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...As used in this chapter: (A) "Fiscal watch" means the existence of a fiscal watch declared under division (A) of section 3316.03 of the Revised Code. (B) "Fiscal emergency" means the existence of a fiscal emergency declared under division (B) of section 3316.03 of the Revised Code. (C) "Fiscal emergency period" means the period of time commencing on the day when the auditor of state declares that a school district...

...(A) Pursuant to the authority of the general assembly to provide for the public health, safety, and welfare, it is hereby declared to be the public policy and a public purpose of the state to require fiscal integrity of school districts so that they can educate children, pay when due principal and interest on their debt obligations, meet financial obligations to their employees, vendors, and suppliers, and provide fo...

... (A) The existence of a fiscal watch shall be declared by the auditor of state. The auditor of state may make a determination on the auditor of state's initiative, or upon receipt of a written request for such a determination, which may be filed by the governor, the director of education and workforce, or a majority of the members of the board of education of the school district. (1) The auditor of state shall dec...

... (A) The director of education and workforce, in consultation with the auditor of state, shall develop guidelines for identifying fiscal practices and budgetary conditions that, if uncorrected, could result in a future declaration of a fiscal watch or fiscal emergency within a school district. The guidelines shall not include a requirement that a school district submit financial statements according to generally a...

... (A) Within sixty days of the auditor's declaration under division (A) of section 3316.03 of the Revised Code, the board of education of the school district shall prepare and submit to the director of education and workforce a financial plan delineating the steps the board will take to eliminate the district's current operating deficit and avoid incurring operating deficits in ensuing years, including the implementat...

... (A) Notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 133. or sections 3313.483 to 3313.4810 of the Revised Code, and subject to the approval of the director of education and workforce, a school district that is in a state of fiscal watch declared under section 3316.03 of the Revised Code may restructure or refinance loans obtained or in the process of being obtained under section 3313.483 of the Revised Code if all of the f...

... The auditor of state, on the auditor of state's initiative, may conduct a performance audit of a school district that is under a fiscal caution under section 3316.031 of the Revised Code, in a state of fiscal watch, or in a state of fiscal emergency, in which the auditor of state reviews any programs or areas of operation in which the auditor of state believes that greater operational efficiencies or enhanced progra...

... Upon the approval by the director of education and workforce of an initial financial plan under section 3316.04 of the Revised Code or a financial recovery plan under section 3316.06 of the Revised Code, the board of education of the school district for which the plan was approved shall revise the district's five-year projection of revenues and expenditures in accordance with rules adopted under section 5705.391 of ...

... (A) Pursuant to the powers of the general assembly and for the purposes of this chapter, upon the declaration of a fiscal emergency in any school district pursuant to division (B) of section 3316.03 of the Revised Code, there is established, with respect to that school district, a body both corporate and politic constituting an agency and instrumentality of the state and performing essential governmental functions o...

... (A) Within one hundred twenty days after the first meeting of a school district financial planning and supervision commission, the commission shall adopt a financial recovery plan regarding the school district for which the commission was created. During the formulation of the plan, the commission shall seek appropriate input from the school district board and from the community. This plan shall contain the followin...

... If any school district financial planning and supervision commission fails to submit to the director of education and workforce under section 3316.06 of the Revised Code a financial recovery plan that is acceptable to the director of education and workforce, or if the director of education and workforce and the director of budget and management find that a commission is not materially complying with the provisions o...

...(A) A school district financial planning and supervision commission has the following powers, duties, and functions: (1) To review or to assume responsibility for the development of all tax budgets, tax levy and bond and note resolutions, appropriation measures, and certificates of estimated resources of the school district in order to ensure that such are consistent with the financial recovery plan and a bal...

... During a school district's fiscal emergency period, the auditor of state shall determine annually, or at any other time upon request of the financial planning and supervision commission, whether the school district will incur an operating deficit. If the auditor of state determines that a school district will incur an operating deficit, the auditor of state shall certify that determination to the director of educati...

...(A) The members of a school district financial planning and supervision commission shall serve without compensation, but shall be paid by the commission their necessary and actual expenses incurred while engaged in the business of the commission. (B) Any expense or obligation incurred by a commission under this chapter shall be payable solely from appropriations made by the general assembly.

...A school district board that is instructed to do so by the school district financial planning and supervision commission for that district shall develop an effective financial accounting and reporting system by: (A) Promptly bringing its existing system of financial accounting and reporting into compliance with section 117.43 of the Revised Code. Within ninety days after the declaration of the existence of a fiscal ...

...A school district board and all its officers and employees having possession of fiscal information or having the responsibility for developing that information, shall at all times cooperate in assisting the functions of the school district financial planning and supervision commission by providing to the commission, on a continuing basis, all fiscal information requested, ordered, or needed by the commission to formu...

...(A) No appropriation measure may be adopted nor any expenditure made contrary to the financial recovery plan adopted by a school district financial planning and supervision commission. Any existing appropriation measure inconsistent with the adopted financial recovery plan is ineffective for purposes of any expenditures to the extent that it authorizes expenditures in excess of the revenues available after adoption o...

...A school district financial planning and supervision commission may direct its certifications, notifications, orders, or requests to particular officers of the county, school district, or state, or to the school district board of education or county budget commission and cause the same to be mailed or delivered to appropriate officials as designated by this chapter or, where not so designated, as it considers appropr...

...(A) No debt obligation, including any debt incurred pursuant to section 3313.483 of the Revised Code, may be issued or incurred by the school district, whether purchased by the school district or by others, except with the prior approval of the school district financial planning and supervision commission. (B) The commission shall disapprove the issuance of debt obligations upon a determination that, in its judgment...

...(A) A school district financial planning and supervision commission, with respect to its functions under this chapter, shall continue in existence until such time as a determination is made under division (B) of this section that all of the following have occurred: (1) An effective financial accounting and reporting system in accordance with section 3316.10 of the Revised Code is in the process of being imple...

...A financial planning and supervision commission may remove the superintendent or the treasurer of a school district for failing to comply with the commission's orders concerning the preparation or implementation of the financial recovery plan.

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, if any section or provision of this chapter, including any condition or prerequisite to any action or determination thereunder, or if any act or action, or part thereof, made or taken under this chapter, or any application thereof, is for any reason held to be illegal or invalid, this illegality or invalidity shall not affect the remainder thereof or any other section or p...

...(A) During a fiscal emergency period for a school district, no school board member, officer, or employee of the school district shall do any of the following: (1) Knowingly enter into any contract, financial obligation, or other liability of the school district involving an expenditure, or make any expenditure in excess of the amount permitted by the commission pursuant to this chapter; (2) Knowingly enter into any...

... (A)(1) The school district solvency assistance fund is hereby created in the state treasury, to consist of such amounts designated for the purposes of the fund by the general assembly. The fund shall be used to provide assistance and grants to school districts to enable them to remain solvent and to pay unforeseeable expenses of a temporary or emergency nature that they are unable to pay from existing resources. ...

... As used in this section, "school district," unless otherwise specified, means any city, local, exempted village, joint vocational, or cooperative education school district and any educational service center. This chapter shall be administered by the department of education and workforce. The department of education and workforce shall calculate the amounts payable to each school district and shall certify the amo...