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Ohio Rev Code § 121.67 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 121 | State Departments|Section 121.67 | Prohibiting Contingent Fees.

Effective: February 18, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 129th General Assembly|(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no person shall engage any person to influence executive agency decisions or conduct executive agency lobbying activity for compensation that is contingent in any way on the outcome of an executive agency decision and no person shall accept any engagement to influence executive agency decisions or conduct executive agency lobbying activity for compensation that is contingent in any way on the outcome of an executive agency decision. (B) Division (A) of this section does not prohibit and shall not be construed to prohibit any person from compensating the person's sales employees pursuant to an incentive compensation plan, such as commission sales, if the incentive compensation plan is the same plan used to compensate similarly situated sales employees who are not executive agency lobbyists.(C) No state elected officer or staff member shall receive or agree to receive directly or indirectly compensation other than from the agency with which the person serves for any service rendered or to be rendered by the person personally in any case, proceeding, application, or other matter that is before the nonprofit corporation formed under section 187.01 of the Revised Code. For purposes of this division, "state elected officer" means any elected officer of this state and "staff member" means any staff as defined in section 101.70 or in section 121.60 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 121.68 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 121 | State Departments|Section 121.68 | Statements Are Public Records.

Effective: May 12, 1994|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 492 - 120th General Assembly|(A) The joint legislative ethics committee shall keep on file the statements required by sections 121.62, 121.63, and 121.64 of the Revised Code. These statements are public records and open to public inspection, and the joint committee shall computerize them so that the information contained in them is readily accessible to the general public. The joint committee shall provide copies of the statements to the general public on request and may charge a reasonable fee not to exceed the cost of copying and delivering the statement.(B) Not later than the last day of February and October of each year, the joint committee shall compile from the registration statements filed with it a complete and updated list of registered executive agency lobbyists and their employers, and distribute the list to each elected executive official and the director of each department created under section 121.02 of the Revised Code, who shall distribute the list to the appropriate personnel under his jurisdiction. The joint committee shall provide copies of the list to the general public upon request and may charge a reasonable fee not to exceed the cost of copying and delivering the list.(C) The joint committee shall maintain a list of all executive agencies. The joint committee shall provide copies of the list to the general public on request and may charge a reasonable fee not to exceed the cost of copying and delivering the document.(D) The joint committee shall prescribe and make available an appropriate form for the filings required by sections 121.62, 121.63, and 121.64 of the Revised Code. The form shall contain the following notice in boldface type: "ANY PERSON WHO KNOWINGLY FILES A FALSE STATEMENT IS GUILTY OF FALSIFICATION UNDER SECTION 2921.13 OF THE REVISED CODE, WHICH IS A MISDEMEANOR OF THE FIRST DEGREE."(E) The joint committee may adopt rules as necessary to implement sections 121.60 to 121.69 of the Revised Code, and any such rules it adopts shall be adopted in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code.(F) The joint committee shall publish a handbook that explains in clear and concise language the provisions of sections 121.60 to 121.69 of the Revised Code and make it available free of charge to executive agency lobbyists, employers, and any other interested persons.
Ohio Rev Code § 121.69 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 121 | State Departments|Section 121.69 | Investigations.

Effective: January 1, 1991|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 538 - 118th General Assembly|The attorney general and any assistant or special counsel designated by him may investigate compliance with sections 121.60 to 121.68 of the Revised Code in connection with statements required to be filed under these sections and, in the event of an apparent violation, shall report his findings to the prosecuting attorney of Franklin county, who shall institute such proceedings as are appropriate.
Ohio Rev Code § 121.71 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 121 | State Departments|Section 121.71 | Incorporation by Reference in Rule Definitions.

Effective: August 18, 2019|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 221 - 132nd General Assembly|As used in sections 121.71 to 121.75 of the Revised Code:(A) "Agency" means an "agency" as defined in section 111.15 or 119.01 of the Revised Code.(B) "Rule" means a new rule or an amendment to an existing rule. "Rule" includes an appendix to a rule.
Ohio Rev Code § 121.72 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 121 | State Departments|Section 121.72 | Incorporating Rule by Reference.

