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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4121 | Industrial Commission; Bureau of Workers' Compensation › Section 4121.61 | Aiding Rehabilitation of Injured Workers.

Effective:
April 6, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly
(A) As used in sections 4121.61 to 4121.69 of the Revised Code, "self-insuring employer" has the same meaning as in section 4123.01 of the Revised Code.
(B) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules, take measures, and make expenditures as it deems necessary to aid claimants who have sustained compensable injuries or incurred compensable occupational diseases pursuant to Chapter 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code to return to work or to assist in lessening or removing any resulting impairment.
Last updated March 10, 2023 at 12:30 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4121 | Industrial Commission; Bureau of Workers' Compensation › Section 4121.62 | Contracts for Rendition of Rehabilitation Services.

Effective:
September 29, 2009
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 15 - 128th General Assembly
(A) The authority granted to the administrator of workers' compensation pursuant to sections 4121.61 to 4121.69 of the Revised Code includes the authority to do all of the following:
(1) Contract with any public or private person for the rendition of rehabilitation services;
(2) Take actions and utilize money in the state insurance fund as necessary to obtain federal funds and assistance in the maximum amounts and most advantageous proportions and terms possible;
(3) Conduct rehabilitation educational programs for employers and employees.
(B) Nothing in sections 4121.61 to 4121.69 of the Revised Code shall be interpreted to grant authority to the administrator to require a claimant to utilize a public provider of rehabilitation services, counseling, or training.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4121 | Industrial Commission; Bureau of Workers' Compensation › Section 4121.63 | Living Maintenance Payments Paid to Claimants Agreeing to Rehabilitation.

Effective:
August 6, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly
Claimants who the administrator of workers' compensation determines could probably be rehabilitated to achieve the goals established by section 4121.61 of the Revised Code and who agree to undergo rehabilitation shall be paid living maintenance payments for a period or periods which do not exceed six months in the aggregate, unless review by the administrator or the administrator's designee reveals that the claimant will be benefited by an extension of such payments.
Living maintenance payments shall be paid in weekly amounts, not to exceed the amount the claimant would receive if the claimant were being compensated for temporary total disability, but not less than fifty per cent of the current state average weekly wage. Living maintenance payments shall commence at the time the claimant begins to participate in an approved rehabilitation program.
A claimant receiving living maintenance payments shall be deemed to be temporarily totally disabled and shall receive no payment of any type of compensation except as provided by division (B) of section 4123.57 of the Revised Code for the periods during which the claimant is receiving living maintenance payments.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4121 | Industrial Commission; Bureau of Workers' Compensation › Section 4121.64 | Appeals.

Effective:
October 20, 1993
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly
Notwithstanding section 4123.512 of the Revised Code, no person may appeal to court any action or decision issued under sections 4121.61 to 4121.69 of the Revised Code.
A person may, however, appeal the decision pursuant to section 4123.511 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4121 | Industrial Commission; Bureau of Workers' Compensation › Section 4121.65 | Employer May Furnish Rehabilitation Services.

Effective:
September 29, 2015
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 52 - 131st General Assembly
Self-insuring employers may furnish rehabilitation services as long as the quality and content of the services are equal to or greater than that provided by the bureau of workers' compensation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4121 | Industrial Commission; Bureau of Workers' Compensation › Section 4121.66 | Rehabilitation Services, Counseling, Training, and Living Maintenance Payments Paid From Surplus Fund.

Effective:
September 29, 2015
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 52 - 131st General Assembly
(A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, the administrator of workers' compensation shall pay the expense of providing rehabilitation services, counseling, training, and living maintenance payments from the surplus fund established by section 4123.34 of the Revised Code.
(B) Living maintenance payments are not subject to garnishment, levy, or attachment.
(C) Sections 4123.343, 4123.63, and 4123.64 of the Revised Code do not apply to living maintenance payments.
(D) A self-insuring employer shall pay directly to a claimant or to the provider of the rehabilitation services, counseling, or training the expenses listed in division (A) of this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4121 | Industrial Commission; Bureau of Workers' Compensation › Section 4121.67 | Administrative Rules for Payments for Employing Rehabilitated Workers - Wage Loss Compensation.

