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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.127 | Collect and Maintaining Data From Individual Training Needs Assessment Forms.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
The executive director of each public children services agency or a person designated by the executive director shall collect and maintain the data from individual training needs assessments completed under sections 5153.125 and 5153.126 of the Revised Code for each PCSA caseworker and PCSA caseworker supervisor employed by the agency. The executive director or designated person shall compile and forward the data collected from the completed assessments to the regional training center established under section 5103.41 of the Revised Code for the training region the agency is located in.
Last updated September 19, 2023 at 4:12 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.13 | Bonds.

Effective:
April 12, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 444 - 133rd General Assembly
Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, before entering upon official duties, the executive director shall give a bond to the county in such sum as is fixed by the public children services agency, with sufficient surety, conditioned upon the faithful performance of official duties and the full and faithful accounting of all funds and properties of the agency or county coming into the executive director's hands. Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, before entering upon such duties, the executive director shall give a bond to the probate court, with sufficient surety, conditioned upon the full and faithful accounting of all trust funds which the executive director holds on behalf of wards. The amount of such bond shall be determined by the court and may be modified by the court, provided that the minimum amount of the bond shall be five thousand dollars.
The agency may require any other employee thereof, including the superintendent of the children's home, having custody or control of funds or property, to give bond to the county, except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, in such sum as the board determines, with sufficient surety, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of such employee and the full and faithful accounting of any funds and properties coming into the employee's hands. The cost of such bonds shall be paid by the agency.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.131 | Liability Insurance.

Effective:
October 5, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 448 - 123rd General Assembly
A public children services agency may procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring employees of the agency, volunteers, foster caregivers associated with the agency, and, if a county children services board is the public children services agency, board members against liability arising from the performance of their official duties.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.14 | Reports.

Effective:
July 1, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly
The executive director shall prepare and submit an annual report to the public children services agency at the end of each calendar year and shall file copies of such report with the department of job and family services, the board of county commissioners, and the juvenile court. The executive director shall submit the inspection reports required under section 5153.16 of the Revised Code and such other reports as are required by law, by the rules of the director of job and family services, or by the board of county commissioners to specified governmental bodies and officers and shall provide reports to the public, when so authorized.
Last updated October 2, 2023 at 11:19 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.15 | Vesting Powers in Single County Agency.

Effective:
July 1, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly
The powers and duties enumerated in sections 5153.16 to 5153.19 of the Revised Code, with respect to the care of children, needing or likely to need public care or services, shall be vested in a single agency of county government, namely, a county department of job and family services or a county children services board.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.161 | Place for Providing Care.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
(A) As used in this section, "qualified nonrelative" means a nonrelative adult whom a child or the current custodial caretaker of a child identifies as having a familiar and longstanding relationship or bond with the child or the child's family that will ensure the child's social and cultural ties.
(B) Care provided by the public children services agency under division (A)(5) of section 5153.16 of the Revised Code shall be provided by the agency, by its own means or through other available resources, in the child's own home, in the home of a relative or qualified nonrelative, or in a certified foster home, any other home approved by the court, receiving home, school, hospital, convalescent home, or other public or private institution within or outside the county or state.
Last updated October 6, 2023 at 11:46 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.162 | Operation, Acquisition, or Maintenance of Children's Home, Training School, or Other Institution for Care of Children.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
Pursuant to an agreement entered into under division (A)(10) of section 5153.16 of the Revised Code respecting the operation, acquisition, or maintenance of a children's home, training school, or other institution for the care of children maintained by a municipal corporation or other political subdivision, the public children services agency may acquire, operate, and maintain such an institution. The agency may enter into an agreement with a municipal corporation, a board of education, and the board of county commissioners, or with any one of them, to provide for the maintenance and operation of children's training schools. The agreement may provide for the contribution of funds by the municipal corporation, board of education, or board of county commissioners, in such proportions and amounts as the agreement states. The agreement also may provide for the operation and supervision of the training school by any one of them, or by the joint action of two or more of them, provided that municipal corporations, boards of education, and boards of county commissioners may expend moneys from their general funds for maintaining and operating the joint children's training school.
Last updated October 6, 2023 at 11:49 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.165 | Emergency Benefits and Services Necessary to Prevent Removal or Permit Return of Child to Home.

