Ohio Rev. Code § 169.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 169 / § 169.01
§ 169.01. Unclaimed funds definitions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (A) "Financial organization" means any bank, trust company, savings bank, safe deposit company, mutual savings bank without mutual stock, savings and loan association, credit union, or investment company. (B)(1) "Unclaimed funds" means any moneys, rights to moneys, or intangible property, described in section 169.02 of the Revised Code, when, as shown by the records of the holder, the owner has not, within the times provided in section 169.02 of the Revised Code, done any of the following: (a) Increased, decreased, or adjusted the amount of such funds; (b) Assigned, paid premiums, or encumbered such funds; (c) Presented an appropriate record for the crediting of such funds or received payment of such funds by check, draft, or otherwise; (d) Corresponded with the holder concerning such funds; (e) Otherwise indicated an interest in or knowledge of such funds; (f) Transacted business with the holder. (2) "Unclaimed funds" does not include any of the following: (a) Money received or collected under section 9.39 of the Revised Code; (b) Any payment or credit due to a business association from a business association representing sums payable to suppliers, or payment for services rendered, in the course of business, including, but not limited to, checks or memoranda, overpayments, unidentified remittances, nonrefunded overcharges, discounts, refunds, and rebates; (c) Any payment or credit received by a business association from a business association for tangible goods sold, or services performed, in the course of business, including, but not limited to, checks or memoranda, overpayments, unidentified remittances, nonrefunded overcharges, discounts, refunds, and rebates; (d) Either of the following: (i) Any credit or obligation due a retail customer that is represented by a gift certificate, gift card, merchandise credit, or merchandise credit card, redeemable only for goods or services, including gift cards issued by financial organizations or business associations; (ii) Any electronic payment device that is issued by a financial organization or a business association that has no expiration date and meets all of the following conditions: (I) It is purchased or loaded on a prepaid basis for the future purchase or delivery of goods or services. (II) It is redeemable upon presentation to a single merchant or service provider or an affiliated group of merchants or service providers. (III) It is not redeemable for cash in whole or in part. (e) Any open-loop prepaid card that is issued by a financial organization or a business association for which the underlying funds do not expire. For purposes of division (B)(2)(e) of this section, "open-loop prepaid card" means an electronic payment device that meets all of the following conditions: (i) It is purchased or loaded on a prepaid basis for the future purchase or delivery of any goods or services. (ii) It can be used to purchase goods and services at multiple unaffiliated merchants or service providers. (iii) It is not redeemable for cash in whole or in part. (f) Any rewards card. For purposes of division (B)(2)(f) of this section, "rewards card" includes any loyalty, incentive, or promotional type program that is issued by a financial organization or a business association whether represented by a card or electronic record, which program is established for the purposes of providing cardholder awards, rewards, rebates, or other amounts to reward the cardholder for the cardholder's relationship with the entity sponsoring the rewards card, provided that no direct money was paid by the cardholder for the rewards card. "Rewards card" includes both of the following: (i) Cards or electronic records consisting of points, cash, or other tokens of value given to a cardholder as a reward or incentive for engaging in a transaction or a series of transactions; (ii) The unpaid portion of a rewards card when the rewards card is partially loaded by the cardholder with the remaining portion funded as a reward or incentive. A minimal annual fee charged to the cardholder for joining any such loyalty, incentive, or promotional type program shall not be considered direct money paid by the cardholder for the rewards card. For purposes of division (B)(2)(f) of this section, "cardholder" means the holder of a rewards card, regardless of whether the rewards card is represented by a card or by an electronic record. For purposes of division (B)(2) of this section, "business association" means any corporation, joint venture, business trust, limited liability company, partnership, association, or other business entity composed of one or more individuals, whether or not the entity is for profit. (C) "Owner" means any person, or the person's legal representative, entitled to receive or having a legal or equitable interest in or claim against moneys, rights to moneys, or other intangible property, subject to this chapter. (D)(1) "Holder" means any person that has possession, custody, or control of moneys, rights to moneys, or other intangible property, or that is indebted to another, if any of the following applies: (a) Such person resides in this state; (b) Such person is formed under the laws of this state; (c) Such person is formed under the laws of the United States and has an office or principal place of business in this state; (d) The records of such person indicate that the last known address of the owner of such moneys, rights to moneys, or other intangible property is in this state; (e) The records of such person do not indicate the last known address of the owner of the moneys, rights to moneys, or other intangible property and the entity originating or issuing the moneys, rights to moneys, or other intangible property in this state or any political subdivision of this state, or is incorporated, organized, created, or otherwise located in this state. Division (D)(1)(e) of this section applies to all moneys, rights to moneys, or other intangible property that is in the possession, custody, or control of such person on or after July 22, 1994, whether the moneys, rights to moneys, or other intangible property becomes unclaimed funds prior to or on or after that date. (2) "Holder" does not mean any hospital granted tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or any hospital owned or operated by the state or by any political subdivision. Any entity in order to be exempt from the definition of "holder" pursuant to this division shall make a reasonable, good-faith effort to contact the owner of the unclaimed funds. (E) "Person" includes a natural person; corporation, whether for profit or not for profit; copartnership; unincorporated nonprofit association; public authority; estate; trust; two or more persons having a joint or common interest; eleemosynary organization; fraternal or cooperative association; other legal or community entity; the United States government, including any district, territory, possession, officer, agency, department, authority, instrumentality, board, bureau, or court; or any state or political subdivision thereof, including any officer, agency, board, bureau, commission, division, department, authority, court, or instrumentality. (F) "Mortgage funds" means the housing guarantee fund created by division (D) of section 128.11 of the Revised Code. (G) "Lawful claims" means any vested right a holder of unclaimed funds has against the owner of such unclaimed funds. (H) "Public utility" means any entity defined as such by division (A) of section 745.01 or by section 4905.02 of the Revised Code. (I) "Deposit" means to place money in the custody of a financial organization for the purpose of establishing an income-bearing account by purchase or otherwise. (J) "Income-bearing account" means a time or savings account, whether or not evidenced by a certificate of deposit, or an investment account through which investments are made solely in obligations of the United States or its agencies or instrumentalities or guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States or its agencies or instrumentalities, debt securities rated as investment grade by at least two nationally recognized rating services, debt securities which the director of commerce has determined to have been issued for the safety and welfare of the residents of this state, and equity interests in mutual funds that invest solely in some or all of the above-listed securities and involve no general liability, without regard to whether income earned on such accounts, securities, or interests is paid periodically or at the end of a term. (K) "Director of commerce" may be read as the "division of unclaimed funds" or the "superintendent of unclaimed funds." (L) "Attorney unclaimed funds" means any unclaimed funds, as defined in division (B)(1) of this section, that are any of the following: (1) Funds held in interest on lawyer trust accounts pursuant to section 4705.09 of the Revised Code; (2) Funds held in an interest on trust accounts pursuant to section 3953.231 of the Revised Code; (3) Residual settlement funds whether for named or unnamed plaintiffs, received by the division of unclaimed funds, and held, paid out, or allocated by the division pursuant to or consistent with the terms and conditions of the court order authorizing the settlement fund. Last updated July 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 126.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 126 / § 126.45
§ 126.45. Office of internal audit
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) As used in sections 126.45 to 126.48 of the Revised Code, "state agency" means the administrative departments listed in section 121.02 of the Revised Code, the department of taxation, the bureau of workers' compensation, the Ohio board of regents, the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency, the public utilities commission of Ohio, the adjutant general, and the state lottery commission. (B) The office of internal audit is hereby created in the office of budget and management to direct internal audits of state agencies or divisions of state agencies to improve their operations in the areas of risk management, internal controls, and governance. The director of budget and management, with the approval of the governor, shall appoint for the office of internal audit a chief internal auditor who meets the qualifications specified in division (E) of this section. The chief internal auditor shall serve at the director's pleasure and be responsible for the administration of the office of internal audit consistent with sections 126.45 to 126.48 of the Revised Code. (C) The office of internal audit shall conduct programs for the internal auditing of state agencies. The programs shall include an annual internal audit plan, reviewed by the state audit committee, that utilizes risk assessment techniques and identifies the specific audits to be directed during the year. The programs also shall include periodic audits of each state agency's major systems and controls, including those systems and controls pertaining to accounting, administration, and information technology. Upon the request of the office of internal audit, each state agency shall provide office employees access to all records and documents necessary for the performance of an internal audit. The director of budget and management shall assess a charge against each state agency for which the office of internal audit conducts internal auditing programs under sections 126.45 to 126.48 of the Revised Code so that the total amount of these charges is sufficient to cover the costs of the operation of the office of internal audit. (D) At the request of any other organized body, office, or agency established by the laws of the state for the exercise of any function of state government that is not described in division (A) of this section, the office of internal audit may direct an internal audit of all or part of that body, office, or agency. The office of internal audit shall charge an amount sufficient to cover the costs it incurs in relation to the requested audit. (E) The chief internal auditor of the office of internal audit shall hold at least a bachelor's degree and be one of the following: (1) A certified internal auditor, a certified government auditing professional, or a certified public accountant, who also has held a PA registration or a CPA certificate authorized by Chapter 4701. of the Revised Code for at least four years and has at least six years of auditing experience; (2) An auditor who has held a PA registration or a CPA certificate authorized by Chapter 4701. of the Revised Code for at least four years and has at least ten years of auditing experience. (F) The chief internal auditor, subject to the direction and control of the director of budget and management, may appoint and maintain any staff necessary to carry out the duties assigned by sections 126.45 to 126.48 of the Revised Code to the office of internal audit or to the chief internal auditor. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 107.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 107 / § 107.42
§ 107.42. Governor's declaration of state of emergency; General Assembly's authority
Status: in_force

June 23, 2021 Senate Bill 22 - 134th General Assembly (A) As used in this section : "Declaration of a state of emergency" means any order, proclamation, or other action of the governor that creates a state of emergency. "State of emergency" means the period of time between when the governor declares any emergency and the expiration of that emergency, including an air pollution emergency under section 3704.032 of the Revised Code, an energy shortage emergency under section 4935.03 of the Revised Code, and an adulterated consumer product emergency under section 3715.74 of the Revised Code. (B) A state of emergency declared by the governor shall exist for not more than ninety calendar days unless extended by the general assembly as provided in division (C) of this section. An amendment to a declaration of a state of emergency, declaration of a substantially similar state of emergency, or reissuance of any part of an initial declaration of a state of emergency shall not be considered a new declaration of a state of emergency. (C) The general assembly may extend a state of emergency for up to an additional sixty calendar days by adopting a concurrent resolution. The general assembly continuously may extend a state of emergency by adopting subsequent concurrent resolutions, but no extension may last longer than sixty calendar days. If the general assembly does not extend a state of emergency, the governor shall not issue a declaration of an identical or substantially similar state of emergency, or issue a declaration of a state of emergency with any part of the initial declaration of a state of emergency, for at least sixty calendar days following the expiration of the state of emergency, except as provided in division (E) of this section. (D)(1) After a state of emergency declared by the governor has been in effect for thirty calendar days, the general assembly may terminate the state of emergency by adopting a concurrent resolution. A state of emergency terminated under this division is invalid and has no legal effect. (2) If the general assembly terminates a state of emergency under this section, the governor shall not issue a declaration of an identical or substantially similar state of emergency, or issue a declaration of a state of emergency with any part of the initial declaration of the state of emergency, for at least sixty calendar days after the general assembly adopts the concurrent resolution, except as provided in division (E) of this section. (E) Within sixty calendar days of a state of emergency terminating by operation of law under division (B) of this section, or by action of the general assembly under division (D)(1) of this section, the governor may submit a request to the general assembly to authorize the governor to issue a declaration of an identical or substantially similar state of emergency, or issue a declaration of a state of emergency with any part of the initial declaration of the state of emergency. Upon review, the general assembly may adopt a concurrent resolution authorizing the request. (F) A declaration of a state of emergency in violation of this section is invalid and has no legal effect. Last updated May 4, 2021 at 1:27 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.43 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.43
§ 122.43. Lending funds
Status: in_force

September 28, 2012 Senate Bill 314 - 129th General Assembly The director of development services, with controlling board approval, may lend funds which are obtained from the sale of revenue bonds issued by the treasurer of state pursuant to sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 of the Revised Code, from revenues or other receipts or income of the director, or funds established in accordance with sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 of the Revised Code, and from grants, gifts, and contributions subject to any provisions of resolutions authorizing the revenue bonds or of trust agreements securing such bonds, to community improvement corporations and Ohio development corporations and other corporations, partnerships, and persons for the purpose of procuring or improving real or personal property, or both, for the establishment, location, or expansion of industrial, distribution, commercial, or research facilities in the state, and to community improvement corporations and Ohio development corporations for the purpose of loaning funds to other corporations, partnerships, and persons for the purpose of procuring or improving real or personal property, or both, for the establishment, location, or expansion of industrial, distribution, commercial, or research facilities in the state, if the director finds that: (A) The project is economically sound and will benefit the people of the state by increasing opportunities for employment and strengthening the economy of the state; (B) The proposed borrower, if other than a community improvement corporation or an Ohio development corporation, is unable to finance the proposed project through ordinary financial channels upon reasonable terms and at comparable interest rates, or the borrower, if a community improvement corporation or an Ohio development corporation, should not, in the opinion of the director, be required to finance the proposed project without a loan from the director; (C) The value of the project is, or upon completion thereof will be, at least equal to the total amount of the money expended in such procurement or improvement of which amount one or more financial institutions have loaned or invested not less than forty per cent; (D) The amount to be loaned by the director will not exceed fifty per cent of the total amount expended in the procurement or improvement of the project; (E) The amount to be loaned by the director will be adequately secured by a first or second mortgage upon the project, and by mortgages, leases, liens, assignments, or pledges on or of such other property or contracts as the director shall require and that such mortgage will not be subordinate to any other liens or mortgages except the liens securing loans or investments made by financial institutions referred to in division (C) of this section, and the liens securing loans previously made by any financial institution in connection with the procurement or expansion of all or part of a project. In no event may the director lend funds under the authority of this section for the purpose of procuring or improving motor vehicles, power driven vehicles, office equipment, raw materials, small tools, supplies, inventories, or accounts receivable. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.18 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.18
§ 122.18. Annual payments to landlord for projects creating new jobs
Status: in_force

