| Sec. 505.38. (A) In each township or fire district that
has | 8 |
|
a fire department, the head of
the department shall be
a
fire | 9 |
|
chief, appointed by the board of township trustees, except
that, | 10 |
|
in a joint fire district, the fire chief shall be
appointed
by the | 11 |
|
board of fire district trustees.
Neither this section
nor any | 12 |
|
other section of the Revised Code requires, or shall be construed | 13 |
|
to require,
that the fire chief be a resident of
the township or | 14 |
|
fire district. | 15 |
| The board shall provide
for the employment of
firefighters
as | 16 |
| it
considers best and shall fix their
compensation. No person | 17 |
|
shall be
appointed as a permanent
full-time paid member, whose | 18 |
|
duties include
fire
fighting, of the fire department of any | 19 |
|
township or fire district
unless
that person has received a | 20 |
|
certificate issued under
former
section 3303.07 or section 4765.55 | 21 |
|
of the Revised Code
evidencing
satisfactory completion of a | 22 |
|
firefighter
training
program.
Those appointees shall continue in | 23 |
|
office until
removed
from office as provided by sections 733.35
to | 24 |
|
733.39
of the Revised Code. To
initiate removal proceedings,
and | 25 |
|
for
that purpose, the
board
shall designate the fire chief or
a | 26 |
| private citizen to
investigate the conduct and prepare the | 27 |
|
necessary charges in
conformity with
those sections. | 28 |
| (2) The person began serving as a permanent full-time paid | 44 |
|
firefighter with the fire department of a city or village
prior to | 45 |
|
July 2, 1970, or as a
volunteer firefighter with the fire | 46 |
|
department of a city,
village, or other township or fire district | 47 |
|
prior to
July 2, 1979, and receives a certificate issued under | 48 |
|
division
(C)(3) of section 4765.55 of
the Revised Code. | 49 |
| No person shall receive an appointment under this section,
in | 50 |
|
the case of a volunteer
firefighter, unless
the person has, not | 51 |
|
more than
sixty days prior to receiving
the
appointment, passed a | 52 |
|
physical examination, given by a
licensed
physician, a physician | 53 |
| assistant, a clinical nurse specialist, a certified nurse | 54 |
| practitioner, or a certified nurse-midwife, showing that
the | 55 |
| person meets the physical
requirements
necessary to perform
the | 56 |
| duties of the position to
which the
person is appointed as | 57 |
|
established by the board of
township trustees
having jurisdiction | 58 |
|
over the appointment. The
appointing authority, prior to
making
an | 59 |
|
appointment,
shall file with the
Ohio police
and fire
pension
fund | 60 |
|
or
the local volunteer fire fighters'
dependents
fund
board a
copy | 61 |
| of
the report or findings
of
that licensed
physician, physician | 62 |
| assistant, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse | 63 |
| practitioner, or certified nurse-midwife. The
professional fee for
| 64 |
|
the
physical examination
shall be paid
for
by the board of | 65 |
| township
trustees. | 66 |
| The board
may fix
the
compensation
for
the
fire prevention | 73 |
| officer and the fire prevention
officer's
deputies as it considers | 74 |
| best.
The board
shall appoint each fire prevention
officer
and | 75 |
| deputy for a
one-year term. An appointee may be reappointed
at the | 76 |
| end of a
term to another one-year term. Any appointee may
be | 77 |
| removed from
office during a term as provided by sections
733.35 | 78 |
| to 733.39 of
the Revised Code.
Section
505.45 of the
Revised Code
| 79 |
|
extends to
those officers. | 80 |
| (C)(1) Division (A) of this section
does not apply to
any | 81 |
|
township
that has a population of ten thousand or more
persons | 82 |
|
residing within the township and outside of any municipal | 83 |
|
corporation,
that has its own fire department employing
ten
or | 84 |
|
more full-time paid employees, and
that has a civil
service | 85 |
|
commission established under division (B) of section
124.40 of
the | 86 |
|
Revised Code.
The
township shall comply with
the
procedures
for | 87 |
|
the employment, promotion, and discharge of
firefighters
provided | 88 |
|
by Chapter 124. of the Revised Code, except
as
otherwise
provided | 89 |
| in divisions (C)(2) and (3) of this section. | 90 |
| (2) The board of
township trustees of the township may | 91 |
|
appoint
the fire
chief, and
any person so appointed shall be in | 92 |
|
the
unclassified
service under
section 124.11 of the Revised Code | 93 |
|
and
shall serve
at the pleasure
of the board.
