130th Ohio General Assembly
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Sub. S. B. No. 124  As Passed by the House
As Passed by the House

126th General Assembly
Regular Session
2005-2006
Sub. S. B. No. 124


Senators Spada, Harris 

Representatives Seitz, Willamowski, Aslanides, Coley, Domenick, Key, McGregor, Miller, Oelslager, Schneider, Seaver, G. Smith, Wagoner 



A BILL
To amend sections 101.23, 101.82, 101.83, 101.84, 101.85, 101.86, 122.011, 122.40, 123.151, 149.56, 307.674, 340.02, 1501.04, 1502.04, 1502.05, 1502.11, 1502.12, 1506.30, 1506.34, 1506.35, 1517.02, 1517.23, 1518.01, 1518.03, 1551.35, 2323.44, 3358.10, 3375.61, 3375.62, 3383.01, 3383.02, 3383.03, 3383.04, 3383.05, 3383.06, 3383.07, 3383.08, 3383.09, 3746.09, 3746.35, 3747.02, 3748.01, 3748.02, 3748.04, 3748.05, 3748.16, 3929.482, 3929.85, 3931.01, 3955.05, 3960.06, 4117.01, 4121.442, 4167.09, 4167.25, 4167.27, 4731.143, 4741.03, 4755.481, 4981.03, 5123.35, and 5123.352 of the Revised Code, to amend Section 4 of Am. Sub. H.B. 516 of the 125th General Assembly, and to repeal Section 8 of Am. S.B. 80 of the 125th General Assembly to exempt ten state governmental entities from the operation of the Sunset Review Law, to change the membership of the Ohio Subrogation Rights Commission and accelerate its commencement date, to confirm the sunset review and related amendments, enactments, and repeals of Am. Sub. H.B. 516 of the 125th General Assembly, and to declare an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1.  That sections 101.23, 101.82, 101.83, 101.84, 101.85, 101.86, 122.011, 122.40, 123.151, 149.56, 307.674, 340.02, 1501.04, 1502.04, 1502.05, 1502.11, 1502.12, 1506.30, 1506.34, 1506.35, 1517.02, 1517.23, 1518.01, 1518.03, 1551.35, 2323.44, 3358.10, 3375.61, 3375.62, 3383.01, 3383.02, 3383.03, 3383.04, 3383.05, 3383.06, 3383.07, 3383.08, 3383.09, 3746.09, 3746.35, 3747.02, 3748.01, 3748.02, 3748.04, 3748.05, 3748.16, 3929.482, 3929.85, 3931.01, 3955.05, 3960.06, 4117.01, 4121.442, 4167.09, 4167.25, 4167.27, 4731.143, 4741.03, 4755.481, 4981.03, 5123.35, and 5123.352 of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 101.23.  The oath of office of senators and representatives;; the president and president pro tempore of the senate;; the speaker and speaker pro tempore of the house of representatives;; the clerk of the senate, the chief administrative officer and the clerk of the house of representatives, and their assistants;; and the sergeant at arms and assistant sergeant at arms of each house may be administered by a member, by a former presiding officer of either house of the general assembly, by a former presiding officer of either house of the general assembly, or by a person authorized to administer oaths.
Sec. 101.82.  As used in sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code:
(A) "Agency" means any board, commission, committee, or council, or any other similar state public body required to be established pursuant to state statutes for the exercise of any function of state government and to which members are appointed or elected. "Agency" does not include the following:
(1) The general assembly, or any commission, committee, or other body composed entirely of members of the general assembly;
(2) Any court;
(3) Any public body created by or directly pursuant to the constitution of this state;
(4) The board of trustees of any institution of higher education financially supported in whole or in part by the state;
(5) Any public body that has the authority to issue bonds or notes or that has issued bonds or notes that have not been fully repaid;
(6) The public utilities commission of Ohio;
(7) The consumers' council governing board;
(8) The Ohio board of regents;
(9) Any state board or commission that has the authority to issue any final adjudicatory order that may be appealed to the court of common pleas under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code;
(10) Any board of elections;
(11) The board of directors of the Ohio insurance guaranty association and the board of governors of the Ohio fair plan underwriting association;
(12) The Ohio public employees deferred compensation board;
(13) The Ohio retirement study council;
(14) The board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund, public employees retirement board, school employees retirement board, state highway patrol retirement board, and state teachers retirement board;
(15) The industrial commission;
(16) The parole board;
(17) The board of tax appeals;
(18) The controlling board;
(19) The release authority of department of youth services;
(20) The environmental review appeals commission;
(21) The Ohio ethics commission;
(22) The Ohio public works commission;
(23) The self-insuring employers evaluation board;
(24) The state board of deposit;
(25) The state employment relations board.
(B) "Abolish" means to repeal the statutes creating and empowering an agency, remove its personnel, and transfer its records to the department of administrative services pursuant to division (E) of section 149.331 of the Revised Code.
(C) "Terminate" means to amend or repeal the statutes creating and empowering an agency, remove its personnel, and reassign its functions and records to another agency or officer designated by the general assembly.
(D) "Transfer" means to amend the statutes creating and empowering an agency so that its functions, records, and personnel are conveyed to another agency or officer.
(E) "Renew" means to continue an agency, and may include amendment of the statutes creating and empowering the agency, or recommendations for changes in agency operation or personnel.
Sec. 101.83.  (A) An agency in existence on January 1, 2005 2005, shall expire on December 31, 2010 2010, unless the agency is renewed in accordance with division (D) of this section and, if so renewed, shall expire thereafter on the thirty-first day of December of the fourth year after the year in which it was most recently renewed unless the agency is renewed in accordance with division (D) of this section. An agency created after January 1, 2005 2005, that is created on the thirty-first day of December shall expire not later than four years after its creation, unless the agency is renewed in accordance with division (D) of this section. An agency created after January 1, 2005 2005, that is created on any other date shall be considered for the purpose of this section to have been created on the preceding thirty-first day of December, and the agency shall expire not later than four years after the date it was considered to have been created, unless the agency is renewed in accordance with division (D) of this section. Any act creating or renewing an agency shall contain a distinct section providing a specific expiration date for the agency in accordance with this division.
(B) If the general assembly does not renew or transfer an agency on or before its expiration date, it shall expire on that date.
The auditor of state shall not authorize the expenditure of any moneys for any agency on or after the date of its expiration.
(C) The general assembly may provide by law for the orderly, efficient, and expeditious conclusion of an agency's business and operation. The rules, orders, licenses, contracts, and other actions made, taken, granted, or performed by the agency shall continue in effect according to their terms notwithstanding the agency's abolition, unless the general assembly provides otherwise by law. The general assembly may provide by law for the temporary or permanent transfer of some or all of a terminated or transferred agency's functions and personnel to a successor agency or officer.
The abolition, termination, or transfer of an agency shall not cause the termination or dismissal of any claim pending against the agency by any person, or any claim pending against any person by the agency. Unless the general assembly provides otherwise by law for the substitution of parties, the attorney general shall succeed the agency with reference to any pending claim.
(D) An agency may be renewed by passage of a bill that continues the statutes creating and empowering the agency, that amends or repeals those statutes, or that enacts new statutes, to improve agency usefulness, performance, or effectiveness.
Sec. 101.84.  (A) There is hereby created the sunset review committee, to be composed of nine members and function in calendar years 2009 and 2010 and function in calendar years 2009 and 2010. The president of the senate shall appoint three members of the senate to the committee, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party. The speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint three members of the house of representatives to the committee, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party. The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint three members to the committee, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party. Members shall be appointed within fifteen days after the commencement of the first regular session of the 128th the 128th general assembly.
(B) Each member of the committee who is appointed by the president of the senate or the speaker of the house of representatives shall serve during during that committee member's term of office term of office or until that committee member no longer is a member of the senate or the house of representatives, whichever is applicable. Each member of the committee who is appointed by the governor shall serve a two-year term that ends on the thirty-first day of December in 2010 in 2010. A vacancy on the committee shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.
In the first regular session of the 128th the 128th general assembly, the chairperson of the committee shall be a member of the house of representatives, and the vice-chairperson of the committee shall be a member of the senate. In the second regular session of the 128th 128th general assembly, the chairperson of the committee shall be a member of the senate, and the vice-chairperson of the committee shall be a member of the house of representatives.
Members of the committee shall receive no compensation, but shall be reimbursed for their necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties.
(C) The committee shall meet not later than thirty days after the first day of the first regular session of the 128th 128th general assembly to choose a chairperson and to commence establishment of the schedule for agency review provided for in section 101.85 of the Revised Code or perform other committee duties under sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code. Five members of the committee shall constitute a quorum for the conduct of committee business.
Sec. 101.85.  (A) The sunset review committee, not later than sixty days after its first meeting in 2009 2009, shall schedule for review each agency in existence on January 1, 2009 2009. The committee, by a unanimous vote, also may schedule for review any state board or commission described in division (A)(9) of section 101.82 of the Revised Code that is in existence on that date, and any board or commission so scheduled shall be considered an agency for purposes of sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code.
(B) The chairperson of the committee shall send a copy of the schedule for review of agencies for calendar year 2009 and calendar year 2010 2009 and calendar year 2010 to each of the agencies scheduled for review during that year and to the director of the legislative service commission. The director shall publish a copy of the schedule in the Ohio Administrative Code and in the register of Ohio created under section 103.051 of the Revised Code. The commission shall provide the committee with a list of agencies, and state boards and commissions described in division (A)(9) of section 101.82 of the Revised Code, in existence on January 1, 2009 2009, to assist the committee in identifying agencies and exercising its duties under sections 101.82 to 101.87 of the Revised Code with respect to those agencies.
Sec. 101.86.  (A) Not later than six six months prior to the date on which an agency in existence on January 1, 2009 2009, is scheduled to expire under division (A) of section 101.83 of the Revised Code, the sunset review committee shall hold hearings to receive the testimony of the public and of the chief executive officer of each agency scheduled for review and otherwise shall consider and evaluate the usefulness, performance, and effectiveness of the agency.
(B) Each agency that is scheduled for review shall submit to the committee a report that contains all of the following information:
(1) The agency's primary purpose and its various goals and objectives;
(2) The agency's past and anticipated workload, the number of staff required to complete that workload, and the agency's total number of staff;
(3) The agency's past and anticipated budgets and its sources of funding;
(4) The number of members of its governing board or other governing governing entity and their compensation, if any.
(C) Each agency shall have the burden of demonstrating to the committee a public need for its continued existence. In determining whether an agency has demonstrated that need, the committee shall consider all of the following:
(1) The extent to which the agency has permitted qualified applicants to serve the public;
(2) The cost-effectiveness of the agency in terms of number of employees, services rendered, and administrative costs incurred, both past and present;
(3) The extent to which the agency has operated in the public interest, and whether its operation has been impeded or enhanced by existing statutes and procedures and by budgetary, resource, and personnel practices;
(4) Whether the agency has recommended statutory changes to the general assembly that would benefit the public as opposed to the persons regulated by the agency, if any, and whether its recommendations and other policies have been adopted and implemented;
(5) Whether the agency has required any persons it regulates to report to it the impact of agency rules and decisions on the public as they affect service costs and service delivery;
(6) Whether persons regulated by the agency, if any, have been required to assess problems in their business operations that affect the public;
(7) Whether the agency has encouraged public participation in its rule-making and decision-making;
(8) The efficiency with which formal public complaints filed with the agency have been processed to completion;
(9) Whether the programs or services of the agency duplicate or overlap those of other agencies;
(10) Whether the purpose for which the agency was created has been fulfilled, has changed, or no longer exists;
(11) Whether federal law requires that the agency be renewed in some form;
(12) Changes needed in the enabling laws of the agency in order for it to comply with the criteria suggested by the considerations listed in divisions (C)(1) to (11) of this section.
(D) In its initial review of each agency, the committee, whenever possible, shall realign agency titles to conform to the following descriptions:
(1) Commission: an administrative appeals or hearing agency;
(2) Authority: an agency empowered to issue bonds or notes;
(3) Board: an agency having a licensing function only;
(4) Council: an advisory body to a major agency or department;
(5) Committee: an advisory body to a minor agency or department.
Sec. 122.011.  (A) The department of development shall develop and promote plans and programs designed to assure that state resources are efficiently used, economic growth is properly balanced, community growth is developed in an orderly manner, and local governments are coordinated with each other and the state, and for such purposes may do all of the following:
(1) Serve as a clearinghouse for information, data, and other materials that may be helpful or necessary to persons or local governments, as provided in section 122.07 of the Revised Code;
(2) Prepare and activate plans for the retention, development, expansion, and use of the resources and commerce of the state, as provided in section 122.04 of the Revised Code;
(3) Assist and cooperate with federal, state, and local governments and agencies of federal, state, and local governments in the coordination of programs to carry out the functions and duties of the department;
(4) Encourage and foster research and development activities, conduct studies related to the solution of community problems, and develop recommendations for administrative or legislative actions, as provided in section 122.03 of the Revised Code;
(5) Serve as the economic and community development planning agency, which shall prepare and recommend plans and programs for the orderly growth and development of this state and which shall provide planning assistance, as provided in section 122.06 of the Revised Code;
(6) Cooperate with and provide technical assistance to state departments, political subdivisions, regional and local planning commissions, tourist associations, councils of government, community development groups, community action agencies, and other appropriate organizations for carrying out the functions and duties of the department or for the solution of community problems;
(7) Coordinate the activities of state agencies that have an impact on carrying out the functions and duties of the department;
(8) Encourage and assist the efforts of and cooperate with local governments to develop mutual and cooperative solutions to their common problems that relate to carrying out the purposes of this section;
(9) Study existing structure, operations, and financing of regional or local government and those state activities that involve significant relations with regional or local governmental units, recommend to the governor and to the general assembly such changes in these provisions and activities as will improve the operations of regional or local government, and conduct other studies of legal provisions that affect problems related to carrying out the purposes of this section;
(10) Create and operate a division of community development to develop and administer programs and activities that are authorized by federal statute or the Revised Code;
(11)(11) Until October 15, 2005, establish fees and charges, in consultation with the director of agriculture, for purchasing loans from financial institutions and providing loan guarantees under the family farm loan program created under sections 901.80 to 901.83 of the Revised Code;
(12)(12) Provide loan servicing for the loans purchased and loan guarantees provided under section 901.80 of the Revised Code as that section existed prior to October 15, 2005;
(13)(13) Until October 15, 2005, and upon approval by the controlling board under division (A)(3) of section 901.82 of the Revised Code of the release of money to be used for purchasing a loan or providing a loan guarantee, request the release of that money in accordance with division (B) of section 166.03 of the Revised Code for use for the purposes of the fund created by section 166.031 of the Revised Code.
(B) The director of development may request the attorney general to, and the attorney general, in accordance with section 109.02 of the Revised Code, shall bring a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction. The director may be sued in the director's official capacity, in connection with this chapter, in accordance with Chapter 2743. of the Revised Code.
Sec. 122.40.  (A) There is hereby created the development financing advisory council to assist in carrying out the programs created pursuant to sections 122.39 to 122.62 and Chapter 166. of the Revised Code.
(B) The council shall consist of seven members appointed by the governor,, with the advice and consent of the senate, who are, who are selected for their knowledge of and experience in economic development financing, one member of the senate appointed by the president of the senate, one member of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, and the director of development or the director's designee, and the director of development or the director's designee. With respect to the council:
(1) No more than four members of the council appointed by the governor shall be members of the same political party.
(2) Each member shall hold office from the date of the member's appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed.
(3) The terms of office for the seven members appointed by the governor shall be for five five years commencing on the first day of January and ending on the thirty-first day of December. The seven members appointed by the governor who are serving terms of office of seven years on the effective date of this amendment shall continue to serve those terms, but their successors in office, including the filling of a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of those terms, shall be appointed for terms of five years in accordance with this division. The seven members appointed by the governor who are serving terms of office of seven years on December 30, 2004, shall continue to serve those terms, but their successors in office, including the filling of a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of those terms, shall be appointed for terms of five years in accordance with this division.
(4) Any member of the council is eligible for reappointment.
(5) As a term of a member of the council appointed by the governor expires, the governor shall appoint a successor with the advice and consent of the senate.
(6) Except as otherwise provided in division (B)(3) of this section, any Except as otherwise provided in division (B)(3) of this section, any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of the predecessor's term.
(7) Any member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office, or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first.
(8) Before entering upon duties as a member of the council, each member shall take an oath provided by Section 7 of Article XV, Ohio Constitution.
(9) The governor may, at any time, remove any nonlegislative member pursuant to section 3.04 of the Revised Code.
(10) Members of the council, notwithstanding section 101.26 of the Revised Code with respect to members who are members of the general assembly, shall receive their necessary and actual expenses while engaged in the business of the council and shall be paid at the per diem rate of step 1, pay range 31, of section 124.15 of the Revised Code.
(11) Four Four members of the council constitute a quorum.
(12) In the event of the absence of a member appointed by the president of the senate or by the speaker of the house of representatives, the following persons may serve in the member's absence: the president of the senate or the speaker of the house, as the case may be, or a member of the senate or of the house of representatives, of the same political party as the development financing advisory council member, designated by the president of the senate of the senate or the speaker of the house.
Sec. 123.151.  (A) As used in this section, "minority business enterprise" has the same same meaning as as in division (E)(1) of section 122.71 of the Revised Code.
(B)(1) The director of administrative services shall make rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing procedures by which minority businesses may apply to the equal employment opportunity coordinator for certification as minority business enterprises.
(2) The coordinator shall approve the application of any minority business enterprise that complies with the rules adopted under this division. Any person adversely affected by an order of the coordinator denying certification as a minority business enterprise may appeal as provided in Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The coordinator shall prepare and maintain a list of certified minority business enterprises.
(C) The department of administrative services, every other state agency authorized to enter into contracts for construction or contracts for purchases of equipment, materials, supplies, insurance, or services, and every port authority shall file a report every ninety days with the equal employment opportunity coordinator. The report shall be filed at a time and in a form prescribed by the coordinator. The report shall include the name of each minority business enterprise that the agency or port authority entered into a contract with during the preceding ninety-day period and the total value and type of each such contract. No later than thirty days after the end of each fiscal year, the coordinator shall notify in writing each state agency and port authority that has not complied with the reporting requirements of this division for the prior fiscal year. A copy of this notification regarding a state agency shall be submitted to the director of budget and management. No later than thirty days after the notification, the agency or port authority shall submit to the coordinator the information necessary to comply with the reporting requirements of this division.
If If, after the expiration of this thirty-day period, a state a state agency has not complied with the reporting requirements of this division, the coordinator shall certify to the director of budget and management that the agency has not complied with the reporting requirements. A copy of this certification shall be submitted to the agency. Thereafter, no funds of the agency shall be expended during the fiscal year for construction or purchases of equipment, materials, supplies, contracts of insurance, or services until the coordinator certifies to the director of budget and management that the agency has complied with the reporting requirements of this division for the prior fiscal year.
If any port authority has not complied with the reporting requirement after the expiration of the thirty-day period, the coordinator shall certify to the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate that the port authority has not complied with the reporting requirements of this division. A copy of this certification shall be submitted to the port authority. Upon receipt of the certification, the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate shall take such action or make such recommendations to the members of the general assembly as they consider necessary to correct the situation.
Sec. 149.56.  (A) As used in this section, "abandoned property" has the same meaning as in section 1506.30 of the Revised Code.
(B) The Ohio historical society shall establish a program to locate, identify, and evaluate abandoned property and other resources in Lake Erie. The society, in accordance with the authority granted under section 149.30 of the Revised Code, may list any abandoned property it finds to have historical significance on its Ohio archaeological inventory or Ohio historical inventory as the director of the society considers appropriate. In determining whether an item has historical significance, the director shall follow the criteria of the national register of historic places established in 36 C.F.R. 60. The director shall notify the director of natural resources of any abandoned property found to have historical significance. The society may use the services of volunteers to locate, identify, and evaluate abandoned property in Lake Erie. The director shall approve any volunteer programs and may recruit, train, and supervise the services of volunteers.
(C) The moneys credited to the Ohio historical society under division (C) of section 1506.35 of the Revised Code and any appropriations, contributions, gifts, and federal grants made to the Ohio historical society for the purposes of this section and the applicable provisions of sections 1506.30 to 1506.36 1506.36 of the Revised Code shall be placed in a separate fund within the accounts of the Ohio historical society, together with moneys credited to that fund under divisions (D)(2) and (3) of section 1506.33 of the Revised Code, to be used solely to implement and administer this section and the duties assigned the society under sections 1506.30 to 1506.36 1506.36 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 307.674.  (A) As used in this section:
(1) "Bonds" means:
(a) Revenue bonds of the port authority described in division (B)(2)(a) of this section;
(b) Securities as defined in division (KK) of section 133.01 of the Revised Code issued by the host municipal corporation, described in division (B)(3)(a) of this section;
(c) Any bonds issued to refund any of those revenue bonds or securities.
(2) "Corporation" means a nonprofit corporation that is organized under the laws of this state and that includes within the purposes for which it is incorporated the authorization to lease and operate facilities such as a port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility.
