Ohio Rev. Code § 121.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 121 / § 121.08
§ 121.08. Deputy director of administration in department of commerce
Status: in_force

March 20, 2026 Senate Bill 56 - 136th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created in the department of commerce the position of deputy director of administration. This officer shall be appointed by the director of commerce, serve under the director's direction, supervision, and control, perform the duties the director prescribes, and hold office during the director's pleasure. The director of commerce may designate an assistant director of commerce to serve as the deputy director of administration. The deputy director of administration shall perform the duties prescribed by the director of commerce in supervising the activities of the division of administration of the department of commerce. (B) Except as provided in section 121.07 of the Revised Code, the department of commerce shall have all powers and perform all duties vested in the deputy director of administration, the state fire marshal, the superintendent of financial institutions, the superintendent of real estate and professional licensing, the superintendent of liquor control, the superintendent of industrial compliance, the superintendent of unclaimed funds, the superintendent of cannabis control, and the commissioner of securities, and shall have all powers and perform all duties vested by law in all officers, deputies, and employees of those offices. Except as provided in section 121.07 of the Revised Code, wherever powers are conferred or duties imposed upon any of those officers, the powers and duties shall be construed as vested in the department of commerce. (C)(1) There is hereby created in the department of commerce a division of financial institutions, which shall have all powers and perform all duties vested by law in the superintendent of financial institutions. Wherever powers are conferred or duties imposed upon the superintendent of financial institutions, those powers and duties shall be construed as vested in the division of financial institutions. The division of financial institutions shall be administered by the superintendent of financial institutions. (2) All provisions of law governing the superintendent of financial institutions shall apply to and govern the superintendent of financial institutions provided for in this section; all authority vested by law in the superintendent of financial institutions with respect to the management of the division of financial institutions shall be construed as vested in the superintendent of financial institutions created by this section with respect to the division of financial institutions provided for in this section; and all rights, privileges, and emoluments conferred by law upon the superintendent of financial institutions shall be construed as conferred upon the superintendent of financial institutions as head of the division of financial institutions. The director of commerce shall not transfer from the division of financial institutions any of the functions specified in division (C)(2) of this section. (D) There is hereby created in the department of commerce a division of liquor control, which shall have all powers and perform all duties vested by law in the superintendent of liquor control. Wherever powers are conferred or duties are imposed upon the superintendent of liquor control, those powers and duties shall be construed as vested in the division of liquor control. The division of liquor control shall be administered by the superintendent of liquor control. (E) The director of commerce shall not be interested, directly or indirectly, in any firm or corporation which is a dealer in securities as defined in sections 1707.01 and 1707.14 of the Revised Code, or in any firm or corporation licensed under sections 1321.01 to 1321.19 of the Revised Code. (F) The director of commerce shall not have any official connection with a savings and loan association, a savings bank, a bank, a bank holding company, a savings and loan association holding company, a consumer finance company, or a credit union that is under the supervision of the division of financial institutions, or a subsidiary of any of the preceding entities, or be interested in the business thereof. (G) There is hereby created in the state treasury the division of administration fund. The fund shall receive assessments on the operating funds of the department of commerce in accordance with procedures prescribed by the director of commerce. All operating expenses of the division of administration shall be paid from the division of administration fund. (H) There is hereby created in the department of commerce a division of real estate and professional licensing, which shall be under the control and supervision of the director of commerce. The division of real estate and professional licensing shall be administered by the superintendent of real estate and professional licensing. The superintendent of real estate and professional licensing shall exercise the powers and perform the functions and duties delegated to the superintendent under Chapters 4735., 4763., 4764., 4767., and 4768. of the Revised Code. (I) There is hereby created in the department of commerce a division of industrial compliance, which shall have all powers and perform all duties vested by law in the superintendent of industrial compliance. Wherever powers are conferred or duties imposed upon the superintendent of industrial compliance, those powers and duties shall be construed as vested in the division of industrial compliance. The division of industrial compliance shall be under the control and supervision of the director of commerce and be administered by the superintendent of industrial compliance. (J) There is hereby created in the department of commerce a division of unclaimed funds, which shall have all powers and perform all duties delegated to or vested by law in the superintendent of unclaimed funds. Wherever powers are conferred or duties imposed upon the superintendent of unclaimed funds, those powers and duties shall be construed as vested in the division of unclaimed funds. The division of unclaimed funds shall be under the control and supervision of the director of commerce and shall be administered by the superintendent of unclaimed funds. The superintendent of unclaimed funds shall exercise the powers and perform the functions and duties delegated to the superintendent by the director of commerce under section 121.07 and Chapter 169. of the Revised Code, and as may otherwise be provided by law. (K) There is hereby created in the department of commerce a division of cannabis control, which shall have all powers and perform all duties vested by law in the superintendent of cannabis control. Wherever powers are conferred or duties are imposed upon the superintendent of cannabis control, those powers and duties shall be construed as vested in the division of cannabis control. The division of cannabis control shall be under the control and supervision of the director of commerce and be administered by the superintendent of cannabis control. (L) The department of commerce or a division of the department created by the Revised Code that is acting with authorization on the department's behalf may request from the bureau of criminal identification and investigation pursuant to section 109.572 of the Revised Code, or coordinate with appropriate federal, state, and local government agencies to accomplish, criminal records checks for the persons whose identities are required to be disclosed by an applicant for the issuance or transfer of a permit, license, certificate of registration, or certification issued or transferred by the department or division. At or before the time of making a request for a criminal records check, the department or division may require any person whose identity is required to be disclosed by an applicant for the issuance or transfer of such a license, permit, certificate of registration, or certification to submit to the department or division valid fingerprint impressions in a format and by any media or means acceptable to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation and, when applicable, the federal bureau of investigation. The department or division may cause the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to conduct a criminal records check through the federal bureau of investigation only if the person for whom the criminal records check would be conducted resides or works outside of this state or has resided or worked outside of this state during the preceding five years, or if a criminal records check conducted by the bureau of criminal identification and investigation within this state indicates that the person may have a criminal record outside of this state. In the case of a criminal records check under section 109.572 of the Revised Code, the department or division shall forward to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation the requisite form, fingerprint impressions, and fee described in division (C) of that section. When requested by the department or division in accordance with this section, the bureau of criminal identification and investigation shall request from the federal bureau of investigation any information it has with respect to the person who is the subject of the requested criminal records check and shall forward the requisite fingerprint impressions and information to the federal bureau of investigation for that criminal records check. After conducting a criminal records check or receiving the results of a criminal records check from the federal bureau of investigation, the bureau of criminal identification and investigation shall provide the results to the department or division. The department or division may require any person about whom a criminal records check is requested to pay to the department or division the amount necessary to cover the fee charged to the department or division by the bureau of criminal identification and investigation under division (C)(3) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code, including, when applicable, any fee for a criminal records check conducted by the federal bureau of investigation. (M) The director of commerce, or the director's designee, may adopt rules to enhance compliance with statutes pertaining to, and rules adopted by, divisions under the direction, supervision, and control of the department or director by offering incentive-based programs that ensure safety and soundness while promoting growth and prosperity in the state. Last updated January 16, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.136 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.136
§ 124.136. Parental leave and benefits
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Fetal death" has the same meaning as in section 3705.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Stillborn" means that an infant of at least twenty weeks of gestation suffered a fetal death. (B)(1) Each permanent full-time and permanent part-time employee paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the Revised Code and each employee listed in division (B)(2), (3), or (4) of section 124.14 of the Revised Code who works thirty or more hours per week, and who meets the requirement of division (B)(2)(a) of this section is eligible, upon the birth, stillbirth, or adoption of a child, for a parental leave of absence and parental leave benefits under this section. If the employee takes leave under this section for a stillbirth, the employee is ineligible for leave under section 124.387 of the Revised Code. (2)(a) To be eligible for leave and benefits under this section, an employee must be one of the following: (i) A parent, as listed on the birth certificate, of a newly born child; (ii) A parent, as listed on the fetal death certificate, of a stillborn child; (iii) A legal guardian of a newly adopted child who resides in the same household as that child. (b) Employees may elect to receive five thousand dollars for adoption expenses in lieu of receiving the paid leave benefit provided under this section. Such payment may be requested upon placement of the child in the employee's home. If the child is already residing in the home, payment may be requested at the time the adoption is approved. (3) The average number of regular hours worked, which shall include all hours of holiday pay and other types of paid leave, during the three-month period immediately preceding the day parental leave of absence begins shall be used to determine eligibility and benefits under this section for part-time employees, but such benefits shall not exceed forty hours per week. If an employee has not worked for a three-month period, the number of hours for which the employee has been scheduled to work per week during the employee's period of employment shall be used to determine eligibility and benefits under this section. (C) Parental leave granted under this section shall not exceed twelve consecutive weeks, which shall include four hundred eighty hours of paid leave for permanent full-time employees and a prorated number of hours of paid leave for permanent part-time employees. Parental leave shall be taken within one year of the birth of the child, delivery of the stillborn child, or placement of the child for adoption. During the leave period, employees shall receive paid leave equal to seventy per cent of their base rate of pay. All of the following apply to employees granted parental leave: (1) They remain eligible to receive all employer-paid benefits and continue to accrue all other forms of paid leave as if they were in active pay status. (2) They are ineligible to receive overtime pay, and no portion of their parental leave shall be included in calculating their overtime pay. (3) They are ineligible to receive holiday pay. A holiday occurring during the leave period shall be counted as one day of parental leave and be paid as such. (D) Employees receiving parental leave may utilize available sick leave, personal leave, vacation leave, or compensatory time balances in order to supplement the seventy per cent of their base rate of pay received during the parental leave period, in an amount sufficient to give them up to one hundred per cent of their pay for time on parental leave. Use of parental leave does not affect an employee's eligibility for other forms of paid leave granted under this chapter and does not prohibit an employee from taking leave under the "Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993," 107 Stat. 6, 29 U.S.C.A. 2601, except that parental leave shall be included in any leave time provided under that act. An employee may not receive parental leave under this section after exhausting leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 for the birth of the child, delivery of the stillborn child, or placement of the child for adoption. (E) Employees receiving disability leave benefits under section 124.385 of the Revised Code prior to becoming eligible for parental leave shall continue to receive disability leave benefits for the duration of their disabling condition or as otherwise provided under the disability leave benefits program. If an employee is receiving disability leave benefits because of pregnancy and these benefits expire prior to the expiration date of any benefits the employee would have been entitled to receive under this section, the employee shall receive parental leave for such additional time. Last updated September 22, 2023 at 9:31 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 133.082 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 133 / § 133.082
§ 133.082. Securities issued in anticipation of taxes collected
Status: in_force

April 7, 2009 Senate Bill 353 - 127th General Assembly (A) A board of county commissioners of a county in which a county land reutilization corporation is organized under Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code, upon the written request of the county treasurer, may issue securities in anticipation of the collection of the current taxes that are not paid on or before the last day on which such taxes may be paid without penalty or that have become delinquent. The aggregate principal amount of such securities shall not exceed ninety per cent of the difference between the following amounts: (1) The amount of the current taxes that constitutes current year unpaid taxes or current year delinquent taxes on the date securities under this section are issued; (2) To the extent ascertainable by the county treasurer, the amount of current year unpaid taxes or current year delinquent taxes that have been collected during the period commencing on the day immediately following the last day the current year unpaid taxes or current year delinquent taxes could have been paid without penalty and ending with the business day immediately preceding the day on which an agreement for the sale of the securities is executed. (B) Securities issued under this section shall be issued not later than the first day of December of the year in which such current taxes were not paid when due, and shall mature not later than the thirty-first day of December of the third year following the year in which the current taxes were not paid when due. (C) Proceeds from the sale of the securities not applied to the payment of any financing costs shall be disbursed by the county treasurer to the taxing authorities that levied the taxes in the same manner as such taxes would have been disbursed had such taxes been paid when due. (D) The county officers authorized by the county taxing authority shall execute the necessary documents, including, but not limited to, trust agreements and other agreements and certifications, to provide for the pledge, protection, and disposition of the pledged revenues from which debt charges on the securities issued under this section are to be paid. (E) Anticipation securities issued under this section shall not be general obligations of the county. Anticipation securities issued under this section shall be secured only by a pledge of and lien upon the delinquent real property taxes and assessments, the collection of which is being anticipated by the issuance of the securities in accordance with this section, and any securities issued to fund or refund those securities. The pledge shall be valid and binding from the time the pledge is made, and the tax receipts and proceeds pledged and thereafter received by the county treasurer shall immediately be subject to the lien of that pledge without any physical delivery of those tax receipts or proceeds or further act. The lien of any pledge is valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the county, whether or not such parties have notice of the lien. Neither the resolution nor any trust agreement by which a pledge is created or further evidenced need be filed or recorded except in the records of the county taxing authority. (F) As long as any securities issued under this section, in either original or refunded form, remain outstanding, except as otherwise provided in those documents, the delinquent real property taxes and assessments pledged to the payment of debt charges on the securities shall remain under the control of the county taxing authority and shall not be appropriated other than in accordance with division (H) of this section. (G) Sections 9.98 to 9.983 of the Revised Code apply to securities issued under this section, notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter. (H) The amounts from the collection of the delinquent real property taxes and assessments anticipated by the securities and needed to pay debt charges on the securities issued under this section shall be considered appropriated for that purpose, and other appropriations from those sources by the county taxing authority shall be limited to the balance available after deducting the amount needed to pay those debt charges. The portions of those amounts as received and to be applied to those debt charges shall be deposited and set aside in an account for that purpose in the bond retirement fund in the amounts and at the times required to pay those debt charges as provided for by the authorizing legislation, or as otherwise provided by law. (I) As used in this section, "current taxes" has the same meaning as in section 323.01 of the Revised Code, and "current year unpaid taxes" and "current year delinquent taxes" have the same meanings as in section 321.341 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 121.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 121 / § 121.23
§ 121.23. No award of contract to person found in contempt for failure to correct an unfair labor practice
Status: in_force

January 15, 1981 House Bill 661 - 113th General Assembly (A) The secretary of state shall establish and maintain a list of all persons against whom more than one final, unappealable finding of contempt of court by a federal court or court of appeals has been issued and has remained uncorrected by the court within the immediately preceding two-year period after the listing of the finding by the secretary of state for failure to correct an unfair labor practice prohibited by the "National Labor Relations Act," 49 Stat. 452 (1935), 29 U.S.C.A. 158. The list shall be updated on the first day of each month. The secretary of state shall, within ten days after a person's name is added to the list pursuant to this division, issue written notice to such person stating that the person's name has been placed on the list pursuant to this division and setting forth the specific contempt finding of the court upon which the secretary of state based his determination. Any person who receives such notice may file an application with the secretary of state to have the person's name removed from the list. Upon receiving such application, the secretary of state shall conduct a hearing pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code and afford the applicant the opportunity to present evidence and arguments in support of the application. If after such hearing the secretary of state determines that the person's name was improperly included on the list or that the finding of contempt of court has been corrected by the court, the secretary of state shall immediately remove the person's name from the list. (B) No department, office, institution, board, commission, or other state agency shall award a public improvement, service, or supply contract or subcontract to any person whose name appears on the most recent list established pursuant to this section and who has received written notice as provided in division (A) of this section. (C) No person holding a public improvement, service, or supply contract with a state agency shall enter into any subcontract associated with this contract with a person whose name appears on the most recent list established pursuant to this section and who has received written notice as provided in division (A) of this section. (D) During an emergency situation, a department, office, institution, board, commission, or other state agency may award a contract or subcontract to a person whose name appears on the list if the listed person is the sole source of supply for the goods or services needed by the state agency.
Ohio Rev. Code § 163.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 163 / § 163.19
§ 163.19. Appeal
Status: in_force

October 10, 2007 Senate Bill 7 - 127th General Assembly Subject to sections 163.07 and 163.09 of the Revised Code, any party may prosecute appeals as in other civil actions from the judgment of the court. The owner may request, and the court may grant, a stay on appeal, provided that the owner posts a supersedeas bond in an amount the court determines.
Ohio Rev. Code § 101.62 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 101 / § 101.62
§ 101.62. Expiration date for occupational licensing boards
Status: in_force

