Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.353 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.353
§ 4123.353. Public employer granted self-insuring employer status
Status: in_force

September 17, 2014 House Bill 493 - 130th General Assembly (A) A public employer, except for a board of county commissioners described in division (G) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, a board of a county hospital, or a publicly owned utility, who is granted the status of self-insuring employer pursuant to section 4123.35 of the Revised Code shall do all of the following: (1) Reserve funds as necessary, in accordance with sound and prudent actuarial judgment, to cover the costs the public employer may potentially incur to remain in compliance with this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code; (2) Include all activity under this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code in a single fund on the public employer's accounting records; (3) Within ninety days after the last day of each fiscal year, prepare and maintain a report of the reserved funds described in division (A)(1) of this section and disbursements made from those reserved funds. (B) A public employer who is subject to division (A) of this section shall make the reports required by that division available for inspection by the administrator of workers' compensation and any other person at all reasonable times during regular business hours.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.441 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.441
§ 4121.441. Health care partnership program - adoption of rules
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for the health care partnership program administered by the bureau of workers' compensation to provide medical, surgical, nursing, drug, hospital, and rehabilitation services and supplies to an employee for an injury or occupational disease that is compensable under this chapter or Chapter 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code, and to regulate contracts with managed care organizations pursuant to this chapter. (1) The rules shall include, but are not limited to, the following: (a) Procedures for the resolution of medical disputes between an employer and an employee, an employee and a provider, or an employer and a provider, prior to an appeal under section 4123.511 of the Revised Code. Rules the administrator adopts pursuant to division (A)(1)(a) of this section may specify that the resolution procedures shall not be used to resolve disputes concerning medical services rendered that have been approved through standard treatment guidelines, pathways, or presumptive authorization guidelines. (b) Prohibitions against discrimination against any category of health care providers; (c) Procedures for reporting injuries to employers and the bureau by providers; (d) Appropriate financial incentives to reduce service cost and insure proper system utilization without sacrificing the quality of service; (e) Adequate methods of peer review, utilization review, quality assurance, and dispute resolution to prevent, and provide sanctions for, inappropriate, excessive or not medically necessary treatment; (f) A timely and accurate method of collection of necessary information regarding medical and health care service and supply costs, quality, and utilization to enable the administrator to determine the effectiveness of the program; (g) Provisions for necessary emergency medical treatment for an injury or occupational disease provided by a health care provider who is not part of the program; (h) Discounted pricing for all in-patient and out-patient medical services, all professional services, and all pharmaceutical services; (i) Provisions for provider referrals, pre-admission and post-admission approvals, second surgical opinions, and other cost management techniques; (j) Antifraud mechanisms; (k) Standards and criteria for the bureau to utilize in certifying or recertifying a health care provider or a managed care organization for participation in the health partnership program; (l) Standards for the bureau to utilize in penalizing or decertifying a health care provider from participation in the health partnership program. (2) Notwithstanding section 119.061 of the Revised Code, the rules may include provisions limiting, restricting, or regulating any marketing or advertising by a managed care organization, or by any individual or entity that is affiliated with or acting on behalf of the managed care organization, under the health partnership program. (B) The administrator shall implement the health partnership program according to the rules the administrator adopts under this section for the provision and payment of medical, surgical, nursing, drug, hospital, and rehabilitation services and supplies to an employee for an injury or occupational disease that is compensable under this chapter or Chapter 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code. "
Ohio Rev. Code § 4113.52 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4113 / § 4113.52
§ 4113.52. Reporting violations by state and local officials and employees
Status: in_force

March 28, 2024 Senate Bill 91 - 135th General Assembly (A)(1)(a) All state officials and employees employed by or appointed to a state agency as defined in division (D) of section 121.41 of the Revised Code shall report alleged fraud, theft in office, or the misuse or misappropriation of public money by a state official or employee to the inspector general. All other state employees and elected officials shall report fraud, theft in office, or the misuse or misappropriation of public money to the auditor of state's fraud-reporting system under section 117.103 of the Revised Code. (b) A person is required to make a report under division (A)(1)(c) of this section if the person meets any of the following: (i) The person is elected to local public office. (ii) The person is appointed to or within a local public office. (iii) The person has a fiduciary duty to a local public office. (iv) The person holds a supervisory position within a local public office. (v) The person is employed in the department or office responsible for processing any revenue or expenses of the local public office. (c) If a person identified in division (A)(1)(b) of this section, during the person's term of office or in the course of the person's employment, becomes aware of fraud, theft in office, or the misuse or misappropriation of public money, the person shall timely notify the auditor of state via the auditor of state's fraud-reporting system under section 117.103 of the Revised Code or via other means. (d) A person who serves as legal counsel, or who is employed as legal counsel, for a local public office or a state official or employee employed by or appointed to a state agency is not required to make a report under division (A)(1)(a) or (c) of this section concerning any communication received from a client in an attorney-client relationship. (e) Divisions (A)(1)(a), (b), and (c) of this section do not apply to a prosecuting attorney, director of law, village solicitor, or similar chief legal officer of a municipal corporation, or to any employee of the prosecuting attorney, director of law, village solicitor, or similar chief legal officer of a municipal corporation. (f) If a person becomes aware in the course of the person's employment of a violation of any state or federal statute or any ordinance or regulation of a political subdivision that the person's employer has authority to correct, and the person reasonably believes that the violation is a criminal offense that is likely to cause an imminent risk of physical harm to persons or a hazard to public health or safety, a felony, or an improper solicitation for a contribution, the person orally shall notify the person's supervisor or other responsible officer of the person's employer of the violation and subsequently shall file with that supervisor or officer a written report that provides sufficient detail to identify and describe the violation. If the employer does not correct the violation or make a reasonable and good faith effort to correct the violation within twenty-four hours after the oral notification or the receipt of the report, whichever is earlier, the person may file a written report that provides sufficient detail to identify and describe the violation with the prosecuting authority of the county or municipal corporation where the violation occurred, with a peace officer, with the inspector general if the violation is within the inspector general's jurisdiction, with the auditor of state's fraud-reporting system under section 117.103 of the Revised Code if applicable, or with any other appropriate public official or agency that has regulatory authority over the employer and the industry, trade, or business in which the employer is engaged. (g) If a person makes a report under division (A)(1)(f) of this section, the employer, within twenty-four hours after the oral notification was made or the report was received or by the close of business on the next regular business day following the day on which the oral notification was made or the report was received, whichever is later, shall notify the person, in writing, of any effort of the employer to correct the alleged violation or hazard or of the absence of the alleged violation or hazard. (2) If a person becomes aware in the course of the person's employment of a violation of Chapter 3704., 3734., 6109., or 6111. of the Revised Code that is a criminal offense, the person directly may notify, either orally or in writing, any appropriate public official or agency that has regulatory authority over the employer and the industry, trade, or business in which the employer is engaged. (3) If a person becomes aware in the course of the person's employment of a violation by a fellow employee of any state or federal statute, any ordinance or regulation of a political subdivision, or any work rule or company policy of the person's employer and the person reasonably believes that the violation is a criminal offense that is likely to cause an imminent risk of physical harm to persons or a hazard to public health or safety, a felony, or an improper solicitation for a contribution, the person orally shall notify the person's supervisor or other responsible officer of the person's employer of the violation and subsequently shall file with that supervisor or officer a written report that provides sufficient detail to identify and describe the violation. (4) The reporting requirements under division (A) of this section are not intended to infringe, and should not be interpreted as infringing on, the constitutional right against self-incrimination. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, no employer shall take any disciplinary or retaliatory action against an person for making any report authorized by division (A)(1) or (2) of this section, or as a result of the person's having made any inquiry or taken any other action to ensure the accuracy of any information reported under either such division. No employer shall take any disciplinary or retaliatory action against a person for making any report authorized by division (A)(3) of this section if the person made a reasonable and good faith effort to determine the accuracy of any information so reported, or as a result of the person's having made any inquiry or taken any other action to ensure the accuracy of any information reported under that division. For purposes of this division, disciplinary or retaliatory action by the employer includes, without limitation, doing any of the following: (1) Removing or suspending the person from employment; (2) Withholding from the person salary increases or employee benefits to which the person is otherwise entitled; (3) Transferring or reassigning the person; (4) Denying the person a promotion that otherwise would have been received; (5) Reducing the person in pay or position. (C) A person shall make a reasonable and good faith effort to determine the accuracy of any information reported under division (A)(1) or (2) of this section. If the person who makes a report under either division fails to make such an effort, the person may be subject to disciplinary action by the person's employer, including suspension or removal, for reporting information without a reasonable basis to do so under division (A)(1) or (2) of this section. (D) If an employer takes any disciplinary or retaliatory action against an person as a result of the person's having filed a report under division (A) of this section, the person may bring a civil action for appropriate injunctive relief or for the remedies set forth in division (E) of this section, or both, within one hundred eighty days after the date the disciplinary or retaliatory action was taken, in a court of common pleas in accordance with the Rules of Civil Procedure. A civil action under this division is not available to a person as a remedy for any disciplinary or retaliatory action taken by an appointing authority against the person as a result of the person's having filed a report under division (A) of section 124.341 of the Revised Code. (E) The court, in rendering a judgment for the person in an action brought pursuant to division (D) of this section, may order, as it determines appropriate, reinstatement of the person to the same position that the person held at the time of the disciplinary or retaliatory action and at the same site of employment or to a comparable position at that site, the payment of back wages, full reinstatement of fringe benefits and seniority rights, or any combination of these remedies. The court also may award the prevailing party all or a portion of the costs of litigation and, if the person who brought the action prevails in the action, may award the prevailing person reasonable attorney's fees, witness fees, and fees for experts who testify at trial, in an amount the court determines appropriate. If the court determines that an employer deliberately has violated division (B) of this section, the court, in making an award of back pay, may include interest at the rate specified in section 1343.03 of the Revised Code. (F) Any report filed with the inspector general under this section shall be filed as a complaint in accordance with section 121.46 of the Revised Code. (G) As used in this section: (1) "Contribution" has the same meaning as in section 3517.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Improper solicitation for a contribution" means a solicitation for a contribution that satisfies all of the following: (a) The solicitation violates division (B), (C), or (D) of section 3517.092 of the Revised Code; (b) The solicitation is made in person by a public official or by an employee who has a supervisory role within the public office; (c) The public official or employee knowingly made the solicitation, and the solicitation violates division (B), (C), or (D) of section 3517.092 of the Revised Code; (d) The employee reporting the solicitation is an employee of the same public office as the public official or the employee with the supervisory role who is making the solicitation. (3) "Misappropriation of public money" means knowingly using public money or public property for an unauthorized, improper, or unlawful purpose to serve a private or personal benefit or interest. (4) "Misuse of public money" means knowingly using public money or public property in a manner not authorized by law. (5) "Public office" has the same meaning as in section 117.01 of the Revised Code. (H) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the authority of an auditor to make inquiries or interview state or local government employees or officials or otherwise perform audit procedures related to fraud during the course of an audit or attestation engagement. Last updated January 17, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.31
§ 4121.31. Joint adoption of administrative rules
Status: in_force

March 20, 2025 Senate Bill 196 - 135th General Assembly (A) The administrator of workers' compensation and the industrial commission jointly shall adopt rules covering the following general topics with respect to this chapter and Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code: (1) Rules that set forth any general policy and the principal operating procedures of the bureau of workers' compensation or commission, including but not limited to: (a) Assignment to various operational units of any duties placed upon the administrator or the commission by statute; (b) Procedures for decision-making; (c) Procedures governing the appearances of a claimant, employer, or their representatives before the agency in a hearing; (d) Procedures that inform claimants, on request, of the status of a claim and any actions necessary to maintain the claim; (e) Time goals for activities of the bureau or commission; (f) Designation of the person or persons authorized to issue directives with directives numbered and distributed from a central distribution point to persons on a list maintained for that purpose. (2) A rule barring any employee of the bureau or commission from having a workers' compensation claims file in the employee's possession unless the file is necessary to the performance of the employee's duties. (3) All claims, whether of a state fund or self-insuring employer, be processed in an orderly, uniform, and timely fashion. (4) Rules governing the submission and sending of applications, notices, evidence, and other documents by electronic means. The rules shall provide that where this chapter or Chapter 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code requires that a document be in writing or requires a signature, the administrator and the commission, to the extent of their respective jurisdictions, may approve of and provide for the electronic submission and sending of those documents, and the use of an electronic signature on those documents. (5) Rules allowing a certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner to act in the same capacity as a physician for purposes of this chapter and Chapters 4123., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code, including the ability to complete and sign medical reports to support payment or nonpayment of disability, except that, in the case of a medical report completed by a certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner that supports disability compensation for the time period that begins six weeks after the date of injury, the report shall be reviewed, approved, and signed by a physician. (B) As used in this section: (1) "Electronic" includes electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, facsimile, or any other form of technology that entails capabilities similar to these technologies. (2) "Electronic record" means a record generated, communicated, received, or stored by electronic means for use in an information system or for transmission from one information system to another. (3) "Electronic signature" means a signature in electronic form attached to or logically associated with an electronic record. Last updated February 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.512 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.512
§ 4123.512. Appeal to court
Status: in_force

