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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.10 | Terms of Contracts.

Effective:
April 27, 2005
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 222 - 125th General Assembly
All contracts for the erection of a hospital building shall be made in the name of the municipal corporation or the board of hospital commissioners, and it shall be stipulated therein that the contractor will not execute any extra work, or make any modifications or alterations mentioned in the specifications and plans, unless ordered in writing by the board of hospital commissioners, that the contractor will not claim any pay therefor unless such written order is given, and the additional compensation fixed and agreed upon. Copies of the plans and drawings, attested by the contractor, and the original bids, specifications, and contracts shall be deposited in the office of the clerk of the municipal corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.11 | Advertise for Proposals.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The board of hospital commissioners shall not enter into any contract for work or materials for the erection of a hospital building, except as relates to procuring plans, drawings, specifications, and forms of bids, without first giving thirty days' notice in one or more newspapers of general circulation in the municipal corporation that sealed proposals will be received for doing the work or furnishing the materials.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.12 | Bids to Be Accompanied by Bid Guaranty.

Effective:
August 1, 1980
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 157 - 113th General Assembly
Each bid for work and materials for the erection of a hospital building shall meet the requirements of section 153.54 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.13 | Bids to Be Sealed and Indorsed.

Effective:
September 1, 1976
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 338 - 111th General Assembly
Each bid for work and materials for the erection of a hospital building shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope and deposited with the clerk of the board of hospital commissioners, and such envelopes shall have indorsed thereon the nature of the bid. All bids shall be opened at the time, date, and place specified in the notice to bidders or specifications. The time, date, and place of bid openings may be extended to a later date by the board of hospital commissioners, provided that written or oral notice of the change shall be given to all persons who have received or requested specifications no later than ninety-six hours prior to the original time and date fixed for the opening.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.14 | Contract With Lowest Bidder.

Effective:
November 15, 1991
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 233 - 119th General Assembly
The board of hospital commissioners shall enter into a contract for work or materials for the erection of a hospital building with the lowest responsible bidder. The board may reject any bid.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.16 | Legislative Authority May Accept Participation by District or County for Construction of Hospital.

Effective:
November 15, 1991
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 233 - 119th General Assembly
The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, under agreement with a joint township hospital district board, or with the board of county commissioners, accept participation by such district or county in the erection or enlargement of a municipal hospital, or in the maintenance and operation of such a hospital, or both. Such agreement may provide for the amounts to be contributed by such district or county, as the case may be, for the construction and enlargement of such hospital, for its maintenance and operation, the rights and privileges to be enjoyed by the district and its inhabitants, or by the county and its inhabitants, by virtue of such contributions, and its rights of representation upon the municipal corporation's board of hospital commissioners or board of governors.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.161 | Participation in Joint Township Hospital District.

Effective:
September 24, 1971
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 343 - 109th General Assembly
The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, in the manner provided in section 513.071 of the Revised Code, cause such municipal corporation to participate in the formation of, or become a part of, a joint township hospital district, obtain representation on the joint township district hospital board thereof, and as a township be or become bound by all agreements entered into by such joint township hospital district pursuant to sections 513.07 to 513.18, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and the taxable property in such municipal corporation shall thereupon be or become subject to all tax levies, including tax levies for bonds, imposed by the joint township hospital district.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.17 | Enlarged Board of Hospital Commissioners.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
If an agreement under section 749.16 of the Revised Code becomes operative, the municipal corporation may enlarge its board of hospital commissioners, established under sections 749.04 and 749.05 of the Revised Code, so as to admit to membership thereon such representatives of the participating joint township hospital district, or such representatives of the county, as provided for in such agreement, and the board shall thereupon proceed under and be governed by sections 749.06 to 749.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, subject to such additional restrictions upon its authority and procedure as are imposed by the agreement.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.19 | Hospital Membership in Public Health and Welfare Associations.

