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...l penalties, if it appears that a state agency or an agency of a political subdivision has failed or is failing to comply with section 1347.12 of the Revised Code or that a person has failed or is failing to comply with section 1349.19 of the Revised Code. Upon its finding that a state agency or an agency of a political subdivision has failed to comply with section 1347.12 of the Revised Code or that a person has fai...

...nsumer. (2) "Consumer credit reporting agency" means any person that, for monetary fees, dues, or on a cooperative nonprofit basis, regularly engages in whole or in part in the practice of maintaining consumers' credit information for the purpose of furnishing credit reports to third parties. (3) "Credit report" means any written, oral, or other communication of any credit information by a consumer credit reporting...

... request to a consumer credit reporting agency in writing by certified mail or other comparable service or by any secured electronic method authorized by the consumer credit reporting agency. (2) A representative requesting a security freeze on a protected consumer's credit report shall provide to the credit reporting agency sufficient proof of authority and, for both the representative and the protected consumer, s...

...t shall be considered a public hospital agency or hospital agency for the purposes of this section. (B) An agreement entered into under authority of this section shall, where appropriate, provide for: (1) The manner in which the title to the hospital facilities, including the sites and interest in real estate pertaining thereto, is to be held, transferred, or disposed of; (2) Unless provided for by lease purs...

...(A) A public hospital agency may issue revenue obligations as provided in this section to pay the costs of hospital facilities. Such revenue obligations shall be authorized by resolution or ordinance of the governing body of the public hospital agency. (B) Revenue obligations may be secured by a pledge of and lien on all or such part of the hospital receipts of the public hospital agency as provided in the bond proc...

...partment or a child support enforcement agency; (f) Records specified in division (A) of section 3107.52 of the Revised Code; (g) Trial preparation records; (h) Confidential law enforcement investigatory records; (i) Records containing information that is confidential under section 2710.03 or 4112.05 of the Revised Code; (j) DNA records stored in the DNA database pursuant to section 109.573 of the Revi...

...vision, district, institution, or other agency thereof, excluding therefrom the department of transportation, for any public improvement shall file with the bid, a bid guaranty in the form of either: (1) A bond in accordance with division (B) of this section for the full amount of the bid; (2) A certified check, cashier's check, or letter of credit pursuant to Chapter 1305. of the Revised Code, in accordance wi...

...ion 155.34 of the Revised Code, a state agency shall lease, in good faith, a formation within a parcel of land that is owned or controlled by the state agency for the exploration for and development and production of oil or natural gas. The lease shall be on terms that are just and reasonable, as determined by custom and practice in the oil and gas industry, and shall include at least the terms required under divisio...

...ls, vanpools, and buspools. (2) "Local agency" means a political subdivision; any department, agency, board, commission, or instrumentality of a political subdivision; a regional planning commission created under section 713.21 of the Revised Code; a county planning commission created under section 713.22 of the Revised Code; a joint planning council created under section 713.231 of the Revised Code; an interstate r...

...ollowing: (A) The head of an acquiring agency shall make every reasonable effort to acquire expeditiously real property by negotiation. (B) In order for an acquiring agency to acquire real property, the acquisition shall be for a defined public purpose that is to be achieved in a defined and reasonable period of time. An acquisition of real property that complies with section 5501.31 of the Revised Code satisfies t...

...rson from among the voting members. The agency members shall elect a voting member as vice-chairperson. The agency members may appoint other officers, who need not be members of the agency, as the agency deems necessary. (B) Six voting members of the agency constitute a quorum and the affirmative vote of six voting members is necessary for any action the agency takes. No vacancy in agency membership impairs the ri...

...(A) The Ohio housing finance agency shall do all of the following related to the agency's operation: (1) Adopt bylaws for the conduct of its business; (2) Employ and fix the compensation of the executive director who serves at the pleasure of the agency to administer the agency's programs and activities. The executive director may employ and fix the compensation of employees in the unclassified civil service ...

