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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.55 | Allowance and Payment of Claims Against County.

Effective:
June 15, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 473 - 123rd General Assembly
(A) No claims against the county shall be paid otherwise than upon the allowance of the board of county commissioners, upon the warrant, including an electronic warrant authorizing direct deposit for payment of a county obligation in accordance with division (F) of section 9.37 of the Revised Code, of the county auditor, except in those cases in which the amount due is fixed by law or is authorized to be fixed by some other person or tribunal, in which case it shall be paid upon the warrant of the auditor upon the proper certificate of the person or tribunal allowing the claim.
(B) No public money shall be disbursed by the board or any of its members, but shall be disbursed by the county treasurer, upon the warrant, including an electronic warrant authorizing direct deposit for payment of a county obligation in accordance with division (F) of section 9.37 of the Revised Code, of the auditor specifying the name of the party entitled to such money, on what account, and upon whose allowance, if not fixed by law.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.56 | Appeal From Decision of Board of County Commissioners.

Effective:
March 14, 1985
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 486 - 115th General Assembly
A person aggrieved by the decision of the board of county commissioners may appeal to the court of common pleas, as provided by and under the authority of Chapter 2506. of the Revised Code. The court shall advance such appeal when perfected for immediate trial.
Where a board of county commissioners has adopted administrative regulations pursuant to various enabling sections of the Revised Code, such regulations may provide for an appeal or variance therefrom to a higher administrative authority, or board of appeals or variances, which authority or board is appointed by the board of county commissioners. The decisions of such higher authority or board of appeals or variances shall be considered, a "final order" as described in section 2506.01 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.561 | Settlement May Include Rezoning Agreement or Development Plan Approval.

Effective:
May 6, 2005
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 411 - 125th General Assembly
Notwithstanding any contrary provision in another section of the Revised Code, section 303.12 of the Revised Code, or any vote of the electors on a petition for zoning referendum, a county may settle any court action by a consent decree or court-approved settlement agreement which may include an agreement to rezone any property involved in the action as provided in the decree or court-approved settlement agreement without following the procedures in section 303.12 of the Revised Code and also may include county approval of a development plan for any property involved in the action as provided in the decree or court-approved settlement agreement, provided that the court makes specific findings of fact that notice has been properly made pursuant to this section and the consent decree or court-approved settlement agreement is fair and reasonable.
If the subject of the consent decree or court-approved settlement agreement involves a zoning issue subject to referendum under section 303.12 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall publish notice of their intent to meet and consider and take action on the decree or court-approved settlement agreement and the date and time of the meeting in a newspaper of general circulation in the county at least fifteen days before the meeting. The board shall permit members of the public to express their objections to the consent decree or court-approved settlement agreement at the meeting. Copies of the proposed consent decree or court-approved settlement agreement shall be available to the public at the board's office during normal business hours.
At least ten days prior to the submission of a proposed consent decree or settlement agreement to the court for its review and consideration, the plaintiff in the action involving the consent decree or settlement agreement shall publish a notice that shall include the caption of the case, the case number, and the court in which the consent decree or settlement agreement will be filed, the intention of the parties in the action to file a consent decree or settlement agreement, and, when applicable, a description of the real property involved and the proposed change in zoning or permitted use, in a newspaper of general circulation in the county.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.57 | May Execute Bonds of Indemnity.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
If the county owns any securities of the United States, or any other securities, and they have been lost, destroyed, or stolen, the board of county commissioners, if necessary for the procuring of duplicates or for the recovery of the amount of such certificates, may execute and deliver on behalf of the county bonds of indemnity to the United States, or other person, corporation, or municipal corporation bound to pay such securities, against all loss or liability for or on account of the securities so lost, destroyed, or stolen.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.58 | Transcribing of Certain Records.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The board of county commissioners may have any of the records or books in the office of the county auditor, county recorder, or county engineer, transcribed into other books by the officers having charge of such books.
The records and books so made shall have the same force and be as valid in law as evidence as the records and books from which they were taken.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.59 | Transcribing of Court Records.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When a record, journal, or other book belonging to any of the courts, is so worn or defaced as to require transcribing, the board of county commissioners shall order it done by the officer in charge of such records.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.60 | Appropriation for Compensation or Recruitment of Physicians or Other Medical Personnel.

