Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.281 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.281
§ 4141.281. Appeal to director
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly APPEALS (A) APPEAL FILED Any party notified of a determination of benefit rights or a claim for benefits determination may appeal within twenty-one calendar days after the written determination was sent to the party or within an extended period as provided under division (D)(9) of this section. (B) REDETERMINATION Within twenty-one days after receipt of the appeal, the director of job and family services shall issue a redetermination or transfer the appeal to the unemployment compensation review commission. A redetermination under this section is appealable in the same manner as an initial determination by the director. (C) REVIEW COMMISSION (1) JURISDICTION The commission shall provide an opportunity for a fair hearing to the interested parties of appeals over which the commission has jurisdiction. The commission has jurisdiction over an appeal on transfer or on direct appeal to the commission. If the commission concludes that a pending appeal does not warrant a hearing, the commission may remand the appeal to the director for redetermination. The commission retains jurisdiction until the appeal is remanded to the director or a final decision is issued and appealed to court, or the time to request a review or to appeal a decision of a hearing officer or the commission is expired. (2) CONDUCT OF HEARINGS Hearings before the commission are held at the hearing officer level and the review level. Unless otherwise provided in this chapter, initial hearings involving claims for compensation and other unemployment compensation issues are conducted at the hearing officer level by hearing officers appointed by the commission. Hearings at the review level are conducted by hearing officers appointed by the commission, by members of the commission acting either individually or collectively, and by members of the commission and hearing officers acting jointly. In all hearings conducted at the review level, the commission shall designate the hearing officer or officers who are to conduct the hearing. When the term "hearing officer" is used in reference to hearings conducted at the review level, the term includes members of the commission. All decisions issued at the review level are issued by the commission. Provisions contained in the remainder of this paragraph apply to hearings at both the hearing officer level and the review level. The principles of due process in administrative hearings shall be applied to all hearings conducted under the authority of the commission. In conducting hearings, all hearing officers shall control the conduct of the hearing, exclude irrelevant or cumulative evidence, and give weight to the kind of evidence on which reasonably prudent persons are accustomed to rely in the conduct of serious affairs. Hearing officers have an affirmative duty to question parties and witnesses in order to ascertain the relevant facts and to fully and fairly develop the record. Hearing officers are not bound by common law or statutory rules of evidence or by technical or formal rules of procedure. No person shall impose upon the claimant or the employer any burden of proof as is required in a court of law. The proceedings at hearings shall be recorded by mechanical means or otherwise as may be prescribed by the commission. In the absence of further proceedings, the record need not be transcribed. After considering all of the evidence, a hearing officer shall issue a written decision that sets forth the facts as the hearing officer finds them to be, cites the applicable law, and gives the reasoning for the decision. (3) HEARING OFFICER LEVEL When an appeal is transferred to the commission by the director, the commission shall notify all interested parties of the time and place of the hearing and assign the appeal for a hearing by a hearing officer. The hearings shall be de novo, except that the director's file pertaining to a case shall be included in the record to be considered. Following a hearing, the hearing officer shall affirm, modify, or reverse the determination of the director in the manner that appears just and proper. The hearing officer's written decision shall be sent to all interested parties. The decision shall state the right of an interested party to request a review by the commission. A request for review shall be filed within twenty-one days after the decision was sent to the party, or within an extended period as provided under division (D)(9) of this section. The hearing officer's decision shall become final unless a request for review is filed and allowed or the commission removes the appeal to itself within twenty-one days after the hearing officer's decision is sent. (4) REVIEW LEVEL At the review level, the commission may affirm, modify, or reverse previous determinations by the director or at the hearing officer level. At the review level, the commission may affirm, modify, or reverse a hearing officer's decision or remand the decision to the hearing officer level for further hearing. The commission shall consider an appeal at the review level under the following circumstances: when an appeal is required to be heard initially at the review level under this chapter; when the commission on its own motion removes an appeal to itself within twenty-one days after the hearing officer's decision is sent; when the assigned hearing officer refers an appeal to the commission before the hearing officer's decision is sent; or when an interested party files a request for review with the commission within twenty-one days after the hearing officer's decision is sent. (5) COMMISSION EXAMINATION The commission shall consider a request for review by an interested party, including the reasons for the request. The commission may adopt rules prescribing the methods for requesting a review. The commission may allow or disallow the request for review. The disallowance of a request for review constitutes a final decision by the commission. (6) REVIEW PROCEDURE If the commission allows a request for review, the commission shall notify all interested parties of that fact and provide a reasonable period of time, as the commission defines by rule, in which interested parties may file a response. After that period of time, the commission, based on the record before it, may do one of the following: affirm the decision of the hearing officer; provide for the appeal to be heard or reheard at the hearing officer or review level; provide for the appeal to be heard at the review level as a potential precedential decision; or provide for the decision to be rewritten without further hearing at the review level. When a further hearing is provided or the decision is rewritten, the commission may affirm, modify, or reverse the previous decision. If a member of the commission is unable or unavailable to consider an appeal allowed by the commission, the other members of the commission may appoint a hearing officer as a temporary commissioner to fulfill the unable or unavailable commissioner's duties with respect to the appeal. The members of the commission may not appoint the hearing officer who decided the appeal at the hearing officer level. (7) NOTICES The commission shall send written notice to all interested parties when it orders an appeal to be heard or reheard. The notice shall include the reasons for the hearing or rehearing. (8) PRECEDENTIAL An appeal the commission identifies as potentially precedential shall be heard at the review level. In the notice for that type of hearing, the commission shall notify the director, all interested parties, and any other parties, as the commission determines appropriate, that the appeal is designated as potentially precedential. After the hearing, parties shall be given the opportunity to submit briefs on the issue or issues involved. The commission may designate a decision as precedential after issuing the decision or at any point in the appeal process, even if the commission does not initially identify the appeal as potentially precedential. (9) MASS APPEALS When the commission determines that it has five appeals pending that have common facts or common issues, the commission may transfer the appeals to the review level on its own motion to be heard as a mass appeal, including appeals from claimants separated due to a labor dispute, on the condition that there are fewer than twenty-five claimants involved. To facilitate a mass hearing, the commission may allow an authorized agent to accept notice of hearing on behalf of claimants. An authorized agent may waive this notice of hearing and also the sending of decisions to individual claimants represented by the agent. (D) SPECIAL PROVISIONS (1) TIMELINESS OF APPEALS The date of the mailing provided by the director or the commission is sufficient evidence upon which to conclude that a determination, redetermination, or decision was sent to the party on that date. Appeals may be filed with the director, commission, with an employee of another state or federal agency charged with the duty of accepting claims, or with the unemployment insurance commission of Canada. Any timely written notice by an interested party indicating a desire to appeal shall be accepted. The director, commission, or authorized agent must receive the appeal within the specified appeal period in order for the appeal to be deemed timely filed, except that: if the United States postal service is used as the means of delivery, the enclosing envelope must have a postmark date or postal meter postmark that is on or before the last day of the specified appeal period; and where the postmark is illegible or missing, the appeal is timely filed if received not later than the end of the fifth calendar day following the last day of the specified appeal period. The director and the commission may adopt rules pertaining to alternate methods of filing appeals under this section. (2) WAIVER Interested parties may waive, in writing, a hearing at either the hearing officer or review level. If the parties waive a hearing, the hearing officer shall issue a decision based on the evidence of record. (3) TELEPHONE HEARINGS Hearing officers may conduct hearings at either the hearing officer or review level in person or by telephone or interactive video conference. The commission shall adopt rules that designate the circumstances under which hearing officers may conduct a hearing by telephone or interactive video conference or grant a party to the hearing the opportunity to object to a hearing by telephone or interactive video conference. An interested party whose hearing would be by telephone or interactive video conference may elect to have an in-person hearing, provided that the party agrees to have the hearing at the time and place the commission determines pursuant to rule. (4) EVENING HEARINGS Unless the commission grants a request for an evening telephone or interactive video conference hearing, hearing officers shall conduct hearings at the hearing officer and review level during normal business hours. An interested party who is regularly employed throughout those hours may request to have a hearing by telephone or interactive video conference during the evening. The commission shall grant or deny a request for an evening telephone or interactive video conference hearing. If a conflict concerning a request for an evening hearing and an in-person hearing arises, the commission shall schedule the hearing by telephone or interactive video conference during evening hours. (5) NO APPEARANCE -- APPELLANT For hearings at either the hearing officer or review level, if the appealing party fails to appear at the hearing, the hearing officer shall dismiss the appeal. The commission shall vacate the dismissal upon a showing that written notice of the hearing was not sent to that party's last known address, or good cause for the appellant's failure to appear is shown to the commission within fourteen days after the hearing date. If the commission finds that the appealing party's reason for failing to appear does not constitute good cause for failing to appear, the commission shall send written notice of that finding, and the appealing party may request a hearing to present testimony on the issue of good cause for failing to appear. The appealing party shall file a request for a hearing on the issue of good cause for failing to appear within ten days after the commission sends written notice indicating a finding of no good cause for failing to appear. (6) NO APPEARANCE -- APPELLEE For hearings at either the hearing officer or review level, if the appellee fails to appear at the hearing, the hearing officer shall proceed with the hearing and shall issue a decision based on the evidence of record. The commission shall vacate the decision upon a showing that written notice of the hearing was not sent to the appellee's last known address, or good cause for the appellee's failure to appear is shown to the commission within fourteen days after the hearing date. (7) AGENT Any appeal or request for review may be executed on behalf of any party or any group of claimants by an agent. (8) COLLATERAL ESTOPPEL No finding of fact or law, decision, or order of the director, hearing officer, the commission, or a reviewing court under this section or section 4141.28 of the Revised Code shall be given collateral estoppel or res judicata effect in any separate or subsequent judicial, administrative, or arbitration proceeding, other than a proceeding arising under this chapter. (9) EXTENSION OF APPEAL PERIODS The time for filing an appeal or a request for review under this section or a court appeal under section 4141.282 of the Revised Code shall be extended in the manner described in the following four sentences. When the last day of an appeal period is a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, the appeal period is extended to the next work day after the Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday. When an interested party provides certified medical evidence stating that the interested party's physical condition or mental capacity prevented the interested party from filing an appeal or request for review under this section within the appropriate twenty-one-day period, the appeal period is extended to twenty-one days after the end of the physical or mental condition, and the appeal or request for review is considered timely filed if filed within that extended period. When an interested party provides evidence, which evidence may consist of testimony from the interested party, that is sufficient to establish that the party did not actually receive the determination or decision within the applicable appeal period under this section, and the director or the commission finds that the interested party did not actually receive the determination or decision within the applicable appeal period, then the appeal period is extended to twenty-one days after the interested party actually receives the determination or decision. When an interested party provides evidence, which evidence may consist of testimony from the interested party, that is sufficient to establish that the party did not actually receive a decision within the thirty-day appeal period provided in section 4141.282 of the Revised Code, and a court of common pleas finds that the interested party did not actually receive the decision within that thirty-day appeal period, then the appeal period is extended to thirty days after the interested party actually receives the decision. Last updated August 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4101.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4101 / § 4101.99
§ 4101.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly (A) Whoever violates section 4101.15 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars for a first offense; for each subsequent offense such person shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five thousand dollars. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4112.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4112 / § 4112.99
§ 4112.99. Civil penalty
Status: in_force

April 15, 2021 House Bill 352 - 133rd General Assembly (A) Whoever violates this chapter is subject to a civil action for damages, injunctive relief, or any other appropriate relief. Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, a person may bring such a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction. (B) A person is prohibited from bringing a civil action for employment discrimination under this section. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4101.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4101 / § 4101.12
§ 4101.12. Duty of employer to furnish safe place of employment
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No employer shall require, permit, or suffer any employee to go or be in any employment or place of employment which is not safe, and no such employer shall fail to furnish, provide, and use safety devices and safeguards, or fail to obey and follow orders or to adopt and use methods and processes reasonably adequate to render such employment and place of employment safe. No employer shall fail to do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, health, safety, and welfare of such employees or frequenters. No such employer or other person shall construct, occupy, or maintain any place of employment that is not safe.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4115.031 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4115 / § 4115.031
§ 4115.031. Discharge of obligation of contractor or subcontractor
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly The obligation of a contractor or subcontractor to make payment in accordance with the prevailing wage determinations of the director of commerce, insofar as Chapter 4115. of the Revised Code is concerned, may be discharged by the making of payments in cash, by the making of contributions of a type referred to in division (E)(2) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code or by the assumption of an enforceable commitment to bear the costs of a plan or program of a type referred to in division (E)(3) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code, or any combination thereof, where the aggregate of any such payments, contributions, and costs is not less than the rate of pay described in division (E)(1) plus the rates referred to in divisions (E)(2) and (3) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code. In determining the overtime pay to which the laborer or mechanic is entitled under any federal or state law, the person's regular or basic hourly rate of pay (or other alternative rate upon which premium rate of overtime compensation is computed) shall be deemed to be the rate computed under division (E)(1) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code, except that where the amount of payments, contributions, or costs incurred with respect to that person exceeds the prevailing wage applicable to the person under Chapter 4115. of the Revised Code, such regular or basic hourly rate of pay (or such other alternative rate) shall be arrived at by deducting from the amount of payments, contributions, or costs actually incurred with respect to the person, the amount of contributions or costs of the types described in divisions (E)(2) and (3) actually incurred with respect to the person, or the amount determined under divisions (E)(2) and (3) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code but not actually paid, whichever amount is the greater.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4133.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4133 / § 4133.11
§ 4133.11. Occupational licensing laws
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 Senate Bill 201 - 133rd General Assembly Nothing in this chapter exempts an alternate employer organization, client employer, or worksite employee from any applicable federal, state, or local licensing, registration, or certification statutes or regulations. An individual required to obtain and maintain a license, registration, or certification under law and who is a worksite employee of an alternate employer organization and a client employer is an employee of the client employer for purposes of obtaining and maintaining the appropriate license, registration, or certification as required by law. An alternate employer organization does not engage in any occupation, trade, or profession that requires a license, certification, or registration solely by entering into an alternate employer organization agreement with a client employer or employing a worksite employee. A client employer shall have the sole right of direction and control of the professional or licensed activities of worksite employees and of the client employer's business. The worksite employees and client employers shall remain subject to regulation by the board, commission, or agency responsible for licensing, registration, or certification of the worksite employees or client employers.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.13
§ 4123.13. Fees of officers and witnesses
Status: in_force

July 1, 2009 House Bill 525 - 127th General Assembly Each officer who serves a subpoena issued under section 4123.08 of the Revised Code shall receive the same fees as a sheriff, and each witness who appears, in obedience to a subpoena, before the industrial commission or its secretary or district or staff hearing officers, the administrator of workers' compensation, or any inspector or examiner of the commission or administrator, shall receive the fees and mileage provided for under section 119.094 of the Revised Code, which shall be paid from the state insurance fund on the approval of any two members of the commission, if the witness is subpoenaed by the commission or its secretary, district or staff hearing officer, inspector, or examiner, or on the approval of the administrator, if the witness is subpoenaed by the administrator or the administrator's inspector or examiner. No witness subpoenaed at the instance of a party other than the persons listed in this section is entitled to compensation under this section unless the administrator or commission certifies that the witness's testimony was material to the matter investigated.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.22
§ 4141.22. Divulging information
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) No person shall disclose any information that was maintained by the director of job and family services or the unemployment compensation review commission or that was furnished to the director or the commission by employers or employees pursuant to this chapter, unless such disclosure is permitted under section 4141.21 or 4141.211 of the Revised Code. (B) No person in the employ of the director, a county family services agency, a workforce development agency, or the commission, or who has been in the employ of the director, those agencies, or the commission, at any time, shall divulge any information maintained by or furnished to the director or the commission under this chapter and secured by the person while so employed, in respect to the transactions, property, business, or mechanical, chemical, or other industrial process of any person, firm, corporation, association, or partnership to any person other than the director or other employees of the department of job and family services or, a county family services agency, workforce development agency, or the commission, as required by the person's duties, or to other persons as authorized by the director under section 4141.43 of the Revised Code. Whoever violates this section shall be disqualified from holding any appointment or employment by the director, a county family services agency, a workforce development agency, or the commission. Last updated September 1, 2023 at 9:36 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4167.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4167 / § 4167.01
§ 4167.01. Public employment risk reduction program definitions
Status: in_force

