Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.301 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.301
§ 4141.301. Extended benefit period
Status: in_force

March 31, 2010 Senate Bill 155 - 128th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) "Extended benefit period" means a period which: (a) Begins with the third week after a week for which there is a state "on" indicator; and (b) Ends with either of the following weeks, whichever occurs later: (i) The third week after the first week for which there is a state "off" indicator; or (ii) The thirteenth consecutive week of such period. Except, that no extended benefit period may begin by reason of a state "on" indicator before the fourteenth week following the end of a prior extended benefit period which was in effect with respect to this state. (2) There is a "state 'on' indicator" for this state for a week if the director of job and family services determines, in accordance with the regulations of the United States secretary of labor, that for the period consisting of such week and the immediately preceding twelve weeks, the rate of insured unemployment, not seasonally adjusted, under Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code: (a) Equaled or exceeded one hundred twenty per cent of the average of such rates for the corresponding thirteen-week period ending in each of the preceding two calendar years and equaled or exceeded five per cent; (b) For weeks of unemployment such rate of insured unemployment: (i) Met the criteria set forth in division (A)(2)(a) of this section; or (ii) Equaled or exceeded six per cent. (3)(a) For weeks of unemployment beginning on or after February 22, 2009, there is a "state 'on' indicator" for this state for a week if the director determines both of the following are satisfied: (i) That the average rate of total unemployment, seasonally adjusted, as determined by the United States secretary of labor, for the period consisting of the most recent three months for which data for all states are published before the close of that week equals or exceeds six and one-half per cent; (ii) That the average rate of total unemployment, seasonally adjusted, as determined by the United States secretary of labor, for the three-month period described in division (A)(3)(a)(i) of this section, equals or exceeds one hundred ten per cent of the average for either or both of the corresponding three-month periods ending in the two preceding calendar years. (b) Division (A)(3) of this section is effective on and after February 22, 2009, and shall cease to be effective on the close of the last day of the week ending four weeks prior to the last week for which one hundred per cent federal sharing is authorized under Section 2005(a) of the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009," Pub. L. No. 111-5, 123 Stat. 115, as amended, without regard to the extension of federal sharing for certain claims as provided under section 2005(c) of that law, or any other federal law that provides for one hundred per cent federal sharing. (4) A "state 'off' indicator" exists for the state for a week if the director determines, in accordance with the regulations of the United States secretary of labor, that for the period consisting of such week and the immediately preceding twelve weeks, the rate of insured unemployment, not seasonally adjusted, under Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code: (a) Was less than one hundred twenty per cent of the average of such rates for the corresponding thirteen-week period ending in each of the preceding two calendar years and was less than five per cent; (b) For weeks of unemployment such rate of insured unemployment: (i) Was less than six per cent; and (ii) Met the criteria set forth in division (A)(4)(a) of this section. (5) For weeks of unemployment beginning on or after February 22, 2009, there is a "state 'off' indicator" for this state for a week if the director determines, in accordance with the regulations adopted by the United States secretary of labor, that for the period consisting of that week and the immediately preceding twelve weeks, the total rate of unemployment, seasonally adjusted, under this chapter, was less than one hundred ten per cent of such average for either or both of the corresponding three-month periods ending in the two preceding calendar years, and was less than six and one-half per cent. (6) "Rate of insured unemployment," for purposes of divisions (A)(2) and (4) of this section, means the percentage derived by dividing: (a) The average weekly number of individuals filing claims for regular compensation in this state for weeks of unemployment with respect to the most recent thirteen-consecutive-week period, as determined by the director on the basis of the director's reports to the United States secretary of labor, by (b) The average monthly employment covered under Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code, for the first four of the most recent six completed calendar quarters ending before the end of such thirteen-week period. (7) "Regular benefits" means benefits payable to an individual, as defined in division (C) of section 4141.01 of the Revised Code, or under any other state law, including dependents' allowance and benefits payable to federal civilian employees and to ex-servicepersons pursuant to the "Act of September 6, 1966," 80 Stat. 585, 5 U.S.C.A. 8501, other than extended benefits, and additional benefits as defined in division (A)(12) of this section. (8) "Extended benefits" means benefits, including benefits payable to federal civilian employees and to ex-servicepersons pursuant to the "Act of September 6, 1966," 80 Stat. 585, 5 U.S.C.A. 8501, and additional benefits, payable to an individual under the provisions of this section for weeks of unemployment in the individual's eligibility period. (9) "Eligibility period" of an individual means the period consisting of the weeks in the individual's benefit year which begin in an extended benefit period and, if the individual's benefit year ends within the extended benefit period, any weeks thereafter which begin in the period. (10) "Exhaustee" means an individual who, with respect to any week of unemployment in the individual's eligibility period: (a) Has received prior to the week, all of the regular benefits that were available to the individual under Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code, or any other state law, including dependents' allowance and benefits payable to federal civilian employees and ex-servicepersons under the "Act of September 6, 1966," 80 Stat. 585, 5 U.S.C.A. 8501, in the individual's current benefit year that includes the week; (b) Has received, prior to the week, all of the regular benefits that were available to the individual under this chapter or any other state law, including dependents' allowances and regular benefits available to federal civilian employees and ex-servicepersons under the "Act of September 6, 1966," 80 Stat. 585, 5 U.S.C.A. 8501, in the individual's current benefit year that includes the week, after the cancellation of some or all of the individual's wage credits or the total or partial reduction of the individual's right to regular benefits, provided that, for the purposes of divisions (A)(10)(a) and (10)(b) of this section, an individual shall be deemed to have received in the individual's current benefit year all of the regular benefits that were either payable or available to the individual even though: (i) As a result of a pending appeal with respect to wages or employment, or both, that were not included in the original monetary determination with respect to the individual's current benefit year, the individual may subsequently be determined to be entitled to more regular benefits, or (ii) By reason of section 4141.33 of the Revised Code, or the seasonal employment provisions of another state law, the individual is not entitled to regular benefits with respect to the week of unemployment, although the individual may be entitled to regular benefits with respect to future weeks of unemployment in either the next season or off season in the individual's current benefit year, and the individual is otherwise an "exhaustee" within the meaning of this section with respect to the right to regular benefits under state law seasonal employment provisions during either the season or off season in which that week of unemployment occurs, or (iii) Having established a benefit year, no regular benefits are payable to the individual during the year because the individual's wage credits were cancelled or the individual's right to regular benefits was totally reduced as the result of the application of a disqualification; or (c) The individual's benefit year having expired prior to the week, has no, or insufficient, wages or weeks of employment on the basis of which the individual could establish in any state a new benefit year that would include the week, or having established a new benefit year that includes the week, the individual is precluded from receiving regular benefits by reason of a state law which meets the requirements of section 3304 (a)(7) of the "Federal Unemployment Tax Act," 53 Stat. 183, 26 U.S.C.A. 3301 to 3311; and (i) Has no right for the week to unemployment benefits or allowances, as the case may be, under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, the Trade Act of 1974, and other federal laws as are specified in regulations issued by the United States secretary of labor; and (ii) Has not received and is not seeking for the week unemployment benefits under the unemployment compensation law of the Virgin Islands, prior to the day after that on which the secretary of labor approves the unemployment compensation law of the Virgin Islands, or of Canada; or if the individual is seeking benefits and the appropriate agency finally determines that the individual is not entitled to benefits under the law for the week. (11) "State law" means the unemployment insurance law of any state, approved by the United States secretary of labor under section 3304 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. (12) "Additional benefits" means benefits totally financed by a state and payable to exhaustees by reason of high unemployment or by reason of other special factors under the provisions of any state law. (B) Except when the result would be inconsistent with the other provisions of this section, as provided in the regulations of the director, the provisions of Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code, which apply to claims for, or the payment of, regular benefits, shall apply to claims for, and the payment of, extended benefits. (C) Any individual shall be eligible to receive extended benefits with respect to any week of unemployment in the individual's eligibility period only if the director finds that, with respect to such week: (1) The individual is an "exhaustee" as defined in division (A)(10) of this section; and (2) The individual has satisfied the requirements of Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code, for the receipt of regular benefits that are applicable to individuals claiming extended benefits, including not being subject to a disqualification for the receipt of benefits. (D) The weekly extended benefit amount payable to an individual for a week of total unemployment in the individual's eligibility period shall be the same as the weekly benefit amount payable to the individual during the individual's applicable benefit year. (E) Except as provided in division (F) of this section, the total extended benefit amount payable to any eligible individual with respect to the individual's applicable benefit year shall be the lesser of the following amounts: (1) Fifty per cent of the total amount of regular benefits, including dependents' allowances which were payable to the individual under Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code, in the individual's applicable benefit year; (2) Thirteen times the individual's weekly benefit amount, including dependents' allowances, which was payable to the individual under Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code, for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year; provided, that in making the computation under divisions (E)(1) and (2) of this section, any amount which is not a multiple of one dollar shall be rounded to the next lower multiple of one dollar. (F) For purposes of this division, "high-unemployment period" means a period during which an extended benefit period would be in effect if division (A)(3)(a)(i) of this section were applied by substituting "eight per cent" for "six and one-half per cent." Effective with respect to weeks beginning in a high-unemployment period, the total extended benefit amount payable to an eligible individual with respect to the applicable benefit year shall be the lesser of the following amounts: (1) Eighty per cent of the total amount of regular benefits that were payable to the individual pursuant to this section in the individual's applicable benefit year; (2) Twenty times the individual's average weekly benefit amount that was payable to the individual pursuant to this section for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year. (G) Division (F) of this section is effective on and after February 22, 2009, and shall cease to be effective on the close of the last day of the week ending four weeks prior to the last week for which one hundred per cent federal sharing is authorized under Section 2005(a) of the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009," Pub. L. No. 111-5, 123 Stat. 115, as amended, without regard to the extension of federal sharing for certain claims as provided under section 2005(c) of that law, or any other federal law that provides for one hundred per cent federal sharing. (H)(1) Except as provided in division (H)(2) of this section, an individual eligible for extended benefits pursuant to an interstate claim filed in any state under the interstate benefit payment plan shall not be paid extended benefits for any week in which an extended benefit period is not in effect in such state. (2) Division (H)(1) of this section does not apply with respect to the first two weeks for which extended compensation is payable to an individual, as determined without regard to this division, pursuant to an interstate claim filed under the interstate benefit payment plan from the total extended benefit amount payable to that individual in the individual's applicable benefit year. (3) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, if the benefit year of any individual ends within an extended benefit period, the remaining balance of extended benefits that the individual would, but for this section, be entitled to receive in that extended benefit period, with respect to weeks of unemployment beginning after the end of the benefit year, shall be reduced, but not below zero, by the product of the number of weeks for which the individual received any amounts as trade readjustment allowances within that benefit year, multiplied by the individual's weekly benefit amount for extended benefits. (I)(1) Whenever an extended benefit period is to become effective in this state, as a result of a state "on" indicator, or an extended benefit period is to be terminated in this state as a result of a state "off" indicator, the director shall make an appropriate public announcement. (2) Computations required by division (A)(6) of this section shall be made by the director, in accordance with the regulations prescribed by the United States secretary of labor. (J)(1)(a) The director shall promptly examine any application for extended benefits filed and, under this section, determine whether the application is to be allowed or disallowed and, if allowed, the weekly and total extended benefits payable and the effective date of the application. The claimant, the claimant's most recent employer, and any other employer in the base period of the claim upon which the extended benefits are based, and who was chargeable for regular benefits based on such claim, shall be notified of such determination. (b) The determination issued to the most recent or other base period employer shall include the total amount of extended benefits that may be charged to the employer's account. Such potential charge amount shall be an amount equal to one-fourth of the regular benefits chargeable to the employer's account on the regular claim upon which extended benefits are based except that, effective January 1, 1979, the potential charge amount to the state and its instrumentalities, its political subdivisions and their instrumentalities, and Indian tribes shall be an amount equal to one-half of the regular benefits chargeable to their accounts on such claim. If regular benefits were chargeable to the mutualized account, in lieu of an employer's account, then the extended benefits which are based on such prior mutualized benefits shall also be charged to the mutualized account. (c) As extended benefits are paid to eligible individuals: (i) One-half of such benefits shall be charged to an extended benefit account to which reimbursement payments of one-half of extended benefits, received from the federal government as described in division (L) of this section, shall be credited; and (ii) One-half of the extended benefits shall be charged to the accounts of base period employers and the mutualized account in the same proportion as was provided for on the regular claim; or (iii) The full amount of extended benefits shall be charged to the accounts of the state and its instrumentalities, its political subdivisions and their instrumentalities, and Indian tribes. Employers making payments in lieu of contributions shall be charged in accordance with division (B)(1) of section 4141.241 of the Revised Code; or (iv) In the case of payments under division (A)(3) of this section that are fully funded under Section 2005(a) of the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009," Pub. L. No. 111-5, 123 Stat. 115, as amended, without regard to the extension of federal sharing for certain claims as provided under section 2005(c) of that law, none of the extended benefits shall be charged to the accounts of base period employers or to the mutualized account. (d) If the application for extended benefits is disallowed, a determination shall be issued to the claimant, which determination shall set forth the reasons for the disallowance. Determinations issued under this division, whether allowed or disallowed, shall be subject to reconsideration and appeal in accordance with section 4141.281 of the Revised Code. (2) Any additional or continued claims, as described in division (F) of section 4141.01 of the Revised Code, filed by an individual at the beginning of, or during, the individual's extended benefit period shall be determined under division (E) of section 4141.28 of the Revised Code, and such determination shall be subject to reconsideration and appeal in accordance with section 4141.281 of the Revised Code. (K) Notwithstanding division (B) of this section, payment of extended benefits under this section shall not be made to any individual for any week of unemployment in the individual's eligibility period during which the individual fails to accept any offer of suitable work, as defined in division (K)(2) of this section, or fails to apply for any suitable work to which the individual was referred by the director, or fails to actively engage in seeking work, as prescribed in division (K)(4) of this section. (1) If any individual is ineligible for extended benefits for any week by reason of a failure described in this division, the individual shall be ineligible to receive extended benefits beginning with the week in which the failure occurred and continuing until the individual has been employed during each of four subsequent weeks and the total remuneration earned by the individual for this employment is equal to or more than four times the individual's weekly extended benefit amount, and has met all other eligibility requirements of this section, in order to establish entitlement to extended benefits. (2) For purposes of this section, the term "suitable work" means, with respect to an individual, any work which is within the individual's capabilities, provided that with respect to the position all of the following requirements are met: (a) It offers the individual gross average weekly remuneration of more than the sum of: (i) The individual's extended weekly benefit amount; and (ii) The amount of supplemental unemployment compensation benefits, as defined in section 501(c)(17)(D) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1954," 80 Stat. 1515, 26 U.S.C.A. 501, payable to the individual for the week of unemployment. (b) It pays equal to or more than the higher of: (i) The minimum wage provided by section 6(a)(1) of the "Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938," 91 Stat. 1245, 29 U.S.C.A. 206, without regard to any exemption; or (ii) Any applicable state or local minimum wage. (c) It is offered to the individual in writing or is listed with the employment office maintained or designated by the director. (3) Extended benefits shall not be denied under this division to any individual for any week by reason of a failure to accept an offer of, or apply for suitable work if either of the following conditions apply: (a) The failure would not result in a denial of benefits to a regular benefit claimant under section 4141.29 of the Revised Code to the extent that section 4141.29 of the Revised Code is not inconsistent with division (K)(2) of this section; (b) The individual furnishes evidence satisfactory to the director that the individual's prospects for obtaining work in the individual's customary occupation within a reasonably short period are good. If the evidence is deemed satisfactory, the determination as to whether any work is suitable work with respect to this individual and whether the individual is ineligible or disqualified shall be based upon the meaning of "suitable work" and other provisions in section 4141.29 of the Revised Code. (4) For purposes of this section, an individual shall be treated as actively engaged in seeking work during any week if: (a) The individual has engaged in a systematic and sustained effort to obtain work during that week; and (b) The individual provides tangible evidence to the director that the individual has engaged in the effort during that week. (5) The director shall refer applicants for extended benefits to job openings that meet the requirements of divisions (E) and (F) of section 4141.29 of the Revised Code, and in the case of applicants whose prospects are determined not to be good under division (K)(3)(b) of this section to any suitable work which meets the criteria in divisions (K)(2) and (3)(a) of this section. (6) Individuals denied extended or regular benefits under division (D)(1)(b) of section 4141.29 of the Revised Code because of being given a disciplinary layoff for misconduct must, after the date of disqualification, work the length of time and earn the amount of remuneration specified in division (K)(1) of this section, and meet all other eligibility requirements of this section, in order to establish entitlement to extended benefits. (L) All payments of extended benefits made pursuant to this section shall be paid out of the unemployment compensation fund, provided by section 4141.09 of the Revised Code, and all payments of the federal share of extended benefits that are received as reimbursements under section 204 of the "Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970," 84 Stat. 696, 26 U.S.C.A. 3306, shall be deposited in such unemployment compensation fund and shall be credited to the extended benefit account established by division (I) of this section. Any refund of extended benefits, because of prior overpayment of such benefits, may be made from the unemployment compensation fund. (M) In the administration of the provisions of this section which are enacted to conform with the requirements of the "Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970," 84 Stat. 696, 26 U.S.C.A. 3306, the director shall take such action consistent with state law, as may be necessary: (1) To ensure that the provisions are so interpreted and applied as to meet the requirements of the federal act as interpreted by the United States department of labor; and (2) To secure to this state the full reimbursement of the federal share of extended benefits paid under this section that are reimbursable under the federal act.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4116.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4116 / § 4116.02
§ 4116.02. Labor requirements not to be imposed on contractor or subcontractor
Status: in_force