Effective:
November 4, 1965
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 340 - 106th General Assembly
The governing body of any publicly owned hospital may authorize such hospital to be a member of and maintain membership in any local, state, or national group or association organized and operated for the promotion of the public health and welfare or advancement of the efficiency of hospital administration and in connection therewith to use tax funds for the payment of dues and fees not to exceed, in the aggregate, the sum of five thousand dollars in any one year.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.20 | Property Donated for Hospital Purposes.

Effective:
November 15, 1991
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 233 - 119th General Assembly
In any municipal corporation which is the owner or trustee of property for hospital purposes, or of funds to be used in connection therewith, by deed of gift, devise, or bequest, such property or funds shall be managed and administered in accordance with the provisions of such deed of gift, devise, or bequest.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.21 | Board of Hospital Trustees for Donated Property.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When the deed of gift, devise, or bequest mentioned in section 749.20 of the Revised Code requires the investment, or the change of investment, of the principal of such property or funds, or any part thereof, to be made upon the approval of an advisory committee appointed by the court, such property or funds, and any hospital property for the care or management of which, in whole or in part, such fund is used, shall be managed, controlled, and administered by a board of hospital trustees.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.22 | Appointment of Trustees - Compensation - Term - Vacancy - Oath - Bond.

Effective:
March 20, 2019
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 291 - 132nd General Assembly
The board of hospital trustees provided by section 749.21 of the Revised Code shall consist of eight resident electors of the municipal corporation, who shall be appointed by the board of trustees of the sinking fund, or, in the event that the board of trustees of a sinking fund ceases to function within such municipal corporation by operation of law, they shall be appointed by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation. Each member of such board shall serve without compensation for the term of four years. When the terms of members presently holding office expire, of those first appointed thereafter, one shall be appointed for a term of one year, one for a term of two years, one for a term of three years, and one for a term of four years. The remaining appointments shall be one for one year, one for two years, one for three years, and one for four years, and thereafter their successors shall be appointed two each year to serve for the term of four years, but not more than four shall be of the same political party. Vacancy in the board by death, resignation, or otherwise shall be filled in like manner for the remainder of the term.
The members of the board of hospital trustees, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, shall take the oath of office prescribed by section 733.68 of the Revised Code, and, except as otherwise provided in the municipal charter or in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, shall give bond in the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, conditioned according to section 733.71 of the Revised Code and to the approval of the mayor and the legislative authority of the municipal corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.23 | Meetings of Board - Rules and Regulations - Quorum - Clerk.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The board of hospital trustees shall hold meetings at least once a month, and shall adopt all necessary rules for the regulation of its business. It shall keep a complete record of all its proceedings, which record, or copy thereof, certified by the clerk of the board, shall be competent evidence of the transactions of the board in all the courts of this state, and the ayes and nays shall be called upon the passage of every resolution or order. Five members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business, and no resolution or order shall be adopted or contract or other obligation entered into unless five members vote in favor thereof.
No member of the board shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract concerning any hospital under the control of such board.
The municipal auditor or clerk shall act as the clerk of such board, and shall receive no additional salary or compensation for such services.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.24 | Powers and Duties of Board of Hospital Trustees.

Effective:
April 27, 2005
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 222 - 125th General Assembly
The board of hospital trustees shall, subject to any ordinance of the municipal corporation, have the entire management and control of the property or funds mentioned in section 749.20 of the Revised Code, and shall establish such rules for the government thereof as it deems expedient. Such board shall also have the entire control of the expenditure of all moneys therefrom and they shall be disbursed by the treasurer of the municipal corporation only upon the warrant of the municipal auditor or clerk, drawn in accordance with the order of such board.
The board may apply, control, invest, and reinvest the funds coming or arising from any gift, devise, or bequest according to the terms on which it was acquired.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.25 | Rules for Management and Control of Property.

Effective:
November 15, 1991
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 233 - 119th General Assembly
The board of hospital trustees shall have the entire management and control of the erection, rebuilding, and repair of all buildings, and the entire management and control of all grounds acquired pursuant to section 749.20 of the Revised Code, and shall adopt rules for the protection, care, and government thereof. Such rules, when approved by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, shall have the same effect and may be enforced by the same penalties as ordinances thereof.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.26 | Procedure Before Entering Into Contracts.

