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...In the event that need for a township police district ceases to exist, the township trustees by a two-thirds vote of the board shall adopt a resolution specifying the date that the township police district shall cease to exist and provide for the disposal of all property belonging to the district by public sale. Such sale must be by public auction and upon notice thereof being published once a week for three weeks us...

...(A) Any township or municipal corporation may withdraw from a joint police district created under section 505.482 of the Revised Code by adopting a resolution or an ordinance, respectively, ordering withdrawal. On or after the first day of January of the year following the adoption of the resolution or ordinance of withdrawal, the township or municipal corporation withdrawing ceases to be a part of the district...

...Subject to the limitation in division (A) of section 5739.08 of the Revised Code, a board of township trustees may by resolution adopted by a majority of the members of the board, levy an excise tax on transactions by which lodging by a hotel is or is to be furnished to transient guests. The board may establish all regulations necessary to provide for the administration and allocation of the tax. All funds arising f...

...A board of township trustees of any township that contains a local school district in which is located a tax exempt, state-owned lodge, may, by resolution, use the proceeds of the tax imposed under section 505.56 of the Revised Code for the benefit of such district if the board determines and states in such resolution that the existence of such lodge creates a serious financial burden on such district. Upon adoption ...

...A board of township trustees may expend money from the general fund to make contributions to convention and visitors' bureaus operating within the county in which the township is located.

...The board of township trustees of a township that withdraws or proposes by resolution to withdraw the unincorporated territory of the township from a regional transit authority under section 306.55 of the Revised Code may levy a tax on taxable property in the unincorporated area of the township under section 5705.72 of the Revised Code to provide transportation services for the movement of persons within, from,...

...If a board of township trustees does not procure an insurance policy or group health care services as provided in section 505.60 of the Revised Code, the board of township trustees may reimburse any township officer or employee for each out-of-pocket premium attributable to the coverage provided for that officer or employee for insurance benefits described in division (A) of section 505.60 of the Revised Code ...

...A board of township trustees may procure and pay all or any part of the cost of group life insurance to insure the lives of officers and employees of the township. The amount of group life insurance coverage provided by the board to insure the lives of officers of the township shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars per officer.

...(A) In addition to or in lieu of providing benefits to township officers and employees under section 505.60, 505.601, or 505.602 of the Revised Code, a board of township trustees may offer benefits to officers and employees through a cafeteria plan that meets the requirements of section 125 of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 125, as amended, after first adopting a policy authori...

...A board of township trustees may purchase a policy or policies of insurance to indemnify township constables appointed under Chapter 509. of the Revised Code or the chief of police, patrol officers, and other employees of a township police district established under sections 505.48 to 505.55 of the Revised Code against liability arising from the performance of their official duties. A joint police district bo...

...A board of township trustees may enter into a contract with, and may appropriate township general revenue fund moneys for the services of, an attorney to represent the township, expert witnesses, and other consultants as the board determines are necessary for any potential or pending annexation action, including proceedings before a board of county commissioners or any court. The board also may appropriate general re...

...A board of township trustees or a board of fire district trustees may purchase a policy or policies of insurance insuring each township or fire district officer and the board's employees and appointees against liability arising from the performance of their official duties.

...(A) The board of township trustees of any township may authorize an officer, employee, or appointee of the township to use a credit card account held by the board of township trustees in accordance with this section. Not later than three months after the effective date of this amendment , the board of township trustees of any township that holds a credit card account on the effective date of this amendment shall ado...

...A board of township trustees may remove snow from public school property, or other public property, at the request of the board of education of a city, exempted village, local school district, legislative authority, or governing body. Such board of education, legislative authority, or governing body may reimburse the township for the cost of labor and materials utilized for any such maintenance at a fee mutually agre...

...(A) If the board of county commissioners of the county in which a township is located has not established a motor vehicle decal registration program under section 311.31 of the Revised Code, the board of township trustees may establish, by resolution, a voluntary motor vehicle decal registration program to be controlled and conducted by the chief law enforcement officer of the township within the unincorporated...