Effective:
September 29, 2015
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 52 - 131st General Assembly
(A) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules:
(1) For the encouragement of reemployment of claimants who have successfully completed prescribed rehabilitation programs by payment from the surplus fund established by section 4123.34 of the Revised Code to employers who employ or re-employ the claimants. The period or periods of payments shall not exceed six months in the aggregate, unless the administrator or the administrator's designee determines that the claimant will be benefited by an extension of payments.
(2) Requiring payment, in the same manner as living maintenance payments are made pursuant to section 4121.63 of the Revised Code, to the claimant who completes a rehabilitation training program and returns to employment, but who suffers a wage loss compared to the wage the claimant was receiving at the time of injury. Payments per week shall be sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of the difference, if any, between the claimant's weekly wage at the time of injury and the weekly wage received while employed, up to a maximum payment per week equal to the statewide average weekly wage. The payments may continue for up to a maximum of two hundred weeks but shall be reduced by the corresponding number of weeks in which the claimant receives payments pursuant to division (B) of section 4123.56 of the Revised Code.
(B) A self-insuring employer shall make the payments described in division (A) of this section directly as part of a claim.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4121 | Industrial Commission; Bureau of Workers' Compensation › Section 4121.68 | Compensation and Benefits to Rehabilitation Program Participants.

Effective:
September 29, 2015
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 52 - 131st General Assembly
In the event a claimant sustains an injury or occupational disease or dies as a result of any injury or disease received in the course of and arising out of the claimant's participation in a rehabilitation program, the claimant or, in the case of death, a dependent of the claimant, may file a claim for compensation and benefits. All compensation and benefit awards made as a result of the injury, disease, or death shall be charged to the surplus fund account, created pursuant to section 4123.34 of the Revised Code, and not charged through the state insurance fund to the employer against which the claim was allowed so long as the employer pays assessments into the surplus fund account for the payment of such compensation and benefits. If an employer is a self-insuring employer, the self-insuring employer shall pay these compensation and benefits directly as a part of a claim.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4121 | Industrial Commission; Bureau of Workers' Compensation › Section 4121.69 | Compensation of Professional, Administrative, and Managerial Employees.

Effective:
September 29, 2013
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly
(A) The administrator of workers' compensation may establish compensation plans, including schedules of hourly rates, for the compensation of professional, administrative, and managerial employees who are employed to fulfill the duties placed upon the bureau of workers' compensation pursuant to sections 4121.61 to 4121.69 of the Revised Code. The administrator may establish rules or policies for the administration of the respective compensation plans.
This division does not apply to employees for whom the state employment relations board establishes appropriate bargaining units pursuant to section 4117.06 of the Revised Code.
(B) The administrator may employ the services and resources of any public entity or private person, business, or association in fulfilling the duties placed upon the bureau of workers' compensation by sections 4121.61 to 4121.69 of the Revised Code. The opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency, the director of job and family services, and any other public officer, employee, or agency shall give to the bureau of workers' compensation full cooperation and, at the request of the administrator, enter into a written agreement stating the procedures and criteria for referring, accepting, and providing services to claimants in the job placement and rehabilitation efforts of the bureau of workers' compensation on behalf of a claimant when referred by the bureau of workers' compensation.
(C) In appropriate cases, the bureau may refer a candidate to the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency for participation in a program of the agency. For that purpose, the bureau of workers' compensation shall compensate the agency for the nonfederal portion of its services.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.02 | Policemen and Firemen Excepted.