June 30, 2005 House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Facility" means all real property and interests in real property owned by either of the following: (a) A landlord and leased to a tenant pursuant to a project that is the subject of an agreement under this section; (b) The United States or any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States. (2) "Full-time employee" has the same meaning as under section 122.17 of the Revised Code. (3) "Landlord" means a county or municipal corporation, or a corporate entity that is an instrumentality of a county or municipal corporation and that is not subject to the tax imposed by section 5733.06 or 5747.02 of the Revised Code. (4) "New employee" means a full-time employee first employed by, or under or pursuant to a contract with, the tenant in the project that is the subject of the agreement after a landlord enters into an agreement with the tax credit authority under this section. (5) "New income tax revenue" means the total amount withheld under section 5747.06 of the Revised Code by the tenant or tenants at a facility during a year from the compensation of new employees for the tax levied under Chapter 5747. of the Revised Code. (6) "Retained income tax revenue" means the total amount withheld under section 5747.06 of the Revised Code from employees retained at an existing facility recommended for closure to the base realignment and closure commission in the United States department of defense. (7) "Tenant" means the United States, any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States, or any person under contract with the United States or any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States. (B) The tax credit authority may enter into an agreement with a landlord under which an annual payment equal to the new income tax revenue or retained income tax revenue, as applicable, or the amount called for under division (D)(3) or (4) of this section shall be made to the landlord from moneys of this state that were not raised by taxation, and shall be credited by the landlord to the rental owing from the tenant to the landlord for a facility. (C) A landlord that proposes a project to create new jobs in this state or retain jobs in this state at an existing facility recommended for closure or realignment to the base realignment and closure commission in the United States department of defense may apply to the tax credit authority to enter into an agreement for annual payments under this section. The director of development shall prescribe the form of the application. After receipt of an application, the authority may enter into an agreement with the landlord for annual payments under this section if it determines all of the following: (1) The project will create new jobs in this state or retain jobs at a facility recommended for closure or realignment to the base realignment and closure commission in the United States department of defense. (2) The project is economically sound and will benefit the people of this state by increasing opportunities for employment and strengthening the economy of this state. (3) Receiving the annual payments will be a major factor in the decision of the landlord and tenant to go forward with the project. (D) An agreement with a landlord for annual payments shall include all of the following: (1) A description of the project that is the subject of the agreement; (2) The term of the agreement, which shall not exceed twenty years; (3) Based on the estimated new income tax revenue or retained income tax revenue, as applicable, to be derived from the facility at the time the agreement is entered into, provision for a guaranteed payment to the landlord commencing with the issuance by the landlord of any bonds or other forms of financing for the construction of the facility and continuing for the term approved by the authority; (4) Provision for offsets to this state of the annual payment in years in which such annual payment is greater than the guaranteed payment of amounts previously paid by this state to the landlord in excess of the new income tax revenue or retained income tax revenue, as applicable, by reason of the guaranteed payment; (5) A specific method for determining how many new employees are employed during a year; (6) A requirement that the landlord annually shall obtain from the tenant and report to the director of development the number of new employees and the new income tax revenue withheld in connection with the new employees, or the number of retained employees and the retained income tax revenue withheld in connection with the retained employees, as applicable, and any other information the director needs to perform the director's duties under this section; (7) A requirement that the director of development annually shall verify the amounts reported under division (D)(6) of this section, and after doing so shall issue a certificate to the landlord stating that the amounts have been verified. (E) The director of development, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules necessary to implement this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.121 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.121
§ 122.121. Site selection for major sporting event
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly (A) A local organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county that has entered into a joinder undertaking with a site selection organization may apply to the director of development services, on a form and in the manner prescribed by the director, for a grant from the sports event grant fund created under section 122.122 of the Revised Code with respect to a game to which either of the following applies: (1) The organization accepts competitive bids to host the game. (2) The game is a one-time centennial commemoration of the founding of a national football organization, association, or league. The amount of the grant shall be based on the projected incremental increase in the receipts from the tax imposed under section 5739.02 of the Revised Code within the market area designated under division (C) of this section, for the two-week period that ends at the end of the day after the date on which the game will be held, that is directly attributable, as determined by the director, to the preparation for and presentation of the game. The director shall determine the projected incremental increase in the tax imposed under section 5739.02 of the Revised Code by using a formula approved by the director in consultation with the tax commissioner. The application shall include an estimate of the committee's, municipality's, or county's qualifying costs under the game support contract. The local organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county is eligible to receive a grant under this section only if the projected incremental increase in receipts from the tax imposed under section 5739.02 of the Revised Code, as determined by the director, exceeds two hundred fifty thousand dollars. The amount of the grant shall be not less than fifty per cent of the projected incremental increase in receipts, as determined by the director, but shall not exceed the lesser of two million dollars or the amount of the committee's, municipality's, or county's qualifying costs under the game support contract. The director shall disburse the grant to the local organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county from the sports event grant fund. (B) If the director of development services approves an application for a local organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county and that local organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county enters into a joinder agreement with a site selection organization, the local organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county shall file a copy of the joinder agreement with the director. The grant shall be used exclusively by the local organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county to pay its qualifying costs under the game support contract. (C) For the purposes of division (A) of this section, the director of development services, in consultation with the tax commissioner, shall designate the market area for a game. The market area shall consist of the combined statistical area, as defined by the United States office of management and budget, in which an endorsing municipality or endorsing county is located. (D) A local organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county shall provide information required by the director of development services and tax commissioner to enable the director and commissioner to fulfill their duties under this section, including annual audited statements of any financial records required by a site selection organization; data obtained by the local organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county relating to attendance at a game and to the economic impact of the game; and financial records from the committee, municipality, or county verifying its qualifying costs under the game support contract. A local organizing committee, an endorsing municipality, or an endorsing county shall provide an annual audited financial statement if so required by the director and commissioner, not later than the end of the fourth month after the date the period covered by the financial statement ends. (E) Within thirty days after the game, the local organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county shall certify to the director of development services a statement of its qualifying costs under the game support contract and a report about the economic impact of the game. The certification shall be in the form and substance required by the director, including, but not limited to, a final income statement for the event showing total revenue and expenditures and revenue and expenditures in the market area for the game, and ticket sales for the game and any related activities for which admission was charged. The director shall determine, based on the reported information and the exercise of reasonable judgment, the incremental increase in receipts from the tax imposed under section 5739.02 of the Revised Code directly attributable to the game and the committee's, municipality's, or county's qualifying costs under the game support contract. If the actual incremental increase in sales tax receipts is less than the projected incremental increase in such receipts, or if the actual qualifying costs are less than the estimated qualifying costs, the director may require the local organizing committee, endorsing municipality, or endorsing county to refund to the state all or a portion of the grant. Any refund remitted under this division shall be credited to the sports event grant fund. (F) No disbursement may be made under this section if the director of development services determines that it would be used for the purpose of soliciting the relocation of a professional sports franchise located in this state. (G) This section may not be construed as creating or requiring a state guarantee of obligations imposed on an endorsing municipality or endorsing county under a game support contract or any other agreement relating to hosting one or more games in this state. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 146.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 146 / § 146.13
§ 146.13. Benefits not liable to attachment
Status: in_force

January 9, 1961 House Bill 1 - 104th General Assembly The benefits provided for in section 146.12 of the Revised Code are in addition to all other benefits otherwise provided for by law, and are not liable to attachment, levy, or seizure under any legal or equitable process, whether such sums remain with the treasurer of state or are in the course of transmission to the person entitled thereto, but shall inure wholly to the benefit of the beneficiary.
Ohio Rev. Code § 125.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 125 / § 125.13
§ 125.13. Disposing of excess and surplus supplies
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Emergency medical service organization" has the same meaning as in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Private fire company" has the same meaning as in section 9.60 of the Revised Code. (B) Whenever a state agency has excess or surplus supplies, it shall notify the director of administrative services. On forms provided by the director, the state agency shall furnish to the director a list of its excess and surplus supplies, including the location of the supplies and whether the supplies are currently in the agency's control. (C) Upon receipt of notification and at no cost to the state agency, the director of administrative services shall make arrangements for their disposition and shall take immediate control of a state agency's excess and surplus supplies, except for the following excess and surplus supplies: (1) Excess or surplus supplies that have a value below the minimum value that the director establishes for excess and surplus supplies under division (F) of this section; (2) Excess or surplus supplies that the director has authorized an agency to donate to a governmental agency, including, but not limited to, public schools and surplus computers and computer equipment transferred to a public school under division (G) of this section; (3) Excess or surplus supplies that an agency trades in as full or partial payment when purchasing a replacement item; (4) Hazardous property; (5) Excess or surplus supplies that the director has authorized to be part of an interagency transfer; (6) Excess or surplus supplies that are donated under division (H) of this section. (D) The director shall inventory excess and surplus supplies in the director's control and post on a public web site a list of the supplies available for acquisition. The director may have the supplies repaired. The director shall not charge a fee for the collection or transportation of excess and surplus supplies. (E) The director may do any of the following: (1) Dispose of declared surplus or excess supplies in the director's control by sale, lease, donation, or transfer. If the director does so, the director shall dispose of those supplies in any of the following manners: (a) To state agencies or by interagency trade; (b) To state-supported or state-assisted institutions of higher education; (c) To tax-supported agencies, municipal corporations, or other political subdivisions of this state, private fire companies, or private, nonprofit emergency medical service organizations; (d) To nonpublic elementary and secondary schools chartered by the department of education and workforce under section 3301.16 of the Revised Code; (e) To a nonprofit organization that is both exempt from federal income taxation under 26 U.S.C. 501(a) and (c)(3) and that is registered and in good standing with the secretary of state as a domestic nonprofit or not-for-profit corporation; (f) To the general public by auction, sealed bid, sale, or negotiation. (2) If the director has attempted to dispose of any declared surplus or excess motor vehicle that does not exceed four thousand five hundred dollars in value pursuant to divisions (E)(1)(a) to (c) of this section, donate the motor vehicle to a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income taxation pursuant to 26 U.S.C. 501(a) and (c)(3) for the purpose of meeting the transportation needs of participants in the Ohio works first program established under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code and participants in the prevention, retention, and contingency program established under Chapter 5108. of the Revised Code. The director may not donate a motor vehicle furnished to the state highway patrol to a nonprofit organization pursuant to this division. (F) The director may adopt rules governing the sale, lease, or transfer of surplus and excess supplies in the director's control by public auction, sealed bid, sale, or negotiation, except that no employee of the disposing agency shall be allowed to purchase, lease, or receive any such supplies. The director may dispose of declared surplus or excess supplies, including motor vehicles, in the director's control as the director determines proper if such supplies cannot be disposed of pursuant to division (E) of this section. The director shall by rule establish a minimum value for excess and surplus supplies and prescribe procedures for a state agency to follow in disposing of excess and surplus supplies in its control that have a value below the minimum value established by the director. (G) The director of administrative services may authorize any state agency to transfer surplus computers and computer equipment that are not needed by other state agencies directly to an accredited public school within the state. The computers and computer equipment may be repaired or refurbished prior to transfer. The state agency may charge a service fee to the public schools for the property not to exceed the direct cost of repairing or refurbishing it. The state agency shall deposit such funds into the account used for repair or refurbishment. (H) Excess and surplus supplies of food shall be exempt from this section and may be donated directly to nonprofit food pantries and institutions without notification to the director of administrative services. Last updated July 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.79 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.79
§ 122.79. Tax exemptions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly The exercise of the powers granted by sections 122.71 to 122.83 and 122.87 to 122.90 of the Revised Code, will be in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state, for the increase of their commerce and prosperity, for the increase and expansion of minority business enterprises, and for the improvement of conditions of employment, and will constitute the performance of essential governmental functions; therefore, the director of development shall not be required to pay any taxes upon any property or assets held by the director, or upon any property acquired or used by the director under sections 122.71 to 122.83 and 122.87 to 122.90 of the Revised Code, or upon the income from it, provided that this exemption shall not apply to any property held by the director while it is in the possession of a private person, partnership, or corporation and used for private purposes for profit, in which case such tax liability shall accrue to the private person, partnership, or corporation. Last updated August 4, 2021 at 10:36 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 164.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 164 / § 164.03
§ 164.03. Dividing state into districts for purpose of allocating funds
Status: in_force

August 16, 2016 Senate Bill 310 - 131st General Assembly For the purpose of allocating the funds made available to finance public infrastructure capital improvement projects of local subdivisions through the issuance of general obligations of the state of Ohio pursuant to Section 2k, 2m, 2p, or 2s of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, the state is divided into the following districts: District one. Cuyahoga county shall constitute district one. District two. Hamilton county shall constitute district two. District three. Franklin county shall constitute district three. District four. Montgomery county shall constitute district four. District five. Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Henry, Ottawa, Paulding, Sandusky, Williams, and Wood counties shall constitute district five. District six. Mahoning and Trumbull counties shall constitute district six. District seven. Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, and Portage counties shall constitute district seven. District eight. Summit county shall constitute district eight. District nine. Lorain, Huron, and Medina counties shall constitute district nine. District ten. Butler, Clermont, Clinton, and Warren counties shall constitute district ten. District eleven. Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Madison, Miami, Preble, and Union counties shall constitute district eleven. District twelve. Lucas county shall constitute district twelve. District thirteen. Allen, Auglaize, Hancock, Logan, Mercer, Putnam, Shelby, and Van Wert counties shall constitute district thirteen. District fourteen. Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison, Holmes, Jefferson, and Tuscarawas counties shall constitute district fourteen. District fifteen. Adams, Brown, Fayette, Gallia, Highland, Jackson, Lawrence, Pike, Ross, Scioto, and Vinton counties shall constitute district fifteen. District sixteen. Ashland, Crawford, Hardin, Marion, Richland, Seneca, Wayne, and Wyandot counties shall constitute district sixteen. District seventeen. Delaware, Fairfield, Knox, Licking, Morrow, and Pickaway counties shall constitute district seventeen. District eighteen. Athens, Belmont, Hocking, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, and Washington counties shall constitute district eighteen. District nineteen. Stark county shall constitute district nineteen.
Ohio Rev. Code § 140.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 140 / § 140.08
§ 140.08. Exemption from taxes
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section, all hospital facilities purchased, acquired, constructed, or owned by a public hospital agency, or financed in whole or in part by obligations issued by a public hospital agency, and used, or to be used when completed, as hospital facilities, and the income therefrom, are exempt from all taxation within this state, including ad valorem and excise taxes, notwithstanding any other provisions of law, and hospital agencies are exempt from taxes levied under Chapters 5739. and 5741. of the Revised Code. The obligations issued hereafter under section 133.08 , 140.06 , or 339.15 of the Revised Code or Section 3 of Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution, to pay costs of hospital facilities or to refund such obligations, and the transfer thereof, and the interest and other income from such obligations, including any profit made on the sale thereof, is free from taxation within the state. (B)(1) Division (A) of this section does not exempt independent living facilities from taxes levied on property or taxes levied under Chapters 5739. and 5741. of the Revised Code. If an independent living facility or part of such facility becomes on or after January 10, 1991, a nursing home, residential care facility, or residential facility described in division (M)(4) of section 140.01 of the Revised Code, that part of the independent living facility that is a nursing home, residential care facility, or residential facility described in division (M)(4) of section 140.01 of the Revised Code is exempt from taxation subject to division (B)(2) of this section on and after the date it becomes a nursing home, residential care facility, or residential facility described in division (M)(4) of section 140.01 of the Revised Code. (2) Division (A) of this section exempts nursing homes, residential care facilities, and residential facilities described in division (M)(4) of section 140.01 of the Revised Code from taxes levied on property and taxes levied under Chapters 5739. and 5741. of the Revised Code only until all obligations issued to finance such homes or facilities, or all refunding or series of refundings of those obligations, are redeemed or otherwise retired.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.4040 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.4040
§ 122.4040. Weighted scoring system for applications
Status: in_force

July 4, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The department of development, in consultation with the broadband expansion program authority, shall establish a scoring system to evaluate and select applications for program grants. The scoring system shall be available on the department's web site at least thirty days before the beginning of the application submission period set by the department by rule. A description of any differences in application, scoring system, or other program requirements adopted under division (C) of section 122.4017 of the Revised Code shall be available with the application on the department's web site at least thirty days before the beginning of the application submission period. Last updated September 19, 2023 at 12:55 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 151.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 151 / § 151.10
§ 151.10. Issuing obligations to pay costs of research and development projects
Status: in_force

August 16, 2016 Senate Bill 310 - 131st General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Costs of research and development projects" includes related direct administrative expenses and allocable portions of the direct costs of those projects, costs of capital facilities, and working capital, all for the following: (a) Attracting researchers and research teams by endowing research chairs or otherwise; (b) Activities to develop and commercialize products and processes; (c) Intellectual property matters such as copyrights and patents; (d) Property interests including timesharing arrangements, capital formation, direct operating costs, and costs of research and facilities including interests in real property therefore; and (e) Support for public and private institutions of higher education, research organizations or institutions, and private sector entities. (2) "Obligations" means obligations as defined in section 151.01 of the Revised Code issued to pay costs of projects for research and development purposes as referred to in division (A)(2) of Section 2p of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution. (3) "Project" means any research and development project, as defined in section 184.10 of the Revised Code, or facility, including undivided or other interests, acquired or to be acquired, constructed or to be constructed, or operating or to be operated by a person doing business in this state or by an educational or scientific institution located in this state with all or part of the cost of the project being paid from a grant or loan from the third frontier research and development fund or the third frontier research and development taxable bond fund or a loan guaranteed under Chapter 184. of the Revised Code, including all buildings and facilities determined necessary for the operation of the project, together with all property, rights, easements, and interests that may be required for the operation of the project. (B) The issuing authority shall issue general obligations of the state to pay costs of research and development projects pursuant to division (B)(2) of Section 2p of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, section 151.01 of the Revised Code, and this section. The issuing authority shall issue obligations in the amount determined by the issuing authority to be required for those purposes. The total principal amount of obligations issued under this section shall not exceed one billion two hundred million dollars. (C) Net proceeds of obligations shall be deposited into the third frontier research and development fund created by section 184.19 of the Revised Code or into the third frontier research and development taxable bond fund created by section 184.191 of the Revised Code if the obligations are federally taxable. (D) There is hereby created in the state treasury the third frontier research and development projects bond service fund. All moneys received by the state and required by the bond proceedings, consistent with section 151.01 of the Revised Code and this section, to be deposited, transferred, or credited to the bond service fund, and all other moneys transferred or allocated to or received for the purposes of that fund, shall be deposited and credited to the bond service fund, subject to any applicable provisions of the bond proceedings, but without necessity for any act of appropriation. During the period beginning with the date of the first issuance of obligations and continuing during the time that any obligations are outstanding in accordance with their terms, so long as moneys in the bond service fund are insufficient to pay debt service when due on those obligations payable from that fund, except the principal amounts of bond anticipation notes payable from the proceeds of renewal notes or bonds anticipated, and due in the particular fiscal year, a sufficient amount of revenues of the state is committed and, without necessity for further act of appropriation, shall be paid to the bond service fund for the purpose of paying that debt service when due.
Ohio Rev. Code § 153.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 153 / § 153.12
§ 153.12. Awarding and executing contract
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) With respect to award of any contract for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, alteration, repair, painting, or decoration of a public improvement made by the state, or any county, township, municipal corporation, school district, or other political subdivision, or any public board, commission, authority, instrumentality, or special purpose district of or in the state or a political subdivision or that is authorized by state law, the award, and execution of the contract, shall be made within sixty days after the date on which the bids are opened. The failure to award and execute the contract within sixty days invalidates the entire bid proceedings and all bids submitted, unless the time for awarding and executing the contract is extended by mutual consent of the owner or its representatives and the bidder whose bid the owner accepts and with respect to whom the owner subsequently awards and executes a contract. The public owners referred to in this section shall include, in the plans and specifications for the project for which bids are solicited, the estimate of cost. The bid for which the award is to be made shall be opened at the time and place named in the advertisement for bids, unless extended by the owner or its representative or unless, within seventy-two hours prior to the published time for the opening of bids, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, any modification of the plans or specifications and estimates of cost for the project for which bids are solicited is issued and mailed or otherwise furnished to persons who have obtained plans or specifications for the project, for which the time for opening of bids shall be extended one week, with no further advertising of bids required. The contractor, upon request, is entitled to a notice to proceed with the work by the owner or its representative upon execution of the contract. No contract to which this section applies shall be entered into if the price of the contract, or, if the project involves multiple contracts where the total price of all contracts for the project, is in excess of ten per cent, in the case of a contract made by the state or a public board, commission, authority, or instrumentality of the state, or twenty per cent, in the case of a contract made by a county, township, municipal corporation, school district, special purpose district, or other political subdivision or a public board, commission, authority, or instrumentality of the political subdivision, above the entire estimate thereof, nor shall the entire cost of the construction, reconstruction, repair, painting, decorating, improvement, alteration, addition, or installation, including changes and estimates of expenses for architects or engineers, exceed in the aggregate the amount authorized by law. The unit or lump sum price stated in the contract shall be used in determining the amount to be paid and shall constitute full and final compensation for all the work. Partial payment to the contractor for work performed under the lump sum price shall be based on a schedule prepared by the contractor and approved by the architect or engineer who shall apportion the lump sum price to the major components entering into or forming a part of the work under the lump sum price. Partial payments to the contractor for labor performed under either a unit or lump sum price contract shall be made at a rate of not less than ninety-six per cent of the estimates prepared by the contractor and approved by the architect or engineer. No subcontract shall be paid at a rate lower than the rate being paid to the contractor by the public authority. The amounts and time of payments of any public improvements contract made by the state or any county, township, municipal corporation, school district, or other political subdivision, or any public board, commission, authority, instrumentality, or special purpose district of or in the state or a political subdivision or that is authorized by state law, except as provided in section 5525.19 of the Revised Code, shall be governed by this section and sections 153.13 and 153.14 of the Revised Code. If the time for awarding the contract is extended by mutual consent, or if the owner or its representative fails to issue a timely notice to proceed as required by this section, the owner or its representative shall issue a change order authorizing delay costs to the contractor, which does not invalidate the contract. The amount of such a change order to the owner shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of the contract for change orders or force accounts or, if no such provision is set forth in the contract, the cost to the owner shall be the contractor's actual costs including wages, labor costs other than wages, wage taxes, materials, equipment costs and rentals, insurance, and subcontracts attributable to the delay, plus a reasonable sum for overhead. In the event of a dispute between the owner and the contractor concerning such change order, procedures shall be commenced under the applicable terms of the contract, or, if the contract contains no provision for resolving the dispute, it shall be resolved pursuant to the procedures for arbitration in Chapter 2711. of the Revised Code, except as provided in division (B) of this section. Nothing in this division shall be construed as a limitation upon the authority of the director of transportation granted in Chapter 5525. of the Revised Code. (B) If a dispute arises between the state and a contractor concerning the terms of a public improvement contract let by the state or concerning a breach of the contract, and after administrative remedies provided for in such contract and any alternative dispute resolution procedures provided in accordance with guidelines established by the executive director of the Ohio facilities construction commission are exhausted, the contractor may bring an action to the court of claims in accordance with Chapter 2743. of the Revised Code. The state or the contractor may request the chief justice of the supreme court to appoint a referee or panel of referees in accordance with division (C)(3) of section 2743.03 of the Revised Code. As used in this division, "dispute" means a disagreement between the state and the contractor concerning a public improvement contract let by the state. Last updated July 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 111.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 111 / § 111.07
§ 111.07. Secretary of state or authenticating officer shall countersign and register commissions
Status: in_force