...As used in this section, "rail property" and "rail service" have the same meanings as in section 4981.01 of the Revised Code. The board of township trustees may acquire, rehabilitate, and develop rail property and rail service, and may enter into agreements with the Ohio rail development commission, boards of county commissioners, legislative authorities of municipal corporations, other boards of township trustees, ...

...(A) The trustees of any township may participate in, give financial assistance to, and cooperate with other agencies or organizations, either private or governmental, in establishing and operating any federal program enacted by the congress of the United States, and for such purpose may adopt any procedures and take any action not prohibited by the constitution of Ohio and not in conflict with the laws of this state....

...The board of trustees of any township, through unanimous vote of its membership, may designate, participate in, and cooperate with any community improvement corporation organized under Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code and may give financial or other assistance, including any fees generated by the corporation, to that corporation to defray the expenses of the corporation. The corporation may use the board's contribut...

...A board of township trustees may appropriate township general revenue fund moneys not appropriated for any other purpose for the purpose of establishing, promoting, and operating neighborhood crime watch programs in the township. If the board finds that any neighborhood crime watch program receiving funds pursuant to this section uses them for any purpose not clearly a public purpose authorized by this section and b...

...A board of township trustees may appropriate township general revenue fund moneys not appropriated for any other purpose to a county office of economic development created pursuant to section 307.07 of the Revised Code.

...The board of trustees of any township may participate in and contribute to a nonprofit organization that is incorporated under Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code, that consists of units of government, and that has as its purpose regional cooperation and improvement. The board may appropriate contributions to the organization from the township's general fund. As used in this section, "organization" does not include any...

...A board of township trustees may agree to appropriate township general revenue fund moneys to, and may agree to grant or lend moneys from the township general revenue fund to, any political subdivision with authority to provide water, sanitary sewerage, or storm water drainage within the township, for the purpose of providing moneys to the political subdivision to pay for the planning of or actual costs, fee...

...The board of township trustees of a township may expend money for providing and maintaining services and facilities for senior citizens.

...A board of township trustees may appropriate from the township general revenue fund moneys not appropriated for any other purpose to an organization that the board determines serves a community purpose and that is exempt from federal taxation under subsection 501(a) and described in subsection 501(c)(3) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C. 1, as amended.

...The boards of township trustees of one or more townships and the legislative authorities of any one or more municipal corporations within or adjoining those townships, or the boards of township trustees of two or more townships, or the legislative authorities of two or more municipal corporations, may, by adoption of a joint resolution by a majority of the members of each board of township trustees and by a majority ...

...(A)(1) Notwithstanding section 3701.243 and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, any individual, public children services agency, private child placing agency, or agency that provides services specifically to individuals or families, law enforcement agency, or other public or private entity that provided services to a child whose death is being reviewed by the director of health pursua...

...(A) Documents, materials, or other information, including the corporate governance annual disclosure, in the possession or control of the department of insurance that are obtained by, created by, or disclosed to the superintendent or any other person under sections 3901.072 to 3901.078 of the Revised Code are recognized by this state as being proprietary and to contain trade secrets. (B) The documents, materials, ...

...(A) When a record containing information pertaining to the medical history, diagnosis, prognosis, or medical condition of a covered person is provided to the superintendent of insurance for any reason under this chapter or sections 1751.77 to 1751.87 of the Revised Code, regardless of the source, the superintendent shall maintain the confidentiality of the record. The record in the superintendent's possession i...

...(A) The board of nursing, by a vote of a quorum, may impose one or more of the following sanctions if it finds that a person committed fraud in passing an examination required to obtain a license or dialysis technician certificate issued by the board or to have committed fraud, misrepresentation, or deception in applying for or securing any nursing license or dialysis technician certificate issued by the board: deny,...

...(A) If the state board of pharmacy establishes and maintains a drug database pursuant to section 4729.75 of the Revised Code, the board is authorized or required to provide information from the database only as follows: (1) On receipt of a request from a designated representative of a government entity responsible for the licensure, regulation, or discipline of health care professionals with authority to prescribe...