Effective:
September 28, 2012
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 509 - 129th General Assembly
The board of hospital trustees, before entering into any contract for the erection of a hospital building, or for the rebuilding or repair of a hospital building, the cost of which exceeds fifty thousand dollars, shall have plans, specifications, detailed drawings, and forms of bids prepared, and when adopted by the board it shall have them printed for distribution among the bidders.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.27 | Making of Contracts.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
All contracts mentioned in section 749.26 of the Revised Code shall be made in the name of the board of hospital trustees, and it shall be stipulated therein that the contractors will not execute any extra work or make any modifications or alterations in the specifications and plans, unless ordered in writing by the board, that they will not claim pay therefor unless such written order is given, and the additional compensation fixed and agreed upon. Copies of the plans and drawings, attested by the contractor, and the original bids, specifications, and contracts shall be deposited in the office of the clerk of the municipal corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.28 | Notice for Bids.

Effective:
September 28, 2012
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 509 - 129th General Assembly
The board of hospital trustees shall not enter into a contract for work or supplies where the estimated cost exceeds fifty thousand dollars, without first giving thirty days' notice in one newspaper of general circulation in the municipal corporation that sealed proposals will be received for doing the work or furnishing the materials and supplies.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.29 | Bond Shall Accompany Each Bid.

Effective:
August 1, 1980
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 157 - 113th General Assembly
Each bid submitted under section 749.28 of the Revised Code for a contract for the construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction of an improvement shall meet the requirements of section 153.54 of the Revised Code. Each bid submitted under section 749.28 of the Revised Code for any other contract shall be accompanied with a bond, signed by sufficient sureties, for the acceptance of the contract if awarded by the board of hospital trustees, to fully secure any difference between the amount of such bid and the next higher bid; such amount shall be collected by the board and paid into the hospital fund in case of the refusal by the bidder to enter into a contract according to his bid within such reasonable time as the board determines.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.30 | Bids Shall Be Sealed.

Effective:
September 1, 1976
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 338 - 111th General Assembly
Each bid submitted under section 749.28 of the Revised Code shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope and deposited with the clerk of the board of hospital trustees, and such envelope shall have indorsed thereon the nature of the bid. All bids shall be opened at the time, date, and place specified in the notice to bidders or specifications. The time, date, and place of bid openings may be extended to a later date by the board of hospital trustees, provided that written or oral notice of the change shall be given to all persons who have received or requested specifications no later than ninety-six hours prior to the original time and date fixed for the opening.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.31 | Contract to Lowest and Best Bidder - Exception.

Effective:
September 28, 2012
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 509 - 129th General Assembly
Except where the contract is for equipment, services, materials, or supplies available from a qualified nonprofit agency pursuant to sections 4115.31 to 4115.35 of the Revised Code, the board of hospital trustees shall enter into a contract for work or supplies where the estimated cost exceeds fifty thousand dollars with the lowest and best bidder. Where the contract is for other than the construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction of an improvement, the board shall enter into the contract when the bidder gives bond to the board, with such security as the board approves, that the bidder will perform the work and furnish materials or supplies in accordance with the contract. On the failure of such bidder within a reasonable time, to be fixed by the board, to enter into bond with such security, a contract may be made with the next lowest and best bidder, and so on until a contract is effected by a contractor giving such bond. The board may reject any bid.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.33 | Employment of Superintendents, Physicians, and Employees.

Effective:
April 27, 2005
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 222 - 125th General Assembly
The board of hospital trustees may employ such employees as are necessary for the execution of its duties and fix their compensation. Any of such persons may be removed by the board at any time. The board may provide to its employees such of the benefits, awards, and staff development programs listed in section 749.082 of the Revised Code as the board determines to be customary and usual in the nonprofit hospital field in its community.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.34 | Report to Legislative Authority.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
On the first Monday in January of each year, the board of hospital trustees shall make a report to the legislative authority of the municipal corporation of its proceedings, with a detailed statement of its receipts and expenditures during the year. The board shall also, at the proper time, submit to the legislative authority a detailed estimate of the amount necessary to maintain and improve such hospital for the ensuing year.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.35 | Leasing General Municipal Hospital.