April 9, 2025 House Bill 238 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in sections 101.62 to 101.65 of the Revised Code: (1) "Individual" means a natural person. (2) Except as provided in divisions (A)(3) and (4) of this section, "least restrictive regulation," "occupational license," and "occupational licensing board" have the meanings defined in section 4798.01 of the Revised Code. (3) On and after the effective date of this amendment, "occupational license" means all of the following: (a) An occupational license as that term is defined in section 4798.01 of the Revised Code; (b) A certification as that term is defined in section 4798.01 of the Revised Code; (c) A business license that requires the applicant to satisfy a personal qualification. (4) On and after the effective date of this amendment, "occupational licensing board" means any board, commission, committee, or council, or any other similar state public body, any administrative department enumerated under section 121.02 of the Revised Code, and any agency, division, or office of state government, that issues an occupational license. "Occupational licensing board" does not include a committee or office created under section 101.34 of the Revised Code. (5)(a) Except as provided in division (A)(5)(b) of this section, "personal qualification" means criteria related to an applicant's personal background and characteristics including completion of an approved educational program, satisfactory performance on an examination, work experience, other evidence of attainment of requisite skills or knowledge, moral standing, criminal history, and completion of continuing education. (b) "Personal qualification" does not include a requirement that an owner or controlling persons of a business submit to a criminal records check or meet requirements related to criminal history or moral standing, unless that owner or controlling person is the applicant. (B) An occupational licensing board shall be triggered to expire at the end of the thirty-first day of December of the sixth year after it became subject to review or was created or last renewed and shall expire at the end of the thirtieth day of June of the following year after the board was triggered to expire. The expiration of an occupational licensing board under this section emancipates a person to lawfully engage in the profession, occupation, or occupational activity, which has been previously licensed by that board, without an occupational license, notwithstanding any law of the state that requires a person to possess a license to lawfully engage in that profession, occupation, or occupational activity. (C) The director of budget and management shall not authorize the expenditure of any moneys for an occupational licensing board on or after the date of its expiration. (D) The occupational licensing board shall operate after its expiration has been triggered, but not later than the end of the thirtieth day of June of the following year, to provide for the orderly, efficient, and expeditious conclusion of the board's business and operation. The orders, licenses, contracts, and other actions made, taken, granted, or performed by the board continue in effect according to their terms notwithstanding the board's abolition, unless the general assembly provides otherwise by law. The general assembly may provide by law for the temporary or permanent transfer of some or all of an expired or abolished board's functions and personnel to a successor agency, board, or officer. The expiration or abolition of a board does not cause the termination or dismissal of any claim pending against the board by any person, or any claim pending against any person by the board. Unless the general assembly provides otherwise by law for the substitution of parties, the attorney general shall succeed the board with reference to any pending claim. (E) An occupational licensing board may be renewed by enactment of a law that continues the statutes creating, empowering, governing, or regulating the board. The amendment of a statute creating, empowering, governing, or regulating a board, between the time the board was last reviewed and the time it is next scheduled to be reviewed does not change the next scheduled review date of the board. The next scheduled review date changes only if the amendment expressly so provides. (F) When an occupational licensing board performs functions other than licensing or regulating the licensing of an occupational license that expires under this section, the operation of sections 101.62 to 101.65 of the Revised Code shall not cause the board, or the statutes creating, empowering, governing, or regulating the board, to expire. The board and the statutes shall continue to the extent the board and the statutes apply to performing functions other than licensing or regulating the licensing of an occupational license. Last updated February 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 107.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 107 / § 107.12
§ 107.12. Governor's office of faith-based and community initiatives
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "organization" means a faith-based or other organization that is exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C. 1, as amended, and provides charitable services to needy residents of this state. (B) There is hereby established within the office of the governor the governor's office of faith-based and community initiatives. The office shall: (1) Serve as a clearinghouse of information on federal, state, and local funding for charitable services performed by organizations; (2) Encourage organizations to seek public funding for their charitable services; (3) Assist local, state, and federal agencies in coordinating their activities to secure maximum use of funds and efforts that benefit people receiving charitable services from organizations; (4) Advise the governor, general assembly, and the advisory board of the governor's office of faith-based and community initiatives on the barriers that exist to collaboration between organizations and governmental entities and on ways to remove the barriers. (C) The governor shall appoint an executive director and such other staff as may be necessary to manage the office and perform or oversee the performance of the duties of the office. Within sixty days after being appointed, and every twelve months thereafter, the executive director shall distribute to the advisory board and review with the board a strategic plan. The executive director shall report to the board at least quarterly on proposed initiatives and policies. A report shall include the condition of the budget and the finances of the office. (D)(1) There is hereby created the advisory board of the governor's office of faith-based and community initiatives. The board shall consist of the following members: (a) Four individuals appointed by the governor; (b) One member of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives; (c) One member of the senate appointed by the president of the senate; (d) Two individuals to represent the faith-based and other nonprofit community, one appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, and one appointed by the president of the senate. (2) Members of the house of representatives and of the senate who are appointed to serve on the advisory board shall serve on the board for the duration of the general assembly during which they were appointed. Terms of the office for all other members of the advisory board shall be one year. Any vacancy that occurs on the board shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. (3) Members of the board are not entitled to compensation, but public members appointed by the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the president of the senate shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses that are incurred in relation to board meetings. (4) The board shall be presided over by a chairperson and a vice-chairperson, who shall be the members of the board who are also members of the house of representatives or the senate. Annually on the first day of January, the chairpersonship and vice-chairpersonship shall alternate between the members of the house of representatives and the senate. The member of the senate shall be the chairperson during the first regular session of a general assembly and the member of the house of representatives shall be the chairperson during the second regular session of the general assembly. (E) The board shall have the following duties: (1) Provide direction, guidance, and oversight to the office; (2) Assist in the dissemination of information about, and in the stimulation of public awareness of, the service programs supported by the office; (3) Review the budget and finances of the office, proposed initiatives and policies, and the executive director's annual strategic plan at board meetings; (4) Provide feedback for and proposed modifications of the executive director's strategic plan. Within forty-five days after submitting a strategic plan, the executive director shall contact each advisory board member to obtain feedback. With the approval of the advisory board chairperson, the executive director shall lead a strategic plan discussion at the first board meeting following the distribution of the strategic plan. (5) Publish a report of its activities and accomplishments on or before the first day of August of each year, and deliver copies of the report to the governor, the speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives, and the president and minority leader of the senate. (F) No member of the board or organization that the member is affiliated or involved with is eligible to receive any grant that the office administers or assists in administering. Last updated July 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 141.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 141 / § 141.07
§ 141.07. Compensation and expenses of judges holding court outside county of residence
Status: in_force

July 1, 1997 House Bill 438 - 121st General Assembly In addition to the annual salary and expenses provided for in sections 141.04 and 141.05 of the Revised Code, each judge of the probate court, and of the juvenile court, while holding court in a county in which the judge does not reside, by assignment of the chief justice of the supreme court under section 2101.37 , 2101.39 , or 2151.07 of the Revised Code, and each judge of the common pleas court while holding court in a county in which the judge does not reside, by assignment of the chief justice of the supreme court under section 2701.03 of the Revised Code, or without any assignment, shall receive the actual and necessary expenses that the judge incurred while so holding court in that county, to be paid from the treasury of that county upon the warrant of the county auditor. Each judge of the court of common pleas, of the probate court, and of the juvenile court, who is assigned by the chief justice by virtue of section 2503.04 of the Revised Code, each judge of the probate court who is assigned by the chief justice by virtue of sections 2101.37 and 2101.39 of the Revised Code, and each judge of the juvenile court who is assigned by the chief justice by virtue of section 2151.07 of the Revised Code, to aid in disposing of business of some county other than that in which the judge resides shall receive fifty dollars for each day of the assignment and the actual and necessary expenses that the judge incurred in holding court under the assignment, together with the judge's actual transportation expenses, to be paid from the treasury of the county to which the judge is so assigned upon the warrant of the auditor of that county.
Ohio Rev. Code § 125.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 125 / § 125.19
§ 125.19. Energy efficiency and conservation purchasing measures information
Status: in_force

July 1, 1985 House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly The department of administrative services shall make available to boards of education and local governments all information about energy efficiency and energy conservation purchasing measures developed by the department or other state agency. The department shall develop and conduct orientation and training programs concerning energy efficiency and energy conservation purchasing measures for all state, board of education, and local employees having duties for purchasing supplies, materials, and equipment.
Ohio Rev. Code § 101.52 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 101 / § 101.52
§ 101.52. Responsibility for printing
Status: in_force

March 9, 1999 House Bill 649 - 122nd General Assembly The clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives are custodians of the documents in possession of the senate or house of representatives, and are responsible for the printing of a document when its printing becomes necessary in the course of the proceedings or operations of the clerk's respective house. The clerk shall discharge this responsibility for printing, whether for a particular document or for a particular class of documents, by printing the document internally in the clerk's office, by contracting with a private printer outside the clerk's office, by participating in the public printing services provided by the department of administrative services, or by requesting the director of administrative services to let a contract for the printing. In choosing among these methods of printing a document or class of documents, the clerk shall not select a method unless it reasonably appears under the circumstances that the method will enable the clerk successfully and efficiently to discharge the clerk's responsibility for printing the document or class of documents.
Ohio Rev. Code § 133.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 133 / § 133.01
§ 133.01. Uniform public securities law definitions
Status: in_force