Effective:
September 5, 2001
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 94 - 124th General Assembly
If a family is encountering an emergency that could lead, or has led, to removal of a child from the family's home pursuant to Chapter 2151. of the Revised Code, the public children services agency shall determine whether the child could remain safely with, or be safely returned to, the family if the emergency were alleviated by providing benefits and services under the prevention, retention, and contingency program established under Chapter 5108. of the Revised Code. If it is determined that the child could remain safely with, or be safely returned to, the family, the agency, with the cooperation of the child's family, shall determine the amount of benefits and services necessary to prevent the removal of the child from the home or to permit the child's return to the home and may provide the benefits and services pursuant to a plan of cooperation entered into under section 307.983 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.166 | Additional Rules Governing Agency Performance of Duties.

Effective:
September 21, 2006
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 238 - 126th General Assembly
In addition to other rules specifically authorized by the Revised Code, the director of job and family services may adopt rules governing public children services agencies' performance of their family services duties, including the family services duties that public children services agencies have under sections 5153.16 to 5153.19 of the Revised Code.
Last updated September 29, 2023 at 2:22 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.17 | Maintenance of Records.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
(A) Each public children services agency shall prepare and keep written records of all of the following:
(1) Investigations of families, children, and foster homes;
(2) The care, training, and treatment afforded to children;
(3) Such other records as are required by the department of job and family services.
(B) Records under division (A) of this section shall be confidential, but, except as provided by division (B) of section 3107.17 of the Revised Code, shall be open to inspection by the following:
(1) The agency, the director of job and family services, and the director of the county department of job and family services, and by other persons upon the written permission of the executive director;
(2) Upon request to an agency and subject to division (C) of this section, an adult who was formerly placed in foster care.
(C)(1) With regard to an adult under division (B)(2) of this section, records subject to inspection include those pertaining to the adult's time placed in foster care. Records may include medical, mental health, school, and legal records and a comprehensive summary of reasons why the adult was placed in foster care.
(2) The executive director or the director's designee may redact information that is specific to other individuals if that information does not directly pertain to the requesting adult's records that are subject to inspection under division (C)(1) of this section or the comprehensive summary of reasons why the adult was placed in foster care.
Last updated October 2, 2023 at 11:30 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.171 | Request for Information Concerning Deceased Child Whose Death May Have Been Caused by Abuse, Neglect, or Other Criminal Conduct.

Effective:
October 5, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 448 - 123rd General Assembly
(A) On receipt by a public children services agency of a request for the release of information about a child under eighteen years of age who was a resident of the county served by the agency at the time of death and whose death may have been caused by abuse, neglect, or other criminal conduct, the director of the agency immediately shall confer with the prosecuting attorney of that county. After the executive director confers with the prosecuting attorney, the following apply:
(1) If the prosecuting attorney intends to prosecute a person for causing the child's death, the prosecuting attorney shall determine the information described in division (A) of section 5153.172 of the Revised Code that may be released, if any, and notify the director of the intent to prosecute and the determination of what information may be released. Except as provided in section 5153.173 of the Revised Code, on receipt of the notice, the director shall release the information the prosecutor determines may be released and no other information.
(2) If the prosecuting attorney does not intend to prosecute a person for causing the death of the child, the prosecuting attorney shall notify the director that no prosecution is intended. Except as provided in section 5153.173 of the Revised Code, on receipt of the notice, the director shall release the information described in division (A) of section 5153.172 of the Revised Code.
(B) A public children services agency director who releases information in accordance with this section in good faith shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability for injury, death, or loss to person or property incurred or imposed as a result of provision of the information.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.172 | Information Concerning Deceased Child Whose Death May Have Been Caused by Abuse, Neglect, or Other Criminal Conduct.

