Ohio Rev. Code § 149.304 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 149 / § 149.304
§ 149.304. Historic homestead register program
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 141 - 131st General Assembly Any person owning or in possession of an Ohio homestead or tract of land which has been owned or in the possession of the person's family for one hundred years or more may apply to the Ohio history connection to list the homestead or tract of land in a register to be maintained by the Ohio history connection. The Ohio history connection shall provide forms for such applications and shall submit applications received to the Ohio historic site preservation advisory board, which shall rule on the authenticity of the homestead or ownership or possession of the tract of land according to criteria it shall establish and make public. Upon authentication of the homestead or tract of land by the board, the Ohio history connection shall list the homestead or tract of land on its register and provide the applicant with a plaque of suitable design determined by the Ohio history connection to be affixed to the homestead or tract of land. The plaque shall identify the homestead or tract of land as an historic homestead and specify that it is one hundred years or more old as of the date of recognition. If the date or year of construction of the homestead or purchase of tract of land is known, that date or year may appear on the plaque in lieu of the fact that the homestead or tract of land is one hundred years or more old. The plaque shall not bear the name of any member of the Ohio history connection, board, or any other public official, but may carry an appropriate emblem to be determined by the Ohio history connection. All costs of administering the historic homestead register program, including maintenance of the register, research into the authenticity of the homestead or tract of land, plaque, and plaque design, and mailing costs, shall be determined by the Ohio history connection and shall be borne by the applicant. The applicant shall be responsible for displaying the plaque on the homestead or tract of land in a suitable manner, and shall bear all costs of such display. The Ohio history connection may arrange to present plaques to applicants so desiring at the Ohio history connection's annual meeting.
Ohio Rev. Code § 143.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 143 / § 143.05
§ 143.05. Legal advisor
Status: in_force

March 23, 2016 Senate Bill 11 - 131st General Assembly The prosecuting attorney of the county in which a fund member is located shall serve as the legal advisor for the volunteer peace officer's dependents' board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.27
§ 145.27. Annual statement of funds
Status: in_force

January 7, 2013 Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly (A)(1) As used in this division, "personal history record" means information maintained by the public employees retirement board on an individual who is a member, former member, contributor, former contributor, retirant, or beneficiary that includes the address, telephone number, social security number, record of contributions, correspondence with the public employees retirement system, or other information the board determines to be confidential. (2) The records of the board shall be open to public inspection and may be made available in printed or electronic format, except that the following shall be excluded, except with the written authorization of the individual concerned: (a) The individual's statement of previous service and other information as provided for in section 145.16 of the Revised Code; (b) The amount of a monthly allowance or benefit paid to the individual; (c) The individual's personal history record. (B) All medical reports and recommendations required by this chapter are privileged, except as follows: (1) Copies of medical reports or recommendations shall be made available to the personal physician, attorney, or authorized agent of the individual concerned upon written release from the individual or the individual's agent, or when necessary for the proper administration of the fund, to the board assigned physician. (2) Documentation required by section 2929.193 of the Revised Code shall be provided to a court holding a hearing under that section. (C) Any person who is a member or contributor of the system shall be furnished with a statement of the amount to the credit of the individual's account upon written request. The board is not required to answer more than one such request of a person in any one year. The board may issue annual statements of accounts to members and contributors. (D) Notwithstanding the exceptions to public inspection in division (A)(2) of this section, the board may furnish the following information: (1) If a member, former member, contributor, former contributor, or retirant is subject to an order issued under section 2907.15 of the Revised Code or an order issued under division (A) or (B) of section 2929.192 of the Revised Code or is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation of section 2921.41 of the Revised Code, on written request of a prosecutor as defined in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code, the board shall furnish to the prosecutor the information requested from the individual's personal history record. (2) Pursuant to a court or administrative order issued pursuant to Chapter 3119., 3121., 3123., or 3125. of the Revised Code, the board shall furnish to a court or child support enforcement agency the information required under that section. (3) At the written request of any person, the board shall provide to the person a list of the names and addresses of members, former members, contributors, former contributors, retirants, or beneficiaries. The costs of compiling, copying, and mailing the list shall be paid by such person. (4) Within fourteen days after receiving from the director of job and family services a list of the names and social security numbers of recipients of public assistance pursuant to section 5101.181 of the Revised Code, the board shall inform the auditor of state of the name, current or most recent employer address, and social security number of each member whose name and social security number are the same as that of a person whose name or social security number was submitted by the director. The board and its employees shall, except for purposes of furnishing the auditor of state with information required by this section, preserve the confidentiality of recipients of public assistance in compliance with section 5101.181 of the Revised Code. (5) The system shall comply with orders issued under section 3105.87 of the Revised Code. On the written request of an alternate payee, as defined in section 3105.80 of the Revised Code, the system shall furnish to the alternate payee information on the amount and status of any amounts payable to the alternate payee under an order issued under section 3105.171 or 3105.65 of the Revised Code. (6) At the request of any person, the board shall make available to the person copies of all documents, including resumes, in the board's possession regarding filling a vacancy of an employee member or retirant member of the board. The person who made the request shall pay the cost of compiling, copying, and mailing the documents. The information described in division (D)(6) of this section is a public record. (7) The system shall provide the notice required by section 145.573 of the Revised Code to the prosecutor assigned to the case. (8) The system may provide information requested by the United States social security administration, United States centers for medicare and medicaid, Ohio public employees deferred compensation program, Ohio police and fire pension fund, school employees retirement system, state teachers retirement system, state highway patrol retirement system, or Cincinnati retirement system. (E) A statement that contains information obtained from the system's records that is signed by the executive director or an officer of the system and to which the system's official seal is affixed, or copies of the system's records to which the signature and seal are attached, shall be received as true copies of the system's records in any court or before any officer of this state. (F) For purposes of this section, the board may maintain records in printed or electronic format.
Ohio Rev. Code § 141.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 141 / § 141.08
§ 141.08. Traveling expenses of chief justice
Status: in_force

December 1, 2006 House Bill 530 - 126th General Assembly The chief justice of the supreme court shall receive the actual and necessary expenses incurred while performing official duties under the law and the constitution in determining the disqualification or disability of any judge of the court of common pleas or of the court of appeals, to be paid from the state treasury upon the warrant of the director of budget and management.
Ohio Rev. Code § 107.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 107 / § 107.02
§ 107.02. Secretaries and clerk
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The governor may appoint a secretary, an executive secretary, a commissioned clerk, and a correspondence secretary.
Ohio Rev. Code § 123.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 123 / § 123.01
§ 123.01. Powers and duties
Status: in_force

July 21, 2022 Senate Bill 135 - 134th General Assembly (A) The department of administrative services, in addition to those powers enumerated in Chapters 124. and 125. of the Revised Code and provided elsewhere by law, shall exercise the following powers: (1) To prepare and suggest comprehensive plans for the development of grounds and buildings under the control of a state agency; (2) To acquire, by purchase, gift, devise, lease, or grant, all real estate required by a state agency, in the exercise of which power the department may exercise the power of eminent domain, in the manner provided by sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code; (3) To erect, supervise, and maintain all public monuments and memorials erected by the state, except where the supervision and maintenance is otherwise provided by law; (4) To procure, by lease, storage accommodations for a state agency; (5) To lease or grant easements or licenses for unproductive and unused lands or other property under the control of a state agency. Such leases, easements, or licenses may be granted to any person or entity, shall be for a period not to exceed fifteen years, unless a longer period is authorized by division (A)(5) of this section, and shall be executed for the state by the director of administrative services. The director shall grant leases, easements, or licenses of university land for periods not to exceed twenty-five years for purposes approved by the respective university's board of trustees wherein the uses are compatible with the uses and needs of the university and may grant leases of university land for periods not to exceed forty years for purposes approved by the respective university's board of trustees pursuant to section 123.17 of the Revised Code. The director may grant perpetual easements to public utilities, as defined in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code or described in section 4905.03 of the Revised Code. (6) To lease space for the use of a state agency; (7) To have general supervision and care of the storerooms, offices, and buildings leased for the use of a state agency; (8) To exercise general custodial care of all real property of the state; (9) To assign and group together state offices in any city in the state and to establish, in cooperation with the state agencies involved, rules governing space requirements for office or storage use; (10) To lease for a period not to exceed forty years, pursuant to a contract providing for the construction thereof under a lease-purchase plan, buildings, structures, and other improvements for any public purpose, and, in conjunction therewith, to grant leases, easements, or licenses for lands under the control of a state agency for a period not to exceed forty years. The lease-purchase plan shall provide that at the end of the lease period, the buildings, structures, and related improvements, together with the land on which they are situated, shall become the property of the state without cost. (a) Whenever any building, structure, or other improvement is to be so leased by a state agency, the department shall retain either basic plans, specifications, bills of materials, and estimates of cost with sufficient detail to afford bidders all needed information or, alternatively, all of the following plans, details, bills of materials, and specifications: (i) Full and accurate plans suitable for the use of mechanics and other builders in the improvement; (ii) Details to scale and full sized, so drawn and represented as to be easily understood; (iii) Accurate bills showing the exact quantity of different kinds of material necessary to the construction; (iv) Definite and complete specifications of the work to be performed, together with such directions as will enable a competent mechanic or other builder to carry them out and afford bidders all needed information; (v) A full and accurate estimate of each item of expense and of the aggregate cost thereof. (b) The department shall give public notice, in such newspaper, in such form, and with such phraseology as the director of administrative services prescribes, published once each week for four consecutive weeks, of the time when and place where bids will be received for entering into an agreement to lease to a state agency a building, structure, or other improvement. The last publication shall be at least eight days preceding the day for opening the bids. The bids shall contain the terms upon which the builder would propose to lease the building, structure, or other improvement to the state agency. The form of the bid approved by the department shall be used, and a bid is invalid and shall not be considered unless that form is used without change, alteration, or addition. Before submitting bids pursuant to this section, any builder shall comply with Chapter 153. of the Revised Code. (c) On the day and at the place named for receiving bids for entering into lease agreements with a state agency, the director of administrative services shall open the bids and shall publicly proceed immediately to tabulate the bids upon duplicate sheets. No lease agreement shall be entered into until the bureau of workers' compensation has certified that the person to be awarded the lease agreement has complied with Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code, until, if the builder submitting the lowest and best bid is a foreign corporation, the secretary of state has certified that the corporation is authorized to do business in this state, until, if the builder submitting the lowest and best bid is a person nonresident of this state, the person has filed with the secretary of state a power of attorney designating the secretary of state as its agent for the purpose of accepting service of summons in any action brought under Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code, and until the agreement is submitted to the attorney general and the attorney general's approval is certified thereon. Within thirty days after the day on which the bids are received, the department shall investigate the bids received and shall determine that the bureau and the secretary of state have made the certifications required by this section of the builder who has submitted the lowest and best bid. Within ten days of the completion of the investigation of the bids, the department shall award the lease agreement to the builder who has submitted the lowest and best bid and who has been certified by the bureau and secretary of state as required by this section. If bidding for the lease agreement has been conducted upon the basis of basic plans, specifications, bills of materials, and estimates of costs, upon the award to the builder the department, or the builder with the approval of the department, shall appoint an architect or engineer licensed in this state to prepare such further detailed plans, specifications, and bills of materials as are required to construct the building, structure, or improvement. The department shall adopt such rules as are necessary to give effect to this section. The department may reject any bid. Where there is reason to believe there is collusion or combination among bidders, the bids of those concerned therein shall be rejected. (11) To acquire by purchase, gift, devise, or grant and to transfer, lease, or otherwise dispose of all real property required to assist in the development of a conversion facility as defined in section 5709.30 of the Revised Code as that section existed before its repeal by Amended Substitute House Bill 95 of the 125th general assembly; (12) To lease for a period not to exceed forty years, notwithstanding any other division of this section, the state-owned property located at 408-450 East Town Street, Columbus, Ohio, formerly the state school for the deaf, to a developer in accordance with this section. "Developer," as used in this section, has the same meaning as in section 123.77 of the Revised Code. Such a lease shall be for the purpose of development of the land for use by senior citizens by constructing, altering, renovating, repairing, expanding, and improving the site as it existed on June 25, 1982. A developer desiring to lease the land shall prepare for submission to the department a plan for development. Plans shall include provisions for roads, sewers, water lines, waste disposal, water supply, and similar matters to meet the requirements of state and local laws. The plans shall also include provision for protection of the property by insurance or otherwise, and plans for financing the development, and shall set forth details of the developer's financial responsibility. The department may employ, as employees or consultants, persons needed to assist in reviewing the development plans. Those persons may include attorneys, financial experts, engineers, and other necessary experts. The department shall review the development plans and may enter into a lease if it finds all of the following: (a) The best interests of the state will be promoted by entering into a lease with the developer; (b) The development plans are satisfactory; (c) The developer has established the developer's financial responsibility and satisfactory plans for financing the development. The lease shall contain a provision that construction or renovation of the buildings, roads, structures, and other necessary facilities shall begin within one year after the date of the lease and shall proceed according to a schedule agreed to between the department and the developer or the lease will be terminated. The lease shall contain such conditions and stipulations as the director considers necessary to preserve the best interest of the state. Moneys received by the state pursuant to this lease shall be paid into the general revenue fund. The lease shall provide that at the end of the lease period the buildings, structures, and related improvements shall become the property of the state without cost. (13) To manage the use of space owned and controlled by the department by doing all of the following: (a) Biennially implementing, by state agency location, a census of agency employees assigned space; (b) Periodically in the discretion of the director of administrative services: (i) Requiring each state agency to categorize the use of space allotted to the agency between office space, common areas, storage space, and other uses, and to report its findings to the department; (ii) Creating and updating a master space utilization plan for all space allotted to state agencies. The plan shall incorporate space utilization metrics. (iii) Conducting a cost-benefit analysis to determine the effectiveness of state-owned buildings; (iv) Assessing the alternatives associated with consolidating the commercial leases for buildings located in Columbus. (c) Commissioning a comprehensive space utilization and capacity study in order to determine the feasibility of consolidating existing commercially leased space used by state agencies into a new state-owned facility. (14) To adopt rules to ensure that energy efficiency and conservation is considered in the purchase of products and equipment, except motor vehicles, by any state agency, department, division, bureau, office, unit, board, commission, authority, quasi-governmental entity, or institution. The department may require minimum energy efficiency standards for purchased products and equipment based on federal testing and labeling if available or on standards developed by the department. When possible, the rules shall apply to the competitive selection of energy consuming systems, components, and equipment under Chapter 125. of the Revised Code. (15) To ensure energy efficient and energy conserving purchasing practices by doing all of the following: (a) Identifying available energy efficiency and conservation opportunities; (b) Providing for interchange of information among purchasing agencies; (c) Identifying laws, policies, rules, and procedures that should be modified; (d) Monitoring experience with and the cost-effectiveness of this state's purchase and use of motor vehicles and of major energy-consuming systems, components, equipment, and products having a significant impact on energy consumption by the government; (e) Providing technical assistance and training to state employees involved in the purchasing process; (f) Working with the department of development to make recommendations regarding planning and implementation of purchasing policies and procedures that are supportive of energy efficiency and conservation. (16) To require all state agencies, departments, divisions, bureaus, offices, units, commissions, boards, authorities, quasi-governmental entities, institutions, and state institutions of higher education to implement procedures to ensure that all of the passenger automobiles they acquire in each fiscal year, except for those passenger automobiles acquired for use in law enforcement or emergency rescue work, achieve a fleet average fuel economy of not less than the fleet average fuel economy for that fiscal year as the department shall prescribe by rule. The department shall adopt the rule prior to the beginning of the fiscal year, in accordance with the average fuel economy standards established by federal law for passenger automobiles manufactured during the model year that begins during the fiscal year. Each state agency, department, division, bureau, office, unit, commission, board, authority, quasi-governmental entity, institution, and state institution of higher education shall determine its fleet average fuel economy by dividing the total number of passenger vehicles acquired during the fiscal year, except for those passenger vehicles acquired for use in law enforcement or emergency rescue work, by a sum of terms, each of which is a fraction created by dividing the number of passenger vehicles of a given make, model, and year, except for passenger vehicles acquired for use in law enforcement or emergency rescue work, acquired during the fiscal year by the fuel economy measured by the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency, for the given make, model, and year of vehicle, that constitutes an average fuel economy for combined city and highway driving. As used in division (A)(16) of this section, "acquired" means leased for a period of sixty continuous days or more, or purchased. (17) To correct legal descriptions or title defects, or release fractional interests in real property, as necessary to cure title clouds reflected in public records, including those resulting from boundary disputes, ingress or egress issues, title transfers precipitated through retirement of bond requirements, and the retention of fractional interests in real estate otherwise disposed of in previous title transfers. (18)(a) To, with controlling board approval, sell state-owned real property that is not held for the benefit of an institution of higher education and is appraised at not more than one hundred thousand dollars by an independent third-party appraiser. (b) To sell state-owned real property that is held for the benefit of an institution of higher education, provided all of the following are true: (i) The board of trustees of the institution of higher education, or, in the case of a university branch district, any other managing authority, adopts a resolution approving the sale; (ii) The real property is appraised at not more than ten million dollars by an independent third-party appraiser; (iii) The controlling board approves the sale. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, net proceeds from any disposition of real property made pursuant to division (A)(18) of this section shall, at the direction of the director of budget and management, be credited to a fund or funds in the state treasury, or to accounts held by an institution of higher education for purposes to be determined by the institution. As used in division (A)(18) of this section, "institution of higher education" has the same meaning as in section 3345.12 of the Revised Code. (B) This section and section 125.02 of the Revised Code shall not interfere with any of the following: (1) The power of the adjutant general to purchase military supplies, or with the custody of the adjutant general of property leased, purchased, or constructed by the state and used for military purposes, or with the functions of the adjutant general as director of state armories; (2) The power of the director of transportation in acquiring rights-of-way for the state highway system, or the leasing of lands for division or resident district offices, or the leasing of lands or buildings required in the maintenance operations of the department of transportation, or the purchase of real property for garage sites or division or resident district offices, or in preparing plans and specifications for and constructing such buildings as the director may require in the administration of the department; (3) The power of the director of public safety and the registrar of motor vehicles to purchase or lease real property and buildings to be used solely as locations to which a deputy registrar is assigned pursuant to division (B) of section 4507.011 of the Revised Code and from which the deputy registrar is to conduct the deputy registrar's business, the power of the director of public safety to purchase or lease real property and buildings to be used as locations for division or district offices as required in the maintenance of operations of the department of public safety, and the power of the superintendent of the state highway patrol in the purchase or leasing of real property and buildings needed by the patrol, to negotiate the sale of real property owned by the patrol, to rent or lease real property owned or leased by the patrol, and to make or cause to be made repairs to all property owned or under the control of the patrol; (4) The power of the division of liquor control in the leasing or purchasing of retail outlets and warehouse facilities for the use of the division; (5) The power of the director of development to enter into leases of real property, buildings, and office space to be used solely as locations for the state's foreign offices to carry out the purposes of section 122.05 of the Revised Code; (6) The power of the director of environmental protection to enter into environmental covenants, to grant and accept easements, or to sell property pursuant to division (G) of section 3745.01 of the Revised Code; (7) The power of the department of public safety under section 5502.01 of the Revised Code to direct security measures and operations for the Vern Riffe center and the James A. Rhodes state office tower. The department of administrative services shall implement all security measures and operations at the Vern Riffe center and the James A. Rhodes state office tower as directed by the department of public safety. (C) Purchases for, and the custody and repair of, buildings under the management and control of the capitol square review and advisory board, the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency, the bureau of workers' compensation, or the departments of public safety, job and family services, mental health and addiction services, developmental disabilities, and rehabilitation and correction; buildings of educational and benevolent institutions under the management and control of boards of trustees; and purchases or leases for, and the custody and repair of, office space used for the purposes of any agency of the legislative branch of state government are not subject to the control and jurisdiction of the department of administrative services. An agency of the legislative branch of state government that uses office space in a building under the management and control of the department of administrative services may exercise the agency's authority to improve the agency's office space as authorized under this division only if, upon review, the department of administrative services concludes the proposed improvements do not adversely impact the structural integrity of the building. If an agency of the legislative branch of state government, except the capitol square review and advisory board, so requests, the agency and the director of administrative services may enter into a contract under which the department of administrative services agrees to perform any services requested by the agency that the department is authorized under this section to perform. In performing such services, the department shall not use competitive selection. As used in this division, "competitive selection" has the meaning defined in section 125.01 of the Revised Code and includes any other type of competitive process for the selection of persons producing or dealing in the services to be provided. (D) Any instrument by which real property is acquired pursuant to this section shall identify the agency of the state that has the use and benefit of the real property as specified in section 5301.012 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 141.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 141 / § 141.10
§ 141.10. Expenses of judges of court of appeals holding court outside county of residence - compensation of assigned judges
Status: in_force