March 27, 2020 House Bill 197 - 133rd General Assembly As used in this chapter, in sections 9.95 , 9.96 , and 2151.655 of the Revised Code, in other sections of the Revised Code that make reference to this chapter unless the context does not permit, and in related proceedings, unless otherwise expressly provided: (A) "Acquisition" as applied to real or personal property includes, among other forms of acquisition, acquisition by exercise of a purchase option, and acquisition of interests in property, including, without limitation, easements and rights-of-way, and leasehold and other lease interests initially extending or extendable for a period of at least sixty months. (B) "Anticipatory securities" means securities, including notes, issued in anticipation of the issuance of other securities. (C) "Board of elections" means the county board of elections of the county in which the subdivision is located. If the subdivision is located in more than one county, "board of elections" means the county board of elections of the county that contains the largest portion of the population of the subdivision or that otherwise has jurisdiction in practice over and customarily handles election matters relating to the subdivision. (D) "Bond retirement fund" means the bond retirement fund provided for in section 5705.09 of the Revised Code, and also means a sinking fund or any other special fund, regardless of the name applied to it, established by or pursuant to law or the proceedings for the payment of debt charges. Provision may be made in the applicable proceedings for the establishment in a bond retirement fund of separate accounts relating to debt charges on particular securities, or on securities payable from the same or common sources, and for the application of moneys in those accounts only to specified debt charges on specified securities or categories of securities. Subject to law and any provisions in the applicable proceedings, moneys in a bond retirement fund or separate account in a bond retirement fund may be transferred to other funds and accounts. (E) "Capitalized interest" means all or a portion of the interest payable on securities from their date to a date stated or provided for in the applicable legislation, which interest is to be paid from the proceeds of the securities. (F) "Chapter 133. securities" means securities authorized by or issued pursuant to or in accordance with this chapter. (G) "County auditor" means the county auditor of the county in which the subdivision is located. If the subdivision is located in more than one county, "county auditor" means the county auditor of the county that contains the highest amount of the tax valuation of the subdivision or that otherwise has jurisdiction in practice over and customarily handles property tax matters relating to the subdivision. In the case of a county that has adopted a charter, "county auditor" means the officer who generally has the duties and functions provided in the Revised Code for a county auditor. (H) "Credit enhancement facilities" means letters of credit, lines of credit, stand-by, contingent, or firm securities purchase agreements, insurance, or surety arrangements, guarantees, and other arrangements that provide for direct or contingent payment of debt charges, for security or additional security in the event of nonpayment or default in respect of securities, or for making payment of debt charges to and at the option and on demand of securities holders or at the option of the issuer or upon certain conditions occurring under put or similar arrangements, or for otherwise supporting the credit or liquidity of the securities, and includes credit, reimbursement, marketing, remarketing, indexing, carrying, interest rate hedge, and subrogation agreements, and other agreements and arrangements for payment and reimbursement of the person providing the credit enhancement facility and the security for that payment and reimbursement. (I) "Current operating expenses" or "current expenses" means the lawful expenditures of a subdivision, except those for permanent improvements and for payments of debt charges of the subdivision. (J) "Debt charges" means the principal, including any mandatory sinking fund deposits and mandatory redemption payments, interest, and any redemption premium, payable on securities as those payments come due and are payable. The use of "debt charges" for this purpose does not imply that any particular securities constitute debt within the meaning of the Ohio Constitution or other laws. (K) "Financing costs" means all costs and expenses relating to the authorization, including any required election, issuance, sale, delivery, authentication, deposit, custody, clearing, registration, transfer, exchange, fractionalization, replacement, payment, and servicing of securities, including, without limitation, costs and expenses for or relating to publication and printing, postage, delivery, preliminary and final official statements, offering circulars, and informational statements, travel and transportation, underwriters, placement agents, investment bankers, paying agents, registrars, authenticating agents, remarketing agents, custodians, clearing agencies or corporations, securities depositories, financial advisory services, certifications, audits, federal or state regulatory agencies, accounting and computation services, legal services and obtaining approving legal opinions and other legal opinions, credit ratings, redemption premiums, and credit enhancement facilities. Financing costs may be paid from any moneys available for the purpose, including, unless otherwise provided in the proceedings, from the proceeds of the securities to which they relate and, as to future financing costs, from the same sources from which debt charges on the securities are paid and as though debt charges. (L) "Fiscal officer" means the following, or, in the case of absence or vacancy in the office, a deputy or assistant authorized by law or charter to act in the place of the named officer, or if there is no such authorization then the deputy or assistant authorized by legislation to act in the place of the named officer for purposes of this chapter, in the case of the following subdivisions: (1) A county, the county auditor; (2) A municipal corporation, the city auditor or village clerk or clerk-treasurer, or the officer who, by virtue of a charter, has the duties and functions provided in the Revised Code for the city auditor or village clerk or clerk-treasurer; (3) A school district, the treasurer of the board of education; (4) A regional water and sewer district, the secretary of the board of trustees; (5) A joint township hospital district, the treasurer of the district; (6) A joint ambulance district, the clerk of the board of trustees; (7) A joint recreation district, the person designated pursuant to section 755.15 of the Revised Code; (8) A detention facility district or a district organized under section 2151.65 of the Revised Code or a combined district organized under sections 2152.41 and 2151.65 of the Revised Code, the county auditor of the county designated by law to act as the auditor of the district; (9) A township, a fire district organized under division (C) of section 505.37 of the Revised Code, or a township police district, the fiscal officer of the township; (10) A joint fire district, the clerk of the board of trustees of that district; (11) A regional or county library district, the person responsible for the financial affairs of that district; (12) A joint solid waste management district, the fiscal officer appointed by the board of directors of the district under section 343.01 of the Revised Code; (13) A joint emergency medical services district, the person appointed as fiscal officer pursuant to division (D) of section 307.053 of the Revised Code; (14) A fire and ambulance district, the person appointed as fiscal officer under division (B) of section 505.375 of the Revised Code; (15) A subdivision described in division (MM)(20) of this section, the officer who is designated by law as or performs the functions of its chief fiscal officer; (16) A joint police district, the treasurer of the district; (17) A lake facilities authority, the fiscal officer designated under section 353.02 of the Revised Code; (18) A regional transportation improvement project, the county auditor designated under section 5595.10 of the Revised Code. (M) "Fiscal year" has the same meaning as in section 9.34 of the Revised Code. (N) "Fractionalized interests in public obligations" means participations, certificates of participation, shares, or other instruments or agreements, separate from the public obligations themselves, evidencing ownership of interests in public obligations or of rights to receive payments of, or on account of, principal or interest or their equivalents payable by or on behalf of an obligor pursuant to public obligations. (O) "Fully registered securities" means securities in certificated or uncertificated form, registered as to both principal and interest in the name of the owner. (P) "Fund" means to provide for the payment of debt charges and expenses related to that payment at or prior to retirement by purchase, call for redemption, payment at maturity, or otherwise. (Q) "General obligation" means securities to the payment of debt charges on which the full faith and credit and the general property taxing power, including taxes within the tax limitation if available to the subdivision, of the subdivision are pledged. (R) "Interest" or "interest equivalent" means those payments or portions of payments, however denominated, that constitute or represent consideration for forbearing the collection of money, or for deferring the receipt of payment of money to a future time. (S) "Internal Revenue Code" means the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 1 et seq., as amended, and includes any laws of the United States providing for application of that code. (T) "Issuer" means any public issuer and any nonprofit corporation authorized to issue securities for or on behalf of any public issuer. (U) "Legislation" means an ordinance or resolution passed by a majority affirmative vote of the then members of the taxing authority unless a different vote is required by charter provisions governing the passage of the particular legislation by the taxing authority. (V) "Mandatory sinking fund redemption requirements" means amounts required by proceedings to be deposited in a bond retirement fund for the purpose of paying in any year or fiscal year by mandatory redemption prior to stated maturity the principal of securities that is due and payable, except for mandatory prior redemption requirements as provided in those proceedings, in a subsequent year or fiscal year. (W) "Mandatory sinking fund requirements" means amounts required by proceedings to be deposited in a year or fiscal year in a bond retirement fund for the purpose of paying the principal of securities that is due and payable in a subsequent year or fiscal year. (X) "Net indebtedness" has the same meaning as in division (A) of section 133.04 of the Revised Code. (Y) "Obligor," in the case of securities or fractionalized interests in public obligations issued by another person the debt charges or their equivalents on which are payable from payments made by a public issuer, means that public issuer. (Z) "One purpose" relating to permanent improvements means any one permanent improvement or group or category of permanent improvements for the same utility, enterprise, system, or project, development or redevelopment project, or for or devoted to the same general purpose, function, or use or for which self-supporting securities, based on the same or different sources of revenues, may be issued or for which special assessments may be levied by a single ordinance or resolution. "One purpose" includes, but is not limited to, in any case any off-street parking facilities relating to another permanent improvement, and: (1) Any number of roads, highways, streets, bridges, sidewalks, and viaducts; (2) Any number of off-street parking facilities; (3) In the case of a county, any number of permanent improvements for courthouse, jail, county offices, and other county buildings, and related facilities; (4) In the case of a school district, any number of facilities and buildings for school district purposes, and related facilities. (AA) "Outstanding," referring to securities, means securities that have been issued, delivered, and paid for, except any of the following: (1) Securities canceled upon surrender, exchange, or transfer, or upon payment or redemption; (2) Securities in replacement of which or in exchange for which other securities have been issued; (3) Securities for the payment, or redemption or purchase for cancellation prior to maturity, of which sufficient moneys or investments, in accordance with the applicable legislation or other proceedings or any applicable law, by mandatory sinking fund redemption requirements, mandatory sinking fund requirements, or otherwise, have been deposited, and credited for the purpose in a bond retirement fund or with a trustee or paying or escrow agent, whether at or prior to their maturity or redemption, and, in the case of securities to be redeemed prior to their stated maturity, notice of redemption has been given or satisfactory arrangements have been made for giving notice of that redemption, or waiver of that notice by or on behalf of the affected security holders has been filed with the subdivision or its agent for the purpose. (BB) "Paying agent" means the one or more banks, trust companies, or other financial institutions or qualified persons, including an appropriate office or officer of the subdivision, designated as a paying agent or place of payment of debt charges on the particular securities. (CC) "Permanent improvement" or "improvement" means any property, asset, or improvement certified by the fiscal officer, which certification is conclusive, as having an estimated life or period of usefulness of five years or more, and includes, but is not limited to, real estate, buildings, and personal property and interests in real estate, buildings, and personal property, equipment, furnishings, and site improvements, and reconstruction, rehabilitation, renovation, installation, improvement, enlargement, and extension of property, assets, or improvements so certified as having an estimated life or period of usefulness of five years or more. The acquisition of all the stock ownership of a corporation is the acquisition of a permanent improvement to the extent that the value of that stock is represented by permanent improvements. A permanent improvement for parking, highway, road, and street purposes includes resurfacing, but does not include ordinary repair. (DD) "Person" has the same meaning as in section 1.59 of the Revised Code and also includes any federal, state, interstate, regional, or local governmental agency, any subdivision, and any combination of those persons. (EE) "Proceedings" means the legislation, certifications, notices, orders, sale proceedings, trust agreement or indenture, mortgage, lease, lease-purchase agreement, assignment, credit enhancement facility agreements, and other agreements, instruments, and documents, as amended and supplemented, and any election proceedings, authorizing, or providing for the terms and conditions applicable to, or providing for the security or sale or award of, public obligations, and includes the provisions set forth or incorporated in those public obligations and proceedings. (FF) "Public issuer" means any of the following that is authorized by law to issue securities or enter into public obligations: (1) The state, including an agency, commission, officer, institution, board, authority, or other instrumentality of the state; (2) A taxing authority, subdivision, district, or other local public or governmental entity, and any combination or consortium, or public division, district, commission, authority, department, board, officer, or institution, thereof; (3) Any other body corporate and politic, or other public entity. (GG) "Public obligations" means both of the following: (1) Securities; (2) Obligations of a public issuer to make payments under installment sale, lease, lease purchase, or similar agreements, which obligations may bear interest or interest equivalent. (HH) "Refund" means to fund and retire outstanding securities, including advance refunding with or without payment or redemption prior to maturity. (II) "Register" means the books kept and maintained by the registrar for registration, exchange, and transfer of registered securities. (JJ) "Registrar" means the person responsible for keeping the register for the particular registered securities, designated by or pursuant to the proceedings. (KK) "Securities" means bonds, notes, certificates of indebtedness, commercial paper, and other instruments in writing, including, unless the context does not admit, anticipatory securities, issued by an issuer to evidence its obligation to repay money borrowed, or to pay interest, by, or to pay at any future time other money obligations of, the issuer of the securities, but not including public obligations described in division (GG)(2) of this section. (LL) "Self-supporting securities" means securities or portions of securities issued for the purpose of paying costs of permanent improvements to the extent that receipts of the subdivision, other than the proceeds of taxes levied by that subdivision, derived from or with respect to the improvements or the operation of the improvements being financed, or the enterprise, system, project, or category of improvements of which the improvements being financed are part, are estimated by the fiscal officer to be sufficient to pay the current expenses of that operation or of those improvements or enterprise, system, project, or categories of improvements and the debt charges payable from those receipts on securities issued for the purpose. Until such time as the improvements or increases in rates and charges have been in operation or effect for a period of at least six months, the receipts therefrom, for purposes of this definition, shall be those estimated by the fiscal officer, except that those receipts may include, without limitation, payments made and to be made to the subdivision under leases or agreements in effect at the time the estimate is made. In the case of an operation, improvements, or enterprise, system, project, or category of improvements without at least a six-month history of receipts, the estimate of receipts by the fiscal officer, other than those to be derived under leases and agreements then in effect, shall be confirmed by the taxing authority. (MM) "Subdivision" means any of the following: (1) A county, including a county that has adopted a charter under Article X, Ohio Constitution; (2) A municipal corporation, including a municipal corporation that has adopted a charter under Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution; (3) A school district; (4) A regional water and sewer district organized under Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code; (5) A joint township hospital district organized under section 513.07 of the Revised Code; (6) A joint ambulance district organized under section 505.71 of the Revised Code; (7) A joint recreation district organized under division (C) of section 755.14 of the Revised Code; (8) A detention facility district organized under section 2152.41 , a district organized under section 2151.65 , or a combined district organized under sections 2152.41 and 2151.65 of the Revised Code; (9) A township police district organized under section 505.48 of the Revised Code; (10) A township; (11) A joint fire district organized under section 505.371 of the Revised Code; (12) A county library district created under section 3375.19 or a regional library district created under section 3375.28 of the Revised Code; (13) A joint solid waste management district organized under section 343.01 or 343.012 of the Revised Code; (14) A joint emergency medical services district organized under section 307.052 of the Revised Code; (15) A fire and ambulance district organized under section 505.375 of the Revised Code; (16) A fire district organized under division (C) of section 505.37 of the Revised Code; (17) A joint police district organized under section 505.482 of the Revised Code; (18) A lake facilities authority created under Chapter 353. of the Revised Code; (19) A regional transportation improvement project created under Chapter 5595. of the Revised Code; (20) Any other political subdivision or taxing district or other local public body or agency authorized by this chapter or other laws to issue Chapter 133. securities. (NN) "Taxing authority" means in the case of the following subdivisions: (1) A county, a county library district, or a regional library district, the board or boards of county commissioners, or other legislative authority of a county that has adopted a charter under Article X, Ohio Constitution, but with respect to such a library district acting solely as agent for the board of trustees of that district; (2) A municipal corporation, the legislative authority; (3) A school district, the board of education; (4) A regional water and sewer district, a joint ambulance district, a joint recreation district, a fire and ambulance district, or a joint fire district, the board of trustees of the district; (5) A joint township hospital district, the joint township hospital board; (6) A detention facility district or a district organized under section 2151.65 of the Revised Code, a combined district organized under sections 2152.41 and 2151.65 of the Revised Code, or a joint emergency medical services district, the joint board of county commissioners; (7) A township, a fire district organized under division (C) of section 505.37 of the Revised Code, or a township police district, the board of township trustees; (8) A joint solid waste management district organized under section 343.01 or 343.012 of the Revised Code, the board of directors of the district; (9) A subdivision described in division (MM)(20) of this section, the legislative or governing body or official; (10) A joint police district, the joint police district board; (11) A lake facilities authority, the board of directors; (12) A regional transportation improvement project, the governing board. (OO) "Tax limitation" means the "ten-mill limitation" as defined in section 5705.02 of the Revised Code without diminution by reason of section 5705.313 of the Revised Code or otherwise, or, in the case of a municipal corporation or county with a different charter limitation on property taxes levied to pay debt charges on unvoted securities, that charter limitation. Those limitations shall be respectively referred to as the "ten-mill limitation" and the "charter tax limitation." (PP) "Tax valuation" means the aggregate of the valuations of property subject to ad valorem property taxation by the subdivision on the real property, personal property, and public utility property tax lists and duplicates most recently certified for collection, and shall be calculated without deductions of the valuations of otherwise taxable property exempt in whole or in part from taxation by reason of exemptions of certain amounts of taxable value under division (C) of section 5709.01 , tax reductions under section 323.152 of the Revised Code, or similar laws now or in the future in effect. For purposes of section 133.06 of the Revised Code, "tax valuation" shall not include the valuation of tangible personal property used in business, telephone or telegraph property, interexchange telecommunications company property, or personal property owned or leased by a railroad company and used in railroad operations listed under or described in section 5711.22 , division (B) or (F) of section 5727.111 , or section 5727.12 of the Revised Code. (QQ) "Year" means the calendar year. (RR) "Administrative agent," "agent," "commercial paper," "floating rate interest structure," "indexing agent," "interest rate hedge," "interest rate period," "put arrangement," and "remarketing agent" have the same meanings as in section 9.98 of the Revised Code. (SS) "Sales tax supported" means obligations to the payment of debt charges on which an additional sales tax or additional sales taxes have been pledged by the taxing authority of a county pursuant to section 133.081 of the Revised Code. (TT) "Tourism development district revenue supported" means obligations to the payment of debt charges on which tourism development district revenue has been pledged by the taxing authority of a municipal corporation or township under section 133.083 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.139 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.139
§ 124.139. Organ donor leave
Status: in_force

December 1, 2006 House Bill 530 - 126th General Assembly (A) A full-time state employee shall receive up to two hundred forty hours of leave with pay during each calendar year to use during those hours when the employee is absent from work because of the employee's donation of any portion of an adult liver or because of the employee's donation of an adult kidney. (B) A full-time state employee shall receive up to fifty-six hours of leave with pay during each calendar year to use during those hours when the employee is absent from work because of the employee's donation of adult bone marrow. (C) An appointing authority shall compensate a full-time state employee who uses leave granted under division (A) or (B) of this section at the employee's regular rate of pay for those regular work hours during which the employee is absent from work. (D)(1) The director of administrative services, under section 124.04 of the Revised Code, shall provide information about this section to full-time employees who are paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management. (2) The appointing authority of full-time employees who are not paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management shall periodically provide information about this section to those employees.
Ohio Rev. Code § 135.802 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 135 / § 135.802
§ 135.802. Contents of resolution implementing residential facility linked deposit program
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly The board of county commissioners shall include each of the following in a resolution implementing a residential facility linked deposit program under sections 5126.51 to 5126.62 of the Revised Code: (A) Specific findings of fact justifying implementation of the residential facility linked deposit program in the county; (B) Guidelines to be followed by the county board of developmental disabilities in establishing standards under section 5126.49 of the Revised Code for approving applications for linked deposit loans; (C) Instructions to the county's investing authority as necessary for the placement and monitoring of, and for reporting with regard to, residential facility linked deposits under sections 5126.59 to 5126.61 of the Revised Code; (D) Any information the board requires an applicant for a residential facility linked deposit loan to provide to the county board of developmental disabilities that would not otherwise be provided to that board by the applicant pursuant to sections 5126.51 to 5126.62 of the Revised Code. The board shall transmit a certified copy of the resolution to the county board of developmental disabilities and the county's investing authority, unless the board is itself that authority.
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.824 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.824
§ 124.824. Elections by death benefit fund recipient
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "death benefit fund recipient" means any recipient of a death benefit paid under section 742.63 of the Revised Code except a parent who receives a death benefit paid under division (E) of that section. (B)(1) Except as otherwise provided under division (B)(3) of this section, a death benefit fund recipient may elect to participate in any health, medical, hospital, dental, surgical, or vision benefit the department of administrative services contracts for under section 124.82 of the Revised Code or otherwise provides for the benefit of state employees who are paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management. Receiving benefits under this section does not make the death benefit fund recipient a state employee. A death benefit fund recipient who elects to participate in a benefit under this section shall file the election form developed by the director of administrative services under division (D) of this section with the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund, which serves as the trustees of the Ohio public safety officers death benefit fund pursuant to section 742.62 of the Revised Code. The board of trustees shall forward the election form to the department after the board has approved an application for benefits under section 742.63 of the Revised Code. (2) A parent, guardian, custodian, or other person responsible for the care of a death benefit fund recipient who is under eighteen years of age or who is a surviving child entitled to extended benefits under division (H)(3) of section 742.63 of the Revised Code due to disability may file the election form required by division (B)(1) of this section on the death benefit fund recipient's behalf. (3) A death benefit fund recipient is ineligible to participate in a health, medical, hospital, dental, surgical, or vision benefit under division (B)(1) of this section if the recipient is either of the following: (a) An employee paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management who is eligible to participate in those benefits pursuant to section 124.82 of the Revised Code; (b) Eligible to enroll in the medicare program established by Title XVIII of the "Social Security Act," 79 Stat. 291 (1965), 42 U.S.C. 1395c, as amended. (C) For each death benefit fund recipient who elects to participate in health, medical, hospital, dental, surgical, or vision benefits under division (B) of this section, the department shall notify the board of trustees of the amount of the cost for the applicable benefits that shall be withheld from benefits paid to a death benefit fund recipient under section 742.63 of the Revised Code and forwarded to the department. The amount withheld from the death benefit fund recipient shall be the percentage of the cost of those benefits that would be paid by a state employee. The board of trustees shall pay the department the remaining cost of those benefits plus any applicable administrative costs from appropriations made for that purpose. (D) The director of administrative services shall prescribe procedures for the administration of benefits for death benefit fund recipients under this section, including the development of required forms for death benefit fund recipients to enroll, disenroll, or re-enroll in benefits under this section. The director shall provide the required election forms developed under this division to the board of trustees and shall notify the board of trustees of a death benefit recipient's enrollment, disenrollment, or re-enrollment in benefits under this section. The director shall notify the board of trustees when the department terminates the benefits a death benefit fund recipient has elected under division (B) of this section. (E) The board of trustees shall provide any information that the department requires to provide benefits under this section to the department, a designated third-party administrator, or both, including information regarding the identities, ages, and family relationships of death benefit fund recipients.
Ohio Rev. Code § 149.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 149 / § 149.45
§ 149.45. Public office redaction of personal information from internet
Status: in_force