Neither this section | 94 |
|
nor
any other section
of the
Revised Code requires, or shall be | 95 |
|
construed to require,
that the
fire chief be a resident of the | 96 |
|
township. A person
who
is
appointed fire chief
under these | 97 |
|
conditions
and who is removed by
the board or
resigns
from the | 98 |
|
position is entitled to return to
the classified service
in the | 99 |
|
township fire department in the
position held just
prior to the | 100 |
|
appointment as fire chief. | 101 |
| (6) Persons employed as
firefighters in
the township | 116 |
|
described in this division on the date a
civil service
commission | 117 |
|
is appointed pursuant to division (B) of
section 124.40
of the | 118 |
|
Revised Code, without being required
to pass a
competitive | 119 |
|
examination or a firefighter training
program,
shall retain
their | 120 |
|
employment and any rank previously granted
them by action of
the | 121 |
|
board of township trustees or otherwise, but
those
persons are | 122 |
|
eligible for promotion only by compliance with
Chapter
124. of the | 123 |
|
Revised Code. | 124 |
| (2) The person began serving as a permanent full-time paid | 151 |
|
firefighter with the fire department of a village or other city | 152 |
|
prior to July 2, 1970, or as a volunteer firefighter with the
fire | 153 |
|
department of a township, fire district, village, or other city | 154 |
|
prior to July 2, 1979, and receives a fire training certificate | 155 |
issued
under
division (C)(3) of section 4765.55 of the
Revised | 156 |
| Code. | 157 |
| Sec. 737.22. (A) Each village establishing a fire
department | 162 |
|
shall have a fire chief as the
department's head,
appointed by the | 163 |
|
mayor with the advice and consent of the
legislative authority of | 164 |
|
the village, who shall continue in office
until removed
from | 165 |
| office as provided
by sections 733.35
to
733.39 of the Revised | 166 |
| Code.
Neither this section nor
any other
section of the Revised | 167 |
| Code requires, or shall be construed to
require, that the
fire | 168 |
| chief be a resident of the village. | 169 |
| (b) The person has served as a
permanent full-time paid | 205 |
|
firefighter with the fire department of
a city or other village | 206 |
|
prior to
July 2, 1970, or as a volunteer
firefighter with the fire | 207 |
|
department of a city, township, fire
district, or other village | 208 |
|
prior to
July 2, 1979, and receives a certificate issued
under | 209 |
|
division (C)(3) of section 4765.55 of the
Revised Code. | 210 |
| (3) No person shall receive an appointment under this
section
| 211 |
| unless the
person has, not more than
sixty days
prior to
receiving
| 212 |
|
the appointment, passed a
physical
examination, given
by a | 213 |
| licensed physician,
a physician assistant, a clinical nurse | 214 |
|
specialist, a
certified
nurse practitioner, or a certified | 215 |
|
nurse-midwife, showing that
the
person meets the
physical | 216 |
|
requirements necessary to perform
the
duties of
the
position to | 217 |
|
which the person is to be appointed
as
established by
the | 218 |
|
legislative authority of the village. The
appointing
authority | 219 |
|
shall, prior to making
an
appointment, file
with the
Ohio police | 220 |
|
and fire pension fund
or
the local volunteer
fire
fighters' | 221 |
|
dependents
fund board a copy of
the report or
findings
of
that | 222 |
|
licensed physician, physician assistant, clinical nurse | 223 |
|
specialist,
certified nurse practitioner, or certified | 224 |
|
nurse-midwife. The
professional fee for
the
physical examination | 225 |
|
shall be paid
for
by
the
legislative
authority
of the village. | 226 |
(1) Thethe person is recognized as a firefighter, volunteer | 234 |
|
firefighter, member of a fire department, member of a private fire | 235 |
| company,
chief of a fire department, or fire prevention officer by | 236 |
| the
fire marshal or has received a certificate issued under former | 237 |
|
section 3303.07 or section 4765.55 of the Revised Code evidencing | 238 |
|
satisfactory completion of a firefighter
training program and has | 239 |
| been appointed by the governing board of
a firefighting agency
or, | 240 |
| in the case of a volunteer
firefighter, receives such a | 241 |
| certificate within one
year after appointment by the governing | 242 |
board of a firefighting
agency; | 243 |
| (G) "Emergency medical service" means any of the services | 273 |
|
described in sections 4765.35, 4765.37, 4765.38, and 4765.39 of | 274 |
|
the
Revised Code that are performed by first responders, emergency | 275 |
|
medical technicians-basic,
