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...(A) Any educational service center that is formed by merging two or more educational service centers or former county school districts may determine the number of members of its governing board and whether the members are to be elected at large or by subdistrict, provided each board shall have an odd number of members. (B) The governing board of each service center that is merging to form the new service center s...

...Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 45.32 of Am. Sub. H.B. 117 of the 121st General Assembly, 146 Ohio Laws 900, 1805, as subsequently amended, or in Chapter 3311. of the Revised Code, no educational service center shall be required to merge in order to achieve any prescribed minimum average daily membership if such a merger will cause the territory of the resultant joint educational service center to...

... The procedure prescribed in this section may be used in lieu of a transfer prescribed under section 3311.231 of the Revised Code. (A) Subject to divisions (B) and (C) of this section, a board of education of a local school district that severed and annexed its territory under section 3311.059 of the Revised Code as it existed prior to June 30, 2011, may by a resolution approved by a majority of all its members pr...

... (A) If all of the client school districts of an educational service center have terminated their agreements with the service center under division (D) of section 3313.843 of the Revised Code, upon the latest effective date of the terminations, the governing board of that service center shall be abolished and such service center shall be dissolved by order of the director of education and workforce. The director's or...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Annexation" and "annexed" mean annexation for municipal purposes under sections 709.02 to 709.37 of the Revised Code. (2) "Annexed territory" means territory that has been annexed for municipal purposes to a city served by an urban school district, but on September 24, 1986, has not been transferred to the urban school district. (3) "Urban school district" means a city school dist...

...Notwithstanding anything prohibiting the existence of school districts with noncontiguous territory in section 3311.06 or 3311.37 of the Revised Code or in any other section of this chapter, a new school district may be formed under this chapter after the effective date of this section from the territory of noncontiguous school districts, provided that the board of education of any school district containing territo...

...When a local or exempted village school district contains within its territorial boundaries the major portion of the territory lying within the corporate limits of a village advanced to a city, such school district may be BY a majority vote of the full membership of such board of education, declare that such local or exempted village school district shall become a city school district, such change to become effective...

... The board of education of any local school district which contains within its territorial boundaries: (A) All the territory lying within the corporate limits of a village having a population of three thousand or more according to the last federal census; (B) All the territory lying within the corporate limits of a village having a population of two thousand or more according to the last federal census and a po...

...If an exempted village school district fails to contain within its territorial boundaries territory lying within the corporate limits of a village having a population, according to the latest federal census of two thousand or more, such exempted village school district shall become a local school district, subject to the supervision of the educational service center governing board for the school year commencing the ...

...If the state board of education adopts a resolution under this chapter proposing the creation of a new city or local school district that was not in operation during the 2004-2005 school year, the district shall not be created unless both houses of the general assembly approve the creation of the district through passage of a concurrent resolution.

... Any local, exempted village, or city board of education, any educational service center governing board, or any combination of boards of such districts and centers, referred to in sections 3311.16, 3311.17, and 3311.18 of the Revised Code as the initiating unit, may make or contract for the making of a study pertaining to the need to establish within one county, or within an area comprised of two or more adjoining c...

... On approval of the plan by the department of education and workforce, the initiating unit shall file a copy of such plan with the board of education of each district whose territory is proposed to be included in the proposed joint vocational school district. Within thirty days after receiving such copy, such board of education shall determine whether its district shall become a part of the proposed joint vocational ...

...Subject to the consent of the board of education of each school district whose territory is proposed to be included within a joint vocational school district, the initiating unit may create a joint vocational school district within the county or within an area comprised of two or more adjoining counties, composed of the territory of all the school districts whose boards of education have approved the formation of the...

... (A) The management and control of a joint vocational school district shall be vested in the joint vocational school district board of education which, beginning on September 29, 2013, shall be appointed under division (C) of this section. All members of a joint vocational school district board serving unexpired terms on September 29, 2013, may continue in office until the expiration of their terms. If a member le...

... (A)(1) Subject to division (A)(2) of this section, if a joint vocational school district has an even number of member districts each appointing a member to the joint vocational school district board of education and the joint vocational school district's plan on file with the department of education and workforce provides for one additional board member to be appointed on a rotating basis by one of the appointing bo...

...A joint vocational school district board of education by a vote of at least two-thirds of its full membership may, at any time, submit to the electors of the joint vocational school district the question of issuing bonds of such district for the purpose of paying the cost of purchasing a site or enlargement thereof, and for the erection and equipment of buildings, or for the purpose of enlarging, improving, or rebuil...

...(A) In addition to the resolutions authorized by sections 5705.194, 5705.199, 5705.21, 5705.212, and 5705.213 of the Revised Code, the board of education of a joint vocational or cooperative education school district by a vote of two-thirds of its full membership may at any time adopt a resolution declaring the necessity to levy a tax in excess of the ten-mill limitation for a period not to exceed ten years to ...

...The board of education of the joint vocational school district shall be authorized to charge and collect tuition for the attendance of pupils who are school residents of districts not a part of the joint vocational school district pursuant to arrangements made between the board of education of such district and the joint vocational school district board of education. The board of education of the joint vocational sc...

...The board of education of a school district which is a part of a joint vocational school district and the board of education of such joint vocational school district may enter into agreements to permit the school buildings of the district first noted to be used for the purposes of carrying on a vocational school program. Such use may be either free of cost or pursuant to such rental arrangements as may be stipulated ...

... (A) With the approval of the board of education of a joint vocational school district that is in existence, any school district in the county or counties comprising the joint vocational school district or any school district in a county adjacent to a county comprising part of a joint vocational school district may become a part of the joint vocational school district. On the adoption of a resolution of approval by t...

... (A) With the approval of the department of education and workforce, the boards of education of any two or more joint vocational school districts may, by the adoption of identical resolutions by a majority of the members of each such board, propose that one new joint vocational school district be created by adding together all of the territory of each of the districts and dissolving such districts. A copy of each res...

...Facilities of the joint vocational school districts may be used for post-high school training, technical training, and re-training programs of vocational education. A joint vocational school district operating a vocational school may construct, maintain, and operate facilities other than those used for vocational training to be used solely for post-high school training, technical training, re-training programs of voc...

...All joint vocational school district funds shall be kept in depositories selected pursuant to sections 135.01 to 135.21 of the Revised Code. The treasurer of the joint vocational school district shall be the custodian of such funds. Such funds shall be disbursed only pursuant to warrant signed by such treasurer and a person so authorized by the board of education of the joint vocational school district, and pursuant ...

... Upon approval by a majority of the full membership of the board of education of a joint vocational school district, or upon the receipt of resolutions formally adopted by a majority of the boards of education of the school districts participating in the joint vocational school district, the board of education of the joint vocational school district shall adopt and send to the department of education and workforce a ...

... The board of education of a joint vocational school district may enter into a written agreement with the board of trustees of any technical college district, the boundaries of which are coterminous with such joint vocational school district, which agreement may provide for the sharing of use of any physical facility or equipment owned or used by either district. Such agreement may further provide that the joint voca...