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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3706 | Air Quality Development Authority › Section 3706.55 | Remittance of Funds.

Effective:
June 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 128 - 134th General Assembly
(A) For the period beginning with April of 2021 and ending with January of 2028, the Ohio air quality development authority shall, in April of 2021 and every three months thereafter through the end of the period, and not later than the twenty-first day of the month, direct the treasurer of state to remit money from the solar generation fund created under section 3706.49 of the Revised Code. Subject to section 3706.59 of the Revised Code, the moneys from the fund shall be remitted to the owners or operators of qualifying solar resources, in the amount equivalent to the number of credits earned by the resources during the quarter that ended twelve months prior to the last day of the previous quarter multiplied by the credit price.
(B) Notwithstanding section 4905.32 of the Revised Code, any amounts remaining in the fund as of December 31, 2027, minus the remittances that are required to be made between that date and January 21, 2028, shall be refunded to customers in a manner that shall be determined by the authority in consultation with the public utilities commission.
Last updated May 17, 2021 at 2:36 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3706 | Air Quality Development Authority › Section 3706.551 | Rereview of Solar Energy Credit Applications.

Effective:
June 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 128 - 134th General Assembly
(A) Notwithstanding the solar energy credit application deadlines for qualifying solar resources under sections 3706.41 and 3706.43 of the Revised Code, the Ohio air quality development authority shall rereview and approve an application from a qualifying solar resource if the resource submitted the application before March 1, 2020.
(B) The deadlines for the quarterly reports required under section 3706.45 of the Revised Code that have passed before the effective date of this section do not apply to a qualifying solar resource whose application for solar energy credits is approved under division (A) of this section.
Last updated May 18, 2021 at 1:45 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3706 | Air Quality Development Authority › Section 3706.59 | Insufficient Funds.

Effective:
June 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 128 - 134th General Assembly
If the money in the solar generation fund is insufficient to make the payments in the amounts required under section 3706.55 of the Revised Code for all owners and operators of qualifying solar resources, then the authority shall do both of the following:
(A) Not later than twenty-one days after the close of the quarter in which the charges collected were insufficient, direct the treasurer to prorate payments from the total amount available in the solar generation fund, based on the number of each resource's credits earned during the quarter that ended twelve months prior to the last day of the previous quarter;
(B) Not later than twenty-one days after the close of any quarter in which the owners or operators received prorated payments under division (A) of this section, direct the treasurer of state to remit money from the solar generation fund to pay for the unpaid credits. Unpaid credits paid for under division (B) of this section shall be paid before any other remittances are made under section 3706.55 of the Revised Code.
Last updated May 17, 2021 at 2:37 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3706 | Air Quality Development Authority › Section 3706.63 | Rulemaking Authority.

Effective:
October 22, 2019
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 6 - 133rd General Assembly
Not later than January 1, 2020, the Ohio air quality development authority shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that are necessary to implement sections 3706.40 to 3706.65 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3706 | Air Quality Development Authority › Section 3706.65 | Use of Commission Staff and Experts.

Effective:
October 22, 2019
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 6 - 133rd General Assembly
(A) For the purpose of carrying out the Ohio air quality development authority's duties under sections 3706.40 to 3706.63 of the Revised Code, the authority may make use of the staff and experts employed at the public utilities commission in such manner as is provided by mutual arrangement between the authority and the commission. Any information, data, and equipment of the commission shall be placed at the disposal of the authority.
(B) If any information, data, or equipment is not a public record for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code because either the authority or the commission possesses that information, data, or equipment, then the operation of division (A) of this section shall not be construed to render that information, data, or equipment a public record, notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.01 | Powers of Board - Abatement of Nuisances.

