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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5126 | County Boards of Developmental Disabilities › Section 5126.47 | Joint County Residential Services Consortium.

Effective:
October 6, 2009
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly
A county board of developmental disabilities may, pursuant to a resolution adopted by an affirmative vote of the majority of its members, establish, by agreement with one or more other county boards of developmental disabilities, a residential services consortium to jointly provide residential services and supported living. The agreement shall designate one board to assume the fiscal responsibilities for the consortium. The county auditor of the designated county shall establish a community developmental disabilities residential services fund for the consortium. Each board that is a member of the consortium shall cause to be deposited in the fund any state or federal money received for community residential services the county board has agreed to contribute to the consortium.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5126 | County Boards of Developmental Disabilities › Section 5126.49 | Residential Facility Linked Deposit Program.

Effective:
October 12, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly
The county board of developmental disabilities may adopt a resolution requesting the board of county commissioners to implement a residential facility linked deposit program under sections 5126.51 to 5126.62 of the Revised Code if the county board of developmental disabilities finds all of the following:
(A) There is a shortage of residential facilities in the county for individuals with developmental disabilities.
(B) Eligible organizations, otherwise willing and able to develop residential facilities in the county, have been unable to do so because of high interest rates.
(C) Placement of residential facility linked deposits will assist in financing the development of residential facilities in the county that otherwise would not be developed because of high interest rates.
The board shall transmit a certified copy of the resolution to the board of county commissioners.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5126 | County Boards of Developmental Disabilities › Section 5126.50 | Standards for Residential Facility Linked Deposit Program.

Effective:
October 6, 2009
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly
If the board of county commissioners adopts a resolution under sections 135.801 and 135.802 of the Revised Code implementing a residential facility linked deposit program, the county board of developmental disabilities shall adopt a resolution that does all of the following:
(A) Establishes standards for its review of applications and its approval or disapproval of proposed residential facilities under section 5126.55 of the Revised Code;
(B) Prescribes the form of applications under section 5126.54 of the Revised Code;
(C) Establishes standards for approval or disapproval of applications for linked deposit loans under section 5126.58 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5126 | County Boards of Developmental Disabilities › Section 5126.51 | Residential Facility Linked Deposit Program Definitions.

Effective:
September 10, 2012
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly
As used in sections 5126.51 to 5126.62 of the Revised Code:
(A) "Develop" or "development," in contexts not referring to developmental disabilities, means construction or rehabilitation.
(B) "Eligible lending institution" means a financial institution that meets all of the following requirements:
(1) Is eligible to make commercial loans;
(2) Has an office located within the territorial limits of the county;
(3) Is an institution into which the county's investing authority may deposit the public moneys of the county;
(4) Holds itself out as participating in the residential facility linked deposit program.
(C) "Eligible organization" means a nonprofit corporation that has as its primary activity the development or operation of a residential facility.
(D) "Investing authority" has the same meaning as in section 135.31 of the Revised Code.
(E) "Residential facility" has the same meaning as in section 5123.19 of the Revised Code.
(F) "Residential facility linked deposit program" means the linked deposit program provided for in sections 5126.51 to 5126.62 of the Revised Code. A "residential facility linked deposit" is a deposit of public moneys of the county under, and for the purposes of, the residential facility linked deposit program. A "residential facility linked deposit loan" is a loan under, and for the purposes of, the residential facility linked deposit program.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5126 | County Boards of Developmental Disabilities › Section 5126.52 | Shortage of Suitable Residential Facilities.

Effective:
October 12, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly
The general assembly finds that individuals with developmental disabilities residing in the state face a shortage of suitable residential facilities; that loans to finance the development of suitable residential facilities are subject to high interest rates; that eligible organizations, otherwise willing and able to develop suitable residential facilities, are unable to do so because of the high interest rates; and, consequently, that the shortage of suitable residential facilities is likely to continue and worsen.
The residential facility linked deposit program, when implemented in a county, is intended to provide low-cost funds for lending purposes that will effectively reduce high interest rates and materially contribute to remedying the shortage of suitable residential facilities for individuals with developmental disabilities who reside in the county.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5126 | County Boards of Developmental Disabilities › Section 5126.53 | Resolution by County Commissioners.

