Ohio Rev. Code § 145.036 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.036
§ 145.036. Transmission of list of independent contractors; determination of status by board
Status: in_force

January 7, 2013 Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly On or before the last day of January of each year, each public employer shall transmit to the public employees retirement system a list of all individuals providing personal services who at any time during the preceding calendar year received compensation from the employer for which no contributions were deducted under section 145.47 of the Revised Code because the employer classified the individual as an independent contractor or another classification other than public employee or any other reason. The list shall contain the name of the individual and any other information required by the system. If there is doubt at the time the list is compiled or at any other time regarding whether an individual providing personal services to a public employer is a public employee, the employer shall make a written request to the public employees retirement board for a determination of whether the individual is a public employee for the purposes of this chapter. On receipt of the request, the board shall determine whether the individual is a public employee with regard to the services in question. If the board determines that the individual is not a public employee, for the purposes of this chapter the individual shall be considered an independent contractor with regard to the services in question. The board's determination is final. The board shall notify the individual and the employer of its determination. The determination shall apply to services performed before, on, or after the effective date of this section for the same employer in the same capacity.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.77 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.77
§ 122.77. Loan guarantees
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) The director of development with controlling board approval may make loan guarantees to small businesses and corporations for the purpose of guaranteeing loans made to small businesses by financial institutions for the purpose of procuring or improving real or personal property, or both, for the establishment, location, or expansion of industrial, distribution, commercial, or research facilities in the state, if the director determines, in the director's sole discretion, that all of the following apply: (1) The project is economically sound and will benefit the people of the state by increasing opportunities for employment, by strengthening the economy of the state, or expanding minority business enterprises. (2) The proposed small business borrower is unable to finance the proposed project through ordinary financial channels at comparable terms. (3) The value of the project is, or upon completion of it will be, at least equal to the total amount of the money expended in the procurement or improvement of the project and of which amount one or more financial institutions or other governmental entities have loaned not less than thirty per cent. (4) The amount to be guaranteed by the director will not exceed eighty per cent of the total amount expended in the procurement or improvement of the project. (5) The amount to be guaranteed by the director will be adequately secured by a first or second mortgage upon the project, or by mortgages, leases, liens, assignments, or pledges on or of other property or contracts as the director shall require and that such mortgage will not be subordinate to any other liens or mortgages except the liens securing loans or investments made by financial institutions referred to in division (A)(3) of this section, and the liens securing loans previously made by any financial institution in connection with the procurement or expansion of all or part of a project. (B) The proposed small business borrower shall not have defaulted on a previous loan or guarantee from the director, and no full or limited partner, or major shareholder, or holder of any equity interest of the proposed minority business enterprise borrower shall have defaulted on a loan or guarantee from the director. (C) The proposed small business borrower shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the director that it is able to successfully compete in the private sector if it obtains the necessary financial, technical, or managerial support and that support is available through the director, the minority business development division of the department of development, or other identified and acceptable sources. In determining whether a small business borrower will be able to successfully compete, the director may give consideration to such factors as the successful completion of or participation in courses of study, recognized by the department of higher education as providing financial, technical, or managerial skills related to the operation of the business, by the economically disadvantaged individual, owner, or partner, and the prior success of the individual, owner, or partner in personal, career, or business activities, as well as to other factors identified by the director. (D) The director shall not guarantee funds for the purpose of procuring or improving motor vehicles or accounts receivable. Last updated July 20, 2021 at 10:11 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.93 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.93
§ 124.93. Discrimination by health insuring corporation against physician
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "physician" means any person who holds a valid license to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery issued under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code. (B) No health insuring corporation that, on or after July 1, 1993, enters into or renews a contract with the department of administrative services under section 124.82 of the Revised Code, because of a physician's race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or military status as defined in section 4112.01 of the Revised Code, age, or ancestry, shall refuse to contract with that physician for the provision of health care services under section 124.82 of the Revised Code. Any health insuring corporation that violates this division is deemed to have engaged in an unlawful discriminatory practice as defined in section 4112.02 of the Revised Code and is subject to Chapter 4112. of the Revised Code. (C) Each health insuring corporation that, on or after July 1, 1993, enters into or renews a contract with the department of administrative services under section 124.82 of the Revised Code and that refuses to contract with a physician for the provision of health care services under that section shall provide that physician with a written notice that clearly explains the reason or reasons for the refusal. The notice shall be sent to the physician by regular mail within thirty days after the refusal. Any health insuring corporation that fails to provide notice in compliance with this division is deemed to have engaged in an unfair and deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance as defined in section 3901.21 of the Revised Code and is subject to sections 3901.19 to 3901.26 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 101.79 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 101 / § 101.79
§ 101.79. Investigation of violations
Status: in_force

January 1, 1991 House Bill 538 - 118th General Assembly The attorney general and any assistant or special counsel designated by him may investigate compliance with sections 101.70 to 101.78 of the Revised Code and with section 2921.13 of the Revised Code in connection with statements required to be filed under these sections and, in the event of an apparent violation, shall report his findings to the prosecuting attorney of Franklin county, who shall institute such proceedings as are appropriate.
Ohio Rev. Code § 121.221 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 121 / § 121.221
§ 121.221. Public meetings - virtual meetings
Status: in_force

April 9, 2025 House Bill 257 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: "Hearing" means an administrative hearing, hearing as defined in section 119.01 of the Revised Code, or other hearing at which a person may present written or oral testimony on a matter before the public body. "Meeting" has the same meaning as in section 121.22 of the Revised Code. "Public body" has the same meaning as in section 121.22 of the Revised Code. "Multi-party meeting" means a meeting in which the members of a public body and the members of at least one other public body are participants. (B) Except as otherwise provided in the Revised Code, members of a public body may hold and attend meetings and may conduct and attend hearings by means of video conference or any other similar electronic technology, and all of the following apply: (1) Any resolution, rule, or formal action of any kind has the same effect as if it occurred during an open meeting or hearing of the public body. (2) Notwithstanding division (C) of section 121.22 of the Revised Code, members of a public body who attend meetings or hearings by means of video conference or any other similar electronic technology shall be considered present as if in person at the meeting or hearing, shall be permitted to vote, and shall be counted for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present at the meeting or hearing. (3) The public body shall not hold hearings or meetings by means of video conference or any other similar electronic technology until the public body has adopted a policy that specifies at least all of the following: (a) The public body shall provide notification of meetings and hearings held under this section to the public, to the media that have requested notification of a meeting, and to the parties required to be notified of a hearing at least seventy-two hours in advance of the meeting or hearing by reasonable methods by which any person may determine the time, location, agenda of the meeting or hearing, and the manner by which the meeting or hearing will be conducted, except in the event of an emergency requiring immediate official action, as defined by the policy. In the event of an emergency, the public body shall immediately notify the news media that have requested notification or the parties required to be notified of a hearing of the time, place, and purpose of the meeting or hearing. (b) The public body shall provide the public access to a meeting held under this section, and to any hearing held under this section that the public would otherwise be entitled to attend, commensurate with the method in which the meeting or hearing is being conducted, including for example, livestreaming by means of the internet, television, cable, or public access channels, or by means of any other similar electronic technology. The public body shall ensure that the public can observe and hear the discussions and deliberations of all the members of the public body, whether the member is participating in person or electronically. Members of the public body shall have a sufficient internet or other electronic connection to allow the member to be seen and heard clearly, and shall be visible at all times. (c) All votes taken in the meeting or hearing shall be taken by roll call vote unless there is a motion for unanimous consent, and the motion is not objected to by a member of the public body. If a vote is taken unanimously, the public body shall provide the public with information on how the members of the public body voted, including any members who abstained from voting. (d) Any member of the public body who intends to attend a meeting by means of video conference or other similar electronic technology shall notify the chairperson of that intent not less than forty-eight hours before the meeting, except in the case of an emergency as defined in the policy. (e) No public body may hold, and no member of a public body may attend meetings or conduct and attend hearings by means of video conference or other similar electronic technology if any of the following apply: (i) The meeting or hearing involves a vote to approve a major nonroutine expenditure as defined in the policy adopted by the public body under this section; (ii) The meeting or hearing involves a vote to approve a significant hiring decision as defined by that policy; (iii) The meeting or hearing involves a purpose to propose, approve, or vote on a tax issue or tax increase; (iv) Excluding expense reimbursements to members for actual expenses incurred while fulfilling their duties, the members of the public body are compensated for their position as members of the public body, except when members are participating in a multi-party meeting if the multi-party meeting does not involve a vote to approve a major nonroutine expenditure or significant hiring decision or involve a purpose to propose, approve, or vote on a tax issue or tax increase; (v) The members of the public body are elected by vote of the general public to their positions as members, except when members are participating in a multi-party meeting if the multi-party meeting does not involve a vote to approve a major nonroutine expenditure or significant hiring decision or involve a purpose to propose, approve, or vote on a tax issue or tax increase. (f) If, upon the notification of an upcoming meeting of a public body, and not later than forty-eight hours before the meeting, the greater of at least ten per cent of the members of the public body or two members of the public body, notifies the chairperson of the public body that an item in the agenda must be acted upon at a meeting conducted fully in person, upon the chairperson's acknowledgment of receipt of the notification, the public body shall take action on the item of the agenda only at a meeting conducted fully in person. (4) A public body shall not hold a hearing, and members of a public body shall not attend a hearing, by means of video conference or other similar electronic technology without the consent of all parties to the hearing. (5)(a) No public body may hold, and no member of a public body may attend, meetings or conduct and attend hearings by means of video conference or other similar electronic technology if any of the following apply: (i) The meeting or hearing involves a vote to approve a major nonroutine expenditure. (ii) The meeting or hearing involves a vote to approve a significant hiring decision. (iii) The meeting or hearing involves a purpose to propose, approve, or vote on a tax issue or tax increase. (iv) Excluding expense reimbursements for actual expenses incurred while fulfilling their duties, the members of the public body are compensated for their position as members of the public body. (v) The members of the public body are elected by the general public to their positions as members. (b) The prohibition on compensated and elected members holding or attending virtual meetings and hearings established in division (A)(5)(a) of this section does not apply to members participating in a virtual multi-party meeting if the multi-party meeting does not involve a vote to approve a major nonroutine expenditure or significant hiring decision or involve a purpose to propose, approve, or vote on a tax issue or tax increase. (C) When members of a public body conduct a meeting or hearing by means of video conference or any other similar electronic technology, the public body shall establish a means, through the use of electronic equipment that is widely available to the general public, to converse with witnesses, receive documentary testimony and physical evidence, and permit public comment, if applicable. (D) The authority granted in this section applies notwithstanding any conflicting provision of the Revised Code. Nothing in this section shall be construed to negate any provision of section 121.22 of the Revised Code, Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, or other section of the Revised Code that is not in conflict with this section. If a section of the Revised Code permits a particular public body to meet or hold hearings by means of teleconference, video conference, or any other similar electronic technology, that section prevails over the provisions of this section with respect to that particular public body. This section is not intended to eliminate, or otherwise affect, any requirements under federal law. Last updated March 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.155 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.155
§ 122.155. State reimbursement amount
Status: in_force

March 23, 2018 Senate Bill 8 - 132nd General Assembly (A)(1) For each calendar year in which a rural business growth fund makes or maintains a growth investment in a rural business concern in this state, the fund shall determine the number of new full-time equivalent employees produced at the business concern as a result of the investment. New full-time equivalent employees shall be computed by subtracting the number of full-time equivalent employees at the rural business concern on the date of the fund's initial growth investment in the rural business concern from the number of full-time equivalent employees at the rural business concern on the last day of the calendar year. If the computation results in a number less than zero, the number of new full-time equivalent employees, produced by the fund's growth investment for that calendar year period shall be zero. Only employees with an hourly wage rate of at least one hundred fifty per cent of the federal minimum wage may be considered in computing the number of new full-time equivalent employees for the purposes of this section. (2) A fund may determine and include, for the purposes of this section and section 122.154 of the Revised Code, the number of new full-time equivalent employees produced at a rural business concern after the year in which the fund's growth investment is repaid or redeemed. The new full-time equivalent employees shall be computed in the same manner as in division (A)(1) of this section based on reporting information provided by the rural business concern to the fund. (B) After a fund's application for decertification is approved under section 122.153 of the Revised Code, the fund shall determine the state reimbursement amount. The state reimbursement amount shall equal the amount by which the fund's credit-eligible capital contributions exceed the product obtained by multiplying thirty thousand dollars by the aggregate number of new full-time equivalent employees for the fund. If that product is greater than the fund's credit-eligible capital contributions, the state reimbursement amount shall equal zero. In the absence of additional information provided by the fund or discovered by the agency, the number of new full-time equivalent employees for the purposes of this division equals the sum of all new full-time equivalent employees reported by the fund on the annual reports required under section 122.154 of the Revised Code. (C) After the state reimbursement amount is computed under division (B) of this section, the fund shall not be permitted to make further distributions to equity holders of the fund, including investors that are equity holders of the funds without first remitting the state reimbursement amount to the agency. All amounts received by the agency under this division shall be credited to the general revenue fund. (D) The director of development services, upon the request of a fund, may waive all or a portion of the remission required under division (C) of this section if the director determines, based on an affidavit of the chief executive officer or president of a rural business concern, that the growth investments of the fund resulted in the retention of employment positions that would have otherwise been eliminated at rural business concerns in this state. The amount waived shall not exceed the product of thirty thousand dollars multiplied by the number of retained employment positions multiplied by the number of years in which the fund made or maintained a growth investment in the rural business concern that retained the employment positions. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 153.72 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 153 / § 153.72
§ 153.72. Authority of design-build firm
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly A design-build firm contracted for design-build services by a public authority may do either of the following: (A) Perform design, construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction work pursuant to such contract; (B) Perform professional design services when contracted by a public authority for design-build services even if the design-build firm is not a professional design firm.
Ohio Rev. Code § 133.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 133 / § 133.09
§ 133.09. Net indebtedness of township - certain securities not considered in calculation
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly (A) Unless it is a township that has adopted a limited home rule government under Chapter 504. of the Revised Code, a township shall not incur net indebtedness that exceeds an amount equal to five per cent of its tax valuation and, except as specifically authorized by section 505.262 of the Revised Code or other laws, shall not incur any net indebtedness unless authorized by vote of the electors. (B) A township that has adopted a limited home rule government under Chapter 504. of the Revised Code shall not incur net indebtedness that exceeds an amount equal to ten and one-half per cent of its tax valuation, or incur without a vote of the electors net indebtedness that exceeds an amount equal to five and one-half per cent of that tax valuation. In calculating the net indebtedness of a township that has adopted a limited home rule government, none of the following securities shall be considered: (1) Self-supporting securities issued for any purpose; (2) Securities issued for the purpose of purchasing, constructing, improving, or extending water or sanitary or surface and storm water sewerage systems or facilities, or a combination of those systems or facilities, to the extent that an agreement entered into with another subdivision requires the other subdivision to pay to the township amounts equivalent to debt charges on the securities; (3) Securities that are not general obligations of the township; (4) Voted securities issued for the purposes of redevelopment to the extent that their principal amount does not exceed an amount equal to two per cent of the tax valuation of the township; (5) Securities issued for the purpose of acquiring or constructing roads, highways, bridges, or viaducts, or for the purpose of acquiring or making other highway permanent improvements, to the extent that the resolution of the board of township trustees authorizing the issuance of the securities includes a covenant to appropriate from money distributed to the township under Chapter 4501., 4503., 4504., or 5735. of the Revised Code a sufficient amount to cover debt charges on and financing costs relating to the securities as they become due; (6) Securities issued for energy conservation measures under section 505.264 of the Revised Code. (C) In calculating the net indebtedness of any township, no obligation incurred under division (B) of section 513.17 or under section 505.261 , 505.264 , 505.265 , 505.267 , or 505.37 of the Revised Code, or in connection with a project undertaken pursuant to Section 515.03 of H.B. 66 of the 126th general assembly, Section 555.10 of H.B. 67 of the 127th general assembly, or Section 755.20 of H.B. 153 of the 129th general assembly shall be considered.
Ohio Rev. Code § 163.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 163 / § 163.05
§ 163.05. Petition for appropriation
Status: in_force