March 20, 2025 Senate Bill 196 - 135th General Assembly (A) The claimant or the employer may appeal an order of the industrial commission made under division (E) of section 4123.511 of the Revised Code in any injury or occupational disease case, other than a decision as to the extent of disability to the court of common pleas of the county in which the injury was inflicted or in which the contract of employment was made if the injury occurred outside the state, or in which the contract of employment was made if the exposure occurred outside the state. If no common pleas court has jurisdiction for the purposes of an appeal by the use of the jurisdictional requirements described in this division, the appellant may use the venue provisions in the Rules of Civil Procedure to vest jurisdiction in a court. If the claim is for an occupational disease, the appeal shall be to the court of common pleas of the county in which the exposure which caused the disease occurred. Like appeal may be taken from an order of a staff hearing officer made under division (D) of section 4123.511 of the Revised Code from which the commission has refused to hear an appeal. Except as otherwise provided in this division, the appellant shall file the notice of appeal with a court of common pleas within sixty days after the date of the receipt of the order appealed from or the date of receipt of the order of the commission refusing to hear an appeal of a staff hearing officer's decision under division (D) of section 4123.511 of the Revised Code. Either the claimant or the employer may file a notice of an intent to settle the claim within thirty days after the date of the receipt of the order appealed from or of the order of the commission refusing to hear an appeal of a staff hearing officer's decision. The claimant or employer shall file notice of intent to settle with the administrator of workers' compensation, and the notice shall be served on the opposing party and the party's representative. The filing of the notice of intent to settle extends the time to file an appeal to one hundred fifty days, unless the opposing party files an objection to the notice of intent to settle within fourteen days after the date of the receipt of the notice of intent to settle. The party shall file the objection with the administrator, and the objection shall be served on the party that filed the notice of intent to settle and the party's representative. The filing of the notice of the appeal with the court is the only act required to perfect the appeal. If an action has been commenced in a court of a county other than a court of a county having jurisdiction over the action, the court, upon notice by any party or upon its own motion, shall transfer the action to a court of a county having jurisdiction. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this section, if the commission determines under section 4123.522 of the Revised Code that an employee, employer, or their respective representatives have not received written notice of an order or decision which is appealable to a court under this section and which grants relief pursuant to section 4123.522 of the Revised Code, the party granted the relief has sixty days from receipt of the order under section 4123.522 of the Revised Code to file a notice of appeal under this section. (B) The notice of appeal shall state the names of the administrator of workers' compensation, the claimant, and the employer; the number of the claim; the date of the order appealed from; and the fact that the appellant appeals therefrom. The administrator, the claimant, and the employer shall be parties to the appeal and the court, upon the application of the commission, shall make the commission a party. The party filing the appeal shall serve a copy of the notice of appeal on the administrator at the central office of the bureau of workers' compensation in Columbus. The administrator shall notify the employer that if the employer fails to become an active party to the appeal, then the administrator may act on behalf of the employer and the results of the appeal could have an adverse effect upon the employer's premium rates or may result in a recovery from the employer if the employer is determined to be a noncomplying employer under section 4123.75 of the Revised Code. (C) The attorney general or one or more of the attorney general's assistants or special counsel designated by the attorney general shall represent the administrator and the commission. In the event the attorney general or the attorney general's designated assistants or special counsel are absent, the administrator or the commission shall select one or more of the attorneys in the employ of the administrator or the commission as the administrator's attorney or the commission's attorney in the appeal. Any attorney so employed shall continue the representation during the entire period of the appeal and in all hearings thereof except where the continued representation becomes impractical. (D) Upon receipt of notice of appeal, the clerk of courts shall provide notice to all parties who are appellees and to the commission. The claimant shall, within thirty days after the filing of the notice of appeal, file a petition containing a statement of facts in ordinary and concise language showing a cause of action to participate or to continue to participate in the fund and setting forth the basis for the jurisdiction of the court over the action. Further pleadings shall be had in accordance with the Rules of Civil Procedure, provided that service of summons on such petition shall not be required and provided that the claimant may not dismiss the complaint without the employer's consent if the employer is the party that filed the notice of appeal to court pursuant to this section. The clerk of the court shall, upon receipt thereof, transmit by certified mail a copy thereof to each party named in the notice of appeal other than the claimant. Any party may file with the clerk prior to the trial of the action a deposition of any physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner taken in accordance with the provisions of the Revised Code, which deposition may be read in the trial of the action even though the physician or nurse is a resident of or subject to service in the county in which the trial is had. The bureau of workers' compensation shall pay the cost of the deposition filed in court and of copies of the deposition for each party from the surplus fund and charge the costs thereof against the unsuccessful party if the claimant's right to participate or continue to participate is finally sustained or established in the appeal. In the event the deposition is taken and filed, the physician or nurse whose deposition is taken is not required to respond to any subpoena issued in the trial of the action. The court, or the jury under the instructions of the court, if a jury is demanded, shall determine the right of the claimant to participate or to continue to participate in the fund upon the evidence adduced at the hearing of the action. (E) The court shall certify its decision to the commission and the certificate shall be entered in the records of the court. Appeals from the judgment are governed by the law applicable to the appeal of civil actions. (F) The cost of any legal proceedings authorized by this section, including an attorney's fee to the claimant's attorney to be fixed by the trial judge, based upon the effort expended, in the event the claimant's right to participate or to continue to participate in the fund is established upon the final determination of an appeal, shall be taxed against the employer or the commission if the commission or the administrator rather than the employer contested the right of the claimant to participate in the fund. The attorney's fee shall not exceed five thousand dollars. (G) If the finding of the court or the verdict of the jury is in favor of the claimant's right to participate in the fund, the commission and the administrator shall thereafter proceed in the matter of the claim as if the judgment were the decision of the commission, subject to the power of modification provided by section 4123.52 of the Revised Code. (H)(1) An appeal from an order issued under division (E) of section 4123.511 of the Revised Code or any action filed in court in a case in which an award of compensation or medical benefits has been made shall not stay the payment of compensation or medical benefits under the award, or payment for subsequent periods of total disability or medical benefits during the pendency of the appeal. If, in a final administrative or judicial action, it is determined that payments of compensation or benefits, or both, made to or on behalf of a claimant should not have been made, the amount thereof shall be charged to the surplus fund account under division (B) of section 4123.34 of the Revised Code. In the event the employer is a state risk, the amount shall not be charged to the employer's experience, and the administrator shall adjust the employer's account accordingly. In the event the employer is a self-insuring employer, the self-insuring employer shall deduct the amount from the paid compensation the self-insuring employer reports to the administrator under division (L) of section 4123.35 of the Revised Code. If an employer is a state risk and has paid an assessment for a violation of a specific safety requirement, and, in a final administrative or judicial action, it is determined that the employer did not violate the specific safety requirement, the administrator shall reimburse the employer from the surplus fund account under division (B) of section 4123.34 of the Revised Code for the amount of the assessment the employer paid for the violation. (2)(a) Notwithstanding a final determination that payments of benefits made to or on behalf of a claimant should not have been made, the administrator or self-insuring employer shall award payment of medical or vocational rehabilitation services submitted for payment after the date of the final determination if all of the following apply: (i) The services were approved and were rendered by the provider in good faith prior to the date of the final determination. (ii) The services were payable under division (I) of section 4123.511 of the Revised Code prior to the date of the final determination. (iii) The request for payment is submitted within the time limit set forth in section 4123.52 of the Revised Code. (b) Payments made under division (H)(1) of this section shall be charged to the surplus fund account under division (B) of section 4123.34 of the Revised Code. If the employer of the employee who is the subject of a claim described in division (H)(2)(a) of this section is a state fund employer, the payments made under that division shall not be charged to the employer's experience. If that employer is a self-insuring employer, the self-insuring employer shall deduct the amount from the paid compensation the self-insuring employer reports to the administrator under division (L) of section 4123.35 of the Revised Code. (c) Division (H)(2) of this section shall apply only to a claim under this chapter or Chapter 4121., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code arising on or after July 29, 2011. (3) A self-insuring employer may elect to pay compensation and benefits under this section directly to an employee or an employee's dependents by filing an application with the bureau of workers' compensation not more than one hundred eighty days and not less than ninety days before the first day of the employer's next six-month coverage period. If the self-insuring employer timely files the application, the application is effective on the first day of the employer's next six-month coverage period, provided that the administrator shall compute the employer's assessment for the surplus fund account due with respect to the period during which that application was filed without regard to the filing of the application. On and after the effective date of the employer's election, the self-insuring employer shall pay directly to an employee or to an employee's dependents compensation and benefits under this section regardless of the date of the injury or occupational disease, and the employer shall receive no money or credits from the surplus fund account on account of those payments and shall not be required to pay any amounts into the surplus fund account on account of this section. The election made under this division is irrevocable. (I) All actions and proceedings under this section which are the subject of an appeal to the court of common pleas or the court of appeals shall be preferred over all other civil actions except election causes, irrespective of position on the calendar. This section applies to all decisions of the commission or the administrator on November 2, 1959, and all claims filed thereafter are governed by sections 4123.511 and 4123.512 of the Revised Code. Any action pending in common pleas court or any other court on January 1, 1986, under this section is governed by former sections 4123.514 , 4123.515 , 4123.516 , and 4123.519 and section 4123.522 of the Revised Code. Last updated February 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4115.132 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4115 / § 4115.132
§ 4115.132. Director of commerce - investigatory powers
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly In any investigation undertaken by the director of commerce pursuant to sections 4115.03 to 4115.16 of the Revised Code, the director, a designated representative, or hearing examiner may administer oaths, take and cause to be taken depositions of witnesses, issue subpoenas, and compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, books, accounts, payrolls, documents, records, and testimony relating to and relevant to the violation under investigation. In case of contumacy, failure, or refusal of any person, contractor, or subcontractor to obey the order, any court of common pleas having jurisdiction of the person, contractor, or subcontractor, upon application of the director or representative designated by the director shall have jurisdiction to issue to the person, contractor, or subcontractor an order requiring the person, contractor, or subcontractor to appear before the director or a representative designated by the director, to produce evidence as is ordered, and to give testimony relating to the matter under investigation or in question. Any failure to obey an order of the court may be punished by the court as a contempt thereof.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.034 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.034
§ 4123.034. Unpaid emergency management workers qualify for maximum benefits
Status: in_force

September 29, 1994 Senate Bill 172 - 120th General Assembly For the purpose of determining benefits accruing under section 4123.033 of the Revised Code, an emergency management worker who receives no monetary compensation for emergency management services rendered shall qualify for maximum benefits applicable with respect to accidental injury or death provided for workers and employees under sections 4123.01 to 4123.94 of the Revised Code in the fiscal year applicable.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.042 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.042
§ 4141.042. Promoting employment competencies and upward mobility of women
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 470 - 123rd General Assembly The director of job and family services shall take affirmative steps to promote the employment competencies and upward mobility of women. The director shall place particular emphasis on education, child care, labor conditions, equality of entrance requirements, and eligibility for promotion. In pursuance thereof, the director shall: (A) Serve as a clearinghouse for information; (B) Assist state and local government workforce development providers in improving the employment competencies of and opportunities for women; (C) Evaluate and make recommendations to the director regarding legislation affecting the employment competencies of and opportunities for women.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4117.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4117 / § 4117.16
§ 4117.16. Temporary restraining order enjoining strike
Status: in_force

April 1, 1984 Senate Bill 133 - 115th General Assembly (A) Whenever the public employer believes that a lawful strike creates clear and present danger to the health or safety of the public, the public employer may petition the court of common pleas having jurisdiction over the parties to issue a temporary restraining order enjoining the strike. If the court finds probable cause to believe that the strike may be a clear and present danger to the public health or safety, it has jurisdiction to issue a temporary restraining order, not to exceed seventy-two hours, enjoining the strike. Should a court issue a temporary restraining order, the public employer shall immediately request authorization of the state employment relations board to enjoin the strike beyond the effective period of the temporary restraining order. The board shall determine within the effective period of the temporary restraining order whether the strike creates a clear and present danger to the health or safety of the public. If the board finds that a clear and present danger exists, the common pleas court which issued the temporary restraining order has jurisdiction to issue orders to further enjoin the strike. However, the court shall make provisions in any injunction or other order issued beyond the temporary restraining order for the automatic termination of the injunction or other order at the end of sixty days following the end of the temporary restraining order or when an agreement is reached, whichever occurs first. Thereafter, no court has jurisdiction to issue any further injunction or other orders pursuant to this section. The order of the court is appealable as provided in the Appellate Rules. (B) Whenever a court of common pleas has issued an order, other than a temporary restraining order, under division (A) of this section enjoining acts or practices which create a clear and present danger to the public health or safety, the parties to the labor dispute giving rise to the order shall engage in collective bargaining for a period of sixty days from the date of the order or until agreement is reached, whichever occurs first. The parties shall collectively bargain with the assistance of a mediator appointed by the board. The mediator, at his discretion, may require that the parties collectively bargain in public or in private. At any time after there has been forty-five days of collective bargaining and no agreement has been reached, the mediator may make public a report on the current position of the parties to the dispute and the efforts which have been made for settlement. The report shall include a statement by each party of its position and a statement of the employee organization's and public employer's offers of settlement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4164.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4164 / § 4164.13
§ 4164.13. Open meetings law
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly Meetings of the authority shall be held in compliance with section 121.22 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 26, 2023 at 10:06 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4104.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4104 / § 4104.14
§ 4104.14. Preparing boiler for inspection
Status: in_force

August 28, 2002 House Bill 428 - 124th General Assembly The owner or user of a boiler required by sections 4104.01 to 4104.20 of the Revised Code to be inspected shall, after due notice, prepare the boiler for internal and external inspection at the appointed time, by drawing the water from the boiler and removing the manhole and handhole plates and thoroughly cleaning the boiler and its setting. The inspector, when making inspections under operating conditions, shall observe the pressure carried and the general condition of each boiler, and ascertain if the safety valve and the appliances for indicating the pressure and level of water in the boiler are in proper working order. No person shall remove or tamper with any safety appliances prescribed by the board of building standards, and no person shall in any manner load the safety valve to a greater pressure than that allowed by the certificate of operation. If in the judgment of the inspector it is advisable to apply a hydrostatic pressure test to the boiler, the owner or user shall prepare the boiler for such test, and apply the test which shall be witnessed by the inspector.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.85 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.85
§ 4123.85. Claims for compensation or benefits in cases of occupational diseases
Status: in_force

March 20, 2025 Senate Bill 196 - 135th General Assembly In all cases of occupational disease, or death resulting from occupational disease, claims for compensation or benefits are forever barred unless, within one year after the disability due to the disease began, or within such longer period as does not exceed six months after diagnosis of the occupational disease by a licensed physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner or within one year after death occurs, application is made to the industrial commission or the bureau of workers' compensation or to the employer if the employer is a self-insuring employer. Last updated February 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.47 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.47
§ 4123.47. Actuarial analysis of fund; audits of effectiveness of administration - retention of actuary
Status: in_force

September 17, 2014 House Bill 493 - 130th General Assembly (A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall have an actuarial analysis of the state insurance fund and all other funds specified in this chapter and Chapters 4121., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code made at least once each year. The analysis shall be made and certified by recognized, credentialed property or casualty actuaries who shall be selected by the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors. The expense of the analysis shall be paid from the state insurance fund. The administrator shall make copies of the analysis available to the workers' compensation audit committee at no charge and to the public at cost. (B) The auditor of state annually shall conduct an audit of the administration of this chapter by the industrial commission and the bureau of workers' compensation and the safety and hygiene fund. The cost of the audit shall be charged to the administrative costs of the bureau as defined in section 4123.341 of the Revised Code. The audit shall include audits of all fiscal activities, claims processing and handling, and employer premium collections. The auditor shall prepare a report of the audit together with recommendations and transmit copies of the report to the industrial commission, the board, the administrator, the governor, and to the general assembly. The auditor shall make copies of the report available to the public at cost. (C) The administrator may retain the services of a recognized actuary on a consulting basis for the purpose of evaluating the actuarial soundness of premium rates and classifications and all other matters involving the administration of the state insurance fund. The expense of services provided by the actuary shall be paid from the state insurance fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4112.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4112 / § 4112.14
§ 4112.14. Age discrimination
Status: in_force

April 15, 2021 House Bill 352 - 133rd General Assembly (A) No employer shall discriminate in any job opening against any applicant or discharge without just cause any employee aged forty or older who is physically able to perform the duties and otherwise meets the established requirements of the job and laws pertaining to the relationship between employer and employee. (B) Except as otherwise provided in section 4112.052 of the Revised Code and this section, a person aged forty or older who is discriminated against in any job opening or discharged without just cause by an employer in violation of division (A) of this section may institute a civil action against the employer in a court of competent jurisdiction. If the court finds that an employer has discriminated on the basis of age, the court shall order an appropriate remedy which shall include reimbursement to the applicant or employee for the costs, including reasonable attorney's fees, of the action, or to reinstate the employee in the employee's former position with compensation for lost wages and any lost fringe benefits from the date of the illegal discharge and to reimburse the employee for the costs, including reasonable attorney's fees, of the action. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the remedies available under this section are coexistent with remedies available pursuant to sections 4112.01 to 4112.11 of the Revised Code. (C) The cause of action described in division (B) of this section shall not be available in the case of discharges where the employee has available to the employee the opportunity to arbitrate the discharge or where a discharge has been arbitrated and has been found to be for just cause. (D)(1) A person is prohibited from bringing a civil action under division (B) of this section if the person brought a civil action under section 4112.052 of the Revised Code that is based, in whole or in part, on the same allegations and practices. (2) A person is prohibited from bringing a civil action under section 4112.052 of the Revised Code if the person brought a civil action under division (B) of this section that is based, in whole or in part, on the same allegations and practices. (E) (1) Except as provided in division (E)(2) of this section, a civil action brought under division (B) of this section shall be filed within two years after the alleged discrimination occurred. (2) The time period to file a civil action shall be tolled for one of the following periods, as applicable: (a) If a charge that is based, in whole or in part, on the same allegations was filed under section 4112.051 of the Revised Code less than sixty days before the time period specified under that section expires, the time period to file a civil action is tolled for the period beginning on the date the charge was filed and ending on the date that is sixty days after the charge is no longer pending with the commission. (b) If a charge that is based, in whole or in part, on the same allegations and practices was filed under section 4112.051 of the Revised Code sixty or more days before the time period specified under that section expires, the time period to file a civil action is tolled for the period beginning on the date the charge was filed and ending on the date the charge is no longer pending with the commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4151.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4151 / § 4151.04
§ 4151.04. Investigation and enforcement
Status: in_force