(3) "Cost," as applied to a port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility, means the cost of acquiring, constructing, renovating, rehabilitating, equipping, or improving the facility, or any combination of those purposes, collectively referred to in this section as "construction," and the cost of acquisition of all land, rights of way, property rights, easements, franchise rights, and interests required for those purposes, the cost of demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on land so acquired, including the cost of acquiring any land to which those buildings or structures may be moved, the cost of public utility and common carrier relocation or duplication, the cost of all machinery, furnishings, and equipment, financing charges, interest prior to and during construction and for not more than three years after completion of construction, costs arising under guaranty agreements, reimbursement agreements, or other credit enhancement agreements relating to bonds, engineering, expenses of research and development with respect to such facility, legal expenses, plans, specifications, surveys, studies, estimates of costs and revenues, other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of acquiring or constructing the facility, administrative expense, and other expenses as may be necessary or incident to that acquisition or construction and the financing of such acquisition or construction, including, with respect to the revenue bonds of a port authority, amounts to be paid into any special funds from the proceeds of those bonds, and repayments to the port authority, host county, host municipal corporation, or corporation of any amounts advanced for the foregoing purposes.
(4) "Debt service charges" means, for any period or payable at any time, the principal of and interest and any premium due on bonds for that period or payable at that time whether due at maturity or upon mandatory redemption, together with any required deposits to reserves for the payment of principal of and interest on those bonds, and includes any payments required by the port authority to satisfy any of its obligations under or arising from any guaranty agreements, reimbursement agreements, or other credit enhancement agreements described in division (C) of this section.
(5) "Host county" means the county within the boundaries of which the port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility is or will be located.
(6) "Host municipal corporation" means the municipal corporation within the boundaries of which the port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility is or will be located.
(7) "Port authority" means a port authority created pursuant to section 4582.22 of the Revised Code.
(8) "Port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility" means a facility that consists of a center for music or other performing arts, a theater or other facilities to provide programs of an educational, recreational, or cultural nature, or any combination of those purposes as determined by the parties to the cooperative agreement for which provision is made in division (B) of this section to fulfill the public educational, recreational, and cultural purposes set forth therein, together with all parking facilities, walkways, and other auxiliary facilities, real and personal property, property rights, easements, and interests that may be appropriate for, or used in connection with, the operation of the facility.
(B) A host county, a host municipal corporation, and a port authority may enter into a cooperative agreement with a corporation under which, as further provided for in that agreement:
(1) The host county may agree to do any or all of the following:
(a) Levy and collect a tax under division (E) and division (F) of section 5739.09 of the Revised Code for the purposes, and in an amount sufficient for those purposes, described in divisions (B)(1)(b) and (c) of this section;
(b) Pay to the port authority all or such portion as provided for in the cooperative agreement of the revenue from the tax, together with any investment earnings on that revenue, to be used to pay a portion of the costs of acquiring, constructing, renovating, rehabilitating, equipping, or improving the port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility;
(c) Pledge and pay to the corporation all or such portion as provided for in the cooperative agreement of the revenue from the tax, together with any investment earnings on that revenue, to be used to pay a portion of the costs to the corporation of leasing the port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility from the port authority.
(2) The port authority may agree to do any or all of the following:
(a) Issue its revenue bonds pursuant to section 4582.48 of the Revised Code for the purpose of paying all or a portion of the costs of the port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility;
(b) Acquire, construct, renovate, rehabilitate, equip, and improve the port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility;
(c) Lease the port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility to the corporation;
(d) To the extent provided for in the cooperative agreement or the lease to the corporation, authorize the corporation to administer on behalf of the port authority the contracts for acquiring, constructing, renovating, rehabilitating, or equipping the port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility;
(e) Use the revenue derived from the lease of the port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility to the corporation solely to pay debt service charges on revenue bonds of the port authority issued pursuant to division (B)(2)(a) of this section and to pay its obligations under or arising from any guaranty agreements, reimbursement agreements, or other credit enhancement agreements provided for in this section.
(3) The host municipal corporation may agree to do either or both of the following:
(a) Issue its bonds for the purpose of paying all or a portion of the costs of the port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility, and pay the proceeds from the issuance to the port authority for that purpose;
(b) Enter into a guaranty agreement, a reimbursement agreement, or other credit enhancement agreement with the port authority to provide a guaranty or other credit enhancement of the port authority revenue bonds referred to in division (B)(2)(a) of this section pledging taxes, other than ad valorem property taxes, or other revenues for the purpose of providing the funds required to satisfy the host municipal corporation's obligations under that agreement.
The cooperative agreement may provide that the proceeds of such securities or of such guaranty agreement, reimbursement agreement, or other credit enhancement agreement be deposited with and administered by the trustee pursuant to the trust agreement authorized in division (C) of this section.
(4) The corporation may agree to do any or all of the following:
(a) Lease the port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility from the port authority;
(b) Operate and maintain the port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility pursuant to the lease;
(c) To the extent provided for in the cooperative agreement or the lease from the port authority, administer on behalf of the port authority the contracts for acquiring, constructing, renovating, rehabilitating, or equipping the port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility.
(C) The pledge and payments referred to in divisions (B)(1)(b) and (c) of this section and provided for in the cooperative agreement shall be for the period stated in the cooperative agreement but shall not extend longer than the period necessary to provide for the final retirement of the port authority revenue bonds referred to in division (B)(2)(a) of this section, and for the satisfaction by the port authority of any of its obligations under or arising from any guaranty agreements, reimbursement agreements, or other credit enhancement agreements relating to those bonds or to the revenues pledged to them. The cooperative agreement shall provide for the termination of the cooperative agreement, including the pledge and payment referred to in division (B)(1)(c) of this section, if the port authority revenue bonds referred to in division (B)(2)(a) of this section have not been issued, sold, and delivered within five years of the effective date of the cooperative agreement.
The cooperative agreement shall provide that any port authority revenue bonds shall be secured by a trust agreement between the port authority and a corporate trustee that is a trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or outside the state but authorized to exercise trust powers within the state. The host county may be a party to that trust agreement for the purpose of better securing the pledge by the host county of its payment to the corporation pursuant to division (B)(1)(c) of this section. A tax levied pursuant to section 5739.09 of the Revised Code for the purposes specified in division (B)(1)(b) or (c) of this section is not subject to diminution by initiative or referendum or diminution by statute, unless provision is made for an adequate substitute reasonably satisfactory to the trustee under the trust agreement that secures the port authority revenue bonds.
(D) A pledge of money by a host county under this section shall not be net indebtedness of the host county for purposes of section 133.07 of the Revised Code. A guaranty or other credit enhancement by a host municipal corporation under this section shall not be net indebtedness of the host municipal corporation for purposes of section 133.05 of the Revised Code.
(E) If the terms of the cooperative agreement so provide, any contract for the acquisition, construction, renovation, rehabilitation, equipping, or improving of a port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility shall be made in such manner as is determined by the board of directors of the port authority, and unless the cooperative agreement provides otherwise, such a contract is not subject to division (R)(2) of section 4582.31 of the Revised Code. The port authority may take the assignment of and assume any contracts for the acquisition, construction, renovation, rehabilitation, equipping, or improving of a port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility that had previously been authorized by any of the host county, the host municipality, or the corporation. Such contracts are not subject to division (R)(2) of section 4582.31 of the Revised Code.
Any contract for the acquisition, construction, renovation, rehabilitation, equipping, or improving of a port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility entered into, assigned, or assumed pursuant to this division shall provide that all laborers and mechanics employed for the acquisition, construction, renovation, rehabilitation, equipping, or improving of that facility shall be paid at the prevailing rates of wages of laborers and mechanics for the class of work called for by the port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility, which wages shall be determined in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 4115. of the Revised Code for the determination of prevailing wage rates.
Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary in section 3383.07 of the Revised Code, construction services and general building services for a port authority educational and cultural performing arts facility funded completely or in part with money appropriated by the state to the Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission may be provided by a port authority or a corporation that occupies, will occupy, or is responsible for that facility, as determined by the commission. The construction services and general building services to be provided by the port authority or the corporation shall be specified in an agreement between the commission and the port authority or corporation. That agreement, or any actions taken under it, are not subject to Chapters 123. or 153. of the Revised Code, but are subject to Chapter 4115. of the Revised Code.
Sec. 340.02.  As used in this section, "mental health professional" means a person who is qualified to work with mentally ill persons, pursuant to standards established by the director of mental health under section 5119.611 of the Revised Code.
For each alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health service district,, there shall be appointed a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services of eighteen members. Members shall be residents of the district and shall be interested in mental health programs and facilities or in alcohol or drug addiction programs.
The director of mental health shall appoint four members of the board, the director of alcohol and drug addiction services shall appoint four members, and the board of county commissioners shall appoint ten members. In a joint-county district,, the county commissioners of each participating county shall appoint members in as nearly as possible the same proportion as that county's population bears to the total population of the district, except that at least one member shall be appointed from each participating county.
The director of mental health shall ensure that at least one member of the board is a psychiatrist and one member of the board is a mental health professional. If the appointment of a psychiatrist is not possible, as determined under rules adopted by the director, a licensed physician may be appointed in place of the psychiatrist. If the appointment of a licensed physician is not possible, the director of mental health may waive the requirement that the psychiatrist or licensed physician be a resident of the service district and appoint a psychiatrist or licensed physician from a contiguous county. The membership of the board shall, as nearly as possible, reflect the composition of the population of the service district as to race and sex. The director of mental health shall ensure that at least one member of the board is a person who has received or is receiving mental health services paid for by public funds and at least one member is a parent or other relative of such a person.
The director of alcohol and drug addiction services shall ensure that at least one member of the board is a professional in the field of alcohol or drug addiction services and one member of the board is an advocate for persons receiving treatment for alcohol or drug addiction. Of the members appointed by the director of alcohol and drug addiction services, at least one shall be a person who has received or is receiving services for alcohol or drug addiction,, and at least one shall be a parent or other relative of such a person.
No member or employee of a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services shall serve as a member of the board of any agency with which the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services has entered into a contract for the provision of services or facilities. No member of a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services shall be an employee of any agency with which the board has entered into a contract for the provision of services or facilities. No person shall be an employee of a board and such an agency unless the board and agency both agree in writing.
No person shall serve as a member of the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services whose spouse, child, parent, brother, sister, grandchild, stepparent, stepchild, stepbrother, stepsister, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law serves as a member of the board of any agency with which the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services has entered into a contract for the provision of services or facilities. No person shall serve as a member or employee of the board whose spouse, child, parent, brother, sister, stepparent, stepchild, stepbrother, stepsister, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law serves as a county commissioner of a county or counties in the alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health service district.
Each year each board member shall attend at least one inservice training session provided or approved by the department of mental health or the department of alcohol and drug addiction services. Such training sessions shall not be considered to be regularly scheduled meetings of the board.
Each member shall be appointed for a term of four years, commencing the first day of July, except that one-third of initial appointments to a newly established board, and to the extent possible to expanded boards, shall be for terms of two years, one-third of initial appointments shall be of initial appointments shall be for terms of three years, and one-third of initial appointments shall be of initial appointments shall be for terms of four years. No member shall serve more than two consecutive four-year terms. A member may serve for three consecutive terms only if one of the terms is for less than two years. A member who has served two consecutive four-year terms or three consecutive terms totaling less than ten years is eligible for reappointment one year following the end of the second or third term, respectively.
When a vacancy occurs, appointment for the expired or unexpired term shall be made in the same manner as an original appointment. The appointing authority shall be notified by certified mail of any vacancy and shall fill the vacancy within sixty days following that that notice.
Any member of the board may be removed from office by the appointing authority for neglect of duty, misconduct, or malfeasance in office, and shall be removed by the appointing authority if the member's spouse, child, parent, brother, sister, stepparent, stepchild, stepbrother, stepsister, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law serves as a county commissioner of a county or counties in the service district or serves as a member or employee of the board of an agency with which the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services has entered a contract for the provision of services or facilities. The member shall be informed in writing of the charges and afforded an opportunity for a hearing. Upon the absence of a member within one year from either four board meetings or from two board meetings without prior notice, the board shall notify the appointing authority, which may vacate the appointment and appoint another person to complete the member's term.
Members of the board shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties, as defined by rules of the departments of mental health and alcohol and drug addiction services.
Sec. 1501.04.  There is hereby created in the department of natural resources a recreation and resources commission composed of the chairperson of the wildlife council created under section 1531.03 of the Revised Code, the chairperson of the parks and recreation council created under section 1541.40 of the Revised Code, the chairperson of the waterways safety council created under section 1547.73 of the Revised Code, the chairperson of the technical advisory council on oil and gas created under section 1509.38 of the Revised Code, the chairperson chairperson of the forestry advisory council created under section 1503.40 of the Revised Code, the chairperson of the Ohio soil and water conservation commission created under section 1515.02 of the Revised Code, the chairperson of the Ohio water advisory council created under section 1521.031 of the Revised Code, the chairperson of the recycling and litter prevention advisory council created under section 1502.04 of the Revised Code, the chairperson of the Ohio geology advisory council created under section 1505.11 of the Revised Code, and five members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate, not more than three of whom shall belong to the same political party. The director of natural resources shall be an ex officio member of the commission, with a voice in its deliberations, but without the power to vote.
Terms of office of members of the commission appointed by the governor shall be for five years, commencing on the second day of February and ending on the first day of February. Each member shall hold office from the date of appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed.
In the event of the death, removal, resignation, or incapacity of a member of the commission, the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint a successor who shall hold office for the remainder of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed. Any member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office, or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first.
The governor may remove any appointed member of the commission for misfeasance, nonfeasance, or malfeasance in office.
The commission shall exercise no administrative function, but may do any of the following do any of the following:
(A) Advise with and recommend to the director as to plans and programs for the management, development, utilization, and conservation of the natural resources of the state;
(B) Advise with and recommend to the director as to methods of coordinating the work of the divisions of the department;
(C) Consider and make recommendations upon any matter that the director may submit to it;
(D) Submit to the governor biennially recommendations for amendments to the conservation laws of the state.
Each member of the commission, before entering upon the discharge of the member's duties, shall take and subscribe to an oath of office, which oath, in writing, shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state.
The members of the commission shall serve without compensation, but shall be entitled to receive their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties.
The commission, by a majority vote of all its members, shall adopt and amend bylaws.
To be eligible for appointment, a person shall be a citizen of the United States and an elector of the state and shall possess a knowledge of and have an interest in the natural resources of this state.
The commission shall hold at least four regular quarterly meetings each year. Special meetings shall be held at such times as the bylaws of the commission provide. Notices of all meetings shall be given in such manner as the bylaws provide. The commission shall choose annually from among its members a chairperson to preside over its meetings and a secretary to keep a record of its proceedings. A majority of the members of the commission constitutes a quorum. No advice shall be given or recommendation made without a majority of the members of the commission concurring in it in it.
Sec. 1502.04.  There is hereby created within the division of recycling and litter prevention the recycling and litter prevention advisory council consisting of thirteen members. The speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint one member of the house of representatives to the council, and the president of the senate shall appoint one member of the senate to the council. If the president of the senate belongs to the same political party as the speaker of the house of representatives, the president shall appoint a member of the senate who belongs to a different political party as recommended by the minority leader of the senate. The speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate shall make their initial appointments to the council within sixty days after July 20, 1994. Each member appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives or the president of the senate shall serve for a term of office of three years. The appropriate appointing authority may fill any vacancy occurring during the term of any member whom the appointing authority has appointed to the advisory council.
The remaining eleven members shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate and shall be persons with knowledge of or experience in recycling or litter prevention programs. The council shall have broad based representation of interests including agriculture, labor, the environment, manufacturing, wholesale and retail industry, and the public. One of the business members shall be from the commercial recycling industry, and another shall be from an industry required to pay taxes under section 5733.065 of the Revised Code. The director of natural resources shall not be a member of the council. The governor shall make initial appointments to the council within thirty days after October 20, 1987. Of the governor's initial appointments to the council, five shall be for a term of one year, and six shall be for a term of two years. Thereafter, terms of office shall be for three years. Each member appointed by the governor shall hold office from the date of the member's appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed. In the event of death, removal, resignation, or incapacity of a member of the council appointed by the governor, the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint a successor who shall hold office for the remainder of the term for which the successor's predecessor was appointed. A member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office, or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. The governor at any time may remove any of the governor's appointees from the council for misfeasance, nonfeasance, or malfeasance in office.
Members of the council may be reappointed.
The council shall hold at least four regular quarterly meetings each year. Special meetings may be held at the behest of the chairperson or a majority of the members. The council annually shall select from among its members a chairperson, a vice-chairperson, and a secretary to keep a record of its proceedings.
A majority vote of the members of the council is necessary to take action in any matter.
A member of the council shall serve without compensation for attending council meetings, but shall be reimbursed for all traveling, hotel, and other ordinary and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of the member's work as a member of the council.
Membership on the council does not constitute holding a public office or position of employment under the laws of this state and does not constitute grounds for removal of public officers or employees from their offices or positions of employment.
The council shall do all of the following:
(A) In conjunction with the chief of recycling and litter prevention and with the approval of the director of natural resources, establish criteria by which to certify, and certify, agencies of the state, municipal corporations with a population of more than fifty thousand, counties, and solid waste management districts as eligible to receive grants under section 1502.05 of the Revised Code;
(B)(B) In conjunction with the chief and with the approval of the director, establish criteria by which to certify, and certify, political subdivisions for receipt of special grants for activities or projects that are intended to accomplish the purposes of any of the programs established under section 1502.03 of the Revised Code;
(C)(C) Advise the chief in carrying out the chief's duties under this chapter.
Sec. 1502.05.  (A) The chief of recycling and litter prevention, pursuant to division (A)(A) of section 1502.04 of the Revised Code and with the approval of the director of natural resources, may make grants from the recycling and litter prevention fund created in section 1502.02 of the Revised Code to accomplish the purposes of the programs established under section 1502.03 of the Revised Code.
(B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the chief, with the approval of the director, may require any eligible applicant certified by the recycling and litter prevention advisory council under division (A)(A) of section 1502.04 of the Revised Code that applies for a grant for an activity or project that is intended to further the purposes of any program established under division (A)(1), (2), or (4) of section 1502.03 of the Revised Code to provide a matching contribution of not more than fifty per cent of the grant.
(C) Notwithstanding division (B) of this section, any grant awarded under division (A) of this section to foster cooperative research and development regarding recycling or the cooperative establishment or expansion of private recycling facilities or programs shall be made in conjunction with a contribution to the project by a cooperating enterprise that maintains or proposes to maintain a relevant research and development or recycling facility or program in this state or by an agency of the state, provided that funding provided by a state agency shall not be provided from general revenue funds appropriated by the general assembly. No grant made under division (A) of this section for the purposes described in this division shall exceed the contribution made by the cooperating enterprise or state agency. The chief may consider cooperating contributions in the form of state of the art new equipment or in other forms if the chief determines that the contribution is essential to the successful implementation of the project.
Grants made under division (A) of this section for the purposes described in this division shall be made in such form and conditioned on such terms as the chief considers to be appropriate.
(D)(1) The chief, with the approval of the director, may require any eligible applicant certified by the recycling and litter prevention advisory council under division (A)(A) of section 1502.04 of the Revised Code that applies for a grant that is intended to further the purposes of the program established under division (A)(3) of section 1502.03 of the Revised Code, except any eligible applicant that is or is located in a county that has a per capita income equal to or below ninety per cent of the median county per capita income of the state as determined by the chief using the most recently available figures from the United States census bureau, to provide a matching contribution as follows:
(a) Up to ten per cent of the grant from any eligible applicant that is or is located in a county that has a per capita income above ninety per cent of the median county per capita income of the state, but equal to or below one hundred per cent of the median county per capita income of the state;
(b) Up to twenty per cent of the grant from any eligible applicant that is or is located in a county that has a per capita income above the median county per capita income of the state.
(2) If the eligible applicant is a joint solid waste management district or is filing a joint application on behalf of two or more counties, the matching contribution required under division (D)(1) of this section shall be the average of the matching contributions of all of the counties covered by the application as determined in accordance with that division. The matching contribution of a county that has a per capita income equal to or below ninety per cent of the median county per capita income of the state shall be included as zero in calculating the average matching contribution.
(E) After receiving notice from the director of environmental protection that each county within the state is subject to the solid waste management plan of a solid waste management district, the chief shall ensure that not less than fifty per cent of the moneys distributed as grants under this section shall be expended for the purposes of recycling and recycling market development.