October 10, 2007 Senate Bill 7 - 127th General Assembly An agency that has met the requirements of sections 163.04 and 163.041 of the Revised Code, may commence proceedings in a proper court by filing a petition for appropriation of each parcel or contiguous parcels in a single common ownership, or interest or right therein. The petition of a private agency shall be verified as in a civil action. All petitions shall contain: (A) A description of each parcel of land or interest or right therein sought to be appropriated, such as will permit ready identification of the land involved; (B)(1) A statement that the appropriation is necessary, for a public use, and, in the case of a public agency, a copy of the resolution of the public agency to appropriate; (2) If the property being appropriated is a blighted parcel that is being appropriated pursuant to a redevelopment plan, a statement that shows the basis for the finding of blight and that supports that the parcel is part of a blighted area pursuant to the definition in section 1.08 of the Revised Code. (C) A statement of the purpose of the appropriation; (D) A statement of the estate or interest sought to be appropriated; (E) The names and addresses of the owners, so far as they can be ascertained; (F) A statement showing requirements of section 163.04 of the Revised Code have been met; (G) A prayer for the appropriation. In the event of an appropriation where the agency would require less than the whole of any parcel containing a residence structure and the required portion would remove a garage and sufficient land that a replacement garage could not be lawfully or practically attached, the appropriation shall be for the whole parcel and all structures unless, at the discretion of the owner, the owner waives this requirement, in which case the agency shall appropriate only the portion that the agency requires as well as the entirety of any structure that is in whole or in part on the required portion. In the event of the appropriation of less than the fee of any parcel or of a fee in less than the whole of any parcel of property, the agency shall either make available to the owner or shall file in the office of the county engineer, a description of the nature of the improvement or use which requires the appropriation, including any specifications, elevations, and grade changes already determined at the time of the filing of the petition, in sufficient detail to permit a determination of the nature, extent, and effect of the taking and improvement. A set of highway construction plans shall be acceptable in providing such description for the purposes of the preceding sentence in the appropriation of land for highway purposes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 128.52 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 128 / § 128.52
§ 128.52. Sales subject to taxes on retail sales
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Each seller of a prepaid wireless calling service required to collect prepaid wireless 9-1-1 charges under section 128.40 of the Revised Code or next generation 9-1-1 access fees under section 128.421 of the Revised Code shall also be subject to the provisions of Chapter 5739. of the Revised Code regarding the excise tax on retail sales levied under section 5739.02 of the Revised Code, as those provisions apply to audits, assessments, appeals, enforcement, liability, and penalties. (B) The tax commissioner shall establish procedures by which a person may document that a sale is not a retail sale of a prepaid wireless calling service. The procedures shall substantially coincide with similar procedures under Chapter 5739. of the Revised Code. Last updated September 14, 2023 at 4:09 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 165.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 165 / § 165.08
§ 165.08. Bonds are lawful investments
Status: in_force

November 2, 1999 House Bill 222 - 123rd General Assembly Bonds issued under this chapter are lawful investments of banks, societies for savings, savings and loan associations, deposit guarantee associations, trust companies, trustees, fiduciaries, insurance companies, including domestic for life and domestic not for life, trustees or other officers having charge of sinking and bond retirement or other special funds of political subdivisions and taxing districts of this state, the commissioners of the sinking fund of the state, the administrator of workers' compensation, the state teachers retirement system, the public employees retirement system, the school employees retirement system, and the Ohio police and fire pension fund are also acceptable as security for the deposit of public moneys.
Ohio Rev. Code § 197.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 197 / § 197.03
§ 197.03. Holocaust and genocide memorial and education commission
Status: in_force

December 29, 2020 Senate Bill 310 - 133rd General Assembly There is hereby created the Holocaust and genocide memorial and education commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.171 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.171
§ 122.171. Tax credits to foster job retention
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Capital investment project" means a plan of investment at a project site for the acquisition, construction, renovation, or repair of buildings, machinery, or equipment, or for capitalized costs of basic research and new product development determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, but does not include any of the following: (a) Payments made for the acquisition of personal property through operating leases; (b) Project costs paid before January 1, 2002; (c) Payments made to a related member as defined in section 5733.042 of the Revised Code or to a consolidated elected taxpayer or a combined taxpayer as defined in section 5751.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Eligible business" means a taxpayer and its related members with Ohio operations that had a capital investment project reviewed and approved by the tax credit authority as provided in divisions (C), (D), and (E) of this section and that satisfies either of the following requirements: (a) If engaged at the project site primarily in significant corporate administrative functions, as defined by the director of development by rule, the taxpayer meets both of the following criteria: (i) The taxpayer either is located in a foreign trade zone, employs at least five hundred full-time equivalent employees, or has an annual Ohio employee payroll of at least thirty-five million dollars at the time the tax credit authority grants the tax credit under this section; (ii) The taxpayer makes or causes to be made payments for the capital investment project of at least twenty million dollars in the aggregate at the project site during a period of three consecutive calendar years including the calendar year that includes a day of the taxpayer's taxable year or tax period with respect to which the credit is granted. (b) If engaged at the project site primarily as a manufacturer, the taxpayer makes or causes to be made payments for the capital investment project at the project site during a period of three consecutive calendar years, including the calendar year that includes a day of the taxpayer's taxable year or tax period with respect to which the credit is granted, in an amount that in the aggregate equals or exceeds the lesser of the following: (i) Fifty million dollars; (ii) Five per cent of the net book value of all tangible personal property used at the project site as of the last day of the three-year period in which the capital investment payments are made. (3) "Full-time equivalent employees" means the quotient obtained by dividing the total number of hours for which employees were compensated for employment in the project by two thousand eighty. "Full-time equivalent employees" shall exclude hours that are counted for a credit under section 122.17 of the Revised Code. (4) "Ohio employee payroll" has the same meaning as in section 122.17 of the Revised Code. (5) "Manufacturer" has the same meaning as in section 5739.011 of the Revised Code. (6) "Project site" means an integrated complex of facilities in this state, as specified by the tax credit authority under this section, within a fifteen-mile radius where a taxpayer is primarily operating as an eligible business. (7) "Related member" has the same meaning as in section 5733.042 of the Revised Code as that section existed on the effective date of its amendment by Am. Sub. H.B. 215 of the 122nd general assembly, September 29, 1997. (8) "Taxable year" includes, in the case of a domestic or foreign insurance company, the calendar year ending on the thirty-first day of December preceding the day the superintendent of insurance is required to certify to the treasurer of state under section 5725.20 or 5729.05 of the Revised Code the amount of taxes due from insurance companies. (9) "Foreign trade zone" means a general purpose foreign trade zone or a special purpose subzone for which, pursuant to 19 U.S.C. 81a, as amended, a permit for foreign trade zone status has been granted and remains active, including special purpose subzones for which a permit has been granted and remains active. (B) The tax credit authority created under section 122.17 of the Revised Code may grant a nonrefundable tax credit to an eligible business under this section for the purpose of fostering job retention in this state. Upon application by an eligible business and upon consideration of the determination of the director of budget and management, tax commissioner, and the superintendent of insurance in the case of an insurance company, the recommendation and determination of the director of development under division (C)(1) of this section, and a review of the criteria described in division (C)(2) of this section, the tax credit authority may grant the credit against the tax imposed by section 5725.18 , 5726.02 , 5729.03 , 5733.06 , 5736.02 , 5747.02 , or 5751.02 of the Revised Code. The credit authorized in this section may be granted for a period up to fifteen taxable years or, in the case of the tax levied by section 5736.02 or 5751.02 of the Revised Code, for a period of up to fifteen calendar years. The credit amount for a taxable year or a calendar year that includes the tax period for which a credit may be claimed equals the Ohio employee payroll for that year multiplied by the percentage specified in the agreement with the tax credit authority. The credit shall be claimed in the order required under section 5725.98 , 5726.98 , 5729.98 , 5733.98 , 5747.98 , or 5751.98 of the Revised Code. In determining the percentage and term of the credit, the tax credit authority shall consider both the number of full-time equivalent employees and the value of the capital investment project. The credit amount may not be based on the Ohio employee payroll for a calendar year before the calendar year in which the tax credit authority specifies the tax credit is to begin, and the credit shall be claimed only for the taxable years or tax periods specified in the eligible business' agreement with the tax credit authority. In no event shall the credit be claimed for a taxable year or tax period terminating before the date specified in the agreement. If a credit allowed under this section for a taxable year or tax period exceeds the taxpayer's tax liability for that year or period, the excess may be carried forward for the three succeeding taxable or calendar years, but the amount of any excess credit allowed in any taxable year or tax period shall be deducted from the balance carried forward to the succeeding year or period. (C)(1) A taxpayer that proposes a capital investment project to retain jobs in this state may apply to the tax credit authority to enter into an agreement for a tax credit under this section. The director of development shall prescribe the form of the application. After receipt of an application, the authority shall forward copies of the application to the director of budget and management, the tax commissioner, and the superintendent of insurance in the case of an insurance company, each of whom shall review the application to determine the economic impact the proposed project would have on the state and the affected political subdivisions and shall submit a summary of their determinations to the authority. The authority shall also forward a copy of the application to the director of development, who shall review the application to determine the economic impact the proposed project would have on the state and the affected political subdivisions and shall submit a summary of the director's determinations and recommendations to the authority. (2) The director of development, in reviewing applications and making recommendations to the tax credit authority, and the authority, in selecting taxpayers with which to enter into an agreement under division (D) of this section, shall give priority to applications that meet one or more of the following criteria, with greater priority given to applications that meet more of the criteria: (a) Within the preceding five years, the applicant has not received a credit under this section or section 122.17 of the Revised Code for a project at the same project site as that proposed in the application. (b) The applicant is not currently receiving a credit under this section or section 122.17 of the Revised Code. (c) The applicant has operated at the project site for at least the preceding ten years. (d) The project involves a significant upgrade of the project site, rather than only routine maintenance of existing facilities, such as an increase in capacity of a facility, new product development, or technology upgrades or other facility modernization. (e) The applicant intends to use machinery, equipment, and materials supplied by Ohio businesses in the project when possible. (D) Upon review and consideration of the determinations, recommendations, and criteria described in division (C) of this section, the tax credit authority may enter into an agreement with the taxpayer for a credit under this section if the authority determines all of the following: (1) The taxpayer's capital investment project will result in the retention of employment in this state. (2) The taxpayer is economically sound and has the ability to complete the proposed capital investment project. (3) The taxpayer intends to and has the ability to maintain operations at the project site for at least the greater of (a) the term of the credit plus three years, or (b) seven years. (4) Receiving the credit is a major factor in the taxpayer's decision to begin, continue with, or complete the project. (E) An agreement under this section shall include all of the following: (1) A detailed description of the project that is the subject of the agreement, including the amount of the investment, the period over which the investment has been or is being made, the number of full-time equivalent employees at the project site, and the anticipated Ohio employee payroll to be generated. (2) The term of the credit, the percentage of the tax credit, the maximum annual value of tax credits that may be allowed each year, and the first year for which the credit may be claimed. (3) A requirement that the taxpayer maintain operations at the project site for at least the greater of (a) the term of the credit plus three years, or (b) seven years. (4)(a) If the taxpayer is engaged at the project site primarily in significant corporate administrative functions, a requirement that the taxpayer either retain at least five hundred full-time equivalent employees at the project site and within this state for the entire term of the credit, maintain an annual Ohio employee payroll of at least thirty-five million dollars for the entire term of the credit, or remain located in a foreign trade zone for the entire term of the credit; (b) If the taxpayer is engaged at the project site primarily as a manufacturer, a requirement that the taxpayer maintain at least the number of full-time equivalent employees specified in the agreement pursuant to division (E)(1) of this section at the project site and within this state for the entire term of the credit. (5) A requirement that the taxpayer annually report to the director of development full-time equivalent employees, Ohio employee payroll, capital investment, and other information the director needs to perform the director's duties under this section. (6) A requirement that the director of development annually review the annual reports of the taxpayer to verify the information reported under division (E)(5) of this section and compliance with the agreement. Upon verification, the director shall issue a certificate to the taxpayer stating that the information has been verified and identifying the amount of the credit for the taxable year or calendar year that includes the tax period. In determining the number of full-time equivalent employees, no position shall be counted that is filled by an employee who is included in the calculation of a tax credit under section 122.17 of the Revised Code. (7) A provision providing that the taxpayer may not relocate a substantial number of employment positions from elsewhere in this state to the project site unless the director of development determines that the taxpayer notified the legislative authority of the county, township, or municipal corporation from which the employment positions would be relocated. For purposes of this section, the movement of an employment position from one political subdivision to another political subdivision shall be considered a relocation of an employment position unless the movement is confined to the project site. The transfer of an employment position from one political subdivision to another political subdivision shall not be considered a relocation of an employment position if the employment position in the first political subdivision is replaced by another employment position. (8) A waiver by the taxpayer of any limitations periods relating to assessments or adjustments resulting from the taxpayer's failure to comply with the agreement. (F) If a taxpayer fails to meet or comply with any condition or requirement set forth in a tax credit agreement, the tax credit authority may amend the agreement to reduce the percentage or term of the credit. The reduction of the percentage or term may take effect in the current taxable or calendar year. (G) Financial statements and other information submitted to the department of development or the tax credit authority by an applicant for or recipient of a tax credit under this section, and any information taken for any purpose from such statements or information, are not public records subject to section 149.43 of the Revised Code. However, the chairperson of the authority may make use of the statements and other information for purposes of issuing public reports or in connection with court proceedings concerning tax credit agreements under this section. Upon the request of the tax commissioner, or the superintendent of insurance in the case of an insurance company, the chairperson of the authority shall provide to the commissioner or superintendent any statement or other information submitted by an applicant for or recipient of a tax credit in connection with the credit. The commissioner or superintendent shall preserve the confidentiality of the statement or other information. (H) A taxpayer claiming a tax credit under this section shall submit to the tax commissioner or, in the case of an insurance company, to the superintendent of insurance, a copy of the director of development's certificate of verification under division (E)(6) of this section with the taxpayer's tax report or return for the taxable year or for the calendar year that includes the tax period. Failure to submit a copy of the certificate with the report or return does not invalidate a claim for a credit if the taxpayer submits a copy of the certificate to the commissioner or superintendent within the time prescribed by section 5703.0510 of the Revised Code or within thirty days after the commissioner or superintendent requests it. (I) For the purposes of this section, a taxpayer may include a partnership, a corporation that has made an election under subchapter S of chapter one of subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code, or any other business entity through which income flows as a distributive share to its owners. A partnership, S-corporation, or other such business entity may elect to pass the credit received under this section through to the persons to whom the income or profit of the partnership, S-corporation, or other entity is distributed. The election shall be made on the annual report required under division (E)(5) of this section. The election applies to and is irrevocable for the credit for which the report is submitted. If the election is made, the credit shall be apportioned among those persons in the same proportions as those in which the income or profit is distributed. (J)(1) If the director of development determines that a taxpayer that received a certificate under division (E)(6) of this section is not complying with the requirements of the agreement, the director shall notify the tax credit authority of the noncompliance. After receiving such a notice, and after giving the taxpayer an opportunity to explain the noncompliance, the authority may terminate the agreement and require the taxpayer, or any related member or members that claimed the tax credit under division (N) of this section, to refund to the state all or a portion of the credit claimed in previous years, as follows: (a) If the taxpayer fails to comply with the requirement under division (E)(3) of this section, an amount determined in accordance with the following: (i) If the taxpayer maintained operations at the project site for less than or equal to the term of the credit, an amount not to exceed one hundred per cent of the sum of any tax credits allowed and received under this section. (ii) If the taxpayer maintained operations at the project site longer than the term of the credit, but less than the greater of seven years or the term of the credit plus three years, the amount required to be refunded shall not exceed seventy-five per cent of the sum of any tax credits allowed and received under this section. (b) If the taxpayer fails to substantially, satisfy the employment, payroll, or location requirements required under the agreement, as prescribed under division (E)(4)(a) or (b), as applicable to the taxpayer, at any time during the term of the agreement or during the post-term reporting period, an amount determined at the discretion of the authority. (2) If a taxpayer files for bankruptcy and fails as described in division (J)(1)(a) or (b) of this section, the director may immediately commence an action to recoup an amount not exceeding one hundred per cent of the sum of any credits received by the taxpayer under this section. (3) In determining the portion of the credit to be refunded to this state, the authority shall consider the effect of market conditions on the taxpayer's project and whether the taxpayer continues to maintain other operations in this state. After making the determination, the authority shall certify the amount to be refunded to the tax commissioner or the superintendent of insurance. If the taxpayer, or any related member or members who claimed the tax credit under division (N) of this section, is not an insurance company, the commissioner shall make an assessment for that amount against the taxpayer under Chapter 5726., 5733., 5736., 5747., or 5751. of the Revised Code. If the taxpayer, or any related member or members that claimed the tax credit under division (N) of this section, is an insurance company, the superintendent of insurance shall make an assessment under section 5725.222 or 5729.102 of the Revised Code. The time limitations on assessments under those chapters and sections do not apply to an assessment under this division, but the commissioner or superintendent shall make the assessment within one year after the date the authority certifies to the commissioner or superintendent the amount to be refunded. Within ninety days after certifying the amount to be refunded, if circumstances have changed, the authority may adjust the amount to be refunded and certify the adjusted amount to the commissioner or superintendent. The authority may only adjust the amount to be refunded one time and only if the amount initially certified by the authority has not been repaid, in whole or in part, by the taxpayer or certified to the attorney general for collection under section 131.02 of the Revised Code. (K) The director of development, after consultation with the tax commissioner and the superintendent of insurance and in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules necessary to implement this section. The rules may provide for recipients of tax credits under this section to be charged fees to cover administrative costs of the tax credit program. The fees collected shall be credited to the tax incentives operating fund created in section 122.174 of the Revised Code. At the time the director gives public notice under division (A) of section 119.03 of the Revised Code of the adoption of the rules, the director shall submit copies of the proposed rules to the chairpersons of the standing committees on economic development in the senate and the house of representatives. (L) On or before the first day of August of each year, the director of development shall submit a report to the governor, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives on the tax credit program under this section. The report shall include information on the number of agreements that were entered into under this section during the preceding calendar year, a description of the project that is the subject of each such agreement, and an update on the status of projects under agreements entered into before the preceding calendar year. (M) The aggregate amount of nonrefundable tax credits issued under this section during any calendar year for capital investment projects reviewed and approved by the tax credit authority may not exceed the following amounts: (1) For 2010, thirteen million dollars; (2) For 2011 through 2023, the amount of the limit for the preceding calendar year plus thirteen million dollars; (3) For 2024 and each year thereafter, one hundred ninety-five million dollars. The limitations in division (M) of this section do not apply to credits for capital investment projects approved by the tax credit authority before July 1, 2009. (N) This division applies only to an eligible business that is part of an affiliated group that includes a diversified savings and loan holding company or a grandfathered unitary savings and loan holding company, as those terms are defined in section 5726.01 of the Revised Code. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of the agreement between such an eligible business and the tax credit authority, any credit granted under this section against the tax imposed by section 5725.18 , 5729.03 , 5733.06 , 5747.02 , or 5751.02 of the Revised Code to the eligible business, at the election of the eligible business and without any action by the tax credit authority, may be shared with any member or members of the affiliated group that includes the eligible business, which member or members may claim the credit against the taxes imposed by section 5725.18 , 5726.02 , 5729.03 , 5733.06 , 5747.02 , or 5751.02 of the Revised Code. Credits shall be claimed by the eligible business in sequential order, as applicable, first claiming the credits to the fullest extent possible against the tax that the certificate holder is subject to, then against the tax imposed by, sequentially, section 5729.03 , 5725.18 , 5747.02 , 5751.02 , and lastly 5726.02 of the Revised Code. The credits may be allocated among the members of the affiliated group in such manner as the eligible business elects, but subject to the sequential order required under this division. This division applies to credits granted before, on, or after March 27, 2013, the effective date of H.B. 510 of the 129th general assembly. Credits granted before that effective date that are shared and allocated under this division may be claimed in those calendar years in which the remaining taxable years specified in the agreement end. As used in this division, "affiliated group" means a group of two or more persons with fifty per cent or greater of the value of each person's ownership interests owned or controlled directly, indirectly, or constructively through related interests by common owners during all or any portion of the taxable year, and the common owners. "Affiliated group" includes, but is not limited to, any person eligible to be included in a consolidated elected taxpayer group under section 5751.011 of the Revised Code or a combined taxpayer group under section 5751.012 of the Revised Code. (O)(1) As used in division (O) of this section: (a) "Eligible agreement" means an agreement approved by the tax credit authority under this section on or before December 31, 2013. (b) "Reporting period" means a period corresponding to the annual report required under division (E)(5) of this section. (c) "Income tax revenue" has the same meaning as under division (S) of section 122.17 of the Revised Code. (2) In calendar year 2016 and thereafter, the tax credit authority shall annually determine a withholding adjustment factor to be used in the computation of income tax revenue for eligible agreements. The withholding adjustment factor shall be a numerical percentage that equals the percentage that employer income tax withholding rates have been increased or decreased as a result of changes in the income tax rates prescribed by section 5747.02 of the Revised Code by amendment of that section taking effect on or after June 29, 2013. (3) Except as provided in division (O)(4) of this section, for reporting periods ending in 2015 and thereafter for taxpayers subject to eligible agreements, the tax credit authority shall adjust the income tax revenue reported on the taxpayer's annual report by multiplying the withholding adjustment factor by the taxpayer's income tax revenue and doing one of the following: (a) If the income tax rates prescribed by section 5747.02 of the Revised Code have decreased by amendment of this section taking effect on or after June 29, 2013, add the product to the taxpayer's income tax revenue. (b) If the income tax rates prescribed by section 5747.02 of the Revised Code have increased by amendment of this section taking effect on or after June 29, 2013, subtract the product from the taxpayer's income tax revenue. (4) Division (O)(3) of this section shall not apply unless all of the following apply with respect to the eligible agreement: (a) If applicable, the taxpayer has achieved one hundred per cent of the job retention commitment identified in the agreement. (b) If applicable, the taxpayer has achieved one hundred per cent of the payroll retention commitment identified in the agreement. " (c) If applicable, the taxpayer has achieved one hundred per cent of the investment commitment identified in the agreement. (5) Failure by a taxpayer to have achieved any of the applicable commitments described in divisions (O)(4)(a) to (c) of this section in a reporting period does not disqualify the taxpayer for the adjustment under division (O) of this section for an ensuing reporting period. Last updated September 19, 2023 at 1:17 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 119.121 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 119 / § 119.121
§ 119.121. Effect of expiration of license on appeal process
Status: in_force