December 1, 2006 House Bill 530 - 126th General Assembly (A) In addition to the annual salary and expenses provided for in sections 141.04 and 2501.15 of the Revised Code, each judge of a court of appeals who holds court in a county in which the judge does not reside shall receive the judge's actual and necessary expenses incurred while so holding court. Those expenses shall be paid by the treasurer of state upon the warrant of the director of budget and management. (B) In addition to the annual salary and expenses provided for in sections 141.04 and 2501.15 of the Revised Code, each judge of a court of appeals who is assigned by the chief justice of the supreme court to aid in disposing of business of a district other than that in which the judge is elected or appointed, shall receive fifty dollars per day for each day of the assignment. The per diem compensation shall be paid from the treasury of the county to which the judge is so assigned upon the warrant of the auditor of that county.
Ohio Rev. Code § 113.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 113 / § 113.14
§ 113.14. Audit of state treasury and custodial funds
Status: in_force

July 1, 1985 House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly When considered necessary, an audit shall be made of the state treasury and the custodial funds of the treasurer of state, including the office of the commissioners of the sinking fund, by a committee of the general assembly or of either house thereof authorized by resolution, or by a committee of persons not members of the general assembly appointed by resolution of the general assembly. When required by law, or if in the opinion of the governor the public interest requires it, the governor shall appoint a public accountant who, together with the secretary of state, without previous notice or information from them of the intended audit, shall immediately make an audit of all his records concerning, and the assets of, the state treasury and the custodial funds of the treasurer of state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 126.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 126 / § 126.22
§ 126.22. Director - accounting powers
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly The director of budget and management may: (A) Perform accounting services for and design and implement accounting systems with state agencies; (B) Provide other accounting services, including the maintenance and periodic auditing of the financial records of and submission of vouchers by state agencies, provision of assistance in the analysis of the financial position of state agencies, and preparation and submission of reports; (C) Change any accounting code appearing in appropriations acts of the general assembly; (D) Correct accounting errors committed by any state agency or state institution of higher education, including, but not limited to, the reestablishment of encumbrances cancelled in error.
Ohio Rev. Code § 133.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 133 / § 133.14
§ 133.14. Issuance of securities to pay final judgment
Status: in_force

October 30, 1989 House Bill 230 - 118th General Assembly (A) The taxing authority of a subdivision may issue securities for the purpose of providing funds with which to pay one or more final judgments rendered against the subdivision, including settlements of claims approved by a court, if the fiscal officer of the subdivision certifies to the taxing authority that the subdivision is unable, within the limits of its other funds that have been appropriated and are available for the purpose, to pay the final judgment or judgments. The principal amount of the securities issued may not exceed the aggregate of the judgments plus interest on the judgments to the approximate date on which the proceeds of the securities will become available, costs and expenses assessed or taxed against and defense costs of the subdivision, and other costs, including financing costs, permitted by this chapter to be paid from the proceeds of securities. (B) Securities issued under division (A) of this section may as determined by the taxing authority be either: (1) General obligation securities; (2) Special obligation securities that are payable only out of the particular taxes and revenues pledged, other than ad valorem property taxes, and that are not general obligations of the subdivision. (C) The last maturity of bonds issued pursuant to this section shall be not later than the last day of December of the twenty-fifth year following the year in which securities for the purpose are first issued.
Ohio Rev. Code § 140.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 140 / § 140.09
§ 140.09. Computing indebtedness
Status: in_force

October 30, 1989 House Bill 230 - 118th General Assembly (A) If obligations, otherwise subject to the limits of section 133.05 or 133.07 of the Revised Code, are issued by a public hospital agency to pay costs of a hospital facility with respect to which such public hospital agency is to receive payments under a lease or agreement entered into by such public hospital agency pursuant to section 140.03 , 140.05 , 339.09 , 339.14 , or 749.35 of the Revised Code, then at all times after the time of entering such lease or agreement such bonds or notes shall not be considered in ascertaining the limits of net indebtedness of section 133.05 or 133.07 of the Revised Code, to the extent that the prescribed amounts of such payments to be made, together with any other hospital receipts of such public hospital agency, will cover the interest charges and provide for the retirement of such bonds as they become due, after deducting from such payments only such amounts, if any, as such hospital agency is required to pay for the operating expenses of such hospital facilities under such agreement or lease. The exclusion provided by this section is in addition to any other exemption or exclusion otherwise provided by law, and not in derogation thereof. (B) An agreement by a public hospital agency to make payments beyond the current fiscal year under any such lease or agreement referred to in division (A) of this section, shall be a continuing contract for the purposes of sections 5705.41 and 5705.44 of the Revised Code, if such section 5705.41 is applicable to the public hospital agency, and such agreement, and the obligation to make payments thereunder, will not constitute indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, of such public hospital agency for purposes of Chapter 133. of the Revised Code or the Ohio Constitution. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.31
§ 109.31. Trustee's annual report to attorney general
Status: in_force

September 10, 2010 House Bill 519 - 128th General Assembly Except as otherwise provided by this section, the trustees of a charitable trust required to register under section 109.26 of the Revised Code shall file annual reports on forms prescribed by the attorney general, on or before the fifteenth day of the fifth month following the close of the trust's taxable year as established for federal tax purposes; or, in lieu of filing those reports, the trustees may file complete copies of all annual federal returns required to be filed by the trust with the internal revenue service for the taxable year, together with all schedules, attachments, and reports due with the return or returns. The federal returns shall be filed with the attorney general at the same time as required by the internal revenue service, taking into account any applicable extension of the federal filing date. The annual report shall be signed by the trustee who is authorized to sign it. The annual report shall be considered certified by the trustee and the trustee's signature on the report shall have the same effect as though made under oath. A charitable trust required to register under section 109.26 of the Revised Code is not required to file the reports required by this section if any of the following apply: (A) It is organized and operated exclusively for religious purposes. (B) It is an educational institution that normally maintains a regular faculty and curriculum and normally has a regularly organized body of pupils or students in attendance at the place where its educational activities are regularly carried on. (C) For any taxable year it has gross receipts of less than twenty-five thousand dollars and at the end of which it has gross assets of less than twenty-five thousand dollars. The attorney general, by rule pursuant to section 109.27 of the Revised Code, may exempt other classes of charitable trusts from the requirements of this section, and may by rule increase monetary limits set forth in division (C) of this section, that require filing with the attorney general's office. The attorney general may institute judicial proceedings to secure compliance with this section and to secure the proper administration of any trust or other relationship to which this section applies. The willful failure of any trustee to file reports as required by this section may be grounds for judicial removal of the trustee responsible for such failure. The attorney general shall charge the following fees for filing the annual report: Assets Fee Less than $25,000 $0 $25,000 but less than $100,000 50 $100,000 but less than $500,000 100 $500,000 or more 200 For the purposes of this section, "assets" refers to the total fair market value of the charitable trust's assets at the end of that trust's taxable year as established for federal tax purposes. Any charitable trust that fails to pay the fee required by this section at the time required shall pay an additional fee of two hundred dollars, except that the attorney general may waive the two-hundred-dollar fee upon a showing that the trustees of the charitable trust failed to pay the fee for filing the annual report at the time required by this section for reasons that were beyond the control of the trustees of the charitable trust or of a designee of the trustees. This section shall not be subject to section 119.12 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 121.38 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 121 / § 121.38
§ 121.38. Resolving agency disputes concerning services or funding
Status: in_force

June 30, 2005 House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly (A) An agency represented on a county family and children first council that disagrees with the council's decision concerning the services or funding for services a child is to receive from agencies represented on the council may initiate the local dispute resolution process established in the county service coordination mechanism applicable to the council. On completion of the process, the decision maker designated in the mechanism shall issue a written determination that directs one or more agencies represented on the council to provide services or funding for services to the child. The determination shall include a plan of care governing the manner in which the services or funding are to be provided. The decision maker shall base the plan of care on the family service coordination plan developed as part of the county's service coordination mechanism and on evidence presented during the local dispute resolution process. The decision maker may require an agency to provide services or funding only if the child's condition or needs qualify the child for services under the laws governing the agency. (B) An agency subject to a determination issued pursuant to a local dispute resolution process shall immediately comply with the determination, unless the agency objects to the determination by doing one of the following not later than seven days after the date the written determination is issued: (1) If the child has been alleged or adjudicated to be an abused, neglected, dependent, unruly, or delinquent child or a juvenile traffic offender, filing in the juvenile court of the county having jurisdiction over the child's case a motion requesting that the court hold a hearing to determine which agencies are to provide services or funding for services to the child. (2) If the child is not a child described in division (B)(1) of this section, filing in the juvenile court of the county served by the county council a complaint objecting to the determination. The court shall hold a hearing as soon as possible, but not later than ninety days after the motion or complaint is filed. At least five days before the date on which the court hearing is to be held, the court shall send each agency subject to the determination written notice by first class mail of the date, time, place, and purpose of the court hearing. In the case of a motion filed under division (B)(1) of this section, the court may conduct the hearing as part of the adjudicatory or dispositional hearing concerning the child, if appropriate, and shall provide notice as required for those hearings. Except in cases in which the hearing is conducted as part of the adjudicatory or dispositional hearing, a hearing held pursuant to this division shall be limited to a determination of which agencies are to provide services or funding for services to the child. At the conclusion of the hearing, the court shall issue an order directing one or more agencies represented on the county council to provide services or funding for services to the child. The order shall include a plan of care governing the manner in which the services or funding are to be provided. The court shall base the plan of care on the family service coordination plan developed as part of the county's service coordination plan and on evidence presented during the hearing. An agency required by the order to provide services or funding shall be a party to any juvenile court proceeding concerning the child. The court may require an agency to provide services or funding for a child only if the child's condition or needs qualify the child for services under the laws governing the agency. (C) While the local dispute resolution process or court proceedings pursuant to this section are pending, each agency shall provide services and funding as required by the decision made by the county council before dispute resolution was initiated. If an agency that provides services or funds during the local dispute resolution process or court proceedings is determined through the process or proceedings not to be responsible for providing them, it shall be reimbursed for the costs of providing the services or funding by the agencies determined to be responsible for providing them.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.4032 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.4032
§ 122.4032. Limited effect if grant application not challenged
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly If an application filed during an application submission period established by the department of development under section 122.4019 of the Revised Code is not challenged pursuant to sections 122.4030 to 122.4035 of the Revised Code, the lack of a challenge does not do either of the following: (A) Create a presumption that residential addresses included in an application submitted in a subsequent submission period are eligible addresses under the Ohio residential broadband expansion grant program; (B) Prohibit a challenging provider from filing a challenge to an application that is being refiled during a subsequent submission period. Last updated September 25, 2023 at 5:12 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 143.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 143 / § 143.11
§ 143.11. Nature of right to benefit
Status: in_force

March 23, 2016 Senate Bill 11 - 131st General Assembly The right of an individual to a benefit under this chapter shall not be subject to execution, garnishment, attachment, the operation of bankruptcy or insolvency laws, or other process of law whatsoever, and shall be unassignable except as specifically provided in this chapter and sections 3105.171 , 3105.65 , and 3115.32 and Chapters 3119., 3121., 3123., and 3125. of the Revised Code. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 147.141 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 147 / § 147.141
§ 147.141. Prohibited acts
Status: in_force