Effective:
September 30, 1976
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1296 - 111th General Assembly
(A) The board of county commissioners may allow a physician or surgeon making a post mortem examination at the instance of the coroner or other officer such compensation as it deems proper.
(B) A board of county commissioners may appropriate annually an amount to any municipal corporation within the county to be used to compensate or recruit physicians or other medical personnel who provide medical services for residents of the municipal corporation. Before making such an appropriation, the board shall obtain a resolution from the legislative authority of the municipal corporation certifying that the appropriation is necessary to attract physicians and other medical personnel to provide services within the municipal corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.61 | Institutions Subject to Inspection of Commissioners or Board of Health.

Effective:
October 6, 1994
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 571 - 120th General Assembly
Each public or private hospital, reformatory home, house of detention, private asylum, and correctional institution shall be open at all times to the inspection of the board of county commissioners or the board of health of the general health district or the city health district in which the institution is situated.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.621 | Establishing Child Fatality Review Board.

Effective:
October 5, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 448 - 123rd General Assembly
A board of county commissioners shall appoint a health commissioner of the board of health of a city or general health district that is entirely or partially located in the county in which the board of county commissioners is located to establish a child fatality review board to review the deaths of children under eighteen years of age. The boards of county commissioners of two or more counties may, by adopting a joint resolution passed by a majority of the members of each participating board of county commissioners, create a regional child fatality review board to serve all participating counties. The joint resolution shall appoint, for each county participating as part of the regional review board, one health commissioner from a board of health of a city or general health district located at least in part in each county. The health commissioners appointed shall select one of their number as the health commissioner to establish the regional review board. The regional review board shall be established in the same manner as provided for single county review boards.
In any county that has a body acting as a child fatality review board on the effective date of this section, the board of county commissioners of that county, in lieu of having a health commissioner establish a child fatality review board, shall appoint that body to function as the child fatality review board for the county. The body shall have the same duties, obligations, and protections as a child fatality review board appointed by a health commissioner. The board of county commissioners or an individual designated by the board shall convene the body as required by section 307.624 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.622 | Members of Child Fatality Review Board.

Effective:
October 17, 2019
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly
(A) The health commissioner of the board of health of a city or a general health district who is appointed under section 307.621 of the Revised Code to establish the child fatality review board shall select six members to serve on the child fatality review board along with the commissioner. The review board shall consist of the following:
(1) A county coroner or designee;
(2) The chief of police of a police department or the sheriff that serves the greatest population in the county or region or a designee of the chief or sheriff;
(3) The executive director of a public children services agency or designee;
(4) A public health official or designee;
(5) The executive director of a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services or designee;
(6) A physician who holds a license issued pursuant to Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code authorizing the practice of medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery, specializes in pediatric or family medicine, and currently practices pediatric or family medicine.
(B) The majority of the members of a review board may invite additional members to serve on the board. The additional members invited under this division shall serve for a period of time determined by a majority of the members described in division (A) of this section. An additional member shall have the same authority, duties, and responsibilities as members described in division (A) of this section.
(C) A vacancy in a child fatality review board shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.
(D) A child fatality review board member shall not receive any compensation for, and shall not be paid for any expenses incurred pursuant to, fulfilling the member's duties on the board unless compensation for, or payment for expenses incurred pursuant to, those duties is received pursuant to a member's regular employment.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.623 | Child Fatality Review Board - Purpose and Duties.

Effective:
October 5, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 448 - 123rd General Assembly
The purpose of the child fatality review board is to decrease the incidence of preventable child deaths by doing all of the following:
(A) Promoting cooperation, collaboration, and communication between all groups, professions, agencies, or entities that serve families and children;
(B) Maintaining a comprehensive database of all child deaths that occur in the county or region served by the child fatality review board in order to develop an understanding of the causes and incidence of those deaths;
(C) Recommending and developing plans for implementing local service and program changes and changes to the groups, professions, agencies, or entities that serve families and children that might prevent child deaths;
(D) Advising the department of health of aggregate data, trends, and patterns concerning child deaths.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.624 | Organization of Child Fatality Review Board.