Effective:
November 15, 1991
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 233 - 119th General Assembly
In lieu of sections 749.04 to 749.34 of the Revised Code regarding any general hospital owned by a municipal corporation, or any general hospital in which a joint township hospital district board or a board of county commissioners is participating with a municipal corporation under section 513.08 or 749.16 of the Revised Code, the council of such municipal corporation may, upon such terms as are agreed between the council and a constituted and empowered nonsectarian Ohio corporation, organized for charitable purposes and not for profit, a majority of whose members reside in the county in which said municipal corporation is located, lease for use as a general hospital, the lands, buildings, and equipment of any such general hospital; provided, that if a joint township hospital district board or a board of county commissioners is participating with a municipal corporation under section 513.08 or 749.16 of the Revised Code, the joint township hospital district board or the board of county commissioners must approve said lease and if said lease is being renewed, the joint township hospital district board or the board of county commissioners must approve said renewal.
Such lease may be from year to year or may provide for a term of not more than thirty years and may provide that such council has the option to renew such lease, but subject to the approval by such board of such renewal where so participating with a municipal corporation, at the expiration thereof for a further term of not more than thirty years upon such terms as are provided for in such lease. In the event that said nonprofit corporation fails to faithfully and efficiently administer, maintain, and operate such hospital as a public general hospital, admitting patients without regard to race, creed, or color, then, after an opportunity is given to be heard upon written charges, said agreement may be terminated and the control and management of said hospital, together with all additions, improvements, and equipment, shall revert to and become the property of the municipal corporation or municipal corporation and joint township hospital district board, or municipal corporation and board of county commissioners, to be operated as provided by law.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.36 | Chapter 140 Provisions Are Alternatives.

Effective:
September 24, 1971
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 343 - 109th General Assembly
Sections 140.03 and 140.05 of the Revised Code are alternatives to sections 749.01 to 749.18, inclusive, 749.21 to 749.31, inclusive, and 749.33 to 749.35, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Those sections of Chapter 749. of the Revised Code shall not be applicable with respect to hospital facilities and services provided for under leases and agreements entered into pursuant to section 140.03 or 140.05 of the Revised Code, except to the extent made applicable by section 140.03 or 140.05 of the Revised Code and the leases and agreements made thereunder.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 749 | Hospitals › Section 749.37 | Contracts Not Subject to Competitive Bidding.