emergency medical | 276 |
|
technicians-intermediate, and paramedics. "Emergency
medical | 277 |
|
service" includes such services performed before or during any | 278 |
|
transport of a patient, including transports between hospitals and | 279 |
|
transports
to and from helicopters. | 280 |
| (P) "Trauma care" means the assessment, diagnosis, | 320 |
|
transportation, treatment, or rehabilitation of a trauma victim
by | 321 |
|
emergency
medical service personnel or by a physician, nurse, | 322 |
|
physician
assistant, respiratory therapist, physical therapist, | 323 |
|
chiropractor, occupational therapist, speech-language
pathologist, | 324 |
|
audiologist, or psychologist licensed to practice as such in
this | 325 |
|
state or another jurisdiction. | 326 |
| Sec. 4765.04. (A) The firefighter and fire safety
inspector | 368 |
|
training committee of the state board of emergency
medical | 369 |
|
services is hereby created and shall consist of the
members of the | 370 |
|
board who are chiefs of fire departments, and the
members of the | 371 |
|
board who are emergency medical technicians-basic,
emergency | 372 |
|
medical technicians-intermediate, and emergency
medical | 373 |
|
technicians-paramedic appointed from among persons
nominated by | 374 |
|
the Ohio
association of professional fire fighters or the northern | 375 |
|
Ohio fire fighters and from
among persons nominated by the
Ohio | 376 |
|
state firefighter's
association. Each member of the committee, | 377 |
|
except the
chairperson, may designate a person with fire | 378 |
|
experience to
serve in that member's place. The members of the | 379 |
|
committee or their designees
shall select a chairperson from among | 380 |
|
the members or their designees. | 381 |
| The committee may conduct investigations in the course of | 382 |
| discharging its duties under this chapter. In the course of an | 383 |
| investigation, the committee may issue subpoenas. If a person | 384 |
| subpoenaed fails to comply with the subpoena, the committee may | 385 |
| authorize its chairperson to apply to the court of common pleas in | 386 |
| the county where the person to be subpoenaed resides for an order | 387 |
| compelling compliance in the same manner as compliance with a | 388 |
| subpoena issued by the court is compelled. | 389 |
| (9) A physician who is certified by the
American board of | 442 |
|
pediatrics,
American osteopathic board of pediatrics, or American | 443 |
|
board of emergency medicine, is sub-boarded in pediatric emergency | 444 |
|
medicine,
actively practices pediatric emergency
medicine, and is | 445 |
|
actively involved in emergency medical
services, appointed from | 446 |
|
among three persons nominated by the
Ohio chapter of the
American | 447 |
|
academy of
pediatrics, three persons
nominated by the Ohio chapter | 448 |
|
of the American college of
emergency
physicians, and three persons | 449 |
|
nominated by the Ohio osteopathic
association; | 450 |
| (16) The administrator of a hospital that is not a trauma | 475 |
|
center
and actively provides emergency care to adult or pediatric | 476 |
|
trauma
patients, appointed from among three persons nominated by | 477 |
|
OHA:
the association for hospitals and health systems, three | 478 |
|
persons nominated
by the Ohio osteopathic association, three | 479 |
|
persons
nominated by the association of Ohio children's hospitals, | 480 |
|
and
three persons nominated by the health forum of Ohio; | 481 |
| (19) An EMT or paramedic
who is certified under this
chapter | 488 |
|
and actively provides
trauma care to emergency patients, appointed | 489 |
|
from among three
persons nominated by the Ohio
association of | 490 |
|
professional firefighters, three persons
nominated by the northern | 491 |
|
Ohio
fire fighters, three persons nominated by the
Ohio state | 492 |
|
firefighters'
association, and three persons nominated by the
Ohio | 493 |
|
association of emergency
medical services; | 494 |
| (21) A physician or nurse who has substantial administrative | 499 |
|
responsibility for trauma care provided in or by an adult or | 500 |
|
pediatric
trauma center, appointed from among three persons | 501 |
|
nominated by
OHA: the association for hospitals and health | 502 |
|
systems, three
persons nominated by the Ohio osteopathic | 503 |
|
association, three
persons nominated by the association of Ohio | 504 |
|
children's hospitals,
and three persons nominated by the health | 505 |
|
forum of Ohio; | 506 |
| (22) Three representatives of hospitals that are not trauma | 507 |
|
centers and
actively provide emergency care to trauma patients, | 508 |