July 9, 1976 Senate Bill 273 - 111th General Assembly The secretary of state or the authenticating officer for the secretary of state shall countersign all commissions issued by the governor and, except as to those of notaries public, shall keep a register of commissions issued, specifying the name of each person commissioned, the office conferred, and the date and tenure of the commission. The secretary of state shall cause all commissions and official papers to be printed with an engraved impression of the coat of arms of the state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 103.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 103 / § 103.15
§ 103.15. Clerks to deliver documents to legislative service commission
Status: in_force

March 9, 1999 House Bill 649 - 122nd General Assembly At the close of each second regular session of the general assembly, the clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives shall deliver to the director of the Ohio legislative service commission copies of all bills, joint resolutions, important petitions, memorials, and other legislative documents passed or presented during each session of the general assembly.
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.82 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.82
§ 109.82. Antitrust section - fund
Status: in_force

July 1, 1992 Senate Bill 351 - 119th General Assembly There is hereby created in the office of the attorney general a section of antitrust. Ten per cent of all recoveries obtained by the attorney general pursuant to section 109.81 of the Revised Code by settlement or by judgment in any court and the full amount of all related civil penalties, attorney's fees, and reimbursements of investigative, litigation, or expert witness costs shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the attorney general antitrust fund, which is hereby created. The fund shall be used for expenses of the antitrust section. The expenses of the antitrust section in excess of the money available in the fund shall be paid out of the regular appropriation to the office of the attorney general.
Ohio Rev. Code § 118.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 118 / § 118.16
§ 118.16. Bond anticipation notes
Status: in_force

September 3, 1996 House Bill 462 - 121st General Assembly Bond anticipation notes of a municipal corporation, county, or township issued during a fiscal emergency period may mature at the later of the time otherwise permitted by law or any time approved by the commission and estimated by it to be not more than one year following termination of the fiscal emergency period and, notwithstanding that such maturity exceeds one year, may be sold by competitive bids or by negotiation. Bonds or notes may be issued by a municipal corporation, county, or township during a fiscal emergency period to retire bond anticipation notes for the stated purposes of such bond anticipation notes notwithstanding that the proceeds of such bond anticipation notes or the original indebtedness were used for other purposes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 173.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 173 / § 173.23
§ 173.23. Immunity; false complaint; representation by attorney general
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) Representatives of the office of the state long-term care ombudsman program are immune from civil or criminal liability for any action taken in the good faith performance of their official duties under sections 173.14 to 173.26 of the Revised Code. (B) A person acting in good faith is immune from civil or criminal liability incident to any of the following: providing information to the office, participating in registration of a complaint with the office, participating in investigation of a complaint by the office, or participating in an administrative or judicial proceeding resulting from a complaint. (C) No person shall knowingly register a false complaint with the office, or knowingly swear or affirm the truth of a false complaint previously registered, when the statement is made with purpose to incriminate another. (D) The attorney general shall provide legal counsel to the office of the state long-term care ombudsman program and to the regional long-term care ombudsman programs. The attorney general shall represent any representative of the office and any representative of a regional program against whom any legal action is brought in connection with the representative's official duties under sections 173.14 to 173.26 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 153.55 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 153 / § 153.55
§ 153.55. Dividing project into parts to avoid threshold prohibited; costs included in threshold amount
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly (A) For purposes of calculating the amount of a public improvement project to determine whether it is subject to section 153.01 of the Revised Code, no officer, board, or other authority of the state or any institution supported by the state shall subdivide a public improvement project into component parts or separate projects in order to avoid the threshold of that section, unless the component parts or separate projects thus created are conceptually separate and unrelated to each other, or encompass independent or unrelated needs. (B) In calculating the project amount for purposes of the threshold in section 153.01 of the Revised Code, the following expenses shall be included as costs of the project: (1) Professional fees and expenses for services associated with the preparation of plans; (2) Permit costs, testing costs, and other fees associated with the work; (3) Project construction costs; (4) A contingency reserve fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.94 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.94
§ 122.94. Rules - annual report
Status: in_force

September 16, 2014 House Bill 486 - 130th General Assembly The director of development services shall: (A) Promulgate rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for the conduct of the minority business development division's business and for carrying out the purposes of sections 122.92 to 122.94 of the Revised Code; (B) Prepare an annual report to the governor and the general assembly on or before the first day of August of its activities for the preceding calendar year. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.573 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.573
§ 109.573. DNA laboratory - databases
Status: in_force

March 23, 2015 Senate Bill 316 - 130th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "DNA" means human deoxyribonucleic acid. (2) "DNA analysis" means a laboratory analysis of a DNA specimen to identify DNA characteristics and to create a DNA record. (3) "DNA database" means a collection of DNA records from forensic casework or from crime scenes, specimens from anonymous and unidentified sources, and records collected pursuant to sections 2152.74 and 2901.07 of the Revised Code and a population statistics database for determining the frequency of occurrence of characteristics in DNA records. (4) "DNA record" means the objective result of a DNA analysis of a DNA specimen, including representations of DNA fragment lengths, digital images of autoradiographs, discrete allele assignment numbers, and other DNA specimen characteristics that aid in establishing the identity of an individual. (5) "DNA specimen" includes human blood cells or physiological tissues or body fluids. (6) "Unidentified person database" means a collection of DNA records, and, on and after May 21, 1998, of fingerprint and photograph records, of unidentified human corpses, human remains, or living individuals. (7) "Relatives of missing persons database" means a collection of DNA records of persons related by consanguinity to a missing person. (8) "Law enforcement agency" means a police department, the office of a sheriff, the state highway patrol, a county prosecuting attorney, or a federal, state, or local governmental body that enforces criminal laws and that has employees who have a statutory power of arrest. (9) "Administration of criminal justice" means the performance of detection, apprehension, detention, pretrial release, post-trial release, prosecution, adjudication, correctional supervision, or rehabilitation of accused persons or criminal offenders. "Administration of criminal justice" also includes criminal identification activities and the collection, storage, and dissemination of criminal history record information. (B)(1) The superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation may do all of the following: (a) Establish and maintain a state DNA laboratory to perform DNA analyses of DNA specimens; (b) Establish and maintain a DNA database; (c) Establish and maintain an unidentified person database to aid in the establishment of the identity of unknown human corpses, human remains, or living individuals; (d) Establish and maintain a relatives of missing persons database for comparison with the unidentified person database to aid in the establishment of the identity of unknown human corpses, human remains, and living individuals. (2) If the bureau of criminal identification and investigation establishes and maintains a DNA laboratory and a DNA database, the bureau may use or disclose information regarding DNA records for the following purposes: (a) The bureau may disclose information to a law enforcement agency for the administration of criminal justice. (b) The bureau shall disclose pursuant to a court order issued under section 3111.09 of the Revised Code any information necessary to determine the existence of a parent and child relationship in an action brought under sections 3111.01 to 3111.18 of the Revised Code. (c) The bureau may use or disclose information from the population statistics database for identification research and protocol development or for quality control purposes. (3) If the bureau of criminal identification and investigation establishes and maintains a relatives of missing persons database, all of the following apply: (a) If a person has disappeared and has been continuously absent from the person's place of last domicile for a thirty-day or longer period of time without being heard from during the period, persons related by consanguinity to the missing person may submit to the bureau a DNA specimen, the bureau may include the DNA record of the specimen in the relatives of missing persons database, and, if the bureau does not include the DNA record of the specimen in the relatives of missing persons database, the bureau shall retain the DNA record for future reference and inclusion as appropriate in that database. (b) The bureau shall not charge a fee for the submission of a DNA specimen pursuant to division (B)(3)(a) of this section. (c) If the DNA specimen submitted pursuant to division (B)(3)(a) of this section is collected by withdrawing blood from the person or a similarly invasive procedure, a physician, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, duly licensed clinical laboratory technician, or other qualified medical practitioner shall conduct the collection procedure for the DNA specimen submitted pursuant to division (B)(3)(a) of this section and shall collect the DNA specimen in a medically approved manner. If the DNA specimen is collected by swabbing for buccal cells or a similarly noninvasive procedure, division (B)(3)(c) of this section does not require that the DNA specimen be collected by a qualified medical practitioner of that nature. No later than fifteen days after the date of the collection of the DNA specimen, the person conducting the DNA specimen collection procedure shall cause the DNA specimen to be forwarded to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation in accordance with procedures established by the superintendent of the bureau under division (H) of this section. The bureau may provide the specimen vials, mailing tubes, labels, postage, and instruction needed for the collection and forwarding of the DNA specimen to the bureau. (d) The superintendent, in the superintendent's discretion, may compare DNA records in the relatives of missing persons database with the DNA records in the unidentified person database. (4) If the bureau of criminal identification and investigation establishes and maintains an unidentified person database and if the superintendent of the bureau identifies a matching DNA record for the DNA record of a person or deceased person whose DNA record is contained in the unidentified person database, the superintendent shall inform the coroner who submitted or the law enforcement agency that submitted the DNA specimen to the bureau of the match and, if possible, of the identity of the unidentified person. (5) The bureau of criminal identification and investigation may enter into a contract with a qualified public or private laboratory to perform DNA analyses, DNA specimen maintenance, preservation, and storage, DNA record keeping, and other duties required of the bureau under this section. A public or private laboratory under contract with the bureau shall follow quality assurance and privacy requirements established by the superintendent of the bureau. (C) The superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation shall establish procedures for entering into the DNA database the DNA records submitted pursuant to sections 2152.74 and 2901.07 of the Revised Code and for determining an order of priority for entry of the DNA records based on the types of offenses committed by the persons whose records are submitted and the available resources of the bureau. (D) When a DNA record is derived from a DNA specimen provided pursuant to section 2152.74 or 2901.07 of the Revised Code, the bureau of criminal identification and investigation shall attach to the DNA record personal identification information that identifies the person from whom the DNA specimen was taken. The personal identification information may include the subject person's fingerprints and any other information the bureau determines necessary. The DNA record and personal identification information attached to it shall be used only for the purpose of personal identification or for a purpose specified in this section. (E) DNA records, DNA specimens, fingerprints, and photographs that the bureau of criminal identification and investigation receives pursuant to this section and sections 313.08 , 2152.74 , 2901.07 , and 2933.82 of the Revised Code and personal identification information attached to a DNA record are not public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (F) The bureau of criminal identification and investigation may charge a reasonable fee for providing information pursuant to this section to any law enforcement agency located in another state. (G)(1) No person who because of the person's employment or official position has access to a DNA specimen, a DNA record, or other information contained in the DNA database that identifies an individual shall knowingly disclose that specimen, record, or information to any person or agency not entitled to receive it or otherwise shall misuse that specimen, record, or information. (2) No person without authorization or privilege to obtain information contained in the DNA database that identifies an individual person shall purposely obtain that information. (H) The superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation shall establish procedures for all of the following: (1) The forwarding to the bureau of DNA specimens collected pursuant to division (H) of this section and sections 313.08 , 2152.74 , 2901.07 , and 2933.82 of the Revised Code and of fingerprints and photographs collected pursuant to section 313.08 of the Revised Code; (2) The collection, maintenance, preservation, and analysis of DNA specimens; (3) The creation, maintenance, and operation of the DNA database; (4) The use and dissemination of information from the DNA database; (5) The creation, maintenance, and operation of the unidentified person database; (6) The use and dissemination of information from the unidentified person database; (7) The creation, maintenance, and operation of the relatives of missing persons database; (8) The use and dissemination of information from the relatives of missing persons database; (9) The verification of entities requesting DNA records and other DNA information from the bureau and the authority of the entity to receive the information; (10) The operation of the bureau and responsibilities of employees of the bureau with respect to the activities described in this section. (I) In conducting DNA analyses of DNA specimens, the state DNA laboratory and any laboratory with which the bureau has entered into a contract pursuant to division (B)(5) of this section shall give DNA analyses of DNA specimens that relate to ongoing criminal investigations or prosecutions or that are forwarded by law enforcement agencies pursuant to divisions (B)(2)(a) and (b) of section 2933.82 of the Revised Code priority over DNA analyses of DNA specimens that relate to applications made pursuant to section 2953.73 of the Revised Code. The state DNA laboratory and any laboratory under contract with the bureau to perform DNA analyses shall consider the period of time remaining under section 2901.13 of the Revised Code for commencing the prosecution of a criminal offense related to the DNA specimens as well as other relevant factors in prioritizing DNA analysis of the DNA specimens forwarded by law enforcement agencies pursuant to division (B)(2)(a) or (b) of section 2933.82 of the Revised Code. (J) The attorney general may develop procedures for entering into the national DNA index system the DNA records submitted pursuant to division (B)(1) of section 2901.07 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 31, 2022 at 3:50 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 120.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 120 / § 120.04
§ 120.04. State public defender - powers and duties
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) The state public defender shall serve at the pleasure of the Ohio public defender commission and shall be an attorney with a minimum of four years of experience in the practice of law and be admitted to the practice of law in this state at least one year prior to appointment. (B) The state public defender shall do all of the following: (1) Maintain a central office in Columbus. The central office shall be provided with a library of adequate size, considering the needs of the office and the accessibility of other libraries, and other necessary facilities and equipment. (2) Appoint assistant state public defenders, all of whom shall be attorneys admitted to the practice of law in this state, and other personnel necessary for the operation of the state public defender office. Assistant state public defenders shall be appointed on a full-time basis. The state public defender, assistant state public defenders, and employees appointed by the state public defender shall not engage in the private practice of law. (3) Supervise the compliance of county public defender offices, joint county public defender offices, and county appointed counsel systems with standards established by rules of the Ohio public defender commission pursuant to division (B) of section 120.03 of the Revised Code; (4) Keep and maintain financial records of all cases handled and develop records for use in the calculation of direct and indirect costs, in the operation of the office, and report periodically, but not less than annually, to the commission on all relevant data on the operations of the office, costs, projected needs, and recommendations for legislation or amendments to court rules, as may be appropriate to improve the criminal justice system; (5) Collect all moneys due the state for reimbursement for legal services under this chapter and under section 2941.51 of the Revised Code and institute any actions in court on behalf of the state for the collection of such sums that the state public defender considers advisable. Except as provided otherwise in division (D) of section 120.06 of the Revised Code, all moneys collected by the state public defender under this chapter and section 2941.51 of the Revised Code shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the client payment fund, which is hereby created. All moneys credited to the fund shall be used by the state public defender to appoint assistant state public defenders and to provide other personnel, equipment, and facilities necessary for the operation of the state public defender office, to reimburse counties for the operation of county public defender offices, joint county public defender offices, and county appointed counsel systems pursuant to sections 120.18 , 120.28 , and 120.33 of the Revised Code, or to provide assistance to counties in the operation of county indigent defense systems. (6) With respect to funds appropriated to the commission to pay criminal costs, perform the duties imposed by sections 2949.19 and 2949.201 of the Revised Code; (7) Establish standards and guidelines for the reimbursement, pursuant to sections 120.18 , 120.28 , 120.33 , 2941.51 , and 2949.19 of the Revised Code, of counties for the operation of county public defender offices, joint county public defender offices, and county appointed counsel systems and for other costs related to felony prosecutions; (8) Establish maximum amounts that the state will reimburse the counties pursuant to sections 120.18 , 120.28 , 120.33 , and 2941.51 of the Revised Code; (9) Establish maximum amounts that the state will reimburse the counties pursuant to section 120.33 of the Revised Code for each specific type of legal service performed by a county appointed counsel system; (10) Administer sections 120.18 , 120.28 , 120.33 , 2941.51 , and 2949.19 of the Revised Code and make reimbursements pursuant to those sections; (11) Administer the program established pursuant to sections 120.51 to 120.55 of the Revised Code for the charitable public purpose of providing financial assistance to legal aid societies. Neither the state public defender nor any of the state public defender's employees who is responsible in any way for the administration of that program and who performs those administrative responsibilities in good faith is in any manner liable if a legal aid society that is provided financial assistance under the program uses the financial assistance other than in accordance with sections 120.51 to 120.55 of the Revised Code or fails to comply with the requirements of those sections. (12) Establish an office for the handling of appeal and postconviction matters; (13) Provide technical aid and assistance to county public defender offices, joint county public defender offices, and other local counsel providing legal representation to indigent persons, including representation and assistance on appeals. (C) The state public defender may do any of the following: (1) In providing legal representation, conduct investigations, obtain expert testimony, take depositions, use other discovery methods, order transcripts, and make all other preparations which are appropriate and necessary to an adequate defense or the prosecution of appeals and other legal proceedings; (2) Seek, solicit, and apply for grants for the operation of programs for the defense of indigent persons from any public or private source, and may receive donations, grants, awards, and similar funds from any lawful source. Such funds shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the public defender gifts and grants fund, which is hereby created. (3) Make all the necessary arrangements to coordinate the services of the office with any federal, county, or private programs established to provide legal representation to indigent persons and others, and to obtain and provide all funds allowable under any such programs; (4) Consult and cooperate with professional groups concerned with the causes of criminal conduct, the reduction of crime, the rehabilitation and correction of persons convicted of crime, the administration of criminal justice, and the administration and operation of the state public defender's office; (5) Accept the services of volunteer workers and consultants at no compensation other than reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses; (6) Prescribe any forms that are necessary for the uniform operation of this chapter; (7) Contract with a county public defender commission or a joint county public defender commission to provide all or any part of the services that a county public defender or joint county public defender is required or permitted to provide by this chapter, or contract with a board of county commissioners of a county that is not served by a county public defender commission or a joint county public defender commission for the provision of services in accordance with section 120.33 of the Revised Code. All money received by the state public defender pursuant to such a contract shall be credited to the multicounty: county share fund. (8) Authorize persons employed as criminal investigators to attend the Ohio peace officer training academy or any other peace officer training school for training; (9) Procure a policy or policies of malpractice insurance that provide coverage for the state public defender and assistant state public defenders in connection with malpractice claims that may arise from their actions or omissions related to responsibilities derived pursuant to this chapter; (10) Enter into agreements to license, lease, sell, and market for sale intellectual property owned by the office and receive payments from those agreements for use in the operation of the office and programs for the defense of indigent persons. All funds received by the state public defender pursuant to such agreements shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the public defender gifts and grants fund. (D) No person employed by the state public defender as a criminal investigator shall attend the Ohio peace officer training academy or any other peace officer training school unless authorized to do so by the state public defender. Last updated September 7, 2023 at 11:45 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.388 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.388
§ 124.388. Administrative leave
Status: in_force