October 2, 1953 House Bill 754 - 100th General Assembly The expiration of the license involved in an appeal filed pursuant to section 119.12 of the Revised Code shall not affect the appeal. If during an appeal the existing license shall expire the court in its order in favor of an aggrieved person shall order the agency to renew the license upon payment of the fee prescribed by law for the license.
Ohio Rev. Code § 159.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 159 / § 159.04
§ 159.04. Exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction over land acquired by United States - retrocession
Status: in_force

August 3, 1999 Senate Bill 89 - 123rd General Assembly (A) Exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction in and over any land acquired by the United States under section 159.03 of the Revised Code is hereby ceded to the United States. The jurisdiction so ceded shall continue no longer than the said United States owns or holds legal interest in such lands. (B) The governor may accept, on behalf of the state, retrocession of full or partial jurisdiction over any roads, highways, or other lands in federal enclaves where the appropriate federal authority offers the retrocession. The governor shall deliver the documents executed by the federal authority and the governor concurring in the retrocession, for recording, to the office of the recorder of the county in which the lands are located. (C) The granting of exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction to the United States pursuant to division (A) of this section shall take effect only upon the granting of either form of jurisdiction by the governor to the United States and the acceptance of either form of jurisdiction by the United States. (D) Nothing in this section is intended to modify, revoke, or in any way affect any prior grant of jurisdiction by the state to the United States that was made prior to the effective date of this amendment.
Ohio Rev. Code § 125.58 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 125 / § 125.58
§ 125.58. Failure to execute contract - penalty charge for late orders
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The department of administrative services may set a daily penalty charge for late orders, provided the penalty schedule and amount are stated in the invitation to bid or request for proposals for printing. Last updated July 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 173.38 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 173 / § 173.38
§ 173.38. Criminal records checks for direct-care positions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Applicant" means a person who is under final consideration for employment with a responsible party in a full-time, part-time, or temporary direct-care position or is referred to a responsible party by an employment service for such a position. "Applicant" does not include a person being considered for a direct-care position as a volunteer. (2) "Area agency on aging" has the same meaning as in section 173.14 of the Revised Code. (3) "Community-based long-term care services" means community-based long-term care services, as defined in section 173.14 of the Revised Code, that are provided under a program the department of aging administers. (4) "Consumer" means an individual who receives community-based long-term care services. (5) "Criminal records check" has the same meaning as in section 109.572 of the Revised Code. (6)(a) "Direct-care position" means an employment position in which an employee has either or both of the following: (i) In-person contact with one or more consumers; (ii) Access to one or more consumers' personal property or records. (b) "Direct-care position" does not include any of the following: (i) A person whose sole duties are transporting individuals under Chapter 306. of the Revised Code; (ii) An attorney licensed to practice law in this state; (iii) A person who is not licensed to practice law in this state, but, at the direction of an attorney licensed to practice law in this state, assists the attorney in the attorney's provision of legal services. (7) "Disqualifying offense" means any of the offenses listed or described in divisions (A)(3)(a) to (e) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code. (8) "Employee" means a person employed by a responsible party in a full-time, part-time, or temporary direct-care position and a person who works in such a position due to being referred to a responsible party by an employment service. "Employee" does not include a person who works in a direct-care position as a volunteer. (9) "PASSPORT administrative agency" has the same meaning as in section 173.42 of the Revised Code. (10) "Provider" has the same meaning as in section 173.39 of the Revised Code. (11) "Responsible party" means the following: (a) An area agency on aging in the case of either of the following: (i) A person who is an applicant because the person is under final consideration for employment with the agency in a full-time, part-time, or temporary direct-care position or is referred to the agency by an employment service for such a position; (ii) A person who is an employee because the person is employed by the agency in a full-time, part-time, or temporary direct-care position or works in such a position due to being referred to the agency by an employment service. (b) A PASSPORT administrative agency in the case of either of the following: (i) A person who is an applicant because the person is under final consideration for employment with the agency in a full-time, part-time, or temporary direct-care position or is referred to the agency by an employment service for such a position; (ii) A person who is an employee because the person is employed by the agency in a full-time, part-time, or temporary direct-care position or works in such a position due to being referred to the agency by an employment service. (c) A provider in the case of either of the following: (i) A person who is an applicant because the person is under final consideration for employment with the provider in a full-time, part-time, or temporary direct-care position or is referred to the provider by an employment service for such a position; (ii) A person who is an employee because the person is employed by the provider in a full-time, part-time, or temporary direct-care position or works in such a position due to being referred to the provider by an employment service. (d) A subcontractor in the case of either of the following: (i) A person who is an applicant because the person is under final consideration for employment with the subcontractor in a full-time, part-time, or temporary direct-care position or is referred to the subcontractor by an employment service for such a position; (ii) A person who is an employee because the person is employed by the subcontractor in a full-time, part-time, or temporary direct-care position or works in such a position due to being referred to the subcontractor by an employment service. (12) "Subcontractor" has the meaning specified in rules adopted under this section. (13) "Volunteer" means a person who serves in a direct-care position without receiving or expecting to receive any form of remuneration other than reimbursement for actual expenses. (14) "Waiver agency" has the same meaning as in section 5164.342 of the Revised Code. (B) This section does not apply to any of the following: (1) A person who is subject to a database review or criminal records check under section 173.381 or 3740.11 of the Revised Code; (2) A person who is subject to a criminal records check under section 3721.121 of the Revised Code; (3) A participant-directed provider, but only if the director of aging has conducted a database review of the provider in the same manner that other database reviews are conducted under this section; (4) An ambulette driver employed by an organization licensed under Chapter 4766. of the Revised Code. (C) No responsible party shall employ an applicant or continue to employ an employee in a direct-care position if any of the following apply: (1) A review of the databases listed in division (E) of this section reveals any of the following: (a) That the applicant or employee is included in one or more of the databases listed in divisions (E)(1) to (5) of this section; (b) That there is in the state nurse aide registry established under section 3721.32 of the Revised Code a statement detailing findings by the director of health that the applicant or employee abused, neglected, or exploited a long-term care facility or residential care facility resident or misappropriated property of such a resident; (c) That the applicant or employee is included in one or more of the databases, if any, specified in rules adopted under this section and the rules prohibit the responsible party from employing an applicant or continuing to employ an employee included in such a database in a direct-care position. (2) After the applicant or employee is provided, pursuant to division (F)(2)(a) of this section, a copy of the form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code and the standard impression sheet prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of that section, the applicant or employee fails to complete the form or provide the applicant's or employee's fingerprint impressions on the standard impression sheet. (3) Unless the applicant or employee meets standards specified in rules adopted under this section, the applicant or employee is found by a criminal records check required by this section to have been convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or been found eligible for intervention in lieu of conviction for a disqualifying offense. (D) Except as provided by division (G) of this section, the chief administrator of a responsible party shall inform each applicant of both of the following at the time of the applicant's initial application for employment or referral to the responsible party by an employment service for a direct-care position: (1) That a review of the databases listed in division (E) of this section will be conducted to determine whether the responsible party is prohibited by division (C)(1) of this section from employing the applicant in the direct-care position; (2) That, unless the database review reveals that the applicant may not be employed in the direct-care position, a criminal records check of the applicant will be conducted and the applicant is required to provide a set of the applicant's fingerprint impressions as part of the criminal records check. (E) As a condition of employing any applicant in a direct-care position, the chief administrator of a responsible party shall conduct a database review of the applicant in accordance with rules adopted under this section. If rules adopted under this section so require, the chief administrator of a responsible party shall conduct a database review of an employee in accordance with the rules as a condition of continuing to employ the employee in a direct-care position. However, a chief administrator is not required to conduct a database review of an applicant or employee if division (G) of this section applies. A database review shall determine whether the applicant or employee is included in any of the following: (1) The excluded parties list system that is maintained by the United States general services administration pursuant to subpart 9.4 of the federal acquisition regulation and available at the federal web site known as the system for award management; (2) The list of excluded individuals and entities maintained by the office of inspector general in the United States department of health and human services pursuant to the "Social Security Act," sections 1128 and 1156, 42 U.S.C. 1320a-7 and 1320c-5; (3) The registry of developmental disabilities employees established under section 5123.52 of the Revised Code; (4) The internet-based sex offender and child-victim offender database established under division (A)(11) of section 2950.13 of the Revised Code; (5) The internet-based database of inmates established under section 5120.66 of the Revised Code; (6) The state nurse aide registry established under section 3721.32 of the Revised Code; (7) Any other database, if any, specified in rules adopted under this section. (F)(1) As a condition of employing any applicant in a direct-care position, the chief administrator of a responsible party shall request that the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation conduct a criminal records check of the applicant. If rules adopted under this section so require, the chief administrator of a responsible party shall request that the superintendent conduct a criminal records check of an employee at times specified in the rules as a condition of continuing to employ the employee in a direct-care position. However, the chief administrator is not required to request the criminal records check of the applicant or employee if division (G) of this section applies or the responsible party is prohibited by division (C)(1) of this section from employing the applicant or continuing to employ the employee in a direct-care position. If an applicant or employee for whom a criminal records check request is required by this section does not present proof of having been a resident of this state for the five-year period immediately prior to the date the criminal records check is requested or provide evidence that within that five-year period the superintendent has requested information about the applicant or employee from the federal bureau of investigation in a criminal records check, the chief administrator shall request that the superintendent obtain information from the federal bureau of investigation as part of the criminal records check. Even if an applicant or employee for whom a criminal records check request is required by this section presents proof of having been a resident of this state for the five-year period, the chief administrator may request that the superintendent include information from the federal bureau of investigation in the criminal records check. (2) The chief administrator shall do all of the following: (a) Provide to each applicant and employee for whom a criminal records check request is required by this section a copy of the form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code and a standard impression sheet prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of that section; (b) Obtain the completed form and standard impression sheet from the applicant or employee; (c) Forward the completed form and standard impression sheet to the superintendent. (3) A responsible party shall pay to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation the fee prescribed pursuant to division (C)(3) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code for each criminal records check the responsible party requests under this section. A responsible party may charge an applicant a fee not exceeding the amount the responsible party pays to the bureau under this section if both of the following apply: (a) The responsible party notifies the applicant at the time of initial application for employment of the amount of the fee and that, unless the fee is paid, the applicant will not be considered for employment. (b) The medicaid program does not pay the responsible party for the fee it pays to the bureau under this section. (G) Divisions (D) to (F) of this section do not apply with regard to an applicant or employee if the applicant or employee is referred to a responsible party by an employment service that supplies full-time, part-time, or temporary staff for direct-care positions and both of the following apply: (1) The chief administrator of the responsible party receives from the employment service confirmation that a review of the databases listed in division (E) of this section was conducted of the applicant or employee. (2) The chief administrator of the responsible party receives from the employment service, applicant, or employee a report of the results of a criminal records check of the applicant or employee that has been conducted by the superintendent within the one-year period immediately preceding the following: (a) In the case of an applicant, the date of the applicant's referral by the employment service to the responsible party; (b) In the case of an employee, the date by which the responsible party would otherwise have to request a criminal records check of the employee under division (F) of this section. (H)(1) A responsible party may employ conditionally an applicant for whom a criminal records check request is required by this section prior to obtaining the results of the criminal records check if the responsible party is not prohibited by division (C)(1) of this section from employing the applicant in a direct-care position and either of the following applies: (a) The chief administrator of the responsible party requests the criminal records check in accordance with division (F) of this section before conditionally employing the applicant. (b) The applicant is referred to the responsible party by an employment service, the employment service or the applicant provides the chief administrator of the responsible party a letter that is on the letterhead of the employment service, the letter is dated and signed by a supervisor or another designated official of the employment service, and the letter states all of the following: (i) That the employment service has requested the superintendent to conduct a criminal records check regarding the applicant; (ii) That the requested criminal records check is to include a determination of whether the applicant has been convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or been found eligible for intervention in lieu of conviction for a disqualifying offense; (iii) That the employment service has not received the results of the criminal records check as of the date set forth on the letter; (iv) That the employment service promptly will send a copy of the results of the criminal records check to the chief administrator of the responsible party when the employment service receives the results. (2) If a responsible party employs an applicant conditionally pursuant to division (H)(1)(b) of this section, the employment service, on its receipt of the results of the criminal records check, promptly shall send a copy of the results to the chief administrator of the responsible party. (3) A responsible party that employs an applicant conditionally pursuant to division (H)(1)(a) or (b) of this section shall terminate the applicant's employment if the results of the criminal records check, other than the results of any request for information from the federal bureau of investigation, are not obtained within the period ending sixty days after the date the request for the criminal records check is made. Regardless of when the results of the criminal records check are obtained, if the results indicate that the applicant has been convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or been found eligible for intervention in lieu of conviction for a disqualifying offense, the responsible party shall terminate the applicant's employment unless the applicant meets standards specified in rules adopted under this section that permit the responsible party to employ the applicant and the responsible party chooses to employ the applicant. Termination of employment under this division shall be considered just cause for discharge for purposes of division (D)(2) of section 4141.29 of the Revised Code if the applicant makes any attempt to deceive the responsible party about the applicant's criminal record. (I) The report of any criminal records check conducted pursuant to a request made under this section is not a public record for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and shall not be made available to any person other than the following: (1) The applicant or employee who is the subject of the criminal records check or the applicant's or employee's representative; (2) The chief administrator of the responsible party requesting the criminal records check or the administrator's representative; (3) The administrator of any other facility, agency, or program that provides community-based long-term care services that is owned or operated by the same entity that owns or operates the responsible party that requested the criminal records check; (4) The employment service that requested the criminal records check; (5) The director of aging or a person authorized by the director to monitor a responsible party's compliance with this section; (6) The medicaid director and the staff of the department of medicaid who are involved in the administration of the medicaid program if any of the following apply: (a) In the case of a criminal records check requested by a provider or subcontractor, the provider or subcontractor also is a waiver agency; (b) In the case of a criminal records check requested by an employment service, the employment service makes the request for an applicant or employee the employment service refers to a provider or subcontractor that also is a waiver agency. (7) A court or hearing officer involved in a case dealing with any of the following: (a) A denial of employment of the applicant or employee; (b) Employment or unemployment benefits of the applicant or employee; (c) A civil or criminal action regarding the medicaid program or a program the department of aging administers. (8) Pursuant to a lawful subpoena or valid court order, any necessary individual not identified in division (I)(7) of this section who is involved in a case dealing with any issue, matter, or action described in division (I)(7)(a), (b), or (c) of this section. (J) In a tort or other civil action for damages that is brought as the result of an injury, death, or loss to person or property caused by an applicant or employee who a responsible party employs in a direct-care position, all of the following shall apply: (1) If the responsible party employed the applicant or employee in good faith and reasonable reliance on the report of a criminal records check requested under this section, the responsible party shall not be found negligent solely because of its reliance on the report, even if the information in the report is determined later to have been incomplete or inaccurate. (2) If the responsible party employed the applicant in good faith on a conditional basis pursuant to division (H) of this section, the responsible party shall not be found negligent solely because it employed the applicant prior to receiving the report of a criminal records check requested under this section. (3) If the responsible party in good faith employed the applicant or employee because the applicant or employee meets standards specified in rules adopted under this section, the responsible party shall not be found negligent solely because the applicant or employee has been convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or been found eligible for intervention in lieu of conviction for a disqualifying offense. (K) The director of aging shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement this section. (1) The rules may do the following: (a) Require employees to undergo database reviews and criminal records checks under this section; (b) If the rules require employees to undergo database reviews and criminal records checks under this section, exempt one or more classes of employees from the requirements; (c) For the purpose of division (E)(7) of this section, specify other databases that are to be checked as part of a database review conducted under this section. (2) The rules shall specify all of the following: (a) The meaning of the term "subcontractor"; (b) The procedures for conducting database reviews under this section; (c) If the rules require employees to undergo database reviews and criminal records checks under this section, the times at which the database reviews and criminal records checks are to be conducted; (d) If the rules specify other databases to be checked as part of the database reviews, the circumstances under which a responsible party is prohibited from employing an applicant or continuing to employ an employee who is found by a database review to be included in one or more of those databases; (e) Standards that an applicant or employee must meet for a responsible party to be permitted to employ the applicant or continue to employ the employee in a direct-care position if the applicant or employee is found by a criminal records check required by this section to have been convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or been found eligible for intervention in lieu of conviction for a disqualifying offense. Last updated December 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.383 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.383
§ 145.383. Continuing contributions to state system after retirement
Status: in_force

