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...The interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children is hereby ratified, enacted into law, and entered into by this state as a party thereto with any other state that heretofore has legally joined or hereafter legally joins the compact, as follows: Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children ARTICLE I. PURPOSE It is the purpose of this compact to remove barriers to educa...

...Not later than the thirty-first day of July of each year, the department of education and workforce shall submit preliminary report card data for overall academic performance and for each separate performance measure for each school district, and each school building, in accordance with this section. Annually, not later than the fifteenth day of September or the preceding Friday when that day falls on a Saturday o...

...(A) The opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities council, in collaboration with the governor's office of workforce transformation, shall do all of the following: (1) Examine all of the following related to the state vocational rehabilitation program: (a) The process for determining eligibility, including the order of selection; (b) The extent, scope, and effectiveness of services provided; (c) The impact o...

...(A) The advisory council of each region of the educational regional service system shall establish the following specialized subcommittees of the council: (1) A school improvement subcommittee, which shall include one classroom teacher appointed jointly by the Ohio education association and the Ohio federation of teachers and representatives of community schools and education personnel with expertise in the area of ...

...(A) Each performance contract entered into by the department of education and workforce and the fiscal agent of a region for implementation of a state or regional education initiative or school improvement effort shall include the following: (1) An explanation of how the regional needs and priorities for educational services have been identified by the advisory council of the region, the advisory council's subcomm...

...(A) The department of education and workforce shall establish the dropout prevention and recovery advisory council. The council shall provide a forum for communication and collaboration between the department and parties involved in the establishment and operation of dropout prevention and recovery community schools, including sponsors and operators. (B) The advisory council shall consist of the following members ...

...The chancellor of higher education shall: (A) Make studies of state policy in the field of higher education and formulate a master plan for higher education for the state, considering the needs of the people, the needs of the state, and the role of individual public and private institutions within the state in fulfilling these needs; (B)(1) Report annually to the governor and the general assembly on the finding...

...(A) There is hereby created the broadcast educational media commission as an independent agency to advance education and accelerate the learning of the citizens of this state through public educational broadcasting services. The commission shall provide leadership and support in extending the knowledge of the citizens of this state by promoting access to and use of educational broadcasting services, including educati...

...(A) The secretary of state may issue instructions as to the proper method of conducting elections to members of the boards of elections by permanent or temporary directives. (1) The secretary of state shall establish a process to allow public review and public comment of proposed directives. Prior to issuing any permanent directive, the secretary of state shall provide reasonable notice of the issuance of the...

...(A)(1) No prosecution shall commence for a violation of a provision in sections 145.054, 742.043, 3307.073, 3309.073, 3517.08 to 3517.12, 3517.13, 3517.20 to 3517.22, 3599.03, 3599.031, or 5505.045 of the Revised Code unless a complaint has been filed with the secretary of state under section 3517.16 of the Revised Code and all proceedings under sections 3517.16 to 3517.18 of the Revised Code are completed. (2) A ...

...The director of environmental protection may do any of the following: (A) Develop programs for the prevention, control, and abatement of air pollution; (B) Advise, consult, contract, and cooperate with any governmental or private agency in the furtherance of the purposes of this chapter; (C) Encourage, participate in, or conduct studies, investigations, and research relating to air pollution, collect and dis...

...(A) For purposes of establishing a licensing fee under sections 3717.25 and 3717.45 of the Revised Code, the director of agriculture and the director of health shall adopt rules establishing uniform methodologies for use in calculating the costs of licensing retail food establishments in the categories specified by the director of agriculture and the costs of licensing food service operations in the categories ...

...o not apply to effluent discharged into waters of the state.

...A hospital shall promptly notify in writing the director of health, the emergency medical services division of the department of public safety, and the appropriate regional directors and regional advisory boards appointed under section 4765.05 of the Revised Code if any of the following occurs: (A) The hospital ceases to be an adult or pediatric trauma center verified by the American college of surgeons. (B) The ho...

...tion, control, and abatement of air and water pollution; public water supply; comprehensive water resource management planning; products that contain mercury as defined in section 3734.61 of the Revised Code; and the disposal and treatment of solid wastes, infectious wastes, construction and demolition debris, hazardous waste, sewage, industrial waste, and other wastes. The director may do all of the following:...

...(A) There is hereby created within the environmental protection agency the Ohio environmental education fund advisory council consisting of the directors of environmental protection, natural resources, and education and workforce, or their designees, as members ex officio, one member of the house of representatives to be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives or the member's designee, one member to ...

...(A) As used in this section, "eligible institution of higher education" means any of the state universities listed in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, or a community college, technical college, university branch, state community college, or an institution that is nonprofit and holds a certificate of authorization issued under section 1713.02 of the Revised Code. (B) There is hereby created in the state treasur...