April 3, 2025 House Bill 315 - 135th General Assembly (A) A notary public shall not do any of the following: (1) Perform a notarial act with regard to a record or document executed by the notary; (2) Notarize the notary's own signature; (3) Take the notary's own deposition; (4) Perform a notarial act if the notary has a conflict of interest with regard to the transaction in question; (5) Certify that a document is either of the following: (a) An original document; (b) A true copy of another record. (6) Use a name or initial in signing certificates other than that by which the notary public is commissioned; (7) Sign notarial certificates using a facsimile signature stamp unless the notary public has a physical disability that limits or prohibits the notary's ability to make a written signature and unless the notary has first submitted written notice to the secretary of state with an example of the facsimile signature stamp; (8) Affix the notary's signature to a blank form of an affidavit or certificate of acknowledgment and deliver that form to another person with the intent that it be used as an affidavit or acknowledgment; (9) Take the acknowledgment of, or administer an oath or affirmation to, a person who the notary public knows to have been adjudicated mentally incompetent by a court of competent jurisdiction, if the acknowledgment or oath or affirmation necessitates the exercise of a right that has been removed; (10) Notarize a signature on a document if it appears that the person is mentally incapable of understanding the nature and effect of the document at the time of notarization; (11) Alter anything in a written instrument after it has been signed by anyone; (12) Amend or alter a notarial certificate after the notarization is complete; (13) Notarize a signature on a document if the document is incomplete or blank; (14) Notarize a signature on a document if it appears that the signer may be unduly influenced or coerced so as to be restricted from or compromised in exercising the person's own free will when signing the document; (15) Take an acknowledgment of execution in lieu of an oath or affirmation if an oath or affirmation is required; (16) Execute a jurat without administering an oath or affirmation to the signer; (17) Determine the validity of a power of attorney document or any other form designating a representative capacity, such as trustee, authorized officer, agent, personal representative, or guardian, unless that notary is an attorney licensed to practice law in this state; (18) Charge or accept a fee greater than the amount prescribed by law. (B) Division (A)(5) of this section shall not be construed as prohibiting a notary from notarizing the signature of a holder of a document on a written statement certifying that the document is a true copy of an original document. (C) As used in this section, "conflict of interest" means either of the following: (1) The notary has a direct financial or other interest in the transaction in question, excluding the fees authorized under this chapter. (2) The notary is named, individually or as a grantor, grantee, mortgagor, mortgagee, trustor, trustee, beneficiary, vendor, lessor, or lessee, or as a party in some other capacity to the transaction. Last updated February 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 107.036 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 107 / § 107.036
§ 107.036. Estimate of total incentive tax credits to be authorized in each year
Status: in_force

March 31, 2021 Senate Bill 39 - 133rd General Assembly (A) For each business incentive tax credit, the main operating appropriations act shall contain a detailed estimate of the total amount of credits that may be authorized in each year, an estimate of the amount of credits expected to be claimed in each year, and an estimate of the amount of credits expected to remain outstanding at the end of the biennium. The governor shall include such estimates in the state budget submitted to the general assembly pursuant to section 107.03 of the Revised Code. (B) As used in this section, "business incentive tax credit" means all of the following: (1) The job creation tax credit under section 122.17 of the Revised Code; (2) The job retention tax credit under section 122.171 of the Revised Code; (3) The historic preservation tax credit under section 149.311 of the Revised Code; (4) The motion picture and broadway theatrical production tax credit under section 122.85 of the Revised Code; (5) The new markets tax credit under section 5725.33 of the Revised Code; (6) The research and development credit under section 166.21 of the Revised Code; (7) The small business investment credit under section 122.86 of the Revised Code; (8) The rural growth investment credit under section 122.152 of the Revised Code; (9) The opportunity zone investment credit under section 122.84 of the Revised Code; (10) The transformational mixed use development credit under section 122.09 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 125.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 125 / § 125.27
§ 125.27. Building improvement fund
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the building improvement fund. The fund shall retain the interest earned. (B) The fund shall consist of any money transferred or deposited into the fund pursuant to section 125.28 of the Revised Code. (C) The fund shall be used for major maintenance or improvements required in facilities maintained by the department of administrative services.
Ohio Rev. Code § 149.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 149 / § 149.05
§ 149.05. Number of reports printed
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The annual reports of the elective state officers shall be printed in such numbers as the superintendent of purchases and printing determines.
Ohio Rev. Code § 119.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 119 / § 119.02
§ 119.02. Compliance - validity of rules
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Every agency authorized by law to adopt, amend, or rescind rules shall comply with the procedure prescribed in sections 119.01 to 119.13 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, for the adoption, amendment, or rescission of rules. Unless otherwise specifically provided by law, the failure of any agency to comply with such procedure shall invalidate any rule or amendment adopted, or the rescission of any rule.
Ohio Rev. Code § 119.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 119 / § 119.13
§ 119.13. Representation of parties
Status: in_force

June 16, 1977 House Bill 260 - 112th General Assembly At any hearing conducted under sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code, a party or an affected person may be represented by an attorney or by such other representative as is lawfully permitted to practice before the agency in question, but, except for hearings held before the state personnel board of review under section 124.03 of the Revised Code, only an attorney at law may represent a party or an affected person at a hearing at which a record is taken which may be the basis of an appeal to court. At any hearing conducted under sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code, a witness, if he so requests, shall be permitted to be accompanied, represented, and advised by an attorney, whose participation in the hearing shall be limited to the protection of the rights of the witness, and who may not examine or cross-examine witnesses, and the witness shall be advised of his right to counsel before he is interrogated.
Ohio Rev. Code § 101.53 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 101 / § 101.53
§ 101.53. Format for printing bills
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) A legislative action to amend or enact a codified or uncodified statutory section shall be indicated in bills and enrolled acts according to the following principles: (1) New matter that is to be inserted into an existing codified or uncodified section shall be indicated by inserting the new matter, underlined, into the section at the appropriate place, in the same form as it is to appear in the resulting law. (2) Old matter that is to be omitted from an existing codified or uncodified section shall be indicated by retaining the matter as it appears in the section and striking it through with a horizontal line. (3) A new codified section that is to be added to the law shall be indicated by presenting the section, underlined, in the same form as it is to appear in the resulting law. (4) A new uncodified section that is to be added to the law shall be indicated by presenting the section, without underlining, in the same form as it is to appear in the resulting law. (B)(1) A legislative proposal to amend or enact a section of the Ohio Constitution shall be indicated in a joint resolution the same as an amendment to or an enactment of a codified statutory section in a bill. (2) A legislative proposal of a schedule or of an amending, enacting, repeal, effective date, or other special clause applying to a proposed amendment of the Ohio Constitution shall be indicated in a joint resolution the same as an enactment of a new uncodified statutory section in a bill. (C) Bills shall be printed in the exact language in which they were passed, under the supervision of the clerk of the house in which they originated. Last updated July 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 166.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 166 / § 166.26
§ 166.26. Logistics and distribution infrastructure fund
Status: in_force

June 12, 2008 House Bill 554 - 127th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the logistics and distribution infrastructure fund. The fund shall consist of grants, gifts, and contributions of money or rights to money lawfully designated for or deposited into the fund, all money and rights to money lawfully appropriated and transferred to the fund, including money received from the issuance of obligations under section 166.08 of the Revised Code and subject to section 166.11 of the Revised Code for purposes of allowable costs of eligible logistics and distribution projects, and money credited to the fund pursuant to division (B) of this section. All investment earnings on the cash balance in the fund shall be credited to the fund. The fund shall not be comprised, in any part, of money raised by taxation. (B) There shall be credited to the logistics and distribution infrastructure fund the money received by the state from the repayment of loans and recovery on loan guarantees, including interest thereon, made from the fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.25
§ 109.25. Attorney general is necessary party to charitable trust proceedings
Status: in_force

November 19, 1975 House Bill 347 - 111th General Assembly The attorney general is a necessary party to and shall be served with process or with summons by registered mail in all judicial proceedings, the object of which is to: (A) Terminate a charitable trust or distribute assets; (B) Depart from the objects or purposes of a charitable trust as the same are set forth in the instrument creating the trust, including any proceeding for the application of the doctrine of cy pres or deviation; (C) Construe the provisions of an instrument with respect to a charitable trust; (D) Determine the validity of a will having provisions for a charitable trust. A judgment rendered in such proceedings without service of process or summons upon the attorney general is void, unenforceable, and shall be set aside upon the attorney general's motion seeking such relief. The attorney general shall intervene in any judicial proceeding affecting a charitable trust when requested to do so by the court having jurisdiction of the proceeding, and may intervene in any judicial proceeding affecting a charitable trust when he determines that the public interest should be protected in such proceeding.
Ohio Rev. Code § 118.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 118 / § 118.25
§ 118.25. Invest in current revenue notes
Status: in_force

September 3, 1996 House Bill 462 - 121st General Assembly (A) In order to assist the municipal corporation, county, or township to meet current expenses pending receipt of increased revenues or pending the reduction of operating expenses, or otherwise to meet short-term cash requirements for current expenses of the municipal corporation, county, or township, the treasurer of state may invest moneys in the state treasury by purchasing current revenue notes of the municipal corporation, county, or township issued pursuant to sections 118.23 and 133.10 of the Revised Code. (B) The purchase of notes of a municipal corporation, county, or township under this section may be made not later than the one hundred eightieth day following the first meeting of the financial planning and supervision commission. The notes and the applicable data shall first be approved by the commission pursuant to sections 118.15 and 118.23 of the Revised Code. The purchase is complete upon the execution of a contract of purchase by the treasurer of state and the appropriate representative of the municipal corporation, county, or township. Additional actions by the municipal corporation, county, or township and the treasurer of state with respect to the issuance and delivery of the notes, and revisions, amendments, or waivers with respect to the contract of purchase, may be taken or made subsequent to the one-hundred-eighty-day period. (C) Upon the written request of the commission and the municipality filed with the treasurer of state and the state board of deposit, and determination by the state board of deposit that such investment is consistent with this section, the treasurer of state may invest in such notes under division (A) of this section, subject to the following limitations: (1) The principal amount of the notes of any one municipal corporation, county, or township to be purchased by the treasurer of state shall not be such as would result in the holding by the state of an aggregate principal amount of notes of that municipal corporation, county, or township purchased under this section exceeding, at any one time, the lesser of one-fifth of the general fund budget of that municipal corporation, county, or township for the then preceding fiscal year of the municipal corporation, county, or township or twenty million dollars. (2) The principal amount of the notes of a municipal corporation, county, or township to be purchased by the treasurer of state shall not be such as would result in the holding by the state of an aggregate principal amount of notes of all municipal corporations, counties, or townships purchased under this section exceeding, at any one time, fifty million dollars. (3) The amount of each such investment shall not exceed the amount certified by the director of budget and management to the treasurer of state, prior to each such investment, as the estimated moneys of the state treasury referred to in division (A) of this section which will not be needed for expenditure by the state at any time during a period commencing with such investment and ending as of the stated date of maturity of the notes in which such investment is to be made. If such amount of available state treasury moneys, in the estimation of the director, exceeds the unused portion of the limitations of divisions (C)(1) and (2) of this section, it shall be sufficient that his certification so state, in which event division (C)(1) or (2) of this section shall constitute the effective limitation as determined under this division. (4) Notes purchased by the treasurer of state under this division shall bear interest at the rate currently prevailing for short-term loans as determined and certified by the treasurer of state. (D) The request under division (C) of this section submitted to the treasurer of state and state board of deposit shall be accompanied by the documentation submitted to the commission pursuant to section 118.23 of the Revised Code, including the proposed schedule of deposits for retirement of and payment of interest on such notes and schedules showing the need for the issuance of such notes, the certificates of estimated resources showing the general fund budget of the municipal corporation, county, or township for its preceding fiscal year, and also information as to whether commercial lenders or others are willing to purchase such notes from the treasurer of state by agreement pursuant to division (E) of this section. (E) The treasurer of state, in purchasing such notes, may enter into agreements with banks, financial institutions, or others, to purchase such notes from the state upon terms and conditions agreed to by the treasurer of state and such other parties that, among other terms and conditions, may condition the obligation to purchase upon the compliance of the municipal corporation, county, or township with this chapter, including development by the municipal corporation, county, or township and approval by the commission of a financial plan under section 118.06 of the Revised Code. (F) Subject to agreements under division (E) of this section, the treasurer of state may sell the notes at any time and to any others upon those terms and conditions as the treasurer of state determines. (G) The notes that are purchased by the treasurer of state from a municipal corporation, county, or township under this section are lawful investments for entities enumerated in division (A)(1) of section 133.03 of the Revised Code and are eligible as security for the repayment of the deposit of public moneys.
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.04
§ 145.04. Public employees retirement board
Status: in_force

January 7, 2013 Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly (A) The general administration and management of the public employees retirement system and the making effective of Chapter 145. of the Revised Code, are hereby vested in a board to be known as the "public employees retirement board," which shall consist of the following members: (1) One member, known as the treasurer of state's investment designee, who shall be appointed by the treasurer of state for a term of four years and have the following qualifications: (a) The member is a resident of this state. (b) Within the three years immediately preceding the appointment, the member has not been employed by the public employees retirement system, police and fire pension fund, state teachers retirement system, school employees retirement system, or state highway patrol retirement system or by any person, partnership, or corporation that has provided to one of those retirement systems services of a financial or investment nature, including management, analysis, supervision, or investment of assets. (c) The member has direct experience in the management, analysis, supervision, or investment of assets. (d) The member is not currently employed by the state or a political subdivision of the state. (2) The director of administrative services; (3) Five members, known as employee members, one of whom shall be a state employee member of the system, who shall be elected by ballot by the state employee members of the system from among their number; another of whom shall be a county employee member of the system, who shall be elected by ballot by the county employee members of the system from among their number; another of whom shall be a municipal employee member of the system, who shall be elected by ballot by the municipal employee members of the system from among their number; another of whom shall be a university or college employee member of the system, who shall be elected by ballot by the university and college employee members of the system from among their number; and another of whom shall be a park district, conservancy district, sanitary district, health district, public library, metropolitan housing authority, union cemetery, joint hospital, township, or institutional commissary employee member of the system, who shall be elected by ballot by the park district, conservancy district, sanitary district, health district, metropolitan housing authority, public library, union cemetery, joint hospital, township, and institutional commissary employee members of the system from among their number, in a manner to be approved by the board. Members of the system who are receiving a disability benefit under this chapter are ineligible for membership on the board as employee members. (4) Two members, known as the retirant members, who shall be former members of the public employees retirement system who reside in this state and receive age and service retirement, a disability benefit, or benefits paid under a PERS defined contribution plan. The retirant members shall be elected by ballot by former members of the system who are receiving age and service retirement, a disability benefit, or benefits paid under a PERS defined contribution plan; (5)(a) Two members, known as the investment expert members, who shall be appointed for four-year terms and each of whom shall have the following qualifications: (i) The member is a resident of this state. (ii) Within the three years immediately preceding the appointment, the member has not been employed by the public employees retirement system, police and fire pension fund, state teachers retirement system, school employees retirement system, or state highway patrol retirement system or by any person, partnership, or corporation that has provided to one of those retirement systems services of a financial or investment nature, including the management, analysis, supervision, or investment of assets. (iii) The member has direct experience in the management, analysis, supervision, or investment of assets. (b) One investment expert member shall be appointed by the governor, and one investment expert member shall be jointly appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate. (B) Any member appointed under this section shall hold office until the later of the end of the term for which the member is appointed or the date the member's successor takes office.
Ohio Rev. Code § 151.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 151 / § 151.08
§ 151.08. State capital improvements bond service fund
Status: in_force