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, the state medical board shall not limit or suspend a license, certificate, or limited permit, refuse to issue a license, certificate, or limited permit, or reprimand or place on probation an applicant solely on the grounds of impairment occurring prior to the applicant seeking authority to practice in this state. (B)(1) An applicant who was authorized to practice in ano...

...No present or former voting ad hoc member of the power siting board shall disclose or use, without appropriate authorization, information acquired in the course of official duties that is confidential because of either of the following: (A) Statutory law; (B) Notice the ad hoc member received designating the information as confidential and both of the following apply: (1) The status of the proceedings, or the ...

...(A) As used in this section, "telehealth services" has the same meaning as in section 4743.09 of the Revised Code. (B) Each community mental health services provider and community addiction services provider shall establish written policies and procedures describing how the provider will ensure that staff persons assisting clients with receiving telehealth services or providing telehealth services are fully trained...

...(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (H) of this section, all of the following shall file with the appropriate ethics commission the disclosure statement described in this division on a form prescribed by the appropriate commission: every person who is elected to or is a candidate for a state, county, or city office and every person who is appointed to fill a vacancy for an unexpired term in such an electi...

...(A)(1) For the twenty-four-month period immediately following the end of the former state elected officer's or staff member's service or public employment, except as provided in division (B) or (D) of this section, each former state elected officer or staff member who filed or was required to file a disclosure statement under section 102.02 of the Revised Code shall file, on or before the deadlines specified in divis...

...(A)(1) The superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation shall procure from wherever procurable and file for record photographs, pictures, descriptions, fingerprints, measurements, and other information that may be pertinent of all persons who have been convicted of committing within this state a felony, any crime constituting a misdemeanor on the first offense and a felony on subsequent o...

...(A) The secretary of state shall make available to the attorney general, for inclusion in the Ohio law enforcement gateway, the name, telephone number, and confidential address of each program participant. Access to information in the gateway regarding an address confidentiality program participant may only be granted to chiefs of police, village marshals, county sheriffs, county prosecuting attorneys, and a designee...

...(A) No person who submits an application under section 111.42 of the Revised Code shall knowingly make a false attestation in the application that the applicant fears for the applicant's safety, the safety of a member of the applicant's household, or the safety of the minor, incompetent, or ward on whose behalf the application is made because the applicant, household member, minor, incompetent, or ward is a victim of...

...(A) The superintendent of financial institutions may require persons licensed or registered by the division of financial institutions to participate in a multistate licensing system. (B)(1) If the superintendent requires use of a multistate licensing system, the superintendent may establish, by rule, regulation, or order, requirements as necessary to enable information required by existing statutes providing for li...

...(A) A legal aid society that operates within the state may apply to the Ohio access to justice foundation for financial assistance from the legal aid fund established by section 120.52 of the Revised Code to be used for the funding of the society during the calendar year following the calendar year in which application is made. (B) An application for financial assistance made under division (A) of this section shal...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the report of any investigation conducted by the inspector general or any deputy inspector general is a public record, open to public inspection. The inspector general, or a deputy inspector general, with the written approval of the inspector general, may designate all or part of a report as confidential if doing so preserves the confidentiality of matters made confid...

...(A) Except for offering materials filed with the division of securities in connection with exempt transactions under divisions (Q) and (W) of section 1707.03 of the Revised Code, all applications and other papers filed with the division shall be open to inspection at all reasonable times, except for unreasonable or improper purposes. (B) Information obtained by the division through any offering materials filed with...

...(A) The collection, compilation, analysis, and dissemination of information by the office of the state long-term care ombudsman program shall be performed in a manner that protects complainants, individuals providing information about a complaint, public entities, and confidential records of residents or recipients. The identity of a resident or recipient, a complainant who is not a resident or recipient, or an indiv...