March 20, 2026 House Bill 246 - 136th General Assembly (A)(1) The attorney general shall prescribe a complaint form for an individual to allege a violation of section 4151.02 or 4151.03 of the Revised Code. The attorney general shall not require the complainant to list the complainant's social security number on the complaint form or to have the form notarized. A complainant shall submit the complaint to the attorney general. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the attorney general shall investigate any violation alleged in a prescribed complaint form when the attorney general determines the complaint contains sufficient facts to reasonably conclude that a violation may have occurred. (2) This section does not prohibit an individual from filing an anonymous complaint on a form other than the prescribed complaint form. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the attorney general may, but is not required to, investigate a violation alleged in a form other than a prescribed form, provided the complaint contains sufficient facts to reasonably conclude that a violation may have occurred. (B) The attorney general shall not investigate a complaint that is based solely on race, color, or national origin. (C) Any local law enforcement officer may assist in investigating a complaint filed under this section. (D) Except as provided in division (I) of this section, if the attorney general conducts an investigation under this section and determines that reasonable evidence exists that a violation of section 4151.02 or 4151.03 of the Revised Code has occurred, the attorney general shallissue a notice of violation that does all of the following: (1) Directs the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker to provide satisfactory proof to the attorney general not later than ten days after the notice is issued that individuals employed by the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker are authorized to be employed under the federal "Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986," 8 U.S.C. 1324a; (2) Specifies any penalty assessed under division (E) of this section based on the attorney general's determination; (3) If the attorney general determined it is likely the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker committed two or more willful violations of section 4151.02 or 4151.03 of the Revised Code, informs the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker that the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker is disqualified from bidding on or participating in any future state contract for a period not to exceed two years; (4) Notifies the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker of the contractor's, subcontractor's, or labor broker's right to request a hearing described in division (F) of this section. (E)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this division, if the attorney general's investigation reveals one or more violations of section 4151.02 of the Revised Code, the attorney general shall assess a fine of two hundred fifty dollars for each violation against the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker. Except as otherwise provided in this division, if the attorney general's investigation reveals one or more violations of section 4151.03 of the Revised Code, the attorney general shall assess a fine of five thousand dollars for each violation against the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker. (2) Except as otherwise provided in this division, if the attorney general's investigation reveals one or more violations of 4151.02 of the Revised Code and the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker has been ordered by the attorney general or a court to pay a fine under division (E)(1) of this section during the preceding three years, the attorney general shall assess a fine of one thousand dollars for each violation against the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker. Except as provided in this division, if the attorney general's investigation reveals one or more violations of section 4151.03 of the Revised Code and the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker has been ordered by the attorney general or a court to pay a fine under division (E)(1) of this section during the preceding three years, the attorney general shall assess a fine of ten thousand dollars per violation against the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker. (3) If the attorney general's investigation reveals one or more violations of section 4151.02 of the Revised Code and the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker has been ordered by the attorney general or a court to pay a fine under division (E)(2) of this section during the preceding three years, the attorney general shall assess a fine of one thousand five hundred dollars per violation against the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker. If the attorney general's investigation reveals one or more violations of section 4151.03 of the Revised Code and the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker has been ordered by the attorney general or a court to pay a fine under division (E)(2) of this section during the preceding three years, the attorney general shall assess a fine of twenty-five thousand dollars for each violation against the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker. (F) Notwithstanding the thirty-day period to request a hearing described in section 119.07 of the Revised Code, a contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker may request an adjudicatory hearing not more than ten business days after being served a notice of violation under division (D) of this section. A contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker shall send the request to the attorney general, who shall forward the request to the director of commerce. The director, or the director's designee, shall conduct a hearing under this division. Except as provided in this division, the director or designee shall comply with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. A determination made by the director or the director's designee is a final order that may be appealed under section 119.12 of the Revised Code. If a contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker fails to request a hearing within the time specified in this division, a notice of violation issued under division (D) of this section becomes an enforceable order against the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker. (G)(1) If a notice of violation that includes a disqualification described in division (D)(3) of this section becomes an enforceable order under division (F) of this section, the attorney general shall provide a copy of the order to the director of administrative services. The director shall add the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker to the list maintained by the director under division (C)(1) of section 4151.05 of the Revised Code. Except as provided in division (G)(2) of this section, after the period of disqualification in the order ends, the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker may be eligible to bid for and participate in state contracts if the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker files a sworn affidavit with the director of administrative services stating that the period of disqualification has ended and that the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker has not violated section 4151.02 or 4151.03 of the Revised Code during the period of disqualification. (2) The director shall not remove a contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker from the list maintained under division (C)(1) of section 4151.05 of the Revised Code if the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker has not paid a fine assessed under this section. (H) If a contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker fails to comply with an order that has become enforceable under division (F) of this section within thirty days after the order is enforceable, the attorney general shall bring a civil action against the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker in accordance with section 4151.05 of the Revised Code. In the action, the attorney general also may present evidence that the contractor, subcontractor, or labor broker violated section 4151.06 of the Revised Code. (I) The attorney general shall not issue a notice of violation under this section or bring a civil action under section 4151.06 of the Revised Code if a violation of section 4151.02 or 4151.03 of the Revised Code was the result of an isolated technical error or a malfunction in the e-verify program. Last updated January 28, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4131.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4131 / § 4131.13
§ 4131.13. Marine industry fund
Status: in_force

September 10, 2007 House Bill 100 - 127th General Assembly (A) For the relief of persons who are entitled to receive benefits by virtue of the federal act, there is hereby established a marine industry fund, which shall be separate from the funds established and administered pursuant to Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. The marine industry fund shall consist of premiums and other payments thereto by marine industry employers who apply to the bureau of workers' compensation for permission to subscribe to the fund to insure the payment of benefits required by the federal act. By rule, the administrator of workers' compensation shall establish criteria for the acceptance or rejection of applications by marine industry employers who apply to subscribe to the fund. (B) The marine industry fund shall be in the custody of the treasurer of state. The bureau shall make disbursements from the fund to those persons entitled to payment therefrom and in the amounts required pursuant to the federal act. The auditor of state annually shall complete a fiscal audit of the fund. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund. (C) The administrator shall have the same powers to invest any of the surplus or reserve belonging to the marine industry fund as are delegated to him under section 4123.44 of the Revised Code with respect to the state insurance fund. (D) If the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors determines that reinsurance of the risks of the marine industry fund is necessary to assure solvency of the fund, the board may: (1) Enter into contracts for the purchase of reinsurance coverage of the risks of the fund with any company or agency authorized by law to issue contracts of reinsurance; (2) Require the administrator to pay the cost of reinsurance from the fund; (3) Include the costs of reinsurance as a liability and estimated liability of the fund. (E) For the purpose of maintaining the solvency of the marine industry fund, the administrator may borrow money from the state insurance fund as is necessary. Money borrowed from the state insurance fund shall be repaid from the marine industry fund together with an appropriate interest rate not to exceed the average yield of fixed income investments of the state insurance fund for the six-month period ended on the last day of the month preceding the month in which the money is borrowed. Loans made pursuant to this division are a proper investment of the surplus or reserve of the state insurance fund. (F) In no event shall any of the assets of any of the funds created and administered pursuant to Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code be disbursed in payment of any cost or obligation of or insured by the marine industry fund. This division shall not be construed to prohibit as a proper investment loans made from the state insurance fund to the marine industry fund pursuant to division (E) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.34
§ 4123.34. Solvency of funds - premium rates
Status: in_force

September 29, 2023 House Bill 31 - 135th General Assembly It shall be the duty of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors and the administrator of workers' compensation to safeguard and maintain the solvency of the state insurance fund and all other funds specified in this chapter and Chapters 4121., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code. The administrator, in the exercise of the powers and discretion conferred upon the administrator in section 4123.29 of the Revised Code, shall fix and maintain, with the advice and consent of the board, for each class of occupation or industry, the lowest possible rates of premium consistent with the maintenance of a solvent state insurance fund and the creation and maintenance of a reasonable surplus, after the payment of legitimate claims for injury, occupational disease, and death that the administrator authorizes to be paid from the state insurance fund for the benefit of injured, diseased, and the dependents of killed employees. In establishing rates, the administrator shall take into account the administrative costs of the industrial commission, board, and bureau of workers' compensation to administer this chapter and Chapters 4121., 4125., 4127., 4133., and 4167. of the Revised Code. The administrator shall observe all of the following requirements in fixing the rates of premium for the risks of occupations or industries: (A) The administrator shall keep an accurate account of the money paid in premiums by each of the several classes of occupations or industries, and the losses on account of injuries, occupational disease, and death of employees thereof, and also keep an account of the money received from each individual employer and the amount of losses incurred against the state insurance fund on account of injuries, occupational disease, and death of the employees of the employer. (B) A portion of the money paid into the state insurance fund shall be set aside for the creation of a surplus fund account within the state insurance fund. Any references in this chapter or in Chapter 4121., 4125., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code to the surplus fund, the surplus created in this division, the statutory surplus fund, or the statutory surplus of the state insurance fund are hereby deemed to be references to the surplus fund account. The administrator may transfer the portion of the state insurance fund to the surplus fund account as the administrator determines is necessary to satisfy the needs of the surplus fund account and to guarantee the solvency of the state insurance fund and the surplus fund account. In addition to all statutory authority under this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code, the administrator has discretionary and contingency authority to make charges to the surplus fund account. The administrator shall account for all charges, whether statutory, discretionary, or contingency, that the administrator may make to the surplus fund account. A revision of basic rates shall be made annually on the first day of July. For policy years commencing prior to July 1, 2016, revisions of basic rates for private employers shall be in accordance with the oldest four of the last five calendar years of the combined accident and occupational disease experience of the administrator in the administration of this chapter, as shown by the accounts kept as provided in this section. For a policy year commencing on or after July 1, 2016, revisions of basic rates for private employers shall be in accordance with the oldest four of the last five policy years combined accident and occupational disease experience of the administrator in the administration of this chapter, as shown by the accounts kept as provided in this section. Revisions of basic rates for public employers shall be in accordance with the oldest four of the last five policy years of the combined accident and occupational disease experience of the administrator in the administration of this chapter, as shown by the accounts kept as provided in this section. In revising basic rates, the administrator shall exclude the experience of employers that are no longer active if the administrator determines that the inclusion of those employers would have a significant negative impact on the remainder of the employers in a particular manual classification. The administrator shall adopt rules, with the advice and consent of the board, governing rate revisions, the object of which shall be to make an equitable distribution of losses among the several classes of occupation or industry, which rules shall be general in their application. (C) The administrator may apply that form of rating system that the administrator finds is best calculated to merit rate or individually rate the risk more equitably, predicated upon the basis of its individual industrial accident and occupational disease experience, and may encourage and stimulate accident prevention. The administrator shall develop fixed and equitable rules controlling the rating system, which rules shall conserve to each risk the basic principles of workers' compensation insurance. (D) The administrator may grant discounts on premium rates for employers who meet either of the following requirements: (1) Have not incurred a compensable injury for one year or more and who maintain an employee safety committee or similar organization or make periodic safety inspections of the workplace. (2) Successfully complete a loss prevention program prescribed by the superintendent of the division of safety and hygiene and conducted by the division or by any other person approved by the superintendent. (E)(1) In determining the premium rates for the construction industry the administrator shall calculate the employers' premiums based upon the actual remuneration construction industry employees receive from construction industry employers, provided that the amount of remuneration the administrator uses in calculating the premiums shall not exceed an average weekly wage equal to one hundred fifty per cent of the statewide average weekly wage as defined in division (C) of section 4123.62 of the Revised Code. (2) Division (E)(1) of this section shall not be construed as affecting the manner in which benefits to a claimant are awarded under this chapter. (3) As used in division (E) of this section, "construction industry" includes any activity performed in connection with the erection, alteration, repair, replacement, renovation, installation, or demolition of any building, structure, highway, or bridge. (F) The administrator shall not place a limit on the length of time that an employer may participate in the bureau of workers' compensation drug free workplace and workplace safety programs. Last updated August 3, 2023 at 10:42 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4113.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4113 / § 4113.03
§ 4113.03. Fellow servant rule not applicable
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly In all actions brought to recover from an employer for personal injuries suffered by his employee or for death resulting to such employee from such personal injuries, while in the employ of such employer, arising from the negligence of such employer or any of such employer's officers, agents, or employees, it shall be held in addition to any other liability existing by law that any person in the employ of such employer, in any way having power or authority in directing or controlling any other employee of such employer, is not the fellow servant, but superior to such other employee; any person in the employ of such employer in any way having charge or control of employees in any separate branch or department shall be held to be the superior and not the fellow servant of all employees in any other branch or department in which they are employed; any person in the employ of such employer whose duty it is to repair or inspect the ways, works, boats, wharves, plant, machinery, appliances, or tools, in any way connected with or in any way used in the business of the employer, or to receive, give, or transmit any signal, instruction, or warning to or for such employees, shall be held to be the superior and not the fellow servant of such other employees of such employer.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4115.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4115 / § 4115.15
§ 4115.15. Notice to halt work
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly Where an investigation by the director of commerce reveals that a contractor or subcontractor has failed to pay the prevailing rate of wages, the contracting public authority or the director may, upon written notice to the contractor or subcontractor and the sureties of the contractor or subcontractor, and after hearing held pursuant to section 4115.13 of the Revised Code, order work halted on the part of the contract for which less than the prevailing rate of wages has been paid, until the defaulting contractor has filed with the director a bond in an amount of such penal sum as the director shall set, conditioned upon payment of the prevailing rate of wages.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.92 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.92
§ 4123.92. Attorney general, prosecuting attorney - prosecution and defense of actions
Status: in_force

September 10, 2007 House Bill 100 - 127th General Assembly Upon the request of the industrial commission or the administrator of workers' compensation, the attorney general, or under the attorney general's direction the prosecuting attorney of any county in cases arising within the county, shall institute and prosecute the necessary actions or proceedings for the enforcement of this chapter, or for the recovery of any money due the state insurance fund, or any penalty, and shall defend in like manner all suits, actions, or proceedings brought against the administrator, the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, industrial commission, or the members of the board, or industrial commission in their official capacity.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.932 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.932
§ 4123.932. Claims likely to be subrogated by a third party
Status: in_force

September 13, 2018 House Bill 292 - 132nd General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Motor vehicle" has the same meaning as in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Primarily liable" means more than fifty per cent liable for purposes of section 2315.33 of the Revised Code. (B) Any compensation and benefits related to a claim that is compensable under this chapter or Chapter 4121., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code shall be charged to the surplus fund account created under division (B) of section 4123.34 of the Revised Code and not charged to an individual employer's experience if, upon the administrator's determination, all of the following apply to that claim: (1) The employer of the employee who is the subject of the claim pays premiums into the state insurance fund. (2) The claim is based on a motor vehicle accident involving a third party. (3) Either of the following circumstances apply to the claim: (a) The third party is issued a citation for violation of any law or ordinance regulating the operation of a motor vehicle arising from the accident on which the claim is based and the claim is covered by any form of insurance maintained by the third party or by uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage as described in section 3937.18 of the Revised Code. (b) The third party is primarily liable for the motor vehicle accident on which the claim is based and the claim is covered by any form of insurance maintained by the third party or by uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage as described in section 3937.18 of the Revised Code. (C) If an employer believes division (B) of this section applies to a claim about which an employee of the employer is the subject, the employer may file a request with the administrator for a determination by the administrator as to whether the claim is to be charged to the surplus fund account pursuant to this section. (D)(1) Within one hundred eighty days after the administrator receives a request made under division (C) of this section, the administrator shall determine whether the claim for which the request is made shall be charged to the surplus fund account pursuant to this section. (2) If the administrator fails to make a determination under division (D)(1) of this section within the time required, the administrator shall charge the claim for which the request was made to the surplus fund account pursuant to this section. (E) This section does not apply if the employer of the employee who is the subject of the claim is the state or a state institution of higher education, including its hospitals.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.69 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.69
§ 4121.69. Compensation of professional, administrative, and managerial employees
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) The administrator of workers' compensation may establish compensation plans, including schedules of hourly rates, for the compensation of professional, administrative, and managerial employees who are employed to fulfill the duties placed upon the bureau of workers' compensation pursuant to sections 4121.61 to 4121.69 of the Revised Code. The administrator may establish rules or policies for the administration of the respective compensation plans. This division does not apply to employees for whom the state employment relations board establishes appropriate bargaining units pursuant to section 4117.06 of the Revised Code. (B) The administrator may employ the services and resources of any public entity or private person, business, or association in fulfilling the duties placed upon the bureau of workers' compensation by sections 4121.61 to 4121.69 of the Revised Code. The opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency, the director of job and family services, and any other public officer, employee, or agency shall give to the bureau of workers' compensation full cooperation and, at the request of the administrator, enter into a written agreement stating the procedures and criteria for referring, accepting, and providing services to claimants in the job placement and rehabilitation efforts of the bureau of workers' compensation on behalf of a claimant when referred by the bureau of workers' compensation. (C) In appropriate cases, the bureau may refer a candidate to the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency for participation in a program of the agency. For that purpose, the bureau of workers' compensation shall compensate the agency for the nonfederal portion of its services. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.64 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.64
§ 4123.64. Commutation to lump sum
Status: in_force