Effective:
October 5, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 448 - 123rd General Assembly
(A) Notwithstanding sections 2151.421, 3701.243, 5153.17, and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality and unless precluded by section 5153.173 of the Revised Code, the director shall disclose the following information concerning a deceased child in accordance with section 5153.171 of the Revised Code:
(1) The child's name;
(2) A summary report of the chronology of abuse or neglect reports made pursuant to section 2151.421 of the Revised Code of which the child is the subject and the final disposition of the investigations of the reports or, if investigations have not been completed, the status of any investigations;
(3) Services provided to or purchased for the child or to which the child was referred by a public children services agency;
(4) Actions taken by a public children services agency in response to any report of abuse or neglect of which the child was the subject.
(B) No person may release, pursuant to a request made under this section concerning a deceased child, the name of any person or entity that made a report or participated in making a report of child abuse or neglect of which the child was the subject; the names of the parents or siblings of the child; the contents of any psychological, psychiatric, therapeutic, clinical, or medical reports or evaluations regarding the child; witness statements; police or other investigative reports; or any other information other than the information that may be released in accordance with this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.173 | Court Determination Against Disclosure.

Effective:
October 5, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 448 - 123rd General Assembly
The director shall not disclose any information pursuant to section 5153.172 of the Revised Code if a judge of the common pleas court of the county the deceased child resided in at the time of death determines, on motion of the public children services agency, that disclosing the information would not be in the best interest of a sibling of the deceased child or another child residing in the household the child resided in at the time of death.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.175 | Information Regarding Fitness of Day-Care License Applicant to Be Provided.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
(A) Notwithstanding division (I)(1) of section 2151.421, section 5153.17, and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, when a public children services agency has determined that child abuse or neglect occurred and that abuse or neglect involves a person who has applied for licensure as a type A family child care home or type B family child care home, the agency shall promptly provide to the department of job and family services any information the agency determines to be relevant for the purpose of evaluating the fitness of the person, including, but not limited to, both of the following:
(1) A summary report of the chronology of abuse and neglect reports made pursuant to section 2151.421 of the Revised Code of which the person is the subject where the agency determined that abuse or neglect occurred and the final disposition of the investigation of the reports or, if the investigations have not been completed, the status of the investigations;
(2) Any underlying documentation concerning those reports.
(B) The agency shall not include in the information provided to the department under division (A) of this section the name of the person or entity that made the report or participated in the making of the report of child abuse or neglect.
(C) Upon provision of information under division (A) of this section, the agency shall notify the department of both of the following:
(1) That the information is confidential;
(2) That unauthorized dissemination of the information is a violation of division (I)(2) of section 2151.421 of the Revised Code and any person who permits or encourages unauthorized dissemination of the information is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree pursuant to section 2151.99 of the Revised Code.
Last updated August 31, 2023 at 11:14 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.18 | Public Children Services Agency - Executive Director - Powers and Duties.

Effective:
October 1, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly
(A) The public children services agency shall have the capacity possessed by natural persons to institute proceedings in any court.
(B) When appointed by the probate court exercising jurisdiction in adoption proceedings, the executive director may act as next friend of any child and perform the duties of such next friend.
(C) When appointed by the probate court, in lieu of a guardian, in accordance with section 2111.05 of the Revised Code:
(1) The executive director may act as trustee of the estate of any ward, provided such an estate does not exceed one thousand dollars in value.
(2) The executive director may also act as trustee, on behalf of any ward, of periodic payments of not more than twenty-five dollars per week of which such ward is entitled as a claimant pursuant to the terms of any insurance policy, annuity, pension, benefit, or allowance, governmental or private.
(3) Such director shall administer all trusteeships in accordance with the laws relating to fiduciaries.
The funds of any such trusteeship shall not be mingled with other moneys of the agency or of the county. The cost of any such trusteeship shall be paid out of the funds of the trust, but no fee shall be allowed to the executive director as such trustee. At least once a year, or more often if required by the probate court, the executive director shall make a complete report and accounting to the agency as to the disposition of all trust funds administered by the executive director during the year.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.19 | Determining Ability to Pay Cost of Care.

Effective:
October 1, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly
The public children services agency shall, before entering into any agreement obligating the agency with respect to the care of any child, determine the ability of the child, parent, guardian, or other person to pay for the cost of such care, having due regard for other dependents. Such determination shall, if accepted by the parent, guardian, or other person, be made a part of such agreement. If the executive director has been appointed in lieu of a guardian and is acting as trustee of the estate of the child, such determination shall be subject to the approval of the probate court.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.21 | Establishing Children's Home.

Effective:
September 15, 2014
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly
The board of county commissioners may establish a children's home upon the recommendation of the public children services agency and subject to certification by the department of job and family services under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code and the requirements of sections 5103.05 and 5103.051 of the Revised Code.
Last updated September 29, 2023 at 2:27 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.22 | Furnishing of Institutional Care to Children of County.