August 16, 2016 Senate Bill 310 - 131st General Assembly This section applies to obligations as defined in this section. (A) As used in this section: (1) "Capital facilities" or "capital improvement projects" means the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, planning, and equipping of roads and bridges, waste water treatment systems, water supply systems, solid waste disposal facilities, flood control systems, and storm water and sanitary collection, storage, and treatment facilities, including real property, interests in real property, facilities, and equipment related or incidental to those facilities. (2) "Costs of capital facilities" include related direct administrative expenses and allocable portions of direct costs of the Ohio public works commission and the local subdivision. (3) "Local subdivision" means any county, municipal corporation, township, sanitary district, or regional water and sewer district. (4) "Obligations" means obligations as defined in section 151.01 of the Revised Code issued to pay costs of capital facilities. (B)(1) The issuing authority shall issue obligations to pay costs of financing or assisting in the financing of the capital improvement projects of local subdivisions pursuant to Section 2m of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, section 151.01 of the Revised Code, and this section. Not more than one hundred twenty million dollars principal amount of obligations, plus the principal amount of obligations that in any prior fiscal years could have been, but were not, issued within that one-hundred-twenty-million dollar fiscal year limit, may be issued in any fiscal year. Not more than one billion two hundred million dollars principal amount of obligations pursuant to Section 2m of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution may be issued for the purposes of this section and division (B)(2) of section 164.09 of the Revised Code. (2) The issuing authority shall issue obligations to pay costs of financing or assisting in the financing of the capital improvement projects of local subdivisions pursuant to Section 2p of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, section 151.01 of the Revised Code, and this section. Not more than one hundred twenty million dollars in principal amount of such obligations may be issued in any of the first five fiscal years of issuance and not more than one hundred fifty million dollars in principal amount of such obligations may be issued in any of the next five fiscal years, plus in each case the principal amount of such obligations that in any prior fiscal year could have been but were not issued within those fiscal year limits. No obligations shall be issued for the purposes of this section pursuant to Section 2p of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, until at least one billion one hundred ninety-nine million five hundred thousand dollars aggregate principal amount of obligations have been issued pursuant to Section 2m of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution. Not more than one billion three hundred fifty million dollars principal amount of obligations may be issued pursuant to Section 2p of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution for the purposes of this section. (3) The issuing authority shall issue obligations to pay costs of financing or assisting in the financing of the capital improvement projects of local subdivisions pursuant to Section 2s of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, section 151.01 of the Revised Code, and this section. Not more than one hundred seventy-five million dollars in principal amount of such obligations may be issued in any of the first five fiscal years of issuance and not more than two hundred million dollars in principal amount of such obligations may be issued in any of the next five fiscal years, plus in each case the principal amount of such obligations that in any prior fiscal year could have been but were not issued within those fiscal year limits. No obligations shall be issued for the purposes of this section pursuant to Section 2s of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, until all of the obligations authorized under Section 2p of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, have been issued. Not more than one billion eight hundred seventy-five million dollars principal amount of obligations may be issued pursuant to Section 2s of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, for the purposes of this section. (C) Net proceeds of obligations shall be deposited into the state capital improvements fund created by section 164.08 of the Revised Code. (D) There is hereby created in the state treasury the "state capital improvements bond service fund." All moneys received by the state and required by the bond proceedings, consistent with this section and section 151.01 of the Revised Code, to be deposited, transferred, or credited to the bond service fund, and all other moneys transferred or allocated to or received for the purposes of that fund, shall be deposited and credited to the bond service fund, subject to any applicable provisions of the bond proceedings but without necessity for any act of appropriation. During the period beginning with the date of the first issuance of obligations and continuing during the time that any obligations are outstanding in accordance with their terms, so long as moneys in the bond service fund are insufficient to pay debt service when due on those obligations payable from that fund (except the principal amounts of bond anticipation notes payable from the proceeds of renewal notes or bonds anticipated) and due in the particular fiscal year, a sufficient amount of revenues of the state is committed and, without necessity for further act of appropriation, shall be paid to the bond service fund for the purpose of paying that debt service when due.
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.69 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.69
§ 109.69. Reciprocity agreement
Status: in_force

March 23, 2015 House Bill 234 - 130th General Assembly (A)(1) The attorney general shall negotiate and enter into a reciprocity agreement with any other license-issuing state under which a concealed handgun license that is issued by the other state is recognized in this state, except as provided in division (B) of this section, if the attorney general determines that both of the following apply: (a) The eligibility requirements imposed by that license-issuing state for that license are substantially comparable to the eligibility requirements for a concealed handgun license issued under section 2923.125 of the Revised Code. (b) That license-issuing state recognizes a concealed handgun license issued under section 2923.125 of the Revised Code. (2) A reciprocity agreement entered into under division (A)(1) of this section also may provide for the recognition in this state of a concealed handgun license issued on a temporary or emergency basis by the other license-issuing state, if the eligibility requirements imposed by that license-issuing state for the temporary or emergency license are substantially comparable to the eligibility requirements for a concealed handgun license issued under section 2923.125 or 2923.1213 of the Revised Code and if that license-issuing state recognizes a concealed handgun license issued under section 2923.1213 of the Revised Code. (3) The attorney general shall not negotiate any agreement with any other license-issuing state under which a concealed handgun license issued by the other state is recognized in this state other than as provided in divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section. (B)(1) If, on or after the effective date of this amendment , a person who is a resident of this state has a valid concealed handgun license that was issued by another license-issuing state that has entered into a reciprocity agreement with the attorney general under division (A)(1) of this section or the attorney general determines that the eligibility requirements imposed by that license-issuing state for that license are substantially comparable to the eligibility requirements for a concealed handgun license issued under section 2923.125 of the Revised Code, the license issued by the other license-issuing state shall be recognized in this state, shall be accepted and valid in this state, and grants the person the same right to carry a concealed handgun in this state as a person who was issued a concealed handgun license under section 2923.125 of the Revised Code. (2) If, on or after the effective date of this amendment , a person who is a resident of this state has a valid concealed handgun license that was issued by another license-issuing state that has not entered into a reciprocity agreement with the attorney general under division (A)(1) of this section, the license issued by the other license-issuing state shall be recognized in this state, shall be accepted and valid in this state, and grants the person the same right to carry a concealed handgun in this state as a person who was issued a concealed handgun license under section 2923.125 of the Revised Code for a period of six months after the person became a resident of this state. After that six-month period, if the person wishes to obtain a concealed handgun license, the person shall apply for a concealed handgun license pursuant to section 2923.125 of the Revised Code. (3) If, on or after the effective date of this amendment , a person who is not a resident of this state has a valid concealed handgun license that was issued by another license-issuing state, regardless of whether the other license-issuing state has entered into a reciprocity agreement with the attorney general under division (A)(1) of this section, and the person is temporarily in this state, during the time that the person is temporarily in this state the license issued by the other license-issuing state shall be recognized in this state, shall be accepted and valid in this state, and grants the person the same right to carry a concealed handgun in this state as a person who was issued a concealed handgun license under section 2923.125 of the Revised Code. (C) The attorney general shall publish each determination described in division (B)(1) of this section that the attorney general makes in the same manner that written agreements entered into under division (A)(1) or (2) of this section are published. (D) As used in this section: (1) "Handgun," "concealed handgun license," and "valid concealed handgun license" have the same meanings as in section 2923.11 of the Revised Code. (2) "License-issuing state" means a state other than this state that, pursuant to law, provides for the issuance of a license to carry a concealed handgun.
Ohio Rev. Code § 173.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 173 / § 173.42
§ 173.42. Long-term care consultation program
Status: in_force

September 13, 2022 Senate Bill 160 - 134th General Assembly (A) As used in sections 173.42 to 173.434 of the Revised Code: (1) "Area agency on aging" means a public or private nonprofit entity designated under section 173.011 of the Revised Code to administer programs on behalf of the department of aging. (2) "Department of aging-administered medicaid waiver component" means each of the following: (a) The medicaid-funded component of the PASSPORT program created under section 173.52 of the Revised Code; (b) The medicaid-funded component of the assisted living program created under section 173.54 of the Revised Code; (c) Any other medicaid waiver component, as defined in section 5166.01 of the Revised Code, that the department of aging administers pursuant to an interagency agreement with the department of medicaid under section 5162.35 of the Revised Code. (3) "Home and community-based services covered by medicaid components the department of aging administers" means all of the following: (a) Medicaid waiver services available to a participant in a department of aging-administered medicaid waiver component; (b) The following medicaid state plan services available to a participant in a department of aging-administered medicaid waiver component as specified in rules adopted under section 5164.02 of the Revised Code: (i) Home health services; (ii) Private duty nursing services; (iii) Durable medical equipment; (iv) Services of a clinical nurse specialist; (v) Services of a certified nurse practitioner. (c) Services available to a participant of the PACE program. (4) "Long-term care consultation" or "consultation" means the consultation service made available by the department of aging or a program administrator through the long-term care consultation program established pursuant to this section. (5) "Nursing facility" has the same meaning as in section 5165.01 of the Revised Code. (6) "PACE program" means the component of the medicaid program the department of aging administers pursuant to section 173.50 of the Revised Code. (7) "PASSPORT administrative agency" means an entity under contract with the department of aging to provide administrative services regarding the PASSPORT program. (8) "Program administrator" means an area agency on aging or other entity under contract with the department of aging to administer the long-term care consultation program in a geographic region specified in the contract. (9) "Representative" means a person acting on behalf of an individual who is the subject of a long-term care consultation. A representative may be a family member, attorney, hospital social worker, or any other person chosen to act on behalf of the individual. (B) The department of aging shall develop a long-term care consultation program whereby individuals or their representatives are provided with long-term care consultations and receive through these professional consultations information about options available to meet long-term care needs and information about factors to consider in making long-term care decisions. The long-term care consultations may be provided at any appropriate time, including either prior to or after the individual who is the subject of a consultation has been admitted to a nursing facility or granted assistance in receiving home and community-based services covered by medicaid components the department of aging administers. (C) The long-term care consultation program shall be administered by the department of aging, except that the department may have the program administered on a regional basis by one or more program administrators. The department and each program administrator shall administer the program in such a manner that all of the following are included: (1) Coordination and collaboration with respect to all available funding sources for long-term care services; (2) Assessments of individuals regarding their long-term care service needs; (3) Assessments of individuals regarding their on-going eligibility for long-term care services; (4) Procedures for assisting individuals in obtaining access to, and coordination of, health and supportive services, including department of aging-administered medicaid waiver components; (5) Priorities for using available resources efficiently and effectively. (D) The program's long-term care consultations shall be provided by individuals certified by the department under section 173.422 of the Revised Code. (E) The information provided through a long-term care consultation shall be appropriate to the individual's needs and situation and shall address all of the following: (1) The availability of any long-term care options open to the individual; (2) Sources and methods of both public and private payment for long-term care services; (3) Factors to consider when choosing among the available programs, services, and benefits; (4) Opportunities and methods for maximizing independence and self-reliance, including support services provided by the individual's family, friends, and community; (5) If the individual is a veteran, as defined in section 5901.01 of the Revised Code, or the spouse, surviving spouse, or representative of the veteran, both of the following: (a) The availability of health care or financial benefits through the United States department of veterans affairs; (b) Information about congressionally chartered veterans service organizations or the county veterans service office that can assist with investigating and applying for benefits through the United States department of veterans affairs. (F) An individual's long-term care consultation may include an assessment of the individual's functional capabilities. The consultation may incorporate portions of the determinations required under sections 5119.40 , 5123.021 , and 5165.03 of the Revised Code and may be provided concurrently with the assessment required under section 173.546 or 5165.04 of the Revised Code. (G) Except as provided in division (I) of this section, a long-term care consultation shall be provided to each individual for whom the department or a program administrator determines such a consultation is appropriate. (H) A long-term care consultation shall be completed within the applicable time frames specified in rules adopted under this section. (I) An individual is not required to be provided a long-term care consultation if any of the following is the case: (1) The department or a program administrator has attempted to provide the consultation, but the individual or the individual's representative refuses to cooperate; (2) The individual is to receive care in a nursing facility under a contract for continuing care, as defined in section 173.13 of the Revised Code; (3) The individual has a contractual right to admission to a nursing facility operated as part of a system of continuing care in conjunction with one or more facilities that provide a less intensive level of services, including a residential care facility licensed under Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code, a residential facility licensed under section 5119.34 of the Revised Code that provides accommodations, supervision, and personal care services for three to sixteen unrelated adults, or an independent living arrangement; (4) The individual is to receive continual care in a home for the aged exempt from taxation under section 5701.13 of the Revised Code; (5) The individual is seeking admission to a facility that is not a nursing facility with a provider agreement under section 5165.07 , 5165.511 , or 5165.512 of the Revised Code; (6) Pursuant to rules that may be adopted under this section, the department or a program administrator has exempted the individual from receiving the long-term care consultation. (J) As part of the long-term care consultation program, the department or a program administrator may assist an individual or individual's representative in accessing all sources of care and services that are appropriate for the individual and for which the individual is eligible, including all available home and community-based services covered by medicaid components the department of aging administers. The assistance may include providing for the conduct of assessments or other evaluations and the development of individualized plans of care or services under section 173.424 of the Revised Code. (K) No nursing facility for which an operator has a provider agreement under section 5165.07 , 5165.511 , or 5165.512 of the Revised Code shall admit as a resident any individual described in division (G) of this section, unless the nursing facility has received evidence that a long-term care consultation has been completed for the individual or division (I) of this section is applicable to the individual. (L) The director of aging shall adopt rules for the implementation and administration of this section. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The rules may specify any or all of the following: (1) Procedures for providing long-term care consultations; (2) Information to be provided through long-term care consultations regarding long-term care services that are available; (3) Criteria and procedures to be used to identify and recommend appropriate service options for an individual receiving a long-term care consultation; (4) Criteria for exempting individuals from receiving a long-term care consultation; (5) Circumstances under which it may be appropriate to provide an individual's long-term care consultation after the individual's admission to a nursing facility rather than before admission; (6) Criteria for identifying individuals for whom a long-term care consultation is appropriate, including nursing facility residents who would benefit from the consultation; (7) A description of the types of information from a nursing facility that is needed under the long-term care consultation program to assist a resident with relocation from the facility; (8) Standards to prevent conflicts of interest relative to the referrals made by a person who performs a long-term care consultation, including standards that prohibit the person from being employed by a provider of long-term care services; (9) Procedures for providing notice and an opportunity for a hearing under division (N) of this section; (10) Time frames for providing or completing a long-term care consultation; (11) Any other standards or procedures the director considers necessary for the program. (M) To assist the department and each program administrator with identifying individuals for whom a long-term care consultation is appropriate, the department and program administrator may ask to be given access to nursing facility resident assessment data collected through the use of the resident assessment instrument specified in rules authorized by section 5165.191 of the Revised Code for purposes of the medicaid program. Except when prohibited by state or federal law, the department of health, department of medicaid, or nursing facility holding the data shall grant access to the data on receipt of the request from the department of aging or program administrator. (N)(1) The director of aging, after providing notice and an opportunity for a hearing, may fine a nursing facility an amount determined by rules the director shall adopt in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for any of the following reasons: (a) The nursing facility violates division (K) of this section; (b) The nursing facility denies a person attempting to provide a long-term care consultation access to the facility or a resident of the facility; (c) The nursing facility denies the department of aging or a program administrator access to the facility or a resident of the facility, as the department or administrator considers necessary to administer the program. (2) In accordance with section 5162.66 of the Revised Code, all fines collected under division (N)(1) of this section shall be deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the residents protection fund. Last updated July 14, 2022 at 3:18 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 166.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 166 / § 166.03
§ 166.03. Facilities establishment fund
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the facilities establishment fund within the state treasury, consisting of proceeds from the issuance of obligations as specified under section 166.08 of the Revised Code; the moneys received by the state from the sources specified in section 166.09 of the Revised Code; service charges imposed under sections 166.06 and 166.07 of the Revised Code; any grants, gifts, or contributions of moneys received by the director of development to be used for loans made under section 166.07 of the Revised Code or for the payment of the allowable costs of project facilities; and all other moneys appropriated or transferred to the fund. Moneys in the loan guarantee fund in excess of the loan guarantee reserve requirement, but subject to the provisions and requirements of any guarantee contracts, may be transferred to the facilities establishment fund by the treasurer of state upon the order of the director of development. Moneys received by the state under Chapter 122. of the Revised Code, to the extent allocable to the utilization of moneys derived from proceeds of the sale of obligations pursuant to section 166.08 of the Revised Code, shall be credited to the facilities establishment fund. All investment earnings on the cash balance in the fund shall be credited to the fund. (B) All moneys appropriated or transferred to the facilities establishment fund may be released at the request of the director of development for payment of allowable costs or the making of loans under section 166.07 of the Revised Code, for transfer to the loan guarantee fund established in section 166.06 of the Revised Code, or for use for the purpose of or transfer to the funds established by sections 122.35 , 122.42 , 122.54 , 122.601 , and 122.80 of the Revised Code and, until July 1, 2003, the fund established by section 166.031 of the Revised Code, and, until July 1, 2007, the fund established by section 122.26 of the Revised Code, but only for such of those purposes as are within the authorization of Section 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, in all cases subject to the approval of the controlling board. (C) The department of development, in the administration of the facilities establishment fund, is encouraged to utilize and promote the utilization of, to the maximum practicable extent, the other existing programs, business incentives, and tax incentives that department is required or authorized to administer or supervise. Last updated July 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 133.081 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 133 / § 133.081
§ 133.081. Issuing sales tax supported bonds of county
Status: in_force