Sec. 1502.11.  (A) The chief of recycling and litter prevention The chief of recycling and litter prevention shall prepare, with the assistance of the recycling and litter prevention advisory council, and the director of natural resources the director of natural resources shall approve, a revised Ohio recycling market development Ohio recycling market development plan not later than the thirty-first day of December every two years. The The plan shall do all of the following:
(1) Identify the types of recyclables, the recycling of which will receive assistance under the plan;
(2) Assess the need for and recommend specific types of direct financial assistance to be provided by the state, including grants, low-interest loans, bonds, and rebates and guarantees for projects such as retooling costs for manufacturers and industrial plants to use recycled materials, capitalization business incubators, new product research and development, demonstration projects, and the application and uses of recycled materials;
(3) Assess the need for and recommend specific types of other assistance to be provided by the state, including the creation of enterprise zones and other tax incentives and exemptions, job training and managerial assistance, facilitation of technology transfers, provision of technical information to industries and to counties, townships, municipal corporations, and solid waste management districts, provision of consumer information, and establishment of a computer information network;
(4) Designate a specific state agency to administer each component of the plan recommended under divisions (A)(2) and (3) of this section;
(5) Determine the funding level needed for each component of the plan recommended under divisions (A)(2) and (3) of this section, and establish biennial budget estimates for the main operating biennial budget needed by the state agency designated to administer the component under division (A)(4) of this section;
(6) Recommend necessary statutory changes, provided that the changes have been endorsed by a two-thirds vote of the recycling and litter prevention advisory council.
(B) Each revised plan prepared under division (A) of this section shall do both of the following:
(1) Review the relevant activities of each state agency designated to administer a component of the previous plan;
(2) Recommend any needed changes in the components of the previous plan prepared under divisions (A)(1) to (6) of this section, including the addition or deletion of any components.
(C)(C) Each state agency that is designated under the plan to administer a component of the plan shall do both of the following:
(1) Administer that component as provided in the plan;
(2) Include in its biennial budget estimates for the main operating biennial budget the budget estimates established pursuant to division (A)(5) of this section.
(D)(D) A copy of each plan prepared under this section shall be submitted upon completion to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the president of the senate.
Sec. 1502.12. (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the scrap tire grant fund, consisting of moneys transferred to the fund under section 3734.82 of the Revised Code. The chief of the division of recycling and litter prevention, with the approval of the director of natural resources, may make grants from the fund for the purpose of supporting market development activities for scrap tires. The grants may be awarded to individuals, businesses, and entities certified under division (A)(A) of section 1502.04 of the Revised Code.
(B) Projects and activities that are eligible for grants under this section shall be evaluated for funding using, at a minimum, the following criteria:
(1) The degree to which a proposed project contributes to the increased use of scrap tires generated in this state;
(2) The degree of local financial support for a proposed project;
(3) The technical merit and quality of a proposed project.
Sec. 1506.30.  As used in sections 1506.30 to 1506.36 1506.36 of the Revised Code:
(A) "Abandoned property" means a submerged aircraft; a submerged watercraft, including a ship, boat, canoe, skiff, raft, or barge; the rigging, gear, fittings, trappings, and equipment of a submerged aircraft or watercraft; the personal property of the officers, crew, and passengers of a submerged aircraft or watercraft; the cargo of a submerged aircraft or watercraft that has been deserted, relinquished, cast away, or left behind and for which attempts at reclamation have been abandoned by the owners and insurers; and submerged materials resulting from activities of prehistoric and historic native Americans.
(B) "Lake Erie" means that portion of the waters and lands of Lake Erie belonging to the state as provided in section 1506.10 of the Revised Code.
(C) "Historical value" means the quality of significance exemplified by an object, structure, site, or district that is included in or eligible for inclusion in the state registry of archaeological landmarks authorized under section 149.51 of the Revised Code, the state registry of historic landmarks authorized under section 149.55 of the Revised Code, or the national register of historic places.
(D) "Marine surveyor" means a person engaged in the business of mapping or surveying submerged lands and abandoned property.
(E) "Mechanical or other assistance" means all artificial artificial devices used to raise or remove artifacts from abandoned property, including pry bars, wrenches and other hand or power tools, cutting torches, explosives, winches, flotation bags, lines to surface, extra divers buoyancy devices, and other buoyancy devices.
(F) "Recreational value" means value relating to an activity in which the public engages or may engage for recreation or sport, including scuba diving and fishing, as determined by the director of natural resources.
Sec. 1506.34.  (A) The director of natural resources, with the approval of the director of the Ohio historical society, shall establish policies and may adopt rules necessary to implement and administer sections 1506.30 to 1506.36 1506.36 of the Revised Code. Not less than forty-five days prior to adopting a rule under this section or section 1506.31 of the Revised Code, the director of natural resources shall send a copy of the proposed rule to the director of the Ohio historical society, who shall promptly review it. Not more than thirty days after receiving the proposed rule, the director of the Ohio historical society shall return the rule to the director of natural resources together with the former director's the former director's written approval or disapproval of the proposed rule. If the director of the Ohio historical society the director of the Ohio historical society disapproves the rule, the director the director shall explain the reasons for the the disapproval and any amendments to the rule the director the director considers necessary to obtain the director's the director's approval. The director of natural resources shall not adopt a rule under those sections that has not been approved by the director of the Ohio historical society. If the director of the Ohio historical society does not respond within thirty days as prescribed in this section, the rule is deemed approved by the director the director.
(B) The director of natural resources shall inform the public of the requirements of sections 1506.30 to 1506.36 1506.36 of the Revised Code and any policies established and rules adopted under them. In complying with this section, the director may establish or conduct educational programs or seminars, print and distribute informational pamphlets, and provide detailed information to organizations that conduct scuba diving training programs.
(C) The director of natural resources may hire or contract with a marine archaeologist, a marine historian, a marine surveyor, or any combination of these persons of these persons for the purposes of implementing and administering sections 1506.30 to 1506.36 1506.36 of the Revised Code and any rules adopted under them.
Sec. 1506.35.  (A) The director of natural resources may suspend or revoke, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, a permit issued under section 1506.32 of the Revised Code if the permit holder has done either of the following:
(1) Failed to comply with sections 1506.30 to 1506.36 1506.36 of the Revised Code, any rules adopted under those sections, or any provision or condition of the holder's the holder's permit;
(2) Damaged abandoned property other than in accordance with the provisions or conditions of the permit.
(B) Any motor vehicle, as defined in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code, watercraft, as defined in section 1547.01 of the Revised Code, mechanical or other assistance, scuba gear, sonar equipment, or other equipment used by any person in the course of committing a third or subsequent violation of division (K) of section 1506.32 of the Revised Code shall be considered contraband for the purposes of sections 2933.42 and 2933.43 of the Revised Code, except that proceeds from the sale of such contraband shall be disposed of in the following order:
(1) To the payment of the costs incurred in the forfeiture proceedings under section 2933.43 of the Revised Code;
(2) To the payment of the balance due on any security interest preserved under division (C) of section 2933.43 of the Revised Code;
(3) To the payment of any costs incurred by the seizing agency under section 2933.43 of the Revised Code in connection with the storage, maintenance, security, and forfeiture of the contraband;
(4) Fifty per cent of the remaining money to the credit of the Lake Erie submerged lands preserves fund created in division (C) of this section, and fifty per cent of the remaining money to the Ohio historical society for deposit into the fund created pursuant to division (C) of section 149.56 of the Revised Code.
(C) There is hereby created in the state treasury the Lake Erie submerged lands preserves fund. The fund shall be composed of moneys credited to it under division (B)(4) of this section and division (D)(2) of section 1506.33 of the Revised Code, all appropriations, contributions, and gifts made to it, and any federal grants received by the department of natural resources for the purposes of sections 1506.30 to 1506.36 of the Revised Code. The director shall use the moneys in the Lake Erie submerged lands preserves fund solely to implement and administer sections 1506.30 to 1506.36 1506.36 of the Revised Code.
(D) The director may request the attorney general to, and the attorney general shall, bring a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction for any of the following purposes:
(1) To enforce compliance with or restrain violation of sections 1506.30 to 1506.36 1506.36 of the Revised Code, any rules adopted under those sections, or any permit issued under section 1506.32 of the Revised Code;
(2) To enjoin the further removal of abandoned property or archaeological material from Lake Erie;
(3) To order the restoration of an area affected by a violation of sections 1506.30 to 1506.36 1506.36 of the Revised Code or of a permit issued under section 1506.32 of the Revised Code to its prior condition.
Any action under this division is a civil action governed by the Rules of Civil Procedure.
(E) A peace officer of a county, township, or municipal corporation, and a preserve officer, wildlife officer, park officer, or watercraft officer designated under section 1517.10, 1531.13, 1541.10, or 1547.521 of the Revised Code, as applicable, may enforce compliance with sections 1506.30 to 1506.36 1506.36 of the Revised Code, any rules adopted under those sections, and any permit issued under section 1506.32 of the Revised Code and may make arrests for violation of those laws, rules, and permits.
Sec. 1517.02.  There is hereby created in the department of natural resources the division of natural areas and preserves, which shall be administered by the chief of natural areas and preserves. The chief shall take an oath of office and shall file in the office of the secretary of state a bond signed by the chief the chief and by a surety approved by the governor for a sum fixed pursuant to section 121.11 of the Revised Code.
The chief shall administer a system of nature preserves and wild, scenic, and recreational river areas. The chief shall establish a system of nature preserves through acquisition and dedication of natural areas of state or national significance, which shall include, but not be limited to, areas which represent characteristic examples of Ohio's natural landscape types and its natural vegetation and geological history. The chief shall encourage landowners to dedicate areas of unusual significance as nature preserves, and shall establish and maintain a registry of natural areas of unusual significance.
The chief may supervise, operate, protect, and maintain wild, scenic, and recreational river areas, as designated by the director of natural resources. The chief may cooperate with federal agencies administering any federal program concerning wild, scenic, or recreational river areas.
The chief may, with the approval of the director, enter into an agreement with the United States department of commerce under the "Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972," 86 Stat. 1280, 16 U.S.C.A. 1451, as amended, for the purpose of receiving grants to continue the management, operation, research, and programming at old woman creek national estuarine research reserve.
The chief shall do the following do the following:
(A) Formulate policies and plans for the acquisition, use, management, and protection of nature preserves;
(B) Formulate policies for the selection of areas suitable for registration;
(C) Formulate policies for the dedication of areas as nature preserves;
(D) Prepare and maintain surveys and inventories of natural areas and habitats of rare and endangered species of plants and animals;
(E) Adopt rules for the use, visitation, and protection of nature preserves, "natural areas owned or managed through easement, license, or lease by the department and administered by the division," and lands owned "or managed through easement, license, or lease" by the department and administered by the division which are within or adjacent to any wild, scenic, or recreational river area, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code;
(F) Provide facilities and improvements within the state system of nature preserves that are necessary for their visitation, use, restoration, and protection and do not impair their natural character;
(G) Provide interpretive programs and publish and disseminate information pertaining to nature preserves and natural areas for their visitation and use;
(H)(H) Conduct and grant permits to qualified persons for the conduct of scientific research and investigations within nature preserves;
(I)(I) Establish an appropriate system for marking nature preserves;
(J)(J) Publish and submit to the governor and the general assembly a biennial report of the status and condition of each nature preserve, activities conducted within each preserve, and plans and recommendations for natural area preservation.
Sec. 1517.23.  The The chief of the division of natural areas and preserves shall do both of the following do both of the following:
(A) Formulate policies and plans and establish a program incorporating them for the identification and protection of the state's cave resources and adopt, amend, or rescind rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement that program;
(B) Provide technical assistance and management advice to owners upon request concerning the protection of caves on their land.
Sec. 1518.01.  The The chief of natural areas and preserves shall adopt and may amend or rescind rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, setting forth criteria for identifying and designating species of plants native to this state that this state that are in danger of extirpation or are threatened with becoming endangered. The chief shall adopt and may amend or rescind rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, setting forth a list of the plants that the chief the chief determines to be endangered or threatened with extirpation from this state, applying the criteria so developed. This list shall identify the common and scientific names of each species. The list shall include all species native to this state that that are listed on the "United States list of endangered and threatened wildlife and plants" pursuant to the "Endangered Species Act of 1973," 87 Stat. 884, 16 U.S.C. 1531-1543, as amended. Further, the chief may produce for public education purposes lists of plant species which shall include the names of species of plants that that may become threatened in the future through habitat loss, commercial exploitation, or other means.
Sec. 1518.03.  The The chief of natural areas and preserves shall adopt and may amend or repeal rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, restricting the taking, possessing, transportation, sale, offering for sale, or exposure for sale, for commercial purposes of native Ohio species of wild plants or parts of them of them, that are listed as endangered or threatened by rule adopted under section 1518.01 of the Revised Code. The rules may prohibit the taking of any endangered or threatened plant, or parts of it of it, for commercial purposes, from any wood lot, field, or forest, or from any other location in which that that plant is found growing in its native habitat. This section does not prevent any nurseryperson nurseryperson or dealer who is licensed under Chapter 927. of the Revised Code from selling, offering for sale, shipping, or otherwise disposing of any endangered or threatened plants or parts of them of them when those those plants have been commercially grown by a licensed nursery or legally imported into this state. For the purposes of this section, "commercial purposes" means with intent to sell or trade endangered or threatened plants for gain or profit. "Commercially grown" means to grow plants under cultivation in tilled plots or in a greenhouse.
The rules shall provide for the taking of species endangered or threatened with statewide extirpation for botanical, educational, and scientific purposes, and for propagation in captivity to preserve the species, with written permission from the chief. The rules shall not prohibit the taking or possession of species listed on the "United States list of endangered and threatened wildlife and plants" for botanical, educational, or scientific purposes, or for propagation in captivity to preserve the species, under a permit or license from the United States or any instrumentality of the United States of the United States.
Sec. 1551.35.  (A) There is hereby established a technical advisory committee to assist the director of the Ohio coal development office in achieving the office's purposes. The director shall appoint to the committee one member of the public utilities commission and one representative each of coal production companies, the united mine workers of America, electric utilities, manufacturers that use Ohio coal, and environmental organizations, as well as two people with a background in coal research and development technology, one of whom is employed at the time of the member's appointment by a state university, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. In addition, the committee shall include four legislative members. The speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives each shall appoint one member of the house of representatives, and the president and minority leader of the senate each shall appoint one member of the senate, to the committee. The director of environmental protection and and the director of development shall serve on the committee as ex officio ex officio members. Any member of the committee may designate in writing a substitute to serve in the member's absence on the committee. The director of environmental protection may designate in writing the chief of the air pollution control division of the agency to represent the agency. Members shall serve on the committee at the pleasure of their appointing authority. Members of the committee appointed by the director of the office and, notwithstanding section 101.26 of the Revised Code, legislative members of the committee, when engaged in their official duties as members of the committee, shall be compensated on a per diem basis in accordance with division (J) of section 124.15 of the Revised Code, except that the member of the public utilities commission and, while employed by a state university, the member with a background in coal research, shall not be so compensated. Members shall receive their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
(B) The technical advisory committee shall review and make recommendations concerning the Ohio coal development agenda required under section 1551.34 of the Revised Code, project proposals, research and development projects submitted to the office by public utilities for the purpose of section 4905.304 of the Revised Code, proposals for grants, loans, and loan guarantees for purposes of sections 1555.01 to 1555.06 of the Revised Code, and such other topics as the director of the office considers appropriate.
(C) The technical advisory committee may hold an executive session at any regular or special meeting for the purpose of considering research and development project proposals or applications for assistance submitted to the Ohio coal development office under section 1551.33, or sections 1555.01 to 1555.06, of the Revised Code, to the extent that the the proposals or applications consist of trade secrets or other proprietary information.
Any materials or data submitted to, made available to, or received by the Ohio air quality development authority or the director of the Ohio coal development office in connection with agreements for assistance entered into under this chapter or Chapter 1555. of the Revised Code, or any information taken from those those materials or data for any purpose, to the extent that the materials or data consist of trade secrets or other proprietary information, are not public records for the purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
As used in this division, "trade secrets" has the same meaning as in section 1333.61 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 2323.44. (A)(1) There is hereby created the Ohio subrogation rights commission consisting of six voting members and seven ten nonvoting members. To be eligible for appointment as a voting member, a person shall be a current member of the general assembly. The president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives shall jointly appoint six nine members. The chairman chairperson of the senate committee to which bills pertaining to insurance are referred shall be a member of the commission. The chairman chairperson of the house committee to which bills pertaining to insurance are referred shall be a member of the commission. The chairman chairperson and the ranking minority member of the senate committee to which bills pertaining to civil justice are referred shall each be a member of the commission. The chairman chairperson and the ranking minority member of the house committee to which bills pertaining to civil justice are referred shall each be a member of the commission. Of the six nine members jointly appointed by the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representative, one shall represent a health insuring company doing business in the state of Ohio, one shall represent a public employees union in Ohio the state, one shall represent the Ohio academy of trial lawyers, one shall represent a property and casualty insurance company doing business in Ohio the state, one shall represent the Ohio state bar association, and one shall represent a sickness and accident insurer doing business in Ohio, and the state; all of these appointees shall have expertise in insurance law, including subrogation rights. Of the remaining three members jointly appointed by the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives, one shall represent plaintiffs in tort actions who suffered damages as a result of the injury, death, or loss to person or property upon which the tort actions were based, and two shall represent employers whose primary place of business is located in this state, one of which shall represent a small employer. A member of the Ohio judicial conference who is an elected or appointed judge shall be a member of the commission.
(2) As used in this division:
(a) "Small employer" means an employer who employs not more than one hundred persons on a full-time permanent basis, or, if the employer is classified as being in the manufacturing sector by the North American industrial classification system, an employer who employs not more than five hundred persons on a full-time permanent basis.
(b) "Tort action" means a civil action for damages for injury, death, or loss to person or property. "Tort action" includes a product liability claim, as defined in section 2307.71 of the Revised Code, but does not include a civil action for damages for a breach of contract or another agreement between persons.
(B) The commission shall do all of the following:
(1) Investigate the problems posed by, and the issues surrounding, the N. Buckeye Educ. Council Group Health Benefits Plan v. Lawson (2004), 103 Ohio St. 3d 188 decision regarding subrogation;
(2) Prepare a report of recommended legislative solutions to the court decision referred to in division (B)(1) of this section;
(3) Submit a report of its findings to the members of the general assembly not later then September 1 than December 31, 2005.
(C) Any vacancy in the membership of the commission shall be filled in the same manner in which the original appointment was made.
(D) The chairpersons of the house and senate committees to which bills pertaining to insurance are referred shall jointly call the first meeting of the commission not later than May 1, 2005 thirty days after the effective date of this amendment. The first meeting shall be organizational, and the voting members of the commission shall determine the chairperson from among commission the commission's voting members by a majority vote.
(E) The legislative service commission shall provide any technical, professional, and clerical employees that are necessary for the commission to perform its duties.
(F) All meetings of the commission are public meetings and shall be open to the public at all times. A member of the commission must be present in person at a meeting that is open to the public in order to be considered present or to vote at the meeting and for the purposes of determining whether a quorum is present. The commission shall promptly prepare and maintain the minutes of its meetings, and the minutes shall be public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. The commission shall give reasonable notice of its meetings so that any person may determine the time and place of all scheduled meetings. The commission shall not hold a meeting unless it gives at least twenty-four hours advance notice to the news media organizations that have requested notification of its meetings.
Sec. 3358.10.  Sections 3354.10, 3354.121, 3354.15, and and 3354.16 of the Revised Code apply to state community college districts and their boards of trustees.
Sec. 3375.61.  In recognition of the work the Ohioana Library Association, Martha Kinney Cooper Memorial, Martha Kinney Cooper Memorial, a corporation organized not for profit under the laws of this state, has done and is doing to collect, promote, publicize, and make available to the public the cultural, literary, scientific, social, and economic achievements of Ohioans, the state may grant financial aid to that that corporation in order that the purposes for which it was instituted may be fostered and its services to the public improved and expanded.
Sec. 3375.62.  The governor shall appoint four members of the board of trustees of the Ohioana Library Association, Martha Kinney Cooper Memorial , Martha Kinney Cooper Memorial. Terms of office shall be for four years, commencing on the sixteenth day of September and ending on the fifteenth day of September. Each member shall hold office from the date of appointment until the end of the term for which appointed. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which the member's the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of that that term. Any member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's the member's term until the member's the member's successor takes office, or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. The gubernatorial The gubernatorial appointees shall serve as members of the board of trustees in addition to the regular constituted board of trustees of the corporation.
Sec. 3383.01.  As used in this chapter:
(A) "Culture Culture" means any of the following:
(1) Visual, musical, dramatic, graphic, design, and other arts, including, but not limited to, architecture, dance, literature, motion pictures, music, painting, photography, sculpture, and theater, and the provision of training or education in these arts;
(2) The presentation or making available, in museums or other indoor or outdoor facilities, of principles of science and their development, use, or application in business, industry, or commerce or of the history, heritage, development, presentation, and uses of the arts described in division (A)(1) of this section and of transportation;
(3) The preservation, presentation, or making available of features of archaeological, architectural, environmental, or historical interest or significance in a state historical facility or a local historical facility.
(B) "Cultural Cultural organization" means either of the following:
(1) A governmental agency or Ohio nonprofit corporation that provides programs or activities in areas directly concerned with culture culture;
(2) A regional arts and cultural district as defined in section 3381.01 of the Revised Code.
(C) "Cultural Cultural project" means all or any portion of an Ohio cultural cultural facility for which the general assembly has specifically authorized the spending of money, or made an appropriation, pursuant to division (D)(3) or (E) of section 3383.07 of the Revised Code.
(D) "Cooperative contract" means a contract between the Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission and a cultural a cultural organization providing the terms and conditions of the cooperative use of an Ohio cultural cultural facility.