October 11, 1999 House Bill 101 - 123rd General Assembly A public authority, when engaged in procuring products or services, awarding contracts, or overseeing procurement or construction for public improvements, shall ensure that bid specifications issued by the public authority for the proposed public improvement, and any subsequent contract or other agreement for the public improvement to which the public authority and a contractor or subcontractor are direct parties, do not require a contractor or subcontractor to do any of the following: (A) Enter into agreements with any labor organization on the public improvement; (B) Enter into any agreement that requires the employees of that contractor or subcontractor to do either of the following as a condition of employment or continued employment: (1) Become members of or affiliated with a labor organization; (2) Pay dues or fees to a labor organization.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.19
§ 4121.19. Record of proceedings
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly A full and complete record shall be kept of all proceedings had before the bureau of workers' compensation on any investigation. Last updated September 18, 2023 at 9:09 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.292 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.292
§ 4141.292. State disaster unemployment benefit payment
Status: in_force

April 9, 2025 House Bill 238 - 135th General Assembly An individual suffering total or partial unemployment directly attributable to a major disaster declared by the president of the United States pursuant to the "Disaster Relief Act of 1974," 88 Stat. 143, 42 U.S.C. 5121, who is not eligible to be paid unemployment compensation benefits under this chapter or any other state or federal unemployment compensation law for the first week of the individual's unemployment caused by the disaster is eligible to be paid a state disaster unemployment benefit payment for that week. The director shall compute the state disaster unemployment benefit payment as if the individual was otherwise qualified and claiming weekly unemployment compensation benefits under this chapter. The director shall pay the state disaster unemployment benefit payment from the unemployment compensation special administrative fund created in section 4141.11 of the Revised Code. The director shall maintain appropriate records of payments made under this section. Last updated February 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4105.011 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4105 / § 4105.011
§ 4105.011. Board of building standards - powers and duties
Status: in_force

November 22, 1973 House Bill 589 - 110th General Assembly The board of building standards, established by section 3781.07 of the Revised Code, shall: (A) Formulate and adopt rules governing the design, construction, repair, alteration, and maintenance of elevators. Such rules shall prescribe uniform minimum standards necessary for the protection of the public health and safety and shall follow generally accepted engineering standards, formulae, and practices established and pertaining to such elevator design, construction, repair, alteration, and maintenance. The board may adopt existing published standards as well as amendments thereto subsequently published by the same authority. (B) Prescribe the tests that shall be used to ascertain the qualities of materials used in the construction, repair, or alteration of elevators; (C) Make a standard form of certificate of inspection; (D) Prescribe the examinations for certificates of competency provided for in section 4105.02 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.753 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.753
§ 4123.753. Service fee
Status: in_force

October 13, 1953 House Bill 258 - 100th General Assembly An officer serving the process under sections 4123.751 and 4123.752 of the Revised Code upon the secretary of state shall pay to such secretary at the time of service a fee of two dollars, which fee shall be taxed as costs in the case. The secretary of state shall keep a record of such process and the day and hour of the service thereof upon him.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4104.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4104 / § 4104.08
§ 4104.08. Director of commerce may appoint general and special inspectors
Status: in_force

April 9, 2025 House Bill 238 - 135th General Assembly (A) The director of commerce may appoint from the holders of certificates of competency provided for in section 4104.07 of the Revised Code, general inspectors of boilers and pressure vessels. (B) Any company authorized to insure boilers and pressure vessels against explosion in this state may designate from holders of certificates of competency issued by the superintendent of industrial compliance, or holders of certificates of competency or commissions issued by other states or nations whose examinations for certificates or commissions have been approved by the board of building standards, persons to inspect and stamp boilers and pressure vessels covered by the company's policies, and the superintendent shall issue to such persons commissions authorizing them to act as special inspectors. Special inspectors shall be compensated by the company designating them. (C) The director shall establish an annual fee to be charged by the superintendent for each certificate of competency or commission the superintendent issues. The director shall not establish an annual fee of more than fifty dollars under this division. (D) The superintendent shall issue to each general or special inspector a commission to the effect that the holder thereof is authorized to inspect boilers and pressure vessels in this state. (E) No person shall be authorized to act as a general inspector or a special inspector who is directly or indirectly interested in the manufacture or sale of boilers or pressure vessels. Last updated February 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4113.18 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4113 / § 4113.18
§ 4113.18. Compelling employee to purchase at certain places
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No person shall compel, seek to compel, or attempt to coerce an employee of himself or another to purchase goods or supplies from a particular person, firm, or corporation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4173.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4173 / § 4173.02
§ 4173.02. Use by certain customers of employee restrooms
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly (A) Any retail establishment that has a toilet facility for its employees is encouraged to permit a customer to use that facility during normal business hours if the toilet facility is reasonably safe and all of the following conditions are met: (1) The customer requesting the use of the employee toilet facility has an eligible medical condition or utilizes an ostomy device. (2) The employee toilet facility is not located in an area where providing access would create an obvious health or safety risk to the customer or an obvious security risk to the retail establishment. (3) A public restroom or employee restroom normally available to the public is not immediately accessible to the customer. (B) This section does not require a retail establishment to make any physical changes to an employee toilet facility. (C) No restroom facility, by reason of being made available to a customer pursuant to this section, shall be considered a public facility for the purpose of laws or regulations that generally govern facilities available to the public. That restroom facility shall be governed by the laws and regulations that otherwise would govern the facility if it were not made available to a customer pursuant to this section. Last updated March 10, 2023 at 12:33 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4112.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4112 / § 4112.09
§ 4112.09. Power to administer oaths, take affidavits and acknowledgments, and attest execution of instrument in writing
Status: in_force

April 6, 2017 House Bill 463 - 131st General Assembly The executive director, administrative law judge, compliance officer, each field investigator, field coordinator, mediator, regional director, and supervisor of the Ohio civil rights commission, and any person appointed and commissioned as a notary public in this state, with respect to matters relating to official duties, may administer oaths, take affidavits, and acknowledgements, and attest the execution of any instrument in writing. The executive director shall file in the office of the secretary of the state the name and residence address of the occupant of each of the offices listed in this section on a quarterly basis. The secretary of state shall record and index the filings required under this section and the filings shall be open to public inspection.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4112.052 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4112 / § 4112.052
§ 4112.052. Employment discrimination civil action
Status: in_force

April 15, 2021 House Bill 352 - 133rd General Assembly (A) Subject to division (B) of this section, and except as provided in division (D)(2) of section 4112.14 of the Revised Code, a person alleging an unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment in violation of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code may bring a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction. (B)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (B)(2) of this section, a person may file a civil action under this section alleging an unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment or a violation of division (A) of section 4112.14 of the Revised Code only if the person satisfies both of the following conditions: (a) The person has first filed a charge with the Ohio civil rights commission under section 4112.051 of the Revised Code with respect to the practice complained of in the complaint for the civil action within the time period required under that section. (b) One of the following occurs: (i) The person receives a notice of right to sue from the Ohio civil rights commission pursuant to section 4112.051 of the Revised Code. (ii) The person has requested a notice of right to sue from the Ohio civil rights commission, and the commission fails to issue the notice of right to sue within forty-five days after the date the commission is permitted to grant the request under division (N) of section 4112.051 of the Revised Code. (iii) The Ohio civil rights commission, after a preliminary investigation conducted pursuant to a charge filed under section 4112.051 of the Revised Code, determines that it is probable that an unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment has occurred or is occurring and the complainant, after being informed by the commission of the right to file a civil action under this chapter, elects to file a civil action and notifies the commission of that fact. (2) A person may file a civil action under this section alleging an unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment or a violation of division (A) of section 4112.14 of the Revised Code without satisfying the conditions of division (B)(1) of this section if either of the following apply: (a) The person seeks only injunctive relief. (b) All of the following occur: (i) The person has filed a charge with the Ohio civil rights commission under section 4112.051 of the Revised Code with respect to the practice complained of in the complaint for the civil action within the time period required under that section. (ii) The person has filed a charge with the equal employment opportunity commission or its successor organization with respect to the practice complained of in the complaint for the civil action within the time period required under federal law. (iii) The person has received a notice from the equal employment opportunity commission or its successor organization that states that the person may bring a civil action against the employer and the notice was sent in connection with the charge filed with the equal employment opportunity commission or its successor organization. (3) With respect to an action described in division (B)(2)(a) of this section, the person may amend the complaint to include damages, but the amendment will relate back to the original filing date of the complaint in the action only after one of the following occurs: (a) The person receives a notice of right to sue from the Ohio civil rights commission pursuant to section 4112.051 of the Revised Code. (b) The person has requested a notice of right to sue from the Ohio civil rights commission, and the commission fails to issue the notice of right to sue within forty-five days after the date the commission is permitted to grant the request under division (N) of section 4112.051 of the Revised Code. (c) The Ohio civil rights commission, after a preliminary investigation conducted pursuant to a charge filed under section 4112.051 of the Revised Code, determines that it is probable that an unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment has occurred or is occurring and the complainant, after being informed by the commission of the right to file a civil action under this chapter, elects to file a civil action and notifies the commission of that fact. (4) With respect to an unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment described in division (A)(24)(b) of section 4112.01 of the Revised Code, a charge filed with the Ohio civil rights commission or the equal employment opportunity commission satisfies division (B)(1)(a) or divisions (B)(2)(b)(i) and (ii) of this section if both of the following apply: (a) The charge is related to the conduct alleged in the complaint for the civil action; (b) The charge is filed against the person who committed the unlawful discriminatory practice, the employer of the person who committed the unlawful discriminatory practice, or both the person who committed the unlawful discriminatory practice and the person's employer. (C) (1) Except as provided in division (C)(2) of this section, a civil action brought under this section shall be filed within two years after the alleged unlawful discriminatory practice was committed. (2) The time period to file a civil action shall be tolled for one of the following periods, as applicable: (a) If a charge that is based, in whole or in part, on the same allegations and practices was filed under section 4112.051 of the Revised Code less than sixty days before the time period specified under that section expires, the time period to file a civil action is tolled for the period beginning on the date the charge was filed and ending on the date that is sixty days after the charge is no longer pending with the commission. (b) If a charge that is based, in whole or in part, on the same allegations and practices was filed under section 4112.051 of the Revised Code sixty or more days before the time period specified under that section expires, the time period to file a civil action is tolled for the period beginning on the date the charge was filed and ending on the date the charge is no longer pending with the commission. (D) A civil action based on 42 U.S.C. 1981a, 42 U.S.C. 1983, and 42 U.S.C. 1985 shall be brought within two years after the cause of action accrues. The period of limitations set forth in this division does not apply to causes of action based on 42 U.S.C. 1981 as amended by the "Civil Rights Act of 1991," Pub. L. No. 102-166. (E) The Ohio civil rights commission may intervene in a civil action if the commission determines that the case is of public importance.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4112.023 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4112 / § 4112.023
§ 4112.023. Inherently military civilian job discrimination claims
Status: in_force

March 24, 2008 House Bill 372 - 127th General Assembly The decision of Fisher v. Peters, 249 F.3d 433 (6th Cir. 2001), which held that if a person's civilian job is inherently military, the person must pursue military, rather than civilian, channels when pursuing employment discrimination claims, shall be applied when construing the prohibitions contained in this chapter against discrimination on the basis of a person's military status.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.287 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.287
§ 4141.287. Data matching - incarcerated individuals
Status: in_force

April 3, 2023 Senate Bill 302 - 134th General Assembly The director of job and family services shall enter into a data matching agreement with the department of rehabilitation and correction. The agreement shall require the director of rehabilitation and correction to provide the director of job and family services with a searchable list, updated weekly, identifying all persons committed to the several institutions governed by the department of rehabilitation and correction. In addition to other information available, the director of job and family services shall check the list provided under this section when determining whether an application for determination of benefit rights or a claim for benefits is valid. Last updated March 22, 2023 at 4:07 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.417 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.417
§ 4123.417. Investigation and determination of right of persons to participate in disabled workers' relief fund
Status: in_force

October 20, 1993 House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly In the investigation and determination of the right of persons to participate in the disabled workers' relief fund, the administrator of workers' compensation shall have and exercise all the powers that he possesses under this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code. An order issued by the administrator relative to an individual's right to participate in the disabled workers' relief fund is appealable pursuant to section 4123.511 of the Revised Code but is not appealable to court under section 4123.512 of the Revised Code. No attorney, representative, or agent of any claimant or participant is entitled to charge or receive a fee or compensation or gratuity in any form for representing or assisting or pretending to represent or assist any person to become a participant in the fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4109.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4109 / § 4109.03
§ 4109.03. Prohibited acts
Status: in_force

August 28, 2002 House Bill 402 - 124th General Assembly No employer shall employ a minor before thoroughly reviewing the minor's age and schooling certificate, required by law, or fail to give notice to the superintendent of schools or chief administrative officer who issued such certificate of the nonuse of the certificate within five working days from such minor's withdrawal or dismissal from the employer's service, or continue to employ a minor after the minor's age and schooling certificate is void, or refuse to permit an enforcement official to observe the conditions under which minors are employed, or to make reasonable inquiry of minors or persons supposed by such official to be under eighteen in regard to matters pertaining to their age, employment, or schooling.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4104.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4104 / § 4104.12
§ 4104.12. Inspecting boiler installation
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly All boilers, except boilers mentioned in section 4104.04 of the Revised Code, shall be inspected when installed and shall not be operated until an appropriate certificate of operation has been issued by the superintendent of industrial compliance. The certificate of operation required by this section shall not be issued for any boiler which has not been thoroughly inspected during construction and upon completion, by either a general or special inspector, and which does not conform in every detail with the rules adopted by the board of building standards and unless, upon completion, such boiler is distinctly stamped under such rules by such inspector.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4115.133 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4115 / § 4115.133
§ 4115.133. Filing list of convicted contractors, subcontractors, and officers of contractors and subcontractors
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly (A) The director of commerce shall file with the secretary of state a list of contractors, subcontractors, and officers of contractors and subcontractors who have been prosecuted and convicted for violations of or have been found to have intentionally violated sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code. The director shall not include on the list a contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontractor until the expiration of any applicable appeal period relative to the finding, or if appealed, until the date of the final judgment of a court. (B) Each contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontractor who has been prosecuted and convicted for violations of or is found to have intentionally violated sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code is prohibited from contracting directly or indirectly with any public authority for the construction of a public improvement or from performing any work on the same as a contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontractor for a period of one year from the date of the expiration of the applicable period for filing an appeal, or if appealed, from the date of the final judgment of a court. If the contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontractor is found to have intentionally violated sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code another time within five years after the date specified under division (B) of this section, the contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontractor is prohibited from so contracting or performing work for a period of three years from the date of the expiration of the applicable period for filing an appeal, or if appealed, from the date of the final judgment of a court. (C) No public authority shall award a contract for a public improvement to any contractor, subcontractor, or officer of a contractor or subcontractor during the time that the contractor's, subcontractor's, or officer's name appears on such list. The filing of the notice of conviction or of the finding with the secretary of state constitutes notice to all public authorities.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.163 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.163
§ 4141.163. Income verification for federal benefit programs
Status: in_force

