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Ohio Statutes, Title 51

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Title 51, Public Welfare

31 chapters · 2,012 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 512,012 Ch 5123, Department of Developmental Disabilities182 Ch 5101, Department of Job and Family Service…145 Ch 5119, Department of Behavioral Health121 Ch 5120, Department of Rehabilitation and Cor…121 Ch 5165, Medicaid Coverage of Nursing Facilit…116 Ch 5103, Placement of Children113 Ch 5164, Medicaid State Plan Services113 Ch 5126, County Boards of Developmental Disab…111 Ch 5180, Department of Children and Youth94 Ch 5124, Intermediate Care Facility for Indiv…80 Ch 5153, County Children Services72 Ch 5104, Child Day-care69 Ch 5162, Medicaid and Medicaid Funds67 Ch 5168, Hospital Care Assurance Program; Hea…66

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.10 Parole board
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(A)(1) The parole board shall consist of up to twelve members, one of whom shall be designated as chairperson by the director of the department of rehabilitation and correction and who shall continue as chairperson until a successor is designated, and any other personnel that are…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.101 Full board hearings
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(A)(1)(a) A victim of a violation of section 2903.01 or 2903.02 of the Revised Code, an offense of violence that is a felony of the first, second, or third degree, or an offense punished by a sentence of life imprisonment, the victim's representative, or any person described in d…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.102 Electronic recordings of parole board hearings
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(A) As used in this section: (1) "Member of the victim's family" has the same meaning as in section 2930.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Person entitled to receive the electronic recording of a specified parole board hearing" means any of the following persons who are entitled to re…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.11 Oaths - subpoenas - witnesses

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In the exercise of any of the powers vested in the adult parole authority, the chief of the authority, any member of the board, or any hearing officer may administer oaths and in the name of the authority may issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum. The authority may compel the…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.12 General supervision of probation and parole

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The adult parole authority shall exercise general supervision over the work of all probation and parole officers throughout the state, excluding those appointed in county probation departments and those appointed by municipal judges.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.18 Interstate compact for supervision of parolees and probationers definitions

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For the purposes of Chapter 5149. of the Revised Code, all of the following apply: (A) "State, states, or States" means one or several of the fifty states of the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia. (B) The term "parole" includes post-rele…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.21 Interstate compact for adult offender supervision

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The "interstate compact for adult offender supervision" is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining in that compact in the form substantially as follows: "INTERSTATE COMPACT FOR ADULT OFFENDER SUPERVISION ARTICLE I PURPOSE The compacti…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.22 Ohio council for interstate adult offender supervision

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There is hereby established the Ohio council for interstate adult offender supervision pursuant to Article IV of the interstate compact for adult offender supervision. The council shall be comprised of at least twelve members. One member shall be the compact administrator for thi…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.23 Deputizing employees to effect return of violators

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(A) The chief of the adult parole authority may deputize any person regularly employed by another state to act as an officer and agent of this state in effecting the return of any person who has violated the terms and conditions of parole or probation as granted by this state. In…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.24 Restricting release on bond or final release

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(A) When a sending state places a hold warrant or a detainer warrant on an offender supervised under the interstate compact for adult offender supervision who is in custody in this state and that warrant does not provide that the offender may be released on bond pending return to…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.30 Community corrections program definitions

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As used in sections 5149.30 to 5149.37 of the Revised Code: (A) "Community corrections programs" include, but are not limited to, probation, parole, preventive or diversionary corrections programs, release-on-recognizance programs, prosecutorial diversion programs, specialized tr…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.31 Subsidies and standards for community-based corrections programs; Eligibility

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(A) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall do all of the following: (1) Establish and administer a program of subsidies for eligible counties and groups of counties for felony offenders and a program of subsidies for eligible municipal corporations, counties, and g…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.311 Establishment and administration of probation improvement grant and probation incentive grant

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(A) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall establish and administer the probation improvement grant and the probation incentive grant for common pleas, municipal, and county court probation departments and community-based correctional facilities that supervise offe…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.32 Eligibility for funds from subsidy programs

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To be eligible for funds from the subsidy programs established under division (A)(1) of section 5149.31 of the Revised Code, a municipal corporation, county, or group of counties shall comply with all of the following that are relevant: (A) Maintain programs that meet the standar…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.33 Prohibiting reducing local funding

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No municipal corporation, county, or group of counties receiving a subsidy under division (A)(1) of section 5149.31 of the Revised Code shall reduce, by the amount of the subsidy it receives or by a greater or lesser amount, the amount of local, nonfederal funds it expends for co…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.34 Local corrections planning board

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(A)(1) If a county desires to receive a subsidy from a subsidy program established under division (A)(1) of section 5149.31 of the Revised Code for community corrections programs as described in division (A)(2) of that section, the board of county commissioners of the county shal…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.35 Joint county corrections planning board

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The boards of county commissioners of two or more counties may enter into an agreement for the joint development, implementation, and operation of community corrections programs and may establish and maintain a joint county corrections planning board. Subject to division (A)(2) o…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.36 Awarding subsidies to eligible municipal corporations and counties

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Subject to appropriations by the general assembly, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall award subsidies to eligible municipal corporations, counties, and groups of counties pursuant to the subsidy programs described in division (A)(1) of section 5149.31 of the Re…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.37 No limitation on powers of department of rehabilitation and correction

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No provision of sections 5149.30 to 5149.36 of the Revised Code shall be construed to impose limitations upon the power of the department of rehabilitation and correction under Chapters 5120. and 5149. of the Revised Code to afford municipal corporations and counties with and to …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5149.38 Memorandum of understanding regarding local confinement