Effective:
November 3, 1989
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly
This chapter does not apply to policemen or firemen in municipal corporations where the injured policemen or firemen are eligible to participate in any policemen's or firemen's pension funds established and maintained by a municipal corporation, unless the amount of the pension funds provided by the municipal corporation through taxation and paid to the policemen or firemen is less than they would have received if the municipal corporation had no pension fund. In such event policemen and firemen shall receive the regular state compensation for policemen and firemen in municipal corporations where no pension funds have been created, less the sum received by the policemen or firemen from the pension funds provided by the municipal corporation through taxation. The sum paid from the pension fund shall be certified to the bureau of workers' compensation by the treasurer or other officer controlling the pension fund.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.021 | State Active Duty Defined.

Effective:
September 16, 1963
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 161 - 105th General Assembly
As used in sections 4123.021 to 4123.024, inclusive, of the Revised Code:
"State active duty" means that status attaching to a member of the Ohio organized militia performing duty ordered by competent state authority, for which duty status injury and occupational disease benefits are not otherwise provided by act of the congress of the United States or executive regulations of the United States.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.022 | Employment Status While on Active Duty.

Effective:
November 2, 1959
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 470 - 103rd General Assembly
Every member of the Ohio organized militia as defined in section 5923.01 of the Revised Code shall, when called to state active duty, be in the employment of the state for the purposes of sections 4123.01 to 4123.94, inclusive, and 4123.99 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.023 | Benefits for Members of Organized Militia.

Effective:
November 2, 1959
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 470 - 103rd General Assembly
For the purpose of determining benefits accruing under section 4123.57 of the Revised Code, a member of the Ohio organized militia shall qualify for maximum benefits provided for workers and employees under sections 4123.01 to 4123.60, inclusive, 4123.62 to 4123.94, inclusive, and 4123.99 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.024 | Administrative and Other Costs to Be Paid From State Insurance Fund.

Effective:
November 3, 1989
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly
Sections 4123.021 to 4123.024 and 4123.031 to 4123.037 of the Revised Code shall be administered by the bureau of workers' compensation. Administrative and other costs, including awards of benefits and compensation, whether lump sum or recurring payments, shall be disbursed from the state insurance fund.
At the end of each six months of each fiscal year, the administrator of workers' compensation shall certify to the adjutant general the amounts paid for compensation and benefits for accidental injuries and death compensable pursuant to sections 4123.021 to 4123.024 and 4123.031 to 4123.037 of the Revised Code and for costs of administration.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.025 | Benefits for One Killed Performing Request or Order of a Duly Authorized Public Official.

Effective:
November 16, 1973
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 417 - 110th General Assembly
Any person, other than those covered by section 4123.03 of the Revised Code, who is injured, and the dependents of a deceased employee who is killed as the direct result of performing any act at the request or order of a duly authorized public official of the state, or any institution or agency thereof, or any political subdivision thereof, including a county, township, or municipal corporation, in time of emergency shall be entitled to all the benefits of Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. Any payments made from the state insurance fund pursuant to this section shall be charged to the surplus fund as created by division (B) of section 4123.34 of the Revised Code, in order to encourage participation of all persons in times of emergency.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.03 | Employees Performing Special Services for the State or a Political Subdivision.

Effective:
October 20, 1993
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly
If the state or any political subdivision thereof, including any county, township, municipal corporation, school district, and any institution or agency of the state, employs, enlists, recruits, solicits, or otherwise secures the services of any organization, association, or group of persons and the members thereof, including volunteer firemen, and auxiliary policemen and patrolmen, the individual members of which are not, by reason of such service, employees as defined in division (A)(1) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, or if the state or any political subdivision thereof desires to secure workers' compensation coverage in respect of any volunteer fireman, policeman, deputy sheriff, marshal or deputy marshal, constable, or other person in its service in the event of the injury, disease, or death of such person while engaged in activities called for by his position but not such as would entitle the person to compensation as an employee as so defined, subject to the limitations contained in section 4123.02 of the Revised Code, the state or the political subdivision may contract with the bureau of workers' compensation for coverage of such persons under this chapter, while in the performance of such service. The contract shall contain provisions for the determination of premiums, average weekly wages or their equivalent, the identity of the persons covered, and such other provisions as are necessary in each case to establish or define the risk and determine claims arising thereunder. Payment of premiums by the state or a political subdivision shall be made in the same manner as is provided with respect to workers' compensation premiums payable by the state or a political subdivision and at the times as provided by the contract. Upon execution of a contract, the persons covered thereby are entitled to the same benefits, payable from the public insurance fund, which are accorded to employees as defined in division (A) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code.
For the purpose of statistical and like information, the bureau shall keep a separate record of the experience of the individual risks and groups of similar risks under such contracts.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.031 | Emergency Management Worker Definitions.