September 29, 2007 House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Anticipation notes" means notes issued in anticipation of the sales tax supported bonds authorized by this section; (2) "Authorizing proceedings" means the resolution, legislation, trust agreement, certification, and other agreements, instruments, and documents, as amended and supplemented, authorizing, or providing for the security or sale or award of, sales tax supported bonds, and includes the provisions set forth or incorporated in those bonds and proceedings; (3) "County sales tax" means any sales tax levied by the taxing authority of a county pursuant to section 5739.021 or 5739.026 of the Revised Code, and any tax levied by that taxing authority upon storage, use, or consumption under section 5741.021 or 5741.023 of the Revised Code. However, "county sales tax" does not include a sales tax subject to referendum or a sales tax that was adopted as an emergency measure and is subject to initiative petition under section 5739.022 of the Revised Code. (4) "Sales tax supported bonds" means the sales tax supported bonds authorized by this section, including anticipation notes; (5) "Refunding bonds" means sales tax supported bonds issued to provide for the refunding of the sales tax supported bonds referred to in this section as refunded obligations. (B) The taxing authority of a county which has levied a county sales tax for the purpose of providing additional general revenues of the county pursuant to Chapter 5739. of the Revised Code may anticipate the receipts of such tax and issue sales tax supported bonds of the county in the principal amount necessary to pay the costs of financing any permanent improvement as defined in division (CC) of section 133.01 of the Revised Code, or to refund any refunded obligations, provided that the taxing authority certifies that the annual debt charges on the sales tax supported bonds, or on the sales tax supported bonds being anticipated by anticipation notes, do not exceed the estimated annual county sales tax receipts. The maximum aggregate amount of sales tax supported bonds that may be outstanding at any time in accordance with their terms shall not exceed an amount which requires or is estimated to require payments from sales tax receipts of debt charges on the sales tax supported bonds, or, in the case of anticipation notes, projected debt charges on the sales tax supported bonds anticipated, in any calendar year in an amount exceeding the county sales tax in anticipation of which the bonds or anticipation notes are issued as estimated by the fiscal officer based on general sales tax receipts averaged for the prior two calendar years prior to the year in which the sales tax supported bonds are issued, and annualized for any increase in the county sales tax which may have been levied in part during such period or levied after such period. A taxing authority may at any time issue renewal anticipation notes, issue sales tax supported bonds to pay renewal anticipation notes, and, if it considers refunding expedient, issue refunding sales tax supported bonds whether the refunded obligations have or have not matured. The refunding sales tax supported bonds shall be sold and the proceeds needed for such purpose applied in the manner provided in the authorizing proceedings of the taxing authority. The maximum maturity of sales tax supported bonds shall be calculated by the fiscal officer in accordance with section 133.20 of the Revised Code, and such calculation shall be filed with the taxing authority of the county prior to passage of a bond authorizing resolution. If the county sales tax pledged to the payment of the sales tax supported bonds has a stated expiration date, the final principal maturity date of the sales tax supported bonds shall not extend beyond the final year of collection of the county sales tax pledged to the payment of the sales tax supported bonds. (C) Every issue of sales tax supported bonds outstanding in accordance with their terms shall be payable out of the sales tax receipts received by the county or proceeds of sales tax supported bonds, renewal anticipation notes, or refunding sales tax supported bonds which may be pledged for such payment in the authorizing proceedings. The pledge shall be valid and binding from the time the pledge is made, and the county sales tax receipts and proceeds so pledged and thereafter received by the county shall immediately be subject to the lien of that pledge without any physical delivery of the county sales tax receipts or proceeds or further act. The lien of any pledge is valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the county, whether or not such parties have notice of the lien. Neither the resolution nor any trust agreement by which a pledge is created or further evidenced need be filed or recorded except in the records of the taxing authority. (D) Sales tax supported bonds issued under this section do not constitute a general obligation debt, or a pledge of the full faith and credit, of the state, the county, or any other political subdivision of the state, and the holders or owners of the bonds have no right to have taxes levied by the general assembly or property taxes levied by the taxing authority of any political subdivision of the state, including the taxing authority of the county, for the payment of debt charges. Unless paid from other sources, sales tax supported bonds are payable from the sales tax receipts pledged for their payment as authorized by this section. All sales tax supported bonds shall contain on their face a statement to the effect that the sales tax supported bonds, as to debt charges, are not debts or obligations of the state and are not general obligation debts of any political subdivision of the state, but, unless paid from other sources, are payable from the sales tax receipts pledged for their payment. The utilization and pledge of the sales tax receipts and proceeds of sales tax supported bonds, renewal anticipation notes, or refunding sales tax supported bonds for the payment of debt charges is determined by the general assembly to create a special obligation. (E) The sales tax supported bonds shall bear such date or dates, shall be executed in the manner, and shall mature at such time or times, in the case of any anticipation notes not exceeding ten years from the date of issue of the original anticipation notes and in the case of any sales tax supported bonds or of any refunding sales tax supported bonds, not exceeding the maximum maturity certified to the taxing authority pursuant to division (B) of this section, all as the authorizing proceedings may provide. The sales tax supported bonds shall bear interest at such rates, or at variable rate or rates changing from time to time, in accordance with provisions in the authorizing proceedings, be in such denominations and form, either coupon or registered, carry such registration privileges, be payable in such medium of payment and at such place or places, and be subject to such terms of redemption, as the taxing authority may authorize or provide. The sales tax supported bonds may be sold at public or private sale, and at, or at not less than, the price or prices as the taxing authority determines. If any officer whose signature or a facsimile of whose signature appears on any sales tax supported bonds or coupons ceases to be such officer before delivery of the sales tax supported bonds or anticipation notes, the signature or facsimile shall nevertheless be sufficient for all purposes as if that officer had remained in office until delivery of the sales tax supported bonds. Whether or not the sales tax supported bonds are of such form and character as to be negotiable instruments under Title XIII of the Revised Code, the sales tax supported bonds shall have all the qualities and incidents of negotiable instruments, subject only to any provisions for registration. Neither the members of the board of the taxing authority nor any person executing the sales tax supported bonds shall be liable personally on the sales tax supported bonds or be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of their issuance. (F) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, sections 9.98 to 9.983 , 133.02 , 133.70 , and 5709.76 , and division (A) of section 133.03 of the Revised Code apply to the sales tax supported bonds. Sales tax supported bonds issued under this section need not comply with any other law applicable to notes or bonds but the authorizing proceedings may provide that divisions (B) to (E) of section 133.25 of the Revised Code apply to the sales tax supported bonds or anticipation notes. (G) Any authorized proceedings may contain provisions, subject to any agreements with holders as may then exist, which shall be a part of the contract with the holders, as to the pledging of any or all of the county's anticipated sales tax receipts to secure the payment of the sales tax supported bonds; the use and disposition of the sales tax receipts of the county; the crediting of the proceeds of the sale of sales tax supported bonds to and among the funds referred to or provided for in the authorizing proceedings; limitations on the purpose to which the proceeds of the sales tax supported bonds may be applied and the pledging of portions of such proceeds to secure the payment of the sales tax supported bonds or of anticipation notes; the agreement of the county to do all things necessary for the authorization, issuance, and sale of those notes anticipated in such amounts as may be necessary for the timely payment of debt charges on any anticipation notes; limitations on the issuance of additional sales tax supported bonds; the terms upon which additional sales tax supported bonds may be issued and secured; the refunding of refunded obligations; the procedure by which the terms of any contract with holders may be amended, and the manner in which any required consent to amend may be given; securing any sales tax supported bonds by a trust agreement or other agreement; and any other matters, of like or different character, that in any way affect the security or protection of the sales tax supported bonds or anticipation notes. (H) The taxing authority of a county may not repeal, rescind, or reduce any portion of a county sales tax pledged to the payment of debt charges on sales tax supported bonds issued by the county while such sales tax supported bonds remain outstanding, and no portion of a county sales tax pledged to the payment of debt charges on sales tax supported bonds shall be subject to repeal or reduction by the electorate of the county or by the taxing authority of the county while such sales tax supported bonds are outstanding.
Ohio Rev. Code § 135.142 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 135 / § 135.142
§ 135.142. Board of education investment of interim moneys
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) In addition to the investments authorized by section 135.14 of the Revised Code, any board of education, by a two-thirds vote of its members, may authorize the treasurer of the board of education to invest up to forty per cent of the interim moneys of the board, available for investment at any one time, in either of the following: (1) Commercial paper notes issued by any entity that is defined in division (K) of section 1706.01 of the Revised Code and has assets exceeding five hundred million dollars, and to which notes all of the following apply: (a) The notes are rated at the time of purchase in the highest classification established by at least two nationally recognized statistical rating organizations. (b) The aggregate value of the notes does not exceed ten per cent of the aggregate value of the outstanding commercial paper of the issuing corporation. (c) The notes mature no later than two hundred seventy days after purchase. (d) The investment in commercial paper notes of a single issuer shall not exceed in the aggregate five per cent of interim moneys of the board available for investment at the time of purchase. (2) Bankers' acceptances of banks that are insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation and that mature no later than one hundred eighty days after purchase. (B) No investment authorized pursuant to division (A) of this section shall be made, whether or not authorized by a board of education, unless the treasurer of the board of education has completed additional training for making the types of investments authorized pursuant to division (A) of this section. The type and amount of such training shall be approved and may be conducted by or provided under the supervision of the treasurer of state. (C) The treasurer of the board of education shall prepare annually and submit to the board of education, the director of education and workforce, and the auditor of state, on or before the thirty-first day of August, a report listing each investment made pursuant to division (A) of this section during the preceding fiscal year, income earned from such investments, fees and commissions paid pursuant to division (D) of this section, and any other information required by the board, the director, and the auditor of state. (D) A board of education may make appropriations and expenditures for fees and commissions in connection with investments made pursuant to division (A) of this section. (E)(1) In addition to the investments authorized by section 135.14 of the Revised Code and division (A) of this section, any board of education that is a party to an agreement with the treasurer of state pursuant to division (G) of section 135.143 of the Revised Code and that has outstanding obligations issued under authority of section 133.10 of the Revised Code may authorize the treasurer of the board of education to invest interim moneys of the board in debt interests rated in either of the two highest rating classifications by at least two nationally recognized statistical rating organizations and issued by entities that are defined in division (K) of section 1706.01 of the Revised Code. The debt interests purchased under authority of division (E) of this section shall mature not later than the latest maturity date of the outstanding obligations issued under authority of section 133.10 or 133.301 of the Revised Code. (2) If any of the debt interests acquired under division (E)(1) of this section ceases to be rated as there required, its issuer shall notify the treasurer of state of this fact within twenty-four hours. At any time thereafter the treasurer of state may require collateralization at the rate of one hundred two per cent of any remaining obligation of the entity, with securities authorized for investment under section 135.143 of the Revised Code. The collateral shall be delivered to and held by a custodian acceptable to the treasurer of state, marked to market daily, and any default to be cured within twelve hours. Unlimited substitution shall be allowed of comparable securities. Last updated September 5, 2023 at 5:16 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 102.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 102 / § 102.06
§ 102.06. Powers and duties of ethics commission
Status: in_force

September 10, 2007 House Bill 100 - 127th General Assembly (A) The appropriate ethics commission shall receive and may initiate complaints against persons subject to this chapter concerning conduct alleged to be in violation of this chapter or section 2921.42 or 2921.43 of the Revised Code. All complaints except those by the commission shall be by affidavit made on personal knowledge, subject to the penalties of perjury. Complaints by the commission shall be by affidavit, based upon reasonable cause to believe that a violation has occurred. (B) The appropriate ethics commission shall investigate complaints, may investigate charges presented to it, and may request further information, including the specific amount of income from a source, from any person filing with the commission a statement required by section 102.02 or 102.021 of the Revised Code, if the information sought is directly relevant to a complaint or charges received by the commission pursuant to this section. This information is confidential, except that the commission, in its discretion, may share information gathered in the course of any investigation with, or disclose the information to, the inspector general, any appropriate prosecuting authority, any law enforcement agency, or any other appropriate ethics commission. If the accused person is a member of the public employees retirement board, state teachers retirement board, school employees retirement board, board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund, or state highway patrol retirement board, or is a member of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, the appropriate ethics commission, in its discretion, also may share information gathered in the course of an investigation with, or disclose the information to, the attorney general and the auditor of state. The person so requested shall furnish the information to the commission, unless within fifteen days from the date of the request the person files an action for declaratory judgment challenging the legitimacy of the request in the court of common pleas of the county of the person's residence, the person's place of employment, or Franklin county. The requested information need not be furnished to the commission during the pendency of the judicial proceedings. Proceedings of the commission in connection with the declaratory judgment action shall be kept confidential except as otherwise provided by this section. Before the commission proceeds to take any formal action against a person who is the subject of an investigation based on charges presented to the commission, a complaint shall be filed against the person. If the commission finds that a complaint is not frivolous, and there is reasonable cause to believe that the facts alleged in a complaint constitute a violation of section 102.02 , 102.021 , 102.03 , 102.04 , 102.07 , 2921.42 , or 2921.43 of the Revised Code, it shall hold a hearing. If the commission does not so find, it shall dismiss the complaint and notify the accused person in writing of the dismissal of the complaint. The commission shall not make a report of its finding unless the accused person requests a report. Upon the request of the accused person, the commission shall make a public report of its finding. The person against whom the complaint is directed shall be given reasonable notice by certified mail of the date, time, and place of the hearing and a statement of the charges and the law directly involved and shall be given the opportunity to be represented by counsel, to have counsel appointed for the person if the person is unable to afford counsel without undue hardship, to examine the evidence against the person, to produce evidence and to call and subpoena witnesses in the person's defense, to confront the person's accusers, and to cross-examine witnesses. The commission shall have a stenographic record made of the hearing. The hearing shall be closed to the public. (C)(1)(a) If, upon the basis of the hearing, the appropriate ethics commission finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the facts alleged in the complaint are true and constitute a violation of section 102.02 , 102.021 , 102.03 , 102.04 , 102.07 , 2921.42 , or 2921.43 of the Revised Code, it shall report its findings to the appropriate prosecuting authority for proceedings in prosecution of the violation and to the appointing or employing authority of the accused. If the accused person is a member of the public employees retirement board, state teachers retirement board, school employees retirement board, board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund, or state highway patrol retirement board, the commission also shall report its findings to the Ohio retirement study council. (b) If the Ohio ethics commission reports its findings to the appropriate prosecuting authority under division (C)(1)(a) of this section and the prosecuting authority has not initiated any official action on those findings within ninety days after receiving the commission's report of them, the commission may publicly comment that no official action has been taken on its findings, except that the commission shall make no comment in violation of the Rules of Criminal Procedure or about any indictment that has been sealed pursuant to any law or those rules. The commission shall make no comment regarding the merits of its findings. As used in division (C)(1)(b) of this section, "official action" means prosecution, closure after investigation, or grand jury action resulting in a true bill of indictment or no true bill of indictment. (2) If the appropriate ethics commission does not find by a preponderance of the evidence that the facts alleged in the complaint are true and constitute a violation of section 102.02 , 102.021 , 102.03 , 102.04 , 102.07 , 2921.42 , or 2921.43 of the Revised Code or if the commission has not scheduled a hearing within ninety days after the complaint is filed or has not finally disposed of the complaint within six months after it has been heard, it shall dismiss the complaint and notify the accused person in writing of the dismissal of the complaint. The commission shall not make a report of its finding unless the accused person requests a report. Upon the request of the accused person, the commission shall make a public report of the finding, but in this case all evidence and the record of the hearing shall remain confidential unless the accused person also requests that the evidence and record be made public. Upon request by the accused person, the commission shall make the evidence and the record available for public inspection. (D) The appropriate ethics commission, or a member of the commission, may administer oaths, and the commission may issue subpoenas to any person in the state compelling the attendance of witnesses and the production of relevant papers, books, accounts, and records. The commission shall issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents upon the request of an accused person. Section 101.42 of the Revised Code shall govern the issuance of these subpoenas insofar as applicable. Upon the refusal of any person to obey a subpoena or to be sworn or to answer as a witness, the commission may apply to the court of common pleas of Franklin county under section 2705.03 of the Revised Code. The court shall hold proceedings in accordance with Chapter 2705. of the Revised Code. The commission or the accused person may take the depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state in the same manner as prescribed by law for the taking of depositions in civil actions in the court of common pleas. (E) At least once each year, the Ohio ethics commission shall report on its activities of the immediately preceding year to the majority and minority leaders of the senate and house of representatives of the general assembly. The report shall indicate the total number of complaints received, initiated, and investigated by the commission, the total number of complaints for which formal hearings were held, and the total number of complaints for which formal prosecution was recommended or requested by the commission. The report also shall indicate the nature of the inappropriate conduct alleged in each complaint and the governmental entity with which any employee or official that is the subject of a complaint was employed at the time of the alleged inappropriate conduct. (F) All papers, records, affidavits, and documents upon any complaint, inquiry, or investigation relating to the proceedings of the appropriate ethics commission shall be sealed and are private and confidential, except as otherwise provided in this section and section 102.07 of the Revised Code. (G)(1) When a complaint or charge is before it, the Ohio ethics commission or the appropriate prosecuting authority, in consultation with the person filing the complaint or charge, the accused, and any other person the commission or prosecuting authority considers necessary, may compromise or settle the complaint or charge with the agreement of the accused. The compromise or settlement may include mediation, restitution, rescission of affected contracts, forfeiture of any benefits resulting from a violation or potential violation of law, resignation of a public official or employee, or any other relief that is agreed upon between the commission or prosecuting authority and the accused. (2) Any settlement agreement entered into under division (G)(1) of this section shall be in writing and be accompanied by a statement of the findings of the commission or prosecuting authority and the reasons for entering into the agreement. The commission or prosecuting authority shall retain the agreement and statement in the commission's or prosecuting authority's office and, in the commission's or prosecuting authority's discretion, may make the agreement, the statement, and any supporting information public, unless the agreement provides otherwise. (3) If a settlement agreement is breached by the accused, the commission or prosecuting authority, in the commission's or prosecuting authority's discretion, may rescind the agreement and reinstitute any investigation, hearing, or prosecution of the accused. No information obtained from the accused in reaching the settlement that is not otherwise discoverable from the accused shall be used in any proceeding before the commission or by the appropriate prosecuting authority in prosecuting the violation. Notwithstanding any other section of the Revised Code, if a settlement agreement is breached, any statute of limitations for a violation of this chapter or section 2921.42 or 2921.43 of the Revised Code is tolled from the date the complaint or charge is filed until the date the settlement agreement is breached.
Ohio Rev. Code § 109.75 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 109 / § 109.75
§ 109.75. Powers and duties of peace officer training commission executive director
Status: in_force