|
appointed from among three
persons
nominated by OHA: the | 509 |
|
association for hospitals and health
systems, three persons | 510 |
|
nominated by the Ohio osteopathic
association, three persons | 511 |
|
nominated by the association of Ohio
children's hospitals, and | 512 |
|
three persons nominated by the health forum of
Ohio. The | 513 |
|
representatives may be hospital administrators, physicians, | 514 |
|
nurses, or other
clinical professionals. | 515 |
| Members of the committee shall have substantial experience
in | 516 |
|
the categories they represent, shall be residents of this state, | 517 |
|
and may be members of the state board of emergency medical | 518 |
|
services. In appointing members of the committee, the director | 519 |
|
shall attempt to include members representing urban and rural | 520 |
|
areas,
various geographical areas of the state, and various | 521 |
|
schools of training. The
director shall not
appoint to the | 522 |
|
committee more than one member who is employed by
or practices at | 523 |
|
the same hospital, health system, or emergency
medical service | 524 |
|
organization. | 525 |
| Initial appointments to the committee shall be made by the | 532 |
|
director not later than ninety days after November 3, 2000. | 533 |
|
Members of the
committee shall serve at the
pleasure of the | 534 |
|
director, except that any member of the committee
who ceases to be | 535 |
|
qualified for the position to which the member
was appointed shall | 536 |
|
cease to be a member of the committee.
Vacancies on the committee | 537 |
|
shall be filled in the same manner as
original appointments. | 538 |
| The committee shall select a chairperson and vice-chairperson | 542 |
|
from among
its members. A majority of all members of the
committee | 543 |
| shall
constitute a quorum. No action shall be taken
without the | 544 |
|
concurrence of a majority of all members of the
committee. The | 545 |
|
committee shall meet at the call of the chair,
upon written | 546 |
|
request of five members of the committee, and at the
direction
of | 547 |
| the state board of emergency medical services. The
committee
shall | 548 |
| not meet at times or locations that conflict with
meetings
of the | 549 |
| board. The executive director and medical
director of
the state | 550 |
| board of emergency medical services may
participate in any
meeting | 551 |
| of the committee and shall do so at the
request of the
committee. | 552 |
| The committee shall advise and assist the state board of | 553 |
|
emergency medical services in matters
related to adult and | 554 |
|
pediatric trauma care and the establishment and operation
of
the | 555 |
|
state trauma registry. In matters relating to the state
trauma | 556 |
|
registry, the board and the committee shall consult with
trauma | 557 |
|
registrars from adult and pediatric trauma centers in the state. | 558 |
|
The
committee may
appoint a subcommittee to advise and assist
with | 559 |
|
the trauma registry. The subcommittee may include persons
with | 560 |
|
expertise relevant to the trauma registry who are not
members of | 561 |
|
the board or committee. | 562 |
| (D) The state board of emergency
medical services, and any
of | 565 |
| its committees or subcommittees,
may request assistance from
any | 566 |
| state agency. The board and its
committees and subcommittees
may | 567 |
| permit persons who are not
members of those bodies to
participate | 568 |
| in deliberations of those
bodies, but no person who is
not a | 569 |
| member of the board shall
vote on the board and no person
who is | 570 |
| not a member of a
committee created under division
(A) or
(B) of | 571 |
| this section shall vote
on that committee. | 572 |
| Sec. 4765.49. (A) A first responder, emergency
medical | 576 |
|
technician-basic, emergency medical technician-intermediate, or | 577 |
|
emergency medical technician-paramedic is not liable in
damages in | 578 |
|
a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property | 579 |
|
resulting from the individual's administration of emergency | 580 |
|
medical services,
unless the services are administered
in a manner | 581 |
|
that constitutes willful or wanton misconduct. A
physician or | 582 |
|
registered nurse designated by a physician, who is
advising or | 583 |
|
assisting in the emergency medical services by means
of any | 584 |
|
communication device or telemetering system, is not liable
in | 585 |
|
damages in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person
or | 586 |
|
property resulting from the individual's advisory communication
or | 587 |
|