Effective:
October 29, 1995
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 162 - 121st General Assembly
As used in sections 4123.031 to 4123.037 of the Revised Code:
(A) "Emergency management worker" means anyone who has been duly registered for service pursuant to section 5502.34 of the Revised Code, in connection with the development, maintenance, and operation of any state or local emergency management agency authorized by law and who has met the minimum requirements as set forth in sections 4123.031 to 4123.037 of the Revised Code, or who has been duly registered as an emergency management worker pursuant to section 5502.34 of the Revised Code during a disaster and the emergency thereby created.
(B) "Emergency management," "disaster," and "emergency" have the same meanings as in section 5502.21 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.032 | Benefits for Emergency Management Workers.

Effective:
September 29, 1994
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 172 - 120th General Assembly
Every emergency management worker shall, with respect to the performance of his duties as such emergency management worker, be in the employment of the state or political subdivision for purposes of sections 4123.01 to 4123.94 of the Revised Code, and every emergency management worker or, in case of death, his dependents shall be entitled to the benefits payable on account of total disability, loss of member, or death as accorded by such sections to employees covered by its provisions. No payment for such disability, loss of member, or death shall be made unless a claim is filed within one year of the date of the accidental injury causing the total disability, loss of member, or death. If an injury claim is filed within the said one year period and the claimant subsequently dies, his dependents shall file any death claim based on such injury within six months after the death or be forever barred.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.033 | Compensation for Accidental Injury While Performing Emergency Management Duties.

Effective:
September 29, 1994
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 172 - 120th General Assembly
Any emergency management worker who suffers an accidental injury while performing emergency management duties, as defined herein, shall be compensated for any total disability or loss of member and his dependents shall be compensated for any death resulting from such an injury on the same basis as provided for workers, employees, and their dependents under sections 4123.01 to 4123.94 of the Revised Code.
This section shall not apply in the case of any person who is otherwise entitled, under sections 4123.01 to 4123.94 of the Revised Code, to receive workers' compensation benefits for such accidental injury or death.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.034 | Unpaid Emergency Management Workers Qualify for Maximum Benefits.

Effective:
September 29, 1994
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 172 - 120th General Assembly
For the purpose of determining benefits accruing under section 4123.033 of the Revised Code, an emergency management worker who receives no monetary compensation for emergency management services rendered shall qualify for maximum benefits applicable with respect to accidental injury or death provided for workers and employees under sections 4123.01 to 4123.94 of the Revised Code in the fiscal year applicable.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.035 | Finality of Decision as to Emergency Management Claimants.

Effective:
September 29, 1994
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 172 - 120th General Assembly
The decision of the industrial commission as to all facts, except questions of dependency and whether the accident occurred in the course of claimant's emergency management service, is final and any emergency management worker or his dependents claiming benefits under sections 4123.031 to 4123.037 of the Revised Code is not entitled to any appeal from such decision.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.036 | Participation in Emergency Management Benefits.