Effective:
October 5, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 448 - 123rd General Assembly
The board of county commissioners, or if a regional child fatality review board is established, the group of health commissioners appointed to select the health commissioner to establish the regional review board, shall designate either the health commissioner that establishes the review board or a representative of the health commissioner to convene meetings and be the chairperson of the review board. If a regional review board includes a county with more than one health district, the regional review board meeting shall be convened in that county. If more than one of the counties participating on the regional review board has more than one health district, the person convening the meeting shall select one of the counties with more than one health district as the county in which to convene the meeting. The person designated to convene the review board shall convene it at least once a year to review, in accordance with this section and the rules adopted by the department of health under section 3701.045 of the Revised Code, the deaths of all children under eighteen years of age who, at the time of death, were residents of the county or, if a regional review board, one of the participating counties.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.625 | No Review While Investigation Pending.

Effective:
October 5, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 448 - 123rd General Assembly
A child fatality review board may not conduct a review of the death of a child described in section 307.624 of the Revised Code while an investigation of the death or prosecution of a person for causing the death is pending unless the prosecuting attorney agrees to allow the review. The law enforcement agency conducting the criminal investigation, on the conclusion of the investigation, and the prosecuting attorney prosecuting the case, on the conclusion of the prosecution, shall notify the chairperson of the review board of the conclusion.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.626 | Annual Report.

Effective:
October 16, 2009
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 128th General Assembly
(A) By the first day of April of each year, the person convening the child fatality review board shall prepare and submit to the Ohio department of health a report that summarizes the following information with respect to the child deaths that were reviewed by the review board in the previous calendar year:
(1) The cause of death;
(2) Factors contributing to death;
(3) Age;
(4) Sex;
(5) Race;
(6) The geographic location of death;
(7) The year of death.
The report shall specify the number of child deaths that were not reviewed during the previous calendar year.
The report may include recommendations for actions that might prevent other deaths, as well as any other information the review board determines should be included.
(B) Reports prepared under division (A) of this section shall be considered public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
(C) The child fatality review board shall submit individual data with respect to each child death review into the Ohio department of health child death review database or the national child death review database. The individual data shall include the information specified in division (A) of this section and any other information the board considers relevant to the review. Individual data related to a child death review that is contained in the Ohio department of health child death review database is not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.627 | Accessing Confidential Information.

Effective:
March 14, 2017
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 493 - 131st General Assembly
(A)(1) Notwithstanding section 3701.243 and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, any individual; public children services agency, private child placing agency, or agency that provides services specifically to individuals or families; law enforcement agency; or other public or private entity that provided services to a child whose death is being reviewed by a child fatality review board, on the request of the review board, shall submit to the review board a summary sheet of information.
(a) With respect to a request made to a health care entity, the summary sheet shall contain only information available and reasonably drawn from the child's medical record created by the health care entity.
(b) With respect to a request made to any other individual or entity, the summary shall contain only information available and reasonably drawn from any record involving the child that the individual or entity develops in the normal course of business.
(c) On the request of the review board, an individual or entity may, at the individual or entity's discretion, make any additional information, documents, or reports available to the review board.
(2) Notwithstanding section 3701.243 and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, in the case of a child one year of age or younger whose death is being reviewed by a child fatality review board, on the request of the review board, a health care entity that provided services to the child's mother shall submit to the review board a summary sheet of information available and reasonably drawn from the mother's medical record created by the health care entity. Before submitting the summary sheet, the health care entity shall attempt to obtain the mother's consent to do so, but lack of consent shall not preclude the entity from submitting the summary sheet.
(3) For purposes of the review, the review board shall have access to confidential information provided to the review board under this section or division (I)(4) of section 2151.421 of the Revised Code, and each member of the review board shall preserve the confidentiality of that information.
(B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, no person, entity, law enforcement agency, or prosecuting attorney shall provide any information regarding the death of a child to a child fatality review board while an investigation of the death or prosecution of a person for causing the death is pending unless the prosecuting attorney has agreed pursuant to section 307.625 of the Revised Code to allow review of the death.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.628 | Immunity.

Effective:
October 5, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 448 - 123rd General Assembly
(A) An individual or public or private entity providing information, documents, or reports to a child fatality review board is immune from any civil liability for injury, death, or loss to person or property that otherwise might be incurred or imposed as a result of providing the information, documents, or reports to the review board.
(B) Each member of a review board is immune from any civil liability for injury, death, or loss to person or property that might otherwise be incurred or imposed as a result of the member's participation on the review board.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.629 | Unauthorized Dissemination of Confidential Information.

