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H. B. No. 143As Reported by the Senate State and Local Government and Veterans Affairs Committee
As Reported by the Senate State and Local Government and Veterans Affairs Committee
124th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2001-2002 |
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REPRESENTATIVES Young, Calvert, Flowers, Hartnett, Latell, Reinhard, Schaffer, Seitz, Coates, Carano, Sferra, Fessler, Widowfield, Schmidt, Hughes, White, Roman, Wolpert, Carmichael, Distel, Driehaus, Salerno, Setzer, Stapleton, Strahorn, Jolivette, Williams, Grendell, Core, Cates, Faber, Collier, Hagan, Webster, Kearns, Reidelbach, Olman, Lendrum, G. Smith, Niehaus
SENATORS Spada, Mumper
A BILL
To amend sections 505.371, 505.375, 505.38, 733.68,
737.08, and 737.22 and to
enact section 9.61 of
the Revised Code to specify
that state
law does
not require a municipal corporation fire chief to
be a resident
or elector of the municipal
corporation, does not
require a township fire
chief to be a resident of
the township, and does
not require a township fire district fire chief,
joint
fire district fire chief, or fire and
ambulance district fire chief to be a
resident of
the township fire district, joint fire district,
or fire and
ambulance district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 505.371, 505.375, 505.38, 733.68,
737.08, and 737.22
be amended and section 9.61 of the Revised Code
be enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 9.61.
(A)
"Firefighting agency" means a municipal
corporation, township, township fire district, joint fire
district, fire and
ambulance district, or other political
subdivision that operates a fire
department. (B)
Nothing in the Revised Code requires, or
shall be
construed to require, that the fire chief of a firefighting agency
reside in the territory of the firefighting agency.
Sec. 505.371. (A) The boards of township trustees of one or
more townships and the legislative authorities of one or more
municipal corporations, or the legislative authorities of two or
more
municipal corporations, or the
boards of township trustees of
two or more townships, may, by
adoption of a joint resolution by a
majority of the members of
each board of township trustees and by
a majority of the members
of the legislative authority of each
municipal corporation,
create a joint fire district comprising the
municipal
corporations and all or any portions of the townships as
are
mutually agreed upon. A joint fire district so created shall
be
given a name different from the name of any participating
township or municipal corporation. (B) The governing body of the joint fire district shall be a
board of fire district trustees, which shall include one
representative from each board of township trustees and one
representative from the legislative authority of each municipal
corporation in the district. The board of fire district trustees
may exercise the same powers as are granted to a board of
township
trustees in sections 505.37 to 505.45 of the Revised
Code,
including, but not limited to, the power to levy a tax upon
all
taxable property in the fire district as provided in section
505.39 of the Revised Code. The board of fire district trustees
may be compensated at a rate not to exceed thirty dollars per
meeting, not to exceed fifteen meetings per year, and may be
reimbursed for all necessary expenses incurred. The board shall
employ a clerk of the board of fire district trustees. (C)(1) The board of fire district trustees may establish
reasonable
charges for the
use of ambulance or emergency medical
services. The board may establish
different charges for residents
and nonresidents of the district, and may
waive, at
its
discretion, all or part of the charge for any resident of the
district. The charge for nonresidents shall be an amount not less
than the
authorized medicare reimbursement rate, except that if,
prior to
February 4, 1998, the
board had different charges for
residents and
nonresidents and the charge for nonresidents was
less than the authorized
medicare reimbursement rate, the board
may charge nonresidents less than the
authorized medicare
reimbursement rate.
(2) In the resolution creating the joint fire district, the
political subdivisions that create the district may provide that
any of those
political subdivisions may agree to pay any charges
for the use of ambulance
or emergency medical services that the
board of fire district trustees
establishes under division (C)(1)
of this section and that are
incurred by the residents of the
particular political subdivision. Unless the
board elects
pursuant to that division to waive all or part of the charges for
the use of ambulance or emergency medical services that any
resident of the
district incurs, the residents of a particular
political subdivision that has
not so agreed to pay the charges
for the use of ambulance or emergency medical
services incurred by
its residents shall pay those charges. (3) Charges collected under division (C) of this
section
shall be kept in a separate fund designated as
the ambulance and
emergency medical
services fund and shall be appropriated and
administered by the
board.