Effective:
October 29, 1995
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 162 - 121st General Assembly
(A) An emergency management worker, in order to be included under sections 4123.031 to 4123.037 of the Revised Code, and to participate in the benefits thereof, shall be duly registered by the state or local emergency management agency making the registration pursuant to section 5502.34 of the Revised Code.
(B) Such emergency management worker shall have subscribed either to the loyalty oath administered under the provisions of section 5502.34 of the Revised Code, or to the federal form of the loyalty oath administered under the provisions of Public Law No. 268, 82nd Congress.
(C) At the time the accident or event occurs for which a claim is made under sections 4123.01 to 4123.94 of the Revised Code, the emergency management worker shall have been acting in good faith in performing an emergency management duty, function, or act in connection with the development, training, maintenance, or operation of an emergency management agency under expressed or constructive instruction or orders of a duly appointed director or an authorized staff member of the state or local emergency management agency charged with the authority and responsibility for issuing such instructions or orders. To implement this requirement, a permanent record of all meetings, drills, tests, and participation in emergency management activities and ceremonies as well as operations under disaster emergency conditions, shall be maintained, and it is a condition precedent to recovery that any claimant under the provisions of sections 4123.031 to 4123.037 of the Revised Code, shall furnish a certified copy of the permanent record attesting to the participation of said claimant or of the individual whose participation forms the basis for the claim in the respective emergency management activity during or as a result of which a claim for injury or death is made.
(D) The written registration of such worker and a copy of the loyalty oath duly subscribed shall be filed with the state, local, municipal, township, county, area, or other authorized emergency management agency and shall be available for inspection at all reasonable times and for use in providing basic data necessary or required under the regulations pertaining to the filing of claims for workers' compensation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.037 | Loyalty Oath for Emergency Management Workers.

Effective:
October 29, 1995
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 162 - 121st General Assembly
(A) Sections 4123.01 to 4123.94 of the Revised Code shall inure to the benefit of those emergency management workers who have previously complied with the minimum requirements as set forth in sections 4123.031 to 4123.036 of the Revised Code, including those who have executed either the state form of the loyalty oath under section 5502.34 of the Revised Code or the federal form of oath administered under the provisions of Public Law No. 268, 82nd Congress, insofar as the federal loyalty oath is concerned.
(B) Any person who has executed the federal oath under the provisions of Public Law No. 268, 82nd Congress prior to September 29, 1955, is considered to have complied with the requirements for the execution of loyalty oath as required under sections 5502.21 to 5502.51 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.038 | Apprentice Definitions.

Effective:
October 21, 2019
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 80 - 133rd General Assembly
As used in this section and section 4123.039 of the Revised Code:
(A) "Apprentice" and "apprenticeship agreement" have the meaning defined in section 4139.01 of the Revised Code.
(B) "Related and supplemental instructions" means training offered, conducted, supervised, or given under the sponsorship of any joint apprenticeship committee or other sponsoring organization to apprentices, which training is given in addition to the approved schedule of work experience through employment, and which is to be credited towards the minimum hours of related and supplemental instructions required by section 4139.01 of the Revised Code.
(C) "Pre-apprentice" means a person who receives formal classroom training designed to provide the person with the basic education, attitudes, skills, trade knowledge, and motivation necessary to enter a formal apprenticeship program.
(D) "Entry-level trainee" means a person who possesses experience that would qualify the person as a journeyperson but for the existence of certain other disqualifying conditions and who receives on-the-job training accompanied by classroom instruction outside of normal working hours.
(E) "Journeyperson trainee" means a person with journeyperson status in a given trade who receives classroom and laboratory training for the purpose of broadening the person's skills and acquainting the person with new techniques and ideas in the trade.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.039 | Eligibility for Benefits of Apprentices.