April 3, 2023 Senate Bill 302 - 134th General Assembly (A) For any federal program administered by the director of job and family services in a manner similar to this chapter that provides money payments for loss of remuneration for services performed under any contract of hire that is not employment as defined in section 4141.01 of the Revised Code, the director of job and family services shall establish a verification system for the program that verifies whether an individual has filed annual returns using records maintained by the tax commissioner under Chapter 5747. of the Revised Code. (B) The director shall enter a data sharing agreement with the commissioner allowing the director to furnish to the tax commissioner the name, social security number, and any additional information required by the commissioner for an individual who applies for payments under a program described in division (A) of this section. The director may request information from the commissioner regarding whether such an individual has filed an annual return with respect to the tax imposed by section 5747.02 of the Revised Code. The director may request the information for the most recent taxable year, as that term is defined in section 5747.01 of the Revised Code, for which an annual return was due or either of the two preceding taxable years. On receiving the request, the commissioner shall provide to the director the requested information. The commissioner shall inform the director if the commissioner is unable to provide any portion of the requested information. (C) This section does not apply to a federal program for which income verification is not required. Last updated March 22, 2023 at 3:59 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4113.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4113 / § 4113.17
§ 4113.17. Sale of certain merchandise to employees prohibited
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No person, firm, or corporation engaged in any enterprise in this state shall sell or procure for sale to its employees any article, product, or merchandise not of its own production or not handled in its regular course of trade, excepting meals, confections, tobacco products, and such specialized appliances, or supplies and equipment, as may be required in said enterprise for the employees' safety and health, or in the performance of their duties. This section does not prohibit or prevent a person, firm, or corporation engaged in industry or mining from owning and operating bona fide retail stores, or gasoline and service stations, conducted in whole or in part for the convenience or benefit of its employees. This section does not prohibit the sale by any person, firm, or corporation of any article which such person, firm, or corporation has purchased or acquired in connection with the operation of its business. The doing of each act prohibited by this section constitutes a separate offense.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.312 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.312
§ 4141.312. Benefits reduced by amount of governmental payments based on individual's previous work. - social security
Status: in_force

September 23, 2008 House Bill 562 - 127th General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise specified in division (B) of this section, the amount of benefits payable to a claimant for any week with respect to which the claimant is receiving a governmental or other pension, retirement or retired pay, annuity or any other similar periodic payment which is based on the previous work of the individual, shall be reduced by an amount equal to the amount of the pension, retirement or retired pay, annuity or other payment which is reasonably attributable to that week, except that the requirements for this division shall apply to any pension, retirement or retired pay, annuity, or other similar periodic payment only if both of the following apply: (1) The payment is under a plan maintained or contributed to by a base period employer or chargeable employer. (2) In the case of a payment under a plan not made under the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 401 et seq., or the "Railroad Retirement Act of 1974," 45 U.S.C. 231 et seq., or the corresponding provisions of prior law, services performed for such employer by the individual after the beginning of the base period, or remuneration for such services, affect eligibility for, or increase the amount of, such pension, retirement or retired pay, annuity, or similar payment. (B) If a claimant has made a contribution to social security pursuant to the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 401 et seq., and that claimant is receiving a retirement payment pursuant to that act, the claimant's weekly benefit shall not be reduced by the amount of that retirement payment because the claimant contributed to social security.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4139.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4139 / § 4139.05
§ 4139.05. Executive secretary - duties
Status: in_force

September 24, 2012 Senate Bill 316 - 129th General Assembly The executive secretary of the council office has the following duties: (A) Encourage the voluntary participation of employers and employees in the furtherance of the objective of this chapter; (B) Register any apprenticeship programs and agreements that meet the minimum standards established by federal regulations and state rules governing the registered apprenticeship system; (C) Terminate or cancel in consultation with the apprenticeship council any registered apprenticeship programs and agreements not in compliance with the provisions of such standards; (D) Keep a record of apprenticeship programs and their disposition; (E) Devise and implement all procedures and minimum standards as are necessary for the administration of the registered apprenticeship system; (F) Implement administrative rules adopted by the director of job and family services as necessary for the administration of the registered apprenticeship system; (G) Prepare statistical reports regarding apprenticeship training; (H) Issue information related to apprenticeship; (I) Perform such other duties as appropriate under the applicable rules and regulations.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.91 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.91
§ 4123.91. Information from consular officials
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly When the dependents of killed employees reside in a foreign country, the consul general, consul, vice-consul, or consular agent, accredited by the county wherein the dependents of the killed employee reside to the consular district within which the killed employee lived at the time of his decease, shall furnish the necessary information regarding the dependents of killed employees so that the bureau of workers' compensation may transmit to the dependents the funds provided for in this chapter.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4112.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4112 / § 4112.12
§ 4112.12. Commission on African-Americans
Status: in_force

January 1, 2025 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the commission on African-Americans, which shall consist of not more than fourteen members as follows: the directors or their designees of the departments of health, development, mental health and addiction services, children and youth, and job and family services; the chancellor of higher education or the chancellor's designee; the director of education and workforce; two members of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives each of whom shall be members of different political parties; and two members of the senate appointed by the president of the senate each of whom shall be members of different political parties. The members who are members of the general assembly shall be nonvoting members. The Ohio state university Bell national resource center, in consultation with the governor, shall appoint two members from the private corporate sector or the nonprofit sector, and one member with experience in the philanthropic community. (B) Terms of office shall be for three years, except that members of the general assembly appointed to the commission shall be members only so long as they are members of the general assembly. Each term ends on the same day of the same month as did the term that it succeeds. Each member shall hold office from the date of appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed. Members may be reappointed. Vacancies shall be filled in the manner provided for original appointments. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration date of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office as a member for the remainder of that term. A member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. The commission annually shall elect a chairperson from among its members. (C) Members of the commission and members of subcommittees appointed under division (B) of section 4112.13 of the Revised Code shall not be compensated, but shall be reimbursed for their necessary and actual expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties. (D) The Ohio state university Bell national resource center, in consultation with the governor, shall appoint an executive director of the commission on African-Americans, who shall be in the unclassified civil service. The executive director shall supervise the commission's activities and report to the commission and to the Ohio state university Bell national resource center on the progress of those activities. The executive director shall do all things necessary for the efficient and effective implementation of the duties of the commission. The responsibilities assigned to the executive director do not relieve the members of the commission from final responsibility for the proper performance of the requirements of this division. (E) The commission on African-Americans shall do all of the following: (1) Employ, promote, supervise, and remove all employees, as needed, in connection with the performance of its duties under this section; (2) Maintain its office at the Ohio state university Bell national resource center; (3) Acquire facilities, equipment, and supplies necessary to house the commission, its employees, and files and records under its control, and to discharge any duty imposed upon it by law. The expense of these acquisitions shall be audited and paid for in the same manner as other state expenses. (4) Establish the overall policy and management of the commission in accordance with this chapter; (5) Follow all state procurement requirements; (6) Implement the policies and plans of the Ohio state university Bell national resource center as those policies and plans are formulated and adopted by the center; (7) Report to the Ohio state university Bell national resource center on the progress of the commission on African-Americans in implementing the policies and plans of the center. (F) The commission on African-Americans may: (1) Hold sessions at any place within the state, except that the commission shall meet at least quarterly; (2) Establish, change, or abolish positions, and assign and reassign duties and responsibilities of any employee of the commission as necessary to achieve the most efficient performance of its functions. (G) The Ohio state university Bell national resource center shall establish the overall policy and management of the commission on African-Americans and shall direct, manage, and oversee the commission. The center shall develop overall policies and plans, and the commission shall implement those policies and plans. The commission, through its executive director, shall keep the center informed as to the activities of the commission in such manner and at such times as the center shall determine. The Ohio state university Bell national resource center may prescribe duties and responsibilities of the commission in addition to those prescribed in section 4112.13 of the Revised Code. (H) The Ohio state university Bell national resource center annually shall contract for a report on the status of African Americans in this state. Issues to be evaluated in the report shall include the criminal justice system, education, employment, health care, and housing, and such other issues as the center may specify. The report shall include policy recommendations relating to the issues covered in the report. Last updated October 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4113.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4113 / § 4113.21
§ 4113.21. Employee shall not be required to pay cost of medical examination
Status: in_force

September 15, 2020 House Bill 81 - 133rd General Assembly (A) No private employer shall require any prospective employee or applicant for employment to pay the cost of a medical examination required by the employer as a condition of employment. (B) No public employer or private employer furnishing services to a public employer in accordance with a contract subject to the "Service Contract Act of 1965," 41 U.S.C. 6701 et seq., shall require any employee, prospective employee, or applicant for employment to pay the cost of an initial or any subsequent medical examinations required by the public employer or private employer as a condition of employment or continued employment. (C) As used in this section: (1) "Private employer" means any individual, partnership, trust, estate, joint-stock company, insurance company, common carrier, public utility, or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, or the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, trustee, or the successor thereof, who has in employment three or more individuals at any one time within a calendar year. (2) "Public employer" means the United States, the state, any political subdivision of the state, and any agency of the United States, the state, or a political subdivision of the state. (3) "Employee" means any person who may be permitted, required, or directed by any employer in consideration of direct or indirect gain or profit, to engage in any employment. (D) Any employer who violates this section shall forfeit not more than one hundred dollars for each violation. The bureau of workers' compensation and the public utilities commission shall enforce this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.95 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.95
§ 4123.95. Liberal construction of chapter
Status: in_force

November 2, 1959 House Bill 470 - 103rd General Assembly Sections 4123.01 to 4123.94 , inclusive, of the Revised Code shall be liberally construed in favor of employees and the dependents of deceased employees.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.60 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.60
§ 4123.60. Persons eligible for death benefits - limitations
Status: in_force

October 20, 1993 House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly Benefits in case of death shall be paid to such one or more of the dependents of the decedent, for the benefit of all the dependents as the administrator of workers' compensation determines. The administrator may apportion the benefits among the dependents in such manner as he deems just and equitable. Payment to a dependent subsequent in right may be made, if the administrator deems it proper, and operates to discharge all other claims therefor. The dependents or person to whom benefits are paid shall apply the same to the use of the several beneficiaries thereof according to their respective claims upon the decedent for support, in compliance with the finding and direction of the administrator. In all cases of death where the dependents are a surviving spouse and one or more children, it is sufficient for the surviving spouse to apply to the administrator on behalf of the spouse and minor children. In cases where all the dependents are minors, a guardian or next friend of such minor dependents shall apply. In all cases where an award had been made on account of temporary, or permanent partial, or total disability, in which there remains an unpaid balance, representing payments accrued and due to the decedent at the time of his death, the administrator may, after satisfactory proof has been made warranting such action, award or pay any unpaid balance of such award to such of the dependents of the decedent, or for services rendered on account of the last illness or death of such decedent, as the administrator determines in accordance with the circumstances in each such case. If the decedent would have been lawfully entitled to have applied for an award at the time of his death the administrator may, after satisfactory proof to warrant an award and payment, award and pay an amount, not exceeding the compensation which the decedent might have received, but for his death, for the period prior to the date of his death, to such of the dependents of the decedent, or for services rendered on account of the last illness or death of such decedent, as the administrator determines in accordance with the circumstances in each such case, but such payments may be made only in cases in which application for compensation was made in the manner required by this chapter, during the lifetime of such injured or disabled person, or within one year after the death of such injured or disabled person. An order issued by the administrator under this section is appealable pursuant to section 4123.511 of the Revised Code but is not appealable to court under section 4123.512 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4104.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4104 / § 4104.16
§ 4104.16. Notifying superintendent of the division of industrial compliance of safety defect or of relocation
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly The owner or user of any boiler required by sections 4104.01 to 4104.20 of the Revised Code, to be inspected, shall immediately notify the superintendent of industrial compliance in case a defect affecting the safety of the boiler is discovered. The owner or user of any stationary boiler required by such sections to be inspected, who moves the same, shall report to the superintendent the new location of the boiler. Such boiler shall be inspected before it is again operated.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.11
§ 4123.11. Stenographer's copy received in evidence
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A transcribed copy of the evidence and proceedings, or any specific part thereof, or any investigation, by a stenographer appointed by the industrial commission, being certified by such stenographer to be a true and correct transcript of the testimony on the investigation or of a particular witness, or of a specific part of such testimony, carefully compared by him with his original notes, and to be a correct statement of the evidence and proceedings had on such investigation so purporting to be taken and subscribed, may be received in evidence by the commission with the same effect as if such stenographer were present and testified to the facts so certified. A copy of such transcript shall be furnished on demand to any party upon the payment of the fee therefor as provided for transcript in courts of common pleas.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4164.053 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4164 / § 4164.053
§ 4164.053. Appointments subject to senate advice and consent
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly All appointments by the governor to the authority are subject to the advice and consent of the senate. Last updated October 26, 2023 at 10:00 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4117.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4117 / § 4117.08
§ 4117.08. Matters subject to collective bargaining
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) All matters pertaining to wages, hours, or terms and other conditions of employment and the continuation, modification, or deletion of an existing provision of a collective bargaining agreement are subject to collective bargaining between the public employer and the exclusive representative, except as otherwise specified in this section and division (E) of section 4117.03 of the Revised Code. (B) Neither of the following are appropriate subjects for collective bargaining: (1) The conduct and grading of civil service examinations, the rating of candidates, the establishment of eligible lists from the examinations, and the original appointments from the eligible lists; (2) For collective bargaining agreements that are entered into on or after the effective date of this amendment, the ability of state employees to perform their duties at a location designated as a worksite. (C) Unless a public employer agrees otherwise in a collective bargaining agreement, nothing in Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code impairs the right and responsibility of each public employer to: (1) Determine matters of inherent managerial policy which include, but are not limited to, areas of discretion or policy such as the functions and programs of the public employer, standards of services, its overall budget, utilization of technology, and organizational structure; (2) Direct, supervise, evaluate, or hire employees; (3) Maintain and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of governmental operations; (4) Determine the overall methods, process, means, or personnel by which governmental operations are to be conducted; (5) Suspend, discipline, demote, or discharge for just cause, or lay off, transfer, assign, schedule, promote, or retain employees; (6) Determine the adequacy of the work force; (7) Determine the overall mission of the employer as a unit of government; (8) Effectively manage the work force; (9) Take actions to carry out the mission of the public employer as a governmental unit. The employer is not required to bargain on subjects reserved to the management and direction of the governmental unit except as affect wages, hours, terms and conditions of employment, and the continuation, modification, or deletion of an existing provision of a collective bargaining agreement. A public employee or exclusive representative may raise a legitimate complaint or file a grievance based on the collective bargaining agreement. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.035 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.035
§ 4123.035. Finality of decision as to emergency management claimants
Status: in_force

September 29, 1994 Senate Bill 172 - 120th General Assembly The decision of the industrial commission as to all facts, except questions of dependency and whether the accident occurred in the course of claimant's emergency management service, is final and any emergency management worker or his dependents claiming benefits under sections 4123.031 to 4123.037 of the Revised Code is not entitled to any appeal from such decision.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4113.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4113 / § 4113.07
§ 4113.07. Contributory negligence
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly In all actions, described in section 4113.03 of the Revised Code, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery where his contributory negligence is slight and the negligence of the employer is gross in comparison, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee. No employee who is injured or killed shall be held in any degree to have been guilty of contributory negligence in any case where the violation by such employer of any law of this state or of the United States enacted for the safety of employees in any way contributed to the injury or death of such employee unless by the terms of his employment it was expressly made the duty of such employee to report such violation to the employer and the evidence shows that such employee failed to report and that the employer was not possessed of knowledge of such violation. All questions of negligence, contributory negligence, and assumption of risk are for the jury, under the instruction of the court.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4164.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4164 / § 4164.01
§ 4164.01. Definitions
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, "authority" means the Ohio nuclear development authority created and constituted under section 4164.04 of the Revised Code. Last updated September 12, 2023 at 8:42 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4117.18 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4117 / § 4117.18
§ 4117.18. Prohibited acts
Status: in_force