(E) "Costs of operation" means amounts required to manage an Ohio cultural cultural facility that are incurred following the completion of construction of its cultural cultural project, provided that both of the following apply:
(1) Those amounts either:
(a) Have been committed to a fund dedicated to that purpose;
(b) Equal the principal of any endowment fund, the income from which is dedicated to that purpose.
(2) The commission and the cultural cultural organization have executed an agreement with respect to either of those funds.
(F) "General building services" means general building services for an Ohio cultural cultural facility or an Ohio sports facility, including, but not limited to, general custodial care, security, maintenance, repair, painting, decoration, cleaning, utilities, fire safety, grounds and site maintenance and upkeep, and plumbing.
(G) "Governmental agency" means a state agency, a state-supported or state-assisted institution of higher education, a municipal corporation, county, township, or school district, a port authority created under Chapter 4582. of the Revised Code, any other political subdivision or special district in this state established by or pursuant to law, or any combination of these entities; except where otherwise indicated, the United States or any department, division, or agency of the United States, or any agency, commission, or authority established pursuant to an interstate compact or agreement.
(H) "Local contributions" means the value of an asset provided by or on behalf of a cultural a cultural organization from sources other than the state, the value and nature of which shall be approved by the Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission, in its sole discretion. "Local contributions" may include the value of the site where a cultural a cultural project is to be constructed. All "local contributions," except a contribution attributable to such a site, shall be for the costs of construction of a cultural a cultural project or the creation or expansion of an endowment for the creation or expansion of an endowment for the costs of operation of a cultural a cultural facility.
(I) "Local historical facility" means a site or facility, other than a state historical facility, of archaeological, architectural, environmental, or historical interest or significance, or a facility, including a storage facility, appurtenant to the operations of such a site or facility, that is owned by a cultural a cultural organization, provided the facility meets the requirements of division (K)(2)(b) of this section, is managed by or pursuant to a contract with the Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission, and is used for or in connection with the activities of the commission, including the presentation or making available of culture culture to the public.
(J) "Manage," "operate," or "management" means the provision of, or the exercise of control over the provision of, activities:
(1) Relating to culture culture for an Ohio cultural cultural facility, including as applicable, but not limited to, providing for displays, exhibitions, specimens, and models; booking of artists, performances, or presentations; scheduling; and hiring or contracting for directors, curators, technical and scientific staff, ushers, stage managers, and others directly related to the cultural cultural activities in the facility; but not including general building services;
(2) Relating to sports and athletic events for an Ohio sports facility, including as applicable, but not limited to, providing for booking of athletes, teams, and events; scheduling; and hiring or contracting for staff, ushers, managers, and others directly related to the sports and athletic events in the facility; but not including general building services.
(K) "Ohio cultural cultural facility" means any of the following:
(1) The theaters located in the state office tower at 77 South High street in Columbus;
(2) Any capital facility in this state to which both of the following apply:
(a) The construction of a cultural a cultural project related to the facility was authorized or funded by the general assembly pursuant to division (D)(3) of section 3383.07 of the Revised Code and proceeds of state bonds are used for costs of the cultural cultural project.
(b) The facility is managed directly by, or is subject to a cooperative or management contract with, the Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission, and is used for or in connection with the activities of the commission, including the presentation or making available of culture culture to the public and the provision of training or education in culture culture.
(3) A state historical facility or a local historical facility.
(L) "State agency" means the state or any of its branches, officers, boards, commissions, authorities, departments, divisions, or other units or agencies.
(M) "Construction" includes acquisition, including acquisition by lease-purchase, demolition, reconstruction, alteration, renovation, remodeling, enlargement, improvement, site improvements, and related equipping and furnishing.
(N) "State historical facility" means a site or facility of archaeological, architectural, environmental, or historical interest or significance, or a facility, including a storage facility, appurtenant to the operations of such a site or facility, that is owned by or is located on real property owned by the state or by a cultural a cultural organization, so long as the real property of the cultural cultural organization is contiguous to state-owned real property that is in the care, custody, and control of a cultural a cultural organization, and that is managed directly by or is subject to a cooperative or management contract with the Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission and is used for or in connection with the activities of the commission, including the presentation or making available of culture culture to the public.
(O) "Ohio sports facility" means all or a portion of a stadium, arena, motorsports complex, or other capital facility in this state, a primary purpose of which is to provide a site or venue for the presentation to the public of either motorsports events or events of one or more major or minor league professional athletic or sports teams that are associated with the state or with a city or region of the state, which facility is, in the case of a motorsports complex, owned by the state or governmental agency, or in all other instances, is owned by or is located on real property owned by the state or a governmental agency, and including all parking facilities, walkways, and other auxiliary facilities, equipment, furnishings, and real and personal property and interests and rights therein, that may be appropriate for or used for or in connection with the facility or its operation, for capital costs of which state funds are spent pursuant to this chapter. A facility constructed as an Ohio sports facility may be both an Ohio cultural cultural facility and an Ohio sports facility.
(P) "Motorsports" means sporting events in which motor vehicles are driven on a clearly demarcated tracked surface.
Sec. 3383.02.  (A) There is hereby created the Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission. The commission shall engage in and provide for the development, performance, and presentation or making available of culture culture and professional sports and athletics to the public in this state, and the provision of training or education in culture culture, by the exercise of its powers under this chapter, including the provision, operation, management, and cooperative use of Ohio cultural cultural facilities and Ohio sports facilities. The commission is a body corporate and politic, an agency of state government and an instrumentality of the state, performing essential governmental functions of this state. The carrying out of the purposes and the exercise by the commission of its powers conferred by this chapter are essential public functions and public purposes of the state and of state government. The commission may, in its own name, sue and be sued, enter into contracts, and perform all the powers and duties given to it by this chapter; however, it does not have and shall not exercise the power of eminent domain.
(B) The commission shall consist of ten members, seven of whom shall be voting members and three of whom shall be nonvoting members. The seven voting members shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, from different geographical regions of the state. In addition, one of the voting members shall represent the state architect. Not more than four of the members appointed by the governor shall be affiliated with the same political party. The nonvoting members shall be the staff director of the Ohio arts council, a member of the senate appointed by the president of the senate, and a member of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house.
(C) Of the five initial appointments made by the governor, one shall be for a term expiring December 31, 1989, two shall be for terms expiring December 31, 1990, and two shall be for terms expiring December 31, 1991. Of the initial appointments of the sixth and seventh voting members made made by the governor, one shall be for a term expiring December 31, 2003, and one shall be for a term expiring December 31, 2004. Thereafter, each such term shall be for three years, commencing on the first day of January and ending on the thirty-first day of December. Each appointment by the president of the senate and by the speaker of the house of representatives shall be for the balance of the then legislative biennium. Each member shall hold office from the date of the member's appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of such term. Any member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office, or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first.
(D) Members of the commission shall serve without compensation.
(E) Organizational meetings of the commission shall be held at the first meeting of each calendar year. At each organizational meeting, the commission shall elect from among its voting members a chairperson, a vice-chairperson, and a secretary-treasurer, who shall serve until the next annual meeting. The commission shall adopt rules pursuant to section 111.15 of the Revised Code for the conduct of its internal business and shall keep a journal of its proceedings.
(F) Four voting members of the commission constitute a quorum, and the affirmative vote of four members is necessary for approval of any action taken by the commission. A vacancy in the membership of the commission does not impair a quorum from exercising all the rights and performing all the duties of the commission. Meetings of the commission may be held anywhere in the state, and shall be held in compliance with section 121.22 of the Revised Code.
(G) All expenses incurred in carrying out this chapter are payable solely from money accrued under this chapter or appropriated for these purposes by the general assembly, and the commission shall incur no liability or obligation beyond such money.
(H) The commission shall file an annual report of its activities and finances with the governor, director of budget and management, speaker of the house of representatives, president of the senate, and chairpersons of the house and senate finance committees.
(I) There is hereby established in the state treasury the Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission administration fund. All revenues of the commission shall be credited to that fund and to any accounts created in the fund with the commission's approval. All expenses of the commission, including reimbursement of, or payment to, any other fund or any governmental agency for advances made or services rendered to or on behalf of the commission, shall be paid from the Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission administration fund as determined by or pursuant to directions of the commission. All investment earnings of the administration fund shall be credited to the fund and shall be allocated among any accounts created in the fund in the manner determined by the commission.
(J) Title to all real property and lesser interests in real property acquired by the commission, including leasehold and other interests, pursuant to this chapter shall be taken in the name of the state and shall be held for the use and benefit of the commission. The commission shall not mortgage such real property and interests in real property. Title to other property and interests in it acquired by the commission pursuant to this chapter shall be taken in its name.
Sec. 3383.03.  The Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission shall do the following:
(A) From time to time, determine the need for cultural cultural projects, Ohio cultural cultural facilities, and Ohio sports facilities, and and report to the governor and the general assembly on the need for any additional cultural cultural projects, Ohio cultural cultural facilities, and Ohio sports facilities. This division does not apply to state historical facilities.
(B) Have jurisdiction, control, and possession of, and supervision over the use and disposition of, all property, rights, licenses, money, contracts, accounts, liens, books, records, and other property rights and interests conveyed, delivered, transferred, or assigned to it;
(C) Use, and provide for the use of, Ohio cultural cultural facilities and Ohio sports facilities for the commission's purposes and functions, and conduct reviews necessary to ensure that uses of those facilities are consistent with statewide interests and the commission's purposes, including the presentation or making available of culture culture and professional athletics and sports to the public in this state and the provision of training or education in culture culture;
(D) Hold a meeting, including the organizational meeting required by division (E) of section 3383.02 of the Revised Code, at least quarterly to conduct its business;
(E) Cooperate with any governmental agency or cultural cultural organization that provides services in, to, or for an Ohio cultural cultural facility, and cooperate with any governmental agency or nonprofit corporation for the provision or operation of any Ohio sports facilities.
Sec. 3383.04.  The Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission may do the following do the following:
(A) Employ and fix the compensation of an executive director and such other employees as will facilitate the activities and purposes of the commission. Any executive director shall serve at the pleasure of the commission and may serve part-time. Other employees shall be employed by and serve at the pleasure of the commission or the executive director, as determined by the commission.
(B) Adopt, amend, and rescind, pursuant to section 111.15 of the Revised Code, rules for the management and operation of Ohio cultural cultural facilities and Ohio sports facilities and for the exercise of all of the commission's rights with respect to those facilities;
(C) Own, construct or provide for the construction of, lease, equip, furnish, administer, and manage or provide for the operation and management of, and cooperate in the use of, Ohio cultural cultural facilities and Ohio sports facilities;
(D) Dispose of, whether by sale, lease, lease-purchase, sublease, re-lease, or otherwise, real and personal property, and lesser interests in it, held or owned by the state for the use and benefit of the commission or held or owned by the commission, if not needed for the commission's purposes, upon such terms as the commission determines, subject to approval by the governor in the case of real property and interests in it;
(E) Grant such easements and other interests in real or personal property of the commission as will not interfere with the use of the property as an Ohio cultural cultural facility or an Ohio sports facility;
(F) Fix, alter, and collect rentals and other charges for the use or availability for use of Ohio cultural cultural facilities or an Ohio sports facility, as determined solely by the commission, for the purpose of providing for all or a portion of the costs and expenses of the commission, and the costs to be paid by the commission of leasing, constructing, equipping, repairing, maintaining, administering, managing, and cooperating in the use of Ohio cultural cultural facilities, including rentals to be paid by the commission for any Ohio cultural cultural facilities or for any Ohio sports facility;
(G) Lease, sublease, cooperate in the use of, or otherwise make available to a cultural cultural organization, Ohio cultural cultural facilities, and to any governmental agency or nonprofit corporation, Ohio sports facilities, including real and personal property, or any interests in it, to carry out the purposes of this chapter;
(H) Contract with, retain the services of, or designate, and fix the compensation of, agents, accountants, attorneys, consultants, advisers, and other independent contractors necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this chapter;
(I) Procure insurance against loss to the commission by reason of damages to or nonusability of its property resulting from fire, theft, accident, or other casualties, or by reason of its liability for any damages to persons or property, including,, but not limited to, general liability insurance, business interruption insurance, liability insurance for members, officers, and employees, and copyright liability insurance;
(J) Receive and accept gifts, grants, devises, bequests, loans, and any other financial or other form of aid or assistance from any governmental agency or other person and enter into any contract or agreement with any such agency or other person in connection therewith, and receive and accept aid or contributions from any other source of money, real or personal property, labor, or other things of value, to be held, used, and applied only for the purposes for which the aid and contributions are made and according to their terms and conditions, all within the purposes of this chapter;
(K) Make and enter into all contracts, commitments, and agreements, and execute all instruments, necessary or incidental to the performance of its duties and the execution of its rights and powers under this chapter;
(L) Do anything necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of and exercise the powers granted in this chapter;
(M) Contract with any governmental agency or nonprofit corporation to provide or cause to be provided services, including general building services, in, to, or for an Ohio cultural cultural facility or any Ohio sports facility, or with a cultural a cultural organization for the management of an Ohio cultural cultural facility, or with a governmental agency or nonprofit corporation for the management of an Ohio sports facility, all in furtherance of the state function, and make contracts pursuant to divisions (A) and (B) of section 3383.07 of the Revised Code, except that nothing in this chapter limits the exercise of the care, custody, control, and management of those state historical facilities specified in section 149.30 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3383.05.  (A) Upon the request of the Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission, any governmental agency may lease, sublease, grant by lease-purchase or otherwise, convey, or grant the right to use, to the commission or to a state agency designated by the commission, any real or personal property or interests in property, including improvements to it and public roads, owned or controlled by the governmental agency, which are necessary or convenient to an Ohio cultural cultural facility or an Ohio sports facility, upon such terms and conditions as they agree upon. The lease, sublease, grant, conveyance, or grant of use may be made without the necessity for advertisement, auction, competitive bidding, court order, or other action or formality otherwise required by law, except that the consent of the governing body of the governmental agency shall be obtained, or, if title to the property is in the state, the consent of the governor shall be obtained. Any governmental agency may enter into agreements with the Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission for furnishing any supplies, equipment, or services to the commission pursuant to such terms and for such compensation as agreed upon by the governmental agency and the commission.
(B) Leases, contracts, agreements, or conveyances entered into pursuant to this section are not public contracts for purposes of section 2921.42 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3383.06.  All property purchased, acquired, constructed, owned, leased, or subleased by the Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission for the exercise of its powers and duties is public property used exclusively for a public purpose, and this property and the income derived by the commission from it are exempt, except as may otherwise be provided by the commission with respect to Ohio sports facilities, from all taxation within this state, including,, without limitation,, ad valorem and excise taxes.
Sec. 3383.07.  (A) The department of administrative services shall provide for the construction of a cultural a cultural project in conformity with Chapter 153. of the Revised Code, except as follows:
(1) For a cultural a cultural project that has an estimated construction cost, excluding the cost of acquisition, of twenty-five million dollars or more, and that is financed by the Ohio building authority, construction services may be provided by the authority if the authority determines it should provide those services.
(2) For a cultural a cultural project other than a state historical facility, construction services may be provided on behalf of the state by the Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission, or by a governmental agency or a cultural a cultural organization that occupies, will occupy, or is responsible for the Ohio cultural cultural facility, as determined by the commission. Construction services to be provided by a governmental agency or a cultural a cultural organization shall be specified in an agreement between the commission and the governmental agency or cultural cultural organization. The agreement, or any actions taken under it, are not subject to Chapter 123. or 153. of the Revised Code, except for sections 123.081 123.081 and 153.011 of the Revised Code, and shall be subject to Chapter 4115. of the Revised Code.
(3) For a cultural a cultural project that is a state historical facility, construction services may be provided by the Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission or by a cultural a cultural organization that occupies, will occupy, or is responsible for the facility, as determined by the commission. The construction services to be provided by the cultural cultural organization shall be specified in an agreement between the commission and the cultural cultural organization. That agreement, and any actions taken under it, are not subject to Chapter 123., 153., or 4115. of the Revised Code.
(B) For an Ohio sports facility that is financed in part by the Ohio building authority, construction services shall be provided on behalf of the state by or at the direction of the governmental agency or nonprofit corporation that will own or be responsible for the management of the facility, all as determined by the Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission. Any construction services to be provided by a governmental agency or nonprofit corporation shall be specified in an agreement between the commission and the governmental agency or nonprofit corporation. That agreement, and any actions taken under it, are not subject to Chapter 123. or 153. of the Revised Code, except for sections 123.081 123.081 and 153.011 of the Revised Code, and shall be subject to Chapter 4115. of the Revised Code.
(C) General building services for an Ohio cultural cultural facility shall be provided by the Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission or by a cultural a cultural organization that occupies, will occupy, or is responsible for the facility, as determined by the commission, except that the Ohio building authority may elect to provide those services for Ohio cultural cultural facilities financed with proceeds of state bonds issued by the authority. The costs of management and general building services shall be paid by the cultural cultural organization that occupies, will occupy, or is responsible for the facility as provided in an agreement between the commission and the cultural cultural organization, except that the state may pay for general building services for state-owned cultural cultural facilities constructed on state-owned land.
General building services for an Ohio sports facility shall be provided by or at the direction of the governmental agency or nonprofit corporation that will be responsible for the management of the facility, all as determined by the commission. Any general building services to be provided by a governmental agency or nonprofit corporation for an Ohio sports facility shall be specified in an agreement between the commission and the governmental agency or nonprofit corporation. That agreement, and any actions taken under it, are not subject to Chapter 123. or 153. of the Revised Code, except for sections 123.081 123.081 and 153.011 of the Revised Code, and shall be subject to Chapter 4115. of the Revised Code.
(D) This division does not apply to a state historical facility. No state funds, including any state bond proceeds, shall be spent on the construction of any cultural cultural project under this chapter unless, with respect to the cultural cultural project and to the Ohio cultural cultural facility related to the project, all of the following apply:
(1) The Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission has determined that there is a need for the cultural cultural project and the Ohio cultural cultural facility related to the project in the region of the state in which the Ohio cultural cultural facility is located or for which the facility is proposed.
(2) The commission has determined that, as an indication of substantial regional support for the cultural cultural project, the cultural cultural organization has made provision satisfactory to the commission, in its sole discretion, for local contributions amounting to not less than fifty per cent of the total state funding for the cultural cultural project.
(3) The general assembly has specifically authorized the spending of money on, or made an appropriation for, the construction of the cultural cultural project, or for rental payments relating to the financing of the construction of the cultural cultural project. Authorization to spend money, or an appropriation, for planning the cultural cultural project does not constitute authorization to spend money on, or an appropriation for, construction of the cultural cultural project.
(E) No state funds, including any state bond proceeds, shall be spent on the construction of any state historical facility under this chapter unless the general assembly has specifically authorized the spending of money on, or made an appropriation for, the construction of the state historical state historical project related to the facility, or for rental payments relating to the financing of the construction of the state historical state historical project. Authorization to spend money, or an appropriation, for planning the state historical state historical project does not constitute authorization to spend money on, or an appropriation for, the construction of the state historical state historical project.
(F) State funds shall not be used to pay or reimburse more than fifteen per cent of the initial estimated construction cost of an Ohio sports facility, excluding any site acquisition cost, and no state funds, including any state bond proceeds, shall be spent on any Ohio sports facility under this chapter unless, with respect to that facility, all of the following apply:
(1) The Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission has determined that there is a need for the facility in the region of the state for which the facility is proposed to provide the function of an Ohio sports facility as provided for in this chapter.
(2) As an indication of substantial local support for the facility, the commission has received a financial and development plan satisfactory to it, and provision has been made, by agreement or otherwise, satisfactory to the commission, for a contribution amounting to not less than eighty-five per cent of the total estimated construction cost of the facility, excluding any site acquisition cost, from sources other than the state.
(3) The general assembly has specifically authorized the spending of money on, or made an appropriation for, the construction of the facility, or for rental payments relating to state financing of all or a portion of the costs of constructing the facility. Authorization to spend money, or an appropriation, for planning or determining the feasibility of or need for the facility does not constitute authorization to spend money on, or an appropriation for, costs of constructing the facility.
(4) If state bond proceeds are being used for the Ohio sports facility, the state or a governmental agency owns or has sufficient property interests in the facility or in the site of the facility or in the portion or portions of the facility financed from proceeds of state bonds, which may include, but is not limited to, the right to use or to require the use of the facility for the presentation of sport and athletic events to the public at the facility.
(G) In addition to the requirements of division (F) of this section, no state funds, including any state bond proceeds, shall be spent on any Ohio sports facility that is a motorsports complex, unless, with respect to that facility, both of the following apply:
(1) Motorsports events shall be presented at the facility pursuant to a lease entered into with the owner of the facility. The term of the lease shall be for a period of not less than the greater of the useful life of the portion of the facility financed from proceeds of state bonds as determined using the guidelines for maximum maturities as provided under divisions (B) and (C) of section 133.20 of the Revised Code, or the period of time remaining to the date of payment or provision for payment of outstanding state bonds allocable to costs of the facility, all as determined by the director of budget and management and certified by the director to the Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission and to the Ohio building authority.