Effective:
July 17, 1990
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 697 - 118th General Assembly
The residential facility linked deposit program is not operative in a county unless the board of county commissioners has adopted a resolution under sections 135.801 and 135.802 of the Revised Code implementing the program in the county.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5126 | County Boards of Developmental Disabilities › Section 5126.54 | Application for Loan to Develop Facility.

Effective:
October 6, 2009
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly
An eligible organization that seeks a residential facility linked deposit loan to finance all or part of the development of a residential facility shall obtain approval of the proposed project from the county board of developmental disabilities of the county in which the facility will be developed. The application shall be in the form prescribed by the board and include all of the following:
(A) The organization's name, business address, and telephone number;
(B) The name of an officer or employee of the organization who may be contacted with regard to the application;
(C) A description of the residential facility and a timetable showing the time at which each phase of its development is expected to be completed;
(D) The amount of the loan to be applied for;
(E) Any other information the board considers necessary to successfully review the application.
Whoever knowingly makes a false statement on an application is guilty of the offense of falsification under section 2921.13 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5126 | County Boards of Developmental Disabilities › Section 5126.55 | Resolution Approving or Disapproving Development of Proposed Residential Facility.

Effective:
October 12, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly
The county board of developmental disabilities shall review each application filed under section 5126.54 of the Revised Code and adopt a resolution approving or disapproving development of the proposed residential facility. The county board shall not approve development of the proposed residential facility unless it finds, based upon the application and its evaluation of the applicant, that development of the residential facility is consistent with its plan and priorities, under section 5126.05 of the Revised Code, for the provision of residential facilities for individuals with developmental disabilities residing in the county.
The resolution shall include specific findings of fact justifying the approval or disapproval.
The county board shall transmit a certified copy of the resolution to the applicant and to the board of county commissioners.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5126 | County Boards of Developmental Disabilities › Section 5126.56 | Applying to Eligible Lending Institution After Approval.

Effective:
July 17, 1990
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 697 - 118th General Assembly
On receiving a resolution under section 5126.55 of the Revised Code approving development of a residential facility, an eligible organization may apply to an eligible lending institution, in the form prescribed by the institution, for a residential facility linked deposit loan to finance all or part of the development of the residential facility. The eligible organization shall include with its application both of the following:
(A) A copy of the resolution adopted under section 5126.55 of the Revised Code;
(B) A resolution, adopted by the organization's board of trustees, certifying that if the organization's application for a residential facility linked deposit loan is approved and accepted, the organization will use the loan solely to finance all or part of the cost of developing the residential facility as approved in the resolution adopted under section 5126.55 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5126 | County Boards of Developmental Disabilities › Section 5126.57 | Approving or Disapproving Application for Residential Facility Linked Deposit Loan.

Effective:
October 6, 2009
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly
In reviewing an application for a residential facility linked deposit loan, the eligible lending institution shall apply the same lending standards as it customarily applies to applications for loans for the development of residential property. The lending institution shall either approve or disapprove an application for a residential facility linked deposit loan within a reasonable time, in accordance with commercial practice.
If the lending institution approves an application, it shall prepare and transmit each of the following to the county board of developmental disabilities:
(A) A certification that it is an eligible lending institution;
(B) A statement that it has approved a residential facility linked deposit loan to the eligible organization and the amount of the loan;
(C) A copy of the eligible organization's loan application and a copy of the resolution of the eligible organization's board of trustees included with the loan application;
(D) Any other information the board of county commissioners requires in the resolution adopted under sections 135.801 and 135.802 of the Revised Code.
If the lending institution does not approve an application for a residential facility linked deposit loan, it shall promptly notify the county board of developmental disabilities of such disapproval.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5126 | County Boards of Developmental Disabilities › Section 5126.58 | Board Approval or Disapproval of Loan Application.