Effective:
June 23, 2021
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 22 - 134th General Assembly
(A) As used in this chapter, "isolation" and "quarantine" have the same meanings as in section 3701.13 of the Revised Code.
(B) The board of health of a city or general health district shall abate and remove all nuisances within its jurisdiction. It may, by order, compel the owners, agents, assignees, occupants, or tenants of any lot, property, building, or structure to abate and remove any nuisance therein, and prosecute such persons for neglect or refusal to obey such orders. Except in cities having a building department, or otherwise exercising the power to regulate the erection of buildings, the board may regulate the location, construction, and repair of water closets, privies, cesspools, sinks, plumbing, and drains. In cities having such departments or exercising such power, the legislative authority, by ordinance, shall prescribe such rules and regulations as are approved by the board and shall provide for their enforcement.
The board may regulate the location, construction, and repair of yards, pens, and stables, and the use, emptying, and cleaning of such yards, pens, and stables and of water closets, privies, cesspools, sinks, plumbing, drains, or other places where offensive or dangerous substances or liquids are or may accumulate.
When a building, erection, excavation, premises, business, pursuit, matter, or thing, or the sewerage, drainage, plumbing, or ventilation thereof is, in the opinion of the board, in a condition dangerous to life or health, and when a building or structure is occupied or rented for living or business purposes and sanitary plumbing and sewerage are feasible and necessary, but neglected or refused, the board may declare it a public nuisance and order it to be removed, abated, suspended, altered, or otherwise improved or purified by the owner, agent, or other person having control thereof or responsible for such condition, and may prosecute the owner, agent, or other person having control thereof for the refusal or neglect to obey such order. The board may, by its officers and employees, remove, abate, suspend, alter, or otherwise improve or purify such nuisance and certify the costs and expense thereof to the county auditor, to be assessed against the property and thereby made a lien upon it and collected as other taxes.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.011 | Railroad Rights-of-Way to Be Kept Free of Dangerous Refuse.

Effective:
November 28, 1991
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 248 - 119th General Assembly
(A) As used in this section, "railroad company" means a suburban railroad company or an interurban railroad company, as those terms are defined in section 4905.03 of the Revised Code.
(B) A railroad company shall maintain railroad rights-of-way that it owns or controls and that are located within a city and within unincorporated areas of townships surrounded by the city in such condition as to keep them free of refuse of any kind or quantity reasonably expected to be dangerous to life or health, including at least garbage, bottles or other containers, and paper. Failure to so maintain such rights-of-way is a nuisance subject to this chapter.
(C) A railroad company may bring a civil action to recover its costs in complying with this section, including attorney's fees, from the persons or entities responsible for depositing refuse on the rights-of-way.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.02 | Proceedings When Order of Board Is Neglected or Disregarded.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When an order of the board of health of a city or general health district, made pursuant to section 3707.01 of the Revised Code, is neglected or disregarded, in whole or in part, the board may elect to cause the arrest and prosecution of all persons offending, or to perform, by its officers and employees, what the offending parties should have done. If the latter course is chosen, before the execution of the order is begun, the board shall cause a citation to issue and be served upon the persons responsible, if residing within the jurisdiction of the board, but if not, such citation shall be mailed to such persons by registered letter, if the address is known or can be found by ordinary diligence. If the address cannot be found, the board shall cause the citation to be left upon the premises, in charge of any person residing thereon, otherwise it shall be posted conspicuously thereon. The citation shall briefly recite the cause of complaint, and require the owner or other persons responsible to appear before the board at a time and place stated, or as soon thereafter as a hearing can be had, and show cause why the board should not proceed and furnish the material and labor necessary and remove the cause of complaint.
If the persons cited appear, they shall be fully apprised of the cause of complaint and given a fair hearing. The board shall then make such order as it deems proper, and if material or labor is necessary to satisfy the order, and the persons cited promise, within a definite and reasonable time, to furnish them, the board shall grant such time. If no promise is made, or kept, the board shall furnish the material and labor, cause the work to be done, and certify the cost and expense to the county auditor. If the material and labor are itemized and the statement is accompanied by the certificate of the president of the board, attested by the clerk, reciting the order of the board and that the amount is correct, the auditor has no discretion, but shall place such sum against the property upon which the material and labor were expended, which shall, from the date of entry, be a lien upon the property and be paid as other taxes are paid.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.021 | Injunctive Relief.