Effective:
July 1, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly
If there is no children's home in the county or if the facilities for institutional care are inadequate, the public children services agency may, subject to the approval of the department of job and family services and the board of county commissioners, enter into an agreement with the public children services agency of, or a certified organization located in, another county, or with the board of trustees of any district or semipublic children's home, or with any agency or institution outside the state for the furnishing of institutional care to children of the county.
Last updated September 29, 2023 at 2:28 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.23 | Superintendent of Home - Powers and Duties.

Effective:
October 1, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly
The superintendent of the county children's home shall control, manage, operate, and have general charge of such home, subject to the rules, standards, and orders of the public children services agency.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.24 | Admission, Removal and Transfer of Children to Children's Home.

Effective:
September 14, 1957
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 927 - 102nd General Assembly
The children to be admitted for care in a county children's home, the period during which such children shall be cared for therein, and the removal and transfer of children therefrom shall be determined by the executive secretary, subject to the agreement, surrender, or commitment respecting any particular child.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.25 | Industrial, Agricultural, and Other Pursuits.

Effective:
October 1, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly
The superintendent of the county children's home may provide and carry on, in connection with a children's home, such industrial, agricultural, and other pursuits for the children in such home as are deemed expedient by the public children services agency. Any products of such pursuits not needed to maintain the home may be sold, and all receipts from such sales shall be paid into the county treasury.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.26 | Fund for Payment of Emergency Accounts.

Effective:
October 1, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly
At the request of the superintendent of the county children's home, the public children services agency may issue orders upon the county auditor for the payment to such superintendent of a sum, not exceeding two hundred dollars at any one time, to be designated the fund for the payment of emergency accounts, and to be used and accounted for by the superintendent. The amounts so paid in any year, after the first full year of operation, shall not exceed twenty per cent of the total expenditures for such children's home during the preceding year.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.27 | Department of Job and Family Services Certification.

Effective:
July 1, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly
A public children services agency operating a children's home or other institution is subject to sections 5103.03 and 5103.04 of the Revised Code respecting certification by the department of job and family services.
Last updated September 29, 2023 at 2:30 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.28 | Reporting Child in Need of Public Care.

Effective:
October 1, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly
Boards of township trustees, the superintendent of any county home, and other officers and employees of any county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivisions of the state shall make a report to the public children services agency respecting any child in the county coming to their attention, who is deemed to be in need of public care.
No child shall be kept or maintained in any county home, except with the approval of the public children services agency of such county.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.29 | Sale, Lease or Other Use of County Children's Home.

Effective:
July 1, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly
The board of county commissioners of any county having a county children's home, may, upon the recommendation of the public children services agency and with the approval of the department of job and family services, abandon the use of such home and proceed to sell or lease the site, building, furniture, and equipment of such home in the manner most advantageous to the county, or it may use the home for other necessary and proper purposes. The net proceeds of any such sale or lease shall be paid into the county treasury.
Last updated September 29, 2023 at 2:32 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.30 | Accepting Gifts and Bequests.

Effective:
July 1, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly
The public children services agency may accept and receive bequests, donations, and gifts of funds or property, real or personal, for child care and services. The facilities or services to be established or maintained through any such gift shall be subject to the approval of the department of job and family services.
Last updated October 2, 2023 at 11:24 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.31 | Institution or Agency - Transfer of Power and Duties.

Effective:
October 1, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly
All personal property, records, files, and other documents and papers belonging to or in the possession of any agency or institution, the powers and duties of which are transferred by this chapter to the public children services agency, the proceeds of all tax levies in process of collection, the unexpended balances of all current appropriations for the use of such agencies and institutions, and the custody of all wards of such agencies and institutions, shall be deemed transferred to the agency.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.32 | Transfer From Corporation to Child Welfare Institution or Agency.