Effective:
October 13, 2020
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 4 - 133rd General Assembly
Notwithstanding any conflicting provision of sections 749.09 to 749.14 and 749.26 to 749.31 of the Revised Code, Chapter 153. of the Revised Code, or any other competitive bidding requirement specified in the Revised Code that requires a public authority to enter into separate contracts for the design and construction of a public improvement.
(A) A board of hospital commissioners or a board of hospital trustees may enter into a single contract under which the entity awarded the contract is responsible for providing both design and construction services related to the erection of a hospital, any addition to the hospital, or any other improvement to the hospital or its properties involving alteration, repair, replacement, renovation, installation, or demolition.
(B) During the period of the emergency declared by Executive Order 2020-01D, issued on March 9, 2020, a board of hospital commissioners or a board of hospital trustees may purchase personal protective equipment necessary to respond to the emergency without following competitive bidding procedures. As used in this section, "personal protective equipment" means equipment worn to minimize exposure to hazards that cause workplace injuries and illnesses.
This section does not otherwise alter the competitive bidding requirements that apply to the board when entering into a contract for a public improvement.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 751 | Care of Indigents and Orphans › Section 751.01 | Compensation for Housing of Indigents - Housing Certificates.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The legislative authority of any municipal corporation may authorize the fiscal officer of such municipal corporation to enter into agreements with the owners of premises in such municipal corporation occupied by one or more indigent persons upon the relief rolls of the municipal corporation, providing for compensation for the housing of such indigents through the issuance, in the manner provided by section 751.02 to 751.04, inclusive, of the Revised Code, of monthly housing certificates applicable to the payment of real estate taxes.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 751 | Care of Indigents and Orphans › Section 751.02 | Monthly Rental Agreement - Supplemental Certificate.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The fiscal officer of a municipal corporation, to the extent that the monthly rental agreed upon between him and the owner of the premises occupied by indigent persons does not exceed one twelfth of the real estate taxes, exclusive of special assessments, standing charged on the current duplicate against such parcel for the year in which such rental accrues, may, monthly, issue a housing certificate to such owner for an amount not exceeding one twelfth of such taxes. Such certificate shall be nontransferable and shall be applicable to the payment of real estate taxes, exclusive of special assessments, only upon the premises occupied by indigent persons pursuant to such agreement.
To the extent that the monthly rental agreed upon between such fiscal officer and the owner of the premises exceeds the amount of the nontransferable housing certificate, such fiscal officer may issue a supplemental housing certificate monthly in an amount representing the difference between the agreed rental and the nontransferable housing certificate.
Such supplemental housing certificate shall be transferable and shall be applicable to the payment of real estate taxes, exclusive of special assessments, upon premises located within such municipal corporation.
No certificate issued under sections 751.01 to 751.04, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be receivable in payment of any special assessments.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 751 | Care of Indigents and Orphans › Section 751.03 | County Treasurer to Receive Certificate in Payment of Taxes - Disposition of Canceled and Supplemental Certificates.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The county treasurer shall, upon submission of a housing certificate or a supplementary housing certificate, issued under sections 751.01 to 751.04, inclusive, of the Revised Code, accept such certificate in full or partial payment as provided by such sections, of real estate taxes levied upon premises located within the municipal corporation issuing such certificates. The county treasurer shall distribute the canceled receipted housing certificates and supplemental housing certificates to the subdivision issuing them in the same manner as cash.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 751 | Care of Indigents and Orphans › Section 751.04 | Legislative Authority to Make Provision for Housing Certificates in Tax Budget.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Each housing certificate and supplemental housing certificate furnished as provided in sections 751.01 to 751.04, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be dated and shall be used for the payment of taxes on the duplicate for the year in which such certificates are issued and subsequent duplicates commencing with the 1938 duplicate. The legislative authority of a municipal corporation issuing housing certificates under such sections shall include within the tax budget each year provision for the obligations incurred and to be incurred by the issuance of such certificates and shall make due provision in the annual appropriation ordinance for such purposes.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 751 | Care of Indigents and Orphans › Section 751.05 | Municipal Infirmaries - Management and Control.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The management of the affairs of city infirmaries and the care of the inmates thereof, the erection and enlargement of infirmary buildings and additions thereto, the repair and furnishing thereof, the improvement of the grounds there with connected, and the granting of outdoor relief to the poor, shall be vested in the director of public safety.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 751 | Care of Indigents and Orphans › Section 751.06 | Location of Infirmary or Pesthouse.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The infirmary or the pesthouse of a city may be located either inside or outside of the city limits, and the legislative authority may purchase and hold the necessary real estate on which to build it.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 751 | Care of Indigents and Orphans › Section 751.07 | Regulations Applicable to Hospitals Shall Govern.