Effective:
October 2, 1969
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 156 - 108th General Assembly
When an order of the board of health of a city or general health district, made pursuant to section 3707.01 of the Revised Code, is not complied with in whole or in part, the board may petition the court of common pleas for an injunction requiring all persons to whom such order of the board is directed to comply with such order. The court of the county in which the offense is alleged to be occurring may grant such injunctive relief as the equities of the case require.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.03 | Correction of Nuisance or Unsanitary Conditions on School Property.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 361 - 100th General Assembly
The board of health of a city or general health district shall abate all nuisances and may remove or correct all conditions detrimental to health or well-being found upon school property by serving an order upon the board of education, school board, or other person responsible for such property, for the abatement of such nuisance or condition within a reasonable but fixed time. The board of health may appoint such number of inspectors of schools and school buildings as is necessary to properly carry out this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.04 | Quarantine Regulations.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
In time of epidemic or threatened epidemic, or when a dangerous communicable disease is unusually prevalent, the board of health of a city or general health district, after a personal investigation by its members or executive officer to establish the facts in the case, and not otherwise, may impose a quarantine on vessels, railroads, or other public or private vehicles conveying persons, baggage, or freight, or used for such purpose. The board may make and enforce such rules and regulations as are wise and necessary for the protection of the health of the people of the community or state, but the running of any train or car on any steam or electric railroad, or of steamboats, vessels, or other public conveyances shall not be prohibited.
A true copy of such quarantine rules and regulations shall be immediately furnished by such board to the department of health, and thereafter no change shall be made except by the order of the department or the board to meet a new and sudden emergency.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.05 | Board Must Secure Approval of Department of Health in Certain Cases.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The board of health of a city or general health district shall not close public highways or prohibit travel thereon, interfere with public officers not afflicted with or directly exposed to a contagious or infectious disease, in the discharge of their official duties, or establish a quarantine of one municipal corporation or township against another municipal corporation or township, as such, without permission first obtained from the department of health and under regulations established by the department.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.06 | Notice to Be Given of Prevalence of Infectious Diseases.

Effective:
April 6, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly
(A) Each physician or other person called to attend a person having cholera, plague, yellow fever, typhus fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever, or any other disease dangerous to the public health, or required by the department of health to be reported, shall report to the health commissioner within whose jurisdiction the sick person is found the name, age, sex, and color of the patient, and the house and place in which the sick person may be found. In like manner, the owner or agent of the owner of a building in which a person resides who has any of the listed diseases, or in which are the remains of a person having died of any of the listed diseases, and the head of the family, immediately after becoming aware of the fact, shall give notice thereof to the health commissioner.
(B) No person shall fail to comply with the reporting requirements of division (A) of this section.
(C) Information reported under this section that is protected health information pursuant to section 3701.17 of the Revised Code shall be released only in accordance with that section. Information that does not identify an individual may be released in summary, statistical, or aggregate form.
Last updated March 10, 2023 at 12:17 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.07 | Complaint Concerning Prevalence of Disease - Inspection by Health Commissioner.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When complaint is made or a reasonable belief exists that an infectious or contagious disease prevails in a house or other locality which has not been reported as provided in section 3707.06 of the Revised Code, the board of health of a city or general health district shall cause such house or locality to be inspected by its health commissioner, and on discovering that such disease exists, the board may send the person diseased to a hospital or other place provided for such person, or may restrain him and others exposed within such house or locality from intercourse with other persons, and prohibit ingress and egress to or from such premises.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.08 | Isolation of Persons Exposed to Communicable Disease - Placarding of Premises.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When a person known to have been exposed to a communicable disease declared quarantinable by the board of health of a city or general health district or the department of health is reported within its jurisdiction, the board shall at once restrict such person to his place of residence or other suitable place, prohibit entrance to or exit from such place without the board's written permission in such manner as to prevent effective contact with individuals not so exposed, and enforce such restrictive measures as are prescribed by the department.
When a person has, or is suspected of having, a communicable disease for which isolation is required by the board or the department, the board shall at once cause such person to be separated from susceptible persons in such places and under such circumstances as will prevent the conveyance of the infectious agents to susceptible persons, prohibit entrance to or exit from such places without the board's written permission, and enforce such restrictive measures as are prescribed by the department.
When persons have, or are exposed to, a communicable disease for which placarding of premises is required by the board or the department, the board shall at once place in a conspicuous position on the premises where such a person is isolated or quarantined a placard having printed on it, in large letters, the name of the disease. No person shall remove, mar, deface, or destroy such placard, which shall remain in place until after the persons restricted have been released from isolation or quarantine.
Physicians attending a person affected with a communicable disease shall use such precautionary measures to prevent its spread as are required by the board or the department.
No person isolated or quarantined by a board shall leave the premises to which he has been restricted without the written permission of such board until released from isolation or quarantine by it in acordance with the rules and regulations of the department.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.09 | Board May Employ Quarantine Guards.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The board of health of a city or general health district may employ as many persons as are necessary to execute its orders and properly guard any house or place containing any person affected with or exposed to a communicable disease declared quarantinable by the board or the department of health. The persons employed shall be sworn in as quarantine guards, shall have police powers, and may use all necessary means to enforce sections 3707.01 to 3707.53, inclusive, of the Revised Code, for the prevention of contagious or infectious disease, or the orders of any board made in pursuance thereof.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.10 | Disinfection of House in Which There Has Been a Contagious Disease.