Effective:
October 12, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly
The county board of developmental disabilities shall adopt a resolution approving or disapproving an eligible organization's application for a residential facility linked deposit loan. The county board shall disapprove an application unless it finds, based on the application and its evaluation of the applicant, each of the following:
(A) The applicant has fully complied with sections 5126.54 and 5126.56 of the Revised Code.
(B) Development of the residential facility will materially contribute to alleviating the shortage of residential facilities in the county for individuals with developmental disabilities.
(C) The applicant is ready to proceed with development of the residential facility, but is unable to do so because of high interest rates.
(D) The board of county commissioners has certified that public moneys of the county are currently available for placement of the residential facility linked deposit necessary to provide low-cost financing to the applicant.
(E) Placement of the residential facility linked deposit, considered in the aggregate with all other residential facility linked deposits under the county's residential facility linked deposit program, will not cause the total amount of the county's residential facility linked deposits to exceed an amount equal to ten per cent of the operating budget of the county board of developmental disabilities for the current year. If placement of the residential facility linked deposit would cause the total amount of the county's residential facility linked deposits to exceed the maximum established by this division, the county board may accept the application but limit the amount of the residential facility linked deposit accordingly.
The resolution shall include specific findings of fact justifying acceptance or rejection of the application. If the board accepts the application, it shall specify the amount of the residential facility linked deposit in the resolution.
The county board shall transmit a certified copy of the resolution to the applicant, the eligible lending institution, and the county's investing authority.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5126 | County Boards of Developmental Disabilities › Section 5126.59 | Residential Facility Linked Deposit Agreement.

Effective:
October 6, 2009
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly
On acceptance of a residential facility linked deposit loan by the county board of developmental disabilities, the county's investing authority shall enter into a residential facility linked deposit agreement with the eligible lending institution. The agreement shall include all of the following terms:
(A) An agreement by the investing authority to place certificates of deposit with the eligible lending institution, in the amount of the residential facility linked deposit specified in the resolution, at an interest rate of up to five per cent per year below current annual market rates, for a term considered appropriate by the investing authority, not to exceed five years, and to renew the certificates of deposit for up to four additional terms, each additional term not to exceed five years;
(B) An agreement by the eligible lending institution to lend the value of the certificates of deposit placed with the institution to the eligible organization at an annual interest rate that is the same number of percentage points below the annual borrowing rate currently applicable to similar loans as the annual interest rate agreed to for certificates of deposit placed pursuant to division (A) of this section is below current annual market rates;
(C) An agreement by the eligible lending institution to pay interest on the certificates of deposit at times determined by the investing authority;
(D) The form in which the eligible lending institution is to make the certification required by section 5126.60 of the Revised Code;
(E) Any other terms necessary to carry out the purpose of sections 5126.51 to 5126.62 of the Revised Code.
The agreement may contain terms specifying the period of time during which the eligible lending institution is to lend funds upon placement of the residential facility linked deposit.
The investing authority shall determine current market rates under the agreement.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5126 | County Boards of Developmental Disabilities › Section 5126.60 | Lending Value of Residential Facility Linked Deposit.

Effective:
July 17, 1990
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 697 - 118th General Assembly
On placement of a residential facility linked deposit pursuant to the residential facility linked deposit agreement under section 5126.59 of the Revised Code, the eligible lending institution shall lend the value of the residential facility linked deposit in accordance with the agreement. The loan shall be at an annual interest rate that is the same number of percentage points below the annual borrowing rate currently applicable to similar loans as the annual interest rate agreed to for certificates of deposit placed pursuant to division (A) of section 5126.59 of the Revised Code is below current annual market rates.
On complying with the agreement as provided in this section, the eligible lending institution shall transmit to the county investing authority, in the form prescribed by the residential facility linked deposit agreement, a certification of its compliance.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5126 | County Boards of Developmental Disabilities › Section 5126.61 | Monitoring Compliance - Annual Report.