September 21, 1995 House Bill 200 - 121st General Assembly (A) No person shall purposely refuse to obey an order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction under Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code. (B) No person shall purposely refuse to obey a lawful order of the state employment relations board, nor shall any person prevent or attempt to prevent any member of the board or any agent of the board from performing his lawful duties. (C) No public employee shall engage in any unauthorized strike.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4112.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4112 / § 4112.02
§ 4112.02. Unlawful discriminatory practices
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice: (A) For any employer, because of the race, color, religion, sex, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry of any person, to discharge without just cause, to refuse to hire, or otherwise to discriminate against that person with respect to hire, tenure, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, or any matter directly or indirectly related to employment. (B) For an employment agency or personnel placement service, because of race, color, religion, sex, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry, to do any of the following: (1) Refuse or fail to accept, register, classify properly, or refer for employment, or otherwise discriminate against any person; (2) Comply with a request from an employer for referral of applicants for employment if the request directly or indirectly indicates that the employer fails to comply with the provisions of sections 4112.01 to 4112.07 of the Revised Code. (C) For any labor organization to do any of the following: (1) Limit or classify its membership on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry; (2) Discriminate against, limit the employment opportunities of, or otherwise adversely affect the employment status, wages, hours, or employment conditions of any person as an employee because of race, color, religion, sex, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry. (D) For any employer, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee controlling apprentice training programs to discriminate against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, military status, national origin, disability, or ancestry in admission to, or employment in, any program established to provide apprentice training. (E) Except where based on a bona fide occupational qualification certified in advance by the commission, for any employer, employment agency, personnel placement service, or labor organization, prior to employment or admission to membership, to do any of the following: (1) Elicit or attempt to elicit any information concerning the race, color, religion, sex, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry of an applicant for employment or membership; (2) Make or keep a record of the race, color, religion, sex, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry of any applicant for employment or membership; (3) Use any form of application for employment, or personnel or membership blank, seeking to elicit information regarding race, color, religion, sex, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry; but an employer holding a contract containing a nondiscrimination clause with the government of the United States, or any department or agency of that government, may require an employee or applicant for employment to furnish documentary proof of United States citizenship and may retain that proof in the employer's personnel records and may use photographic or fingerprint identification for security purposes; (4) Print or publish or cause to be printed or published any notice or advertisement relating to employment or membership indicating any preference, limitation, specification, or discrimination, based upon race, color, religion, sex, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry; (5) Announce or follow a policy of denying or limiting, through a quota system or otherwise, employment or membership opportunities of any group because of the race, color, religion, sex, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry of that group; (6) Utilize in the recruitment or hiring of persons any employment agency, personnel placement service, training school or center, labor organization, or any other employee-referring source known to discriminate against persons because of their race, color, religion, sex, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry. (F) For any person seeking employment to publish or cause to be published any advertisement that specifies or in any manner indicates that person's race, color, religion, sex, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry, or expresses a limitation or preference as to the race, color, religion, sex, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry of any prospective employer. (G) For any proprietor or any employee, keeper, or manager of a place of public accommodation to deny to any person, except for reasons applicable alike to all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges of the place of public accommodation. (H) Subject to section 4112.024 of the Revised Code, for any person to do any of the following: (1) Refuse to sell, transfer, assign, rent, lease, sublease, or finance housing accommodations, refuse to negotiate for the sale or rental of housing accommodations, or otherwise deny or make unavailable housing accommodations because of race, color, religion, sex, military status, familial status, ancestry, disability, or national origin; (2) Represent to any person that housing accommodations are not available for inspection, sale, or rental, when in fact they are available, because of race, color, religion, sex, military status, familial status, ancestry, disability, or national origin; (3) Discriminate against any person in the making or purchasing of loans or the provision of other financial assistance for the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, repair, or maintenance of housing accommodations, or any person in the making or purchasing of loans or the provision of other financial assistance that is secured by residential real estate, because of race, color, religion, sex, military status, familial status, ancestry, disability, or national origin or because of the racial composition of the neighborhood in which the housing accommodations are located, provided that the person, whether an individual, corporation, or association of any type, lends money as one of the principal aspects or incident to the person's principal business and not only as a part of the purchase price of an owner-occupied residence the person is selling nor merely casually or occasionally to a relative or friend; (4) Discriminate against any person in the terms or conditions of selling, transferring, assigning, renting, leasing, or subleasing any housing accommodations or in furnishing facilities, services, or privileges in connection with the ownership, occupancy, or use of any housing accommodations, including the sale of fire, extended coverage, or homeowners insurance, because of race, color, religion, sex, military status, familial status, ancestry, disability, or national origin or because of the racial composition of the neighborhood in which the housing accommodations are located; (5) Discriminate against any person in the terms or conditions of any loan of money, whether or not secured by mortgage or otherwise, for the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, repair, or maintenance of housing accommodations because of race, color, religion, sex, military status, familial status, ancestry, disability, or national origin or because of the racial composition of the neighborhood in which the housing accommodations are located; (6) Refuse to consider without prejudice the combined income of both husband and wife for the purpose of extending mortgage credit to a married couple or either member of a married couple; (7) Print, publish, or circulate any statement or advertisement, or make or cause to be made any statement or advertisement, relating to the sale, transfer, assignment, rental, lease, sublease, or acquisition of any housing accommodations, or relating to the loan of money, whether or not secured by mortgage or otherwise, for the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, repair, or maintenance of housing accommodations, that indicates any preference, limitation, specification, or discrimination based upon race, color, religion, sex, military status, familial status, ancestry, disability, or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation, specification, or discrimination; (8) Except as otherwise provided in division (H)(8) or (17) of this section, make any inquiry, elicit any information, make or keep any record, or use any form of application containing questions or entries concerning race, color, religion, sex, military status, familial status, ancestry, disability, or national origin in connection with the sale or lease of any housing accommodations or the loan of any money, whether or not secured by mortgage or otherwise, for the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, repair, or maintenance of housing accommodations. Any person may make inquiries, and make and keep records, concerning race, color, religion, sex, military status, familial status, ancestry, disability, or national origin for the purpose of monitoring compliance with this chapter. (9) Include in any transfer, rental, or lease of housing accommodations any restrictive covenant, or honor or exercise, or attempt to honor or exercise, any restrictive covenant; (10) Induce or solicit, or attempt to induce or solicit, a housing accommodations listing, sale, or transaction by representing that a change has occurred or may occur with respect to the racial, religious, sexual, military status, familial status, or ethnic composition of the block, neighborhood, or other area in which the housing accommodations are located, or induce or solicit, or attempt to induce or solicit, a housing accommodations listing, sale, or transaction by representing that the presence or anticipated presence of persons of any race, color, religion, sex, military status, familial status, ancestry, disability, or national origin, in the block, neighborhood, or other area will or may have results including, but not limited to, the following: (a) The lowering of property values; (b) A change in the racial, religious, sexual, military status, familial status, or ethnic composition of the block, neighborhood, or other area; (c) An increase in criminal or antisocial behavior in the block, neighborhood, or other area; (d) A decline in the quality of the schools serving the block, neighborhood, or other area. (11) Deny any person access to or membership or participation in any multiple-listing service, real estate brokers' organization, or other service, organization, or facility relating to the business of selling or renting housing accommodations, or discriminate against any person in the terms or conditions of that access, membership, or participation, on account of race, color, religion, sex, military status, familial status, national origin, disability, or ancestry; (12) Coerce, intimidate, threaten, or interfere with any person in the exercise or enjoyment of, or on account of that person's having exercised or enjoyed or having aided or encouraged any other person in the exercise or enjoyment of, any right granted or protected by division (H) of this section; (13) Discourage or attempt to discourage the purchase by a prospective purchaser of housing accommodations, by representing that any block, neighborhood, or other area has undergone or might undergo a change with respect to its religious, racial, sexual, military status, familial status, or ethnic composition; (14) Refuse to sell, transfer, assign, rent, lease, sublease, or finance, or otherwise deny or withhold, a burial lot from any person because of the race, color, sex, military status, familial status, age, ancestry, disability, or national origin of any prospective owner or user of the lot; (15) Discriminate in the sale or rental of, or otherwise make unavailable or deny, housing accommodations to any buyer or renter because of a disability of any of the following: (a) The buyer or renter; (b) A person residing in or intending to reside in the housing accommodations after they are sold, rented, or made available; (c) Any individual associated with the person described in division (H)(15)(b) of this section. (16) Discriminate in the terms, conditions, or privileges of the sale or rental of housing accommodations to any person or in the provision of services or facilities to any person in connection with the housing accommodations because of a disability of any of the following: (a) That person; (b) A person residing in or intending to reside in the housing accommodations after they are sold, rented, or made available; (c) Any individual associated with the person described in division (H)(16)(b) of this section. (17) Except as otherwise provided in division (H)(17) of this section, make an inquiry to determine whether an applicant for the sale or rental of housing accommodations, a person residing in or intending to reside in the housing accommodations after they are sold, rented, or made available, or any individual associated with that person has a disability, or make an inquiry to determine the nature or severity of a disability of the applicant or such a person or individual. The following inquiries may be made of all applicants for the sale or rental of housing accommodations, regardless of whether they have disabilities: (a) An inquiry into an applicant's ability to meet the requirements of ownership or tenancy; (b) An inquiry to determine whether an applicant is qualified for housing accommodations available only to persons with disabilities or persons with a particular type of disability; (c) An inquiry to determine whether an applicant is qualified for a priority available to persons with disabilities or persons with a particular type of disability; (d) An inquiry to determine whether an applicant currently uses a controlled substance in violation of section 2925.11 of the Revised Code or a substantively comparable municipal ordinance; (e) An inquiry to determine whether an applicant at any time has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any offense, an element of which is the illegal sale, offer to sell, cultivation, manufacture, other production, shipment, transportation, delivery, or other distribution of a controlled substance. (18)(a) Refuse to permit, at the expense of a person with a disability, reasonable modifications of existing housing accommodations that are occupied or to be occupied by the person with a disability, if the modifications may be necessary to afford the person with a disability full enjoyment of the housing accommodations. This division does not preclude a landlord of housing accommodations that are rented or to be rented to a tenant with a disability from conditioning permission for a proposed modification upon the tenant with a disability doing one or more of the following: (i) Providing a reasonable description of the proposed modification and reasonable assurances that the proposed modification will be made in a workerlike manner and that any required building permits will be obtained prior to the commencement of the proposed modification; (ii) Agreeing to restore at the end of the tenancy the interior of the housing accommodations to the condition they were in prior to the proposed modification, but subject to reasonable wear and tear during the period of occupancy, if it is reasonable for the landlord to condition permission for the proposed modification upon the agreement; (iii) Paying into an interest-bearing escrow account that is in the landlord's name, over a reasonable period of time, a reasonable amount of money not to exceed the projected costs at the end of the tenancy of the restoration of the interior of the housing accommodations to the condition they were in prior to the proposed modification, but subject to reasonable wear and tear during the period of occupancy, if the landlord finds the account reasonably necessary to ensure the availability of funds for the restoration work. The interest earned in connection with an escrow account described in this division shall accrue to the benefit of the tenant with a disability who makes payments into the account. (b) A landlord shall not condition permission for a proposed modification upon a tenant with a disability's payment of a security deposit that exceeds the customarily required security deposit of all tenants of the particular housing accommodations. (19) Refuse to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices, or services when necessary to afford a person with a disability equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling unit, including associated public and common use areas; (20) Fail to comply with the standards and rules adopted under division (A) of section 3781.111 of the Revised Code; (21) Discriminate against any person in the selling, brokering, or appraising of real property because of race, color, religion, sex, military status, familial status, ancestry, disability, or national origin; (22) Fail to design and construct covered multifamily dwellings for first occupancy on or after June 30, 1992, in accordance with the following conditions: (a) The dwellings shall have at least one building entrance on an accessible route, unless it is impractical to do so because of the terrain or unusual characteristics of the site. (b) With respect to dwellings that have a building entrance on an accessible route, all of the following apply: (i) The public use areas and common use areas of the dwellings shall be readily accessible to and usable by persons with a disability. (ii) All the doors designed to allow passage into and within all premises shall be sufficiently wide to allow passage by persons with a disability who are in wheelchairs. (iii) All premises within covered multifamily dwelling units shall contain an accessible route into and through the dwelling; all light switches, electrical outlets, thermostats, and other environmental controls within such units shall be in accessible locations; the bathroom walls within such units shall contain reinforcements to allow later installation of grab bars; and the kitchens and bathrooms within such units shall be designed and constructed in a manner that enables an individual in a wheelchair to maneuver about such rooms. For purposes of division (H)(22) of this section, "covered multifamily dwellings" means buildings consisting of four or more units if such buildings have one or more elevators and ground floor units in other buildings consisting of four or more units. (I) For any person to discriminate in any manner against any other person because that person has opposed any unlawful discriminatory practice defined in this section or because that person has made a charge, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in any investigation, proceeding, or hearing under sections 4112.01 to 4112.07 of the Revised Code. (J) For any person to aid, abet, incite, compel, or coerce the doing of any act declared by this section to be an unlawful discriminatory practice, to obstruct or prevent any person from complying with this chapter or any order issued under it, or to attempt directly or indirectly to commit any act declared by this section to be an unlawful discriminatory practice. (K) Nothing in divisions (A) to (E) of this section shall be construed to require a person with a disability to be employed or trained under circumstances that would significantly increase the occupational hazards affecting either the person with a disability, other employees, the general public, or the facilities in which the work is to be performed, or to require the employment or training of a person with a disability in a job that requires the person with a disability routinely to undertake any task, the performance of which is substantially and inherently impaired by the person's disability. (L) With regard to age, it shall not be an unlawful discriminatory practice and it shall not constitute a violation of division (A) of section 4112.14 of the Revised Code for any employer, employment agency, joint labor-management committee controlling apprenticeship training programs, or labor organization to do any of the following: (1) Establish bona fide employment qualifications reasonably related to the particular business or occupation that may include standards for skill, aptitude, physical capability, intelligence, education, maturation, and experience; (2) Observe the terms of a bona fide seniority system or any bona fide employee benefit plan, including, but not limited to, a retirement, pension, or insurance plan, that is not a subterfuge to evade the purposes of this section. However, no such employee benefit plan shall excuse the failure to hire any individual, and no such seniority system or employee benefit plan shall require or permit the involuntary retirement of any individual, because of the individual's age except as provided for in the "Age Discrimination in Employment Act Amendment of 1978," 92 Stat. 189, 29 U.S.C.A. 623, as amended by the "Age Discrimination in Employment Act Amendments of 1986," 100 Stat. 3342, 29 U.S.C.A. 623, as amended. (3) Retire an employee who has attained sixty-five years of age who, for the two-year period immediately before retirement, is employed in a bona fide executive or a high policymaking position, if the employee is entitled to an immediate nonforfeitable annual retirement benefit from a pension, profit-sharing, savings, or deferred compensation plan, or any combination of those plans, of the employer of the employee, which equals, in the aggregate, at least forty-four thousand dollars, in accordance with the conditions of the "Age Discrimination in Employment Act Amendment of 1978," 92 Stat. 189, 29 U.S.C.A. 631, as amended by the "Age Discrimination in Employment Act Amendments of 1986," 100 Stat. 3342, 29 U.S.C.A. 631, as amended; (4) Observe the terms of any bona fide apprenticeship program if the program is registered with the Ohio apprenticeship council pursuant to sections 4139.01 to 4139.06 of the Revised Code and is approved by the federal committee on apprenticeship of the United States department of labor. (M) Nothing in this chapter prohibiting age discrimination and nothing in division (A) of section 4112.14 of the Revised Code shall be construed to prohibit the following: (1) The designation of uniform age the attainment of which is necessary for public employees to receive pension or other retirement benefits pursuant to Chapter 145., 742., 3307., 3309., or 5505. of the Revised Code; (2) The mandatory retirement of uniformed patrol officers of the state highway patrol as provided in section 5505.16 of the Revised Code; (3) The maximum age requirements for appointment as a patrol officer in the state highway patrol established by section 5503.01 of the Revised Code; (4) The maximum age requirements established for original appointment to a police department or fire department in sections 124.41 and 124.42 of the Revised Code; (5) Any maximum age not in conflict with federal law that may be established by a municipal charter, municipal ordinance, or resolution of a board of township trustees for original appointment as a police officer or firefighter; (6) Any mandatory retirement provision not in conflict with federal law of a municipal charter, municipal ordinance, or resolution of a board of township trustees pertaining to police officers and firefighters; (7) Until January 1, 1994, the mandatory retirement of any employee who has attained seventy years of age and who is serving under a contract of unlimited tenure, or similar arrangement providing for unlimited tenure, at an institution of higher education as defined in the "Education Amendments of 1980," 94 Stat. 1503, 20 U.S.C.A. 1141(a). (N)(1)(a) Except as provided in division (N)(1)(b) of this section, for purposes of divisions (A) to (E) of this section, a disability does not include any physiological disorder or condition, mental or psychological disorder, or disease or condition caused by an illegal use of any controlled substance by an employee, applicant, or other person, if an employer, employment agency, personnel placement service, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee acts on the basis of that illegal use. (b) Division (N)(1)(a) of this section does not apply to an employee, applicant, or other person who satisfies any of the following: (i) The employee, applicant, or other person has successfully completed a supervised drug rehabilitation program and no longer is engaging in the illegal use of any controlled substance, or the employee, applicant, or other person otherwise successfully has been rehabilitated and no longer is engaging in that illegal use. (ii) The employee, applicant, or other person is participating in a supervised drug rehabilitation program and no longer is engaging in the illegal use of any controlled substance. (iii) The employee, applicant, or other person is erroneously regarded as engaging in the illegal use of any controlled substance, but the employee, applicant, or other person is not engaging in that illegal use. (2) Divisions (A) to (E) of this section do not prohibit an employer, employment agency, personnel placement service, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee from doing any of the following: (a) Adopting or administering reasonable policies or procedures, including, but not limited to, testing for the illegal use of any controlled substance, that are designed to ensure that an individual described in division (N)(1)(b)(i) or (ii) of this section no longer is engaging in the illegal use of any controlled substance; (b) Prohibiting the illegal use of controlled substances and the use of alcohol at the workplace by all employees; (c) Requiring that employees not be under the influence of alcohol or not be engaged in the illegal use of any controlled substance at the workplace; (d) Requiring that employees behave in conformance with the requirements established under "The Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988," 102 Stat. 4304, 41 U.S.C.A. 701, as amended; (e) Holding an employee who engages in the illegal use of any controlled substance or who has alcoholism to the same qualification standards for employment or job performance, and the same behavior, to which the employer, employment agency, personnel placement service, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee holds other employees, even if any unsatisfactory performance or behavior is related to an employee's illegal use of a controlled substance or alcoholism; (f) Exercising other authority recognized in the "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990," 104 Stat. 327, 42 U.S.C.A. 12101, as amended, including, but not limited to, requiring employees to comply with any applicable federal standards. (3) For purposes of this chapter, a test to determine the illegal use of any controlled substance does not include a medical examination. (4) Division (N) of this section does not encourage, prohibit, or authorize, and shall not be construed as encouraging, prohibiting, or authorizing, the conduct of testing for the illegal use of any controlled substance by employees, applicants, or other persons, or the making of employment decisions based on the results of that type of testing. (O) This section does not apply to a religious corporation, association, educational institution, or society with respect to the employment of an individual of a particular religion to perform work connected with the carrying on by that religious corporation, association, educational institution, or society of its activities. The unlawful discriminatory practices defined in this section do not make it unlawful for a person or an appointing authority administering an examination under section 124.23 of the Revised Code to obtain information about an applicant's military status for the purpose of determining if the applicant is eligible for the additional credit that is available under that section. Last updated January 25, 2023 at 11:27 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4164.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4164 / § 4164.10
§ 4164.10. Purpose of authority
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The authority is established for both of the following purposes: (A) To be an information resource for this state, the United States nuclear regulatory commission, all branches of the United States military, and the United States department of energy on advanced-nuclear-research reactors, isotopes, and isotope technologies; (B) To make this state all of the following: (1) A leader in the development and construction of new-type advanced-nuclear-research reactors; (2) A national and global leader in the commercial production of isotopes and research; (3) A leader in the research and development of high-level-nuclear-waste reduction and storage technology. Last updated October 26, 2023 at 10:04 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.29 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.29
§ 4123.29. Duties of administrator
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 27 - 132nd General Assembly (A) The administrator of workers' compensation, subject to the approval of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall do all of the following: (1) Classify occupations or industries with respect to their degree of hazard and determine the risks of the different classes according to the categories the national council on compensation insurance establishes that are applicable to employers in this state; (2)(a) Fix the rates of premium of the risks of the classes based upon the total payroll in each of the classes of occupation or industry sufficiently large to provide a fund for the compensation provided for in this chapter and to maintain a state insurance fund from year to year. The administrator shall set the rates at a level that assures the solvency of the fund. Where the payroll cannot be obtained or, in the opinion of the administrator, is not an adequate measure for determining the premium to be paid for the degree of hazard, the administrator may determine the rates of premium upon such other basis, consistent with insurance principles, as is equitable in view of the degree of hazard, and whenever in this chapter reference is made to payroll or expenditure of wages with reference to fixing premiums, the reference shall be construed to have been made also to such other basis for fixing the rates of premium as the administrator may determine under this section. (b) If an employer elects to obtain other-states' coverage, including limited other-states' coverage, pursuant to section 4123.292 of the Revised Code through the administrator, if the administrator elects to offer such coverage, calculate the employer's premium for the state insurance fund in the same manner as otherwise required under division (A) of this section and section 4123.34 of the Revised Code, except that the administrator may establish in rule an alternative calculation of the employer's premium to appropriately account for the expenditure of wages, payroll, or both attributable to the labor performed and services provided by that employer's employees when those employees performed labor and provided services in this state and in the other state or states for which the employer elects to secure other-states' coverage. (c) If an employer elects to obtain other-states' coverage pursuant to section 4123.292 of the Revised Code through an other-states' insurer, calculate the employer's premium for the state insurance fund in the same manner as otherwise required under division (A) of this section and section 4123.34 of the Revised Code, except that when the administrator determines the expenditure of wages, payroll, or both upon which to base the employer's premium, the administrator shall use only the expenditure of wages, payroll, or both attributable to the labor performed and services provided by that employer's employees when those employees performed labor and provided services in this state only and to which the other-states' coverage does not apply. The administrator may adopt rules setting forth the information that an employer electing to obtain other-states' coverage through an other-states' insurer shall report for purposes of determining the expenditure of wages, payroll, or both attributable to the labor performed and services provided in this state. (d) The administrator in setting or revising rates shall furnish to employers an adequate explanation of the basis for the rates set. (3) Develop and make available to employers who are paying premiums to the state insurance fund alternative premium plans. Alternative premium plans shall include retrospective rating plans. The administrator may make available plans under which an advanced deposit may be applied against a specified deductible amount per claim. (4)(a) Offer to insure the obligations of employers under this chapter under a plan that groups, for rating purposes, employers, and pools the risk of the employers within the group provided that the employers meet all of the following conditions: (i) All of the employers within the group are members of an organization that has been in existence for at least two years prior to the date of application for group coverage; (ii) The organization was formed for purposes other than that of obtaining group workers' compensation under this division; (iii) The employers' business in the organization is substantially similar such that the risks which are grouped are substantially homogeneous; (iv) The group of employers consists of at least one hundred members or the aggregate workers' compensation premiums of the members, as determined by the administrator, are estimated to exceed one hundred fifty thousand dollars during the coverage period; (v) The formation and operation of the group program in the organization will substantially improve accident prevention and claims handling for the employers in the group; (vi) Each employer seeking to enroll in a group for workers' compensation coverage has an account in good standing with the bureau of workers' compensation. The administrator shall adopt rules setting forth the criteria by which the administrator will determine whether an employer's account is in good standing. (b) If an organization sponsors more than one employer group to participate in group plans established under this section, that organization may submit a single application that supplies all of the information necessary for each group of employers that the organization wishes to sponsor. (c) In providing employer group plans under division (A)(4) of this section, the administrator shall consider an employer group as a single employing entity for purposes of group rating. No employer may be a member of more than one group for the purpose of obtaining workers' compensation coverage under this division. (d) At the time the administrator revises premium rates pursuant to this section and section 4123.34 of the Revised Code, if the premium rate of an employer who participates in a group plan established under this section changes from the rate established for the previous year, the administrator, in addition to sending the invoice with the rate revision to that employer, shall provide an explanation of the rate revision to the third-party administrator that administers the group plan for that employer's group. (e) In providing employer group plans under division (A)(4) of this section, the administrator shall establish a program designed to mitigate the impact of a significant claim that would come into the experience of a private, state fund group-rated employer or a taxing district employer for the first time and be a contributing factor in that employer being excluded from a group-rated plan. The administrator shall establish eligibility criteria and requirements that such employers must satisfy in order to participate in this program. For purposes of this program, the administrator shall establish a discount on premium rates applicable to employers who qualify for the program. (f) In no event shall division (A)(4) of this section be construed as granting to an employer status as a self-insuring employer. (g) The administrator shall develop classifications of occupations or industries that are sufficiently distinct so as not to group employers in classifications that unfairly represent the risks of employment with the employer. (5) Generally promote employer participation in the state insurance fund through the regular dissemination of information to all classes of employers describing the advantages and benefits of opting to make premium payments to the fund. To that end, the administrator shall regularly make employers aware of the various workers' compensation premium packages developed and offered pursuant to this section. (6) Make available to every employer who is paying premiums to the state insurance fund a program whereby the employer or the employer's agent pays to the claimant or on behalf of the claimant the first fifteen thousand dollars of a compensable workers' compensation medical-only claim filed by that claimant that is related to the same injury or occupational disease. No formal application is required; however, an employer must elect to participate by telephoning the bureau after July 1, 1995. Once an employer has elected to participate in the program, the employer will be responsible for all bills in all medical-only claims with a date of injury the same or later than the election date, unless the employer notifies the bureau within fourteen days of receipt of the notification of a claim being filed that it does not wish to pay the bills in that claim, or the employer notifies the bureau that the fifteen thousand dollar maximum has been paid, or the employer notifies the bureau of the last day of service on which it will be responsible for the bills in a particular medical-only claim. If an employer elects to enter the program, the administrator shall not reimburse the employer for such amounts paid and shall not charge the first fifteen thousand dollars of any medical-only claim paid by an employer to the employer's experience or otherwise use it in merit rating or determining the risks of any employer for the purpose of payment of premiums under this chapter. A certified health care provider shall extend to an employer who participates in this program the same rates for services rendered to an employee of that employer as the provider bills the administrator for the same type of medical claim processed by the bureau and shall not charge, assess, or otherwise attempt to collect from an employee any amount for covered services or supplies that is in excess of that rate. If an employer elects to enter the program and the employer fails to pay a bill for a medical-only claim included in the program, the employer shall be liable for that bill and the employee for whom the employer failed to pay the bill shall not be liable for that bill. The administrator shall adopt rules to implement and administer division (A)(6) of this section. Upon written request from the bureau, the employer shall provide documentation to the bureau of all medical-only bills that they are paying directly. Such requests from the bureau may not be made more frequently than on a semiannual basis. Failure to provide such documentation to the bureau within thirty days of receipt of the request may result in the employer's forfeiture of participation in the program for such injury. The provisions of this section shall not apply to claims in which an employer with knowledge of a claimed compensable injury or occupational disease, has paid wages in lieu of compensation or total disability. (B) The administrator, with the advice and consent of the board, by rule, may do both of the following: (1) Grant an employer who pays the employer's annual estimated premium in full prior to the start of the policy year for which the estimated premium is due, a discount as the administrator fixes from time to time; (2) Levy a minimum annual administrative charge upon risks where premium reports develop a charge less than the administrator considers adequate to offset administrative costs of processing.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.026 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.026
§ 4123.026. Costs of post-exposure medical diagnostic services after peace officer, firefighter, emergency medical worker, or detention facility employees' exposure to blood or other body fluid
Status: in_force