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(A) In each voluntary county, subject to division (B) of this section and not later than the deadlines established by the department of rehabilitation and correction in division (B)(3)(b)(ii) of section 2929.34 of the Revised Code, a county commissioner representing the board of …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.01 County children services definitions

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(A) As used in the Revised Code, "public children services agency" means an entity specified in section 5153.02 of the Revised Code that has assumed the powers and duties of the children services function prescribed by this chapter for a county. (B) As used in this chapter: (1) "…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.02 Who may serve as county public children services agency

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Each county shall have a public children services agency. Any of the following may be the public children services agency: (A) A county children services board; (B) A county department of job and family services; (C) A private or government entity designated under section 307.981…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.03 Appointment to county board

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If a county children services board is a public children services agency for a county, the board of county commissioners shall appoint five members of the county children services board and for good cause may remove any member so appointed. Each of these members shall be appointe…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.04 Officers - meetings

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A county children services board appointed under section 5153.03 of the Revised Code shall elect one of its members as chairperson and another as secretary. The chairperson may appoint committees composed of board members and other persons interested in child care. A majority of …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.05 Advisory committee on children services

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If a county children services board appointed under section 5153.03 of the Revised Code is a public children services agency for a county, the board may appoint an advisory committee on children services. If an entity specified in division (B) or (C) of section 5153.02 of the Rev…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.06 Employment contract with executive director

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The county children services board may enter into a written contract with the board's executive director specifying terms and conditions of the executive director's employment. The executive director shall not be in the classified civil service. The period of the contract shall n…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.10 Executive director - inquiry into community conditions

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Each public children services agency shall designate an executive officer known as the "executive director," who shall not be in the classified civil service. The superintendent of the children's home, the county director of job and family services, or other individual may serve …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.11 Executive director - powers and duties

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The executive director shall administer the work of the public children services agency, subject to the rules of the agency. With the approval of the agency, the executive director shall appoint all other employees except the superintendent of any institution maintained by the ag…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.111 Criminal records check

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(A)(1) The executive director of a public children services agency shall request the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to conduct a criminal records check with respect to any applicant who has applied to the agency for employment as a perso…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.112 Caseworker qualifications

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(A) A public children services agency may hire as a caseworker only the following: (1) A person who has a bachelor's degree in human services-related studies; (2) A person who has a bachelor's degree in any field and has been employed for at least two years in a human services-re…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.113 Fitness of child welfare applicant

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(A)(1) As used in this section, "applicant" has the same meaning as in section 5153.111 of the Revised Code, and includes an intern applicant or a volunteer applicant. (2) "Intern applicant" means a trainee seeking practical educational and career experience who is under consider…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.12 Classified civil service status of employees

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All employees of the public children services agency shall be in the classified civil service. The agency may establish compensation rates and vacation benefits for any of its employees. Insofar as practicable, all employees holding positions in the classified service, whose duti…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.121 Permitting employee sharing between department and county board

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(A) The board of county commissioners and the county children services board may agree to permit any employee of the department of children and youth also to perform duties for the county children services board, or to permit any employee of the county children services board als…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.122 Caseworker in-service training

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Each PCSA caseworker hired after January 1, 2007, shall complete in-service training during the first year of the caseworker's continuous employment as a PCSA caseworker, except that the executive director of the public children services agency may waive the training requirement …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.123 Caseworker supervisor in-service training

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Each PCSA caseworker supervisor shall complete in-service training during the first year of the supervisor's continuous employment as a PCSA caseworker supervisor. The training shall include courses in screening reports of child abuse, neglect, or dependency. After a PCSA casewor…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.124 Rules implementing training requirements

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(A)(1) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the training requirements of sections 5153.122 and 5153.123 of the Revised Code. (2) Not later than nine months after September 30, 2021, the director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapte…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.125 Determining caseworker's training needs

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Each PCSA caseworker supervisor shall work with each PCSA caseworker the supervisor supervises to determine the caseworker's training needs in accordance with, and ensure the caseworker's compliance with, the training requirements of section 5153.122 of the Revised Code. Once eve…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.126 Determining supervisor's training needs

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The executive director of each public children services agency or a person designated by the executive director shall work with each PCSA caseworker supervisor employed by the agency to determine the supervisor's training needs in accordance with, and ensure the supervisor's comp…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.127 Collect and maintaining data from individual training needs assessment forms

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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 casework…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.13 Bonds

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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 pe…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.131 Liability insurance

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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 liabi…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.14 Reports

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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 children and youth, the board of county commissioners, and the juvenile court. The …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.15 Vesting powers in single county agency

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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 ser…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.16 Duties of agency

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(A) Except as provided in section 2151.422 of the Revised Code, in accordance with rules adopted under section 5153.166 of the Revised Code, and on behalf of children in the county whom the public children services agency considers to be in need of public care or protective servi…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.161 Place for providing care

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(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…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.162 Operation, acquisition, or maintenance of children's home, training school, or other institution for care of children

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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 …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.163 Payments to adoptive parent of child with special needs; kinship guardian assistance

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(A) As used in this section: (1) "Adoptive parent" means, as the context requires, a prospective adoptive parent or an adoptive parent. (2) "Relative" has the same meaning as in section 5180.42 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Before a child's adoption is finalized, a public children …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.165 Emergency benefits and services necessary to prevent removal or permit return of child to home

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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 …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.166 Additional rules governing agency performance of duties

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In addition to other rules specifically authorized by the Revised Code, the director of children and youth may adopt rules governing public children services agencies' performance of their family services duties, including the family services duties that public children services …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5153.17 Maintenance of records

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(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 departmen…