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...As used in this chapter: (A) "Wage" means compensation due to an employee by reason of employment, payable in legal tender of the United States or checks on banks convertible into cash on demand at full face value, subject to the deductions, charges, or allowances permitted by rules of the director of commerce under section 4111.05 of the Revised Code. "Wage" includes an employee's commissions of which the employee'...

... each of the employer's employees at a wage rate of not less than the wage rate specified in Section 34a of Article II, Ohio Constitution. The director of commerce annually shall adjust the wage rate as specified in Section 34a of Article II, Ohio Constitution. No political subdivision shall establish a minimum wage rate different from the wage rate required under this section. As used in this section, "employ...

...tive superior within one hundred eighty days after the overtime is worked. (C) A township appointing authority or a county appointing authority with the exception of the county department of job and family services may, by rule or resolution as is appropriate, indicate the authority's intention not to be bound by division (B) of this section, and to adopt a different policy for the calculation and payment of overt...

...prior to the time on any particular workday at which the employee commences, or subsequent to the time on any particular workday at which the employee ceases, such principal activity or activities. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply if an employee engages in an activity described in division (A)(1)(b) of this section under either of the following circumstances: (1) The employee performs the activity ...

...the employer's records within the sixty days prior to the date the director notifies the employer of the director's intent to examine the employer's records, the director shall accept in lieu of the director's own inspection, a report from the federal agency that the employer is in compliance with the federal act, unless the director has reasonable grounds for believing that the report is inaccurate or incomplete for...

...clusion of ascertainable gratuities in wages paid; allowances for unascertainable gratuities or for other special conditions or circumstances which may be usual in particular employer-employee relationships; and the method of computation or the period of time over which wages may be averaged to determine whether the minimum wage or overtime rate has been paid.

...hardship, and to safeguard the minimum wage rates under sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, the director of commerce shall adopt rules under section 4111.05 of the Revised Code, permitting employment in any occupation at wages lower than the wage rates applicable under sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, of individuals whose earning capacity is impaired by physical or mental disabilities or ...

...issued for periods not to exceed ninety days and authorizing employment at the wages of specific individuals or groups of employees, or by specific employers or groups of employers, pursuant to the rules.

...o each employee, the hours worked each day and each work week by the employee, and other information as the director of commerce prescribes by rule as necessary or appropriate for the enforcement of section 4111.03 of the Revised Code, or of the rules thereunder. Records may be opened for inspection or copying by the director at any reasonable time.

...rder to reflect changes in the minimum wage rate as required under Section 34a of Article II, Ohio Constitution. Employees and employers shall be furnished copies of the summaries and rules by the state, on request, without charge.

...ployer who pays any employee less than wages to which the employee is entitled under section 4111.03 of the Revised Code, is liable to the employee affected for the full amount of the overtime wage rate, less any amount actually paid to the employee by the employer, and for costs and reasonable attorney's fees as may be allowed by the court. Any agreement between the employee and the employer to work for less than th...

...Any standards relating to minimum wages, overtime compensation, or other working conditions in effect under any other law of this state on the effective date of sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, which are more favorable to employees than those applicable to employees under sections or regulations issued hereunder, are not amended, rescinded, or otherwise affected by said sections, but continue in full ...

...eir own choosing in order to establish wages or other conditions of work in excess of the applicable minimum under sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code.

...r, that the employee has not been paid wages in accordance with sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, or because the employee has made any complaint or is about to cause to be instituted any proceeding under or related to those sections, or because the employee has testified or is about to testify in any proceeding. (C) No employer shall pay or agree to pay wages at a rate less than the rate applicable un...

...ntact information within sixty business days after the change occurs. The employer shall provide the changed information by using any of its usual methods of communicating with its employees, including, but not limited to, listing the change on the employer's internet site on the world wide web, internal computer network, or a bulletin board where it commonly posts employee communications or by insertion or inclusion...

..., shall discriminate in the payment of wages on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or ancestry by paying wages to any employee at a rate less than the rate at which the employer pays wages to another employee for equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar conditions. (B) Nothing in this section prohib...

...(A) Whoever violates division (A) or (D) of section 4111.13 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (B) Whoever violates division (B) or (C) of section 4111.13 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. (C) Whoever violates section 4111.17 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

... hours off duty in each period of eight days so that no individual member shall be on duty more than a total of seventy-two hours in any period of eight days. The chief shall arrange the schedule of working hours to comply with this section. The chief may, however, in cases of sickness, death, or on other necessary occasions, permit the exchange of working hours between members of the department. In each municipal co...