June 12, 2024 Senate Bill 106 - 135th General Assembly (A) The administrator of workers' compensation, a self-insuring public employer for the peace officers, firefighters, and emergency medical workers employed by or volunteering for that self-insuring public employer, or a detention facility that is a self-insuring employer for the facility's employees, including corrections officers, shall pay the costs of conducting post-exposure medical diagnostic services, consistent with the standards of medical care existing at the time of the exposure, to investigate whether an injury or occupational disease was sustained by a peace officer, firefighter, emergency medical worker, or detention facility employee, including a corrections officer, when coming into contact with the blood or other body fluid of another person in the course of and arising out of the peace officer's, firefighter's, emergency medical worker's, or detention facility employee's employment, or when responding to an inherently dangerous situation in the manner described in, and in accordance with the conditions specified under, division (A)(1)(a) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, through any of the following means: (1) Splash or spatter in the eye or mouth, including when received in the course of conducting mouth-to-mouth resuscitation; (2) A puncture in the skin; (3) A cut in the skin or another opening in the skin such as an open sore, wound, lesion, abrasion, or ulcer. (B) The administrator, a self-insuring public employer, or a detention facility that is a self-insuring employer shall pay the costs of conducting post-exposure medical diagnostic services to investigate whether an employee described in division (A) of this section sustained an injury or occupational disease if both of the following apply: (1) In the course of employment the employee is exposed to a drug or other chemical substance. (2) The post-exposure medical diagnostic service is consistent with the standards of medical care existing at the time of exposure. (C) As used in this section: (1) "Peace officer" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Firefighter" means a firefighter, whether paid or volunteer, of a lawfully constituted fire department. (3) "Emergency medical worker" means either of the following: (a) A first responder, emergency medical technician-basic, emergency medical technician-intermediate, or emergency medical technician-paramedic, certified under Chapter 4765. of the Revised Code, whether paid or volunteer; (b) Any of the following when staffing a rotorcraft or fixed wing air ambulance on behalf of a licensed air medical service organization in accordance with section 4766.17 of the Revised Code, including transporting a patient from an incident scene or medical facility into the air ambulance, or when transporting a patient from an air ambulance to the entrance of a hospital: (i) A physician who holds a current, valid license issued under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code; (ii) A registered nurse who holds a current, valid license issued under Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code; (iii) Any other person holding a current, valid certificate or license to practice a health care profession in this state. (4) "Corrections officer" means a person employed by a detention facility as a corrections officer. (5) "Detention facility" means any public or private place used for the confinement of a person charged with or convicted of any crime in this state or another state or under the laws of the United States or alleged or found to be a delinquent child or unruly child in this state or another state or under the laws of the United States. Last updated March 20, 2024 at 8:41 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4104.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4104 / § 4104.34
§ 4104.34. Historical boilers licensing board - powers and duties
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly The historical boilers licensing board shall do all of the following: (A) Adopt rules concerning all of the following: (1) Criteria that inspectors of historical boilers shall utilize in determining the safe operation of historical boilers; (2) Procedures for the inspection of historical boilers; (3) The standards for riveted or welded repairs or alterations made to historical boilers; (4) Standards and procedures for the revocation of a historical boiler operator's license, which shall include an opportunity for appeal and hearing in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code; (5) Standards for requalifying for a license after revocation of a license; (6) Standards and procedures for conducting hydrostatic tests, and requirements for reporting the results of those tests to the board, as required under division (F) of section 4104.36 of the Revised Code; (7) Standards for the public display and operation of historical boilers in this state by historical boiler operators who reside outside of this state. (B) Issue triennial certificates of operation for historical boilers that pass the inspection required under section 4104.36 of the Revised Code; (C) Conduct hearings in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for any person who appeals a decision made by an inspector regarding whether the person should be denied a certificate of operation for the person's historical boiler; (D) Establish a fee for the inspection of historical boilers conducted pursuant to division (B) of section 4104.36 of the Revised Code in an amount sufficient to reimburse the department of commerce for the cost of conducting those inspections; (E) Reimburse the department of commerce for the cost of inspections performed by the division of boiler inspection pursuant to section 4104.36 of the Revised Code; (F) Issue licenses to operate historical boilers in public to persons who meet the requirements of section 4104.35 of the Revised Code; (G) Grant approval of historical boiler operator's courses as the board determines appropriate; (H) Grant approval of written or verbal examinations that are developed to test competence in operating historical boilers; (I) For purposes of section 4104.37 of the Revised Code, determine the smallest size of historical boilers that are subject to sections 4104.32 to 4104.36 of the Revised Code; (J) For purposes of inspection criteria adopted by the board pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section, establish the criteria based upon the manufacturing standards for safe operation that are established by the various manufacturers of historical boilers; (K) Appoint safety committees to conduct the hydrostatic tests required under division (F) of section 4104.36 of the Revised Code; (L) Establish requirements for the minimum amount of liability insurance that an owner of historical boilers shall carry on each historical boiler operated in public that the owner owns, if the board determines that a minimum amount should be established. Last updated August 19, 2021 at 3:19 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.44
§ 4121.44. Implementation of qualified health plan system and health partnership program - health care data program
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 27 - 132nd General Assembly (A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall oversee the implementation of the Ohio workers' compensation qualified health plan system as established under section 4121.442 of the Revised Code. (B) The administrator shall direct the implementation of the health partnership program administered by the bureau as set forth in section 4121.441 of the Revised Code. To implement the health partnership program and to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the public services provided through the program, the bureau: (1) Shall certify one or more external vendors, which shall be known as "managed care organizations," to provide medical management and cost containment services in the health partnership program for a period of two years beginning on the date of certification, consistent with the standards established under this section; (2) May recertify managed care organizations for additional periods of two years; and (3) May integrate the certified managed care organizations with bureau staff and existing bureau services for purposes of operation and training to allow the bureau to assume operation of the health partnership program at the conclusion of the certification periods set forth in division (B)(1) or (2) of this section; (4) May enter into a contract with any managed care organization that is certified by the bureau, pursuant to division (B)(1) or (2) of this section, to provide medical management and cost containment services in the health partnership program. (C) A contract entered into pursuant to division (B)(4) of this section shall include both of the following: (1) Incentives that may be awarded by the administrator, at the administrator's discretion, based on compliance and performance of the managed care organization; (2) Penalties that may be imposed by the administrator, at the administrator's discretion, based on the failure of the managed care organization to reasonably comply with or perform terms of the contract, which may include termination of the contract. (D) Notwithstanding section 119.061 of the Revised Code, a contract entered into pursuant to division (B)(4) of this section may include provisions limiting, restricting, or regulating any marketing or advertising by the managed care organization, or by any individual or entity that is affiliated with or acting on behalf of the managed care organization, under the health partnership program. (E) No managed care organization shall receive compensation under the health partnership program unless the managed care organization has entered into a contract with the bureau pursuant to division (B)(4) of this section. (F) Any managed care organization selected shall demonstrate all of the following: (1) Arrangements and reimbursement agreements with a substantial number of the medical, professional and pharmacy providers currently being utilized by claimants. (2) Ability to accept a common format of medical bill data in an electronic fashion from any provider who wishes to submit medical bill data in that form. (3) A computer system able to handle the volume of medical bills and willingness to customize that system to the bureau's needs and to be operated by the managed care organization's staff, bureau staff, or some combination of both staffs. (4) A prescription drug system where pharmacies on a statewide basis have access to the eligibility and pricing, at a discounted rate, of all prescription drugs. (5) A tracking system to record all telephone calls from claimants and providers regarding the status of submitted medical bills so as to be able to track each inquiry. (6) Data processing capacity to absorb all of the bureau's medical bill processing or at least that part of the processing which the bureau arranges to delegate. (7) Capacity to store, retrieve, array, simulate, and model in a relational mode all of the detailed medical bill data so that analysis can be performed in a variety of ways and so that the bureau and its governing authority can make informed decisions. (8) Wide variety of software programs which translate medical terminology into standard codes, and which reveal if a provider is manipulating the procedures codes, commonly called "unbundling." (9) Necessary professional staff to conduct, at a minimum, authorizations for treatment, medical necessity, utilization review, concurrent review, post-utilization review, and have the attendant computer system which supports such activity and measures the outcomes and the savings. (10) Management experience and flexibility to be able to react quickly to the needs of the bureau in the case of required change in federal or state requirements. (G)(1) The administrator may decertify a managed care organization if the managed care organization does any of the following: (a) Fails to maintain any of the requirements set forth in division (F) of this section; (b) Fails to reasonably comply with or to perform in accordance with the terms of a contract entered into under division (B)(4) of this section; (c) Violates a rule adopted under section 4121.441 of the Revised Code. (2) The administrator shall provide each managed care organization that is being decertified pursuant to division (G)(1) of this section with written notice of the pending decertification and an opportunity for a hearing pursuant to rules adopted by the administrator. (H)(1) Information contained in a managed care organization's application for certification in the health partnership program, and other information furnished to the bureau by a managed care organization for purposes of obtaining certification or to comply with performance and financial auditing requirements established by the administrator, is for the exclusive use and information of the bureau in the discharge of its official duties, and shall not be open to the public or be used in any court in any proceeding pending therein, unless the bureau is a party to the action or proceeding, but the information may be tabulated and published by the bureau in statistical form for the use and information of other state departments and the public. No employee of the bureau, except as otherwise authorized by the administrator, shall divulge any information secured by the employee while in the employ of the bureau in respect to a managed care organization's application for certification or in respect to the business or other trade processes of any managed care organization to any person other than the administrator or to the employee's superior. (2) Notwithstanding the restrictions imposed by division (H)(1) of this section, the governor, members of select or standing committees of the senate or house of representatives, the auditor of state, the attorney general, or their designees, pursuant to the authority granted in this chapter and Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code, may examine any managed care organization application or other information furnished to the bureau by the managed care organization. None of those individuals shall divulge any information secured in the exercise of that authority in respect to a managed care organization's application for certification or in respect to the business or other trade processes of any managed care organization to any person. (I) On and after January 1, 2001, a managed care organization shall not be an insurance company holding a certificate of authority issued pursuant to Title XXXIX of the Revised Code or a health insuring corporation holding a certificate of authority under Chapter 1751. of the Revised Code. (J) The administrator may limit freedom of choice of health care provider or supplier by requiring, beginning with the period set forth in division (B)(1) or (2) of this section, that claimants shall pay an appropriate out-of-plan copayment for selecting a medical provider not within the health partnership program as provided for in this section. (K) The administrator, six months prior to the expiration of the bureau's certification or recertification of the managed care organizations as set forth in division (B)(1) or (2) of this section, may certify and provide evidence to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the president of the senate that the existing bureau staff is able to match or exceed the performance and outcomes of the managed care organizations and that the bureau should be permitted to internally administer the health partnership program upon the expiration of the certification or recertification as set forth in division (B)(1) or (2) of this section. (L) The administrator shall establish and operate a bureau of workers' compensation health care data program. The administrator shall develop reporting requirements from all employees, employers, medical providers, managed care organizations, and plans that participate in the workers' compensation system. The administrator shall do all of the following: (1) Utilize the collected data to measure and perform comparison analyses of costs, quality, appropriateness of medical care, and effectiveness of medical care delivered by all components of the workers' compensation system. (2) Compile data to support activities of the selected managed care organizations and to measure the outcomes and savings of the health partnership program. (3) Publish and report compiled data on the measures of outcomes and savings of the health partnership program and submit the report to the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the governor with the annual report prepared under division (F)(3) of section 4121.12 of the Revised Code. The administrator shall protect the confidentiality of all proprietary pricing data. (M) Any rehabilitation facility the bureau operates is eligible for inclusion in the Ohio workers' compensation qualified health plan system or the health partnership program under the same terms as other providers within health care plans or the program. (N) In areas outside the state or within the state where no qualified health plan or an inadequate number of providers within the health partnership program exist, the administrator shall permit employees to use a nonplan or nonprogram health care provider and shall pay the provider for the services or supplies provided to or on behalf of an employee for an injury or occupational disease that is compensable under this chapter or Chapter 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code on a fee schedule the administrator adopts. (O) No health care provider, whether certified or not, shall charge, assess, or otherwise attempt to collect from an employee, employer, a managed care organization, or the bureau any amount for covered services or supplies that is in excess of the allowed amount paid by a managed care organization, the bureau, or a qualified health plan. (P) The administrator shall permit any employer or group of employers who agree to abide by the rules adopted under this section and sections 4121.441 and 4121.442 of the Revised Code to provide services or supplies to or on behalf of an employee for an injury or occupational disease that is compensable under this chapter or Chapter 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code through qualified health plans of the Ohio workers' compensation qualified health plan system pursuant to section 4121.442 of the Revised Code or through the health partnership program pursuant to section 4121.441 of the Revised Code. No amount paid under the qualified health plan system pursuant to section 4121.442 of the Revised Code by an employer who is a state fund employer shall be charged to the employer's experience or otherwise be used in merit-rating or determining the risk of that employer for the purpose of the payment of premiums under this chapter, and if the employer is a self-insuring employer, the employer shall not include that amount in the paid compensation the employer reports under section 4123.35 of the Revised Code. (Q) The administrator, in consultation with the health care quality assurance advisory committee created by the administrator or its successor committee, shall develop and periodically revise standards for maintaining an adequate number of providers certified by the bureau for each service currently being used by claimants. The standards shall ensure both of the following: (1) That a claimant has access to a choice of providers for similar services within the geographic area that the claimant resides; (2) That the providers within a geographic area are actively accepting new claimants as required in rules adopted by the administrator.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4133.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4133 / § 4133.01
§ 4133.01. Definitions
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 Senate Bill 201 - 133rd General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "Alternate employer organization" means a sole proprietor, partnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation that enters into an agreement with one or more client employers for purposes of providing human resource management services and sharing employer responsibility and liability. (B) "Alternate employer organization agreement" means a written contract between a client employer and an alternate employer organization to provide human resource management services and to share employer responsibilities and liabilities. (C) "Client employer" means a sole proprietor, partnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation that enters into an alternate employer organization agreement and shares employer responsibility and liability with the alternate employer organization. (D) "Trade secret" has the same meaning as in section 1333.61 of the Revised Code. (E) "Working capital" means the excess of current assets over current liabilities as determined by generally accepted accounting principles. (F) "Worksite employee" means an individual assigned to a client employer on a permanent basis, not as a temporary supplement to the client employer's workforce, and who is employed by both an alternate employer organization and a client employer pursuant to an alternate employer organization agreement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4125.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4125 / § 4125.02
§ 4125.02. Administrator of workers' compensation to enforce chapter
Status: in_force

