Ohio Rev. Code § 103.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 103 / § 103.23
§ 103.23. Legislative budget and program oversight commission
Status: in_force

July 30, 1979 House Bill 204 - 113th General Assembly The legislative service commission shall serve as a legislative budget and program oversight commission and may delegate to any committee it creates the responsibility to: (A) Conduct program reviews of state agencies and departments or programs and activities within such agencies and departments, of the state's local assistance programs, and of state laws. As used in this section "program review" means an examination and review of any state agency, department, bureau, commission, or institution, or any activity, program, or law of the state to determine whether or to what extent the intent and goals of the organization, activity, program, or law are being achieved and whether funds appropriated have been efficiently and effectively expended; (B) Continually review and evaluate federal and state government relationships and the fiscal, economic, and social implications thereof; (C) Annually prepare and update long-range fiscal plans for the state; (D) Provide staff to assist the controlling board in performing its duties and exercising its powers. If in a program review the commission cites the failure of a program to meet intended goals, inadequate operating or administrative procedures or controls, fiscal or program reporting inaccuracies, waste, extravagance, unauthorized or unintended activities or programs, or other deficiencies, the head of the state department, agency, bureau, commission, or institution or the official responsible for the program shall respond to the report and inform the commission, at such times and in such manner and form as the commission determines, of any corrective actions that have been taken. The commission shall report the results of all program reviews to the general assembly. No official of a state agency, department, bureau, commission, or institution shall refuse to provide or make available to the legislative service commission any information or records under its control or in its possession when requested to provide such information as part of the exercise of the commission's powers in this section and section 103.13 of the Revised Code unless the law dealing with the information or records specifically states that the commission is not authorized to review such information or records. No member or employee of the commission shall use any confidential information or record for any purpose except those authorized in this section and section 103.13 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 117.35 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 117 / § 117.35
§ 117.35. Submission of judgment entry to attorney general
Status: in_force

July 1, 1985 House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly No judgment or final order shall be entered in a civil action commenced under this chapter, other than a civil action instituted pursuant to section 117.31 of the Revised Code, until the entry is submitted to the attorney general. The attorney general is hereby constituted an attorney of record in each action.
Ohio Rev. Code § 153.32 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 153 / § 153.32
§ 153.32. Contracts for erection and repair of superstructures
Status: in_force

March 18, 1999 House Bill 850 - 122nd General Assembly When it becomes necessary to erect a bridge, the board of county commissioners shall determine the length and width of the superstructure, and whether it shall be single or double track, and it shall advertise for bids for performing the labor and furnishing the materials necessary to the erection thereof in accordance with sections 307.86 to 307.92 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 106.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 106 / § 106.03
§ 106.03. Agency review of existing rules
Status: in_force

June 8, 2022 Senate Bill 9 - 134th General Assembly Prior to the review date of an existing rule, the agency that adopted the rule shall do both of the following: (A) Review the rule to determine whether the rule should be amended or rescinded, including for the purpose of accomplishing the reductions in regulatory restrictions required by section 121.951 of the Revised Code, because it does any of the following, or otherwise for the purpose of reducing regulatory restrictions: (1) Exceeds or conflicts with the purpose, scope, or intent of the statute under which the rule was adopted; (2) Provides inadequate flexibility at the local level; (3) Creates a compliance or oversight burden for the state agency, or for any person or entity, that is greater than the burden that would be created if the agency accomplished the intended purpose of the restriction by other means; (4) Is no longer useful or beneficial; (5) Incorporates a text or other material by reference and, if so: (a) The citation accompanying the incorporation by reference is such as would not reasonably enable a reasonable person to whom the rule applies readily and without charge to find and inspect the incorporated text or other material; (b) The citation accompanying the incorporation by reference is such as would not reasonably enable the joint committee on agency rule review readily and without charge to find and inspect the incorporated text or other material; or (c) If the rule has been exempted in whole or in part from sections 121.71 to 121.74 of the Revised Code on grounds the incorporated text or other material has one or more of the characteristics described in division (B) of section 121.75 of the Revised Code, the incorporated text or other material does not actually have any of those characteristics. (6) Duplicates, overlaps with, or conflicts with a federal law or rule or another law or rule of this state. A rule duplicates, overlaps with, or conflicts with another law or rule if it imposes a duty or liability on a person or entity that the other law or rule also imposes on that person or entity, in whole or in part, or imposes a duty or liability that may require a person or entity to violate the other law or rule in whole or in part. If the rule duplicates, overlaps with, or conflicts with a rule adopted by another state agency, the two agencies shall determine which agency shall amend or rescind its rule and shall develop and execute a plan to work together to achieve the required oversight. (7) Has an adverse impact on businesses, as determined under section 107.52 of the Revised Code; (8) Has an adverse impact on any other person or entity; (9) Contains words or phrases having meanings that in contemporary usage are understood as being derogatory or offensive; (10) Requires liability insurance, a bond, or any other financial responsibility instrument as a condition of licensure; (11) Imposes a more severe duty or liability than restrictions in neighboring states in order to accomplish the same goal; (12) Implements a federal law or rule in a manner that is more stringent or burdensome than the federal law or rule requires. In making its review, the agency shall consider the continued need for the rule, the nature of any complaints or comments received concerning the rule, and any relevant factors that have changed in the subject matter area affected by the rule. (B) On the basis of its review of the existing rule, the agency shall determine whether the existing rule needs to be amended or rescinded. (1) If the existing rule needs to be amended or rescinded, the agency, on or before the review date of the existing rule, shall commence the process of amending or rescinding the existing rule in accordance with its review of the rule. (2) If the existing rule does not need to be amended or rescinded, proceedings shall be had under section 106.031 of the Revised Code. Upon the request of the agency that adopted an existing rule, the joint committee on agency rule review may extend the review date of the rule to a date that is not later than one hundred eighty days after the review date assigned to the rule by the agency. Not more than two such extensions may be allowed. Last updated March 11, 2022 at 3:55 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 128.38 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 128 / § 128.38
§ 128.38. [Former R.C. 128.26, amended and renumbered by H.B. 33, 135th General Assembly, effective 10/3/2023] Election on monthly charge on telephone access lines to fund certain systems
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) This section applies only to a county that has a final plan for a countywide 9-1-1 system that either has not been approved in the county under section 128.08 of the Revised Code or has been approved but has not been put into operation because of a lack of funding. (B) A board of county commissioners may adopt a resolution imposing a monthly charge on telephone access lines to pay for the operating and equipment costs of establishing and maintaining no more than one public safety answering point of a countywide 9-1-1 system. The resolution shall state the amount of the charge, which shall not exceed fifty cents per month, and the month the charge will first be imposed, which shall be no earlier than four months after the special election held pursuant to this section. Each residential and business telephone company customer within the area of the county served by the 9-1-1 system shall pay the monthly charge for each of its residential or business customer access lines or their equivalent. Before adopting a resolution under this division, the board of county commissioners shall hold at least two public hearings on the proposed charge. Before the first hearing, the board shall publish notice of the hearings once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. The notice shall state the amount of the proposed charge, an explanation of the necessity for the charge, and the date, time, and location of each of the hearings. (C) A resolution adopted under division (B) of this section shall direct the board of elections to submit the question of imposing the charge to the electors of the county at a special election on the day of the next primary or general election in the county. The board of county commissioners shall certify a copy of the resolution to the board of elections not less than ninety days before the day of the special election. No resolution adopted under division (B) of this section shall take effect unless approved by a majority of the electors voting upon the resolution at an election held pursuant to this section. In any year, the board of county commissioners may impose a lesser charge than the amount originally approved by the electors. The board may change the amount of the charge no more than once a year. The board shall not impose a charge greater than the amount approved by the electors without first holding an election on the question of the greater charge. (D) Money raised from a monthly charge on telephone access lines under this section shall be deposited into a special fund created in the county treasury by the board of county commissioners pursuant to section 5705.12 of the Revised Code, to be used only for the necessary operating and equipment costs of establishing and maintaining no more than one public safety answering point of a countywide 9-1-1 system pursuant to a resolution adopted under division (B) of this section. In complying with this division, any county may seek the assistance of the steering committee with regard to operating and maintaining a 9-1-1 system. (E) Nothing in this chapter precludes a final plan adopted in accordance with those sections from being amended to provide that, by agreement included in the plan, a public safety answering point of another countywide 9-1-1 system is the public safety answering point of a countywide 9-1-1 system funded through a monthly charge imposed in accordance with this section. In that event, the county for which the public safety answering point is provided shall be deemed the subdivision operating the public safety answering point for purposes of this chapter, except that, for the purpose of division (D) of section 128.03 of the Revised Code, the county shall pay only so much of the costs associated with establishing, equipping, furnishing, operating, or maintaining the public safety answering point specified in the agreement included in the final plan. (F) Pursuant to the voter approval required by division (C) of this section, the final plan for a countywide 9-1-1 system that will be funded through a monthly charge imposed in accordance with this section, or that will be amended to include an agreement described in division (E) of this section, shall be amended by the existing 9-1-1 program review committee, and the amendment of such a final plan is not an amendment of a final plan for the purpose of division (A) of section 128.12 of the Revised Code. Last updated February 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.744 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.744
§ 109.744. Rules governing training of peace officers in handling of offense of domestic violence
Status: in_force

October 16, 2009 House Bill 1 - 128th General Assembly The attorney general shall adopt, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code or pursuant to section 109.74 of the Revised Code, rules governing the training of peace officers in the handling of the offense of domestic violence, other types of domestic violence-related offenses and incidents, and protection orders and consent agreements issued or approved under section 2919.26 or 3113.31 of the Revised Code. The provisions of the rules shall include, but shall not be limited to, all of the following: (A) A specified amount of training that is necessary for the satisfactory completion of basic training programs at approved peace officer training schools, other than the Ohio peace officer training academy; (B) A requirement that the training include, but not be limited to, training in all of the following: (1) All recent amendments to domestic violence-related laws; (2) Notifying a victim of domestic violence of the victim's rights; (3) Processing protection orders and consent agreements issued or approved under section 2919.26 or 3113.31 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.17
§ 124.17. Employee awards system
Status: in_force

October 25, 1995 Senate Bill 99 - 121st General Assembly The director of administrative services may institute an employee awards system designed to encourage all state employees to submit suggestions that will reduce the costs, or improve the quality, of state services. Employee awards granted under the system may be either monetary or nonmonetary. The director shall provide, by rule, reasonable standards for determining the amount, not to exceed five thousand dollars per employee, of any cash award, and for determining the value of any nonmonetary award, that may be given for a suggestion. The department of administrative services shall review each adopted suggestion and determine the amount or type of award, if any, to be given. In addition to the employees award system, the director may establish a program for the recognition of exemplary performance of employees paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the Revised Code and those employees listed in divisions (B)(2) and (4) of section 124.14 of the Revised Code. The program may include, but is not limited to, cash awards, additional leave, or other provisions as the director considers appropriate, and the director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to provide for the administration of the program.
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.84 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.84
§ 109.84. Investigation and prosecution of violation of workers compensation law
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly (A) Upon the written request of the governor, the industrial commission, the administrator of workers' compensation, or upon the attorney general's becoming aware of criminal or improper activity related to Chapter 4121. or 4123. of the Revised Code, the attorney general shall investigate any criminal or civil violation of law related to Chapter 4121. or 4123. of the Revised Code. (B) When it appears to the attorney general, as a result of an investigation under division (A) of this section, that there is cause to prosecute for the commission of a crime or to pursue a civil remedy, he may refer the evidence to the prosecuting attorney having jurisdiction of the matter, or to a regular grand jury drawn and impaneled pursuant to sections 2939.01 to 2939.24 of the Revised Code, or to a special grand jury drawn and impaneled pursuant to section 2939.17 of the Revised Code, or he may initiate and prosecute any necessary criminal or civil actions in any court or tribunal of competent jurisdiction in this state. When proceeding under this section, the attorney general has all rights, privileges, and powers of prosecuting attorneys, and any assistant or special counsel designated by him for that purpose has the same authority. (C) The attorney general shall be reimbursed by the bureau of workers' compensation for all actual and necessary costs incurred in conducting investigations requested by the governor, the commission, or the administrator and all actual and necessary costs in conducting the prosecution arising out of such investigation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 117.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 117 / § 117.12
§ 117.12. Rules for audit standards, procedures, and guidelines
Status: in_force

October 1, 2025 House Bill 54 - 136th General Assembly (A) Any certified public accountant engaged to perform an audit pursuant to division (C) of section 117.11 or section 117.56 of the Revised Code shall conduct the audit pursuant to the standards, procedures, and guidelines of the auditor of state for such audits. The auditor of state shall establish these standards, procedures, and guidelines by rule. The audit shall cover the period beginning with the termination date of the most recent audit conducted under this section or under section 117.11 of the Revised Code, and ending on the date specified by the auditor of state. The accountant shall inquire into the methods, accuracy, and legality of the accounts, records, files, and reports of the public office and shall note whether, in the accountant's opinion, the laws, rules, ordinances, and orders pertaining to the public office have been complied with. (B) The certified public accountant shall have no authority to make formal findings of illegality, malfeasance, or gross neglect under this section or section 117.23 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 166.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 166 / § 166.17
§ 166.17. Establishment or development of eligible research and development projects
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The general assembly finds that in order to enhance the economic opportunities available to and improve the economic welfare of all the people of the state, and to maintain and enhance the competitiveness of the Ohio economy, it is necessary to ensure that the people of the state will continue to have access to high-value jobs in technology, and that, to facilitate such continued access, it is necessary to provide incentives to retain and attract businesses that will develop new or improved technologies, processes, and products, or apply existing technologies in new ways. Further, the general assembly finds that the attraction of such jobs and their presence in this state will materially contribute to the economic welfare of all the people of the state. Accordingly, it is declared to be the public policy of this state, through operations under sections 166.17 to 166.21 , 5733.352 , and 5747.331 of the Revised Code and the provisions for financial assistance contained in those sections, other applicable laws adopted pursuant to Section 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, and other authority vested in the general assembly, to assist in and facilitate the establishment or development of eligible research and development projects or assist and cooperate with any governmental agency in achieving that purpose. (B) In furtherance of that public policy and to implement that purpose, the director of development may do any of the following: (1) After consultation with appropriate governmental agencies, enter into agreements with persons engaged in industry, commerce, distribution, development of tourism attractions or professional sports facilities, or research and with governmental agencies, to induce such persons to acquire, construct, reconstruct, rehabilitate, renovate, enlarge, improve, equip, furnish, or develop eligible research and development projects, or to enable governmental agencies to acquire, construct, reconstruct, rehabilitate, renovate, enlarge, improve, equip, furnish, or develop eligible research and development projects for lease to persons engaged in industry, commerce, distribution, development of tourism attractions or professional sports facilities, or research; (2) Provide for loans under section 166.21 of the Revised Code to finance eligible research and development projects; (3) Subject to the release of moneys in the research and development loan fund by the controlling board, contract for labor and materials needed for, or contract with others, including governmental agencies, to provide, eligible research and development projects, the allowable costs of which are to be paid for or reimbursed from such moneys, and contract for the operation of those projects; (4) From moneys in the research and development loan fund, subject to release thereof by the controlling board, acquire or contract to acquire property by gift, exchange, or purchase, including by obtaining and exercising purchase options, and convey or otherwise dispose of, or provide for the conveyance or disposition of, that property by sale, exchange, lease, lease purchase, conditional or installment sale, transfer, or other disposition, including the grant of an option to purchase, to any governmental agency or to any other person without necessity for competitive bidding and upon such terms and conditions and manner of consideration pursuant to, and as the director determines to be appropriate to satisfy the objectives of, Chapter 166. of the Revised Code; (5) Retain the services of or employ financial consultants, appraisers, consulting engineers, superintendents, managers, construction and accounting experts, attorneys, employees, agents, and independent contractors as are necessary in the director's judgment, and fix the compensation for their services; (6) Receive and accept from any person, grants, gifts, and contributions of money, property, labor, and other things of value, to be held, used, and applied only for the purpose for which such grants, gifts, and contributions are made; (7) Enter into arrangements and agreements with any governmental agency for the agency to take or provide any governmental action with respect to eligible research and development projects; (8) Do all other acts, enter into contracts, execute all instruments, and make all certifications necessary or appropriate to carry out sections 166.01 , 166.17 to 166.21 , 5733.352 , and 5747.331 of the Revised Code; (9) With respect to property that is the subject of or related to research and development financial assistance, take such interests, including, but not limited to, mortgages, security interests, leasehold interests, assignments, and exclusive or nonexclusive licenses, as may be necessary or appropriate under the circumstances, to ensure that the property is used within this state and that products or services associated with that property are produced or, in the case of services, delivered, by persons employed within this state; (10) Adopt rules necessary to implement any of the provisions of sections 166.17 to 166.21 , 5733.352 , and 5747.331 of the Revised Code that are applicable to the director. (C) The determination by the director that facilities or property constitute an eligible research and development project and that the costs of such facilities or property are allowable costs related to the project, and all other determinations relevant thereto, or to an action taken or agreement entered into, shall be conclusive for purposes of the validity and enforceability of rights of parties arising from actions taken and agreements entered into under sections 166.17 to 166.21 , 5733.352 , and 5747.331 of the Revised Code. Last updated July 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 147.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 147 / § 147.05
§ 147.05. Recordkeeping; change of address; notice of resignation or conviction of disqualifying offense
Status: in_force