Effective:
April 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 254 - 134th General Assembly
(A) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section and sections 5153.171 to 5153.173 of the Revised Code, any information, document, or report presented to a child fatality review board, all statements made by review board members during meetings of the review board, all work products of the review board, and child fatality review data submitted by the child fatality review board to the department of health or a national child death review database, other than the report prepared pursuant to division (A) of section 307.626 of the Revised Code, are confidential and shall be used by the review board, its members, and the department of health only in the exercise of the proper functions of the review board and the department.
(B) A review board may disclose the confidential information described in division (A) of this section to a fetal and infant mortality review team.
(C) A review board may disclose the confidential information described in division (A) of this section to a domestic violence fatality review board established under section 307.651 of the Revised Code in the same county or region, and otherwise collaborate with a domestic violence fatality review board, if the child whose death is being reviewed died as a result of domestic violence.
(D) No person shall permit or encourage the unauthorized dissemination of the confidential information described in division (A) of this section.
(E) Whoever violates division (D) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree.
Last updated February 21, 2023 at 12:33 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.631 | Establishing Drug Overdose Fatality Review Committee.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
(A) A board of county commissioners may appoint a health commissioner of the board of health of a city or general health district that is entirely or partially located in the county in which the board of county commissioners is located to establish a drug overdose fatality review committee to review drug overdose deaths and opioid-involved deaths occurring in the county.
(B) The boards of county commissioners of two or more counties may, by adopting a joint resolution passed by a majority of the members of each participating board of county commissioners, create a regional drug overdose fatality review committee to review drug overdose deaths and opioid-involved deaths occurring in participating counties. The joint resolution shall appoint, for each county participating as part of the regional review committee, one health commissioner from a board of health of a city or general health district located at least in part in each county. The health commissioners appointed shall select one of their number as the health commissioner to establish the regional review committee.
(C) In any county that, on the effective date of this section, has a body that is acting as a drug overdose fatality review committee and is comprised of the members described in divisions (A)(1) and (B)(1) of section 307.632 of the Revised Code, including a public health official or designee, that body shall continue to function as the drug overdose fatality review committee for the county. The body shall have the same duties, obligations, and protections as a drug overdose fatality review committee appointed by a health commissioner.
Last updated October 19, 2021 at 5:14 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.633 | Chairperson of Drug Overdose Fatality Review Committee.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
If a drug overdose fatality review committee is established under division (A) or (B) of section 307.631 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners, or if a regional drug overdose fatality review committee is established, the group of health commissioners appointed to select the health commissioner to establish the regional review committee, shall designate either the health commissioner that establishes the review committee or a representative of the health commissioner to convene meetings and be the chairperson of the review committee.
Last updated October 19, 2021 at 5:14 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.634 | Purpose of Drug Overdose Fatality Review Committee.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
The purpose of a drug overdose fatality review committee is to decrease the incidence of preventable overdose deaths by doing all of the following:
(A) Promoting cooperation, collaboration, and communication between all groups, professions, agencies, or entities engaged in drug abuse prevention, education, or treatment efforts;
(B) Maintaining a comprehensive database of all overdose deaths that occur in the county or region served by the review committee in order to develop an understanding of the causes and incidence of those deaths;
(C) Recommending and developing plans for implementing local service and program changes and changes to the groups, professions, agencies, or entities that serve local residents that might prevent overdose deaths;
(D) Providing the department of health with aggregate data, trends, and patterns concerning overdose deaths.
Last updated October 19, 2021 at 5:15 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.635 | No Review While Investigation or Prosecution Pending.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
A drug overdose fatality review committee may not conduct a review of a death while an investigation of the death or prosecution of a person for causing the death is pending unless the prosecuting attorney agrees to allow the review. The law enforcement agency conducting the criminal investigation, on the conclusion of the investigation, and the prosecuting attorney prosecuting the case, on the conclusion of the prosecution, shall notify the chairperson of the review committee of the conclusion.