The fund shall be used for the payment
of the costs of the
management,
maintenance, and operation of
ambulance and emergency medical services in the
district.
(4) As used in division (C) of this
section,
"authorized
medicare reimbursement
rate" has the same meaning as in section
505.84 of the Revised
Code. (D) Any municipal corporation or township, or parts of
them,
may join an existing joint fire district by the adoption of a
resolution requesting such membership and upon approval of the
board of fire district trustees. Any municipal corporation or
township may withdraw from a joint fire district created under
this section, by the adoption of a resolution ordering
withdrawal.
On or after the first day of January of the year
following the
adoption of the resolution of withdrawal, the
municipal
corporation or township withdrawing ceases to be a part
of such
district, and the power of the district to
levy
a tax upon taxable
property in the withdrawing township or
municipal corporation
terminates, except that the
district shall continue to levy and
collect taxes for the payment
of indebtedness within the territory
of the district
as it was comprised at the time the indebtedness
was incurred. Upon the withdrawal of any township or municipal
corporation
from a joint fire district created under this
section, the county
auditor shall ascertain, apportion, and order
a division of the
funds on hand, including funds in the ambulance
and emergency
medical services fund, moneys and taxes in the process
of
collection, except for taxes levied for the payment of
indebtedness, credits, and real and personal property, either in
money or in kind, on the basis of the valuation of the respective
tax duplicates of the withdrawing municipal corporation or
township and the remaining territory of the joint fire district. When the number of townships and municipal corporations
comprising a joint fire district is reduced to one, the joint
fire
district ceases to exist by operation of law, and the funds,
credits, and property remaining after apportionments to
withdrawing municipal corporations or townships shall be assumed
by the one remaining township or municipal corporation. When a
joint fire district ceases to exist and an indebtedness remains
unpaid, the board of county commissioners shall continue to levy
and collect taxes for the payment of
such
that indebtedness
within
the
territory of the joint fire district as it was comprised at
the
time the indebtedness was incurred. (E)
Neither this section nor any other section of the
Revised
Code requires, or
shall be construed to require, that
the
fire
chief of a joint fire district be a resident of the fire
district.
Sec. 505.375. (A) The board of a joint
ambulance district
created under section 505.71 of the
Revised Code
and the board of
a joint fire district created under section 505.371 of the
Revised
Code
may negotiate in accordance with this section to combine
their two joint
districts into a single district, called a fire
and ambulance
district, for the delivery of both fire and
ambulance services, if the
geographic area covered by the
combining joint districts is exactly the same.
Both boards shall
adopt a joint resolution ratifying the
agreement and setting a
date on which the fire and ambulance district shall
come into
being. On that date, the joint fire district and the joint
ambulance district shall cease to exist, and the power of each to
levy
a tax
upon taxable property shall terminate, except that any
levy of a tax
for the payment of indebtedness within the territory
of the joint fire or
joint ambulance district as it
was composed
at the time the indebtedness was incurred shall continue to be
collected by the successor fire and ambulance district if the
indebtedness remains unpaid. All funds and other property of the joint districts that
combined into
the fire and ambulance district shall become the
property of the fire
and ambulance district, unless otherwise
provided in the negotiated
agreement. The agreement shall provide
for the settlement of all debts and
obligations of the joint
districts. (B) The governing body of the fire and
ambulance district
shall be a board of trustees of
at least three but no more than
nine members, appointed as
provided in the agreement creating the
district. Members of the board of
trustees may be compensated at
a rate not to exceed thirty dollars per meeting
for not more than
fifteen meetings per year, and may be reimbursed for all
necessary
expenses incurred, as provided in the agreement creating the
district. The board shall employ a clerk and
such other employees as it
considers
best, including a fire chief or fire prevention
officers,
and shall fix their compensation.