assistance, unless the advisory communication or assistance is | 588 |
|
provided in a manner that constitutes willful or wanton | 589 |
|
misconduct. Medical directors and members of cooperating
physician | 590 |
| advisory boards of emergency medical service
organizations are not | 591 |
| liable in damages in a civil action for
injury, death, or loss to | 592 |
| person or property resulting from their
acts or omissions in the | 593 |
| performance of their duties, unless
the
act or omission | 594 |
| constitutes willful or wanton misconduct. | 595 |
| (B) A political subdivision, joint ambulance district, joint | 596 |
|
emergency
medical services district, or
other public agency, and | 597 |
|
any officer or employee of a public
agency or of a private | 598 |
|
organization operating under contract or
in joint agreement with | 599 |
|
one or more political subdivisions, that
provides emergency | 600 |
|
medical services, or that enters into a joint
agreement or a | 601 |
|
contract with the state, any political
subdivision, joint | 602 |
|
ambulance district, or joint emergency medical
services district | 603 |
|
for the provision of
emergency medical services, is not liable in | 604 |
|
damages in a civil
action for injury, death, or loss to person or | 605 |
|
property arising
out of any actions taken by a first responder, | 606 |
|
EMT-basic, EMT-I, or paramedic working under the officer's
or | 607 |
|
employee's jurisdiction, or for
injury, death, or loss to person | 608 |
|
or property arising out of any
actions of licensed medical | 609 |
|
personnel advising or assisting the
first responder, EMT-basic, | 610 |
|
EMT-I, or
paramedic, unless the services are provided in a manner | 611 |
|
that constitutes
willful or wanton misconduct. | 612 |
| (1) The student's administration of emergency medical | 619 |
|
services or patient care or treatment, if the services, care, or | 620 |
|
treatment is administered while the student is under the direct | 621 |
|
supervision and in the immediate presence of an
EMT-basic, EMT-I, | 622 |
|
paramedic, registered nurse, or physician and while the student
is | 623 |
|
receiving clinical training that is required by the program, | 624 |
|
unless the services, care, or treatment is provided in a manner | 625 |
|
that constitutes willful or wanton misconduct; | 626 |
| (D) An EMT-basic, EMT-I, paramedic, or other operator, who | 630 |
|
holds a valid commercial driver's license issued pursuant to | 631 |
|
Chapter 4506. of the Revised Code or driver's license issued | 632 |
|
pursuant to Chapter 4507. of the Revised Code and who is employed | 633 |
|
by an emergency medical service organization that is not owned or | 634 |
|
operated by a political subdivision as defined in section 2744.01 | 635 |
|
of the Revised Code, is not liable in damages in a civil action | 636 |
|
for injury, death, or loss to person or property that is caused
by | 637 |
|
the operation of an ambulance by the EMT-basic, EMT-I,
paramedic, | 638 |
|
or other operator while responding to or completing a call for | 639 |
|
emergency medical services, unless the operation constitutes | 640 |
|
willful or wanton misconduct or does not comply with the | 641 |
|
precautions of section 4511.03 of the Revised Code. An emergency | 642 |
|
medical service organization is not liable in damages in a civil | 643 |
|
action for any injury, death, or loss to person or property that | 644 |
|
is caused by the operation of an ambulance by its employee or | 645 |
|
agent, if this division grants the employee or agent immunity
from | 646 |
|
civil liability for the injury, death, or loss. | 647 |
| (E) An employee or agent of an emergency medical service | 648 |
|
organization who receives requests for emergency medical services | 649 |
|
that are directed to the organization, dispatches first | 650 |
|
responders, EMTs-basic, EMTs-I, or paramedics in
response to
those | 651 |
| requests, communicates
those requests to those
employees or
agents | 652 |
| of the organization who are authorized to
dispatch first | 653 |
|
responders, EMTs-basic, EMTs-I, or paramedics, or
performs any | 654 |
| combination of these functions for the organization,
is not
liable | 655 |
| in damages in a civil action for
injury, death, or
loss to person | 656 |
| or property resulting from the
individual's acts or
omissions in | 657 |
| the performance of those duties for the
organization,
unless an | 658 |
| act or omission constitutes willful or
wanton
misconduct. | 659 |
| (F) A person who is performing the functions of a first | 660 |
|
responder, EMT-basic, EMT-I, or paramedic under the
authority of | 661 |