(2) Any motorsports organization that commits to using the facility for an established period of time shall give the political subdivision in which the facility is located not less than six months' advance notice if the organization intends to cease utilizing the facility prior to the expiration of that established period. Such a motorsports organization shall be liable to the state for any state funds used on the construction costs of the facility.
Sec. 3383.08.  There is hereby created in the state treasury the capital donations fund, which shall be administered by the Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission. The fund shall consist of gifts, grants, devises, bequests, and other financial contributions made to the commission for the construction or improvement of cultural cultural and sports facilities and shall be used in accordance with the specific purposes for which the gifts, grants, devises, bequests, or other financial contributions are made. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund. Chapters 123., 125., 127., and 153. and section 3517.13 of the Revised Code do not apply to contracts paid from the fund, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in those chapters or that section.
Not later than one month following the end of each quarter of the fiscal year, the commission shall allocate the amounts credited to the fund from investment earnings during that preceding quarter of the fiscal year among the specific projects for which they are to be used and shall certify this information to the director of budget and management.
If the amounts credited to the fund for a particular project exceed what is required to complete that project, the commission may refund any of those excess amounts, including unexpended investment earnings attributable to those amounts, to the entity from which they were received.
Sec. 3383.09. (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the cultural cultural and sports facilities building fund, which shall consist of proceeds of obligations authorized to pay costs of Ohio cultural cultural facilities and Ohio sports facilities for which appropriations are made by the general assembly. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund.
(B) The director of budget and management may transfer, to the Ohio cultural cultural facilities commission administration fund, investment earnings credited to the cultural cultural and sports facilities building fund that exceed the amounts required to meet estimated federal arbitrage rebate requirements when requested of the director of budget and management by the chairperson or executive director of the commission.
Sec. 3746.09.  (A) A person who proposes to enter into or who is participating in the voluntary action program under this chapter and rules adopted under it, in accordance with this section and rules adopted under division (B)(11) of section 3746.04 of the Revised Code, may apply to the director of environmental protection for a variance from applicable standards otherwise established in this chapter and rules adopted under it. The application for a variance shall be prepared by a certified professional. The director shall issue a variance from those applicable standards only if the application makes all of the following demonstrations to the director's satisfaction:
(1) Either or both of the following:
(a) It is technically infeasible to comply with the applicable standards otherwise established at the property named in the application;
(b) The costs of complying with the applicable standards otherwise established at the property substantially exceed the economic benefits..
(2) The proposed alternative standard or set of standards and terms and conditions set forth in the application will result in an improvement of environmental conditions at the property and ensure that public health and safety will be protected..
(3) The establishment of and compliance with the alternative standard or set of standards and terms and conditions are necessary to promote, protect, preserve, or enhance employment opportunities or the reuse of the property named in the application.
A variance issued under this section shall state the specific standard or standards whose terms are being varied and shall set forth the specific alternative standard or set of standards and the terms and conditions imposed on the applicant in their place. A variance issued under this section shall include only standards and terms and conditions proposed by the applicant in the the application, except that the director may impose any additional or alternative terms and conditions that the director the director determines to be necessary to ensure that public health and safety will be protected. If the director finds that compliance with any standard or term or condition proposed by the applicant will not protect public health and safety and that the imposition of additional or alternative terms and conditions will not ensure that public health or safety will be protected, the director shall disapprove the application and shall include in the order of denial the specific findings on which the denial was based.
(B) Variances shall be issued or denied in accordance with this section, rules adopted under division (B)(11) of section 3746.04 of the Revised Code, and Chapter 3745. of the Revised Code. Upon determining that an application for a variance is complete, the director shall schedule schedule a public meeting on the application to be held within ninety days after the director determines that the application is complete in the county in which is located the property to which the application pertains.
(C) Not less than thirty days before the date scheduled for the public meeting on an application for a variance, the director shall publish notice of the public meeting and that the director will receive written comments on the application for a period of forty-five days commencing on the date of the publication of the notice. The notice shall contain all of the following information, at a minimum:
(1) The address of the property to which the application pertains;
(2) A brief summary of the alternative standards and terms and conditions proposed by the applicant;
(3) The date, time, and location of the public meeting.
The notice shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the property is located and, if the property is located in close proximity to the boundary of the county with an adjacent county, as determined by the director, shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the adjacent county. Concurrently with the publication of the notice of the public meeting, the director shall mail notice of the application, comment period, and public meeting to the owner of each parcel of land that is adjacent to the affected property and to the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or township, and county, in which the affected property is located. The notices mailed to the adjacent land owners and legislative authorities shall contain the same information as the published notice.
(D) At the public meeting on an application for a variance, the applicant, or a representative of the applicant who is knowledgeable about the affected property and the application, shall present information regarding the application and the basis of the request for the variance and shall respond to questions from the public regarding the affected property and the application. A representative of the environmental protection agency who is familiar with the affected property and the application shall attend the public meeting to hear the public's comments and to respond to questions from the public regarding the affected property and the application. A stenographic record of the proceedings at the public meeting shall be kept and shall be made a part of the administrative record regarding the application.
(E) Within ninety days after conducting the public meeting on an application for a variance under division (D) of this section, the director shall issue a proposed action to the applicant in accordance with section 3745.07 of the Revised Code that indicates the director's intent with regard to the issuance or denial of the application. When considering whether to issue or deny the application or whether to impose terms and conditions of the variance that are in addition or alternative to those proposed by the applicant, the director shall consider comments on the application made by the public at the public meeting and written comments on the application received from the public.
Sec. 3746.35.  (A) Not later than September 1, 1996, and not later than the first day of September of each subsequent year, the director of environmental protection shall prepare and submit to the chairpersons chairpersons of the respective standing committees of the senate and house of representatives primarily responsible for considering environmental and taxation matters a report regarding the voluntary action program established under this chapter and rules adopted under it and the tax abatements granted pursuant to sections 5709.87 and 5709.88 of the Revised Code for properties where voluntary actions were conducted. Each annual report shall include, without limitation, all of the following:
(1) Both of the following for each property for which a covenant not to sue was issued under section 3746.12 of the Revised Code during the preceding calendar year:
(a) The address of the property and name of the person who undertook the voluntary action at the property;
(b) Whether the applicable standards governing the voluntary action were the interim standards established in section 3746.07 of the Revised Code or the generic numerical clean-up standards established in rules adopted under division (B)(1) of section 3746.04 of the Revised Code, were established through the performance of a risk assessment pursuant to rules adopted under division (B)(2) of section 3746.04 of the Revised Code, or were set forth in a variance issued under section 3746.09 of the Revised Code.
(2) All of the following for each property for which a variance was issued under section 3746.09 of the Revised Code during the preceding calendar year:
(a) The address of the property and the name of the person to whom the variance was issued;
(b) A summary of the alternative standards and terms and conditions of the variance and brief description of the improvement in environmental conditions at the property that is anticipated to result from compliance with the alternative standards and terms and conditions set forth in the variance;
(c) A brief description of the economic benefits to the person to whom the variance was issued and the community in which the property is located that are anticipated to result from the undertaking of the voluntary action in compliance with the alternative standards and terms and conditions set forth in the variance.
(3) The number of audits performed under section 3746.17 of the Revised Code during the preceding calendar year and, in connection with each of them, at least the following information:
(a) The address of the property in connection with which the audit was performed and the name of the person who undertook the voluntary action at the property;
(b) An indication as to whether the audit was a random audit or was conducted in accordance with the priorities established in rules adopted under divisions (A)(9)(a) to (f) of section 3746.04 of the Revised Code and, if the audit was conducted in accordance with those priorities, an indication as to which of them resulted in the selection of the voluntary action for an audit;
(c) A brief summary of the findings of the audit and any action taken by the environmental protection agency as a result of those findings.
(4) The number of covenants not to sue revoked during the preceding calendar year through the operation of divisions (A)(2)(c) and (B) of section 3746.12, division (B)(2) of section 3746.18, and division (B) of section 3746.19 of the Revised Code and for each property for which a covenant was revoked, at least both of the following:
(a) The address of the property affected by the revocation and name of the person who undertook the voluntary action at the property;
(b) The reason for the revocation.
(5) The amount of money credited to the voluntary action administration fund created in section 3746.16 of the Revised Code during the preceding fiscal year from the fees established in divisions (D) and (H) of section 3746.07 and division (C) of section 3746.13 of the Revised Code and from civil penalties imposed under section 3746.22 of the Revised Code. The report shall indicate the amount of money that arose from each of the fees and from the civil penalties. The report also shall include the amount of money expended from the fund during the preceding fiscal year by program category, including, without limitation, the amount expended for conducting audits under section 3746.17 of the Revised Code during the preceding fiscal year.
(6) For each property that is receiving a tax abatement under section 5709.87 of the Revised Code for the preceding tax year, the amount of the valuation exempted from real property taxation for that tax year under that section. In order to comply with division (A)(6) of this section, the director shall include in the annual report the report required to be provided to the director the director by the director of development under division (B)(2) of this section. The sole responsibility of the director of environmental protection regarding the report provided to the director the director under that division is to include it in the annual report prepared under division (A) of this section.
(7) For each property that is receiving a tax abatement pursuant to an agreement with a municipal corporation or county entered into under section 5709.88 of the Revised Code, the amount of the valuation exempted from real or personal property taxation. In order to comply with division (A)(7) of this section, the director shall include in the annual report the report required to be provided to the director the director by the director of development under division (C) of this section. The sole responsibility of the director of environmental protection regarding the report provided to the director the director under that division is to include include it in the annual report prepared under division (A) of this section.
(B)(1) Not later than March 31, 1996, the county auditor of each county in which is located any property that is receiving a tax abatement under section 5709.87 of the Revised Code shall report to the director of development for each such property both of the following as applicable to tax year 1995:
(a) The address of the property and the name of the owner as stated in the records of the county auditor of the county in which the property is located;
(b) The amount of the valuation of the property that was exempted from real property taxation under that section.
Not later than the thirty-first day of March of each subsequent year, each such county auditor shall report the information described in those divisions to the director of development for each property within the county that is receiving a tax abatement under that section for the preceding tax year.
(2) Not later than July 1, 1996, and not later than the first day of July of each subsequent year, the director of development shall compile the information provided to the director the director under division (B)(1) of this section applicable to the preceding tax year into a report covering all of the counties in the state in which are located properties receiving a tax abatement under section 5709.87 of the Revised Code for the preceding tax year and shall forward the report to the director of environmental protection. The sole responsibility of the director of development in preparing the report is to compile the information submitted to the director the director by the county auditors under division (B)(1) of this section.
(C) Not later than July 1, 1996, and not later than the first day of July of each subsequent year, the director of development shall compile the information provided to the director the director by municipal corporations and counties under division (A) of section 5709.882 of the Revised Code applicable to the preceding calendar year into a report covering, by county, all of the municipal corporations and counties in this state in which are located properties receiving a tax abatement pursuant to an agreement entered into under section 5709.88 of the Revised Code and shall forward the report to the director of environmental protection. The sole responsibility of the director of development in preparing the report is to compile the information submitted to him by municipal corporations and counties under division (A) of section 5709.882 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3747.02.  (A)(1) The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint the Ohio member of the midwest interstate low-level radioactive waste commission. The commissioner shall serve at the pleasure of the governor and shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official official duties.
(2) As used in this section, "compact" means the midwest interstate compact on low-level radioactive waste entered into under section 3747.01 of the Revised Code.
(B) The representative from this state on the commission shall not cast a vote contrary to Ohio law.
(C) The representative from this state on the commission shall not cast an affirmative vote on the following matters before the commission without the prior approval of the governor: the governor:
(1) Approval by the commission of the amount of the long-term care fund established by this state pursuant to Article VI(O) of the compact;
(2) Relief of a party state to the compact of its responsibility to serve as a host state under Article VI(E) of the compact;
(3) A requirement pursuant to Article VI(F) of the compact that this state use alternate technology to that proposed by this state for a compact facility in this state;
(4) Authorization of the early closing of a compact facility under Article III(H)(7) of the compact;
(5)(5) Any agreement between this state and the commission or a state other than Ohio that determines or alters the rights, powers, or obligations of this state under the compact;
(6)(6) Modification of the requirements of Article VI(L)(2), (3), or (5) of the compact if the then operating compact facility is in this state;
(7)(7) Admission by the commission of a new party state to the compact;
(8)(8) Revocation by the commission of the membership of a party state in the compact.
(D) A vote by the representative from this state on the commission that is inconsistent with division (B) or (C) of this section is void and is not enforceable.
Sec. 3748.01.  As used in this chapter:
(A) "Byproduct material" means either of the following:
(1) Any radioactive material, except special nuclear material, yielded in or made radioactive by exposure to radiation incident to the process of producing or utilizing special nuclear material;
(2) The tailings or wastes produced by the extraction or concentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for its source material content.
(B) "Certified radiation expert" means an individual who has complied with all of the following:
(1) Applied to the director of health for certification as a radiation expert under section 3748.12 of the Revised Code;
(2) Met minimum education and experience requirements established in rules adopted under division (C) of section 3748.04 of the Revised Code;
(3) Been granted a certificate as a radiation expert by the director under section 3748.12 of the Revised Code.
(C) "Closure" or "site closure" refers to a facility for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste or a byproduct material site, as "byproduct material" is defined in division (A)(2) of this section, and means all activities performed at a licensed operation, such as stabilization and contouring, to ensure that the site where the operation occurred is in a stable condition so that only minor custodial care, surveillance, and monitoring are necessary at the site following the termination of the licensed operation.
(D) "Decommissioning" means to safely remove any licensed operation from service and reduce residual radioactivity to a level that permits release of the licensee's property for unrestricted use. With regard to a facility for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste or a byproduct material site, as "byproduct material" is defined in division (A)(2) of this section, "decommissioning" does not include the reduction of residual radioactivity to a level that permits release of the facility for unrestricted use.
(E) "Director of health" includes a designee or authorized representative of the director.
(F) "Disposal," with regard to low-level radioactive waste, means the permanent isolation of that waste in accordance with requirements established by the United States nuclear regulatory commission or the licensing agreement state.
(G) "Disposal site" means that portion of a facility that is used for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste and that consists of disposal units and a buffer zone. "Disposal unit" means a discrete portion of such a facility into which low-level radioactive waste is placed for disposal means that portion of a facility that is used for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste and that consists of disposal units and a buffer zone. "Disposal unit" means a discrete portion of such a facility into which low-level radioactive waste is placed for disposal.
(H)(1) Except as provided in division (H)(2) of this section, "facility" means the state, any political subdivision, person, public or private institution, or group, or any unit of one of those entities, but does not include the federal government or any of its agencies.
(2) For the purposes of the disposal of low-level radioactive waste, "facility" has the same meaning as in section 3747.01 of the Revised Code.
(I) "Handle" means receive, possess, use, store, transfer, install, service, or dispose of sources of radiation unless possession is solely for the purpose of transportation.
(J) "Handler" means a facility that handles sources of radiation unless possession is solely for the purpose of transportation.
(K) "Inspection" means an official review, examination, or observation, including, without limitation, tests, surveys, and monitoring, that is used to determine compliance with rules, orders, requirements, and conditions of the department of health and that is conducted by the director of health.
(L) "Low-level radioactive waste" has the same meaning as in section 3747.01 of the Revised Code with regard to the disposal of low-level radioactive waste. In regard to regulatory control at locations other than a disposal facility, ""low-level radioactive waste"" has the same meaning as in 42 U.S.C.A. 2021b.
(M) "Quality assurance program" means a program providing for verification by written procedures such as testing, auditing, and inspection to ensure that deficiencies, deviations, defective equipment, or unsafe practices, or a combination thereof, relating to the use, disposal, management, or manufacture of radiation sources are identified, promptly corrected, and reported to the appropriate regulatory authorities.
(N) "Radiation" means ionizing and nonionizing radiation.
(1) "Ionizing radiation" means gamma rays and X-rays, alpha and beta particles, high-speed electrons, neutrons, protons, and other nuclear particles, but does not include sound or radio waves or visible, infrared, or ultraviolet light.
(2) "Nonionizing radiation" means any electromagnetic radiation, other than ionizing electromagnetic radiation, or any sonic, ultrasonic, or infrasonic wave.
(O) "Radioactive material" means any solid, liquid, or gaseous material that emits ionizing radiation spontaneously. "Radioactive material" includes accelerator-produced and naturally occurring materials and byproduct, source, and special nuclear material.
(P) "Radiation-generating equipment" means any manufactured product or device, or component of such a product or device, or any machine or system that during operation can generate or emit radiation, except those that emit radiation only from radioactive material. "Radiation-generating equipment" does not include either of the following:
(1) Diathermy machines;
(2) Microwave ovens, including food service microwave ovens used for commercial and industrial uses, television receivers, electric lamps, and other household appliances and products that generate very low levels of radiation.
(Q) "Source material" means uranium, thorium, or any combination thereof in any physical or chemical form, or any ores that contain by weight at least one-twentieth of one per cent of uranium, thorium, or any combination thereof. "Source material" does not include special nuclear material.
(R) "Source of radiation" means radioactive material or radiation-generating equipment.
(S) "Special nuclear material" means either of the following:
(1) Plutonium, uranium 233, uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, and any other material that the United States nuclear regulatory commission determines to be special nuclear material, but does not include source material pursuant to section 51 of the "Atomic Energy Act of 1954," 68 Stat. 919, 42 U.S.C.A. 2071."
(2) Except for any source material, any material artificially enriched by any of the materials identified in division (S)(1) of this section.
(T) "Storage" means the retention of radioactive materials, including low-level radioactive waste, prior to disposal in a manner that allows for surveillance, control, and subsequent retrieval.
Sec. 3748.02.  (A) The department of health is hereby designated the Ohio radiation control agency.
(B) In accordance with the laws of this state, the director of health may employ, compensate, and prescribe the duties of individuals necessary to implement and administer this chapter and the the rules adopted under it.
Sec. 3748.04.  The public health council, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt and may amend or rescind rules doing all of the following:
(A) Listing types of radioactive material for which licensure by its handler is required and types of radiation-generating equipment for which registration by its handler is required, and establishing requirements governing them. Rules adopted under division (A) of this section shall be compatible with applicable federal regulations and shall establish all of the following, without limitation:
(1) Requirements governing both of the following:
(a) The licensing and inspection of handlers of radioactive material. Standards established in rules adopted under division (A)(1)(a) of this section regarding byproduct material or any activity that results in the production of that material, to the extent practicable, shall be equivalent to or more stringent than applicable standards established by the United States nuclear regulatory commission.
(b) The registration and inspection of handlers of radiation-generating equipment. Standards established in rules adopted under division (A)(1)(b) of this section, to the extent practicable, shall be equivalent to applicable standards established by the food and drug administration in the United States department of health and human services.
(2) Identification of and requirements governing possession and use of specifically licensed and generally licensed quantities of radioactive material as either sealed sources or unsealed sources;
(3) A procedure for the issuance of and the frequency of renewal of the licenses of handlers of radioactive material, other than a license for a facility for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste, and of the certificates of registration of handlers of radiation-generating equipment;
(4) Procedures for suspending and revoking the licenses of handlers of radioactive material and the certificates of registration of handlers of radiation-generating equipment;
(5) Criteria to be used by the director of health in amending the license of a handler of radioactive material or the certificate of registration of a handler of radiation-generating equipment subsequent to its issuance;
(6) Criteria for achieving and maintaining compliance with this chapter and rules adopted under it by licensees and registrants;
(7) Criteria governing environmental monitoring of licensed and registered activities to assess compliance with this chapter and rules adopted under it;
(8) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(8) of this section, fees for the licensing of handlers of radioactive material, other than a facility for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste, and the registration of handlers of radiation-generating equipment and a fee schedule for their inspection. Rules adopted under division (A)(8) of this section shall not revise any fees established in section 3748.07 or 3748.13 of the Revised Code to be paid by any handler of radiation-generating equipment that is a medical practitioner or a corporation, partnership, or other business entity consisting of medical practitioners, other than a hospital as defined in section 3727.01 of the Revised Code.
As used in division (A)(8) of this section, "medical practitioner" means a person who is authorized to practice dentistry pursuant to Chapter 4715. of the Revised Code; medicine and surgery, osteopathic medicine and surgery, or podiatry pursuant to Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code; or chiropractic pursuant to Chapter 4734. of the Revised Code.
(B)(1) Identifying sources of radiation, circumstances of possession, use, or disposal of sources of radiation, and levels of radiation that constitute an unreasonable or unnecessary risk to human health or the environment;
(2) Establishing requirements for the achievement and maintenance of compliance with standards for the receipt, possession, use, storage, installation, transfer, servicing, and disposal of sources of radiation to prevent levels of radiation that constitute an unreasonable or unnecessary risk to human health or the environment;
(3) Requiring the maintenance of records on the receipt, use, storage, transfer, and disposal of radioactive material and on the radiological safety aspects of the use and maintenance of radiation-generating equipment.
In adopting rules under divisions (A) and (B) of this section, the council shall use standards no less stringent than the "suggested state regulations for control of radiation" prepared by the conference of radiation control program directors, inc., and regulations adopted by the United States nuclear regulatory commission, the United States environmental protection agency, and the United States department of health and human services and shall consider reports of the national council on radiation protection and measurement and the relevant standards of the American national standards institute.
