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...(A) For each alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health service district, there shall be appointed a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services. As provided in this section, the board shall consist of eighteen members, fifteen members, fourteen members, twelve members, or nine members. In a single-county district, the size of the board shall be determined by the board of county commissioners repr...

...(A) In an alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health service district where the board of county commissioners has established an alcohol and drug addiction services board, the community mental health board established under former section 340.02 of the Revised Code shall serve as the entity responsible for providing mental health services in the county. A community mental health board has all the powers, duties, and ...

...Notwithstanding the procedures established by section 340.02 of the Revised Code for determining the size of a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, the size of a board shall be determined in accordance with this section in both of the following circumstances: (A)(1) If the director of behavioral health during the period beginning January 1, 2021, and ending December 31, 2022, grants approv...

...a severe mental disability when life or safety is endangered and when no community addiction services provider or community mental health services provider is available to provide the service. (12) Ensure that housing built, subsidized, renovated, rented, owned, or leased by the board or a community addiction services provider or community mental health services provider has been approved as meeting minimum fire s...

...A board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services may: (A) Inspect any residential facility licensed under section 5119.34 of the Revised Code and located in its service district; (B) Acquire, convey, lease, or enter into a contract to purchase, lease, or sell property for addiction services, mental health services, and related purposes, and enter into loan agreements, including mortgages, for the ac...

...All of the following apply to recovery housing residences required by section 340.033 of the Revised Code to be part of included opioid and co-occurring drug addiction services and recovery supports: (A) A recovery housing residence shall comply with the requirements of being monitored by the department of behavioral health under sections 5119.39 to 5119.396 of the Revised Code and any rules adopted under section ...

...A board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services may advocate on behalf of medicaid recipients enrolled in medicaid managed care organizations and medicaid-eligible individuals, any of whom have been identified as needing addiction or mental health services.

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section and rules adopted by the director of behavioral health after consultation with relevant constituencies as required by division (A)(10) of section 5119.21 of the Revised Code, each board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services shall provide for the continuum of care pursuant to section 340.032 of the Revised Code by entering into contracts with all of the foll...

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section and rules adopted by the director of behavioral health after consultation with relevant constituencies as required by division (A)(10) of section 5119.21 of the Revised Code, a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services may operate a facility or provide an addiction service or mental health service if both of the following apply: (1) The director gives ...

...The department of mental health and addiction services, in collaboration with boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services and other stakeholders, shall develop a data sharing and integration plan. The plan shall specify data sharing and integration procedures that the department and the boards shall use to improve the management and administration of programs offering addiction or mental health serv...

...Each board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services shall employ a qualified mental health or addiction services professional with experience in administration or a professional administrator with experience in mental health services or addiction services to serve as executive director of the board and shall prescribe the director's duties. The board shall fix the compensation of the executive direct...

...In addition to such other duties as may be lawfully imposed, the executive director of a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services shall: (A) Serve as executive officer of the board and, subject to the prior approval of the board for each contract, except contracts, if any, to which division (F) of section 340.03 of the Revised Code applies, execute contracts on its behalf; (B) Supervise addict...

...out the director and, if the health and safety of a resident is in danger, take any necessary action to protect the resident. The board's action shall not violate any resident's rights specified in rules adopted by the department of behavioral health under section 5119.34 of the Revised Code. The board shall promptly report to the director regarding the board's actions under this section.

...The board of county commissioners of any county participating in an alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health service district or joint-county district, upon receipt from the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services of a resolution so requesting, may appropriate money to such board for the operation, lease, acquisition, construction, renovation, and maintenance of community addiction services pro...

...mpensation occurs. (E) To ensure the safety of persons seeking or receiving addiction services, mental health services, or recovery supports, submit to the department a report summarizing all of the following: (1) Complaints and grievances received by the board concerning the rights of persons seeking or receiving addiction services, mental health services, or recovery supports; (2) Investigations of the com...

...(A) Using funds the general assembly appropriates for these purposes, the department of behavioral health shall provide any county assistance for one or more of the following: (1) The operation of the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services serving the county; (2) The provision of addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports included in the board's list of services and su...

...The county auditor or, in a joint-county alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health service district, the auditor of the county, the treasurer of which has been designated in the agreement between the counties of the district as custodian of the funds for addiction services, mental health services, and recovery supports, is hereby designated as the auditor and fiscal officer of an alcohol, drug addiction, and mental ...

...A board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services may procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring board members or employees of the board or providers with which the board contracts against liability arising from the performance of their official duties. If the liability insurance is unavailable or the amount a board has procured or is able to procure is insufficient to cover the amount of a...