Before
Neither this
section nor
any other section of the Revised Code requires, or
shall be construed to require,
that the fire chief of a fire and
ambulance
district be a
resident
of the district. Before entering
upon the duties of
office, the clerk shall
execute a bond, in the amount and with surety to be
approved
by
the board, payable to the state, conditioned for the faithful
performance of all of the clerk's official duties. The clerk
shall deposit
the bond with the presiding officer of the board,
who shall file a copy of it,
certified by the presiding officer,
with the county auditor of the county
containing the most
territory in the district. The board shall also provide for the appointment of a fiscal
officer for
the district. The board may also enter into
agreements with volunteer fire
companies for the use and operation
of fire-fighting equipment. Volunteer
firefighters acting under
such an agreement are subject to the requirements
for volunteer
firefighters set forth in division (A) of section 505.38 of
the
Revised
Code. Employees of the district shall not be removed from office
except as
provided by sections 733.35 to 733.39 of the
Revised
Code, except that, to initiate removal proceedings,
the board
shall designate a private citizen,
or, if the employee is employed
as a firefighter, the board may
designate
the fire chief, to
investigate, conduct the proceedings, and prepare
the
necessary
charges in conformity with sections 733.35 to 733.39 of the
Revised Code, and except that the board shall perform the
functions and duties specified for the municipal legislative
authority under
those sections. The board may pay reasonable
compensation to any private
citizen hired for
services rendered in
the matter. No person shall be appointed as a permanent full-time paid
member of the
district whose duties include fire fighting, or be
appointed as a
volunteer firefighter, unless that person has
received a certificate issued
under former section 3303.07 or
section 4765.55 of the Revised Code
evidencing satisfactory
completion of a firefighter training program. The
board may send
its officers and firefighters to schools of instruction
designed
to promote the efficiency of firefighters, and, if authorized
in
advance, may pay their necessary expenses from the funds used for
the
maintenance and operation of the district. The board may choose, by adoption of an appropriate
resolution, to have the
Ohio ambulance licensing
board license any
emergency medical service organization it operates. If the
board
adopts such a resolution, Chapter 4766. of the Revised Code,
except for
sections 4766.06 and
4766.99 of the Revised Code,
applies
to the organization. All rules adopted under the
applicable sections of that
chapter also apply to the
organization. The board may likewise, by
resolution, remove its
emergency medical service organization from the
jurisdiction of
the Ohio ambulance licensing
board. (C) The board may exercise the following powers: (1) Purchase or otherwise provide any fire apparatus,
mechanical
resuscitators, or other fire or ambulance equipment,
appliances, or materials;
fire hydrants; and water supply for
fire-fighting
purposes that seems
advisable to the board; (2) Provide for the care and maintenance of equipment and,
for that
purpose, purchase, lease, or construct and maintain
necessary buildings; (3) Establish and maintain lines of fire-alarm
communications within the
limits of the district; (4) Appropriate land for a fire station or medical emergency
unit needed
in order to respond in reasonable time to a fire or
medical emergency, in
accordance with Chapter 163. of the Revised
Code; (5) Purchase, appropriate, or accept a deed or gift of land
to enlarge
or improve a fire station or medical emergency unit; (6) Purchase, lease, maintain, and use all materials,
equipment,
vehicles, buildings, and land necessary to perform its
duties; (7) Contract for a period not to exceed three years with one
or more
townships, municipal corporations, counties, joint fire
districts,
governmental
agencies, nonprofit corporations, or
private ambulance owners located either
within or outside the
state, to furnish or receive
ambulance services or emergency
medical services within the several
territories
of the contracting
parties, if the contract is first authorized by all boards
of
trustees and legislative authorities concerned; (8) Establish reasonable charges for the use of ambulance or
emergency
medical services under the same conditions under which a
board of fire
district trustees may establish those charges under
section 505.371 of the
Revised Code; (9) Establish all necessary rules to guard against the
occurrence
of
fires and to protect property and lives against
damage and
accidents; (10) Adopt a standard code pertaining to fire, fire
hazards,
and fire
prevention prepared and promulgated by the state or by a
public or private
organization that publishes a model or standard
code; (11) Provide for charges for false alarms at commercial
establishments
in the same manner as joint fire districts are
authorized to do under section
505.391 of the Revised Code; (12) Issue bonds and other evidences of indebtedness,
subject to
Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, but only after
approval by a vote of the
electors of the district as provided by
section 133.18 of the Revised Code; (13) To provide the services and equipment it considers
necessary, levy
a sufficient tax, subject to Chapter 5705. of
the
Revised Code, on all the taxable property in the district. (D) Any municipal corporation or
township may join an
existing fire and ambulance district by its legislative
authority's adoption
of a resolution
requesting
such
the
membership and upon approval of the board of
the district.