(C) Establishing fees, procedures, and requirements for certification as a radiation expert, including all of the following, without limitation:
(1) Minimum training and experience requirements;
(2) Procedures for applying for certification;
(3) Procedures for review of applications and issuance of certificates;
(4) Procedures for suspending and revoking certification.
(D) Establishing a schedule for inspection of sources of radiation and their shielding and surroundings;
(E) Establishing the responsibilities of a radiation expert;
(F) Establishing criteria for quality assurance programs for licensees of radioactive material and registrants of radiation-generating equipment;
(G) Establishing fees to be paid by any facility that, on September 8, 1995, holds a license from the United States nuclear regulatory commission in order to provide moneys necessary for the transfer of licensing and other regulatory authority from the commission to the state pursuant to section 3748.03 of the Revised Code. Rules adopted under this division shall stipulate that fees so established do not apply to any functions dealing specifically with a facility for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste. Fees collected under this division shall be deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the general operations fund created in section 3701.83 of the Revised Code. The fees shall be used solely to administer and enforce this chapter and rules adopted under it.
(H) Establishing fees to be collected annually from generators of low-level radioactive waste, which shall be based upon the volume and radioactivity of the waste generated and the costs of administering low-level radioactive waste management activities under this chapter and rules adopted under it. All fees collected under this division shall be deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the general operations fund created in section 3701.83 of the Revised Code. The fees shall be used solely to administer and enforce this chapter and rules adopted under it. Any fee required under this division that has not been paid within ninety days after the invoice date shall be assessed at two times the original invoiced fee. Any fee that has not been paid within one hundred eighty days after the invoice date shall be assessed at five times the original invoiced fee.
(I) Establishing requirements governing closure, decontamination, decommissioning, reclamation, and long-term surveillance and care of a facility licensed under this chapter and rules adopted under it. Rules adopted under division (I) of this section shall include, without limitation, all of the following:
(1) Standards and procedures to ensure that a licensee prepares a decommissioning funding plan that provides an adequate financial guaranty to permit the completion of all requirements governing the closure, decontamination, decommissioning, and reclamation of sites, structures, and equipment used in conjunction with a licensed activity;
(2) For licensed activities where radioactive material that will require surveillance or care is likely to remain at the site after the licensed activities cease, as indicated in the application for the license submitted under section 3748.07 of the Revised Code, standards and procedures to ensure that the licensee prepares an additional decommissioning funding plan for long-term surveillance and care, before termination of the license, that provides an additional adequate financial guaranty as necessary to provide for that surveillance and care;
(3) For the purposes of the decommissioning funding plans required in rules adopted under divisions (I)(1) and (2) of this section, the types of acceptable financial guaranties, which shall include bonds issued by fidelity or surety companies authorized to do business in the state, certificates of deposit, deposits of government securities, irrevocable letters or lines of credit, trust funds, escrow accounts, or other similar types of arrangements, but shall not include any arrangement that constitutes self-insurance;
(4) A requirement that the decommissioning funding plans required in rules adopted under divisions (I)(1) and (2) of this section contain financial guaranties in amounts sufficient to ensure compliance with any standards established by the United States nuclear regulatory commission, or by the state if it has become an agreement state pursuant to section 3748.03 of the Revised Code, pertaining to closure, decontamination, decommissioning, reclamation, and long-term surveillance and care of licensed activities and sites of licensees.
Standards established in rules adopted under division (I) of this section regarding any activity that resulted in the production of byproduct material, as defined in division (A)(2) of section 3748.01 of the Revised Code, to the extent practicable, shall be equivalent to or more stringent than standards established by the United States nuclear regulatory commission for sites at which ores were processed primarily for their source material content and at which byproduct material, as defined in division (A)(2) of section 3748.01 of the Revised Code, is deposited.
(J) Establishing criteria governing inspections of a facility for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste, including, without limitation, the establishment of a resident inspector program at such a facility;
(K)(K) Establishing requirements and procedures governing the filing of complaints under section 3748.16 of the Revised Code, including, without limitation, those governing intervention in a hearing held under division (B)(3) of that section.
Sec. 3748.05.  (A) The director of health shall do all of the following:
(1) Administer and enforce this chapter and the the rules adopted under it;
(2) Collect and make available information relating to sources of radiation;
(3) Ensure the review of plans and specifications, submitted in accordance with rules adopted by the public health council, for the control of radiation that constitutes an unreasonable or unnecessary risk to human health or the environment;
(4) Review reports of quality assurance audits performed by certified radiation experts under this chapter and the the rules adopted under it;
(5) Ensure that programs for the control of sources of radiation are developed with due regard for compatibility with federal programs for the regulation of byproduct, source, and special nuclear materials;
(6) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, adopt, and subsequently may amend and rescind, rules providing for the administrative assessment and collection of monetary penalties for failure by any facility licensed under this chapter and rules adopted under it to comply with this chapter and those rules. The director may require the submission of compliance schedules and other related information. Any orders issued or payments or other requirements imposed pursuant to rules adopted under division (A)(6) of this section shall not affect any civil or criminal enforcement proceeding brought under this chapter or any other provision of state or local law. Moneys collected as administrative penalties imposed pursuant to rules adopted under division (A)(6) of this section shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the general operations fund created in section 3701.83 of the Revised Code. The moneys shall be used solely to administer and enforce this chapter and the rules adopted under it.
(7) Maintain files of both of the following:
(a) All license and registration applications, issuances, denials, amendments, renewals, suspensions, and revocations and any administrative or judicial action pertaining to them;
(b) All rules adopted under this chapter, or proposed to be adopted, relating to the regulation of sources of radiation and proceedings on them.
(B) The director may do any or all of the following:
(1) Advise, consult, and cooperate with other agencies of the state, the federal government, other states, interstate agencies, political subdivisions, industries, and other affected groups in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter and the the rules adopted under it;
(2) Accept and administer grants from the federal government and from other sources, public or private, for carrying out any of the director's functions under this chapter and the the rules adopted under it;
(3) Encourage, participate in, or conduct studies, investigations, training, research, and demonstrations relating to the detection and control of radiation that constitutes an unreasonable or unnecessary risk to human health or the environment, the measurement of radiation, the evaluation of potential effects on health of cumulative or acute exposure to radiation, the development and improvement of methods to limit and reduce the generation of radioactive waste, and related problems as the director considers necessary or advisable;
(4) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, adopt rules establishing criteria under which other agencies of the state or private entities may perform inspections of x-ray equipment at registered dental facilities facilities at the request of the facility or pursuant to contract with the department;
(5) Exercise all incidental powers necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter and the the rules adopted under it, including, without limitation, the issuance of orders.
Sec. 3748.16.  (A)(1) The director of health shall conduct regular inspections of the facility for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste in accordance with rules adopted under division (J)(J) of section 3748.04 of the Revised Code and, in accordance with those rules, shall provide for at least one resident inspector at the facility.
(2) Concentrations of radioactive materials released into the environment during operation, closure, institutional control, and long-term care of the facility shall be kept as low as are reasonably achievable and shall not exceed levels established in rules adopted under division (A)(7) of section 3748.04 of the Revised Code or the standards set forth in 10 C.F.R. 61.41, whichever are more stringent. The director shall establish a program to monitor concentrations of radioactive materials so released and shall conduct an investigation if monitoring results indicate concentrations of radioactive materials at levels that are greater than the established background for a monitoring point to determine the source of the increased radiation level.
(B)(1) An officer of an agency of the state or of a political subdivision, acting in the officer's representative capacity, or any person may file a written complaint with the director, in accordance with rules adopted under division (K)(K) of section 3748.04 of the Revised Code, regarding the failure or alleged failure of the facility for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste to comply with health or safety requirements established under this chapter or Chapter 3747. of the Revised Code or rules adopted under them. The complaint shall be verified by an affidavit of the complainant or the complainant's agent or attorney. The affidavit may be made before any person authorized by law to administer oaths and shall be signed by the officer or person who makes it. The person before whom it was taken shall certify that it was sworn to before that person and signed in that person's presence, and the certificate signed officially by that person shall be evidence that the affidavit was made, that the name of the officer or person was written by that officer or person, and that the signer was that officer or person.
(2) Upon receipt of a complaint under division (B)(1) of this section, the director shall cause a prompt investigation to be conducted as is reasonably necessary to determine whether the facility has failed or is failing to comply with the health or safety requirements identified in the complaint. The investigation shall include a discussion of the complaint with the contractor.
(3) The director may hold a hearing on the complaint. Not less than twenty days before the hearing, the director shall cause publication of a notice of the hearing in the county in which the facility is located and shall mail written notice by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the complainant and to the contractor. The hearing shall be conducted before the director or a hearing examiner designated by the director. The department of health and the contractor shall be parties. The complainant may participate as a party by filing with the director, at any time prior to the hearing, a written notice of the complainant's intent to participate. Any other person may be permitted to intervene upon the granting by the director or hearing examiner of a motion to intervene filed in accordance with rules adopted under division (K)(K) of section 3748.04 of the Revised Code.
If the director does not hold a hearing, the director shall provide an opportunity to the complainant and the contractor to attend a conference with the director concerning the complaint.
(4) Following the completion of the investigation under division (B)(2) of this section and the hearing or conference under division (B)(3) of this section, if the director determines that the facility is in compliance with the health or safety requirements identified in the complaint, the director shall dismiss the complaint. If the director determines that the facility is not in compliance with those requirements, the director shall issue an order under division (B)(4) of section 3748.05 of the Revised Code requiring the contractor to bring the facility into compliance and to submit a written discussion of how that will be accomplished. The director also may do any or all of the following:
(a) Suspend or revoke the facility's license in accordance with rules adopted under division (A) of section 3748.04 of the Revised Code;
(b) Issue an order assessing an administrative penalty in accordance with rules adopted under division (A)(6) of section 3748.05 of the Revised Code;
(c) Request the attorney general, in writing, to commence appropriate legal proceedings, including a civil action for imposition of a civil penalty under section 3748.19 of the Revised Code and criminal prosecution.
(C) If the director suspends or revokes the license of the facility for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste for any reason in accordance with rules adopted under division (A) or (B) of section 3748.04 of the Revised Code, the contractor shall indemnify the state for any loss suffered by the state as a result of the lack of disposal capacity for low-level radioactive waste that otherwise would have been disposed of at the facility.
(D) The provisions of division (A) of this section establishing requirements governing the director and divisions (B) and (C) of this section apply only if the state becomes an agreement state pursuant to section 3748.03 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3929.482.  (A) The Ohio fair plan underwriting association by action of its board of governors, with the approval of the superintendent of insurance, is authorized to enter into a contract with the Ohio mine subsidence insurance underwriting association to provide administrative and claims adjusting services required by it. Such contract shall provide indemnification by the Ohio mine subsidence insurance underwriting association to the Ohio fair plan underwriting association, its members, members of its board of governors, and its and its officers, employees, and agents against all liability, loss, and expense resulting from acts done or omitted in good faith in performing such contract. Such contract shall also provide that the Ohio fair plan underwriting association will be reimbursed for its actual expenses incurred in performing such services. Common expenses applicable both to the Ohio fair plan and to the mine subsidence insurance underwriting association shall be allocated between them on an equitable basis approved by the superintendent of insurance.
(B)(B) The Ohio fair plan underwriting association by action of its board of governors, with the approval of the superintendent of insurance, is authorized to enter into a contract with the Ohio commercial joint underwriting association to provide administrative and claims adjusting services required by it. Such contract shall provide indemnification by the Ohio commercial joint underwriting association to the Ohio fair plan underwriting association, its members, members of its board of governors, and its and its officers, employees, and agents against all liability, loss, and expenses resulting from acts done or omitted in good faith in performing such contract. Such contract shall also provide that the Ohio fair plan underwriting association will be reimbursed for its actual expenses incurred in performing such services. Common expenses applicable both to the Ohio fair plan and to the Ohio commercial joint underwriting association shall be allocated between them on an equitable basis approved by the superintendent of insurance.
Sec. 3929.85.  No insurer licensed to carry on the business of insurance in this state that is required by law to contribute to or or participate in, or that that can be assessed by the Ohio insurance guaranty association pursuant to sections 3955.01 to 3955.19 of the Revised Code, or by the plan for apportionment of applicants for motor vehicle insurance pursuant to section 4509.70 of the Revised Code, or by the Ohio fair plan underwriting association pursuant to sections 3929.43 to 3929.61 of the Revised Code, or by the Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association pursuant to sections 3930.03 to 3930.18 of the Revised Code shall in any calendar year be required to contribute to, participate in, or be assessed by any one or more of those those plans or associations in an amount or amounts totaling in excess of two and one-half per cent of its net direct Ohio premium volume for the year next preceding the year in which the assessment or assessments are made or the contributions or participations are required.
Sec. 3931.01.  Individuals, partnerships, and corporations of this state, designated in sections 3931.01 to 3931.12 of the Revised Code, as "subscribers," may exchange reciprocal or interinsurance contracts with each other, and with individuals, partnerships, and corporations of other states, districts, provinces, and countries, providing indemnity among themselves from any loss which may be legally insured against by any fire or casualty insurance company or association provided that contracts of indemnity against property damage and bodily injury arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of a singly owned private passenger automobile principally used for nonbusiness purposes may not be exchanged through a reciprocal insurer which maintains a surplus over all liabilities of less than two and one-half million dollars and provided that this exception shall not prohibit the exchanging of contracts of indemnity against any form of liability otherwise authorized and arising out of any business or commercial enterprise. Such contracts and the exchange thereof and such subscribers, their attorneys, and representatives shall be regulated by such sections, and no law enacted after July 4, 1917, shall apply to them, unless they are expressly designated therein.
Such a contract may be executed by an attorney or other representative designated "attorney," in sections 3931.01 to 3931.12 of the Revised Code, authorized by and acting for such subscribers under powers of attorney. Such attorney may be a corporation. The principal office of such attorney shall be maintained at the place designated by the subscribers in the powers of attorney.
Except for such limitations on assessability as are approved by the superintendent of insurance, every reciprocal or interinsurance contract written pursuant to this chapter for medical malpractice insurance shall be fully assessable and shall contain a statement, in boldface capital letters and in type more prominent than that of the balance of the contract, setting forth such terms of assessability assessability. As used in this section, "medical malpractice insurance" means insurance coverage against the legal liability of the insured and against loss, damage, or expense incident to a claim arising out of the death, disease, or injury of any person as the result of negligence or malpractice in rendering professional service by any licensed physician, podiatrist, or hospital, as those terms are defined in section 2305.113 of the Revised Code. As used in this section, "medical malpractice insurance" means insurance coverage against the legal liability of the insured and against loss, damage, or expense incident to a claim arising out of the death, disease, or injury of any person as the result of negligence or malpractice in rendering professional service by any licensed physician, podiatrist, or hospital, as those terms are defined in section 2305.113 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3955.05.  Sections 3955.01 to 3955.19 of the Revised Code apply to all kinds of direct insurance, except:
(A) Title insurance;
(B) Fidelity or surety bonds, or any other bonding obligations;
(C) Credit insurance, vendors' single interest insurance, collateral protection insurance, or any similar insurance protecting the interests of a creditor arising out of a creditor-debtor transaction;
(D) Mortgage guaranty, financial guaranty, residual value, or other forms of insurance offering protection against investment risks;
(E) Ocean marine insurance;
(F) Any insurance provided by or guaranteed by government, including, but not limited to, any department, board, office, commission, agency, institution, or other instrumentality or entity of any branch of state government, any political subdivision of this state, the United States or any agency of the United States, or any separate or joint governmental self-insurance or risk-pooling program, plan, or pool;
(G) Contracts of any corporation by which health services are to be provided to its subscribers;
(H) Life, annuity, health, or disability insurance, including sickness and accident insurance written pursuant to Chapter 3923. of the Revised Code;
(I) Fraternal benefit insurance;
(J) Mutual protective insurance of persons or property;
(K) Reciprocal or interinsurance contracts written pursuant to Chapter 3931. of the Revised Code for medical malpractice insurance. As used in this division, "medical malpractice insurance" means insurance coverage against the legal liability of the insured and against loss, damage, or expense incident to a claim arising out of the death, disease, or injury of any person as the result of negligence or malpractice in rendering professional service by any licensed physician, podiatrist, or hospital, as those terms are defined in section 2305.113 of the Revised Code.. As used in this division, "medical malpractice insurance" means insurance coverage against the legal liability of the insured and against loss, damage, or expense incident to a claim arising out of the death, disease, or injury of any person as the result of negligence or malpractice in rendering professional service by any licensed physician, podiatrist, or hospital, as those terms are defined in section 2305.113 of the Revised Code.
(L) Any political subdivision self-insurance program or joint political subdivision self-insurance pool established under Chapter 2744. of the Revised Code;
(M) Warranty or service contracts, or the insurance of those those contracts;
(N) Any state university or college self-insurance program established under section 3345.202 of the Revised Code;
(O) Any transaction, or combination of transactions, between a person, including affiliates of such person, and an insurer, including affiliates of such insurer, that involves the transfer of investment or credit risk unaccompanied by a transfer of insurance risk;
(P) Credit union share guaranty insurance issued pursuant to Chapter 1761. of the Revised Code;
(Q) Insurance issued by risk retention groups as defined in Chapter 3960. of the Revised Code;
(R) Workers' compensation insurance, including any contract indemnifying an employer who pays compensation directly to employees.
Sec. 3960.06.  (A) A purchasing group and its insurer or insurers are subject to all applicable laws of this state, except that a purchasing group and its insurer or insurers, in regard to liability insurance for the purchasing group, are exempt from any law that does any of the following:
(1) Prohibits the establishment of a purchasing group;
(2) Makes it unlawful for an insurer to provide or offer to provide insurance on a basis providing, to a purchasing group or its members, advantages based on their loss and expense experience not afforded to other persons with respect to rates, policy forms, coverages, or other matters;
(3) Prohibits a purchasing group or its members from purchasing insurance on a group basis described in division (A)(2) of this section;
(4) Prohibits a purchasing group from obtaining insurance on a group basis because the group has not been in existence for a minimum period of time or because any member has not belonged to the group for a minimum period of time;
(5) Requires that a purchasing group have a minimum number of members, common ownership or affiliation, or a certain legal form;
(6) Requires that a certain percentage of a purchasing group obtain insurance on a group basis;
(7) Otherwise discriminates against a purchasing group or any of its members;
(8) Requires that any insurance policy issued to a purchasing group or any of its members be countersigned by an insurance agent or broker residing in this state.
(B) The superintendent of insurance may require or exempt a risk retention group from participation in any joint underwriting association established under section 3930.03 or in the plan established under section 4509.70 of the Revised Code. Any risk retention group that is required to participate under this division shall submit sufficient information to the superintendent to enable the superintendent the superintendent to apportion on a nondiscriminatory basis the risk retention group's proportionate share of losses and expenses.
Sec. 4117.01.  As used in this chapter:
(A) "Person," in addition to those included in division (C) of section 1.59 of the Revised Code, includes employee organizations, public employees, and public employers.
(B) "Public employer" means the state or any political subdivision of the state located entirely within the state, including, without limitation, any municipal corporation with a population of at least five thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census; county; township with a population of at least five thousand in the unincorporated area of the township according to the most recent federal decennial census; school district; governing authority of a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code; state institution of higher learning; public or special district; state agency, authority, commission, or board; or other branch of public employment.
(C) "Public employee" means any person holding a position by appointment or employment in the service of a public employer, including any person working pursuant to a contract between a public employer and a private employer and over whom the national labor relations board has declined jurisdiction on the basis that the involved employees are employees of a public employer, except:
(1) Persons holding elective office;
(2) Employees of the general assembly and employees of any other legislative body of the public employer whose principal duties are directly related to the legislative functions of the body;
(3) Employees on the staff of the governor or the chief executive of the public employer whose principal duties are directly related to the performance of the executive functions of the governor or the chief executive;
(4) Persons who are members of the Ohio organized militia, while training or performing duty under section 5919.29 or 5923.12 of the Revised Code;
(5) Employees of the state employment relations board;
(6) Confidential employees;
(7) Management level employees;
(8) Employees and officers of the courts, assistants to the attorney general, assistant prosecuting attorneys, and employees of the clerks of courts who perform a judicial function;
(9) Employees of a public official who act in a fiduciary capacity, appointed pursuant to section 124.11 of the Revised Code;
(10) Supervisors;
(11) Students whose primary purpose is educational training, including graduate assistants or associates, residents, interns, or other students working as part-time public employees less than fifty per cent of the normal year in the employee's bargaining unit;
(12) Employees of county boards of election;
(13) Seasonal and casual employees as determined by the state employment relations board;
(14) Part-time faculty members of an institution of higher education;
(15) Employees of the state personnel board of review;
(16) Participants in a work activity, developmental activity, or alternative work activity under sections 5107.40 to 5107.69 of the Revised Code who perform a service for a public employer that the public employer needs but is not performed by an employee of the public employer if the participant is not engaged in paid employment or subsidized employment pursuant to the activity;
(17)(17) Employees included in the career professional service of the department of transportation under section 5501.20 of the Revised Code;
(18)(18) Employees who must be licensed to practice law in this state to perform their duties as employees.