Effective: August 18, 2019|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 221 - 132nd General Assembly|An agency incorporates a text or other material into a rule by reference when it refers in the rule to the text or other material as if it were spelled out or otherwise reproduced in the rule. The agency shall accompany the incorporation by reference with a citation that provides information sufficient to enable a reasonable person to whom the rule applies readily and without charge to find and inspect the text or other material that has been incorporated by reference. The citation shall specify the date of the text or other material or identify a particular edition or version of the text or other material and, if available, the date of the particular edition or version. The citation may include a web site address to the text or other material and may include other information that will enable the text or other material to be found readily and without charge. An agency that incorporates a text or other material by reference into a rule is presumed to have incorporated by reference a version of the text or other material that is in existence at the time of its incorporation by reference. An agency may not incorporate by reference a future version of the text or other material that is not in existence at the time of its incorporation by reference.
Ohio Rev Code § 121.73 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 121 | State Departments|Section 121.73 | Filing Material Incorporated by Reference Electronically.

Effective: August 18, 2019|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 221 - 132nd General Assembly|When an agency files the original or a revised version of a rule in proposed form under division (D) of section 111.15 or division (C) of section 119.03, or a rule for review under section 106.03 of the Revised Code, that incorporates a text or other material by reference, the agency also shall file in electronic form, one complete and accurate copy of the text or other material incorporated by reference with, or otherwise shall make the text or other material available to, the joint committee on agency rule review only if the accompanying citation is not such as reasonably would enable the joint committee readily and without charge to find and inspect the text or other material that has been incorporated by reference.
Ohio Rev Code § 121.74 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 121 | State Departments|Section 121.74 | Access to Material Incorporated in Rule in Final Form.

Effective: August 18, 2019|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 221 - 132nd General Assembly|When an agency files a rule in final form that incorporates a text or other material by reference, the agency, prior to the effective date of the rule, shall ensure that the text or other material is available from the agency. The agency promptly and without charge shall make the text or other material available to any person who requests access to the text or other material.
Ohio Rev Code § 121.75 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 121 | State Departments|Section 121.75 | Sufficiency of Citations.

Effective: August 18, 2019|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 221 - 132nd General Assembly|(A)(1) Sections 121.71 to 121.74 of the Revised Code do not apply to the incorporation by reference into a rule of any of the following:(a) A section of the Revised Code;(b) An uncodified statute of this state;(c) An act of this state in the Laws of Ohio;(d) A rule in the Administrative Code;(e) A rule in the Monthly Record; or(f) A rule in the Register of Ohio.(2) Sections 121.71 to 121.74 of the Revised Code do not apply to the incorporation by reference into a rule of any of the following:(a) A section of the United States Code;(b) An uncodified federal statute appended as a legislative note to a section in the United States Code;(c) A federal act in the Statutes at Large;(d) A federal regulation in the Code of Federal Regulations; or(e) A federal regulation in the Federal Register.An agency that incorporates a text by reference into a rule under division (A)(2) of this section shall specify the date of the text that is being incorporated by reference.(B) Sections 121.71 to 121.74 of the Revised Code do not apply to the incorporation by reference into a rule of a text or other material insofar as the text or other material has any of the following characteristics:(1) It addresses the internal management of an agency;(2) It obtains or maintains authorization of a federally delegated program in this state;(3) It addresses or provides for the receipt of federal funds by the state under a federally funded program;(4) It is a form to be filled out or a digital application into which data is entered to fill out a form or its equivalent, but only if the form or application merely collects information and does not establish principles of law or policy;(5) It states or restates federal legislative or administrative conclusions, such as interest rates or poverty levels, that are readily ascertainable from reliable sources, and that are not reasonably susceptible to state legislative or administrative variation;(6) It states or restates generally accepted commercial, industrial, building, fire, plumbing, electrical, safety, or other codes or standards that are readily available to or ascertainable by the persons the standards are likely to affect; or(7) It is copyrighted text or other material with regard to which permission to use has been obtained.
Ohio Rev Code § 121.81 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 121 | State Departments|Section 121.81 | "Agency" and "Draft Rule" Defined; Construction of Sections.