September 26, 2025 House Bill 81 - 136th General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "Public employer" means any of the following: (1) The state and its instrumentalities; (2) Any political subdivisions and their instrumentalities, including any county, county hospital, municipal corporation, city, village, township, park district, school district, state institution of higher learning, public or special district, state agency, authority, commission, or board; (3) Any other branch of public employment not mentioned in division (A)(1) or (2) of this section. (B) "Public employee" means any individual who engages to furnish services subject to the direction and control of a public employer, including those individuals working for a private employer who has contracted with a public employer and over whom the national labor relations board has declined jurisdiction. "Public employee" does not mean any of the following: (1) A peace officer employed by a public employer as defined in division (A)(2) of this section or any member of the organized militia ordered to duty by state authority pursuant to Chapter 5923. of the Revised Code; (2) Any person who engages to furnish services subject to the direction and control of a public employer but does not receive compensation, either directly or indirectly, for those services; (3) Any forest-fire investigator, natural resources officer, wildlife officer, or preserve officer; (4) Any person incarcerated in an alternative residential facility, community-based correctional facility, jail, halfway house, or prison, as those terms are defined in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Public employee representative" means an employee organization certified by the state employment relations board under section 4117.05 of the Revised Code as the exclusive representative of the public employees in a bargaining unit. (D) "Employment risk reduction standard" means a standard which requires conditions, or the adoption or use of one or more practices, means, methods, operations, or processes, reasonably necessary or appropriate to provide safe and healthful employment and places of employment. (E) "Ohio employment risk reduction standard" means any risk reduction standard adopted or issued under this chapter. (F) "Undue hardship" means any requirement imposed under this chapter or a rule or order issued thereunder that would require a public employer to take an action with significant difficulty or expense when considered in light of all of the following factors: (1) The nature and cost of the action required under this chapter; (2) The overall financial resources of the public employer involved in the action; (3) The number of persons employed by the public employer at the particular location where the action may be required; (4) The effect on expenses and resources or the impact otherwise of the action required upon the operations of the public employer at the location where the action may be required; (5) The overall size of the public employer with respect to the number of its public employees; (6) The number, type, and location of the public employer's operations, including the composition, structure, and functions of the workforce of the public entity; (7) The geographic separateness, administrative, or fiscal relationship of the public employer's operations to the whole public employer. Last updated August 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4163.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4163 / § 4163.99
§ 4163.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

July 1, 1996 Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly Whoever violates division (E) of section 4163.07 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree. Each shipment made in violation of that division is a separate offense. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4112.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4112 / § 4112.15
§ 4112.15. Civil rights commission general reimbursement fund
Status: in_force

June 26, 2003 House Bill 95 - 125th General Assembly There is hereby created in the state treasury the civil rights commission general reimbursement fund, which shall be used to pay operating costs of the commission. All amounts received by the commission, and all amounts awarded by a court to the commission, for attorney's fees, court costs, expert witness fees, and other litigation expenses shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the fund. All amounts received by the commission for copies of commission documents and for other goods and services furnished by the commission shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4112.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4112 / § 4112.03
§ 4112.03. Ohio civil rights commission
Status: in_force

July 24, 1990 House Bill 623 - 118th General Assembly There is hereby created the Ohio civil rights commission to consist of five members, not more than three of whom shall be of the same political party, to be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, one of whom shall be designated by the governor as chairman. At least one member shall be at least sixty years of age. Terms of office shall be for five years, commencing on the twenty-ninth day of July and ending on the twenty-eighth day of July. Each member shall hold office from the date of his appointment until the end of the term for which he was appointed. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of such term. Any member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of his term until his successor takes office, or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. Three members of the commission shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of conducting the business thereof. A vacancy in the commission shall not impair the right of the remaining members to exercise all the powers of the commission. Each member of the commission shall be paid a salary established pursuant to division (J) of section 124.15 of the Revised Code plus necessary and actual expenses while traveling on business of the commission. Any member of the commission may be removed by the governor for inefficiency, neglect of duty, misconduct, or malfeasance in office, after being given a written statement of the charges against him and an opportunity to be heard publicly thereon.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4167.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4167 / § 4167.14
§ 4167.14. Injunctive relief
Status: in_force

September 10, 2007 House Bill 100 - 127th General Assembly (A) Any court of common pleas has jurisdiction, upon petition of the administrator of workers' compensation, to restrain any conditions or practices in any places of employment that present a danger that could reasonably be expected to cause death or serious harm or contribute significantly to occupationally related illness immediately or before the imminence of the danger can be eliminated through the enforcement procedures provided in this chapter. Any order issued under this section may require that steps be taken as necessary to avoid, correct, or remove the imminent danger and prohibit the employment or presence of any individual in locations or under conditions where the imminent danger exists, except individuals whose presence is necessary to avoid, correct, or remove the imminent danger. (B) Upon the filing of a petition under division (A) of this section, the court of common pleas may grant injunctive relief or a temporary restraining order pending the outcome of an enforcement proceeding pursuant to this chapter, except that no temporary restraining order issued without notice is effective for a period longer than five calendar days. (C) If the administrator or the administrator's designee responsible for inspections determines that the imminent danger as described in division (A) of this section is such that immediate action is necessary, and further determines that there is not sufficient time in light of the nature, severity, and imminence of the danger to seek and obtain a temporary restraining order or injunction, the administrator or the administrator's designee immediately shall file a petition with the court under division (A) of this section and issue an order requiring action to be taken as is necessary to avoid, correct, or remove the imminent danger. The administrator, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, to permit a public employer expeditious informal reconsideration of any order issued by the administrator under this division. Unless the administrator reverses an order pursuant to the informal reconsideration, the order remains in effect pending the court's determination under this section. If the administrator modifies an order pursuant to the informal reconsideration, the administrator shall provide the court with whom the administrator filed the petition under this section with a copy of the modified order. The modified order remains in effect pending the court's determination under this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4104.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4104 / § 4104.33
§ 4104.33. Historical boilers licensing board
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly There is hereby created the historical boilers licensing board consisting of seven members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Terms of office shall be for five years, each term ending on the same day of the same month of the year as did the term that it succeeds. One member shall be an employee of the division of boiler inspection in the department of commerce; one member shall be an independent mechanical engineer who is not involved in selling or inspecting historical boilers; and one shall be an active member of an association that represents managers of fairs or festivals. The remaining four members shall each own a historical boiler and also have at least ten years of experience in the operation of historical boilers, and each of these four members shall reside in a different region of the state. Each member shall hold office from the date of the member's appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed. Members may be reappointed. Vacancies shall be filled by the director of commerce, and shall not require the advice and consent of the senate. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration date of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office as a member for the remainder of that term. A member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the successor takes office or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. The members of the board, annually, shall elect, by majority vote, a chairperson from among their members. The board shall meet at least once annually and at other times at the call of the chairperson. Board members shall receive their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties as board members. The superintendent of industrial compliance shall call the first meeting of the board, and the superintendent, or the superintendent's designee, shall act as an ex officio chairperson at the first meeting for the sole purpose of electing a chairperson. The superintendent of industrial compliance shall furnish office space, staff, and supplies to the board as the superintendent determines are necessary for the board to carry out its official duties under sections 4104.33 to 4104.37 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 3, 2023 at 12:35 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4104.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4104 / § 4104.15
§ 4104.15. Certificates of inspection and operation
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) All certificates of inspection for boilers, issued prior to October 15, 1965, are valid and effective for the period set forth in such certificates unless sooner withdrawn by the superintendent of industrial compliance. The owner or user of any such boiler shall obtain an appropriate certificate of operation for such boiler, and shall not operate such boiler, or permit it to be operated unless a certificate of operation has been obtained in accordance with section 4104.17 of the Revised Code. (B) If a boiler owner or user is in compliance with sections 4104.13 , 4104.17 , and 4104.18 of the Revised Code, the superintendent, upon application, shall issue the boiler owner or user a certificate of operation or renew the boiler owner's or user's certificate of operation. The certificate of operation shall: (1) State the maximum pressure at which the boiler may be operated, as ascertained by the rules of the board of building standards, the name of the owner or user, the location, size, and number of each boiler, and the date of issuance; (2) Be so placed as to be easily read in the engine room or boiler room of the plant where the boiler is located, except that the certificate of operation for a portable boiler shall be kept on the premises and shall be accessible at all times. (C) If an inspector at any inspection finds that the boiler or pressure vessel is not in safe working condition, or is not provided with the fittings necessary to safety, or if the fittings are improperly arranged, the inspector shall immediately notify the owner or user and person in charge of the boiler and shall report the same to the superintendent who may revoke, suspend, or deny the certificate of operation and not renew the same until the boiler or pressure vessel and its fittings are put in condition to insure safety of operation, and the owner or user shall not operate the boiler or pressure vessel, or permit it to be operated until such certificate has been granted or restored. (D) If the superintendent or a general boiler inspector finds that a pressure vessel or boiler or a part thereof poses an explosion hazard that reasonably can be regarded as posing an imminent danger of death or serious physical harm to persons, the superintendent or the general boiler inspector shall seal the pressure vessel or boiler and order, in writing, the operator or owner of the pressure vessel or boiler to immediately cease the pressure vessel's or boiler's operation. The order shall be effective until the nonconformities are eliminated, corrected, or otherwise remedied, or for a period of seventy-two hours from the time of issuance, whichever occurs first. During the seventy-two-hour period, the superintendent may request that the prosecuting attorney or city attorney of Franklin county or of the county in which the pressure vessel or boiler is located obtain an injunction restraining the operator or owner of the pressure vessel or boiler from continuing its operation after the seventy-two-hour period expires until the nonconformities are eliminated, corrected, or otherwise remedied. (E) Each boiler which has been inspected shall be assigned a number by the superintendent, which number shall be stamped on a nonferrous metal tag affixed to the boiler or its fittings by seal or otherwise. No person except an inspector shall deface or remove any such number or tag. (F) If the owner or user of any pressure vessel or boiler disagrees with the inspector as to the necessity for shutting down a pressure vessel or boiler or for making repairs or alterations in it, or taking any other measures for safety that are requested by an inspector, the owner or user may appeal from the decision of the inspector to the superintendent, who may, after such other inspection by a general inspector or special inspector as the superintendent deems necessary, decide the issue. (G) Neither sections 4104.01 to 4104.20 of the Revised Code, nor an inspection or report by any inspector, shall relieve the owner or user of a pressure vessel or boiler of the duty of using due care in the inspection, operation, and repair of the pressure vessel or boiler or of any liability for damages for failure to inspect, repair, or operate the pressure vessel or boiler safely.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4169.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4169 / § 4169.06
§ 4169.06. Emergency order to cease using tramway
Status: in_force

April 12, 2021 House Bill 442 - 133rd General Assembly (A) When facts are presented to the division of industrial compliance in the department of commerce that indicate that immediate danger exists in the continued operation of a passenger tramway, the division, after such verification of the facts as is practical under the circumstances and consistent with immediate public safety, may by an emergency written order require the operator of the tramway to cease using the tramway immediately for the transportation of passengers. Any person may serve notice on the operator or the operator's agent who is in immediate control of the tramway by delivering a true and attested copy of the order, and the operator or the operator's agent shall furnish proof of receipt of such notice by signing an affidavit on the back of the copy of the order. The emergency order shall be effective for a period not to exceed forty-eight hours from the time of notification. (B) Immediately after the issuance of an emergency order pursuant to this section, the division shall investigate the facts of the case. If the division finds that a violation of any of its rules exists or that a condition in passenger tramway construction, maintenance, or mechanical operation exists that endangers public safety, it shall issue a written order setting forth its findings and the corrective action to be taken and fixing a reasonable time for compliance. (C) After an investigation pursuant to division (B) of this section, if the division determines that danger to public safety exists in the continued operation of a passenger tramway, it shall so state in the order, describe in detail the basis for its findings, and in the order may require the operator not to operate the tramway until the operator has taken the corrective action ordered pursuant to this section. If the operator continues to use the tramway following receipt of such order, the division may request the court of common pleas having jurisdiction in the county where the tramway is located to issue an injunction forbidding operation of the tramway. (D) An operator of a passenger tramway may request a hearing by the division on any order issued pursuant to this chapter and may appeal the results of such a hearing in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. An operator may appeal an order suspending the operation of the operator's tramway without first requesting a hearing. (E) If an operator fails to comply with an order of the division issued pursuant to this chapter within the specified time, the division may suspend the registration certificate of the operator for such time as it considers necessary to gain compliance with its order. No operator shall operate a passenger tramway while the operator's registration certificate is under suspension by the division.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4117.101 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4117 / § 4117.101
§ 4117.101. Prohibiting agreements contrary to community school provisions
Status: in_force

April 8, 2003 House Bill 364 - 124th General Assembly Notwithstanding sections 4117.08 and 4117.10 of the Revised Code, no agreement entered into under this chapter may contain any provision that in any way limits the effect or operation of Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code or limits the authority of a school district board of education, or the governing board of an educational service center described in division (C)(1)(d) of section 3314.02 of the Revised Code, to enter into a contract with a community school under that chapter. However, nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit an agreement entered into under this chapter from containing requirements and procedures governing the reassignment of teachers who are employed in a school at the time it is converted to a community school pursuant to Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code and who do not choose or are not chosen to teach in that community school.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.81 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.81
§ 4123.81. Prohibition against deduction for premium
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No employer shall deduct any portion of the premium paid by such employer into the state insurance fund from the wages or salary of any employee entitled to the benefits of sections 4123.01 to 4123.94 , inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4105.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4105 / § 4105.20
§ 4105.20. Prohibited acts - fines
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly No person shall violate any law relative to the operation, construction, maintenance, and repair of elevators. All fines collected for violation of this section shall be forwarded to the superintendent of industrial compliance, who shall pay them into the state treasury to the credit of the industrial compliance operating fund created in section 121.084 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4101.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4101 / § 4101.15
§ 4101.15. Prohibited acts
Status: in_force

October 29, 1995 Senate Bill 162 - 121st General Assembly No employer, employee, or other person shall violate this chapter or Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code, do any act prohibited by such chapters, fail to perform any duty lawfully enjoined, within the time prescribed by the bureau of workers' compensation, for which violation no penalty has been specifically provided, or fail to obey any lawful order given or made by the bureau, or any judgment or decree made by any court in connection with such chapters.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.27
§ 4121.27. Exclusive jurisdiction of supreme court
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly No court of this state, except the supreme court to the extent specified by sections 4101.01 to 4101.16 and 4121.01 to 4121.29 of the Revised Code has jurisdiction to review, vacate, set aside, reverse, revise, correct, amend, or annul any order of the bureau of workers' compensation, or to suspend or delay the execution or operation thereof or to enjoin, restrain, or interfere with the bureau in the performance of its official duties. The writ of mandamus shall lie from the supreme court to the bureau in all proper cases.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4151.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4151 / § 4151.01
§ 4151.01. Definitions
Status: in_force

March 20, 2026 House Bill 246 - 136th General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "Alien" means an individual who is not a United States citizen or a United States national. (B) "Business day" means a day of the week excluding Saturday, Sunday, and a legal holiday as defined under section 1.14 of the Revised Code. (C) "Employee" means any individual who performs services for a contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker who satisfies both of the following conditions: (1) The individual is subject to the contractor's, subcontractor's, or labor broker's direction and control, not only as to the result accomplished but also as to the details of how the work is performed; (2) The individual receives compensation in the form of wages, salary, or any other form of remuneration in exchange for services rendered. (D) "E-verify" means the employment verification program as jointly administered by the United States department of homeland security and the social security administration under section 101(a)(1) of the federal "Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986," 8 U.S.C. 1324a, or any of its successor programs. (E)(1) "Labor broker" means any individual or entity who hires an employee and supplies the employee's labor to a nonresidential construction contractor or a subcontractor, regardless of tier, through the use of a contract. (2) "Labor broker" does not include any governmental entity or labor organization as defined in section 3517.01 of the Revised Code. (F) "Nonresidential construction contractor" means any individual or entity that has responsibility for the means, method, and manner of construction, improvement, renovation, or repair on a nonresidential construction project with respect to one or more trades and who offers, identifies, advertises, or otherwise holds out or represents that the individual or entity is permitted or qualified to perform or have responsibility for the means, method, and manner of construction, improvement, renovation, repair, or maintenance with respect to one or more trades on a nonresidential construction project. (G) "Nonresidential construction project" means the construction or renovation of any building, highway, bridge, utility, or related infrastructure, but does not include any of the following: (1) An industrialized unit, manufactured home, or a residential building as defined in section 3781.06 of the Revised Code; (2) A building or structure that is incidental to the use of the land on which the building or structure is located for agricultural purposes as defined in section 3781.06 of the Revised Code; (3) A mobile home as defined in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code. (H) "Subcontractor" means any individual or entity who enters into a contract with a nonresidential construction contractor or another subcontractor, regardless of tier, to perform work on a nonresidential construction project. (I) "Unauthorized alien" means an alien who is not authorized to be employed as determined in accordance with the federal "Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986," 8 U.S.C. 1324a. Last updated January 28, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.11
§ 4121.11. Bureau rules of procedure
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly Subject to any applicable sections of sections 4101.01 to 4101.16 and 4121.01 to 4121.29 of the Revised Code, the bureau of workers' compensation may adopt its own rules of procedure and may change the same in its discretion.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.61 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.61
§ 4121.61. Aiding rehabilitation of injured workers
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly (A) As used in sections 4121.61 to 4121.69 of the Revised Code, "self-insuring employer" has the same meaning as in section 4123.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules, take measures, and make expenditures as it deems necessary to aid claimants who have sustained compensable injuries or incurred compensable occupational diseases pursuant to Chapter 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code to return to work or to assist in lessening or removing any resulting impairment. Last updated March 10, 2023 at 12:30 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4105.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4105 / § 4105.99
§ 4105.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