(D) "Employee organization" means any labor or bona fide organization in which public employees participate and that exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with public employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, hours, terms, and other conditions of employment.
(E) "Exclusive representative" means the employee organization certified or recognized as an exclusive representative under section 4117.05 of the Revised Code.
(F) "Supervisor" means any individual who has authority, in the interest of the public employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other public employees; to responsibly direct them; to adjust their grievances; or to effectively recommend such action, if the exercise of that authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, but requires the use of independent judgment, provided that:
(1) Employees of school districts who are department chairpersons or consulting teachers shall not be deemed supervisors;
(2) With respect to members of a police or fire department, no person shall be deemed a supervisor except the chief of the department or those individuals who, in the absence of the chief, are authorized to exercise the authority and perform the duties of the chief of the department. Where prior to June 1, 1982, a public employer pursuant to a judicial decision, rendered in litigation to which the public employer was a party, has declined to engage in collective bargaining with members of a police or fire department on the basis that those members are supervisors, those members of a police or fire department do not have the rights specified in this chapter for the purposes of future collective bargaining. The state employment relations board shall decide all disputes concerning the application of division (F)(2) of this section.
(3) With respect to faculty members of a state institution of higher education, heads of departments or divisions are supervisors; however, no other faculty member or group of faculty members is a supervisor solely because the faculty member or group of faculty members participate in decisions with respect to courses, curriculum, personnel, or other matters of academic policy;
(4) No teacher as defined in section 3319.09 of the Revised Code shall be designated as a supervisor or a management level employee unless the teacher is employed under a contract governed by section 3319.01, 3319.011, or 3319.02 of the Revised Code and is assigned to a position for which a license deemed to be for administrators under state board rules is required pursuant to section 3319.22 of the Revised Code.
(G) "To bargain collectively" means to perform the mutual obligation of the public employer, by its representatives, and the representatives of its employees to negotiate in good faith at reasonable times and places with respect to wages, hours, terms, and other conditions of employment and the continuation, modification, or deletion of an existing provision of a collective bargaining agreement, with the intention of reaching an agreement, or to resolve questions arising under the agreement. "To bargain collectively" includes executing a written contract incorporating the terms of any agreement reached. The obligation to bargain collectively does not mean that either party is compelled to agree to a proposal nor does it require the making of a concession.
(H) "Strike" means continuous concerted action in failing to report to duty; willful absence from one's position; or stoppage of work in whole from the full, faithful, and proper performance of the duties of employment, for the purpose of inducing, influencing, or coercing a change in wages, hours, terms, and other conditions of employment. "Strike" does not include a stoppage of work by employees in good faith because of dangerous or unhealthful working conditions at the place of employment that are abnormal to the place of employment.
(I) "Unauthorized strike" includes, but is not limited to, concerted action during the term or extended term of a collective bargaining agreement or during the pendency of the settlement procedures set forth in section 4117.14 of the Revised Code in failing to report to duty; willful absence from one's position; stoppage of work; slowdown, or abstinence in whole or in part from the full, faithful, and proper performance of the duties of employment for the purpose of inducing, influencing, or coercing a change in wages, hours, terms, and other conditions of employment. "Unauthorized strike" includes any such action, absence, stoppage, slowdown, or abstinence when done partially or intermittently, whether during or after the expiration of the term or extended term of a collective bargaining agreement or during or after the pendency of the settlement procedures set forth in section 4117.14 of the Revised Code.
(J) "Professional employee" means any employee engaged in work that is predominantly intellectual, involving the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment in its performance and requiring knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course in an institution of higher learning or a hospital, as distinguished from a general academic education or from an apprenticeship; or an employee who has completed the courses of specialized intellectual instruction and is performing related work under the supervision of a professional person to become qualified as a professional employee.
(K) "Confidential employee" means any employee who works in the personnel offices of a public employer and deals with information to be used by the public employer in collective bargaining; or any employee who works in a close continuing relationship with public officers or representatives directly participating in collective bargaining on behalf of the employer.
(L) "Management level employee" means an individual who formulates policy on behalf of the public employer, who responsibly directs the implementation of policy, or who may reasonably be required on behalf of the public employer to assist in the preparation for the conduct of collective negotiations, administer collectively negotiated agreements, or have a major role in personnel administration. Assistant superintendents, principals, and assistant principals whose employment is governed by section 3319.02 of the Revised Code are management level employees. With respect to members of a faculty of a state institution of higher education, no person is a management level employee because of the person's involvement in the formulation or implementation of academic or institution policy.
(M) "Wages" means hourly rates of pay, salaries, or other forms of compensation for services rendered.
(N) "Member of a police department" means a person who is in the employ of a police department of a municipal corporation as a full-time regular police officer as the result of an appointment from a duly established civil service eligibility list or under section 737.15 or 737.16 of the Revised Code, a full-time deputy sheriff appointed under section 311.04 of the Revised Code, a township constable appointed under section 509.01 of the Revised Code, or a member of a township police district police department appointed under section 505.49 of the Revised Code.
(O) "Members of the state highway patrol" means highway patrol troopers and radio operators appointed under section 5503.01 of the Revised Code.
(P) "Member of a fire department" means a person who is in the employ of a fire department of a municipal corporation or a township as a fire cadet, full-time regular firefighter, or promoted rank as the result of an appointment from a duly established civil service eligibility list or under section 505.38, 709.012, or 737.22 of the Revised Code.
(Q) "Day" means calendar day.
Sec. 4121.442.  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation administrator of workers' compensation shall develop standards for qualification of health care plans of the Ohio workers' compensation qualified health plan system to provide medical, surgical, nursing, drug, hospital, and rehabilitation services and supplies to an employee for an injury or occupational disease that is compensable under this chapter or Chapter 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code. In adopting the standards, the administrator administrator shall use nationally recognized accreditation standards. The standards the administrator administrator adopts must provide that a qualified plan provides for all of the following:
(1) Criteria for selective contracting of health care providers;
(2) Adequate plan structure and financial stability;
(3) Procedures for the resolution of medical disputes between an employee and an employer, an employee and a provider, or an employer and a provider, prior to an appeal under section 4123.511 of the Revised Code;
(4) Authorize employees who are dissatisfied with the health care services of the employer's qualified plan and do not wish to obtain treatment under the provisions of this section, to request the administrator for referral to a health care provider in the bureau's health care partnership program. The administrator must refer all requesting employees into the health care partnership program.
(5) Does not discriminate against any category of health care provider;
(6) Provide a procedure for reporting injuries to the bureau of workers' compensation and to employers by providers within the qualified plan;
(7) Provide appropriate financial incentives to reduce service costs and utilization without sacrificing the quality of service;
(8) Provide adequate methods of peer review, utilization review, quality assurance, and dispute resolution to prevent and provide sanctions for inappropriate, excessive, or not medically necessary treatment;
(9) Provide a timely and accurate method of reporting to the administrator necessary information regarding medical and health care service and supply costs, quality, and utilization to enable the administrator to determine the effectiveness of the plan;
(10) Authorize necessary emergency medical treatment for an injury or occupational disease provided by a health care provider who is not a part of the qualified health care plan;
(11) Provide an employee the right to change health care providers within the qualified health care plan;
(12) Provide for standardized data and reporting requirements;
(13) Authorize necessary medical treatment for employees who work in Ohio but reside in another state.
(B)(B) Health care plans that meet the approved qualified health plan standards shall be considered qualified plans and are eligible to become part of the Ohio workers' compensation qualified health plan system. Any employer or group of employers may provide medical, surgical, nursing, drug, hospital, and rehabilitation services and supplies to an employee for an injury or occupational disease that is compensable under this chapter or Chapter 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code through a qualified health plan.
Sec. 4167.09.  (A) Any public employer affected by a proposed rule or Ohio employment risk reduction standard or any provision of a standard of a standard proposed under section 4167.07 or 4167.08 of the Revised Code may apply to the director of commerce for an order granting a temporary variance from the standard or provision. The application for the order and any extension of the order of the order shall contain a reasonable application fee, as determined by the public employment risk reduction advisory commission, and all of the following information:
(1) A specification of the Ohio public employment risk reduction standard or provision of it provision of it from which the public employer seeks the temporary variance;
(2) A representation by the public employer, supported by representations from qualified persons having firsthand knowledge of the facts represented, that the public employer is unable to comply with the Ohio employment risk reduction standard or provision of it provision of it and a detailed statement of the reasons for the inability to comply; for the inability to comply;
(3) A statement of the steps that the public employer has taken and will take, with dates specified, to protect employees against the hazard covered by the standard;
(4) A statement of when the public employer expects to be able to comply fully with the Ohio employment risk reduction standard and what steps the public employer has taken and will take, with dates specified, to come into full compliance with the standard;
(5) A certification that the public employer has informed the public employer's public employees of the application by giving a copy of the application to the public employee representative, if any, and by posting a statement giving a summary of the application and specifying where a copy of the application may be examined at the place or places where notices to public employees are normally posted, and by any other appropriate means of public employee notification. The public employer also shall shall inform the public employer's public employees of their rights to a hearing under section 4167.15 of the Revised Code. The certification also shall contain a description of how public employees have been informed of the application and of their rights to a hearing.
(B) The director shall issue an order providing for a temporary variance if the public employer files an application that meets the requirements of division (A) of this section and establishes that all of the following pertaining to the public employer are true:
(1) The public employer is unable to comply with the Ohio employment risk reduction standard or a provision of it of it by its effective date because of the unavailability of professional or technical personnel or of materials and equipment needed to come into compliance with the Ohio employment risk reduction standard or provision of it of it or because necessary construction or alteration of facilities cannot be completed by the effective date of the standard.
(2) The public employer is taking all available steps to safeguard the public employer's public employees against the hazards covered by the Ohio employment risk reduction standard.
(3) The public employer has an effective program for coming into compliance with the Ohio employment risk reduction standard as quickly as practicable.
(4) The granting of the variance will not create an imminent danger of death or serious physical harm to public employees.
(C)(1) If the director issues an order providing for a temporary variance under division (B) of this section, the director shall prescribe the practices, means, methods, operations, and processes that the public employer must adopt and use while the order is in effect and state in detail the public employer's program for coming into compliance with the Ohio employment risk reduction standard. The director may issue the order only after providing notice to affected public employees and their public employee representative, if any, and an opportunity for a hearing pursuant to section 4167.15 of the Revised Code, provided that the director may issue one interim order granting a temporary order to be effective until a decision on a hearing is made. Except as provided in division (C)(2) of this section, no temporary variance may be in effect for longer than the period needed by the public employer to achieve compliance with the Ohio employment risk reduction standard or one year, whichever is shorter.
(2) The director may renew an order issued under division (C) of this section up to two times provided that the requirements of divisions (A), (B), and (C)(1) of this section and section 4167.15 of the Revised Code are met and the public employer files an application for renewal with the director at least ninety days prior to the expiration date of the order.
(D) Any public employer affected by an Ohio employment risk reduction standard or any provision of it of it proposed, adopted, or otherwise issued under section 4167.07 or or 4167.08 of the Revised Code may apply to the director for an order granting a variance from the standard or provision provision. The director shall provide affected public employees and their public employee representative, if any, notice of the application and shall provide an opportunity for a hearing pursuant to section 4167.15 of the Revised Code. The director shall issue the order granting the variance if the public employer files an application that meets the requirements of division (B) of this section, and after an opportunity for a hearing pursuant to section 4167.15 of the Revised Code, and if the public employer establishes to the satisfaction of the director that the conditions, practices, means, methods, operations, or processes used or proposed to be used by the public employer will provide employment and places of employment to the public employer's public employees that are as safe and healthful as those that would prevail if the public employer complied with the Ohio employment risk reduction standard. The director shall prescribe in the order granting the variance the conditions the public employer must maintain, and the practices, means, methods, operations, and processes the public employer must adopt and utilize in lieu of the Ohio employment risk reduction standard that that would otherwise apply. The director may modify or revoke the order upon application of the public employer, public employee, or public employee representative, or upon the director's own motion in the manner prescribed for the issuance of an order under this division at any time during six months after the date of issuance of the order.
Sec. 4167.25.  As used in this section and sections 4167.27 and 4167.27 and 4767.28 of the Revised Code:
(A) "Bloodborne pathogen" means a microorganism present in human blood that can cause disease in humans, including the human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and other pathogenic microorganisms.
(B) "Engineered sharps injury protection" means either of the following:
(1) A physical attribute built into a needle device used for withdrawing body fluids, accessing a vein or artery, or administering medications or other fluids that effectively reduces the risk of an exposure incident by a mechanism such as barrier creation, blunting, encapsulation, withdrawal, retraction, destruction, or any other effective mechanism;
(2) A physical attribute built into a type of needle device not included in division (B)(1) of this section, or built into a non-needle sharp, that effectively reduces the risk of an exposure incident.
(C) "Exposure incident" means an occurrence of occupational exposure to blood or other material potentially containing bloodborne pathogens, including exposure that occurs through a sharps injury.
(D) "Needleless system" means a device that does not utilize needles for the following:
(1) Withdrawing body fluids after initial venous or arterial access is established;
(2) Administering medication or fluids;
(3) Performing any other procedure involving potential exposure incidents.
(E) "Public health care worker" means a person who is employed by a public employer to provide health services that carry with them the potential for exposure incidents, including a person employed by a public hospital or other public health care facility, a person employed by a public employer to provide home health care, and a person employed by a public employer as a firefighter, emergency medical technician-basic, emergency medical technician-intermediate, or emergency medical technician-paramedic. "Public health care worker" does not include a person who is employed by a public employer to provide dental services, treatment, or training or a dental student who is receiving training from a public employer.
(F) "Sharp" means an object used in or encountered when providing health care services that can be reasonably anticipated to penetrate the skin or any other part of the body and result in an exposure incident, including objects such as needle devices, scalpels, lancets, and broken glass.
(G) "Sharps injury" means an injury caused by a sharp, including such injuries as cuts, abrasions, and needlesticks.
Sec. 4167.27.  (A) The public employment risk reduction advisory commission shall adopt a rule and Ohio employment risk reduction standard for the prevention of exposure incidents. The initial rule and standard shall be adopted not later than one hundred eighty days after October 5, 2000 October 5, 2000.
(B) The commission shall provide advice to public employers with regard to their implementation of the requirements established by the rule and standard adopted under this section and the requirements of section 4167.28 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4731.143.  (A) Each person holding a valid certificate under this chapter authorizing the certificate holder to practice medicine and surgery, osteopathic medicine and surgery, or podiatric medicine and surgery, who is not covered by medical malpractice insurance shall provide a patient with written notice of the certificate holder's lack of that that insurance coverage prior to providing nonemergency professional services to the patient. The notice shall be provided alone on its own page. The notice shall provide space for the patient to acknowledge receipt of the notice, and shall be in the following form:
"N O T I C E:
Dr. ............... (here state the full name of the certificate holder) is not covered by medical malpractice insurance.
The undersigned acknowledges the receipt of this notice.
(Patient's Signature)
(Date)"

The certificate holder shall obtain the patient's signature, acknowledging the patient's receipt of the notice, prior to providing nonemergency professional services to the patient. The certificate holder shall maintain the signed notice in the patient's file.
(B) This section does not apply to any officer or employee of the state, as those terms are defined in section 9.85 of the Revised Code, who is immune from civil liability under section 9.86 of the Revised Code or is entitled to indemnification pursuant to section 9.87 of the Revised Code, to the extent that the person is acting within the scope of the person's employment or official responsibilities.
This section does not apply to a person who complies with division (B)(2) of section 2305.234 of the Revised Code.
(C) As used in this section, "medical malpractice insurance" means insurance coverage against the legal liability of the insured and against loss, damage, or expense incident to a claim arising out of the death, disease, or injury of any person as the result of negligence or malpractice in rendering professional service by any licensed physician, podiatrist, or hospital, as those terms are defined in section 2305.113 of the Revised Code. (C) As used in this section, "medical malpractice insurance" means insurance coverage against the legal liability of the insured and against loss, damage, or expense incident to a claim arising out of the death, disease, or injury of any person as the result of negligence or malpractice in rendering professional service by any licensed physician, podiatrist, or hospital, as those terms are defined in section 2305.113 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4741.03.  (A) The state veterinary medical licensing board shall meet at least once in each calendar year and may hold additional meetings as often as it considers necessary to conduct the business of the board. The president of the board may call special meetings,, and the executive secretary shall call special meetings upon the written request of three members of the board. The board shall organize by electing a president and vice-president from its veterinarian members and such other officers as the board prescribes by rule. Each officer shall serve for a term specified by board rule or until a successor is elected and qualified. A quorum of the board consists of four members of which at least three are members who are veterinarians. The concurrence of four members is necessary for the board to take any action.
(B) The board may appoint a person, not one of its members, to serve as its executive secretary. The executive secretary is in the unclassified service and serves at the pleasure of the board. The executive secretary shall serve as the board's secretary-treasurer ex officio. The board may employ additional employees for professional, technical, clerical, and special work as it considers necessary. The executive secretary shall give a surety bond to the state in the sum the board requires, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the executive secretary's duties. The board shall pay the cost of the bond. The executive secretary shall keep a complete accounting of all funds received and of all vouchers presented by the board to the director of budget and management for the disbursement of funds. The president or executive secretary shall approve all vouchers of the board. All money received by the board shall be credited to the occupational licensing and regulatory fund.
(C) In addition to any other duty required under this chapter, the board shall do all of the following:
(1) Prescribe a seal;
(2) Hold at least one examination during each calendar year for applicants for a license. The board shall provide public notice of the time and place for the examination. The examination for applicants for a license to practice veterinary medicine shall be either written or oral, or both, as determined by the board, and may include a practical demonstration. The examination may include all subjects relevant to veterinary medicine the board determines appropriate, including public health and jurisprudence.
(3) Keep a record of all of its meetings and proceedings;
(4) Maintain a register that records all applicants for a certificate of license or a temporary permit, all persons who have been denied a license or permit, all persons who have been granted or reissued a license or permit, and all persons whose license or permit has been revoked or suspended. The register shall also include a record of persons licensed prior to October 17, 1975.
(5) Maintain a register, in such form as the board determines by rule, of all colleges and universities that teach veterinary medicine and that are approved by the board;
(6) Enforce this chapter, and for that purpose, make investigations relative as provided in section 4741.26 of the Revised Code;
(7) Issue licenses and permits to persons who meet the qualifications set forth in this chapter;
(8) Approve colleges and universities which meet the board's requirements for veterinary medicine and associated fields of study and withdraw or deny, after an adjudication conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, approval from colleges and universities which fail to meet those requirements;
(9) Adopt rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, which are necessary for its government and for the administration and enforcement of this chapter.
(D) The board may do all of the following:
(1) Subpoena witnesses and require their attendance and testimony, and and require the production by witnesses of books, papers, public records, animal patient records, and other documentary evidence and examine them,, in relation to any matter that that the board has authority to investigate, inquire into, or hear. Except for any officer or employee of the state or any political subdivision of the state, the treasurer of state shall pay all witnesses in any proceeding before the board, upon certification from the board, witness fees in the same amount as provided in section 2335.06 of the Revised Code.
(2) Examine and inspect books, papers, public records, animal patient records, and other documentary evidence at the location where the books, papers, records, and other evidence are normally stored or maintained.
(E) All registers, books, and records kept by the board are the property of the board and are open for public examination and inspection at all reasonable times. The registers, books, and records are prima-facie evidence of the matters contained in them in them.
Sec. 4755.481. (A) If a physical therapist evaluates and treats a patient without the prescription of, or the referral of the patient by, a person who is licensed to practice medicine and surgery, chiropractic, dentistry, osteopathic medicine and surgery, podiatric medicine and surgery, or nursing as a certified registered nurse anesthetist, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse-midwife, or certified nurse practitioner, all of the following apply:
(1) The physical therapist shall, upon consent of the patient, inform the patient's physician, chiropractor, dentist, podiatrist, certified registered nurse anesthetist, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse-midwife, or certified nurse practitioner of the evaluation not later than five business days after the evaluation is made.
(2) If the physical therapist determines, based on reasonable evidence, that no substantial progress has been made with respect to that patient during the thirty-day period immediately following the date of the patient's initial visit with the physical therapist, the physical therapist shall consult with or refer the patient to a licensed physician, chiropractor, dentist, podiatrist, certified registered nurse anesthetist, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse-midwife, or certified nurse practitioner, unless either of the following applies:
(a) The evaluation, treatment, or services are being provided for fitness, wellness, or prevention purposes.
(b) The patient previously was diagnosed with chronic, neuromuscular, or developmental conditions and the evaluation, treatment, or services are being provided for problems or symptoms associated with one or more of those previously diagnosed conditions.
(3) If the physical therapist determines that orthotic devices are necessary to treat the patient, the physical therapist shall be limited to the application of the following orthotic devices:
(a) Upper extremity adaptive equipment used to facilitate the activities of daily living;
(b) Finger splints;
(c) Wrist splints;
(d) Prefabricated elastic or fabric abdominal supports with or without metal or plastic reinforcing stays and other prefabricated soft goods requiring minimal fitting;
(e) Nontherapeutic accommodative inlays;
(f) Shoes that are not manufactured or modified for a particular individual;
(g) Prefabricated foot care products;
(h) Custom foot orthotics;
(i) Durable medical equipment.