October 9, 2021 House Bill 263 - 133rd General Assembly (A) The secretary of state shall maintain a record of the commissions of each notary public appointed and commissioned by the secretary of state under this chapter and make a proper index to that record. The governor's office shall transfer to the secretary of state's office, on or after June 6, 2001, the record of notaries public formerly kept by the governor's office under section 107.10 of the Revised Code. The secretary of state's office shall maintain that record together with the record and index of commissions of notaries public required by this division. (B) If a notary public legally changes the notary public's name or address after having been commissioned as a notary public, the notary public shall notify the secretary of state within thirty days after the name or address change. Such a notification shall be on a form prescribed by the secretary of state. (C) A notary who resigns the person's commission shall deliver to the secretary of state, on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, a written notice indicating the effective date of resignation. (D)(1) A notary shall inform the secretary of state of being convicted of or pleading guilty or no contest to a crime of moral turpitude as defined in section 4776.10 of the Revised Code, a violation of a provision of Chapter 2913. of the Revised Code, or any offense under an existing or former law of this state, any other state, or the United States that is substantially equivalent to such a disqualifying offense during the term of the notary's commission. (2) The secretary of state shall revoke the commission of any person who is convicted of or pleads guilty or no contest to a disqualifying offense, including an attorney licensed to practice law in this state. Last updated October 9, 2021 at 5:22 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 111.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 111 / § 111.24
§ 111.24. Refusal of documents for filing or recording
Status: in_force

November 6, 1996 House Bill 644 - 121st General Assembly (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code, if a person presents a document to the secretary of state for filing or recording, the secretary of state may refuse to accept the document for filing or recording if the document is not required or authorized to be filed or recorded with the secretary of state or the secretary of state has reasonable cause to believe the document is materially false or fraudulent. This division does not create a duty upon the secretary of state to inspect, evaluate, or investigate a document that is presented for filing or recording. (B) If the secretary of state, pursuant to division (A) of this section, refuses to accept a document for filing or recording, the person who presented the document to the secretary of state may commence an action in or apply for an order from the court of claims to require the secretary of state to accept the document for filing or recording. If the court determines that the document is appropriate for filing or recording, it shall order the secretary of state to accept the document for that purpose. (C) If the secretary of state, acting under this section in a manner that does not subject the secretary of state to personal liability under section 9.86 of the Revised Code, improperly refuses to accept a document for filing or recording, the secretary of state shall not be personally liable on account of the improper refusal and the sureties that issued the bond shall not have a right of subrogation against the secretary of state on account of a claim made on the secretary of state's bond as a result of the improper refusal.
Ohio Rev. Code § 155.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 155 / § 155.34
§ 155.34. [Former R.C. 1509.74, amended and renumbered by H.B. 110, 134th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2021] Rules; standard surface use agreement; scope
Status: in_force

March 20, 2025 House Bill 308 - 135th General Assembly (A) Not later than one hundred twenty days after September 30, 2021, the oil and gas land management commission shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing both of the following: (1) A standard lease form that shall be used by a state agency for leases entered into under this chapter, is consistent with the practices of the oil and natural gas industries, and contains all of the following: (a) A prohibition against the use of the surface of the parcel of land for oil and gas development unless the state agency, in its sole discretion, chooses to negotiate and execute a written surface use agreement established under this section; (b) A one-eighth gross landowner royalty; (c) A primary term of five years; (d) An option for the lessee to extend the primary term of the lease for an additional three years by tendering to the state agency the same bonus paid when first entering into the lease. (2) Any other procedures necessary to implement sections 155.30 to 155.36 of the Revised Code. (B) Not later than one hundred twenty days after September 30, 2021, the commission shall establish a standard surface use agreement that a state agency shall use to authorize the use of the surface of a leased parcel of land. (C) Section 121.95 of the Revised Code does not apply to rules adopted under this section and the commission is not subject to any requirements of that section. Last updated January 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.9512 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.9512
§ 122.9512. SiteOhio administration fund
Status: in_force

September 4, 2012 House Bill 436 - 129th General Assembly There is hereby created in the state treasury the SiteOhio administration fund. Money collected from the fees remitted by applicants for certification under section 122.9511 of the Revised Code shall be credited to the fund. The director of development shall use the fund to pay the department's administrative expenses for administering the SiteOhio certification program under section 122.9511 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.19
§ 124.19. State holidays - university holidays
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) State holidays shall be the first day of January, the third Monday in January, the third Monday in February, the day designated in the "Act of June 28, 1968," 82 Stat. 250, 5 U.S.C. 6103, as amended, for the commemoration of Memorial day, the nineteenth day of June, the fourth day of July, the first Monday in September, the second Monday in October, the eleventh day of November, the fourth Thursday in November, the twenty-fifth day of December, and any day appointed and recommended by the governor of this state or the president of the United States. Employees shall be paid for these holidays as specified in section 124.18 of the Revised Code. (B) The board of trustees of a community college, technical college, state community college, or state university or college as defined in division (A)(1) of section 3345.12 of the Revised Code may, for all employees of the college or university, observe on days other than those specified in division (A) of this section any of the holidays otherwise observed on the third Monday in January, the third Monday in February, and the second Monday in October. Last updated August 4, 2021 at 10:51 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 135.705 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 135 / § 135.705
§ 135.705. State not liable to participant or savings institution
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The state and the treasurer of state are not liable to any eligible savings institution or any eligible participant in any manner for the terms associated with a linked deposit savings account. Any misuse or misconduct on the part of an eligible savings institution or eligible participant does not in any manner affect the deposit agreement required by section 135.703 of the Revised Code between the eligible savings institution and the treasurer of state. (B) If an eligible savings institution changes the terms of an eligible participant's linked deposit savings account, the amount of the linked deposit associated with the linked deposit savings account plus applicable interest and without early withdrawal penalties shall be returned to the treasurer of state by the eligible savings institution in a timely manner, as prescribed by the treasurer of state. Last updated September 11, 2023 at 4:30 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 135.51 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 135 / § 135.51
§ 135.51. Bank defaulting as public depository; retention and disposition of securities
Status: in_force

January 1, 2018 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly In case of any default on the part of a bank in its capacity as depository of the money of any county, municipal corporation, township, or school district, the board of county commissioners, the legislative authority of such municipal corporation, the board of township trustees, and the board of education of such school district, in lieu of immediately selling the securities received and held as security for the deposit of such money under authority of any section of the Revised Code, may retain the same, collect the interest and any installments of principal thereafter falling due on such securities, and refund, exchange, sell, or otherwise dispose of any of them, at such times and in such manner as such board of county commissioners, legislative authority, board of township trustees, or board of education determines to be advisable with a view to conserving the value of such securities for the benefit of such county, municipal corporation, township, or school district, and for the benefit of the depositors, creditors, and stockholders or other owners of such bank.
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.222 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.222
§ 145.222. Study to determine percentage of employee's compensation to be contributed by public institution of higher education
Status: in_force

April 6, 2017 House Bill 520 - 131st General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Compensation" means both of the following: (a) In the case of a public employees retirement system member, the member's earnable salary; (b) In the case of an electing employee, the amount that would be the electing employee's earnable salary if the electing employee was a member of the retirement system. (2) "Compensation ratio" means the ratio for the most recent full fiscal year for which the information is available of the total compensation of all electing employees to the sum of the total compensation of all the retirement system's members in the PERS defined benefit plan and the total compensation of all electing employees. (3) "Electing employee" means a participant in an alternative retirement plan provided pursuant to Chapter 3305. of the Revised Code who would otherwise be a member of the retirement system. (4) "Historical liability" means the portion of the retirement system's total unfunded actuarial accrued pension liability attributed to the difference between the following: (a) The cumulative contributions received under division (D) of section 3305.06 of the Revised Code on behalf of electing employees since the establishment of the alternative retirement plan; (b) The cumulative contributions toward the unfunded actuarial accrued liability of the retirement system that would have been made if the electing employees had been members of the retirement system in the PERS defined benefit plan. (B) The public employees retirement board shall contract with an independent actuary to complete an actuarial study to determine the percentage of an electing employee's compensation to be contributed by a public institution of higher education under division (D) of section 3305.06 of the Revised Code. The initial study must be completed and submitted by the board to the department of higher education not later than December 31, 2016. A subsequent study must be completed and submitted not later than the last day of December of every fifth year thereafter. (C) For the initial study required under this section, the actuary shall determine the percentage described in division (B) of this section as follows: (1) The actuary shall calculate a percentage necessary to amortize the historical liability over an indefinite period. (2) The actuary shall calculate a percentage necessary to amortize over a thirty-year period the amount resulting from multiplying the compensation ratio by the difference between the following: (a) The unfunded actuarial accrued pension liability of the PERS defined benefit plan; (b) The historical liability. (3) The percentage to be contributed under division (D) of section 3305.06 of the Revised Code shall be one-fourth of the sum of the percentages calculated under divisions (C)(1) and (2) of this section, not to exceed four and one-half per cent. (4) To make the calculations and determinations required under divisions (C)(1) and (2) of this section, the actuary shall use the most recent annual actuarial valuation under section 145.22 of the Revised Code that is available at the time the study is conducted. ( D) For any study conducted after the initial study required under this section, the actuary shall determine the percentage described in division (B) of this section as follows: (1) The actuary shall calculate a percentage necessary to amortize over a thirty-year period the amount resulting from multiplying the compensation ratio by the difference between the following: (a) The unfunded actuarial accrued pension liability of the PERS defined benefit plan under the annual actuarial valuation under section 145.22 of the Revised Code that is most recent at the time the study is conducted; (b) The historical liability determined under division (C) of this section. (2) The percentage to be contributed under division (D) of section 3305.06 of the Revised Code shall be one-fourth of the sum of the percentages calculated under divisions (C)(1) and (D) (1) of this section but not less than one-fourth of the percentage determined under division (C)(1) of this section, except that the percentage shall not exceed four and one-half per cent.
Ohio Rev. Code § 121.531 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 121 / § 121.531
§ 121.531. Signs specifying ARRA funding prohibited
Status: in_force

June 29, 2011 House Bill 114 - 129th General Assembly No recipient or distributor of funds received under the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009," Pub. L. No. 111-5, 123 Stat. 115, shall spend such funds to purchase, produce, erect, or maintain signs identifying the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as the source of specific project funding.
Ohio Rev. Code § 166.35 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 166 / § 166.35
§ 166.35. Economic development support fund
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly There is hereby created in the state treasury the economic development support fund. The fund shall consist of excess money received by the state representing gross profit on the sale of spirituous liquor that is credited or transferred to it. Money in the fund shall be used to carry out economic development activities.
Ohio Rev. Code § 163.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 163 / § 163.01
§ 163.01. Appropriation of property definitions
Status: in_force

October 10, 2007 Senate Bill 7 - 127th General Assembly As used in sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code: (A) "Public agency" means any governmental corporation, unit, organization, instrumentality, or officer authorized by law to appropriate property in the courts of this state. (B) "Private agency" means any corporation, firm, partnership, voluntary association, joint-stock association, or company that is not a public agency and that is authorized by law to appropriate property in the courts of this state. (C) "Agency" means any public agency or private agency. (D) "Court" means the court of common pleas or the probate court of any county in which the property sought to be appropriated is located in whole or in part. (E) "Owner" means any individual, partnership, association, or corporation having any estate, title, or interest in any real property sought to be appropriated. (F) "Real property," "land," or "property" includes any estate, title, or interest in any real property that is authorized to be appropriated by the agency in question, unless the context otherwise requires. (G) "Public utility" has the same meaning as in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code and also includes a public utility owned or operated by one or more municipal corporations, an electric cooperative, and an agency holding a certificate of public convenience and necessity granted by the federal energy regulatory commission. (H)(1) "Public use" does not include any taking that is for conveyance to a private commercial enterprise, economic development, or solely for the purpose of increasing public revenue, unless the property is conveyed or leased to one of the following: (a) A public utility, municipal power agency, or common carrier; (b) A private entity that occupies a port authority transportation facility or an incidental area within a publicly owned and occupied project; (c) A private entity when the agency that takes the property establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that the property is a blighted parcel or is included in a blighted area. (2) All of the following are presumed to be public uses: utility facilities, roads, sewers, water lines, public schools, public institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education that are authorized to appropriate property under section 3333.08 of the Revised Code, public parks, government buildings, port authority transportation facilities, projects by an agency that is a public utility, and similar facilities and uses of land. (I) "Electric cooperative" has the same meaning as in section 4928.01 of the Revised Code. (J) "Good faith offer" means the written offer that an agency that is appropriating property must make to the owner of the property pursuant to division (B) of section 163.04 of the Revised Code before commencing an appropriation proceeding. (K) "Goodwill" means the calculable benefits that accrue to a business as a result of its location, reputation for dependability, skill or quality, and any other circumstances that result in probable retention of old, or acquisition of new, patronage. (L) "Municipal power agency" has the same meaning as in section 3734.058 of the Revised Code. (M) "Port authority transportation facility" means any facility developed, controlled, or operated by a port authority for the purpose of providing passenger, cargo, or freight transportation services, such as airports, maritime ports, rail facilities, transit facilities, and support facilities directly related to any airport, maritime port, rail facility, or transit facility.
Ohio Rev. Code § 128.40 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 128 / § 128.40
§ 128.40. [Former R.C. 128.42, amended and renumbered by H.B. 33, 135th General Assembly, effective 10/3/2023] Wireless 9-1-1 charges ending January 1, 2024
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Ending January 1, 2024, there are hereby imposed the following wireless 9-1-1 charges: (1) On each wireless telephone number of a wireless service subscriber who has a billing address in this state, a charge of twenty-five cents per month. The subscriber shall pay the wireless 9-1-1 charge for each such wireless telephone number assigned to the subscriber. Each wireless service provider and each reseller shall collect the wireless 9-1-1 charge as a specific line item on each subscriber's monthly bill. The line item shall be expressly designated "State/Local Wireless-E911 Costs ($0.25/billed number)." If a provider bills a subscriber for any wireless enhanced 9-1-1 costs that the provider may incur, the charge or amount is not to appear in the same line item as the state/local line item. If the charge or amount is to appear in its own, separate line item on the bill, the charge or amount shall be expressly designated "[Name of Provider] Federal Wireless-E911 Costs." (2) On each retail sale of a prepaid wireless calling service occurring in this state, a wireless 9-1-1 charge of five-tenths of one per cent of the sale price. (B) For purposes of division (A)(2) of this section, a retail sale occurs in this state if it is effected by the consumer appearing in person at a seller's business location in this state, or if the sale is sourced to this state under division (E)(3) of section 5739.034 of the Revised Code, except that under that division, in lieu of sourcing a sale under division (C)(5) of section 5739.033 of the Revised Code, the seller, rather than the service provider, may elect to source the sale to the location associated with the mobile telephone number. (C)(1) Except as provided in division (D)(3) of this section, the seller of the prepaid wireless calling service shall collect the charge imposed under division (A) of this section from the consumer at the time of each retail sale and disclose the amount of the charge to the consumer at the time of the sale by itemizing the charge on the receipt, invoice, or similar form of written documentation provided to the consumer. (2) The seller that collects the charge imposed under division (A) of this section shall comply with the reporting and remittance requirements under section 128.46 of the Revised Code. (D) When a prepaid wireless calling service is sold with one or more other products or services for a single, nonitemized price, the wireless 9-1-1 charge imposed under division (A)(2) of this section shall apply to the entire nonitemized price, except as provided in divisions (D)(1) to (3) of this section. (1) If the amount of the prepaid wireless calling service is disclosed to the consumer as a dollar amount, the seller may elect to apply the charge only to that dollar amount. (2) If the seller can identify the portion of the nonitemized price that is attributable to the prepaid wireless calling service, by reasonable and verifiable standards from the seller's books and records that are kept in the regular course of business for other purposes, including nontax purposes, the seller may elect to apply the charge only to that portion. (3) If a minimal amount of a prepaid wireless calling service is sold with a prepaid wireless calling device for the single, nonitemized price, the seller may elect not to collect the charge. As used in this division, "minimal" means either ten minutes or less or five dollars or less. (E) The wireless 9-1-1 charges authorized under this section shall not be imposed on a subscriber of wireless lifeline service or a provider of that service. (F) The wireless 9-1-1 charges shall be exempt from state or local taxation. Last updated October 5, 2023 at 4:51 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.072 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.072
§ 122.072. Tourism fund
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly There is hereby created in the state treasury the tourism fund consisting of money credited or transferred to it and grants, gifts, and contributions made directly to it. Money in the fund shall be used to defray costs incurred by the office of TourismOhio in promoting this state. Last updated September 6, 2023 at 3:50 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.55 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.55
§ 109.55. Coordination of law enforcement work and crime prevention activities
Status: in_force