Effective:
April 9, 1981
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 965 - 113th General Assembly
When a person affected with yellow fever, typhus fever, or diphtheria has recovered and is no longer liable to communicate the disease to others, or has died, the attending physician shall furnish a certificate of the recovery or death to the board of health of the city or general health district. As soon thereafter as the board considers it advisable, its health commissioner shall thoroughly disinfect and purify the house and contents of the house in which the affected person has been ill or has died, in accordance with the rules adopted by the department of health.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.11 | Application of Quarantine or Isolation Orders.

Effective:
June 23, 2021
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 22 - 134th General Assembly
A board of health of a city or general health district, or the authority having the duties of a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code, may only issue a quarantine or isolation order under this chapter that applies to individuals who have been medically diagnosed with the disease that is the subject of the order or individuals who have come in direct contact with someone who has been medically diagnosed with the disease that is the subject of the order.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.12 | Destruction of Infected Property.

Effective:
April 9, 1981
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 965 - 113th General Assembly
The board of health of a city or general health district may destroy any infected clothing, bedding, or other article that cannot be made safe by disinfection, and shall furnish to the owner of the articles a receipt, of which the board shall keep a complete and accurate copy, for articles so destroyed. The receipt shall show the number, character, condition, and estimated value of the articles destroyed. When a building, hut, or other structure has become infected with a dangerous communicable disease, and cannot, in the opinion of the board, be made safe by disinfection, the board may have the building, hut, or other structure appraised and destroyed.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.13 | Compensation for Property Destroyed.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The legislative authority of the municipal corporation, upon the presentation of the original receipt or written statement of the appraisers for articles or houses destroyed pursuant to section 3707.12 of the Revised Code, shall pay to the owner thereof, or other person authorized by him to receive such payment, the estimated value of such destroyed articles, or such sum as the legislative authority deems just compensation therefor. If the owner is not satisfied with the amount so allowed he may sue for the value of such destroyed articles.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.14 | Maintenance of Persons Confined in Quarantined House.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When a house or other place is quarantined because of contagious diseases, the board of health of the city or general health district shall provide, for all persons confined in such house or place, food, fuel, and all other necessaries of life, including medical attendance, medicine, and nurses when necessary. The expenses so incurred, except those for disinfection, quarantine, or other measures strictly for the protection of the public health, when properly certified by the president and clerk of the board, or health commissioner if there is no board, shall be paid by the persons quarantined, when able to make such payment, and when not, by the municipal corporation or township in which quarantined.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.15 | Employer of Illegal Alien With Contagious or Infectious Disease to Pay Expense Caused by Disease.