September 23, 2022 House Bill 447 - 134th General Assembly (A) The administrator of workers' compensation, under special circumstances, and when the same is deemed advisable for the purpose of rendering the injured or disabled employee financial relief or for the purpose of furthering the injured or disabled employee's rehabilitation, may commute payments of compensation or benefits to one or more lump-sum payments. (B) The administrator shall adopt rules which set forth the policy for awarding lump sum payments. The rules shall: (1) Enumerate the allowable purposes for payments and the conditions for making such awards; (2) Enumerate the maximum reduction in compensation allowable; (3) Enumerate the documentation necessary to award a lump-sum payment; (4) Require that all checks include the claimant as a payee, except where the check is for the payment of attorney's fees in accordance with section 4123.06 of the Revised Code, in which case the attorney shall be named as the only payee on the check; (5) Require a fully completed and current application; and (6) Specify procedures to make a claimant aware of the reduction in amount of compensation which will occur. (C) An order of the administrator issued under this section is appealable pursuant to section 4123.511 of the Revised Code but is not appealable to court under section 4123.512 of the Revised Code. Last updated July 14, 2022 at 12:43 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.431 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.431
§ 4141.431. Domestic service in private home
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly (A) Notwithstanding section 4141.20 of the Revised Code, the director of job and family services shall attempt to enter into an agreement under section 3510(F) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986" with the secretary of the treasury to collect, as the agent of this state, the taxes imposed by this chapter on remuneration paid for domestic service in a private home of the employer. (B) Upon the director entering into an agreement under division (A) of this section, returns with respect to taxes imposed by this chapter on remuneration paid for domestic service in a private home of the employer shall be made on a calendar-year basis. (C) The director shall adopt rules to further implement the coordination of this chapter and the "Social Security Domestic Employment Reform Act of 1994," 108 Stat. 4071, 26 U.S.C.A. 3121. Such rules do not require approval of the unemployment compensation review commission under section 4141.14 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4131.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4131 / § 4131.14
§ 4131.14. Subscriber to pay premiums
Status: in_force

September 10, 2007 House Bill 100 - 127th General Assembly (A) For the purpose of sections 4131.11 to 4131.16 of the Revised Code, each subscriber shall pay premiums upon the basis and at the intervals determined by the administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors. (B) The administrator shall fix and maintain for each class of occupation and type of business the lowest possible rates of premiums consistent with the maintenance of a solvent fund and the creation and maintenance of a reasonable surplus after providing for payment to maturity of all liabilities insured pursuant to the federal act. The administrator, by rule, may provide for merit rating of subscribers. (C) The administrator, with the advice and consent of the board, may adjust the rates of premium at any time. Each adjustment order is effective on the date prescribed by the administrator. (D) The administrator, by rule adopted pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may prescribe procedures for subscription, payroll reporting, premium payment, payment of an advance security deposit by subscribers to secure payments of premiums when due, termination of subscription, reinstatement, and all other matters pertinent to subscriber participation in the marine industry fund. (E) In addition to premiums required to be paid into the fund, the administrator, with the advice and consent of the board, shall fix and may adjust at any time an additional premium for the cost of administering the fund. The additional premium shall be paid by each subscriber as a part of the subscriber's total premium payment.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.71 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.71
§ 4123.71. Time for report of physician
Status: in_force

March 20, 2025 Senate Bill 196 - 135th General Assembly Every physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner in this state attending on or called in to visit a patient whom the physician or nurse believes to have an occupational disease as defined in section 4123.68 of the Revised Code shall, within forty-eight hours from the time of making such diagnosis, send to the bureau of workers' compensation a report stating: (A) Name, address, and occupation of patient; (B) Name and address of business in which employed; (C) Nature of disease; (D) Name and address of employer of patient; (E) Such other information as is reasonably required by the bureau. The reports shall be made on blanks to be furnished by the bureau. A physician or nurse who sends the report within the time stated to the bureau is in compliance with this section. Reports made under this section shall not be evidence of the facts therein stated in any action arising out of a disease therein reported. The bureau shall, within twenty-four hours after the receipt of the report, send a copy thereof to the employer of the patient named in the report. Last updated February 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4165.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4165 / § 4165.03
§ 4165.03. Injunctive relief
Status: in_force

March 30, 1999 Senate Bill 173 - 122nd General Assembly (A)(1) A person who is likely to be damaged by a person who commits a deceptive trade practice that is listed in division (A) of section 4165.02 of the Revised Code may commence a civil action for injunctive relief against the other person, and the court of common pleas involved in that action may grant injunctive relief based on the principles of equity and on the terms that the court considers reasonable. Proof of monetary damage or loss of profits is not required in a civil action commenced under division (A)(1) of this section. (2) A person who is injured by a person who commits a deceptive trade practice that is listed in division (A) of section 4165.02 of the Revised Code may commence a civil action to recover actual damages from the person who commits the deceptive trade practice. (B) The court may award in accordance with this division reasonable attorney's fees to the prevailing party in either type of civil action authorized by division (A) of this section. An award of attorney's fees may be assessed against a plaintiff if the court finds that the plaintiff knew the action to be groundless. An award of attorney's fees may be assessed against a defendant if the court finds that the defendant has willfully engaged in a trade practice listed in division (A) of section 4165.02 of the Revised Code knowing it to be deceptive. (C) The civil relief provided in this section is in addition to civil or criminal remedies otherwise available against the same conduct under the common law or other sections of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4139.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4139 / § 4139.01
§ 4139.01. Apprenticeship council definitions
Status: in_force

September 24, 2012 Senate Bill 316 - 129th General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "Apprentice" means a person at least sixteen years of age, except when a higher minimum age standard is otherwise fixed by law, who is in a registered apprenticeship program to learn a skilled occupation, pursuant to a registered apprenticeship agreement. (B) "Apprenticeship agreement" means a written agreement, registered with the apprenticeship council, providing for not less than two thousand hours of reasonably continuous employment, and for participation in an approved schedule of work experience through employment, which shall be supplemented by a minimum of one hundred forty-four hours per year of related and supplemental instructions. (C) "Council office" means the unit of the department of job and family services that staffs the apprenticeship council and performs the administrative and oversight functions concerning this state's registered apprenticeship system.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4113.62 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4113 / § 4113.62
§ 4113.62. Construction contract provisions against public policy
Status: in_force

March 22, 2001 House Bill 491 - 123rd General Assembly (A) Any provision of a construction contract, agreement, or understanding that waives rights under a surety bond is void and unenforceable as against public policy. (B) Any provision of a construction contract, agreement, or understanding, or specification or other documentation that is made a part of a construction contract, agreement, or understanding, that waives any pending or asserted claim on the basis of final payment made from one person to another for the construction contract, agreement, or understanding, is void and unenforceable as against public policy, when the person against whom the claim is pending or asserted has received notice of that pending or asserted claim. Nothing in this division precludes parties to a construction contract, agreement, or understanding from entering into a subsequent settlement agreement arising from a claim under that construction contract, agreement, or understanding. (C)(1) Any provision of a construction contract, agreement, or understanding, or specification or other documentation that is made a part of a construction contract, agreement, or understanding, that waives or precludes liability for delay during the course of a construction contract when the cause of the delay is a proximate result of the owner's act or failure to act, or that waives any other remedy for a construction contract when the cause of the delay is a proximate result of the owner's act or failure to act, is void and unenforceable as against public policy. (2) Any provision of a construction subcontract, agreement, or understanding, or specification or other documentation that is made part of a construction subcontract, agreement, or understanding, that waives or precludes liability for delay during the course of a construction subcontract when the cause of the delay is a proximate result of the owner's or contractor's act or failure to act, or that waives any other remedy for a construction subcontract when the cause of the delay is a proximate result of the owner's or contractor's act or failure to act, is void and unenforceable as against public policy. (D)(1) Any provision of a construction contract, agreement, understanding, or specification or other document or documentation that is made a part of a construction contract, subcontract, agreement, or understanding for an improvement, or portion thereof, to real estate in this state that makes the construction contract or subcontract, agreement, or other understanding subject to the laws of another state is void and unenforceable as against public policy. (2) Any provision of a construction contract, agreement, understanding, specification, or other document or documentation that is made a part of a construction contract, subcontract, agreement, or understanding for an improvement, or portion thereof, to real estate in this state that requires any litigation, arbitration, or other dispute resolution process provided for in the construction contract, subcontract, agreement, or understanding to occur in another state is void and unenforceable as against public policy. Any litigation, arbitration, or other dispute resolution process provided for in the construction contract, subcontract, agreement, or understanding shall take place in the county or counties in which the improvement to real estate is located or at another location within this state mutually agreed upon by the parties. (3) Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to any promissory note, loan agreement, mortgage, security agreement, assignment of rents, or any other contract, agreement, understanding, or other document or documentation to which a financial institution, as defined in section 5725.01 of the Revised Code, or any affiliate, as defined in division (A)(1) of section 1109.53 of the Revised Code, is a party. (E) No construction contract, agreement, or understanding that makes payment from a contractor to a subcontractor or materials supplier, or from a subcontractor to a materials supplier, lower tier subcontractor, or lower tier materials supplier contingent or conditioned upon receipt of payment from any other person shall prohibit a person from filing a claim to protect rights under sections 153.56 , 1311.06 , and 1311.26 of the Revised Code from expiring during the pendency of receipt of payment. (F) Nothing in this section shall be construed to create a liability for a surety on a bond that is greater than that of its principal, or limit the availability to a surety of any defenses available to its principal. (G) As used in this section: (1) "Contractor" and "lower tier subcontractor" have the same meanings as in section 4113.61 of the Revised Code. (2) "Materials supplier" includes any person by whom any materials are furnished in furtherance of an improvement. (3) "Lower tier materials supplier" means a materials supplier who is not in privity of contract with a contractor but is in privity of contract with another subcontractor or a materials supplier. (4) "Subcontractor," "improvement," and "materials" have the same meanings as in section 1311.01 of the Revised Code. (5) "Construction contract" means a contract or agreement for the design, planning, construction, alteration, repair, maintenance, moving, demolition, or excavation of a building, structure, highway, road, appurtenance, or appliance situated on real estate located in this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4105.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4105 / § 4105.07
§ 4105.07. Insurance company may inspect
Status: in_force

March 18, 1969 House Bill 1 - 108th General Assembly If an elevator is insured by a company authorized to insure elevators in the state, the inspection may be made by a special inspector of such company, and the only fee collectible by the state shall be the certificate fee provided for in section 4105.17 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.651 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.651
§ 4123.651. Employer initiating medical examinations
Status: in_force

March 20, 2025 Senate Bill 196 - 135th General Assembly (A)(1) The employer of a claimant who is injured or disabled in the course of the claimant's employment may require, without the approval of the administrator or the industrial commission, that the claimant be examined by any of the following of the employer's choice one time: (a) A physician; (b) A certified nurse midwife ; (c) A clinical nurse specialist; (d) A certified nurse practitioner. (2) The examination described in division (A)(1) of this section shall be for the purpose of any issue asserted by the employee or any of the practitioners listed in divisions (A)(1)(a) to (d) of this section of the employee's choice or for the purpose of any issue which is to be considered by the commission. (3) Any further requests for medical examinations shall be made to the commission, which shall consider and rule on the request. The employer shall pay the cost of any examinations initiated by the employer. (B) The bureau of workers' compensation shall prepare or adopt a form for the release of medical information, records, and reports relative to the issues necessary for the administration of a claim under this chapter. The claimant promptly shall provide a current signed form, or an equivalent form such as the standard form under section 3798.10 of the Revised Code, for the release of the information, records, and reports when requested by the employer. The employer promptly shall provide copies of all medical information, records, and reports to the bureau and to the claimant or the claimant's representative upon request. Medical information, records, and reports shall be related causally or historically to physical, psychological, or psychiatric injuries relevant to the claimant's workers' compensation claim. (C) If, without good cause, an employee refuses to submit to any examination scheduled under this section or refuses to release or execute a release for any medical information, record, or report that is required to be released under this section and involves an issue pertinent to the condition alleged in the claim, the employee's right to have the employee's claim for compensation or benefits considered, if the employee's claim is pending before the administrator, commission, or a district or staff hearing officer, or to receive any payment for compensation or benefits previously granted, is suspended during the period of refusal. (D) No bureau or commission employee shall alter any medical report obtained from a health care provider the bureau or commission has selected or cause or request the health care provider to alter or change a report. The bureau and commission shall make any request for clarification of a health care provider's report in writing and shall provide a copy of the request to the affected parties and their representatives at the time of making the request. Last updated February 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.46 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.46
§ 4123.46. Payments from state insurance fund
Status: in_force

September 30, 1998 House Bill 558 - 122nd General Assembly (A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the bureau of workers' compensation shall disburse the state insurance fund to employees of employers who have paid into the fund the premiums applicable to the classes to which they belong when the employees have been injured in the course of their employment, wherever the injuries have occurred, and provided the injuries have not been purposely self-inflicted, or to the dependents of the employees in case death has ensued. (2) As long as injuries have not been purposely self-inflicted, the bureau shall disburse the surplus fund created under section 4123.34 of the Revised Code to off-duty peace officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and first responders, or to their dependents if death ensues, who are injured while responding to inherently dangerous situations that call for an immediate response on the part of the person, regardless of whether the person was within the limits of the person's jurisdiction when responding, on the condition that the person responds to the situation as the person otherwise would if the person were on duty in the person's jurisdiction. As used in division (A)(2) of this section, "peace officer," "firefighter," "emergency medical technician," "first responder," and "jurisdiction" have the same meanings as in section 4123.01 of the Revised Code. (B) All self-insuring employers, in compliance with this chapter, shall pay the compensation to injured employees, or to the dependents of employees who have been killed in the course of their employment, unless the injury or death of the employee was purposely self-inflicted, and shall furnish the medical, surgical, nurse, and hospital care and attention or funeral expenses as would have been paid and furnished by virtue of this chapter under a similar state of facts by the bureau out of the state insurance fund if the employer had paid the premium into the fund. If any rule or regulation of a self-insuring employer provides for or authorizes the payment of greater compensation or more complete or extended medical care, nursing, surgical, and hospital attention, or funeral expenses to the injured employees, or to the dependents of the employees as may be killed, the employer shall pay to the employees, or to the dependents of employees killed, the amount of compensation and furnish the medical care, nursing, surgical, and hospital attention or funeral expenses provided by the self-insuring employer's rules and regulations. (C) Payment to injured employees, or to their dependents in case death has ensued, is in lieu of any and all rights of action against the employer of the injured or killed employees.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.21
§ 4121.21. Effective date of orders - time for compliance
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly (A) All general orders of the bureau of workers' compensation shall take effect within thirty days after their publication. Special orders shall take effect as therein directed. (B) The bureau shall, upon application of any employer, grant such time as is reasonably necessary for compliance with any order. (C) Any person may petition the bureau for an extension of time, which the bureau shall grant if it finds the extension of time necessary.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4109.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4109 / § 4109.12
§ 4109.12. Violations
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly (A) No person shall continue to employ any minor in violation of any law relating to the employment of minors after being notified of the violation in writing by the director of commerce or other enforcement official. Failure of the director or other enforcement official to give such notice does not excuse or negate a conviction for any offense except a violation of this division. (B) No employer shall employ, and no person having under the person's control as parent, guardian, or custodian, any minor, shall permit or suffer a minor to be employed in violation of any law relating to the employment of minors for which a penalty is not otherwise provided by law.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4165.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4165 / § 4165.04
§ 4165.04. Exceptions
Status: in_force

March 30, 1999 Senate Bill 173 - 122nd General Assembly (A) This chapter does not apply to either of the following: (1) Conduct that is in compliance with the orders or rules of, or a statute administered by, a federal, state, or local governmental agency; (2) Publishers, broadcasters, printers, or other persons who are engaged in the dissemination of information or reproduction of printed or pictorial matter and who publish, broadcast, or reproduce material without knowledge of its deceptive character. (B) Divisions (A)(2) and (3) of section 4165.02 of the Revised Code do not apply to the use of a service mark, trademark, certification mark, collective mark, trade name, or other trade identification that was used and not abandoned before September 25, 1969, if the use was in good faith and otherwise is lawful except for this chapter. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.391 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.391
§ 4123.391. Remedies for learn to earn participants
Status: in_force