July 1, 2007 House Bill 187 - 126th General Assembly (A) An appointing authority may, in its discretion, place an employee on administrative leave with pay. Administrative leave with pay is to be used only in circumstances where the health or safety of an employee or of any person or property entrusted to the employee's care could be adversely affected. Compensation for administrative leave with pay shall be equal to the employee's base rate of pay. The length of administrative leave with pay is solely at the discretion of the appointing authority, but shall not exceed the length of the situation for which the leave was granted. An appointing authority may also grant administrative leave with pay of two days or less for employees who are moved in accordance with section 124.33 of the Revised Code. (B) An appointing authority may, in its discretion, place an employee on administrative leave without pay for a period not to exceed two months, if the employee has been charged with a violation of law that is punishable as a felony. If the employee subsequently does not plead guilty to or is not found guilty of a felony with which the employee is charged or any other felony, the appointing authority shall pay the employee at the employee's base rate of pay, plus interest, for the period the employee was on the unpaid administrative leave.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.64 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.64
§ 122.64. Business services division
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (A) There is hereby established in the development services agency a business services division. The division shall be supervised by a deputy director appointed by the director of development services. The division is responsible for the administration of the state economic development financing programs established pursuant to sections 122.17 and 122.18 , sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 , and Chapter 166. of the Revised Code. (B) The director of development services shall: (1) Receive applications for assistance pursuant to sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 and Chapter 166. of the Revised Code. The director shall process the applications. (2) With the approval of the director of administrative services, establish salary schedules for employees of the various positions of employment with the division and assign the various positions to those salary schedules; (3) Employ and fix the compensation of financial consultants, appraisers, consulting engineers, superintendents, managers, construction and accounting experts, attorneys, and other agents for the assistance programs authorized pursuant to sections 122.17 and 122.18 , sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 , and Chapter 166. of the Revised Code as are necessary; (4) Supervise the administrative operations of the division; (5) On or before the first day of October in each year, make an annual report of the activities and operations under assistance programs authorized pursuant to sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 and Chapter 166. of the Revised Code for the preceding fiscal year to the governor and the general assembly. Each such report shall set forth a complete operating and financial statement covering such activities and operations during the year in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and shall be audited by a certified public accountant. The director of development services shall transmit a copy of the audited financial report to the office of budget and management. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 147.031 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 147 / § 147.031
§ 147.031. Renewal of commission
Status: in_force

September 20, 2019 Senate Bill 263 - 132nd General Assembly (A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, a commission for a notary public appointed prior to the effective date of this section shall remain valid until that commission's expiration date. (2) A commission issued to an attorney shall be governed by section 147.03 of the Revised Code. (B) A commission that is set to expire as described in section 147.03 of the Revised Code or as in division (A) of this section shall not be renewed unless the notary submits to the secretary of state through the entities authorized in section 147.021 of the Revised Code all of the following: (1) A new criminal records check report as required under division (B)(3) of section 147.01 of the Revised Code; (2) A fee of not more than sixty dollars, set by the secretary of state in a rule adopted under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code; (3) An application for renewal on a form prescribed by the secretary. (C) A notary public may apply to renew the notary's commission beginning three months prior to the expiration date of the commission. (D) If the notary public's commission expires before the notary submits the application for renewal, the secretary of state shall not renew that expired commission but shall permit the person to apply for a new notary commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 113.77 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 113 / § 113.77
§ 113.77. Political subdivisions and state retirement systems expenditure information
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly A political subdivision or state retirement system may agree to have information on expenditures made by the political subdivision or state retirement system included in the Ohio state and local government expenditure database. If a political subdivision or state retirement system agrees to include the information in the database, the political subdivision or state retirement system shall provide the information to the treasurer of state and comply with sections 113.70 to 113.77 of the Revised Code in the same manner as a state entity. Last updated September 16, 2021 at 11:15 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.44
§ 124.44. Police department promotions
Status: in_force

July 1, 2007 House Bill 187 - 126th General Assembly No positions above the rank of patrol officer in the police department shall be filled by original appointment. Vacancies in positions above the rank of patrol officer in a police department shall be filled by promotion from among persons holding positions in a rank lower than the position to be filled. No position above the rank of patrol officer in a police department shall be filled by any person unless the person has first passed a competitive promotional examination. Promotion shall be by successive ranks insofar as practicable, and no person in a police department shall be promoted to a position in a higher rank who has not served at least twelve months in the next lower rank. A municipal civil service commission may require a period of service of longer than twelve months for promotion to the rank immediately above the rank of patrol officer. No competitive promotional examination shall be held unless there are at least two persons eligible to compete. Whenever a municipal or civil service township civil service commission determines that there are less than two persons holding positions in the rank next lower than the position to be filled, who are eligible and willing to compete, the commission shall allow the persons holding positions in the then next lower rank who are eligible, to compete with the persons holding positions in the rank lower than the position to be filled. An increase in the salary or other compensation of anyone holding a position in a police department, beyond that fixed for the rank in which that position is classified, shall be deemed a promotion, except as provided in section 124.491 of the Revised Code. If a vacancy occurs in a position above the rank of patrol officer in a police department, and there is no eligible list for such rank, the municipal or civil service township civil service commission shall, within sixty days of that vacancy, hold a competitive promotional examination. After the examination has been held and an eligible list established, the commission shall forthwith certify to the appointing officer the name of the person on the list receiving the highest rating. Upon the certification, the appointing officer shall appoint the person so certified within thirty days from the date of the certification. If there is a list, the commission shall, when there is a vacancy, immediately certify the name of the person on the list having the highest rating, and the appointing authority shall appoint that person within thirty days from the date of the certification. No credit for seniority, efficiency, or any other reason shall be added to an applicant's examination grade unless the applicant achieves at least the minimum passing grade on the examination without counting that extra credit.
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.99
§ 109.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

May 7, 1997 House Bill 242 - 122nd General Assembly (A) Whoever violates section 109.26 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than ten thousand dollars or be imprisoned not less than one month nor more than one year, or both. (B) Whoever violates division (G)(1) of section 109.573 of the Revised Code is guilty of unlawful disclosure of DNA database information, a misdemeanor of the first degree. (C) Whoever violates division (G)(2) of section 109.573 of the Revised Code is guilty of unlawful possession of DNA database information, a misdemeanor of the first degree. (D)(1) Whoever violates division (G)(1) of section 109.35 of the Revised Code is guilty of entering into a transaction involving a nonprofit health care entity without the approval of the attorney general, a felony of the third degree. (2) Whoever violates division (G)(2) of section 109.35 of the Revised Code is guilty of receiving improper compensation relating to a transaction involving a nonprofit health care entity, a felony of the third degree. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 188.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 188 / § 188.08
§ 188.08. Equitable relief not available
Status: in_force

May 17, 2021 House Bill 2 - 134th General Assembly The court may not grant injunctive relief or any other equitable relief for an action described in section 188.05 of the Revised Code. Last updated June 9, 2021 at 12:58 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 187.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 187 / § 187.02
§ 187.02. Board of directors; qualifications
Status: in_force

June 30, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly (A) To qualify for appointment to the board of directors of JobsOhio, an individual must satisfy all of the following: (1) Has an understanding of generally accepted accounting principles and financial statements; (2) Possesses the ability to assess the general application of such principles in connection with the accounting for estimates, accruals, and reserves; (3) Has experience preparing, auditing, analyzing, or evaluating financial statements that present a breadth and level of complexity of accounting issues that are generally comparable to the breadth and complexity of issues that can reasonably be expected to be presented by the JobsOhio corporation's financial statements, or experience actively supervising one or more persons engaged in such activities; (4) Has an understanding of internal controls and the procedures for financial reporting; (5) Has an understanding of audit committee functions. (B) Specific experience demonstrating the qualifications required by division (A) of this section may be evidenced by any of the following: (1) Education and experience as a principal financial officer, principal accounting officer, controller, public accountant or auditor, or experience in one or more positions that involve the performance of similar functions; (2) Experience actively supervising a principal financial officer, principal accounting officer, controller, public accountant, auditor, or person performing similar functions; (3) Experience overseeing or assessing the performance of companies or public accountants with respect to the preparation, auditing, or evaluation of financial statements. (C) Each individual appointed to the board of directors shall be a citizen of the United States. At least six of the individuals appointed to the board shall be residents of or domiciled in this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 150.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 150 / § 150.08
§ 150.08. Ohio venture capital fund
Status: in_force

April 9, 2003 Senate Bill 180 - 124th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the Ohio venture capital fund, to which shall be credited all payments received by the authority pursuant to division (B)(5) of section 150.05 of the Revised Code and all interest earned on moneys of the fund. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, money in the Ohio venture capital fund shall be used exclusively to provide security against losses as authorized under this chapter. (C) If the amount in the venture capital fund exceeds the amount reasonably necessary to provide security against such losses, the excess may be used, upon appropriation by the general assembly, to provide scholarships or other financial assistance to students enrolled in a course of study in the fields of physical or natural sciences, mathematics, or engineering at an institution of higher education in this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.383 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.383
§ 124.383. Options with respect to sick leave credit remaining at end of year
Status: in_force

July 1, 2007 House Bill 187 - 126th General Assembly (A) The director of administrative services shall allow a full-time or part-time employee who is credited with sick leave pursuant to division (B) of section 124.382 of the Revised Code to elect one of the following options with respect to sick leave credit remaining at the end of the year: (1) Carry forward the balance; (2) Receive a cash benefit as established by the director. An employee serving in a temporary work level who elects to convert unused sick leave credit to cash shall do so at the base rate of pay of the employee's normal classification. (3) Carry forward a portion of the balance and receive a cash benefit for the remainder. The cash benefit shall be calculated in the manner specified in division (A)(2) of this section. (B) The director of administrative services shall establish procedures to allow employees to indicate the option that will be selected. Included within the procedures shall be the final date by which notification is to be made to the director concerning the option selected. Failure to comply with the date will result in the automatic carry forward of unused balances. (C) Cash benefits shall be paid in the first pay the employee receives in December. (D) Balances carried forward are excluded from further cash benefits provided under this section. (E) An employee who separates during the year shall not be eligible for cash benefits provided under this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 126.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 126 / § 126.12
§ 126.12. Recovering statewide indirect costs
Status: in_force

June 30, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly (A)(1) The office of budget and management shall prepare and administer a statewide indirect cost allocation plan that provides for the recovery of statewide indirect costs from any fund of the state. The director of budget and management may make transfers of statewide indirect costs from the appropriate fund of the state to the general revenue fund on an intrastate transfer voucher. The director, for reasons of sound financial management, also may waive the recovery of statewide indirect costs. Prior to making a transfer in accordance with this division, the director shall notify the affected agency of the amounts to be transferred. (2) To support development and upgrade costs to the state's enterprise resource planning system, the director also may make transfers of statewide indirect costs attributable to debt service paid for the system to the OAKS support organization fund created in section 126.24 of the Revised Code. Transfers may be made from either of the following: (a) The appropriate fund of the state; (b) The general revenue fund, if the statewide indirect costs have been collected under division (A)(1) of this section and deposited in the general revenue fund. (B) As used in this section, "statewide indirect costs" means operating costs incurred by an agency in providing services to any other agency, for which there was no billing to such other agency for the services provided, and for which disbursements have been made from the general revenue fund or other funds. (C) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, in order to reduce the payment of adjustments to the federal government as determined under the plan prepared under division (A)(1) of this section, the director of budget and management shall, on or before the first day of September each fiscal year, designate such funds of the state as the director considers necessary to retain their own interest earnings.
Ohio Rev. Code § 133.60 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 133 / § 133.60
§ 133.60. Issuing bonds to acquire agricultural easements
Status: in_force

April 5, 1999 Senate Bill 223 - 122nd General Assembly (A) As used in this section and in section 133.61 of the Revised Code: (1) "Agricultural easement" has the same meaning as in section 5301.67 of the Revised Code. (2) "Bonds" means notes or bonds. (B) The board of county commissioners of a county may issue bonds for the purpose of acquiring agricultural easements. The issuance of the bonds is subject to this chapter, except that their maturity shall not extend beyond the expiration of the tax imposed under section 5739.026 of the Revised Code. The bonds do not constitute general obligations of the county, and they shall not pledge the full faith and credit or revenue of the county, except revenues from the taxes levied under sections 5739.026 and 5741.023 of the Revised Code. The resolution authorizing the bonds shall appropriate the proceeds of those taxes first to the payment of debt charges on the bonds, and other appropriations from the proceeds of those taxes shall be limited to any balance that remains after paying in full the debt charges on the bonds. All moneys raised by the issuance of bonds under this section, after payment of the costs of issuance and financing costs, shall be used exclusively for the acquisition of agricultural easements.
Ohio Rev. Code § 125.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 125 / § 125.45
§ 125.45. Office reproduction services
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (A) The department of administrative services shall maintain facilities to perform office reproduction services for all boards, commissions, or departments. Upon written application to the department of administrative services, permission may be granted to a board, commission, or department to perform such services outside the central facility and such permission shall state the extent of the services which the department, board, or commission shall perform. (B) Office reproduction services are restricted to duplicating equipment not larger than seventeen by twenty-two inches. Not to exceed five thousand press impressions shall be produced of any such order except that up to one thousand production copies may be produced of any item consisting of multiple pages and except that over five thousand, but not more than ten thousand, press impressions may be produced if the director of administrative services determines that there is an emergency due to the timing of service delivery or another factor that may cause financial hardship to the state. (C) No state agency, other than the department of administrative services, shall perform printing or office reproduction services for political subdivisions.
Ohio Rev. Code § 113.18 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 113 / § 113.18
§ 113.18. Treasurer of state restored to office if not indicted or if acquitted
Status: in_force

