Title 3, Title 3. Counties

(A) As used in this section, "county office" means the office of county auditor, county treasurer, county sheriff, clerk of the court of common pleas, county recorder, county commissioner, prosecuting attorney, county engineer, or county coroner.(B) Notwithstanding anything to th…

(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, upon notifying the board of county commissioners, any appointing authority of a county office, department, commission, board, or body, or of a common pleas court, county court, or county-operated municipal court as defined in section 1…

All the fees, costs, percentages, penalties, allowances, and other perquisites collected or received by law as compensation for services by a county auditor, county treasurer, probate judge, sheriff, clerk of the court of common pleas, county engineer, or county recorder, shall b…

Each probate judge, county auditor, county treasurer, clerk of the court of common pleas, sheriff, county engineer, and county recorder shall charge and collect the fees, costs, percentages, allowances, and compensation allowed by law, and shall give to the person making such pay…

Each officer named in section 325.27 of the Revised Code shall keep full and regular accounts of all official fees, costs, percentages, penalties, allowances, or other perquisites charged or collected by him, and such accounts shall be records of the offices, shall belong to the …

(A) On the first business day of each month, and at the end of the officer's term of office, each officer named in section 325.27 of the Revised Code shall pay into the county treasury, to the credit of the general county fund, on the warrant of the county auditor, all fees, cost…

Except as otherwise provided in section 311.171 of the Revised Code, no county officer named in section 325.27 of the Revised Code shall make any reduction, abatement, or remission of any fees, costs, percentages, penalties, allowances, or perquisites of any kind, required to be …

(A) Notwithstanding sections 325.27 and 325.31 of the Revised Code, all fees retained by the clerk of courts under Chapters 1548., 4505., and 4519. of the Revised Code, all fees the clerk of courts receives as a third-party administrator of the motor vehicle skills test under sec…

No salaried county official, shall remit a fee or part thereof, or shall collect a fee other than that prescribed by law. The person furnishing the information upon which a conviction results shall receive one half of the fine collected.

In each county owing a bonded debt, there shall be a board, designated as the trustees of the sinking fund, composed of the prosecuting attorney, the county auditor, and the county treasurer. The prosecuting attorney shall be the president of such board and the county auditor sha…

The board of trustees of the sinking fund shall provide for the payment of all bonds issued by the county and the interest maturing thereon. All taxes, assessments, and other moneys collected for such purposes, or held in the county treasury to the credit of the sinking fund, sha…

Immediately after each semiannual settlement of taxes and assessments, the county auditor shall report to the board of trustees of the sinking fund the amount in the county treasury to the credit of the sinking fund.

The board of trustees of the sinking fund shall invest all moneys subject to its control in bonds of the United States, of this state, or of a municipal corporation, school district, township, or county of the state, and shall hold in reserve in cash only such sums as may be need…

The meetings of the board of trustees of the sinking fund shall be open to the public, and all questions relating to the purchase or sale of securities or the payment of bonds or interest shall be decided by a yea and nay vote, which vote shall be recorded on the journal of such …

Money shall be drawn from the county treasury for investment or disbursement by the board of trustees of the sinking fund by the issuance of a voucher, signed by all the members of the board and directed to the county auditor, on which a warrant shall be drawn on the county treas…

The board of trustees of the sinking fund shall keep a full and complete record of its transactions, a complete record of the funded debt of the county specifying the dates, purposes, amounts, numbers, maturities, and rates, and maturities of interest installments on such debt, w…

On or before the first Monday in May of each year, the board of trustees of the sinking fund shall certify to the board of county commissioners the rate of tax necessary to provide a sinking fund for the payment, at maturity, of bonds issued by the county prior to August 17, 1921…

In each county, except as provided in section 329.40 of the Revised Code, there shall be a county department of job and family services which, when so established, shall be governed by this chapter. The department shall consist of a county director of job and family services appo…

Whenever the county department of welfare, county department of human services, county director of welfare, or county director of human services is referred to or designated in the Revised Code or any rule, contract, or other document, the reference or designation shall be deemed…

Under the control and direction of the board of county commissioners, the county director of job and family services shall have full charge of the county department of job and family services. The director shall prepare the annual budget estimate of the department and submit it t…

(A) The board of county commissioners may, in addition to the county director of job and family services, appoint administrators to oversee services provided by the county department of job and family services, subject to the following limitations:(1) If the county has a populati…

Within the appropriation for personal services, each county department of job and family services may employ the necessary employees who, except for the county director of job and family services as provided in section 329.02 of the Revised Code, shall be in the classified servic…