(4) If, at any time, the physical therapist has reason to believe that the patient has symptoms or conditions that require treatment or services beyond the scope of practice of a physical therapist, the physical therapist shall refer the patient to a licensed health care practitioner acting within the practitioner's scope of practice.
(B) Nothing in sections 4755.40 to 4755.56 of the Revised Code shall be construed to require reimbursement under any health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement, any sickness and accident insurance policy, the medical assistance program as defined in section 5111.01 of the Revised Code, or the health partnership program or qualified health plans established pursuant to sections 4121.44 to 4121.442 4121.442 of the Revised Code, for any physical therapy service rendered without the prescription of, or the referral of the patient by, a licensed physician, chiropractor, dentist, podiatrist, certified registered nurse anesthetist, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse-midwife, or certified nurse practitioner.
(C) For purposes of this section, "business day" means any calendar day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday. "Legal holiday" has the same meaning as in section 1.14 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4981.03.  (A) The Ohio rail development commission shall do all of the following:
(1) Develop, promote, and support safe, adequate, and efficient rail service throughout the state;
(2) Maintain adequate programs of investigation, research, promotion, planning, and development for rail service, which programs shall include the consideration of recommendations by public or private planning organizations;
(3) Provide for the participation of private corporations or organizations and the public in the development, construction, operation, and maintenance of rail service, and as franchisees of rail service of rail service.
(B) In regard to rail service, the Ohio rail development commission is the successor of the Ohio high speed rail authority and the division of rail transportation of the department of transportation. The commission shall succeed to all federal allotments, entitlements, subsidies, and grants now existing, whether such allotments, entitlements, subsidies, and grants are encumbered or unencumbered, in the same manner and with the same authority as the Ohio high speed rail authority and the division of rail transportation exercised prior to October 20, 1994 October 20, 1994.
(C) Every authority, commission, department, or other agency of this state shall provide the commission with data, plans, research, and any other information that the commission requests to assist it in performing its duties pursuant to this chapter.
(D) The commission may request and contract with any railroad to provide it with data and information necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. All railroads operating within this state shall provide the requested data and information to the commission. The commission shall not disclose any confidential data or information supplied to it.
(E) The commission shall cooperate with the director of development by exercising the commission's duty to promote and develop rail service in this state in conjunction with the director's exercise of his duty to promote the economic development of this state.
(F) The commission, when developing rail service throughout the state, may give priority to projects undertaken within the geographic boundaries of qualifying subdivisions.
Sec. 5123.35.  (A) There is hereby created the Ohio developmental disabilities Ohio developmental disabilities council, which shall serve as an advocate for all persons with developmental disabilities. The council shall act in accordance with the "Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act," 98 Stat. 2662 (1984), 42 U.S.C. 6001, as amended. The governor shall appoint the members of the council in accordance with 42 U.S.C. 6024.
(B) The Ohio developmental disabilities Ohio developmental disabilities council shall develop the state plan required by federal law as a condition of receiving federal assistance under 42 U.S.C. 6021 to 6030. The department of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, as the state agency selected by the governor for purposes of receiving the federal assistance, shall receive, account for, and disburse funds based on the state plan and shall provide assurances and other administrative support services required as a condition of receiving the federal assistance.
(C) The federal funds may be disbursed through grants to or contracts with persons and government agencies for the provision of necessary or useful goods and services for developmentally disabled persons. The Ohio developmental disabilities Ohio developmental disabilities council may award the grants or enter into the contracts.
(D) The Ohio developmental disabilities Ohio developmental disabilities council may award grants to or enter into contracts with a member of the council or an entity that the member represents if all of the following apply:
(1) The member serves on the council as a representative of one of the principal state agencies concerned with services for persons with developmental disabilities as specified in 42 U.S.C. 6024(b)(3), a representative of a university affiliated program as defined in 42 U.S.C. 6001(18), or a representative of the legal rights service created under section 5123.60 of the Revised Code..
(2) The council determines that the member or the entity the member the member represents is capable of providing the goods or services specified under the terms of the grant or contract..
(3) The member has not taken part in any discussion or vote of the council related to awarding the grant or entering into the contract, including service as a member of a review panel established by the council to award grants or enter into contracts or to make recommendations with regard to awarding grants or entering into contracts.
(E) A member of the Ohio developmental disabilities Ohio developmental disabilities council is not in violation of Chapter 102. or section 2921.42 of the Revised Code with regard to receiving a grant or entering into a contract under this section if the requirements of division (D) of this section have been met.
Sec. 5123.352.  There is hereby created in the state treasury the community mental retardation and developmental disabilities trust fund. The director of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, not later than sixty days after the end of each fiscal year, shall certify to the director of budget and management the amount of all the unexpended, unencumbered balances of general revenue fund appropriations made to the department of mental retardation and developmental disabilities for the fiscal year, excluding appropriations for rental payments to the Ohio public facilities commission, and the amount of any other funds held by the department in excess of amounts necessary to meet the department's operating costs and obligations pursuant to this chapter and Chapter 5126. of the Revised Code. On receipt of the certification, the director of budget and management shall transfer cash to the trust fund in an amount up to, but not exceeding, the total of the amounts certified by the director of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, except in cases in which the transfer will involve more than twenty million dollars. In such cases, the director of budget and management shall notify the controlling board and must receive the board's approval of the transfer prior to making the transfer.
All All moneys in the trust fund shall be distributed in accordance with section 5126.19 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3358.10.  Sections 3354.10, 3354.121, 3354.15, and and 3354.16 of the Revised Code apply to state community college districts and their boards of trustees.
Section 2. That existing sections 101.23, 101.82, 101.83, 101.84, 101.85, 101.86, 122.011, 122.40, 123.151, 149.56, 307.674, 340.02, 1501.04, 1502.04, 1502.05, 1502.11, 1502.12, 1506.30, 1506.34, 1506.35, 1517.02, 1517.23, 1518.01, 1518.03, 1551.35, 2323.44, 3358.10, 3375.61, 3375.62, 3383.01, 3383.02, 3383.03, 3383.04, 3383.05, 3383.06, 3383.07, 3383.08, 3383.09, 3746.09, 3746.35, 3747.02, 3748.01, 3748.02, 3748.04, 3748.05, 3748.16, 3929.482, 3929.85, 3931.01, 3955.05, 3960.06, 4117.01, 4121.442, 4167.09, 4167.25, 4167.27, 4731.143, 4741.03, 4755.481, 4981.03, 5123.35, and 5123.352 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.
Section 3. That Section 4 of Am. Sub. H.B. 516 of the 125th General Assembly be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 4. The following agencies shall be retained pursuant to division (D) of section 101.83 of the Revised Code and shall expire on December 31, 2010:
REVISED CODE OR
UNCODIFIED
AGENCY NAME SECTION

Administrator, Interstate Compact on Mental Health 5119.50
Administrator, Interstate Compact on 5103.20
Placement of Children
Advisory Board of Governor's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives 107.12
Advisory Boards to the EPA for Air Pollution 121.13
Advisory Boards to the EPA for Water Pollution 121.13
Advisory Committee of the State Veterinary Medical Licensing Board 4741.03(D)(3)
Advisory Committee on Livestock Exhibitions 901.71
Advisory Council on Amusement Ride Safety 1711.51
Advisory Board of Directors for Prison Labor 5145.162
Advisory Council for Each Wild, Scenic, or Recreational River Area 1517.18
Advisory Councils or Boards for State Departments 107.18 or 121.13
Advisory Group to the Ohio Water Resources Council 1521.19(C)
Alzheimer's Disease Task Force 173.04(F)
AMBER Alert Advisory Committee 5502.521
Apprenticeship Council 4139.02
Armory Board of Control 5911.09
Automated Title Processing Board 4505.09(C)(1)
Banking Commission 1123.01
Board of Directors of the Ohio Health Reinsurance Program 3924.08
Board of Voting Machine Examiners 3506.05(B)
Board of Tax Appeals 5703.02
Brain Injury Advisory Committee 3304.231
Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board 105.41
Child Support Guideline Advisory Council 3119.024
Children's Trust Fund Board 3109.15
Citizens Advisory Committee (BMV) 4501.025
Citizen's Advisory Councils (Dept. of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities) 5123.092
Clean Ohio Trail Advisory Board 1519.06
Coastal Resources Advisory Council 1506.12
Commission on African-American Males 4112.12
Commission on Hispanic-Latino Affairs 121.31
Commission on Minority Health 3701.78
Committee on Prescriptive Governance 4723.49
Commodity Advisory Commission 926.32
Community Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Trust Fund Advisory Council 5123.353
Community Oversight Council 3311.77
Compassionate Care Task Force Section 3, H.B. 474, 124th GA
Consumer Advisory Committee to the Rehabilitation Services Commission 3304.24
Continuing Education Committee (for Sheriffs) 109.80
Controlling Board 127.12
Coordinating Committee, Agricultural Commodity Marketing Programs 924.14
Council on Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services 3793.09
Council on Unreclaimed Strip Mined Lands 1513.29
Council to Advise on the Establishment and Implementation of the Birth Defects Information System 3705.34
County Sheriffs' Standard Car-Marking and Uniform Commission 311.25
Credit Union Council 1733.329
Criminal Sentencing Advisory Committee 181.22
Day-Care Advisory Council 5104.08
Dentist Loan Repayment Advisory Board 3702.92
Development Financing Advisory Council 122.40
Education Commission of the States (Interstate Compact for Education) 3301.48
Electrical Safety Inspector Advisory Committee 3783.08
Emergency Response Commission 3750.02
Engineering Experiment Station Advisory Committee 3335.27
Environmental Education Council 3745.21
Environmental Review Appeals Commission 3745.02
EPA Advisory Boards or Councils 121.13
Farmland Preservation Advisory Board 901.23
Financial Planning & Supervision Commission for Municipal Corporation, County, or Township 118.05
Financial Planning & Supervision Commission for School District 3316.05
Forestry Advisory Council 1503.40
Governance Authority for a State University or College 3345.75
Governor's Advisory Council on Physical Fitness, Wellness, & Sports 3701.77
Governor's Council on People with Disabilities 3303.41
Governor's Residence Advisory Commission 107.40
Great Lakes Commission (Great Lakes Basin Compact) 6161.01
Gubernatorial Transition Committee 107.29
Head Start Partnership Study Council Section 41.35, H.B. 95, 125th GA
Hemophilia Advisory Subcommittee 3701.0210
Housing Trust Fund Advisory Committee 175.25
Industrial Commission Nominating Council 4121.04
Industrial Technology and Enterprise Advisory Council 122.29
Infant Hearing Screening Subcommittee 3701.507
Insurance Agent Education Advisory Council 3905.483
Interagency Council on Hispanic/Latino Affairs 121.32(J)
Interstate Mining Commission (Interstate Mining Compact) 1514.30
Interstate Rail Passenger Advisory Council (Interstate High Speed Intercity Rail Passenger Network Compact) 4981.35
Joint Council on MR/DD 101.37
Joint Select Committee on Volume Cap 133.021
Labor-Management Government Advisory Council 4121.70
Legal Rights Service Commission 5123.60
Legislative Task Force on Redistricting, Reapportionment, and Demographic Research 103.51
Maternal and Child Health Council 3701.025
Medically Handicapped Children's Medical Advisory Council 3701.025
Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Compact Commission (Ohio members) 4981.361
Military Activation Task Force 5902.15
Milk Sanitation Board 917.03
Mine Subsidence Insurance Governing Board 3929.51
Minority Development Financing Board 122.72
Multi-Agency Radio Communications Systems Steering Committee Sec. 21, H.B. 790, 120th GA
Multidisciplinary Council 3746.03
Muskingum River Advisory Council 1501.25
National Museum of Afro-American History and Culture Planning Committee 149.303
Nursing Facility Reimbursement Study Council 5111.34
Ohio Advisory Council for the Aging 173.03
Ohio Aerospace & Defense Advisory Council 122.98
Ohio Arts Council 3379.02
Ohio Business Gateway Steering Committee 5703.57
Ohio Cemetery Dispute Resolution Commission 4767.05
Ohio Civil Rights Commission Advisory Agencies and Conciliation Councils 4112.04(B)
Ohio Commercial Insurance Joint Underwriting Association Board Of Governors 3930.03
Ohio Commercial Market Assistance Plan Executive Committee 3930.02
Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management 179.02
Ohio Commission to Reform Medicaid Section 59.29, H.B. 95, 125th GA
Ohio Community Service Council 121.40
Ohio Council for Interstate Adult Offender Supervision 5149.22
Ohio Cultural Facilities Commission 3383.02
Ohio Developmental Disabilities Council 5123.35
Ohio Educational Telecommunications Network Commission 3353.02
Ohio Ethics Commission 102.05
Ohio Expositions Commission 991.02
Ohio Family and Children First Cabinet Council 121.37
Ohio Geology Advisory Council 1505.11
Ohio Grape Industries Committee 924.51
Ohio Hepatitis C Advisory Commission 3701.92
Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board 149.301
Ohio Historical Society Board of Trustees 149.30
Ohio Judicial Conference 105.91
Ohio Lake Erie Commission 1506.21
Ohio Medical Malpractice Commission Section 4, S.B. 281, 124th GA and Section 3, S.B. 86, 125th GA
Ohio Medical Quality Foundation 3701.89
Ohio Parks and Recreation Council 1541.40
Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission 109.71
Ohio Public Defender Commission 120.01
Ohio Public Library Information Network Board Sec. 69, H.B. 117, 121st GA, as amended by H.B. 284, 121st GA
Ohio Public Works Commission 164.02
Ohio Quarter Horse Development Commission 3769.086
Ohio SchoolNet Commission 3301.80
Ohio Small Government Capital Improvements Commission 164.02
Ohio Soil and Water Conservation Commission 1515.02
Ohio Standardbred Development Commission 3769.085
Ohio Steel Industry Advisory Council 122.97
Ohio Teacher Education and Licensure Advisory Council 3319.28(D)
Ohio Thoroughbred Racing Advisory Committee 3769.084
Ohio Tuition Trust Authority 3334.03
Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine Advisory Committee 3337.10
Ohio Vendors Representative Committee 3304.34
Ohio War Orphans Scholarship Board 5910.02
Ohio Water Advisory Council 1521.031
Ohio Water Resources Council 1521.19
Ohioana Library Association, Martha Kinney Cooper Memorial 3375.62
Oil and Gas Commission 1509.35
Operating Committee, Agricultural Commodity Marketing Programs 924.07
Organized Crime Investigations Commission 177.01
Parole Board 5149.10
Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee of the Dept. of Job and Family Services 5111.81
Physician Loan Repayment Advisory Board 3702.81
Power Siting Board 4906.02
Prequalification Review Board 5525.07
Private Water Systems Advisory Council 3701.346
Public Employment Risk Reduction Advisory Commission 4167.02
Public Health Council 3701.33
Public Utilities Commission Nominating Council 4901.021
Public Utility Property Tax Study Committee 5727.85
Radiation Advisory Council 3748.20
Reclamation Commission 1513.05
Recreation and Resources Commission 1501.04
Recycling and Litter Prevention Advisory Council 1502.04
Rehabilitation Services Commission Consumer Advisory Committee 3304.24
Release Authority of Department of Youth Services 5139.50
Savings & Loans Associations & Savings Banks Board 1181.16
Schools and Ministerial Lands Divestiture Committee 501.041
Second Chance Trust Fund Advisory Committee 2108.17
Self-Insuring Employers Evaluation Board 4123.352
Services Committee of the Workers' Compensation System 4121.06
Small Business Stationary Source Technical and Environmental Compliance Assistance Council 3704.19
Solid Waste Management Advisory Council 3734.51
State Agency Coordinating Group 1521.19
State Board of Deposit 135.02
State Board of Emergency Medical Services Subcommittees 4765.04
State Council of Uniform State Laws 105.21
State Committee for the Purchase of Products and Services Provided by Persons with Severe Disabilities 4115.32
State Criminal Sentencing Commission 181.21
State Employment Relations Board 4117.02
State Fire Commission 3737.81
State Racing Commission 3769.02
State Victims Assistance Advisory Committee 109.91
Student Tuition Recovery Authority 3332.081
Tax Credit Authority 122.17
Technical Advisory Committee to Assist the Director of the Ohio Coal Development Office 1551.35
Technical Advisory Council on Oil and Gas 1509.38
Transportation Review Advisory Council 5512.07
Unemployment Compensation Review Commission 4141.06
Unemployment Compensation Advisory Council 4141.08
Utility Radiological Safety Board 4937.02
Vehicle Management Commission 125.833
Veterans Advisory Committee 5902.02(K)
Volunteer Fire Fighters' Dependents Fund Boards (Private and Public) 146.02
Water and Sewer Commission 1525.11(C)
Waterways Safety Council 1547.73
Wildlife Council 1531.03
Workers' Compensation System Oversight Commission 4121.12
Workers' Compensation Oversight Commission Nominating Committee 4121.123

Section 4. That existing Section 4 of Am. Sub. H.B. 516 of the 125th General Assembly is hereby repealed.
Section 5. That Section 8 of Am. Sub. S.B. 80 of the 125th General Assembly is hereby repealed.
Section 6. It is the intent of the General Assembly in amending sections 101.23, 101.83, 101.84, 101.85, 101.86, 122.011, 122.40, 123.151, 149.56, 307.674, 340.02, 1501.04, 1502.04, 1502.05, 1502.11, 1502.12, 1506.30, 1506.34, 1506.35, 1517.02, 1517.23, 1518.01, 1518.03, 1551.35, 3358.10, 3375.61, 3375.62, 3383.01, 3383.02, 3383.03, 3383.04, 3383.05, 3383.06, 3383.07, 3383.08, 3383.09, 3746.09, 3746.35, 3747.02, 3748.01, 3748.02, 3748.04, 3748.05, 3748.16, 3929.482, 3929.85, 3931.01, 3955.05, 3960.06, 4117.01, 4121.442, 4167.09, 4167.25, 4167.27, 4731.143, 4741.03, 4755.481, 4981.03, 5123.35, and 5123.352 of the Revised Code in this act to confirm the amendments to those sections and the resulting versions of those sections that took effect on December 30, 2004, in accordance with Section 10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 516 of the 125th General Assembly. It also is the intent of the General Assembly, in part, in amending Section 4 of Am. Sub. H.B. 516 of the 125th General Assembly in this act to confirm the text of that uncodified section of law as it took effect on December 30, 2004, in accordance with Section 10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 516 of the 125th General Assembly. This act does not affect, and shall not be construed as affecting, the other amendments, enactments, or repeals of codified or uncodified law made by Am. Sub. H.B. 516 of the 125th General Assembly which took effect on December 30, 2004, in accordance with Section 10 of that legislation, all of which it is the intent of the General Assembly to confirm in this act, including, but not limited to, the following amendments, enactments, or repeals pertaining to the implementation of the report of the Sunset Review Committee and related purposes set forth in Am. Sub. H.B. 516's title: the amendments to sections 122.133, 164.07, 1517.05, 2505.02, 3746.04, 3929.682, and 4582.12 of the Revised Code, the repeals of sections 122.09, 125.24, 149.32, 149.321, 149.322, 1502.10, 1506.37, 1517.03, 1517.04, 3354.161, 3355.121, 3357.161, 3375.47, 3746.08, 3747.04, 3747.05, 3747.06, 3747.061, 3747.07, 3747.08, 3747.09, 3747.10, 3747.11, 3747.12, 3747.13, 3747.14, 3747.15, 3747.16, 3747.17, 3747.18, 3747.19, 3747.20, 3747.21, 3747.22, 3748.09, 3929.71, 3929.72, 3929.721, 3929.73, 3929.75, 3929.76, 3929.77, 3929.78, 3929.79, 3929.80, 3929.81, 3929.82, 3929.83, 3929.84, 4121.443, 4167.26, 5101.93, 5119.81, 5119.82, and 5123.353 of the Revised Code, the enactments of uncodified law in its Sections 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, and 12, and the repeals of Section 6 of Am. Sub. S.B. 163 of the 124th General Assembly, Section 6 of Sub. S.B. 27 of the 124th General Assembly, Section 10 of Sub. H.B. 548 of the 123rd General Assembly, Section 3 of Am. H.B. 280 of the 121st General Assembly, Section 27 of Sub. H.B. 670 of the 121st General Assembly, Section 3 of Am. S.B. 208 of the 120th General Assembly, and Section 3 of Sub. H.B. 508 of the 119th General Assembly. The General Assembly, thus, further declares this section and the related provisions of Sections 1 and 3 of this act to be remedial legislation solely intended to confirm the operation on and after December 30, 2004, of the amendments, enactments, and repeals of codified and uncodified law made by Am. Sub. H.B. 516 of the 125th General Assembly.
Section 7. This act is hereby declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety. The reason for the necessity is that a plethora of state governmental entities require confirmation that the changes made by Am. Sub. H.B. 516 of the 125th General Assembly pertaining to their continued existence under the sunset review law took effect on December 30, 2004. Therefore, this act shall go into immediate effect.
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