January 7, 2013 Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Compensation" has the same meaning as in section 3307.01 or 3309.01 of the Revised Code, as appropriate. (2) "PERS position" means a position for which a member of the public employees retirement system is making contributions to the system. (3) "Other state retirement system" means the state teachers retirement system or the school employees retirement system. (4) "State retirement system" means the public employees retirement system, state teachers retirement system, or the school employees retirement system. (B)(1) A member of the public employees retirement system who holds two or more PERS positions may retire under section 145.32 , 145.33 , 145.331 , 145.332 , 145.37 , or 145.46 of the Revised Code from the position for which the annual earnable salary at the time of retirement is highest and continue to contribute to the retirement system for the other PERS position or positions. (2) A member of the public employees retirement system who also holds one or more other positions covered by the other state retirement systems may retire under section 145.32 , 145.33 , 145.331 , 145.332 , 145.37 , or 145.46 of the Revised Code from the PERS position and continue contributing to the other state retirement systems if the annual earnable salary for the PERS position at the time of retirement is greater than annual compensation for the position, or any of the positions, covered by the other state retirement systems. (3) A member of the public employees retirement system who holds two or more PERS positions and at least one other position covered by one of the other state retirement systems may retire under section 145.32 , 145.33 , 145.331 , 145.332 , 145.37 , or 145.46 of the Revised Code from one of the PERS positions and continue contributing to the public employees retirement system and the other state retirement system if the annual earnable salary for the PERS position from which the member is retiring is, at the time of retirement, greater than the annual compensation or earnable salary for any of the positions for which the member is continuing to make contributions. (4) A member of the public employees retirement system who has retired as provided in division (B)(2) or (3) of section 3307.351 or division (B)(2) or (3) of section 3309.343 of the Revised Code may continue to contribute to the public employees retirement system for a PERS position if the member held the position at the time of retirement from the other state retirement system. (5) A member who contributes to the public employees retirement system in accordance with division (B)(1), (3), or (4) of this section shall contribute in accordance with section 145.47 of the Revised Code. The member's employer shall contribute as provided in section 145.48 of the Revised Code. Neither the member nor the member's survivors are eligible for any benefits based on those contributions other than those provided under section 145.384 , 3307.352 , or 3309.344 of the Revised Code. (C)(1) In determining retirement eligibility and the annual retirement allowance of a member who retires as provided in division (B)(1), (2), or (3) of this section, the following shall be used to the date of retirement: (a) The member's earnable salary and compensation for all positions covered by a state retirement system; (b) Total service credit in any state retirement system, except that the credit shall not exceed one year of credit for any period of twelve months; (c) The member's accumulated contributions. (2) A member who retires as provided in division (B)(1), (2), or (3) of this section is a retirant for all purposes of this chapter, except that the member is not subject to section 145.38 of the Revised Code for a position or positions for which contributions continue under those divisions or division (B)(4) of this section. (D) A retired member receiving a benefit under section 145.384 of the Revised Code based on employment subject to this section is not a member of the public employees retirement system and does not have any rights, privileges, or obligations of membership. The retired member is a PERS retirant for purposes of section 145.38 of the Revised Code. (E) The public employees retirement board may adopt rules to carry out this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.2912 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.2912
§ 145.2912. Transferring contributions to Cincinnati retirement system
Status: in_force

April 6, 2017 House Bill 520 - 131st General Assembly (A) If the conditions described in division (B) of section 145.2910 of the Revised Code are met and a person who is a member or former member of the public employees retirement system but not a current contributor and who is not receiving a pension or benefit from the public employees retirement system elects to receive credit under the Cincinnati retirement system for service for which the person contributed to the public employees retirement system or purchased or obtained as military service credit, the public employees retirement system shall transfer the amounts specified in divisions (A) (4)(a) and (b) of this section to the Cincinnati retirement system. A person may obtain credit if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The member's service credit in the Cincinnati retirement system is greater than the amount of credit that would be obtained under this division. (2) The member is eligible, or with the credit will be eligible, for a retirement or disability benefit. (3) The member agrees to retire or accept a disability benefit not later than ninety days after receiving notice from the Cincinnati retirement system that the credit has been obtained. (4)(a) If the person has contributions on deposit with the public employees retirement system, the public employees retirement system, for each year of service credit, transfers to the Cincinnati retirement system the sum of the following: (i) An amount equal to the person's contributions to the public employees retirement system and payments made by the member for military service credit; (ii) An amount equal to the lesser of the employer's contributions to the public employees retirement system or the amount that would have been contributed by the employer for the service had the person been a member of the Cincinnati retirement system at the time the credit was earned; (iii) Interest on the amounts specified in divisions (A) (4)(a)(i) and (ii) of this section for the period from the last day of the year for which the service credit was earned or in which payment was made for military service credit to the date the transfer was made. (b) If the person has received a refund of accumulated contributions to the public employees retirement system, the public employees retirement system, for each year of service credit, transfers to the Cincinnati retirement system the sum of the following: (i) Interest on the amount refunded to the former member that is attributable to the year of service from the last day of the year for which the service credit was earned or in which payment was made for military service credit to the date the refund was made; (ii) An amount equal to the lesser of the employer's contributions to the public employees retirement system or the amount that would have been contributed by the employer for the service had the person been a member of the Cincinnati retirement system at the time the credit was earned, with interest on that amount from the last day of the year for which the service credit was earned to the date of the transfer. (B) The amount transferred under division (A) (4)(b) of this section shall not include any amount of the employer's contributions or interest on employee contributions the person received under section 145.40 of the Revised Code. (C) On receipt of notice from the Cincinnati retirement system that the Cincinnati retirement system has received payment from a person described in division (A) (4)(b) of this section, the public employees retirement system shall transfer the amount described in that division. (D) Interest charged under this section shall be calculated separately for each year of service credit. Unless otherwise specified in this section, it shall be calculated at the lesser of the actuarial assumption rate for that year of the public employees retirement system or the Cincinnati retirement system. The interest shall be compounded annually. (E) The transfer of any amount under this section cancels an equivalent amount of service credit. (F) At the request of the Cincinnati retirement system, the public employees retirement system shall certify to the Cincinnati retirement system a copy of the records of the service and contributions of a member or former member of the public employees retirement system who elects to receive service credit under the Cincinnati retirement system.
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.27
§ 124.27. Appointments from eligible lists - probation
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly (A) Appointments to all positions in the classified civil service, that are not filled by promotion, transfer, or reduction, as provided in sections 124.01 to 124.64 of the Revised Code and the rules of the director prescribed under those sections, shall be made only from those persons whose names take rank order on an eligible list, and no employment, except as provided in those sections, shall be otherwise given in the classified civil service. The appointing authority shall appoint in the following manner: each time a selection is made, it shall be from one of the names that ranks in the top ten names on the eligible list or the top twenty-five per cent of the eligible list, whichever is greater. In the event that ten or fewer names are on the eligible list, the appointing authority may select any of the listed candidates. Each person who qualifies for the veteran's preference under section 124.23 of the Revised Code, who is a resident of this state, and whose name is on the eligible list for a position is entitled to preference in original appointment to any such competitive position in the classified civil service of the state over all other persons who are eligible for those appointments and who are standing on the relevant eligible list with a rating equal to that of the person qualifying for the veteran's preference. (B) All original and promotional appointments in the classified civil service, including appointments made pursuant to section 124.30 of the Revised Code, but not intermittent appointments, shall be for a probationary period, not less than sixty days nor more than one year, to be fixed by the rules of the director for appointments in the civil service of the state, except as provided in section 124.231 of the Revised Code, and except for original appointments to a police department as a police officer or to a fire department as a firefighter which shall be for a probationary period of one year. No appointment or promotion is final until the appointee has satisfactorily served the probationary period. If the service of the probationary employee is unsatisfactory, the employee may be removed or reduced at any time during the probationary period. If the appointing authority decides to remove a probationary employee in the service of the state, the appointing authority shall communicate the removal to the director. A probationary employee duly removed or reduced in position for unsatisfactory service does not have the right to appeal the removal or reduction under section 124.34 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 125.832 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 125 / § 125.832
§ 125.832. Exclusive authority for fleet management
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) The department of administrative services is granted exclusive authority over the acquisition and management of all motor vehicles used by state agencies. In carrying out this authority, the department shall do both of the following: (1) Approve the purchase or lease of each motor vehicle for use by a state agency. The department shall decide if a motor vehicle shall be leased or purchased for that use. Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(1) of this section, on and after July 1, 2005, each state agency shall acquire all passenger motor vehicles under the department's master leasing program. If the department determines that acquisition under that program is not the most economical method and if the department and the state agency acquiring the passenger motor vehicle can provide economic justification for doing so, the department may approve the purchase, rather than the lease, of a passenger motor vehicle for the acquiring state agency. (2) Direct and approve all funds that are expended for the purchase, lease, repair, maintenance, registration, insuring, and other costs related to the possession and operation of motor vehicles for the use of state agencies. (B) The director of administrative services shall establish and operate a fleet management program. The director shall operate the program for purposes including, but not limited to, cost-effective acquisition, maintenance, management, analysis, and disposal of all motor vehicles owned or leased by the state. All state agencies shall comply with statewide fleet management policies and procedures established by the director for the program, including, but not limited to, motor vehicle assignments, additions of motor vehicles to fleets or motor vehicle replacements, motor vehicle fueling, and motor vehicle repairs. (C) The director shall establish and maintain a fleet reporting system and shall require state agencies to submit to the department information relative to state motor vehicles, including motor vehicles described in division (G)(2) of section 125.831 of the Revised Code, to be used in operating the fleet management program. State agencies shall provide to the department fleet data and other information, including, but not limited to, mileage and costs. The data and other information shall be submitted in formats and in a manner determined by the department. (D) All state agency purchases or leases of motor vehicles are subject to the prior approval of the director under division (A)(1) of this section. (E) State agencies that utilize state motor vehicles or pay mileage reimbursements to employees shall provide a fleet plan to the department as directed by the department. (F)(1) The fleets of state agencies that consist of one hundred or less vehicles on July 1, 2004, shall be managed by the department's fleet management program on a time schedule determined by the department, unless the state agency has received delegated authority as described in division (G) of this section. (2) The fleets of state agencies that consist of greater than one hundred motor vehicles, but less than five hundred motor vehicles, on July 1, 2005, also shall be managed by the department's fleet management program on a time schedule determined by the department, unless the state agency has received delegated authority as described in division (G) of this section. (G)(1) The department may delegate any or all of its duties regarding fleet management to a state agency, if the state agency demonstrates to the satisfaction of the department both of the following: (a) Capabilities to institute and manage a fleet management program, including, but not limited to, the presence of a certified fleet manager; (b) Fleet management performance, as demonstrated by fleet data and other information submitted pursuant to annual reporting requirements and any other criteria the department considers necessary in evaluating the performance. (2) The department may determine that a state agency is not in compliance with this section and direct that the agency's fleet management duties be transferred to the department. (H) The proceeds derived from the disposition of any motor vehicles under this section shall be paid to whichever of the following applies: (1) The fund that originally provided moneys for the purchase or lease of the motor vehicles; (2) If the motor vehicles were originally purchased with moneys derived from the general revenue fund, the proceeds shall be deposited, in the director's discretion, into the state treasury to the credit of either the fleet management fund created by section 125.83 of the Revised Code or the investment recovery fund created by section 125.14 of the Revised Code. Any such proceeds deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the investment recovery fund may be transferred from the investment recovery fund to the fleet management fund. (I)(1) The department shall create and maintain a certified fleet manager program. (2) State agencies that have received delegated authority as described in division (G) of this section shall have a certified fleet manager. (J) The department annually shall prepare and submit a statewide fleet report to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the president of the senate. The report shall be submitted not later than the thirty-first day of January following the end of each fiscal year. It may include, but is not limited to, the numbers and types of motor vehicles, their mileage, miles per gallon, and cost per mile, mileage reimbursements, accident and insurance data, and information regarding compliance by state agencies having delegated authority under division (G) of this section with applicable fleet management requirements. (K) The director shall adopt rules for implementing the fleet management program that are consistent with recognized best practices. The program shall be supported by reasonable fee charges for the services provided. The director shall collect these fees and deposit them into the state treasury to the credit for the fleet management fund created by section 125.83 of the Revised Code. The setting and collection of fees under this division is not subject to any restriction imposed by law upon the director's or the department's authority to set or collect fees. (L) The director also shall adopt rules that prohibit, except in very limited circumstances, the exclusive assignment of state-owned, leased, or pooled motor vehicles to state employees and that prohibit the reimbursement under section 126.31 of the Revised Code of state employees who use their own motor vehicles for any mileage they incur above an amount that the department shall determine annually unless reimbursement for the excess mileage is approved by the department in accordance with standards for that approval the director shall establish in those rules. Beginning on September 26, 2003, no state-owned, leased, or pooled motor vehicle shall be personally assigned as any form of compensation or benefit of state employment, and no state-owned, leased, or pooled motor vehicle shall be assigned to an employee solely for commuting to and from home and work. (M) The director shall do both of the following: (1) Implement to the greatest extent possible the recommendations from the 2002 report entitled "Administrative Analysis of the Ohio Fleet Management Program" in connection with the authority granted to the department by this section; (2) Attempt to reduce the number of passenger vehicles used by state agencies during the fiscal years ending on June 30, 2004, and June 30, 2005. (N) Each state agency shall reimburse the department for all costs incurred in the assignment of motor vehicles to the state agency. (O) The director shall do all of the following in managing the fleet management program: (1) Determine how motor vehicles will be maintained, insured, operated, financed, and licensed; (2) Pursuant to the formula in division (O)(3) of this section, annually establish the minimum number of business miles per year an employee of a state agency must drive in order to qualify for approval by the department to receive a motor vehicle for business use; (3) Establish the minimum number of business miles per year at an amount that results when the annual motor vehicle cost is divided by the amount that is the reimbursement rate per mile minus the amount that is the sum of the fuel cost, the operating cost, and the insurance cost. As used in this division: (a) "Annual motor vehicle cost" means the price of a motor vehicle divided by the number of years an average motor vehicle is used. (b) "Fuel cost" means the average price per gallon of motor fuel divided by the miles per gallon fuel efficiency of a motor vehicle. (c) "Insurance cost" means the cost of insuring a motor vehicle per year divided by the number of miles an average motor vehicle is driven per year. (d) "Operating cost" means the maintenance cost of a motor vehicle per year divided by the number of miles an average motor vehicle is driven per year. (e) "Reimbursement rate per mile" means the reimbursement per mile rate for travel expenses as provided by rule of the director of budget and management adopted under division (B) of section 126.31 of the Revised Code. Last updated July 30, 2021 at 3:54 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 153.51 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 153 / § 153.51
§ 153.51. Separate contracts - single, aggregate contract
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly (A) If separate and distinct bids are required pursuant to section 153.50 of the Revised Code, no contract for the entire job, or for a greater portion thereof than is embraced in one such branch or class of work may be awarded, unless the separate bids do not cover all the work and materials required or the bids for the whole or for two or more kinds of work or materials are lower than the separate bids in the aggregate. (B)(1) If the public authority awards a single, aggregate contract for the entire project pursuant to division (A) of this section, the award shall be made to the bidder who is the lowest responsive and responsible bidder or the lowest and best bidder, as applicable, as specified in section 153.52 of the Revised Code. (2) The public authority may assign all or any portion of its interest in the contract of the lowest responsive and responsible bidder or the lowest and best bidder, as applicable, to another successful bidder as an agreed condition for an award of the contract for the amount of its respective bid. Such assignment may include, but is not limited to, the duty to schedule, coordinate, and administer the contracts.
Ohio Rev. Code § 191.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 191 / § 191.07
§ 191.07. Limitation on reimbursement awards
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The broadband expansion program authority shall not award program reimbursements to an applicant under the Ohio broadband pole replacement and undergrounding program, if any of the following apply: (1) The broadband infrastructure deployed is used only for the provision of wholesale broadband service and is not used by the applicant to provide qualifying broadband service directly to residences or businesses. (2) A provider, other than the applicant, is meeting the terms of a legally binding commitment to a governmental entity to deploy qualifying broadband service in the unserved area. (3) For program reimbursements that are funded by federal funds deposited in the pole replacement fund, the applicant fails to commit to compliance with any conditions required by the federal government in connection with the funds. (B) The authority shall not award program reimbursements that are federally funded, if the reimbursements are inconsistent with federal requirements. Last updated August 29, 2023 at 4:24 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 113.52 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 113 / § 113.52
§ 113.52. Depositories and managers
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 483 - 131st General Assembly (A) The treasurer of state shall solicit proposals from financial organizations to act as depositories and managers of the program. Financial organizations submitting proposals shall describe the investment instruments that will be held in program accounts. The treasurer may select more than one investment instrument for the program. The treasurer shall select as program managers the financial organization or organizations, from among the bidding financial organizations, that demonstrate the most advantageous combination, both to potential program participants and the state, of the following factors: (1) Financial stability and integrity of the financial organization; (2) The safety of the investment instruments being offered; (3) The ability to satisfy record keeping and reporting requirements prescribed under sections 113.50 to 113.56 of the Revised Code; (4) The organization's plan for promoting the program and the investment the organization is willing to make to promote the program; (5) The fees, if any, proposed to be charged to account owners; (6) The minimum initial deposit and minimum contributions that the financial organization will require; (7) The ability of the organization to accept electronic deposits, including payroll deduction plans; (8) Other benefits to the state or its residents included in the proposal, including fees payable to the state to cover the program's operating expenses. (B) The treasurer of state may enter into a contract or a series of contracts with one or more financial organizations that submit a proposal under division (A) of this section for an organization to act as a manager and depository for the program. A contract or series of contracts shall include, at a minimum, terms requiring the financial organization to do all of the following: (1) Take any action required to keep the program in compliance with the requirements of sections 113.50 to 113.56 of the Revised Code and any actions not contrary to its contract to manage the program to qualify as a qualified ABLE program; (2) Keep adequate records of each program account, keep each program account segregated from each other program account, and provide the treasurer with the information necessary to prepare the statements required by section 113.53 of the Revised Code; (3) Compile and calculate information contained in statements required to be prepared under section 113.53 of the Revised Code and provide such calculations to the treasurer; (4) If there is more than one program manager, provide the treasurer with information as is necessary to determine compliance with section 113.53 of the Revised Code; (5) Provide the treasurer with access to the books and records of the program manager to the extent needed to determine compliance with the management contract, sections 113.50 to 113.56 of the Revised Code, and section 529A of the Internal Revenue Code; (6) Hold all program accounts for the benefit of the account owner; (7) Be audited at least annually by a firm of certified public accountants selected by the program manager and provide the results of such audit to the treasurer; (8) Provide the treasurer with copies of all regulatory filings and reports made by the financial organization during the term of the management contract or while the financial organization is holding any program accounts, other than confidential filings or reports that will not become part of the program; (9) Make available for review by the treasurer the results of any periodic examination of such organization by any state or federal banking, insurance, or securities agency, except to the extent that such report or reports may not be disclosed under law; (10) Ensure that any description of the program, whether in writing or through the use of any other media, is consistent with the marketing plan developed under division (A)(6) of section 113.51 of the Revised Code. (C) The treasurer of state may do any of the following: (1) Enter into management contracts as the treasurer considers necessary and proper for the implementation of the program; (2) Require that an audit be conducted of the operations and financial position of a program manager at any time if the treasurer has any reason to be concerned about the financial position, the record keeping practices, or the status of program accounts of that program manager; (3) Terminate or not renew a management contract. (D) The treasurer of state, the department of medicaid, the department of job and family services, the department of health, the department of mental health and addiction services, the department of developmental disabilities, opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency, and the department of aging may exchange information relating to eligible individuals for the purpose of administering or enforcing sections 113.50 to 113.56 of the Revised Code, except to the extent prohibited under federal law. (E) If the treasurer of state terminates or does not renew a management contract under this section, the treasurer shall take custody of program accounts held by the program manager and shall seek to promptly transfer such program accounts to another financial organization that is selected as a program manager and into investment instruments as similar to the original instruments as possible. Last updated October 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 101.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 101 / § 101.31
§ 101.31. Duties of certain officers
Status: in_force

