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...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.

...affecting the construction, sanitation, safety, or other vital feature of said building or structure, without complying with Chapters 3781. and 3791. of the Revised Code or rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto. No architect, builder, engineer, plumber, carpenter, mason, contractor, subcontractor, foreman, or employee shall violate or assist in violating such chapters.

...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...

...No architect, engineer, builder, plumber, carpenter, mason, contractor, subcontractor, foreman, or employee shall violate or assist in the violation of Chapters 3781. and 3791. of the Revised Code or rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto or of any order issued thereunder. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars.

...(A) As used in this section, "place of public assembly" means: (1) Enclosed theatres, except the lobby; opera houses; auditoriums; classrooms; elevators; rooms in which persons are confined as a matter of health care, including but not limited to a hospital room and a room in a residential care facility serving as the residence of a person living in such residential care facility; (2) All buildings and other encl...

..., in the absence of fraud or a serious safety or sanitation hazard, be conclusively presumed to comply with Chapters 3781. and 3791. of the Revised Code and any rule issued pursuant to those chapters, if constructed, altered, or repaired in accordance with those plans and any rule in effect at the time of approval. (E) The approval of plans and specifications, including inspection of industrialized units, unde...

...(A) The board of building standards shall maintain a current list of individuals certified under section 3781.105 of the Revised Code and shall ensure that municipal, township, or county building departments certified under division (E) of section 3781.10 of the Revised Code have a current copy of the list. (B) The rules adopted under section 3791.04 of the Revised Code by the board of building standards or the legi...

...If a building department certified under section 3781.10 of the Revised Code does not have personnel in its full-time employ who are certified by the board of building standards to do plan and specification review, plans and specifications submitted to the building department shall be examined by the approved building official and shall be approved by the official if the plans and specifications conform with the Ohi...

...r from a person whose life or personal safety may be endangered by such neglect or refusal, is a separate offense.

...affolding unless, when in use, it has a safety rail rising at least thirty-four inches above the floor or main portion extending along the outside thereof, and properly attached thereto, and is provided with braces strong enough to sustain the weight of a man's body against it and to prevent such scaffolding from swaying from the building or structure.

...(A) The superintendent of industrial compliance shall establish such reasonable inspection fee schedules as the superintendent determines necessary or desirable relating to the inspection of all plans and specifications submitted for approval to the division of industrial compliance, and all industrialized units inspected at the point of origin and at the construction site of the building. The inspection fee schedule...

...at endanger the public health, welfare, safety, or morals; provided, that such conditions include, but are not limited to, the presence of defective or deteriorated electrical wiring, heating apparatus, and gas connections, or of unprotected gasoline storage tanks, piping, and valves, or any combination of the foregoing; and provided further that the casual and intermittent use of a service station for the reta...

...(A) When a municipal corporation or county enters and repairs or removes an abandoned service station and its appurtenances and restores the property as provided in division (E) or (G) of section 3791.12 of the Revised Code, it may bring an action to recover the costs of repair or removal and restoration, plus the costs of the suit. The owner of the property and any lessee, other than a person leasing and opera...

... building standards shall adopt by rule safety standards in compliance with regulations adopted by the federal consumer product safety commission on June 13, 1977 (Federal Register Vol. 42, No. 113, pp. 30296-30302), to require refuse containers to be constructed, installed, or redesigned so that they will not tip over if persons climb in or on them. (C) The rules of the board shall require all newly manufactured or...

...tion is not detrimental to the health, safety, or welfare of any person, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars. (C) Whoever violates this chapter or any rule adopted or order issued pursuant to it that relates to the construction, alteration, or repair of any building, and the violation is detrimental to the health, safety, or welfare of any person, is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

...No individual authorized to administer a vaccine shall administer to a minor a COVID-19 vaccine without first obtaining written permission from the minor's parent or legal guardian.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Public school" means any of the following: a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district; community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code; STEM school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code; or college-preparatory boarding school established under Chapter 3328. of the Revised Code. (2) "State institution of higher education...

...e procedure in order to protect patient safety. (2) When a patient or resident of a congregate care setting has a highly infectious disease requiring special isolation precautions, division (D)(2)(a) of this section does not prevent the care setting from establishing, in order to minimize the disease's spread, a reasonable protocol governing the use of personal protective equipment in the care setting. The protocol...

...(A)(1) The department of health shall create a "Never Alone" information sheet that describes all of the duties, prohibitions, requirements, and rights established under section 3792.05 of the Revised Code, including the following: (a) That a congregate care setting is prohibited from denying a patient or resident access to an advocate except as provided in division (D)(2) or (E) of section 3792.05 of the Revised C...

...ublic official, or state agency shall enforce or use any state funding to implement or incentivize any health policy guideline, mandate, recommendation, or rule issued by the world health organization, including the prohibition of issuing a prescription for or dispensing of a drug, including an off-label drug. (D) At no time shall a patient in a hospital or inpatient facility be denied sufficient means of fluids or...

...Definitions. As used in this chapter: (A) "Smoking" means inhaling, exhaling, burning, or carrying any lighted or heated tobacco product or plant product intended for inhalation in any manner or in any form. "Smoking" includes the use of an electronic smoking device and a vapor product. "Smoking" does not include the burning of incense in a religious ceremony. (B) "Public place" means an enclosed area to which ...

...Smoking Prohibitions. (A) No proprietor of a public place or place of employment, except as permitted in section 3794.03 of this chapter, shall permit smoking in the public place or place of employment or in the areas directly or indirectly under the control of the proprietor immediately adjacent to locations of ingress or egress to the public place or place of employment. (B) A proprietor of a public place or pla...

...Areas where smoking is not regulated by this chapter. The following shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter: (A) Private residences, except during the hours of operation as a child care or adult care facility for compensation, during the hours of operation as a business by a person other than a person residing in the private residence, or during the hours of operation as a business, when employees o...

...Construction; other applicable laws. Because medical studies have conclusively shown that exposure to secondhand smoke from tobacco causes illness and disease, including lung cancer, heart disease, and respiratory illness, smoking in the workplace is a statewide concern and, therefore, it is in the best interests of public health that smoking of tobacco products be prohibited in public places and places of employmen...