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...(A) The public children services agency shall have the capacity possessed by natural persons to institute proceedings in any court. (B) When appointed by the probate court exercising jurisdiction in adoption proceedings, the executive director may act as next friend of any child and perform the duties of such next friend. (C) When appointed by the probate court, in lieu of a guardian, in accordance with section 211...

...The public children services agency shall, before entering into any agreement obligating the agency with respect to the care of any child, determine the ability of the child, parent, guardian, or other person to pay for the cost of such care, having due regard for other dependents. Such determination shall, if accepted by the parent, guardian, or other person, be made a part of such agreement. If the executive direc...

...ards, and orders of the public children services agency.

...The children to be admitted for care in a county children's home, the period during which such children shall be cared for therein, and the removal and transfer of children therefrom shall be determined by the executive secretary, subject to the agreement, surrender, or commitment respecting any particular child.

...deemed expedient by the public children services agency. Any products of such pursuits not needed to maintain the home may be sold, and all receipts from such sales shall be paid into the county treasury.

...ty children's home, the public children services agency may issue orders upon the county auditor for the payment to such superintendent of a sum, not exceeding two hundred dollars at any one time, to be designated the fund for the payment of emergency accounts, and to be used and accounted for by the superintendent. The amounts so paid in any year, after the first full year of operation, shall not exceed twenty per c...

...ll make a report to the public children services agency respecting any child in the county coming to their attention, who is deemed to be in need of public care. No child shall be kept or maintained in any county home, except with the approval of the public children services agency of such county.

... by this chapter to the public children services agency, the proceeds of all tax levies in process of collection, the unexpended balances of all current appropriations for the use of such agencies and institutions, and the custody of all wards of such agencies and institutions, shall be deemed transferred to the agency.

...nds in the hands of the public children services agency, donated or transferred to such agency under sections 5153.31 and 5153.32 of the Revised Code, and which are not immediately needed, may be invested in bonds of the United States or of any political subdivision of the state.

...The public children services agency may acquire such property and equipment and purchase such supplies and services as are necessary for the proper conduct of its work, including the ownership, operation, and maintenance of motor vehicles. Neither the director nor an employee of the agency shall sell or supply any article to the agency, or to any institution maintained by such agency, or be personally interested in a...

...The board of county commissioners of any county having a children's home, and the joint boards of county commissioners of district children's homes, shall make annual assessments of taxes sufficient to support and defray all necessary expenses of such home.

...Immediately upon the organization of the joint board of county commissioners as provided by section 5153.36 of the Revised Code, or as soon thereafter as practicable, such joint board of county commissioners shall appoint a board of five trustees, which shall hold office and perform it duties until the first annual meeting after the choice of an established site and buildings or after the selection and purchase of a ...

...shall receive no compensation for their services, except their actual traveling expenses, which, when properly certified, shall be allowed and paid.

...The board of trustees of a district children's home shall appoint the superintendent thereof. Before entering upon his duties such superintendent shall give a bond to the board, in such sum as it fixes, with sufficient surety, conditioned upon the faithful performance of his duties and the full and faithful accounting of the funds and properties coming into his hands. The superintendent shall appoint all employees, ...

...District children's homes shall be established, operated, maintained, and managed in the same manner so far as applicable as county children's homes and shall be subject to the requirements of sections 5103.05 and 5103.051 of the Revised Code.

...When the board of trustees appointed under section 5153.39 of the Revised Code does not choose an established institution in one of the counties of the district it may select a suitable site for the erection of a district children's home. Such site must be easily accessible, and when, in the judgment of the board, it is equally conducive to health, economy in purchasing or in building, and to the general interest of ...

...Each county in the district, organized under section 5153.36 of the Revised Code, shall be entitled to one trustee, and in districts composed of but two counties, each county shall be entitled to not less than two trustees. The county in which a district children's home is located shall have not less than two trustees, who, in the interim period between the regular meetings of the board of trustees, shall act as an e...

...The joint board of county commissioners organized under section 5153.36 of the Revised Code may remove any trustee appointed under section 5153.39 of the Revised Code, but no such removal shall be made on account of the religious or political opinion of such trustee. The trustee appointed to fill any vacancy shall hold his office for the unexpired term of his predecessor.

...In the interim, between the selection and purchase of a site, and the erection and occupancy of the district children's home, the joint board of county commissioners provided by section 5153.36 of the Revised Code may delegate to board of trustees appointed under section 5153.39 of the Revised Code, such powers and duties as, in its judgment, will be of general interest or aid to the institution. Such joint board of ...

...The choice of an established site and buildings, or the purchase of a site, stock, implements, and general farm equipment, should there be a farm, the erection of buildings, and the completion and furnishing of the district children's home for occupancy, shall be in the hands of the joint board of county commissioners organized under section 5153.36 of the Revised Code. Such joint board of county commissioners may de...

...When an established site and buildings are used for a district children's home the joint board of county commissioners organized under section 5153.36 of the Revised Code shall cause the value of such site and buildings to be properly appraised. This appraisal value, or in case of the purchase of a site, the purchase price and the cost of all betterments and additions thereto, shall be paid by the counties comprising...

...The county auditors of the several counties composing a children's home district, shall meet at the district children's home, not less than once in six months, to adjust accounts and to transact such other duties in connection with the institution as pertain to the business of their office.

...Members of the board of county commissioners who meet by appointment to consider the organization of a district children's home, shall, upon presentation of properly certified accounts, be paid their necessary expenses upon a warrant drawn by the county auditor of their county.

...roval of the department of children and youth first being obtained, organize such home into a county children's home. The title to such property, where the county has contributed the whole amount of the purchase money, shall vest in and be the property of such county.

...The public children services agency may purchase, operate, and maintain buses to be used for educational purposes. The operation and maintenance of such buses shall be according to the law relating to school buses.