...As used in this section, "disability" has the same meaning as in section 4112.01 of the Revised Code. No board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services or any community addiction services provider or community mental health services provider under contract with such a board shall discriminate in the provision of addiction services, mental health services, or recovery supports under its authority, in e...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Minority business enterprise" has the same meaning as in section 122.71 of the Revised Code. (2) "EDGE business enterprise" has the same meaning as in section 122.922 of the Revised Code. (B) Any minority business enterprise that desires to bid on a contract under division (C) of this section shall first apply to the department of development for certification as a minority ...

...(A) A public children services agency that identifies a child by a risk assessment conducted pursuant to section 5153.16 of the Revised Code as being at imminent risk of being abused or neglected because of an addiction of a parent, guardian, or custodian of the child to a drug of abuse or alcohol shall refer the child's parent, guardian, or custodian and, if the agency determines that the child needs alcohol and dru...

...The department of behavioral health and the department of medicaid shall adopt rules that establish requirements and procedures for prior notification and service coordination between public children services agencies and boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services when a public children services agency refers a child in its custody to a board for services funded by the board. The rules shall be ado...

...(A) There is hereby created the county hub program to combat opioid addiction. The purposes of the program are as follows: (1) To strengthen county and community efforts to prevent and treat opioid addiction; (2) To educate youth and adults about the dangers of opioid addiction and the negative effects it has on society; (3) To promote family building and workforce development as ways of combating opioid add...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Dependent" means a person who is recognized as a dependent by one of the uniformed services. (B) "Overseas voter" means any of the following: (1) A person who is outside of the United States and who, before leaving the United States, was last eligible to vote in this state, who may be considered a state resident using the standards for residency established in sections 3503.02 and ...

...Any section of the Revised Code to the contrary notwithstanding, any person who qualifies as a uniformed services voter or an overseas voter who will be eighteen years of age or more on the day of a general or special election and who is a citizen of the United States may vote uniformed services or overseas absent voter's ballots in such general or special election as follows: (A) If an absent uniformed servi...

...No person who is not a certified fire safety inspector shall act as such or hold himself out to be such, unless prior to commencing any inspection function, he discloses the purpose for which he is making such inspection and the fact that he is not employed by any state or local fire service or agency, and that he is not acting in an official capacity for any governmental subdivision or agency.

...(A) No person shall sell, offer for sale, or use any fire protection or fire fighting equipment that does not meet the minimum standards established by the fire marshal in the state fire code. (B) Except for public and private mobile fire trucks, no person shall service, test, repair, or install for profit any fire protection or fire fighting equipment without a certificate or a provisional certificate issued by the...

...(A) As used in this section, "firefighting agency" and "private fire company" have the same meanings as in section 9.60 of the Revised Code. (B) No person shall claim to the public to be or act as a firefighter, volunteer firefighter, member of a fire department, chief of a fire department, or fire prevention officer unless the person is recognized as a firefighter, volunteer firefighter, member of a fire department...

...Each insurance company doing business in this state shall pay to the state in installments, at the time of making the payments required by section 5729.05 of the Revised Code, in addition to the taxes required to be paid by it, three-fourths of one per cent on the gross premium receipts derived from fire insurance and that portion of the premium reasonably allocable to insurance against the hazard of fire included in...

...(A) "Gas mask" means any self-contained oxygen breathing apparatus using oxygen or air in suitable containers that enable their wearers to live in atmospheres containing less than sixteen per cent oxygen and poisonous gases in excess of two per cent by volume and having been approved by the United States bureau of mines for use in irrespirable atmospheres. (B) Every political subdivision which operates a fire depart...

... institutions, shall instruct pupils in safety precautions to be taken in case of a tornado alert or warning. Such principals or persons in charge of such schools or institutions shall designate, in accordance with standards prescribed by the fire marshal, appropriate locations to be used to shelter pupils in case of a tornado, tornado alert, or warning. (C)(1) The fire marshal or the fire marshal's designee shall...

...In any emergency situation relating to the prevention of an imminent release of a hazardous material, to the cleanup or disposal of a hazardous material that has been released, or to the related mitigation of the effects of a release of a hazardous material, the chief of the fire department in whose jurisdiction the emergency situation is occurring or his designee is responsible for primary coordination of the on-sce...

...designated by the department of public safety who has tenure in fire suppression, and a representative designated by the board of building standards shall be ex officio members. Of the initial appointments made to the council, two shall be for a term ending one year after November 1, 1978, two shall be for a term ending two years after that date, two shall be for a term ending three years after that date, two ...

...f rules relating to all aspects of fire safety. The rules shall be the minimum standards for safeguarding life and property from fire and explosion, and the fire marshal may, in adopting these rules, incorporate by reference existing published standards as well as amendments thereto subsequently published by the same authority. The fire code shall include, but not be limited to, rules relating to the movable contents...