March 9, 1999 House Bill 649 - 122nd General Assembly The clerk of the senate, the chief administrative officer and the clerk of the house of representatives, and the sergeant at arms of each house shall be present and assist in the organization of the next succeeding general assembly.
Ohio Rev. Code § 103.145 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 103 / § 103.145
§ 103.145. Determining financial impact of mandated benefit
Status: in_force

December 13, 2001 House Bill 405 - 124th General Assembly (A) The chairperson of a standing committee of either house of the general assembly may, at any time, request the director of the legislative service commission to review any bill that is assigned to the chairperson's committee in order to determine whether the bill includes a mandated benefit. The director shall review the bill and notify the chairperson of the director's determination. If the director determines that the bill includes a mandated benefit, the presiding officer of the house that is considering the bill may request the director to arrange for the performance of an independent healthcare actuarial review of the mandated benefit. In making this arrangement, the director shall retain one or more independent actuaries on a consulting basis to determine the financial impact of the mandated benefit in accordance with section 103.146 of the Revised Code. Each actuary retained shall be a member in good standing of the American academy of actuaries. The director shall assist the actuary or actuaries in obtaining any information needed. No later than sixty days after receiving the presiding officer's request to arrange for the performance of the actuarial review, the director shall submit the findings of the actuarial review to the chairperson of the committee to which the bill is assigned and to the ranking minority member of that committee. (B) To assist the actuary or actuaries in obtaining information needed to perform the healthcare actuarial review, the legislative service commission may request any department, division, institution, board, commission, authority, bureau, or other instrumentality or officer of the state, a county, a municipal corporation, a township, a school district, or other governmental entity of the state to provide any information the commission requires for purposes of the review. An instrumentality, officer, or entity shall comply with a request as soon as reasonably possible after receiving it. The commission shall specify the manner of compliance, and the period of time for compliance, in its request.
Ohio Rev. Code § 125.061 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 125 / § 125.061
§ 125.061. Suspension of purchasing and contracting requirements in case of emergency
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Emergency" has the same meaning as defined in section 5502.21 of the Revised Code. (2) "State procurement emergency" means a situation that creates all of the following: (a) A threat to public health, safety, or welfare; (b) An immediate and serious need for supplies or services that cannot be met through normal procurement methods required by state law; and (c) A serious threat of harm to the functioning of state government, the preservation or protection of property, or the health or safety of any person. (B) During the period of an emergency, the department of administrative services may suspend, for the emergency management agency established in section 5502.22 of the Revised Code or any other state agency participating in response and recovery activities as defined in section 5502.21 of the Revised Code, the purchasing and contracting requirements contained in Chapter 125. and any requirement of Chapter 153. of the Revised Code that otherwise would apply to the agency. The director of public safety or the executive director of the emergency management agency shall make the request for the suspension of these requirements to the department of administrative services concurrently with the request to the governor or the president of the United States for the declaration of an emergency. The governor also shall include in any proclamation the governor issues declaring an emergency language requesting the suspension of those requirements during the period of the emergency. (C) During the period of a state procurement emergency, the department of administrative services may suspend, for any state agency, the purchasing and contracting requirements contained in Chapter 125. of the Revised Code that would otherwise be required of the agency. (1) The director or administrative head of the state agency where the state procurement emergency exists shall request the department of administrative services to suspend the purchasing and contracting requirements in Chapter 125. of the Revised Code. (2) The request shall include information detailing the immediacy of the state procurement emergency and a description of the necessary supplies or services that cannot be timely purchased through normal procurement methods otherwise required by state law. (3) Whenever practical, the agency shall obtain a release and permit from the department of administrative services under section 125.035 of the Revised Code before making purchases under this division. (D) Before any purchase may be made under a suspension authorized by this section, the director of administrative services shall send notice of the suspension as approved by the director to the director of budget and management and to the members of the controlling board. The notice shall provide details of the request for suspension and shall include a copy of the director's approval. (E) Purchases made by state agencies under this section are exempt from the requirements of section 127.16 of the Revised Code, except that state agencies making purchases under this section shall file a report with the president of the controlling board describing all such purchases made by the agency during the period covered by the emergency declaration or state procurement emergency. The report shall be filed within ninety days after the declaration or state procurement emergency condition expires.
Ohio Rev. Code § 149.60 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 149 / § 149.60
§ 149.60. Ohio Ireland trade commission
Status: in_force

April 3, 2025 Senate Bill 54 - 135th General Assembly (A) The Ohio Ireland trade commission is created. The commission shall study potential means of advancing the following: (1) Bilateral trade and investment between Ohio and Ireland; (2) Policy issues of mutual interest to Ohio and Ireland; (3) Business and academic exchanges between Ohio and Ireland; (4) Mutual economic support between Ohio and Ireland; (5) Mutual investment in the infrastructure of Ohio and Ireland; (6) Other issues as determined by the commission. (B) The commission shall consist of the following members: (1) Three members of the senate, appointed by the president of the senate, who have knowledge of, or current or past involvement in, organizations that promote Irish affairs, or have interest in the well-being of trade relations between Ohio and Ireland; (2) Three members of the house of representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, who have knowledge of, or current or past involvement in, organizations that promote Irish affairs, or have interest in the well-being of trade relations between Ohio and Ireland; (3) Three members appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, who shall include the following: (a) One member who represents a state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code; (b) One member who represents the Ohio chamber of commerce or a successor organization that advances business interests in this state; (c) One member who represents Irish American communities or interest in this state. (C) Members of the commission shall be appointed not later than ninety days after the effective date of this section. Members of the commission appointed under divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section shall serve terms of two years or for the remainder of the member's legislative term, whichever is less. Members of the commission appointed under division (B)(3) of this section shall serve terms of four years. Any vacancy on the commission shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. (D) Members of the commission shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed for expenses actually incurred in the performance of their duties, within the limits of funds available to the commission for such purposes. (E)(1) The commission shall meet and hold hearings at the places it designates throughout the state. (2) The commission shall elect a chairperson from among the members of the commission. The chairperson may appoint from the commission members of subcommittees and subcommittee chairpersons at the chairperson's discretion. (3) A majority of the members of the commission constitutes a quorum for the transaction of the business of the commission. (F) Not later than fifteen months after the effective date of this section, and annually thereafter, the commission shall issue a report of its activities during the preceding year, and any associated findings and recommendations, to the governor, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives. (G) The commission may raise funds through direct solicitation or other fundraising events alone, or with other groups, and accept gifts, grants, and bequests from individuals, corporations, foundations, governmental agencies, and public and private organizations and institutions. The funds, gifts, grants, or bequests received pursuant to this section shall be deposited to the Ohio Ireland trade commission fund, which is created in the state treasury. The commission shall use the fund to defray the commission's administrative expenses and to carry out its purposes set forth in this section. Last updated March 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 173.55 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 173 / § 173.55
§ 173.55. Waiting list for department of aging-administered medicaid waiver components and the PACE program
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Department of aging-administered medicaid waiver component" means both of the following: (a) The medicaid-funded component of the PASSPORT program; (b) The medicaid-funded component of the assisted living program. (2) "PACE program" means the component of the medicaid program the department of aging administers pursuant to section 173.50 of the Revised Code. (B) If the department of aging determines that there are insufficient funds to enroll all individuals who have applied and been determined eligible for department of aging-administered medicaid waiver components and the PACE program, the department shall establish a unified waiting list for the components and program. Only individuals eligible for a department of aging-administered medicaid waiver component or the PACE program may be placed on the unified waiting list. An individual who may be enrolled in a department of aging-administered medicaid waiver component or the PACE program through a home first component established under section 173.501 , 173.521 , or 173.542 of the Revised Code may be so enrolled without being placed on the unified waiting list.
Ohio Rev. Code § 119.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 119 / § 119.05
§ 119.05. Serving adjudication documents
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Last known address" means the mailing address or the electronic mail address appearing in an agency's official records. (2) "Traceable delivery service" means a delivery service provided by the United States postal service or a domestic commercial delivery service allowing the sender to track a sent item's progress and providing notice of a completed delivery to the sender. (B) Unless otherwise provided by law, in an adjudication conducted in accordance with sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code, an agency may serve a document on a party to the adjudication through any of the following methods: (1) Electronic mail at the party's last known address; (2) Facsimile transmission at the party's facsimile number appearing in the agency's official records; (3) Traceable delivery service at the party's last known address; (4) Personal service at the party's last known address. (C) Service of a document using a method listed in division (B) of this section is complete on the following dates: (1) For electronic mail, the date receipt of the document is relayed electronically to the agency either by a direct reply from the recipient or through electronic tracking software demonstrating that the recipient accessed the document. (2) For facsimile transmission, the date indicated on the facsimile transmission confirmation page. (3) For traceable delivery service, the date of delivery indicated on the notice of completed delivery provided to the agency by the United States postal service or domestic commercial delivery service. (4) For personal service, the date indicated on a document confirming physical delivery signed by either the intended recipient, an adult located at the intended recipient's address, or delivery personnel. (D) If an agency fails to complete service under division (C) of this section using a party's last known address or facsimile number, the agency may complete service by any method described in division (B) of this section at an alternative address or facsimile number. The agency shall verify the alternative address or number as current before service. If an agency completes service at an alternative address, the agency is not required to complete service under division (E) of this section. (E) If an agency is unable to complete service using a method described in division (B) of this section, the agency shall publish a summary of the notice's substantive provisions in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the last known address of the party is located. Notice by publication under this division is complete on the date of publication. An agency that completes service by publication under this division shall send a proof of publication affidavit, with the publication of the notice set forth in the affidavit, to the party by ordinary mail at the party's last known address. Last updated September 11, 2023 at 3:34 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 174.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 174 / § 174.04
§ 174.04. Annual determination of median income for families and individuals in each county
Status: in_force