...(A) The commissioners of jurors shall compile a new and complete jury source list annually in accordance with both of the following: (1) ( a) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(1) (b) of this section, on a date ordered by the court of common pleas, the board of elections for each county shall compile and file with the commissioners of jurors of the county a certified, current list containing the names, add...

...(A) If the court orders the preparation of a victim impact statement pursuant to division (D)(1) of section 2152.19 or section 2947.051 of the Revised Code, the victim in the case and victim's representative, if applicable, may make a written and oral statement regarding the impact of the criminal offense or delinquent act to the person whom the court orders to prepare the victim impact statement. A statement made by...

...(A)(1) Unless the defendant and the prosecutor who is handling the case against the defendant agree to waive the presentence investigation report, no person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a felony shall be placed under a community control sanction until a written presentence investigation report has been considered by the court. The court may order a presentence investigation report notwithstanding an...

...(A)(1) Notwithstanding section 3701.17 and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, any individual, law enforcement agency, or other public or private entity that provided services to a person whose death is being reviewed by a suicide fatality review committee, on the request of the review committee, shall submit to the review committee a summary sheet of information. (a) With respect t...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, the county recorder shall record in the official records, in legible handwriting, typewriting, or printing, or by any authorized photographic or electronic process, all deeds, mortgages, plats, or other instruments of writing that are required or authorized by the Revised Code to be recorded and that are presented to the county recorder for that purpos...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall: (1) Annually furnish to, grade, and score all assessments required by divisions (A)(1) and (B)(1) of section 3301.0710 of the Revised Code to be administered by city, local, exempted village, and joint vocational school districts, except that each district shall score any assessment administered pursuant to division (B)(10) of this section. Each assessment so fu...

...(A) The secretary of state, through the office of data analytics and archives, and the boards of elections shall maintain the accuracy of the statewide voter registration database in accordance with this section. (B)(1) State agencies, including, but not limited to, the department of health, the bureau of motor vehicles, the department of job and family services, the department of medicaid, and the department of r...

...ackless trolley in violation of section 4511.194 of the Revised Code or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance, or for operating a vehicle, streetcar, or trackless trolley in violation of division (A) or (B) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code or a municipal OVI ordinance, regardless of whether the person's driver's or commercial driver's license or permit or nonresident operating privilege is or is not su...

...in division (A)(1)(d) or (h) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code, which is obtained through an evidentiary breath test conducted by a breath alcohol technician using breath testing equipment that meets standards established by the United States department of transportation, or, if such technician and equipment are unavailable, a blood test may be used to determine whether the concentration of alcohol in an e...

... a violation of division (A) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code or of a municipal ordinance that is substantially equivalent to that division, commit the child, for not longer than five days, to either of the following: (i) The temporary custody of a detention facility or district detention facility established under section 2152.41 of the Revised Code; (ii) The temporary custody of any school, camp, institu...

...was convicted of a violation of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code or a substantially similar municipal ordinance or the law of another state or the United States arising out of the same set of circumstances as the violation, the court shall suspend the offender's driver's or commercial driver's license or permit for not more than five years. (b) If the offender is a professionally licensed person, the court immed...

... a violation of division (A) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code if the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of division (A) of that section that was a felony, that is a violation of section 2911.02 or 2911.12 of the Revised Code if the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty in two or more separate proceedings to two or more violations of section 2911.01, ...

... 4510.11, 4510.14, 4510.16, 4510.21, or 4511.19 of the Revised Code shall be served consecutively to a prison term that is imposed for a felony violation of section 2903.06, 2903.08, or 4511.19 of the Revised Code or a felony violation of section 2903.04 of the Revised Code involving the operation of a vehicle by the offender and that is served in a state correctional institution when the trial court specifies that i...

...ision (B) of section 2917.11 or section 4511.19 of the Revised Code, a misdemeanor violation of section 2919.25 of the Revised Code, a misdemeanor violation of section 2919.27 of the Revised Code involving a protection order issued or consent agreement approved pursuant to section 2919.26 or 3113.31 of the Revised Code, or a violation of a municipal ordinance substantially equivalent to that division or any of those ...

