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...(A) The general assembly finds that many school districts are prevented by their size, tax base, or other conditions from performing their essential functions as agencies of state government to provide adequate classroom facilities and issuing securities under Chapter 133. of the Revised Code at favorable interest rates or charges. Accordingly, the Ohio facilities construction commission is invested with the powers a...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the school building program assistance fund. The fund shall consist of the proceeds of obligations issued for the purposes of such fund pursuant to section 3318.26 of the Revised Code that are payable from moneys in the lottery profits education fund created in section 3770.06 of the Revised Code or pursuant to section 151.03 of the Revised Code. All investment earnings o...

...(A) The provisions of this section apply only to obligations issued by the issuing authority prior to December 1, 1999. (B) Subject to the limitations provided in section 3318.29 of the Revised Code, the issuing authority, upon the certification by the Ohio facilities construction commission to the issuing authority of the amount of moneys or additional moneys needed in the school building program assistance fund fo...

...The authority provided by sections 3318.21 to 3318.29 of the Revised Code is in addition to and provides alternative methods for any other authority provided by law for the same or similar purposes, and are supplemental to and not in derogation of any powers of any governmental agency otherwise conferred including those conferred in Chapter 133. of the Revised Code. In case any provision of sections 3318.21 to 3318.2...

...The maximum maturity of any obligations issued pursuant to section 3318.26 of the Revised Code to provide moneys for the school building program assistance fund shall be ten years. The terms of the obligations shall be such that in any fiscal year the aggregate amount of moneys from the lottery profits education fund, and not from other sources, that are pledged to pay bond service charges on obligations issued to pr...

...The Ohio facilities construction commission shall establish design specifications for classroom facilities that are appropriate for joint vocational education programs. The specifications shall provide standards for appropriate pupil instruction space but shall not include standards for any vocational education furnishings or equipment that is not comparable to, or the vocational education equivalent of, the furnishi...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Classroom facilities" has the same meaning as in section 3318.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Emergency project" means reconstruction or renovation of or repair to any classroom facilities made necessary because of damage due to an act of God. (3) "Eligible school district" means any school district in the first through one-hundredth percentiles as determined under section 3318.011 o...

... (A)(1) As used in this section: (a) "Ohio facilities construction commission," "classroom facilities," "school district," "school district board," "net bonded indebtedness," "required percentage of the basic project costs," "basic project cost," "valuation," and "percentile" have the same meanings as in section 3318.01 of the Revised Code. (b) "Required level of indebtedness" means five per cent of the school ...

... A school district board opting to qualify for state assistance pursuant to section 3318.36 of the Revised Code through levying the tax specified in division (D)(2)(a) or (D)(4) of that section shall declare by resolution that the question of a tax levy specified in division (D)(2)(a) or (4), as applicable, of section 3318.36 of the Revised Code shall be submitted to the electors of the school district at the next ge...

...This section applies only to a school district that participates in the school building assistance expedited local partnership program under section 3318.36 of the Revised Code. A school district board that enters into an agreement with the Ohio facilities construction commission under division (B) of section 3318.36 of the Revised Code may propose for issuance any bonds necessary for its participation in the progra...

... (A) This section applies beginning in fiscal year 2003 and only to a school district participating in the school building assistance expedited local partnership program under section 3318.36 of the Revised Code. (B) If there is a decrease in the tax valuation of a school district to which this section applies by ten per cent or greater from one tax year to the next due to a decrease in the assessment rate of the ...

...In any fiscal year, the Ohio facilities construction commission may, at its discretion, provide assistance under sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 of the Revised Code to a school district that has entered into an expedited local partnership agreement under section 3318.36 of the Revised Code before the district is otherwise eligible for that assistance based on its percentile rank, if the commission determines all of the f...

...(A)(1) As used in this section: (a) "Full maintenance amount" has the same meaning as in section 3318.034 of the Revised Code. (b) A "school district with an exceptional need for immediate classroom facilities assistance" means a school district with an exceptional need for new facilities in order to protect the health and safety of all or a portion of its students. (2) No school district that participates in the ...

...The Ohio facilities construction commission may provide assistance under the exceptional needs school facilities program established by section 3318.37 of the Revised Code to any school district for the purpose of the relocation or replacement of classroom facilities required as a result of any contamination of air, soil, or water that impacts the occupants of the facility. The commission shall make a determination ...

...(A) As used in this section, "big-eight school district" has the same meaning as in section 3314.02 of the Revised Code. (B) There is hereby established the accelerated urban school building assistance program. Under the program, notwithstanding section 3318.02 of the Revised Code, any big-eight school district that has not been approved to receive assistance under sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 of the Revised Code by ...

...(A) The 1:1 school facilities option program is hereby established. Under the program, the Ohio facilities construction commission shall provide state funds to assist eligible school districts in constructing, acquiring, reconstructing, or making additions or repairs to any feature of a classroom facility that meets the design standards of the commission in lieu of that district participating in the classroom facilit...

... (A)(1) Sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code apply only to joint vocational school districts. (2) As used in sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code: (a) "Ohio facilities construction commission," "classroom facilities," "project," and "basic project cost" have the same meanings as in section 3318.01 of the Revised Code. (b) "Acquisition of classroom facilities" means constructing, reconstruc...

... (A)(1) The Ohio facilities construction commission annually shall assess the classroom facilities needs of the number of joint vocational school districts that the commission reasonably expects to be able to provide assistance to in a fiscal year, based on the amount set aside for that fiscal year under division (B) of section 3318.40 of the Revised Code and the order of priority prescribed in division (B) of sectio...

... (A) Not later than the sixty-first day after March 14, 2003, and subsequently not later than the sixty-first day after the first day of each ensuing fiscal year, the department of education and workforce shall do all of the following: (1) Calculate the valuation per pupil of each joint vocational school district according to the following formula: The school district's average taxable value divided by the s...

...Each year for twenty-three successive years after the commencement of a joint vocational school district's project under sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code, the board of education of that school district shall deposit into a separate maintenance account or into the school district's capital and maintenance fund established under section 3315.18 of the Revised Code, school district moneys dedicated to mai...

...(A) A joint vocational school district board of education may generate the school district's portion of the basic project cost of its project under sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code using any combination of the following means if lawfully employed for the acquisition of classroom facilities: (1) The issuance of securities in accordance with Chapter 133. and section 3311.20 of the Revised Code; (...

... (A) Unless division (B) of section 3318.44 of the Revised Code applies, if a joint vocational school district board of education proposes to issue securities to generate all or part of the school district's portion of the basic project cost of the school district's project under sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code, the school district board shall adopt a resolution in accordance with Chapter 133. and sec...

...By rule adopted in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code, the Ohio facilities construction commission shall establish a program whereby the board of education of any joint vocational school district may enter into an agreement with the commission under which the board may proceed with the new construction or major repairs of a part of the school district's classroom facilities needs, as determined under ...

... (A) On the effective date of this section, the director of budget and management shall transfer any amount on hand in the fund established under former section 3318.47 of the Revised Code, as that section existed prior to the effective date of this section, into the fund established under section 3318.15 of the Revised Code. (B) On or after the effective date of this section, any amounts received from ...

... (A) When all of the following have occurred, a project undertaken by a school district pursuant to this chapter shall be considered complete and the Ohio facilities construction commission shall issue a certificate of completion to the district board of education: (1) All facilities to be constructed under the project, as specified in the project agreement entered into under section 3318.08 of the Revised Code, ha...