Effective:
October 6, 2009
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly
The county investing authority shall monitor the compliance with sections 5126.51 to 5126.62 of the Revised Code of eligible lending institutions and eligible organizations receiving residential facility linked deposits and loans.
The investing authority shall annually report to the board of county commissioners and county board of developmental disabilities with regard to the operation of the county's residential facility linked deposit program. The report shall list the eligible organizations receiving residential facility linked deposit loans under the residential facility linked deposit program.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5126 | County Boards of Developmental Disabilities › Section 5126.62 | No Liability for Defaults on Loans.

Effective:
October 6, 2009
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly
The county, board of county commissioners, county board of developmental disabilities, and county investing authority are not liable to any eligible lending institution in any manner for payment of the principal or interest on a loan to an eligible organization. Delay in payment or default on the part of an eligible organization does not in any manner affect the residential facility linked deposit agreement between the county investing authority and the eligible lending institution.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5126 | County Boards of Developmental Disabilities › Section 5126.99 | Penalty.

Effective:
October 6, 2009
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 79 - 128th General Assembly
(A) Whoever violates division (B) of section 5126.044 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(B) Whoever violates division (F) of section 5126.253 of the Revised Code shall be punished as follows:
(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (B)(2) of this section, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(2) The person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree if both of the following conditions apply:
(a) The employee who is the subject of the report that the person fails to submit was required to be reported for the commission or alleged commission of an act or offense involving the infliction on a child of any physical or mental wound, injury, disability, or condition of a nature that constitutes abuse or neglect of the child;
(b) During the period between the violation of division (F) of section 5126.253 of the Revised Code and the conviction of or plea of guilty by the person for that violation, the employee who is the subject of the report that the person fails to submit inflicts on any child attending a school district, educational service center, public or nonpublic school, or county board of developmental disabilities where the employee works any physical or mental wound, injury, disability, or condition of a nature that constitutes abuse or neglect of the child.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.03 | Control and Management of State Institutions or Facilities.

Effective:
September 29, 2015
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) The department of youth services shall control and manage all state institutions or facilities established or created for the training or rehabilitation of delinquent children committed to the department, except where the control and management of an institution or facility is vested by law in another agency. The department shall employ, in addition to other personnel authorized under Chapter 5139. of the Revised Code, sufficient personnel to maintain food service and buildings and grounds operations.
(B) The department of youth services shall, insofar as practicable, purchase foods and other commodities incident to food service operations from the department of mental health and addiction services. The department of youth services may enter into agreements with the department of mental health and addiction services providing for assistance and consultation in the construction of, or major modifications to, capital facilities of the department of youth services.
(C) The directors of mental health and addiction services and of youth services shall enter into written agreements to implement this section. Such directors may, from time to time, amend any agreements entered into under this section for the purposes of making more efficient use of personnel, taking advantage of economies in quantity purchasing, or for any other purpose which is mutually advantageous to both the department of youth services and the department of mental health and addiction services.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.04 | Powers and Duties of Department.