November 22, 1973 House Bill 589 - 110th General Assembly Whoever violates section 4105.20 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, for each subsequent offense such person shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4131.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4131 / § 4131.11
§ 4131.11. Longshoremen's and harbor workers' compensation act amendments of 1972 definitions
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly As used in sections 4131.11 to 4131.16 of the Revised Code: (A) "Federal act" means the "Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act Amendments of 1972," 86 Stat. 1251, 33 U.S.C.A. 901. (B) "Marine industry fund" means the fund created and administered pursuant to sections 4131.11 to 4131.16 of the Revised Code and does not refer, directly or indirectly, to any fund created and administered pursuant to Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. (C) "Premium" means payment to the marine industry fund by or on behalf of a marine industry employer to secure the payment of benefits under the federal act. "Premium" does not refer directly or indirectly, to premiums or contributions paid or required to be paid pursuant to Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. (D) "Subscriber" means any marine industry employer whose application to subscribe to the marine industry fund has been approved by the bureau of workers' compensation. (E) "Marine industry employer" means any person who is required by the federal act to secure the payment of benefits for which he is liable under that act.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.32 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.32
§ 4123.32. Rules for administering state insurance fund
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 Senate Bill 201 - 133rd General Assembly The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules with respect to the collection, maintenance, and disbursements of the state insurance fund including all of the following: (A) A rule providing for ascertaining the correctness of any employer's report of estimated or actual expenditure of wages and the determination and adjustment of proper premiums and the payment of those premiums by the employer; (B) Such special rules as the administrator considers necessary to safeguard the fund and that are just in the circumstances, covering the rates to be applied where one employer takes over the occupation or industry of another or where an employer first makes application for state insurance, and the administrator may require that if any employer transfers a business in whole or in part or otherwise reorganizes the business, the successor in interest shall assume, in proportion to the extent of the transfer, as determined by the administrator, the employer's account and shall continue the payment of all contributions due under this chapter; (C) A rule providing that an employer who employs an employee covered under the federal "Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act," 98 Stat. 1639, 33 U.S.C. 901 et seq., and this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code shall be assessed a premium in accordance with the expenditure of wages, payroll, or both attributable to only labor performed and services provided by such an employee when the employee performs labor and provides services for which the employee is not eligible to receive compensation and benefits under that federal act. (D) A rule providing for all of the following: (1) If an employer fails to file a report of the employer's actual payroll expenditures pursuant to section 4123.26 of the Revised Code for private employers or pursuant to section 4123.41 of the Revised Code for public employers, the premium and assessments due from the employer for the period shall be calculated based on the estimated payroll of the employer used in calculating the estimated premium due, increased by ten per cent; (2)(a) If an employer fails to pay the premium or assessments when due for a policy year commencing prior to July 1, 2015, the administrator may add a late fee penalty of not more than thirty dollars to the premium plus an additional penalty amount as follows: (i) For a premium from sixty-one to ninety days past due, the prime interest rate, multiplied by the premium due; (ii) For a premium from ninety-one to one hundred twenty days past due, the prime interest rate plus two per cent, multiplied by the premium due; (iii) For a premium from one hundred twenty-one to one hundred fifty days past due, the prime interest rate plus four per cent, multiplied by the premium due; (iv) For a premium from one hundred fifty-one to one hundred eighty days past due, the prime interest rate plus six per cent, multiplied by the premium due; (v) For a premium from one hundred eighty-one to two hundred ten days past due, the prime interest rate plus eight per cent, multiplied by the premium due; (vi) For each additional thirty-day period or portion thereof that a premium remains past due after it has remained past due for more than two hundred ten days, the prime interest rate plus eight per cent, multiplied by the premium due. (b) For purposes of division (D)(2)(a) of this section, "prime interest rate" means the average bank prime rate, and the administrator shall determine the prime interest rate in the same manner as a county auditor determines the average bank prime rate under section 929.02 of the Revised Code. (c) If an employer fails to pay the premium or assessments when due for a policy year commencing on or after July 1, 2015, the administrator may assess a penalty at the interest rate established by the state tax commissioner pursuant to section 5703.47 of the Revised Code. (3) Notwithstanding the interest rates specified in division (D)(2)(a) or (c) of this section, at no time shall the additional penalty amount assessed under division (D)(2)(a) or (c) of this section exceed fifteen per cent of the premium due. (4) If an employer recognized by the administrator as a professional employer organization or alternate employer organization fails to make a timely payment of premiums or assessments as required by section 4123.35 of the Revised Code, the administrator shall revoke the organization's registration pursuant to section 4125.06 or 4133.09 of the Revised Code, as applicable. (5) An employer may appeal a late fee penalty or additional penalty to an adjudicating committee pursuant to section 4123.291 of the Revised Code. (6) If the employer files an appropriate payroll report within the time provided by law, the employer shall not be in default and division (D)(2) of this section shall not apply if the employer pays the premiums within fifteen days after being first notified by the administrator of the amount due. (7) Any deficiencies in the amounts of the premium security deposit paid by an employer prior to July 1, 2015, shall be subject to an interest charge of six per cent per annum from the date the premium obligation is incurred. In determining the interest due on deficiencies in premium security deposit payments, a charge in each case shall be made against the employer in an amount equal to interest at the rate of six per cent per annum on the premium security deposit due but remaining unpaid sixty days after notice by the administrator. (8) Any interest charges or penalties provided for in divisions (D)(2) and (7) of this section shall be credited to the employer's account for rating purposes in the same manner as premiums. (E) A rule providing that each employer, on the occasion of instituting coverage under this chapter for an effective date prior to July 1, 2015, shall submit a premium security deposit. The deposit shall be calculated equivalent to thirty per cent of the semiannual premium obligation of the employer based upon the employer's estimated expenditure for wages for the ensuing six-month period plus thirty per cent of an additional adjustment period of two months but only up to a maximum of one thousand dollars and not less than ten dollars. The administrator shall review the security deposit of every employer who has submitted a deposit which is less than the one-thousand-dollar maximum. The administrator may require any such employer to submit additional money up to the maximum of one thousand dollars that, in the administrator's opinion, reflects the employer's current payroll expenditure for an eight-month period. (F) A rule providing that each employer, on the occasion of instituting coverage under this chapter, shall submit an application fee and an application for coverage that completely provides all of the information required for the administrator to establish coverage for that employer, and that the employer's failure to pay the application fee or to provide all of the information requested on the application may be grounds for the administrator to deny coverage for that employer. (G) A rule providing that, in addition to any other remedies permitted in this chapter, the administrator may discontinue an employer's coverage if the employer fails to pay the premium due on or before the premium's due date. (H) A rule providing that if after a final adjudication it is determined that an employer has failed to pay an obligation, billing, account, or assessment that is greater than one thousand dollars on or before its due date, the administrator may discontinue the employer's coverage in addition to any other remedies permitted in this chapter, and that the administrator shall not discontinue an employer's coverage pursuant to this division prior to a final adjudication regarding the employer's failure to pay such obligation, billing, account, or assessment on or before its due date. (I) As used in divisions (G) and (H) of this section: (1) "Employer" has the same meaning as in section 4123.01 of the Revised Code except that "employer" does not include the state, a state hospital, or a state university or college. (2) "State university or college" has the same meaning as in section 3345.12 of the Revised Code and also includes the Ohio agricultural research and development center and OSU extension. (3) "State hospital" means the Ohio state university hospital and its ancillary facilities and the medical university of Ohio at Toledo hospital.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4125.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4125 / § 4125.06
§ 4125.06. Denial or revocation of registration - stay of decision - procedure on revocation
Status: in_force

November 5, 2004 House Bill 183 - 125th General Assembly (A) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the administrator of the bureau of workers' compensation may deny registration or revoke the registration of a professional employer organization and rescind its status as a coemployer upon a finding that the professional employer organization has done any of the following: (1) Obtained or attempted to obtain registration through misrepresentation, misstatement of a material fact, or fraud; (2) Misappropriated any funds of the client employer; (3) Used fraudulent or coercive practices to obtain or retain business or demonstrated financial irresponsibility; (4) Failed to appear, without reasonable cause or excuse, in response to a subpoena lawfully issued by the administrator; (5) Failed to comply with the requirements of this chapter. (B) The administrator's decision to deny or revoke a professional employer organization's registration or to rescind its status as a coemployer is stayed pending the exhaustion of all administrative appeals by the professional employer organization. The administrator shall adopt rules that require that when an employer contacts the bureau of workers' compensation to determine whether a particular professional employer organization is registered, if the administrator has denied or revoked that professional employer organization's registration or rescinded its status as a coemployer, and if all administrative appeals are not yet exhausted when the employer inquires, the appropriate bureau personnel shall inform the inquiring employer of the denial, revocation, or rescission and the fact that the professional employer organization has the right to appeal the administrator's decision. (C) Upon revocation of the registration of a professional employer organization, each client employer associated with that professional employer organization shall file payroll reports and pay workers' compensation premiums directly to the administrator on its own behalf at a rate determined by the administrator based solely on the claims experience of the client employer. (D) Upon revocation of a professional employer organization's registration, each client employer associated with that professional employer organization shall file on its own behalf the appropriate documents or data with all state and federal agencies as required by law with respect to any shared employee the client employer and the professional employer organization shared.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.10
§ 4121.10. Session of industrial commission continuous and open to public - records of proceedings
Status: in_force

August 25, 2006 Senate Bill 7 - 126th General Assembly The industrial commission shall be in continuous session and open for the transaction of business during all business hours of every day excepting Sundays and legal holidays. The sessions of the commission shall be open to the public and shall stand and be adjourned without further notice thereof on its record. All of the proceedings of the commission shall be shown on its record, which shall be a public record except as provided in section 4123.88 of the Revised Code, and all voting shall be had by calling the name of each member of the industrial commission by the executive director, and each member's vote shall be recorded on the record of proceedings as cast. The commission shall keep a separate record of its proceedings relative to claims coming before it for compensation for injured and the dependents of killed employees, which record shall contain its findings and the award in each such claim for compensation considered by it, and in all such claims the reasons for the allowance or rejection thereof shall be stated in said record.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.03
§ 4121.03. Chairperson - executive director - powers and duties generally
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (A) The governor shall appoint from among the members of the industrial commission the chairperson of the industrial commission. The chairperson shall serve as chairperson at the pleasure of the governor. The chairperson is the head of the commission and its chief executive officer. (B) The chairperson shall appoint, after consultation with other commission members and obtaining the approval of at least one other commission member, an executive director of the commission. The executive director shall serve at the pleasure of the chairperson. The executive director, under the direction of the chairperson, shall perform all of the following duties: (1) Act as chief administrative officer for the commission; (2) Ensure that all commission personnel follow the rules of the commission; (3) Ensure that all orders, awards, and determinations are properly heard and signed, prior to attesting to the documents; (4) Coordinate, to the fullest extent possible, commission activities with the bureau of workers' compensation activities; (5) Do all things necessary for the efficient and effective implementation of the duties of the commission. The responsibilities assigned to the executive director of the commission do not relieve the chairperson from final responsibility for the proper performance of the acts specified in this division. (C) The chairperson shall do all of the following: (1) Except as otherwise provided in this division, employ, promote, supervise, remove, and establish the compensation of all employees as needed in connection with the performance of the commission's duties under this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code and may assign to them their duties to the extent necessary to achieve the most efficient performance of its functions, and to that end may establish, change, or abolish positions, and assign and reassign duties and responsibilities of every employee of the commission. The civil service status of any person employed by the commission prior to November 3, 1989, is not affected by this section. Personnel employed by the bureau or the commission who are subject to Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code shall retain all of their rights and benefits conferred pursuant to that chapter as it presently exists or is hereafter amended and nothing in this chapter or Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code shall be construed as eliminating or interfering with Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code or the rights and benefits conferred under that chapter to public employees or to any bargaining unit. (2) Hire district and staff hearing officers after consultation with other commission members and obtaining the approval of at least one other commission member; (3) Fire staff and district hearing officers when the chairperson finds appropriate after obtaining the approval of at least one other commission member; (4) Maintain the office for the commission in Columbus; (5) To the maximum extent possible, use electronic data processing equipment for the issuance of orders immediately following a hearing, scheduling of hearings and medical examinations, tracking of claims, retrieval of information, and any other matter within the commission's jurisdiction, and shall provide and input information into the electronic data processing equipment as necessary to effect the success of the claims tracking system established pursuant to division (B)(14) of section 4121.121 of the Revised Code; (6) Exercise all administrative and nonadjudicatory powers and duties conferred upon the commission by Chapters 4121., 4123., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code; (7) Approve all contracts for special services. (D) The chairperson is responsible for all administrative matters and may secure for the commission facilities, equipment, and supplies necessary to house the commission, any employees, and files and records under the commission's control and to discharge any duty imposed upon the commission by law, the expense thereof to be audited and paid in the same manner as other state expenses. For that purpose, the chairperson, separately from the budget prepared by the administrator of workers' compensation, shall prepare and submit to the office of budget and management a budget for each biennium according to sections 101.532 and 107.03 of the Revised Code. The budget submitted shall cover the costs of the commission and staff and district hearing officers in the discharge of any duty imposed upon the chairperson, the commission, and hearing officers by law. (E) A majority of the commission constitutes a quorum to transact business. No vacancy impairs the rights of the remaining members to exercise all of the powers of the commission, so long as a majority remains. Any investigation, inquiry, or hearing that the commission may hold or undertake may be held or undertaken by or before any one member of the commission, or before one of the deputies of the commission, except as otherwise provided in this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code. Every order made by a member, or by a deputy, when approved and confirmed by a majority of the members, and so shown on its record of proceedings, is the order of the commission. The commission may hold sessions at any place within the state. The commission is responsible for all of the following: (1) Establishing the overall adjudicatory policy and management of the commission under this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code, except for those administrative matters within the jurisdiction of the chairperson, bureau of workers' compensation, and the administrator of workers' compensation under those chapters; (2) Hearing appeals and reconsiderations under this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code; (3) Engaging in rulemaking where required by this chapter or Chapter 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4133.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4133 / § 4133.04
§ 4133.04. Employer for purposes of workers' compensation
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 Senate Bill 201 - 133rd General Assembly (A) When a client employer enters into an alternate employer organization agreement with an alternate employer organization, the alternate employer organization is the employer of record and the succeeding employer for the purposes of determining a workers' compensation experience rating pursuant to Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. (B) Pursuant to Section 35 of Article II, Ohio Constitution, and section 4123.74 of the Revised Code, the exclusive remedy for a worksite employee to recover for injuries, diseases, or death incurred in the course of and arising out of the employment relationship against either the alternate employer organization or the client employer are those benefits provided under Chapters 4121. and 4123. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4109.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4109 / § 4109.13
§ 4109.13. Designation of enforcement officials
Status: in_force

September 4, 2000 Senate Bill 181 - 123rd General Assembly (A) The administrator of the bureau of employment services shall designate enforcement officials to enforce this chapter. (B) An enforcement official, upon discovery of a violation of this chapter and after notice to the employer, shall make a complaint against the offending employer in any court of competent jurisdiction. (C) Enforcement officials shall make complaint by filing a complaint before a court having competent jurisdiction against any person violating any law relating to the employment of minors. This section shall not be construed to limit the right of other persons to make those complaints. (D) County courts, municipal courts, and juvenile courts have jurisdiction to try offenses under this chapter. Juvenile courts have exclusive original jurisdiction to try offenses under section 3321.38 of the Revised Code. (E) No person or enforcement official instituting proceedings under this section shall be required to file or give security for the costs. If a defendant is acquitted, the judge before whom the case is brought shall certify the costs to the county auditor. The county auditor shall examine the amount and, if necessary, correct it. The county auditor shall issue a warrant on the county treasurer in favor of the persons to whom the costs are due. (F) Fines collected for violations of this chapter and section 3321.38 of the Revised Code shall be paid into the funds of the school district in which the offense was committed. Last updated January 24, 2022 at 3:04 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4112.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4112 / § 4112.06
§ 4112.06. Judicial review of final commission order
Status: in_force