Effective:
July 1, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly
Any corporation, organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of establishing, conducting, and maintaining a child welfare institution or agency, which is unable, for any reason, to conduct and maintain such institution or agency, and which has not, for a period of three consecutive years, conducted or maintained a place or establishment for the care of children, and which has in its hands funds or properties acquired by it for the purpose of establishing, conducting, and maintaining such institution or agency, may, subject to the approval of the department of job and family services, and subject to the terms of any deed, will, or other instrument pursuant to which such funds or properties were acquired, transfer such funds or properties to the public children services agency, to be used for the purposes for which such funds or property were acquired. The transfer of such funds or properties to the agency shall be a full discharge of the obligation or liability of such corporation and its trustees with respect to the funds and properties so transferred.
Last updated September 29, 2023 at 2:35 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.33 | Investing Funds.

Effective:
October 1, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly
Funds in the hands of the public children services agency, donated or transferred to such agency under sections 5153.31 and 5153.32 of the Revised Code, and which are not immediately needed, may be invested in bonds of the United States or of any political subdivision of the state.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.34 | Acquiring Property and Equipment.

Effective:
October 1, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly
The public children services agency may acquire such property and equipment and purchase such supplies and services as are necessary for the proper conduct of its work, including the ownership, operation, and maintenance of motor vehicles. Neither the director nor an employee of the agency shall sell or supply any article to the agency, or to any institution maintained by such agency, or be personally interested in any contract made by the agency.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.35 | Levying Taxes and Making Appropriations for Public Children Services Agency.

Effective:
July 1, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly
The boards of county commissioners shall levy taxes and make appropriations sufficient to enable the public children services agency to perform its functions and duties under this chapter. If the board of county commissioners levies a tax for children services and the children services functions are transferred from a county children services board to the department of job and family services, or from the department of job and family services to a county children services board, the levy shall continue in effect for the period for which it was approved by the electors for the use by the public children services agency that provides children services pursuant to the transfer.
In addition to making the usual appropriations, there may be allowed annually to the executive director an amount not to exceed one-half the executive director's official salary to provide for necessary expenses which are incurred by the executive director or the executive director's staff in the performance of their official duties. Upon the order of the executive director, the county auditor shall draw a warrant on the county treasurer payable to the executive director or such other person as the order designates, for such amount as the order requires, not exceeding the amount provided for in this section, and to be paid out of the general fund of the county. The bond of the executive director provided for by section 5153.13 of the Revised Code shall at all times be in sufficient amount to cover the additional appropriations provided for by this section.
The executive director, annually, before the first Monday of January, shall file with the auditor a detailed and itemized statement, verified by the executive director, as to the manner in which the fund has been expended during the current year, and if any part of such fund remains in the executive director's hands unexpended, forthwith shall pay that amount into the county treasury.
Last updated October 2, 2023 at 11:25 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.36 | Joint Board for Establishment of District Children's Home.

Effective:
July 1, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly
The boards of county commissioners of two or more adjoining counties, not to exceed four, may, upon the recommendation of the public children services agencies of such counties, and subject to the approval of the department of job and family services form themselves into a joint board, and proceed to organize a district for the establishment and support of a children's home, by using a site and buildings already established in one such county, or by providing for the purchase of a site and the erection of necessary buildings thereon.
Last updated October 2, 2023 at 11:26 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.37 | Annual Assessment of Taxes for Support of Home.

Effective:
September 14, 1957
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 927 - 102nd General Assembly
The board of county commissioners of any county having a children's home, and the joint boards of county commissioners of district children's homes, shall make annual assessments of taxes sufficient to support and defray all necessary expenses of such home.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.38 | Accepting Gifts and Bequests.

Effective:
July 1, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly
When any person donates or bequeaths the person's real or personal estate, or any part thereof, to the use and benefit of a district children's home, the board of trustees of the home may accept and use such donation or bequest as they deem for the best interests of the institution, and consistent with the conditions of such bequest. The facilities or services to be established or maintained through any such gift shall be subject to the approval of the department of job and family services.
Last updated September 29, 2023 at 2:40 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.39 | Appointing Board of Trustees.

Effective:
September 14, 1957
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 927 - 102nd General Assembly
Immediately upon the organization of the joint board of county commissioners as provided by section 5153.36 of the Revised Code, or as soon thereafter as practicable, such joint board of county commissioners shall appoint a board of five trustees, which shall hold office and perform it duties until the first annual meeting after the choice of an established site and buildings or after the selection and purchase of a building site, at which time such joint board of county commissioners shall appoint a board of five trustees, one of whom shall hold office for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, one for the term of three years, one for the term of four years, and one for the term of five years. Annually thereafter, the joint board of county commissioners shall appoint one trustee, who shall hold his office for the term of five years. The annual meeting of the board of trustees shall be held on the first Tuesday of May in each year.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.40 | Meetings.