Effective:
November 3, 1989
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly
For the purposes of sections 4123.038 and 4123.039 of the Revised Code, every apprentice with respect to his related and supplemental instructions, and every pre-apprentice, entry-level trainee, or journeyman trainee shall be in the employment of whichever of the following desires to secure workers' compensation in respect to the apprentice:
(A) A joint apprenticeship committee;
(B) Any sponsoring organization offering, conducting, supervising, or giving training to apprentices.
If any joint apprenticeship committee, or any other sponsoring organization offering, conducting, supervising, or giving training to apprentices, pre-apprentices, entry-level trainees, or journeyman trainees desires to secure workers' compensation coverage for those persons in the event of their injury, disease, or death while engaged in related training activities, but not such as would entitle them to compensation as an employee as defined in division (A) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, any joint apprenticeship committee, or other sponsoring organization may contract with the bureau of workers' compensation for coverage of those persons under this chapter, while in the performance of the related training activities. The contract shall contain provisions for the determination of premiums, average weekly wages or their equivalent, the identity of the persons covered, and other provisions as are necessary in each case to establish or define the risk and determine claims arising thereunder. Upon execution of a contract, the persons covered thereby are entitled to the same benefits, payable from the state insurance fund, which are accorded to employees as defined in division (A) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.04 | Application to Intrastate, Interstate and Foreign Commerce.

Effective:
October 20, 1993
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly
This chapter applies to employers and their employees engaged in intrastate commerce and also in interstate and foreign commerce, for whom a rule of liability or method of compensation has been or may be established by congress, only to the extent that their mutual connection with intrastate work may be and is clearly separable and distinguishable from interstate or foreign commerce, and then only when such employer and any of his employees working only in this state, with the approval of the bureau of workers' compensation, and so far as not forbidden by any act of congress, voluntarily accept the provisions of this chapter by filing written acceptances, which, when filed with and approved by the bureau, subject the acceptors irrevocably to this chapter to all intents and purposes as if they had been originally included in its terms, during the periods for which the premiums provided in this chapter have been paid. Payment of premium shall be on the basis of the payroll of the employees who accept.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.05 | Rules.

Effective:
October 20, 1993
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly
The bureau of workers' compensation shall adopt rules to regulate and provide for the kind and character of notices, and the services thereof, in cases of injury, occupational disease, or death resulting from either, to employees, the nature and extent of the proofs and evidence, and the method of taking and furnishing the same, and to establish the right to benefits or compensation from the state insurance fund, the forms of application of those claiming to be entitled to benefits or compensation, and the method of making investigations, physical examinations, and inspections. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as affecting or limiting the rule-making authority of the industrial commission under this chapter or Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.07 | Bureau to Prepare and Furnish Application Forms.

Effective:
January 17, 1977
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 545 - 111th General Assembly
The administrator of the bureau of workers' compensation shall prepare and furnish blank forms of application for benefits or compensation from the state insurance fund, reports of injury, disability or occupational disease, notices to employers and employees, proofs of injury, disease, disability or death, proofs of medical attendance and hospital and nursing care, and proofs of employment and wage earnings, and other necessary blanks, and shall provide in his rules for their preparation and distribution so that they may be readily available and so prepared that the furnishing of information required of any person with respect to any aspect of a claim shall not be delayed by a requirement that information with respect to another aspect of such claim shall be furnished on the form by the same or another person. Insured employers shall keep on hand a sufficient supply of such blanks.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.08 | Powers of Officers in Administrative Proceedings.

Effective:
November 3, 1989
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly
Each member of the industrial commission, and its deputies, supervisors, directors, and secretaries, appointed by the commission, and employees of the bureau of workers' compensation designated by the administrator of workers' compensation, may for the purposes contemplated by this chapter, administer oaths, certify to official acts, take testimony or depositions, conduct hearings, inquiries, and investigations, issue subpoenas, and compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, accounts, papers, records, documents, evidence, and testimony.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.09 | Depositions.

Effective:
November 3, 1989
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly
In claims filed before the industrial commission or the bureau of workers' compensation by injured employees and the dependents of killed employees on account of injury or death sustained by such employees in the course of their employment, the commission and bureau may cause depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for the taking of depositions in civil actions in the court of common pleas.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.10 | Industrial Commission Not Bound by Rules of Evidence.