July 1, 1985 House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly Upon the suspension of a treasurer of state as provided in section 113.17 of the Revised Code, the governor shall cause his arrest and prosecution for the offense charged. If the suspended treasurer of state is not indicted within four months of the date of the suspension or is acquitted of the offense charged before his term of office has expired, he shall immediately be restored to office and all the rights, duties, and obligations thereof. The acting treasurer of state appointed by the governor shall surrender the office to the restored treasurer of state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 174.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 174 / § 174.07
§ 174.07. Approval of controlling board
Status: in_force

July 1, 2005 House Bill 431 - 125th General Assembly The department of development, on its own and on the behalf of the Ohio housing finance agency and the Ohio department of aging, shall obtain controlling board approval prior to making any grant, loan, loan guarantee, or loan subsidy greater than fifty thousand dollars from or allocated from the low- and moderate-income housing trust fund. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 131.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 131 / § 131.09
§ 131.09. First mortgage loans as security for deposit of public money
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly In addition to the undertakings or security provided for in sections 135.01 to 135.40 of the Revised Code, the treasurer of a subdivision or county may accept first mortgages, upon unencumbered real estate located in this state, provided the amount owing on such mortgages at the time tendered as security is double the excess of the amount of public moneys to be at the time so deposited, over and above any portion of such moneys as is then insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation, federal savings and loan insurance corporation, or any other agency or instrumentality of the federal government. The amount owing on each mortgage at the time tendered as security shall not exceed eighty per cent of the then value of the real estate. Upon the deposit of such security, the treasurer shall require the financial institution to submit an affidavit stating that no payment on a mortgage has been more than two months past due at any time during the two-year period preceding the date the public moneys are deposited. At such time, the treasurer shall also require an institution to submit an affidavit stating that any structures on the mortgaged real estate are insured by an authorized company in an amount not less than the amount owing on each mortgage at the time tendered as security, that coverage has been obtained in favor of the institution by the named authorized company, and that the institution has obtained a mortgage impairment policy which assures that such insurance will continue for the period that the public moneys are deposited with the institution. The value of such real estate shall be determined separately for land and structures thereon by valuation made under oath by two resident freeholders of this state who are conversant with the real estate values of the county in which the real estate is located or made and certified under oath by an appraiser as being in conformity with the appraisal requirements imposed on an institution by any agency or instrumentality of the federal government. If such determination has been made earlier than a period of three months prior to the time of the deposit of public moneys, such determination shall be updated to reflect the value of the real estate within such three-month period. There shall be deposited with the mortgage the opinion of an attorney licensed to practice in this state, which opinion shall certify that the mortgage is a first lien upon the premises mortgaged, or the title shall be guaranteed by a company operating under sections 1735.01 to 1735.04 of the Revised Code or insured by a company operating under Chapter 3953. of the Revised Code. If any mortgage tendered as security is paid in full or if the mortgagor becomes past due for six months to the financial institution while it acts as a public depository and that mortgage has been assigned as security for such public moneys, the financial institution shall replace such mortgage with another in compliance with this section. Default by the financial institution as a public depository under this section is to be carried out in accordance with division (F) of section 135.18 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 135.141 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 135 / § 135.141
§ 135.141. Municipal corporation may invest interim moneys in linked deposits
Status: in_force

March 11, 1987 House Bill 461 - 116th General Assembly In addition to the investments specified in section 135.14 of the Revised Code, the treasurer or the governing board of a municipal corporation may invest interim moneys in linked deposits as authorized by ordinance adopted pursuant to section 135.80 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 101.301 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 101 / § 101.301
§ 101.301. Attorney-client testimonial privilege applies to caucuses
Status: in_force

September 29, 1999 House Bill 283 - 123rd General Assembly (A) As used in this section, caucus means all of the members of the house of representatives, or all of the members of the senate, who are members of the same political party. (B) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of section 2317.021 of the Revised Code, the members of the general assembly who are members of a caucus, and the officers and employees of the general assembly who either serve that caucus or serve the members of the general assembly who are members of that caucus, are clients, for purposes of the attorney-client testimonial privilege specified in division (A) of section 2317.02 of the Revised Code and for purposes of any other statutory or common law attorney-client privilege recognized in this state, of the employee of the house of representatives or senate who serves as the legal counsel for that caucus.
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.98 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.98
§ 145.98. Ceasing contributions
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 628 - 123rd General Assembly Contributions under sections 145.85 and 145.86 of the Revised Code shall cease on the member's death or termination of employment or for any other reason specified by the plan selected by the member.
Ohio Rev. Code § 133.35 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 133 / § 133.35
§ 133.35. Exchange of securities in depositories
Status: in_force

October 30, 1989 House Bill 230 - 118th General Assembly If a refunding or plan of refunding of the indebtedness of any subdivision includes securities which are deposited with the treasurer of state or superintendent of insurance under any law, and such officer determines that it is in the public interest to refund such securities and exchange them for refunding securities to be issued pursuant to any such refunding or plan of refunding under this chapter or complementary sections of the Revised Code, such officer may, with the consent of such depositor, or of its conservator if one has been appointed, or of the superintendent of banks if he has taken possession of the business and property of such depositor, and any supervising authority of the state, consent to such refunding or plan of refunding, and exchange such securities for such refunding securities which need not bear the same rate of interest as the securities to be exchanged, and may waive overdue interest, including interest upon any overdue interest upon such securities, whether represented by coupons or otherwise, if the plan of refunding so provides. Such officer shall hold such refunding securities under the same terms as the original securities.
Ohio Rev. Code § 118.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 118 / § 118.09
§ 118.09. Paying expenses and obligations
Status: in_force

July 1, 1983 House Bill 291 - 115th General Assembly Any expense or obligation incurred by the financial planning and supervision commission under this chapter shall be payable solely from appropriations made by the general assembly.
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.015 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.015
§ 145.015. County historical society employee electing to remain in system
Status: in_force

September 14, 2000 House Bill 640 - 123rd General Assembly As used in this section, "county historical society" means a private, non-profit organization exempt from federal income taxation pursuant to section 501 (a) and (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C.A. 501(a) and (c)(3), as amended, that collects, preserves, and interprets the historical physical and intellectual resources of a county. An administrative employee of a county historical society who is a contributor on the effective date of this section may elect to remain a contributing member of the public employees retirement system by giving notice to the system not later than ninety days after the effective date of this section. The election once made is irrevocable.
Ohio Rev. Code § 135.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 135 / § 135.10
§ 135.10. Application for active deposits
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly Each eligible institution desiring to be a public depository of the active deposits of the public moneys of the state or of a subdivision shall, not more than one hundred twenty days prior to the date fixed by section 135.12 of the Revised Code for the designation of such public depositories, make application therefor in writing to the proper governing board. If desired, such application may specify the maximum amount of such public moneys which the applicant desires to receive and have on deposit at any one time during the period covered by the designation. Each application shall be accompanied by a financial statement of the applicant, under oath of its cashier, treasurer, or other officer, in such detail as to show the capital funds of the applicant, as of the date of its latest report to the superintendent of financial institutions or comptroller of the currency, and adjusted to show any changes therein prior to the date of the application. Such application may be combined with an application for designation as a public depository of inactive deposits, interim deposits, or both. Last updated August 30, 2023 at 10:02 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.56 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.56
§ 109.56. Training local law enforcement officers in crime prevention, detection, and solution
Status: in_force

September 24, 1963 House Bill 263 - 105th General Assembly The bureau of criminal identification and investigation shall, where practicable, assist in training local law enforcement officers in crime prevention, detection, and solution when requested by local authorities, and, where practicable, furnish instruction to sheriffs, chiefs of police, and other law officers in the establishment of efficient local bureaus of identification in their districts.
Ohio Rev. Code § 123.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 123 / § 123.10
§ 123.10. Authority to contract; declaration of public exigency
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section and section 123.11 of the Revised Code, "public exigency" means an injury or obstruction that occurs in any public works of the state and that materially impairs its immediate use or places in jeopardy property adjacent to it; an immediate danger of such an injury or obstruction; or an injury or obstruction, or an immediate danger of an injury or obstruction, that occurs in any public works of the state and that materially impairs its immediate use or places in jeopardy property adjacent to it. (B) When a declaration of public exigency is issued pursuant to division (C) of this section, the Ohio facilities construction commission, or the requesting director of the state agency, state institution of higher education as defined in division (A)(1) of section 3345.12 of the Revised Code, or other state instrumentality, as determined by the executive director of the commission, shall enter into contracts with proper persons for the performance of labor, the furnishing of materials, or the construction of any structures and buildings necessary to the maintenance, control, and management of the public works of the state or any part of those public works. Any contracts awarded for the work performed pursuant to the declaration of a public exigency may be awarded without competitive bidding or selection as set forth in Chapter 153. of the Revised Code. (C) The executive director of the Ohio facilities construction commission may issue a declaration of a public exigency on the executive director's own initiative or upon the request of the director of any state agency, a state institution of higher education as defined in division (A)(1) of section 3345.12 of the Revised Code, or any other state instrumentality. The executive director's declaration shall identify the specific injury, obstruction, or danger that is the subject of the declaration and shall set forth a dollar limitation for the repair, removal, or prevention of that exigency under the declaration. Before any project to repair, remove, or prevent a public exigency under the executive director's declaration may begin, the executive director shall send notice of the project, in writing, to the director of budget and management and to the members of the controlling board. That notice shall detail the project to be undertaken to address the public exigency and shall include a copy of the executive director's declaration that establishes the monetary limitations on that project. Last updated July 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.38 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.38
§ 124.38. Sick leave
Status: in_force

March 20, 2025 Senate Bill 196 - 135th General Assembly Each of the following shall be entitled for each completed eighty hours of service to sick leave of four and six-tenths hours with pay: (A) Employees in the various offices of the county, municipal, and civil service township service, other than superintendents and management employees, as defined in section 5126.20 of the Revised Code, of county boards of developmental disabilities; (B) Employees of any state college or university; (C) Any employee of any board of education for whom sick leave is not provided by section 3319.141 of the Revised Code, provided that the employee is not a substitute, adult education instructor who is scheduled to work the full-time equivalent of less than one hundred twenty days per school year, or a person who is employed on an as-needed, seasonal, or intermittent basis. Employees may use sick leave, upon approval of the responsible administrative officer of the employing unit, for absence due to personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease that could be communicated to other employees, and illness, injury, or death in the employee's immediate family. Unused sick leave shall be cumulative without limit. When sick leave is used, it shall be deducted from the employee's credit on the basis of one hour for every one hour of absence from previously scheduled work. The previously accumulated sick leave of an employee who has been separated from the public service shall be placed to the employee's credit upon the employee's re-employment in the public service, provided that the re-employment takes place within ten years of the date on which the employee was last terminated from public service. This ten-year period shall be tolled for any period during which the employee holds elective public office, whether by election or by appointment. An employee who transfers from one public agency to another shall be credited with the unused balance of the employee's accumulated sick leave up to the maximum of the sick leave accumulation permitted in the public agency to which the employee transfers. The appointing authorities of the various offices of the county service may permit all or any part of a person's accrued but unused sick leave acquired during service with any regional council of government established in accordance with Chapter 167. of the Revised Code to be credited to the employee upon a transfer as if the employee were transferring from one public agency to another under this section. The appointing authority of each employing unit shall require an employee to furnish a satisfactory written, signed statement to justify the use of sick leave. If medical attention is required, a certificate stating the nature of the illness from a licensed physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner shall be required to justify the use of sick leave. Falsification of either the statement or the certificate shall be grounds for disciplinary action, including dismissal. This section does not interfere with existing unused sick leave credit in any agency of government where attendance records are maintained and credit has been given employees for unused sick leave. Notwithstanding this section or any other section of the Revised Code, any appointing authority of a county office, department, commission, board, or body may, upon notification to the board of county commissioners, establish alternative schedules of sick leave for employees of the appointing authority for whom the state employment relations board has not established an appropriate bargaining unit pursuant to section 4117.06 of the Revised Code, as long as the alternative schedules are not inconsistent with the provisions of at least one collective bargaining agreement covering other employees of that appointing authority, if such a collective bargaining agreement exists. If no such collective bargaining agreement exists, an appointing authority may, upon notification to the board of county commissioners, establish an alternative schedule of sick leave for its employees that does not diminish the sick leave benefits granted by this section. Last updated February 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 126.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 126 / § 126.16
§ 126.16. Implementing constitutional provision for purposes of issuing direct obligations of state
Status: in_force

September 14, 2000 House Bill 640 - 123rd General Assembly (A) This section is in implementation of division (D) of Section 17 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, for purposes of issuing direct obligations of the state subject to that section. (B) For purposes of the computation of debt service under Section 17 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, there shall be included debt service payable on bonds that are direct obligations of the state issued under Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, and on those bonds anticipated by bond anticipation notes, to the extent that debt service on those bonds is anticipated to be paid from the state general revenue fund or net state lottery proceeds. Examples of bonds the debt service on which is not anticipated to be paid from either of those sources are bonds of the state issued for highway purposes pursuant to Section 2i or 2m of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, which, although general obligations of the state, have been and are anticipated to be paid from highway user receipts and not from the general revenue fund or net state lottery proceeds. (C) If there is no separate constitutional or statutory provision applicable for the purpose, debt service on bonds anticipated by bond anticipation notes shall be estimated as provided in division (C) of this section. That amount, to be certified either by the issuing authority of the particular notes or by the governor or the governor's designee pursuant to division (E) of this section, shall be the estimated amount that would have been payable on bonds maturing serially in each fiscal year after the fiscal year of the issuance of the notes over the maximum period of maturity for the bonds authorized in the particular governing constitutional or statutory provision, as if those bonds had been issued without the prior issuance of the notes, and computed on a substantially level debt service basis applying an interest rate or rates certified to be market rates at the time of issuance of the notes. (D) In the case of bonds issued to refund or retire bonds, the debt service on the new bonds shall be counted and the debt service on the bonds being refunded or retired shall not be counted. (E) The governor, or the governor's designee for the purpose, shall determine and certify the fiscal year amounts required to be applied or set aside for payment of debt service, including debt service on any variable rate bonds, the securities to which that debt service relates, the total office of budget and management estimated revenues of the state for the general revenue fund and from net state lottery proceeds during the particular fiscal year, and any other financial data necessary or appropriate for the purpose of the computations under division (A) of Section 17 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, and this section. Those determinations and certifications shall be filed with the director of budget and management, the treasurer of state, and the issuing authority for the particular obligations, at or prior to the time those securities are issued. The governor's designee for the purpose may be the director or assistant director of budget and management, or any employee or official of the governor's office. (F) For purposes of this section, "securities," "interest or interest equivalent," and "outstanding" have the same meanings as in section 133.01 of the Revised Code, and "debt service" means principal, including any mandatory sinking fund deposits and mandatory redemption payments, and interest or interest equivalent payable on securities, as those payments are stated to come due and to be payable.
Ohio Rev. Code § 133.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 133 / § 133.99
§ 133.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

October 30, 1989 House Bill 230 - 118th General Assembly Whoever violates division (C) of section 133.33 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.091 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.091
§ 145.091. Administering defined benefit and defined contribution plans
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The public employees retirement system shall administer the PERS defined benefit plan, the PERS defined contribution plans, and the Ohio public employees deferred compensation program established under Chapter 148. of the Revised Code. Last updated July 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 111.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 111 / § 111.28
§ 111.28. Help America vote act (HAVA) fund; miscellaneous federal grants fund
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the help America vote act (HAVA) fund. All moneys received by the secretary of state from the United States election assistance commission for purposes established under the "Help America Vote Act of 2002," Pub. L. No. 107-252, as amended, shall be credited to the fund. The secretary of state shall use the moneys credited to the fund for activities conducted pursuant to that act. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund. (B) There is hereby created in the state treasury the miscellaneous federal grants fund. Except as otherwise provided in division (A) of this section, all moneys the secretary of state receives as grants from federal sources shall be credited to the fund. The secretary of state shall use the moneys credited to the fund for the purposes and activities required by the applicable federal grant agreements. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund. Last updated August 9, 2021 at 2:54 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 153.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 153 / § 153.31
§ 153.31. Plans and estimates for construction - construction project manager or consultants
Status: in_force