Last updated October 19, 2021 at 5:15 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.636 | Collecting and Maintaining Information; Annual Report.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
(A) A drug overdose fatality review committee shall establish a system for collecting and maintaining information necessary for the review of drug overdose or opioid-involved deaths in the county or region. In an effort to ensure confidentiality, each committee shall do all of the following:
(1) Maintain all records in a secure location;
(2) Develop security measures to prevent unauthorized access to records containing information that could reasonably identify any person;
(3) Develop a system for storing, processing, indexing, retrieving, and destroying information obtained in the course of reviewing a drug overdose or opioid-involved death.
(B) For each drug overdose or opioid-involved death reviewed by a committee, the committee shall collect all of the following:
(1) Demographic information of the deceased, including age, sex, race, and ethnicity;
(2) The year in which the death occurred;
(3) The geographic location of the death;
(4) The cause of death;
(5) Any factors contributing to the death;
(6) Any other information the committee considers relevant.
(C) By the first day of April of each year, the person convening a drug overdose fatality review committee shall prepare and submit to the Ohio department of health in the manner and format prescribed by the department a report that includes all of the following information for the previous calendar year:
(1) The total number of drug overdose or opioid-involved deaths in the county or region;
(2) The total number of drug overdose or opioid-involved deaths reviewed by the committee;
(3) A summary of demographic information for the deaths reviewed, including age, sex, race, and ethnicity;
(4) A summary of any trends or patterns identified by the committee.
The report shall specify the number of drug overdose or opioid-involved deaths that were not reviewed during the previous calendar year.
The report shall include recommendations for actions that might prevent other deaths, as well as any other information the review board determines should be included.
(D) Reports prepared under division (C) of this section shall be considered public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
Last updated October 19, 2021 at 5:15 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.637 | Providing Information to Drug Overdose Fatality Review Committee.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
(A)(1) Notwithstanding section 3701.17 and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, any individual, law enforcement agency, or other public or private entity that provided services to a person whose death is being reviewed by a drug overdose fatality review committee, on the request of the review committee, shall submit to the review committee a summary sheet of information.
(a) With respect to a request made to a health care entity, the summary sheet shall contain only information available and reasonably drawn from the person's medical record created by the health care entity.
(b) With respect to a request made to any other individual or entity, the summary sheet shall contain only information available and reasonably drawn from any record involving the person to which the individual or entity has access.
(c) On the request of the review committee, an individual or entity may, at the individual or entity's discretion, make any additional information, documents, or reports available to the review committee.
(2) On the request of the review committee, a county coroner shall make available to the review committee the coroner's full and complete record as described in section 313.10 of the Revised Code that relates to the person whose death is being reviewed by the committee.
(B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, no person, entity, law enforcement agency, or prosecuting attorney shall provide any information regarding the death of a person to a drug overdose fatality review committee while an investigation of the death or prosecution of a person for causing the death is pending unless the prosecuting attorney has agreed pursuant to section 307.635 of the Revised Code to allow review of the death.
Last updated October 19, 2021 at 5:16 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.638 | Immunity.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
(A) An individual or public or private entity providing information, documents, or reports to a drug overdose fatality review committee is immune from any civil liability for injury, death, or loss to person or property that otherwise might be incurred or imposed as a result of providing the information, documents, or reports to the review committee.
(B) Each member of a review committee is immune from any civil liability for injury, death, or loss to person or property that might otherwise be incurred or imposed as a result of the member's participation on the review committee.
Last updated October 19, 2021 at 5:16 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.639 | Confidentiality.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
Any information, document, or report presented to a drug overdose fatality review committee, all statements made by review committee members during meetings of the review committee, all work products of the review committee, and data submitted by the review committee to the department of health, other than the report prepared pursuant to section 307.636 of the Revised Code, are confidential and shall be used by the review committee, its members, and the department of health only in the exercise of the proper functions of the review committee and the department.
Last updated October 19, 2021 at 5:16 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.64 | Appropriating Moneys From Tax Levies for Economic Development.