Effective:
September 14, 1957
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 927 - 102nd General Assembly
A majority of the board of trustees appointed under section 5153.39 of the Revised Code constitutes a quorum. Board meetings shall be held quarterly. The executive secretary of each of the counties of the district organized pursuant to section 5153.36 of the Revised Code shall attend such meetings, or shall designate a member of his staff to do so. The members of the board shall receive no compensation for their services, except their actual traveling expenses, which, when properly certified, shall be allowed and paid.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.41 | Superintendent of Home - Bond - Powers and Duties.

Effective:
September 14, 1957
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 927 - 102nd General Assembly
The board of trustees of a district children's home shall appoint the superintendent thereof. Before entering upon his duties such superintendent shall give a bond to the board, in such sum as it fixes, with sufficient surety, conditioned upon the faithful performance of his duties and the full and faithful accounting of the funds and properties coming into his hands.
The superintendent shall appoint all employees, who, except for the superintendent, shall be in the classified civil service.
The superintendent, under the supervision and subject to the rules and regulations of the board, shall control, manage, operate, and have general charge of the home, and shall have the custody of its property, files, and records.
The children to be admitted for care in such home, the period during which they shall be cared for in the home, and the removal and transfer of children from such home shall be determined by the executive secretaries of the respective counties, subject to the terms of the agreement, surrender, or commitment respecting any particular child.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.42 | Management and Operation of District Children's Homes.

Effective:
September 15, 2014
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly
District children's homes shall be established, operated, maintained, and managed in the same manner so far as applicable as county children's homes and shall be subject to the requirements of sections 5103.05 and 5103.051 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.43 | Site of District Children's Home.

Effective:
September 14, 1957
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 927 - 102nd General Assembly
When the board of trustees appointed under section 5153.39 of the Revised Code does not choose an established institution in one of the counties of the district it may select a suitable site for the erection of a district children's home. Such site must be easily accessible, and when, in the judgment of the board, it is equally conducive to health, economy in purchasing or in building, and to the general interest of the home and inmates, such site shall be as near as practicable to the geographical center of the district. When only two counties form such district the site shall be as near as practicable to the dividing line between such counties.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.44 | Appointing Trustees.

Effective:
September 14, 1957
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 927 - 102nd General Assembly
Each county in the district, organized under section 5153.36 of the Revised Code, shall be entitled to one trustee, and in districts composed of but two counties, each county shall be entitled to not less than two trustees. The county in which a district children's home is located shall have not less than two trustees, who, in the interim period between the regular meetings of the board of trustees, shall act as an executive committee in the discharge of all business pertaining to the home.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.45 | Removal - Vacancy.

Effective:
September 14, 1957
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 927 - 102nd General Assembly
The joint board of county commissioners organized under section 5153.36 of the Revised Code may remove any trustee appointed under section 5153.39 of the Revised Code, but no such removal shall be made on account of the religious or political opinion of such trustee. The trustee appointed to fill any vacancy shall hold his office for the unexpired term of his predecessor.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.46 | Powers Between Selection and Purchase of Site, and Erection and Occupancy.

Effective:
September 14, 1957
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 927 - 102nd General Assembly
In the interim, between the selection and purchase of a site, and the erection and occupancy of the district children's home, the joint board of county commissioners provided by section 5153.36 of the Revised Code may delegate to board of trustees appointed under section 5153.39 of the Revised Code, such powers and duties as, in its judgment, will be of general interest or aid to the institution. Such joint board of county commissioners may appropriate a trustees' fund, to be expended by the board of trustees in payment of such contracts, purchases, or other expenses necessary to the wants or requirements of the home, which are not otherwise provided for. The board of trustees shall make a complete settlement with the joint board of county commissioners once each six months, or quarterly if required, and shall make a full report of the condition of the home and inmates, as provided by section 5153.14 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.47 | Control of Farm.