July 1, 2005 House Bill 431 - 125th General Assembly (A) The department of development shall make an annual determination of the median income for persons in each county. (B) The director of development shall determine appropriate income limits for identifying or classifying low- and moderate-income persons for the purposes of sections 174.01 to 174.07 of the Revised Code. In making the determination, the director shall take into consideration the amount of income available for housing, family size, the cost and condition of available housing, ability to pay the amounts the private market charges for decent, safe, and sanitary housing without federal subsidy or state assistance, and the income eligibility standards of federal programs. Income limits may vary from area to area within the state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.33
§ 109.33. Employees
Status: in_force

April 9, 1986 House Bill 831 - 116th General Assembly The attorney general may appoint, with salaries fixed pursuant to section 124.15 or 124.152 of the Revised Code, such assistants and may employ such stenographers and clerks as may be necessary to carry out sections 109.23 to 109.33 of the Revised Code. The attorney general may also employ experts for assistance in any specific matter at a reasonable rate of compensation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.44
§ 122.44. Terms of loans
Status: in_force

September 28, 2012 Senate Bill 314 - 129th General Assembly Fees, charges, rates of interest, times of payment of interest and principal, and other terms, conditions, and provisions of the loans made by the director of development services pursuant to sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 of the Revised Code shall be such as the director determines to be appropriate and in furtherance of the purpose for which the loans are made, but the mortgage lien securing any money loaned by the director may be subordinate to the mortgage lien securing any money loaned or invested by a financial institution, but shall be superior to that securing any money loaned or expended by any other corporation or person. The funds used in making such loans shall be disbursed upon order of the director. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 107.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 107 / § 107.11
§ 107.11. Index
Status: in_force

August 4, 1961 House Bill 176 - 104th General Assembly An index to each of the records named in section 107.10 of the Revised Code shall be kept. A transcript of any entry in a record or of an official paper, certified by an assistant to the governor, under the great seal of the state, shall be received as prima-facie evidence of the facts therein stated in any court or before any officer of the state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 113.61 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 113 / § 113.61
§ 113.61. Provisions
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly (A) A pay for success contract entered into under section 113.60 of the Revised Code shall include provisions that do all of the following: (1) Require the treasurer of state, in consultation with the requesting state agency or agencies and the director of administrative services, or in consultation with the requesting political subdivision or group of political subdivisions, to specify performance targets to be met by the service provider. If scientifically valid regional or national data are available to compare the status of this state or the relevant area of this state with respect to the issue the contract is meant to address against the status of other geographical areas with respect to that issue, the performance targets shall require the improvement in the status of this state or the relevant area of this state with respect to that issue to be greater than the average improvement in status with respect to that issue in other geographical areas during the period of the contract. (2) Specify the process or methodology that an independent evaluator contracted by the treasurer of state under division (B) of this section must use to evaluate whether the service provider has met each performance target; (3) Require the treasurer of state to pay the service intermediary in installments at times determined by the treasurer that are specified in the contract and are consistent with applicable state law; (4) Require the installment payments to the service intermediary to be based on whether the service provider has met each performance target, as determined by the independent evaluator; (5) Specify the maximum amount a service intermediary may earn for meeting the performance targets; (6) Require a state agency, political subdivision, or group that requested the treasurer of state and, as applicable, the director of administrative services to enter into the contract to determine, in accordance with applicable laws, to which data in the possession of the state agency, political subdivision, or group the service intermediary shall have access for the purpose of fulfilling the contract and any limitations on the use of the data. The state agency, political subdivision, or group shall retain control over the data and shall provide the data directly to the service intermediary in accordance with the terms of the contract. If any dispute arises concerning the data, the state agency, political subdivision, or group shall work directly with the service intermediary to resolve the dispute. (B) When the treasurer of state and, as applicable, the director of administrative services contract with a service intermediary under section 113.60 of the Revised Code, the treasurer of state and, as applicable, the director also shall contract with a person or government entity, other than a state agency, a political subdivision, or a group of state agencies or political subdivisions that requested the treasurer and, as applicable, the director to enter into the contract, to evaluate whether the service provider has met each performance target specified in the contract. The treasurer and, as applicable, the director shall choose an evaluator that is independent from the service intermediary and the service provider, ensuring that the evaluator does not have common owners or administrators, managers, or employees with the service intermediary or the service provider.
Ohio Rev. Code § 128.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 128 / § 128.02
§ 128.02. Statewide 9-1-1 steering committee
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A)(1) There is hereby created the statewide 9-1-1 steering committee, consisting of the following ten members: (a) The state chief information officer or the officer's designee; (b) Two members of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker, one from the majority party and one from the minority party; (c) Two members of the senate appointed by the president, one from the majority party and one from the minority party; (d) Five members appointed by the governor. (2) In appointing the five members under division (A)(1)(d) of this section, the governor shall appoint two representatives of the county commissioners' association of Ohio or a successor organization, two representatives of the Ohio municipal league or a successor organization, and one representative of the Ohio township association or a successor organization. For each of these appointments, the governor shall consider a nominee proposed by the association or successor organization. The governor may reject any of the nominees and may request that a nominating entity submit alternative nominees. (B)(1) The state chief information officer or the officer's designee shall serve as the chairperson of the steering committee and shall be a nonvoting member. All other members shall be voting members. (2) A member of the steering committee appointed from the membership of the senate or the house of representatives shall serve during the member's term as a member of the general assembly and until a successor is appointed and qualified, notwithstanding adjournment of the general assembly or the expiration of the member's term as a member of the general assembly. (3) The initial terms of one of the representatives of the county commissioners' association of Ohio, one of the representatives of the Ohio municipal league, and the representative of the Ohio township association shall all expire on December 31, 2016. The initial terms of the other representatives of the county commissioners' association of Ohio and the Ohio municipal league shall expire on December 31, 2014. Thereafter, terms of the members appointed by the governor shall be for four years, with each term ending on the same day of the same month as the term it succeeds. Each member appointed by the governor shall hold office from the date of the member's appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed, and may be reappointed. A member appointed by the governor shall continue in office after the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. Members appointed by the governor shall serve without compensation and shall not be reimbursed for expenses. (4) A vacancy in the position of any member of the steering committee shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointment. (C) The steering committee shall generally advise the state on the implementation, operation, and maintenance of a statewide emergency services internet protocol network, statewide next generation 9-1-1 core-services system, and the dispatch of emergency service providers. The steering committee shall do all of the following: (1) Examine the readiness of the state's current technology infrastructure for a statewide emergency services internet protocol network; (2) Research legislative authority with regard to governance and funding of a statewide emergency services internet protocol network, and provide recommendations on best practices to limit duplicative efforts to ensure an effective transition to next generation 9-1-1; (3) Where feasible, make recommendations for consolidation of public-safety-answering-point operations in this state to accommodate next generation 9-1-1 technology and to facilitate a more efficient and effective emergency services system; (4) Recommend policies, procedures, and statutory or regulatory authority to effectively govern a statewide next generation 9-1-1 system; (5) Designate a next generation 9-1-1 statewide coordinator to serve as the primary point of contact for federal initiatives; (6) Coordinate with statewide initiatives and associations such as the state interoperable executive committee, the Ohio geographically referenced information program council, the Ohio multi-agency radio communications system steering committee, and other interested parties; (7) Serve as the entity responsible for the administration of Chapter 128. of the Revised Code. (D)(1) A 9-1-1 service provider shall provide to the steering committee: (a) The aggregate number of access lines that the provider maintains within the state of Ohio; (b) The aggregate amount of costs and cost recovery associated with providing 9-1-1 service, including coverage under tariffs and bill and keep arrangements within this state; (c) Any other information requested by the steering committee deemed necessary to support the transition to next generation 9-1-1. (2) Any entity operating a public safety answering point shall provide to the steering committee: (a) The geographic location and population of the area for which the entity is responsible; (b) Statistics detailing the number of 9-1-1 calls received; (c) A report of expenditures made from disbursements for 9-1-1; (d) An inventory of and the technical specifications for the current 9-1-1 network and equipment; (e) Any other information requested by the steering committee that is deemed necessary to support the transition to next generation 9-1-1. (3) The information requested under divisions (D)(1) and (2) of this section shall be provided by the 9-1-1 service provider, political subdivision, or governmental entity within forty-five days of the request of the steering committee. (E) The steering committee shall meet at least once a quarter, either in person or utilizing telecommunication-conferencing technology. A majority of the voting members shall constitute a quorum. (F)(1) The steering committee shall have a permanent technical-standards subcommittee and a permanent public-safety-answering-point-operations subcommittee, and may, from time to time, establish additional subcommittees, to advise and assist the steering committee based upon the subcommittees' areas of expertise. The subcommittees may meet either in person or utilizing telecommunication-conferencing technology. A majority of the voting members shall constitute a quorum. (2) The membership of subcommittees shall be determined by the steering committee. (a) The technical-standards subcommittee shall include one member representing a wireline or wireless service provider that participates in the state's 9-1-1 system, one representative of the Ohio academic resources network, one representative of the Ohio multi-agency radio communications system steering committee, one representative of the Ohio geographically referenced information program, and one member representing each of the following associations selected by the steering committee from nominations received from that association: (i) The Ohio telephone association; (ii) The Ohio chapter of the association of public-safety communications officials; (iii) The Ohio chapter of the national emergency number association. (b) The public-safety-answering-point-operations subcommittee shall include one member representing the division of emergency management of the department of public safety, one member representing the state highway patrol, one member representing the division of emergency medical services of the department of public safety, two members recommended by the county commissioners' association of Ohio who are managers of public safety answering points, two members recommended by the Ohio municipal league who are managers of public safety answering points, and one member from each of the following associations selected by the steering committee from nominations received from that association: (i) The buckeye state sheriffs' association; (ii) The Ohio association of chiefs of police; (iii) The Ohio fire chiefs association; (iv) The Ohio chapter of the association of public-safety communications officials; (v) The Ohio chapter of the national emergency number association. (G) The committee is not an agency, as defined in section 101.82 of the Revised Code, for purposes of sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code. Last updated September 18, 2023 at 5:06 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 103.0512 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 103 / § 103.0512
§ 103.0512. Rule filings during system shutdown
Status: in_force

April 1, 2002 Senate Bill 11 - 123rd General Assembly If there is an expected or unexpected shut down of the whole or part of the electronic rule-filing system, such as for maintenance or because of hardware or software failure, the director of the legislative service commission may temporarily authorize an agency that is required to file rules and other rule-making and rule-related documents exclusively in electronic form nevertheless to file rules and other rule-making and rule-related documents in print form.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.161 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.161
§ 122.161. Designation of priority investment areas
Status: in_force

August 14, 2025 House Bill 15 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Subdivision" means a municipal corporation, township, or county. (2) "Legislative authority" means the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, a board of the township trustees, or a board of county commissioners. (3) "Subdivision's territory" means, in the case of a municipal corporation, the territory of the municipal corporation; in the case of a township, the unincorporated territory of the township; or, in the case of a county, the unincorporated territory of the county. (4) "Brownfield" has the same meaning as in section 122.6511 of the Revised Code. (5) "Former coal mine" means a location that was, but is no longer, used in connection with the extraction of coal from its natural deposit in the earth. (6) "Qualifying property" has the same meaning as in section 5727.76 of the Revised Code. (B) A legislative authority may adopt and certify to the director of development an ordinance or resolution requesting that the director designate the site of a brownfield or former coal mine within the subdivision's territory as a priority investment area. The ordinance or resolution shall describe the boundaries of the proposed area and shall specify that qualifying property in the priority investment area shall be exempt from taxation for five years pursuant to section 5727.76 of the Revised Code. The director, upon receipt of that certification, shall designate the proposed area as a priority investment area if the director determines that the area meets the designation standards set forth in rules adopted by the director. Those standards shall specify that the director must prioritize the designation of areas negatively impacted by the decline of the coal industry. The director shall notify the legislative authority of the director's decision within ninety days after receiving the certified ordinance or resolution. If the director does not issue a decision within those ninety days, the request for designation shall be considered approved by operation of law. (C) The director of development shall immediately notify the public utilities commission, the power siting board, and the tax commissioner if the director approves the designation of a priority investment area under division (B) of this section or if the designation is approved by operation of law. Last updated June 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 150.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 150 / § 150.09
§ 150.09. Immunity
Status: in_force

April 9, 2003 Senate Bill 180 - 124th General Assembly The state, the governor, or a member of the authority is not liable in damages to any person in a civil action for any loss incurred as a result of any investment made by a program administrator or fund manager employed by the program administrator.
Ohio Rev. Code § 123.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 123 / § 123.07
§ 123.07. Preferential parking for carpools, vanpools and buspools
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly Each state agency and any county, township, or municipal corporation owning, leasing, or controlling the operation of parking spaces for use by its employees may provide preferential parking for those vehicles used in carpools, vanpools, and buspools. The department of administrative services shall coordinate the efforts of the state agencies in providing preferential parking for such vehicles.
Ohio Rev. Code § 119.094 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 119 / § 119.094
§ 119.094. Adjudication hearing witness fees
Status: in_force

July 1, 2009 House Bill 525 - 127th General Assembly (A) Unless otherwise provided by the Revised Code, each witness subpoenaed to an adjudication hearing shall receive twelve dollars for each full day's attendance and six dollars for each half day's attendance. Each witness also shall receive fifty and one-half cents for each mile necessarily traveled to and from the witness's place of residence to the adjudication hearing. (B) As used in this section: (1) "Full day's attendance" means a day on which a witness is required or requested to be present at an adjudication hearing before and after twelve noon, regardless of whether the witness actually testifies. (2) "Half day's attendance" means a day on which a witness is required or requested to be present at an adjudication hearing either before or after twelve noon, but not both, regardless of whether the witness actually testifies.
Ohio Rev. Code § 113.50 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 113 / § 113.50
§ 113.50. Definitions
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 483 - 131st General Assembly As used in sections 113.50 to 113.56 of the Revised Code: (A) "ABLE account" means an individual account opened in accordance with the program or a similar ABLE account program established by another state in accordance with section 529A of the Internal Revenue Code. (B) "Account owner" means a designated beneficiary or any other person authorized to be the owner of an ABLE account under federal law. (C) "Designated beneficiary" means an eligible individual whose qualified disability expenses may be paid from an ABLE account. (D) "Eligible individual," "member of the family," "qualified disability expenses," and "qualified ABLE program" have the same meanings as in section 529A of the Internal Revenue Code. (E) "Financial organization" means an insurance company, bank, or other financial institution or a broker-dealer registered with the securities and exchange commission. (F) "Management contract" means a contract between the treasurer of state and a program manager under division (B) of section 113.52 of the Revised Code. (G) "Maximum account value" means the dollar amount calculated by the Ohio tuition trust authority pursuant to sections 3334.01 to 3334.21 of the Revised Code as the maximum amount that may be necessary to pay for the qualified higher education expenses of a beneficiary under those sections, consistent with the maximum contributions permitted under section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code. (H) "Program" means the ABLE account program established under sections 113.50 to 113.56 of the Revised Code. (I) "Program account" means an individual account opened in accordance with the program. (J) "Program manager" means a financial organization selected by the treasurer of state to be a depository and manager of the program under section 113.52 of the Revised Code. (K) "Secretary" means the secretary of the treasury of the United States. (L) "Internal Revenue Code" has the same meaning as in section 5747.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 125.60 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 125 / § 125.60
§ 125.60. Procurement from community rehabilitation programs definitions
Status: in_force

June 30, 2005 House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly As used in sections 125.60 to 125.6012 of the Revised Code: (A) "Community rehabilitation program" means an agency that: (1) Is organized under the laws of the United States or this state such that no part of its net income inures to the benefit of any shareholder or other individual; (2) Is certified as a sheltered workshop, if applicable, by the wage and hour division of the United States department of labor; (3) Is registered and in good standing with the secretary of state as a domestic nonprofit or not-for-profit corporation; (4) Complies with applicable occupational health and safety standards required by the laws of the United States or of this state; (5) Operates in the interest of persons with work-limiting disabilities, provides vocational or other employment-related training to persons with work-limiting disabilities, and employs persons with work-limiting disabilities in the manufacture of products or the provision of services; (6) Is a nonprofit corporation for federal tax purposes. (B) "Government ordering office" means any of the following: (1) Any state agency, including the general assembly, the supreme court, and the office of a state elected official, or any state authority, board, bureau, commission, institution, or instrumentality that is funded in total or in part by state money; (2) A county, township, or village. (C) "Person with a work-limiting disability" means an individual who has a disability as defined in the "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990," 104 Stat. 327, 42 U.S.C. 12101, and who: (1) Because of that disability is substantially limited in the type or quantity of work the individual can perform or is prevented from working regularly; (2) Meets criteria established by the office of procurement from community rehabilitation programs.
Ohio Rev. Code § 131.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 131 / § 131.02
§ 131.02. Collecting amounts due to state
Status: in_force