Effective:
April 7, 2009
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 353 - 127th General Assembly
The board of county commissioners of any county may appropriate moneys derived from a tax levied pursuant to division (EE) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code to be expended by the county for the creation and operation of an office or joint office of economic development pursuant to section 307.07 of the Revised Code, for any economic development purpose of the office or joint office, and to otherwise provide for the establishment and operation of a program of economic development. A board of county commissioners may appropriate funds under this section to pay expenses of a county land reutilization corporation organized under Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code if the board finds that the purposes of the expenses promote economic development in the county. As used in this section, "economic development" means promoting the economic welfare and improving the economic opportunities of the people in the county or in the counties participating in a joint office of economic development by assisting in the establishment or expansion within the county or counties of industrial, commercial, or research facilities and by creating and preserving job and employment opportunities for the people of the county or counties.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.641 | Establishing Suicide Fatality Review Committee.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
(A) A board of county commissioners may appoint a health commissioner of the board of health of a city or general health district that is entirely or partially located in the county in which the board of county commissioners is located to establish a suicide fatality review committee to review deaths by suicide occurring in the county.
(B) The boards of county commissioners of two or more counties may, by adopting a joint resolution passed by a majority of the members of each participating board of county commissioners, create a regional suicide fatality review committee to serve all participating counties. The joint resolution shall appoint, for each county participating as part of the regional review committee, one health commissioner from a board of health of a city or general health district located at least in part in each county. The health commissioners appointed shall select one of their number as the health commissioner to establish the regional review committee.
(C) In any county that, on the effective date of this section, has a body that is acting as a suicide fatality review committee and is comprised of the members described in divisions (A)(1) and (B)(1) of section 307.642 of the Revised Code, including a public health official or designee, that body shall continue to function as the suicide fatality review committee for the county. The body shall have the same duties, obligations, and protections as a suicide fatality review committee appointed by a health commissioner.
Last updated October 19, 2021 at 5:17 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.643 | Purpose of Suicide Fatality Review Committee.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
The purpose of a suicide fatality review committee is to decrease the incidence of preventable suicide deaths by doing all of the following:
(A) Promoting cooperation, collaboration, and communication between all groups, professions, agencies, or entities engaged in suicide prevention, education, or mental health treatment efforts;
(B) Maintaining a comprehensive database of all suicide deaths that occur in the county or region served by the review committee in order to develop an understanding of the causes and incidence of those deaths;
(C) Recommending and developing plans for implementing local service and program changes and changes to the groups, professions, agencies, or entities that serve local residents that might prevent suicide deaths;
(D) Advising the department of health of aggregate data, trends, and patterns concerning suicide deaths.
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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.644 | Chairperson of Suicide Fatality Review Committee.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
If a suicide fatality review committee is established under division (A) or (B) of section 307.641 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners, or if a regional suicide fatality review committee is established, the group of health commissioners appointed to select the health commissioner to establish the regional review committee, shall designate either the health commissioner that establishes the review committee or a representative of the health commissioner to convene meetings and be the chairperson of the review committee. If a regional review committee includes a county with more than one health district, the regional review committee meeting shall be convened in that county. If more than one of the counties participating on the regional review committee has more than one health district, the person convening the meeting shall select one of the counties with more than one health district as the county in which to convene the meeting.
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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.645 | No Review While Investigation or Prosecution Pending.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
A suicide fatality review committee may not conduct a review of a death while an investigation of the death or prosecution of a person for causing the death is pending unless the prosecuting attorney agrees to allow the review. The law enforcement agency conducting the criminal investigation, on the conclusion of the investigation, and the prosecuting attorney prosecuting the case, on the conclusion of the prosecution, shall notify the chairperson of the review committee of the conclusion.
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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.646 | Collecting and Maintaining Information; Annual Report.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
(A) A suicide fatality review committee shall establish a system for collecting and maintaining information necessary for the review of suicide deaths in the county or region. In an effort to ensure confidentiality, each committee shall do all of the following:
(1) Maintain all records in a secure location;
(2) Develop security measures to prevent unauthorized access to records containing information that could reasonably identify any person;
(3) Develop a system for storing, processing, indexing, retrieving, and destroying information obtained in the course of reviewing a death resulting from suicide.