April 9, 2025 House Bill 497 - 135th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, when it becomes necessary for the board of county commissioners of a county to erect or cause to be erected a public building, or a substructure for a bridge, or an addition to or alteration thereof, before entering into any contract therefor or repair thereof or for the supply of any materials therefor, they shall cause to be made by a registered architect or registered professional engineer the following: (1) Full and accurate plans showing all necessary details of the work and materials required, with working plans suitable for the use of mechanics or other builders in the construction thereof, drawn so as to be easily understood; (2) Accurate bills, showing the exact amount of the different kinds of material, necessary for the construction, to accompany the plans; (3) Full and complete specifications of the work to be performed showing the manner and style required to be done, with such directions as will enable a competent builder to carry them out, and which will afford to bidders all needful information; (4) A full and accurate estimate of each item of expense, and of the aggregate cost thereof. (B) In connection with the planning and construction of any public building project, the board may employ a construction project manager or consultants, and fix their compensation. Such construction project manager or consultants shall be expert and qualified in their respective fields. The cost of such services may be paid from the proceeds of bonds and notes issued to pay the cost of such project. (C) This section does not prevent the board from receiving from bidders on iron or reinforced concrete substructures for bridges the necessary plans and specifications therefor. (D) Division (A) of this section does not apply to a minor repair. As used in this division, "minor repair" means the reconstruction or renewal of any part of an existing building for the purpose of its maintenance when the work has limited impact on access, safety, or health. "Minor repair" does not include any of the following: (1) The cutting away of any wall, partition, or portions of walls; (2) The removal or cutting of any structural beam or load bearing support; (3) The removal or change of any required element of accessibility, means of egress, or rearrangement of parts of a structure affecting the egress requirements; (4) The addition to, alteration of, replacement of, or relocation of any standpipe, water supply, sewer, drainage, drain leader, gas, soil, waste, vent or similar piping, electric wiring, mechanical work, or other work affecting public health or general safety. Last updated January 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 126.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 126 / § 126.15
§ 126.15. Adjusting capital or operating budgets
Status: in_force

March 18, 1999 House Bill 850 - 122nd General Assembly If the director of budget and management determines that adjustments to the capital or operating budgets are required because of the reorganization of administrative agencies, the transfer of programs, the creation of new funds, the modification of capital projects, or the consolidation of funds, as authorized by an act of the general assembly, the director may both require the head of the administering agency to certify the estimated amount of the cash balance to be transferred to the receiving fund and transfer the estimated amount to the receiving fund when needed to make payment. Not more than thirty days after certifying the estimated amount, the head of the administering agency shall certify to the director the final amount to be transferred. The director shall adjust the amount transferred to reflect any difference between the estimated amount transferred and the final amount. The director of budget and management may cancel encumbrances and reestablish encumbrances or parts of encumbrances as needed in the appropriate funds and appropriation items for the same purposes and same vendors. The director may transfer appropriation authority necessary to reestablish such encumbrances in a different fund or appropriation item within an agency or between agencies as the director determines necessary. The director shall reduce each of the appropriation balances of each fiscal year by the amount of the encumbrances canceled in the respective funds or appropriation items. The director also may transfer any unencumbered or unallotted balances to the appropriate line item to be used for the same purposes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 151.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 151 / § 151.01
§ 151.01. Issuing obligations for paying costs of capital facilities or projects
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in sections 151.01 to 151.11 and 151.40 of the Revised Code and in the applicable bond proceedings unless otherwise provided: (1) "Bond proceedings" means the resolutions, orders, agreements, and credit enhancement facilities, and amendments and supplements to them, or any one or more or combination of them, authorizing, awarding, or providing for the terms and conditions applicable to or providing for the security or liquidity of, the particular obligations, and the provisions contained in those obligations. (2) "Bond service fund" means the respective bond service fund created by section 151.03 , 151.04 , 151.05 , 151.06 , 151.07 , 151.08 , 151.09 , 151.10 , 151.11 , or 151.40 of the Revised Code, and any accounts in that fund, including all moneys and investments, and earnings from investments, credited and to be credited to that fund and accounts as and to the extent provided in the applicable bond proceedings. (3) "Capital facilities" means capital facilities or projects as referred to in section 151.03 , 151.04 , 151.05 , 151.06 , 151.07 , 151.08 , 151.09 , 151.10 , 151.11 , or 151.40 of the Revised Code. (4) "Costs of capital facilities" means the costs of acquiring, constructing, reconstructing, rehabilitating, remodeling, renovating, enlarging, improving, equipping, or furnishing capital facilities, and of the financing of those costs. "Costs of capital facilities" includes, without limitation, and in addition to costs referred to in section 151.03 , 151.04 , 151.05 , 151.06 , 151.07 , 151.08 , 151.09 , 151.10 , 151.11 , or 151.40 of the Revised Code, the cost of clearance and preparation of the site and of any land to be used in connection with capital facilities, the cost of any indemnity and surety bonds and premiums on insurance, all related direct administrative expenses and allocable portions of direct costs of the issuing authority, costs of engineering and architectural services, designs, plans, specifications, surveys, and estimates of cost, financing costs, interest on obligations, including but not limited to, interest from the date of their issuance to the time when interest is to be paid from sources other than proceeds of obligations, amounts necessary to establish any reserves as required by the bond proceedings, the reimbursement of all moneys advanced or applied by or borrowed from any person or governmental agency or entity for the payment of any item of costs of capital facilities, and all other expenses necessary or incident to planning or determining feasibility or practicability with respect to capital facilities, and such other expenses as may be necessary or incident to the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, enlargement, improvement, equipment, and furnishing of capital facilities, the financing of those costs, and the placing of the capital facilities in use and operation, including any one, part of, or combination of those classes of costs and expenses. For purposes of sections 122.085 to 122.0820 of the Revised Code, "costs of capital facilities" includes "allowable costs" as defined in section 122.085 of the Revised Code. (5) "Credit enhancement facilities," "financing costs," and "interest" or "interest equivalent" have the same meanings as in section 133.01 of the Revised Code. (6) "Debt service" means principal, including any mandatory sinking fund or redemption requirements for retirement of obligations, interest and other accreted amounts, interest equivalent, and any redemption premium, payable on obligations. If not prohibited by the applicable bond proceedings, debt service may include costs relating to credit enhancement facilities that are related to and represent, or are intended to provide a source of payment of or limitation on, other debt service. (7) "Issuing authority" means the Ohio public facilities commission created in section 151.02 of the Revised Code for obligations issued under section 151.03 , 151.04 , 151.05 , 151.07 , 151.08 , 151.09 , 151.10 , or 151.11 of the Revised Code, or the treasurer of state, or the officer who by law performs the functions of that office, for obligations issued under section 151.06 or 151.40 of the Revised Code. (8) "Net proceeds" means amounts received from the sale of obligations, excluding amounts used to refund or retire outstanding obligations, amounts required to be deposited into special funds pursuant to the applicable bond proceedings, and amounts to be used to pay financing costs. (9) "Obligations" means bonds, notes, or other evidences of obligation of the state, including any appertaining interest coupons, issued under Section 2k, 2l, 2m, 2n, 2o, 2p, 2q, 2s, or 15 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, and pursuant to sections 151.01 to 151.11 or 151.40 of the Revised Code or other general assembly authorization. (10) "Principal amount" means the aggregate of the amount as stated or provided for in the applicable bond proceedings as the amount on which interest or interest equivalent on particular obligations is initially calculated. Principal amount does not include any premium paid to the state by the initial purchaser of the obligations. "Principal amount" of a capital appreciation bond, as defined in division (C) of section 3334.01 of the Revised Code, means its face amount, and "principal amount" of a zero coupon bond, as defined in division (J) of section 3334.01 of the Revised Code, means the discounted offering price at which the bond is initially sold to the public, disregarding any purchase price discount to the original purchaser, if provided for pursuant to the bond proceedings. (11) "Special funds" or "funds," unless the context indicates otherwise, means the bond service fund, and any other funds, including any reserve funds, created under the bond proceedings and stated to be special funds in those proceedings, including moneys and investments, and earnings from investments, credited and to be credited to the particular fund. Special funds do not include the school building program assistance fund created by section 3318.25 of the Revised Code, the higher education improvement fund created by division (F) of section 154.21 of the Revised Code, the higher education improvement taxable fund created by division (G) of section 154.21 of the Revised Code, the highway capital improvement bond fund created by section 5528.53 of the Revised Code, the state parks and natural resources fund created by section 1557.02 of the Revised Code, the coal research and development fund created by section 1555.15 of the Revised Code, the clean Ohio conservation fund created by section 164.27 of the Revised Code, the job ready site development fund created by section 122.0820 of the Revised Code, the third frontier research and development fund created by section 184.19 of the Revised Code, the third frontier research and development taxable bond fund created by section 184.191 of the Revised Code, or other funds created by the bond proceedings that are not stated by those proceedings to be special funds. (B) Subject to Section 2l, 2m, 2n, 2o, 2p, 2q, 2s, or 15, and Section 17, of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, the state, by the issuing authority, is authorized to issue and sell, as provided in sections 151.03 to 151.11 or 151.40 of the Revised Code, and in respective aggregate principal amounts as from time to time provided or authorized by the general assembly, general obligations of this state for the purpose of paying costs of capital facilities or projects identified by or pursuant to general assembly action. (C) Each issue of obligations shall be authorized by resolution or order of the issuing authority. The bond proceedings shall provide for or authorize the manner for determining the principal amount or maximum principal amount of obligations of an issue, the principal maturity or maturities, the interest rate or rates, the date of and the dates of payment of interest on the obligations, their denominations, and the place or places of payment of debt service which may be within or outside the state. Unless otherwise provided by law, the latest principal maturity may not be later than the earlier of the thirty-first day of December of the twenty-fifth calendar year after the year of issuance of the particular obligations or of the twenty-fifth calendar year after the year in which the original obligation to pay was issued or entered into. Sections 9.96 , 9.98 , 9.981 , 9.982 , and 9.983 of the Revised Code apply to obligations. The purpose of the obligations may be stated in the bond proceedings in general terms, such as, as applicable, "financing or assisting in the financing of projects as provided in Section 2l of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution," "financing or assisting in the financing of highway capital improvement projects as provided in Section 2m of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution," "paying costs of capital facilities for a system of common schools throughout the state as authorized by Section 2n of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution," "paying costs of capital facilities for state-supported and state-assisted institutions of higher education as authorized by Section 2n of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution," "paying costs of coal research and development as authorized by Section 15 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution," "financing or assisting in the financing of local subdivision capital improvement projects as authorized by Section 2m, 2p, and 2s of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution," "paying costs of conservation projects as authorized by Sections 2o and 2q of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution," "paying costs of revitalization projects as authorized by Sections 2o and 2q of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution," "paying costs of preparing sites for industry, commerce, distribution, or research and development as authorized by Section 2p of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution," or "paying costs of research and development as authorized by Section 2p of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution." (D) The issuing authority may appoint or provide for the appointment of paying agents, bond registrars, securities depositories, clearing corporations, and transfer agents, and may without need for any other approval retain or contract for the services of underwriters, investment bankers, financial advisers, accounting experts, marketing, remarketing, indexing, and administrative agents, other consultants, and independent contractors, including printing services, as are necessary in the judgment of the issuing authority to carry out the issuing authority's functions under this chapter. When the issuing authority is the Ohio public facilities commission, the issuing authority also may without need for any other approval retain or contract for the services of attorneys and other professionals for that purpose. Financing costs are payable, as may be provided in the bond proceedings, from the proceeds of the obligations, from special funds, or from other moneys available for the purpose. (E) The bond proceedings may contain additional provisions customary or appropriate to the financing or to the obligations or to particular obligations including, but not limited to, provisions for: (1) The redemption of obligations prior to maturity at the option of the state or of the holder or upon the occurrence of certain conditions, and at particular price or prices and under particular terms and conditions; (2) The form of and other terms of the obligations; (3) The establishment, deposit, investment, and application of special funds, and the safeguarding of moneys on hand or on deposit, in lieu of the applicability of provisions of Chapter 131. or 135. of the Revised Code, but subject to any special provisions of sections 151.01 to 151.11 or 151.40 of the Revised Code with respect to the application of particular funds or moneys. Any financial institution that acts as a depository of any moneys in special funds or other funds under the bond proceedings may furnish indemnifying bonds or pledge securities as required by the issuing authority. (4) Any or every provision of the bond proceedings being binding upon the issuing authority and upon such governmental agency or entity, officer, board, commission, authority, agency, department, institution, district, or other person or body as may from time to time be authorized to take actions as may be necessary to perform all or any part of the duty required by the provision; (5) The maintenance of each pledge or instrument comprising part of the bond proceedings until the state has fully paid or provided for the payment of the debt service on the obligations or met other stated conditions; (6) In the event of default in any payments required to be made by the bond proceedings, or by any other agreement of the issuing authority made as part of a contract under which the obligations were issued or secured, including a credit enhancement facility, the enforcement of those payments by mandamus, a suit in equity, an action at law, or any combination of those remedial actions; (7) The rights and remedies of the holders or owners of obligations or of book-entry interests in them, and of third parties under any credit enhancement facility, and provisions for protecting and enforcing those rights and remedies, including limitations on rights of individual holders or owners; (8) The replacement of mutilated, destroyed, lost, or stolen obligations; (9) The funding, refunding, or advance refunding, or other provision for payment, of obligations that will then no longer be outstanding for purposes of this section or of the applicable bond proceedings; (10) Amendment of the bond proceedings; (11) Any other or additional agreements with the owners of obligations, and such other provisions as the issuing authority determines, including limitations, conditions, or qualifications, relating to any of the foregoing. (F) The great seal of the state or a facsimile of it may be affixed to or printed on the obligations. The obligations requiring execution by or for the issuing authority shall be signed as provided in the bond proceedings. Any obligations may be signed by the individual who on the date of execution is the authorized signer although on the date of these obligations that individual is not an authorized signer. In case the individual whose signature or facsimile signature appears on any obligation ceases to be an authorized signer before delivery of the obligation, that signature or facsimile is nevertheless valid and sufficient for all purposes as if that individual had remained the authorized signer until delivery. (G) Obligations are investment securities under Chapter 1308. of the Revised Code. Obligations may be issued in bearer or in registered form, registrable as to principal alone or as to both principal and interest, or both, or in certificated or uncertificated form, as the issuing authority determines. Provision may be made for the exchange, conversion, or transfer of obligations and for reasonable charges for registration, exchange, conversion, and transfer. Pending preparation of final obligations, the issuing authority may provide for the issuance of interim instruments to be exchanged for the final obligations. (H) Obligations may be sold at public sale or at private sale, in such manner, and at such price at, above or below par, all as determined by and provided by the issuing authority in the bond proceedings. (I) Except to the extent that rights are restricted by the bond proceedings, any owner of obligations or provider of a credit enhancement facility may by any suitable form of legal proceedings protect and enforce any rights relating to obligations or that facility under the laws of this state or granted by the bond proceedings. Those rights include the right to compel the performance of all applicable duties of the issuing authority and the state. Each duty of the issuing authority and that authority's officers, staff, and employees, and of each state entity or agency, or using district or using institution, and its officers, members, staff, or employees, undertaken pursuant to the bond proceedings, is hereby established as a duty of the entity or individual having authority to perform that duty, specifically enjoined by law and resulting from an office, trust, or station within the meaning of section 2731.01 of the Revised Code. The individuals who are from time to time the issuing authority, members or officers of the issuing authority, or those members' designees acting pursuant to section 151.02 of the Revised Code, or the issuing authority's officers, staff, or employees, are not liable in their personal capacities on any obligations or otherwise under the bond proceedings. (J)(1) Subject to Section 2k, 2l, 2m, 2n, 2o, 2p, 2q, 2s, or 15, and Section 17, of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution and sections 151.01 to 151.11 or 151.40 of the Revised Code, the issuing authority may, in addition to the authority referred to in division (B) of this section, authorize and provide for the issuance of: (a) Obligations in the form of bond anticipation notes, and may provide for the renewal of those notes from time to time by the issuance of new notes. The holders of notes or appertaining interest coupons have the right to have debt service on those notes paid solely from the moneys and special funds that are or may be pledged to that payment, including the proceeds of bonds or renewal notes or both, as the issuing authority provides in the bond proceedings authorizing the notes. Notes may be additionally secured by covenants of the issuing authority to the effect that the issuing authority and the state will do all things necessary for the issuance of bonds or renewal notes in such principal amount and upon such terms as may be necessary to provide moneys to pay when due the debt service on the notes, and apply their proceeds to the extent necessary, to make full and timely payment of debt service on the notes as provided in the applicable bond proceedings. In the bond proceedings authorizing the issuance of bond anticipation notes the issuing authority shall set forth for the bonds anticipated an estimated schedule of annual principal payments the latest of which shall be no later than provided in division (C) of this section. While the notes are outstanding there shall be deposited, as shall be provided in the bond proceedings for those notes, from the sources authorized for payment of debt service on the bonds, amounts sufficient to pay the principal of the bonds anticipated as set forth in that estimated schedule during the time the notes are outstanding, which amounts shall be used solely to pay the principal of those notes or of the bonds anticipated. (b) Obligations for the refunding, including funding and retirement, and advance refunding with or without payment or redemption prior to maturity, of any obligations previously issued. Refunding obligations may be issued in amounts sufficient to pay or to provide for repayment of the principal amount, including principal amounts maturing prior to the redemption of the remaining prior obligations, any redemption premium, and interest accrued or to accrue to the maturity or redemption date or dates, payable on the prior obligations, and related financing costs and any expenses incurred or to be incurred in connection with that issuance and refunding. Subject to the applicable bond proceedings, the portion of the proceeds of the sale of refunding obligations issued under division (J)(1)(b) of this section to be applied to debt service on the prior obligations shall be credited to an appropriate separate account in the bond service fund and held in trust for the purpose by the issuing authority or by a corporate trustee. Obligations authorized under this division shall be considered to be issued for those purposes for which the prior obligations were issued. (2) Except as otherwise provided in sections 151.01 to 151.11 or 151.40 of the Revised Code, bonds or notes authorized pursuant to division (J) of this section are subject to the provisions of those sections pertaining to obligations generally. (3) The principal amount of refunding or renewal obligations issued pursuant to division (J) of this section shall be in addition to the amount authorized by the general assembly as referred to in division (B) of the following sections: section 151.03 , 151.04 , 151.05 , 151.06 , 151.07 , 151.08 , 151.09 , 151.10 , 151.11 , or 151.40 of the Revised Code. (K) Obligations are lawful investments for banks, savings and loan associations, credit union share guaranty corporations, trust companies, trustees, fiduciaries, insurance companies, including domestic for life and domestic not for life, trustees or other officers having charge of sinking and bond retirement or other special funds of the state and political subdivisions and taxing districts of this state, the sinking fund, the administrator of workers' compensation subject to the approval of the workers' compensation board, the state teachers retirement system, the public employees retirement system, the school employees retirement system, and the Ohio police and fire pension fund, notwithstanding any other provisions of the Revised Code or rules adopted pursuant to those provisions by any state agency with respect to investments by them, and are also acceptable as security for the repayment of the deposit of public moneys. The exemptions from taxation in Ohio as provided for in particular sections of the Ohio Constitution and section 5709.76 of the Revised Code apply to the obligations. (L)(1) Unless otherwise provided or provided for in any applicable bond proceedings, moneys to the credit of or in a special fund shall be disbursed on the order of the issuing authority. No such order is required for the payment, from the bond service fund or other special fund, when due of debt service or required payments under credit enhancement facilities. (2) Payments received by the state under interest rate hedges entered into as credit enhancement facilities under this chapter shall be deposited to the credit of the bond service fund for the obligations to which those credit enhancement facilities relate. (M) The full faith and credit, revenue, and taxing power of the state are and shall be pledged to the timely payment of debt service on outstanding obligations as it comes due, all in accordance with Section 2k, 2l, 2m, 2n, 2o, 2p, 2q, 2s, or 15 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, and section 151.03 , 151.04 , 151.05 , 151.06 , 151.07 , 151.08 , 151.09 , 151.10 , or 151.11 of the Revised Code. Moneys referred to in Section 5a of Article XII, Ohio Constitution, may not be pledged or used for the payment of debt service except on obligations referred to in section 151.06 of the Revised Code. Net state lottery proceeds, as provided for and referred to in section 3770.06 of the Revised Code, may not be pledged or used for the payment of debt service except on obligations referred to in section 151.03 of the Revised Code. The state covenants, and that covenant shall be controlling notwithstanding any other provision of law, that the state and the applicable officers and agencies of the state, including the general assembly, shall, so long as any obligations are outstanding in accordance with their terms, maintain statutory authority for and cause to be levied, collected and applied sufficient pledged excises, taxes, and revenues of the state so that the revenues shall be sufficient in amounts to pay debt service when due, to establish and maintain any reserves and other requirements, and to pay financing costs, including costs of or relating to credit enhancement facilities, all as provided for in the bond proceedings. Those excises, taxes, and revenues are and shall be deemed to be levied and collected, in addition to the purposes otherwise provided for by law, to provide for the payment of debt service and financing costs in accordance with sections 151.01 to 151.11 of the Revised Code and the bond proceedings. (N) The general assembly may from time to time repeal or reduce any excise, tax, or other source of revenue pledged to the payment of the debt service pursuant to Section 2k, 2l, 2m, 2n, 2o, 2p, 2q, 2s, or 15 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, and sections 151.01 to 151.11 or 151.40 of the Revised Code, and may levy, collect and apply any new or increased excise, tax, or revenue to meet the pledge, to the payment of debt service on outstanding obligations, of the state's full faith and credit, revenue and taxing power, or of designated revenues and receipts, except fees, excises or taxes referred to in Section 5a of Article XII, Ohio Constitution, for other than obligations referred to in section 151.06 of the Revised Code and except net state lottery proceeds for other than obligations referred to in section 151.03 of the Revised Code. Nothing in division (N) of this section authorizes any impairment of the obligation of this state to levy and collect sufficient excises, taxes, and revenues to pay debt service on obligations outstanding in accordance with their terms. (O) Each bond service fund is a trust fund and is hereby pledged to the payment of debt service on the applicable obligations. Payment of that debt service shall be made or provided for by the issuing authority in accordance with the bond proceedings without necessity for any act of appropriation. The bond proceedings may provide for the establishment of separate accounts in the bond service fund and for the application of those accounts only to debt service on specific obligations, and for other accounts in the bond service fund within the general purposes of that fund. (P) Subject to the bond proceedings pertaining to any obligations then outstanding in accordance with their terms, the issuing authority may in the bond proceedings pledge all, or such portion as the issuing authority determines, of the moneys in the bond service fund to the payment of debt service on particular obligations, and for the establishment and maintenance of any reserves for payment of particular debt service. (Q) The issuing authority shall by the fifteenth day of July of each fiscal year, certify or cause to be certified to the office of budget and management the total amount of moneys required during the current fiscal year to meet in full all debt service on the respective obligations and any related financing costs payable from the applicable bond service fund and not from the proceeds of refunding or renewal obligations. The issuing authority shall make or cause to be made supplemental certifications to the office of budget and management for each debt service payment date and at such other times during each fiscal year as may be provided in the bond proceedings or requested by that office. Debt service, costs of credit enhancement facilities, and other financing costs shall be set forth separately in each certification. If and so long as the moneys to the credit of the bond service fund, together with any other moneys available for the purpose, are insufficient to meet in full all payments when due of the amount required as stated in the certificate or otherwise, the office of budget and management shall at the times as provided in the bond proceedings, and consistent with any particular provisions in sections 151.03 to 151.11 and 151.40 of the Revised Code, transfer a sufficient amount to the bond service fund from the pledged revenues in the case of obligations issued pursuant to section 151.40 of the Revised Code, and in the case of other obligations from the revenues derived from excises, taxes, and other revenues, including net state lottery proceeds in the case of obligations referred to in section 151.03 of the Revised Code. (R) Unless otherwise provided in any applicable bond proceedings, moneys to the credit of special funds may be invested by or on behalf of the state only in one or more of the following: (1) Notes, bonds, or other direct obligations of the United States or of any agency or instrumentality of the United States, or in no-front-end-load money market mutual funds consisting exclusively of those obligations, or in repurchase agreements, including those issued by any fiduciary, secured by those obligations, or in collective investment funds consisting exclusively of those obligations; (2) Obligations of this state or any political subdivision of this state; (3) Certificates of deposit of any national bank located in this state and any bank, as defined in section 1101.01 of the Revised Code, subject to inspection by the superintendent of financial institutions; (4) The treasurer of state's pooled investment program under section 135.45 of the Revised Code. The income from investments referred to in division (R) of this section shall, unless otherwise provided in sections 151.01 to 151.11 or 151.40 of the Revised Code, be credited to special funds or otherwise as the issuing authority determines in the bond proceedings. Those investments may be sold or exchanged at times as the issuing authority determines, provides for, or authorizes. (S) The treasurer of state shall have responsibility for keeping records, making reports, and making payments, relating to any arbitrage rebate requirements under the applicable bond proceedings. Last updated September 18, 2023 at 10:21 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 154.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 154 / § 154.22
§ 154.22. Capital facilities for parks and recreation
Status: in_force