April 9, 1985 Senate Bill 321 - 115th General Assembly The superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation shall recommend cooperative policies for the coordination of the law enforcement work and crime prevention activities of all state and local agencies and officials having law enforcement duties to promote cooperation between such agencies and officials, to secure effective and efficient law enforcement, to eliminate duplication of work, and to promote economy of operation in such agencies. In formulating and recommending cooperative policies, the superintendent shall emphasize the provisions of section 2901.30 of the Revised Code. The superintendent shall develop procedures and forms to implement section 2901.30 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 105.93 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 105 / § 105.93
§ 105.93. Publication of reports and recommendations
Status: in_force

August 19, 1963 House Bill 205 - 105th General Assembly The Ohio judicial conference may publish reports and recommendations and at its election sell and distribute the same upon such terms and conditions as may be authorized by its executive committee.
Ohio Rev. Code § 173.121 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 173 / § 173.121
§ 173.121. Bingo games at multipurpose senior center
Status: in_force

June 11, 2012 House Bill 386 - 129th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "bingo," "bingo game operator," and "participant" have the same meanings as in section 2915.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Notwithstanding sections 2915.07 to 2915.13 of the Revised Code, a multipurpose senior center may conduct bingo games described in division (O)(1) of section 2915.01 of the Revised Code, but only if it complies with all of the following requirements: (1) All bingo games are conducted only on the premises of the facility. (2) All participants are twenty-one years of age or older. (3) All bingo game operators are sixty years of age or older and receive no compensation for serving as operators. (4) No participant is charged an admission fee, and no participant is charged more than twenty-five cents to purchase a bingo card or sheet. (5) All proceeds from games are used only for any of the following: (a) To pay winners monetary or nonmonetary prizes; (b) To provide refreshments; (c) To defray any costs directly related to conducting the games; (d) To defray costs of services the facility provides in accordance with section 173.12 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 103.412 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 103 / § 103.412
§ 103.412. [Former R.C. 103.414, amended and renumbered as R.C. 103.412 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Projection of medical inflation rate
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Before the beginning of each fiscal biennium, the legislative service commission shall contract with an actuary to determine the projected medical inflation rate for the upcoming fiscal biennium. The contract shall require the actuary to make the determination using the same types of classifications and sub-classifications of medical care that the United States bureau of labor statistics uses in determining the inflation rate for medical care in the consumer price index. The contract also shall require the actuary to provide the commission a report with its determination at least one hundred twenty days before the governor is required to submit a state budget for the fiscal biennium to the general assembly under section 107.03 of the Revised Code. (B) On receipt of the actuary's report, the commission shall share the report with the standing committees overseeing the medicaid program under section 103.41 of the Revised Code. The standing committees, acting jointly, shall determine whether they agree with the actuary's projected medical inflation rate. If they disagree with the actuary's projected medical inflation rate, the standing committees shall work with the commission to determine a different projected medical inflation rate for the upcoming fiscal biennium. The actuary, the commission, and standing committees shall determine the projected medical inflation rate for the state unless that is not practicable in which case the determination shall be made for the midwest region. (C) At least ninety days before the governor is required to submit a state budget for the upcoming fiscal biennium to the general assembly under section 107.03 of the Revised Code, the commission shall submit a report to the governor, medicaid director, and the standing committees that includes the following information: (1) The projected medical inflation rate, whether the standing committees recommend the actuary's rate or the alternate rate recommended by the standing committees; (2) If the standing committees recommend an alternate rate, an explanation for rejecting the actuary's rate; (3) A copy of the actuary's report. Last updated September 30, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 153.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 153 / § 153.07
§ 153.07. Publishing notice of bids
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The notice provided for in section 153.06 of the Revised Code shall be published by electronic means, and may be published in other news media in the county where the activity for which bids are submitted is to occur. The notice shall invite interested parties to submit proposals for consideration and shall be published at least fourteen days preceding the day for opening the bids, in a manner as prescribed by the commission. Copies of the plans, details, estimates of cost, and specifications shall be available electronically and open to public inspection at all business hours between the day of the first publication and the day for opening the bids, at the office of the commission where the bids are received, and such other place as may be designated in such notice. Last updated July 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 125.091 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 125 / § 125.091
§ 125.091. Definitions for R.C. 125.091 to 125.093
Status: in_force

May 31, 2010 Senate Bill 131 - 128th General Assembly As used in this section and sections 125.092 and 125.093 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agricultural materials" means agricultural-based materials or residues, including plant, animal, and marine materials or residues, used in the manufacture of commercial or industrial nonfood products. (B) "Biobased product" means a product determined by the United States secretary of agriculture to be a commercial or industrial product, other than food or feed, that is composed, in whole or significant part, of biological products, renewable domestic agricultural materials, or forestry material, or is an intermediate ingredient or feedstock. (C) "Biological products" means products derived from living materials other than agricultural or forestry materials. (D) "Designated item" means a generic grouping of biobased products identified in subpart B, 7 C.F.R. 2902.10 to 2902.42. (E) "Forest thinnings" means woody materials removed from a dense forest to improve growth, enhance forest health, or remove trees to recover potential mortality. (F) "Forestry materials" means materials derived from the practice of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber where such materials come from short-rotation woody crops that are less than ten years old, sustainably managed forests, wood residues, or forest thinnings. (G) "Intermediate ingredient or feedstock" means a material or compound made, in whole or in significant part, from biological products, renewable agricultural materials, or forestry materials that are subsequently used to make a more complex compound or product. (H) "Sustainably managed forests" means the practice of land stewardship that integrates the reforestation, management, growing, nurturing, and harvesting of trees for useful products while conserving soil and improving air and water quality, wildlife, fish habitat, and aesthetics. Last updated December 14, 2021 at 12:23 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 135.39 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 135 / § 135.39
§ 135.39. Exemption of county officials from liability
Status: in_force

March 15, 1982 House Bill 230 - 114th General Assembly A county treasurer, county deputy treasurer, or members of a board of county commissioners, when acting as investing authorities, and their bondsmen or sureties shall be relieved from any liability for the loss of any public moneys deposited or invested by them when they have acted pursuant to law or an ordinance or resolution adopted by a county pursuant to a charter adopted under Article X, Ohio Constitution, but in no event shall liability attach to a treasurer, deputy treasurer, or member of a board where the proximate cause of the loss is due to a risk arising from an investment reasonably made under their authority as investing authorities.
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.385 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.385
§ 124.385. Disability leave benefits
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) An employee is eligible for disability leave benefits under this section if the employee has completed one year of continuous state service immediately prior to the date of the disability and if any of the following applies: (1) The employee is a full-time permanent employee and is eligible for sick leave credit pursuant to division (B) of section 124.382 of the Revised Code or is entitled to disability benefits under a collective bargaining agreement. (2) The employee is a part-time permanent employee who has worked at least fifteen hundred hours within the twelve-month period immediately preceding the date of disability and is eligible for sick leave credit under division (B) of section 124.382 of the Revised Code. (3) The employee is a full-time permanent or part-time permanent employee, is on disability leave or leave of absence for medical reasons, and would be eligible for sick leave credit pursuant to division (B) of section 124.382 of the Revised Code except that the employee is in no pay status due to the employee's medical condition. (B) The director of administrative services shall adopt a rule to establish a disability leave program. The rule shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following: (1) Procedures to be followed for determining disability; (2) Provisions for the allowance of disability leave due to illness or injury; (3) Provisions for the continuation of service credit for employees granted disability leave, including service credit towards retirement, as provided by the applicable statute; (4) The establishment of a minimum level of benefit and of a waiting period before benefits begin; (5) Provisions setting a maximum length of benefit and requiring that employees eligible to apply for disability retirement shall do so prior to completing the first six months of their period of disability. The director's rules shall indicate those employees required to apply for disability retirement. If an employee is approved to receive disability retirement, the employee shall receive the retirement benefit and a supplement payment that equals a percentage of the employee's base rate of pay and that, when added to the retirement benefit, equals no more than the percentage of pay received by employees after the first six months of disability. This supplemental payment shall not be considered earnable salary, compensation, or salary, and is not subject to contributions, under Chapter 145., 742., 3307., 3309., or 5505. of the Revised Code. (6) Provisions that allow employees to utilize available sick leave, personal leave, compensatory time, or vacation leave balances to supplement the benefits payable under this section. The balances used to supplement the benefits, plus any amount contributed by the state, shall be paid at the employee's base rate of pay in an amount sufficient to give employees up to one hundred per cent of pay for time on disability. (7) Procedures for appealing denial of payment of a claim; (8) Provisions for precluding the payment of benefits if the injury for which the benefits are sought is covered by a workers' compensation plan. (C) The adjudication hearing requirements prescribed in Chapter 119. of the Revised Code do not apply to the procedures for appealing denial of payment of a claim that the director adopts by rule under division (B)(7) of this section. (D) While an employee is on an approved disability leave, the employee shall be responsible for paying the employee's share of retirement contributions and the employer's share shall be paid by the state. (E) If a request for disability leave is denied based on a medical determination, the director shall obtain a medical opinion from a third party. The decision of the third party is binding. (F) The rule adopted by the director under division (B) of this section shall not deny disability leave benefits for an illness or injury to an employee who is a veteran of the United States armed forces because the employee contracted the illness or received the injury in the course of or as a result of military service and the illness or injury is or may be covered by a compensation plan administered by the United States department of veterans affairs. Last updated July 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 148.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 148 / § 148.04
§ 148.04. Program for deferral of compensation
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The public employees retirement board shall initiate, plan, expedite, and, subject to an appropriate assurance of the approval of the internal revenue service, promulgate and offer to all eligible employees, and thereafter administer on behalf of all participating employees and continuing members, and alter as required, a program for deferral of compensation, including a reasonable number of options to the employee for the investment of deferred funds, always in such form as will assure the desired tax treatment of such funds. The members of the board are the trustees of any deferred funds and shall discharge their duties with respect to the funds solely in the interest of and for the exclusive benefit of participating employees, continuing members, and their beneficiaries. With respect to such deferred funds, section 148.09 of the Revised Code shall apply to claims against participating employees or continuing members and their employers. (B) Every employer of an eligible employee shall enroll the employee in a deferred compensation program offered by the board on the employee's application to participate, on the employee's election under section 148.041 of the Revised Code, or by automatic enrollment under section 148.042 of the Revised Code. (C) The board shall take all actions necessary to ensure that the program qualifies as an eligible deferred compensation plan under section 457(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 26 U.S.C. 457. The board shall, subject to any applicable provisions of the Ohio public employees deferred compensation program plan, undertake to obtain as favorable conditions of tax treatment as possible, both in the initial programs and any permitted alterations of them or additions to them, as to such matters as terms of distribution, designation of beneficiaries, withdrawal upon disability, financial hardship, or termination of public employment, and other optional provisions. The board may establish a designated Roth account feature or any other feature in which an employee may make tax-deferred or nontax-deferred contributions to an eligible government plan in accordance with 26 U.S.C. 457, as amended. (D) In no event shall the total of the amount of deferred compensation to be set aside under a deferred compensation program and the employee's nondeferred income for any year exceed the total annual salary or compensation under the existing salary schedule or classification plan applicable to the employee in that year. Such a deferred compensation program shall be in addition to any retirement or any other benefit program provided by law for employees of this state. The board shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to provide any necessary standards or conditions for the administration of its programs, including any limits on the portion of a participating employee's compensation that may be deferred in order to avoid adverse treatment of the program by the internal revenue service or the occurrence of deferral, withholding, or other deductions in excess of the compensation available for any pay period. Both of the following apply to a deferred compensation program established under this section: (1) Any income deferred under the program shall continue to be included as regular compensation for the purpose of computing the contributions to and benefits from the retirement system of an employee; (2) Any sums deferred shall not be included in the computation of any federal and state income taxes withheld on behalf of an employee. Sums contributed to a Roth account feature or other feature to which nontax-deferred contributions are made shall be included in the computation of any federal and state income taxes withheld on behalf of an employee. (E) This section does not limit the authority of any municipal corporation, county, township, park district, conservancy district, sanitary district, health district, public library, county law library, public institution of higher education, or school district to provide separate authorized plans or programs for deferring compensation of their officers and employees in addition to the program for the deferral of compensation offered by the board. Any municipal corporation, township, public institution of higher education, or school district that offers such plans or programs shall include a reasonable number of options to its officers or employees for the investment of the deferred funds, including annuities, variable annuities, regulated investment trusts, or other forms of investment approved by the municipal corporation, township, public institution of higher education, or school district, that will assure the desired tax treatment of the funds. Last updated July 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 117.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 117 / § 117.17
§ 117.17. Letter of representation by retiring head of state agency
Status: in_force

July 1, 1985 House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly Before the head of a state agency leaves office, he shall prepare, in the form prescribed by the auditor of state, a letter of representation for his successor in office. The letter shall contain an inventory of all properties, supplies, furniture, credits, and moneys, and any other thing belonging to the state, which it is the duty of such official to turn over to his successor in office or pay into the state treasury. One copy of the letter shall be delivered to the official, one copy to his successor in office, one copy to the governor, one copy to the auditor of state, and one copy to the attorney general.
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.26
§ 145.26. Treasurer of state custodian of funds
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 628 - 123rd General Assembly The treasurer of state shall be the custodian of the funds of the public employees retirement system, and all disbursements therefrom shall be paid by the treasurer of state only upon instruments authorized by the public employees retirement board and bearing the signatures of the board; provided, that such instruments may bear the names of the board members printed thereon and the signatures of the chairperson, or of the vice-chairperson in case of the absence or disability of the chairperson, and of the executive director of the board. The signatures of the chairperson and of the executive director may be affixed through the use of a mechanical check-signing device. The treasurer of state shall give a separate and additional bond in such amount as is fixed by the governor and with sureties selected by the board and approved by the governor, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of the treasurer of state as custodian of the funds of the system. Such bond shall be deposited with the secretary of state and kept in the office. The governor may require the treasurer of state to give other and additional bonds, as the funds of the system increase, in such amounts and at such times as may be fixed by the governor, which additional bonds shall be conditioned, filed, and obtained as is provided for the original bond of the treasurer of state covering the funds of the system. The premium on all bonds shall be paid by the board. The treasurer of state shall deposit any portion of the funds of the system not needed for immediate use in the same manner as state funds are deposited, and subject to all laws with respect to the deposit of state funds, by the treasurer of state, and all interest earned by such portion of the retirement funds as is deposited by the treasurer of state shall be collected by the treasurer of state and placed to the credit of the board. The treasurer of state shall furnish annually to the board a sworn statement of the amount of the funds in the treasurer of state's custody belonging to the system.
Ohio Rev. Code § 171.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 171 / § 171.04
§ 171.04. Duties of council
Status: in_force

March 23, 2015 Senate Bill 42 - 130th General Assembly The Ohio retirement study council shall: (A) Make an impartial review from time to time of all laws governing the administration and financing of the pension and retirement funds under Chapters 145., 146., 742., 3307., 3309., and 5505. of the Revised Code and recommend to the general assembly any changes it may find desirable with respect to the allowances and benefits, sound financing of the cost of benefits, the prudent investment of funds, and the improvement of the language, structure, and organization of the laws; (B) Make an annual report to the governor and to the general assembly covering its evaluation and recommendations with respect to the operations of the state retirement systems and their funds; (C) Study all changes in the retirement laws proposed to the general assembly and report to the general assembly on their probable costs, actuarial implications, and desirability as a matter of public policy; (D) Review semiannually the policies, objectives, and criteria adopted under sections 145.11 , 742.11 , 3307.15 , 3309.15 , and 5505.06 of the Revised Code for the operation of the investment programs of the state retirement systems, including a review of asset allocation targets and ranges, risk factors, asset class benchmarks, time horizons, total return objectives, relative volatility, and performance evaluation guidelines. The council shall, not later than thirty days after completing a review, submit to the governor and the general assembly a report summarizing its findings. (E) Have prepared for each system by an independent actuary, at least once every ten years, an actuarial review of the actuarial valuations and quinquennial actuarial investigations prepared under sections 145.22 , 742.14 , 3307.20 , 3309.21 , and 5505.12 of the Revised Code, including a review of the actuarial assumptions and methods, the data underlying the valuations and investigations, and the adequacy of each system's employee and employer contribution rates to amortize its unfunded actuarial pension liability, if any, and to support the payment of benefits authorized by Chapter 145., 742., 3307., 3309., or 5505. of the Revised Code. The council shall submit to the governor and the general assembly a report summarizing each review. All costs associated with an actuarial review prepared pursuant to division (E) of this section shall be paid by the retirement system for which the review is prepared. (F) Have conducted by an independent auditor at least once every ten years a fiduciary performance audit of each of the state retirement systems. All costs associated with an audit conducted pursuant to division (F) of this section shall be paid by the retirement system audited. (G) Provide each member of the council with copies of all proposed rules submitted to the council pursuant to sections 145.09 , 742.10 , 3307.04 , 3309.04 , and 5505.04 of the Revised Code and submit any recommendations to the joint committee on agency rule review.
Ohio Rev. Code § 154.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 154 / § 154.05
§ 154.05. Annual report
Status: in_force

