Ohio Administrative Code

19.03 PDF: Except as provided in this rule, each and any of the powers and duties, including the making, signing and issuance of confirmations, acknowledgements, receipts, and consents, accepting or refunding of fees, assignments and certifications, devolved upon the director of …

19.03 PDF: The rules in this chapter, and confirmations issued pursuant to or confirmed by those rules, may be relied upon by issuers of restricted bonds, the beneficiaries of the proceeds from and the owners of such bonds, and other participants in the issuance of such bonds, wi…

19.03 PDF: (A) DefinitionsFor the purposes of administrative rules promulgated in accordance with section 1347.15 of the Revised Code, the following definitions apply:(1) "Access" as a noun means an opportunity to copy, view, or otherwise perceive whereas "access" as a verb means…

19.03 PDF: (A) Any person may request notice of the time and place of any and all regularly scheduled meetings of boards and commissions staffed by the Ohio development services agency by:(1) Writing to "Ohio Development Services Agency, Communications and Marketing Division, 77 …

19.03 PDF: In the event that an "Impacted City" enters into a financial agreement for a project with a community urban redevelopment corporation pursuant to section 1728.07 of the Revised Code, subsequent revocation of a workable program certification does not affect the project …

19.03 PDF: (A) Applications for workable program certification will be signed by the executive officer of the applying municipal corporation and set forth each element required by the criteria of this rule in sufficient detail to enable the director of development to make a deter…

19.03 PDF: (A) Written notice of the director of development's action will be sent by electronic mail to the applicant within sixty days of receipt of an application. The director may take such action only after an application has been determined to completely address the criteri…

19.03 PDF: (A) In order to retain the certification of a workable program certified other than on the basis of current federal certification, a municipal corporation will submit to the director of development two years after certification and every two years thereafter the follow…

19.03 PDF: (A) If upon review of the statement required by paragraph (A) of rule 122:1-1-04 of the Administrative Code, the director of development determines that a workable program no longer meets the criteria of rule 122:1-1-02 of the Administrative Code, then the director wil…

19.03 PDF: (A) The state's application fee for applications submitted to a municipal corporation or county to enter into an agreement under section 5709.88 of the Revised Code shall be seven hundred fifty dollars.(B) Payment shall be in the form of a check or money order made pay…

19.03 PDF: (A) Servicing fee. A non-refundable servicing fee of four hundred dollars is due at the time of application approval. Upon approval notification from the director of development, applicants will have thirty days to submit payment of the fee. Grant of tax credit availab…

19.03 PDF: (A) Expense report form. Employers may submit an expense report form to the director of development after the first day and before the twenty-first day of January of the year following the year for which the director certified the employer's training expenses.(1) The e…

19.03 PDF: (A) The employer may submit qualifying tax credi eligible training expenses incurred by the employer in conjunction with a commercial driver's license training conducted by either third-party or internal training providers. (B) Training costs incurred by an employer fo…

11.15 PDF: As used in the rules of the "Home Weatherization Assistance Program," "termination" means action taken by the office of energy and redevelopment in the community services division ("OERD/CSD") to terminate the grantee's grant and cease payment in whole or in part after…

11.15 PDF: (A) Termination in general. The deputy chief of the community services division may terminate home weatherization assistance program ("HWAP") funding to a grantee in any of the following instances:(1) The deputy chief of the community services division determines that …

11.15 PDF: (A) The hearing shall be within thirty days of the request, but not prior to fourteen days, of the date of the "Notification of Intent to Terminate" unless otherwise agreed upon in writing by both the division and the grantee.(B) The hearing will be held at such places…

11.15 PDF: (A) The hearing officer shall, within fifteen calendar days following the hearing, provide the deputy chief of the community services division and the chairperson of the governing board of the grantee with a proposed written decision. A proposed decision shall include …

19.03 PDF: (A) "Bid bond" means a bond conditioned upon the bidder on a contract entering into the contract, and furnishing the required payment and performance bonds.(B) "Contract" means a written obligation of the principal requiring the furnishing of services, supplies, labor,…

19.03 PDF: (A) The development service agency guarantees sureties participating in the EDGE bond guarantee program against a portion of their losses incurred and paid as a result of a principal's breach of the terms of a bid bond or final bond on any eligible contract. The direct…

19.03 PDF: (A) A principal is ineligible for a development services agency bond guarantee under one or more of the following circumstances;(1) An owner, officer, director, or general partner of the principal is under indictment for, or has been convicted of a felony involving pro…

19.03 PDF: (A) The surety shall monitor the principal's progress on bonded contracts guaranteed by the development services agency in a reasonable manner determined by the surety, which may include job status reports from obligees of final bonds guaranteed by the development serv…

19.03 PDF: (A) A surety shall submit claims for reimbursement of losses on a bond guarantee on a form approved by the development services agency according to the terms of the EDGE bond guarantee agreement entered into between the surety and the development services agency. Claim…

19.03 PDF: (A) Veteran-friendly business enterprise certification process(1) To be certified as a veteran-friendly business enterprise, an applicant business shall be in good standing with federal, state, and local governments, and shall apply to the department of administrative …

19.03 PDF: The following definitions apply to this chapter.(A) "Association" means an association organized pursuant to Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code.(B) "Bidder" means any individual(s) that intend to submit or does submit a bid or a proposal to the state of Ohio for the pur…