December 19, 2016 House Bill 471 - 131st General Assembly (A) Subject to authorization by the general assembly under section 154.02 of the Revised Code, the issuing authority may authorize and issue obligations pursuant to this chapter to pay costs of capital facilities for parks and recreation. (B) Any capital facilities for parks and recreation may be leased by the commission to the department of natural resources and other agreements may be made by the commission and such department with respect to the use or purchase of such capital facilities or, subject to the approval of the director of such department, the commission may lease such capital facilities to, and make other agreements with respect to their use or purchase with, any governmental agency having authority under law to operate such capital facilities, and the director of such department may sublease such capital facilities to, and make other agreements with respect to the use or purchase thereof with, any such governmental agency, or such director may sublease or contract for the operation of such capital facilities in accordance with the applicable provisions of sections 1501.09 , 1501.091 , and 1501.10 of the Revised Code, all upon such terms and conditions as the parties may agree upon and pursuant to this chapter, notwithstanding any other provisions of law affecting the leasing, acquisition, or disposition of capital facilities by such parties. (C) For purposes of this section, "available receipts" means all receipts, including fees, charges, and rentals, derived or to be derived from state parks and public service facilities in any state park or parks, any other receipts of state agencies with respect to parks and recreational facilities, any revenues or receipts derived by the commission from the operation, leasing, or other disposition of capital facilities financed under this section, the proceeds of obligations issued under this section and sections 154.11 and 154.12 of the Revised Code, and also means any gifts, grants, donations, and pledges, and receipts thereon, available for the payment of bond service charges on obligations issued under this section. The issuing authority may pledge all, or such portion as it determines, of the available receipts to the payment of bond service charges on obligations issued under this section and sections 154.11 and 154.12 of the Revised Code and for the establishment and maintenance of any reserves, as provided in the bond proceedings, and make other provisions therein with respect to such available receipts as authorized by this chapter, which provisions shall be controlling notwithstanding any other provision of law pertaining thereto. (D) The issuing authority may covenant in the bond proceeding that the state and state agencies shall, so long as any obligations issued under this section are outstanding, cause to be charged and collected fees, charges, and rentals for the use of state parks and public service facilities and other fees and charges with respect to parks and recreation sufficient in amount to provide for the payment of bond service charges on such obligations and for the establishment and maintenance of any reserves as provided in the bond proceedings, and such covenants shall be controlling notwithstanding any other provision of law pertaining to such charges except any provision of law prohibiting or limiting charges for the use of swimming facilities of state parks and public service facilities by persons under sixteen years of age. (E) There is hereby created the parks and recreation bond service trust fund, which shall be in the custody of the treasurer of state but shall be separate and apart from and not a part of the state treasury. All moneys received by or on account of the commission or issuing authority or state agencies and required by the applicable bond proceedings to be deposited, transferred, or allocated to or received for the purposes of the trust fund shall be deposited with the treasurer of state and credited to such fund, subject to applicable provisions of the bond proceedings but without necessity for any act of appropriation. The trust fund is hereby pledged to the payment of bond service charges on the obligations issued pursuant to this section and sections 154.11 and 154.12 of the Revised Code to the extent provided in the applicable bond proceedings, and payment thereof from such fund shall be made or provided for by the treasurer of state in accordance with such bond proceedings without necessity for any act of appropriation. (F) There is hereby created in the state treasury the parks and recreation improvement fund. Subject to the bond proceedings therefor, all of the proceeds of the sale of obligations issued pursuant to this section shall be credited to such fund, except that any accrued interest received shall be credited to the parks and recreation bond service trust fund. The parks and recreation improvement fund may also be comprised of gifts, grants, appropriated moneys, and other sums and securities received to the credit of such fund. Such fund shall be applied only to the purpose of paying costs of capital facilities for parks and recreation under the jurisdiction of the department of natural resources or for participation in capital facilities for parks and recreation with the federal government, municipal corporations, counties, or other governmental agencies, or any one or more of them, which participation may be by grants or contributions to them for such capital facilities. All investment earnings on the cash balance in the fund shall be credited to the fund. (G) All state parks shall be exclusively under the control and administration of the division of parks and watercraft. The director of natural resources may by order remove from the classification as state parks any of the lands or interests therein referred to in divisions (M)(2) and (3) of section 154.01 of the Revised Code, subject to the limitations, provisions, and conditions in any order authorizing state park revenue bonds, in any trust agreement securing such bonds, or in bond proceedings with respect to obligations issued pursuant to this section. Lands or interests therein so removed shall be transferred to other divisions of the department for administration or may be sold as provided by law. Proceeds of any sale shall be used or transferred as provided in the order authorizing state park revenue bonds or in such trust agreement, or in bond proceedings with respect to obligations issued pursuant to this section, and if no such provision is made shall be transferred to the state park fund created by section 1546.21 of the Revised Code. (H) This section shall be applied with other applicable provisions of this chapter. (I) Any instrument by which real property is acquired pursuant to this section shall identify the agency of the state that has the use and benefit of the real property as specified in section 5301.012 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 183.021 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 183 / § 183.021
§ 183.021. Prohibited expenditures
Status: in_force

December 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) No money from the tobacco master settlement agreement fund, as that fund existed prior to the repeal of section 183.02 of the Revised Code by H.B. 119 of the 127th general assembly, shall be expended to do any of the following: (1) Hire an executive agency lobbyist, as defined under section 121.60 of the Revised Code, or a legislative agent, as defined under section 101.70 of the Revised Code; (2) Support or oppose candidates, ballot questions, referendums, or ballot initiatives. (B) Nothing in this section prohibits the members or employees of the third frontier commission or the members of the third frontier advisory board from advocating on behalf of the specific objectives of a program funded under this chapter. Last updated February 7, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 107.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 107 / § 107.24
§ 107.24. Office of eastern European affairs
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) There is created the office of eastern European affairs. The office shall serve the commission on eastern European affairs, which shall appoint a director for the office. The director shall serve at the pleasure of the commission. (B) The director of the office of eastern European affairs, with approval of the commission on eastern European affairs, shall appoint employees as are necessary to carry out the duties of the office. The employees shall serve at the pleasure of the director. (C) The office shall do all of the following: (1) Provide information and advise the commission of eastern European affairs on proposed solutions to problems of eastern European people; (2) Serve as a clearinghouse to review and comment on all proposals to meet the needs of eastern European people that are submitted to the office by public and private agencies; (3) Apply for and accept grants and gifts from government and private sources to be administered by the office or subcontracted to local agencies, as long as the local agencies use the grants and gifts for the public purpose intended; (4) Monitor and evaluate all programs subcontracted to local agencies by the commission on eastern European affairs and ensure that any grants and gifts from the government are being used for the public purpose intended; (5) Endeavor to ensure that eastern European people have access to decision-making bodies in all state and local government departments and agencies; (6) Submit a written annual report of the office's activities, accomplishments, and recommendations to the commission on eastern European affairs; (7) Establish an advisory committee for special subjects, as needed, to facilitate and maximize community participation in the operation of the commission on eastern European affairs. An advisory committee shall be made up of persons representing community organizations, charitable institutions, public officials, and other persons as determined by the office. (8) Establish relationships with local governments, state governments, and private businesses that promote and ensure equal opportunity for eastern European people in government, education, and employment. Last updated September 25, 2023 at 12:43 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 164.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 164 / § 164.09
§ 164.09. Issuing and sale of general obligations
Status: in_force