June 30, 1992 House Bill 321 - 119th General Assembly (A) Any complainant, or respondent claiming to be aggrieved by a final order of the commission, including a refusal to issue a complaint, may obtain judicial review thereof, and the commission may obtain an order of court for the enforcement of its final orders, in a proceeding as provided in this section. Such proceeding shall be brought in the common pleas court of the state within any county wherein the unlawful discriminatory practice which is the subject of the commission's order was committed or wherein any respondent required in the order to cease and desist from an unlawful discriminatory practice or to take affirmative action resides or transacts business. (B) Such proceedings shall be initiated by the filing of a petition in court as provided in division (A) of this section and the service of a copy of the said petition upon the commission and upon all parties who appeared before the commission. Thereupon the commission shall file with the court a transcript of the record upon the hearing before it. The transcript shall include all proceedings in the case, including all evidence and proffers of evidence. The court shall thereupon have jurisdiction of the proceeding and of the questions determined therein, and shall have power to grant such temporary relief, restraining order, or other order as it deems just and proper and to make and enter, upon the record and such additional evidence as the court has admitted, an order enforcing, modifying and enforcing as so modified, or setting aside in whole or in part, the order of the commission or remanding for further proceedings. (C) An objection that has not been urged before the commission shall not be considered by the court, unless the failure or neglect to urge such objection is excused because of extraordinary circumstances. (D) The court may grant a request for the admission of additional evidence when satisfied that such additional evidence is newly discovered and could not with reasonable diligence have been ascertained prior to the hearing before the commission. (E) The findings of the commission as to the facts shall be conclusive if supported by reliable, probative, and substantial evidence on the record and such additional evidence as the court has admitted considered as a whole. (F) The jurisdiction of the court shall be exclusive and its judgment and order shall be final subject to appellate review. Violation of the court's order shall be punishable as contempt. (G) The commission's copy of the testimony shall be available at all reasonable times to all parties without cost for examination and for the purposes of judicial review of the order of the commission. The petition shall be heard on the transcript of the record without requirement of printing. (H) If no proceeding to obtain judicial review is instituted by a complainant, or respondent within thirty days from the service of order of the commission pursuant to this section, the commission may obtain a decree of the court for the enforcement of such order upon showing that respondent is subject to the commission's jurisdiction and resides or transacts business within the county in which the petition for enforcement is brought. (I) All suits brought under this section shall be heard and determined as expeditiously as possible.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.23
§ 4123.23. Inspection of books, records, and payrolls
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly All books, records, and payrolls of the employers of the state, showing or reflecting in any way upon the amount of wage expenditure of such employers, shall always be open for inspection by the bureau of workers' compensation, or any of its traveling auditors, inspectors, or assistants, for the purpose of ascertaining the correctness of the wage expenditure, the number of men employed, and such other information as is necessary for the uses and purposes of the bureau in its administration of the law. Refusal on the part of any employer to submit his books, records, and payrolls for the inspection of the bureau or any traveling auditor, inspector, or assistant presenting written authority from the bureau shall subject the employer to a forfeiture of one hundred dollars for each offense, to be collected by civil action in the name of the state, and paid into the state insurance fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4133.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4133 / § 4133.08
§ 4133.08. Financial statements
Status: in_force

September 28, 2021 House Bill 75 - 134th General Assembly (A) An alternate employer organization shall maintain positive working capital at initial or annual registration, as reflected in the financial statements submitted to the bureau of workers' compensation. If a deficit in working capital is reflected in the financial statements submitted to the bureau, the alternate employer organization shall submit to the administrator of workers' compensation a quarterly financial statement for each calendar quarter during which there is a deficit in working capital, accompanied by an attestation of the chief executive officer, president, or other individual who serves as the controlling person of the alternate employer organization that all wages, taxes, workers' compensation premiums, and employee benefits have been paid by the alternate employer organization. The letter of credit required under division (D)(1) of section 4133.07 of the Revised Code shall be held by a depository designated by the administrator and shall secure payment by the alternate employer organization of all taxes, wages, benefits, or other entitlements due or otherwise pertaining to worksite employees, if the alternate employer organization does not make those payments when due. (B) An alternate employer organization shall prepare financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and submit them for registration and registration renewal under section 4133.07 of the Revised Code. The financial statements shall be audited by an independent alternate public accountant authorized to practice in the jurisdiction in which that accountant is located. (1) The resulting report of the auditor shall not include either of the following: (a) A qualification or disclaimer of opinion as to adherence to generally accepted accounting principles; (b) A statement expressing substantial doubt about the ability of the alternate employer organization to continue as a going concern. (2) However, if an alternate employer organization does not have at least twelve months of operating history on which to base financial statements, the financial statements shall be reviewed by a certified public accountant. (3) Notwithstanding division (B)(1)(a) of this section, if an alternate employer organization is a subsidiary or is related to a variable interest entity, the alternate employer organization or alternate employer organization entity may submit financial statements of the alternate employer organization. (C) The bureau shall deny initial or annual registration to an applicant that does not meet the requirements of this section. Last updated August 4, 2021 at 2:52 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.28
§ 4123.28. Record of injuries and occupational diseases - report
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly Every employer in this state shall keep a record of all injuries and occupational diseases, fatal or otherwise, received or contracted by his employees in the course of their employment and resulting in seven days or more of total disability. Within a week after acquiring knowledge of an injury or death therefrom, and in the event of occupational disease or death therefrom, within one week after acquiring knowledge of or diagnosis of or death from an occupational disease or of a report to the employer of the occupational disease or death, a report thereof shall be made in writing to the bureau of workers' compensation upon blanks to be procured from the bureau for that purpose. The report shall state the name and nature of the business of the employer, the location of his establishment or place of work, the name, address, nature and duration of occupation of the injured, disabled, or deceased employee and the time, the nature, and the cause of injury, occupational disease, or death, and such other information as is required by the bureau. The employer shall give a copy of each report to the employee it concerns or his surviving dependents. No employer shall refuse or neglect to make any report required by this section. Each day that an employer fails to file a report required by this section constitutes an additional day within the time period given to a claimant by the applicable statute of limitations for the filing of a claim based on the injury or occupational disease, provided that a failure to file a report shall not extend the applicable statute of limitations for more than two additional years.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.121 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.121
§ 4121.121. Bureau of workers' compensation - appointment, powers and duties of administrator - chief operating officer
Status: in_force

September 26, 2025 House Bill 81 - 136th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the bureau of workers' compensation, which shall be administered by the administrator of workers' compensation. A person appointed to the position of administrator shall possess significant management experience in effectively managing an organization or organizations of substantial size and complexity. A person appointed to the position of administrator also shall possess a minimum of five years of experience in the field of workers' compensation insurance or in another insurance industry, except as otherwise provided when the conditions specified in division (C) of this section are satisfied. The governor shall appoint the administrator as provided in section 121.03 of the Revised Code, and the administrator shall serve at the pleasure of the governor. The governor shall fix the administrator's salary on the basis of the administrator's experience and the administrator's responsibilities and duties under this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., 4133., and 4167. of the Revised Code. The governor shall not appoint to the position of administrator any person who has, or whose spouse has, given a contribution to the campaign committee of the governor in an amount greater than one thousand dollars during the two-year period immediately preceding the date of the appointment of the administrator. The administrator shall hold no other public office and shall devote full time to the duties of administrator. Before entering upon the duties of the office, the administrator shall take an oath of office as required by sections 3.22 and 3.23 of the Revised Code, and shall file in the office of the secretary of state, a bond signed by the administrator and by surety approved by the governor, for the sum of fifty thousand dollars payable to the state, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the administrator's duties. (B) The administrator is responsible for the management of the bureau and for the discharge of all administrative duties imposed upon the administrator in this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., 4133., and 4167. of the Revised Code, and in the discharge thereof shall do all of the following: (1) Perform all acts and exercise all authorities and powers, discretionary and otherwise that are required of or vested in the bureau or any of its employees in this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., 4133., and 4167. of the Revised Code, except the acts and the exercise of authority and power that is required of and vested in the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors or the industrial commission pursuant to those chapters. The treasurer of state shall honor all warrants signed by the administrator, or by one or more of the administrator's employees, authorized by the administrator in writing, or bearing the facsimile signature of the administrator or such employee under sections 4123.42 and 4123.44 of the Revised Code. (2) Employ, direct, and supervise all employees required in connection with the performance of the duties assigned to the bureau by this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., 4133., and 4167. of the Revised Code, including an actuary, and may establish job classification plans and compensation for all employees of the bureau provided that this grant of authority shall not be construed as affecting any employee for whom the state employment relations board has established an appropriate bargaining unit under section 4117.06 of the Revised Code. All positions of employment in the bureau are in the classified civil service except those employees the administrator may appoint to serve at the administrator's pleasure in the unclassified civil service pursuant to section 124.11 of the Revised Code. The administrator shall fix the salaries of employees the administrator appoints to serve at the administrator's pleasure, including the chief operating officer, staff physicians, staff certified nurse-midwives, staff clinical nurse specialists, staff certified nurse practitioners, and other senior management personnel of the bureau and shall establish the compensation of staff attorneys of the bureau's legal section and their immediate supervisors, and take whatever steps are necessary to provide adequate compensation for other staff attorneys. The administrator may appoint a person who holds a certified position in the classified service within the bureau to a position in the unclassified service within the bureau. A person appointed pursuant to this division to a position in the unclassified service shall retain the right to resume the position and status held by the person in the classified service immediately prior to the person's appointment in the unclassified service, regardless of the number of positions the person held in the unclassified service. An employee's right to resume a position in the classified service may only be exercised when the administrator demotes the employee to a pay range lower than the employee's current pay range or revokes the employee's appointment to the unclassified service. An employee who holds a position in the classified service and who is appointed to a position in the unclassified service on or after January 1, 2016, shall have the right to resume a position in the classified service under this division only within five years after the effective date of the employee's appointment in the unclassified service. An employee forfeits the right to resume a position in the classified service when the employee is removed from the position in the unclassified service due to incompetence, inefficiency, dishonesty, drunkenness, immoral conduct, insubordination, discourteous treatment of the public, neglect of duty, violation of this chapter or Chapter 124., 4123., 4125., 4127., 4131., 4133., or 4167. of the Revised Code, violation of the rules of the director of administrative services or the administrator, any other failure of good behavior, any other acts of misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance in office, or conviction of a felony while employed in the civil service. An employee also forfeits the right to resume a position in the classified service upon transfer to a different agency. Reinstatement to a position in the classified service shall be to a position substantially equal to that position in the classified service held previously, as certified by the department of administrative services. If the position the person previously held in the classified service has been placed in the unclassified service or is otherwise unavailable, the person shall be appointed to a position in the classified service within the bureau that the director of administrative services certifies is comparable in compensation to the position the person previously held in the classified service. Service in the position in the unclassified service shall be counted as service in the position in the classified service held by the person immediately prior to the person's appointment in the unclassified service. When a person is reinstated to a position in the classified service as provided in this division, the person is entitled to all rights, status, and benefits accruing to the position during the person's time of service in the position in the unclassified service. (3) Reorganize the work of the bureau, its sections, departments, and offices to the extent necessary to achieve the most efficient performance of its functions and to that end may establish, change, or abolish positions and assign and reassign duties and responsibilities of every employee of the bureau. All persons employed by the commission in positions that, after November 3, 1989, are supervised and directed by the administrator under this section are transferred to the bureau in their respective classifications but subject to reassignment and reclassification of position and compensation as the administrator determines to be in the interest of efficient administration. The civil service status of any person employed by the commission is not affected by this section. Personnel employed by the bureau or the commission who are subject to Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code shall retain all of their rights and benefits conferred pursuant to that chapter as it presently exists or is hereafter amended and nothing in this chapter or Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code shall be construed as eliminating or interfering with Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code or the rights and benefits conferred under that chapter to public employees or to any bargaining unit. (4) Provide offices, equipment, supplies, and other facilities for the bureau. (5) Prepare and submit to the board information the administrator considers pertinent or the board requires, together with the administrator's recommendations, in the form of administrative rules, for the advice and consent of the board, for classifications of occupations or industries, for premium rates and contributions, for the amount to be credited to the surplus fund, for rules and systems of rating, rate revisions, and merit rating. The administrator shall obtain, prepare, and submit any other information the board requires for the prompt and efficient discharge of its duties. (6) Keep the accounts required by division (A) of section 4123.34 of the Revised Code and all other accounts and records necessary to the collection, administration, and distribution of the workers' compensation funds and shall obtain the statistical and other information required by section 4123.19 of the Revised Code. (7) Exercise the investment powers vested in the administrator by section 4123.44 of the Revised Code in accordance with the investment policy approved by the board pursuant to section 4121.12 of the Revised Code and in consultation with the chief investment officer of the bureau of workers' compensation. The administrator shall not engage in any prohibited investment activity specified by the board pursuant to division (F)(9) of section 4121.12 of the Revised Code and shall not invest in any type of investment specified in divisions (B)(1) to (10) of section 4123.442 of the Revised Code. All business shall be transacted, all funds invested, all warrants for money drawn and payments made, and all cash and securities and other property held, in the name of the bureau, or in the name of its nominee, provided that nominees are authorized by the administrator solely for the purpose of facilitating the transfer of securities, and restricted to the administrator and designated employees. (8) In accordance with Chapter 125. of the Revised Code, purchase supplies, materials, equipment, and services. (9) Prepare an annual budget for internal operating purposes. The administrator also shall, separately from the budget the industrial commission submits, prepare and submit to the director of budget and management a budget for each biennium. The budget submitted to the director shall include estimates of the costs and necessary expenditures of the bureau in the discharge of any duty imposed by law. (10) As promptly as possible in the course of efficient administration, decentralize and relocate such of the personnel and activities of the bureau as is appropriate to the end that the receipt, investigation, determination, and payment of claims may be undertaken at or near the place of injury or the residence of the claimant and for that purpose establish regional offices, in such places as the administrator considers proper, capable of discharging as many of the functions of the bureau as is practicable so as to promote prompt and efficient administration in the processing of claims. All active and inactive lost-time claims files shall be held at the service office responsible for the claim. A claimant, at the claimant's request, shall be provided with information by telephone as to the location of the file pertaining to the claimant's claim. The administrator shall ensure that all service office employees report directly to the director for their service office. (11) Provide a written binder on new coverage where the administrator considers it to be in the best interest of the risk. The administrator, or any other person authorized by the administrator, shall grant the binder upon submission of a request for coverage by the employer. A binder is effective for a period of thirty days from date of issuance and is nonrenewable. Payroll reports and premium charges shall coincide with the effective date of the binder. (12) Set standards for the reasonable and maximum handling time of claims payment functions, ensure, by rules, the impartial and prompt treatment of all claims and employer risk accounts, and establish a secure, accurate method of time stamping all incoming mail and documents hand delivered to bureau employees. (13) Ensure that all employees of the bureau follow the orders and rules of the commission as such orders and rules relate to the commission's overall adjudicatory policy-making and management duties under this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code. (14) Manage and operate a data processing system with a common data base for the use of both the bureau and the commission and, in consultation with the commission, using electronic data processing equipment, shall develop a claims tracking system that is sufficient to monitor the status of a claim at any time and that lists appeals that have been filed and orders or determinations that have been issued pursuant to section 4123.511 or 4123.512 of the Revised Code, including the dates of such filings and issuances. (15) Establish and maintain a medical section within the bureau. The medical section shall do all of the following: (a) Assist the administrator in establishing standard medical fees, approving medical procedures, and determining eligibility and reasonableness of the compensation payments for medical, hospital, and nursing services, and in establishing guidelines for payment policies which recognize usual, customary, and reasonable methods of payment for covered services; (b) Provide a resource to respond to questions from claims examiners for employees of the bureau; (c) Audit fee bill payments; (d) Implement a program to utilize, to the maximum extent possible, electronic data processing equipment for storage of information to facilitate authorizations of compensation payments for medical, hospital, drug, and nursing services; (e) Perform other duties assigned to it by the administrator. (16) Appoint, as the administrator determines necessary, panels to review and advise the administrator on disputes arising over a determination that a health care service or supply provided to a claimant is not covered under this chapter or Chapter 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code or is medically unnecessary. If an individual health care provider is involved in the dispute, the panel shall consist of individuals licensed pursuant to the same section of the Revised Code as such health care provider. (17) Pursuant to section 4123.65 of the Revised Code, approve applications for the final settlement of claims for compensation or benefits under this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code as the administrator determines appropriate, except in regard to the applications of self-insuring employers and their employees. (18) Comply with section 3517.13 of the Revised Code, and except in regard to contracts entered into pursuant to the authority contained in section 4121.44 of the Revised Code, comply with the competitive bidding procedures set forth in the Revised Code for all contracts into which the administrator enters provided that those contracts fall within the type of contracts and dollar amounts specified in the Revised Code for competitive bidding and further provided that those contracts are not otherwise specifically exempt from the competitive bidding procedures contained in the Revised Code. (19) Adopt, with the advice and consent of the board, rules for the operation of the bureau. (20) Prepare and submit to the board information the administrator considers pertinent or the board requires, together with the administrator's recommendations, in the form of administrative rules, for the advice and consent of the board, for the health partnership program and the qualified health plan system, as provided in sections 4121.44 , 4121.441 , and 4121.442 of the Revised Code. (C) The administrator, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint a chief operating officer who has a minimum of five years of experience in the field of workers' compensation insurance or in another similar insurance industry if the administrator does not possess such experience. The chief operating officer shall not commence the chief operating officer's duties until after the senate consents to the chief operating officer's appointment. The chief operating officer shall serve in the unclassified civil service of the state. Last updated August 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.341 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.341
§ 4123.341. Contributions toward payment of administrative costs and expenses
Status: in_force