Effective:
November 2, 1959
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 470 - 103rd General Assembly
The industrial commission shall not be bound by the usual common law or statutory rules of evidence or by any technical or formal rules of procedure, other than as provided in sections 4123.01 to 4123.94, inclusive, of the Revised Code, but may make an investigation in such manner as in its judgment is best calculated to ascertain the substantial rights of the parties and to carry out justly the spirit of such sections.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.11 | Stenographer's Copy Received in Evidence.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
A transcribed copy of the evidence and proceedings, or any specific part thereof, or any investigation, by a stenographer appointed by the industrial commission, being certified by such stenographer to be a true and correct transcript of the testimony on the investigation or of a particular witness, or of a specific part of such testimony, carefully compared by him with his original notes, and to be a correct statement of the evidence and proceedings had on such investigation so purporting to be taken and subscribed, may be received in evidence by the commission with the same effect as if such stenographer were present and testified to the facts so certified. A copy of such transcript shall be furnished on demand to any party upon the payment of the fee therefor as provided for transcript in courts of common pleas.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.12 | Attachment Proceeding to Compel Obedience.

Effective:
November 3, 1989
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly
In case any person fails to comply with an order of the industrial commission or subpoena issued by the commission or its secretary or the bureau of workers' compensation, or any of their inspectors, or examiners, or on the refusal of a witness to testify to any matter regarding which he may be lawfully interrogated, or if any person refuses to permit an inspection, the probate judge of the county in which the person resides, on application of any member of the commission or its secretary or the bureau, or any inspector, or examiner appointed by the bureau, shall compel obedience by attachment proceedings as for contempt, as in the case of disobedience of the requirements of subpoena issued from such court on a refusal to testify therein.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.13 | Fees of Officers and Witnesses.

Effective:
July 1, 2009
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 525 - 127th General Assembly
Each officer who serves a subpoena issued under section 4123.08 of the Revised Code shall receive the same fees as a sheriff, and each witness who appears, in obedience to a subpoena, before the industrial commission or its secretary or district or staff hearing officers, the administrator of workers' compensation, or any inspector or examiner of the commission or administrator, shall receive the fees and mileage provided for under section 119.094 of the Revised Code, which shall be paid from the state insurance fund on the approval of any two members of the commission, if the witness is subpoenaed by the commission or its secretary, district or staff hearing officer, inspector, or examiner, or on the approval of the administrator, if the witness is subpoenaed by the administrator or the administrator's inspector or examiner. No witness subpoenaed at the instance of a party other than the persons listed in this section is entitled to compensation under this section unless the administrator or commission certifies that the witness's testimony was material to the matter investigated.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.19 | Expenditures to Establish Rate Classes - Salaries and Compensation Paid by Warrant.

Effective:
October 20, 1993
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly
The bureau of workers' compensation may make necessary expenditures to obtain statistical and other information to establish the classes provided for in section 4123.29 of the Revised Code.
The salaries and compensation of all of the actuaries, accountants, inspectors, examiners, experts, clerks, physicians, stenographers, and other assistants of the bureau, and all other expenses of the bureau, including the premium to be paid for the bond to be furnished by the treasurer of state pursuant to section 4123.42 of the Revised Code, shall be paid out of the workers' compensation fund pursuant to warrants signed by the administrator of workers' compensation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.20 | Publication and Distribution of Classifications, Rates, and Rules of Procedure.

Effective:
September 10, 2012
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly
The administrator of workers' compensation shall make available electronically to the public, its classifications, rates, rules, and rules of procedure, and shall furnish the same to any person upon request.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.21 | Injunction Shall Not Issue Suspending or Restraining Actions.

Effective:
November 3, 1989
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly
No injunction shall issue suspending or restraining any order, classification, or rate adopted by the industrial commission or the bureau of workers' compensation, or any action of the auditor of state, treasurer of state, attorney general, or the county auditor or county treasurer of any county, required to be taken by them or any of them by this chapter. This section does not effect any right or defense in any action brought by the commission, the bureau, or the state in pursuance of authority contained in this chapter.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.22 | Annual Report.