September 24, 2012 Senate Bill 316 - 129th General Assembly (A) For purposes of this section, "learn to earn program" has the same meaning as in section 4141.293 of the Revised Code. (B) Solely for the purpose of providing compensation and benefits as set forth in this section, a participant in a learn to earn program is an employee of the department, and not an employee of the entity conducting the training. (C) A learn to earn program participant who suffers an injury or contracts an occupational disease in the course of and arising out of participation in the learn to earn program is entitled to compensation and benefits under this chapter. (D)(1) This chapter is the exclusive remedy for a learn to earn program participant or the participant's dependents resulting from the participant's injury or occupational disease received in the course of and arising out of the participant's participation in the program. Pursuant to section 4123.74 of the Revised Code, neither the department nor the designated worksite training provider shall be liable to respond in damages at common law or by statute for any injury, occupational disease, or bodily condition suffered or contracted by a participant in the course of or arising out of participation in the program. (2) Notwithstanding division (D)(1) of this section, a participant or the participant's dependents do not waive any cause of action for an intentional tort under section 2745.01 of the Revised Code against the department or the designated worksite training provider. (E) The department may include a learn to earn program participant in its department workers' compensation coverage, or may establish a separate workers' compensation coverage policy with the bureau of workers' compensation upon the terms and conditions for insurance to be established by the bureau consistent with insurance principles, as is equitable in the view of degree and hazard.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.05
§ 4123.05. Rules
Status: in_force

October 20, 1993 House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly The bureau of workers' compensation shall adopt rules to regulate and provide for the kind and character of notices, and the services thereof, in cases of injury, occupational disease, or death resulting from either, to employees, the nature and extent of the proofs and evidence, and the method of taking and furnishing the same, and to establish the right to benefits or compensation from the state insurance fund, the forms of application of those claiming to be entitled to benefits or compensation, and the method of making investigations, physical examinations, and inspections. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as affecting or limiting the rule-making authority of the industrial commission under this chapter or Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4127.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4127 / § 4127.10
§ 4127.10. Liability of employers
Status: in_force

January 1, 1979 House Bill 1282 - 112th General Assembly Employers who comply with sections 4127.01 to 4127.14 of the Revised Code, are not liable to respond in damages at common law or by statute for injury or death of any work-relief employee, wherever occurring. Employees of a noncomplying employer shall receive their compensation and benefits as if the premiums had been paid and the employer shall be liable on the same basis as a noncomplying employer under Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.40 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.40
§ 4121.40. Service directors - investigators and field auditors - duties
Status: in_force

October 20, 1993 House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly (A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall appoint a service director for each service office who shall have all of the following duties: (1) Provide each claimant and employer fair, impartial, and equal treatment; (2) Recommend any needed improvements for changes in staff size and accessibility to service offices; (3) Recommend to the administrator appropriate action concerning any allegations of misconduct, abuse of authority, or fraud committed in his service office; (4) Ensure that all current bureau rules and operating procedures are carried out by all employees under his direction; (5) Assist claimants and employers who contact the service office for information or assistance with respect to claims processing and coverage. (B) The administrator shall assign to each service office an adequate number of investigators and field auditors. Service directors shall make investigators available to district hearing officers as needed. In addition to other duties the administrator may assign to investigators, they shall, at the service directors' direction, investigate alleged instances of persons receiving compensation pursuant to section 4123.58 of the Revised Code and engaging in remunerative employment that is incompatible with the terms of that section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4101.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4101 / § 4101.11
§ 4101.11. Duty of employer to protect employees and frequenters
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Every employer shall furnish employment which is safe for the employees engaged therein, shall furnish a place of employment which shall be safe for the employees therein and for frequenters thereof, shall furnish and use safety devices and safeguards, shall adopt and use methods and processes, follow and obey orders, and prescribe hours of labor reasonably adequate to render such employment and places of employment safe, and shall do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, health, safety, and welfare of such employees and frequenters.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4109.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4109 / § 4109.04
§ 4109.04. Participation or acquiescence in violations prohibited
Status: in_force

January 12, 1979 House Bill 883 - 112th General Assembly No employer or officer or agent of an employer shall participate or acquiesce in any violation of law relating to compulsory education or employment of minors.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.84 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.84
§ 4123.84. Claims for injury or death barred after one year - exceptions
Status: in_force

March 20, 2025 Senate Bill 196 - 135th General Assembly (A) In all cases of injury or death, claims for compensation or benefits for the specific part or parts of the body injured shall be forever barred unless, within one year after the injury or death: (1) Written or facsimile notice of the specific part or parts of the body claimed to have been injured has been made to the industrial commission or the bureau of workers' compensation; (2) The employer, with knowledge of a claimed compensable injury or occupational disease, has paid wages in lieu of compensation for total disability; (3) In the event the employer is a self-insuring employer, one of the following has occurred: (a) Written or facsimile notice of the specific part or parts of the body claimed to have been injured has been given to the commission or bureau or the employer has furnished treatment by a licensed physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner in the employ of an employer, provided, however, that the furnishing of such treatment shall not constitute a recognition of a claim as compensable, but shall do no more than satisfy the requirements of this section; (b) Compensation or benefits have been paid or furnished equal to or greater than is provided for in sections 4123.52 , 4123.55 to 4123.62 , and 4123.64 to 4123.67 of the Revised Code. (4) Written or facsimile notice of death has been given to the commission or bureau. (B) The bureau shall provide printed notices quoting in full division (A) of this section, and every self-insuring employer shall post and maintain at all times one or more of the notices in conspicuous places in the workshop or places of employment. (C) The commission has continuing jurisdiction as set forth in section 4123.52 of the Revised Code over a claim which meets the requirement of this section, including jurisdiction to award compensation or benefits for loss or impairment of bodily functions developing in a part or parts of the body not specified pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section, if the commission finds that the loss or impairment of bodily functions was due to and a result of or a residual of the injury to one of the parts of the body set forth in the written notice filed pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section. (D) Any claim pending before the administrator, the commission, or a court on December 11, 1967, in which the remedy is affected by this section is governed by this section. (E) Notwithstanding the requirement that the notice required to be given to the bureau, commission, or employer under this section is to be in writing or facsimile, the bureau may accept, assign a claim number, and process a claim when notice is provided verbally over the telephone. Immediately upon receipt of notice provided verbally over the telephone, the bureau shall send a written or facsimile notice to the employer of the bureau's receipt of the verbal notice. Within fifteen days after receipt of the bureau's written or facsimile notice, the employer may in writing or facsimile either verify or not verify the verbal notice. If the bureau does not receive the written or facsimile notification from the employer or receives a written or facsimile notification verifying the verbal notice within such time period, the claim is validly filed and such verbal notice tolls the statute of limitations in regard to the claim filed and is considered to meet the requirements of written or facsimile notice required by this section. (F) As used in division (A)(3)(b) of this section, "benefits" means payments by a self-insuring employer to, or on behalf of, an employee for any of the following: a hospital bill; a medical bill to a licensed physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse practitioner, or hospital; or an orthopedic or prosthetic device. Last updated February 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.23
§ 4121.23. Petition for hearing by employer
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly Any employer or other person interested either because of ownership in or occupation of any property affected by any order of the bureau of workers' compensation, or otherwise, may petition for a hearing on the reasonableness and lawfulness of any bureau order. The petition for hearing shall be by verified petition, filed with the bureau, setting out specifically and in full detail the order upon which a hearing is desired and every reason why the order is unreasonable or unlawful, and every issue to be considered by the bureau on the hearing. The petitioner shall be deemed to have finally waived all objection to any irregularities and illegalities in the order upon which a hearing is sought other than those set forth in the petition. All hearings of the bureau shall be open to the public. Upon receipt of the petition, if the issues raised in the petition have theretofore been adequately considered, the bureau shall determine the same by confirming, without hearing, its previous determination, or if a hearing is necessary to determine the issues raised, the bureau shall order a hearing thereon and consider and determine the matters in question at the time prescribed. Notice of the time and place of the hearing shall be given to the petitioner and to such other persons as the bureau finds directly interested in the decision. Upon an investigation, if it is found that the order complained of is unlawful or unreasonable, the bureau shall substitute a lawful and reasonable order therefor. Whenever at the time of final determination upon hearing it is found that further time is reasonably necessary for compliance with the order of the bureau, the bureau shall grant such time as is reasonably necessary for compliance.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4164.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4164 / § 4164.07
§ 4164.07. Performance of duties commence on appointment
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly Immediately after appointment to the authority under section 4164.05 of the Revised Code, the members shall enter upon the performance of their duties. Last updated October 26, 2023 at 10:01 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.324 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.324
§ 4123.324. Waiver or reduction of experience transfer
Status: in_force

March 23, 2016 House Bill 259 - 131st General Assembly (A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall adopt rules, for the purpose of encouraging economic development, that establish conditions under which any negative experience to be transferred to the account of an employer who is successor in interest under division (B) of section 4123.32 of the Revised Code may be reduced or waived. (B) The administrator, in adopting rules under division (A) of this section, may not permit a waiver or reduction in experience transfer if the succession transaction is entered into for the purpose of escaping obligations under this chapter or Chapter 4121., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4104.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4104 / § 4104.42
§ 4104.42. Owner to ensure compliance with pressure piping standards
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly (A) The owner of any power piping or process piping system shall ensure that all of the following are performed in compliance with applicable sections of the B31 standards contained in the code for pressure piping, published by the American society of mechanical engineers: (1) The design, fabrication, assembly, installation, testing, examination, and inspection of power and process piping systems; (2) Qualification of personnel and qualification of welding and brazing procedures; (3) The implementation of an inspection program. (B) The owner of a power piping or process piping system shall do both of the following: (1) Maintain for five years complete records documenting the design, examination, and testing of the piping system that include all of the following: (a) The specific edition of the code for pressure piping used in the design; (b) The design assumptions; (c) The calculations, piping material specifications, and construction documents for the piping; (d) The records of piping alterations; (e) The piping examination and inspection records. (2) Disclose the types and quantities of flammable, combustible, or hazardous materials proposed to be used in the facility to the building and fire code enforcement authorities who have inspection authority to enable those authorities to determine compliance with the rules the board of building standards adopts pursuant to section 3781.10 of the Revised Code and the rules the state fire marshal adopts pursuant to section 3737.82 of the Revised Code. (C) No person or state agency shall require that the records described in division (B)(1) of this section be submitted to the division of industrial compliance in the department of commerce or to a certified building department for approval. (D) Nothing in this section limits the application of Chapters 4703. and 4733. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4165.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4165 / § 4165.01
§ 4165.01. Deceptive trade practices definitions
Status: in_force

March 30, 1999 Senate Bill 173 - 122nd General Assembly As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (A) "Certification mark" means a mark used in connection with the goods or services of a person other than the certifier to indicate geographic origin, material, mode of manufacture, quality, accuracy, or other characteristics of the goods or services or to indicate that the work or labor on the goods or services was performed by members of a union or other organization. (B) "Collective mark" means a mark used by members of a cooperative, association, or other collective group or organization to identify goods or services and distinguish them from those of others, or to indicate membership in the collective group or organization. (C) "Mark" means a word, name, symbol, device, or combination of a word, name, symbol, or device in any form or arrangement. (D) "Person" means an individual, corporation, government, governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, unincorporated association, limited liability company, two or more of any of the foregoing having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity. (E) "Service mark" means a mark used by a person to identify services and to distinguish them from the services of others. (F) "Trademark" means a mark used by a person to identify goods and to distinguish them from the goods of others. (G) "Trade name" means a word, name, symbol, device, or combination of a word, name, symbol, or device in any form or arrangement used by a person to identify the person's business, vocation, or occupation and distinguish it from the business, vocation, or occupation of others. (H) "Directory assistance" means the disclosure by an operator or an automated service, upon request by an individual and that individual's identification of a telephone service subscriber in some manner, of telephone number information pertaining to the identified telephone service subscriber. (I) "Local telephone directory" means a telephone classified advertising directory, or the business section of a telephone directory, that is distributed by a telephone company or a directory publisher to subscribers who are located in one or more local exchanges covered by the directory. "Local telephone directory" includes a telephone classified advertising directory, or the business section of a telephone directory, that includes listings of more than one telephone company. (J) "Local telephone number" means a telephone number that has a three-number prefix that is used by a telephone company in connection with telephones that are physically located within an area covered by a local telephone directory in which the telephone number is listed. "Local telephone number" does not include long distance telephone numbers that are listed as long distance telephone numbers in a local telephone directory, or 800-, 888-, or 900- telephone numbers that are listed in a local telephone directory. (K) "Telephone company" has the same meaning as in section 4905.402 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.61 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.61
§ 4123.61. Basis for computation of benefits
Status: in_force

August 25, 2006 Senate Bill 7 - 126th General Assembly The average weekly wage of an injured employee at the time of the injury or at the time disability due to the occupational disease begins is the basis upon which to compute benefits. In cases of temporary total disability the compensation for the first twelve weeks for which compensation is payable shall be based on the full weekly wage of the claimant at the time of the injury or at the time of the disability due to occupational disease begins; when a factory, mine, or other place of employment is working short time in order to divide work among the employees, the bureau of workers' compensation shall take that fact into consideration when determining the wage for the first twelve weeks of temporary total disability. Compensation for all further temporary total disability shall be based as provided for permanent disability claims. In death, permanent total disability claims, permanent partial disability claims, and impairment of earnings claims, the claimant's or the decedent's average weekly wage for the year preceding the injury or the date the disability due to the occupational disease begins is the weekly wage upon which compensation shall be based. In ascertaining the average weekly wage for the year previous to the injury, or the date the disability due to the occupational disease begins any period of unemployment due to sickness, industrial depression, strike, lockout, or other cause beyond the employee's control shall be eliminated. In cases where there are special circumstances under which the average weekly wage cannot justly be determined by applying this section, the administrator of workers' compensation, in determining the average weekly wage in such cases, shall use such method as will enable the administrator to do substantial justice to the claimants, provided that the administrator shall not recalculate the claimant's average weekly wage for awards for permanent total disability solely for the reason that the claimant continued working and the claimant's wages increased following the injury.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4164.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4164 / § 4164.08
§ 4164.08. Office or employment not forfeited by membership or service
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, no officer or employee of this state shall be deemed to have forfeited, or shall have forfeited, the officer's or employee's office or employment due to acceptance of membership on the authority or by providing service to the authority. Last updated October 26, 2023 at 10:03 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.99
§ 4141.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

September 5, 2005 Senate Bill 81 - 126th General Assembly (A) Whoever violates section 4141.07 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (B) Whoever violates section 4141.22 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. (C) Whoever violates section 4141.38 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars. (D) Whoever violates section 4141.40 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars for a first offense; for each subsequence offense such person shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one thousand dollars. (E) Whoever violates section 4141.046 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree for a first offense; for each subsequent offense the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (F) Whoever knowingly transfers employees of a trade or business or advises another person to transfer employees in violation of division (A) of section 4141.48 of the Revised Code is guilty of unemployment tax evasion. In addition to the penalties imposed in division (C) of section 4141.48 of the Revised Code, if the tax avoided by the trade or business is less than ten thousand dollars, the violation is a misdemeanor of the first degree under section 2929.24 of the Revised Code. If the tax avoided is ten thousand dollars or more, the violation is a felony under section 2929.14 of the Revised Code, with increased criminal penalties as follows: (1) If the tax avoided by the business is ten thousand dollars or more but less than fifty thousand dollars, the violation is a felony of the fifth degree. (2) If the tax avoided is fifty thousand dollars or more but less than one hundred thousand dollars, the violation is a felony of the fourth degree. (3) If the tax avoided is one hundred thousand dollars or more, the violation is a felony of the third degree. (G) For purposes of division (F) of this section, "knowingly," "person," "trade or business," and "violates or attempts to violate" have the same meanings as in section 4141.48 of the Revised Code. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.10
§ 4141.10. Unemployment compensation administration fund
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 470 - 123rd General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the unemployment compensation administration fund as a special fund in the state treasury. All moneys that are deposited or paid into this fund are available to the director of job and family services only for the administration of this chapter. All moneys in this fund that are received from the United States or any agency thereof or that are appropriated by this state for the purposes described in section 4141.04 of the Revised Code, shall be expended solely for the purposes and in the amounts found necessary by the proper agency of the United States for the proper and efficient administration of this chapter. The fund shall consist of all moneys appropriated by this state, and all moneys received from the United States or any agency thereof, including the proper agency of the United States, the railroad retirement board, and the United States department of labor, or from any other source, for such purpose, except that moneys received from the railroad retirement board as compensation for services or facilities supplied to that board shall be paid into this fund on the same basis as expenditures are made for such services or facilities from such fund and account. All moneys in this fund shall be deposited, administered, and disbursed in the same manner and under the same conditions and requirements as are other special funds in the state treasury. The treasurer of state is liable on the treasurer of state's official bond for the faithful performance of the treasurer of state's duties in connection with this fund. Any balances in this fund shall not lapse at any time, but shall be continuously available to the director for expenditure. (B) If any moneys received from the proper agency of the United States under Title III of the "Social Security Act," or any unencumbered balances in the fund as of that date, or any moneys granted to this state pursuant to the Wagner-Peyser acts, or any moneys made available by this state or its political subdivisions and matched by such moneys granted to this state pursuant to the Wagner-Peyser acts are found by the proper agency of the United States because of any action or contingency, to have been lost or expended for purposes other than, or in amounts in excess of, those found necessary by the proper agency of the United States for the proper administration of this chapter, such moneys shall be replaced by moneys appropriated for such purpose from the general funds of this state to the unemployment compensation administration fund for expenditure as provided in division (A) of this section. Upon receipt of notice of such a finding by the proper agency of the United States, the director shall promptly report the amount required for such replacement to the governor and the governor shall at the earliest opportunity submit to the general assembly a request for the appropriation of such amount.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.401 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.401
§ 4123.401. Estimated number of state employees
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly On or before the first day of November preceding each biennium, the officer or employee of each state department, division, subdivision, bureau, commission, or any other state agency required to submit a budget request to the director of budget and management for any biennium shall provide the bureau of workers' compensation with the estimated number of employees of the state department, division, subdivision, bureau, commission, or other state agency for the ensuing biennium along with the estimated payroll of personal services.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4111.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4111 / § 4111.09
§ 4111.09. Summaries and copies rules to be posted and available to employees
Status: in_force