...vised Code for fire prevention and fire safety in child care centers and in type A family child care homes, as defined in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code. (F) Establish minimum standards for fire prevention and safety in a residential facility licensed under section 5119.34 of the Revised Code that provides accommodations, supervision, and personal care services for three to sixteen unrelated adults. The state...

...The state fire code adopted pursuant to sections 3737.82 and 3737.83 of the Revised Code shall contain a provision directing the fire marshal to issue any permit that is required for any temporary membrane structure, tent, or canopy located on state-owned property or used for an event sponsored by a state agency, unless the fire marshal directs the person seeking the permit to obtain the permit from the appropriate l...

...e the exclusive authority to adopt fire safety standards relating to the construction at a shale oil processing premise of any structure subject to the nonresidential building codes established pursuant to section 3781.10 of the Revised Code. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Revised Code, the state fire marshal shall have the sole and exclusive authority to adopt all other fire safety standards relat...

...(A) As used in this section, "retail establishment" means a place of business open to the general public for the sale of goods or services. (B) If the fire code official having jurisdiction over a retail establishment, including a retail establishment that is under construction and not yet open to the public, is unable to conduct an inspection or issue a permit required by the state fire code adopted pursuant to s...

...to be in violation of the "Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970," 84 Stat. 1590, 29 U.S.C.A. 651, or the "Consumer Product Safety Act of 1972," 86 Stat. 1207, 15 U.S.C.A. 2051; (4) Regulating manufacturers or manufacturing facilities with respect to occupational hazards where they are subject to regulation by the federal occupational safety and health administration; (5) That is inconsistent with, or in confl...

...As used in this section and section 3737.842 of the Revised Code: (A) "Public occupancy" means all of the following: (1) Any state correctional institution as defined in section 2967.01 of the Revised Code and any county, multicounty, municipal, or municipal-county jail or workhouse; (2) Any hospital as defined in section 3727.01 of the Revised Code, any hospital licensed by the department of mental health a...

...stant fire marshal, or a certified fire safety inspector has reason to believe a violation of division (C) of this section has occurred or is occurring, he may seek enforcement of the prohibition contained in that division through use of the procedures established in sections 3737.41 to 3737.51 of the Revised Code.

...The fire marshal shall, as part of the state fire code, adopt rules for giving notice to or serving a citation or order upon a responsible person, to assure that: (A) The owner of a building or premises receives notice before any action is taken with respect to that building or premises; (B) The person responsible by law for a violation of the state fire code receives notice of such violation; (C) The person respo...

...(A) As used in this section, "rule" includes the adoption, amendment, or repeal of any rule by the fire marshal under sections 3737.82 to 3737.86 of the Revised Code, regardless of whether or not the rule is included in the state fire code. (B) The fire marshal shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. In adopting rules, the fire marshal shall consider and make appropriate findings...

...ulated under the "Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968," 82 Stat. 720, 49 U.S.C.A. 1671, as amended, or the "Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979," 93 Stat. 1003, 49 U.S.C.A. 2001, as amended; (2) Farm or residential tanks of one thousand one hundred gallons or less capacity used for storing motor fuel for noncommercial purposes; (3) Tanks used for storing heating fuel for consumptive use on the pr...

...rground storage tanks to certified fire safety inspectors. (2) In the place of any rules regarding release containment and release detection for underground storage tanks adopted under division (A)(1) of this section, the fire marshal, by rule, shall designate areas as being sensitive for the protection of human health and the environment and adopt alternative rules regarding release containment and release detect...

...(A) The state fire marshal shall certify underground storage tank systems installers who meet the standards for certification established in rules adopted under division (D)(1) of this section, pass the certification examination required by this division, and pay the certificate fee established in rules adopted under division (D)(5) of this section. Any individual who wishes to obtain certification as an installer sh...

...(A) If, after an examination or inspection, the fire marshal or an assistant fire marshal finds that a release of petroleum is suspected, the fire marshal shall take such action as the fire marshal considers necessary to ensure that a suspected release is confirmed or disproved and, if the occurrence of a release is confirmed, to correct the release. These actions may include one or more of the following: (1) Issu...

...On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the state fire marshal 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 section 3737.34, 3737.65, 3737.83, or 3737.881 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Except when a responsible person can prove that a release of petroleum was caused solely by any one or a combination of an act of God, an act of war, or an act or omission of a third party without regard to whether any such act or omission was or was not negligent, a responsible person, notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code or common law of this state, is strictly liable to the state for any cos...

...(A) There is hereby created the petroleum underground storage tank release compensation board consisting of the treasurer of state and the directors of commerce and environmental protection as members ex officio, or their designees, and nine members to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. No more than five of the appointed members shall be affiliated with the same political party. O...