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...The auditor of state shall make the adjustment, as described in section 2743.49 of the Revised Code, of the amount that a wrongfully imprisoned individual, in an action brought in the court of claims pursuant to section 2743.48 of the Revised Code, may receive for each full year or part of a year of imprisonment and shall perform all of the functions relating to that adjustment as specified in section 2743.49 of the ...

...When conducting an audit under section 117.11 of the Revised Code of a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district, or a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, the auditor of state shall identify whether the school district or community school has adopted an anti-harassment policy in accordance with section 3313.666 of the Revised Code. This determination shall be...

...There is in the state treasury the auditor of state investigation and forfeiture trust fund. The fund shall consist of moneys received under sections 2981.13 and 2981.14 and division (B)(3) of section 2923.32 of the Revised Code, and the auditor of state shall use those moneys in accordance with those sections. Interest earned on moneys in the fund shall be credited to the fund.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Entity" means, whether for profit or nonprofit, a corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, sole proprietorship, or other business entity. "Entity" does not include an individual who receives state assistance that is not related to the individual's business. (2) "State award for economic development" means state financial assistance and expenditure in any ...

... (A) During the course of an audit, including a performance audit, of any state agency or institution of higher education as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, the auditor of state, an employee of the auditor of state, and any independent accountants or consultants contracted by the auditor of state as necessary to carry out the statutory responsibilities of the auditor of state, may request access to a...

...As used in this chapter: (A) Advance tax payment notes means the notes authorized by section 118.24 of the Revised Code. (B) Appropriation measure means any appropriation measure, amendment of an appropriation measure, or supplement to an appropriation measure of a municipal corporation, county, or township referred to in sections 5705.38 and 5705.40 of the Revised Code and any other action of a municipal corporati...

...(A) Pursuant to the authority of the general assembly to provide for the public health, safety, and welfare and to limit and restrict the powers of municipal corporations, counties, and townships to borrow money, contract debts, and levy taxes to prevent the abuse of such powers and to require reports and examination of their financial condition, transactions, operations, and undertakings, it is hereby declared to be...

...A municipal corporation, county, or township may undergo a fiscal watch review to determine whether it is approaching a state of fiscal emergency. A fiscal watch review shall be initiated by a written request to the auditor of state from the mayor of the municipal corporation, or the presiding officer of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation when authorized by a majority of the members of the legisla...

...(A) Any one of the following conditions constitutes grounds for a fiscal watch: (1) The existence of either of the following situations: (a) All accounts that were due and payable from the general fund of a municipal corporation, county, or township at the end of the preceding fiscal year that had been due and payable for at least thirty days at the end of the fiscal year or to which a penalty was added for failure...

... (A) Upon determining that one or more of the conditions described in section 118.022 of the Revised Code are present, the auditor of state shall issue a written declaration of the existence of a fiscal watch to the municipal corporation, county, or township and the county budget commission. The fiscal watch shall be in effect until the auditor of state determines that none of the conditions are any longer present an...

... (A) The auditor of state shall develop guidelines for identifying fiscal practices and budgetary conditions of municipal corporations, counties, and townships that, if uncorrected, could result in a future declaration of a fiscal watch or fiscal emergency. (B) If the auditor of state determines that a municipal corporation, county, or township is engaging in any of those practices or that any of those condit...

...(A) Any one of the following constitutes a fiscal emergency condition of a municipal corporation, county, or township: (1) The existence, at the time of the determination by the auditor of state under section 118.04 of the Revised Code, of a default on any debt obligation for more than thirty days. (2) The existence, at the time of the determination by the auditor of state under section 118.04 of the Revised Code, ...

...(A) The existence of a fiscal emergency condition constitutes a fiscal emergency. The existence of fiscal emergency conditions shall be determined by the auditor of state. Such determination, for purposes of this chapter, may be made only upon the filing with the auditor of state of a written request for such a determination by the governor, by the county budget commission, by the mayor of the municipal corporation, ...

...The auditor of state, on the auditor of state's initiative, may conduct a performance audit of a municipal corporation, county, or township that is under a fiscal caution, a fiscal watch, or a fiscal emergency.

...(A) Pursuant to the powers of the general assembly and for the purposes of this chapter, upon the occurrence of a fiscal emergency in any municipal corporation, county, or township, as determined pursuant to section 118.04 of the Revised Code, there is established, with respect to that municipal corporation, county, or township, a body both corporate and politic constituting an agency and instrumentality of the state...

...(A)(1) Within one hundred twenty days after the first meeting of the commission, the mayor of the municipal corporation or the board of county commissioners or board of township trustees shall submit to the commission a detailed financial plan, as approved or amended and approved by ordinance or resolution of the legislative authority, containing the following: (a) Actions to be taken by the municipal corporation, c...

...(A) The financial planning and supervision commission, or when authorized by the commission, the financial supervisor, shall have the following powers, duties, and functions: (1) To review all tax budgets, tax levy ordinances, bond and note ordinances or resolutions, appropriation measures of the municipal corporation, county, or township, and certificates of estimated resources to require that such are consistent w...

...(A) The members of the 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) All expenses incurred for services rendered by the financial supervisor for a period of twenty-four months shall be paid by the commission pursuant to an appropriation made by ...

...Any expense or obligation incurred by the financial planning and supervision commission under this chapter shall be payable solely from appropriations made by the general assembly.

...The municipal corporation, county, or township shall develop an effective financial accounting and reporting system by: (A) Promptly bringing its existing system of financial accounting and reporting into compliance with Chapter 117. of the Revised Code. Within ninety days of the determination of the existence of a fiscal emergency condition pursuant to section 118.04 of the Revised Code, the auditor of state shall ...

...(A) The municipal corporation, county, or township and all its officers and employees having possession of the required information or the responsibility for developing such information, shall at all times cooperate in assisting the functions of the financial planning and supervision commission by providing to the commission or, when authorized by the commission, the financial supervisor, on a continuing basis, all i...

... (A) After the date by which the municipal corporation, county, or township is required to submit a financial plan or segment of a financial plan to the financial planning and supervision commission, if the municipal corporation, county, or township has failed to submit a financial plan or segment as required by this chapter, expenditures from the general fund and all funds of the municipal corporation, county, or t...

... (A) No appropriation measure may be adopted contrary to the financial plan approved by the financial planning and supervision commission. Any existing appropriation measure inconsistent with the approved financial plan is ineffective for purposes of any expenditures to the extent it authorizes expenditures in excess of the revenues available after approval of the financial plan, and shall be amended promptly by the ...

...The financial planning and supervision commission may direct its certifications, notifications, orders, or requests to particular officers of the municipal corporation, county, township, or state, or to the municipal corporation, county, or township 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 may dee...

...(A) No debt obligation may be issued or incurred by the municipal corporation, county, or township, whether purchased by the municipal corporation, county, or township or others, except with the prior approval of the financial planning and supervision commission. (B) The commission shall disapprove the issuance of debt obligations upon a determination that, in its judgment, such action would impede the purposes of a...