Effective:
June 17, 1999
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 35 - 123rd General Assembly
As used in this section, "alien" means an individual who is not a citizen of the United States.
Any person that employs an alien who is not legally present in the United States and has a contagious or infectious disease contracted before or during employment shall pay to the municipal corporation, township, or county in which the alien is employed any expense caused by the contagious or infectious disease. An employer is not subject to this section if the employer demonstrates that the alien was employed in compliance with the requirements of section 101(a) of the "Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986," 100 Stat. 3360, 8 U.S.C.A. 1324a, as amended, unless there is evidence that the employer complied with the act knowing that the alien is not legally present in the United States.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.16 | Attendance at Gatherings by Quarantined Person Prohibited.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No person isolated or quarantined for a communicable disease declared by the board of health of a city or general health district or the department of health to require isolation or quarantine shall attend any public, private, or parochial school or college, Sunday school, church, or any other public gathering, until released from isolation or quarantine by the board. All school principals, Sunday school superintendents, or other persons in charge of such schools or other gatherings shall exclude any such person until he presents a written permit of the board to attend.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.17 | Quarantine in Place Other Than That of Legal Settlement.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When a person with a contagious disease, quarantined in a county by a city or general health district, has a legal settlement in a municipal corporation or township within the same county but other than that in which quarantined, or has a legal settlement in another county of the state, and such person is unable to pay the expenses of the service provided under section 3707.14 of the Revised Code, the city or general health district rendering such service shall notify in writing the proper officials of the municipal corporation or township of legal settlement or the board of county commissioners of the county of legal settlement if such legal settlement is in another county that such services are being rendered. Such notice shall be sent within three days if the fact of nonresidence is disclosed upon the beginning of such service or admission to a hospital or other institution of quarantine, or within three days after the discovery of such fact if it is not so disclosed. Within twenty days after the discharge of such quarantined person, the health commissioner of the city or general health district shall send a notice of such discharge and a sworn statement of the expenses, either actual or at the established rate of the hospital or other institution of quarantine, to the proper officials of the municipal corporation or township of legal settlement or the board of county commissioners of the county of legal settlement if such legal settlement is in another county. Thereupon the municipal corporation or township of legal settlement or county of legal settlement if such legal settlement is in another county shall be liable to the city or general health district rendering such service, and shall pay for it within thirty days after date of the sworn statement of expenses. If the notice of the rendering of such service, required to be sent by the health commissioner, is not sent within three days after the disclosure by the person quarantined or the discovery of such nonresidence, the municipal corporation or township of legal settlement or the county of legal settlement if such legal settlement is in another county shall be liable only after the receipt of such notice.
This section does not prevent the removal of such quarantined person by the municipal corporation, township, or county of legal settlement, at its expense, but such removal shall not relieve the municipal corporation, township, or county of legal settlement for the expenses previously incurred by the city or general health district in which such person has been quarantined. Any such person who does not, upon discharge, pay the expenses of such quarantine shall be deemed indigent insofar as the city or general health district is concerned. The municipal corporation, township, or county of legal settlement is hereby subrogated to all the rights of the city or general health district in which such service was rendered.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.18 | Expense of Quarantining County Public Institution.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The expenses for quarantining a county home or other county public institution shall be paid by the county when properly certified by the president and clerk of the board of health, or health commissioner where there is no board, of the city or general health district in which such institution is located.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.19 | Disposal of Body of Person Who Died of Communicable Disease.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The body of a person who has died of a communicable disease declared by the department of health to require immediate disposal for the protection of others shall be buried or cremated within twenty-four hours after death. No public or church funeral shall be held in connection with the burial of such person, and the body shall not be taken into any church, chapel, or other public place. Only adult members of the immediate family of the deceased and such other persons as are actually necessary may be present at the burial or cremation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.20 | Admission of Person Suffering From a Contagious or Infectious Disease to Certain Institutions.

Effective:
April 6, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly
No person, who has a contagious or infectious disease, or who has been exposed to a contagious or infectious disease, may be sent or admitted to a prison; jail; workhouse; infirmary; children's home; state hospital or institution for persons who are blind, persons with mental illnesses, or persons with intellectual disabilities; school for the blind or deaf; or other state or county benevolent institution without first making known the facts concerning the illness or exposure to the superintendent or other person in charge thereof. When a dangerous, contagious, or infectious disease is in a jail or prison and a prisoner in the jail or prison exposed to the disease is sentenced to a state correctional institution, the prisoner shall be confined and isolated in the jail or prison or other proper place, upon the order of the proper court, for any time that is necessary to establish the fact that the prisoner has not contracted the disease.
Last updated March 10, 2023 at 12:17 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.21 | Disease in Public Institution - Temporary Building.

Effective:
October 6, 1994
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 571 - 120th General Assembly
When cholera, yellow fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever, or other dangerous, contagious, or infectious disease appears in any state, county, or municipal benevolent or correctional institution, the superintendent or manager of the institution shall at once isolate the persons so affected and enforce sections 3707.01 to 3707.53 of the Revised Code, for the prevention of contagious diseases, and the rules and orders of the department of health to that effect.
The trustees or managers of any benevolent or correctional institution may erect any necessary temporary building for the reception of the affected persons or for the detention of persons exposed to the listed diseases and may remove the persons to, and confine them in, the building.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.22 | Removal of Affected or Exposed Persons From Public Institution to Hospital.