April 9, 2025 House Bill 265 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Personal information" means any of the following: (a) An individual's social security number; (b) An individual's state or federal tax identification number; (c) An individual's driver's license number or state identification number; (d) An individual's checking account number, savings account number, credit card number, or debit card number; (e) An individual's demand deposit account number, money market account number, mutual fund account number, or any other financial or medical account number. (2) "Public record," "designated public service worker," and "designated public service worker residential and familial information" have the meanings defined in section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (3) "Qualifying former designated public service worker" means a former designated public service worker with a minimum of five years of qualifying service who was an employee in good standing at the completion of such service. (4) "Truncate" means to redact all but the last four digits of an individual's social security number. (B)(1) No public office or person responsible for a public office's public records shall make available to the general public on the internet any document that contains an individual's social security number without otherwise redacting, encrypting, or truncating the social security number. (2) A public office or person responsible for a public office's public records that, prior to October 17, 2011, made available to the general public on the internet any document that contains an individual's social security number shall redact, encrypt, or truncate the social security number from that document. (3) Divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section do not apply to documents that are only accessible through the internet with a password. (C)(1) An individual may request that a public office or a person responsible for a public office's public records redact personal information of that individual from any record made available to the general public on the internet. An individual who makes a request for redaction pursuant to this division shall make the request in writing on a form developed by the attorney general and shall specify the personal information to be redacted and provide any information that identifies the location of that personal information within a document that contains that personal information. (2) Upon receiving a request for a redaction pursuant to division (C)(1) of this section, a public office or a person responsible for a public office's public records shall act within five business days in accordance with the request to redact the personal information of the individual from any record made available to the general public on the internet, if practicable. If a redaction is not practicable, the public office or person responsible for the public office's public records shall verbally or in writing within five business days after receiving the written request explain to the individual why the redaction is impracticable. (3) The attorney general shall develop a form to be used by an individual to request a redaction pursuant to division (C)(1) of this section. The form shall include a place to provide any information that identifies the location of the personal information to be redacted. (D)(1) A designated public service worker and a qualifying former designated public service worker may request that a public office, other than a county auditor, or a person responsible for the public records of a public office, other than a county auditor, redact the requestor's address from any record made available to the general public on the internet that includes designated public service worker residential and familial information of the requestor. A designated public service worker or qualifying former designated public service worker who makes a request for a redaction pursuant to this division shall make the request in writing and on a form developed by the attorney general. A qualifying former designated public service worker shall provide, with the form, a confirmation letter from each employer at which the worker accumulated service confirming the years of service and that the worker departed service in good standing. (2) Upon receiving a written request for a redaction, and confirmation letter if applicable, pursuant to division (D)(1) of this section, a public office, other than a county auditor, or a person responsible for the public records of a public office, other than a county auditor, shall act within five business days in accordance with the request to redact the address of the requestor from any record made available to the general public on the internet that includes designated public service worker residential and familial information of the requestor, if practicable. If a redaction is not practicable, the public office or person responsible for the public office's public records shall verbally or in writing within five business days after receiving the written request explain to the requestor why the redaction is impracticable. (3) Except as provided in this section and section 319.28 of the Revised Code, a public office, other than an employer of a designated public service worker or qualifying former designated public service worker, or a person responsible for the public records of the employer, is not required to redact designated public service worker residential and familial information of the designated public service worker or qualifying former designated public service worker from other records maintained by the public office. (4) The attorney general shall develop a form to be used by a designated public service worker or qualifying former designated public service worker to request a redaction pursuant to division (D)(1) of this section. The form shall include a place to provide any information that identifies the location of the address of the designated public service worker or qualifying former designated public service worker to be redacted. (E)(1) If a public office or a person responsible for a public office's public records becomes aware that an electronic record of that public office that is made available to the general public on the internet contains an individual's social security number that was mistakenly not redacted, encrypted, or truncated as required by division (B)(1) or (2) of this section, the public office or person responsible for the public office's public records shall redact, encrypt, or truncate the individual's social security number within a reasonable period of time. (2) A public office or a person responsible for a public office's public records is not liable in damages in a civil action for any harm an individual allegedly sustains as a result of the inclusion of that individual's personal information on any record made available to the general public on the internet or any harm a designated public service worker sustains as a result of the inclusion of the designated public service worker's address on any record made available to the general public on the internet in violation of this section, unless the public office or person responsible for the public office's public records acted with malicious purpose, in bad faith, or in a wanton or reckless manner or unless division (A)(6)(a) or (c) of section 2744.03 of the Revised Code applies. (F) A form submitted under division (C) or (D) of this section, or a confirmation letter submitted under division (D) of this section, is not a public record under division (A)(1)(vv) of section 149.43 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 141.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 141 / § 141.12
§ 141.12. Uniform compensation for employees in the classified service of the state
Status: in_force

August 26, 1977 House Bill 1 - 112th General Assembly The compensation of all employees in the classified service of the state shall be uniform for positions within the same service, group, and grade as established by the classifications of said service as at any time made by the rules of the director of administrative services, provided a rate of compensation for such service, group, and grade has been fixed by the general assembly, except that the compensation of persons employed in the classified service of the state at the time of the fixing of a rate of compensation for the service, group, and grade by the general assembly which may exceed the uniform rate so fixed, shall not be affected by this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 125.89 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 125 / § 125.89
§ 125.89. Exchange of property, facilities, personnel, and services
Status: in_force

June 30, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly Subject to the approval of the governor, the department of administrative services may enter into contracts, compacts, and cooperative agreements for and on behalf of the state of Ohio with the several states or the federal government, singularly or severally, in order to provide, with or without reimbursement, for the utilization by and exchange between them, singularly or severally, of property, facilities, personnel, and services of each by the other, and, for the same purpose, to enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with eligible public or private state or local authorities, institutions, organizations, or activities.
Ohio Rev. Code § 149.308 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 149 / § 149.308
§ 149.308. Ohio history fund
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 141 - 131st General Assembly There is hereby created in the state treasury the Ohio history fund, which shall consist of money contributed to it under section 5747.113 of the Revised Code for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2011, and of contributions made directly to it. Any person may contribute directly to the fund in addition to or independently of the income tax refund contribution system established in section 5747.113 of the Revised Code. The Ohio history connection shall use money credited to the fund in furtherance of the public functions with which the Ohio history connection is charged under section 149.30 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 128.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 128 / § 128.28
§ 128.28. Adherence to 9-1-1 program office standards
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly If a service provider or county participates in the statewide next generation 9-1-1 core services system, the service provider or county shall adhere to standards of the 9-1-1 program office, which may include standards created by the national emergency number association and the internet engineering task force. Last updated September 14, 2023 at 5:21 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.60 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.60
§ 124.60. Abuse of power for political reasons
Status: in_force

June 13, 1975 House Bill 1 - 111th General Assembly No officer or employee of the state or the several counties, cities, and city school districts thereof, or civil service townships, shall appoint, promote, reduce, suspend, lay off, discharge, or in any manner change the official rank or compensation of any officer or employee in the classified service, or promise or threaten to do so, or harass, discipline, or coerce any such officer or employee, for giving, withholding, or refusing to support any party.
Ohio Rev. Code § 153.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 153 / § 153.08
§ 153.08. Opening bids and awarding contract
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly On the day and at the place named in the notice provided for in section 153.06 of the Revised Code, the owner referred to in section 153.01 of the Revised Code shall open the bids and shall publicly, with the assistance of the architect or engineer, immediately proceed to tabulate the bids. For a bid filed electronically, the public bid opening may be broadcast by electronic means pursuant to rules established by the Ohio facilities construction commission. A bid shall be invalid and not considered unless a bid guaranty meeting the requirements of section 153.54 of the Revised Code and in the form approved by the commission is filed with such bid. For a bid that is not filed electronically, the bid and bid guaranty shall be filed in one sealed envelope. If the bid and bid guaranty are filed electronically, they must be received electronically before the deadline published pursuant to section 153.06 of the Revised Code. For all bids filed electronically, the original, unaltered bid guaranty shall be made available to the public authority after the public bid opening, which may be achieved by means of an electronic verification and security system established under rules adopted by the Ohio facilities construction commission under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. After investigation, which shall be completed within thirty days, the contract shall be awarded by such owner to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder in accordance with section 9.312 of the Revised Code. No contract shall be entered into until the industrial commission has certified that the person so awarded the contract has complied with sections 4123.01 to 4123.94 of the Revised Code, until, if the bidder so awarded the contract is a foreign corporation, the secretary of state has certified that such corporation is authorized to do business in this state, until, if the bidder so awarded the contract is a person nonresident of this state, such person has filed with the secretary of state a power of attorney designating the secretary of state as its agent for the purpose of accepting service of summons in any action brought under section 153.05 of the Revised Code or under sections 4123.01 to 4123.94 of the Revised Code, and until the contract and bond, if any, are submitted to the attorney general and the attorney general's approval certified thereon. Last updated July 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.9511 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.9511
§ 122.9511. SiteOhio certification program
Status: in_force

September 4, 2012 House Bill 436 - 129th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Eligible applicant" means a person or a political subdivision. (2) "Eligible project" means a project that, upon completion, will be a site and facility primarily intended for commercial, industrial, or manufacturing use. "Eligible projects" do not include sites and facilities intended primarily for residential, retail, or government use. (3) "Person" has the same meaning as in section 5701.01 of the Revised Code. (4) "Political subdivision" means a municipal corporation, township, county, school district, or any other body corporate and politic responsible for governmental activities in a geographic area smaller than that of the state. (5) "SiteOhio certification program" means the program created under this section. (B) There is hereby created the SiteOhio certification program to certify and market eligible projects in the state. The program shall be administered by the department of development. (C) An eligible applicant may apply to the director of development on forms prescribed by the director for the director to certify an eligible project. In addition to the application, the applicant shall submit any additional materials required by the director. The director shall establish scoring criteria, scoring instruments, and materials for use by the department of development in reviewing applications under the SiteOhio certification program. The content of the scoring criteria, scoring instruments, and materials shall be at the discretion of the director and may include, where practicable, evaluation of certain quality of life indicators and community assets. The scoring criteria, scoring instruments, and materials shall be published and made available with the application. Subject to any limitations imposed under division (E)(2) of this section, the director shall approve an application and certify the applicant's eligible project if the applicant meets all of the scoring criteria established by the director. (D) After the director of development certifies an eligible project, the project shall be listed on the department's web site. The director shall market certified eligible projects to interested persons. (E) The director of development shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code necessary to implement and operate the SiteOhio certification program. The rules may provide for eligible applicants for certification to be charged fees to cover administrative costs incurred by the department in the administration of this section. Any fees collected under this section shall be credited to the SiteOhio administration fund. The director may do either of the following: (1) Contract with one or more persons to administer all or part of the SiteOhio certification program. (2) Limit the number of eligible projects the director certifies according to the available resources and capabilities of the department.
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.814 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.814
§ 145.814. Electing to participate in different plan
Status: in_force

January 7, 2013 Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "eligible member" means a member who was eligible to make an election under section 145.19 or 145.191 of the Revised Code, regardless of whether the member elected to participate in a PERS defined contribution plan. (B) If permitted to do so by the plan documents for a PERS defined contribution plan or rules governing the PERS defined benefit plan, an eligible member may elect, at intervals specified by the plan document or rules, to participate in a different defined contribution plan or in the PERS defined benefit plan. The election is subject to this section and rules adopted by the public employees retirement board under sections 145.09 and 145.80 of the Revised Code. An election to participate in a different plan shall be made in writing on a form provided by the public employees retirement system and filed with the system. The election shall take effect on the first day of the month following the date the election is filed and, except as provided in the plan documents or rules governing the PERS defined benefit plan, is irrevocable on receipt by the system. (C) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, an election to participate in a different plan shall apply only to employee and employer contributions made and, if applicable, service credit earned after the effective date of the election. (D) An eligible member may elect to have the member's amount on deposit for the prior plan and, if applicable, service credit earned prior to the effective date of the election deposited and credited in accordance with the member's new plan if the member, by the election, will begin participating in the PERS defined benefit plan or a PERS defined contribution plan with definitely determinable benefits. The amount on deposit is the amount the member would be entitled to receive as a refund from the prior plan if the member ceased to be a public employee. If a member makes the election described in this division and service credit is transferred, the board's actuary shall determine the additional liability to the system, if any. The additional liability is the amount that, when added to the amount on deposit, will provide the remaining portion of the pension reserve for the period of the member's service as a public employee in the prior plan. If the actuary determines that there is an additional liability, the member shall elect one of the following: (1) To receive the total amount of service credit that the member would have received had the member been participating in the new plan, pay to the system an amount equal to the additional liability; (2) To receive an amount of service credit in the new plan that corresponds to the amount on deposit for the prior plan. For each member who makes the election described in this division, the system shall deposit and credit to the new plan the amount on deposit for the prior plan and, if applicable, the amount paid by the member. The board may specify in rules adopted under sections 145.09 and 145.80 of the Revised Code how service credit in the defined benefit plan may be converted to amounts on deposit in the defined contribution plan.
Ohio Rev. Code § 128.57 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 128 / § 128.57
§ 128.57. County systems receiving disbursements to provide wireless 9-1-1 service
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) A countywide 9-1-1 system receiving a disbursement under section 128.55 of the Revised Code shall provide countywide wireless enhanced 9-1-1 in accordance with this chapter beginning as soon as reasonably possible after receipt of the first disbursement or, if that service is already implemented, shall continue to provide such service. Except as provided in divisions (B), (C), (E), and (F) of this section, a disbursement shall be used solely for the purpose of paying either or both of the following: (1) Any costs of the following: (a) Designing, upgrading, purchasing, leasing, programming, installing, testing, or maintaining the necessary data, hardware, software, and trunking required for the public safety answering point or points of the 9-1-1 system to provide wireless, enhanced, or next generation 9-1-1 service; (b) Processing 9-1-1 emergency calls from the point of origin to include any expense for interoperable bidirectional computer aided dispatch data transfers with other public safety answering points or emergency services organizations and transferring and receiving law enforcement, fire, and emergency medical service data via wireless or internet connections from public safety answering points or emergency services organizations to all applicable emergency responders, exclusive of mobile radio service costs. (2) Any costs of training the staff of the public safety answering point or points to provide wireless enhanced 9-1-1. (B) A subdivision or a regional council of governments that certifies to the steering committee that it has paid the costs described in divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section and is providing countywide wireless enhanced 9-1-1 may use disbursements received under section 128.55 of the Revised Code to pay any of its personnel costs of one or more public safety answering points providing countywide wireless enhanced 9-1-1. (C) After receiving its July 2013 disbursement under division (A) of section 128.55 of the Revised Code as that division existed prior to the amendments to that division by H.B. 64 of the 131st general assembly, a regional council of governments operating a public safety answering point or a subdivision may use any remaining balance of disbursements it received under that division, as it existed prior to the amendments to it by H.B. 64 of the 131st general assembly, to pay any of its costs of providing countywide wireless 9-1-1, including the personnel costs of one or more public safety answering points providing that service. (D) The costs described in divisions (A), (B), (C), and (E) of this section may include any such costs payable pursuant to an agreement under division (I) of section 128.03 of the Revised Code. (E)(1) No disbursement to a countywide 9-1-1 system for costs of a public safety answering point shall be made from the 9-1-1 government assistance fund or the next generation 9-1-1 fund unless the public safety answering point meets the standards set by rule of the steering committee under section 128.021 of the Revised Code. (2) The steering committee shall monitor compliance with the standards and shall notify the tax commissioner to suspend disbursements to a countywide 9-1-1 system that fails to meet the standards. Upon receipt of this notification, the commissioner shall suspend disbursements until the commissioner is notified of compliance with the standards. (F) The auditor of state may audit and review each county's expenditures of funds received from the 9-1-1 government assistance fund to verify that the funds were used in accordance with the requirements of this chapter. All funds generated from the next generation 9-1-1 access fee imposed under sections 128.41 and 128.42 of the Revised Code may be used only for 9-1-1 related expenses. Last updated September 14, 2023 at 4:38 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.232 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.232
§ 109.232. Amendment of governing instrument of trust
Status: in_force

July 15, 1972 Senate Bill 533 - 109th General Assembly (A) The governing instrument of a trust described in division (A) of section 109.231 of the Revised Code may be amended to permit the trust to acquire the characteristics of a trust described in section 664 (D)(1) or (2) of the internal revenue code of 1954, or to conform to the requirements of, or to obtain benefits available under, section 507, 508, or 509 of the internal revenue code of 1954. Such amendment may be made by the trustee with the approval of the attorney general, of the trustor, and, if one or more beneficiaries are named in the governing instrument of such trust, of each named beneficiary. If the trustor is not then living or is not then competent to give such approval, such amendment may be made by the trustee with the approval of the attorney general and, if one or more beneficiaries are named in the governing instrument of such trust, of each named beneficiary. If one or more of said required approvals is not obtained, the trustee may apply to the court having jurisdiction over such trust for approval of such amendment. Said governing instrument may also be amended in any respect and by any method set forth therein or as otherwise provided by law. (B) Nothing in this section impairs the rights and powers of the courts or the attorney general of this state with respect to any trust. (C) For the purposes of sections 109.231 and 109.232 of the Revised Code, all references to sections of the internal revenue code of 1954 include all amendments or reenactments thereof.
Ohio Rev. Code § 121.74 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 121 / § 121.74
§ 121.74. Access to material incorporated in rule in final form
Status: in_force