July 21, 2025 Senate Bill 33 - 136th General Assembly (A) Every employer subject to sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, or to any rules issued thereunder, shall keep a summary of the sections, approved by the director of commerce, and copies of any applicable rules issued thereunder, or a summary of the rules, posted in one of the following ways: (1) In a conspicuous and accessible place in or about the premises wherein any person subject thereto is employed; (2) On the internet in a manner that is accessible to the employer's employees. (B) The director of commerce shall make the summary described in this section available on the web site of the department of commerce. The director shall update this summary as necessary, but not less than annually, in order to reflect changes in the minimum wage rate as required under Section 34a of Article II, Ohio Constitution. Employees and employers shall be furnished copies of the summaries and rules by the state, on request, without charge. Last updated May 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4109.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4109 / § 4109.10
§ 4109.10. Written agreements as to wages
Status: in_force

January 12, 1979 House Bill 883 - 112th General Assembly (A) No employer shall give employment to a minor, without agreeing with him as to the wages or compensation he shall receive for each day, week, month, or year; or per piece, for work performed. The employer shall furnish the minor with written evidence of the agreement and, on or before each payday, with a statement of the earnings due and the amount to be paid to him. No employer shall reduce the wages or compensation of any minor without giving him notice at least twenty-four hours previous to the reduction, at which time a written agreement shall be entered into with the minor as in the case of original employment. (B) No employer shall retain or withhold from a minor in his employ the wages or compensation, or any part thereof, agreed to be paid and due the minor for work performed or services rendered because of presumed negligence or failure to comply with rules, breakage of machinery, or alleged incompetence to produce work or perform labor according to any standard of merit. (C) No employer shall receive a guarantee, bonus, money deposit, or other form of security to obtain or secure employment for a minor or to ensure faithful performance of labor, guarantee strict observance of rules, or make good losses which may be charged to the minor's incompetence, negligence, or inability.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4112.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4112 / § 4112.11
§ 4112.11. Compliance with commission orders for evidence
Status: in_force

November 12, 1969 House Bill 432 - 108th General Assembly (A) No person shall willfully fail or neglect to attend and testify or answer any lawful inquiry or produce records, documents, or other evidence, if in his power to do so, in obedience to a subpoena or lawful order of the Ohio civil rights commission. (B) No person shall, with intent to mislead the commission, make or cause to be made any false entry or statement of fact in any report, account, record, or other documents submitted to the commission pursuant to its subpoena or other order. No person shall willfully neglect or fail to make or cause to be made full, true, and correct entries in such reports, accounts, records, or other documents submitted to the commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.122 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.122
§ 4121.122. Discipline of commission and bureau employees
Status: in_force

September 10, 2007 House Bill 100 - 127th General Assembly (A) The administrator of workers' compensation, for employees of the bureau of workers' compensation, and the industrial commission, for employees of the commission may discipline, suspend, demote or discharge any employee for misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance. In the case of any deputy administrator, or of any employee assigned to the investigation or determination of claims, and finding of the administrator or the commission that such person is not efficient, impartial, or judicious, if supported by any evidence and not promoted by personal, political, racial, or religious discrimination shall be accepted as a fact justifying the action taken by the administrator or commission. (B) The administrator and the commission shall jointly adopt, in the form of a rule, a code of ethics for all employees of the bureau and the commission and post copies of the rule in a conspicuous place in every bureau and commission office. (C) The administrator and the commission shall jointly adopt rules setting forth procedures designed to eliminate outside influence on bureau and commission employees, produce an impartial workers' compensation claims handling process, and avoid favoritism in the claims handling process. Failure to adopt and enforce these rules constitutes grounds for removal of the administrator and the members of the commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.69 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.69
§ 4123.69. Persons entitled to benefits
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly Every employee mentioned in section 4123.68 of the Revised Code and the dependents and the employer or employers of such employee shall be entitled to all the rights, benefits, and immunities and shall be subject to all the liabilities, penalties, and regulations provided for injured employees and their employers by this chapter. The administrator of workers' compensation shall have all of the powers, authority, and duties with respect to the collection, administration, and disbursement of the state occupational disease fund as are provided for in this chapter, providing for the collection, administration, and disbursement of the state insurance fund for the compensation of injured employees.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4113.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4113 / § 4113.99
§ 4113.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

January 1, 1974 House Bill 581 - 110th General Assembly (A) Whoever violates section 4113.15 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (B) Whoever violates section 4113.16 , 4113.18 , or 4113.19 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (C) Whoever violates section 4113.17 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor for a first offense; for each subsequent offense such person is guilty of a misdemeanor in the fourth degree. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.445 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.445
§ 4123.445. Contract with investment manager convicted of financial crime prohibited
Status: in_force

September 29, 2005 House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly (A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall not enter into a contract with an investment manager for the investment of assets of the bureau of workers' compensation funds if any employee of that investment manager who will be investing assets of bureau of workers' compensation funds has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a financial or investment crime. (B) An investment manager who has entered into a contract with the bureau of workers' compensation for the investment of assets of bureau of workers' compensation funds shall not contract with a business entity for the investment of those assets if any employee of that business manager who will be investing assets of bureau of workers' compensation funds has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a financial or investment crime. (C) The administrator shall not enter into a contract with an investment manager who refuses to submit the list of the investment manager's employees required under division (B) of section 4123.444 of the Revised Code. An investment manager shall not enter into a contract with a business entity who refuses to submit the list of the business entity's employees required under division (B) of section 4123.444 of the Revised Code. (D) If, after a contract has been awarded to an investment manager or business entity for the investment of assets of bureau of workers' compensation funds, the investment manager or business entity discovers that an employee who is handling the investment of those assets has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a financial or investment crime, the investment manager or business entity immediately shall notify the administrator.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4113.40 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4113 / § 4113.40
§ 4113.40. Leave of absence for union management relations
Status: in_force

July 14, 1976 S274 - 111th General Assembly (A) An employee in the telephone industry who is granted or has previously been granted a leave of absence for union management relations requiring the employee's absence from regular duties with the employee's employer shall have such period of absence or any continuance of such absence for union management relations beyond the expiration of the leave of absence counted by the employer as the equivalent of service performed for the employer for the purpose of determining benefits and seniority of the employee. (B) For the purpose of determining benefits and seniority, this section shall also apply to all employees currently on leave of absence on the effective date of this section, and to all former employees who prior to the effective date of this section, had been on leave of absence for two years or more.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.80 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.80
§ 4123.80. Agreement to waive rights void - exceptions
Status: in_force

September 10, 2007 House Bill 100 - 127th General Assembly No agreement by an employee to waive an employee's rights to compensation under this chapter is valid, except that: (A) An employee who is blind may waive the compensation that may become due to the employee for injury or disability in cases where the injury or disability may be directly caused by or due to the employee's blindness. The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, may adopt and enforce rules governing the employment of such persons and the inspection of their places of employment. (B) An employee may waive the employee's rights to compensation or benefits as authorized pursuant to division (C)(3) of section 4123.01 or section 4123.15 of the Revised Code. No agreement by an employee to pay any portion of the premium paid by the employee's employer into the state insurance fund is valid.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.82 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.82
§ 4123.82. Contracts indemnifying or insuring employer void
Status: in_force

September 17, 2014 House Bill 493 - 130th General Assembly (A) All contracts and agreements are void which undertake to indemnify or insure an employer against loss or liability for the payment of compensation to workers or their dependents for death, injury, or occupational disease occasioned in the course of the workers' employment, or which provide that the insurer shall pay the compensation, or which indemnify the employer against damages when the injury, disease, or death arises from the failure to comply with any lawful requirement for the protection of the lives, health, and safety of employees, or when the same is occasioned by the willful act of the employer or any of the employer's officers or agents, or by which it is agreed that the insurer shall pay any such damages. No license or authority to enter into any such agreements or issue any such policies of insurance shall be granted or issued by any public authority in this state. Any corporation organized or admitted under the laws of this state to transact liability insurance as defined in section 3929.01 of the Revised Code may by amendment of its articles of incorporation or by original articles of incorporation, provide therein for the authority and purpose to make insurance in states, territories, districts, and counties, other than the state of Ohio, and in the state of Ohio in respect of contracts permitted by division (B) of this section, indemnifying employers against loss or liability for payment of compensation to workers and employees and their dependents for death, injury, or occupational disease occasioned in the course of the employment and to insure and indemnify employers against loss, expense, and liability by risk of bodily injury or death by accident, disability, sickness, or disease suffered by workers and employees for which the employer may be liable or has assumed liability. (B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section: (1) No contract because of that division is void which undertakes to indemnify a self-insuring employer against all or part of such employer's loss in excess of at least fifty thousand dollars from any one disaster or event arising out of the employer's liability under this chapter, but no insurance corporation shall, directly or indirectly, represent an employer in the settlement, adjudication, determination, allowance, or payment of claims. The superintendent of insurance shall enforce this prohibition by such disciplinary orders directed against the offending insurance corporation as the superintendent of insurance deems appropriate in the circumstances and the administrator of workers' compensation shall enforce this prohibition by such disciplinary orders directed against the offending employer as the administrator deems appropriate in the circumstances, which orders may include revocation of the insurance corporation's right to enter into indemnity contracts and revocation of the employer's status as a self-insuring employer. (2) The administrator may enter into a contract of indemnity with any such employer upon such terms, payment of such premium, and for such amount and form of indemnity as the administrator determines and the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors may procure reinsurance of the liability of the public and private funds under this chapter, or any part of the liability in respect of either or both of the funds, upon such terms and premiums or other payments from the fund or funds as the administrator deems prudent in the maintenance of a solvent fund or funds from year to year. When making the finding of fact which the administrator is required by section 4123.35 of the Revised Code to make with respect to the financial ability of an employer, no contract of indemnity, or the ability of the employer to procure such a contract, shall be considered as increasing the financial ability of the employer. (C) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the administrator or an other-states' insurer from providing to employers in this state other-states' coverage or limited other-states' coverage in accordance with section 4123.292 of the Revised Code. (D) Notwithstanding any other section of the Revised Code, but subject to division (A) of this section, the superintendent of insurance shall have the sole authority to regulate any insurance products, except for the bureau of workers' compensation and those products offered by the bureau, that indemnify or insure employers against workers' compensation losses in this state or that are sold to employers in this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4113.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4113 / § 4113.41
§ 4113.41. Absence by volunteer firefighter or emergency medical services provider
Status: in_force

March 15, 2001 House Bill 203 - 123rd General Assembly (A) No employer shall terminate an employee who is a member of a volunteer fire department, or who is employed by a political subdivision of this state as a volunteer firefighter, or who is a volunteer provider of emergency medical services because that employee, when acting as a volunteer firefighter or a volunteer provider of emergency medical services, is absent from or late to the employee's employment in order to respond to an emergency prior to the time the employee is to report to work. An employer may charge any time that an employee who is a volunteer firefighter or a volunteer provider of emergency medical services loses from employment because of the employee's response to an emergency against the employee's regular pay. (B) An employee who is a volunteer firefighter or volunteer provider of emergency medical services shall do all of the following: (1) Not later than thirty days after receiving certification as a volunteer firefighter or a volunteer provider of emergency services, submit to the employee's employer a written notification signed by the chief of the volunteer fire department with which the employee serves, or the medical director or chief administrator of the cooperating physician advisory board of the emergency medical organization with which the employee serves, to notify the employer of the employee's status as a volunteer firefighter or volunteer provider of emergency services; (2) Make every effort to notify the employee's employer that the employee may report late to or be absent from work due to the employee's dispatch to an emergency. If notification of dispatch to an emergency cannot be made either due to the extreme circumstances of the emergency or the inability to contact the employer, then the employee shall submit to the employee's employer a written explanation from the chief of the volunteer fire department with which the employee serves, or the medical director or chief administrator of the cooperating physician advisory board of the emergency medical service organization with which the employee serves, as applicable, to explain why prior notice was not given. (C) At the employer's request, an employee who loses time from the employee's employment to respond to an emergency shall provide the employer with a written statement from the chief of the volunteer fire department or the medical director or chief administrator of the cooperating physician advisory board of the emergency medical service organization, as applicable, stating that the employee responded to an emergency and listing the time of that response. (D) An employee who is a member of a volunteer fire department, or who is employed by a political subdivision of this state as a volunteer firefighter, or who is a volunteer provider of emergency medical services shall notify that employee's employer when the employee's status as a volunteer firefighter or volunteer provider of emergency medical services changes, including when the employee's status as a volunteer firefighter or volunteer provider of emergency medical services is terminated. (E) If an employer purposely violates division (A) of this section, the employee may bring a civil action for reinstatement to the employee's former position of employment, payment of back wages, and full reinstatement of fringe benefits and seniority rights. An action to enforce this section shall be commenced within one year after the date of the violation in the court of common pleas of the county where the place of employment is located. (F) As used in this section: (1) "Emergency" means going to, attending to, or coming from a fire, hazardous or toxic materials spill and cleanup, medical emergency, or other situation that poses an imminent threat of loss of life or property to which the fire department or provider of emergency medical services has been or later could be dispatched. (2) "Emergency medical services" and "emergency medical service organization" have the same meanings as in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Volunteer firefighter" has the same meaning as in section 146.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4164.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4164 / § 4164.15
§ 4164.15. Collaboration regarding commercializing advance-nuclear-reactor components
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The authority shall work with industrial and academic institutions and the United States department of energy or branches of the United States military for the commercialization of advanced-nuclear-reactor components, which may include any of the following: (A) Advanced-nuclear-reactor-neutronics analysis and experimentation, including reactor, plant, shielding, nuclear data, source-program software, nuclear database, conceptual design, core and system design, certification in the phases, core-management and fuel-management technology, modeling, and calculation; (B) Advanced-nuclear-reactor safety and plant safety, including reactor-system safety standards, accident-analysis software, and accident-management regulations; (C) Advanced-nuclear-reactor fuels and materials, including long-life fuel, clad materials, structural materials, component materials, absorber materials, circuit materials, raw materials, fuels-and-materials research and development, testing programs used to develop fuels and materials-manufacturing processes, experimental data, formulae, technological processes, and facilities and equipment used to manufacture advanced-nuclear-reactor fuels and materials; (D) Advanced-nuclear-reactor-nuclear-steam-supply systems and their associated components and equipment, including design standards, component, equipment, and systems design, thermal hydraulics, mechanics, and chemistry analysis; (E) Advanced-nuclear-reactor engineered-safety features and their associated components, including design standards, component design, system design, and structural design; (F) Advanced-nuclear-reactor building, including containment design, structural analysis, and architectural analysis; (G) Advanced-nuclear-reactor instrumentation and control and application of computer science, including survey, monitor, control, and protection systems; (H) Advanced-nuclear-reactor-quality practices, nondestructive-inspection practices, and in-service-inspection technology; (I) Advanced-nuclear-reactor plant design and construction, debug, test-run, operation, maintenance, and decommissioning technology; (J) Advanced-nuclear-reactor economic methodology and evaluation technology; (K) Treatment, storage, recycling, and disposal technology for advanced-nuclear-reactor and system-spent fuel; (L) Treatment, storage, and disposal technology for advanced-nuclear-reactor and system radioactive waste. Last updated October 26, 2023 at 10:07 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.443 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.443
§ 4123.443. Rental payments for leased buildings
Status: in_force