October 24, 2024 Senate Bill 98 - 135th General Assembly The executive director of the Ohio peace officer training commission, on behalf of the commission, shall have the following powers and duties, which shall be exercised with the general advice of the commission and only in accordance with section 109.751 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted pursuant to that section, and with the rules adopted by the attorney general pursuant to sections 109.74 , 109.741 , 109.742 , and 109.743 of the Revised Code: (A) To approve peace officer training schools and firearms requalification programs administered by the state, counties, municipal corporations, and the department of natural resources, to issue certificates of approval to approved schools, and to revoke an approval or certificate; (B) To certify, as qualified, instructors at approved peace officer training schools, to issue appropriate certificates to these instructors, and to revoke for good cause shown certificates of these instructors; (C) To certify, as qualified, commanders at approved peace officer training schools, to issue appropriate certificates to these commanders, and to revoke for good cause shown certificates of these commanders. As used in this division, "commander" means the director or other head of an approved peace officer training school. (D) To certify peace officers and sheriffs who have satisfactorily completed basic training programs and to issue appropriate certificates to these peace officers and sheriffs; (E) To cause studies and surveys to be made relating to the establishment, operation, and approval of state, county, and municipal peace officer training schools; (F) To consult and cooperate with state, county, and municipal peace officer training schools for the development of advanced in-service training programs for peace officers; (G) To consult and cooperate with universities, colleges, and institutes for the development of specialized courses of study in the state for peace officers in police science and police administration; (H) To consult and cooperate with other departments and agencies of the state and federal government concerned with peace officer training; (I) To perform any other acts that may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the executive director's powers and duties as set forth in sections 109.71 to 109.77 of the Revised Code; (J) To report to the commission at each regular meeting of the commission and at any other times that the commission may require; (K) To certify persons who have satisfactorily completed approved training programs for correction officers in full-service jails, five-day facilities, or eight-hour holding facilities or approved training programs for others who provide correction services in those jails or facilities and to issue appropriate certificates to those persons; (L) To maintain any records associated with the powers and duties set forth in this section. Certification examinations, either before or after completion, are not public records for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code, but the results of such examinations are public records under that section; (M) To certify tactical medical professionals who have satisfactorily completed approved training programs that qualify them to carry firearms while on duty under section 109.771 of the Revised Code and to issue appropriate certificates to such professionals; (N) To certify county correctional officers who have satisfactorily completed approved basic training programs that qualify them to carry firearms while on duty under section 109.772 of the Revised Code and to issue appropriate certificates to such county correctional officers; (O) To certify fire investigators who have satisfactorily completed approved training programs that qualify them to carry firearms while on duty under section 109.774 of the Revised Code and to issue appropriate certificates to such investigators. Last updated August 28, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 117.47 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 117 / § 117.47
§ 117.47. Auditor's innovation fund
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly There is hereby created in the state treasury the auditor's innovation fund. The auditor of state may use the fund for innovative audit, accounting, or local government assistance services that improve the quality or increase the range of services offered to local governments and school districts. The fund shall consist of money appropriated to it. Last updated October 23, 2023 at 1:37 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 167.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 167 / § 167.08
§ 167.08. Contracts for service
Status: in_force

November 17, 1967 Senate Bill 266 - 107th General Assembly The appropriate officials, authorities, boards, or bodies of counties, municipal corporations, townships, special districts, school districts, or other political subdivisions may contract with any council established pursuant to sections 167.01 to 167.07 , inclusive, of the Revised Code to receive any service from such council or to provide any service to such council. Such contracts may also authorize the council to perform any function or render any service in behalf of such counties, municipal corporations, townships, special districts, school districts, or other political subdivisions, which such counties, municipal corporations, townships, special districts, school districts, or other political subdivisions may perform or render.
Ohio Rev. Code § 101.542 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 101 / § 101.542
§ 101.542. Index of journals and appendix
Status: in_force

March 9, 1999 House Bill 649 - 122nd General Assembly The clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives shall make an index to the journals of the senate and house of representatives, and an index to the appendix to both journals. The clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives shall print the indexes in the appendix to the final senate and house of representatives journals.
Ohio Rev. Code § 125.072 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 125 / § 125.072
§ 125.072. Purchasing services or supplies via reverse auction on internet
Status: in_force

November 5, 2004 House Bill 204 - 125th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "reverse auction" means a purchasing process in which offerors submit bids in competing to sell services or supplies in an open environment via the internet. (B) Whenever the director of administrative services determines that the use of a reverse auction is advantageous to the state, the director, in accordance with rules the director shall adopt, may purchase services or supplies by reverse auction. (C) The director, by rule, may authorize a state agency that is authorized to purchase services or supplies directly to purchase them by reverse auction in the same manner as this section and the rules adopted under this section authorize the director to do so.
Ohio Rev. Code § 129.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 129 / § 129.21
§ 129.21. Records subject to examination
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The books, records, documents, accounts, vouchers, and the business of the board of commissioners of the sinking fund, and everything belonging or appertaining thereto, shall at all times be subject to examination by any committee or commission appointed by the general assembly, or by either branch thereof, or by the governor, or treasurer of state, in person, or any person appointed by them, or either of them. When any person, other than a member of the board, is appointed by the governor to examine the state treasury, such person and the treasurer of state shall make a careful and thorough examination of the business and proceedings of the board, and of all their books, records, documents, vouchers, and everything belonging or appertaining thereto, and make a report thereof to the governor, who shall communicate the same to the general assembly.
Ohio Rev. Code § 165.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 165 / § 165.06
§ 165.06. Protection and enforcement of rights of bondholder and trustees
Status: in_force

June 26, 1967 Senate Bill 273 - 107th General Assembly Any holder of bonds issued pursuant to Chapter 165. of the Revised Code or a trustee under a trust agreement or indenture of mortgage entered into pursuant to section 165.05 of the Revised Code, except to the extent that their rights are restricted by the bond proceedings or by the terms of the bonds, may by any suitable form of legal proceedings, protect and enforce any rights under the laws of this state or granted by the bond proceedings. Such rights include the right to compel the performance of all duties of the issuer required by Chapter 165. of the Revised Code or the bond proceedings; to enjoin unlawful activities; and in the event of default with respect to the payment of any principal of and interest on any bond or in the performance of any covenant or agreement on the part of the issuer in the resolution, ordinance, trust agreement, or indenture, to apply to a court having jurisdiction of the cause to appoint a receiver to administer and operate the pledged facilities, the rentals, revenues, and other income, charges, and moneys of which are pledged to the payment of principal of and interest on such bonds or which are the subject of the covenant or agreement, with full power to pay, and to provide for payment of, principal of and interest on such bonds, and with such powers, subject to the direction of the court, as are accorded receivers in general equity cases, excluding any power to pledge additional rentals, revenues, or other income, charges, or moneys of the issuer, including those derived from taxation, to the payment of such principal and interest; and to foreclose the mortgage on the pledged facilities in the same manner as for real estate of private corporations.
Ohio Rev. Code § 173.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 173 / § 173.19
§ 173.19. Investigating and resolving complaints
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) The office of the state long-term care ombudsman program, through the state long-term care ombudsman and the regional long-term care ombudsman programs, shall receive, investigate, and attempt to resolve complaints made by residents, recipients, sponsors, long-term care providers, or any person acting on behalf of a resident or recipient, relating to either of the following: (1) The health, safety, welfare, or civil rights of a resident or recipient or any violation of a resident's rights described in sections 3721.10 to 3721.17 of the Revised Code; (2) Any action or inaction or decision by any of the following that may adversely affect the health, safety, welfare, or rights of a resident or recipient: a long-term care provider or a representative of a long-term care provider; a medicaid managed care organization, as defined in section 5167.01 of the Revised Code; a government entity; or a private social service agency. (B) The department of aging shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code regarding the handling of complaints received under this section, including procedures for conducting investigations of complaints. The rules shall include procedures to ensure that no representative of the office investigates any complaint involving a long-term care provider with which the representative was once employed or associated. The state ombudsman and regional programs shall establish procedures for handling complaints consistent with the department's rules. Complaints shall be dealt with in accordance with the procedures established under this division. (C) The office of the state long-term care ombudsman program may decline to investigate any complaint if it determines any of the following: (1) That the complaint is frivolous, vexatious, or not made in good faith; (2) That the complaint was made so long after the occurrence of the incident on which it is based that it is no longer reasonable to conduct an investigation; (3) That an adequate investigation cannot be conducted because of insufficient funds, insufficient staff, lack of staff expertise, or any other reasonable factor that would result in an inadequate investigation despite a good faith effort; (4) That an investigation by the office would create a real or apparent conflict of interest. (D) If a regional long-term care ombudsman program declines to investigate a complaint, it shall refer the complaint to the state long-term care ombudsman. (E) Each complaint to be investigated by a regional program shall be assigned to a representative of the office of the state long-term care ombudsman program. If the representative determines that the complaint is valid, the representative shall assist the parties in attempting to resolve it. If the representative is unable to resolve it, the representative shall refer the complaint to the state ombudsman. In order to carry out the duties of sections 173.14 to 173.28 of the Revised Code, a representative has the right to private communication with residents and their sponsors and access to long-term care facilities, including the right to tour resident areas unescorted and the right to tour facilities unescorted as reasonably necessary to the investigation of a complaint. Access to facilities shall be during reasonable hours or, during investigation of a complaint, at other times appropriate to the complaint. When community-based long-term care services are provided at a location other than the recipient's home, a representative has the right to private communication with the recipient and the recipient's sponsors and access to the community-based long-term care site, including the right to tour the site unescorted. Access to the site shall be during reasonable hours or, during the investigation of a complaint, at other times appropriate to the complaint. (F) The state ombudsman shall determine whether complaints referred to the ombudsman under division (D) or (E) of this section warrant investigation. The ombudsman's determination in this matter is final. (G) No long-term care provider or other entity, no person employed by a long-term care provider or other entity, and no other individual shall do either of the following: (1) Knowingly deny a representative of the office of the state long-term care ombudsman program the right to private communication or access described in division (E) of this section; (2) Engage in willful interference. As used in division (G)(2) of this section, "willful interference" means any action or inaction that is intended to prevent, interfere with, or impede a representative of the office of the state long-term care ombudsman program from exercising any of the rights or performing any of the duties of an ombudsman set forth in sections 173.14 to 173.28 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 135.62 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 135 / § 135.62
§ 135.62. Linked deposit program definitions
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly As used in sections 135.62 to 135.66 of the Revised Code: (A) "Discount interest rate" means an interest rate below the prevailing interest rate that the treasurer of state determines eligible lending institutions are willing to pay to hold linked deposits. (B) "Eligible borrower" means a borrower that has met all the requirements necessary to participate in the adoption linked deposit program under section 135.63 of the Revised Code, agricultural linked deposit program under section 135.64 of the Revised Code, small business linked deposit program under section 135.65 of the Revised Code, or home improvement linked deposit program under section 135.66 of the Revised Code. (C) "Eligible credit union" means, notwithstanding any contrary provision of sections 135.01 to 135.21 of the Revised Code, a federal credit union, a foreign credit union licensed pursuant to section 1733.39 of the Revised Code, or a credit union as defined in section 1733.01 of the Revised Code, located in this state. (D) "Eligible lending institution" means a financial institution that is eligible to make loans, agrees to participate in the applicable linked deposit program, and is one of the following: (1) A public depository of state funds, or an eligible credit union designated under division (A) of section 135.12 of the Revised Code; (2) For the agricultural linked deposit program, notwithstanding any contrary provision of sections 135.01 to 135.21 of the Revised Code, an institution of the farm credit system organized under the federal "Farm Credit Act of 1971," 85 Stat. 583, 12 U.S.C. 2001, as amended. (E) "Homestead" means a dwelling owned and occupied in this state as a single-family primary residence by an individual for the purpose of qualifying for the home improvement linked deposit program. "Homestead" includes a house, condo, a unit in a multiple-unit dwelling, manufactured home or mobile home taxed as real property pursuant to division (B) of section 4503.06 of the Revised Code, or any other building with a residential classification, as allowed by the treasurer of state. "Homestead" includes so much of the land surrounding the dwelling as is reasonably necessary for the use of the dwelling as a residence, as determined by the treasurer of state. (F) "Linked deposit" means a certificate of deposit, a share certificate, other financial institution instrument, or portion of an existing deposit of interim funds made in accordance with section 135.09 of the Revised Code placed, purchased, or designated by the treasurer of state with an eligible lending institution; provided the institution agrees to lend up to the value of such certificate of deposit, share certificate, or other financial institution instrument, or designated portion of an existing deposit to eligible borrowers for applicable linked deposit programs at the rate established in division (A) of section 135.624 of the Revised Code, and in accordance with the deposit agreement provided in section 135.623 of the Revised Code. (G) "Linked deposit program" means a program authorized under sections 135.61 to 135.66 of the Revised Code and established by the treasurer of state pursuant to such sections. (H) "Loan" means a contractual agreement under which an eligible lending institution agrees to lend money to an eligible borrower in the form of an upfront lump sum, a line of credit, or any other reasonable arrangement approved by the treasurer of state. (I) "Manufactured home" has the same meaning as in section 3781.06 of the Revised Code. (J) "Mobile home" has the same meaning as in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code. (K) "Other financial institution instrument" means: (1) For the agricultural linked deposit program under section 135.64 of the Revised Code, an investment by the treasurer of state in bonds, notes, debentures, or other obligations or securities issued by the federal farm credit bank with regard to an eligible lending institution; (2) For all linked deposit programs other than the agricultural linked deposit program, a product that otherwise would pay the prevailing interest rate approved by the treasurer of state, for the purpose of providing eligible borrowers with the benefits of the applicable linked deposit program, and in accordance with the deposit agreement provided in section 135.623 of the Revised Code. (L) "Owner" includes a holder of one of the several estates in fee, a vendee in possession under a purchase agreement or a land contract, a mortgagor, a life tenant, one or more tenants with a right of survivorship, tenants in common, a settlor of a revocable or irrevocable inter vivos trust holding the title to a homestead occupied by the settlor as of right under the trust, or any other determination as made by the treasurer of state. (M) "Prevailing interest rate" means a current market interest rate selected by the treasurer of state that eligible lending institutions are willing to pay to hold deposits of the treasurer of state. (N) "Qualifying adoption expense" means any expense incurred to legally adopt a child as described in division (C) of section 3107.055 of the Revised Code, including any costs incurred by the eligible borrower proximately relating to the completion and approval of the home study under section 3107.031 of the Revised Code, and any other expense as determined by the treasurer of state. (O) "Treasurer of state's assessment rate" means a rate not exceeding ten per cent that is calculated in a manner determined by the treasurer of state and that seeks to account for the effect that varying tax treatment among different types of financial institutions has on the ability of financial institutions to pay competitive interest rates to hold deposits. Last updated October 5, 2023 at 4:56 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.53 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.53
§ 124.53. Superintendent of buildings - superintendent of fire equipment exempt from civil service
Status: in_force