...(A) The Ohio housing finance agency may use the proceeds of bonds to carry out the agency's lawful purposes. (B) The agency is the sole entity in the state that may issue bonds pursuant to Section 143(a) of the Internal Revenue Code or any similar provision of law. When the agency issues bonds to fund its homeownership program, it shall take all diligent measures to maximize the distribution of mortgage loans statew...

... chapter. (3) "Private child placing agency" means any association, as defined in section 5103.02 of the Revised Code, that is certified under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code to accept temporary, permanent, or legal custody of children and place the children for either foster care or adoption. (4) "Private noncustodial agency" means any person, organization, association, or society certified by the departme...

... employee of a public children services agency or a private child placing agency who performs official responsibilities or duties described in section 2151.14, 2151.141, 2151.33, 2151.353, 2151.412, 2151.413, 2151.414, 2151.415, 2151.416, 2151.417, 2151.421, or 2151.4220 to 2151.4234 or another section of the Revised Code and to the residential address of persons related to that officer or employee by consanguinity o...

...wing: (a) A public children services agency; (b) A private child placing agency; (c) Either parent; (d) A relative residing within or outside the state; (e) A probation officer for placement in a certified foster home; (f) Any other person approved by the court. (3) Award legal custody of the child to either parent or to any other person who, prior to the dispositional hearing, files a motion req...

...(A) Each public children services agency and private child placing agency shall prepare and maintain a case plan for any child to whom the agency is providing services and to whom any of the following applies: (1) The agency filed a complaint pursuant to section 2151.27 of the Revised Code alleging that the child is an abused, neglected, or dependent child; (2) The agency has temporary or permanent custody of t...

...(A) A public children services agency or private child placing agency that, pursuant to an order of disposition under division (A)(2) of section 2151.353 of the Revised Code or under any version of section 2151.353 of the Revised Code that existed prior to January 1, 1989, is granted temporary custody of a child who is not abandoned or orphaned may file a motion in the court that made the disposition of the child req...

...ghts and grant permanent custody to the agency that filed the motion. The adjudication that the child is an abused, neglected, or dependent child and any dispositional order that has been issued in the case under section 2151.353 of the Revised Code pursuant to the adjudication shall not be readjudicated at the hearing and shall not be affected by a denial of the motion for permanent custody. (2) The court shall ho...

... to be made, a public children services agency or private child placing agency that has been given temporary custody of a child pursuant to section 2151.353 of the Revised Code, not later than thirty days prior to the earlier of the date for the termination of the custody order pursuant to division (H) of section 2151.353 of the Revised Code or the date set at the dispositional hearing for the hearing to be held purs...

...actions of the public children services agency or private child placing agency in implementing that case plan, the child's permanency plan if the child's permanency plan has been approved, and any other aspects of the child's placement or custody arrangement. In conducting the review, the court shall determine the appropriateness of any agency actions, the safety and appropriateness of continuing the child's placemen...

...make it to the public children services agency or a peace officer in the county in which the child resides or in which the abuse or neglect is occurring or has occurred. If the person making the report is a peace officer, the officer shall make it to the public children services agency in the county in which the child resides or in which the abuse or neglect is occurring or has occurred. In the circumstances describe...

...is section, a public children services agency, private child placing agency, private noncustodial agency, or court, the department of youth services, or another private or government entity shall not place a child in a certified foster home or for adoption until it provides the foster caregivers or prospective adoptive parents with all of the following: (a) A written report describing the child's social histor...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Agency" means any nonhospital, charitable nonprofit corporation that is organized and operated pursuant to Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code and that satisfies all of the following, or any nonhospital, charitable association, group, institution, organization, or society that is not organized and not operated for profit and that satisfies all of the following: (a) It distributes ...

...y 1, 1996. (B) When a law enforcement agency in this state that has jurisdiction in the matter is informed that a minor is or may be a missing child and that the person providing the information wishes to file a missing child report, the law enforcement agency shall take that report. Upon taking the report, the law enforcement agency shall take prompt action upon it, including, but not limited to, concerted efforts...