March 22, 2013 Senate Bill 139 - 129th General Assembly The administrator of workers' compensation shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to administer and enforce this chapter, including rules to administer and enforce division (B) of section 4125.03 of the Revised Code. The administrator may adopt rules for the acceptance of electronic filings in accordance with Chapter 1306. of the Revised Code for applications, documents, reports, and other filings required by this chapter. The administrator may allow an independent assurance organization to act on behalf of a professional employer organization or professional employer organization reporting entity in complying with this chapter and any rules adopted under it. The assurance organization shall be approved by the administrator before acting on behalf of the professional employer organization or the professional employer organization reporting entity and shall abide by all standards and procedures established by the administrator for that approval. The administrator may permit a professional employer organization or professional employer organization reporting entity to authorize an assurance organization approved by the administrator to act on behalf of the professional employer organization or professional employer organization reporting entity, and the administrator shall specify certain provisions of this chapter that may be satisfied by an assurance organization acting with that authority. The rules shall also stipulate that the use of an assurance organization by a professional employer organization to comply with this chapter is not required and is strictly voluntary. Last updated September 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.271 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.271
§ 4123.271. Administrator may request report of employer payments from tax commissioner
Status: in_force

June 30, 2006 Senate Bill 7 - 126th General Assembly The administrator of workers' compensation may furnish to the tax commissioner, on a quarterly basis, a list in a format approved by the tax commissioner containing the name and social security number or employer identification number of any employer, and may request that the tax commissioner, on a quarterly basis, report the total amount of compensation paid that the employer reported for the period for which the annual return is made pursuant to division (F)(3) of section 5747.07 of the Revised Code, for each employer contained on the administrator's list. Upon receipt of this list and request, the tax commissioner shall provide to the administrator, in a format designed by the tax commissioner, information identifying any employer listed by the administrator who reported compensation paid to employees on the most recent return filed by the person pursuant to section 5747.07 of the Revised Code and the total amount of compensation paid that the employer reported for the period for which the annual return is made pursuant to division (F)(3) of section 5747.07 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.231 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.231
§ 4141.231. Satisfying employer's deficiency
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly (A) If the director of job and family services determines that an employer is liable for unemployment compensation contributions or payments in lieu of contributions, interest, forfeitures, or fines totaling an amount that exceeds one thousand dollars which remain due and unpaid for thirty days or more and no part of the amount due is the subject of an appeal under this chapter, the director may certify this determination to the director of budget and management. If the director of budget and management, upon receipt of the director of job and family services' determination, determines that the employer is a person who has provided goods or services to this state for which amounts are to be approved for payment pursuant to section 126.07 of the Revised Code, the director of budget and management shall, in approving payments to the person under that section, withhold from amounts otherwise payable to the person, the amount of unemployment compensation contributions or payments in lieu of contributions, interest, forfeitures, or fines due and unpaid as certified by the director of job and family services, and shall approve for payment to the director of job and family services, the amount withheld. (B) The director of job and family services shall deposit amounts received under division (A) of this section into the clearing account established pursuant to division (C) of section 4141.09 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.542 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.542
§ 4123.542. Successful claimant not to file duplicative claim
Status: in_force

September 17, 2014 House Bill 493 - 130th General Assembly An employee or the dependents of an employee who receive a decision on the merits of a claim for compensation or benefits under this chapter or Chapter 4121., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code shall not file a claim for the same injury, occupational disease, or death in another state under the workers' compensation laws of that state. Except as otherwise provided in division (H) of section 4123.54 of the Revised Code, an employee or the employee's dependents who receive a decision on the merits of a claim for compensation or benefits under the workers' compensation laws of another state shall not file a claim for compensation and benefits under this chapter or Chapter 4121., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code for the same injury, occupational disease, or death. As used in this section, "a decision on the merits" means a decision determined or adjudicated for compensability of a claim and not on jurisdictional grounds.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.751 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.751
§ 4123.751. Service on nonresident employer
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly Any nonresident person, firm, or corporation of this state who engages in any activity or maintains any establishment in this state so as to be an employer, as defined in division (B) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, or any resident of this state, being an employer as so defined, who has engaged in any such activity or maintained any such establishment in this state, who subsequently becomes a nonresident or conceals his whereabouts, or, after due diligence, whose whereabouts cannot be ascertained and no forwarding address can be found, shall, by engagement in the activity or by maintenance of the establishment, make and constitute the secretary of state his agent for the service of process in any proceeding before the bureau of workers' compensation or the industrial commission or in any civil suit resulting therefrom, against the employer, arising out of or by reason of any injury or occupational disease as defined in this chapter, occurring within this state and involving employment in the activity or within the maintenance of the establishment.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.14
§ 4121.14. Investigating agent
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly For the purpose of making any investigation with regard to any employment or place of employment, the administrator of workers' compensation may appoint, by an order in writing, any employee of the bureau of workers' compensation, any deputy, who is a citizen of the state, or any other competent person who is a resident of the state, as an agent whose duty shall be prescribed in the order. In the discharge of his duties the agent shall have every power whatsoever of an inquisitorial nature granted in sections 4101.01 to 4101.16 and 4121.01 to 4121.29 of the Revised Code to the bureau, and the same powers as a master commissioner appointed by a court of common pleas with regard to taking testimony. The bureau may conduct any number of investigations contemporaneously through different agents, and may delegate to agents the taking of all testimony bearing upon any investigation or hearing. The decision of the bureau shall be based upon its examination of all testimony and records. The recommendations made by agents shall be advisory only and shall not preclude the taking of further testimony if the bureau orders, nor further investigation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4113.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4113 / § 4113.42
§ 4113.42. Peer support team member roster
Status: in_force