...cident insurance; (h) Vacation and holiday pay; (i) Defraying of costs for apprenticeship or other similar training programs which are beneficial only to the laborers and mechanics affected; (j) Other bona fide fringe benefits. None of the benefits enumerated in division (E)(3) of this section may be considered in the determination of prevailing wages if federal, state, or local law requires contractors or subcon...

...ment in accordance with the prevailing wage determinations of the director of commerce, insofar as Chapter 4115. of the Revised Code is concerned, may be discharged by the making of payments in cash, by the making of contributions of a type referred to in division (E)(2) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code or by the assumption of an enforceable commitment to bear the costs of a plan or program of a type referred t...

...No public authority shall subdivide a public improvement project into component parts or projects, the cost of which is fairly estimated to be less than the threshold levels set forth in division (B) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code, unless the projects are conceptually separate and unrelated to each other, or encompass independent and unrelated needs of the public authority.

...ust those amounts according to the average increase or decrease for each of the two years immediately preceding the adjustment as set forth in the construction cost index published by the engineering news-record or, should that index cease to be published, a similar recognized industry index chosen by the director, provided that no increase or decrease for any year shall exceed three per cent of the threshold ...

...act for, the board of education of any school district or the governing board of any educational service center; (4) Public improvements undertaken by, or under contract for, a county hospital operated pursuant to Chapter 339. of the Revised Code or a municipal hospital operated pursuant to Chapter 749. of the Revised Code if none of the funds used in constructing the improvements are the proceeds of bonds or ...

...g rate of wages to be paid for a legal day's work, as prescribed in section 4115.04 of the Revised Code, to laborers, workers, or mechanics upon public works shall not be less at any time during the life of a contract for the public work than the prevailing rate of wages then payable in the same trade or occupation in the locality where such public work is being performed, under collective bargaining agreements...

...c authority fixes a prevailing rate of wages under section 4115.04 of the Revised Code, and the work is done by contract, the contract executed between the public authority and the successful bidder shall contain a provision requiring the successful bidder and all his subcontractors to pay a rate of wages which shall not be less than the rate of wages so fixed. The successful bidder and all his subcontractors shall...

...ors of a county or joint solid waste management district, after the establishment of the district, may have a general plan of solid waste facilities for the district prepared by the county sanitary engineer of a county district or, in the case of a joint district, by a county sanitary engineer of one of the counties participating in the joint district as determined by the board of directors. The general facilities pl...

...n with a county or joint solid waste management district, including the expenses of the sanitary engineer and all other expenses necessary and incidental thereto. The cost of the improvement shall include, without limitation, the cost of acquiring any necessary real estate and any trucks, rolling stock, or equipment necessary for the proper operation of the improvement. The bonds shall mature no later than forty year...

...mmissioners of a county solid waste management district and the board of directors of a joint solid waste management district may fix reasonable rates or charges to be paid by every person, municipal corporation, township, or other political subdivision that owns premises to which solid waste collection, storage, transfer, disposal, recycling, processing, or resource recovery service is provided by the distric...

...e county or joint county solid waste management district where the violation occurred.

...ity or similar facility by means of signage, advertising, or other promotional efforts. "Ambulatory surgical facility" does not include a hospital emergency department, hospital provider-based department that is otherwise licensed under Chapter 3722. of the Revised Code, or an office of a physician, podiatrist, or dentist. (2) "Health care facility" means any of the following: (a) An ambulatory surgical facilit...

...ect, or group. (3) The center provides care only during low-risk pregnancy, delivery, and the immediate postpartum period exclusively to women who are members of that religious denomination, sect, or group. (4) The center monitors and evaluates the care provided to its patients in accordance with at least the minimum patient safety monitoring and evaluation requirements established in rules adopted under division ...

...ty not certified by the centers for medicare and medicaid services as an ambulatory surgical center, the director of health shall conduct an inspection of the facility each time the facility submits an application for license renewal. The director shall not renew the license unless all of the following conditions are met: (A) The inspector conducting the inspection completes each item on the following, as appl...

...e facility to the hospital when medical care beyond the care that can be provided at the ambulatory surgical facility is necessary, including when emergency situations occur or medical complications arise. A copy of the agreement shall be filed with the director of health. (B) An ambulatory surgical facility shall update a written transfer agreement every two years and file a copy of the updated agreement wit...

...o provide back-up coverage when medical care beyond the level the facility can provide is necessary; (3) For each consulting physician described in division (B)(2) of this section: (a) A signed statement in which the physician attests to all of the following: (i) The physician actively practices clinical medicine within a twenty-five mile radius of the facility. (ii) The physician is familiar with the facilit...