September 14, 2000 House Bill 640 - 123rd General Assembly (A) The issuing authority shall annually make a full and detailed report of its proceedings to the governor and to the general assembly, to include the following: (1) The principal amount of obligations issued and sold during the annual period under authority of Chapter 154. of the Revised Code, the purposes for which they were issued, their dates, the dates and amounts of payment of principal and interest, and the interest rates on such issues; (2) The total amount of obligations outstanding at the end of the annual period and the amount authorized but not issued; (3) The amount of obligations which were retired during the annual period, the sources from which moneys were derived for that purpose, the amount of anticipatory notes retired by issuance of bonds, and the amount of notes retired by issuance of renewal notes; (4) The amounts of money, dates upon which it must be made available, and proposed sources of payment, in order to make payments during the next annual period of bond service charges on the obligations outstanding at the end of the annual period; (5) The amounts credited to the several bond service funds created in connection with the obligations during the annual period and the balances in those funds at the end of the annual period, the amount, if any, in those funds that is restricted to payment of bond service charges on specified issues of notes or bonds, and the specified issues of notes or bonds with respect to which such amount is so restricted; (6) A description of such other transactions and proceedings as may be necessary in order to provide a full and detailed report of the activities of the issuing authority in connection with obligations authorized under Chapter 154. of the Revised Code. (B) The reports required by this section shall each be for annual periods ending on the thirtieth day of June of each year, and shall be submitted to the governor and the general assembly no later than ninety days after the end of each annual period.
Ohio Rev. Code § 128.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 128 / § 128.06
§ 128.06. County 9-1-1 program review committee; final plan for countywide system
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, every county shall maintain a county 9-1-1 program review committee, which shall serve without compensation and shall consist of six voting members as follows: (1) A member of the board of county commissioners, or a designee, who shall serve as chairperson of the committee; (2) The chief executive officer of the most populous municipal corporation in the county; (3) A member of the board of township trustees of the most populous township in the county as selected by majority vote of the board of trustees; (4) A member of a board of township trustees selected by the majority of boards of township trustees in the county pursuant to resolutions they adopt; (5) A member of the legislative authority of a municipal corporation in the county selected by the majority of the legislative authorities of municipal corporations in the county pursuant to resolutions they adopt; (6) An elected official from within the county appointed by the board of county commissioners. When determining population under division (A)(2) of this section, population residing outside the county shall be excluded. (B) In counties with fewer than five townships, a population in excess of seven hundred fifty thousand, and which contains more than one public safety answering point, the composition of the 9-1-1 program review committee shall consist of five members as follows: (1) A member of the board of county commissioners, or a designee, who shall serve as chairperson of the committee; (2) The chief executive officer of the most populous municipal corporation in the county. Population residing outside the county shall be excluded when making this determination. (3) A member from one of the following, whichever is more populous: (a) The chief executive officer of the second most populous municipal corporation in the county; (b) A member of the board of township trustees of the most populous township in the county as selected by majority vote of the board of trustees. (4) The chief executive officer of a municipal corporation in the county selected by the majority of the legislative authorities of municipal corporations in the county pursuant to resolutions they adopt; (5) A member of a board of township trustees selected by the majority of boards of township trustees in the county pursuant to resolutions they adopt. (C) In counties that contain only one public safety answering point, the composition of the 9-1-1 review committee shall consist of three members as follows: (1) If the public safety answering point is not operated by the board of county commissioners, the committee shall be composed of the following: (a) A member of the board of county commissioners, or the member's designee, who shall serve as chairperson of the committee; (b) One of the following: (i) If the public safety answering point is operated by a township, then a member of the board of township trustees; (ii) If the public safety answering point is operated by a municipal corporation, then the chief executive officer of the municipal corporation; (iii) If the public safety answering point is operated by a subdivision that is not a township or municipal corporation or is operated by a regional council of governments, then an elected official of that subdivision or regional council of governments. (c) A member who is an elected official of the most populous township or municipal corporation in the county that does not operate the public safety answering point. When determining population under this division, population residing outside the county shall be excluded. (2) If the public safety answering point is operated by the board of county commissioners, then the board of county commissioners shall serve as the 9-1-1 program review committee. (D) Each committee shall maintain and amend a final plan for implementing and operating a countywide 9-1-1 system. Any amendment to the final plan shall require a two-thirds vote of the committee. Each committee shall convene at least once annually for the purposes of maintaining or amending a final plan described in this section. (E) Each committee shall, not later than the first day of March of each year, submit a report to the political subdivisions within the county and to the 9-1-1 program office detailing the sources and amounts of revenue expended to support and all costs incurred to operate the countywide 9-1-1 system and the public safety answering points that are a part of that system for the previous calendar year. A county shall provide the county's committee with any clerical, legal, and other staff assistance necessary. Last updated September 18, 2023 at 5:21 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 106.032 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 106 / § 106.032
§ 106.032. Authority of chairperson to submit rule for review
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly If the chairperson of the joint committee on agency rule review responsible for calling and conducting meetings under section 101.35 of the Revised Code becomes aware that an existing rule has had or is having an unintended or unexpected effect on businesses that is not reasonably within the express or implied scope of the statute under which the existing rule purportedly was adopted, that chairperson may move that the joint committee order the agency that is administering the existing rule to submit the existing rule for review under section 106.031 of the Revised Code, the same as if the agency had made a determination with regard to the existing rule under division (B)(2) of section 106.03 of the Revised Code. The joint committee may adopt the motion by vote of a majority of its members. The joint committee shall not adopt a motion under this paragraph for a rule if the joint committee previously has adopted a motion under this paragraph for the same rule within the immediately preceding five-year period. The joint committee shall prepare the order in writing, and shall transmit the order electronically to the agency. The joint committee also shall transmit a copy of the order electronically to the director of the legislative service commission and to the common sense initiative office. The joint committee shall indicate in the order the date on which the order is transmitted. The director shall publish the order in the register of Ohio. Upon receiving the order, the agency shall comply with the order as soon as reasonably possible, but shall commence compliance with the order not later than thirty days after the date on which the order was transmitted. When an agency complies with the order, proceedings are to be had with regard to the existing rule under section 106.031 of the Revised Code, the same as if the agency had made a determination with regard to the existing rule under division (B)(2) of section 106.03 of the Revised Code. In addition to the standards of review stated in division (E) of section 106.031 of the Revised Code, the joint committee may recommend to the senate and house of representatives the adoption of a concurrent resolution invalidating the existing rule if the joint committee finds that the existing rule has an unintended or unexpected effect on businesses that is not reasonably within the express or implied scope of the statute under which the agency purportedly adopted the existing rule. Last updated September 20, 2023 at 11:11 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.921 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.921
§ 122.921. [Former R.C. 123.151, amended and renumbered by H.B. 110, 134th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2021] Rules for certification as minority business enterprises; state agency, port authority reports
Status: in_force