April 10, 1991 House Bill 743 - 118th General Assembly Rental payments by the bureau of workers' compensation or the industrial commission to or for the benefit of the state insurance fund for each building owned by the bureau that was constructed or acquired as an investment in productive real estate, shall be made pursuant to a lease agreement for a term that shall not exceed two years. Beginning July 1, 1991, the rental payments to be made under each such lease agreement shall include the amount needed to amortize the construction or acquisition costs for the building over a period not to exceed twenty-five years, and, until such costs are amortized, an amount representing return on investment to the state insurance fund determined by multiplying the unamortized acquisition or construction costs of the building by a rate that is not more than three per cent below the rate determined by the tax commissioner under division (B) of section 5703.47 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.16
§ 4121.16. Witness attendance - fees and mileage
Status: in_force

July 1, 2009 House Bill 525 - 127th General Assembly Each witness who appears before the bureau of workers' compensation by its order shall receive for the witness's attendance the fees and mileage provided for under section 119.094 of the Revised Code, which shall be paid from the state insurance fund on the approval of the administrator of workers' compensation. No witnesses subpoenaed at the instance of the parties other than the bureau is entitled to compensation from the state for attendance or travel unless the bureau certifies that the witness's testimony was material to the matter investigated.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4112.32 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4112 / § 4112.32
§ 4112.32. New African immigrants commission
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly There is hereby created the new African immigrants commission consisting of eleven voting members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate and four nonvoting members, two of whom are members of the general assembly. The governor shall make initial appointments to the commission. Of the initial appointments made to the commission, three shall be for a term ending October 7, 2009, four shall be for a term ending October 7, 2010, and four shall be for a term ending October 7, 2011. Thereafter, terms of office shall be for three years, each term ending on the same day of the same month of the year as did the term which it succeeds. Each member shall hold office from the date of appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of such term. Any member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office, or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. At the first organizational meeting of the commission, the original eleven voting members shall draw lots to determine the length of the term each member shall serve. Of the four nonvoting members of the commission, two shall be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and two shall be appointed by the president of the senate. Of the two nonvoting members appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, one shall be a member of the house of representatives and one shall be a private citizen. Of the two nonvoting members appointed by the president of the senate, one shall be a member of the senate and one shall be a private citizen. Each nonvoting member appointed to the commission shall serve a term of four years. The term of a nonvoting member of the commission who is a member of the general assembly shall end either after four years or when the nonvoting member leaves the elected office the nonvoting member held at the time of the nonvoting member's appointment, whichever occurs first. All voting members of the commission shall be of sub-Saharan African origin, and shall be American citizens or lawful, permanent, resident aliens. Voting members shall be from urban, suburban, and rural geographical areas representative of sub-Saharan African people with a numerical and geographical balance of the sub-Saharan African population throughout the state. The commission shall elect a chairperson, vice-chairperson, and other officers from among its voting members as it considers advisable. Six voting members constitute a quorum. The commission shall adopt rules governing its procedures. No action of the commission is valid without the concurrence of six members. Members shall not be compensated for work as members of the commission. Last updated August 23, 2023 at 12:24 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4167.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4167 / § 4167.10
§ 4167.10. Inspection and investigation of workplaces
Status: in_force

September 26, 2025 House Bill 81 - 136th General Assembly (A) In order to carry out the purposes of this chapter, the administrator of workers' compensation or the administrator's designee shall, as provided in this section, enter without delay during normal working hours and at other reasonable times, to inspect and investigate any plant, facility, establishment, construction site, or any other area, workplace, or environment where work is being performed by a public employee of a public employer, and any place of employment and all pertinent conditions, structures, machines, apparatus, devices, equipment, and materials therein, and question privately any public employer, administrator, department head, operator, agent, or public employee. The authority to inspect and investigate includes the taking of environmental samples, the taking and obtaining of photographs related to the purposes of the inspection or investigation, the examination of records required to be kept under section 4167.11 of the Revised Code and other documents and records relevant to the inspection and investigation, the issuance of subpoenas, and the conducting of tests and other studies reasonably calculated to serve the purposes of implementing and enforcing this chapter. Except as provided in this section, the administrator or the administrator's designee shall conduct the inspections and investigations only pursuant to rules adopted under section 4167.02 of the Revised Code, a request to do so by a public employee or public employee representative, or the notification the administrator receives pursuant to division (B) of section 4167.06 of the Revised Code and only if the administrator or the administrator's designee complies with this section. The administrator or the administrator's designee shall conduct all requested or required inspections within a reasonable amount of time following receipt of the request or notification. (B)(1) Any public employee or public employee representative who believes that a violation of an Ohio employment risk reduction standard exists that threatens physical harm, or that an imminent danger exists, may request an inspection by giving written notice to the administrator or the administrator's designee of the violation or danger. The notice shall set forth with reasonable particularity the grounds for the notice, and shall be signed by the public employee or public employee representative. The names of individual public employees making the notice or referred to therein shall not appear in the copy provided to the public employer pursuant to division (B)(2) of this section and shall be kept confidential. (2) If, upon receipt of a notification pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section, the administrator determines that there are no reasonable grounds to believe that a violation or danger exists, the administrator shall inform the public employee or public employee representative in writing of the determination. If, upon receipt of a notification, the administrator determines that there are reasonable grounds to believe that a violation or danger exists, the administrator shall, within one week, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and any legal holiday as defined in section 1.14 of the Revised Code, after receipt of the notification, notify the public employer, by certified mail, return receipt requested, of the alleged violation or danger. The notice provided to the public employer or the public employer's agent shall inform the public employer of the alleged violation or danger and that the administrator or the administrator's designee will investigate and inspect the public employer's workplace as provided in this section. The public employer must respond to the administrator, in a method determined by the administrator, concerning the alleged violation or danger, within thirty days after receipt of the notice. If the public employer does not correct the violation or danger within the thirty-day period or if the public employer fails to respond within that time period, the administrator or the administrator's designee shall investigate and inspect the public employer's workplace as provided in this section. The administrator or the administrator's designee shall not conduct any inspection prior to the end of the thirty-day period unless requested or permitted by the public employer. The administrator may, at any time upon the request of the public employer, inspect and investigate any violation or danger alleged to exist at the public employer's place of employment. (3) The authority of the administrator or the administrator's designee to investigate and inspect a premises pursuant to a public employee or public employee representative notification is not limited to the alleged violation or danger contained in the notification. The administrator or the administrator's designee may investigate and inspect any other area of the premises where there is reason to believe that a violation or danger exists. In addition, if the administrator or the administrator's designee detects any obvious or apparent violation at any temporary place of employment while en route to the premises to be inspected or investigated, and that violation presents a substantial probability that the condition or practice could result in death or serious physical harm, the administrator or the administrator's designee may use any of the enforcement mechanisms provided in this section to correct or remove the condition or practice. (4) If, during an inspection or investigation, the administrator or the administrator's designee finds any condition or practice in any place of employment that presents a substantial probability that the condition or practice could result in death or serious physical harm, after notifying the employer of the administrator's intent to issue an order, the administrator shall issue an order, or the administrator's designee shall issue an order after consultation with the administrator and upon the recommendation of the administrator, which prohibits the employment of any public employee or any continuing operation or process under such condition or practice until necessary steps are taken to correct or remove the condition or practice. The order shall not be effective for more than fifteen days, unless a court of competent jurisdiction otherwise orders as provided in section 4167.14 of the Revised Code. (C) In making any inspections or investigations under this chapter, the administrator or the administrator's designee may administer oaths and require, by subpoena, the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of evidence under oath. Witnesses shall receive the fees and mileage provided for under section 119.094 of the Revised Code. In the case of contumacy, failure, or refusal of any person to comply with an order or any subpoena lawfully issued, or upon the refusal of any witness to testify to any matter regarding which the witness may lawfully be interrogated, a judge of the court of common pleas of any county in this state, on the application of the administrator or the administrator's designee, shall issue an order requiring the person to appear and to produce evidence if, as, and when so ordered, and to give testimony relating to the matter under investigation or in question. The court may punish any failure to obey the order of the court as a contempt thereof. (D) If, upon inspection or investigation, the administrator or the administrator's designee believes that a public employer has violated any requirement of this chapter or any rule, Ohio employment risk reduction standard, or order adopted or issued pursuant thereto, the administrator or the administrator's designee shall, with reasonable promptness, issue a citation to the public employer. The citation shall be in writing and describe with particularity the nature of the alleged violation, including a reference to the provision of law, Ohio employment risk reduction standard, rule, or order alleged to have been violated. In addition, the citation shall fix a time for the abatement of the violation, as provided in division (H) of this section. The administrator may prescribe procedures for the issuance of a notice with respect to minor violations and for enforcement of minor violations that have no direct or immediate relationship to safety or health. (E) Upon receipt of any citation under this section, the public employer shall immediately post the citation, or a copy thereof, at or near each place an alleged violation referred to in the citation occurred. (F) The administrator may not issue a citation under this section after the expiration of six months following the final occurrence of any violation. (G) If the administrator issues a citation pursuant to this section, the administrator shall mail the citation to the public employer by certified mail, return receipt requested. The public employer has fourteen days after receipt of the citation within which to notify the administrator that the employer wishes to contest the citation. If the employer notifies the administrator within the fourteen days that the employer wishes to contest the citation, or if within fourteen days after the issuance of a citation a public employee or public employee representative files notice that the time period fixed in the citation for the abatement of the violation is unreasonable, the administrator shall hold an adjudication hearing in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. (H) In establishing the time limits in which a public employer must abate a violation under this section, the administrator shall consider the costs to the public employer, the size and financial resources of the public employer, the severity of the violation, the technological feasibility of the public employer's ability to comply with requirements of the citation, the possible present and future detriment to the health and safety of any public employee for failure of the public employer to comply with requirements of the citation, and such other factors as the administrator determines appropriate. The administrator may, after considering the above factors, permit the public employer to comply with the citation over a period of up to two years and may extend that period an additional one year, as the administrator determines appropriate. (I) Any public employer may request the administrator to conduct an employment risk reduction inspection of the public employer's place of employment. The administrator or the administrator's designee shall conduct the inspection within a reasonable amount of time following the request. Neither the administrator nor any other person may use any information obtained from the inspection for a period not to exceed three years in any proceeding for a violation of this chapter or any rule or order issued thereunder nor in any other action in any court in this state. Last updated August 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4113.71 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4113 / § 4113.71
§ 4113.71. Immunity of employer as to job performance information disclosures
Status: in_force

July 3, 1996 House Bill 44 - 121st General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Employee" means an individual currently or formerly employed by an employer. (2) "Employer" means the state, any political subdivision of the state, any person employing one or more individuals in this state, and any person directly or indirectly acting in the interest of the state, political subdivision, or such person. (3) "Political subdivision" and "state" have the same meanings as in section 2744.01 of the Revised Code. (B) An employer who is requested by an employee or a prospective employer of an employee to disclose to a prospective employer of that employee information pertaining to the job performance of that employee for the employer and who discloses the requested information to the prospective employer is not liable in damages in a civil action to that employee, the prospective employer, or any other person for any harm sustained as a proximate result of making the disclosure or of any information disclosed, unless the plaintiff in a civil action establishes, either or both of the following: (1) By a preponderance of the evidence that the employer disclosed particular information with the knowledge that it was false, with the deliberate intent to mislead the prospective employer or another person, in bad faith, or with malicious purpose; (2) By a preponderance of the evidence that the disclosure of particular information by the employer constitutes an unlawful discriminatory practice described in section 4112.02 , 4112.021 , or 4112.022 of the Revised Code. (C) If the court finds that the verdict of the jury was in favor of the defendant, the court shall determine whether the lawsuit brought under division (B) of this section constituted frivolous conduct as defined in division (A) of section 2323.51 of the Revised Code, if the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the lawsuit constituted frivolous conduct, it may order the plaintiff to pay reasonable attorney's fees and court costs of the defendant. (D)(1) This section does not create a new cause of action or substantive legal right against an employer. (2) This section does not affect any immunities from civil liability or defenses established by another section of the Revised Code or available at common law to which an employer may be entitled under circumstances not covered by this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.25
§ 4123.25. Misrepresentation as to amount or classification of payroll or amount of compensation paid
Status: in_force

September 10, 2007 House Bill 100 - 127th General Assembly (A) No employer shall knowingly misrepresent to the bureau of workers' compensation the amount or classification of payroll upon which the premium under this chapter is based. Whoever violates this division shall be liable to the state in an amount determined by the administrator of workers' compensation for not more than ten times the amount of the difference between the premium paid and the amount the employer should have paid. The liability to the state under this division may be enforced in a civil action in the name of the state, and all sums collected under this division shall be paid into the state insurance fund. (B) No self-insuring employer shall knowingly misrepresent the amount of paid compensation paid by such employer for purposes of the assessments provided under this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code as required by section 4123.35 of the Revised Code. Whoever violates this division is liable to the state in an amount determined by the self-insuring employers evaluation board pursuant to division (C) of section 4123.352 of the Revised Code or for an amount the board determines that is not more than ten times the amount of the difference between the assessment paid and the amount of the assessment that should have been paid. The liability to the state under this division may be enforced in a civil action in the name of the state and all sums collected under this division shall be paid into the self-insurance assessment fund created pursuant to division (K) of section 4123.35 of the Revised Code. (C) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules establishing criteria for determining both of the following: (1) The amount of the penalty assessed against an employer for a violation of division (A) of this section; (2) Acts or omissions that do not constitute a violation of division (A) or (B) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.36 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.36
§ 4123.36. Covering default when account uncollectible
Status: in_force

September 29, 2023 House Bill 31 - 135th General Assembly Whenever an employer fails to pay a premium due and the administrator of workers' compensation determines the employer's account to be uncollectible, the administrator shall cover the default from the state insurance fund. Thereafter, the employer shall be considered a noncomplying employer under this chapter and shall not be entitled to the benefits and protection of this chapter. Last updated August 3, 2023 at 10:45 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4113.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4113 / § 4113.09
§ 4113.09. Insurance provision
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly In all actions described in section 4113.03 of the Revised Code, any contract, rule, regulation, or device, the purpose or intent of which is to enable any employer to exempt himself from any liability created by sections 4113.03 to 4113.09 , inclusive, and sections 2125.01 to 2125.04 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, is to that extent void. In any action brought against any employer under sections 4113.03 to 4113.08 , inclusive, and sections 2125.01 to 2125.04 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, such employer may set off therein, any sum he has contributed or paid to any insurance, relief, benefit, or indemnity paid to the injured employee or the person entitled thereto on account of the injury or death for which said action was brought.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.17
§ 4121.17. Examination of place of employment upon petition that same is unsafe
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly (A) Upon petition by any person that any employment or place of employment is not safe or is injurious to the welfare of any employee or frequenter, the bureau of workers' compensation shall proceed with or without notice to make an investigation as is necessary to determine the matter complained of. (B) After such hearing as is necessary, the bureau may enter any necessary order relative thereto to render the employment or place of employment safe and not injurious to the welfare of the employees therein or frequenters thereof. (C) Whenever the bureau learns that any employment or place of employment is not safe or is injurious to the welfare of any employee or frequenter, it may of its own motion summarily investigate the same, with or without notice, and issue such order as is necessary thereto.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4141.162 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4141 / § 4141.162
§ 4141.162. Establishing income and eligibility verification system
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) The director of job and family services shall establish an income and eligibility verification system that complies with section 1137 of the "Social Security Act." The programs included in the system are all of the following: (1) Unemployment compensation pursuant to section 3304 of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1954"; (2) The state programs funded in part under part A of Title IV of the "Social Security Act" and administered under Chapters 5107. and 5108. of the Revised Code; (3) The medicaid program; (4) The supplemental nutrition assistance program pursuant to the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.); (5) Any Ohio program under a plan approved under Title I, X, XIV, or XVI of the "Social Security Act." (B) Wage information provided by employers to the director shall be furnished to the income and eligibility verification system. Such information shall be used by the director to determine eligibility of individuals for unemployment compensation benefits and the amount of those benefits and used by the agencies that administer the programs identified in divisions (A)(2) to (5) of this section to determine or verify eligibility for or the amount of benefits under those programs. (C) The director shall, on request, disclose wage and claim information to any state or local agency administering a program identified in division (A) of this section that has entered into a written data sharing agreement with the director that meets the standards specified in federal law, including the requirements in 20 C.F.R. 603.10. (D) Information furnished under the system shall also be made available to the appropriate state or local child support enforcement agency for the purposes of an approved plan under Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act" and to the appropriate federal agency for the purposes of Titles II and XVI of the "Social Security Act." Last updated August 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4125.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4125 / § 4125.01
§ 4125.01. Definitions
Status: in_force