December 4, 1973 Senate Bill 174 - 110th General Assembly In any city which, by action of its legislative authority, establishes the position of superintendent of buildings or the position of superintendent of fire equipment, and appoints to either position a member of the uniform rank by assignment, such member is not subject to competitive examination, notwithstanding section 124.44 of the Revised Code. The status within the uniform ranks of such member while so serving in such assignment shall remain unchanged and, notwithstanding the compensation fixed for such position, he shall not acquire any right to promotion other than such rights to promotion which apply to the rank held at the time of assignment.
Ohio Rev. Code § 149.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 149 / § 149.07
§ 149.07. Final journals available to members of general assembly
Status: in_force

December 13, 2001 House Bill 405 - 124th General Assembly One bound copy of each of the final journals and appendixes shall be made available to each member of the general assembly.
Ohio Rev. Code § 103.18 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 103 / § 103.18
§ 103.18. Cooperation of state agencies
Status: in_force

January 9, 1961 House Bill 1 - 104th General Assembly The Ohio legislative service commission or any committee appointed by the commission may call upon any state department, university, agency, or officer, or agency of any political subdivision for such facilities and data as may be available and state departments, universities, agencies and officers, and agencies of political subdivisions shall cooperate with the commission or any committee appointed by the commission to the fullest possible extent.
Ohio Rev. Code § 101.921 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 101 / § 101.921
§ 101.921. Disqualification as retirement system lobbyist for certain offenses
Status: in_force

September 30, 2021 House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly (A) No person shall be permitted to register as a retirement system lobbyist under division (A) or (B) of section 101.92 of the Revised Code if the person is convicted of or pleads guilty to committing on or after the effective date of this section any felony offense listed or described in divisions (A)(1) to (6) of section 101.721 of the Revised Code in the circumstances specified in the particular division. (B) If a retirement system lobbyist has registered with the joint legislative ethics committee under division (A) or (B) of section 101.92 of the Revised Code, and, on or after the effective date of this section and during the period during which the registration is valid, the retirement system lobbyist is convicted of or pleads guilty to any felony offense listed or described in divisions (A)(1) to (6) of section 101.721 of the Revised Code in the circumstances specified in the particular division, the joint legislative ethics committee immediately upon becoming aware of the conviction or guilty plea shall terminate the registration of the person as a retirement system lobbyist, and, after the termination, the ban imposed under division (A) of this section applies to the person. (C) The ban imposed under division (A) of this section is a lifetime ban, and the offender is forever disqualified from registering as a retirement system lobbyist under section 101.92 of the Revised Code. (D) For purposes of divisions (A) and (B) of this section, a violation of section 2923.32 of the Revised Code or any other violation or offense that includes as an element a course of conduct or the occurrence of multiple acts is "committed on or after the effective date of this section " if the course of conduct continues, one or more of the multiple acts occurs, or the subject person's accountability for the course of conduct or for one or more of the multiple acts continues, on or after the effective date of this section . Last updated May 12, 2022 at 10:28 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 125.29 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 125 / § 125.29
§ 125.29. Child care services
Status: in_force

July 1, 2014 House Bill 497 - 130th General Assembly Notwithstanding section 125.28 of the Revised Code, the department of administrative services may operate or contract for child care services in any facility owned or maintained by the department or any other state agency if the director of administrative services determines such space is available; such space shall be used to provide child care services to a group of individuals of whom at least fifty per cent are state of Ohio employees; and priority for such child care services will be given to state of Ohio employees even if it results in the displacement of non-state employees. If the department allots space in a facility controlled by it for the provision of child care services, such space may be provided without charge for rent or services. For the purpose of this section, "services" includes the provision of lighting, heating, cooling, electricity, maintenance, security systems, or any other utility type services. The director shall adopt rules governing the operation of such child care services.
Ohio Rev. Code § 101.64 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 101 / § 101.64
§ 101.64. Testimony from common sense initiative office
Status: in_force

April 5, 2019 Senate Bill 255 - 132nd General Assembly The president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives shall notify the chief of the common sense initiative office, established under section 107.61 of the Revised Code, when a board is identified to be reviewed by a standing committee under section 101.63 of the Revised Code. The chief or the chief's designee shall appear and testify before the standing committee, with respect to the board, and shall testify on at least all of the following: (A) Whether or not the common sense initiative office has, within the previous six years, received commentary related to the board through the comment system established under section 107.62 of the Revised Code; (B) Whether or not the common sense initiative office has, within the previous six years, received advice from the small business advisory council with respect to rules of the board; (C) Any other information the chief believes will elucidate the effectiveness and efficiency of the board and in particular the quality of customer service provided by the board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 125.093 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 125 / § 125.093
§ 125.093. Annual report on purchase of biobased products
Status: in_force

May 31, 2010 Senate Bill 131 - 128th General Assembly Not later than September 30, 2010, and the thirtieth day of September each year thereafter, the director of administrative services shall prepare and submit to the governor, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives a report that describes the number and types of biobased products purchased under section 125.092 of the Revised Code and the amount of money spent by the department of administrative services and other state agencies for those biobased products.
Ohio Rev. Code § 121.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 121 / § 121.05
§ 121.05. Assistant directors
Status: in_force

April 7, 2009 House Bill 130 - 127th General Assembly Except as otherwise provided in this section, in each department, there shall be an assistant director designated by the director of that department. In the department of health, there shall be two assistant directors, each of whom shall be designated by the director of health. In the department of transportation, there shall be an assistant director for business management, an assistant director for field operations, and an assistant director for transportation policy, each of whom shall be designated by the director of transportation. In the department of insurance, the deputy superintendent of insurance shall be the assistant director. In the department of administrative services, there shall be two assistant directors, each of whom shall be designated by the director of administrative services. In the department of commerce, there shall be two assistant directors, each of whom shall be designated by the director of commerce. In the department of job and family services, there may be up to two assistant directors, each of whom shall be designated by the director of job and family services. In each department with an assistant director, the assistant director shall act as director in the absence or disability of the director and also shall act as director when the position of director is vacant, except that in the department of transportation, the department of health, the department of commerce, the department of administrative services, and the department of job and family services, the director shall designate which assistant director shall act as director in the director's absence. In each department without an assistant director, the director shall designate a deputy director to act as director in the absence or disability of the director. A director may designate any of the director's assistant directors or a deputy director to serve in the director's place as a member of any board, committee, authority, or commission of which the director is, by law, a member. The designee, when present, shall be counted in determining whether a quorum is present at any meeting. The designee may vote and participate in all proceedings and actions of the board, committee, authority, or commission, provided that the designee shall not execute or cause a facsimile of the designee's signature to be placed on any obligation, or execute any trust agreement or indenture. The designation shall be in writing, executed by the designating director, filed with the secretary of the board, committee, authority, or commission, and shall be in effect until withdrawn or superseded by a new designation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.012 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.012
§ 145.012. Public employee defined
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) "Public employee," as defined in division (A) of section 145.01 of the Revised Code, does not include any person: (1) Who is employed by a private, temporary-help service and performs services under the direction of a public employer or is employed on a contractual basis as an independent contractor under a personal service contract with a public employer; (2) Who is an emergency employee serving on a temporary basis in case of fire, snow, earthquake, flood, or other similar emergency; (3) Who is employed in a program established pursuant to the "Job Training Partnership Act," 96 Stat. 1322 (1982), 29 U.S.C.A. 1501; (4) Who is an appointed member of either the motor vehicle salvage dealers board or the motor vehicle dealer's board whose rate and method of payment are determined pursuant to division (J) of section 124.15 of the Revised Code; (5) Who is appointed to serve as a precinct election official under section 3501.22 of the Revised Code and received compensation for that service under section 3501.28 of the Revised Code during a calendar year; (6) Who is employed as a firefighter in a position requiring satisfactory completion of a firefighter training course approved under former section 3303.07 or section 4765.55 of the Revised Code or conducted under section 3737.33 of the Revised Code except for the following: (a) Any firefighter who has elected under section 145.013 of the Revised Code to remain a contributing member of the public employees retirement system; (b) Any firefighter who was eligible to transfer from the public employees retirement system to the Ohio police and fire pension fund under section 742.51 or 742.515 of the Revised Code and did not elect to transfer; (c) Any firefighter who has elected under section 742.516 of the Revised Code to transfer from the Ohio police and fire pension fund to the public employees retirement system. (7) Who is a member of the board of health of a city or general health district, which pursuant to sections 3709.051 and 3709.07 of the Revised Code includes a combined health district, and whose compensation for attendance at meetings of the board is set forth in division (B) of section 3709.02 or division (B) of section 3709.05 of the Revised Code, as appropriate; (8) Who participates in an alternative retirement plan established under Chapter 3305. of the Revised Code; (9) Who is a member of the board of directors of a sanitary district established under Chapter 6115. of the Revised Code; (10) Who is an employee, officer, or governor-appointed member of the board of directors of the nonprofit corporation formed under section 187.01 of the Revised Code; (11) Who is employed by the nonprofit entity established to provide advocacy services and a client assistance program for people with disabilities under Section 319.20 of Am. Sub. H.B. 153 of the 129th general assembly and whose employment begins on or after October 1, 2012. (B) No inmate of a correctional institution operated by the department of rehabilitation and correction, no patient in a hospital for persons with mental illnesses operated by the department of mental health and addiction services, no resident in an institution for persons with intellectual disabilities operated by the department of developmental disabilities, no resident admitted as a patient of a veterans' home operated under Chapter 5907. of the Revised Code, and no resident of a county home shall be considered as a public employee for the purpose of establishing membership or calculating service credit or benefits under this chapter. Nothing in this division shall be construed to affect any service credit attained by any person who was a public employee before becoming an inmate, patient, or resident at any institution listed in this division, or the payment of any benefit for which such a person or such a person's beneficiaries otherwise would be eligible. Last updated October 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 124.70 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 124 / § 124.70
§ 124.70. No residency requirement for higher education employees
Status: in_force

October 25, 1995 Senate Bill 99 - 121st General Assembly No state institution of higher education shall prohibit, and nothing in this chapter prohibits, an employee in the classified civil service of the institution from residing outside this state. As used in this section, "state institution of higher education" has the meaning given in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 117.48 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 117 / § 117.48
§ 117.48. Shared equipment service agreement program
Status: in_force

September 14, 2016 House Bill 5 - 131st General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "governmental function," "political subdivision," and "proprietary function" have the same meanings as in section 2744.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The auditor of state may establish a shared equipment service agreement program in which state agencies and political subdivisions may voluntarily participate. Under the program, a state agency or political subdivision may voluntarily enter into an agreement with another state agency or political subdivision to provide for the contracting lender state agency or political subdivision to lend its capital equipment to the contracting recipient state agency or political subdivision for temporary use in the recipient's performance of a governmental function or proprietary function. (C) Sections 2743.31 and 2744.11 of the Revised Code apply if the auditor of state establishes a shared equipment service agreement program under division (B) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 148.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 148 / § 148.01
§ 148.01. Deferred compensation program definitions
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Eligible employee" means any public employee, as defined in division (A) of section 145.01 of the Revised Code; any person eligible to become a member of the public employees retirement system under section 145.20 of the Revised Code; any employee, as defined in division (C) of section 742.01 , division (B) of section 3309.01 , or division (A) of section 5505.01 of the Revised Code; any electing employee, as defined in section 3305.01 of the Revised Code; and any member of the state teachers retirement system. (2) "Participant account" means any of the following accounts: (a) An account that is maintained by the public employees retirement board and that evidences moneys that have been deferred by, or on behalf of, a continuing member or participating employee and transmitted to the board by the retirement system of the continuing member or participating employee; (b) An account that is maintained by the governing board, administrator, depository, or trustee of a deferred compensation program of a municipal corporation and that evidences moneys that have been deferred by an officer or employee of that municipal corporation and transmitted to the governing board, administrator, depository, or trustee by the retirement system of the officer or employee or in another manner; (c) An account that is maintained by a governing board, as defined in section 148.06 of the Revised Code, and that evidences moneys that have been deferred by an officer or employee of a government unit, as defined in that section, and transmitted to the governing board by the retirement system of the officer or employee or in another manner. (3) "Participating employee" means any eligible employee who is having compensation deferred pursuant to either of the following: (a) An agreement that is entered into before the compensation is earned and that is with the eligible employee's employer and the public employees retirement board; (b) Automatic enrollment in the Ohio public employees deferred compensation program under section 148.042 of the Revised Code. (4) "Continuing member" means any former participating employee who is not currently having compensation deferred, or the former participating employee's beneficiary, to whom payment has not been made of all deferred compensation distributions. (B) Notwithstanding section 145.01 of the Revised Code, the definitions of that section are applicable to this chapter only to any extent necessary to fully understand the provisions of this chapter. Reference may also be had to Chapters 742., 3305., 3307., 3309., and 5505. of the Revised Code for that purpose. Last updated July 22, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 135.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 135 / § 135.34
§ 135.34. Review of investment procedures semiannually
Status: in_force

March 17, 1987 Senate Bill 317 - 116th General Assembly The board of county commissioners may review semiannually the investment procedures of the investing authority and the investing authority shall provide the necessary information to accomplish such review. When it is determined that the investing authority has failed to invest the inactive moneys of the county as provided by law, or in documented substantial, material, and continuing disregard of the advice or written policies of the county investment advisory committee pursuant to section 135.341 of the Revised Code, the board shall inform, by written notice, the investing authority of its finding. When, at the time of the next succeeding semiannual review, the board finds that such procedures, as included in the written notice, have not been corrected, the board may designate, by resolution, the board as a whole, one of its members, or one of its employees as the investing authority, and thereafter, until such action is rescinded by resolution of the board, the investing authority shall be as designated by the board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 151.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 151 / § 151.03
§ 151.03. Common schools capital facilities bond service fund
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly This section applies to obligations as defined in this section. (A) As used in this section: (1) "Costs of capital facilities" includes related direct administrative expenses and allocable portions of direct costs of the using school district and the Ohio facilities construction commission. (2) "Net state lottery proceeds" means the amount determined by the director of budget and management to be an excess amount to the credit of the state lottery fund and to be transferred to the lottery profits education fund, and moneys from time to time in the lottery profits education fund, all as provided for and referred to in section 3770.06 of the Revised Code. (3) "Ohio facilities construction commission" and "school district" have the same meanings as in section 3318.01 of the Revised Code. (4) "Obligations" means obligations as defined in section 151.01 of the Revised Code issued to pay costs of capital facilities for a system of common schools throughout the state. (5) "Using school district" means the school district, or two or more school districts acting jointly, that are the ultimate users of the capital facilities for a system of common schools financed with net proceeds of obligations. (B) The issuing authority shall issue obligations to pay costs of capital facilities for a system of common schools throughout the state pursuant to Section 2n of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, section 151.01 of the Revised Code, and this section. The issuing authority, upon the certification by the Ohio facilities construction commission to it of the amount of moneys needed in the school building program assistance fund created by section 3318.25 of the Revised Code for purposes of that fund, shall issue obligations in the amount determined to be required by the issuing authority. (C) Net proceeds of obligations shall be deposited into the school building program assistance fund created by section 3318.25 of the Revised Code. (D) There is hereby created in the state treasury the "common schools capital facilities bond service fund." All moneys received by the state and required by the bond proceedings, consistent with sections 151.01 and 151.03 of the Revised Code, to be deposited, transferred, or credited to the bond service fund, and all other moneys transferred or allocated to or received for the purposes of that fund, shall be deposited and credited to the bond service fund, subject to any applicable provisions of the bond proceedings but without necessity for any act of appropriation. During the period beginning with the date of the first issuance of obligations and continuing during the time that any obligations are outstanding in accordance with their terms, so long as moneys in the bond service fund are insufficient to pay debt service when due on those obligations payable from that fund (except the principal amounts of bond anticipation notes payable from the proceeds of renewal notes or bonds anticipated) and due in the particular fiscal year, a sufficient amount of revenues of the state, including net state lottery proceeds, is committed and, without necessity for further act of appropriation, shall be paid to the bond service fund for the purpose of paying that debt service when due.
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.291 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.291
§ 145.291. Purchasing service credit for time spent on pregnancy or adoption
Status: in_force