March 20, 2026 Senate Bill 56 - 136th General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in section 4123.37 , section 5703.061 , and division (K) of section 4123.511 of the Revised Code, whenever any amount is payable to the state, the officer, employee, or agent responsible for administering the law under which the amount is payable shall immediately proceed to collect the amount or cause the amount to be collected and shall pay the amount into the state treasury or into the appropriate custodial fund in the manner set forth pursuant to section 113.08 of the Revised Code. Except as otherwise provided in this division, if the amount is not paid within forty-five days after payment is due, the officer, employee, or agent shall certify the amount due to the attorney general, in the form and manner prescribed by the attorney general. In the case of an amount payable by a student enrolled in a state institution of higher education, the amount shall be certified within the later of forty-five days after the amount is due or the tenth day after the beginning of the next academic semester, quarter, or other session following the session for which the payment is payable. The attorney general may assess the collection cost to the amount certified in such manner and amount as prescribed by the attorney general. If an amount payable to a political subdivision is past due, the political subdivision may, with the approval of the attorney general, certify the amount to the attorney general pursuant to this section. For the purposes of this section, the attorney general and the officer, employee, or agent responsible for administering the law under which the amount is payable shall agree on the time a payment is due, and that agreed upon time shall be one of the following times: (1) If a law, including an administrative rule, of this state prescribes the time a payment is required to be made or reported, when the payment is required by that law to be paid or reported. (2) If the payment is for services rendered, when the rendering of the services is completed. (3) If the payment is reimbursement for a loss, when the loss is incurred. (4) In the case of a fine or penalty for which a law or administrative rule does not prescribe a time for payment, when the fine or penalty is first assessed. (5) If the payment arises from a legal finding, judgment, or adjudication order, when the finding, judgment, or order is rendered or issued. (6) If the payment arises from an overpayment of money by the state to another person, when the overpayment is discovered. (7) The date on which the amount for which an individual is personally liable under section 5735.35 , section 5739.33 , or division (G) of section 5747.07 of the Revised Code is determined. (8) Upon proof of claim being filed in a bankruptcy case. (9) Any other appropriate time determined by the attorney general and the officer, employee, or agent responsible for administering the law under which the amount is payable on the basis of statutory requirements or ordinary business processes of the agency, institution, or political subdivision to which the payment is owed. (B)(1) The attorney general shall give immediate notice by mail or otherwise to the party indebted of the nature and amount of the indebtedness. (2) If the amount payable to this state arises from a tax levied under Chapter 3796., 5733., 5739., 5741., 5747., or 5751. of the Revised Code, the notice also shall specify all of the following: (a) The assessment or case number; (b) The tax pursuant to which the assessment is made; (c) The reason for the liability, including, if applicable, that a penalty or interest is due; (d) An explanation of how and when interest will be added to the amount assessed; (e) That the attorney general and tax commissioner, acting together, have the authority, but are not required, to compromise the claim and accept payment over a reasonable time, if such actions are in the best interest of the state. (C) The attorney general shall collect the claim or secure a judgment and issue an execution for its collection. (D) Each claim shall bear interest, from the day on which the claim became due, at the rate per annum required by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code. (E) The attorney general and the chief officer of the agency reporting a claim, acting together, may do any of the following if such action is in the best interests of the state: (1) Compromise the claim; (2) Extend for a reasonable period the time for payment of the claim by agreeing to accept monthly or other periodic payments. The agreement may require security for payment of the claim. (3) Add fees to recover the cost of processing checks or other draft instruments returned for insufficient funds and the cost of providing electronic payment options. (F)(1) Except as provided in division (F)(2) of this section, if the attorney general finds, after investigation, that any claim due and owing to the state is uncollectible, the attorney general, with the consent of the chief officer of the agency reporting the claim, may do the following: (a) Sell, convey, or otherwise transfer the claim to one or more private entities for collection; (b) Cancel the claim or cause it to be canceled. (2) The attorney general shall cancel or cause to be canceled an unsatisfied claim on the date that is forty years after the date the claim is certified, unless the attorney general has adopted a rule under division (F)(5) of this section shortening this time frame with respect to a subset of claims. (3) No initial action shall be commenced to collect any tax payable to the state that is administered by the tax commissioner, whether or not such tax is subject to division (B) of this section, or any penalty, interest, or additional charge on such tax, after the expiration of the period ending on the later of the dates specified in divisions (F)(3)(a) and (b) of this section, provided that such period shall be extended by the period of any stay to such collection or by any other period to which the parties mutually agree. If the initial action in aid of execution is commenced before the later of the dates specified in divisions (F)(3)(a) and (b) of this section, any and all subsequent actions may be pursued in aid of execution of judgment for as long as the debt exists. (a) Seven years after the assessment of the tax, penalty, interest, or additional charge is issued. (b) Four years after the assessment of the tax, penalty, interest, or additional charge becomes final. For the purposes of division (F)(3)(b) of this section, the assessment becomes final at the latest of the following: upon expiration of the period to petition for reassessment, or if applicable, to appeal a final determination of the commissioner or decision of the board of tax appeals or a court, or, if applicable, upon decision of the United States supreme court. For the purposes of division (F)(3) of this section, an initial action to collect a tax debt is commenced at the time when a certified copy of the tax commissioner's entry making an assessment final has been filed in the office of the clerk of court of common pleas in the county in which the taxpayer resides or has its principal place of business in this state, or in the office of the clerk of court of common pleas of Franklin county, as provided in section 5739.13 , 5741.14 , 5747.13 , or 5751.09 of the Revised Code or in any other applicable law requiring such a filing. If an assessment has not been issued and there is no time limitation on the issuance of an assessment under applicable law, an action to collect a tax debt commences when the action is filed in the courts of this state to collect the liability. (4) If information contained in a claim that is sold, conveyed, or transferred to a private entity pursuant to this section is confidential pursuant to federal law or a section of the Revised Code that implements a federal law governing confidentiality, such information remains subject to that law during and following the sale, conveyance, or transfer. (5) The attorney general may adopt rules to aid in the implementation of this section. Last updated January 16, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 188.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 188 / § 188.01
§ 188.01. Definitions
Status: in_force

May 17, 2021 House Bill 2 - 134th General Assembly As used in sections 188.01 to 188.23 of the Revised Code: (A) "Broadband service" means any wholesale or retail service that consists of, or includes the provision of, connectivity to a high-speed, high-capacity transmission medium that can carry signals from or to multiple sources and that either provides access to the internet or provides computer processing, information storage, information content or protocol conversion, including any service applications or information service provided over such high-speed access service. "Broadband service" includes video service, voice over internet protocol service, and internet protocol-enabled services. (B) "Electric cooperative" has the same meaning as in section 4928.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Internet protocol-enabled services" and "voice over internet protocol service" have the same meanings as in section 4927.01 of the Revised Code. (D) "Servient estate" means the land burdened by an easement. (E) "Video programming" means any programming generally considered comparable to programming provided by a television broadcast station. (F) "Video service" means video programming services without regard to delivery technology, including internet protocol technology and video programming provided as a part of a service that enables users to access content, information, electronic mail, or other services offered over the public internet. Last updated June 9, 2021 at 12:57 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 107.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 107 / § 107.03
§ 107.03. Governor shall submit budget and estimate of income
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "transportation budget" means the biennial budget that primarily includes the following: (1) Motor fuel excise tax-related appropriations for the department of transportation, public works commission, and department of development; (2) Other appropriations that pertain to transportation and infrastructure related to transportation. (B) The governor shall submit a transportation budget to the general assembly not later than four weeks after the general assembly's organization. (C) The governor shall submit to the general assembly, not later than four weeks after its organization, a state budget containing a complete financial plan for the ensuing fiscal biennium, excluding items of revenue and expenditure described in section 126.022 of the Revised Code. However, in years of a new governor's inauguration, this budget shall be submitted not later than the fifteenth day of March. (D) In years of a new governor's inauguration, only the new governor shall submit a budget to the general assembly. In addition to other things required by law, each of the governor's budgets shall contain: (1) A general budget summary by function and agency setting forth the proposed total expenses from each and all funds and the anticipated resources for meeting such expenses; such resources to include any available balances in the several funds at the beginning of the biennium and a classification by totals of all revenue receipts estimated to accrue during the biennium under existing law and proposed legislation. (2) A detailed statement showing the amounts recommended to be appropriated from each fund for each fiscal year of the biennium for current expenses, including, but not limited to, personal services, supplies and materials, equipment, subsidies and revenue distribution, merchandise for resale, transfers, and nonexpense disbursements, obligations, interest on debt, and retirement of debt, and for the biennium for capital outlay, to the respective departments, offices, institutions, as defined in section 121.01 of the Revised Code, and all other public purposes; and, in comparative form, the actual expenses by source of funds during each fiscal year of the previous two bienniums for each such purpose. No alterations shall be made in the requests for the legislative and judicial branches of the state filed with the director of budget and management under section 126.02 of the Revised Code. If any amount of federal money is recommended to be appropriated or has been expended for a purpose for which state money also is recommended to be appropriated or has been expended, the amounts of federal money and state money involved shall be separately identified. (3) A detailed estimate of the revenue receipts in each fund from each source under existing laws during each year of the biennium; and, in comparative form, actual revenue receipts in each fund from each source for each year of the two previous bienniums; (4) The estimated cash balance in each fund at the beginning of the biennium covered by the budget; the estimated liabilities outstanding against each such balance; and the estimated net balance remaining and available for new appropriations; (5) A detailed estimate of the additional revenue receipts in each fund from each source under proposed legislation, if enacted, during each year of the biennium; (6) The most recent report prepared by the department of taxation under section 5703.48 of the Revised Code, which shall be submitted to the general assembly as an appendix to the governor's budget; (7) The most recent TANF spending plan prepared by the department of job and family services under section 5101.806 of the Revised Code, which shall be submitted to the general assembly as an appendix to the governor's budget; (8) The medicaid caseload and expenditure forecast report prepared by the office of budget and management, in consultation with the department of medicaid, under section 126.021 of the Revised Code. The report shall be submitted to the general assembly as a supplemental budget document to provide an in-depth analysis of the governor's budget recommendations for the medicaid budget as a whole and for each of the major medicaid appropriation items. The report shall clearly distinguish a proposed policy change from continuing law or administrative policy and indicate whether the data used throughout the report is proposed, estimated, or actual data for the current or proposed budget biennium. At a minimum, the report shall delineate a part-to-whole mapping of the state and federal shares of the general revenue fund appropriation item 651525, medicaid health care services, or any other equivalent general revenue fund appropriation item, by eligibility group and subgroup, service delivery system, delivery system, medicaid provider, and program. Last updated September 20, 2023 at 11:14 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 107.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 107 / § 107.22
§ 107.22. Commission on eastern European affairs - membership
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A)(1) There is created the commission on eastern European affairs. The commission shall be made up of the following members: (a) Three members appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, to serve a term ending one year after the appointment; (b) Four members appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, to serve a term ending two years after the appointment; (c) Two members appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, to serve a term ending three years after the appointment; (d) One member who is a private citizen appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, to serve a term ending three years after the appointment; (e) One member who is a private citizen appointed by the president of the senate, to serve a term ending three years after the appointment; (f) One nonvoting member who is a member of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives; (g) One nonvoting member who is a member of the senate appointed by the president of the senate. (2) Members appointed under divisions (A)(1)(a), (b), (c), (d), and (e) of this section shall be representative of communities with persons who self-identify as possessing eastern European ancestry, shall be appointed proportionally relative to the population of eastern European people in the state, and shall be all of the following: (a) A person who meets the definition of eastern European people or a person who is allied with those people; (b) A citizen, or a lawful and permanent resident, of the United States; (c) A lawful and permanent resident of the state. (B)(1) After the initial appointments, each term of office for members appointed under divisions (A)(1)(a), (b), (c), (d), and (e) of this section shall be for three years. The members shall serve from the date of the members' appointment until the end of the three-year term for which the members were appointed. (2) Except for members appointed under divisions (A)(1)(f) and (g) of this section, members shall remain in office after the members' term has expired until the earlier of the following occur: (a) A successor to the office is appointed; (b) Thirty days have passed since the end of a member's term and no successor has been appointed. (3) Members appointed to the commission under divisions (A)(1)(f) and (g) of this section shall serve until the ending date of the members' terms as members of the general assembly. (4) Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as appointment. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy shall serve the remainder of the original term for which the vacancy was filled. (C) The commission shall meet not less than six times during a calendar year. During the first meeting, the commission shall elect from among its members appointed under divisions (A)(1)(a), (b), (c), (d), and (e) of this section a chairperson, vice-chairperson, and other officers. The commission shall prescribe rules to govern the commission. (D) Six voting members constitute a quorum and no action shall be taken without the affirmative vote of six voting members. (E) Members appointed under divisions (A)(1)(a), (b), (c), (d), and (e) of this section shall be compensated for actual and necessary expenses incurred and for each day that a member is engaged in commission duties, not to exceed one day per month. (F) Members appointed to the commission shall affirm the territorial sovereignty and integrity of Ukraine, relative to its territorial holdings before Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and subsequent invasion in 2022, as well as the territorial sovereignty and integrity of other countries in the region and generally. Last updated September 25, 2023 at 12:42 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 147.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 147 / § 147.06
§ 147.06. Certified copy of commission as evidence - fee
Status: in_force

September 20, 2019 Senate Bill 263 - 132nd General Assembly Upon application, the secretary of state shall make a certified copy of a notary public commission and the endorsements on the commission. The certified copy shall be prima-facie evidence of the matters and facts contained in it. For each certified copy of a notary public commission, the secretary of state shall be entitled to receive a fee of five dollars.
Ohio Rev. Code § 127.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 127 / § 127.16
§ 127.16. Purchasing by competitive selection
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Upon the request of either a state agency or the director of budget and management and after the controlling board determines that an emergency or a sufficient economic reason exists, the controlling board may approve the making of a purchase without competitive selection as provided in division (B) of this section. (B) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no state agency, using money that has been appropriated to it directly, shall: (1) Make any purchase from a particular supplier, that would amount to fifty thousand dollars or more when combined with both the amount of all disbursements to the supplier during the fiscal year for purchases made by the agency and the amount of all outstanding encumbrances for purchases made by the agency from the supplier, unless the purchase is made by competitive selection or with the approval of the controlling board; (2) Lease real estate from a particular supplier, if the lease would amount to seventy-five thousand dollars or more when combined with both the amount of all disbursements to the supplier during the fiscal year for real estate leases made by the agency and the amount of all outstanding encumbrances for real estate leases made by the agency from the supplier, unless the lease is made by competitive selection or with the approval of the controlling board. (C) Any person who authorizes a purchase in violation of division (B) of this section shall be liable to the state for any state funds spent on the purchase, and the attorney general shall collect the amount from the person. (D) Nothing in division (B) of this section shall be construed as: (1) A limitation upon the authority of the director of transportation as granted in sections 5501.17 , 5517.02 , and 5525.14 of the Revised Code; (2) Applying to medicaid provider agreements under the medicaid program; (3) Applying to the purchase of examinations from a sole supplier by a state licensing board under Title XLVII of the Revised Code; (4) Applying to entertainment contracts for the Ohio state fair entered into by the Ohio expositions commission, provided that the controlling board has given its approval to the commission to enter into such contracts and has approved a total budget amount for such contracts as agreed upon by commission action, and that the commission causes to be kept itemized records of the amounts of money spent under each contract and annually files those records with the clerk of the house of representatives and the clerk of the senate following the close of the fair; (5) Limiting the authority of the chief of the division of mineral resources management to contract for reclamation work with an operator mining adjacent land as provided in section 1513.27 of the Revised Code; (6) Applying to investment transactions and procedures of any state agency, except that the agency shall file with the board the name of any person with whom the agency contracts to make, broker, service, or otherwise manage its investments, as well as the commission, rate, or schedule of charges of such person with respect to any investment transactions to be undertaken on behalf of the agency. The filing shall be in a form and at such times as the board considers appropriate. (7) Applying to purchases made with money for the per cent for arts program established by section 3379.10 of the Revised Code; (8) Applying to purchases made by the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency of services, or supplies, that are provided to persons with disabilities, or to purchases made by the agency in connection with the eligibility determinations it makes for applicants of programs administered by the social security administration; (9) Applying to payments by the department of medicaid under section 5164.85 of the Revised Code for group health plan premiums, deductibles, coinsurance, and other cost-sharing expenses; (10) Applying to any agency of the legislative branch of the state government; (11) Applying to agreements or contracts entered into under section 5101.11 , 5101.20 , 5101.201 , 5101.21 , or 5101.214 of the Revised Code; (12) Applying to purchases of services by the adult parole authority under section 2967.14 of the Revised Code or by the department of youth services under section 5139.08 of the Revised Code; (13) Applying to dues or fees paid for membership in an organization or association; (14) Applying to purchases of utility services pursuant to section 9.30 of the Revised Code; (15) Applying to purchases made in accordance with rules adopted by the department of administrative services of motor vehicle, aviation, or watercraft fuel, or emergency repairs of such vehicles; (16) Applying to purchases of tickets for passenger air transportation; (17) Applying to purchases necessary to provide public notifications required by law or to provide notifications of job openings; (18) Applying to the judicial branch of state government; (19) Applying to purchases of liquor for resale by the division of liquor control; (20) Applying to purchases of motor courier and freight services made in accordance with department of administrative services rules; (21) Applying to purchases from the United States postal service and purchases of stamps and postal meter replenishment from vendors at rates established by the United States postal service; (22) Applying to purchases of books, periodicals, pamphlets, newspapers, maintenance subscriptions, and other published materials; (23) Applying to purchases from other state agencies, including state-assisted institutions of higher education or the Ohio history connection; (24) Applying to purchases from a qualified nonprofit agency pursuant to sections 125.60 to 125.6012 or 4115.31 to 4115.35 of the Revised Code; (25) Applying to payments by the department of job and family services to the United States department of health and human services for printing and mailing notices pertaining to the tax refund offset program of the internal revenue service of the United States department of the treasury; (26) Applying to contracts entered into by the department of developmental disabilities under section 5123.18 of the Revised Code; (27) Applying to payments made by the department of mental health and addiction services under a physician recruitment program authorized by section 5119.185 of the Revised Code; (28) Applying to contracts entered into with persons by the director of commerce for unclaimed funds collection and remittance efforts as provided in division (G) of section 169.03 of the Revised Code. The director shall keep an itemized accounting of unclaimed funds collected by those persons and amounts paid to them for their services. (29) Applying to purchases made by a state institution of higher education in accordance with the terms of a contract between the vendor and an inter-university purchasing group comprised of purchasing officers of state institutions of higher education; (30) Applying to the department of medicaid's purchases of health assistance services under the children's health insurance program; (31) Applying to payments by the attorney general from the reparations fund to hospitals and other emergency medical facilities for performing medical examinations to collect physical evidence pursuant to section 2907.28 of the Revised Code; (32) Applying to contracts with a contracting authority or administrative receiver under division (B) of section 5126.056 of the Revised Code; (33) Applying to purchases of goods and services by the department of veterans services in accordance with the terms of contracts entered into by the United States department of veterans affairs; (34) Applying to payments by the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to the federal bureau of investigation for criminal records checks pursuant to section 109.572 of the Revised Code; (35) Applying to contracts entered into by the department of medicaid under section 5164.47 of the Revised Code; (36) Applying to contracts entered into under section 5160.12 of the Revised Code; (37) Applying to payments to the Ohio history connection from other state agencies. (E) When determining whether a state agency has reached the cumulative purchase thresholds established in divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section, the following purchases by such agency shall not be considered: (1) Purchases made through competitive selection or with controlling board approval; (2) Purchases listed in division (D) of this section; (3) For the purposes of the threshold of division (B)(1) of this section only, leases of real estate. (F) A state agency, when exercising direct purchasing authority under this section, shall utilize a selection process that complies with all applicable laws, rules, or regulations of the department of administrative services. (G) As used in this section, "competitive selection," "direct purchasing authority," "purchase," "supplies," and "services" have the same meanings as in section 125.01 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 187.061 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 187 / § 187.061
§ 187.061. Ethics training for JobsOhio officers and employees
Status: in_force

