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...(A) As used in this section: (1)(a) "Dangerous dog" means a dog that, without provocation, and subject to division (A)(1)(b) of this section, has done any of the following: (i) Caused injury, other than killing or serious injury, to any person; (ii) Killed another dog; (iii) Been the subject of a third or subsequent violation of division (C) of section 955.22 of the Revised Code. (b) "Dangerous dog" does no...

...Except as provided in section 955.121 of Revised Code, a board of county commissioners shall appoint or employ a county dog warden and deputies in such number, for such periods of time, and at such compensation as the board considers necessary to enforce sections 955.01 to 955.27 and 955.50 to 955.53 of the Revised Code. Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, the warden and deputies sha...

...(A)(1) In lieu of appointing a county dog warden and deputies under section 955.12 of the Revised Code, a board of county commissioners may appoint the county sheriff to enforce sections 955.01 to 955.27 and 955.50 to 955.53 of the Revised Code. If a board chooses to appoint the county sheriff as the county dog warden, the board shall enter into a two-year written agreement with the sheriff for that purpose at the fi...

...(A) Notwithstanding section 955.01 of the Revised Code, a board of county commissioners by resolution may increase dog and kennel registration fees in the county. The amount of the fees shall not exceed an amount that the board, in its discretion, estimates is needed to pay all expenses for the administration of this chapter. Such a resolution shall be adopted not earlier than the first day of February and not later ...

...(A) The board of county commissioners shall provide nets and other suitab le devices for the taking of dogs in a humane manner, provide a suitable place for impounding dogs, make proper provision for feeding and caring for the same, and provide humane methods for destroying dogs. (B) Subject to division (C) of this section, the dog warden shall deliver any dog that the warden or the warden's deputies have seized to...

...(A) As used in this section: "Animal shelter" has the same meaning as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code. "Certified officer" means an individual who meets the requirements established under section 4729.534 of the Revised Code. "Chemical capture" means using an anesthetic drug or sedative on a companion animal to do any of the following: (1) Immobilize and capture; (2) Attempt to immobilize and capture...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B), (C), and (D) of this section, costs shall be assessed against the owner, keeper, or harborer of any dog seized and impounded under sections 955.12, 955.15, and 955.16 of the Revised Code as follows: (1) Filing affidavit and issuing order to seize dog ________ $1.00; (2) Seizing dog and delivering to pound ________ 4.00; (3) Serving or posting of not...

...Any dog that is seized and impounded under sections 955.12, 955.15, and 955.17 of the Revised Code may be redeemed by its owner, keeper, or harborer at any time prior to the expiration of the applicable redemption period as specified in sections 955.12 and 955.16 of the Revised Code, upon payment to the dog warden or poundkeeper of all costs assessed against the animal and upon providing the animal with a valid regis...

...All funds received by the county dog warden or poundkeeper in connection with the administration of sections 955.01 to 955.18, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be deposited in the county treasury and placed to the credit of the dog and kennel fund.

...The registration fees provided for in sections 955.01 to 955.14 of the Revised Code constitute a special fund known as "the dog and kennel fund." The fees shall be deposited by the county auditor in the county treasury daily as collected. Money in the fund shall be used for the purpose of defraying the cost of furnishing all blanks, records, tags, nets, and other equipment, for the purpose of paying the compensation ...

...(A) As used in this section and in section 955.202 of the Revised Code, "Ohio pet fund" means a nonprofit corporation organized by that name under Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code that consists of humane societies, veterinarians, animal shelters, companion animal breeders, dog wardens, or similar individuals and entities. (B) The Ohio pet fund shall do all of the following: (1) Establish eligibility criteria...

...No owner, keeper, or harborer of a dog more than three months of age, nor owner of a dog kennel, shall fail to file the application for registration required by section 955.01 of the Revised Code, nor shall he fail to pay the legal fee therefor.

...(A) As used in this section, "dangerous dog" has the same meaning as in section 955.11 of the Revised Code. (B) No owner, keeper, or harborer of any female dog shall permit it to go beyond the premises of the owner, keeper, or harborer at any time the dog is in heat unless the dog is properly in leash. (C) Except when a dog is lawfully engaged in hunting and accompanied by the owner, keeper, harborer, or hand...

...(A) For the purposes of this section, ordinances or resolutions to control dogs include, but are not limited to, ordinances or resolutions concerned with the ownership, keeping, or harboring of dogs, the restraint of dogs, dogs as public nuisances, and dogs as a threat to public health, safety, and welfare, except that such ordinances or resolutions as permitted in division (B) of this section shall not prohibit the ...