September 29, 2023 House Bill 31 - 135th General Assembly The administrative costs of the industrial commission, the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, and the bureau of workers' compensation shall be those costs and expenses that are incident to the discharge of the duties and performance of the activities of the industrial commission, the board, and the bureau under this chapter and Chapters 4121., 4125., 4127., 4133., and 4167. of the Revised Code, and all such costs shall be borne by the state and by other employers amenable to this chapter as follows: (A) In addition to the contribution required of the state under sections 4123.39 and 4123.40 of the Revised Code, the state shall contribute the sum determined to be necessary under section 4123.342 of the Revised Code. (B) The director of budget and management may allocate the state's share of contributions in the manner the director finds most equitably apportions the costs. (C) The counties and taxing districts therein shall contribute such sum as may be required under sections 4123.34 , 4123.342 , and 4123.41 of the Revised Code. (D) The private employers shall contribute the sum required under sections 4123.34 and 4123.342 of the Revised Code. Last updated August 3, 2023 at 10:43 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.50 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.50
§ 4121.50. Rules to implement coordinated services program for prescription drug abuse
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly Not later than July 1, 2012, the administrator of workers' compensation shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement a coordinated services program for claimants under this chapter or Chapter 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code who are found to have obtained prescription drugs that were reimbursed pursuant to an order of the administrator or of the industrial commission or by a self-insuring employer but were obtained at a frequency or in an amount that is not medically necessary. The program shall be implemented in a manner that is substantially similar to the coordinated services programs established for the medicaid program under sections 5164.758 and 5167.13 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.411 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.411
§ 4123.411. Levying assessments for disabled workers' relief fund
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 52 - 131st General Assembly (A) For all injuries and disabilities occurring before January 1, 1987, the administrator of workers' compensation, for the purpose of carrying out sections 4123.412 to 4123.418 of the Revised Code and with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, may levy an assessment against all employers at a rate not to exceed ten cents per one hundred dollars of payroll. If the administrator levies an assessment under this division, the rate of that assessment shall be determined annually for each employer group listed in divisions (A)(1) to (3) of this section. The rates determined under this division shall be sufficient to produce an amount no greater than the amount the administrator estimates to be necessary to carry out such sections for the period for which the assessment is levied. In the event the amount produced by the assessment is not sufficient to carry out such sections the additional amount necessary shall be provided, pursuant to section 4123.419 of the Revised Code, from the income produced as a result of investments made pursuant to section 4123.44 of the Revised Code. If levied, assessments shall be according to the following schedule: (1) For private fund employers, except self-insuring employers: (a) For policy years commencing prior to July 1, 2015, in January and July of each year upon gross payrolls of the preceding six months; (b) For policy years commencing on or after July 1, 2015, in the month of June immediately preceding each policy year upon gross payrolls estimated for that policy year. (2) For counties and taxing district employers therein, except county hospitals that are self-insuring employers: (a) For policy years commencing prior to January 1, 2016, in January of each year upon gross payrolls of the preceding twelve months; (b) For policy years commencing on or after January 1, 2016, in the month of December immediately preceding each policy year upon gross payrolls estimated for that policy year. (3) For the state as an employer--in January, April, July, and October of each year upon gross payrolls of the preceding three months or at other intervals as the administrator establishes. After the completion of each policy year that commences on or after July 1, 2015, for private fund employers or that commences on or after January 1, 2016, for counties and taxing district employers therein, the assessments levied under this section shall be adjusted for the difference between estimated gross payrolls and actual gross payrolls reported by the employer on the payroll report submitted by a private employer pursuant to section 4123.26 of the Revised Code, or, for a public employer, submitted pursuant to section 4123.41 of the Revised Code. Amounts assessed in accordance with this section shall be collected from each employer as prescribed in rules the administrator adopts. The moneys derived from the assessment provided for in this section shall be credited to the disabled workers' relief fund created by section 4123.412 of the Revised Code. The administrator shall establish by rule classifications of employers within divisions (A)(1) to (3) of this section and shall determine rates for each class so as to fairly apportion the costs of carrying out sections 4123.412 to 4123.418 of the Revised Code. (B) For all injuries and disabilities occurring on or after January 1, 1987, the administrator, for the purposes of carrying out sections 4123.412 to 4123.418 of the Revised Code, shall levy an assessment against all employers at a rate per one hundred dollars of payroll, such rate to be determined annually for each classification of employer in each employer group listed in divisions (A)(1) to (3) of this section, which will produce an amount no greater than the amount the administrator estimates to be necessary to carry out such sections for the period for which the assessment is levied. The administrator annually shall establish the contributions due from employers for the disabled workers' relief fund at rates as low as possible but that will assure sufficient moneys to guarantee the payment of any claims against that fund. Amounts assessed in accordance with this division shall be billed at the same time premiums are billed and credited to the disabled workers' relief fund created by section 4123.412 of the Revised Code. The administrator shall determine the rates for each class in the same manner as the administrator fixes the rates for premiums pursuant to section 4123.29 of the Revised Code. (C) For a self-insuring employer, the bureau of workers' compensation shall pay to employees who are participants regardless of the date of injury, any amounts due to the participants under section 4123.414 of the Revised Code and shall bill the self-insuring employer, semiannually, for all amounts paid to a participant.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.291 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.291
§ 4141.291. Voluntarily quitting to accept recall
Status: in_force

November 26, 1997 House Bill 478 - 122nd General Assembly (A) Notwithstanding section 4141.29 of the Revised Code, an individual who voluntarily quits work: (1) To accept a recall from a prior employer and establishes that the refusal or failure to accept the recall would have resulted in a substantial loss of employment rights, benefits, or pension, under a labor-management agreement or company policy; (2) To accept a recall to employment from a prior employer and cannot establish that a substantial loss of employment rights, benefits, or pension was involved in the recall, or to accept other employment subject to this chapter, or the unemployment compensation act of another state, or of the United States, where the individual obtains such employment while still employed or commences such employment within seven calendar days after the last day of employment with the prior employer, and subsequent to the last day of the employment with the prior employer, works three weeks in the new employment and earns wages equal to one and one-half times the individual's average weekly wage or one hundred eighty dollars, whichever is less; (3) Shall, under the conditions specified in either division (A)(1) or (2) of this section, remove the disqualification imposed by division (D)(2)(a) of section 4141.29 of the Revised Code and shall be deemed to have fully complied with division (G) of such section. (B) Benefits which may become payable to such individual because of the individual's subsequent separation from the employer who recalled that individual shall be charged to employer accounts as provided in division (D) of section 4141.24 of the Revised Code. (C) Any benefits which would be chargeable to the account of the employer from whom such individual voluntarily quit to accept such recall or other employment which are not chargeable to the recalling employer as provided in this section shall be charged to the mutualized account provided in section 4141.25 of the Revised Code; except that any benefits chargeable to the account of a reimbursing employer under this division shall be charged to the account of the reimbursing employer and not the mutualized account, except as provided in division (D)(2) of section 4141.24 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4163.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4163 / § 4163.01
§ 4163.01. Atomic energy definitions
Status: in_force

July 1, 2009 House Bill 2 - 128th General Assembly As used in Chapter 4163. of the Revised Code: (A) "Atomic energy" means all forms of energy released in the course of nuclear fission or nuclear transformation. (B) "By-product material" has the same meaning as in section 3748.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Production facility" means any equipment or device capable of the production of special nuclear material in such quantity as to be of significance to the common defense and security, or in such manner as to affect the health and safety of the public; or any important component part especially designed for such equipment or device. (D) "Special nuclear material" has the same meaning as in section 3748.01 of the Revised Code. (E) "Utilization facility" means any equipment or device, except an atomic weapon, capable of making use of special nuclear materials in such quantity as to be of significance to the common defense and security, or in such manner as to affect the health and safety of the public, or peculiarly adapted for making use of atomic energy in such quantity as to be of significance to the common defense and security, or in such manner as to affect the health and safety of the public; or any important component part especially designed for such equipment or device. (F) "Radiation" has the same meaning as in section 3748.01 of the Revised Code. (G) "Highway route controlled quantity" has the same meaning as in 49 C.F.R. 173.403. (H) "High-level radioactive waste" means any of the following: (1) Irradiated reactor fuel; (2) Liquid wastes resulting from the operation of the first cycle solvent extraction system, or equivalent, and the concentrated wastes from subsequent extraction cycles, or equivalent, in a facility for reprocessing irradiated reactor fuel; (3) Solids into which such liquid wastes have been converted. (I) "Spent nuclear fuel" means fuel that has been withdrawn from a nuclear reactor following irradiation, the constituent elements of which have not been separated by reprocessing. (J) "Transuranic waste" means material contaminated with elements that have an atomic number greater than ninety-two, including neptunium, plutonium, americium, and curium, and that are in concentrations greater than ten nanocuries per gram or in other concentrations that the United States nuclear regulatory commission may prescribe.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4167.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4167 / § 4167.08
§ 4167.08. Issuance of emergency temporary Ohio employment risk reduction standard
Status: in_force

September 10, 2007 House Bill 100 - 127th General Assembly (A) In the event of an emergency or unusual situation, the administrator of workers' compensation shall issue an emergency temporary Ohio employment risk reduction standard to take immediate effect upon publication in newspapers of general circulation in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Toledo if the administrator finds both of the following: (1) Public employees are exposed to grave danger from exposure to substances or agents determined to be toxic or physically harmful or from new hazards; (2) The emergency temporary Ohio employment risk reduction standard is necessary to protect employees from the danger. (B)(1) Except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section an emergency temporary Ohio employment risk reduction standard issued by the administrator under division (A) of this section shall be in effect no longer than fifteen days, unless the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors approves the emergency temporary Ohio employment risk reduction standard as issued by the administrator, in which case, the emergency temporary Ohio employment risk reduction standard shall be in effect no longer than one hundred twenty days after the date the administrator issues it. (2) The administrator may renew an emergency temporary Ohio employment risk reduction standard that has been approved by the board for an additional time period not to exceed one hundred days if the administrator finds that the conditions identified in divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section continue to exist. On or before the expiration date of the emergency temporary Ohio employment risk reduction standard or renewal thereof, if the conditions identified in divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section continue to exist, the administrator, with the advice and consent of the board, shall adopt a permanent Ohio employment risk reduction standard pursuant to section 4167.07 of the Revised Code as a rule to replace the emergency temporary Ohio employment risk reduction standard.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.55 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.55
§ 4123.55. No compensation for first week after injury
Status: in_force

January 1, 1979 House Bill 1282 - 112th General Assembly No compensation shall be allowed for the first week after an injury is received or occupational disease contracted and no compensation shall be allowed for the first week of total disability, whenever it may occur, unless and until the employee is totally disabled for a continuous period of two weeks or more, in which event compensation for the first week of total disability, whenever it has occurred, shall be paid, in addition to any other weekly benefits which are due, immediately following the second week of total disability. There shall be no waiting period in connection with the disbursements provided by section 4123.66 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4171.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4171 / § 4171.09
§ 4171.09. Roller skater - assumption of risks
Status: in_force

April 1, 1993 Senate Bill 347 - 119th General Assembly The general assembly recognizes that roller skating as a recreational sport can be hazardous to roller skaters regardless of all feasible safety measures that can be taken. Therefore, roller skaters are deemed to have knowledge of and to expressly assume the risks of and legal responsibility for any losses, damages, or injuries that result from contact with other roller skaters or spectators, injuries that result from falls caused by loss of balance, and injuries that involve objects or artificial structures properly within the intended path of travel of the roller skater, which are not otherwise attributable to an operator's breach of his duties pursuant to sections 4171.06 and 4171.07 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.43 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.43
§ 4141.43. Cooperation with federal, state, and other agencies
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The director of job and family services may disclose information as provided in this section in accordance with federal law governing such disclosure and sections 4141.162 , 4141.21 , and 4141.211 of the Revised Code. (B) The director may make the state's record relating to the administration of this chapter available to the railroad retirement board and may furnish the board at the board's expense such copies thereof as the board deems necessary for its purposes. (C) The director may afford reasonable cooperation with every agency of the United States charged with the administration of any unemployment compensation law. (D) The director may enter into arrangements with the appropriate agencies of other states or of the United States or Canada whereby individuals performing services in this and other states for a single employer under circumstances not specifically provided for in division (B) of section 4141.01 of the Revised Code or in similar provisions in the unemployment compensation laws of such other states shall be deemed to be engaged in employment performed entirely within this state or within one of such other states or within Canada, and whereby potential rights to benefits accumulated under the unemployment compensation laws of several states or under such a law of the United States, or both, or of Canada may constitute the basis for the payment of benefits through a single appropriate agency under terms that the director finds will be fair and reasonable as to all affected interests and will not result in any substantial loss to the unemployment compensation fund. (E) The director may enter into agreements with the appropriate agencies of other states or of the United States or Canada: (1) Whereby services or wages upon the basis of which an individual may become entitled to benefits under the unemployment compensation law of another state or of the United States or Canada shall be deemed to be employment or wages for employment by employers for the purposes of qualifying claimants for benefits under this chapter, and the director may estimate the number of weeks of employment represented by the wages reported to the director for such claimants by such other agency, provided such other state agency or agency of the United States or Canada has agreed to reimburse the unemployment compensation fund for such portion of benefits paid under this chapter upon the basis of such services or wages as the director finds will be fair and reasonable as to all affected interests; (2) Whereby the director will reimburse other state or federal or Canadian agencies charged with the administration of unemployment compensation laws with such reasonable portion of benefits, paid under the law of such other states or of the United States or of Canada upon the basis of employment or wages for employment by employers, as the director finds will be fair and reasonable as to all affected interests. Reimbursements so payable shall be deemed to be benefits for the purpose of section 4141.09 and division (A) of section 4141.30 of the Revised Code. However, no reimbursement so payable shall be charged against any employer's account for the purposes of section 4141.24 of the Revised Code if the employer's account, under the same or similar circumstances, with respect to benefits charged under the provisions of this chapter, other than this section, would not be charged or, if the claimant at the time the claimant files the combined wage claim cannot establish benefit rights under this chapter. This noncharging shall not be applicable to a nonprofit organization that has elected to make payments in lieu of contributions under section 4141.241 of the Revised Code, except as provided in division (D)(2) of section 4141.24 of the Revised Code. The director may make to other state or federal or Canadian agencies and receive from such other state or federal or Canadian agencies reimbursements from or to the unemployment compensation fund, in accordance with arrangements pursuant to this section. (3) Notwithstanding division (B)(2)(f) of section 4141.01 of the Revised Code, the director may enter into agreements with other states whereby services performed for a crew leader, as defined in division (BB) of section 4141.01 of the Revised Code, may be covered in the state in which the crew leader either: (a) Has the crew leader's place of business or from which the crew leader's business is operated or controlled; (b) Resides if the crew leader has no place of business in any state. (F) The director may apply for an advance to the unemployment compensation fund and do all things necessary or required to obtain such advance and arrange for the repayment of such advance in accordance with Title XII of the "Social Security Act" as amended. (G) The director may enter into reciprocal agreements or arrangements with the appropriate agencies of other states in regard to services on vessels engaged in interstate or foreign commerce whereby such services for a single employer, wherever performed, shall be deemed performed within this state or within such other states. (H) The director shall participate in any arrangements for the payment of compensation on the basis of combining an individual's wages and employment, covered under this chapter, with the individual's wages and employment covered under the unemployment compensation laws of other states which are approved by the United States secretary of labor in consultation with the state unemployment compensation agencies as reasonably calculated to assure the prompt and full payment of compensation in such situations and which include provisions for: (1) Applying the base period of a single state law to a claim involving the combining of an individual's wages and employment covered under two or more state unemployment compensation laws, and (2) Avoiding the duplicate use of wages and employment by reason of such combining. (I)(1) The director shall cooperate with the United States department of labor to the fullest extent consistent with this chapter, and shall take such action, through the adoption of appropriate rules, regulations, and administrative methods and standards, as may be necessary to secure to this state and its citizens all advantages available under the provisions of the "Social Security Act" that relate to unemployment compensation, the "Federal Unemployment Tax Act," (1970) 84 Stat. 713, 26 U.S.C.A. 3301 to 3311, the "Wagner-Peyser Act," (1933) 48 Stat. 113, 29 U.S.C.A. 49, the "Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970," 84 Stat. 596, 26 U.S.C.A. 3306, and the "Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act," 29 U.S.C.A. 3101 et seq. (2) Nothing in division (I)(1) of this section requires the director to participate in, nor precludes the director from ceasing to participate in, any voluntary, optional, special, or emergency program offered by the federal government, including programs offered under any of the federal acts listed in division (I)(1) of this section, the "Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act," 15 U.S.C. 9023, or any other federal program enacted to address exceptional unemployment conditions. (J) The director may disclose wage information furnished to or maintained by the director under Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code to a consumer reporting agency as defined by the "Fair Credit Reporting Act," 84 Stat. 1128, 15 U.S.C.A. 1681a, as amended, for the purpose of verifying an individual's income under a written agreement that requires all of the following: (1) A written statement of informed consent from the individual whose information is to be disclosed; (2) A written statement confirming that the consumer reporting agency and any other entity to which the information is disclosed or released will safeguard the information from illegal or unauthorized disclosure; (3) A written statement confirming that the consumer reporting agency will pay to the department all costs associated with the disclosure. The director shall prescribe a manner and format in which this information may be provided. For purposes of this division, "wage information" means the name, social security number, quarterly wages paid to, and weeks worked by an employee, and the name, address, and state and federal tax identification number of an employer reporting wages under section 4141.20 of the Revised Code. (K) The director shall disclose information furnished to or maintained by the director under this chapter upon request and on a reimbursable basis as required by section 303 of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C.A. 503, and section 3304 of the "Internal Revenue Code," 26 U.S.C.A. 3304. Last updated September 1, 2023 at 10:43 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.43 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.43
§ 4123.43. Deposit of funds not required for immediate use
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The treasurer of state may deposit any portion of the state insurance fund not needed for immediate use in the same manner as and subject to all the laws with respect to the deposit of state funds by the treasurer of state. All interest earned by such portion of the state insurance funds as is deposited under this section shall be collected by the treasurer of state and placed to the credit of such fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4113.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4113 / § 4113.23
§ 4113.23. Furnishing medical report to employee
Status: in_force