June 1, 2022 Senate Bill 105 - 134th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "minority business enterprise" has the same meaning as in division (E)(1) of section 122.71 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) The director of development shall make rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing procedures by which minority businesses may apply to the department of development for certification as minority business enterprises. (2) The director shall approve the application of any minority business enterprise that complies with the rules adopted under this division. Any person adversely affected by an order of the director denying certification as a minority business enterprise may appeal as provided in Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The director shall prepare and maintain a list of certified minority business enterprises. (C) Every state agency authorized to enter into contracts for construction or contracts for purchases of equipment, materials, supplies, insurance, or services, and every port authority shall file a report every ninety days with the department of development. The report shall be filed at a time and in a form prescribed by the director of development. The report shall include the name of each minority business enterprise that the state agency or port authority entered into a contract with during the preceding ninety-day period and the total value and type of each such contract. No later than thirty days after the end of each fiscal year, the director shall notify in writing each state agency and port authority that has not complied with the reporting requirements of this division for the prior fiscal year. A copy of this notification regarding a state agency shall be submitted to the director of budget and management. No later than thirty days after the notification, the state agency or port authority shall submit to the director the information necessary to comply with the reporting requirements of this division. If, after the expiration of this thirty-day period, a state agency has not complied with the reporting requirements of this division, the director of development shall certify to the director of budget and management that the state agency has not complied with the reporting requirements. A copy of this certification shall be submitted to the state agency. Thereafter, no funds of the state agency shall be expended during the fiscal year for construction or purchases of equipment, materials, supplies, contracts of insurance, or services until the director of development certifies to the director of budget and management that the state agency has complied with the reporting requirements of this division for the prior fiscal year. If any port authority has not complied with the reporting requirement after the expiration of the thirty-day period, the director of development shall certify to the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate that the port authority has not complied with the reporting requirements of this division. A copy of this certification shall be submitted to the port authority. Upon receipt of the certification, the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate shall take such action or make such recommendations to the members of the general assembly as they consider necessary to correct the situation. (D)(1) Any person who has been certified as a minority business enterprise under this section may present the person's certification to a political subdivision as evidence that that person is eligible to participate in any public initiatives or strategies that the political subdivision has established to increase minority participation, representation, or inclusion in business opportunities, and in any programs the political subdivision may have that set aside a certain amount of public contracts to award to any of the economically disadvantaged groups listed in division (E)(1) of section 122.71 of the Revised Code. (2) When considering this evidence, a political subdivision shall defer to the department's determination that the person is both of the following: (a) A member of the economically disadvantaged group indicated on the certification; (b) An owner of at least fifty-one per cent of the business, including corporate stock if a corporation, and has control over the management and day-to-day operations of the business and an interest in the capital, assets, and profits and losses of the business proportionate to the person's percentage of ownership. Last updated March 9, 2022 at 12:15 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 121.37 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 121 / § 121.37
§ 121.37. Ohio family and children first cabinet council
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A)(1) There is hereby created the Ohio family and children first cabinet council. The council shall be composed of the director of education and workforce, the executive director of the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency, the medicaid director, and the directors of youth services, job and family services, behavioral health, health, developmental disabilities, aging, rehabilitation and correction, children and youth, and budget and management. The chairperson of the council shall be the governor or the governor's designee and shall establish procedures for the council's internal control and management. The purpose of the cabinet council is to help families seeking government services. This section shall not be interpreted or applied to usurp the role of parents, but solely to streamline and coordinate existing government services for families seeking assistance for their children. (2) In seeking to fulfill its purpose, the council may do any of the following: (a) Advise and make recommendations to the governor and general assembly regarding the provision of services to children; (b) Advise and assess local governments on the coordination of service delivery to children; (c) Hold meetings at such times and places as may be prescribed by the council's procedures and maintain records of the meetings, except that records identifying individual children are confidential and shall be disclosed only as provided by law; (d) Develop programs and projects, including pilot projects, to encourage coordinated efforts at the state and local level to improve the state's social service delivery system; (e) Enter into contracts with and administer grants to county family and children first councils, as well as other county or multicounty organizations to plan and coordinate service delivery between state agencies and local service providers for families and children; (f) Enter into contracts with and apply for grants from federal agencies or private organizations; (g) Enter into interagency agreements to encourage coordinated efforts at the state and local level to improve the state's social service delivery system. The agreements may include provisions regarding the receipt, transfer, and expenditure of funds; (h) Identify public and private funding sources for services provided to alleged or adjudicated unruly children and children who are at risk of being alleged or adjudicated unruly children, including regulations governing access to and use of the services; (i) Collect information provided by local communities regarding successful programs for prevention, intervention, and treatment of unruly behavior, including evaluations of the programs; (j) Identify and disseminate publications regarding alleged or adjudicated unruly children and children who are at risk of being alleged or adjudicated unruly children and regarding programs serving those types of children; (k) Maintain an inventory of strategic planning facilitators for use by government or nonprofit entities that serve alleged or adjudicated unruly children or children who are at risk of being alleged or adjudicated unruly children. (3) The cabinet council shall provide for the following: (a) Reviews of service and treatment plans for children for which such reviews are requested; (b) Assistance as the council determines to be necessary to meet the needs of children referred by county family and children first councils; (c) Monitoring and supervision of a statewide, comprehensive, coordinated, multi-disciplinary, interagency system for infants and toddlers with developmental disabilities or delays and their families, as established pursuant to federal grants received and administered by the department of children and youth for early intervention services under the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004," 118 Stat. 2744, 20 U.S.C.A. 1400, as amended; (d) Establishing and maintaining the Ohio automated service coordination system pursuant to section 121.376 of the Revised Code. (4) The cabinet council shall develop and implement the following: (a) An interagency process to select the indicators that will be used to measure progress toward increasing child well-being in the state and to update the indicators on an annual basis. (b) An interagency system to offer guidance and monitor progress toward increasing child well-being in the state and in each county; (c) An annual plan that identifies state-level agency efforts taken to ensure progress towards increasing child well-being in the state; (d) A state appeals process to resolve disputes among the members of a county council, established under division (B) of this section, concerning whether reasonable responsibilities are being shared. The appeals process may be accessed only by a majority vote of the council members who are required to serve on the council. Upon appeal, the cabinet council may order that state funds for services to children and families be redirected to a county's board of county commissioners. (5) On an annual basis, the cabinet council shall submit to the governor and the general assembly a report on the status of efforts to increase child well-being in the state. This report shall be made available to any other person on request. (6) The cabinet council state office may adopt rules governing the responsibilities of county family and children first councils established in division (B)(5) of this section. (B)(1) Except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section, each board of county commissioners shall establish a county family and children first council. The board may invite any local public or private agency or group that funds, advocates, or provides services to children and families to have a representative become a permanent or temporary member of its county council. Each county council must include the following individuals: (a) At least three individuals whose families are receiving or have received services from an agency represented on the council or another county's council. If such an individual is employed by an agency represented on the council, the individual shall complete a conflict of interest disclosure form and abstain from any vote that involves the agency that employs the individual. Where possible, the number of members representing families may be equal to twenty per cent of the council's membership. (b) The director of the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services that serves the county, or, in the case of a county that has a board of alcohol and drug addiction services and a community mental health board, the directors of both boards. If a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services covers more than one county, the director may designate a person to participate on the county's council. (c) The health commissioner, or the commissioner's designee, of the board of health of each city and general health district in the county. If the county has two or more health districts, the health commissioner membership may be limited to the commissioners of the two districts with the largest populations. (d) The director of the county department of job and family services; (e) The executive director of the public children services agency; (f) The superintendent of the county board of developmental disabilities or, if the superintendent serves as superintendent of more than one county board of developmental disabilities, the superintendent's designee; (g) The superintendent of the city, exempted village, or local school district with the largest number of pupils residing in the county, or a district-level administrative designee with decision-making authority, as determined by the department of education and workforce, which shall notify each board of county commissioners of its determination at least biennially; (h) A school superintendent representing all other school districts with territory in the county, or a district-level administrative designee with decision-making authority, as designated at a biennial meeting of the superintendents of those districts; (i) A representative of the municipal corporation with the largest population in the county; (j) The president of the board of county commissioners or an individual designated by the board; (k) A representative of the department of youth services or an individual designated by the department; (l) A representative of the county's head start agencies, as defined in section 3301.32 of the Revised Code; (m) A representative of the county's early intervention collaborative established pursuant to the federal early intervention program operated under the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004"; (n) A representative of a local nonprofit entity that funds, advocates, or provides services to children and families. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the public members of a county council are not prohibited from serving on the council and making decisions regarding the duties of the council, including those involving the funding of joint projects and those outlined in the county's service coordination mechanism implemented pursuant to division (C) of this section. The county's juvenile court judge senior in service or another judge of the juvenile court designated by the administrative judge or, where there is no administrative judge, by the judge senior in service shall serve as the judicial advisor to the county family and children first council. The judge may advise the county council on the court's utilization of resources, services, or programs provided by the entities represented by the members of the county council and how those resources, services, or programs assist the court in its administration of justice. Service of a judge as a judicial advisor pursuant to this section is a judicial function. (2) By passing a resolution, a board of county commissioners may decide not to establish or maintain a county family and children first council for the county if the board determines that all of the following conditions exist: (a) Alternative programs and services exist in the county to meet the needs of those served by a family and children first council. (b) A family and children first council for the county is not or would not be sufficiently funded to make the council financially sustainable. (c) The director of the county department of job and family services, executive director of the public children services agency, and county board of developmental disabilities each recommend to the board of county commissioners not to establish or maintain a county family and children first council. (3) A county's board of county commissioners that has decided to not establish or maintain a county family and children first council may reconsider the decision at any time but shall do so not later than five years after the date the resolution passed. In reconsidering the decision, the board of county commissioners shall determine whether all the conditions described in division (B)(2) of this section exist. (4) The purpose of the county council is to streamline and coordinate existing government services for families seeking services for their children. In seeking to fulfill its purpose, a county council shall provide for the following: (a) Referrals to the cabinet council of those children for whom the county council cannot provide adequate services; (b) Development and implementation of a process that annually evaluates and prioritizes services, fills service gaps where possible, and invents new approaches to achieve better results for families and children; (c) Participation in the development of a countywide, comprehensive, coordinated, multi-disciplinary, interagency system for infants and toddlers with developmental disabilities or delays and their families, as established pursuant to federal grants received and administered by the department of children and youth for early intervention services under the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004"; (d) Maintenance of an accountability system to monitor the county council's progress in achieving results for families and children; (e) Establishment of a mechanism to ensure ongoing input from a broad representation of families who are receiving services within the county system. (5) A county council shall develop and implement the following: (a) An interagency process to establish local indicators and monitor the county's progress toward increasing child well-being in the county; (b) An interagency process to identify local priorities to increase child well-being. (c) An annual plan that identifies the county's interagency efforts to increase child well-being in the county. On an annual basis, the county council shall submit a report on the status of efforts by the county to increase child well-being in the county to the county's board of county commissioners and the cabinet council. This report shall be made available to any other person on request. (6)(a) Except as provided in division (B)(6)(b) of this section, a county council shall comply with the policies, procedures, and activities prescribed by the rules or interagency agreements of a state department participating on the cabinet council whenever the county council performs a function subject to those rules or agreements. (b) On application of a county council, the cabinet council may grant an exemption from any rules or interagency agreements of a state department participating on the council if an exemption is necessary for the council to implement an alternative program or approach for service delivery to families and children. The application shall describe the proposed program or approach and specify the rules or interagency agreements from which an exemption is necessary. The cabinet council shall approve or disapprove the application in accordance with standards and procedures it shall adopt. If an application is approved, the exemption is effective only while the program or approach is being implemented, including a reasonable period during which the program or approach is being evaluated for effectiveness. (7)(a) Each county council shall designate an administrative agent for the council from among the following public entities: the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, including a board of alcohol and drug addiction or a community mental health board if the county is served by separate boards; the board of county commissioners; any board of health of the county's city and general health districts; the county department of job and family services; the county agency responsible for the administration of children services pursuant to section 5153.15 of the Revised Code; the county board of developmental disabilities; any of the county's boards of education or governing boards of educational service centers; or the county's juvenile court. Any of the foregoing public entities, other than the board of county commissioners, may decline to serve as the council's administrative agent. A county council's administrative agent shall serve as the council's appointing authority for any employees of the council. The council shall file an annual budget with its administrative agent, with copies filed with the county auditor and with the board of county commissioners, unless the board is serving as the council's administrative agent. The council's administrative agent shall ensure that all expenditures are handled in accordance with policies, procedures, and activities prescribed by state departments in rules, grant agreements, or interagency agreements that are applicable to the council's functions. The administrative agent of a county council may send notice of a member's absence if a member listed in division (B)(1) of this section has been absent from either three consecutive meetings of the county council or a county council subcommittee, or from one-quarter of such meetings in a calendar year, whichever is less. The notice shall be sent to the board of county commissioners that establishes the county council and, for the members listed in divisions (B)(1)(b), (c), (e), and (l) of this section, to the governing board overseeing the respective entity; for the member listed in division (B)(1)(f) of this section, to the county board of developmental disabilities that employs the superintendent; for a member listed in division (B)(1)(g) or (h) of this section, to the school board that employs the superintendent; for the member listed in division (B)(1)(i) of this section, to the mayor of the municipal corporation; for the member listed in division (B)(1)(k) of this section, to the director of youth services; and for the member listed in division (B)(1)(n) of this section, to that member's board of trustees. The administrative agent for a county council may do any of the following on behalf of the council: (i) Enter into agreements or administer contracts with public or private entities to fulfill specific council business. Such agreements and contracts are exempt from the competitive bidding requirements of section 307.86 of the Revised Code if they have been approved by the county council and they are for the purchase of services for families and children. The approval of the county council is not required to exempt agreements or contracts entered into under section 5139.34 , 5139.41 , or 5139.43 of the Revised Code from the competitive bidding requirements of section 307.86 of the Revised Code. (ii) As determined by the council, provide financial stipends, reimbursements, or both, to family representatives for expenses related to council activity; (iii) Receive by gift, grant, devise, or bequest any moneys, lands, or other property for the purposes for which the council is established. The agent shall hold, apply, and dispose of the moneys, lands, or other property according to the terms of the gift, grant, devise, or bequest. Any interest or earnings shall be treated in the same manner and are subject to the same terms as the gift, grant, devise, or bequest from which it accrues. (b)(i) If the county council designates the board of county commissioners as its administrative agent, the board may, by resolution, delegate any of its powers and duties as administrative agent to an executive committee the board establishes from the membership of the county council. The board shall name to the executive committee at least the individuals described in divisions (B)(1)(b) to (h) of this section and may appoint the president of the board or another individual as the chair of the executive committee. The executive committee must include at least one family county council representative who does not have a family member employed by an agency represented on the council. (ii) The executive committee may, with the approval of the board, hire an executive director to assist the county council in administering its powers and duties. The executive director shall serve in the unclassified civil service at the pleasure of the executive committee. The executive director may, with the approval of the executive committee, hire other employees as necessary to properly conduct the county council's business. (iii) The board may require the executive committee to submit an annual budget to the board for approval and may amend or repeal the resolution that delegated to the executive committee its authority as the county council's administrative agent. (8) Two or more county councils may enter into an agreement to administer their county councils jointly by creating a regional family and children first council. A regional council possesses the same duties and authority possessed by a county council, except that the duties and authority apply regionally rather than to individual counties. Prior to entering into an agreement to create a regional council, the members of each county council to be part of the regional council shall meet to determine whether all or part of the members of each county council will serve as members of the regional council. (9) A board of county commissioners may approve a resolution by a majority vote of the board's members that requires the county council to submit a statement to the board each time the council proposes to enter into an agreement, adopt a plan, or make a decision, other than a decision pursuant to section 121.38 of the Revised Code, that requires the expenditure of funds for two or more families. The statement shall describe the proposed agreement, plan, or decision. Not later than fifteen days after the board receives the statement, it shall, by resolution approved by a majority of its members, approve or disapprove the agreement, plan, or decision. Failure of the board to pass a resolution during that time period shall be considered approval of the agreement, plan, or decision. An agreement, plan, or decision for which a statement is required to be submitted to the board shall be implemented only if it is approved by the board. (C) Each county shall develop a county service coordination mechanism. The county service coordination mechanism shall serve as the guiding document for coordination of services in the county. For children who also receive services under the early intervention program, the main provider of service coordination shall be an early intervention service coordinator to ensure compliance with section 5180.30 of the Revised Code. All family service coordination plans shall be developed in accordance with the county service coordination mechanism. The mechanism shall be developed and approved with the participation of the county entities representing child welfare; developmental disabilities; alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services; health; juvenile judges; education; the county family and children first council; and the county early intervention collaborative established pursuant to the federal early intervention program operated under the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004." The county shall establish an implementation schedule for the mechanism. The cabinet council may monitor the implementation and administration of each county's service coordination mechanism. Each mechanism shall include all of the following: (1) A procedure for an agency, including a juvenile court, or a family voluntarily seeking service coordination, to refer the child and family to the county council for service coordination in accordance with the mechanism; (2) A procedure ensuring that a family and all appropriate staff from involved agencies, including a representative from the appropriate school district, are notified of and invited to participate in all family service coordination plan meetings; (3) A procedure that permits a family to initiate a meeting to develop or review the family's service coordination plan and allows the family to invite a family advocate, mentor, or support person of the family's choice to participate in any such meeting; (4) A procedure for ensuring that a family service coordination plan meeting is conducted for each child who receives service coordination under the mechanism and for whom an emergency out-of-home placement has been made or for whom a nonemergency out-of-home placement is being considered. The meeting shall be conducted within ten days of an emergency out-of-home placement. The meeting shall be conducted before a nonemergency out-of-home placement. The family service coordination plan shall outline how the county council members will jointly pay for services, where applicable, and provide services in the least restrictive environment. (5) A procedure for monitoring the progress and tracking the outcomes of each service coordination plan requested in the county including monitoring and tracking children in out-of-home placements to assure continued progress, appropriateness of placement, and continuity of care after discharge from placement with appropriate arrangements for housing, treatment, and education; (6) A procedure for protecting the confidentiality of all personal family information disclosed during service coordination meetings or contained in the comprehensive family service coordination plan; (7) A procedure for assessing the needs and strengths of any child or family that has been referred to the council for service coordination, including a child whose parent or custodian is voluntarily seeking services, and for ensuring that parents and custodians are afforded the opportunity to participate; (8) A procedure for development of a family service coordination plan described in division (D) of this section; (9) A local dispute resolution process to serve as the process that must be used first to resolve disputes among the agencies represented on the county council concerning the provision of services to children, including children who are abused, neglected, dependent, unruly, alleged unruly, or delinquent children and under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court and children whose parents or custodians are voluntarily seeking services. The local dispute resolution process shall comply with sections 121.38 , 121.381 , and 121.382 of the Revised Code. The local dispute resolution process shall be used to resolve disputes between a child's parents or custodians and the county council regarding service coordination. The county council shall inform the parents or custodians of their right to use the dispute resolution process. Parents or custodians shall use existing local agency grievance procedures to address disputes not involving service coordination. The dispute resolution process is in addition to and does not replace other rights or procedures that parents or custodians may have under other sections of the Revised Code. The cabinet council shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing an administrative review process to address problems that arise concerning the operation of a local dispute resolution process. Nothing in division (C)(4) of this section shall be interpreted as overriding or affecting decisions of a juvenile court or public children services agency regarding an out-of-home placement, long-term placement, or emergency out-of-home placement. (D) Each county shall develop a family service coordination plan that does all of the following: (1) Designates service responsibilities among the various state and local agencies that provide services to children and their families, including children who are abused, neglected, dependent, unruly, or delinquent children and under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court and children whose parents or custodians are voluntarily seeking services; (2) Designates an individual, approved by the family, to track the progress of the family service coordination plan, schedule reviews as necessary, and facilitate the family service coordination plan meeting process; (3) Ensures that assistance and services to be provided are responsive to the strengths and needs of the family, as well as the family's culture, race, and ethnic group, by allowing the family to offer information and suggestions and participate in decisions. Identified assistance and services shall be provided in the least restrictive environment possible. (4) Includes a process for dealing with a child who is alleged to be an unruly child. The process shall include methods to divert the child from the juvenile court system; (5) Includes timelines for completion of goals specified in the plan with regular reviews scheduled to monitor progress toward those goals; (6) Includes a plan for dealing with short-term crisis situations and safety concerns. (E)(1) The process provided for under division (D)(4) of this section may include, but is not limited to, the following: (a) Designation of the person or agency to conduct the assessment of the child and the child's family as described in division (C)(7) of this section and designation of the instrument or instruments to be used to conduct the assessment; (b) An emphasis on the personal responsibilities of the child and the parental responsibilities of the parents, guardian, or custodian of the child; (c) Involvement of local law enforcement agencies and officials. (2) The method to divert a child from the juvenile court system that must be included in the service coordination process may include, but is not limited to, the following: (a) The preparation of a complaint under section 2151.27 of the Revised Code alleging that the child is an unruly child and notifying the child and the parents, guardian, or custodian that the complaint has been prepared to encourage the child and the parents, guardian, or custodian to comply with other methods to divert the child from the juvenile court system; (b) Conducting a meeting with the child, the parents, guardian, or custodian, and other interested parties to determine the appropriate methods to divert the child from the juvenile court system; (c) A method to provide to the child and the child's family a short-term respite from a short-term crisis situation involving a confrontation between the child and the parents, guardian, or custodian; (d) A program to provide a mentor to the child or the parents, guardian, or custodian; (e) A program to provide parenting education to the parents, guardian, or custodian; (f) An alternative school program for children who are truant from school, repeatedly disruptive in school, or suspended or expelled from school; (g) Other appropriate measures, including, but not limited to, any alternative methods to divert a child from the juvenile court system that are identified by the Ohio family and children first cabinet council. (F) Each county may review and revise the service coordination process described in division (D) of this section based on the availability of funds under Title IV-A of the "Social Security Act," 110 Stat. 2113 (1996), 42 U.S.C.A. 601, as amended, or to the extent resources are available from any other federal, state, or local funds. (G) As used in this section, "early intervention service coordinator" means a person who holds an early intervention service coordinator credential or an early intervention service coordination supervisor credential issued by the department of children and youth and who assists and enables an infant or toddler with a developmental delay or disability and the child's family to receive the services and rights, including procedural safeguards, required under part C of the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004," 20 U.S.C. 1400, as amended. Last updated July 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 117.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 117 / § 117.11
§ 117.11. Annual, biennial, and early audits
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in this division and in section 117.112 of the Revised Code, the auditor of state shall audit each public office at least once every two fiscal years. The auditor of state shall audit a public office each fiscal year if that public office is required to be audited on an annual basis pursuant to "The Single Audit Act of 1984," 98 Stat. 2327, 31 U.S.C.A. 7501 et seq., as amended. In the annual or biennial audit, inquiry shall be made into the methods, accuracy, and legality of the accounts, financial reports, records, files, and reports of the office, whether the laws, rules, ordinances, and orders pertaining to the office have been observed, and whether the requirements and rules of the auditor of state have been complied with. Except as otherwise provided in this division or where auditing standards or procedures dictate otherwise, each audit shall cover at least one fiscal year. If a public office is audited only once every two fiscal years, the audit shall cover both fiscal years. (B) In addition to the annual or biennial audit provided for in division (A) of this section, the auditor of state may conduct an audit of a public office at any time when so requested by the public office or upon the auditor of state's own initiative if the auditor of state has reasonable cause to believe that an additional audit is in the public interest. (C)(1) The auditor of state shall identify any public office in which the auditor of state will be unable to conduct an audit at least once every two fiscal years as required by division (A) of this section and shall provide immediate written notice to the clerk of the legislative authority or governing board of the public office so identified. Within six months of the receipt of such notice, the legislative authority or governing board may engage an independent certified public accountant to conduct an audit pursuant to section 117.12 of the Revised Code. (2) When the chief fiscal officer of a public office notifies the auditor of state that an audit is required at a time prior to the next regularly scheduled audit by the auditor of state, the auditor of state shall either cause an earlier audit to be made by the auditor of state or authorize the legislative authority or governing board of the public office to engage an independent certified public accountant to conduct the required audit. The scope of the audit shall be as authorized by the auditor of state. (3) The auditor of state shall approve the scope of an audit under division (C)(1) or (2) of this section as set forth in the contract for the proposed audit before the contract is executed on behalf of the public office that is to be audited. The independent accountant conducting an audit under division (C)(1) or (2) of this section shall be paid by the public office. (4) The contract for attest services with an independent accountant employed pursuant to this section or section 117.115 of the Revised Code may include binding arbitration provisions, provisions of Chapter 2711. of the Revised Code, or any other alternative dispute resolution procedures to be followed in the event a dispute remains between the state or public office and the independent accountant concerning the terms of or services under the contract, or a breach of the contract, after the administrative provisions of the contract have been exhausted. (D) If a uniform accounting network is established under section 117.101 of the Revised Code, the auditor of state or a certified public accountant employed pursuant to this section or section 117.112 or 117.115 of the Revised Code shall, to the extent practicable, utilize services offered by the network in order to conduct efficient and economical audits of public offices. (E) The auditor of state, in accordance with division (A)(3) of section 9.65 of the Revised Code and this section, may audit an annuity program for volunteer fire fighters established by a political subdivision under section 9.65 of the Revised Code. As used in this section, "volunteer fire fighters" and "political subdivision" have the same meanings as in division (C) of section 9.65 of the Revised Code. (F) The auditor of state may establish by rule an agreed-upon procedure by which political subdivisions may be audited. The rules shall set forth the standards, procedures, guidelines, and reporting requirements for an agreed-upon procedure audit. Last updated July 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 146.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 146 / § 146.19
§ 146.19. List of fire departments
Status: in_force