...(A) The municipal court or county court that has territorial jurisdiction over the residence of the owner, keeper, or harborer of a dog shall conduct any hearing concerning the designation of the dog as a nuisance dog, dangerous dog, or vicious dog. (B) If a person who is authorized to enforce this chapter has reasonable cause to believe that a dog in the person's jurisdiction is a nuisance dog, dangerous do...

...No county dog warden shall willfully fail to perform his duties under section 955.12 of the Revised Code or other duties required of dog wardens.

...No person shall obstruct or interfere with anyone lawfully engaged in capturing an unregistered dog or making an examination of a dog wearing a tag.

...No person shall own, keep, or harbor a dog wearing a fictitious, altered, or invalid registration tag or a registration tag not issued by the county auditor in connection with the registration of such animal.

...Whenever, in the judgment of the director of health, any city or general health district board of health, or persons performing the duties of a board of health, rabies is prevalent, the director of health, the board, or those persons shall declare a quarantine of all dogs in the health district or in a part of it. During the quarantine, the owner, keeper, or harborer of any dog shall keep it confined on the pre...

...(A)(1) No person shall remove a dog that has bitten any person from the county in which the bite occurred until a quarantine period as specified in division (B) of this section has been completed. No person shall transfer a dog that has bitten any person until a quarantine period as specified in division (B) of this section has been completed, except that a person may transfer the dog to the county dog warden or to a...

...No person shall violate a rabies quarantine order issued under section 955.26 of the Revised Code.

...Any corporation which violates section 955.39 of the Revised Code shall forfeit and pay to the municipal corporation a sum not to exceed three hundred dollars, to be collected in a civil action brought in the name of the municipal corporation. The judgment authorized in this section being in the nature of a penalty, or exemplary damages, no proof of actual damages shall be required, but the court or jury, finding ot...

...The board of county commissioners, not later than the third regular meeting after it is presented with the account provided for by section 955.42 of the Revised Code, shall examine the account and, if it is found in whole or part correct and just, may order a payment in whole or in part to either the patient, the representative of the patient referred to in that section, or the physician who rendered the patient's me...

...A person bitten or injured by an animal afflicted with rabies, if the bite or injury has caused the person to employ medical or surgical treatment, may present, within four months after the bite or injury and at a regular meeting of the board of county commissioners of the county where the bite or injury was received, an itemized account of the expenses incurred and amount paid by the person for medical and surgical ...

...(A) When a person who is blind, deaf, or hearing impaired, a person with a mobility impairment, or a trainer of an assistance dog is accompanied by an assistance dog, the person or trainer, as applicable, is entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of all public conveyances, hotels, lodging places, all places of public accommodation, amusement, or resort, all institutions ...

...To the extent authorized by rules authorized by section 5162.021 of the Revised Code, the director of developmental disabilities shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to do both of the following: (A) Prescribe the actions the department of developmental disabilities will take to cease implementation of sections 5168.60 to 5168.71 of the Revised Code if the United States secretar...

...As used in sections 5168.75 to 5168.86 of the Revised Code: (A) "Basic health care services" means all of the services listed in division (A)(1) of section 1751.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Care management system" has the same meaning as in section 5167.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Dual eligible individual" has the same meaning as in section 5160.01 of the Revised Code. (D) "Franchise fee" means the fee impos...

...he process of  determining the annual capitated payment rates to be paid to  medicaid managed care organizations under the care management  system. The following rates shall be used as part of the  determination: CUMULATIVE TOTAL NUMBER OF OHIO MEDICAID MEMBER MONTHS APPLICABLE RATE For the first 250,000 $56 For 250,001 to 500,000 $45 For 500,001 and above $26 (C) The amount of the mo...

...The component of the monthly franchise fee based on Ohio medicaid member months is due not later than the fifth business day of the month immediately following the month for which it is imposed. The component of the monthly franchise fee based on other Ohio member months is due not later than the last day of September of the calendar year in which the rate year ends, and the total amount due under that component for ...

...The department of medicaid may request that a health insuring corporation provide the department documentation the department needs to verify the amount of the franchise fees imposed on the health insuring corporation plans administered by the corporation and to ensure the corporation's compliance with sections 5168.75 to 5168.86 of the Revised Code. On receipt of the request, the health insuring corporation shall pr...

...If the department of medicaid determines that the amount of a franchise fee that a health insuring corporation paid is less than the amount it should have paid, the department shall notify the health insuring corporation. Except as otherwise provided by the results of a reconsideration conducted under section 5168.80 of the Revised Code, the health insuring corporation shall pay the amount due.

...A health insuring corporation may request a reconsideration of a determination made by the department of medicaid under section 5168.79 of the Revised Code. A reconsideration may be requested solely on the grounds that the department made a material error in making the determination. A request for a reconsideration must be received by the department not later than fifteen days after the date the department notifies t...

