Sec. 505.60. (A) As provided in this section and section | 10 |
505.601 of the Revised Code, the board of township trustees of any | 11 |
township may procure and pay all or any part of the cost of | 12 |
insurance policies that may provide benefits for hospitalization, | 13 |
surgical care, major medical care, disability, dental care, eye | 14 |
care, medical care, hearing aids, prescription drugs, or sickness | 15 |
and accident insurance, or a combination of any of the foregoing | 16 |
types of insurance for township officers and employees.
The board | 17 |
of township trustees of any township may negotiate and contract | 18 |
for the purchase of a policy of long-term care insurance for | 19 |
township officers and employees pursuant to section 124.841 of the | 20 |
Revised Code. | 21 |
(B) If the board procures any insurance
policies under this | 22 |
section, the board shall
provide uniform coverage under these | 23 |
policies for township
officers and full-time township employees | 24 |
and their immediate
dependents, and may provide coverage under | 25 |
these policies for
part-time township employees and their | 26 |
immediate dependents, from
the funds or budgets from which the | 27 |
officers or employees are
compensated for services, such policies | 28 |
to be
issued by an insurance company duly authorized
to do | 29 |
business in this state. Any township officer or employee
may | 30 |
refuse to accept the insurance coverage without affecting the | 31 |
availability of such insurance coverage to other township
officers | 32 |
and employees. | 33 |
(B) The board may also provide coverage for any or all of the | 34 |
benefits described in division (A) of this section by entering | 35 |
into a contract for group health
care services
with health | 36 |
insuring corporations
holding certificates of
authority under | 37 |
Chapter
1751. of the Revised Code
for township
officers and | 38 |
employees and their immediate dependents. If the board so | 39 |
contracts,
it shall
provide uniform coverage under any such | 40 |
contracts for
township
officers and full-time township employees | 41 |
and their
immediate
dependents, from the funds or budgets from | 42 |
which the officers or employees are compensated for services,
and | 43 |
may provide coverage under such
contracts for
part-time
township | 44 |
employees and their immediate
dependents,
from the funds
or | 45 |
budgets from which the officers or employees are
compensated for | 46 |
services, provided that each officer and employee
so covered is | 47 |
permitted
to: | 48 |
(D) If any township officer or employee is denied coverage | 68 |
under
a health care plan procured under division (B) of this | 69 |
section or if
any township officer or employee elects not to | 70 |
participate in the township's
health care plan, the township
may | 71 |
reimburse the officer or employee for each out-of-pocket premium | 72 |
thatattributable to the coverage provided for the
officer or | 73 |
employee incurs for insurance
policiesbenefits described in | 74 |
division (A) of this section that the
officer or
employee | 75 |
otherwise obtains, but not to exceed an amount equal to
the | 76 |
average premium
paid by the township for its officers and | 77 |
employees under policiesany health care plan it procures
under | 78 |
division (B) of this
section. | 79 |
(E)(F) If a board of township trustees fails to pay one or | 89 |
more
premiums for a policy, contract, or plan of insurance or | 90 |
health
care services authorized by division (A) or (B) ofunder | 91 |
this
section
and the failure causes a lapse, cancellation, or | 92 |
other
termination
of coverage under the policy, contract, or plan, | 93 |
it
may reimburse
a township officer or employee for, or pay on | 94 |
behalf of the
officer or employee, any expenses incurred that | 95 |
would have been
covered under the policy, contract, or plan. | 96 |
Sec. 505.601. If a board of township trustees does not | 104 |
procure an
insurance policy or group health care services as | 105 |
provided in section 505.60
of the Revised Code, the board of | 106 |
township trustees may reimburse any township officer or employee | 107 |
for each
out-of-pocket premium attributable to the coverage | 108 |
provided for that the officer or employee incurs for insurance | 109 |
policiesbenefits described in division (A) of
section 505.60 of | 110 |
the Revised Code that the officer or
employee otherwise obtains, | 111 |
if all of the following conditions are met: | 112 |
Sec. 5705.05. The purpose and intent of the general levy
for | 131 |
current expenses is to provide one general operating fund
derived | 132 |
from taxation from which any expenditures for current
expenses of | 133 |
any kind may be made, and the taxing authority of a
political | 134 |
subdivision may include in such levy the amounts
required for | 135 |
carrying into effect any of the general or special
powers granted | 136 |
by law to such subdivision, including the
acquisition or | 137 |
construction of permanent improvements and the
payment of | 138 |
judgments, but excluding the construction,
reconstruction, | 139 |
resurfacing, or repair of roads and bridges in
counties and | 140 |
townships and the payment of debt charges. The
power to include in | 141 |
the general levy for current expenses
additional amounts for | 142 |
purposes for which a special tax is
authorized shall not affect | 143 |
the right or obligation to levy such
special tax. Without | 144 |
prejudice to the generality of the
authority to levy a general tax | 145 |
for any current expense, such
general levy shall include: | 146 |
(D) In the case of municipal corporations, the amounts | 154 |
necessary for the maintenance, operation, and repair of public | 155 |
buildings, wharves, bridges, parks, and streets, for the | 156 |
prevention, control, and abatement of air pollution, and for a | 157 |
sanitary fund; | 158 |
(E) In the case of counties, the amounts necessary for the | 159 |
maintenance, operation, and repair of public buildings, for | 160 |
providing or maintaining senior citizens services or facilities, | 161 |
for the relief and support of the poor, for the relief of needy | 162 |
blind, for the support of mental health, mental retardation, or | 163 |
developmental disability services, for the relief of honorably | 164 |
discharged soldiers, indigent soldiers, sailors, and marines, for | 165 |
mothers' pension fund, support of soil and water conservation | 166 |
districts, watershed conservancy districts, and educational | 167 |
television, for the prevention, control, and abatement of air | 168 |
pollution, and for the county's share of the compensation paid | 169 |
judges; | 170 |
(F) In the case of a township, a levy for the
construction, | 197 |
reconstruction, resurfacing, and repair of roads
and bridges, | 198 |
excluding state roads and bridges, including the
township's | 199 |
portion of the cost of the construction, improvement,
maintenance, | 200 |
and repair of county roads and bridges; | 201 |