September 29, 2007 House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly (A) The issuer is authorized to issue and sell, as provided in this section and in amounts from time to time authorized by the general assembly, general obligations of this state for the purpose of financing or assisting in the financing of the costs of public infrastructure capital improvements for local subdivisions. The full faith and credit, revenues, and taxing power of the state are and shall be pledged to the timely payment of bond service charges on outstanding obligations, all in accordance with Section 2k or 2m of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution and sections 164.09 to 164.12 of the Revised Code, excluding from that pledge fees, excises, or taxes relating to the registration, operation, or use of vehicles on the public highways, or to fuels used for propelling those vehicles, and so long as such obligations are outstanding there shall be levied and collected excises and taxes, excluding those excepted above, in amounts sufficient to pay the bond service charges on such obligations and costs relating to credit facilities. (B)(1) The total principal amount of obligations issued pursuant to Section 2k of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution shall not exceed one billion two hundred million dollars, and not more than one hundred twenty million dollars in principal amount of obligations may be issued in any calendar year, all determined as provided in sections 164.09 to 164.12 of the Revised Code. (2) The total principal amount of obligations issued for the purposes of this section pursuant to Section 2m of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, shall not exceed one billion two hundred million dollars. Not more than one hundred twenty million dollars in principal amount of such obligations, plus the principal amount of such obligations that in any prior fiscal years could have been but were not issued within the one-hundred-twenty-million-dollar fiscal year limit, may be issued in any fiscal year. No obligations shall be issued for the purposes of this section pursuant to Section 2m of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, until at least one billion one hundred ninety-nine million five hundred thousand dollars aggregate principal amount of obligations have been issued pursuant to Section 2k of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution. The amounts specified under division (B)(2) of this section shall be determined as provided in sections 164.09 to 164.12 of the Revised Code. (C) Each issue of obligations shall be authorized by order of the issuer. The bond proceedings shall provide for the principal amount or maximum principal amount of obligations of an issue, and shall provide for or authorize the manner or agency for determining the principal maturity or maturities, not exceeding the earlier of thirty years from the date of issuance of the particular obligations or thirty years from the date the debt represented by the particular obligations was originally contracted, the interest rate or rates, the date of and the dates of payment of interest on the obligations, their denominations, and the establishment within or without the state of a place or places of payment of bond service charges. Sections 9.96 and 9.98 to 9.983 of the Revised Code are applicable to the obligations. The purpose of the obligations may be stated in the bond proceedings as "financing or assisting in the financing of local subdivisions capital improvement projects." (D) The proceeds of the obligations, except for any portion to be deposited in special funds, or in escrow funds for the purpose of refunding outstanding obligations, all as may be provided in the bond proceedings, shall be deposited to the state capital improvements fund established by section 164.08 of the Revised Code. (E) The issuer may appoint paying agents, bond registrars, securities depositories, and transfer agents, and may retain the services of financial advisers and accounting experts, and retain or contract for the services of marketing, remarketing, indexing, and administrative agents, other consultants, and independent contractors, including printing services, as are necessary in the issuer's judgment to carry out sections 164.01 to 164.12 of the Revised Code. Financing costs are payable, as provided in the bond proceedings, from the proceeds of the obligations, from special funds, or from other moneys available for the purpose. (F) The bond proceedings, including any trust agreement, may contain additional provisions customary or appropriate to the financing or to the obligations or to particular obligations, including but not limited to: (1) The redemption of obligations prior to maturity at the option of the state or of the holder or upon the occurrence of certain conditions at such price or prices and under such terms and conditions as are provided in the bond proceedings; (2) The form of and other terms of the obligations; (3) The establishment, deposit, investment, and application of special funds, and the safeguarding of moneys on hand or on deposit, without regard to Chapter 131. or 135. of the Revised Code, but subject to any special provisions of this section with respect to particular funds or moneys, and provided that any bank or trust company that acts as a depository of any moneys in special funds may furnish such indemnifying bonds or may pledge such securities as required by the issuer; (4) Any or every provision of the bond proceedings binding upon the issuer and such state agency or local subdivision, officer, board, commission, authority, agency, department, or other person or body as may from time to time have the authority under law to take such actions as may be necessary to perform all or any part of the duty required by such provision; (5) The maintenance of each pledge, any trust agreement, or other instrument comprising part of the bond proceedings until the state has fully paid or provided for the payment of the bond service charges on the obligations or met other stated conditions; (6) In the event of default in any payments required to be made by the bond proceedings, or any other agreement of the issuer made as a part of a contract under which the obligations were issued or secured, the enforcement of such payments or agreements by mandamus, suit in equity, action at law, or any combination of the foregoing; (7) The rights and remedies of the holders of obligations and of the trustee under any trust agreement, and provisions for protecting and enforcing them, including limitations on rights of individual holders of obligations; (8) The replacement of any obligations that become mutilated or are destroyed, lost, or stolen; (9) Provision for the funding, refunding, or advance refunding or other provision for payment of obligations which will then no longer be outstanding for purposes of this section or of the bond proceedings; (10) Any provision that may be made in bond proceedings or a trust agreement, including provision for amendment of the bond proceedings; (11) Such other provisions as the issuer determines, including limitations, conditions, or qualifications relating to any of the foregoing; (12) Any other or additional agreements with the holders of the obligations relating to the obligations or the security for the obligations. (G) The great seal of the state or a facsimile of that seal may be affixed to or printed on the obligations. The obligations requiring signature by the issuer shall be signed by or bear the facsimile signature of the issuer as provided in the bond proceedings. Any obligations may be signed by the person who, on the date of execution, is the authorized signer although on the date of such obligations such person was not the issuer. In case the person whose signature or a facsimile of whose signature appears on any obligation ceases to be the issuer before delivery of the obligation, such signature or facsimile is nevertheless valid and sufficient for all purposes as if the person had remained the member until such delivery, and in case the seal to be affixed to or printed on obligations has been changed after the seal has been affixed to or a facsimile of the seal has been printed on the obligations, that seal or facsimile seal shall continue to be sufficient as to those obligations and obligations issued in substitution or exchange therefor. (H) The obligations are negotiable instruments and securities under Chapter 1308. of the Revised Code, subject to the provisions of the bond proceedings as to registration. Obligations may be issued in coupon or in fully registered form, or both, as the issuer determines. Provision may be made for the registration of any obligations with coupons attached as to principal alone or as to both principal and interest, their exchange for obligations so registered, and for the conversion or reconversion into obligations with coupons attached of any obligations registered as to both principal and interest, and for reasonable charges for such registration, exchange, conversion, and reconversion. Pending preparation of definitive obligations, the issuer may issue interim receipts or certificates which shall be exchanged for such definitive obligations. (I) Obligations may be sold at public sale or at private sale, and at such price at, above, or below par, as determined by the issuer in the bond proceedings. (J) In the discretion of the issuer, obligations may be secured additionally by a trust agreement between the state and a corporate trustee which may be any trust company or bank having a place of business within the state. Any trust agreement may contain the order authorizing the issuance of the obligations, any provisions that may be contained in the bond proceedings, and other provisions that are customary or appropriate in an agreement of the type. (K) Except to the extent that their rights are restricted by the bond proceedings, any holder of obligations, or a trustee under the bond proceedings, may by any suitable form of legal proceedings protect and enforce any rights under the laws of this state or granted by the bond proceedings. Such rights include the right to compel the performance of all duties of the issuer and the state. Each duty of the issuer and the issuer's employees, and of each state agency and local public entity and its officers, members, or employees, undertaken pursuant to the bond proceedings, is hereby established as a duty of the issuer, and of each such agency, local subdivision, officer, member, or employee having authority to perform such duty, specifically enjoined by the law and resulting from an office, trust, or station within the meaning of section 2731.01 of the Revised Code. The persons who are at the time the issuer, or the issuer's employees, are not liable in their personal capacities on any obligations or any agreements of or with the issuer relating to obligations or under the bond proceedings. (L) Obligations are lawful investments for banks, societies for savings, savings and loan associations, deposit guarantee associations, trust companies, trustees, fiduciaries, insurance companies, including domestic for life and domestic not for life, trustees or other officers having charge of sinking and bond retirement or other special funds of political subdivisions and taxing districts of this state, the commissioners of the sinking fund, the administrator of workers' compensation, the state teachers retirement system, the public employees retirement system, the school employees retirement system, and the Ohio police and fire pension fund, notwithstanding any other provisions of the Revised Code or rules adopted pursuant thereto by any state agency with respect to investments by them, and are also acceptable as security for the deposit of public moneys. (M) Unless otherwise provided in any applicable bond proceedings, moneys to the credit of or in the special funds established by or pursuant to this section may be invested by or on behalf of the issuer only in notes, bonds, or other direct obligations of the United States or of any agency or instrumentality of the United States, in obligations of this state or any political subdivision of this state, in certificates of deposit of any national bank located in this state and any bank, as defined in section 1101.01 of the Revised Code, subject to inspection by the superintendent of financial institutions, in the Ohio subdivision's fund established pursuant to section 135.45 of the Revised Code, in no-front-end-load money market mutual funds consisting exclusively of direct obligations of the United States or of an agency or instrumentality of the United States, and in repurchase agreements, including those issued by any fiduciary, secured by direct obligations of the United States or an agency or instrumentality of the United States, and in collective investment funds established in accordance with section 1111.14 of the Revised Code and consisting exclusively of direct obligations of the United States or of an agency or instrumentality of the United States, notwithstanding division (A)(1)(c) of that section. The income from investments shall be credited to such special funds or otherwise as the issuer determines in the bond proceedings, and the investments may be sold or exchanged at such times as the issuer determines or authorizes. (N) Unless otherwise provided in any applicable bond proceedings, moneys to the credit of or in a special fund shall be disbursed on the order of the issuer, provided that no such order is required for the payment from the bond service fund or other special fund when due of bond service charges or required payments under credit facilities. (O) The issuer may covenant in the bond proceedings, and any such covenants shall be controlling notwithstanding any other provision of law, that the state and the applicable officers and agencies of the state, including the general assembly, so long as any obligations are outstanding in accordance with their terms, shall maintain statutory authority for and cause to be charged and collected taxes, excises, and other receipts of the state so that the receipts to the bond service fund shall be sufficient in amounts to meet bond service charges and for the establishment and maintenance of any reserves and other requirements, including payment of financing costs, provided for in the bond proceedings. (P) The obligations, and the transfer of, and the interest and other income from, including any profit made on the sale, transfer, or other disposition of, the obligations shall at all times be free from taxation, direct or indirect, within the state. (Q) Unless a judicial action or proceeding challenging the validity of obligations is commenced by personal service on the treasurer of state prior to the initial delivery of an issue of the obligations, the obligations of that issue and the bond proceedings pertaining to that issue are incontestable and those obligations shall be conclusively considered to be and to have been issued, secured, payable, sold, executed, and delivered, and the bond proceedings relating to them taken, in conformity with law if all of the following apply to the obligations: (1) They state that they are issued under the provisions of this section and comply on their face with those provisions; (2) They are issued within the limitations prescribed by this section; (3) Their purchase price has been paid in full; (4) They state that all the bond proceedings were held in compliance with law, which statement creates a conclusive presumption that the bond proceedings were held in compliance with all laws, including section 121.22 of the Revised Code, where applicable, and rules. (R) This section applies only with respect to obligations issued and delivered before September 30, 2000.
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.563 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.563
§ 145.563. Adjustment for and recovery of erroneous payments
Status: in_force

March 23, 2015 Senate Bill 42 - 130th General Assembly Notwithstanding section 145.561 of the Revised Code: (A) The public employees retirement system may adjust an allowance or benefit payable under this chapter if an error occurred in calculation of the allowance or benefit; (B) If any person who is a member, former member, contributor, former contributor, retirant, beneficiary, or alternate payee, as defined in section 3105.80 of the Revised Code, is paid any benefit or payment by the public employees retirement system, including any payment made to a third party on the person's behalf, to which the person is not entitled, the benefit or payment shall be repaid to the retirement system by the person or third party. A repayment required by this section may include a penalty or interest on the amount of the benefit or payment, as specified in rules adopted by the public employees retirement board. The rules shall specify the method for calculating a penalty or interest and the conditions under which a penalty or interest may be assessed. If the person or third party fails to make the repayment, the retirement system shall withhold the amount or a portion of the amount due from any benefit or payment due the person or the person's beneficiary under this chapter, or may collect the amount in any other manner provided by law.
Ohio Rev. Code § 107.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 107 / § 107.07
§ 107.07. Certificate and commission
Status: in_force

April 7, 2023 House Bill 458 - 134th General Assembly When the result of the election of any officer mentioned in section 107.05 of the Revised Code is officially known to the board of elections of the proper county, the board shall immediately forward by mail to the secretary of state a certificate of election of such officer. Upon receipt of the certificate by the secretary of state, the governor shall issue a commission to the officer and for the office named in the certificate, and shall forward the commission to the clerk of the court of common pleas, who shall deliver the commission to the officer named therein. Last updated January 31, 2023 at 4:58 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.6511 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.6511
§ 122.6511. Brownfield remediation program
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section and section 122.6512 of the Revised Code: (1) "Brownfield" means an abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial, commercial, or institutional property where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by known or potential releases of hazardous substances or petroleum. (2) "Lead entity" means a county, township, municipal corporation, port authority, conservancy district, park district or other similar park authority, county land reutilization corporation, or organization for profit. (3) "Remediation" means any action to contain, remove, or dispose of hazardous substances or petroleum at a brownfield. "Remediation" includes the acquisition of a brownfield, demolition performed at a brownfield, and the installation or upgrade of the minimum amount of infrastructure that is necessary to make a brownfield operational for economic development activity. "Remediation" also includes demolition and infrastructure development costs. (4) "County land reutilization corporation" has the same meaning as in section 1724.01 of the Revised Code. (5) "Demolition and infrastructure development costs" means demolition costs and costs associated with constructing, upgrading, or extending infrastructure necessary to make a brownfield operational. (6) "Priority investment area eligible project" means some or all of the following activities necessary or conducive for generating, transporting, storing, or transmitting electricity at the site of a brownfield or former coal mine located in a priority investment area designated under section 122.161 of the Revised Code: (a) Environmental or cultural resource site assessments; (b) The monitoring, remediation, cleanup, or containment of land to remove any condition or substance regulated by state or federal environmental laws or regulations, including hazardous substances, hazardous wastes, solid wastes, or petroleum; (c) The demolition and removal of existing structures, grading, or other site work necessary to make a site or certain real property that includes a brownfield or former coal mine usable for economic development; (d) The development of a remediation and reuse plan; (e) The development or operation of a site for energy generation or battery storage. (B)(1) There is hereby created the brownfield remediation program to award grants for priority investment area eligible projects and the remediation of brownfield sites throughout Ohio. The program shall be administered by the director of development pursuant to this section and rules adopted pursuant to division (B)(2) of this section. (2) The director shall adopt rules, under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, for the administration of the program. The rules shall include provisions for determining project and project sponsor eligibility, program administration, and any other provisions the director finds necessary. (3) The director shall not award a grant exceeding ten million dollars to a priority investment area eligible project. Grants for such projects may not be used for the construction or operation of electric generating infrastructure. (C)(1) There is hereby created in the state treasury the brownfield remediation fund. The fund shall consist of moneys appropriated to it by the general assembly. The director shall reserve funds from each appropriation to the fund to each county in the state. The amount reserved shall be one million dollars per county, or, if an appropriation is less than eighty-eight million dollars, a proportionate amount to each county. Amounts reserved pursuant to this section are reserved for one calendar year from the date of the appropriation. After one calendar year, the funds shall be available pursuant to division (D) of this section. (2) A lead entity may submit a grant application for the use of funds reserved under division (C)(1) of this section to the director. (D) Funds from an appropriation not reserved under division (C)(1) of this section shall be available for grants to projects located anywhere in the state, and grants from those funds shall be awarded on a case by case basis. In making the award determination, the director shall evaluate the economic merit of the project to the county, surrounding counties, and state. The director also shall ensure that projects awarded are in different regions of the state. (E) The amendments to this section by this act apply to new projects that are applied for and awarded funding by the director of development on and after the effective date of this amendment. Projects that are applied for or were applied for under this section prior to July 1, 2025, shall be governed by this section as it existed prior to July 1, 2025. Last updated August 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 111.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 111 / § 111.17
§ 111.17. Fees to be paid before filing or recording
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The secretary of state shall not file or record articles of incorporation or consolidation, certificates, or other papers referred to in section 111.16 of the Revised Code unless the fee has been paid.
Ohio Rev. Code § 103.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 103 / § 103.14
§ 103.14. Fiscal analysis prepared by legislative budget office
Status: in_force

November 23, 1977 Senate Bill 221 - 112th General Assembly (A) If a bill introduced in the general assembly appears to affect the revenues or expenditures of the state, a county, municipal corporation, township, school district, or other governmental entity of the state, the Ohio legislative budget office of the Ohio legislative service commission shall, before the bill is recommended for passage by the house committee or the senate committee of the general assembly to which the bill was referred and again before the bill is taken up for final consideration by either house of the general assembly, prepare a fiscal analysis of the bill or resolution. The fiscal analysis shall include an estimate, in dollars, of the amount by which the bill would increase or decrease revenues or expenditures and any other information the Ohio legislative budget office considers necessary to explain the fiscal effect of the bill or resolution. (B) The Ohio legislative budget office shall distribute copies of a fiscal analysis in accordance with either of the following: (1) For consideration by the senate or house rules committee, or the standing committee to which a bill is referred, two copies to the chairman together with a copy to each member of the committee; (2) For final consideration, a copy to each member of the house that is considering the bill. If the member who introduced the bill or resolution is not a member of the house or rules committee considering the bill, the Ohio legislative budget office shall send him a copy. (C) In preparing a fiscal analysis the Ohio legislative budget office may request any department, division, institution, board, commission, authority, bureau, or other instrumentality or officer of the state, a county, municipal corporation, township, school district, or other governmental entity of the state to provide any of the following information: (1) An estimate, in dollars, of the amount by which the bill or resolution would increase or decrease the revenues or expenditures received or made by the instrumentality, officer, or entity; (2) Any other information the Ohio legislative budget office considers necessary for it to understand or explain the fiscal effect of the bill. An instrumentality, officer, or entity shall comply with a request as soon as reasonably possible after it receives the request. The Ohio legislative budget office shall specify the manner of compliance in its request, and if necessary may specify a longer period of time than five days for compliance. The Ohio legislative budget office may consider any information provided under this division in preparing a fiscal analysis. (D) The failure of the Ohio legislative budget office to prepare a fiscal analysis before a bill or resolution is taken up for consideration by the house or senate committees, or by either or both houses for final consideration shall not be construed to impair the validity of any bill passed by either or both houses of the general assembly.
Ohio Rev. Code § 107.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 107 / § 107.19
§ 107.19. Executive orders in violation of anti-trust laws
Status: in_force

October 16, 2009 House Bill 1 - 128th General Assembly The governor shall have no power to issue any executive order that has previously been issued and that the federal trade commission, office of policy planning, bureau of economics, and bureau of competition has opined is anti-competitive and is in violation of anti-trust laws. Any such executive order shall be considered invalid and unenforceable.