...se specified in division (N) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code, all of the rules described in division (A) of this section, when promulgated by the supreme court, shall be fully binding on all courts inferior to the court of common pleas and on the court of common pleas in relation to felony violations of division (A) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code and shall effect a cancellation of any local court rules...

...on does apply to violations of sections 4511.19, 4549.02, and 4549.021 of the Revised Code and ordinance offenses related to sections 4511.19, 4549.02, and 4549.021 of the Revised Code.

...e violations of division (A) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code or an equivalent offense, or three or more violations of any combination of those offenses. The specification shall be stated at the end of the body of the indictment, count, or information and shall be stated in substantially the following form: "SPECIFICATION (or, SPECIFICATION TO THE FIRST COUNT). The Grand Jurors (or insert the person's or the...

...0., 4511., or 4549., other than section 4511.19 or 4511.194 of the Revised Code, or under a municipal ordinance that is substantially similar to any section other than section 4511.19 or 4511.194 of the Revised Code contained in any of those chapters, and if the records pertaining to all the other charges would be eligible for sealing or expungement under section 2953.33, 2953.39, or 2953.521 of the Revised Code in t...

... is convicted of a violation of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance. (3) An owner of a school bus or motor van shall not permit any person to operate such a vehicle unless the person meets all other requirements contained in rules adopted by the department prescribing qualifications of drivers of school buses and other student transportation. (G) No superintende...

... use cannabis and is subject to section 4511.19 of the Revised Code for any violation of this division. (2) An individual is prohibited from smoking, vaporizing, or using any other combustible adult use cannabis product while in a vehicle, motor vehicle, streetcar, trackless trolley, bike, watercraft, or aircraft and is subject to section 4511.19 of the Revised Code for any violation of this division. (E) Excep...

...e provisions of division (D) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code and any physician, registered nurse, emergency medical technician-intermediate, emergency medical technician-paramedic, or qualified technician, chemist, or phlebotomist who withdraws whole blood or blood serum or plasma from a person under this section, and any hospital, first-aid station, clinic, or other facility at which whole blood or blood seru...

... a violation of division (A) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code, unless the person has been required by the court to attend a drug abuse or alcohol abuse education, intervention, or treatment program specified by the court and has satisfactorily completed the program. (B) No temporary instruction permit or driver's license shall be issued to any person whose license has been suspended, during the period for whi...

... is charged with a violation of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code or a violation of any municipal OVI ordinance; if that charge is dismissed or reduced; if the person is convicted of or forfeits bail in relation to a violation of any other section of the Revised Code or of any ordinance that regulates the operation of vehicles, streetcars, and trackless trolleys on highways and streets but that does not relate to o...

...510.037, under division (H) of section 4511.19, or under section 4510.07 of the Revised Code for a violation of a municipal ordinance that is substantially equivalent to division (B) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code is not eligible to retain the license, or to have the driving privileges reinstated, until each of the following has occurred: (1) The person successfully completes a course of remedial driv...

...l treatment fund established by section 4511.191 of the Revised Code. (2) The director of public safety, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt and publish rules setting forth the requirements for obtaining the certification of an immobilizing or disabling device. The director of public safety shall not certify an immobilizing or disabling device under this section unless it meets the req...

... that has been suspended under section 4511.19 or 4511.191 of the Revised Code, the registrar of motor vehicles, notwithstanding any other provision of law that purports to require the registrar to retain the license or permit, may destroy the license or permit. (B)(1) Subject to division (B)(2) of this section, if a driver's or commercial driver's license or permit that has been suspended under section 4511.19 or...

... (A)(1)(b), (c), (d), or (e) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code or at least the concentration of a listed controlled substance or a listed metabolite of a controlled substance specified in division (A)(1)(j) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code, all of the following apply to the person: (a) The person successfully completed an alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug treatment program. (b) The person has not abus...