July 1, 1985 House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly The state fire marshal shall supply the public employees retirement board with a complete list of fire departments in the state which are supported wholly or in part at public expense, together with their addresses, and shall currently report additions to or deletions from such list. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 128.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 128 / § 128.24
§ 128.24. Multiline telephone system 9-1-1 requirements
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section: (1) Each operator of a multiline telephone system that was installed or substantially renovated on or after the effective date of this section , shall provide to the end user the same level of 9-1-1 service that is provided to other end users of 9-1-1 within the state. That service shall include the provision of either of the following, which shall satisfy the requirements of division (A)(3) of this section: (a) Legacy automatic number identification and automatic location identification; (b) Next generation 9-1-1 location data. (2) Each operator of a multiline telephone system that was installed or substantially renovated on or after the effective date of this section , shall provide an emergency-response-location identifier as part of the location transmission to the public safety answering point, using either legacy private-switch automatic location identification or next generation 9-1-1 methodologies. (3) Each operator of a multiline telephone system that was installed or substantially renovated on or after the effective date of this section , shall identify the specific location of the caller using an emergency response location that includes the public street address of the building from which the call originated, a suite or room number, the building floor, and a building identifier, if applicable. (B) All locations provided under this section shall be either master-street-address-guide or next-generation-9-1-1-location-validation-function valid. (C) The requirements of divisions (A)(1), (2), and (3) of this section do not apply to a multiline telephone system in a workspace of less than seven thousand square feet in a single building, on a single level of a structure, having a single public street address. Last updated September 14, 2023 at 5:05 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 148.021 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 148 / § 148.021
§ 148.021. References to governing board and director
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly Whenever the Ohio public employees deferred compensation board or the executive director of that board or a variation thereof is used, referred to, or designated in any statute, rule, contract, grant, or other document, the use, reference, or designation shall be deemed to refer to the public employees retirement board or the executive director of the public employees retirement system, as the case may be. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.06
§ 109.06. Bond
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly Before entering upon the discharge of the duties of office, the attorney general shall give a bond to the state in the sum of five thousand dollars, with a surety authorized to do business in the state, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of the office of attorney general. Such bond and the oath of office shall be deposited with and kept by the secretary of state in the secretary of state's office. The first assistant attorney general shall give a bond to the state in the sum of five thousand dollars, and such other employees as are designated by the attorney general shall give a bond to the state in such amounts as the attorney general determines. Such bonds shall be approved by the attorney general, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of their offices, and shall be deposited with and kept by the secretary of state in the secretary of state's office.
Ohio Rev. Code § 177.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 177 / § 177.05
§ 177.05. Law enforcement trust fund
Status: in_force

April 6, 2017 Senate Bill 227 - 131st General Assembly A law enforcement trust fund shall be established by the organized crime investigations commission for the purpose of receiving reimbursement of expenses the organized crime investigations commission incurred in the investigation of the criminal activity through a task force. There is hereby created in the state treasury the organized crime law enforcement trust fund. The fund shall consist of moneys paid to the treasurer of the state for purposes of this section. All investment earnings on moneys in the fund shall be credited to the fund. The organized crime investigations commission shall use the moneys in the fund to purchase, replace, update, or maintain equipment used by task forces or law enforcement agencies for the purpose of investigating organized criminal activity. The organized crime law enforcement trust fund shall not be used to meet the operating costs of the organized crime commission. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 126.47 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 126 / § 126.47
§ 126.47. Annual internal audit plan
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The state audit committee created by section 126.46 of the Revised Code shall ensure that the office of internal audit in the office of budget and management has an annual internal audit plan that identifies the internal audits of state agencies or divisions of state agencies scheduled for the next fiscal year. The chief internal auditor of the office of internal audit shall submit the plan to the state audit committee for review and comment before the beginning of each fiscal year. The chief internal auditor may submit a revised internal audit plan for review and comment at any time the director of budget and management believes there is reason to modify the previously submitted plan for a fiscal year. (B) To determine the state agencies or divisions of state agencies that are to be internally audited, the office of internal audit, in the formulation of an annual or revised internal audit plan, and the state audit committee, in reviewing a submitted annual or revised internal audit plan, shall consider the following factors: (1) The risk for fraud, waste, or abuse of public money within an agency or division; (2) The length of time since an agency or division was last subject to an internal audit; (3) The size of an agency or division, and the amount of time and resources necessary to audit it; (4) Any other factor the state audit committee determines to be relevant. (C) All internal audits shall be directed by employees of the office of internal audit. (D) After the conclusion of an internal audit, the chief internal auditor shall submit a preliminary report of the internal audit's findings and recommendations to the state audit committee and to the director of the state agency involved. The state agency or division of the state agency covered by the preliminary report shall be provided an opportunity to respond within thirty days after receipt of the preliminary report. The response shall include a corrective action plan for any recommendations in the preliminary report that are not disputed by the agency or division. Any response received by the office of internal audit within that thirty-day period shall be included in the office's final report of the internal audit's findings and recommendations. The final report shall be issued by the office of internal audit within thirty days after the termination of the thirty-day response period. Copies of the final report shall be submitted to the state audit committee, the governor, and the director of the state agency involved. The state audit committee shall determine an appropriate method for making the preliminary and final reports available for public inspection in a timely manner. Any suspected fraud or other illegal activity discovered by the office of internal audit during an internal audit shall be reported immediately to the state audit committee, the director of the state agency in which the fraud or illegal activity is suspected to have occurred, and the auditor of state. (E) The office of internal audit may consult with the auditor of state regarding any written report the office receives under section 124.341 of the Revised Code. The office of internal audit may share such written reports with the auditor of state upon request. Reports shared under this division are not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (F) The chief internal auditor shall prepare an annual report and submit the report to the governor, the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the auditor of state. The office of budget and management shall make the report available to the public by posting it on the office's web site before the first of August of each year. Last updated September 21, 2023 at 3:10 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 161.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 161 / § 161.09
§ 161.09. Postponing elections
Status: in_force

September 30, 1963 Senate Bill 199 - 105th General Assembly In the event of an emergency resulting from enemy attack, the governor, his successor, or interim successor, shall, when in his judgment the public interest requires, postpone any state or local election for a period not exceeding six months. When, because of conditions resulting from an enemy attack, a scheduled election is not held or scheduled appointments cannot be made, the elected or appointed incumbents of affected offices, or their emergency interim successors, shall continue to hold office until their successors are elected or appointed and duly qualified.
Ohio Rev. Code § 121.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 121 / § 121.09
§ 121.09. Qualifications of director of agriculture and chief of division of animal health
Status: in_force

October 17, 2011 House Bill 229 - 129th General Assembly The director of agriculture shall be a person actively identified with agriculture. The chief of the division of animal health shall be a graduate of a recognized college of veterinary medicine and licensed to practice veterinary medicine and surgery in this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 101.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 101 / § 101.22
§ 101.22. Evidence of membership
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly For the purpose of organizing the senate and house of representatives of the general assembly, a certificate of election from the board of election of the proper county shall be prima-facie evidence of the right to membership of the person therein certified to be elected senator or representative.
Ohio Rev. Code § 101.71 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 101 / § 101.71
§ 101.71. Prohibited acts
Status: in_force

May 12, 1994 House Bill 492 - 120th General Assembly (A) No legislative agent or employer shall knowingly fail to register as required under section 101.72 of the Revised Code. (B) No legislative agent or employer shall knowingly fail to keep a receipt or maintain a record that section 101.73 of the Revised Code requires the person to keep or maintain. (C) No person shall knowingly fail to file a statement that section 101.73 or 101.74 of the Revised Code requires the person to file. (D) No person shall knowingly file a false statement that section 101.73 or 101.74 of the Revised Code requires the person to file.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.176 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.176
§ 122.176. Grants for employers that move into a previously vacant facility
Status: in_force

August 6, 2012 House Bill 18 - 129th General Assembly (A) For purposes of this section: (1) "Vacant commercial space" means space that has been unoccupied and available for use in a trade or business for the twelve months immediately preceding the lease or purchase date described in division (B) of this section, located in either of the following: (a) A building, seventy-five per cent or more of the square footage of which has been unoccupied and available for use in a trade or business for the twelve months immediately preceding the initial lease or purchase date described in division (B) of this section; (b) A business park, seventy-five per cent or more of the square footage of which has been unoccupied and available for use in a trade or business for the twelve months immediately preceding the initial lease or purchase date described in division (B) of this section. For the purpose of determining whether a building, the construction of which is not complete, has been unoccupied for the required length of time, the building first becomes "unoccupied" when its construction discontinues as determined by the person who owned the property at that time. (2) "Business park" means two or more buildings located on the same or adjacent parcels held under common ownership. (3) "Building" means a building as defined in section 3781.06 of the Revised Code the construction of which is at least eighty-five per cent complete and that may be lawfully occupied. (4) "Qualifying employee" means an employee employed by an employer, provided the employee is employed at the vacant commercial space for a minimum of forty hours per week and has been so employed for at least one year, the employer pays the employee at a wage rate equal to or greater than the minimum wage rate applicable under Chapter 4111. of the Revised Code, employment of the employee increases the employer's payroll above the employer's base employment threshold, and the employee had not been employed by the employer within sixty days before the date the employer purchases or enters into a lease for a vacant commercial space. (5) "Base employment threshold" means the total payroll of the employer on the date the employer purchases or enters into a lease for a vacant commercial space. (B) This section does not apply to the federal government, the state, the state's political subdivisions, or nonprofit organizations. An employer required to deduct and withhold income tax from an employee's compensation under section 5747.06 and remit such amounts under section 5747.07 of the Revised Code may apply to the director of development for a grant from the vacant facilities grant fund, provided that, on or after the effective date of this section as enacted by H.B. 18 of the 129th general assembly, the employer occupies under a lease or purchases vacant commercial space at which the employer employs at least fifty employees or at least fifty per cent of its employees who are employed in this state. An employer may qualify for the grant only once. The amount of the grant awarded under this section shall be five hundred dollars for each qualifying employee. No grant application shall be accepted by the director three years or later after the effective date of this section. An employer does not qualify for a grant under this section if, during the year of the employer's application, the employer is eligible to claim a tax credit or other incentive under an agreement with the tax credit authority. The director shall prescribe application materials and explanations. An employer applying for a grant under this section shall submit the following with the employer's application to the director: (1) An affidavit from the person who, in the case of a lease of vacant commercial space, owns the property or, in the case of a purchase, is the most recent owner of the property indicating that the building meets the requirements of a vacant commercial space; (2) Payroll records indicating, for each qualifying employee, that the employee was employed for one year or longer at the vacant commercial space; (3) Quarterly reports of wage information submitted by the employer to the department of job and family services pursuant to section 4141.20 of the Revised Code indicating the employer's qualifying employees and the employer's base employment threshold; (4) A statement that the employer agrees to provide to the director any receipts, invoices, or similar documents demonstrating that the employer used the grant for the activities described in division (C) of this section. Upon receipt of an application, the director shall review the application and attached materials and approve the application if, to the director's satisfaction, the employer fulfills all the grant requirements of this section, and if, in the judgment of the director, the unencumbered balance in the vacant facilities grant fund is sufficient to fund the amount of the grant. Upon approval of a grant application, the director shall authorize the award of the grant from the vacant facilities grant fund to the employer. (C) An employer receiving a grant under this section from the vacant facilities grant fund must use the grant for the acquisition, construction, enlargement, improvement, or equipment of property, structures, equipment, and facilities used by the employer in business at the vacant commercial space occupied by the employer. (D) An employer may claim a grant under this section with respect to a building, the construction of which is not complete, only if the employer submits both of the following with the employer's application: (1) A copy of a certificate of occupancy from the appropriate building authority indicating that the building may lawfully be occupied pursuant to chapters 3781. and 3791. of the Revised Code; (2) An affidavit from the person who owned the property at the time construction discontinued indicating the date construction discontinued. (E) There is hereby created in the state treasury the vacant facilities grant fund, which shall consist of money appropriated to the fund by the general assembly. Money in the fund shall be used solely for the purposes of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.748 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.748
§ 109.748. Rules governing the training of tactical medical professionals to carry firearms
Status: in_force

June 1, 2018 House Bill 79 - 132nd General Assembly The attorney general shall adopt, in accordance with Chapter 119. or pursuant to section 109.74 of the Revised Code, the following rules: (A) Rules governing the training of tactical medical professionals to qualify them to carry firearms while on duty under section 109.771 of the Revised Code. The rules shall specify the amount of training necessary for the satisfactory completion of training programs at approved peace officer training schools, other than the Ohio peace officer training academy. The rules shall include all of the following: (1) For all such professionals, a requirement that the professional shall receive firearms training through a program approved by the Ohio peace officer training commission and training in any additional subjects deemed necessary by the Ohio peace officer training commission. (2) For such professionals seeking certification to carry a rifle or carbine, a requirement that, in addition to the training described in division (A)(1) of this section, the professional shall receive training with respect to the carrying and use of rifles and carbines through a program approved by the Ohio peace officer training commission. (B) Rules authorizing and governing the attendance of tactical medical professionals at approved peace officer training schools, including the Ohio peace officer training academy, to receive training to qualify them to carry firearms while on duty under section 109.771 of the Revised Code, and the certification of the professionals upon their satisfactory completion of training programs providing that training.
Ohio Rev. Code § 161.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 161 / § 161.01
§ 161.01. Emergency interim government definitions
Status: in_force