Effective:
April 27, 2005
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 222 - 125th General Assembly
In the management of a city infirmary, in the care and treatment of the inmates thereof, and in the erection, enlargement, or repair of any building for infirmary purposes, or of any addition thereto, the director of public safety shall have the same powers, be governed by the same regulations, and perform the same duties, as far as applicable, as are vested in a board of hospital commissioners established under section 749.04 of the Revised Code in relation to municipal hospitals. The power of the legislative authority in relation thereto shall be the same, so far as applicable, as provided to the legislative authority by sections 749.01 to 749.34 of the Revised Code, in relation to hospitals.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 751 | Care of Indigents and Orphans › Section 751.08 | Care of Inmates - Separation of Sexes.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The director of public safety shall see that the inmates of a city infirmary are comfortably provided for and kindly treated, and he may provide for the care and support of the males and females in separate buildings, or in separate departments of the same building.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 751 | Care of Indigents and Orphans › Section 751.09 | Appointment of Overseers of the Poor.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The legislative authority of the city shall provide by ordinance for the appointment by the director of public safety of such number of persons as is deemed necessary, not to exceed one in each ward, to act as overseers of the poor. The director shall prescribe the duties of such overseers as to the care of the poor and their removal, when necessary, to the infirmary, but such persons shall receive no compensation for their services.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 751 | Care of Indigents and Orphans › Section 751.10 | Duties in Case of Partial Relief.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Upon complaint being made or information given to the director of public safety that a person residing in the city requires public assistance or support, the director shall inquire into the condition and necessities of such person, and if satisfied that relief ought to be granted at public expense, and that the person requires temporary or partial relief only, and that for any cause it would not be prudent to remove him to the city infirmary, the director may afford relief, at the expense of the city, without such removal. The director has the same power of removing paupers settled in some other county in this state which is conferred on the board of county commissioners.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 751 | Care of Indigents and Orphans › Section 751.11 | Duties of Director of Public Safety in Case of No Legal Settlement.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When an infirmary is erected and established in a city for the accommodation of its poor, the director of public safety shall not require the board of county commissioners to receive and provide for persons having no legal settlement within this state, or whose place of residence is unknown, or charge the board with the expense of providing for such persons in the city infirmary. Such director shall furnish relief and support to such persons in the city infirmary, applying therefor, the same as the board is required to do, and shall have the same power as the board to remove such persons to such other city infirmary or county home where the pauper's legal settlement is.
This section applies only to counties in which there is a county home and a city infirmary.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 753 | Reformatory Institutions › Section 753.021 | Submitting Health Insurance Claims for Prison Inmates.

Effective:
October 16, 1996
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 163 - 121st General Assembly
(A) For each person who is confined in a prison or station house as provided in section 753.02 of the Revised Code or in a county jail as provided in section 1905.35 of the Revised Code, the municipal corporation may make a determination as to whether the person is covered under a health insurance or health care policy, contract, or plan and, if the person has such coverage, what terms and conditions are imposed by it for the filing and payment of claims.
(B) If, pursuant to division (A) of this section, it is determined that the person is covered under a policy, contract, or plan and, while that coverage is in force, the prison, station house, or county jail renders or arranges for the rendering of health care services to the person, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the policy, contract, or plan, then the person, municipal corporation, or provider of the health care services, as appropriate under the terms and conditions of the policy, contract, or plan, shall promptly submit a claim for payment for the health care services to the appropriate third-party payer and shall designate, or make any other arrangement necessary to ensure, that payment of any amount due on the claim be made to the municipal corporation or the provider, as the case may be.
(C) Any payment made to the municipal corporation pursuant to division (B) of this section shall be paid into the treasury of the municipal corporation.
(D) This section also applies to any person who is under the custody of a law enforcement officer, as defined in section 2901.01 of the Revised Code, prior to the person's confinement in the prison, station house, or county jail.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 753 | Reformatory Institutions › Section 753.03 | Disposition of Prisoners Sentenced for Misdemeanors.

Effective:
September 29, 1995
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 117 - 121st General Assembly
A municipal legislative authority may, by ordinance, provide for the keeping of persons convicted and sentenced for misdemeanors, during the term of their imprisonment, at such place as the legislative authority determines, provided that the place selected is in substantial compliance with the minimum standards for jails in Ohio promulgated by the department of rehabilitation and correction. The legislative authority may enter into a contract under section 9.06 of the Revised Code for the private operation and management of any municipal correctional facility, but only if the facility is used to house only misdemeanant inmates.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 753 | Reformatory Institutions › Section 753.04 | Commitment to Workhouse.