March 22, 2013 Senate Bill 139 - 129th General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "Assurance organization" means an independent and qualified entity approved by the administrator of workers' compensation to certify the qualifications of a professional employer organization or professional employer organization reporting entity. (B) "Client employer" means a sole proprietor, partnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation that enters into a professional employer organization agreement and is assigned shared employees by the professional employer organization. (C) "Coemploy" means the sharing of the responsibilities and liabilities of being an employer. (D) "Professional employer organization" means a sole proprietor, partnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation that enters into an agreement with one or more client employers for the purpose of coemploying all or part of the client employer's workforce at the client employer's work site. (E) "Professional employer organization agreement" means a written contract to coemploy employees between a professional employer organization and a client employer with a duration of not less than twelve months in accordance with the requirements of this chapter. (F) "Professional employer organization reporting entity" means two or more professional employer organizations that are majorityowned or commonly controlled by the same entity, parent, or controlling person and that satisfy reporting entity control rules as defined by the financial accounting standards board and under generally accepted accounting principles. (G) "Shared employee" means an individual intended to be assigned to a client employer on a permanent basis, not as a temporary supplement to the client employer's workforce, who is coemployed by a professional employer organization and a client employer pursuant to a professional employer organization agreement. (H) "Trade secret" has the same meaning as in section 1333.61 of the Revised Code. (I) "Working capital" means the excess of current assets over current liabilities as determined by generally accepted accounting principles. Last updated January 27, 2023 at 3:23 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4139.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4139 / § 4139.04
§ 4139.04. Appointment of executive secretary and personnel
Status: in_force

September 24, 2012 Senate Bill 316 - 129th General Assembly The director of job and family services shall appoint the executive secretary of the council office, which appointment shall be subject to confirmation by a majority vote of the apprenticeship council. The director shall appoint such additional personnel as may be necessary, subject to Chapter 124. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.755 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.755
§ 4123.755. Applicability to residents who become nonresidents
Status: in_force

October 13, 1953 House Bill 258 - 100th General Assembly Sections 4123.751 to 4123.754 , inclusive, of the Revised Code shall be construed to extend the right of service of process upon nonresidents and upon residents who subsequently become nonresidents or who conceal their whereabouts or, after due diligence, whose whereabouts cannot be ascertained and no forwarding address can be found, and shall not be construed as limiting any provisions for the service or process now or hereafter existing.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.024 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.024
§ 4123.024. Administrative and other costs to be paid from state insurance fund
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly Sections 4123.021 to 4123.024 and 4123.031 to 4123.037 of the Revised Code shall be administered by the bureau of workers' compensation. Administrative and other costs, including awards of benefits and compensation, whether lump sum or recurring payments, shall be disbursed from the state insurance fund. At the end of each six months of each fiscal year, the administrator of workers' compensation shall certify to the adjutant general the amounts paid for compensation and benefits for accidental injuries and death compensable pursuant to sections 4123.021 to 4123.024 and 4123.031 to 4123.037 of the Revised Code and for costs of administration.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4111.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4111 / § 4111.99
§ 4111.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

January 1, 1974 House Bill 201 - 110th General Assembly (A) Whoever violates division (A) or (D) of section 4111.13 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (B) Whoever violates division (B) or (C) of section 4111.13 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. (C) Whoever violates section 4111.17 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.90 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.90
§ 4123.90. Retaliation for filing a claim, discrimination against out-of-country dependents prohibited
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly The bureau of workers' compensation, industrial commission, or any other body constituted by the statutes of this state, or any court of this state, in awarding compensation to the dependents of employees, or others killed in Ohio, shall not make any discrimination against the widows, children, or other dependents who reside in a foreign country. The bureau, commission, or any other board or court, in determining the amount of compensation to be paid to the dependents of killed employees, shall pay to the alien dependents residing in foreign countries the same benefits as to those dependents residing in this state. No employer shall discharge, demote, reassign, or take any punitive action against any employee because the employee filed a claim or instituted, pursued or testified in any proceedings under the workers' compensation act for an injury or occupational disease which occurred in the course of and arising out of his employment with that employer. Any such employee may file an action in the common pleas court of the county of such employment in which the relief which may be granted shall be limited to reinstatement with back pay, if the action is based upon discharge, or an award for wages lost if based upon demotion, reassignment, or punitive action taken, offset by earnings subsequent to discharge, demotion, reassignment, or punitive action taken, and payments received pursuant to section 4123.56 and Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code plus reasonable attorney fees. The action shall be forever barred unless filed within one hundred eighty days immediately following the discharge, demotion, reassignment, or punitive action taken, and no action may be instituted or maintained unless the employer has received written notice of a claimed violation of this paragraph within the ninety days immediately following the discharge, demotion, reassignment, or punitive action taken. Last updated September 22, 2023 at 12:12 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4113.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4113 / § 4113.05
§ 4113.05. Certain defenses not available
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly In all actions described in section 4113.03 of the Revised code the negligence of a fellow servant of the employee is not a defense where the injury or death was in any way caused or contributed to by any of the following causes: (A) Any defect or unsafe condition in the ways, works, boats, wharves, plant, machinery, appliances, or tools, except simple tools, in any way connected with or in any way used in the business of the employer; (B) The negligence of any person engaged as superintendent, manager, foreman, inspector, repairman, signalman, or any person in any way having charge, care, or control of such ways, works, boats, wharves, plant, machinery, appliances, or tools; (C) The negligence of any person in charge of or directing the particular work in which the employee was engaged at the time of the injury or death; (D) The negligence of any person to whose orders the employee was bound to conform, and by reason of his having conformed thereto the injuries or death resulted; (E) The negligent act of any fellow servant done in obedience to the immediate or peremptory instructions or orders given by the employer, or any person with authority to direct the doing of said act; (F) The want of necessary and sufficient rules and regulations for the government of such employees and the operation and maintenance of such ways, works, boats, wharves, plant, machinery, appliances, or tools.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4125.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4125 / § 4125.99
§ 4125.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

November 5, 2004 House Bill 183 - 125th General Assembly Whoever violates division (A) of section 4125.05 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. Whoever knowingly violates division (A) of section 4125.05 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.94 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.94
§ 4123.94. Preference of judgments
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly All judgments obtained in any action prosecuted by the administrator of worker's compensation or by the state under the authority of this chapter shall have the same preference against the assets of the employer as is allowed by law on judgments rendered for claims for taxes. Last updated October 25, 2023 at 4:48 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4121.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4121 / § 4121.02
§ 4121.02. Industrial commission
Status: in_force

September 15, 2014 House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the industrial commission. The commission shall consist of three members appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate. One member shall be an individual who, on account of the individual's previous vocation, employment, or affiliations, can be classed as a representative of employers; one shall be an individual who, on account of the individual's previous vocation, employment, or affiliations, can be classed as a representative of employees; and one shall be an individual who, on account of the individual's previous vocation, employment, or affiliations, can be classed as a representative of the public. Each member shall have six or more years of recognized expertise in the field of workers' compensation, and at least one member shall be an attorney registered to practice law in this state. No more than two members of the industrial commission shall belong to or be affiliated with the same political party. (B) Within thirty days after the industrial commission nominating council submits its list to the governor under division (D) of this section, the governor shall make initial appointments to the commission. Of the initial appointments, the member who is a representative of employees shall serve a term ending on June 30, 1995; the member who is a representative of employers shall serve a term ending on June 30, 1997; and the member who is a representative of the public shall serve a term ending on June 30, 1999. Thereafter, terms of office are for six years, beginning on the first day of July and ending on the thirtieth day of June. (C) Each member shall hold office from the date of the member's confirmation by the senate, as provided in division (E) of this section, until the end of the term for which the member was appointed, except that if a member has not been appointed by the end of the term, the member shall remain in office until the member's successor takes office, or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. However, if a member is appointed to fill a full term subsequent to an initial appointment, the term of office is as provided in division (B) of this section. The governor shall not appoint any person to more than two full six-year terms of office on the commission. This restriction does not prevent the governor from appointing a person to fill a vacancy caused by death, resignation, or removal of a commission member, or from appointing that person twice to full terms on the commission, or from appointing a person previously appointed to fill less than a full term twice to full terms on the commission. Except for the public member's tenure as chairperson of the self-insuring employer's evaluation board, a member of the commission shall hold no other office of trust or profit, engage in any other occupation or business, or serve on any committee of any political party and shall devote full time to the member's duties as a member of the commission. (D) In making appointments to the commission, the governor shall select the members from the list of the names submitted by the industrial commission nominating council pursuant to this division. Within thirty days after October 20, 1993, the nominating council shall submit to the governor for the initial appointments a list containing three separate names for the employer, employee, and public members to be filled. Within seven days of the submission of the initial list, the governor shall either appoint individuals from the list or request the nominating council to submit another list of three names for each member the governor has not appointed from the original list, which list the nominating council shall submit to the governor within seven days of the governor's request. The governor then shall appoint, within seven days of the submission of the second list, individuals from either list to fill each position for which the governor has not made an appointment from the original list. Thereafter, within sixty days of a vacancy occurring as a result of the expiration of a term and within thirty days after other vacancies occurring on the commission, the nominating council shall submit an initial list containing three names for each vacancy. Within seven days of the submission of the initial list, the governor shall either appoint individuals from the list or request the nominating council to submit another list of three names for each member the governor has not appointed from the original list, which list the nominating council shall submit to the governor within fourteen days of the governor's request. The governor then shall appoint, within seven days of the submission of the second list, one of the individuals from either list to fill the vacancy for which the governor has not made an appointment from the original list. In order for a name of an individual to be submitted to the governor under this division, the nominating council shall approve the individual by an affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of its members. (E) The governor shall notify the senate of the names of the individuals for whom the governor is making the initial appointments to the commission within thirty days after the submission of the names to the governor by the industrial commission nominating council under division (D) of this section. For appointments subsequent to the initial appointments under this division, if the appointment is to fill a member's term which is to expire, the governor shall notify the senate of the name of the individual to be appointed to fill that position by no later than the first day of June of the year that the term is to expire. For subsequent appointments to fill a vacancy on the commission occurring as a result of the death, resignation, or removal of the commission member, the governor shall notify the senate of the name of the individual to be appointed to fill the remainder of that term within thirty days after the submission of the names to the governor by the nominating council under division (D) of this section. For all appointments, the senate shall refer the matter to an appropriate standing committee for consideration of the appointments, and the committee shall hold a public hearing to consider the appointments. After conclusion of the public hearing, the standing committee shall make its recommendations to the senate. The senate shall not confirm any appointee if the individual does not meet the qualifications of division (A) of this section or if the individual has not been approved by the industrial commission nominating council as provided in division (D) of this section. If the full senate fails to take a final vote on an appointment within thirty days after the governor submits the names to the senate under this division, the individual's appointment is deemed confirmed by the senate and the individual shall take the office of commission member subject to removal as provided in division (F) of this section. (F) The governor may remove or suspend a member of the commission pursuant to section 3.04 of the Revised Code. The governor shall notify the senate of any decision to remove or suspend a commission member. The senate shall refer the matter to an appropriate standing committee for consideration and the committee shall hold a public hearing to consider the matter. At the hearing, the governor or the governor's authorized representative may present evidence and give testimony in support of the decision. The commission member or the member's authorized representatives may appear and present evidence and testimony. After conclusion of the public hearing, the committee shall make its recommendation to the senate. Upon receipt of a recommendation from the standing committee, the senate shall vote on the issue of whether to advise and consent to the removal or suspension of the member. The senate shall vote on the matter within sixty legislative days from the date the governor communicates the decision to remove or suspend the member. (G) The governor shall determine the compensation of the members of the commission, based upon such facts as the governor considers appropriate, provided that the salary of each member shall be no less than seventy-five thousand dollars per year. In addition, each commission member shall receive an annual salary increase based upon the average salary increases of other state department directors for that year, not to exceed five per cent per year. (H) Before entering upon the duties of office, each member shall take and subscribe to the constitutional oath of office and swear and affirm that the member holds no position under any committee of a political party, which oath or affirmation the member shall file in the office of the governor. Each member shall give a bond in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, which bond shall be approved by the governor and filed with the treasurer of state. All employees or deputies of the commission who receive or disburse state funds shall give a bond to the state in the amounts and surety approved by the industrial commission. (I) As used in this section only, "office of trust or profit" means: (1) A federal or state elective office or an elected office of a political subdivision of the state; (2) A position on a board or commission of the state that is appointed by the governor; (3) An office set forth in section 121.03 , 121.04 , or 121.05 of the Revised Code; (4) An office of the government of the United States that is appointed by the president of the United States.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.413 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.413
§ 4123.413. Eligibility for participation in fund
Status: in_force

August 22, 1986 Senate Bill 307 - 116th General Assembly To be eligible to participate in said fund, a participant must be permanently and totally disabled and be receiving workers' compensation payments, the total of which, when combined with disability benefits received pursuant to The Social Security Act is less than three hundred forty-two dollars per month adjusted annually as provided in division (B) of section 4123.62 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4111.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4111 / § 4111.13
§ 4111.13. Employer prohibitions
Status: in_force

July 1, 2000 House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly (A) No employer shall hinder or delay the director of commerce in the performance of the director's duties in the enforcement of sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, or refuse to admit the director to any place of employment, or fail to make, keep, and preserve any records as required under those sections, or falsify any of those records, or refuse to make them accessible to the director upon demand, or refuse to furnish them or any other information required for the proper enforcement of those sections to the director upon demand, or fail to post a summary of those sections or a copy of any applicable rules as required by section 4111.09 of the Revised Code. Each day of violation constitutes a separate offense. (B) No employer shall discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee because the employee has made any complaint to the employee's employer, or to the director, that the employee has not been paid wages in accordance with sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, or because the employee has made any complaint or is about to cause to be instituted any proceeding under or related to those sections, or because the employee has testified or is about to testify in any proceeding. (C) No employer shall pay or agree to pay wages at a rate less than the rate applicable under sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code. Each week or portion thereof for which the employer pays any employee less than the rate applicable under those sections constitutes a separate offense as to each employer. (D) No employer shall otherwise violate sections 4111.01 to 4111.17 of the Revised Code, or any rule adopted thereunder. Each day of violation constitutes a separate offense.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4123.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4123 / § 4123.24
§ 4123.24. Payroll to be kept
Status: in_force

November 3, 1989 House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly Every employer amenable to this chapter shall keep, preserve, and maintain complete records showing in detail all expenditures for payroll and the division of such expenditures into the various divisions and classifications of the employer's business. The records shall be preserved for at least five years after the respective times of the transactions upon which the records are based. All books, records, papers, and documents reflecting upon the amount and the classifications of the payroll expenditures of an employer shall be kept available for inspection at any time by the bureau of workers' compensation or any of its assistants, agents, representatives, or employees. If an employer fails to keep, preserve, and maintain the records and other information reflecting upon payroll expenditures, fails to make the records and information available for inspection, or fails to furnish to the bureau or any of its assistants, agents, representatives, or employees, full and complete information in reference to expenditures for payroll when the information is requested, the bureau may determine the amount of premium due from the employer upon such information as is available to it, and its findings are prima-facie evidence of the amount of premium due from the employer.