Effective:
July 1, 2013
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly
The department of youth services shall do all of the following:
(A) Support service districts through a central administrative office that shall have as its administrative head a deputy director who shall be appointed by the director of the department. When a vacancy occurs in the office of that deputy director, an assistant deputy director shall act as that deputy director until the vacancy is filled. The position of deputy director and assistant deputy director described in this division shall be in the unclassified civil service of the state.
(B) Receive custody of all children committed to it under Chapter 2152. of the Revised Code, cause a study to be made of those children, and issue any orders, as it considers best suited to the needs of any of those children and the interest of the public, for the treatment of each of those children;
(C) Obtain personnel necessary for the performance of its duties;
(D) Adopt rules that regulate its organization and operation, that implement sections 5139.34 and 5139.41 to 5139.43 of the Revised Code, and that pertain to the administration of other sections of this chapter;
(E) Submit reports of its operations to the governor and the general assembly by the thirty-first day of January of each odd-numbered year;
(F) Conduct a program of research in diagnosis, training, and treatment of delinquent children to evaluate the effectiveness of the department's services and to develop more adequate methods;
(G) Develop a standard form for the disposition investigation report that a juvenile court is required pursuant to section 2152.18 of the Revised Code to complete and provide to the department when the court commits a child to the legal custody of the department;
(H) Provide the state public defender the reasonable access authorized under division (I) of section 120.06 of the Revised Code in order to fulfill the department's constitutional obligation to provide juveniles who have been committed to the department's care access to the courts.
(I) Do all other acts necessary or desirable to carry out this chapter.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.07 | Rehabilitation.

Effective:
March 22, 2001
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 115, Senate Bill 179 - 123rd General Assembly
(A)(1)(a) As a means of correcting the socially harmful tendencies of a child committed to it, the department of youth services may require a child to participate in vocational, physical, and corrective training and activities, and the conduct and modes of life that seem best adapted to rehabilitate the child and fit the child for return to full liberty without danger to the public welfare.
(b) Except as otherwise provided, the department shall require any child committed to it who has not attained a diploma or certificate of high school equivalence, to participate in courses leading toward a high school diploma or an Ohio certificate of high school equivalence. This requirement does not apply to a child in an assessment program or treatment intervention program prescribed by the department.
(c) The department may monetarily compensate the child for the activities described in this section by transferring the wages of the child for those activities to the appropriate youth benefit fund created under section 5139.86 of the Revised Code.
(d) This section does not permit the department to release a child committed to it from institutional care or institutional care in a secure facility, whichever is applicable, other than in accordance with sections 2152.22, 5139.06, 5139.38, and 5139.50 to 5139.54 of the Revised Code.
(2) The failure of the department of youth services to provide, pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section, an opportunity for any child committed to it to participate in courses that lead to a high school diploma or an Ohio certificate of high school equivalence, does not give rise to a claim for damages against the department.
(B) The department may require a child committed to it to return to the child's home or to be placed in a foster care placement if it is authorized to make a placement of that nature under sections 2152.22, 5139.06, 5139.38, and 5139.50 to 5139.54 of the Revised Code. Any placement of that nature shall be made in accordance with those sections. The legal residence of a child so placed by the department is the place in which the child is residing in accordance with a department order of placement. The school district responsible for payment of tuition on behalf of the child so placed shall be determined pursuant to section 3313.64 or 3313.65 of the Revised Code.
The Legislative Service Commission presents the text of this section as a composite of the section as amended by multiple acts of the General Assembly. This presentation recognizes the principle stated in R.C. 1.52(B) that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.08 | Agreements With Other State Agencies.

Effective:
October 12, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly
The department of youth services may enter into an agreement with the director of rehabilitation and correction pursuant to which the department of youth services, in accordance with division (C)(2) of section 5139.06 and section 5120.162 of the Revised Code, may transfer to a correctional medical center established by the department of rehabilitation and correction, children who are within its custody for diagnosis or treatment of an illness, physical condition, or other medical problem. The department of youth services may enter into any other agreements with the director of job and family services, the director of mental health and addiction services, the director of developmental disabilities, the director of rehabilitation and correction, with the courts having probation officers or other public officials, and with private agencies or institutions for separate care or special treatment of children subject to the control of the department of youth services. The department of youth services may, upon the request of a juvenile court not having a regular probation officer, provide probation services for such court.
Upon request by the department of youth services, any public agency or group care facility established or administered by the state for the care and treatment of children and youth shall, consistent with its functions, accept and care for any child whose custody is vested in the department in the same manner as it would be required to do if custody had been vested by a court in such agency or group care facility. If the department has reasonable grounds to believe that any child or youth whose custody is vested in it is mentally ill or has an intellectual disability, the department may file an affidavit under section 5122.11 or 5123.76 of the Revised Code. The department's affidavit for admission of a child or youth to such institution shall be filed with the probate court of the county from which the child was committed to the department. Such court may request the probate court of the county in which the child is held to conduct the hearing on the application, in which case the court making such request shall bear the expenses of the proceeding. If the department files such an affidavit, the child or youth may be kept in such institution until a final decision on the affidavit is made by the appropriate court.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.09 | Periodic Re-Examination of Children.