Effective: September 17, 2014|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 3 - 130th General Assembly|As used in sections 121.81 to 121.83 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agency" means a state agency that is required to file proposed rules for legislative review under division (D) of section 111.15 or division (C) of section 119.03 of the Revised Code.(B) "Draft rule" means any newly proposed rule and any proposed amendment, adoption, or rescission of a rule prior to the filing of that rule for legislative review under division (D) of section 111.15 or division (C) of section 119.03 of the Revised Code and includes a proposed amendment, adoption, or rescission of a rule in both its original and any revised form. "Draft rule" does not include an emergency rule adopted under division (B)(2) of section 111.15 or division (G) of section 119.03 of the Revised Code, but does include a rule that is proposed to replace an emergency rule that expires under those divisions.Sections 121.81 to 121.83 and 121.91 of the Revised Code are complementary to sections 107.51 to 107.55 and 107.61 to 107.63 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 121.811 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 121 | State Departments|Section 121.811 | Applicability of Business Review Provisions.

Effective: September 17, 2014|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 3 - 130th General Assembly|The offices of the governor, lieutenant governor, auditor of state, secretary of state, treasurer of state, and attorney general shall comply with the business review provisions of sections 106.03 and 106.031 and 121.81 to 121.83 of the Revised Code, but are not required to submit any document to the common sense initiative office or to prepare any document that would have been prepared in response to recommendations of the common sense initiative office, but rather shall prepare all other documents required under the business review provisions and submit them directly to the joint committee on agency rule review along with the proposed or existing rule. The offices of the governor, lieutenant governor, auditor of state, secretary of state, treasurer of state, and attorney general are subject, however, to section 106.05 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 121.83 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 121 | State Departments|Section 121.83 | Filing Proposed Rules; Rejection by Joint Committee on Rule Review.

Effective: March 23, 2015|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 10 - 130th General Assembly|(A) When an agency files a proposed rule for legislative review under division (D) of section 111.15 of the Revised Code or division (C) of section 119.03 of the Revised Code, the agency electronically shall file one copy of the business impact analysis, any recommendations received from the common sense initiative office, and the agency's memorandum of response, if any, along with the proposed rule.(B)(1) Subject to section 106.05 of the Revised Code, the joint committee on agency rule review does not have jurisdiction to review, and shall reject, the filing of a proposed rule if, at any time while the proposed rule is in its possession, it discovers that the proposed rule might have an adverse impact on businesses and the agency has not included with the filing a business impact analysis or has included a business impact analysis that is inadequately prepared. The joint committee electronically shall return a filing that is rejected to the agency. Such a rejection does not preclude the agency from refiling the proposed rule after complying with section 121.82 of the Revised Code. When a filing is rejected under this division, it is as if the filing had not been made.(2) If the last previously filed version of a proposed rule, the filing of a later version of which has been rejected by the joint committee, remains in the possession of the joint committee, and if the time for legislative review of that previously filed version has expired, or if fewer than thirty days remain before the time for legislative review of that previously filed version expires, then the time for legislative review of that previously filed version is revived or extended, and a concurrent resolution to invalidate that previously filed version may be adopted not later than the sixty-fifth day after the day on which the filing of the later version of the proposed rule was rejected. This deadline is subject to extension under section 106.02 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 121.91 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 121 | State Departments|Section 121.91 | Customer Service Standards.

Effective: September 17, 2014|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 3 - 130th General Assembly|(A) Each state agency shall develop, and as it becomes necessary or advisable may improve, customer service standards for each employee of the agency whose duties include a significant level of contact with the public. The agency shall base the standards on the job descriptions of the positions that the employees hold in the agency. An agency is not required to adopt the standards by rule. A state agency that is created after the effective date of this amendment shall develop its initial customer service standards within six months after the effective date of the statute that creates the state agency. Each state agency shall reduce the standards to writing, and the standards shall be incorporated into employee policy manuals, job descriptions, and employee performance evaluations.The agency shall post its customer service standards, and any revisions therein, on its web site or, if the agency does not maintain a web site, on the state public notice web site.The common sense initiative office, upon the request of an agency, may review the agency's customer service standards and transmit any comments it has with regard to the standards to the agency.(B) The state agency, and its officers and employees, shall comply with the customer service performance standards that have been developed under division (A) of this section. A state agency's compliance with the standards shall be evaluated, by the director of budget and management and the committees of the senate and house of representatives having jurisdiction over the state operating budget, as part of the consideration of the state agency's biennial budget. (If the evaluation is of the office of budget and management, evaluation by the committees is sufficient.) An employee's compliance with the standards shall be evaluated as part of the employee's periodic performance reviews. A state agency's and employee's compliance with the standards may be evaluated as part of any performance audit of the state agency.
Ohio Rev Code § 121.933 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 121 | State Departments|Section 121.933 | Applicability of Sections 101.352, 101.353, 121.93, and 121.931.