|
the laws of a
state that borders this state and who provides | 662 |
|
emergency medical
services to or transportation of a patient in | 663 |
|
this state is not
liable in damages in a civil action for injury, | 664 |
|
death, or loss to
person or property resulting from the person's | 665 |
|
administration of emergency
medical services, unless the services | 666 |
|
are administered in a
manner that constitutes willful or wanton | 667 |
|
misconduct. A
physician or registered nurse designated by a | 668 |
|
physician, who is
licensed to practice in the adjoining state and | 669 |
|
who is advising
or assisting in the emergency medical services by | 670 |
|
means of any
communication device or telemetering system is not | 671 |
|
liable in
damages in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to | 672 |
|
person or
property resulting from the person's advisory | 673 |
|
communication or
assistance, unless the advisory communication or | 674 |
|
assistance is provided in a
manner that constitutes willful or | 675 |
|
wanton misconduct. | 676 |
| (G) A person certified under section 4765.23 of the
Revised | 677 |
|
Code to teach in an emergency medical services training
program or | 678 |
|
emergency medical services continuing education
program, and a | 679 |
|
person who teaches at the Ohio fire academy established under | 680 |
|
section 3737.33 of the Revised Code or in a fire service training | 681 |
program described in division (B)(A) of section 4765.55 of the | 682 |
|
Revised Code, is not liable in damages in a civil action for | 683 |
|
injury,
death, or loss to person or property resulting from the | 684 |
|
person's
acts or omissions in the performance of the person's | 685 |
|
duties, unless an act or
omission constitutes willful or wanton | 686 |
|
misconduct. | 687 |
| (H) In the accreditation of emergency medical services | 688 |
|
training programs or approval of emergency medical services | 689 |
|
continuing education programs, the state board of emergency | 690 |
|
medical services and any person or entity authorized by the board | 691 |
|
to evaluate applications for accreditation or approval are not | 692 |
|
liable in damages in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to | 693 |
|
person or property resulting from their acts or omissions in the | 694 |
|
performance of their duties, unless an act or omission
constitutes | 695 |
|
willful or wanton misconduct. | 696 |
| (I) A person authorized by an emergency medical service | 697 |
|
organization to review the performance of first responders, | 698 |
|
EMTs-basic, EMTs-I, and paramedics or to administer quality | 699 |
|
assurance programs is not
liable in damages in a civil action for | 700 |
|
injury, death, or loss to
person or property resulting from the | 701 |
|
person's acts or omissions in
the performance of the person's | 702 |
|
duties, unless an act or omission constitutes
willful or wanton | 703 |
|
misconduct. | 704 |
(B) The executive director of the state board of emergency | 707 |
medical services shall, with the advice and counsel of the | 708 |
|
firefighter and fire safety inspector training
committee of the | 709 |
| state board of emergency medical
services, shall assist in the | 710 |
|
establishment and maintenance by any state agency, or any county, | 711 |
|
township, city, village, school district, or educational service | 712 |
| center of a
fire service training program for the training of all | 713 |
paid andpersons in positions of any fire training certification | 714 |
| level approved by the executive director, including full-time paid | 715 |
| firefighters, part-time paid firefighters, volunteer
firefighters | 716 |
| and, fire safety inspectors in this state. The executive
director, | 717 |
| with the advice and counsel of the
committee, shall adopt | 718 |
standardsrules to regulate suchthose firefighter and
fire safety | 719 |
|
inspector training programs, and other training programs approved | 720 |
by the executive director. The standardsrules may include, but | 721 |
need not be
limited to, provisions for minimum courses of study | 722 |
| training curriculum, certification examinations, training | 723 |
| schedules, minimum
hours of instruction, attendance requirements, | 724 |
required equipment
and facilities, qualifications of instructors, | 725 |
| basic physical requirements, and
methods of training for all | 726 |
| persons in positions of any fire training certification level | 727 |
| approved by the executive director, including full-time paid | 728 |
| firefighters, part-time paid firefighters, volunteer firefighters, | 729 |