Any
municipal corporation or township may withdraw from a district by
its
legislative authority's adoption
of a resolution ordering
withdrawal. Upon its withdrawal, the municipal
corporation or
township
ceases to be a part of the district, and the district's
power to levy a
tax on
taxable property in the withdrawing
township or municipal
corporation terminates, except that the
district shall continue to levy and
collect taxes for the payment
of indebtedness within the territory of the
district as it was
composed at the time the indebtedness was incurred. Upon the withdrawal of any township or municipal corporation
from a
district, the county auditor of the county containing the
most territory in
the district shall ascertain, apportion, and
order a division of the funds on
hand, including funds in the
ambulance and emergency medical
services fund, moneys and taxes in
the process of collection, except
for
taxes levied
for the
payment
of indebtedness, credits, and real and personal property on the
basis
of the valuation of the respective tax duplicates of the
withdrawing
municipal
corporation or township and the remaining
territory of the district. (E) As used in this section: (1)
"Governmental agency" includes all departments, boards,
offices,
commissions, agencies, colleges, universities,
institutions, and other
instrumentalities of this or another
state. (2)
"Emergency medical service organization" has the same
meaning as in
section 4766.01 of the Revised
Code.
Sec. 505.38. (A) In each township or fire district that
has
a fire department, the head of
such
the department shall be
a
fire
chief, appointed by the board of township trustees, except
that,
in a joint fire district, the fire chief shall be
appointed
by the
board of fire district trustees.
The
Neither this section
nor any
other section of the Revised Code requires, or shall be construed
to require,
that the fire chief be a resident of
the township or
fire district. The board shall provide
for the employment of
such
firefighters as it
considers best, and shall fix their
compensation. No person shall be
appointed as a permanent
full-time paid member, whose duties include
firefighting
fire
fighting, of the fire department of any township or fire district
unless
such
that person has received a certificate issued under
former
section 3303.07 or section 4765.55 of the Revised Code
evidencing
satisfactory completion of a firefighter
training
program.
Such
Those appointees shall continue in
office until
removed
therefrom
from office as provided by sections 733.35 to
733.39
of the Revised Code. To
initiate removal proceedings, and
for
such
that purpose, the
board
shall designate the fire chief or
a private citizen to
investigate the conduct and prepare the
necessary charges in
conformity with sections 733.35 to 733.39 of
the Revised Code. In case of the removal of a fire chief or any member of the
fire department of a township or
fire district, an appeal may be
had
from the decision of the board to the court of common pleas of
the county in which
such
the township or
fire district
fire
department is
situated, to determine the sufficiency of the cause
of removal.
Such
The appeal from the findings of the board shall
be taken
within
ten days. No person who is appointed as a volunteer
firefighter of the
fire department of any township or fire district
after July 1,
1979, shall remain in
such a
that position
unless either of the
following applies: (1) Within one year
of the appointment, the person has
received
a certificate issued under
former section 3303.07 of the
Revised Code or division (C)(1) or (2)
of section 4765.55 of the
Revised Code
evidencing satisfactory completion of a
firefighter
training program. (2) The person began serving as a permanent full-time paid
firefighter with the fire department of a city or village
prior to
July 2, 1970, or as a
volunteer firefighter with the fire
department of a city,
village, or other township or fire district
prior to
July 2, 1979, and receives a certificate issued under
division
(C)(3) of section 4765.55 of
the Revised Code. No person shall receive an appointment under this section
after July 1, 1979, in the case of a volunteer
firefighter, unless
the person has, not more than
sixty days prior to receiving
such
the
appointment, passed a physical examination, given by a
licensed
physician, showing that the person meets the physical
requirements
necessary to perform the duties of the position to
which the
person is appointed as established by the board of
township trustees
having jurisdiction over the appointment. The
appointing authority
shall, prior to making
any such
an
appointment, file with the
Ohio police
and fire pension fund
or
the local volunteer fire fighters'
dependents
fund board a copy of
the report or findings
of
said
that licensed physician. The
professional fee for
such
the
physical examination shall be paid
for by the board of township
trustees. (B) In each township not having a fire department, the
board
of
township trustees shall appoint a fire prevention officer who
shall exercise all of the duties of a fire chief except those
involving the maintenance and operation of fire apparatus. The
board of
township trustees may appoint one or more deputy fire
prevention
officers, who shall exercise the duties assigned by
the
fire
prevention officer. The board of
township trustees may fix
such
the
compensation
for the
fire prevention officer and the fire prevention
officer's
deputies as it considers best.