March 20, 2025 Senate Bill 196 - 135th General Assembly (A) No employer, and no physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner, other health care professional, hospital, or laboratory that contracts with the employer to provide medical information pertaining to employees, shall refuse upon written request of an employee, including a former employee, to furnish to the employee or the employee's designated representative a copy of any medical report pertaining to the employee. The requirements of this section extend to any medical report arising out of any physical examination by a physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse practitioner, or other health care professional and any hospital or laboratory tests which examinations or tests are required by the employer as a condition of employment or arising out of any injury or disease related to the employee's employment. However, if a physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner concludes that presentation of all or any part of an employee's medical record directly to the employee will result in serious medical harm to the employee, the physician or nurse shall so indicate on the medical record, in which case a copy thereof shall be given to a physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner designated in writing by the employee. (B) The employer may require the employee to pay the cost of furnishing copies of the medical reports described in division (A) of this section but in no case shall the employer charge more than twenty-five cents for each page of a report. (C) As used in this section, "employer" has the same meaning as contained in the definition of that term found in section 4123.01 of the Revised Code. (D) Any employer who refuses to furnish the reports to which an employee is entitled is guilty of a minor misdemeanor for each violation. The bureau of workers' compensation shall enforce this section. Last updated February 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4111.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4111 / § 4111.06
§ 4111.06. Administrative rules setting wage rates for employees with physical or mental impairments or injuries
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly In order to prevent curtailment of opportunities for employment, to avoid undue hardship, and to safeguard the minimum wage rates under sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, the director of commerce shall adopt rules under section 4111.05 of the Revised Code, permitting employment in any occupation at wages lower than the wage rates applicable under sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, of individuals whose earning capacity is impaired by physical or mental disabilities or injuries. The rules shall provide for licenses to be issued authorizing employment at the wages of specific individuals or groups of employees, or by specific employers or groups of employers, pursuant to the rules. The rules shall not conflict with the "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990," 104 Stat. 328, 42 U.S.C.A. 12111, et seq. Last updated March 10, 2023 at 12:28 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4163.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4163 / § 4163.03
§ 4163.03. State departments and agencies to conduct studies and recommend laws and rules
Status: in_force

September 26, 1996 Senate Bill 293 - 121st General Assembly Each of the following departments and agencies of the state government shall initiate and pursue continuing studies as to the need, if any, for changes in the laws and rules administered by it that would arise from the presence within the state of special nuclear materials and by-product materials and from the operation herein of production or utilization facilities, and, on the basis of such studies, to make such recommendations for the enactment of laws or amendments to laws administered by it, and such proposals for amendments to the rules issued by it, as may appear necessary and appropriate: The department of health; the bureau of workers' compensation; the department of transportation; the public utilities commission; the department of insurance; the department of natural resources; the department of commerce; and such other departments and agencies as the governor may direct and for the purposes specified by the governor. The heads of the appropriate state department or agency may cooperate with any federal department or agency in the administration of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.241 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.241
§ 4141.241. Nonprofit organizations as employers
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A)(1) Any nonprofit organization described in division (X) of section 4141.01 of the Revised Code, which becomes subject to this chapter on or after January 1, 1972, shall pay contributions under section 4141.25 of the Revised Code, unless it elects, in accordance with this division, to pay to the director of job and family services for deposit in the unemployment compensation fund an amount in lieu of contributions equal to the amount of regular benefits plus one half of extended benefits paid from that fund that is attributable to service in the employ of the nonprofit organization to individuals whose service, during the base period of the claims, was within the effective period of such election. (2) Any nonprofit organization which becomes subject to this chapter after January 1, 1972, may elect to become liable for payments in lieu of contributions for a period of not less than the remainder of that calendar year and the next calendar year, beginning with the date on which such subjectivity begins, by filing a written notice of its election with the director not later than thirty days immediately following the date of the determination of such subjectivity. (3) Any nonprofit organization which makes an election in accordance with this division will continue to be liable for payments in lieu of contributions for the period described in this division and until it files with the director a written notice terminating its election. The notice shall be filed not later than thirty days prior to the beginning of the calendar year for which the termination is to become effective. (4) Any nonprofit organization which has been paying contributions for a period subsequent to January 1, 1972, may change to a reimbursable basis by filing with the director, not later than thirty days prior to the beginning of any calendar year, a written notice of election to become liable for payments in lieu of contributions. The election shall not be terminable by the organization during that calendar year and the next calendar year. (5) The director, in accordance with any rules the director prescribes, shall notify each nonprofit organization of any determination which the director may make of its status as an employer and of the effective date of any election which it makes and of any termination of the election. Any determinations shall be subject to reconsideration, appeal, and review in accordance with section 4141.26 of the Revised Code. (B) Except as provided in division (I) of section 4141.29 of the Revised Code, benefits based on service with a nonprofit organization granted a reimbursing status under this section shall be payable in the same amount, on the same terms, and subject to the same conditions, as benefits payable on the basis of other service subject to this chapter. Payments in lieu of contributions shall be made in accordance with this division and division (D) of section 4141.24 of the Revised Code. (1)(a) At the end of each calendar quarter, or at the end of any other period as determined by the director under division (D)(4) of section 4141.24 of the Revised Code, the director shall bill each nonprofit organization or group of such organizations which has elected to make payments in lieu of contributions for an amount equal to the full amount of regular benefits plus one half of the amount of extended benefits paid during such quarter or other prescribed period which is attributable to service in the employ of such organization. (b) In the computation of the amount of benefits to be charged to employers liable for payments in lieu of contributions, all benefits attributable to service described in division (B)(1)(a) of this section shall be computed and charged to such organization as described in division (D) of section 4141.24 of the Revised Code, and, except as provided in division (D)(2) of section 4141.24 of the Revised Code, no portion of the amount may be charged to the mutualized account established by division (B) of section 4141.25 of the Revised Code. (c) The director may prescribe regulations under which organizations, which have elected to make payments in lieu of contributions, may request permission to make such payments in equal installments throughout the year with an adjustment at the end of the year for any excess or shortage of the amount of such installment payments compared with the total amount of benefits actually charged the organization's account during the year. In making any adjustment, where the total installment payments are less than the actual benefits charged, the organization shall be liable for payment of the unpaid balance in accordance with division (B)(2) of this section. If the total installment payments exceed the actual benefits charged, all or part of the excess may, at the discretion of the director, be refunded or retained in the fund as part of the payments which may be required in the next year. (2) Payment of any bill rendered under division (B)(1) of this section shall be made not later than thirty days after the bill was mailed to the last known address of the organization or was otherwise delivered to it, unless there has been an application for review and redetermination in accordance with division (B)(4) of this section. (3) Payments made by an organization under this section shall not be deducted or deductible, in whole or in part, from the remuneration of individuals in the employ of the organization. (4) An organization may file an application for review and redetermination of the amounts appearing on any bill rendered to such organization under division (B)(1) of this section. The application shall be filed and determined under division (D)(4) of section 4141.24 of the Revised Code. (5) Past-due payments of amounts in lieu of contributions shall be subject to the same interest rates and collection procedures that apply to past-due contributions under sections 4141.23 and 4141.27 of the Revised Code. In case of failure to file a required quarterly report within the time prescribed by the director, the nonprofit organization shall be subject to a forfeiture pursuant to section 4141.20 of the Revised Code for each quarterly report that is not timely filed. All interest and forfeitures collected under this division shall be paid into the unemployment compensation special administrative fund as provided in section 4141.11 of the Revised Code. (6) All payments in lieu of contributions collected under this section shall be paid into the unemployment compensation fund as provided in section 4141.09 of the Revised Code. Any refunds of such payments shall be paid from the unemployment compensation fund, as provided in section 4141.09 of the Revised Code. (C)(1) Any nonprofit organization, or group of such organizations approved under division (D) of this section, that elects to become liable for payments in lieu of contributions shall be required within thirty days after the effective date of its election, to execute and file with the director a surety bond approved by the director. (2)(a) The amount of the bond required shall be equal to three per cent of the organization's wages paid for employment as defined in section 4141.01 of the Revised Code that would have been taxable had the organization been a subject employer during the four calendar quarters immediately preceding the effective date of the election, or the amount established by the director within the limitation provided in division (C)(2)(c) of this section, whichever is the less. The effective date of the amount of the bond required after the employer initially is determined by the director to be liable for payments in lieu of contributions shall be the renewal date of the bond. If the nonprofit organization did not pay wages in each of such four calendar quarters, the amount of the bond shall be as determined by the director under regulations prescribed for this purpose. (b) Any bond deposited under this division shall be in force for a period of not less than two calendar years and shall be renewed with the approval of the director, at such times as the director may prescribe, but not less frequently than at two-year intervals as long as the organization continues to be liable for payments in lieu of contributions. The director shall require adjustments to be made in a previously filed bond as the director considers appropriate. If the bond is to be increased, the adjusted bond shall be filed by the organization within thirty days of the date that notice of the required adjustment was mailed or otherwise delivered to it. Failure by any organization covered by such bond to pay the full amount of payments in lieu of contributions when due, together with any applicable interest provided for in division (B)(5) of this section, shall render the surety liable on the bond to the extent of the bond, as though the surety was the organization. (c) The required bond for any nonprofit organization, or group of such organizations approved by the director under division (D) of this section, that is determined by the director to be liable for payments in lieu of contributions, and the required bond for any renewed elections under division (C)(2)(b) of this section shall not exceed two million dollars. (3) If any nonprofit organization fails to file a bond or file a bond in an increased amount, as provided under this division, the director may terminate the organization's election to make payments in lieu of contributions effective for the quarter following such failure and the termination shall continue for not less than the remainder of that calendar year and the next calendar year, beginning with the quarter in which the termination becomes effective; except that the director may extend for good cause the applicable filing period by not more than thirty days. (D)(1) Two or more nonprofit organizations that have become liable for payments in lieu of contributions, in accordance with division (A) of this section, may file a joint application to the director for the establishment of the group account for the purpose of sharing the cost of benefits paid that are attributable to service in the employ of those employers. Notwithstanding division (E) of section 4141.242 of the Revised Code, hospitals operated by this state or a political subdivision may participate in a group account with nonprofit organizations under the procedures set forth in this section. Each application shall identify and authorize a group representative to act as the group's agent for the purposes of this division. (2) Upon the director's approval of the application, the director shall establish a group account for the employers effective as of the beginning of the calendar quarter in which the director receives the application and shall notify the group's representative of the effective date of the account. The account shall remain in effect for not less than two years and thereafter until terminated by the director or upon application by the group. (3) Upon establishment of the account, each member of the group shall be liable, in the event that the group representative fails to pay any bill issued to it pursuant to division (B) of this section, for payments in lieu of contributions with respect to each calendar quarter in the amount that bears the same ratio to the total benefits paid in the quarter that are attributable to service performed in the employ of all members of the group as the total wages paid for service in employment by the member in the quarter bear to the total wages paid during the quarter for service performed in the employ of all members of the group. (4) The director shall adopt regulations as considered necessary with respect to the following: applications for establishment, bonding, maintenance, and termination of group accounts that are authorized by this section; addition of new members to and withdrawal of active members from such accounts; and the determination of the amounts that are payable under this division by the group representative and in the event of default in payment by the group representative, members of the group, and the time and manner of payments. Last updated September 1, 2023 at 9:52 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.66 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.66
§ 4121.66. Rehabilitation services, counseling, training, and living maintenance payments paid from surplus fund
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 52 - 131st General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, the administrator of workers' compensation shall pay the expense of providing rehabilitation services, counseling, training, and living maintenance payments from the surplus fund established by section 4123.34 of the Revised Code. (B) Living maintenance payments are not subject to garnishment, levy, or attachment. (C) Sections 4123.343 , 4123.63 , and 4123.64 of the Revised Code do not apply to living maintenance payments. (D) A self-insuring employer shall pay directly to a claimant or to the provider of the rehabilitation services, counseling, or training the expenses listed in division (A) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.02
§ 4123.02. Policemen and firemen excepted
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly This chapter does not apply to policemen or firemen in municipal corporations where the injured policemen or firemen are eligible to participate in any policemen's or firemen's pension funds established and maintained by a municipal corporation, unless the amount of the pension funds provided by the municipal corporation through taxation and paid to the policemen or firemen is less than they would have received if the municipal corporation had no pension fund. In such event policemen and firemen shall receive the regular state compensation for policemen and firemen in municipal corporations where no pension funds have been created, less the sum received by the policemen or firemen from the pension funds provided by the municipal corporation through taxation. The sum paid from the pension fund shall be certified to the bureau of workers' compensation by the treasurer or other officer controlling the pension fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.46 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.46
§ 4141.46. Liberal construction of statutes
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Sections 4141.01 to 4141.46 , inclusive, of the Revised Code shall be liberally construed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.412 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.412
§ 4123.412. Disabled workers' relief fund
Status: in_force

October 20, 1993 House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly For the relief of persons who are permanently and totally disabled as the result of injury or disease sustained in the course of their employment and who are receiving workers' compensation which is payable to them by virtue of and under the laws of this state in amounts, the total of which, when combined with disability benefits received pursuant to the Social Security Act is less than three hundred forty-two dollars per month adjusted annually as provided in division (B) of section 4123.62 of the Revised Code, there is hereby created a separate fund to be known as the disabled workers' relief fund, which fund shall consist of the sums that are from time to time appropriated by the general assembly and made available to the order of the bureau of workers' compensation to carry out the objects and purposes of sections 4123.412 to 4123.418 of the Revised Code. The fund shall be in the custody of the treasurer of the state. Disbursements from the fund shall be made by the bureau to those persons entitled to participate therein and in amounts to each participant as is provided in section 4123.414 of the Revised Code. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4164.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4164 / § 4164.11
§ 4164.11. Powers of authority
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The authority shall have all powers necessary and convenient for carrying out its statutory purposes, including the following powers: (A) To adopt bylaws for the management and regulation of its affairs; (B) To develop and adopt a strategic plan for carrying out the purposes set forth in this chapter; (C) To foster innovative partnerships and relationships in the state and among the state's public institutions of higher education, private companies, federal laboratories, and nonprofit organizations, to accomplish the purposes set forth in this chapter; (D) To identify and support, in cooperation with the public and private sectors, the development of education programs related to Ohio's isotope industry. Last updated October 26, 2023 at 10:05 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4167.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4167 / § 4167.05
§ 4167.05. Compliance with employment risk reduction standards, rules, and orders
Status: in_force