Effective:
January 1, 2004
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 490 - 124th General Assembly
(A) When a person over sixteen years of age is convicted of an offense under the law of this state or an ordinance of a municipal corporation, and the tribunal before which the conviction is had is authorized by law to commit the offender to the county jail or municipal corporation prison, the court, mayor, or judge of the county court, as the case may be, may sentence the offender to a workhouse.
When a commitment is made from a municipal corporation or township in the county, other than in a municipal corporation having a workhouse, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or the board of township trustees shall transmit with the mittimus a sum of money equal to not less than seventy cents per day for the time of the commitment, to be placed in the hands of the superintendent of a workhouse for the care and maintenance of the prisoner.
(B) Pursuant to section 2929.37 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or the board of township trustees may require a person who is convicted of an offense and who is confined in a workhouse as provided in division (A) of this section, to reimburse the municipal corporation or the township, as the case may be, for its expenses incurred by reason of the person's confinement.
(C) Notwithstanding any contrary provision in this section or section 2929.18, 2929.28, or 2929.37 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or board of township trustees may establish a policy that complies with section 2929.38 of the Revised Code and that requires any person who is not indigent and who is confined in the workhouse under division (A) of this section to pay a reception fee, a fee for any medical treatment or service requested by and provided to that person, or the fee for a random drug test assessed under division (E) of section 753.33 of the Revised Code.
(D) If a person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to an offense is incarcerated in a workhouse or if a person who has been arrested for an offense, and who has not been denied bail or has had bail set and has not been released on bail is confined in a workhouse pending trial, at the time of reception and at other times the person in charge of the operation of the workhouse determines to be appropriate, the person in charge of the operation of the workhouse may cause the convicted or accused offender to be examined and tested for tuberculosis, HIV infection, hepatitis, including, but not limited to, hepatitis A, B, and C, and other contagious diseases. The person in charge of the operation of the workhouse may cause a convicted or accused offender in the workhouse who refuses to be tested or treated for tuberculosis, HIV infection, hepatitis, including, but not limited to, hepatitis A, B, and C, or another contagious disease to be tested and treated involuntarily.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 753 | Reformatory Institutions › Section 753.041 | Submitting Health Insurance Claims for Workhouse Inmates.

Effective:
October 16, 1996
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 163 - 121st General Assembly
(A) For each person who is confined in a workhouse as provided in section 753.04 of the Revised Code, the municipal corporation or the township, as the case may be, may make a determination as to whether the person is covered under a health insurance or health care policy, contract, or plan and, if the person has such coverage, what terms and conditions are imposed by it for the filing and payment of claims.
(B) If, pursuant to division (A) of this section, it is determined that the person is covered under a policy, contract, or plan and, while that coverage is in force, the workhouse renders or arranges for the rendering of health care services to the person in accordance with the terms and conditions of the policy, contract, or plan, then the person, municipal corporation, township, or provider of the health care services, as appropriate under the terms and conditions of the policy, contract, or plan, shall promptly submit a claim for payment for the health care services to the appropriate third-party payer and shall designate, or make any other arrangement necessary to ensure, that payment of any amount due on the claim be made to the municipal corporation, township, or provider, as the case may be.
(C) Any payment made to the municipal corporation or township pursuant to division (B) of this section shall be paid into the treasury of the governmental entity that incurred the expenses.
(D) This section also applies to any person who is under the custody of a law enforcement officer, as defined in section 2901.01 of the Revised Code, prior to the person's confinement in the workhouse.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 753 | Reformatory Institutions › Section 753.05 | Employment of Prisoners.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
A person sentenced under section 753.04 of the Revised Code shall be received into the workhouse, and shall be kept and confined at labor therein, or if such labor cannot be furnished he may be employed at labor elsewhere when such employment is authorized by ordinance, and shall be subject to the rules, regulations, and discipline thereof until the expiration of his sentence, when he shall be discharged.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 753 | Reformatory Institutions › Section 753.06 | Qualified Immunity for Injuries to Work Detail Prisoners.