The board of
township trustees
shall appoint each fire prevention
officer
and deputy for a
one-year term. An appointee may be reappointed
at the end of a
term to another one-year term. Any appointee may
be removed from
office during a term as provided by sections
733.35 to 733.39 of
the Revised Code.
The provisions of section
Section
505.45 of the
Revised Code
extend
extends to
such
those officers. (C) Division (A) of this section shall not apply to any
township
having
that has a population of ten thousand or more
persons
residing within the township and outside of any municipal
corporation,
which
that has its own fire department employing
ten
or
more full-time paid employees, and
which
that has a civil
service
commission established under division (B) of section
124.40 of
the Revised Code.
Such
The township shall comply with
the
procedures
for the employment, promotion, and discharge of
firefighters provided by Chapter 124. of the Revised Code, except
that
the board of township trustees of the township may appoint
the fire
chief, and any person so appointed shall be in the
unclassified
service under section 124.11 of the Revised Code and
shall serve
at the pleasure of the board.
Neither this section
nor
any other section
of the Revised Code requires, or shall be
construed to require,
that the fire chief be a resident of the
township. A person
who
is appointed fire chief
under these
conditions
and who is removed by the board or
who
resigns
from the
position is entitled to return to the classified service
in the
township fire department, in the position held just
prior to the
appointment as fire chief. The board of township
trustees shall
determine the number of personnel required and
establish salary
schedules and conditions of employment not in
conflict with
Chapter 124. of the Revised Code. No person shall
receive an
original appointment as a permanent full-time paid
member of the
fire department of
such a
the township unless the
person has
received a certificate issued under former section 3303.07
or
section 4765.55 of the Revised Code evidencing the
satisfactory
completion of a firefighter
training program. Persons employed as
firefighters in
such
the township on the date a
civil service
commission is appointed pursuant to division (B) of
section 124.40
of the Revised Code shall, without being required
to pass a
competitive examination or a firefighter training
program, retain
their employment and any rank previously granted
them by action of
the
board of township trustees or otherwise, but
such
those
persons are eligible for promotion only by compliance with
Chapter
124. of the Revised Code.
Sec. 733.68.
(A) Except as otherwise provided
by
in
division (B) of this section or in another section of the
Revised
Code, each officer of
a municipal corporation, or of any
department or board
thereof
of a
municipal corporation, whether
elected or appointed as a substitute for a regular officer, shall
be an
elector of the municipal corporation, and, before entering
upon
his
official
duties, shall take an oath to support the
constitution of the United
States and
the constitution of this
state, and an oath that
he
the
officer
will faithfully,
honestly,
and impartially discharge the duties of
his
the office
to which
elected or appointed.
Such
These provisions
as to official oaths
shall extend to deputies, but they need not be electors. (B)
Neither this section nor any other section of the
Revised
Code requires, or
shall be construed to require, that a
city fire
chief be an elector of the
city or that a village fire
chief be an
elector of
the village.
Sec. 737.08. (A) The fire department of each city shall be
composed of a chief of the fire department and
such other
officers, firefighters, and employees
as provided
for
by
ordinance.
Neither this section nor any other section of the
Revised Code requires, or
shall be construed to require, that the
fire chief be a resident of the city. (B) No person shall, after July 1, 1970, be appointed as a
permanent full-time paid member, whose duties include
firefighting
fire fighting, of
the fire department of any city, unless
either
of the following applies: (1) The person has received a certificate issued under
former section
3303.07 of the Revised Code or division (C)(1) or
(2) of section 4765.55 of
the Revised Code evidencing satisfactory
completion of a firefighter training
program;. (2) The person began serving as a permanent full-time paid
firefighter with the fire department of a village or other city
prior to July 2, 1970,
and receives a certificate issued under
division (C)(3) of
section 4765.55 of the
Revised Code.
(C) No person who is appointed as a volunteer
firefighter of
a city
fire department
after July 1, 1979, shall remain in
such a
that
position, unless either of the following applies: (1) Within one year of the appointment, the person has
received a
certificate
issued under former section 3303.07 of the
Revised Code or division (C)(1) or
(2) of section 4765.55 of the
Revised Code
evidencing satisfactory completion of a firefighter
training
program;. (2) The person began serving as a permanent full-time paid
firefighter with the fire department of a village or other city
prior to July 2, 1970, or as a volunteer firefighter with the
fire
department of a township, fire district, village, or other city
prior to July 2, 1979, and receives a certificate issued
under
division (C)(3) of section 4765.55 of the
Revised Code.