...cological impacts on the air, land, and water resources of the party states. (D) Conduct such hearings, and obtain such reports, studies, evidence, and testimony required by its approved procedures prior to identifying a party state as a host state for a needed regional facility; and (E) Prepare a draft management plan, including procedures, criteria and host states, including alternatives, which shall be made avai...

...As used in sections 3905.064 to 3905.0611 of the Revised Code: (A) "Aggregator site" means a web site that provides access to information regarding insurance products from more than one insurer, including product and insurer information, for use in comparison shopping. (B) "Blanket travel insurance" means a policy of travel insurance issued to any eligible group providing coverage for specific classes of person...

...ance of ditches, canals, reservoirs, or waterways, not owned or operated for profit, used exclusively for supplying and storing water for farming purposes; (4) In the employ of the operator of a farm in handling, planting, drying, packing, packaging, processing, freezing, grading, storing, or delivering to storage or to market or to a carrier for transportation to market, in its unmanufactured state, any agricultu...

...There is hereby created an unemployment compensation review commission consisting of three full-time members appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate. Terms of office shall be staggered and shall be for six years, commencing on the twenty-eighth day of February and ending on the twenty-seventh day of February. Each member shall hold office from the date of appointment until the end o...

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall operate and enforce the public employment risk reduction program created by this chapter. (B) The administrator shall do all of the following: (1) Adopt rules, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors and in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, for the administration and enforcement of this chapter. The ad...

...(A)(1) There is hereby created the RECLAIM advisory committee that shall be composed of the following nine members: (a) Two members shall be juvenile court judges appointed by the Ohio association of juvenile and family court judges. (b) One member shall be the director of youth services or the director's designee. (c) One member shall be the director of budget and management or the director's designee. (d) One ...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall establish the help me grow program as the state's evidence-based parent support program that encourages early prenatal and well-baby care, as well as provides parenting education to promote the comprehensive health and development of children. The program shall provide home visiting services to families with a pregnant woman or child under five years of age that meet the...

...(A) There is hereby created the advisory committee on livestock exhibitions consisting of not more than twenty-one members, as follows: (1) The director of agriculture, or the director's designee; (2) The state veterinarian, or the state veterinarian's designee; (3) A representative of the Ohio cattlemen's association, the Ohio purebred dairy cattle association, the Ohio pork producers council, the Ohio poul...

...The board of directors of a sanitary district may condemn for the use of the district, any land or property within or without said district not acquired or condemned by the court on the report of the board of appraisers of the sanitary district, according to the procedure provided by sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code, instead of having appraisals and assessments made by the board of appraisers...

...(A) For the purposes of this section, either of the following constitutes a public exigency: (1) A finding by the director of environmental protection that a public health nuisance caused by an occasion of unavoidable urgency and suddenness due to unsanitary conditions compels the immediate construction of sewers for the protection of the public health and welfare; (2) The issuance of an order by the board of healt...

...All public corporations or persons having buildings, structures, works, conduits, mains, pipes, tracks, or other physical obstructions in, over, or upon the public streets, lanes, alleys, or highways, which interfere with or impede the progress of construction, maintenance, or repair of the works of a sanitary district shall upon reasonable notice from the board of directors of the sanitary district promptly shift, a...

...The board of directors of a sanitary district may establish and maintain stream gauges and rain gauges, and may make such surveys and examinations of rainfall, stream flow, and other scientific and engineering subjects as are necessary and proper for the purposes of the district. The board may issue reports of its findings.

...Whenever it is necessary for the purposes of a sanitary district to take or damage any cemetery, the board of appraisers of the sanitary district shall appraise the cost of such taking or easement in the same manner as appraisals are made for other property. The board of directors of the sanitary district shall have the same powers in case of the removal of a cemetery to agree with the authorities owning or controll...

...At the time of making its order organizing a sanitary district or at any suitable time thereafter, the court shall appoint three appraisers to constitute the board of appraisers of the sanitary district, who shall in every case where appraisers are appointed under sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 of the Revised Code, be recommended by the board of directors of the sanitary district. The board of appraisers shall appraise ...

...If the board of appraisers of a sanitary district finds that lands or other property not embraced within the boundaries of the district will be affected by the proposed improvement, or should be included in the district, it shall appraise the benefits and damages to such land or other property, and shall file notice in the court of the appraisal which it has made upon the lands or other property beyond the boundaries...

...If the report of the board of appraisers of a sanitary district includes recommendations that other lands be included in the district, or that certain lands be excluded from the district, the clerk of the court before which the proceeding is pending shall give notice to the owners of such property by publication to be made as provided for a hearing on the petition for the creation of the district. Such notice to thos...

...(A) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation or the board of township trustees of a township all or part of whose territory is included within the territory of a sanitary district that is established solely for the reduction of biting arthropods pursuant to division (F) of section 6115.04 of the Revised Code may enact an ordinance or adopt a resolution, as applicable, approving the submission to the...