August 18, 2019 Senate Bill 221 - 132nd General Assembly When an agency files a rule in final form that incorporates a text or other material by reference, the agency, prior to the effective date of the rule, shall ensure that the text or other material is available from the agency. The agency promptly and without charge shall make the text or other material available to any person who requests access to the text or other material.
Ohio Rev. Code § 125.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 125 / § 125.28
§ 125.28. Reimbursing general revenue fund for cost of occupying the space
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) The director of administrative services shall determine the reimbursable cost of space in state-owned or state-leased facilities and shall collect reimbursements for that cost. (B) The director may provide building maintenance services and tenant improvement services to any state agency and may collect reimbursements for the cost of providing those services. (C) All money collected by the department of administrative services, for operating expenses of facilities owned or maintained by the department, or for tenant improvement services, shall be deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the building management fund, which is hereby created. All money collected for depreciation and related costs shall be deposited into the building improvement fund created under section 125.27 of the Revised Code or deposited into the building management fund and then transferred by the director of budget and management to the building improvement fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 128.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 128 / § 128.01
§ 128.01. Definitions
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "9-1-1 system" means a system through which individuals can request emergency service using the access number 9-1-1. (B) "Basic 9-1-1" means an emergency telephone system to which all of the following apply: (1) The system automatically connects a caller to a designated public safety answering point. (2) Call routing is determined by a central office only. (3) Automatic number identification and automatic location information may or may not be supported. (C) "Enhanced 9-1-1" means an emergency telephone system that includes both of the following: (1) Network switching; (2) Database- and public-safety-answering-point premise elements capable of providing automatic location identification data, selective routing, selective transfer, fixed transfer, and a call back number. (D) "Enhanced wireline 9-1-1" means a 9-1-1 system in which the wireline telephone network, in providing wireline 9-1-1, does either of the following: (1) Automatically routes the call to emergency service providers that serve the location from which the call is made and immediately provides to personnel answering the 9-1-1 call information on the location and the telephone number from which the call is being made; (2) Receives, develops, collects, or processes requests for emergency assistance and relays, transfers, operates, maintains, or provides emergency notification services or system capabilities. (E) "Wireless enhanced 9-1-1" means a 9-1-1 system that, in providing wireless 9-1-1, has the capabilities of phase I and, to the extent available, phase II enhanced 9-1-1 services as described in 47 C.F.R. 20.18 (d) to (h). (F)(1) "Wireless service" means federally licensed commercial mobile service as defined in 47 U.S.C. 332(d) and further defined as commercial mobile radio service in 47 C.F.R. 20.3, and includes service provided by any wireless, two-way communications device, including a radio-telephone communications line used in cellular telephone service or personal communications service, a network radio access line, or any functional or competitive equivalent of such a radio-telephone communications or network radio access line. (2) Nothing in this chapter applies to paging or any service that cannot be used to call or contact 9-1-1. (G) "Wireless service provider" means any of the following that provides wireless service to one or more end users in this state: (1) A facilities-based provider; (2) A mobile virtual network operator; (3) A mobile other licensed operator. (H) "Wireless 9-1-1" means the emergency calling service provided by a 9-1-1 system pursuant to a call originating in the network of a wireless service provider. (I) "Wireline 9-1-1" means the emergency calling service provided by a 9-1-1 system pursuant to a call originating in the network of a wireline service provider. (J) "Wireline service provider" means a facilities-based provider of wireline service to one or more end users in this state. (K) "Wireline service" means basic local exchange service, as defined in section 4927.01 of the Revised Code, that is transmitted by means of interconnected wires or cables by a wireline service provider authorized by the public utilities commission. (L) "Wireline telephone network" means the selective router and data base processing systems, trunking and data wiring cross connection points at the public safety answering point, and all other voice and data components of the 9-1-1 system. (M) "Subdivision" means a county, municipal corporation, township, township fire district, joint fire district, township police district, joint police district, joint ambulance district, or joint emergency medical services district that provides emergency service within its territory, or that contracts with another municipal corporation, township, or district or with a private entity to provide such service; and a state college or university, port authority, or park district of any kind that employs law enforcement officers that act as the primary police force on the grounds of the college or university or port authority or in the parks operated by the district. (N) "Emergency service" means emergency law enforcement, firefighting, ambulance, rescue, and medical service. (O) "Emergency service provider" means the state highway patrol and an emergency service department or unit of a subdivision or that provides emergency service to a subdivision under contract with the subdivision. (P) "Public safety answering point" means an entity responsible for receiving requests for emergency services sent by dialing 9-1-1 within a specified territory and processing those requests for emergency services according to a specific operational policy that includes directly dispatching the appropriate emergency service provider, relaying a message to the appropriate emergency service provider, or transferring the request for emergency services to the appropriate emergency service provider. A public safety answering point may be either of the following: (1) Located in a specific facility; (2) Virtual, if telecommunicators are geographically dispersed and do not work from the same facility. The virtual workplace may be a logical combination of physical facilities, an alternate work environment such as a satellite facility, or a combination of the two. Workers may be connected and interoperate via internet-protocol connectivity. (Q) "Customer premises equipment" means telecommunications equipment, including telephone instruments, on the premises of a public safety answering point that is used in answering and responding to 9-1-1 system calls. (R) "Municipal corporation in the county" includes any municipal corporation that is wholly contained in the county and each municipal corporation located in more than one county that has a greater proportion of its territory in the county to which the term refers than in any other county. (S) "Board of county commissioners" includes the legislative authority of a county established under Section 3 of Article X, Ohio Constitution, or Chapter 302. of the Revised Code. (T) "Final plan" means a final plan adopted under division (B) of section 128.08 of the Revised Code and, except as otherwise expressly provided, an amended final plan adopted under section 128.12 of the Revised Code. (U) "Subdivision served by a public safety answering point" means a subdivision that provides emergency service for any part of its territory that is located within the territory of a public safety answering point whether the subdivision provides the emergency service with its own employees or pursuant to a contract. (V) A township's population includes only population of the unincorporated portion of the township. (W) "Telephone company" means a company engaged in the business of providing local exchange telephone service by making available or furnishing access and a dial tone to persons within a local calling area for use in originating and receiving voice grade communications over a switched network operated by the provider of the service within the area and gaining access to other telecommunications services. Unless otherwise specified, "telephone company" includes a wireline service provider, a wireless service provider, and any entity that is a covered 9-1-1 service provider under 47 C.F.R. 12.4. For purposes of sections 128.37 and 128.38 of the Revised Code, "telephone company" means a wireline service provider. (X) "Prepaid wireless calling service" has the same meaning as in division (AA)(5) of section 5739.01 of the Revised Code. (Y) "Provider of a prepaid wireless calling service" means a wireless service provider that provides a prepaid wireless calling service. (Z) "Retail sale" has the same meaning as in section 5739.01 of the Revised Code. (AA) "Seller" means a person that sells a prepaid wireless calling service to another person by retail sale. (BB) "Consumer" means the end user for whom the prepaid wireless calling service is provided, to whom the transfer effected or license given by a sale is or is to be made or given, to whom the prepaid wireless calling service is charged, or to whom the admission is granted. (CC) "Reseller" means a nonfacilities-based provider of wireless service that provides wireless service under its own name to one or more end users in this state using the network of a wireless service provider. (DD) "Steering committee" means the statewide 9-1-1 steering committee established by division (A)(1) of section 128.02 of the Revised Code. (EE) "Next generation 9-1-1" means an internet-protocol-based system comprised of managed emergency services internet protocol networks, functional elements, and databases that replicate traditional enhanced 9-1-1 features and functions and provide additional capabilities. (FF) "Emergency services internet-protocol network" means a managed internet-protocol network that is used for emergency services communications and provides the internet-protocol transport infrastructure upon which independent application platforms and core services can be deployed, including those necessary for providing next generation 9-1-1 services. The term designates the network and not the services that ride on the network. (GG) "9-1-1 system service provider" means a company or entity engaged in the business of providing all or part of the emergency services internet-protocol network, software applications, hardware, databases, customer premises equipment components and operations, and management procedures required to support basic 9-1-1, enhanced 9-1-1, enhanced wireline 9-1-1, wireless enhanced 9-1-1, or next generation 9-1-1 systems. (HH) "Voice over internet protocol" means technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over internet-protocol networks, including private networks or the internet. (II) "Multiline telephone system" means a system to which both of the following apply: (1) The system consists of common control units, telephone sets, control hardware and software, and adjunct systems, including network and premises-based systems. (2) The system is designed to aggregate more than one incoming voice communication channel for use by more than one telephone. (JJ) "Business service user" means a user of business service that provides telecommunications service, including 9-1-1 service, to end users through a publicly or privately owned or controlled telephone switch. (KK) "Emergency response location" means an additional location identification that provides a specific location. It may include information regarding a specific location within a building, structure, complex, or campus, including a building name, floor number, wing name or number, unit name or number, room name or number, or office or cubicle name or number. (LL) "Operator of a multiline telephone system" means an entity to which both of the following apply: (1) The entity manages or operates a multiline telephone system through which an end user may initiate communication using the 9-1-1 system. (2) The entity owns, leases, or rents a multiline telephone system through which an end user may initiate communication using the 9-1-1 system. (MM) "Core services" means the base set of services needed to process a 9-1-1 call on an emergency services internet-protocol network. It includes all of the following: (1) Emergency services routing proxy; (2) Emergency call routing function; (3) Location validation function; (4) Border control function; (5) Bridge, policy-store, and logging services; (6) Typical internet-protocol services such as domain name system and dynamic host configuration protocol. The term includes the services and not the network on which they operate. (NN) "Bill and keep arrangements" has the same meaning as in 47 C.F.R. 51.713. Last updated September 14, 2023 at 12:03 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 153.581 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 153 / § 153.581
§ 153.581. Contracts for construction definitions
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly As used in sections 153.581 and 153.591 of the Revised Code: (A) "Public works contract" means any contract awarded by a contracting authority for the construction, engineering, alteration, or repair of any public building, public highway, or other public work. (B) "Contracting authority" means the state, any township, county, municipal corporation, school board, or other governmental entity empowered to award a public works contract, and any construction manager at risk as defined in section 9.33 of the Revised Code or design-build firm as defined in section 153.65 of the Revised Code awarding a subcontract. (C) "Contractor" means any person, partnership, corporation, or association that has been awarded a public works contract.
Ohio Rev. Code § 113.70 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 113 / § 113.70
§ 113.70. Definitions for state and local government expenditure database
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly As used in sections 113.70 to 113.77 of the Revised Code: (A) "Expenditure" means a payment, distribution, loan, advance, reimbursement, deposit, or gift of money from a state entity to any supplier. (B) "Political subdivision" means a county, city, village, public library, township, park district, school district, regional water and sewer district, or regional transit authority. (C) "Public library" means a library that is created, maintained, and regulated under Chapter 3375. of the Revised Code. (D) "School district" means a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district; a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code; or an educational service center. "School district" does not mean a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code. (E) "State entity" means the general assembly, the supreme court, the court of claims, the office of an elected state officer, or a department, bureau, board, office, commission, agency, institution, instrumentality, or other governmental entity of this state established by the constitution or laws of this state for the exercise of any function of state government, but excludes a political subdivision, an institution of higher education, a state retirement system, and the city of Cincinnati retirement system. "State entity" does not include the nonprofit corporation formed under section 187.01 of the Revised Code. (F) "State retirement system" means the public employees retirement system, the Ohio police and fire pension fund, the state teachers retirement system, the school employees retirement system, and the state highway patrol retirement system. (G) "Supplier" means any person, partnership, corporation, association, organization, state entity, or other party, including any executive officer, legislative officer, judicial officer, or member or employee of a state entity, that does either of the following: (1) Sells, leases, or otherwise provides equipment, materials, goods, supplies, or services to a state entity pursuant to a contract between the supplier and a state entity; (2) Receives reimbursement from a state entity for any expense. Last updated September 16, 2021 at 11:13 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 101.312 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 101 / § 101.312
§ 101.312. Authority of senate sergeant of arms or assistant senate sergeant of arms
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly (A) The person serving as the senate sergeant at arms or employed as an assistant senate sergeant at arms has all of the authority of a peace officer as specified in division (B) of this section, and one of the following shall apply to that person: (1) The person is serving as the senate sergeant at arms or is employed as an assistant senate sergeant at arms on the effective date of this section and previously had been awarded a certificate by the executive director of the Ohio peace officer training commission attesting to the person's satisfactory completion of an approved state, county, municipal, or department of natural resources peace officer basic training program. (2) The person previously has been awarded a certificate by the executive director of the Ohio peace officer training commission attesting to the person's satisfactory completion of an approved state, county, municipal, or department of natural resources peace officer basic training program, the person previously has been employed as a peace officer, the prior employment of the person as a peace officer contains no breaks in service that would require the person to receive updated training by the Ohio peace officer training academy, and the person has successfully completed a firearms requalification program under section 109.801 of the Revised Code. (3) The person previously has been awarded a certificate by the executive director of the Ohio peace officer training commission attesting to the person's satisfactory completion of an approved state, county, municipal, or department of natural resources peace officer basic training program, the person previously has been employed as a peace officer, the prior employment of the person as a peace officer contains a break in service of one year or more but not more than four years that would require the person to receive updated training under state law, the person has received all updated training required by law, and the person has successfully completed a firearms requalification program under section 109.801 of the Revised Code. (4) The person previously has been employed as a trooper of the state highway patrol, within one year prior to employment as the senate sergeant at arms the person had arrest authority as a trooper of the state highway patrol, and the person has successfully completed a firearms requalification program under section 109.801 of the Revised Code. (5) The person previously has been employed as a trooper of the state highway patrol, the prior employment as a trooper of the state highway patrol contains a break in service of one year or more but not more than four years that would require the person to receive updated training under state law, the person has received all updated training required by law, and the person has successfully completed a firearms requalification program under section 109.801 of the Revised Code. (B) The senate sergeant at arms and an assistant senate sergeant at arms have the authority specified under section 2935.03 of the Revised Code for peace officers to enforce all state laws, municipal ordinances, and township resolutions and to make arrests for any violation of those laws, ordinances, and resolutions in the statehouse or anywhere in the state where the senate sergeant at arms or the assistant sergeant at arms is engaged in the performance of the senate sergeant at arms's or assistant sergeant at arms's official duties. The jurisdiction of the senate sergeant at arms and of an assistant senate sergeant at arms is concurrent with that of peace officers of the county, township, or municipal corporation in which the violation occurs and with the state highway patrol. (C) Upon receiving a written recommendation from the clerk of the senate, the president of the senate may issue to the senate sergeant at arms a commission indicating the sergeant at arms's authority to make arrests as provided in this section. The president of the senate, upon the recommendation of the senate sergeant at arms, may issue to each assistant senate sergeant at arms a commission indicating the assistant sergeant at arms's authority to make arrests as provided in this section. The president of the senate shall furnish a suitable badge to the senate sergeant at arms and to each commissioned assistant senate sergeant at arms as evidence of the senate sergeant at arms's or assistant senate sergeant at arms's authority. (D) In order to maintain employment as the senate sergeant at arms or to be an assistant sergeant at arms with all of the authority of a peace officer, the sergeant at arms or assistant shall comply with all continuing professional training requirements for peace officers established in rules that the attorney general adopts under section 109.74 of the Revised Code and shall comply with firearms requalification requirements established under section 109.801 of the Revised Code. The senate sergeant at arms or assistant sergeant at arms shall provide appropriate proof of the sergeant at arms's or assistant's compliance with the continuing professional training requirements and firearms requalification requirements to the clerk of the senate. The Ohio peace officer training academy, a state, county, municipal, or department of natural resources training program, or any other program offering continuing training of that nature shall admit the senate sergeant at arms or an assistant senate sergeant at arms to all necessary continuing training programs. (E) This section does not affect or abridge the authority or responsibility of the state highway patrol.
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.55 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.55
§ 145.55. Members deemed to consent to deductions
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 628 - 123rd General Assembly The deductions provided for in this chapter shall be made notwithstanding that the minimum compensation provided for by law for any contributor is reduced thereby. Every contributor is deemed to consent to the deductions made and provided for in this chapter. Payment less the deductions shall be a complete discharge and acquittance of all claims and demands whatsoever for the services rendered by such person during the period covered by such payment.
Ohio Rev. Code § 128.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 128 / § 128.42
§ 128.42. Next generation 9-1-1 access fee on prepaid wireless service
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) After the expiration of the charge described in division (A)(2) of section 128.40 of the Revised Code, there is imposed, on each retail sale of a prepaid wireless calling service occurring in this state, a next generation 9-1-1 access fee of five-tenths of one per cent of the sale price. (B) For purposes of division (A) of this section, a retail sale occurs in this state if it is effected by the consumer appearing in person at a seller's business location in this state, or if the sale is sourced to this state under division (E)(3) of section 5739.034 of the Revised Code, except that under that division, in lieu of sourcing a sale under division (C)(5) of section 5739.033 of the Revised Code, the seller, rather than the service provider, may elect to source the sale to the location associated with the mobile telephone number. (C) A prepaid wireless calling service priced below a single fee of less than ten dollars does not constitute a retail sale for purposes of this section. Last updated October 5, 2023 at 4:49 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 191.37 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 191 / § 191.37
§ 191.37. Periodic report by broadband expansion program authority
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly Not later than one year after each time money in the broadband pole replacement fund created in section 191.27 of the Revised Code is exhausted, the broadband expansion program authority shall identify, examine, and report on the deployment of qualifying broadband infrastructure under the Ohio broadband pole replacement and undergrounding program and the technology facilitated by the program reimbursements the authority has awarded. The report shall be published on the department of development web site. Last updated August 29, 2023 at 4:31 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.19
§ 145.19. Electing defined benefit or defined contribution plan
Status: in_force