19.03 PDF: (A) All applications for certification, expedited certification, or re-certification into the minority business enterprise (MBE); encouraging diversity, growth, and equity (EDGE); or women-owned business enterprise (WBE) programs are filed with the Ohio department of d…

19.03 PDF: (A) All MBE, EDGE, or WBE-certified businesses must apply for re-certification prior to their certification's expiration date. The at least fifty-one per cent eligible owner(s) must demonstrate to the Ohio department of administrative services, equal opportunity divisi…

19.03 PDF: (A) A business meeting the requirements of this chapter through its current valid certification in another entity's MBE, EDGE, or WBE program that is substantially the same or similar to Ohio's program(s) (the equivalent program) (including another state's WBE program …

19.03 PDF: (A) Two or more businesses may request certification as an MBE, EDGE, or WBE-certified joint venture (JV):(1) one of the businesses must be an Ohio-certified business partnering or otherwise agreeing to join with another business or businesses for the purpose of seekin…

19.03 PDF: (A) An MBE, EDGE, or WBE-certified business must have a necessary and useful role in the transaction that is real and required to complete the contract, of a kind for which there is a market outside the context of the certification program(s). A necessary and useful ro…

19.03 PDF: (A) The coordinator may revoke an MBE, EDGE, or WBE certification if the coordinator determines that a certified business and/or its at least fifty-one per cent eligible owner(s) do not meet the criteria set forth in this chapter. The revocation may be the result of a …

19.03 PDF: The director of the department of administrative services provides adjudication hearings in accordance with sections 119.06 to 119.13 of the Revised Code, and conducts adjudication hearings in accordance with those provisions. If an applicant business or certified busi…

19.03 PDF: (A) Pursuant to section 123.152 of the Revised Code, the director of the Ohio department of administrative services (director) shall establish annual procurement percentage goal(s) for each state agency for contracting with EDGE-certified business(es), in the awarding …

19.03 PDF: (A) Each state agency or state university ("the contracting agency") awarding a contract for goods, information technology services, construction, architecture, engineering, or professional services, subject to section 123.152 of the Revised Code, shall specify in each…

19.03 PDF: (A) Each state agency shall file an annual expenditure projection report (report) with the coordinator by June fifteen of each fiscal year, detailing the state agency's projected expenditure goals for the following fiscal year with MBE-certified businesses pursuant to …

19.03 PDF: (A) Each state agency will file a "Quarterly Expenditure Report" (Report) with the Ohio department of administrative services, equal opportunity division (DAS/EOD) or DAS/EOD will acquire a report where possible through existing state accounting systems by October fift…

19.03 PDF: (A) For every procurement opportunity issued by the Ohio department of administrative services or by any other state agency or state university (the "contracting agency"), the respective contracting agency shall determine whether an EDGE participation goal is feasible …

19.03 PDF: (A) The Ohio department of administrative service, equal opportunity division (DAS/EOD) shall collect the necessary data to assess, determine, and evaluate the development, and direction of the EDGE program. The coordinator shall use the collected data to assist in the…

19.03 PDF: (A) The state agency or state university's (the "contracting agency's") equal employment opportunity officer (officer) shall provide a "Waiver Compliance Report" (report) upon request by the coordinator. The report shall include a description of the contracting agency'…

19.03 PDF: As used in rules 122:16-1-02 to 122:16-1-07 of the Administrative Code:(A) "Affiliated entities" means any person that (directly or indirectly) owns or controls, is owned or controlled by, or is under common ownership or control with, the taxpayer. For purposes of this…

19.03 PDF: (A) Servicing fees. At the time each taxpayer enters into the tax credit agreement, the taxpayer shall pay to the development services agency a servicing fee, in an amount equal to four hundred dollars times the term of years of the tax credit. A separate servicing fee…

19.03 PDF: (A) Except as otherwise provided in this rule, the authority may grant a tax credit pursuant to section 122.171 of the Revised Code if the authority determines all of the following:(1) The taxpayer proposing the project is an eligible business as defined in division (A…

19.03 PDF: (A) The authority shall not grant a tax credit under section 122.171 of the Revised Code in which the estimated value to the taxpayer exceeds seventy-five per cent of the state income tax revenue estimated to be withheld from full-time equivalent employees of the taxpa…

19.03 PDF: (A) Each taxpayer that is party to a tax credit agreement shall report to the director annually during the term of the tax credit the number of full-time equivalent employees employed by the taxpayer at the project site as a result of the project, the total payroll fro…

19.03 PDF: (A) In the event a taxpayer fails to retain the number of full-time equivalent employees set forth in the tax credit agreement, or if the authority finds that the taxpayer has failed to comply with any term or condition of the tax credit agreement and such failure cont…

19.03 PDF: (A) A taxpayer that relocates a substantial number of employment positions from other operations elsewhere in the state, other than the local jurisdiction of the project site, to the project site shall notify, by certified mail, delivery confirmed courier or acknowledg…

19.03 PDF: Capitalized terms used in rules 122:19-1-01 to 122:19-1-08 shall have the following meaning:(A) "Amendment" means any modification to the project, as described in an approved application including, but not limited to, changes in applicant, scope of the project, timelin…

19.03 PDF: (A) During an application period, an applicant may apply to the director on a form as approved and made available by the director. Specific application submission schedules shall be established by the director in the program policies published not less than three month…