...nstitution. (B) No physician shall engage in any of the activities described in division (A)(1) or (2) of this section while serving as a consulting physician for an ambulatory surgical facility that has been granted a variance from the written transfer agreement requirement of section 3702.303 of the Revised Code. (C) If, at any time, the director of health determines that a consulting physician for an ambulator...

...A variance the director of health grants under section 3702.304 of the Revised Code is effective for the period of time specified by the director, except that it shall not be effective beyond the date the ambulatory surgical facility's license expires. If a variance is to expire on the date the facility's license expires, the facility may submit to the director an application for a new variance with its next li...

...shall occur not later than the business day after the modification is finalized. As used in this division, "business day" means a day of the week excluding Saturday, Sunday, and a legal holiday as defined in section 1.14 of the Revised Code. (B) The facility modifies its operating procedures or protocols described in division (B)(4) of section 3702.304 of the Revised Code. Notification under these circumstances shal...

...If any provision in sections 3702.302 to 3702.307 of the Revised Code is enjoined, the injunction does not affect any remaining provision of those sections, any provision of section 3702.30 of the Revised Code, or any provision of the rules adopted under that section.

...(A) If a variance application is denied under section 3702.304 of the Revised Code, the license of such an ambulatory surgical facility is automatically suspended. The director of health shall reinstate the license if one of the following occurs: (1) The facility files with the director a copy of a written transfer agreement that meets the requirements of section 3702.303 of the Revised Code. (2) The director grant...

...A local hospital shall not be further than thirty miles from an ambulatory surgical facility with which the local hospital has a written transfer agreement under section 3702.303 of the Revised Code.

...The director of health may impose conditions on any variance the director has granted under section 3702.304 of the Revised Code. The director may, at any time, rescind the variance for any reason, including a determination by the director that the facility is failing to meet one or more of the conditions or no longer adequately protects public health and safety. The director's decision to rescind a variance is final...

...(A) As used in this section, "surgical smoke" and "surgical smoke evacuation system" have the same meanings as in section 3727.25 of the Revised Code. (B) Not later than one year after the effective date of this section, each ambulatory surgical facility shall adopt and implement a policy designed to prevent human exposure to surgical smoke during any planned surgical procedure that is likely to generate surgical ...

... by the health care provider to a state agency for the same or similar licensure or inspection.

...ds that a physician has continued to engage at the same health care facility in a pattern of repeating the same violation and that the health care facility has failed to take reasonable steps to ensure that the physician does not continue the same violation at the health care facility, the department may, after providing the health care facility an opportunity for a hearing pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Cod...

...Any person who believes a health care facility is operating without a license in violation of division (E) of section 3702.30 of the Revised Code may petition the court of common pleas of the county in which the facility is located for an order enjoining the facility from continuing to operate without a license. The court shall grant the order on a showing that the facility named in the petition is violating division...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a freestanding birthing center shall modify operational processes to ensure that a woman giving birth in the freestanding birthing center has the option of having a long- acting reversible contraceptive placed after delivery and before the woman is discharged. (B) A freestanding birthing center is exempt from the requirement in division (A) of this section if ...

...tient's mammogram not later than thirty days after the mammogram was performed. (C) This section does not do either of the following: (1) Create a new cause of action or substantive legal right against a person, facility, or other entity; (2) Create a standard of care, obligation, or duty for a person, facility, or other entity that would provide the basis for a cause of action or substantive legal right, other...

...unicipal corporation, township, county, school district, and all other bodies corporate and politic responsible for governmental activities only in geographic areas smaller than that of the state to which the sovereign immunity of the state attaches. (M) "Affected person" means: (1) An applicant for a certificate of need, including an applicant whose application was reviewed comparatively with the application in ...

...ent, or construction of a new long-term care facility; (2) Replacement of an existing long-term care facility; (3) Renovation of or addition to a long-term care facility that involves a capital expenditure of four million dollars or more, not including expenditures for equipment, staffing, or operational costs; (4) An increase in long-term care bed capacity; (5) A relocation of long-term care beds from on...

...e addition of twenty or fewer long-term care beds to a nursing home is not a reviewable activity under sections 3702.51 to 3702.62 of the Revised Code, and therefore does not require a certificate of need, if all of the following apply: (1) The nursing home is licensed under section 3721.02 of the Revised Code or by a political subdivision certified under section 3721.09 of the Revised Code; (2) The nursing home ...