April 20, 1993 House Bill 308 - 119th General Assembly Each public employee shall: (A) Comply with Ohio employment risk reduction standards, rules, and orders adopted or issued pursuant to this chapter which are applicable to the public employee's actions and conduct; (B) Comply with safety rules the public employer establishes for the purpose of fulfilling compliance with Ohio employment risk reduction standards, rules, or orders adopted or issued pursuant to this chapter. All such rules the public employer adopts shall be reasonable as determined in accordance with the purposes and objectives of this chapter.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4125.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4125 / § 4125.10
§ 4125.10. Clarification of rights and liabilities of professional employer organizations and client employers
Status: in_force

March 22, 2013 Senate Bill 139 - 129th General Assembly Nothing contained in this chapter or in any professional employer organization agreement shall do any of the following: (A) Diminish, abolish, or remove the rights and obligations of client employers and shared employees existing prior to the effective date of the professional employer organization agreement; (B) Affect, modify, or amend any contractual relationship or restrictive covenant between a shared employee and any client employer in effect at the time a professional employer organization agreement becomes effective; (C) Prohibit or amend any contractual relationship or restrictive covenant between a client employer and a shared employee that is entered into after the professional employer organization agreement becomes effective; (D) Create any new or additional enforcement right of a shared employee against a professional employer organization that is not specifically provided by the professional employer organization agreement or this chapter. A professional employer organization shall have no responsibility or liability in connection with, or arising out of, any contractual relationship or restrictive covenant between a client employer and a shared employee unless the professional employer organization has specifically agreed otherwise in writing.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4109.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4109 / § 4109.01
§ 4109.01. Employment of minors definitions
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "Employ" means to permit or suffer to work. (B) "Employer" means the state, its political subdivisions, and every person who employs any individual. (C) "Enforcement official" means the director of commerce or the director's authorized representative, the director of education and workforce or the director's authorized representative, any school attendance officer, any probation officer, the director of health or the director of health's authorized representative, and any representative of a local department of health. (D) "Minor" means any person less than eighteen years of age. (E) "Seasonal amusement or recreational establishment" means both of the following: (1) An amusement or recreational establishment that does not operate for more than seven months in any calendar year; (2) An amusement or recreational establishment whose average receipts for any six months during the preceding calendar year were not more than thirty-three and one-third per cent of its average receipts for the other six months of that calendar year. Last updated September 12, 2023 at 10:57 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.291 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.291
§ 4123.291. Appeal from adjudicating committee decisions
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 Senate Bill 201 - 133rd General Assembly (A) An adjudicating committee appointed by the administrator of workers' compensation to hear any matter specified in divisions (B)(1) to (7) of this section shall hear the matter within sixty days of the date on which an employer files the request, protest, or petition. An employer desiring to file a request, protest, or petition regarding any matter specified in divisions (B)(1) to (7) of this section shall file the request, protest, or petition to the adjudicating committee on or before twenty-four months after the administrator sends notice of the determination about which the employer is filing the request, protest, or petition. (B) An employer who is adversely affected by a decision of an adjudicating committee appointed by the administrator may appeal the decision of the committee to the administrator or the administrator's designee. The employer shall file the appeal in writing within thirty days after the employer receives the decision of the adjudicating committee. Except as otherwise provided in this division, the administrator or the designee shall hold a hearing and consider and issue a decision on the appeal if the decision of the adjudicating committee relates to one of the following: (1) An employer request for a waiver of a default in the payment of premiums pursuant to section 4123.37 of the Revised Code; (2) An employer request for the settlement of liability as a noncomplying employer under section 4123.75 of the Revised Code; (3) An employer petition objecting to an assessment made pursuant to section 4123.37 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted pursuant to that section; (4) An employer request for the abatement of penalties assessed pursuant to section 4123.32 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted pursuant to that section; (5) An employer protest relating to an audit finding or a determination of a manual classification, experience rating, or transfer or combination of risk experience; (6) Any decision relating to any other risk premium matter under Chapters 4121., 4123., and 4131. of the Revised Code; (7) An employer petition objecting to the amount of security required under division (D) of section 4125.05 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted pursuant to that section or under division (D) of section 4133.07 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted pursuant to that section. An employer may request, in writing, that the administrator waive the hearing before the administrator or the administrator's designee. The administrator shall decide whether to grant or deny a request to waive a hearing. (C) The bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, based upon recommendations of the workers' compensation actuarial committee, shall establish the policy for all adjudicating committee procedures, including, but not limited to, specific criteria for manual premium rate adjustment.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4113.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4113 / § 4113.01
§ 4113.01. Hours constituting a day's work
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A day's work in a mechanical,manufacturing, or mining business shall consist of eight hours and shall be so enforced unless the contract therefor expressly provides otherwise.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.471 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.471
§ 4121.471. Limitation on action for employer's failure to comply with safety rule
Status: in_force

September 15, 2020 House Bill 81 - 133rd General Assembly A claim for an additional award under Section 35 of Article II, Ohio Constitution, alleging that an injury, occupational disease, or death resulted from an employer's failure to comply with a specific safety rule for the protection of the lives, health, and safety of employees shall be forever barred unless it is filed within one year after the date of the injury or death or within one year after the disability due to the occupational disease began.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4113.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4113 / § 4113.08
§ 4113.08. Minors
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly In all actions described in section 4113.03 of the Revised Code, where a minor employee has been employed or retained in employment contrary to the laws of this state or of the United States, such employee shall not be held to have been guilty of contributory negligence, nor held to have assumed any of the risks of such employment. The employer may show by way of defense any fraud or misrepresentation made by such employee.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.416 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.416
§ 4123.416. List of names and addresses of person receiving compensation
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly The administrator of workers' compensation shall promptly require of each employer who has elected to pay compensation direct under the provisions of section 4123.35 of the Revised Code a verified list of the names and addresses of all persons to whom the employer is paying workers' compensation on account of permanent and total disability and the evidence respecting such persons as the administrator reasonably deems necessary to determine the eligibility of any such person to participate in the disabled workers' relief fund. The superintendent of insurance shall promptly require of each insurance company which is organized or licensed to do business in this state and which has at any time written workers' compensation insurance in this state a like verified list and like evidence respecting persons to whom the insurance companies are paying workers' compensation under the Ohio workers' compensation laws and contracts of insurance in respect thereof; and the superintendent of insurance shall promptly transmit all such lists and evidence to the bureau of workers' compensation. Any person claiming the right to participate in the fund may file his application therefor with the bureau and shall be accorded a hearing thereon.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.30
§ 4123.30. Public fund - private fund - contributions - disbursements
Status: in_force

September 29, 2023 House Bill 31 - 135th General Assembly Money contributed by public employers constitutes the "public fund" and the money contributed by private employers constitutes the "private fund." Each such fund shall be collected, distributed, and its solvency maintained without regard to or reliance upon the other. Whenever in this chapter reference is made to the state insurance fund, the reference is to such two separate funds but such two separate funds and the net premiums contributed thereto by employers after adjustments and dividends, except for the amount thereof which is set aside for the investigation and prevention of industrial accidents and diseases pursuant to Section 35 of Article II, Ohio Constitution, any amounts set aside for actuarial services authorized or required by sections 4123.44 and 4123.47 of the Revised Code, and any amounts set aside to reinsure the liability of the respective insurance funds for the following payments, constitute a trust fund for the benefit of employers and employees mentioned in sections 4123.01 , 4123.03 , and 4123.73 of the Revised Code for the payment of compensation, medical services, examinations, recommendations and determinations, nursing and hospital services, medicine, rehabilitation, death benefits, funeral expenses, and like benefits for loss sustained on account of injury, disease, or death provided for by this chapter, the administrative costs of the industrial commission, bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, and bureau of workers' compensation to administer Chapters 4121., 4123., 4125., 4127., 4133., and 4167. of the Revised Code pursuant to section 4123.342 of the Revised Code, and for no other purpose. 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 for all other purposes, and the rights and duties created in this chapter shall be construed to have been made with respect to two separate funds and so as to maintain and continue such funds separately except for deposit or investment. Disbursements shall not be made on account of injury, disease, or death of employees of employers who contribute to one of such funds unless the moneys to the credit of such fund are sufficient therefor and no such disbursements shall be made for moneys or credits paid or credited to the other fund. Last updated August 3, 2023 at 10:42 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4105.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4105 / § 4105.03
§ 4105.03. Superintendent to hire assistant and general inspectors
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly The superintendent of industrial compliance, with the consent of the director of commerce, shall hire an assistant who has at least ten years of experience in the construction, installation, maintenance, and repair of elevators and their appurtenances. The superintendent, with the consent of the director, and in compliance with Chapter 124. of the Revised Code, may appoint and hire general inspectors of elevators from the holders of certificates of competency.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.046 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.046
§ 4141.046. Prohibition against accepting compensation for securing employment
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 470 - 123rd General Assembly No compensation or fee, either directly or indirectly, shall be charged or received from any person seeking employment through a public employment office described in section 4141.04 of the Revised Code. No person shall violate this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4112.051 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4112 / § 4112.051
§ 4112.051. Employment discrimination administrative remedy
Status: in_force

April 15, 2021 House Bill 352 - 133rd General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Complainant" means a person who files a charge under this section. (2) "Respondent" means a person who is the subject of a charge filed under this section. (B) The Ohio civil rights commission, as provided in this section, shall prevent any person from engaging in unlawful discriminatory practices relating to employment. The commission may at any time attempt to resolve allegations of unlawful discriminatory practices relating to employment by the use of alternative dispute resolution, provided that, before instituting the formal hearing authorized by this section, it shall attempt, by informal methods of conference, conciliation, and persuasion, to induce compliance with this chapter. (C)(1) Any person who believes that a person has been the subject of an unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment may file a charge with the commission alleging either or both of the following: (a) That an employer, employment agency, personnel placement service, or labor organization has engaged or is engaging in an unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment; (b) That a person has engaged in an unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment described in division (A)(24)(b) of section 4112.01 of the Revised Code. (2) A charge under this section shall be in writing, under oath, and shall be filed with the commission within two years after the alleged unlawful discriminatory practice was committed. (3) An oath under this section may be made in any form of affirmation the person considers binding on the person's conscience. Acceptable forms include, but are not limited to, declarations made under penalty of perjury. (4) Any charge timely received, via facsimile, postal mail, electronic mail, or otherwise, may be signed under oath after the limitations period for filing set forth under division (C) of this section and will relate back to the original filing date. (D)(1) Upon receiving a charge under this section, the commission may initiate a preliminary investigation to determine whether it is probable that an alleged unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment has occurred or is occurring. The commission also may conduct, on its own initiative and independent of the filing of any charge, a preliminary investigation relating to any alleged unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment. Before a notification of a complainant under division (E) of this section or before the commencement of informal methods of conference, conciliation, and persuasion, or alternative dispute resolution, under division (F) of this section, the members of the commission and the officers and employees of the commission shall not make public in any manner and shall retain as confidential all information that was obtained as a result of or that otherwise pertains to a preliminary investigation. (2) With respect to a charge filed under division (C) of this section that alleges an unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment, the complainant may request in writing that the commission cease its preliminary investigation and issue a notice of right to sue to the complainant. If the commission ceases its preliminary investigation, it shall issue a notice of right to sue to the complainant. The complainant is prohibited from refiling the charge with the commission. (E) If, after a preliminary investigation, the commission determines that it is not probable that an unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment has occurred or is occurring, the commission shall notify the complainant of its determination and that it will not issue a complaint in the matter. The commission shall include a notice of right to sue in the notice. (F)(1) If, after a preliminary investigation, the commission determines that it is probable that an unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment has occurred or is occurring, the commission shall notify the complainant and the respondent of its determination and, in the notice the commission issues to the complainant, inform the complainant that the complainant may withdraw the charge and file a civil action under this chapter. If the complainant does not withdraw the charge, the commission shall endeavor to eliminate the alleged unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment by informal methods of conference, conciliation, and persuasion, or by alternative dispute resolution. (2) If, after the use of the informal methods of conference, conciliation, and persuasion, or alternative dispute resolution, the commission is satisfied that the unlawful discriminatory practice in question will be eliminated, the commission may treat the charge as being conciliated and enter that disposition on the records of the commission. (3) Nothing said or done during informal methods of conference, conciliation, or persuasion, or during alternative dispute resolution, under this section shall be disclosed by any member of the commission or its staff or be used as evidence in any subsequent hearing or other proceeding. (G) If the commission fails to effect the elimination of the alleged unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment and is unable to obtain voluntary compliance with this chapter through informal methods of conference, conciliation, and persuasion, or by alternative dispute resolution under this section, the commission shall issue and cause to be served upon any person, including the respondent, a complaint. (1) The complaint shall state the charges involved and shall contain a notice of a hearing before the commission, a member of the commission, or a hearing examiner, as well as the hearing's location. Any such hearing shall be held in the county in which the alleged unlawful discriminatory practice occurred or is occurring or in which the respondent transacts business, and shall be held not less than thirty days after service of the complaint. After issuing a complaint, the commission may do any of the following: (a) Upon the request of a complainant that the commission receives not later than thirty days before the date of the hearing, dismiss the complaint; (b) Eliminate the alleged unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment by the informal methods described in division (F)(1) of this section and treat the charge as being conciliated as provided in division (F)(2) of this section; (c) Continue with the hearing process as provided in this section. (2) The attorney general shall represent the commission at any such hearing and shall present the evidence in support of the complaint. (3) Any complaint issued pursuant to this division after the filing of a charge under this section shall be issued within one year after the complainant filed the charge with respect to an alleged unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment. (4) Any such complaint may be amended by the commission, a member of the commission, or the commission's legal counsel at any time prior to the hearing if the respondent is given sufficient and reasonable notice. The respondent shall have the right to file an answer or an amended answer to the original, and any amended, complaints. (5) The respondent shall have the right to appear at the hearing in person, by attorney, or otherwise to examine and cross-examine witnesses. (6) The complainant shall be a party to a hearing under this section. Any person who is an indispensable party to a complete determination or settlement of the complaint central to the hearing shall be joined. (7) For any hearing initiated under this section, the commission, a member of the commission, or a hearing officer is not bound by the Rules of Evidence, but shall take into account all reliable, probative, and substantial statistical or other evidence produced at the hearing that may prove the existence of a predetermined pattern of employment or membership. (8)(a) The testimony provided during a hearing under this section shall be under oath and shall be transcribed in writing and filed with the commission. (b) The commission, at its discretion, may hear further testimony or argument after the initial hearing if notice, that indicates an opportunity to be present, is provided to the complainant and the respondent. (H) If, after a hearing carried out under division (G) of this section, the commission determines that the respondent has engaged in, or is engaging in, any unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment, whether against the complainant or others adversely affected by the allegations in the complaint, the commission shall state its findings of fact and conclusions of law and shall issue and cause to be served to the respondent, subject to the provisions of Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, an order to cease and desist from the unlawful discriminatory practice. (1) The order shall require the respondent to take affirmative or other action necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter, including hiring, reinstating, or promoting the complainant or others adversely affected by the unlawful discriminatory practice and shall require the respondent to report to the commission the manner of compliance. (2)(a) The order may require back pay or admission or restoration to union membership. (b) If the order requires back pay, the commission shall take into account earnings collected during the resolution of the complaint. (3) Upon receipt of the report of compliance required under this division, the commission may issue a declaratory order stating that the respondent has ceased to engage in the unlawful discriminatory practices that were the subject of the complaint. (I) If, after a hearing carried out under division (G) of this section, the commission finds that a respondent has not engaged in any unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment against the complainant or others, it shall issue an order stating its findings of fact and dismissing the complaint to the complainant, respondent, and any other affected party. A copy of the order shall also be delivered to the attorney general and any other public officer the commission considers appropriate. (J) The commission, subject to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, upon reasonable notice to the respondent and claimant and in the manner it considers proper, may modify or set aside, in whole or in part, any finding or order made under this section until the time period for appeal set forth in section 4112.06 of the Revised Code has passed. (K) The commission shall adopt rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, to carry out this section. (L) Nothing in this section requires any person to observe in hiring the proportion that persons of any race, color, religion, sex, military status, familial status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry bear to the total population or in accordance with any other criteria than the qualifications of applicants. (M) The issuance of a notice of right to sue by the commission under this section does not prohibit the commission from offering assistance to the person to whom the notice was issued. (N) If a complainant requests a notice of right to sue under this section less than sixty days after filing a charge pursuant to division (C) of this section, the commission shall not grant the request until at least sixty days after the complainant filed the charge. If a complainant requests a notice of right to sue under this section sixty or more days after filing a charge, the commission may immediately grant the request.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4127.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4127 / § 4127.05
§ 4127.05. Public work-relief employees' compensation fund
Status: in_force