Effective:
November 24, 1981
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 440 - 114th General Assembly
The department of youth services shall make periodic reexamination of all children under its control for the purpose of determining whether existing orders in individual cases should be modified or continued in force. These examinations shall be made with respect to every child at least once annually.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.10 | Final Discharges Ends Control by Department.

Effective:
November 24, 1981
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 440 - 114th General Assembly
Unless the child has already received a final discharge, the control by the department of youth services of a child committed as a delinquent shall cease when the child reaches the age of twenty-one years.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.101 | Transitional Services Program.

Effective:
April 4, 2023
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 288 - 134th General Assembly
(A) The department of youth services, in coordination with any other agencies deemed necessary, may develop a program to assist a youth leaving the supervision, control, and custody of the department at twenty-one years of age. The program shall provide supportive services for specific educational or rehabilitative purposes, under conditions agreed upon by both the department and the youth and terminable by either. Services shall cease not later than when the youth reaches twenty-two years of age and shall not be construed as extending control of a child beyond discharge as described in section 5139.10 of the Revised Code.
(B) The services provided by the program shall be offered to the youth prior to the youth's discharge date, but a youth may request and the department shall consider any such request for the services described up to ninety days after the youth's effective date of discharge, even if the youth has previously declined services.
Last updated March 10, 2023 at 4:00 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.12 | Reporting Abuse of Delinquent Child.

Effective:
October 12, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly
Any person who is required, pursuant to division (A) of section 2151.421 of the Revised Code, to report the person's knowledge of or reasonable cause to suspect abuse or neglect or threat of abuse or neglect of a child under eighteen years of age or a person with a developmental disability or physical impairment under twenty-one years of age, or any person who is permitted, pursuant to division (B) of that section, to report or cause such a report to be made and who makes or causes the report to be made, shall direct that report to the state highway patrol if the child is a delinquent child in the custody of an institution. If the state highway patrol determines after receipt of the report that there is probable cause that abuse or neglect or threat of abuse or neglect of the delinquent child occurred, the highway patrol shall report its findings to the department of youth services, to the court that ordered the disposition of the delinquent child for the act that would have been an offense if committed by an adult and for which the delinquent child is in the custody of the department, to the public children services agency in the county in which the child resides or in which the abuse or neglect or threat of abuse or neglect occurred, and to the chairperson and vice-chairperson of the correctional institution inspection committee established by section 103.71 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.13 | Facilities for Treatment and Training of Children.

Effective:
January 1, 2008
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 10 - 127th General Assembly
(A) The department of youth services shall do all of the following:
(1) Control and manage all institutions for the rehabilitation of delinquent children and youthful offenders that are operated by the state, except where the control and management of an institution is vested by law in another agency;
(2) Provide treatment and training for children committed to the department and assigned by the department to various institutions under its control and management, including, but not limited to, for a child committed to it for an act that is a sexually oriented offense or a child-victim oriented offense, treatment that is appropriate for a child who commits an act that is a sexually oriented offense or a child-victim oriented offense and that is intended to ensure that the child does not commit any subsequent act that is a sexually oriented offense or a child-victim oriented offense;
(3) Establish and maintain appropriate reception centers for the reception of children committed to the department and employ competent persons to have charge of those centers and to conduct investigations;
(4) Establish and maintain any other facilities necessary for the training, treatment, and rehabilitation of children committed to the department.
(B) As used in this section, "sexually oriented offense" and "child-victim oriented offense" have the same meanings as in section 2950.01 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.131 | Vocational Education Programs.