(D) The director of
public safety shall have the exclusive
management and control of
such other surgeons, secretaries,
clerks, and employees, as are
provided
for by ordinance or
resolution of the legislative authority
of
such
the city.
Sec. 737.22. (A) Each village establishing a fire
department
shall have a fire chief as the
department's head
thereof,
appointed by the
mayor with the advice and consent of the
legislative authority of
the village, who shall continue in office
until removed
therefrom
from office as provided
by sections 733.35
to 733.39 of the Revised Code.
Neither this section nor
any other
section of the Revised Code requires, or shall be construed to
require, that the
fire chief be a resident of the village. In each village not having a fire department, the mayor
shall, with the advice and consent of the legislative authority
of
the village, appoint a fire prevention officer who shall
exercise
all of the duties of a fire chief except those involving
the
maintenance and operation of fire apparatus.
The legislative authority of the village may fix
such
the
compensation
as it
deems
considers best.
Such
The appointee
shall
continue in
office until removed
therefrom
from office as provided
by
such sections
733.35
to 733.39 of the Revised Code.
The
provisions of section
Section 737.23 of the Revised Code shall
extend to
such
the officer. (B) The legislative authority of the village may provide for
the appointment of
permanent full-time paid firefighters as it
deems
considers best and fix their
compensation, or for the
services of volunteer
firefighters, who shall be
appointed by the
mayor with the advice and consent of the
legislative authority,
and shall continue in office until removed
therefrom
from office. (1) No person shall be appointed as
a permanent full-time
paid firefighter of a village fire
department, unless either of
the following applies: (a) The person has received a certificate issued
under
former section 3303.07 of the Revised Code or division (C)(1) or
(2) of
section 4765.55 of the Revised Code evidencing satisfactory
completion of a firefighter training program;. (b) The person began serving as a permanent full-time
paid
firefighter with the fire department of a city or other
village
prior to July 2,
1970, and receives a certificate issued under
division (C)(3) of
section 4765.55 of the Revised Code. (2) No person who is appointed as a volunteer
firefighter of
a
village fire department
after July 1, 1979, shall remain in
such
a
that position, unless either of the following applies: (a) Within one year of the appointment,
the person has
received a certificate issued under former
section 3303.07 or
section 4765.55 of the Revised Code evidencing satisfactory
completion of a firefighter training
program;. (b) The person has served as a
permanent full-time paid
firefighter with the fire department of
a city or other village
prior to
July 2, 1970, or as a volunteer
firefighter with the fire
department of a city, township, fire
district, or other village
prior to
July 2, 1979, and receives a certificate issued
under
division (C)(3) of section 4765.55 of the
Revised Code. (3) No person shall receive an appointment under this
section
after January 1, 1970, and after July 1, 1979, in the case
of a
volunteer firefighter, unless the
person has, not more than
sixty days
prior to receiving
such
the appointment, passed a
physical
examination, given by a licensed physician, showing that
the
person meets the physical requirements necessary to perform
the duties of
the position to which the person is to be appointed
as
established by the
legislative authority of the village. The
appointing authority
shall, prior to making
any such
an
appointment, file with the
Ohio police
and fire pension fund
or
the local volunteer fire fighters'
dependents
fund board a copy of
the report or findings of
said
that
licensed physician. The
professional fee for
such
the physical examination shall be paid
for by
such
the
legislative authority
of the village.
Section 2. That existing sections 505.371, 505.375, 505.38,
733.68, 737.08,
and 737.22 of the Revised
Code are
hereby
repealed.
Section 3. Section 505.375 of the Revised Code is presented
in
this act as a composite of the section as amended by both Am.
Sub. S.B. 5 and Am. Sub. S.B. 30 of
the 122nd General Assembly.
The General Assembly, applying the
principle stated in division
(B) of section 1.52 of the Revised
Code that amendments are to be
harmonized if reasonably capable of
simultaneous operation, finds
that the composite is the resulting
version of the section in
effect prior to the effective date of
the section as presented in
this act.
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