Title 1, Title 1. State Government

In addition to those powers enumerated in Chapters 123. and 125. of the Revised Code and as provided elsewhere by law, the powers, duties, and functions of the department of administrative services not specifically vested in and assigned to, or to be performed by, the state perso…

The state personnel board of review shall be composed of three members, not more than two of whom shall be affiliated with the same political party, to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Terms of office shall be for six years, commencing on th…

No person shall be appointed, removed, transferred, laid off, suspended, reinstated, promoted, or reduced as an officer or employee in the civil service, in any manner or by any means other than those prescribed in this chapter, and the rules of the director of administrative ser…

(A) The director of administrative services shall appoint examiners, inspectors, clerks, and other assistants as necessary to carry out sections 124.01 to 124.64 of the Revised Code. (B) Each state agency shall pay the cost of the services and facilities furnished to it by the de…

The director of administrative services shall maintain suitable offices. The officers of the state, or any political subdivision thereof, at any place where examinations or hearings are directed to be held by the state personnel board of review or the director, shall allow the re…

The director of administrative services shall do all of the following: (A) Prescribe, amend, and enforce administrative rules for the purpose of carrying out the functions, powers, and duties vested in and imposed upon the director by this chapter. Except in the case of rules ado…

(A) Any judgment creditor of an employee or officer of the state may maintain against the state a proceeding in garnishment of personal earnings under Chapter 2716. of the Revised Code to subject to the payment of the creditor's or judgment creditor's judgment any salary, wages, …

The civil service of the state and the several counties, cities, civil service townships, city health districts, general health districts, and city school districts of the state shall be divided into the unclassified service and the classified service. (A) The unclassified servic…

(A) Within ninety days after an appointing authority appoints an employee to an unclassified position in the service of the state, the appointing authority shall notify the department of administrative services of that appointment. (B) On the date an appointing authority appoints…

(A) As used in this section, "state employee" means a state employee who does not accrue vacation leave under section 124.134 of the Revised Code.(B) Each full-time state employee or county department of job and family services employee, including full-time hourly rate employees,…

An employee of a state institution of higher education to whom section 124.13 of the Revised Code is applicable, which is limited in any case to employees thereof in the classified service, who became an employee of such state institution in connection with the transfer thereto o…

(A) As used in this section: (1) "Emergency medical service," "EMT-basic," "EMT-I," "first responder," and "paramedic" have the same meanings as in section 4765.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Volunteer firefighter" has the same meaning as in section 146.01 of the Revised Code. (B) …

(A) As used in this section: (1) "Funeral honors detail" means a funeral honors detail as described in the "National Defense Authorization Act of 2003," 116 Stat. 2556, 10 U.S.C. 1491.(2) "State employee" means a state employee who is trained to participate in a funeral honors de…

(A) As used in this section: (1) "Foster caregiver" has the same meaning as in section 5103.02 of the Revised Code. (2) "Kinship caregiver" has the same meaning as in section 5180.50 of the Revised Code. (B) Each permanent full-time and permanent part-time employee paid in accord…

A state employee who is a certified disaster service volunteer of the American red cross or who is a verified team rubicon volunteer may be granted leave from work with pay for not to exceed thirty work days in each year to participate in specialized disaster relief services, upo…

The director of administrative services may establish, by rule adopted under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, an experimental program to be implemented on a limited basis only which grants to employees in the service of the state vacation leave, sick leave, disability leave, per…

(A) Each full-time permanent state employee paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the Revised Code and those employees listed in divisions (B)(2) and (4) of section 124.14 of the Revised Code shall be credited with vacation leave with full pay according to length of service …

(A) State employees are entitled to paid leave when summoned for jury duty by a court of competent jurisdiction. (B) State employees are entitled to paid leave when subpoenaed to appear before any court, commission, board, or other legally constituted body authorized by law to co…

(A) As used in this section: (1) "Fetal death" has the same meaning as in section 3705.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Stillborn" means that an infant of at least twenty weeks of gestation suffered a fetal death. (B)(1) Each permanent full-time and permanent part-time employee paid …

There is hereby created in the state treasury the parental leave benefit fund. The director of administrative services shall use moneys credited to the fund solely for the payment of parental leave benefits available to employees paid by warrant of the director of budget and mana…

The director of administrative services may establish paid leaves and employee benefits for eligible full-time fire fighters employed by the adjutant general's department that are comparable to paid leaves and employee benefits provided to other full-time permanent employees paid…

(A) A full-time state employee shall receive up to two hundred forty hours of leave with pay during each calendar year to use during those hours when the employee is absent from work because of the employee's donation of any portion of an adult liver or because of the employee's …

(A)(1) The director of administrative services shall establish, and may modify or rescind, a job classification plan for all positions, offices, and employments in the service of the state. The director shall group jobs within a classification so that the positions are similar en…