Effective:
March 31, 2005
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 316 - 125th General Assembly
(A) As used in this section:
(1) "Municipal correctional facility" has the same meaning as in section 753.32 of the Revised Code.
(2) "Municipal correctional officer" has the same meaning as in section 753.31 of the Revised Code.
(B) If all the prisoners working on a work detail administered by a municipal correctional facility and outside the facility have volunteered for the work detail and are imprisoned in that facility for an offense other than a felony of the first or second degree and if the applicable municipal correctional officer complies with division (C) of this section, both of the following apply:
(1) No member of the organized police department of the municipal corporation and no municipal correctional officer is liable for civil damages for injury, death, or loss to person or property caused or suffered by a prisoner working on the work detail unless the injury, death, or loss results from malice or wanton or reckless misconduct of the member of the organized police department of the municipal corporation or the municipal correctional officer.
(2) A municipal corporation in which the prisoners work on the work detail and that employs the member of the organized police department or the municipal correctional officer or a township in which the prisoners work on the work detail is not liable for civil damages for injury, death, or loss to person or property caused or suffered by a prisoner working on the work detail unless the injury, death, or loss results from malice or wanton or reckless misconduct of the member of the organized police department of the municipal corporation or a municipal correctional officer.
(C) To qualify for the immunity described in division (B)(1) of this section regarding a work detail, a municipal correctional officer, prior to having the prisoners of the municipal correctional facility work outside the facility on the work detail, shall inform each prisoner on the work detail of the provisions of this section, including notifying the prisoner that, by volunteering for the work detail, the prisoner cannot hold any member of the organized police department of the municipal corporation or any municipal correctional officer or the municipal corporation or township liable for civil damages for injury, death, or loss to person or property unless the injury, death, or loss results from malice or wanton or reckless misconduct of the member of the organized police department of the municipal corporation or the municipal correctional officer.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 753 | Reformatory Institutions › Section 753.08 | Prompt Commitment - Fees.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The officer having the execution of the final sentence of a court, magistrate, or mayor shall cause the convicted person to be conveyed to the workhouse as soon as practicable after the sentence is pronounced, and all officers shall be paid the fees therefor allowed by law for similar services in other cases. Such fees shall be paid, when the sentence is by the court, from the county treasury, and when by the magistrate, from the township treasury.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 753 | Reformatory Institutions › Section 753.09 | Discharge.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The director of public safety may discharge, for good and sufficient cause, a person committed to the workhouse. A record of all such discharges shall be kept and reported to the legislative authority of the municipal corporation in the annual report of such director, with a brief statement of the reasons therefor.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 753 | Reformatory Institutions › Section 753.10 | Parole of Inmates.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The director of public safety may establish rules and regulations under which, and specify the conditions on which, a prisoner may be allowed to go upon parole outside of the buildings and enclosures of the workhouse. While on parole such person shall remain in the legal custody and under the control of such director, and subject at any time to be taken back within the enclosure of the institution. Full power to enforce the rules, regulations, and conditions, and to retake and reimprison any convict so paroled, is hereby conferred upon such director, whose written order shall be sufficient warrant for all officers named therein to authorize them to return to actual custody any conditionally released or paroled prisoner. All such officers shall execute such order the same as ordinary criminal process.
No parole shall be granted by such director without previous notice thereof to the trial judge.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 753 | Reformatory Institutions › Section 753.11 | Violation of Parole.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The director of public safety may employ or authorize any person to see that the conditions of a parole are not violated, and in case of violation to return to the workhouse any prisoner so violating his parole. The time between the violation of the conditions of such parole, or conditional release by whatever name, as entered by order of such director on the records of the workhouse, and the reimprisonment or return of the prisoner, shall not be counted as any part or portion of time served under his sentence.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 7 | Municipal Corporations › Chapter 753 | Reformatory Institutions › Section 753.13 | Joint Municipal and County Workhouse.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The board of county commissioners may unite with any municipal corporation located in the county in the acquisition or erection, management, and maintenance of a workhouse for the joint use of such county and municipal corporation, upon such terms as they may agree, and the board may levy and collect the necessary funds therefor from the taxable property of the county.