January 7, 2013 Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, an individual who becomes employed in a position subject to this chapter on or after January 1, 2003, shall make an election under this section. Not later than one hundred eighty days after the date on which employment begins, the individual shall elect to participate either in the PERS defined benefit plan or a PERS defined contribution plan. Unless a form evidencing an election under this section is received by the public employees retirement system on or before the last day of the one-hundred-eighty-day period, the individual is deemed to have elected to participate in the PERS defined benefit plan. (B) An election under this section shall be made on a form provided by the system and filed with the system. (C) An election under this section shall take effect on the date employment began and, except as provided in section 145.814 of the Revised Code or rules governing the PERS defined benefit plan, is irrevocable on receipt by the system. (D) An individual is ineligible to make an election under this section if one of the following applies: (1) The individual is a PERS retirant or other system retirant, as those terms are defined in section 145.38 of the Revised Code, or is retired under section 145.383 of the Revised Code. (2) The individual is participating or has elected to participate in an alternative retirement plan under section 3305.05 or 3305.051 of the Revised Code and the employment is in a position that is subject to division (C)(4) of section 3305.05 or division (F) of section 3305.051 of the Revised Code. (3) The individual has contributions standing to the individual's credit in the employees' savings fund or defined contribution fund established under section 145.23 of the Revised Code. (4) The individual is employed in a position covered under this chapter to which section 145.193 of the Revised Code applies. (5) The individual is a PERS law enforcement officer or PERS public safety officer.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.401 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.401
§ 122.401. Residential broadband expansion grant program
Status: in_force

May 17, 2021 House Bill 2 - 134th General Assembly There is hereby established the Ohio residential broadband expansion grant program within the development services agency. The agency shall administer and provide staff assistance for the program. The agency shall be responsible for receiving and reviewing applications for program grants and for sending completed applications to the broadband expansion program authority for final review and award of program grants. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 113.56 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 113 / § 113.56
§ 113.56. STABLE account program advisory board
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the STABLE account program advisory board, consisting of nine members, composed of the following: (1) The director of developmental disabilities or the director's designee; (2) One member of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives; (3) One member of the senate appointed by the president of the senate; (4) One member appointed by the governor who is a representative of an intellectual or developmental disability advocacy organization; (5) One member appointed by the governor who is a representative of a service provider for individuals with disabilities; (6) One member appointed by the governor who is the parent of a child with a disability and who has significant experience with disability issues; (7) One member appointed by the governor who is a person with a disability and who has significant experience with disability issues; (8) Two members appointed by the governor who have significant experience in finance, accounting, investment management, or other areas that may assist the board in carrying out its duties. (B) Terms of office of the appointed members described in divisions (A)(4) to (8) of this section are for four years, which shall end on the thirty-first day of December. Terms of office of the appointed members described in divisions (A)(2) and (3) of this section shall be for the term of the general assembly. Any member may be reappointed, provided the member continues to meet all other eligibility requirements. Vacancies shall be filled in the manner provided for original appointments. Any such member appointed to fill a vacancy before the expiration of the term for which the predecessor was appointed shall hold office as a member for the remainder of that term. Appointed members of the board serve at the pleasure of the member's appointing authority and may be removed only by that authority. (C) If a vacancy occurs in the office of chairperson, members shall elect a new chairperson. The board shall meet at least four times each year or more frequently at the call of the chairperson. The board is a public body for purposes of section 121.22 of the Revised Code. (D) A vacancy on the board does not impair the right of the other members to exercise all the functions of the board. The presence of a majority of the members of the board constitutes a quorum for the conduct of business of the board. The concurrence of at least a majority of the members of the board is necessary for any action to be taken by the board. On request to the treasurer of state, each member of the board shall be reimbursed for the actual and necessary travel expenses incurred in the performance of the member's official duties. (E)(1) The board shall do all of the following: (a) Review the work of the treasurer of state related to the program; (b) Advise the treasurer on the program as requested by the treasurer; (c) Make recommendations to the treasurer for the improvement of the program; (d) On or before the thirty-first day of December of each year, in consultation with the treasurer of state, prepare a report of the board's activities and recommendations and deliver that report to the governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and president of the senate. (2) The board may prepare reports of the board's activities and recommendations in addition to the report described in division (E)(1)(d) of this section. The board shall deliver such a report to the governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and president of the senate. (F) The treasurer of state shall provide the board with the resources necessary to conduct its business. The board may accept uncompensated assistance from individuals, research organizations, and other state agencies.
Ohio Rev. Code § 125.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 125 / § 125.16
§ 125.16. Inventory records of state tangible personal property and real property
Status: in_force

October 25, 1995 Senate Bill 99 - 121st General Assembly (A) In accordance with procedures prescribed by the director of administrative services, the officer in charge of each state agency, other than an institution of higher education, shall maintain current and accurate records of tangible personal property and real property, as defined by the department of administrative services, that the state agency holds either directly or on behalf of the state. These records shall specify the value of the property, the number of acres of land, the number and kind of buildings, and other significant information about the property, as designated by the department. On or before the first day of October immediately following the end of each fiscal year, the officer in charge of each state agency shall cause its inventory activity at the end of that fiscal year to be certified as correct and filed with the director, in accordance with procedures the director prescribes. In addition, the officer in charge of each state agency shall cause a full and accurate physical inventory to be taken and concluded prior to the close of each fiscal biennium. The officer in charge of each state agency holding such property shall report to the director, on forms or media the director prescribes, regarding all property acquired, updated, or disposed of by that agency, in the detail and format and at the times the director requires. This division does not apply to any canal lands administered and managed and any canals and reservoirs operated and maintained by the director of natural resources under Chapter 1520. of the Revised Code. (B) The director of administrative services shall maintain current inventory records as certified and filed under division (A) of this section by a state agency, other than an institution of higher education. The director may establish uniform methods of identifying state property.
Ohio Rev. Code § 191.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 191 / § 191.19
§ 191.19. Reimbursement issued by department of development
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The department of development, at the direction of the broadband expansion program authority, shall issue program reimbursements awarded for applications approved under the Ohio broadband pole replacement and undergrounding program. The reimbursements shall be made using money available for this purpose in the broadband pole replacement fund created in section 191.27 of the Revised Code. The authority shall award, and the department shall fund, reimbursements until funds available for that purpose are no longer available. (B) If, upon the exhaustion of the fund, there are any applications pending, the applications shall be denied. Applications that have been denied pursuant to this division may be resubmitted to the department, and, if sufficient money is later deposited in the fund, reimbursements may be awarded according to the application and award process under sections 191.10 to 191.24 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 29, 2023 at 4:28 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 135.803 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 135 / § 135.803
§ 135.803. Certifying availability of public moneys
Status: in_force

October 6, 2009 Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly On receiving a resolution from the county board of developmental disabilities approving under section 5126.55 of the Revised Code development of a proposed residential facility, the board of county commissioners shall determine whether public moneys of the county are available for a residential facility linked deposit and shall certify to the county board of developmental disabilities either that public moneys are available or that public moneys are not available. If public moneys are not available the certification shall indicate the date, if any, on which the board of county commissioners anticipates that public moneys will be available.
Ohio Rev. Code § 183.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 183 / § 183.33
§ 183.33. Prohibited acts concerning general revenue fund
Status: in_force

December 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly No money shall be appropriated or transferred from the general revenue fund to the law enforcement improvements trust fund, biomedical research and technology transfer trust fund, or education technology trust fund. Last updated December 30, 2021 at 4:01 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.088 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.088
§ 122.088. Annual competitive process grant application
Status: in_force

January 4, 2006 Senate Bill 236 - 126th General Assembly In order to be considered for a grant under the annual competitive process, an eligible applicant shall fill out an application provided by the department of development and shall file it with the district public works integrating committee with jurisdiction over the area in which the eligible project is located.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.62 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.62
§ 122.62. Keeping funds in depositories selected by director
Status: in_force

September 28, 2012 Senate Bill 314 - 129th General Assembly All moneys received under sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 of the Revised Code as proceeds from the sale of bonds are trust funds. All moneys received under those sections shall be held and applied solely as provided in such sections and section 166.03 of the Revised Code. All such moneys, except as otherwise provided in any proceedings authorizing revenue bonds or in any trust agreement securing such bonds or except when deposited with the treasurer of state, or except as they may be invested pursuant to section 122.58 of the Revised Code, shall be kept in depositories as selected by the director of development services in the manner provided in sections 135.01 to 135.21 of the Revised Code, insofar as such sections are applicable, and the deposits shall be secured as provided in sections 135.01 to 135.21 of the Revised Code. The proceedings authorizing the issuance of bonds of any issue or the trust agreement securing such bonds shall provide that any official to whom, or any bank or trust company to which, such moneys are paid, shall act as trustee of such moneys and hold and apply them for the purposes of sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 of the Revised Code, subject to such rules as such sections and such bond issuance proceedings or trust agreement provide. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 117.54 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 117 / § 117.54
§ 117.54. Auditor of state investigation and forfeiture trust fund
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly 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.
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.25
§ 145.25. Each fund is separate legal entity
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 628 - 123rd General Assembly When reference is made in this chapter, to the employees' savings fund, the employers' accumulation fund, the annuity and pension reserve fund, the income fund, the survivors' benefit fund, the defined contribution fund, or the expense fund, such reference is made to each as a separate legal entity. This section does not prevent the deposit or investment of all such moneys intermingled for such purpose but such funds shall be separate and distinct legal entities for all other purposes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 148.061 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 148 / § 148.061
§ 148.061. Tax treatment of deferred compensation
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 501 - 134th General Assembly (A) In addition to the program of deferred compensation that may be offered under this chapter, a board of township trustees may offer to all of the officers and employees of the township plans or programs for deferring compensation designed for favorable tax treatment of the compensation so deferred. A plan or program shall present a reasonable number of options to the township's officers and employees for the investment of the deferred funds that will assure the desired tax treatment of the funds. A board of township trustees may establish a designated Roth account feature or any other feature in which an officer or employee of the township may make tax-deferred or nontax-deferred contributions to an eligible government plan in accordance with 26 U.S.C. 457. (B) Both of the following apply to a deferred compensation plan or program established under this section: (1) Any income deferred under a plan or program shall continue to be included as regular compensation for the purpose of computing the contributions to and benefits from each officer's or employee's retirement system. (2) Any sums deferred shall not be included in the computation of any federal and state income taxes withheld on behalf of an officer or employee. Sums contributed to a Roth account feature or other feature to which nontax-deferred contributions are made shall be included in the computation of any federal and state income taxes withheld on behalf of an officer or employee. Last updated January 24, 2023 at 12:26 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.11
§ 122.11. Classified and unclassified employees
Status: in_force

September 26, 1996 House Bill 356 - 121st General Assembly The director of development may employ and fix the compensation of technical and professional personnel, who shall be in the unclassified civil service, and may employ other personnel, who shall be in the classified civil service, as necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 122.011 to 122.11 , 122.17 , and 122.18 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 118.041 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 118 / § 118.041
§ 118.041. Performance audit of municipal corporations
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly 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.
Ohio Rev. Code § 191.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 191 / § 191.15
§ 191.15. Applicant agreement before receiving reimbursement
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Before receiving a program reimbursement under the Ohio broadband pole replacement and undergrounding program, each applicant shall agree to do the following: (1) Not later than ninety days after receipt of a program reimbursement, activate qualifying broadband service to end users utilizing the broadband infrastructure for which the applicant has received reimbursement for pole replacement, mid-span pole installation, or undergrounding costs; (2) Certify the application's compliance with the requirements of sections 191.10 to 191.24 of the Revised Code; (3) Comply with any federal requirements associated with the funding used by the broadband expansion program authority in connection with the award; (4) Refund all or any portion of reimbursements received under the program as specified in section 191.30 of the Revised Code, if pursuant to that section the applicant is found to have materially violated any of the requirements of sections 191.10 to 191.24 of the Revised Code. (B) For an application regarding a pole replacement or mid-span pole installation, the applicant shall do the following if the applicant is the pole owner, or affiliate of the pole owner: (1) Comply with division (A) of this section; (2) Commit that the pole owner will comply with all applicable pole attachment regulations and requirements imposed by the state or federal government; (3) Commit that the pole owner will exclude from its costs used to calculate its rates or charges for access to its utility poles for which the applicant has been reimbursed as follows: (a) Under the Ohio broadband pole replacement and undergrounding program or any other broadband grant program; (b) By a provider, for make-ready charges; (4)(a) Commit that the pole owner will maintain and make available, upon reasonable request, to the department of development or to a party subject to the rates and charges described in division (B)(3) of this section, accounting documentation sufficient to demonstrate compliance with division (B)(3) of this section; (b) Division (B)(4)(a) of this section does not apply to an electric distribution utility as defined in section 4928.01 of the Revised Code, unless the electric distribution utility is the applicant. Last updated August 29, 2023 at 4:36 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 163.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 163 / § 163.04
§ 163.04. Notice of intent to acquire - purchase offer - inability to agree
Status: in_force

October 10, 2007 Senate Bill 7 - 127th General Assembly (A) At least thirty days before filing a petition pursuant to section 163.05 of the Revised Code, an agency shall provide notice to the owner of the agency's intent to acquire the property. The notice shall be substantially in the form set forth in section 163.041 of the Revised Code. The notice shall be delivered personally on, or by certified mail to, the owner of the property or the owner's designated representative. (B) Together with the notice that division (A) of this section requires, or after providing that notice but not less than thirty days before filing a petition pursuant to section 163.05 of the Revised Code, an agency shall provide an owner with a written good faith offer to purchase the property. The agency may revise that offer if before commencing an appropriation proceeding the agency becomes aware of conditions indigenous to the property that could not reasonably have been discovered at the time of the initial good faith offer or if the agency and the owner exchange appraisals prior to the filing of the petition. (C) An agency may appropriate real property only after the agency obtains an appraisal of the property and provides a copy of the appraisal to the owner or, if more than one, each owner or to the guardian or trustee of each owner. The agency need not provide an owner with a copy of the appraisal when that owner is incapable of contracting in person or by agent to convey the property and has no guardian or trustee or is unknown, or the residence of the owner cannot with reasonable diligence be ascertained. When the appraisal indicates that the property is worth less than ten thousand dollars, the agency need only provide an owner, guardian, or trustee with a summary of the appraisal. The agency shall provide the copy or summary of the appraisal to an owner, guardian, or trustee at or before the time the agency makes its first offer to purchase the property. A public utility or the head of a public agency may prescribe a procedure to waive the appraisal in cases involving the acquisition by sale or donation of property with a fair market value of ten thousand dollars or less. (D) An agency may appropriate real property only after the agency is unable to agree on a conveyance or the terms of a conveyance, for any reason, with any owner or the guardian or trustee of any owner unless each owner is incapable of contracting in person or by agent to convey the property and has no guardian or trustee, each owner is unknown, or the residence of each owner is unknown to the agency and the residence of no owner can with reasonable diligence be ascertained. (E) An agency may appropriate real property for projects that will disrupt the flow of traffic or impede access to property only after the agency makes reasonable efforts to plan the project in a way that will limit those effects. This division does not apply to an agency if it initiated the project for which it appropriates the property under Title LV of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 153.49 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 153 / § 153.49
§ 153.49. Duty of county treasurer
Status: in_force

August 27, 1976 Senate Bill 330 - 111th General Assembly The county treasurer shall pay the warrants drawn for materials and labor furnished on county contracts pursuant to estimates prepared under section 153.14 of the Revised Code, place them on file, and keep a register of the names of the persons to whom they are paid.
Ohio Rev. Code § 126.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 126 / § 126.07
§ 126.07. Certification of balance statement in all contracts
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly Except as provided in division (B) of section 126.21 of the Revised Code, no contract, agreement, or obligation involving the expenditure of money chargeable to an appropriation, nor any resolution or order for the expenditure of money chargeable to an appropriation, shall be valid and enforceable unless the director of budget and management first certifies that there is a balance in the appropriation not already obligated to pay existing obligations, in an amount at least equal to the portion of the contract, agreement, obligation, resolution, or order to be performed in the current fiscal year. Any written contract or agreement entered into by the state shall contain a clause stating that the obligations of the state are subject to this section. The chief administrative officer of a state agency is responsible for the preaudit and approval of expenditures and other transactions of the agency. In order to initiate the making of a payment from the state treasury, the person in a state agency who requests that the payment be made shall first submit to the chief administrative officer of the agency all invoices, claims, vouchers, and other documentation related to the payment. The chief administrative officer shall examine each voucher and all other documentation required to support the voucher and determine whether they meet all the requirements established by the director of budget and management for making the payment. If they do meet those requirements, the chief administrative officer shall certify to the director the approval of the chief administrative officer for payment. Prior to drawing a warrant or processing an electronic funds transfer as provided in section 126.35 of the Revised Code, the director may review and audit the voucher, any documentation accompanying the voucher, and any other documentation related to the transaction that the director may require to determine if the transaction is in accordance with law. The director shall not approve payment to be made if the director finds that there is not an unobligated balance in the appropriation for the payment, that the payment is not for a valid claim against the state that is legally due, or that insufficient documentation has been submitted. If the director does not approve payment, the director shall notify the agency of the reasons the director has not given approval. In approving payments to be made under this section, the director, upon receipt of certification from the director of job and family services pursuant to section 4141.231 of the Revised Code, shall withhold from amounts otherwise payable to a person who is the subject of the director of jobs and family services' certification, the amount certified to be due and unpaid to the director of job and family services, and shall approve for payment to the director of job and family services, the amount withheld. As used in this section and in section 126.21 of the Revised Code, "chief administrative officer" means either of the following: (A) The director of the agency or, in the case of a state agency without a director, the equivalent officer of that agency; (B) The designee of the chief administrative officer for the purposes of such sections.
Ohio Rev. Code § 131.511 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 131 / § 131.511
§ 131.511. Credit to local government audit support fund
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly (A) In addition to the amounts credited to the local government fund under section 131.51 of the Revised Code, the director of the office of budget and management shall credit monthly to the local government audit support fund a portion of total tax revenue credited to the general revenue fund equal to one-twelfth of the annual fiscal year appropriation from the local government audit support fund. (B) The director of budget and management shall develop a schedule identifying the specific tax revenue sources to be used to make the monthly transfers required under division (A) of this section. The director may, from time to time, revise the schedule of revenue sources as the director considers necessary.
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.7412 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.7412
§ 109.7412. [Enacted as R.C. 109.7411 by H.B. 315, 135th General Assembly, and recodified as R.C. 109.7412 pursuant to R.C. 103.131] Peace officer training regarding at-risk youth
Status: in_force