The director of administrative services may establish, by rule adopted under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, an appointment incentive program that allows an appointing authority to pay to an officer or employee described in division (A)(30) of section 124.11, division (B)(2) of…

Twenty-five per cent of the compensation paid under section 124.15 or 124.152 of the Revised Code to a person designated as a chaplain or religious services administrator, while serving in a full-time capacity in such position, shall be considered to be a housing allowance. The a…

(A) Board and commission members appointed prior to July 1, 1991, shall be paid a salary or wage in accordance with the following schedules of rates: Schedule B Pay Ranges and Step ValuesRangeStep 1Step 2Step 3Step 423Hourly5.725.916.106.31Annually11897.6012292.8012688.0013124.80…

(A) As used in this section, "compensation" includes, but is not limited to, wages and salary, travel allowances paid pursuant to section 101.27 of the Revised Code, and benefits paid pursuant to sections 124.13, 124.19, 124.381, 124.382, 124.383, 124.384, 124.385, and 124.386 of…

(A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, each exempt employee shall be paid a salary or wage in accordance with schedule E-1 or schedule E-2 of division (B) of this section. (2) Each exempt employee who holds a position in the unclassified civil service pursu…

The director of administrative services may institute an employee awards system designed to encourage all state employees to submit suggestions that will reduce the costs, or improve the quality, of state services. Employee awards granted under the system may be either monetary o…

(A) Forty hours shall be the standard work week for all employees whose salary or wage is paid in whole or in part by the state or by any state-supported college or university. When any employee whose salary or wage is paid in whole or in part by the state or by any state-support…

(A) Except as provided in divisions (M) and (P) of this section, any employee paid in accordance with schedule B of section 124.15 or schedule E-1 of section 124.152 of the Revised Code is eligible for the pay supplements provided in this section upon application by the appointin…

(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the professional development fund. The director of administrative services shall use moneys credited to the fund to pay for programs that provide professional development opportunities for employees who are exempt from collective …

(A) As used in this section, "active payroll" means conditions under which an employee is in active pay status or eligible to receive pay for an approved leave of absence including, but not limited to, occupational injury leave, disability leave, or workers' compensation. (B)(1) …

(A) State holidays shall be the first day of January, the third Monday in January, the third Monday in February, the day designated in the "Act of June 28, 1968," 82 Stat. 250, 5 U.S.C. 6103, as amended, for the commemoration of Memorial day, the nineteenth day of June, the fourt…

The director of administrative services, with the approval of the state personnel board of review, shall adopt rules: (A) For appointment, promotions, transfers, layoffs, suspensions, reductions, reinstatements, and removals in and examinations and registrations for offices and p…

The director of administrative services may divide the state into civil service districts, and establish an officer in each of such districts. The director may place in charge of each such district an assistant whose duties and compensation shall be determined and fixed by the ru…

Rules establishing educational requirements as a condition of taking a civil service examination shall only be adopted with respect to positions for which educational requirements are expressly imposed by a section of the Revised Code or federal requirements or for which the dire…

(A) All applicants for positions and places in the classified service shall be subject to examination, except for applicants for positions as professional or certified service and paraprofessional employees of county boards of developmental disabilities, who shall be hired in the…

(A) As used in this section, "legally blind person" means any person who qualifies as being blind under any Ohio or federal statute, or any rule adopted thereunder. As used in this section, "legally deaf person" means any person who qualifies as being deaf under any Ohio or feder…

(A) Notwithstanding sections 124.01 to 124.64 and Chapter 145. of the Revised Code, the examinations of applicants for the positions of deputy mine inspector, superintendent of rescue stations, assistant superintendent of rescue stations, electrical inspectors, and mine chemists …

As used in this section, "professional employee" has the same meaning as in section 5126.20 of the Revised Code and "registered service employee" means a service employee, as defined in section 5126.20 of the Revised Code, who is registered under section 5126.25 of the Revised Co…

The director of administrative services shall require persons applying for an examination for original appointment in the service of the state to file with the director or the director's designee, within reasonable time prior to the examination, a formal application, in which the…

From the returns of examinations for positions in the service of the state, the director of administrative services or the director's designee shall prepare an eligible list of the persons whose general average standing upon examinations for the class or position is not less than…

(A) Appointments to all positions in the classified civil service, that are not filled by promotion, transfer, or reduction, as provided in sections 124.01 to 124.64 of the Revised Code and the rules of the director prescribed under those sections, shall be made only from those p…

Any employee in the classified service of the state or any county, city, city health district, general health district, or city school district who is appointed to a position under section 124.30 of the Revised Code, and either demonstrates merit and fitness for the position by s…

(A) Notwithstanding any provision of sections 124.321 to 124.328 of the Revised Code to the contrary, if the operation of an appointing authority is dependent on funds from the federal government and those funds are not available or have not been received by the appointing author…