Effective: August 18, 2019|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 221 - 132nd General Assembly|Sections 101.352, 101.353, 121.93, and 121.931 of the Revised Code do not apply to:  (A) The following elected state officers or their offices: the governor, the lieutenant governor, the secretary of state, the auditor of state, the treasurer of state, and the attorney general;  (B) A state institution of higher education as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code; or (C) The public employees retirement system, the Ohio police and fire pension fund, the state teachers retirement system, the school employees retirement system, and the state highway patrol retirement system.
Ohio Rev Code § 121.99 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 121 | State Departments|Section 121.99 | Penalty.

Effective: May 12, 1994|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 492 - 120th General Assembly|(A) Whoever violates division (A), (B), or (C) of section 121.61 or section 121.67 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.(B) Whoever violates division (D) of section 121.61 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 121.991 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 121 | State Departments|Section 121.991 | Penalty for Disclosing Confidential Information.

Effective: October 31, 1990|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 588 - 118th General Assembly|Whoever violates section 121.47 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 122.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 122 | Department of Development|Section 122.01 | Department of Development Definitions.

Effective: September 30, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly|(A) As used in the Revised Code, the "development services agency" means the department of development and the "director of development services" means the director of development. Whenever the development services agency or director of development services is referred to or designated in any statute, rule, contract, grant, or other document, the reference or designation shall be deemed to refer to the department of development or director of development, as the case may be. (B) As used in this chapter: (1) "Community problems" includes, but is not limited to, taxation, fiscal administration, governmental structure and organization, intergovernmental cooperation, education and training, employment needs, community planning and development, air and water pollution, public safety and the administration of justice, housing, mass transportation, community facilities and services, health, welfare, recreation, open space, and the development of human resources. (2) "Professional personnel" means either of the following: (a) Personnel who have earned a bachelor's degree from a college or university; (b) Personnel who serve as or have the working title of director, assistant director, deputy director, assistant deputy director, manager, office chief, assistant office chief, or program director. (3) "Technical personnel" means any of the following: (a) Personnel who provide technical assistance according to their job description or in accordance with the Revised Code; (b) Personnel employed in the director of development's office or the legal office, communications office, finance office, legislative affairs office, or human resources office of the department of development; (c) Personnel employed in the technology division of the department. Last updated July 29, 2021 at 4:18 PM
Ohio Rev Code § 122.012 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 122 | Department of Development|Section 122.012 | Regional State Agency for Jobs and Employment Opportunities.

Effective: May 6, 2005|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 16 - 126th General Assembly|The director of development may designate any governmental entity as an agency of the state to act within a specified region of the state for the purpose of creating and preserving jobs and employment opportunities and financing projects intended to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities. Any such designation shall be in addition to agency designations made for such purpose by, or by the director pursuant to, Section 56.09 of H.B. 298 of the 119th general assembly, the provisions of which pertaining to such designations, and the designations so made, remain in full force and effect as continuing grants of authority. Each agency designated by or pursuant to Section 56.09 of H.B. 298 of the 119th general assembly or this section may exercise any statutory powers it has under any other section of the Revised Code to accomplish the purposes of this section within the agency's specified region. The regions served by agencies shall not overlap. The director may reduce, expand, or otherwise modify the region served by, or limit the authority of, any such agency.
Ohio Rev Code § 122.013 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 122 | Department of Development|Section 122.013 | Required Postings on Official Internet Site.

Effective: January 4, 2006|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 236 - 126th General Assembly|The department of development shall post the following on the official internet site of the department:(A) Annual reports of the progress and status of eligible projects made as required under division (E) of section 122.0814 of the Revised Code;(B) The annual report made by the director of development under section 122.0817 of the Revised Code;(C) Reports made by the third frontier commission under section 184.15 of the Revised Code;(D) Information on all support awarded under section 184.11 of the Revised Code.