Effective:
April 6, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly
The trustees or managers of any institution mentioned in section 3707.21 of the Revised Code may contract for the care, treatment, or detention of any persons affected with or exposed to any disease mentioned in such section with any corporation having a hospital or other proper place for the isolation or care of persons having or exposed to contagious disease, and may remove such persons to such hospital or place. In the case of persons detained in an institution as punishment for a crime, an order for such removal shall be obtained from the court which imposed the punishment. In an order for such removal, the court may require such provisions to be made for safely guarding the prisoner while in such hospital or place as it deems necessary.
Last updated March 10, 2023 at 12:18 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.23 | Examination of Common Carriers by Board During Quarantine.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When a quarantine is declared, all railroads, steamboats, or other common carriers, and the owners, consignees, or assignees of any railroad, steamboat, or other vehicle used for the transportation of passengers, baggage, or freight, shall submit to any rules or regulations imposed and any examination required by a board of health of a city or general health district or health commissioner. They shall submit to any examination required by the health authorities respecting any circumstances or event touching the health of the crew, operatives, or passengers and the sanitary condition of the baggage and freight.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.24 | Prohibition Against Unfounded Statements in Examination.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No owner, consignee, assignee, or other person interested in any manner set forth in section 3707.23 of the Revised Code shall make an unfounded statement or declaration respecting the points under the examination provided by such section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.25 | Application of Quarantine Rules to Persons and Goods on Vehicles of Transportation.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Rules and regulations passed by a board of health of a city or general health district or health commissioner shall apply to all persons, goods, or effects arriving by railroad, steamboat, or other vehicle of transportation, after quarantine is declared.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.26 | Board Shall Inspect Schools and May Close Them.

Effective:
June 23, 2021
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 22 - 134th General Assembly
Semiannually, and more often, if in its judgment necessary, the board of health of a city or general health district shall inspect the sanitary condition of all schools and school buildings within its jurisdiction, and may disinfect any school building. When a dangerous communicable disease is unusually prevalent and verified positive cases of the disease have been documented in a specific school building, the board may close that specific school building for such time as is necessary to disinfect the building or otherwise bring that specific school building into sanitary condition.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.27 | Board May Offer Vaccination Free or at Reasonable Charge - Fee Payable to State.

Effective:
November 15, 1981
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 694 - 114th General Assembly
The board of health of a city or general health district may take measures, supply agents, and afford inducements and facilities for gratuitous vaccination, or may make reasonable charges for such vaccination. Where a city or general health district provides vaccinations using a vaccine provided by the Ohio department of health, the city or general health district shall pay fifty cents for each such vaccination which shall be payable to the treasurer of state and shall be credited to the general revenue fund.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.28 | Expenses of Board - Levy.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When expenses are incurred by a board of health under sections 3707.01 to 3707.53, inclusive, of the Revised Code, upon application and certificate from such board, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation shall pass the necessary appropriation ordinances to pay such expenses. The legislative authority may levy and set apart the necessary sum to pay such expenses and to carry such sections into effect.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.29 | Construction of Hospital for Contagious Disease - Bond Issue.

Effective:
April 6, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly
The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may purchase land within or without its boundaries and erect thereon suitable hospital buildings for the isolation, care, or treatment of persons having dangerous contagious disease, and provide for the maintenance thereof. The plans and specifications for such buildings shall be approved by the board of health of the city or general health district in which such hospital is to be located.
The legislative authority may issue bonds and apply the proceeds thereof to such construction if, at an election held for that purpose, two-thirds of the votes cast are in favor thereof. Such bonds may not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, with a rate or rates of interest not to exceed the rate provided in section 9.95 of the Revised Code, and the principal shall be paid within ten years. After the erection of such buildings, the legislative authority each year may make such appropriations for their care, use, and maintenance as are necessary.
Last updated March 10, 2023 at 12:19 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.30 | Care and Control of Hospital - Removal of Persons to Hospital.

Effective:
April 6, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly
Hospital buildings constructed under section 3707.29 of the Revised Code shall be under the care and control of the board of health of the city or general health district in which such buildings are located. The board shall appoint all employees or other persons necessary to the use, care, and maintenance thereof, and shall regulate the entrance of patients thereto and their care and treatment.
When a person having a dangerous contagious disease is found in a hotel, lodginghouse, boardinghouse, tenement house, or other public place in the municipal corporation, the board, if it deems it necessary for the protection of the public health, may remove such person to such hospital, where all needful provisions shall be made for the person's care and treatment. If such person is able, the expense so incurred shall be paid by the person.
Last updated March 10, 2023 at 12:19 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.31 | Establishment of Quarantine Hospital.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
A municipal corporation may establish a quarantine hospital within or without its limits. If without its limits, the consent of the municipal corporation or township within which it is proposed to establish such hospital shall first be obtained, but such consent shall not be necessary if the hospital is more than eight hundred feet from any occupied house or public highway. When great emergency exists, the board of health of a city or general health district may seize, occupy, and temporarily use for a quarantine hospital a suitable vacant house or building within its jurisdiction. The board of a district within which is located a municipal corporation having a quarantine hospital shall have exclusive control of such hospital.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.32 | Erection of Temporary Buildings by Board - Destruction of Property.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The board of health of a city or general health district may erect temporary wooden buildings or field hospitals necessary for the isolation or protection of persons or freight supposed to be infected, and may employ nurses, physicians, and laborers sufficient to operate them, and sufficient police to guard them. Such board may cause the disinfection, renovation, or destruction of bedding, clothing, or other property belonging to corporations or individuals when such action is deemed necessary by the board or a reasonable precaution against the spread of contagious or infectious diseases.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.34 | Quarantine and Isolation Policies.