April 6, 2023 House Bill 545 - 134th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "peer support team" and "peer support team member" have the same meanings as in section 2317.023 of the Revised Code. (B) An employer or organization that appoints a peer support team, or an advisor designated by an employer or organization under division (F) of section 2317.023 of the Revised Code, shall keep a roster of the peer support team members that make up each peer support team maintained by the employer or organization. The employer, organization, or advisor shall do both of the following in the roster: (1) Identify each peer support team member providing services at the time the roster is created by first and last name; (2) Identify whether the member is in compliance with the peer support training requirements necessary for the testimonial privilege described in section 2317.023 of the Revised Code. (C) The roster shall not include the address, telephone number, or other contact information for a team member. The employer, organization, or advisor shall update the roster on a regular basis. (D) The roster required by this section is not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. However, the employer, organization, or advisor shall make the roster available at the request of a prosecutor, investigator, or any other individual who has a legal right or duty to determine whether a peer support team member is prohibited from testifying in any proceeding to which section 2317.023 of the Revised Code applies. Last updated February 8, 2023 at 5:23 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.432 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.432
§ 4141.432. Unemployment compensation administrative support other sources fund
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly There is hereby created in the state treasury the unemployment compensation administrative support other sources fund. The fund may consist of intrastate agency transfers, nonfederal grants, and other similar revenue sources. The director of job and family services shall use the fund to support program and administrative expenses related to the implementation of unemployment insurance initiatives within the department of job and family services and to release employment and wage information to state departments, other governmental agencies, service providers, accredited colleges and universities, nonprofit research organizations, and other organizations for use in providing or improving the provisions of employment and training services and for income verification, pursuant to section 4141.43 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4117.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4117 / § 4117.10
§ 4117.10. Terms of agreement
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) An agreement between a public employer and an exclusive representative entered into pursuant to this chapter governs the wages, hours, and terms and conditions of public employment covered by the agreement. If the agreement provides for a final and binding arbitration of grievances, public employers, employees, and employee organizations are subject solely to that grievance procedure and the state personnel board of review or civil service commissions have no jurisdiction to receive and determine any appeals relating to matters that were the subject of a final and binding grievance procedure. Where no agreement exists or where an agreement makes no specification about a matter, the public employer and public employees are subject to all applicable state or local laws or ordinances pertaining to the wages, hours, and terms and conditions of employment for public employees. All of the following prevail over conflicting provisions of agreements between employee organizations and public employers: (1) Laws pertaining to any of the following subjects: (a) Civil rights; (b) Affirmative action; (c) Unemployment compensation; (d) Workers' compensation; (e) The retirement of public employees; (f) Residency requirements; (g) The minimum educational requirements contained in the Revised Code pertaining to public education including the requirement of a certificate by the fiscal officer of a school district pursuant to section 5705.41 of the Revised Code; (h) The provisions of division (A) of section 124.34 of the Revised Code governing the disciplining of officers and employees who have been convicted of a felony; (i) The minimum standards promulgated by the director of education and workforce pursuant to division (D) of section 3301.07 of the Revised Code. (2) The law pertaining to the leave of absence and compensation provided under section 5923.05 of the Revised Code, if the terms of the agreement contain benefits which are less than those contained in that section or the agreement contains no such terms and the public authority is the state or any agency, authority, commission, or board of the state or if the public authority is another entity listed in division (B) of section 4117.01 of the Revised Code that elects to provide leave of absence and compensation as provided in section 5923.05 of the Revised Code; (3) The law pertaining to the leave established under section 5906.02 of the Revised Code, if the terms of the agreement contain benefits that are less than those contained in section 5906.02 of the Revised Code; (4) The law pertaining to excess benefits prohibited under section 3345.311 of the Revised Code with respect to an agreement between an employee organization and a public employer entered into on or after September 29, 2015; (5) state employee work location policies with respect to an agreement between an employee organization and a public employer entered into on or after the effective date of this amendment. Except for sections 306.08 , 306.12 , 306.35 , and 4981.22 of the Revised Code and arrangements entered into thereunder, and section 4981.21 of the Revised Code as necessary to comply with section 13(c) of the "Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964," 87 Stat. 295, 49 U.S.C.A. 1609(c), as amended, and arrangements entered into thereunder, this chapter prevails over any and all other conflicting laws, resolutions, provisions, present or future, except as otherwise specified in this chapter or as otherwise specified by the general assembly. Nothing in this section prohibits or shall be construed to invalidate the provisions of an agreement establishing supplemental workers' compensation or unemployment compensation benefits or exceeding minimum requirements contained in the Revised Code pertaining to public education or the minimum standards promulgated by the director of education and workforce pursuant to division (D) of section 3301.07 of the Revised Code. (B) The public employer shall submit a request for funds necessary to implement an agreement and for approval of any other matter requiring the approval of the appropriate legislative body to the legislative body within fourteen days of the date on which the parties finalize the agreement, unless otherwise specified, but if the appropriate legislative body is not in session at the time, then within fourteen days after it convenes. The legislative body must approve or reject the submission as a whole, and the submission is deemed approved if the legislative body fails to act within thirty days after the public employer submits the agreement. The parties may specify that those provisions of the agreement not requiring action by a legislative body are effective and operative in accordance with the terms of the agreement, provided there has been compliance with division (C) of this section. If the legislative body rejects the submission of the public employer, either party may reopen all or part of the entire agreement. As used in this section, "legislative body" includes the governing board of a municipal corporation, school district, college or university, village, township, or board of county commissioners or any other body that has authority to approve the budget of their public jurisdiction and, with regard to the state, "legislative body" means the controlling board. (C) The chief executive officer, or the chief executive officer's representative, of each municipal corporation, the designated representative of the board of education of each school district, college or university, or any other body that has authority to approve the budget of their public jurisdiction, the designated representative of the board of county commissioners and of each elected officeholder of the county whose employees are covered by the collective negotiations, and the designated representative of the village or the board of township trustees of each township is responsible for negotiations in the collective bargaining process; except that the legislative body may accept or reject a proposed collective bargaining agreement. When the matters about which there is agreement are reduced to writing and approved by the employee organization and the legislative body, the agreement is binding upon the legislative body, the employer, and the employee organization and employees covered by the agreement. (D) There is hereby established an office of collective bargaining in the department of administrative services for the purpose of negotiating with and entering into written agreements between state agencies, departments, boards, and commissions and the exclusive representative on matters of wages, hours, terms and other conditions of employment and the continuation, modification, or deletion of an existing provision of a collective bargaining agreement. Nothing in any provision of law to the contrary shall be interpreted as excluding the bureau of workers' compensation and the industrial commission from the preceding sentence. This office shall not negotiate on behalf of other statewide elected officials or boards of trustees of state institutions of higher education who shall be considered as separate public employers for the purposes of this chapter; however, the office may negotiate on behalf of these officials or trustees where authorized by the officials or trustees. The staff of the office of collective bargaining are in the unclassified service. The director of administrative services shall fix the compensation of the staff. The office of collective bargaining shall: (1) Assist the director in formulating management's philosophy for public collective bargaining as well as planning bargaining strategies; (2) Conduct negotiations with the exclusive representatives of each employee organization; (3) Coordinate the state's resources in all mediation, fact-finding, and arbitration cases as well as in all labor disputes; (4) Conduct systematic reviews of collective bargaining agreements for the purpose of contract negotiations; (5) Coordinate the systematic compilation of data by all agencies that is required for negotiating purposes; (6) Prepare and submit an annual report and other reports as requested to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation of this chapter and its impact upon state government. Last updated August 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4133.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4133 / § 4133.12
§ 4133.12. Collective bargaining
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 Senate Bill 201 - 133rd General Assembly Nothing contained in this chapter or in any alternate employer organization agreement shall affect, modify, or amend any collective bargaining agreement that exists on the effective date of this section. Nothing in this chapter shall alter the rights or obligations of any client employer, alternate employer organization, or worksite employee under the "National Labor Relations Act," 49 Stat. 449, 29 U.S.C. 151 et seq., the "Railway Labor Act," 44 Stat. 577, 45 U.S.C. 151, or any other applicable federal or state law.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4104.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4104 / § 4104.99
§ 4104.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

August 28, 2002 House Bill 428 - 124th General Assembly (A) Whoever violates division (A) or (B) of section 4104.101 or section 4104.20 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. (B) Whoever violates section 4104.05 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4105.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4105 / § 4105.05
§ 4105.05. Suspension or revocation of special inspector's commission
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly A commission to serve as a special inspector may be suspended or revoked by the superintendent of industrial compliance, for the incompetence or untrustworthiness of the holder thereof, or for the falsification of any matter or statement contained in the holder's application or in a report of any inspection.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4127.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4127 / § 4127.04
§ 4127.04. Basis for computation of compensation
Status: in_force

January 1, 1979 House Bill 1282 - 112th General Assembly The basis upon which compensation or benefits shall be computed, is the amount of work-relief which would have been afforded to the injured person for the calendar week in which the injury or death occurred. In no event shall such compensation exceed the maximum reimbursable relief award established by the state which the claimant would have been entitled to had he not been injured.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4112.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4112 / § 4112.08
§ 4112.08. Liberal construction
Status: in_force

April 15, 2021 House Bill 352 - 133rd General Assembly (A) This chapter shall be construed liberally for the accomplishment of its purposes, and any law inconsistent with any provision of this chapter shall not apply. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be considered to repeal any of the provisions of any law of this state relating to discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, military status, familial status, disability, national origin, age, or ancestry. However, no person has a cause of action or claim based on an unlawful discriminatory practice relating to employment described in division (A)(24)(a) of section 4112.01 of the Revised Code against a supervisor, manager, or other employee of an employer unless that supervisor, manager, or other employee is the employer. Nothing in this division abrogates statutory claims outside this chapter or any claims of liability that exist against an individual at common law. (B) The procedures and remedies for unlawful discriminatory practices relating to employment in this chapter are the sole and exclusive procedures and remedies available to a person who alleges such discrimination actionable under this chapter.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4175.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4175 / § 4175.07
§ 4175.07. Construction; contributory fault
Status: in_force

March 28, 2017 Senate Bill 235 - 131st General Assembly The express assumption of risk established in section 4175.06 of the Revised Code serves as a complete defense against liability in a tort or other civil action against a climbing facility operator by a climber for injuries resulting from the assumed risks of climbing enumerated in that section. The contributory fault provisions of sections 2315.32 to 2315.36 of the Revised Code do not apply unless the operator has breached the operator's duties under section 4175.03 or 4175.08 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4116.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4116 / § 4116.04
§ 4116.04. Complaints - attorney fees
Status: in_force

October 11, 1999 House Bill 101 - 123rd General Assembly (A) An interested party may file a complaint against a contracting public authority alleging a violation of section 4116.02 or 4116.03 of the Revised Code within two years after the date on which the contract is signed for the public improvement in the court of common pleas of the county in which the public improvement is performed. The performance of the contract forms the basis of the allegation of a violation. The court in which the complaint is filed shall hear and decide the case and, upon a finding that a violation has occurred, shall void the contract and make any orders that will prevent further violations. The Rules of Civil Procedure govern all actions under this section. Any determination of a court under this section is subject to appellate review. (B) If, pursuant to this section, a court finds a violation of section 4116.02 or 4116.03 of the Revised Code, the court may award reasonable attorney's fees, court costs, and any other fees incurred in the course of the civil action to the prevailing plaintiff. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4125.051 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4125 / § 4125.051
§ 4125.051. Working capital requirements
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 27 - 132nd General Assembly (A) A professional employer organization, or a professional employer organization reporting entity of which the professional employer organization is a member, shall maintain positive working capital at initial or annual registration, as reflected in the financial statements submitted to the bureau. If a deficit in working capital is reflected in the financial statements submitted to the bureau, the professional employer organization or the professional employer organization reporting entity shall do both of the following for that registration period: (1) Obtain a bond, irrevocable letter of credit, or securities with a minimum market value in an amount sufficient to cover the deficit in working capital; (2) Submit to the administrator of workers' compensation a quarterly financial statement for each calendar quarter during which there is a deficit in working capital, accompanied by an attestation of the chief executive officer, president, or other individual who serves as the controlling person of the professional employer organization that all wages, taxes, workers' compensation premiums, and employee benefits have been paid by the professional employer organization or members of the professional employer organization reporting entity. The bond, letter of credit, or securities required under division (A)(1) of this section shall be held by a depository designated by the administrator and shall secure payment by the professional employer organization or professional employer organization reporting entity of all taxes, wages, benefits, or other entitlements due or otherwise pertaining to shared employees, if the professional employer organization or professional employer organization reporting entity does not make those payments when due. (B) A professional employer organization, or a professional employer organization reporting entity of which the professional employer organization is a member, shall prepare financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and submit them for registration and registration renewal under section 4125.05 of the Revised Code. The financial statements shall be audited by an independent certified public accountant authorized to practice in the jurisdiction in which that accountant is located. (1) The resulting report of the auditor shall not include either of the following: (a) A qualification or disclaimer of opinion as to adherence to generally accepted accounting principles; (b) A statement expressing substantial doubt about the ability of the professional employer organization or professional employer organization reporting entity to continue as a going concern. (2) However, if a professional employer organization does not have at least twelve months of operating history on which to base financial statements, the financial statements shall be reviewed by a certified public accountant. (3) Notwithstanding division (B)(1)(a) of this section, if a professional employer organization or professional employer organization reporting entity is a subsidiary or is related to a variable interest entity, the professional employer organization or professional employer organization entity may submit financial statements of the professional employer organization or professional employer organization reporting entity. (C) The bureau shall deny initial or annual registration to an applicant or professional employer organization reporting entity that does not meet the requirements of this section. (D) Professional employer organizations in a professional employer organization reporting entity may satisfy the requirements of this section on a combined or consolidated basis provided that each member of the professional employer organization reporting entity guarantees each other members' satisfaction of the requirements under division (A) of this section. For purposes of satisfying the registration and registration renewal requirements described in division (B)(7) of section 4125.05 of the Revised Code, a professional employer organization reporting entity may submit a combined or consolidated financial statement that satisfies the requirements of this section. If the combined or consolidated financial statement includes entities that are not professional employer organizations or that are not in the professional employer organization reporting entity, the controlling entity of the professional employer organization reporting entity that is submitting the consolidated or combined financial statement shall guarantee that the professional employer organizations of the professional employer organization reporting entity have satisfied the requirements under division (A) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4115.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4115 / § 4115.10
§ 4115.10. Prohibitions
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly (A) No person, firm, corporation, or public authority that constructs a public improvement with its own forces, the total overall project cost of which is fairly estimated to be more than the amounts set forth in division (B) of section 4115.03 of the Revised Code, adjusted biennially by the director of commerce pursuant to section 4115.034 of the Revised Code, as appropriate, shall violate the wage provisions of sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code, or suffer, permit, or require any employee to work for less than the rate of wages so fixed, or violate the provisions of section 4115.07 of the Revised Code. Any employee upon any public improvement, except an employee to whom or on behalf of whom restitution is made pursuant to division (C) of section 4115.13 of the Revised Code, who is paid less than the fixed rate of wages applicable thereto may recover from such person, firm, corporation, or public authority that constructs a public improvement with its own forces the difference between the fixed rate of wages and the amount paid to the employee and in addition thereto a sum equal to twenty-five per cent of that difference. The person, firm, corporation, or public authority who fails to pay the rate of wages so fixed also shall pay a penalty to the director of seventy-five per cent of the difference between the fixed rate of wages and the amount paid to the employees on the public improvement. The director shall deposit all moneys received from penalties paid to the director pursuant to this section into the industrial compliance operating fund. The director shall use the fund for the enforcement of sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code. The employee may file suit for recovery within ninety days of the director's determination of a violation of sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code or is barred from further action under this division. Where the employee prevails in a suit, the employer shall pay the costs and reasonable attorney's fees allowed by the court. (B) Any employee upon any public improvement who is paid less than the prevailing rate of wages applicable thereto may file a complaint in writing with the director upon a form furnished by the director. The complaint shall include documented evidence to demonstrate that the employee was paid less than the prevailing wage in violation of this chapter. Upon receipt of a properly completed written complaint of any employee paid less than the prevailing rate of wages applicable, the director shall take an assignment of a claim in trust for the assigning employee and bring any legal action necessary to collect the claim. The employer shall pay the costs and reasonable attorney's fees allowed by the court if the employer is found in violation of sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code. (C) If after investigation pursuant to section 4115.13 of the Revised Code, the director determines there is a violation of sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code and a period of sixty days has elapsed from the date of the determination, and if: (1) No employee has brought suit pursuant to division (A) of this section; (2) No employee has requested that the director take an assignment of a wage claim pursuant to division (B) of this section. The director shall bring any legal action necessary to collect any amounts owed to employees and the director. The director shall pay over to the affected employees the amounts collected to which the affected employees are entitled under division (A) of this section. In any action in which the director prevails, the employer shall pay the costs and reasonable attorney's fees allowed by the court. (D) Where persons are employed and their rate of wages has been determined as provided in section 4115.04 of the Revised Code, no person, either for self or any other person, shall request, demand, or receive, either before or after the person is engaged, that the person so engaged pay back, return, donate, contribute, or give any part or all of the person's wages, salary, or thing of value, to any person, upon the statement, representation, or understanding that failure to comply with such request or demand will prevent the procuring or retaining of employment, and no person shall, directly or indirectly, aid, request, or authorize any other person to violate this section. This division does not apply to any agent or representative of a duly constituted labor organization acting in the collection of dues or assessments of such organization. (E) The director shall enforce sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code. (F) For the purpose of supplementing existing resources and to assist in enforcing division (E) of this section, the director may contract with a person registered as a public accountant under Chapter 4701. of the Revised Code to conduct an audit of a person, firm, corporation, or public authority. (G) No contractor or subcontractor shall be responsible for the payment of the penalties provided in division (A) of this section resulting from a violation of sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code by its subcontractor, provided that the contractor or subcontractor has made a good faith effort to ensure that its subcontractor complied with the requirements of sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.21
§ 4141.21. Information maintained by or furnished director not open to public - publication in statistical form
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in this section and sections 4141.162 and 4141.211 of the Revised Code, and subject to section 4141.43 of the Revised Code, the information maintained by the director of job and family services or the unemployment compensation review commission or furnished to the director or commission by employers or employees pursuant to this chapter is for the exclusive use and information of the department of job and family services and the commission in the discharge of their duties and shall not be disclosed. Such information is not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (B) Information protected from disclosure under division (A) of this section may be tabulated and published in statistical form for the use and information of the state departments and the public. Last updated August 23, 2023 at 1:22 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.15
§ 4123.15. Recognized religious sect employer may apply for exemption
Status: in_force