...ted pursuant to division (H) of section 4511.191 of the Revised Code in accordance with this section and section 733.40, divisions (A), (B), and (C) of section 1901.024, division (F) of section 1901.31, or division (C) of section 1907.20 of the Revised Code. Regardless of whether the fine is imposed by a municipal court, a mayor's court, or a juvenile court, if the fine was imposed for a violation of an ordinance of ...

...violation" means a violation of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code or a violation of an existing or former law of this state, any other state, or the United States that is substantially equivalent to section 4511.19 of the Revised Code.

...rsuant to division (G)(1)(a) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code, if it is certified by the director of mental health and addiction services pursuant to this section. No drivers' intervention program shall be used as an alternative to a term of imprisonment that is imposed pursuant to division (G)(1)(b), (c), (d), or (e) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code. To qualify for certification by the director an...

...sions (A)(1)(b) to (A)(1)(i) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code; (4) Operates or physically controls any vehicle, aircraft, or vessel while having in the person's whole blood, blood serum or plasma, or urine the concentrations of controlled substances or metabolites of a controlled substance set forth in division (A)(1)(j) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code. (B) If a military installation is located pa...

...cept as otherwise provided in section 4511.193 of the Revised Code, all fines, forfeitures, and costs in ordinance cases and all fees that are collected by the mayor, that in any manner come into the mayor's hands, or that are due the mayor or a marshal, chief of police, or other officer of the municipal corporation, any other fees and expenses that have been advanced out of the treasury of the municipa...

...The department of children and youth shall adopt rules to implement the kinship care navigator program. The rules shall be adopted under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, except that rules governing fiscal and administrative matters related to implementation of the program are internal management rules and shall be adopted under section 111.15 of the Revised Code.

...(A)(1) The kinship care navigator program shall be funded to the extent that general revenue funds have been appropriated by the general assembly for that purpose. (2) The director of children and youth shall take any action necessary to obtain funds available for the kinship care navigator program under Title IV-E of the "Social Security Act," 94 Stat. 501 (1980), 42 U.S.C. 670, as amended. (B) The department ...

...(A) As used in this section, poverty guideline means the official poverty guideline as revised annually by the United States secretary of health and human services in accordance with section 673 of the Community Services Block Grant Act, 95 Stat. 511 (1981), 42 U.S.C.A. 9902, as amended, for a family size equal to the size of the family of the person whose income is being determined. (B) The department of human serv...

...There is hereby created in the treasury of state the victims of human trafficking fund consisting of money seized in connection with a violation of section 2905.32, 2907.21, or 2907.22 of the Revised Code or acquired from the sale of personal effects, tools, or other property seized because the personal effects, tools, or other property were used in the commission of a violation of section 2905.32, 2907.21, or 2907.2...

...As used in sections 5101.881 to 5101.8811 of the Revised Code: (A) "Cost-of-living adjustment" has the same meaning as in section 5107.04 of the Revised Code. (B) "Kinship caregiver" has the same meaning as in section 5101.85 of the Revised Code.

...There is hereby established the kinship support program. The department of children and youth shall coordinate and administer the program to the extent funds are appropriated and allocated for this purpose.

...The kinship support program shall provide financial payments to kinship caregivers who: (A) Receive placement of a child who is in the temporary or permanent custody of a public children services agency or under the Title IV-E agency with legal responsibility for the care and placement of the child; and (B) Do not have foster home certification under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code.

...Kinship support program payments under section 5101.884 of the Revised Code shall be ten dollars and twenty cents per child, per day, to the extent funds are available. The department of children and youth shall increase the payment amount on January 1, 2022, and on the first day of each January thereafter by the cost-of-living adjustment made in the immediately preceding December.

...Kinship support program payments shall be made to kinship caregivers as follows: (A) For not more than nine months after the effective date of this section, if a child has been placed with the kinship caregiver as of the effective date of this section ; (B) For not more than than nine months after the placement of a child with the kinship caregiver, if the placement occurs during the nine-month period that begins...