Effective:
February 12, 2004
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 6 - 125th General Assembly
(A) The health commissioner appointed by a board of health of a general or city health district may act on behalf of the board in administering the provision of sections 3707.04 to 3707.32 of the Revised Code regarding quarantine and isolation if the commissioner acts pursuant to a policy the board adopts as described in division (B) of this section and either of the following applies:
(1) Circumstances render a meeting of the board impractical or impossible.
(2) Delaying action until a meeting of the board compromises the public health.
(B) Each board of health shall adopt a policy, subject to the approval of the district advisory council or city council for city health districts not governed by an advisory council, specifying the actions that a health commissioner may take pursuant to this section. Any action a health commissioner takes in accordance with the board's policy is deemed an action taken by the board unless the board votes to nullify the commissioner's action.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.38 | Appointment, Authority of Inspectors.

Effective:
April 15, 2005
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 202 - 125th General Assembly
The board of health of a city or general health district may appoint, define the duties of, and fix the compensation of the number of inspectors of shops, wagons, appliances, and food, and the number of other persons necessary to carry out this chapter and Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code and, if applicable, to carry out any duties assumed by the board under an agreement entered into under division (A)(2) of section 917.02 of the Revised Code. Inspectors for those purposes may enter any house, vehicle, or yard. The board may authorize the health commissioner to perform the duties of the inspectors.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.39 | Employment of Scavengers - Approval for Constructing, Enlarging, or Modifying Solid Waste Facility.

Effective:
April 16, 1993
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 723 - 119th General Assembly
The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may empower the board of health of the city or general health district of which the municipal corporation is a part to employ such number of scavengers for the removal of swill, garbage, and offal from the houses, buildings, yards, and lots within the municipal corporation as are necessary. In such case, the board may make contracts therefor, subject to the approval of the legislative authority and signed by the proper officers thereof, and may regulate the work to be done. Upon the request of the board, the legislative authority shall lease or purchase suitable lands, the location of which shall be approved by the board, to be used as a solid waste facility as defined in section 3734.01 of the Revised Code for such swill, garbage, and offal and other noxious substances removed from the municipal corporation.
When so required by rules adopted under division (G)(2) of section 343.01 of the Revised Code, the municipal corporation, before constructing, enlarging, or modifying such a facility, shall obtain approval for the facility from the board of county commissioners of the county or board of directors of the joint solid waste management district, or board of trustees of a regional solid waste management authority if such has been formed under section 343.011 of the Revised Code, having jurisdiction for compliance with the initial or amended solid waste management plan of the district approved under section 3734.521, 3734.55, or 3734.56 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.40 | Sanitary Plant Defined.

Effective:
June 24, 1988
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 592 - 117th General Assembly
As used in sections 3707.40 to 3707.46 of the Revised Code, "sanitary plant" means a structure with necessary land, fixtures, appliances, and appurtenances required for the treatment, purification, transfer, and disposal in a sanitary manner of the sewage, solid wastes as defined in section 3734.01 of the Revised Code, or any other liquid or solid wastes of a municipal corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals › Chapter 3707 | Board of Health › Section 3707.41 | Municipal Corporation May Obtain Plans and Real Estate for Sanitary Plant.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Upon the recommendation of the board of health of the city or general health district in which a municipal corporation is located, or, if the powers of such board have been vested in any other officer or board, upon the recommendation of such officer or board, the legislative authority of such municipal corporation may cause plans and estimates to be prepared and acquire by condemnation or otherwise such lands within or without the municipal corporation as are necessary to provide for the proper disposal in a sanitary manner of the sewage, garbage, and waste matters of the municipal corporation.