September 30, 1963 Senate Bill 199 - 105th General Assembly As used in sections 161.01 to 161.29 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, and unless otherwise clearly required by the context: (A) "Unavailable" means either that a vacancy in office exists and there is no deputy authorized to exercise all of the powers and discharge the duties of the office, or that the lawful incumbent of the office, including any deputy exercising the powers and discharging the duties of an office because of a vacancy, and his duly authorized deputy are absent or unable to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office. (B) "Emergency interim successor" means a person designated, in the event the officer and his deputies are unavailable, to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of an office until a successor is appointed or elected and qualified as may be provided by the constitution, statutes, charters, and ordinances or until the lawful incumbent or a deputy is able to resume the exercise of the powers and discharge the duties of the office. (C) "Office" includes all state and local offices, the powers and duties of which are defined by the constitution, statutes, charters, and ordinances. (D) "Attack" means any attack or series of attacks by an enemy of the United States causing, or which may cause, substantial damage or injury to civilian property or persons in the state in any manner by sabotage or by the use of bombs, missiles, shellfire, or atomic, radiological, chemical, bacteriological, or biological means or other weapons or processes. (E) "Political subdivision" includes counties, cities, villages, townships, districts, and other public corporations and entities whether organized and existing under charter or general law.
Ohio Rev. Code § 120.36 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 120 / § 120.36
§ 120.36. Application fee - assessment - nonpayment - disposition - annual report
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A)(1) Subject to division (A)(2), (3), (4), (5), or (6) of this section, if a person who is a defendant in a criminal case or a party in a case in juvenile court requests or is provided a state public defender, a county or joint county public defender, or any other counsel appointed by the court, the court in which the criminal case is initially filed or the juvenile court, whichever is applicable, shall assess, unless the application fee is waived or reduced, a non-refundable application fee of twenty-five dollars. The court shall direct the person to pay the application fee to the clerk of court. The person shall pay the application fee to the clerk of court at the time the person files a financial disclosure form with the court, a state public defender, a county or joint county public defender, or any other counsel appointed by the court or within seven days of that date. If the person does not pay the application fee within that seven-day period, the court shall assess the application fee at sentencing or at the final disposition of the case. (2) For purposes of this section, a criminal case includes any case involving a violation of any provision of the Revised Code or of an ordinance of a municipal corporation for which the potential penalty includes loss of liberty and includes any contempt proceeding in which a court may impose a term of imprisonment. (3) In a juvenile court proceeding, the court shall not assess the application fee against a child if the court appoints a guardian ad litem for the child or the court appoints an attorney to represent the child at the request of a guardian ad litem. (4) The court shall not assess an application fee for a postconviction proceeding or when the defendant files an appeal. (5)(a) Except when the court assesses an application fee pursuant to division (A)(5)(b) of this section, the court shall assess an application fee when a person is charged with a violation of a community control sanction or a violation of a post-release control sanction. (b) If a charge of violating a community control sanction or post-release control sanction described in division (A)(5)(a) of this section results in a person also being charged with violating any provision of the Revised Code or an ordinance of a municipal corporation, the court shall only assess an application fee for the case that results from the additional charge. (6) If a case is transferred from one court to another court and the person failed to pay the application fee to the court that initially assessed the application fee, the court that initially assessed the fee shall remove the assessment, and the court to which the case was transferred shall assess the application fee. (7) The court shall assess an application fee pursuant to this section one time per case. For purposes of assessing the application fee, a case means one complete proceeding or trial held in one court for a person on an indictment, information, complaint, petition, citation, writ, motion, or other document initiating a case that arises out of a single incident or a series of related incidents, or when one individual is charged with two or more offenses that the court handles simultaneously. The court may waive or reduce the fee for a specific person in a specific case upon a finding that the person lacks financial resources that are sufficient to pay the fee or that payment of the fee would result in an undue hardship. (B) No court, state public defender, county or joint county public defender, or other counsel appointed by the court shall deny a person the assistance of counsel solely due to the person's failure to pay the application fee assessed pursuant to division (A) of this section. A person's present inability, failure, or refusal to pay the application fee shall not disqualify that person from legal representation. (C) The application fee assessed pursuant to division (A) of this section is separate from and in addition to any other amount assessed against a person who is found to be able to contribute toward the cost of the person's legal representation pursuant to division (D) of section 2941.51 of the Revised Code. (D) The clerk of the court that assessed the fees shall forward all application fees collected pursuant to this section to the county treasurer for deposit in the county treasury. The county shall retain eighty per cent of the application fees so collected to offset the costs of providing legal representation to indigent persons. Not later than the last day of each month, the county auditor shall remit twenty per cent of the application fees so collected in the previous month to the state public defender. The state public defender shall deposit the remitted fees into the state treasury to the credit of the client payment fund created pursuant to division (B)(5) of section 120.04 of the Revised Code. The state public defender may use that money in accordance with that section. (E) On or before the twentieth day of each month beginning in February of the year 2007, each clerk of court shall provide to the state public defender a report including all of the following: (1) The number of persons in the previous month who requested or were provided a state public defender, county or joint county public defender, or other counsel appointed by the court; (2) The number of persons in the previous month for whom the court waived the application fee pursuant to division (A) of this section; (3) The dollar value of the application fees assessed pursuant to division (A) of this section in the previous month; (4) The amount of assessed application fees collected in the previous month; (5) The balance of unpaid assessed application fees at the open and close of the previous month. (F) As used in this section: (1) "Clerk of court" means the clerk of the court of common pleas of the county, the clerk of the juvenile court of the county, the clerk of the domestic relations division of the court of common pleas of the county, the clerk of the probate court of the county, the clerk of a municipal court in the county, the clerk of a county-operated municipal court, or the clerk of a county court in the county, whichever is applicable. (2) "County-operated municipal court" has the same meaning as in section 1901.03 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 121.40 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 121 / § 121.40
§ 121.40. Ohio commission on service and volunteerism
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the Ohio commission on service and volunteerism consisting of nineteen voting members including the director of education and workforce or the director's designee, the chancellor of higher education or the chancellor's designee, the director of youth services or the director's designee, the director of aging or the director's designee, and fifteen members who shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate and who shall serve terms of office of three years. The appointees shall include educators, including teachers and administrators; representatives of youth organizations; students and parents; representatives of organizations engaged in volunteer program development and management throughout the state, including youth and conservation programs; and representatives of business, government, nonprofit organizations, social service agencies, veterans organizations, religious organizations, or philanthropies that support or encourage volunteerism within the state. The director of the governor's office of faith-based and community initiatives shall serve as a nonvoting ex officio member of the commission. Members of the commission shall receive no compensation, but shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties. (B) The commission shall appoint an executive director for the commission, who shall be in the unclassified civil service. The governor shall be informed of the appointment of an executive director before such an appointment is made. The executive director shall supervise the commission's activities and report to the commission on the progress of those activities. The executive director shall do all things necessary for the efficient and effective implementation of the duties of the commission. The responsibilities assigned to the executive director do not relieve the members of the commission from final responsibility for the proper performance of the requirements of this section. (C) The commission or its designee shall do all of the following: (1) Employ, promote, supervise, and remove all employees as needed in connection with the performance of its duties under this section and may assign duties to those employees as 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 any employee of the commission. Personnel employed by 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. Nothing in this chapter 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) Maintain its office in Columbus, and may hold sessions at any place within the state; (3) Acquire facilities, equipment, and supplies necessary to house the commission, its employees, and files and records under its control, and to discharge any duty imposed upon it by law. The expense of these acquisitions shall be audited and paid for in the same manner as other state expenses. For that purpose, the commission 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 its staff in the discharge of any duty imposed upon the commission by law. The commission shall not delegate any authority to obligate funds. (4) Pay its own payroll and other operating expenses from line items designated by the general assembly; (5) Retain its fiduciary responsibility as appointing authority. Any transaction instructions shall be certified by the appointing authority or its designee. (6) Establish the overall policy and management of the commission in accordance with this chapter; (7) Assist in coordinating and preparing the state application for funds under sections 101 to 184 of the "National and Community Service Act of 1990," 104 Stat. 3127 (1990), 42 U.S.C.A. 12411 to 12544, as amended, assist in administering and overseeing the "National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993," P.L. 103-82, 107 Stat. 785, and the americorps program in this state, and assist in developing objectives for a comprehensive strategy to encourage and expand community service programs throughout the state; (8) Assist the department of education and workforce, school districts, the chancellor of higher education, and institutions of higher education in coordinating community service education programs through cooperative efforts between institutions and organizations in the public and private sectors; (9) Assist the departments of natural resources, youth services, aging, job and family services, and children and youth in coordinating community service programs through cooperative efforts between institutions and organizations in the public and private sectors; (10) Suggest individuals and organizations that are available to assist school districts, institutions of higher education, and the departments of natural resources, youth services, aging, job and family services, and children and youth in the establishment of community service programs and assist in investigating sources of funding for implementing these programs; (11) Assist in evaluating the state's efforts in providing community service programs using standards and methods that are consistent with any statewide objectives for these programs and provide information to the department of education and workforce, school districts, the chancellor of higher education, institutions of higher education, and the departments of natural resources, youth services, aging, job and family services, and children and youth to guide them in making decisions about these programs; (12) Assist the department of education and workforce in complying with section 3301.70 of the Revised Code and the chancellor of higher education in complying with division (B)(2) of section 3333.043 of the Revised Code. (D) The commission shall in writing enter into an agreement with another state agency to serve as the commission's fiscal agent. Before entering into such an agreement, the commission shall inform the governor of the terms of the agreement and of the state agency designated to serve as the commission's fiscal agent. The fiscal agent shall be responsible for all the commission's fiscal matters and financial transactions, as specified in the agreement. Services to be provided by the fiscal agent include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) Preparing and processing payroll and other personnel documents that the commission executes as the appointing authority; (2) Maintaining ledgers of accounts and reports of account balances, and monitoring budgets and allotment plans in consultation with the commission; and (3) Performing other routine support services that the fiscal agent considers appropriate to achieve efficiency. (E)(1) The commission, in conjunction and consultation with the fiscal agent, has the following authority and responsibility relative to fiscal matters: (a) Sole authority to draw funds for any and all federal programs in which the commission is authorized to participate; (b) Sole authority to expend funds from their accounts for programs and any other necessary expenses the commission may incur and its subgrantees may incur; and (c) Responsibility to cooperate with and inform the fiscal agent fully of all financial transactions. (2) The commission shall follow all state procurement, fiscal, human resources, statutory, and administrative rule requirements. (3) The fiscal agent shall determine fees to be charged to the commission, which shall be in proportion to the services performed for the commission. (4) The commission shall pay fees owed to the fiscal agent from a general revenue fund of the commission or from any other fund from which the operating expenses of the commission are paid. Any amounts set aside for a fiscal year for the payment of these fees shall be used only for the services performed for the commission by the fiscal agent in that fiscal year. (F) The commission may accept and administer grants from any source, public or private, to carry out any of the commission's functions this section establishes. Last updated September 5, 2023 at 4:52 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.58 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.58
§ 124.58. Fraud or false representation in examinations
Status: in_force

December 4, 1973 Senate Bill 174 - 110th General Assembly No person or officer shall willfully or corruptly, by himself or in co-operation with one or more persons, defeat, deceive, or obstruct any person in respect of his right of examination, appointment, or employment according to sections 124.01 to 124.64 of the Revised Code, or to any rules or regulations prescribed pursuant to such sections; or willfully or corruptly, falsely mark, grade, estimate, or report upon the examination or proper standing of any person examined, registered, or certified pursuant to such sections, or aid in so doing; or willfully or corruptly make any false representations concerning the same, or concerning the person examined; or willfully or corruptly furnish to any person any special or secret information for the purpose of either improving or injuring the prospects or chances of any person so examined, registered, or certified; or to be examined, registered, or certified, or personate any other person, or permit or aid in any manner any person to personate him, in connection with any examination, registration, appointment, application, or request to be examined, registered, or appointed; or shall furnish any false information about himself, or any other person, in connection with any examination, registration, appointment, application, or request to be examined, registered, or appointed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 148.041 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 148 / § 148.041
§ 148.041. Informational materials
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Unless the employee will be automatically enrolled in the Ohio public employees deferred compensation program under section 148.042 of the Revised Code, whenever an eligible employee becomes employed in a position paid by warrant of the director of budget and management, the employee's employer shall do both of the following at the time the employee completes the employee's initial employment paperwork: (1) Provide to the employee materials provided by the public employees retirement board under division (D) of this section regarding the benefits of long-term savings through deferred compensation; (2) Except as otherwise provided in division (E) of this section, secure, in writing or by electronic means, the employee's election to participate or not participate in a deferred compensation program offered by the board. (B) An election regarding participation under this section shall be made in the manner prescribed by the board. (C) The employer shall forward each election completed under this section to the program not later than forty-five days after the date the employee's employment begins. (D) The board shall provide informational materials and participation forms to employers required to comply with this section. (E) If an eligible employee transfers employment from one position paid by warrant of the director of budget and management to another position paid by warrant of the director of budget and management and, at the time of transfer, is a participating employee, the employee's new employer shall not be required to secure the employee's election to participate or not participate under division (A)(2) of this section. Last updated July 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 128.60 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 128 / § 128.60
§ 128.60. Service providers to supply information; confidentiality
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A)(1) A telephone company, the state highway patrol as described in division (I) of section 128.03 of the Revised Code, and each subdivision or regional council of governments operating one or more public safety answering points for a countywide system providing wireless 9-1-1, shall provide the steering committee and the tax commissioner with such information as the steering committee and tax commissioner request for the purposes of carrying out their duties under this chapter, including, but not limited to, duties regarding the collection of the wireless 9-1-1 charges imposed under section 128.40 of the Revised Code and the next generation 9-1-1 access fee imposed under sections 128.41 and 128.42 of the Revised Code. (2) A wireless service provider shall provide an official, employee, agent, or representative of a subdivision or regional council of governments operating a public safety answering point, or of the state highway patrol as described in division (I) of section 128.03 of the Revised Code, with such technical, service, and location information as the official, employee, agent, or representative requests for the purpose of providing wireless 9-1-1. (3) A subdivision or regional council of governments operating one or more public safety answering points of a 9-1-1 system, and a telephone company, shall provide to the steering committee such information as the steering committee requires for the purpose of carrying out its duties under Chapter 128. of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Any information provided under division (A) of this section that consists of trade secrets as defined in section 1333.61 of the Revised Code or of information regarding the customers, revenues, expenses, or network information of a telephone company shall be confidential and does not constitute a public record for the purpose of section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (2) The steering committee, tax commissioner, and any official, employee, agent, or representative of the steering committee, of the tax commissioner, of the state highway patrol as described in division (I) of section 128.03 of the Revised Code, or of a subdivision or regional council of governments operating a public safety answering point, while acting or claiming to act in the capacity of the steering committee or tax commissioner or such official, employee, agent, or representative, shall not disclose any information provided under division (A) of this section regarding a telephone company's customers, revenues, expenses, or network information. Nothing in division (B)(2) of this section precludes any such information from being aggregated and included in any report of the steering committee, tax commissioner, or any official, employee, agent, or representative of the steering committee or tax commissioner, provided the aggregated information does not identify the number of any particular company's customers or the amount of its revenues or expenses or identify a particular company as to any network information. Last updated September 14, 2023 at 4:39 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.174 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.174
§ 122.174. Tax incentives operating fund
Status: in_force

March 23, 2018 Senate Bill 8 - 132nd General Assembly There is hereby created in the state treasury the tax incentives operating fund. The fund shall consist of any amounts appropriated to it and money credited to the fund pursuant to section 122.151 , 122.154 , 122.17 , 122.171 , 122.175 , 122.85 , 122.86 , 3735.672 , 5709.68 , or 5725.33 of the Revised Code. The director of development services shall use money in the fund to pay expenses related to the administration of (A) the business services division of the development services agency and (B) the programs described in those sections. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.86 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.86
§ 124.86. Employee educational development fund
Status: in_force

July 17, 2009 House Bill 1 - 128th General Assembly There is hereby created in the state treasury the employee educational development fund, to be used to pay the state administrative costs of any education program undertaken pursuant to specific collective bargaining agreements identified in uncodified law governing expenditure of the fund. The director of administrative services shall establish, and shall obtain the approval of the director of budget and management for, a charge for each such program that is sufficient only to recover those costs. All money collected from such a charge shall be deposited to the credit of the fund, and all interest earned on the fund shall accrue to the fund. The director of administrative services shall administer the fund in accordance with the respective collective bargaining agreements and may adopt rules for the purpose of this administration.
Ohio Rev. Code § 121.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 121 / § 121.33
§ 121.33. Office of Hispanic-Latino affairs - powers and duties
Status: in_force

December 2, 1996 House Bill 670 - 121st General Assembly The office of Hispanic-Latino affairs is hereby created. The office shall be accountable to the commission on Hispanic-Latino affairs. The chief administrator of the office shall be the director of Hispanic-Latino affairs, who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the commission. The director, with the approval of the commission, shall appoint such employees as are necessary to carry out the duties of the office. The employees shall serve at the pleasure of the director. The office shall compile and provide information to the commission about, and advise it on, solutions to the problems of Spanish-speaking people. The office shall execute the tasks assigned to it by the commission which shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (A) Serve as a clearinghouse to review and comment on all proposals to meet the needs of Spanish-speaking people that are submitted to it by public and private agencies; (B) Apply for and accept grants and gifts from governmental and private sources to be administered by the office or subcontracted to local agencies; (C) Monitor and evaluate all programs subcontracted to local agencies by the commission; (D) Endeavor to assure that Spanish-speaking people have access to decision-making bodies in all state and local governmental departments and agencies; (E) Submit a full written annual report of its activities, accomplishments, and recommendations to the commission; (F) Establish advisory committees on special subjects as needed to facilitate and maximize community participation in the operation of the commission. The committees shall be composed of persons representing community organizations and charitable institutions, public officials, and such other persons as the office determines. (G) Establish with state and local governments and private business and industry relationships that promote and assure equal opportunity for Spanish-speaking people in government, education, and employment.
Ohio Rev. Code § 101.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 101 / § 101.23
§ 101.23. Oaths
Status: in_force

June 27, 2005 Senate Bill 124 - 126th General Assembly The oath of office of senators and representatives; the president and president pro tempore of the senate; the speaker and speaker pro tempore of the house of representatives; the clerk of the senate, the chief administrative officer and the clerk of the house of representatives, and their assistants; and the sergeant at arms and assistant sergeant at arms of each house may be administered by a member, by a former presiding officer of either house of the general assembly, or by a person authorized to administer oaths.
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.182 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.182
§ 124.182. Professional development fund
Status: in_force