April 3, 2025 House Bill 315 - 135th General Assembly (A) The attorney general, in consultation with the Ohio peace officer training commission and department of children and youth, shall adopt, in accordance with Chapter 119. or section 109.74 of the Revised Code, rules governing the training of peace officers in identifying and interacting with at-risk youth. (B) The Ohio peace officer training academy shall provide the training described in division (A) of this section to peace officers. Last updated February 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 101.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 101 / § 101.33
§ 101.33. Temporary officials
Status: in_force

March 9, 1999 House Bill 649 - 122nd General Assembly During the absence or disability of the clerk of the senate, clerk of the house of representatives, or sergeant at arms of either house, the respective house of the general assembly may constitute one of the assistant clerks, clerk pro tempore, or one of the assistant sergeant at arms, sergeant at arms pro tempore, and the assistant so appointed shall have the powers to perform the duties required of the assistant's principal.
Ohio Rev. Code § 184.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 184 / § 184.15
§ 184.15. Biannual report of support awarded
Status: in_force

January 4, 2006 Senate Bill 236 - 126th General Assembly The third frontier commission shall publish a report twice each year detailing all support awarded under section 184.11 of the Revised Code for research and development projects, including the amount or type of support and the progress and performance metrics for the projects. A copy of each report shall be delivered to the governor, speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives, and president and minority leader of the senate.
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.311 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.311
§ 145.311. Payroll deduction plans - restoring SERS or STERS credit
Status: in_force

March 23, 2015 Senate Bill 42 - 130th General Assembly (A) A member of the public employees retirement system who has at least eighteen months of contributing service credit in the system, the Ohio police and fire pension fund, school employees retirement system, state teachers retirement system, or state highway patrol retirement system, and is a former member of or no longer contributing to the school employees retirement system or state teachers retirement system may restore service credit under section 3307.71 or 3309.26 of the Revised Code by making payments pursuant to this section through a payroll deduction plan established under section 145.294 of the Revised Code. A member seeking to restore this service credit shall notify the public employees retirement system on a form approved by the public employees retirement board. After receiving the notice, the public employees retirement system shall request that the former retirement system calculate under section 3307.712 or 3309.262 of the Revised Code the cost to the member to restore service credit for each year or portion of a year of service for which the member seeks to restore the service credit. The amount the former retirement system certifies as the cost of restoring the service credit, plus interest described in division (B) of this section, is the cost to the member of restoring the service credit. On receiving the certification from the former retirement system, the public employees retirement system shall notify the member of the cost. (B) For each year or portion of a year of service credit restored under section 3307.71 or 3309.26 of the Revised Code, a member shall pay to the public employees retirement system the amount certified by the former retirement system plus interest at a rate specified by the former retirement system under section 3307.712 or 3309.262 of the Revised Code for the period during which deductions are made under section 145.294 of the Revised Code. (C) The public employees retirement board shall at least annually transmit to the former retirement system notice and any payments made to restore service credit under section 3307.71 or 3309.26 of the Revised Code. The former retirement system shall restore the service credit for the year or portion of a year for which the payment was made. (D) The board shall adopt rules to implement this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 175.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 175 / § 175.15
§ 175.15. Inclusion of pregnancy as priority in housing assistance and local emergency shelter programs
Status: in_force

April 6, 2017 Senate Bill 332 - 131st General Assembly The Ohio housing finance agency and the Ohio development services agency shall include pregnancy as a priority in its housing assistance programs and local emergency shelter programs. In consultation with the Ohio development services agency, the Ohio housing finance agency may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that are necessary to implement the requirements of this section. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 146.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 146 / § 146.10
§ 146.10. Collecting assessment
Status: in_force

July 11, 1985 House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly (A) If a member of the volunteer fire fighters' dependents fund having a volunteer fire department or employing volunteer fire fighters does not pay the assessment provided in section 146.09 of the Revised Code within forty-five days after notice, the state fire marshal shall proceed with collection in the same manner as provided in section 146.08 of the Revised Code. (B) If a private volunteer fire company which is a member of the fund does not pay the assessment provided in section 146.09 of the Revised Code within forty-five days after notice, such company shall be suspended as a member of the fund and shall be ineligible to file any new claim occurring during the period of suspension.
Ohio Rev. Code § 128.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 128 / § 128.07
§ 128.07. Final plan contents, filing
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The final plan required under section 128.06 of the Revised Code shall specify: (1) Which telephone companies serving customers in the county and, as authorized in division (A) of section 128.03 of the Revised Code, in an adjacent county will participate in the 9-1-1 system; (2) The location and number of public safety answering points; how the public safety answering points will be connected to a county's preferred next generation 9-1-1 system; from what geographic territory each public safety answering point will receive 9-1-1 calls; whether enhanced 9-1-1 or next generation 9-1-1 service will be provided within such territory; what subdivisions will be served by the public safety answering point; and whether a public safety answering point will respond to calls by directly dispatching an emergency service provider, by relaying a message to the appropriate emergency service provider, or by transferring the call to the appropriate emergency service provider; (3) How originating service providers must connect to the core 9-1-1 system identified by the final plan and what methods will be utilized by the originating service providers to provide 9-1-1 voice, text, other forms of messaging media, and caller location to the core 9-1-1 system; (4) That in instances where a public safety answering point, even if capable, does not directly dispatch all entities that provide the emergency services potentially needed for an incident, without significant delay, that request shall be transferred or the information electronically relayed to the entity that directly dispatches the potentially needed emergency services; (5) Which subdivision or regional council of governments will establish, equip, furnish, operate, and maintain a particular public safety answering point; (6) A projection of the initial cost of establishing, equipping, and furnishing and of the annual cost of the first five years of operating and maintaining each public safety answering point; (7) Whether the cost of establishing, equipping, furnishing, operating, or maintaining each public safety answering point should be funded through charges imposed under section 128.35 of the Revised Code or will be allocated among the subdivisions served by the answering point and, if any such cost is to be allocated, the formula for so allocating it; (8) How each emergency service provider will respond to a misdirected call or the provision of a caller location that is either misrepresentative of the actual location or does not meet requirements of the federal communications commission or other accepted national standards as they exist on the date of the call origination. (B)(1) The 9-1-1 program review committee shall send a copy of the final plan: (a) To the board of county commissioners of the county, to the legislative authority of each municipal corporation in the county, and to the board of township trustees of each township in the county either by certified mail or, if the committee has record of an internet identifier of record associated with the board or legislative authority, by ordinary mail and by that internet identifier of record; and (b) To the board of trustees, directors, or park commissioners of each subdivision that will be served by a public safety answering point under the plan. (2) The 9-1-1 program review committee shall file a copy of its current final plan with the Ohio 9-1-1 program office not later than six months after the effective date of this amendment . Any revisions or amendments shall be filed not later than ninety days after adoption. (C) As used in this section, "internet identifier of record" has the same meaning as in section 9.312 of the Revised Code. Last updated September 18, 2023 at 5:22 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 118.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 118 / § 118.23
§ 118.23. Current revenue notes issued during fiscal emergency period
Status: in_force

September 3, 1996 House Bill 462 - 121st General Assembly (A) This section shall be applicable to current revenue notes approved by the financial planning and supervision commission or, when authorized by the commission, the financial supervisor pursuant to section 118.15 of the Revised Code and issued by a municipal corporation, county, or township pursuant to section 133.10 of the Revised Code and this section during a fiscal emergency period. (B) In the case of the issuance of such current revenue notes in anticipation of ad valorem property taxes, the county auditors of the counties in which the municipal corporation, county, or township is located, at the time of and from each distribution to the municipality of the proceeds of the anticipated taxes, including any payments from the state pursuant to sections 321.24 and 323.156 of the Revised Code, whether such distribution be in the form of an advance or settlement that would otherwise have been paid to a fund or funds of the municipal corporation, county, or township, shall draw a separate warrant for payment to the county auditor for deposit in a special account to be held and applied pursuant to this section by the county auditor as fiscal agent and entitled "_______ (insert name of municipal corporation, county, or township) current tax revenue note retirement account," that portion of such distribution as provided for in the ordinance or resolution authorizing such notes pursuant to this section. (C) In the case of the issuance of such current revenue notes in anticipation of revenues other than ad valorem property taxes, the ordinance or resolution authorizing such notes shall provide for the times and amounts of deposits with the fiscal agent by the municipal corporation, county, or township of moneys from the revenues anticipated that shall be deposited in a special account to be held and applied by the fiscal agent pursuant to this section and entitled "__________ (insert name of municipal corporation, county, or township) current revenue note retirement account." Such ordinance or resolution may provide for the direct deposit to such account by the auditor of state and the county auditor or county auditors of the receiving counties, as appropriate, of such portions as therein specified of local government fund distribution to be made to the municipal corporation, county, or township. (D) The moneys in the accounts provided for in divisions (B) and (C) of this section are pledged and shall be used, so long as any portion of the debt service on such notes payable from the respective account is unpaid, solely for the purpose of paying such debt service, and for any reserves for debt service provided for in the ordinance or resolution authorizing such debt obligations. If accumulated payments into either account produce an amount less than that needed to make a timely payment of debt service or to such reserves, the full amount needed to make up any such deficiency shall be paid, in the case of the current tax revenue note retirement account, by the county auditor into such account from the last distribution or distributions to the municipal corporation, county, or township of the proceeds of the anticipated taxes to be received prior to the date of such payment, and in the case of the current revenue note retirement account, by the fiscal officer from the anticipated revenues received prior to the date of such payment. (E) The amounts to be deposited in each respective account pursuant to divisions (B), (C), and (D) of this section must be sufficient, in time and amount, to pay the principal of and interest on current notes payable from such account at their stated payment dates and to develop and maintain the required amounts in any such reserves. (F) The municipal corporation, county, or township shall not be entitled to receive from the fiscal agent any moneys held in the current tax revenue note retirement account or current revenue note retirement account, except that any surplus moneys remaining in either such account after the payment in full of the debt service on the notes payable therefrom shall be paid to the municipal corporation, county, or township, to be used for any lawful purpose of the municipal corporation, county, or township for which the anticipated revenues themselves might have been used. (G) Current revenue notes of a municipal corporation, county, or township issued during a fiscal emergency period may mature on or before the thirty-first day of December of the calendar year in which issued, may, when issued in anticipation of the collection of current tax revenues, anticipate one-half of the amount that the budget commission estimates the subdivision will receive from all property taxes that are to be distributed to the subdivision from all settlements of taxes that are to be made in the remainder of that year, other than taxes to be received for the payment of debt charges, and less all advances, and may, if issued during the last two months of the calendar year in which the fiscal emergency period commenced, anticipate one-half the estimated amount of ad valorem property taxes levied in that year for the tax budget of the following year which were authorized to be levied by the municipal charter or otherwise authorized by vote of the electorate of the municipal corporation, county, or township and may mature not later than the thirty-first day of December of the year following the year in which such notes are issued, notwithstanding section 133.10 of the Revised Code. (H) Pursuant to section 118.19 of the Revised Code, the municipal corporation, county, or township may utilize any of the special provisions of sections 118.20 to 118.22 of the Revised Code in connection with such current revenue notes. (I) Before any such current revenue notes may be authorized, the municipal corporation, county, or township shall submit to the commission and the commission or, when authorized by the commission, the financial supervisor shall approve: (1) A schedule of projected revenues and expenses of the municipal corporation, county, or township during the period in which such notes would be outstanding, demonstrating an anticipated cash flow deficit during such period, the amount of such anticipated cash flow deficit, and the necessity for the issuance of such current revenue notes to avoid the occurrence of such a cash flow deficit; (2) The terms of the proposed notes, including the interest rate or rates to be paid thereon; (3) The schedule, showing times, amounts, and sources of payment, for deposits into the account from which such notes are to be paid; (4) Other documents and data required under section 118.15 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.4071 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.4071
§ 122.4071. Report contents and public availability
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The reports required under section 122.4070 of the Revised Code and except as provided in section 122.4075 of the Revised Code, all information and documents in them shall be in a format specified by the department of development and shall be publicly available on the department's web site. (B) In each report, the broadband provider shall include an account of how program grant funds have been used and the project's progress toward fulfilling the objectives for which the program grant was awarded. The reports, at a minimum, shall include the following: (1) The number of residential addresses that have access to tier two broadband services as a result of the eligible project; (2) The number of residential addresses that are not funded directly by the grant program but have access to tier two broadband service as a result of the eligible project; (3) The upstream and downstream speed of the broadband service provided; (4) The average price of broadband service; (5) The number of broadband service subscriptions attributable to the program grant. Last updated September 19, 2023 at 12:59 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 147.52 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 147 / § 147.52
§ 147.52. Notarial acts by authorized person
Status: in_force

April 3, 2025 House Bill 315 - 135th General Assembly (A) If the notarial act is performed by any of the persons described in divisions (A) and (B) of section 147.51 of the Revised Code, other than a person authorized to perform notarial acts by the laws or regulations of a foreign country, the signature, rank, or title and serial number, if any, of the person are sufficient proof of the authority of a holder of that rank or title to perform the act. Further proof of the person's authority is not required. (B) If the notarial act is performed by a person authorized by the laws or regulations of a foreign country to perform the act, there is sufficient proof of the authority of that person to act if: (1) Either a foreign service officer of the United States residing in the country in which the act is performed or a diplomatic or consular officer of the foreign country residing in the United States certifies that a person holding that office is authorized to perform the act; (2) The official seal of the person performing the notarial act is affixed to the document; or (3) The title and indication of authority to perform notarial acts of the person appears either in a digest of foreign law or in a list customarily used as a source of such information. (C) If the notarial act is performed by a person other than one described in divisions (A) and (B) of this section, there is sufficient proof of the authority of that person to act if the clerk of a court of record in the place in which the notarial act is performed certifies to the official character of that person and to that person's authority to perform the notarial act. (D) The signature and title of the person performing the act are prima-facie evidence that the person is a person with the designated title and that the signature is genuine. Last updated February 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 147.63 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 147 / § 147.63
§ 147.63. Application to be authorized as online notary public
Status: in_force