(B) For each death resulting from suicide reviewed by a committee, the committee shall collect all of the following:
(1) Demographic information of the deceased, including age, sex, race, and ethnicity;
(2) The year in which the death occurred;
(3) The geographic location of the death;
(4) The cause of death;
(5) Any factors contributing to the death;
(6) Any other information the committee considers relevant.
(C) By the first day of April of each year, the person convening a suicide fatality review committee shall prepare and submit to the Ohio department of health a report that summarizes the following information about suicide deaths reviewed by the committee in the previous calendar year:
(1) The cause of death;
(2) Factors contributing to death;
(3) Age;
(4) Sex;
(5) Race;
(6) The geographic location of death;
(7) The year of death.
The report shall specify the number of suicide deaths that were not reviewed during the previous calendar year.
The report may include recommendations for actions that might prevent other suicide deaths, as well as any other information the review committee determines should be included.
(D) Reports prepared under division (C) of this section are public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.647 | Providing Information to Suicide Fatality Review Committee.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
(A)(1) Notwithstanding section 3701.17 and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, any individual, law enforcement agency, or other public or private entity that provided services to a person whose death is being reviewed by a suicide fatality review committee, on the request of the review committee, shall submit to the review committee a summary sheet of information.
(a) With respect to a request made to a health care entity, the summary sheet shall contain only information available and reasonably drawn from the person's medical record created by the health care entity.
(b) With respect to a request made to any other individual or entity, the summary sheet shall contain only information available and reasonably drawn from any record involving the person that the individual or entity develops in the normal course of business.
(c) On the request of the review committee, an individual or entity may, at the individual or entity's discretion, make any additional information, documents, or reports available to the review committee.
(2) For purposes of the review, the committee shall have access to confidential information provided to the committee under this section or division (I)(4) of section 2151.421 of the Revised Code, and each member of the committee shall preserve the confidentiality of that information.
(3) On the request of the review committee, a county coroner shall make available to the review committee the coroner's full and complete record as described in section 313.10 of the Revised Code that relates to the person whose death is being reviewed by the committee.
(B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, no person, entity, law enforcement agency, or prosecuting attorney shall provide any information regarding the death of a person to a suicide fatality review committee while an investigation of the death or prosecution of a person for causing the death is pending unless the prosecuting attorney has agreed pursuant to section 307.645 of the Revised Code to allow review of the death.
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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.648 | Immunity.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
(A) An individual or public or private entity providing information, documents, or reports to a suicide fatality review committee is immune from any civil liability for injury, death, or loss to person or property that otherwise might be incurred or imposed as a result of providing the information, documents, or reports to the review committee.
(B) Each member of a review committee is immune from any civil liability for injury, death, or loss to person or property that might otherwise be incurred or imposed as a result of the member's participation on the review committee.
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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.649 | Confidentiality.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
Any information, document, or report presented to a suicide fatality review committee, all statements made by review committee members during meetings of the review committee, all work products of the review committee, and data submitted by the review committee to the department of health, other than the report prepared pursuant to section 307.646 of the Revised Code, are confidential and shall be used by the review committee, its members, and the department of health only in the exercise of the proper functions of the review committee and the department.
Last updated October 19, 2021 at 5:19 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.6410 | Hybrid Review Committee.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
A board of county commissioners may appoint a health commissioner of the board of health of a city or general health district that is entirely or partially located in the county in which the board of county commissioners is located to establish a hybrid drug overdose fatality and suicide fatality review committee to review drug overdose deaths, opioid-involved deaths, and deaths by suicide occurring in the county. In such case, the board and hybrid committee shall follow the procedures described in sections 307.631 to 307.639 and 307.641 to 307.649 of the Revised Code. Any reference to a drug overdose fatality review committee or suicide fatality review committee shall be construed to include a hybrid committee described in this section.
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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 3 | Counties › Chapter 307 | Board of County Commissioners - Powers › Section 307.65 | Harbor Improvements.

Effective:
October 30, 1989
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 230 - 118th General Assembly
The board of county commissioners of any county bordering Lake Erie may construct, open, enlarge, excavate, improve, deepen, straighten, or extend any harbor located in whole or in part within such county, and within the corporate limits of a municipal corporation having an aggregate tax duplicate of less than five hundred million dollars, and any such work shall be a permanent improvement within section 133.15 of the Revised Code. Such authority shall not be exercised, nor shall any proceeding for the submission of the question of issuing bonds for the work be taken, until the legislative authority of such municipal corporation, by resolution, has consented thereto.