Each county department of job and family services shall have hours of operation outside the county department's normal hours of operation during which the county department will accept from employed individuals applications for the programs administered by the county department a…

(A) As used in this section, "applicant" or "recipient" means either of the following:(1) An applicant for or participant in the Ohio works first program established under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code;(2) An applicant for or recipient of cash assistance provided under the re…

(A) The county department of job and family services shall have, exercise, and perform the following powers and duties: (1) Perform any duties assigned by the state department of job and family services, department of children and youth, or department of medicaid regarding the pr…

In each county in which there is a county transit board established by section 306.01 of the Revised Code, a county transit system operated under that section, or a regional transit authority created under section 306.32 of the Revised Code, the county department of job and famil…

Each county department of job and family services shall certify eligible public assistance and nonpublic assistance households for the supplemental nutrition assistance program in accordance with federal and state law to enable low-income households to participate in the suppleme…

The county department of job and family services may administer or assist in administering any state or local family services duty in addition to those mentioned in section 329.04 of the Revised Code, supported wholly or in part by public funds from any source provided by agreeme…

The county department of job and family services shall make voter registration applications as prescribed by the secretary of state under section 3503.10 of the Revised Code available to persons who are applying for, receiving assistance from, or participating in any of the follo…

(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the board of county commissioners shall establish a county family services planning committee. The board shall appoint a member to represent the county department of job and family services; an employee in the classified civ…

Wherever a county human services planning committee is referred to or designated in the Revised Code or any rule, contract, or other document, the reference or designation shall be deemed to refer to a county family services planning committee.

As used in this section, "Ohio works first" and, "Title IV-A" have the same meanings as in section 5107.02 of the Revised Code. Each county department of job and family services shall have at least one Ohio works first ombudsperson. A county department may provide for an Ohio wor…

All moneys received by each county from the state, or from the federal government under the "Social Security Act," or any act of the congress amendatory of or in substitution for such act, for Ohio works first under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code, the prevention, retention, an…

All the property, records, files, and other documents and papers used in and necessary for the performance of the functions belonging to or in the possession of any board, agency, or department, the powers and duties of which are transferred to the county department of job and fa…

As used in sections 329.11 to 329.14 of the Revised Code:(A) "Eligible education institution" means an institution described in 20 U.S.C. 1088(a)(1) or 1141(a), as amended, or an area vocational education school as defined in 20 U.S.C. 2471(4), as amended.(B) "Federal poverty lin…

(A) A county department of job and family services may establish an individual development account program for residents of the county. The program shall provide for establishment of accounts for participants and acceptance of contributions from individuals and entities, includin…

A fiduciary organization may establish an individual development account only in a financial institution insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation or in accordance with section 1733.041 of the Revised Code.Not later than the thirtieth day of January of each year, a fid…

(A) An individual whose household income does not exceed two hundred per cent of the federal poverty line is eligible to participate in an individual development account program established by the county department of job and family services of the county in which the individual …

Upon determining that a person or persons are eligible for benefits or services under any assistance program administered by the county department of job and family services, the county department may issue an identification card to the person or persons. The county department sh…

(A)(1) The boards of county commissioners of any two or more counties, by entering into a written agreement, may form a joint county department of job and family services to perform the duties, provide the services, and operate the programs required under this chapter. The agreem…

(A) The board of directors of a joint county department of job and family services formed under section 329.40 of the Revised Code shall appoint and fix the compensation of the director of the department. The director shall serve at the pleasure of the board of directors. Under t…

The county auditor of the county with the largest population that formed a joint county department of job and family services under section 329.40 of the Revised Code shall serve as the fiscal officer of the joint county department, and the county treasurer of that county shall s…

(A) The prosecuting attorney of the county with the largest population that formed a joint county department of job and family services under section 329.40 of the Revised Code shall serve as the legal advisor of the board of directors of the joint county department, unless the c…

(A) The board of directors of a joint county department of job and family services formed under section 329.40 of the Revised Code may acquire, by purchase or lease, real property, equipment, and systems to improve, maintain, or operate family service programs within the territor…

(A)(1) A board of county commissioners that has entered into an agreement under section 329.40 of the Revised Code establishing a joint county department of job and family services may adopt a resolution requesting to withdraw from the agreement. Upon adopting such a resolution, …

(A) A board of county commissioners that formed a joint county department of job and family services under section 329.40 of the Revised Code, by adopting a resolution, may propose the removal of another county that formed the joint county department. The board of county commissi…