October 20, 1993 House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly The premiums, collected under this chapter shall be paid into a separate fund to be known as the "public work-relief employees' compensation fund," and all compensation, death benefits, and expenses for medical, nurse, and hospital services, medicine, and funerals, shall be paid out of the fund. Such premiums shall be collected, the moneys of the fund disbursed and the fund maintained, without regard to or reliance upon any other fund mentioned in Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. This section shall not prevent the deposit or investment of the moneys of the public work-relief employees' compensation fund with the moneys of the state insurance fund provided for in Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code, but such funds shall be separate for all other purposes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.025 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.025
§ 4123.025. Benefits for one killed performing request or order of a duly authorized public official
Status: in_force

November 16, 1973 House Bill 417 - 110th General Assembly Any person, other than those covered by section 4123.03 of the Revised Code, who is injured, and the dependents of a deceased employee who is killed as the direct result of performing any act at the request or order of a duly authorized public official of the state, or any institution or agency thereof, or any political subdivision thereof, including a county, township, or municipal corporation, in time of emergency shall be entitled to all the benefits of Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. Any payments made from the state insurance fund pursuant to this section shall be charged to the surplus fund as created by division (B) of section 4123.34 of the Revised Code, in order to encourage participation of all persons in times of emergency.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.242 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.242
§ 4141.242. Public entities as employers
Status: in_force

April 1, 2009 House Bill 2 - 128th General Assembly (A) On or after January 1, 1978, the state, its instrumentalities, its political subdivisions and their instrumentalities, and any subdivision thereof as defined in division (H) of this section and described in this section as public entities, and Indian tribes as defined by section 4(e) of the "Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act," 88 Stat. 2204 (1975), 25 U.S.C.A. 450b(e), shall pay to the director of job and family services for deposit in the unemployment compensation fund an amount in lieu of contributions equal to the full amount of regular benefits, and the amount of extended benefits chargeable under the terms of section 4141.301 of the Revised Code, from that fund that is attributable to service in the employ of the public entity or Indian tribe, under the same terms and conditions as required of nonprofit organizations electing reimbursing status under section 4141.241 of the Revised Code; unless the public entity or Indian tribe elects to pay contributions under section 4141.25 of the Revised Code, under the following conditions: (1) Any public entity or Indian tribe may elect, after December 31, 1977, to become liable for contribution payments, as set forth in section 4141.25 of the Revised Code, for a period of not less than two calendar years by filing with the director a written notice of its election. (2) The effective date of the election to pay contributions shall be the first day of the first calendar quarter after the election is approved by the director and which is at least thirty days after the election notice was received. (B) No surety bond shall be required of any reimbursing public entity or Indian tribe, as is required of nonprofit organizations under division (C) of section 4141.241 of the Revised Code. Any public entity or Indian tribe, either reimbursing or contributory, shall, if it becomes delinquent in the payment of reimbursements, contributions, forfeiture, or interest, be subject to the same terms and the same collection procedures as are set forth for reimbursing employers under division (B) of section 4141.241 of the Revised Code; and as set forth for contributory employers under this chapter except as provided under division (D) of this section. (C) The state of Ohio account and the accounts and subaccounts of its instrumentalities, as defined in divisions (H)(1)(a) and (b) of this section, shall be administered by the director of administrative services, in coordination with the director of job and family services in accordance with the terms and conditions of this chapter, regarding the determination and payment of benefits attributable to service with the state or its instrumentalities. In this capacity, the director of administrative services shall maintain any necessary accounts and subaccounts for the various agencies and departments of the state and, through the director of budget and management, apportion among the various state entities, and collect, the costs of unemployment benefits, as billed by the director of job and family services, except that any of the individual agencies and departments for which such accounts and subaccounts are maintained may, with the concurrence of the director of administrative services and the director of job and family services, be designated to receive billings directly from the director of job and family services and make payment in response to such billings directly to the director of job and family services. Any moneys paid directly under this division and collected by the director of administrative services shall be forwarded to the director of job and family services for deposit in the fund established by division (A) of section 4141.09 of the Revised Code, and shall be credited to the accounts of the state and its instrumentalities. (D) The accounts of the various local subdivisions, their instrumentalities, and Indian tribes shall be administered by appropriate officials, as designated to the director of job and family services when the accounts are established. (E) Two or more reimbursing public entities or Indian tribes may file a joint application to the director of job and family services for the establishment of a group account, for the purpose of sharing the cost of benefits attributable to service with the public entities or Indian tribes, under the conditions provided for nonprofit organizations under division (D) of section 4141.241 of the Revised Code. (F) Two or more public entities or Indian tribes that have elected to pay contributions may apply for a common rate under division (J) of section 4141.24 of the Revised Code. Clear authority, resolution, or ordinance for combining must be presented with the application requesting the common rate status. Applications must be filed by the first day of October of any year, to be effective for the following calendar year. (G) A public entity or Indian tribe, either reimbursing or one electing to pay contributions, shall be liable for the full amount of any regular benefits paid that are attributable to service in the employ of the public entity or Indian tribe during the base period of a benefit claim, and any extended benefits paid based on service as provided in divisions (I)(1)(b) and (1)(c) of section 4141.301 of the Revised Code. Where a public entity or Indian tribe has changed from a reimbursing status to a contributory status, during the base period of the benefit claim, then the benefit charges attributable to service with the reimbursement account shall be charged to the reimbursement account; and, the charges attributable to the contributory account shall be charged to that account. The same rule shall be applicable to situations where a contributory public entity or Indian tribe has changed to a reimbursing status during the base period of a benefit claim. (H)(1) For the purposes of establishing employer status and accounts for the state and its instrumentalities, its political subdivisions and their instrumentalities, a separate account shall be established and maintained for: (a) The state, including therein the legislative and executive branches, as defined in Articles II and III of the Ohio Constitution, and the Ohio supreme court; (b) Each separate instrumentality of the state; (c) Each political subdivision of the state, including therein the legislative, executive, and judicial functions performed for the subdivision; (d) Each separate instrumentality of the political subdivision; (e) Any jointly owned instrumentality of more than one of the public entities described in this division, or any jointly owned instrumentality of any such public entities and one or more other states or political subdivisions thereof. (2) For the purposes of this chapter, the separate accounts, established by this division, shall be described as "public entity accounts." (I) An Indian tribe may elect to make payments in lieu of contributions as allowed with respect to governmental entities under this section. An Indian tribe may make a separate election for itself and each subdivision, subsidiary, or business enterprise wholly owned by the Indian tribe. The director shall immediately notify the United States internal revenue service and the United States department of labor if an Indian tribe fails to make payments required under this section and fails to pay any forfeitures, interest, or penalties due within ninety days of receiving a delinquency notice in accordance with rules prescribed by the director. (J) The director of job and family services, in accordance with any rules that the director may prescribe, shall notify each public entity and Indian tribe of any determination which the director may make of its status as an employer and of the effective date of any election which it makes and of any termination of the election. Any determinations are subject to reconsideration, appeal, and review in accordance with sections 4141.26 and 4141.28 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.29 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.29
§ 4121.29. Priority to be given actions
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly All actions and proceedings under sections 4101.01 to 4101.16 and 4121.01 to 4121.29 of the Revised Code and all actions or proceedings to which the bureau of workers' compensation or the state is a party, and in which any question arises under such sections, or under or concerning any order of the bureau, shall be preferred over all other civil cases, except election causes and causes involving or affecting the public utilities commission, irrespective of position on the calendar. The same preference shall be granted upon application of the attorney of the bureau in any action or proceeding in which he may be allowed to intervene.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4115.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4115 / § 4115.03
§ 4115.03. Wages and hours on public works definitions
Status: in_force

January 1, 2016 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly As used in sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code: (A) "Public authority" means any officer, board, or commission of the state, or any political subdivision of the state, authorized to enter into a contract for the construction of a public improvement or to construct the same by the direct employment of labor, or any institution supported in whole or in part by public funds and said sections apply to expenditures of such institutions made in whole or in part from public funds. (B) "Construction" means any of the following: (1) Except as provided in division (B)(3) of this section, any new construction of a public improvement, the total overall project cost of which is fairly estimated to be more than the following amounts and performed by other than full-time employees who have completed their probationary periods in the classified service of a public authority: (a) One hundred twenty-five thousand dollars, beginning on September 29, 2011, and continuing for one year thereafter; (b) Two hundred thousand dollars, beginning when the time period described in division (B)(1)(a) of this section expires and continuing for one year thereafter; (c) Two hundred fifty thousand dollars, beginning when the time period described in division (B)(1)(b) of this section expires. (2) Except as provided in division (B)(4) of this section, any reconstruction, enlargement, alteration, repair, remodeling, renovation, or painting of a public improvement, the total overall project cost of which is fairly estimated to be more than the following amounts and performed by other than full-time employees who have completed their probationary period in the classified civil service of a public authority: (a) Thirty-eight thousand dollars, beginning on September 29, 2011, and continuing for one year thereafter; (b) Sixty thousand dollars, beginning when the time period described in division (B)(2)(a) of this section expires and continuing for one year thereafter; (c) Seventy-five thousand dollars, beginning when the time period described in division (B)(2)(b) of this section expires. (3) Any new construction of a public improvement that involves roads, streets, alleys, sewers, ditches, and other works connected to road or bridge construction, the total overall project cost of which is fairly estimated to be more than seventy-eight thousand two hundred fifty-eight dollars adjusted biennially by the director of commerce pursuant to section 4115.034 of the Revised Code and performed by other than full-time employees who have completed their probationary periods in the classified service of a public authority; (4) Any reconstruction, enlargement, alteration, repair, remodeling, renovation, or painting of a public improvement that involves roads, streets, alleys, sewers, ditches, and other works connected to road or bridge construction, the total overall project cost of which is fairly estimated to be more than twenty-three thousand four hundred forty-seven dollars adjusted biennially by the director of commerce pursuant to section 4115.034 of the Revised Code and performed by other than full-time employees who have completed their probationary periods in the classified service of a public authority. (C) "Public improvement" includes all buildings, roads, streets, alleys, sewers, ditches, sewage disposal plants, water works, and all other structures or works constructed by a public authority of the state or any political subdivision thereof or by any person who, pursuant to a contract with a public authority, constructs any structure for a public authority of the state or a political subdivision thereof. When a public authority rents or leases a newly constructed structure within six months after completion of such construction, all work performed on such structure to suit it for occupancy by a public authority is a "public improvement." "Public improvement" does not include an improvement authorized by section 940.06 of the Revised Code that is constructed pursuant to a contract with a soil and water conservation district, as defined in section 940.01 of the Revised Code, or performed as a result of a petition filed pursuant to Chapter 6131., 6133., or 6135. of the Revised Code, wherein no less than seventy-five per cent of the project is located on private land and no less than seventy-five per cent of the cost of the improvement is paid for by private property owners pursuant to Chapter 940., 6131., 6133., or 6135. of the Revised Code. (D) "Locality" means the county wherein the physical work upon any public improvement is being performed. (E) "Prevailing wages" means the sum of the following: (1) The basic hourly rate of pay; (2) The rate of contribution irrevocably made by a contractor or subcontractor to a trustee or to a third person pursuant to a fund, plan, or program; (3) The rate of costs to the contractor or subcontractor which may be reasonably anticipated in providing the following fringe benefits to laborers and mechanics pursuant to an enforceable commitment to carry out a financially responsible plan or program which was communicated in writing to the laborers and mechanics affected: (a) Medical or hospital care or insurance to provide such; (b) Pensions on retirement or death or insurance to provide such; (c) Compensation for injuries or illnesses resulting from occupational activities if it is in addition to that coverage required by Chapters 4121. and 4123. of the Revised Code; (d) Supplemental unemployment benefits that are in addition to those required by Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code; (e) Life insurance; (f) Disability and sickness insurance; (g) Accident insurance; (h) Vacation and holiday pay; (i) Defraying of costs for apprenticeship or other similar training programs which are beneficial only to the laborers and mechanics affected; (j) Other bona fide fringe benefits. None of the benefits enumerated in division (E)(3) of this section may be considered in the determination of prevailing wages if federal, state, or local law requires contractors or subcontractors to provide any of such benefits. (F) "Interested party," with respect to a particular contract for construction of a public improvement, means: (1) Any person who submits a bid for the purpose of securing the award of the contract; (2) Any person acting as a subcontractor of a person described in division (F)(1) of this section; (3) Any bona fide organization of labor which has as members or is authorized to represent employees of a person described in division (F)(1) or (2) of this section and which exists, in whole or in part, for the purpose of negotiating with employers concerning the wages, hours, or terms and conditions of employment of employees; (4) Any association having as members any of the persons described in division (F)(1) or (2) of this section. (G) Except as used in division (A) of this section, "officer" means an individual who has an ownership interest or holds an office of trust, command, or authority in a corporation, business trust, partnership, or association.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4111.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4111 / § 4111.10
§ 4111.10. Liability and actions for payment of less than minimum wages
Status: in_force

July 6, 2022 Senate Bill 47 - 134th General Assembly (A) Any employer who pays any employee less than wages to which the employee is entitled under section 4111.03 of the Revised Code, is liable to the employee affected for the full amount of the overtime wage rate, less any amount actually paid to the employee by the employer, and for costs and reasonable attorney's fees as may be allowed by the court. Any agreement between the employee and the employer to work for less than the overtime wage rate is no defense to an action. (B) At the written request of any employee paid less than the wages to which the employee is entitled under section 4111.03 of the Revised Code, the director of commerce may take an assignment of a wage claim in trust for the assigning employee and may bring any legal action necessary to collect the claim. The employer shall pay the costs and reasonable attorney's fees allowed by the court. (C) No employee shall join as a party plaintiff in any civil action that is brought under this section by an employee, person acting on behalf of an employee, or person acting on behalf of all similarly situated employees unless that employee first gives written consent to become such a party plaintiff and that consent is filed with the court in which the action is brought. Last updated April 13, 2022 at 2:17 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4111.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4111 / § 4111.11
§ 4111.11. Most favorable standards toward employees continue in effect
Status: in_force

January 1, 1974 House Bill 201 - 110th General Assembly Any standards relating to minimum wages, overtime compensation, or other working conditions in effect under any other law of this state on the effective date of sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, which are more favorable to employees than those applicable to employees under sections or regulations issued hereunder, are not amended, rescinded, or otherwise affected by said sections, but continue in full force and effect, and may be enforced as provided by law until they are specifically superseded by standards more favorable to the employees by operation of or in accordance with regulations issued under said sections.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4133.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4133 / § 4133.09
§ 4133.09. Denial and revocation of registrations
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 Senate Bill 201 - 133rd General Assembly (A) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the administrator of the bureau of workers' compensation may deny registration or revoke the registration of an alternate employer organization and rescind its status as an employer upon a finding that the alternate employer organization has done any of the following: (1) Obtained or attempted to obtain registration through misrepresentation, misstatement of a material fact, or fraud; (2) Misappropriated any funds of the client employer; (3) Used fraudulent or coercive practices to obtain or retain business or demonstrated financial irresponsibility; (4) Failed to appear, without reasonable cause or excuse, in response to a subpoena lawfully issued by the administrator; (5) Failed to comply with the requirements of this chapter. (B) The administrator's decision to deny or revoke an alternate employer organization's registration or to rescind its status as an employer is stayed pending the exhaustion of all administrative appeals by the alternate employer organization. The administrator shall adopt rules that require that when an employer contacts the bureau of workers' compensation to determine whether a particular alternate employer organization is registered, if the administrator has denied or revoked that alternate employer organization's registration or rescinded its status as an employer, and if all administrative appeals are not yet exhausted when the employer inquires, the appropriate bureau personnel shall inform the inquiring employer of the denial, revocation, or rescission and the fact that the alternate employer organization has the right to appeal the administrator's decision. (C) Upon revocation of the registration of an alternate employer organization, each client employer associated with that alternate employer organization shall file payroll reports and pay workers' compensation premiums directly to the administrator on its own behalf at a rate determined by the administrator based solely on the claims experience of the client employer. (D) Upon revocation of an alternate employer organization's registration, each client employer associated with that alternate employer organization shall file on its own behalf the appropriate documents or data with all state and federal agencies as required by law with respect to any worksite employee the client employer and the alternate employer organization shared.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4113.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4113 / § 4113.19
§ 4113.19. Payment in scrip prohibited at higher prices - deductions from wages prohibited
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No person shall sell goods or supplies to his employee , or pay such employee wages or a part thereof in goods or supplies, directly or through the intervention of scrip, orders, or other evidence of indebtedness, at higher prices than the reasonable or current market value in cash of such goods or supplies, or, without an express contract with his employee, deduct or retain the wages of such employee, or a part thereof, for wares, tools, or machinery destroyed or damaged.