December 1, 2006 House Bill 530 - 126th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the professional development fund. The director of administrative services shall use moneys credited to the fund to pay for programs that provide professional development opportunities for employees who are exempt from collective bargaining coverage and paid by warrant of the director of budget and management. The director of administrative services shall identify by rule adopted under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code programs for which payments from the fund shall be made. The fund also shall be used to pay any direct and indirect costs that are attributable to consultants or a third-party administrator and that are necessary to administer this section. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to it. (B) The director of administrative services, in consultation with the director of budget and management, shall determine a rate at which the payrolls of all participating state agencies with employees paid by warrant of the director of budget and management shall be charged each pay period that is sufficient to cover the costs of administering the programs paid for with the moneys credited to the professional development fund. The rate shall be based on the total number of those employees and may be adjusted as the director of administrative services, in consultation with the director of budget and management, considers necessary. All moneys collected from the charge shall be credited to the professional development fund. (C) If the director of administrative services determines that additional appropriation amounts are necessary, the director may request that the director of budget and management increase the appropriation amounts. The additional appropriation amounts are hereby appropriated.
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.381 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.381
§ 124.381. Occupational injury leave program
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A)(1)(a) An employee in the service of the state may be eligible to receive salary continuation not to exceed four hundred eighty hours at the employee's total rate of pay for absence as a result of injury incurred during the performance of, or arising out of, state employment. When an eligible employee's absence as a result of such an injury extends beyond four hundred eighty hours, the employee immediately becomes subject to sections 124.382 and 124.385 of the Revised Code regarding sick leave and disability leave benefits. An employee is ineligible to receive salary continuation until the date of implementation is established in the rules adopted under division (C)(1) of this section. (b) Employees of the secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of state, attorney general, supreme court, general assembly, or legislative service commission are not subject to division (A)(1)(a) of this section unless the relevant appointing authority notifies the director of administrative services in writing of the intent to have all of the appointing authority's employees participate in salary continuation. The relevant appointing authority also may discontinue salary continuation for all of its employees by providing written notice of the discontinuation to the director. Participation in salary continuation is subject to rules adopted under division (C)(1) of this section. (2) Each employee of the department of rehabilitation and correction, the department of mental health and addiction services, the department of developmental disabilities, the department of veterans services, or the Ohio schools for the deaf and blind, and each employee of the department of youth services as established in division (A) of section 124.14 of the Revised Code who sustains a qualifying physical condition inflicted by a ward of these agencies during the time the employee is lawfully carrying out the assigned duties of the employee's position shall be paid occupational injury leave at the employee's total rate of pay during the period the employee is disabled as a result of that qualifying physical condition, but in no case to exceed nine hundred sixty hours, in lieu of workers' compensation. Pay made according to this division shall not be charged to the employee's accumulation of sick leave credit. In any case when an employee's disability as a result of such a qualifying physical condition extends beyond nine hundred sixty hours, the employee immediately becomes subject to sections 124.382 and 124.385 of the Revised Code regarding sick leave and disability leave benefits. (B) An employee who is receiving salary continuation or occupational injury leave under division (A)(1) or (2) of this section is not eligible for other paid leave, including holiday pay, while receiving benefits under either division. While an employee is receiving salary continuation or occupational injury leave under division (A)(1) or (2) of this section, vacation leave credit ceases to accrue to the employee under section 124.134 of the Revised Code, but sick leave credit and personal leave credit continue to accrue to the employee under sections 124.382 and 124.386 of the Revised Code. (C)(1) The director of administrative services shall adopt rules for the administration of both the salary continuation program and the occupational injury leave program. The rules shall include, but not be limited to, provisions for determining a disability, for filing a claim for leave under this section, and for allowing or denying claims for the leave. (2) The director also may adopt rules for the payment of health benefits while an employee is on workers' compensation leave. (D) An appointing authority may apply to the director of administrative services to grant salary continuation under division (A)(1) of this section or occupational injury leave under division (A)(2) of this section to law enforcement personnel employed by the agency. Last updated October 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 131.331 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 131 / § 131.331
§ 131.331. Funds created for specific agencies
Status: in_force

July 1, 1985 House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly No state agency shall receive financial benefit from an appropriation made or fund created for the support of another.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.4044 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.4044
§ 122.4044. Grant disbursement
Status: in_force

May 17, 2021 House Bill 2 - 134th General Assembly After the broadband expansion program authority awards a program grant under section 122.4043 of the Revised Code, the development services agency shall disburse the program grant as follows: (A) A portion of the program grant, not to exceed thirty per cent, shall be disbursed before construction of the project begins. (B) A portion of the program grant, not to exceed sixty per cent, shall be disbursed through periodic payments over the course of construction of the eligible project as determined by the agency by rules adopted under section 122.4077 of the Revised Code. (C) The remaining portion shall be disbursed not later than sixty days after the broadband provider notifies the authority that it has completed construction of the project. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 163.211 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 163 / § 163.211
§ 163.211. Repurchase of unused property by owner
Status: in_force

October 10, 2007 Senate Bill 7 - 127th General Assembly If an agency decides not to use appropriated property for the purpose stated in the appropriation petition, the prior owner from whom the property was appropriated may repurchase the property for its fair market value as determined by an independent appraisal made by an appraiser chosen by agreement of the parties or, if the parties cannot agree, an appraiser chosen by the court. The right of repurchase shall be extinguished if any of the following occur: (A) The prior owner declines to repurchase the property. (B) The prior owner fails to repurchase the property within sixty days after the public agency offers the property for repurchase. (C) A plan, contract, or arrangement is authorized that commences an urban renewal project that includes the property. (D) The agency grants or transfers the property to any other person or agency. (E) Five years have passed since the property was appropriated. (F) Prior to the filing of the petition for appropriation, the appropriated property was a blighted parcel, and the prior owner contributed to the blight.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.154 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.154
§ 122.154. Reports
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) Each rural business growth fund shall submit a report to the department of development on or before the first day of each March following the end of the calendar year that includes the closing date until the calendar year after the fund has decertified. The report shall provide an itemization of the fund's growth investments and shall include the following documents and information: (1) A bank statement evidencing each growth investment; (2) The name, location, and industry class of each business that received a growth investment from the fund and evidence that the business qualified as a rural business concern at the time the investment was made. If the fund obtained a written opinion from the agency on the business's status as a rural business concern under section 122.156 of the Revised Code, or if the fund makes a written request for such an opinion and the agency failed to respond within thirty days as required by that section, a copy of the agency's favorable opinion or a dated copy of the fund's unanswered request, as applicable, shall be sufficient evidence that the business qualified as a rural business concern at the time the investment was made. (3) The number of employment positions that existed at each business described in division (A)(2) of this section on the date the business received the growth investment; (4) The number of new full-time equivalent employees resulting from each of the fund's growth investments made or maintained in the preceding calendar year; (5) Any other information required by the agency. (B) Each fund shall submit a report to the agency on or before the fifth business day after the first, second, and for program two funds, third anniversaries of the closing date that provides documentation sufficient to prove that the fund has met the investment thresholds described in division (A) of section 122.153 of the Revised Code and has not implicated any of the other recapture provisions described in division (B) of that section. (C) Each certified rural business growth fund shall pay the agency an annual fee of twenty thousand dollars. The initial annual fee required of a fund shall be due and payable to the agency along with the submission of documentation required under division (H) of section 122.151 of the Revised Code. Each subsequent annual fee is due and payable on the last day of February following the first and each ensuing anniversary of the closing date. If the fund is required to submit an annual report under division (A) of this section, the annual fee shall be submitted along with the report. No fund shall be required to pay an annual fee after the fund has decertified under section 122.153 of the Revised Code. Annual fees paid to the agency under this section shall be credited to the tax incentives operating fund created under section 122.174 of the Revised Code. (D) The director of development, after consultation with the superintendent of insurance and in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may adopt rules necessary to implement sections 122.15 to 122.156 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 133.37 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 133 / § 133.37
§ 133.37. Refunding special assessment bonds
Status: in_force

October 30, 1989 House Bill 230 - 118th General Assembly With the approval of the tax commissioner, the taxing authority of any subdivision at any time may refund any outstanding bonds of the subdivision which have matured or which are about to mature and which were issued in anticipation of the collection of special assessments, together with the amount of the interest coupons due or to become due on such bonds. The commissioner shall approve such issue only to any extent it is found that no other method of payment in whole or in part exists or will exist prior to the maturity date of such bonds which are about to mature from the collection of special assessments in anticipation of which such bonds were issued or from other funds in the bond retirement fund of the subdivision, excluding securities held in the bond retirement fund only when the commissioner finds that the sale of such securities in order to meet the debt charges thereon would necessitate an unwarranted sacrifice of the securities so held, thereby impairing the ability to meet other debt charges in the future. In the order approving such issue, the commissioner shall fix the maturities of the bonds to be issued, which need not be subject to sections 133.20 and 133.21 of the Revised Code. No such bonds shall mature in more than ten years. The debt charges thereon shall have the same status with respect to the limitations imposed by Section 2 of Article XII, Ohio Constitution, as the debt charges which are refunded. The proceeds derived from the sale of such refunding bonds shall be transferred to the bond retirement fund of the subdivision, and shall be used only for the purpose of meeting the debt charges on the bonds to be refunded. This section supplements section 133.34 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 128.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 128 / § 128.45
§ 128.45. Records of wireless 9-1-1 charges or next generation 9-1-1 access fees collected
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Each entity required to bill and collect a wireless 9-1-1 charge under section 128.40 of the Revised Code or the next generation 9-1-1 access fee under section 128.414 or 128.421 of the Revised Code shall keep complete and accurate records of bills that include the charges and fees, together with a record of the charges and fees collected under those sections. The entities shall keep all related invoices and other pertinent documents. (B) Each seller shall keep complete and accurate records of retail sales of prepaid wireless calling services, together with a record of the charges and fees collected under sections 128.40 and 128.421 of the Revised Code, and shall keep all related invoices and other pertinent documents. Last updated October 5, 2023 at 4:49 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.183 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.183
§ 124.183. One-time pay supplements
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "active payroll" means conditions under which an employee is in active pay status or eligible to receive pay for an approved leave of absence including, but not limited to, occupational injury leave, disability leave, or workers' compensation. (B)(1) Each full-time permanent employee paid under schedule E-1 or E-2 of section 124.152 of the Revised Code who is in active payroll status on July 1, 2015, and August 1, 2015, shall receive a one-time pay supplement of seven hundred and fifty dollars in the earnings statement the employee receives in the pay period that includes August 21, 2015. (2) Each full-time permanent employee who is in active payroll status on July 1, 2015, and August 1, 2015, who is exempt from collective bargaining, and who is not covered by division (B)(1) of this section shall receive a one-time pay supplement of seven hundred and fifty dollars in the earnings statement the employee receives in the pay period that includes August 21, 2015. (3) Each less than full-time employee paid under schedule E-1 or E-2 of section 124.152 of the Revised Code who is in active payroll status on July 1, 2015, and August 1, 2015, shall receive a one-time pay supplement of three hundred and seventy-five dollars in the earnings statement the employee receives in the pay period that includes August 21, 2015. (4) An employee who is not in active payroll status on July 1, 2015, and August 1, 2015, due to military leave or an absence taken under the Family and Medical Leave Act, 29 U.S.C. 2601 et seq., as amended, is eligible to receive the one-time pay supplement pursuant to the terms of this section. (C) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a one-time pay supplement under this section shall not be subject to withholding for deposit into any state retirement system. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a one-time pay supplement under this section shall not be used for calculation purposes in determining an employee's retirement benefits in any state retirement system. (D) This section does not apply to employees of the supreme court, the general assembly, the legislative service commission, the secretary of state, the auditor of state, the treasurer of state, or the attorney general unless the supreme court, the general assembly, the legislative service commission, the secretary of state, the auditor of state, the treasurer of state, or the attorney general decides that the employees of those respective entities should be eligible for the one-time pay supplement and notifies the director of administrative services in writing on or before July 10, 2015, of the decision to participate in the one-time pay supplement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 135.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 135 / § 135.21
§ 135.21. Investment earnings apportionment and crediting
Status: in_force

March 30, 1999 House Bill 674 - 122nd General Assembly All investment earnings on money included within a public deposit of a subdivision and belonging to undivided tax funds shall, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, be apportioned by the auditor pro rata among the separate funds or taxing districts in the proportions in which they are entitled to receive distribution of such undivided tax funds, due allowance being made for sums transferred in advance of settlements. All investment earnings from other moneys deposited by a treasurer, which by reason of being custodial funds, or funds belonging in the treasury of a taxing, assessment, or other district of which the treasurer is acting as ex officio treasurer, or for any other reason, do not belong in the treasury of the state or subdivision shall, except as provided in section 135.351 of the Revised Code, be apportioned among and credited to the funds to which the principal sums of such deposits or investments belong. All other investment earnings, except as provided in section 135.351 of the Revised Code and by resolution adopted pursuant to section 3315.01 or 3375.391 of the Revised Code, shall be credited to the general fund of the county, municipal corporation, township, taxing district, assessment district, or other local authority to which the principal sum thereof belongs. All investment earnings on money included within the state treasury shall be credited as provided in section 113.09 of the Revised Code. The director of budget and management shall inform the treasurer of state in writing of the amount apportioned by the director to each fund or account in the state treasury. The auditor of a subdivision shall inform the treasurer of the subdivision in writing of the amount apportioned by the auditor to each fund, district, or account.
Ohio Rev. Code § 131.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 131 / § 131.03
§ 131.03. Collection of delinquent charges
Status: in_force

December 19, 1986 House Bill 1053 - 116th General Assembly Any officer, employee, or agent certifying a claim to the attorney general pursuant to section 131.02 of the Revised Code shall supply to the attorney general, upon demand, all papers and information necessary for the commencement and prosecution of any proceedings to collect the delinquent charges. The attorney general, in addition to the powers otherwise reposed in him, shall have such further powers to enforce payment as are given by law to officers, boards, or commissions originally certifying such charges. Whenever the attorney general collects any money upon such claim, he shall pay it to the treasurer of state or to such other custodian to whom it is payable and notify the officer, employee, or agent who originally certified the claim that such collection has been made.
Ohio Rev. Code § 103.411 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 103 / § 103.411
§ 103.411. [Former R.C. 103.412, amended and renumbered as R.C. 103.411 by H.B. 96, 136th General Assembly, effective 9/30/2025] Legislative service commission assistance for medicaid oversight
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly To assist the standing committees overseeing the medicaid program as provided in section 103.41 of the Revised Code, the legislative service commission shall research, review, and summarize the following to the joint standing committees on request of the chairperson who calls the meeting: (A) How the medicaid program relates to the public and private provision of health care coverage in this state and the United States; (B) Reports issued by all agencies that participate in the medicaid program that are submitted to the commission; (C) Policies and strategies related to both of the following: (1) Medicaid recipients being physically and mentally able to join and stay in the workforce and ultimately becoming self-sufficient; (2) Less use of the medicaid program. (D) Newly-adopted rules concerning the medicaid program; (E) Pending Ohio medicaid legislation; (F) Medicaid legislation and innovations in other states; (G) Local healthier buckeye councils reports submitted under section 355.04 of the Revised Code. Last updated September 30, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.073 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.073
§ 122.073. Promoting state of Ohio
Status: in_force

September 28, 2012 Senate Bill 314 (GA 129), House Bill 487 (GA 129) (A) The development services agency may do any of the following: (1) Disseminate information concerning the industrial, commercial, governmental, educational, cultural, recreational, agricultural, and other advantages and attractions of the state; (2) Provide technical assistance to public and private agencies in the preparation of promotional programs designed to attract business, industry, and tourists to the state; (3) Enter into cooperative or contractual agreements, through the director of development services, with any individual, organization, or business to create, administer, or otherwise be involved with Ohio tourism-related promotional programs. Compensation under such agreements shall be determined by the director and may include deferred compensation. This compensation is payable from the tourism fund created in section 122.072 of the Revised Code. Any excess revenue generated under such a cooperative or contractual agreement shall be remitted to the fund to be reinvested in ongoing tourism marketing initiatives as authorized by law. (B) Records related to tourism market research submitted to or generated by the office of TourismOhio, and any information taken for any purpose from such research, are not public records for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code. The agency may use, however, such tourism market research in a public report if the director determines that issuing and distributing the report would promote or market the state's travel and tourism industry or otherwise advance the purposes of this section. The Legislative Service Commission presents the text of this section as a composite of the section as amended by multiple acts of the General Assembly. This presentation recognizes the principle stated in R.C. 1.52(B) that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 128.243 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 128 / § 128.243
§ 128.243. Effect of preemption or conflict with federal law
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly Sections 128.241 and 128.242 of the Revised Code shall not apply if they are preempted by or in conflict with federal law. Last updated April 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.53 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.53
§ 145.53. Amounts credited to employer transitional liability
Status: in_force

April 6, 2007 House Bill 272 - 126th General Assembly (A) From the employer obligation for the month of February 2008, under section 145.51 of the Revised Code, an amount equal to the portion of the employer obligation attributable to section 145.86 of the Revised Code for the months of October, November, and December of 2007, shall be credited to the PERS defined contribution plan to satisfy the portion of the transitional liability attributable to section 145.86 of the Revised Code. (B) When the amount described in division (A) of this section is credited to the PERS defined contribution plan, an equal amount shall be added to the transitional liability described in section 145.52 of the Revised Code to satisfy a portion of the February 2008 employer obligation that is attributable to the PERS defined benefit plan. This amount shall be paid in accordance with section 145.52 of the Revised Code, and shall be prorated to correspond with the portion of the transitional liability due under division (B) of that section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 135.622 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 135 / § 135.622
§ 135.622. Accepting or rejecting a linked deposit loan package
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The treasurer of state may accept or reject a linked deposit loan package, or any portion of it, based on the treasurer of state's evaluation of the eligible borrowers included in the package, the amount of individual loans in the package, and the amount of state funds to be deposited with an eligible lending institution. (B) Upon acceptance of the linked deposit loan package or any portion of it, the treasurer of state may place, purchase, or designate a linked deposit with the eligible lending institution at the discount interest rate, and in accordance with the deposit agreement required under section 135.623 of the Revised Code and the procedures established by the treasurer of state. (C) Eligible lending institutions shall fully comply with this chapter. Last updated September 11, 2023 at 3:57 PM