Effective:
November 3, 1989
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly
The administrator of workers' compensation shall prepare and publish annually a complete report of the bureau of workers' compensation's and the industrial commission's operations for the preceding year. The annual report shall be submitted to the governor and shall be made available to all employees, employers, and the general public upon request. As a part of its annual report the bureau shall make a report for the preceding fiscal year of the number of awards made by the commission, a general statement of the causes of accidents leading to the injuries for which awards were made, a general statement of the causes of occupational diseases for which awards were made, and a detailed statement of the condition of its respective funds. In such report, he may bring to the attention of the governor the diseases arising out of and due to industrial processes as he believes should be made compensable as occupational diseases.
The bureau may collate general information as to the business transacted by the bureau and commission as in its judgment is desirable for distribution to employers and employees.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.23 | Inspection of Books, Records, and Payrolls.

Effective:
November 3, 1989
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly
All books, records, and payrolls of the employers of the state, showing or reflecting in any way upon the amount of wage expenditure of such employers, shall always be open for inspection by the bureau of workers' compensation, or any of its traveling auditors, inspectors, or assistants, for the purpose of ascertaining the correctness of the wage expenditure, the number of men employed, and such other information as is necessary for the uses and purposes of the bureau in its administration of the law.
Refusal on the part of any employer to submit his books, records, and payrolls for the inspection of the bureau or any traveling auditor, inspector, or assistant presenting written authority from the bureau shall subject the employer to a forfeiture of one hundred dollars for each offense, to be collected by civil action in the name of the state, and paid into the state insurance fund.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.24 | Payroll to Be Kept.

Effective:
November 3, 1989
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly
Every employer amenable to this chapter shall keep, preserve, and maintain complete records showing in detail all expenditures for payroll and the division of such expenditures into the various divisions and classifications of the employer's business. The records shall be preserved for at least five years after the respective times of the transactions upon which the records are based.
All books, records, papers, and documents reflecting upon the amount and the classifications of the payroll expenditures of an employer shall be kept available for inspection at any time by the bureau of workers' compensation or any of its assistants, agents, representatives, or employees. If an employer fails to keep, preserve, and maintain the records and other information reflecting upon payroll expenditures, fails to make the records and information available for inspection, or fails to furnish to the bureau or any of its assistants, agents, representatives, or employees, full and complete information in reference to expenditures for payroll when the information is requested, the bureau may determine the amount of premium due from the employer upon such information as is available to it, and its findings are prima-facie evidence of the amount of premium due from the employer.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.25 | Misrepresentation as to Amount or Classification of Payroll or Amount of Compensation Paid.

Effective:
September 10, 2007
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 100 - 127th General Assembly
(A) No employer shall knowingly misrepresent to the bureau of workers' compensation the amount or classification of payroll upon which the premium under this chapter is based. Whoever violates this division shall be liable to the state in an amount determined by the administrator of workers' compensation for not more than ten times the amount of the difference between the premium paid and the amount the employer should have paid. The liability to the state under this division may be enforced in a civil action in the name of the state, and all sums collected under this division shall be paid into the state insurance fund.
(B) No self-insuring employer shall knowingly misrepresent the amount of paid compensation paid by such employer for purposes of the assessments provided under this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code as required by section 4123.35 of the Revised Code. Whoever violates this division is liable to the state in an amount determined by the self-insuring employers evaluation board pursuant to division (C) of section 4123.352 of the Revised Code or for an amount the board determines that is not more than ten times the amount of the difference between the assessment paid and the amount of the assessment that should have been paid. The liability to the state under this division may be enforced in a civil action in the name of the state and all sums collected under this division shall be paid into the self-insurance assessment fund created pursuant to division (K) of section 4123.35 of the Revised Code.
(C) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules establishing criteria for determining both of the following:
(1) The amount of the penalty assessed against an employer for a violation of division (A) of this section;
(2) Acts or omissions that do not constitute a violation of division (A) or (B) of this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 41 | Labor and Industry › Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation › Section 4123.271 | Administrator May Request Report of Employer Payments From Tax Commissioner.

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