and fire safety
inspectors, and training schedules. The standards | 730 |
| rules adopted to
regulate training programs for volunteer | 731 |
| firefighters shall not
require more than thirty-six hours of | 732 |
training. The | 733 |
| The executive
director, with the advice and counsel of the | 734 |
|
committee, shall
provide for the classification and chartering of | 735 |
suchfire service training
programs in accordance with rules | 736 |
adopted under division (B) of this section, and may revoketake | 737 |
action against any charterchartered training program or | 738 |
| applicant, in accordance with rules adopted under divisions (B)(4) | 739 |
| and (5) of this section, for failure to meet
standards set by the | 740 |
| adopted rules. | 741 |
| (C) The executive director, with the advice and counsel of | 782 |
| the firefighter and fire safety inspector training committee of | 783 |
| the state board of emergency medical services, shall issue or | 784 |
| renew an instructor certificate to teach the training programs and | 785 |
| continuing education classes regulated by this section to any | 786 |
| applicant that the executive director determines meets the | 787 |
| qualifications established in rules adopted under division (B) of | 788 |
| this section, and may take disciplinary action against an | 789 |
| instructor certificate holder or applicant in accordance with | 790 |
| rules adopted under division (B) of this section. The executive | 791 |
| director, with the advice and counsel of the committee, shall | 792 |
| charter or renew the charter of any training program that the | 793 |
| executive director determines meets the qualifications established | 794 |
| in rules adopted under division (B) of this section, and may take | 795 |
| disciplinary action against the holder of a charter in accordance | 796 |
| with rules adopted under division (B) of this section. | 797 |
| (D) The executive director shall issue or renew a fire | 798 |
| training certificate for a firefighter, a fire safety inspector, | 799 |
| or another position of any fire training certification level | 800 |
| approved by the executive director, to any applicant that the | 801 |
| executive director determines meets the qualifications established | 802 |
| in rules adopted under division (B) of this section and may take | 803 |
| disciplinary actions against a certificate holder or applicant in | 804 |
| accordance with rules adopted under division (B) of this section. | 805 |
(2)(F)(1) The executive director, with the committee's
advice | 812 |
| and counsel of the firefighter and fire safety inspector training | 813 |
| committee of the state board of emergency medical services, shall | 814 |
|
establish criteria for evaluating the standards maintained by | 815 |
| other states and
the branches of the United States military for | 816 |
|
firefighter, fire safety inspector, and fire instructor training | 817 |
| programs, and other training programs recognized by the executive | 818 |
| director, to determine whether the standards
are equivalent to | 819 |
| those established under this section and shall establish | 820 |
|
requirements and procedures for issuing a certificate to each | 821 |
| person who
presents proof to the executive director of having | 822 |
|
satisfactorily completed a training program that meets those | 823 |
| standards. | 824 |
(3)(2) The executive director, with the committee's
advice | 825 |
and counsel,
shall establishadopt rules establishing requirements | 826 |
| and procedures for issuing a fire training certificate in lieu
of | 827 |
completing a chartered firefighter training program to any person | 828 |
requesting a certificate who began serving as a permanent | 829 |
full-time paid firefighter with the fire department of a city or | 830 |
village prior to July 2, 1970, or as a volunteer firefighter with | 831 |
the fire
department of a township, fire district, city, or village | 832 |
prior to July 2,
1979. | 833 |
| Section 4. Section 505.38 of the Revised Code is presented | 848 |
| in
this act as a composite of the section as amended by both Am. | 849 |
| H.B. 515 and Sub. S.B. 245 of
the 124th General Assembly. The | 850 |
| General Assembly, applying the
principle stated in division (B) of | 851 |
| section 1.52 of the Revised
Code that amendments are to be | 852 |
| harmonized if reasonably capable of
simultaneous operation, finds | 853 |
| that the composite is the resulting
version of the section in | 854 |
| effect prior to the effective date of
the section as presented in | 855 |
| this act. | 856 |