September 28, 2012 Senate Bill 314 - 129th General Assembly (A) Each officer and employee of JobsOhio shall do all of the following: (1) Sign an ethical conduct statement prescribed by the board of directors of JobsOhio; (2) Complete an annual course or program of study on ethics. The course or program of study shall be reviewed and approved by the board of directors. (3) Comply with the gift policy prescribed by the board of directors. (B) Prior to the renewal of the contract between the director of development services and JobsOhio as described in section 187.04 of the Revised Code, the board of directors shall submit to the controlling board a comprehensive review of the ethics policies and procedures that have been adopted by JobsOhio. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.06
§ 145.06. Vacancies
Status: in_force

January 7, 2013 Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, if a vacancy occurs in the term of any employee member of the public employees retirement board, the remaining members of the board shall elect a successor employee member from the employee group lacking representation because of the vacancy. On certification of the election results in accordance with rules adopted under section 145.058 of the Revised Code, the successor employee member shall hold office until the first day of the new term that follows the next board election that occurs not less than ninety days after the successor employee member's election. Any employee member of the board who fails to attend the meetings of the board for three months or longer, without valid excuse, shall be considered as having resigned, and the board shall declare the employee member's office vacated as of the date of the adoption of a proper resolution. If as a result of changed circumstances an employee member of the board is no longer employed in the employee group that corresponds with the employee group that elected the member, the employee member's office shall be considered vacant, and a successor employee member shall be chosen in the manner specified in this division. (B) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, if a vacancy occurs during the term of office of a retirant member of the board, the remaining members of the board shall elect a successor retirant member who shall be a former member of the public employees retirement system who is eligible for election under section 145.04 of the Revised Code as a retirant member of the board. On certification of the election results in accordance with rules adopted under section 145.058 of the Revised Code, the successor retirant member shall hold office until the first day of the new term that follows the next board election that occurs not less than ninety days after the successor retirant member's election. If a retirant member of the board fails to attend the meetings of the board for three months or longer, without valid excuse, the retirant member shall be considered as having resigned, and the board shall declare the member's office vacated as of the date of the adoption of a proper resolution. If as a result of changed circumstances a retirant member would no longer qualify for membership on the board as the retirant member, the retirant member's office shall be considered vacant, and a successor retirant member shall be chosen in the manner specified in this division. (C) Elections under this section to fill a vacancy on the board shall be conducted in accordance with rules adopted under section 145.058 of the Revised Code. (D) A successor member need not be elected under division (A) or (B) of this section for a vacancy that occurs on or after the first day of October of the year in which the vacated term ends.
Ohio Rev. Code § 167.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 167 / § 167.07
§ 167.07. Membership not a public office
Status: in_force

October 29, 2018 Senate Bill 239 - 132nd General Assembly (A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, membership on a regional council of governments and holding an office of the council does not constitute the holding of a public office or employment within the meaning of any section of the Revised Code. (2) A regional council of governments is considered a public agency for purposes of Chapter 102. and is considered a political subdivision for purposes of Chapter 2921. of the Revised Code. (B) Membership on the council and holding an office of the council shall not constitute an interest, either direct or indirect, in a contract or expenditure of money by any municipal corporation, township, special district, school district, county, or other political subdivision other than the council itself. (C) No member or officer of the council shall be disqualified from holding any public office or employment, nor shall such member or officer forfeit any such office or employment, by reason of serving as an officer or member of the council, notwithstanding any law to the contrary.
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.53 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.53
§ 109.53. Equipment of bureau
Status: in_force

September 24, 1963 House Bill 263 - 105th General Assembly The bureau of criminal identification and investigation shall be supplied with furniture, fixtures, apparatus, vehicles, and materials necessary to carry out the functions and duties of the bureau as contained in sections 109.51 to 109.63 , inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 117.431 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 117 / § 117.431
§ 117.431. Accounting of public money in possession of private institution
Status: in_force

September 4, 2013 Senate Bill 67 - 130th General Assembly Public money in the possession of any private institution, association, board, or corporation shall be accounted for separately and independently from its other funds and accounts. The auditor of state may adopt rules establishing the manner in which the public money shall be separately and independently accounted for.
Ohio Rev. Code § 103.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 103 / § 103.26
§ 103.26. Reports on legislation regarding occupational regulation
Status: in_force

April 5, 2019 Senate Bill 255 - 132nd General Assembly (A) As used in this section and section 103.27 of the Revised Code: "Individual" means a natural person. "Least restrictive regulation" has the meaning defined in section 4798.01 of the Revised Code. "Occupational regulation" means a statute or rule that controls an individual's practice of a trade or profession. (B) With respect to legislation that has been introduced in the house of representatives or in the senate, which proposes to substantially change or enact an occupational regulation, the director of the legislative service commission shall issue a report of the legislation. The director shall issue a report that compares the regulatory scheme proposed in the legislation with the policies expressed in section 4798.02 of the Revised Code with respect to proposing the least restrictive regulation to protect consumers from present, significant, and substantiated harms that threaten public health, safety, or welfare. The director shall issue this report to the general assembly in a timely manner. To the extent possible with readily available or obtainable information, the director shall report on consequences of the legislation with respect to: (1) Opportunities for employment within the occupation; (2) Consumer choices and costs; (3) Market competition; (4) Cost to government. (C) The report issued under division (B) of this section shall include all of the following: (1) A comparison of the regulatory scheme put forth in the legislation with the current regulatory scheme in other similar states for the same occupation and a consideration of the extent to which significant changes in the board's rules could prevent an individual licensed in this state from practicing, or allow an individual licensed in this state to practice, the same occupation in another jurisdiction without obtaining an occupational license for that occupation in that other jurisdiction; (2) A comparison of the regulatory scheme put forth in the legislation with the policy of this state as set forth in the sections of the Revised Code governing the occupation that is the subject of the legislation, if those sections include such a policy. (D) The sponsor of a bill, in order to assist the director of the legislative service commission with the director's duties under division (B) of this section, may submit to the director any relevant information, including the following: (1) Evidence of present, significant, and substantiated harms to consumers in the state; (2) An explanation of why existing civil or criminal laws or procedures are inadequate to prevent or remedy any harm to the public; (3) An explanation of why a less restrictive regulation, that is consistent with the policies expressed in section 4798.02 of the Revised Code, is not proposed; (4) The names of associations, organizations, or other groups representing the occupation seeking regulation and the approximate number of members in each in this state; (5) The functions typically performed by members of this occupation and whether they are identical or similar to those performed by another occupation; (6) Whether specialized training, education, or experience is required to engage in the occupation and, if so, how current practitioners acquired that training, education, or experience; (7) Whether or not the proposed regulation would change the way practitioners of the occupation acquire any necessary specialized training, education, or experience and, if so, why; (8) Whether or not any current practitioners of the occupation in this state lack whatever specialized training, education, or experience might be required to engage in the occupation and, if so, how the proposed regulation would address that deficiency; (9) Whether or not new entrants into the occupation would be required to provide evidence of any necessary training, education, or experience, or to pass an examination, or both; (10) Whether or not current practitioners would be required to provide evidence of any necessary training, education, or experience, or to pass an examination, and, if not, why not; (11) The expected impact of the proposed regulation on the supply of practitioners of the occupation and on the cost of services or goods provided by the occupation; (12) Information from others knowledgeable about the occupation, and the related economic factors. (E) A bill which proposes to substantially change or enact an occupational regulation shall not be favorably reported out of committee until after the committee members have received and considered the report provided under division (B) of this section, unless two-thirds of the members of the committee vote in the affirmative to favorably report the bill.
Ohio Rev. Code § 107.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 107 / § 107.04
§ 107.04. Governor may issue warrant in certain cases
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When the governor requires the aid of a ministerial officer in exercising any of the powers granted in Section 11 of Article III, Ohio Constitution, or any authority vested in him by law, he may issue his warrant directed to the sheriff of any county in the state commanding such sheriff to execute his orders, and make return thereof in such manner as he directs. A sheriff who refuses or willfully fails to comply with such warrant shall pay to the state five hundred dollars, to be recovered in the name of the state by suit in the county where such sheriff resides. Last updated January 31, 2022 at 4:00 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 173.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 173 / § 173.41
§ 173.41. Statewide aging and disabilities resource network
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly (A) The department of aging shall promote the development of a statewide aging and disabilities resource network through which older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers are provided with both of the following: (1) Information on any long-term care service options available to the individuals; (2) Streamlined access to long-term care services, both publicly funded services and services available through private payment. (B) Area agencies on aging shall establish the network throughout the state. In doing so, the agencies shall collaborate with centers for independent living and other locally funded organizations to establish a cost-effective and consumer-friendly network that builds on existing, local infrastructures of services that support consumers in their communities.
Ohio Rev. Code § 135.71 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 135 / § 135.71
§ 135.71. Purpose of homeownership savings linked deposit program
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The general assembly finds that making homeownership more attainable is an important part of fostering a robust and lasting population across the state. However, individuals often struggle to accumulate the financial resources needed to purchase a home. Accordingly, it is declared to be the public policy of the state through the homeownership savings linked deposit program to make available premium rate savings accounts for the down payment and closing costs associated with the purchase of a home. (B) An eligible participant for the homeownership savings linked deposit program is an individual who is a resident of this state, or a member of the uniformed services, on active duty assignment, who is a resident of this state via a residency or domicile election in accordance with 50 U.S.C. 4001, and has applied for a homeownership savings account at an eligible savings institution. A member of the uniformed services, who is an eligible participant, may apply for a homeownership savings account at an eligible savings institution on or after the date affixed to the permanent change of station orders. As used in this division, "active duty" and "uniformed services" have the meanings defined in 10 U.S.C. 101. (C) An eligible participant shall certify on the application that the funds in the homeownership savings account shall be used exclusively for eligible home costs. (D) A homeownership savings account shall be owned by not more than one eligible participant and an eligible participant shall hold not more than one homeownership savings account per program period at any eligible savings institution. (E) The treasurer of state shall report to the tax commissioner any information in the treasurer of state's possession deemed necessary by the tax commissioner to properly administer section 5747.85 of the Revised Code. (F) Not later than January 31, 2027, the treasurer of state and the tax commissioner shall issue a report regarding the efficacy of the homeownership savings linked deposit program. The report shall include all of the following: (1) The number of homeownership savings accounts created; (2) The number of participating eligible savings institutions; (3) The total amount contributed into the accounts; (4) The average premium savings rate paid on the accounts; (5) Any other information the treasurer of state or tax commissioner deems relevant. The report shall be delivered to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the president of the senate. Last updated July 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 101.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 101 / § 101.25
§ 101.25. Resignation of member
Status: in_force

March 9, 1999 House Bill 649 - 122nd General Assembly During a regular session of the general assembly, a senator who desires to resign shall do so by presenting a letter of resignation to the president of the senate and a representative who desires to resign shall do so by presenting a letter of resignation to the speaker of the house of representatives. The president or speaker shall verify authenticity of the letter of resignation and, upon doing so, shall send a letter of acknowledgment to the resigning senator or representative. When the general assembly has adjourned its regular session sine die, a senator or representative who desires to resign shall do so by presenting a letter of resignation to the governor. The governor shall verify authenticity of the letter of resignation and, upon doing so, shall send a letter of acknowledgement to the resigning senator or representative. An acknowledged resignation takes effect at the time specified in the letter of resignation. If an acknowledged resignation occurs during a regular session of the general assembly, the clerk of the senate or clerk of the house of representatives shall spread the letter of resignation upon the senate or house of representatives journal. This section does not apply to a member-elect who resigns before the general assembly has organized.
Ohio Rev. Code § 143.091 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 143 / § 143.091
§ 143.091. Initial premiums; determination of sufficiency
Status: in_force

September 28, 2016 House Bill 305 - 131st General Assembly (A) The director of commerce shall determine whether initial premiums paid by fund members under section 143.06 of the Revised Code are sufficient for death benefits to be paid from the volunteer peace officers' dependents fund to the individuals described in division (B)(1)(b) of section 143.09 of the Revised Code. (B) If the director determines that initial premiums are sufficient and that no additional assessments described in section 143.07 of the Revised Code are necessary to fund the benefits, benefits shall be paid from the fund in accordance with division (B)(2) of section 143.09 of the Revised Code to those individuals.
Ohio Rev. Code § 135.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 135 / § 135.19
§ 135.19. Failure of public depository
Status: in_force

March 17, 1989 House Bill 584 - 117th General Assembly (A) A treasurer and his bondsmen or surety shall be relieved from any liability for the loss of any public moneys deposited by him in a public depository in compliance with sections 135.01 to 135.21 of the Revised Code, if occasioned by the failure of the public depository. (B) In addition to the relief from liability provided in division (A) of this section, the treasurer of state, deputy treasurer of state, and any executive director, director, or other person employed by the treasurer of state or a bondsman or surety of any of these are relieved from any liability for the loss of any public moneys deposited or invested pursuant to law by the treasurer of state, deputy treasurer of state, and any executive director, director, or other person employed by the treasurer of state; but, in no event, shall liability attach to the treasurer of state, deputy treasurer of state, or any executive director, director, or other person employed by the treasurer of state, or a bondsman or surety of any of these when the proximate cause of loss is due to any investment transaction made pursuant to law or to any risk arising from any investment transaction or investment made pursuant to law.
Ohio Rev. Code § 125.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 125 / § 125.15
§ 125.15. Acquisition of equipment, materials, supplies, services, or contracts of insurance
Status: in_force

June 30, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly All state agencies required to secure any equipment, materials, supplies, or services from the department of administrative services shall make acquisition in the manner and upon forms prescribed by the director of administrative services and shall reimburse the department for the equipment, materials, supplies, or services, including a reasonable sum to cover the department's administrative costs and costs relating to energy efficiency and conservation programs, whenever reimbursement is required by the department. The money so paid shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the general services fund, the information technology fund, or the information technology governance fund, as appropriate. Those funds are hereby created.