January 7, 2013 Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly Any member of the public employees retirement system who subsequent to January 1, 1935, and the date membership was established was off the payroll either on a leave of absence approved by the then appointing authority or because the member resigned due to pregnancy or adoption of a child may purchase service credit for the period of absence or resignation, provided that subsequent to such leave of absence or resignation the member returned to regular contributing status in the retirement system for at least twelve calendar months. In the case of resignation, the member must submit evidence satisfactory to the retirement board documenting that the resignation was due to pregnancy or adoption of a child. Credit shall be purchased under this section in accordance with section 145.29 of the Revised Code, except that service credit purchased under this section shall not exceed one year.
Ohio Rev. Code § 101.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 101 / § 101.30
§ 101.30. Maintenance of confidential relationship between legislative staff and general assembly members and staff
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Legislative document" includes, but is not limited to, all of the following: (a) A working paper, work product, correspondence, preliminary draft, note, proposed bill or resolution, proposed amendment to a bill or resolution, analysis, opinion, memorandum, or other document in whatever form or format prepared by legislative staff, general assembly staff, or a member of the general assembly for a member of the general assembly or for general assembly staff; (b) Any document or material in whatever form or format provided by a member of the general assembly or general assembly staff to legislative staff, general assembly staff, or a member of the general assembly that requests, or that provides information or materials to assist in, the preparation of any of the items described in division (A)(1)(a) of this section; (c) Any summary of a bill or resolution or of an amendment to a bill or resolution in whatever form or format that is prepared by legislative staff for a member of the general assembly or general assembly staff, if the summary is prepared before the bill, resolution, or amendment is filed for introduction or presented at a committee hearing or floor session, as applicable. (2) "Legislative staff" means the staff of the legislative service commission or any other legislative agency included in the legislative service commission budget group. (3) "General assembly staff" means an officer or employee of either house of the general assembly who acts on behalf of a member of the general assembly or on behalf of a committee or either house of the general assembly. (B)(1) Legislative staff shall maintain a confidential relationship with each member of the general assembly, and with each member of the general assembly staff, with respect to communications between the member of the general assembly or general assembly staff and legislative staff. Except as otherwise provided in this division and division (C) of this section, a legislative document arising out of this confidential relationship is not a public record for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code. When it is in the public interest and with the consent of the commission, the director of the commission may release to the public any legislative document in the possession of the commission staff arising out of a confidential relationship with a former member of the general assembly or former member of the general assembly staff who is not available to make the legislative document a public record as provided in division (C) of this section because of death or disability, whom the director is unable to contact for that purpose, or who fails to respond to the director after the director has made a reasonable number of attempts to make such contact. (2) A legislative document that is not otherwise exempt from disclosure as a public record under division (B)(1) of this section is not a public record for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code during the general assembly in which the legislative document was created. After the general assembly in which the legislative document was created has adjourned sine die, the legislative document is a public record for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code unless the legislative document would be privileged under Ohio Constitution, Article II, Section 12. (C)(1) A legislative document is a public record for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code if it is an analysis, synopsis, fiscal note, or local impact statement prepared by legislative staff that is required to be prepared by law, or by a rule of either house of the general assembly, for the benefit of the members of either or both of those houses or any legislative committee and if it has been presented to those members. (2) A legislative document is a public record for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code if a member of the general assembly for whom legislative staff prepared the legislative document does any of the following: (a) Files it for introduction with the clerk of the senate or the clerk of the house of representatives, if it is a bill or resolution; (b) Presents it at a committee hearing or floor session, if it is an amendment to a bill or resolution or is a substitute bill or resolution; (c) Releases it, or authorizes general assembly staff or legislative staff to release it, to the public. (D) Nothing in this section or section 149.43 of the Revised Code diminishes, extinguishes, or otherwise limits or restricts the privileges set forth in, or that emanate from, Ohio Constitution, Article II, Section 12. Last updated July 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 145.293 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 145 / § 145.293
§ 145.293. Credit for prior service - comparable public position
Status: in_force

January 7, 2013 Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly (A) Service credit may be purchased under this section for the following: (1) Service rendered in another state, and service in any entity operated by the United States government, that, if served in a comparable position in Ohio, would be covered by the public employees retirement system, Ohio police and fire pension fund, state teachers retirement system, school employees retirement system, or state highway patrol retirement system; (2) Service for which contributions were made by the member or on the member's behalf to a municipal retirement system in this state, except that if the conditions specified in section 145.2910 of the Revised Code are met, service credit for this service may be purchased only in accordance with section 145.2911 of the Revised Code. The number of years purchased under this section shall not exceed the lesser of five years or the member's total accumulated number of years of Ohio service. (B) Credit shall be purchased under this section in accordance with section 145.29 of the Revised Code. (C) A member is ineligible to purchase under this section credit for service under former section 145.44 of the Revised Code or service that is used in the calculation of any retirement benefit currently being paid or payable in the future to the member under any other retirement program except social security. At the time the credit is purchased the member shall certify on a form furnished by the retirement board that the member does and will conform to this requirement. (D) Credit purchased under this section may be combined pursuant to section 145.37 with credit purchased under sections 3307.74 and 3309.31 of the Revised Code, except that not more than an aggregate total of five years' service credit purchased under this section and sections 3307.74 and 3309.31 of the Revised Code shall be used in determining retirement eligibility or calculating benefits under section 145.37 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 128.47 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 128 / § 128.47
§ 128.47. Refunds
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly (A) An entity required to collect a wireless 9-1-1 charge under section 128.40 of the Revised Code or the next generation 9-1-1 access fee under section 128.414 or 128.421 of the Revised Code, a subscriber, or a consumer may apply to the tax commissioner for a refund of charges or fees described in division (B) of this section and of any penalties assessed with respect to such charges. The application shall be made on the form prescribed by the tax commissioner. The application shall be made not later than four years after the date of the illegal or erroneous payment of the charge or fee by the subscriber or consumer, unless the entity waives the time limitation under division (A)(3) of section 128.462 of the Revised Code. If the time limitation is waived, the refund application period shall be extended for the same period as the waiver. (B)(1) If an entity refunds to a subscriber or consumer the full amount of wireless 9-1-1 charges or next generation 9-1-1 access fees that the subscriber or consumer paid illegally or erroneously, and if the entity remitted that amount under section 128.46 of the Revised Code, the tax commissioner shall refund that amount to the entity. (2) If an entity has illegally or erroneously billed a subscriber or charged a consumer for a wireless 9-1-1 charge or a next generation 9-1-1 access fee, and if the entity has not collected the charge or fee but has remitted that amount under section 128.46 of the Revised Code, the tax commissioner shall refund that amount to the. (C)(1) The tax commissioner may refund to a subscriber or consumer wireless 9-1-1 charges or next generation 9-1-1 access fees paid illegally or erroneously to an entity only if both of the following apply: (a) The tax commissioner has not refunded the wireless 9-1-1 charges or fees to the entity. (b) The entity has not refunded the charges or fees to the subscriber or consumer. (2) The tax commissioner may require the subscriber or consumer to obtain from the entity a written statement confirming that the entity has not refunded the charges or fees to the subscriber or consumer and that the entity has not filed an application for a refund under this section. The tax commissioner may also require the entity to provide this statement. (D) On the filing of an application for a refund under this section, the tax commissioner shall determine the amount of refund to which the applicant is entitled. If the amount is not less than that claimed, the commissioner shall certify the determined amount to the director of budget and management and the treasurer of state for payment from the tax refund fund created under section 5703.052 of the Revised Code. If the amount is less than that claimed, the commissioner shall proceed in accordance with section 5703.70 of the Revised Code. (E) Refunds granted under this section shall include interest as provided by section 5739.132 of the Revised Code. Last updated September 19, 2023 at 4:30 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 123.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 123 / § 123.14
§ 123.14. State-owned real property study
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Every two years, the department of administrative services shall issue a report on all real property owned or leased by the state or a state agency. The director of administrative services shall deliver the report to the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, and the governor not later than the thirty-first day of January of every odd-numbered year. The study shall include all of the following: (1) A complete list of all the real property owned by the state or a state agency. The list shall be organized by who owns the real property, which shall include information regarding the nature of the real property. (2) A complete list of all the real property that the state or a state agency rents or leases, but does not own, and the cost of renting or leasing; (3) Which state agencies use the real property, whether owned or leased, and the square footage. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 149.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 149 / § 149.04
§ 149.04. Printing of messages and inaugural addresses
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly Messages of the governor, and the inaugural address of the governor-elect, shall be produced and distributed in electronic form to the governor, to each member of the general assembly, and to the state library. A physical copy of the message or address shall be provided, upon request, to any recipient named in this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.48 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.48
§ 122.48. Issuing revenue bonds
Status: in_force

September 28, 2012 Senate Bill 314 - 129th General Assembly Each issue of revenue bonds issued by the treasurer of state pursuant to sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 of the Revised Code, shall be dated, shall bear interest at a rate or rates or at a variable rate, as provided in or authorized by the proceedings authorizing or providing for the terms and conditions of the revenue bonds, shall mature at such time or times, not to exceed forty years from date, as determined by the director of development services and may be made redeemable before maturity at the option of the director at such price or prices and under such terms and conditions as are fixed by the director prior to the issuance of the bonds. The director shall determine the form of the bonds, including any interest coupons to be attached thereto, and the denomination or denominations of the bonds and the place or places of payment of principal and interest, which may be at any bank or trust company within or without the state. The bonds shall be executed by the signature or facsimile signature of the treasurer of state, the official seal or a facsimile thereof of the state shall be affixed thereto and attested by the treasurer of state or designated treasurer of state, and any coupons attached thereto shall bear the facsimile signature of the treasurer of state. In case the person whose signature, or a facsimile of whose signature, appears on any bonds or coupons ceases to be such officer before delivery of bonds or in case such person was not at the date of such bonds or coupons such officer but at the actual date of execution of such bonds or coupons was the proper officer, such signature or facsimile shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes the same as if the person had remained in office until such delivery. All revenue bonds issued under sections 122.39 and 122.41 to 122.62 of the Revised Code, shall be negotiable instruments. The bonds may be issued in coupon or in registered form or both, as the treasurer determines. Provision may be made for the registration of any coupon bonds as to the principal alone and also as to both principal and interest, and for the reconversion into coupon bonds of any bonds registered as to both principal and interest. The treasurer of state may sell such bonds in the manner and for the price the treasurer of state determines to be for the best interest of the state. Prior to the preparation of definitive bonds, the treasurer of state may, under like restrictions, issue interim receipts or temporary bonds, with or without coupons, exchangeable for definitive bonds when such bonds have been executed and are available for delivery. The treasurer of state may also provide for the replacement of any bonds which become mutilated or are destroyed, stolen, or lost. Bonds may be issued under sections 122.39 to 122.62 of the Revised Code, without obtaining the consent of any department, division, commission, board, bureau, or agency of the state, and without any other proceeding or the happening of any other conditions or things than those proceedings, conditions, or things which are specifically required by such sections. Last updated October 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 122.407 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 122 / § 122.407
§ 122.407. Authority duties
Status: in_force

October 3, 2023 House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly The broadband expansion program authority shall do the following: (A) Continually examine, and propose updates to, any broadband plan provided by law enacted by the general assembly or executive order issued by the governor; (B) Monitor the Ohio residential broadband expansion grant program, including by doing the following: (1) Tracking the details for annual applications to the program, including: (a) The number of applications; (b) The geographic locations of the eligible projects listed in the applications; (c) The broadband providers submitting applications; (d) A description of the tier two broadband infrastructure and technology proposed in applications; (e) A description of any public right-of-way or public facilities to be utilized for the projects; (f) The speeds of the tier two broadband services under the projects; (g) The amount of the grant funds requested for each project and the proportion of project funding to be provided by the broadband provider and by other entities; (h) The number of residential and nonresidential locations that will have access to tier two broadband service under each project. (2) Tracking the program grants awarded annually, including: (a) The number of program grants; (b) The geographic location or locations of the projects; (c) The broadband providers that received program grants and the entities or companies that submitted the application; (d) A description of the tier two broadband infrastructure and technology deployed in each project; (e) A description of any public right-of-way or public facilities utilized as part of the project; (f) The speeds of the tier two broadband services enabled by each project; (g) The amounts of each program grant, the share of the project funding provided by the broadband provider, and any share of the project funding provided by other entities; (h) The number of residential and nonresidential locations that will have access to tier two broadband service for each project. (3) Listing the amount of any unencumbered program grant funds that remain available for award under the Ohio residential broadband expansion grant program; (4) Adding any additional factors deemed necessary by the authority to monitor the program. (C) Review all progress reports and operational reports required under section 122.4070 of the Revised Code. (D) Review all pending county requests made pursuant to section 122.4051 of the Revised Code for program grants. (E) Identify any best practices for, and impediments to, the continued expansion of tier two broadband infrastructure and technology in the state; (F) Coordinate and promote the availability of publicly accessible digital literacy programs to increase fluency in the use and security of interactive digital tools and searchable networks, including the ability to use digital tools safely and effectively for learning, collaborating, and producing; (G) Identify, examine, and report on any federal or state government grant or loan program that would promote the deployment of tier two broadband infrastructure and technology in the state; (H) Track the availability, location, rates and speeds, and adoption of programs that offer tier one broadband service and tier two broadband service in an affordable manner to low-income consumers in this state; (I) Establish the extremely high cost per location threshold for the costs of building high speed internet infrastructure in any specific area, above which wireline broadband service has an extremely high cost in comparison to fixed wireless broadband service. Last updated September 19, 2023 at 12:59 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 111.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 111 / § 111.01
§ 111.01. Election - term
Status: in_force

January 9, 1961 House Bill 1 - 104th General Assembly The secretary of state shall be elected quadrennially, and shall hold his office for a term of four years. The term of office of the secretary of state shall commence on the second Monday of January next after his election.
Ohio Rev. Code § 125.88 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 125 / § 125.88
§ 125.88. Governing bodies - powers
Status: in_force

October 29, 1995 Senate Bill 162 - 121st General Assembly The governing body of any public authority, office, organization, or semiautonomous entity referred to in section 125.84 of the Revised Code may appropriate, authorize the expenditure of, obligate and expend funds for service charges or fees assessed by the department of administrative services for federal property acquired, retransferred, recaptured, reverted, or disposed of under sections 125.84 to 125.90 of the Revised Code and may accept federal personal property for redistribution in the state, and if accepted shall redistribute such property to any eligible class, division, or unit of government authorized by the department to acquire retransferable property and shall collect and reimburse the department for such departmental service charges as may be levied in connection with such retransfers; but those entities receiving property that may be or is to be retransferred or loaned, shall, as the department may require, be held accountable for the use of such property and for maintaining records thereof. Federal personal property transferred to a body politic and corporate or a political subdivision or transferred for use or redistribution by a public office or a district or regional or similar authority, for the purpose of complying with the applicable provisions of the rules promulgated by authority of section 5502.25 of the Revised Code, also may be loaned on a nonprofit basis, by assignment, to approved organized and supporting agencies and auxiliaries.
Ohio Rev. Code § 117.29 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 1 / Chapter 117 / § 117.29
§ 117.29. Audit report showing malfeasance or gross neglect of duty
Status: in_force

July 1, 1985 House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly Where an audit report sets forth any malfeasance or gross neglect of duty on the part of any public official for which a criminal penalty is provided, a certified copy of the report shall be filed with the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the offense is committed, and the prosecuting attorney shall, within one hundred twenty days, institute criminal proceedings against the public official.