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...A board of county commissioners may authorize the county to join an association or non-profit organization formed for the improvement of county government. Such board shall have the authority to appropriate from its general fund an amount sufficient to pay the dues, subscription costs, or membership charges of such association or non-profit organization. The board may also authorize any elected county official...

...Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this chapter, the compensation payable to a county auditor, county treasurer, county sheriff, clerk of the court of common pleas, county recorder, county commissioner, prosecuting attorney, county engineer, or county coroner shall not be reduced during the remainder of his term of office on account of a decline in the population of the county.

...(A) As used in this section, "county office" means the office of county auditor, county treasurer, county sheriff, clerk of the court of common pleas, county recorder, county commissioner, prosecuting attorney, county engineer, or county coroner. (B) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this chapter, the annual compensation of a person holding any county office on December 31, 1992, who commences a new term o...

...Upon notifying the board of county commissioners, any appointing authority of a county office, department, commission, board, or body, or of a common pleas court, county court, or county-operated municipal court as defined in section 1901.03 of the Revised Code, may establish a program to recognize outstanding employee performance. The program may include, but is not limited to, cash awards, additional paid leave, or...

...All the fees, costs, percentages, penalties, allowances, and other perquisites collected or received by law as compensation for services by a county auditor, county treasurer, probate judge, sheriff, clerk of the court of common pleas, county engineer, or county recorder, shall be received and collected for the sole use of the treasury of the county in which such officers are elected, and shall be held, accounted for...

...Each probate judge, county auditor, county treasurer, clerk of the court of common pleas, sheriff, county engineer, and county recorder shall charge and collect the fees, costs, percentages, allowances, and compensation allowed by law, and shall give to the person making such payment an official receipt.

...Each officer named in section 325.27 of the Revised Code shall keep full and regular accounts of all official fees, costs, percentages, penalties, allowances, or other perquisites charged or collected by him, and such accounts shall be records of the offices, shall belong to the county, and shall be transmitted by such officer to his successor in office. At all times, such accounts shall be subject to examination by ...

...(A) On the first business day of each month, and at the end of the officer's term of office, each officer named in section 325.27 of the Revised Code shall pay into the county treasury, to the credit of the general county fund, on the warrant of the county auditor, all fees, costs, penalties, percentages, allowances, and perquisites collected by the officer's office during the preceding month or part thereof for ...

... Except as otherwise provided in section 311.171 of the Revised Code, no county officer named in section 325.27 of the Revised Code shall make any reduction, abatement, or remission of any fees, costs, percentages, penalties, allowances, or perquisites of any kind, required to be charged and collected by the officer.

... (A) Notwithstanding sections 325.27 and 325.31 of the Revised Code, all fees retained by the clerk of courts under Chapters 1548., 4505., and 4519. of the Revised Code, all fees the clerk of courts receives as a third-party administrator of the motor vehicle skills test under section 4507.112 of the Revised Code, and all fees the clerk of courts receives in the capacity of deputy registrar under section 4503.03 of t...

...No salaried county official, shall remit a fee or part thereof, or shall collect a fee other than that prescribed by law. The person furnishing the information upon which a conviction results shall receive one half of the fine collected.

...In each county owing a bonded debt, there shall be a board, designated as the trustees of the sinking fund, composed of the prosecuting attorney, the county auditor, and the county treasurer. The prosecuting attorney shall be the president of such board and the county auditor shall be its secretary.

...The board of trustees of the sinking fund shall provide for the payment of all bonds issued by the county and the interest maturing thereon. All taxes, assessments, and other moneys collected for such purposes, or held in the county treasury to the credit of the sinking fund, shall be subject to investment and disbursement by such board. For the satisfaction of any obligation under its supervision, the board may sel...

...Immediately after each semiannual settlement of taxes and assessments, the county auditor shall report to the board of trustees of the sinking fund the amount in the county treasury to the credit of the sinking fund.

...The board of trustees of the sinking fund shall invest all moneys subject to its control in bonds of the United States, of this state, or of a municipal corporation, school district, township, or county of the state, and shall hold in reserve in cash only such sums as may be needed for effecting the purposes of sections 327.01 to 327.08, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...The meetings of the board of trustees of the sinking fund shall be open to the public, and all questions relating to the purchase or sale of securities or the payment of bonds or interest shall be decided by a yea and nay vote, which vote shall be recorded on the journal of such board.

...Money shall be drawn from the county treasury for investment or disbursement by the board of trustees of the sinking fund by the issuance of a voucher, signed by all the members of the board and directed to the county auditor, on which a warrant shall be drawn on the county treasurer, payable from the proper fund. All moneys received by such board shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the proper fun...

...The board of trustees of the sinking fund shall keep a full and complete record of its transactions, a complete record of the funded debt of the county specifying the dates, purposes, amounts, numbers, maturities, and rates, and maturities of interest installments on such debt, where such installments are payable, and an account exhibiting the amount held in the sinking fund for the payment thereof.

...On or before the first Monday in May of each year, the board of trustees of the sinking fund shall certify to the board of county commissioners the rate of tax necessary to provide a sinking fund for the payment, at maturity, of bonds issued by the county prior to August 17, 1921, and for the payment of interest on said bonded indebtedness. The amount so certified shall be set forth in the annual budget of the board ...

... In each county, except as provided in section 329.40 of the Revised Code, there shall be a county department of job and family services which, when so established, shall be governed by this chapter. The department shall consist of a county director of job and family services appointed by the board of county commissioners, and such assistants and other employees as are necessary for the efficient performance of the f...

...Whenever the county department of welfare, county department of human services, county director of welfare, or county director of human services is referred to or designated in the Revised Code or any rule, contract, or other document, the reference or designation shall be deemed to refer to the county department of job and family services or county director of job and family services, as the case may be.

...Under the control and direction of the board of county commissioners, the county director of job and family services shall have full charge of the county department of job and family services. The director shall prepare the annual budget estimate of the department and submit it to the board. Before submitting the budget estimate to the board, the director shall consider the recommendations of the county family ser...

... (A) The board of county commissioners may, in addition to the county director of job and family services, appoint administrators to oversee services provided by the county department of job and family services, subject to the following limitations: (1) If the county has a population of five hundred thousand or more, the board may appoint up to five administrators. (2) If the county has a population of two hundred ...

...Within the appropriation for personal services, each county department of job and family services may employ the necessary employees who, except for the county director of job and family services as provided in section 329.02 of the Revised Code, shall be in the classified service. Compensation for positions in each service, group, or grade established by the director of administrative services shall not be less than...

...Each county department of job and family services shall have hours of operation outside the county department's normal hours of operation during which the county department will accept from employed individuals applications for the programs administered by the county department and assist employed program recipients and participants with matters related to the programs.