Effective:
July 1, 1993
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 152 - 120th General Assembly
The department of youth services may conduct programs for the vocational education of children committed to the department or involved in aftercare services provided by the department, under which services are provided or products are made, and offered, for sale. Any profits made from the selling of such products or services shall be deposited into the industrial and entertainment fund created under section 5139.86 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.14 | Reentry Services by Nonprofit Faith-Based Organizations.

Effective:
June 25, 2008
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 113 - 127th General Assembly
(A)(1) The department of youth services shall permit representatives of all nonprofit faith-based, business, professional, civic, educational, and community organizations that are registered with the department to enter institutions that are under the department's control and management for the purpose of providing reentry services to delinquent children in the department's custody. Reentry services may include, but are not limited to, counseling, housing, job-placement, and money-management assistance.
(2) The department shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for the screening and registration of nonprofit faith-based, business, professional, civic, educational, and community organizations that apply to provide reentry services to delinquent children in institutions under the department's control and management.
(B)(1) The department shall post a department telephone number on the department's official internet web site that nonprofit faith-based, business, professional, civic, educational, and community organizations that wish to provide reentry services to delinquent children may call to obtain information. The internet web site also shall list all of the faith-based, business, professional, civic, educational, and community organizations that are registered with the department under this section.
(2) The department shall actively recruit nonprofit faith-based, business, professional, civic, educational, and community organizations to provide reentry services in institutions under the department's control and management. The department shall recruit nonprofit organizations from all faiths and beliefs.
(C) Annually, the department shall issue a written report on the department's progress in implementing the recommendations of the correctional faith-based initiatives task force. The department shall provide a copy of the written report to each member of the correctional institution inspection committee created under section 103.71 of the Revised Code.
(D) The department shall not endorse or sponsor any faith-based reentry program or endorse any specific religious message. The department may not require any child in its custody to participate in a faith-based program.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.16 | Accepting Gifts and Bequests.

Effective:
November 24, 1981
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 440 - 114th General Assembly
The department of youth services may accept, hold, and use, for the benefit of the department or the children committed to it, any gift, donation, bequest, or devise, and may agree to and perform all conditions of the gift, donation, bequest, or devise, not contrary to law.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.19 | Managing Officers of Institutions.

Effective:
July 1, 1983
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 291 - 115th General Assembly
Subject to the rules of the department of youth services, each institution and community regional office under the jurisdiction of the department shall be under the control of a managing officer to be known as a superintendent or by other appropriate title. Such managing officer shall be appointed by the director of the department and shall be in the unclassified service and serve at the pleasure of the director. Each managing officer appointed under this section may, subject to the approval of the director, appoint an assistant managing officer and deputy managing officers, all of whom shall be in the unclassified civil service. Subject to Chapter 124. of the Revised Code, the director shall appoint the necessary employees and may remove such employees for cause.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.191 | Apprehending Juvenile Escapees.

Effective:
January 1, 2002
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 179 - 123rd General Assembly
Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, officer of state or local police, or employee of the department of youth services shall apprehend any child who has escaped from an institution under the jurisdiction of the department and return the child. The written request of the superintendent of the institution from which the child has escaped shall be sufficient cause to authorize the apprehension and return of the child to the institution. Such request shall state the name and description of the child, that the child is under the jurisdiction of the department of youth services, and that the superintendent has personal knowledge that the child has escaped. A child so apprehended may be confined in the detention facility of the county in which the child is apprehended until removed to the proper institution.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.21 | Prohibited Acts.