May 1, 2003 House Bill NO91 - 125th General Assembly (A) An employer who is a member of a recognized religious sect or division of a recognized religious sect and who is an adherent of established tenets or teachings of that sect or division by reason of which the employer is conscientiously opposed to benefits to employers and employees from any public or private insurance that makes payment in the event of death, disability, impairment, old age, or retirement or makes payments toward the cost of, or provides services in connection with the payment for, medical services, including the benefits from any insurance system established by the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C.A. 30l, et seq., may apply to the administrator of workers' compensation to be excepted from payment of premiums and other charges assessed under this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code with respect to, or if the employer is a self-insuring employer, from payment of direct compensation and benefits to and assessments required by this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code on account of, an individual employee who meets the requirements of this section. The employer shall make an application on forms provided by the bureau of workers' compensation which forms may be those used by or similar to those used by the United States internal revenue service for the purpose of granting an exemption from payment of social security taxes under 26 U.S.C.A. 1402(g) of the Internal Revenue Code, and shall include a written waiver signed by the individual employee to be excepted from all the benefits and compensation provided in this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code. The application also shall include affidavits signed by the employer and the individual employee that the employer and the individual employee are members of a recognized religious sect or division of a recognized religious sect and are adherents of established tenets or teaching of that sect or division by reason of which the employer and the individual employee are conscientiously opposed to benefits to employers and employees received from any public or private insurance that makes payments in the event of death, disability, impairment, old age, or retirement or makes payments toward the cost of, or provides services in connection with the payment for, medical services, including the benefits from any insurance system established by the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C.A. 301, et seq. If the individual is a minor, the guardian of the minor shall complete the waiver and affidavit required by this division. (B) The administrator shall grant the waiver and exception to the employer for a particular individual employee if the administrator finds that the employer and the individual employee are members of a sect or division having the established tenets or teachings described in division (A) of this section, that it is the practice, and has been for a substantial number of years, for members of the sect or division of the sect to make provision for their dependent members which, in the administrator's judgment, is reasonable in view of their general level of hiring, and that the sect or division of the sect has been in existence at all times since December 31, 1950. (C) A waiver and exception under division (B) of this section is effective on the date the administrator grants the waiver and exception. An employer who complies with this chapter and the employer's other employees, with respect to an individual employee for whom the administrator grants the waiver and exception, are entitled, as to that individual employee and as to all injuries and occupational diseases of the individual employee that occurred prior to the effective date of the waiver and exception, to the protections of sections 4123.74 and 4123.741 of the Revised Code. On and after the effective date of the waiver and exception, the employer is not liable for the payment of any premiums or other charges assessed under this chapter or Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code, or if the individual is a self-insuring employer, the employer is not liable for the payment of any compensation or benefits directly or other charges assessed under this chapter or Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code in regard to that individual employee, and is considered a complying employer under those chapters, and the employer and the employer's other employees are entitled to the protections of sections 4123.74 and 4123.741 of the Revised Code, as to that individual employee, and as to injuries and occupational diseases of that individual employee that occur on and after the effective date of the waiver and exception. (D) A waiver and exception granted in regard to a specific employer and individual employee are valid for all future years unless the administrator determines that the employer, individual employee, or sect or division ceases to meet the requirements of this section. If the administrator makes this determination, the employer is liable for the payment of premiums and other charges assessed under this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code, or if the employer is a self-insuring employer, the employer is liable for the payment of compensation and benefits directly and other charges assessed under those chapters, in regard to the individual employee for all injuries and occupational diseases of that individual that occur on and after the date of the administrator's determination, and the individual employee is entitled to all of the benefits and compensation provided in those chapters for an injury or occupational disease that occurs on or after the date of the administrator's determination.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.038 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.038
§ 4123.038. Apprentice definitions
Status: in_force

October 21, 2019 House Bill 80 - 133rd General Assembly As used in this section and section 4123.039 of the Revised Code: (A) "Apprentice" and "apprenticeship agreement" have the meaning defined in section 4139.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Related and supplemental instructions" means training offered, conducted, supervised, or given under the sponsorship of any joint apprenticeship committee or other sponsoring organization to apprentices, which training is given in addition to the approved schedule of work experience through employment, and which is to be credited towards the minimum hours of related and supplemental instructions required by section 4139.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Pre-apprentice" means a person who receives formal classroom training designed to provide the person with the basic education, attitudes, skills, trade knowledge, and motivation necessary to enter a formal apprenticeship program. (D) "Entry-level trainee" means a person who possesses experience that would qualify the person as a journeyperson but for the existence of certain other disqualifying conditions and who receives on-the-job training accompanied by classroom instruction outside of normal working hours. (E) "Journeyperson trainee" means a person with journeyperson status in a given trade who receives classroom and laboratory training for the purpose of broadening the person's skills and acquainting the person with new techniques and ideas in the trade.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.63 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.63
§ 4121.63. Living maintenance payments paid to claimants agreeing to rehabilitation
Status: in_force

August 6, 1999 House Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly Claimants who the administrator of workers' compensation determines could probably be rehabilitated to achieve the goals established by section 4121.61 of the Revised Code and who agree to undergo rehabilitation shall be paid living maintenance payments for a period or periods which do not exceed six months in the aggregate, unless review by the administrator or the administrator's designee reveals that the claimant will be benefited by an extension of such payments. Living maintenance payments shall be paid in weekly amounts, not to exceed the amount the claimant would receive if the claimant were being compensated for temporary total disability, but not less than fifty per cent of the current state average weekly wage. Living maintenance payments shall commence at the time the claimant begins to participate in an approved rehabilitation program. A claimant receiving living maintenance payments shall be deemed to be temporarily totally disabled and shall receive no payment of any type of compensation except as provided by division (B) of section 4123.57 of the Revised Code for the periods during which the claimant is receiving living maintenance payments.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4116.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4116 / § 4116.01
§ 4116.01. Unlawful labor requirements in public improvement contracts definitions
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly As used in sections 4116.01 to 4116.04 of the Revised Code: (A) "Public authority" means any officer, board, or commission of the state, or any political subdivision of the state, or any institution supported in whole or in part by public funds, authorized to enter into a contract for the construction of a public improvement or to construct a public improvement by the direct employment of labor. "Public authority" shall not mean any municipal corporation that has adopted a charter under sections three and seven of article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution, unless the specific contract for a public improvement includes state funds appropriated for the purposes of that public improvement. (B) "Construction" means all of the following: (1) Any new construction of any public improvement performed by other than full-time employees who have completed their probationary periods in the classified service of a public authority; (2) Any reconstruction, enlargement, alteration, repair, remodeling, renovation, or painting of any public improvement performed by other than full-time employees who have completed their probationary period in the classified civil service of a public authority; (3) Construction on any project, facility, or project facility to which section 122.80 , 166.02 , or 1728.07 of the Revised Code applies; (4) Construction on any project as defined in section 122.39 of the Revised Code, any project as defined in section 165.01 of the Revised Code, any energy resource development facility as defined in section 1551.01 of the Revised Code, or any project as defined in section 3706.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Public improvement" means all buildings, roads, streets, alleys, sewers, ditches, sewage disposal plants, water works, and other structures or works constructed by a public authority or by any person who, pursuant to a contract with a public authority, constructs any structure or work for a public authority. When a public authority rents or leases a newly constructed structure within six months after completion of its construction, all work performed on that structure to suit it for occupancy by a public authority is a "public improvement." (D) "Interested party," with respect to a particular public improvement, means all of the following: (1) Any person who submits a bid for the purpose of securing the award of a contract for the public improvement; (2) Any person acting as a subcontractor of a person mentioned in division (D)(1) of this section; (3) Any association having as members any of the persons mentioned in division (D)(1) or (2) of this section; (4) Any employee of a person mentioned in division (D)(1), (2), or (3) of this section; (5) Any individual who is a resident of the jurisdiction of the public authority for whom products or services for a public improvement are being procured or for whom work on a public improvement is being performed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.59 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.59
§ 4123.59. Benefits in case of death - dependency
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 52 - 131st General Assembly In case an injury to or an occupational disease contracted by an employee causes the employee's death, benefits shall be in the amount and to the persons following: (A) If there are no dependents, the disbursements from the state insurance fund is limited to the expenses provided for in section 4123.66 of the Revised Code. (B) If there are wholly dependent persons at the time of the death, the weekly payment is sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of the average weekly wage, but not to exceed a maximum aggregate amount of weekly compensation which is equal to sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of the statewide average weekly wage as defined in division (C) of section 4123.62 of the Revised Code, and not in any event less than a minimum amount of weekly compensation which is equal to fifty per cent of the statewide average weekly wage as defined in division (C) of section 4123.62 of the Revised Code, regardless of the average weekly wage; provided however, that if the death is due to injury received or occupational disease first diagnosed after January 1, 1976, the weekly payment is sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of the average weekly wage but not to exceed a maximum aggregate amount of weekly compensation which is equal to the statewide average weekly wage as defined in division (C) of section 4123.62 of the Revised Code; provided that when any claimant is receiving total disability compensation at the time of death the wholly dependent person is eligible for the maximum compensation provided for in this section. Where there is more than one person who is wholly dependent at the time of the death of the employee, the administrator of workers' compensation shall promptly apportion the weekly amount of compensation payable under this section among the dependent persons as provided in division (D) of this section. (1) The payment as provided in this section shall continue from the date of death of an injured or disabled employee until the death or remarriage of such dependent spouse. If the dependent spouse remarries, an amount equal to two years of compensation benefits at the weekly amount determined to be applicable to and being paid to the dependent spouse shall be paid in a lump sum to such spouse and no further compensation shall be paid to such spouse. (2) That portion of the payment provided in division (B) of this section applicable to wholly dependent persons other than a spouse shall continue from the date of death of an injured or disabled employee to a dependent as of the date of death, other than a spouse, at the weekly amount determined to be applicable and being paid to such dependent other than a spouse, until the dependent: (a) Reaches eighteen years of age; (b) If pursuing a full time educational program while enrolled in an accredited educational institution and program, reaches twenty-five years of age; (c) If mentally or physically incapacitated from having any earnings, is no longer so incapacitated. (3)(a) Payments under division (B) of this section to a dependent described in division (B)(2)(c) of this section shall not be terminated due to the dependent's employment in a sheltered workshop if the dependent does not receive income, compensation, or remuneration from that employment in excess of two thousand dollars in any calendar quarter. (b) As used in division (B)(3) of this section, "sheltered workshop" has the same meaning as in section 4123.58 of the Revised Code. (C) If there are partly dependent persons at the time of the death the weekly payment is sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of the employee's average weekly wage, not to exceed sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of the statewide average weekly wage as defined in division (C) of section 4123.62 of the Revised Code, and shall continue for such time as the administrator in each case determines. (D) The following persons are presumed to be wholly dependent for their support upon a deceased employee: (1) A surviving spouse who was living with the employee at the time of death or a surviving spouse who was separated from the employee at the time of death because of the aggression of the employee; (2) A child under the age of eighteen years, or twenty-five years if pursuing a full-time educational program while enrolled in an accredited educational institution and program, or over said age if physically or mentally incapacitated from earning, upon only the one parent who is contributing more than one-half of the support for such child and with whom the child is living at the time of the death of such parent, or for whose maintenance such parent was legally liable at the time of the parent's death. It is presumed that there is sufficient dependency to entitle a surviving natural parent or surviving natural parents, share and share alike, with whom the decedent was living at the time of the decedent's death, to a total minimum award of three thousand dollars. The administrator may take into consideration any circumstances which, at the time of the death of the decedent, clearly indicate prospective dependency on the part of the claimant and potential support on the part of the decedent. No person shall be considered a prospective dependent unless such person is a member of the family of the deceased employee and bears to the deceased employee the relation of surviving spouse, lineal descendant, ancestor, or brother or sister. The total award for any or all prospective dependency to all such claimants, except to a natural parent or natural parents of the deceased, shall not exceed three thousand dollars to be apportioned among them as the administrator orders. In all other cases, the question of dependency, in whole or in part, shall be determined in accordance with the facts in each particular case existing at the time of the injury resulting in the death of such employee, but no person shall be considered as dependent unless such person is a member of the family of the deceased employee, or bears to the deceased employee the relation of surviving spouse, lineal descendant, ancestor, or brother or sister. (E) An order issued by the administrator under this section is appealable pursuant to sections 4123.511 to 4123.512 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.292 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.292
§ 4123.292. Election to obtain other-states' coverage
Status: in_force

September 17, 2014 House Bill 493 - 130th General Assembly (A) Notwithstanding sections 4123.35 and 4123.82 of the Revised Code, an employer may elect to obtain other-states' coverage through an other-states' insurer or, if the administrator of workers' compensation elects to offer such coverage, through the administrator pursuant to division (B) of this section. An employer who elects to obtain other-states' coverage shall submit a written notice to the administrator stating that election on a form prescribed by the administrator and, if the employer elects to obtain that coverage through an other-states' insurer, the name of the other-states' insurer through whom the employer has obtained that coverage. If an employer fails to pay the employer's premium for other-states' coverage, the administrator shall consider the employer to be noncompliant for the purposes of having other-states' coverage and the employer's premiums in this state for any and all noncompliant periods of time shall be calculated in the same manner as otherwise required under division (A) of section 4123.29 and section 4123.34 of the Revised Code, using both the wages reported in this state and the wages that the employer claimed would be reported to the other-states' insurer for securing coverage. (B) The administrator may offer other-states' coverage to allow an employer who wishes to obtain other-states' coverage pursuant to this section and who elects to secure that coverage through the administrator for workers' compensation claims. If the administrator elects to secure a vehicle through which the administrator will provide other-states' coverage, the administrator shall follow the competitive bidding requirements specified in Chapter 125. of the Revised Code to select one or more other-states' insurers, and the administrator, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall award a contract to provide other-states' coverage for employers located in this state to one or more other-states' insurers that are the lowest and best bidders. (C) Notwithstanding sections 4123.35 and 4123.82 of the Revised Code, the administrator may offer limited other-states' coverage to allow an employer who wishes to obtain limited other-states' coverage pursuant to this section. An employer who elects to obtain limited other-states' coverage shall submit a written notice to the administrator stating that election on a form prescribed by the administrator. If the administrator elects to secure a vehicle through which the administrator will provide limited other-states' coverage, the administrator shall follow the competitive bidding requirements specified in Chapter 125. of the Revised Code to select one or more other-states' insurers and, with the advice and consent of the board, award a contract to provide limited other-states' coverage to the lowest and best bidders. (D) If the administrator elects to offer other states' coverage or limited other-states' coverage, the administrator, with the advice and consent of the board, shall adopt rules to implement divisions (B) and (C) of this section. (E) The board and the individual members thereof, the administrator, and the bureau of workers' compensation shall not incur any obligation or liability if another state determines that the other-states' coverage or limited other-states' coverage provided under this section does not satisfy the requirements specified in that state's workers' compensation law for obtaining workers' compensation coverage in that state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.754 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.754
§ 4123.754. Continuance
Status: in_force

October 13, 1953 House Bill 258 - 100th General Assembly A court in which an action is pending pursuant to service of process under sections 4123.751 and 4123.752 of the Revised Code may order such continuance as may be necessary to afford the defendant reasonable opportunity to appear and defend the action.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.07
§ 4123.07. Bureau to prepare and furnish application forms
Status: in_force

January 17, 1977 Senate Bill 545 - 111th General Assembly The administrator of the bureau of workers' compensation shall prepare and furnish blank forms of application for benefits or compensation from the state insurance fund, reports of injury, disability or occupational disease, notices to employers and employees, proofs of injury, disease, disability or death, proofs of medical attendance and hospital and nursing care, and proofs of employment and wage earnings, and other necessary blanks, and shall provide in his rules for their preparation and distribution so that they may be readily available and so prepared that the furnishing of information required of any person with respect to any aspect of a claim shall not be delayed by a requirement that information with respect to another aspect of such claim shall be furnished on the form by the same or another person. Insured employers shall keep on hand a sufficient supply of such blanks.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.83 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.83
§ 4123.83. Posting of notice by employer
Status: in_force

July 21, 2025 Senate Bill 33 - 136th General Assembly Each employer paying premiums into the state insurance fund or electing directly to pay compensation to the employer's injured employees or the dependents of the employer's killed employees as provided in section 4123.35 of the Revised Code, shall post notices, which shall be furnished at least annually by the bureau of workers' compensation. The employer shall post the notice conspicuously in the employer's place or places of employment or on the internet in a manner that is accessible to the employer's employees. The notice shall state that it is proof of workers' compensation coverage, or that the employer has complied with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code and has been authorized by the administrator of workers' compensation directly to compensate employees or dependents, and the date of the authorization. The notice shall indicate that coverage is contingent on continued payment of premiums and assessments due. The notice, when posted, constitutes sufficient notice to the employer's employees of the fact that the employer carries workers' compensation coverage or that the employer has complied with the elective provisions of section 4123.35 of the Revised Code. Last updated May 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.345 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.345
§ 4123.345. [Former Section 3 of S.B. 166, 134th General Assembly, amended and codified as R.C. 4123.345 by H.B. 33, 135th General Assembly] Work-based learning program
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The employers providing work-based learning program is created. As soon as practicable after the effective date of this section, the administrator of workers' compensation, subject to the approval of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt a rule that prohibits the administrator from charging any amount with respect to a claim for compensation or benefits under this chapter or Chapters 4121., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code to an employer's experience if both of the following apply: (1) The employer provides work-based learning experiences for students enrolled in a career-technical education program approved under section 3317.161 of the Revised Code. (2) The claim is based on a student's injury, occupational disease, or death sustained in the course of and arising out of the student's participation in the employer's work-based learning experience. (B) Pursuant to section 4109.06 of the Revised Code, the requirements of Chapter 4109. of the Revised Code do not apply to a student participating in a work-based learning experience described in division (A)(1) of this section. Last updated August 31, 2023 at 4:35 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4105.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4105 / § 4105.08
§ 4105.08. General inspector may inspect - fee
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly If an elevator is not inspected by a special inspector, the inspection shall be made by a general inspector, and for each inspection there shall be a fee charged as provided in section 4105.17 of the Revised Code.