...If a health insuring corporation fails to pay the full amount of a component of a franchise fee when due, the department of medicaid may assess a ten per cent penalty on the amount due for each month or fraction thereof that the component of the franchise fee is overdue.

...The franchise fee shall not be imposed on any health insuring corporation plan unless there is in effect a waiver authorizing the franchise fee issued by the United States secretary of health and human services pursuant to section 1903(w)(3)(E) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w)(3)(E).

...If the total amount of franchise fees imposed on all health insuring corporation plans under section 5168.76 of the Revised Code during a fiscal year exceeds the indirect guarantee percentage of the net patient revenue for all health insuring corporations for that fiscal year and seventy-five per cent or more of all health insuring corporations receive enhanced medicaid payments or other state payments equal to seven...

...If the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services determines that the franchise fee is an impermissible health care-related tax under section 1903(w) of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 1396b(w), the department of medicaid shall do either of the following as appropriate: (A) Modify the imposition of the franchise fee, including (if necessary) the amount of the franchise fee, in a manner needed for ...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the health insuring corporation franchise fee fund. All payments and penalties paid by health insuring corporations under sections 5168.77, 5168.79, and 5168.81 of the Revised Code shall be deposited into the fund. money in the fund shall be used to make medicaid payments to medicaid providers and medicaid managed care organizations. (B) Any interest or other investm...

...The medicaid director may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. as necessary to implement sections 5168.75 to 5168.86 of the Revised Code.

...for each of the following: (a) The hospital assessment established under section 5168.21 of the Revised Code; (b) The nursing home and hospital long-term care unit franchise permit fee under section 5168.41 of the Revised Code; (c) The ICF/IID franchise permit fee under section 5168.61 of the Revised Code; (d) The health insuring corporation franchise fee under section 5168.76 of the Revised Code. (2) If th...

...impose a penalty for each day that a hospital fails to report the information required under section 5168.05 of the Revised Code on or before the dates specified in that section. The amount of the penalty shall be established by the director in rules adopted under section 5168.02 of the Revised Code. (B) In addition to any other remedy available to the department of medicaid under law to collect unpaid assessments a...

... medicaid may offset the amount of a hospital's unpaid penalty imposed under section 5168.99 of the Revised Code from one or more payments due the hospital under the medicaid program. The total amount that may be offset from one or more payments shall not exceed the amount of the unpaid penalty.

...etirement system to the Ohio police and fire pension fund pursuant to section 742.513 of the Revised Code, or who is appointed pursuant to section 737.15 or 737.16 of the Revised Code as a full-time regular police officer and is paid solely out of public funds of the employing municipal corporation; (b) Any person who, on October 1, 1965, was contributing four per cent of the person's annual salary to a police reli...

...ntributions made to the Ohio police and fire pension fund for salary that exceeds the salary benchmark calculated under division (G) of section 742.01 of the Revised Code shall be refunded in accordance with rules adopted by the trustees of the board under section 742.10 of the Revised Code.

...The board may, by rule adopted under section 742.10 of the Revised Code, establish definitions of "terminal pay" and "salary" that differ from those in divisions (K) and (L) of section 742.01 of the Revised Code. In establishing the definitions, the board may use elements of the compensation provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code and the Internal Revenue Code form W-2, as those provisions are in...

...re is hereby created an Ohio police and fire pension fund for the purpose of providing disability benefits and pensions to members of the fund and their surviving spouses, children, and dependent parents.

...ent and is not a police retirant. (2) "Firefighter" means a member of the fund who is or has been an employee of a fire department and is not a firefighter retirant. (3) "Firefighter retirant" means a member of the fund who is receiving an age and service or disability benefit as a result of service in a fire department or a surviving spouse of a deceased member who is receiving a benefit as a result of the decease...

...oard of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund and each individual appointed to fill a vacancy on the board, shall, not later than ninety days after commencing service as a board member, complete the orientation program component of the retirement board member education program established under section 171.50 of the Revised Code. Each member of the board who has served a year or longer as a board member ...

...oard of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund for one or more entire fiscal years in fiscal years 2000, 2001, or 2002 is ineligible for re-election or reappointment to the board if the board paid travel-related expenses of the person or reimbursed the person for travel-related expenses that averaged more than ten thousand dollars annually for those fiscal years.

...on. Election of the employee members, firefighter retirant member, and police retirant member of the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund shall be under the supervision and direction of the board in accordance with rules adopted under section 742.045 of the Revised Code. Nominating petitions for candidates for an employee member of the board elected by police officers shall be signed by ...

...ard of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund is not required to hold an election for a position on the board as an employee member, police retirant member, or firefighter retirant member if only one candidate has been nominated for the position by petition in accordance with section 742.04 of the Revised Code. The candidate shall take office as if elected. The term of office shall be four years beg...