...Upon the filing of the report of the board of appraisers of a sanitary district under section 6115.33 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the court shall give notice by publication thereof, as provided in section 6115.01 of the Revised Code, in each county in the district. The notice shall be substantially as set forth in division (E) of section 6115.79 of the Revised Code. It is not necessary for the clerk to name the...

...Any property owner may accept the appraisals in his favor of benefits and of damages and of lands to be taken made by the board of appraisers of a sanitary district, or may acquiesce in the board's failure to appraise damages in his favor, and shall be construed to have done so unless within ten days after the last publication provided for in section 6115.34 of the Revised Code he files exceptions to said report or ...

...If it appears to the satisfaction of the court after having heard and determined all the exceptions filed pursuant to section 6115.35 of the Revised Code, that the estimated cost of constructing or acquiring the improvement contemplated in the official plan is less than the benefits appraised, then the court shall approve and confirm the report of the board of appraisers of a sanitary district as modified and amended...

...Any person or public or private corporation desiring to appeal from an award as to compensation or damages shall, within twenty days from the judgment of the court confirming the report of the board of appraisers of a sanitary district, file with the clerk of the court a written notice making demand for a jury trial, specifying the award or awards from which the appeal is taken. If the appellant does not recover more...

...No property shall be taken under sections 6115.01 to 6115.79, inclusive, of the Revised Code, until compensation has been paid according to law. But where a trial is had by jury, and a verdict has been rendered which has been confirmed by the court, the board of directors of the sanitary district may pay the amount allowed into court in money with the costs, and thereupon the court shall make an order admitting the d...

...Upon the entry of the order of the court approving the report of the board of appraisers of a sanitary district, the clerk of said court in which the same is entered shall transmit a certified copy of the decree, and of the appraisals as confirmed by the court, except those parts from which appeals have been perfected but not determined, to the secretary of the sanitary district. When any appeal has been finally det...

...The board of directors of a sanitary district may at any time, when necessary to fulfill the objects for which the district was created, alter or add to the official plan. When such alterations or additions are formally approved by the board, by the environmental protection agency, and by the court, and are filed with the secretary of the sanitary district, they shall become part of the official plan for all purposes...

...No appeal under sections 6115.01 to 6115.79, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be permitted to interrupt or delay any action or the prosecution of any work under such sections, except where the party appealing is entitled to a jury under the constitution of the state, and such jury trial has not been had, in which case only so much of the work shall be interrupted or delayed as would constitute a taking of or a d...

...If any lands in any sanitary district are not liable for taxation or assessment at the time of the execution of the work, but afterwards, during the period when such work is being paid for, become liable to taxation or assessment by reason of some change in condition, benefit, or ownership, such lands shall thereupon be appraised and assessed as other lands in said district receiving equal benefits.

...In case any real property within or without any sanitary district is benefited which for any reason was not appraised in the original proceedings, or was not appraised to the extent of benefits received, or in case any person, public corporation, or other district makes use of or profits by the works of any district to a degree not compensated for in the original appraisal, or in case the board of directors of the sa...

...No fault in any notice or other proceedings shall affect the validity of any proceeding under sections 6115.01 to 6115.79, inclusive, of the Revised Code, except to the extent to which it can be shown that such fault resulted in a material denial of justice to the property owner complaining of such fault. If it is found upon a hearing that by reason of some irregularity or defect in the proceedings the appraisal has...

...In order to facilitate the preliminary work, the board of directors of a sanitary district may borrow money at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent per annum; may issue and sell or pay to contractors or others negotiable warrants signed by the members of the board; and may pledge, after it has been levied, the preliminary tax of not exceeding three tenths of a mill for the repayment thereof. If any warrant i...

...When the assessment roll is placed on file in the office of the sanitary district, notice by publication shall be given to property owners that they may pay their assessments. Any owner of real property assessed for the execution of the official plan under section 6115.48 of the Revised Code may pay such assessment to the treasurer of the sanitary district within thirty days from the time such assessment is placed on...

...(A) For the purpose of acquiring, constructing, rehabilitating, furnishing, and equipping real and personal property necessary or appropriate for the execution of the official plan, as such plan is amended from time to time, the board of directors of a sanitary district may issue bonds in anticipation of the levy and collection of special assessments in an amount not to exceed ninety per cent of the total amount of t...

...The treasurer of a sanitary district shall, at the time of taking office, execute and deliver to the president of the board of directors of the sanitary district, a bond with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the board, conditioned that the treasurer shall account for and pay over as required by law, and as ordered by the board, all money received by him on the sale of any of such bonds or from any othe...

...(A) The board of directors of a sanitary district may issue revenue obligations as provided in this section to pay the costs of the acquisition, construction, improvement, furnishing, and equipping of real and personal property appropriate for execution of the official plan. Such revenue obligations shall be authorized by resolution of the board of directors of a sanitary district. (B) Revenue obligations may be sec...