Effective:
November 24, 1981
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 440 - 114th General Assembly
No person shall influence or attempt to influence any child under supervision of the department of youth services, to leave the institution or home in which he was placed, his home, or place of employment or to violate any of the conditions upon which he was released under supervision.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.22 | Transportation Costs.

Effective:
July 1, 1993
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 152 - 120th General Assembly
Each county shall bear all of the expenses incident to the transportation of a child committed to the department of youth services by the juvenile court of that county from that county to the institution to which the department has assigned the child and shall bear the fees and costs allowed in similar cases. The fees, costs, and expenses shall be paid from the county treasury upon itemized vouchers certified to by the judge of the juvenile court.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.23 | Leasing Capital Facilities.

Effective:
July 1, 2014
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 497 - 130th General Assembly
The department of youth services shall lease capital facilities constructed, reconstructed, or improved, which facilities are financed by the treasurer of state pursuant to section 307.021 and Chapter 154. of the Revised Code, for the use of the department, and may enter into any other agreements with the Ohio public facilities commission, the department of administrative services, or any other authorized state agency ancillary to the construction, reconstruction, improvement, financing, leasing, or operation of such facilities, including, but not limited to agreements required by the applicable bond proceedings authorized by Chapter 154. of the Revised Code. Rentals from such leases shall constitute available receipts as defined in section 154.24 of the Revised Code and may be pledged for the payment of bond service charges as provided in that section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.25 | Designating Names of Institutions.

Effective:
November 24, 1981
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 440 - 114th General Assembly
The department of youth services may designate the institutions under its management and control, present and future, by appropriate respective names, regardless of present statutory designation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.26 | Acquiring and Disposing of Land or Property.

Effective:
November 24, 1981
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 440 - 114th General Assembly
The department of youth services, with the approval of the governor and the attorney general, may buy, sell, lease, or exchange portions of land or property, real or personal, under the management and control of the department, or enter into contracts relative thereto, or grant easements or licenses for the use thereof, when such purchase, sale, lease, exchange, contract, easement, or license is advantageous to the state. An action may be brought to enforce any agreement authorized by this section. Revenues received from agreements entered into under this section shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the general fund.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 51 | Public Welfare › Chapter 5139 | Youth Services › Section 5139.271 | Granting Financial Assistance to Counties.

Effective:
August 16, 2016
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 310 - 131st General Assembly
Subject to the approval of the controlling board, the department of youth services may grant and pay financial assistance to defray the county's share of the cost of acquiring or constructing a district detention facility, established under section 2152.41 of the Revised Code, to any county making application under section 2152.43 of the Revised Code if the department finds that the application was made in accordance with its rules and the facility or the specifications for the facility meet minimum standards established by the department. No financial assistance shall be granted for defraying the cost of land.
The department shall adopt rules prescribing the minimum standards of construction and condition of existing structures, established under section 2152.41 of the Revised Code, for which financial assistance is granted under this section. The department may recommend programs of education and training and the qualifications desired for personnel of a district detention facility.
The amount of financial assistance granted to any county shall not exceed sixty per cent of the county's share of the cost of acquisition or construction of the facility.
A county that receives financial assistance under this section shall repay the assistance to the state if the facility for which the assistance is granted is used within the ten-year period immediately following its establishment for purposes other than those contained in section 2152.41 of the Revised Code. A board of county commissioners that uses the facility for any other purpose within that period shall enter into an agreement with the director of budget and management for the discharge of that obligation over a period not to exceed ten years. If a board of county commissioners fails to enter into an agreement for the discharge of that obligation, or fails to comply with the terms of such an agreement, the director shall direct the tax commissioner, pursuant to section 5747.54 of the Revised Code, to withhold from the distribution of the local government fund an amount sufficient to discharge the obligation.
As used in this section:
(A) "Construction" means the building and initial equipping of new structures.
(B) "Acquisition" means "acquisition" as defined in the rules of the department, which may include the purchase, remodeling, and initial equipping of existing structures.