...Kinship support program payments under section 5101.884 of the Revised Code shall cease when any of the following occur: (A) The kinship caregiver obtains foster home certification under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code. (B) In accordance with section 5101.886 of the Revised Code; (C) Placement with the kinship caregiver is terminated or otherwise ceases.

...A kinship caregiver, on obtaining foster home certification under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code, shall receive foster care maintenance payments equal to the custodial agency rate as determined by the certifying agency, which is either the custodial agency, private child placing agency, or private non-custodial agency.

...The director of children and youth may adopt rules for the administration of the kinship support program in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code.

...As used in sections 5101.89 to 5101.899 of the Revised Code: (A) "Youth" means a person who is any of the following: (1) Less than eighteen years of age; (2) An emancipated young adult; (3) Is in the temporary or permanent custody of a public children services agency, a planned permanent living arrangement, or in the Title-IV-E-eligible care and placement responsibility of a juvenile court or other government...

...(A) There is created a youth and family ombudsman office under the department of job and family services consisting of the following: (1) A family ombudsman, who shall be appointed by the governor, to investigate complaints made by adults; (2) A youth ombudsman, who shall be appointed by the governor with advice from the overcoming hurdles in Ohio youth advisory board, to investigate complaints made by youth and ...

...The youth and family ombudsman office shall perform all of the following duties: (A) Receive, investigate, and attempt to resolve complaints from citizens, including children in the custody of a public children services agency or in the care and placement of a Title IV-E agency, related to government services regarding child protective services, foster care, and adoption; (B) Establish procedures for receiving ...

...Not later than sixty days after release of the annual report described under section 5101.892 of the Revised Code, the overcoming hurdles in Ohio youth advisory board shall provide an evaluation of the report to the governor and the youth ombudsman of the youth and family ombudsman office.

...To the extent permitted by state or federal law, a representative of the youth and family ombudsman office may report to an appropriate authority any suspected violation of state law discovered during the course of a complaint review.

...The department of job and family services shall be responsible for all administrative undertakings for the youth and family ombudsman office, including the provision of offices, equipment, and supplies, as necessary.

...(A) No employee of the youth and family ombudsman office shall do any of the following: (1) Hold any office of trust or profit; (2) Engage in any occupation or business interfering or inconsistent with the duties of the office; (3) Serve on any committee of any political party; (4) Have any interest that is, or may be, in conflict with the interests and concerns of the office. (B) As used in this section, ...

...(A) The youth and family ombudsman office shall have access to only the records of the department of job and family services that are necessary for the administration of sections 5101.89 to 5101.899 of the Revised Code and in the performance of its official duties, including any records maintained in the uniform statewide automated child welfare information system under section 5101.13 of the Revised Code. The office...

...(A) As used in this section, "public assistance" has the same meaning as in section 5101.26 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of job and family services, in consultation with representatives designated by the county commissioners association of Ohio and the Ohio job and family services directors association, shall establish an evaluation system that rates each county department of job and family servic...

...(A) As used in this section, "social service professional" has the same meaning as in section 959.07 of the Revised Code. (B) For a first or subsequent violation of division (B)(1) of section 959.07 of the Revised Code by a social service professional, the entity with responsibility for employment oversight of that social service professional, as applicable, shall at minimum issue a confidential written warning to ...

...The department of job and family services shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to govern the implementation of individual development account programs under sections 329.11 to 329.14 of the Revised Code by county departments of job and family services, which shall include rules covering both of the following: (A) Imposing a penalty for unauthorized use of matching contributions; (...

...(A) Quarterly, the department of job and family services shall compile a report on public assistance programs in this state, including the following information: (1) Regarding the supplemental nutrition assistance program, the number of: (a) Accounts with high balances, as determined by the department; (b) Out-of-state transactions; (c) Transactions when the final amount processed was a whole dollar amoun...

...(A) Whoever violates division (A) of section 5101.27 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (B) Whoever violates section 5101.133, division (A) of section 5101.63, or division (C)(2) of section 5101.631 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.