December 29, 2023 Senate Bill 131 - 134th General Assembly (A) A notary public who has been duly appointed and commissioned under section 147.01 of the Revised Code, and who is a resident of this state, may apply to the secretary of state to be authorized to act as an online notary public during the term of that notary public's commission. A state resident commissioned as a notary public qualifies to be an online notary public by paying the fee described in section 147.631 of the Revised Code and submitting to the secretary of state an application in the form prescribed by the secretary that demonstrates to the satisfaction of the secretary that the applicant will comply with the standards adopted in rules under section 147.62 of the Revised Code and that the applicant is otherwise qualified to be an online notary. (B)(1) Before an individual may be authorized to act as an online notary public, that individual shall successfully complete a course of instruction approved by the secretary of state and pass an examination based on the course. The content of the course shall include notarial rules, procedures, and ethical obligations pertaining to online notarization contained in sections 147.60 to 147.66 of the Revised Code or in any other law or rules of this state. The course may be taken in conjunction with the educational program required under section 147.021 of the Revised Code for a notary public commission. (2) The secretary of state shall approve one business entity comprised of bar associations with statewide scope and regional presence that have expertise and experience in notary laws and processes to provide the course and administer the examination to become an online notary. (C) The application required under division (A) of this section shall be transmitted electronically to the secretary of state and shall include all of the following information: (1) The applicant's full legal name and official notary public name to be used in acting as an online notary public; (2) A description of the technology the applicant intends to use in performing online notarizations; (3) A certification that the applicant will comply with the rules adopted under section 147.62 of the Revised Code; (4) An electronic mail address of the applicant; (5) Any decrypting instructions, keys, codes, or software necessary to enable the application to be read; (6) Proof of successful completion of the course and passage of the examination required under division (B) of this section; (7) A disclosure of any and all license or commission revocations or other professional disciplinary actions taken against the applicant; (8) Any other information that the secretary of state may require. (D)(1) If the secretary of state is satisfied that an applicant meets the standards adopted in rules under section 147.62 of the Revised Code, and that the applicant is otherwise qualified to be an online notary public, then the secretary shall issue to the applicant a written authorization to perform online notarizations. The secretary of state shall issue a written authorization to perform online notarizations to an applicant who holds an authorization or license to perform online notarizations in another state in accordance with Chapter 4796. of the Revised Code. (2) Except as provided in division (D)(4) of this section, the authorization shall expire when the notary public's commission expires or is revoked under section 147.03 , 147.031 , or 147.032 of the Revised Code. (3)(a) Except as provided in division (D)(5) of this section, the authorization shall be renewed when the notary public's commission is renewed. (b) An authorization to perform online notarizations that is set to expire shall not be renewed unless the notary submits to the secretary of state through the entity authorized in this section all of the following: (i) A fee, set by the secretary of state, of not more than four times the fee prescribed in division (B)(2) of section 147.031 of the Revised Code; (ii) An application for renewal on a form prescribed by the secretary; (iii) Evidence of having completed continuing education, as required under division (G) of this section. (c) If a notary public's online notarization authorization expires before the notary submits the application for renewal, the secretary of state shall not renew that expired authorization but shall permit that person to apply for a new online notarization authorization. (4) An authorization to perform online notarizations granted to an attorney admitted to the practice of law in this state by the Ohio supreme court shall expire on the earlier of five years after the date the authorization is granted or when the attorney's term of office as a notary public ends. (5) An attorney authorized to perform online notarizations may apply to renew the attorney's authorization three months prior to the authorization's expiration date. (6)(a) The secretary may deny an application for an online notary public if any of the required information is missing or incorrect on the application form. (b) The secretary may also deny an application if the technology the applicant identifies pursuant to division (C)(2) of this section does not conform to the standards developed by the secretary pursuant to section 147.62 of the Revised Code. (E) Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting an online notary public from receiving, installing, and utilizing a software update to the technology that the online notary public disclosed pursuant to division (C)(2) of this section if that software update does not result in a technology that is materially different from the technology that the online notary public disclosed pursuant to division (C)(2) of this section. (F)(1) If a notary public changes either the hardware or the software that the notary intends to use to carry out online notarizations, then the notary shall inform the secretary of this intent on a form prescribed by the secretary. (2) If the secretary determines that the new hardware or software does not meet the standards prescribed in rules under section 147.62 of the Revised Code, then the secretary may suspend or revoke the notary's authority to perform online notarizations. (G)(1) The secretary of state shall not renew an online notarization authorization unless the applicant has completed continuing education as required under rules adopted pursuant to division (G)(2) of this section. (2) The secretary shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code related to continuing education requirements for an online notarization authorization. The rules shall specify the number of hours of continuing education a notary must complete over the duration of the notary's license and may specify content to be included in the continuing education. Last updated December 29, 2023 at 7:35 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 155.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 155 / § 155.30
§ 155.30. [Former R.C. 1509.70, amended and renumbered by H.B. 110 of the 134th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2021] Definitions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly As used in sections 155.30 to 155.36 of the Revised Code: (A) "Formation" means any of the following: (1) The distance from the surface of the land to the top of the Onondaga limestone; (2) The distance from the top of the Onondaga limestone to the bottom of the Queenston formation; (3) The distance from the bottom of the Queenston formation to the basement rock. (B) "Gross landowner royalty" means a royalty based on the proceeds received on the sale of production of oil or gas without deduction for post-production costs, but less a proportionate share of any and all taxes and government fees levied on or as a result of the production. (C) "Post-production costs" means all costs and expenses incurred between the wellhead and the point of sale, including, without limitation, the costs of any treating, separating, dehydrating, processing, storing, gathering, transporting, compressing, and marketing. (D) "State agency" means both of the following: (1) "State agency" as defined in section 1.60 of the Revised Code; (2) "State university or college" as defined in section 3345.12 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 19, 2021 at 5:02 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 103.65 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 103 / § 103.65
§ 103.65. Ohio health oversight and advisory committee
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the Ohio health oversight and advisory committee. The committee shall consist of the following members: (1) Three members of the senate appointed by the president of the senate, two of whom are members of the majority party and one of whom is a member of the minority party; (2) Three members of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, two of whom are members of the majority party and one of whom is a member of the minority party. (B) The president and speaker shall make the initial appointments to the committee not later than fifteen calendar days after June 23, 2021. The president and speaker shall make subsequent appointments not later than forty-five calendar days after the commencement of the first regular session of each general assembly. Members of the committee shall serve on the committee until appointments are made in the first regular session of the following general assembly, until a member no longer serves as a member of the chamber from which the member was initially appointed, or until a member is removed by the speaker or president. No committee member shall be removed during the member's term during a state of emergency as defined in section 107.42 of the Revised Code, unless an extraordinary circumstance exists that prevents a member from serving on the committee. A vacancy on the committee shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. (C) In odd-numbered years, the president shall designate one committee member from the senate who is a member of the majority party as the committee chairperson, and the speaker shall designate one committee member from the house who is a member of the majority party as the committee vice-chairperson and one committee member from the house who is a member of the minority party as the committee ranking minority member. In even-numbered years, the speaker shall designate one committee member from the house who is a member of the majority party as the committee chairperson, and the president shall designate one committee member from the senate who is a member of the majority party as the committee vice-chairperson and one committee member from the senate who is a member of the minority party as the committee ranking minority member. (D) In appointing members from the minority party, and in designating ranking minority members, the president and speaker shall consult with the minority leader of their respective houses. (E) The Ohio health oversight and advisory committee shall meet at the call of the chairperson. (F) The legislative service commission shall provide staff services to the Ohio health oversight and advisory committee to enable the committee to successfully and efficiently perform its duties. Last updated July 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 118.023 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 118 / § 118.023
§ 118.023. Declaring existence of fiscal watch; financial recovery plan
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (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 and cancels the watch, or until the auditor of state determines that a state of fiscal emergency exists. The auditor of state, or a designee, shall provide such technical and support services to the municipal corporation, county, or township after a fiscal watch has been declared to exist as the auditor of state considers necessary. (B) Within ninety days after the day a written declaration of the existence of a fiscal watch is issued under division (A) of this section, the mayor of the municipal corporation, the board of county commissioners of the county, or the board of township trustees of the township for which a fiscal watch was declared shall submit to the auditor of state a financial recovery plan that shall identify actions to be taken to eliminate all of the conditions described in section 118.022 of the Revised Code, and shall include a schedule detailing the approximate dates for beginning and completing the actions and a five-year forecast reflecting the effects of the actions. The financial recovery plan also shall evaluate the feasibility of entering into shared services agreements with other political subdivisions for the joint exercise of any power, performance of any function, or rendering of any service, if so authorized by statute. The financial recovery plan is subject to review and approval by the auditor of state. The auditor of state may extend the amount of time by which a financial recovery plan is required to be filed, for good cause shown. (C) The auditor of state shall declare that a fiscal emergency condition exists under section 118.04 of the Revised Code in the municipal corporation, county, or township if either of the following applies: (1) A feasible financial recovery plan for a municipal corporation, county, or township for which a fiscal watch was declared is not submitted within the time period prescribed by division (B) of this section, or within any extension of time thereof; or (2) The auditor of state finds that a municipal corporation, county, or township for which a fiscal watch has been declared has not made reasonable proposals or otherwise taken action to discontinue or correct the fiscal practices or budgetary conditions that prompted the declaration of fiscal watch, and the auditor determines a fiscal emergency declaration is necessary to prevent further decline.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.42
§ 122.42. Director's powers and duties under R.C. 122.41 to 122.62
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The director of development shall do all of the following: (1) Receive applications for assistance under sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 of the Revised Code; (2) Make a final determination whether to approve the application for assistance; (3) Transmit determinations to approve assistance to the controlling board together with any information the controlling board requires for the board's review and decision as to whether to approve the assistance; (4) Issue revenue bonds of the state through the treasurer of state, as necessary, payable solely from revenues and other sources as provided in sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 of the Revised Code. (B) The director may do all of the following: (1) Fix the rate of interest and charges to be made upon or with respect to moneys loaned by the director and the terms upon which mortgages and lease rentals may be guaranteed and the rates of charges to be made for the loans and guarantees and to make provisions for the operation of the funds established by the director in accordance with this section and section 122.54 of the Revised Code; (2) Loan moneys from the fund established in accordance with section 122.54 of the Revised Code pursuant to and in compliance with sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 of the Revised Code; (3) Acquire in the name of the director any property of any kind or character in accordance with sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 of the Revised Code, by purchase, purchase at foreclosure, or exchange on such terms and in such manner as the director considers proper; (4) Make and enter into all contracts and agreements necessary or incidental to the performance of the director's duties and the exercise of the director's powers under sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 of the Revised Code; (5) Maintain, protect, repair, improve, and insure any property which the director has acquired and dispose of the same by sale, exchange, or lease for the consideration and on the terms and in the manner as the director considers proper, but is not authorized to operate any such property as a business except as the lessor of the property; (6)(a) When the cost of any contract for the maintenance, protection, repair, or improvement of any property held by the director other than compensation for personal services involves an expenditure of more than one thousand dollars, the director shall make a written contract with the lowest responsive and responsible bidder in accordance with section 9.312 of the Revised Code after advertisement for not less than two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where such contract, or some substantial part of it, is to be performed, and in such other publications as the director determines, which notice shall state the general character of the work and the general character of the materials to be furnished, the place where plans and specifications may be examined, and the time and place of receiving bids. (b) Each bid for a contract for the construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction of an improvement shall contain the full name of every person interested in it and meet the requirements of section 153.54 of the Revised Code. (c) Each bid for a contract, except as provided in division (B)(6)(b) of this section, shall contain the full name of every person interested in it and shall be accompanied by bond or certified check on a solvent bank, in such amount as the director considers sufficient, that if the bid is accepted a contract will be entered into and the performance of the proposal secured. (d) The director may reject any and all bids. (e) A bond with good and sufficient surety, approved by the director, shall be required of every contractor awarded a contract except as provided in division (B)(6)(b) of this section, in an amount equal to at least fifty per cent of the contract price, conditioned upon faithful performance of the contract. (7) Employ financial consultants, appraisers, consulting engineers, superintendents, managers, construction and accounting experts, attorneys, and other employees and agents as are necessary in the director's judgment and fix their compensation; (8) Assist qualified persons in the coordination and formation of a small business development company, having a statewide area of operation, conditional upon the company's agreeing to seek to obtain certification from the federal small business administration as a certified statewide development company and participation in the guaranteed loan program administered by the small business administration pursuant to the Act of July 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 837, 15 U.S.C.A. 697. During the initial period of formation of the statewide small business development company, the director shall provide technical and financial expertise, legal and managerial assistance, and other services as are necessary and proper to enable the company to obtain and maintain federal certification and participation in the federal guaranteed loan program. The director may charge a fee, in such amount and on such terms and conditions as the director determines necessary and proper, for assistance and services provided pursuant to division (B)(8) of this section. Persons chosen by the director to receive assistance in the formation of a statewide small business development company pursuant to division (B)(8) of this section shall make a special effort to use their participation in the federal guaranteed loan program to assist small businesses which are minority business enterprises as defined in division (E) of section 122.71 of the Revised Code. The director, with the assistance of the minority business development division of the department of development, shall provide technical and financial expertise, legal and managerial assistance, and other services in such a manner to enable the development company to provide assistance to small businesses which are minority business enterprises, and shall make available to the development company information pertaining to assistance available to minority business enterprises under programs established pursuant to sections 122.71 to 122.83 , 122.87 to 122.89 , 122.92 to 122.94 , 122.921 , and 125.081 of the Revised Code. (9) Receive and accept grants, gifts, and contributions of money, property, labor, and other things of value to be held, used, and applied only for the purpose for which such grants, gifts, and contributions are made, from individuals, private and public corporations, from the United States or any agency of the United States, from the state or any agency of the state, and from any political subdivision of the state, and may agree to repay any contribution of money or to return any property contributed or the value of the property at such times, in such amounts, and on such terms and conditions, excluding the payment of interest, as the director determines at the time such contribution is made, and may evidence such obligations by notes, bonds, or other written instruments; (10) Establish with the treasurer of state the fund provided in section 122.54 of the Revised Code, in addition to such funds as the director determines are necessary or proper; (11) Do all acts and things necessary or proper to carry out the powers expressly granted and the duties imposed in sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 and Chapter 163. of the Revised Code. (C) All expenses and obligations incurred by the director in carrying out the director's powers and in exercising the director's duties under sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 of the Revised Code, shall be payable solely from the proceeds of revenue bonds issued pursuant to those sections, from revenues or other receipts or income of the director, from grants, gifts, and contributions, or funds established in accordance with those sections. Those sections do not authorize the director to incur indebtedness or to impose liability on the state or any political subdivision of the state. (D) Financial statements and financial data submitted to the director by any corporation, partnership, or person in connection with a loan application, or any information taken from such statements or data for any purpose, shall not be open to public inspection. Last updated July 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 149.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 149 / § 149.12
§ 149.12. Distributing legislative publications to libraries
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The state library board shall forward, free of charge, in a paper or electronic format, one copy of each legislative bulletin, daily house and senate journal, pamphlet law as described in section 149.09 of the Revised Code, and summary of enactments published by the legislative service commission, to the following libraries: (A) Each library within the state that has been designated by the state library board under section 149.11 of the Revised Code as a depository for state publications; (B) In each county containing no library described in division (A) of this section, to a public library designated by the state library board to receive the journals, bulletins, and summaries described in this section. The state library board shall designate libraries that can best preserve the publications and are so located geographically that they can make the publications conveniently accessible to the residents of the county. The state library board shall forward the daily house and senate journals once every week while the general assembly is in session and the legislative bulletin, each pamphlet law, and the summary of enactments as they are published. Each library receiving publications under this section or under section 149.09 of the Revised Code shall make these publications accessible to the public.
Ohio Rev. Code § 135.54 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 135 / § 135.54
§ 135.54. Possession and control of securities vested in authorized agent - powers
Status: in_force

March 15, 1982 House Bill 230 - 114th General Assembly Immediately upon the issuance and sale of bonds as authorized by section 135.52 of the Revised Code, the possession, management, and control of the securities mentioned in section 135.51 of the Revised Code, subject to the further disposition of such securities pursuant to sections 135.51 and 135.53 of the Revised Code, shall be transferred to and vested in the authority of the county, municipal corporation, township, or school district having charge of the administration of the bond retirement fund of such subdivision. Such authority shall have and exercise all the powers, rights, privileges, and immunities of an owner with respect to such securities, subject to the control of the board of county commissioners, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, the board of township trustees, and the board of education, and unless otherwise specified in any resolution of such board of county commissioners, legislative authority, board of township trustees, or board of education, may, in case such securities consist of first mortgages accepted pursuant to section 131.09 of the Revised Code, pay taxes, insurance premiums, and repairs and maintenance of property covered by any such mortgage from the proceeds of such securities, in case of default in any such respect on the part of the mortgagor or owner of the property. Such payments shall be made, subject in all cases to reimbursement by the person primarily liable for such taxes, insurance premiums, and repairs and maintenance, from the fund for the retirement of such bonds.
Ohio Rev. Code § 117.116 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 117 / § 117.116
§ 117.116. Review of warrant under protest
Status: in_force

April 7, 2021 Senate Bill 10 - 133rd General Assembly The auditor of state, upon receiving notification that a county auditor has filed a warrant under protest as specified in section 319.16 of the Revised Code, may review that warrant as part of the auditor of state's next regularly scheduled audit of the public office that presented documents under that section that led to issuance of the warrant under protest.
Ohio Rev. Code § 147.37 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 147 / § 147.37
§ 147.37. Fees for commissions
Status: in_force

September 20, 2019 Senate Bill 263 - 132nd General Assembly (A) The secretary of state shall establish a fee of not more than one hundred fifty dollars to be paid by each person receiving a commission as notary public. (B) The notary public shall remit the fee to the authorized entity that administered the educational program and test required by section 147.021 of the Revised Code. The notary public shall remit to the secretary of state the portion of that fee specified pursuant to division (C)(2) of this section. (C) The secretary of state shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to do all of the following: (1) Establish the amount of the fee authorized by division (A) of this section; (2) Establish the portion of the fee, not to exceed fifteen dollars, that the notary public is required to remit to the secretary of state; (3) Establish the portion of the fee that a notary who is an attorney shall remit to the entity that administered the educational program.