Effective:
September 14, 1957
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 927 - 102nd General Assembly
The choice of an established site and buildings, or the purchase of a site, stock, implements, and general farm equipment, should there be a farm, the erection of buildings, and the completion and furnishing of the district children's home for occupancy, shall be in the hands of the joint board of county commissioners organized under section 5153.36 of the Revised Code. Such joint board of county commissioners may delegate all or a portion of these duties to the board of trustees provided for under section 5153.39 of the Revised Code, under such restrictions and regulations as the joint board of county commissioners imposes.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.48 | Appraising Value of Site and Buildings.

Effective:
September 14, 1957
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 927 - 102nd General Assembly
When an established site and buildings are used for a district children's home the joint board of county commissioners organized under section 5153.36 of the Revised Code shall cause the value of such site and buildings to be properly appraised. This appraisal value, or in case of the purchase of a site, the purchase price and the cost of all betterments and additions thereto, shall be paid by the counties comprising the district, in proportion to the taxable property of each county, as shown by its tax duplicate. The current expense of maintaining the home and the cost of ordinary repairs thereto shall be paid by each such county in proportion to the number of children from such county who are maintained in the home during the year.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.49 | County Withdrawing From District.

Effective:
July 1, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly
The board of county commissioners of any county within a children's home district may, upon the recommendation of the public children services agency, and subject to the approval of the department of job and family services, withdraw from such district and dispose of its interest in such home by selling or leasing its right, title, and interest in the site, buildings, furniture, and equipment to any counties in the district, at such price and on such terms as are agreed upon among the boards of county commissioners of the counties concerned. Section 307.10 of the Revised Code does not apply to this section. The net proceeds of any such sale or lease shall be paid into the county treasury of the withdrawing county.
Members of the board of trustees of a district children's home who are residents of a county withdrawing from such district are deemed to have resigned their positions upon completion of the withdrawal procedure provided by this section. Vacancies thus created shall be filled according to sections 5153.39 and 5153.45 of the Revised Code.
Last updated September 29, 2023 at 2:41 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.50 | Meeting of County Auditors of Counties Comprising District.

Effective:
September 14, 1957
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 927 - 102nd General Assembly
The county auditors of the several counties composing a children's home district, shall meet at the district children's home, not less than once in six months, to adjust accounts and to transact such other duties in connection with the institution as pertain to the business of their office.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.51 | Expenses of County Commissioners.

Effective:
September 14, 1957
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 927 - 102nd General Assembly
Members of the board of county commissioners who meet by appointment to consider the organization of a district children's home, shall, upon presentation of properly certified accounts, be paid their necessary expenses upon a warrant drawn by the county auditor of their county.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.52 | County May Support Private Children's Homes.

Effective:
July 1, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly
The board of county commissioners of any county which has no county children's home may aid an incorporated children's home or other unincorporated society, whose object is the care, aid, and education of neglected or destitute children, by contributing toward the purchase of land for such home or society, the erection of buildings by it, or of additions to existing buildings, or other improvements, to an amount not to exceed twenty-five hundred dollars in any one year.
The board of any such county may submit to the people of such county, under section 133.18 of the Revised Code, the question of whether bonds of such county shall be issued for the purposes of this section. If the people of such county approve the issue of bonds, the board may issue the bonds under Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, as if they were being issued for the construction of a county children's home owned by the county, and may use the proceeds of such bond issue for the purposes of and without the restriction as to amount imposed by this section.
The board may contribute an amount not to exceed five hundred dollars in any one year for the purpose of keeping such property in repair. If such children's home ceases to exist, so that the property so purchased ceases to be used for the purpose of a children's home by the corporation, such county shall have a lien upon the property for the amount of money contributed for its purchase, and if such corporation fails to maintain, manage, and control such home so as to subserve the purpose of a children's home for which it was incorporated, the board may enforce such lien or, if it prefers may, upon approval of the department of job and family services, first being obtained, organize such home into a county children's home. The title to such property, where the county has contributed the whole amount of the purchase money, shall vest in and be the property of such county.
Last updated September 29, 2023 at 2:43 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5153 | County Children Services › Section 5153.53 | Operating Buses for Educational Purposes.

Effective:
October 1, 1997
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 408 - 122nd General Assembly
The public children services agency may purchase, operate, and maintain buses to be used for educational purposes.
The operation and maintenance of such buses shall be according to the law relating to school buses.