persons receiving the tuberculosis treatment specified in section 339.73 ...

...The board of county commissioners may, upon such terms as are agreed upon between such board and the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, lease, acquire, operate, and maintain, as and for a county hospital, the lands, buildings, and equipment of a general hospital owned by any such municipal corporation in the county. The terms of such agreement may provide that operation and maintenance of said hospit...

...If the board of county commissioners has, prior to June 18, 1925, leased the lands, buildings, and equipment of any such general hospital as provided by section 339.12 of the Revised Code, as and for a county hospital, and has expended money or funds to operate and maintain the hospital, such acts and expenditures of the board may be ratified and confirmed by resolution of the board, by and with the consent of the mu...

...(A) Upon application to the board of county commissioners by an Ohio corporation or corporations, organized for charitable hospital purposes and not for profit, in this section called participating hospital corporations, the board of county commissioners may, after a determination that the preservation of the public health requires additional hospital facilities in the county, appoint a hospital commission of not les...

...The hospital commission of any county or the board of county hospital trustees established pursuant to section 339.02 of the Revised Code may issue revenue obligations of the county pursuant to section 140.06 of the Revised Code.

...(A) A board of trustees of any county hospital may contract for, purchase, or otherwise procure on behalf of any or all of its employees, the employees of the hospital, or such employees and their immediate dependents the following types of fringe benefits: (1) Group or individual insurance contracts which may include life, sickness, accident, disability, annuities, endowment, health, medical expense, hospital, dent...

...(A) Sections 140.03 and 140.05 of the Revised Code are alternatives to sections 339.02 to 339.13 of the Revised Code. Sections 339.02 to 339.14 of the Revised Code are not applicable with respect to hospital facilities and services provided for under leases or agreements entered into pursuant to section 140.03 or 140.05 of the Revised Code, except to the extent made applicable by section 140.03 or 140.05 of the Revis...

...Notwithstanding the amendment of sections 339.38, 339.39, 339.42, and 339.43 of the Revised Code, the repeal of sections 339.20, 339.21, 339.22, 339.23, 339.231, 339.24, 339.25, 339.26, 339.27, 339.28, 339.29, 339.30, 339.31, 339.32, 339.33, 339.34, 339.35, 339.36, 339.37, 339.40, 339.41, 339.45, 339.46, and 339.99 of the Revised Code, and any other changes made by Substitute Senate Bill No. 173 of the 123rd general ...

...As used in this section and sections 339.72 to 339.89 of the Revised Code: (A) "Active tuberculosis" means tuberculosis that has been demonstrated by clinical, bacteriological, or radiographic evidence to be present in an individual who has not completed an appropriate course of antituberculosis medication, regardless of the stage of communicability of the tuberculosis, and includes both pulmonary and extrapulmonary...