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H. B. No. 232 As Reported by the House Local Government CommitteeAs Reported by the House Local Government Committee
129th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2011-2012 |
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Representatives Letson, O'Brien
Cosponsors:
Representatives Antonio, Fende, Weddington, Mallory, Gerberry, DeGeeter
A BILL
To amend sections 331.01, 331.02, 331.03, and 331.04
of the Revised Code to expand the authority of a
county facilities review board to include any
facility where an adult ward of the probate court
resides or receives services among the
institutions subject to its review.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 331.01, 331.02, 331.03, and 331.04
of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 331.01. In each county there may be a county facilities
review board. Each such board shall consist of six persons, not
more than three of whom shall have the same political
affiliations, appointed for the inspection of all charitable and
correctional institutions supported in whole or in part from
county or municipal corporation funds and for the inspection of
any facility where an adult ward of the probate court resides or
receives services that are approved and authorized by the probate
court, regardless of whether that facility is funded with private
funds or is funded in whole or in part with state or local funds.
Three of such appointees shall be women. If the judge of the
probate court chooses to appoint a county facilities review board,
he the judge shall initially appoint six persons, two of whom
shall be appointed for terms of three years, two for terms of two
years, and two for terms of one year. The terms of office shall
commence on the first day of May. Thereafter, within thirty days
prior to the first day of May of each year, the judge shall
appoint two persons for a term of three years, beginning upon the
first day of May. The judge of the probate court may terminate or
reconstitute the county facilities review board by an appropriate
journal entry.
All vacancies in the board shall be filled in the manner
provided by the original appointment, for the unexpired term only.
Sec. 331.02. A certificate of appointment to the county
facilities review board shall be issued to the persons appointed
under section 331.01 of the Revised Code, and a copy, giving full
names and addresses, shall be sent to the central office of the
department of job and family services. No person shall be
qualified to serve on the board who is in any manner officially
connected with any charitable or correctional institution within
the county supported wholly or partly at public expense or with
any facility in which an adult ward of the probate court resides
or receives services that are approved and authorized by the
probate court.
Sec. 331.03. The county facilities review board shall serve
without compensation, but actual expenses incurred in the
discharge of its duties, including the costs of printing its
annual report required by division (A) of section 331.06 of the
Revised Code, and actual necessary expense incurred by any member,
to be selected by such board, in visiting any other charitable or
correctional institution or any facility where an adult ward of
the probate court resides or receives services that are approved
and authorized by the probate court for the purpose of
information, and in attendance upon any convention or meeting held
within this state in the interest of and to deliberate upon
charitable or correctional methods and work, to an amount not to
exceed one thousand dollars in any year, shall be allowed by the
board of county commissioners. The county auditor shall issue a
warrant for such expense which shall be paid by the county
treasurer, provided the judge of the probate court has issued a
certificate that the members of the county facilities review board
have satisfactorily performed their duties, as provided in
sections 331.04 to 331.06 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 331.04. The county facilities review board, by personal
visitation or otherwise, shall keep fully advised of the condition
and management of all charitable or correctional institutions
supported in whole or in part by county or municipal taxation, or
which are under county or municipal control, and especially the
county home, county jail, municipal prisons, and children's home.
The county facilities review board, by personal visitation or
otherwise, shall keep fully advised of the condition and
management of any facility where an adult ward of the probate
court resides or receives services that are approved and
authorized by the probate court. From time to time the county
facilities review board shall recommend to the board of county
commissioners and to
any other officials or persons responsible
for such institutions
or facilities, such changes and additional
provisions as the county facilities review board considers
essential for the economical and efficient administration of the
institutions or facilities. At least once in every three months
each of such institutions or facilities shall be visited by the
county facilities review board or a committee of its members.
Failure in the performance of these duties on the part of any
member of the county facilities review board for one year shall be
sufficient cause for his the member's removal by the judge of the
probate court.
Section 2. That existing sections 331.01, 331.02, 331.03, and
331.04 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.
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