Ohio Revised Code Chapter 149 - Documents, Reports, And Records

• Section 149.01 - Official Reports - Number - Filing.
  Each elective state officer, the adjutant general, the adult parole authority, the department of agriculture, the director of administrative services, the public utilities commission,...
• Section 149.011 - Documents, Reports, And Records Definitions.
  As used in this chapter, except as otherwise provided: (A) "Public office" includes any state agency, public institution, political subdivision, or other organized body,...
• Section 149.02 - Annual Reports In Triplicate.
  Wherever in the Revised Code annual reports are required to be made to the governor, or annual reports to the governor are referred to,...
• Section 149.03 - Governor's Authority As To Reports.
  The governor may at any time require to be filed with him a detailed report from any state officer, board, or commission. Effective Date:
• Section 149.04 - Printing Of Messages And Inaugural Addresses.
  Messages of the governor, and the inaugural address of the governor-elect, shall be produced and distributed in electronic form to the governor , to...
• Section 149.05 - Number Of Reports Printed.
  The annual reports of the elective state officers shall be printed in such numbers as the superintendent of purchases and printing determines. Effective Date:
• Section 149.06 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-09-1999
• Section 149.07 - Final Journals Available To Members Of General Assembly.
  One bound copy of each of the final journals and appendixes shall be made available to each member of the general assembly. Effective Date:
• Section 149.08 - Copies Of Bills To Clerk Of The Court Of Common Pleas.
  Within sixty days after each engrossed bill is filed with the secretary of state, he shall forward a copy of each such law to...
• Section 149.09 - Distributing Pamphlet Laws.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, the secretary of state shall distribute the pamphlet laws in the following manner:...
• Section 149.091 - Publishing And Distributing Session Laws.
  (A) The secretary of state shall compile, publish, and distribute the session laws either annually or biennially in a paper or electronic format. The...
• Section 149.092 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-05-1987
• Section 149.10 - Submission Of Audit Reports.
  All boards, commissions, agencies, institutions, and departments in the executive branch of state government shall submit to the auditor of state a copy of...
• Section 149.11 - Distributing Publications Intended For General Public Use - Record Retention Or Destruction Schedules.
  Any department, division, bureau, board, or commission of the state government issuing a report, pamphlet, document, or other publication intended for general public use...
• Section 149.12 - Distributing Legislative Publications To Libraries.
  The state library board shall forward, free of charge, in a paper or electronic format, one copy of each legislative bulletin, daily house and...
• Section 149.13 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 64, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2015. Effective Date: 03-09-1999
• Section 149.14, 149.15 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-17-1963
• Section 149.16 - Secretary Of State Or State Library Board Shall Distribute Law And Journals.
  The secretary of state shall distribute all copies of the laws and all copies of the bound house and senate journals. If no provision...
• Section 149.17 - Highway Maps Of Ohio.
  Highway maps shall be published by the state and shall be officially designated as "Highway Maps of Ohio." The director of transportation may designate...
• Section 149.30 - Public Functions Of Ohio History Connection.
  The Ohio history connection , chartered by this state as a corporation not for profit to promote a knowledge of history and archaeology, especially...
• Section 149.301 - Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board.
  (A) There is hereby created the Ohio historic site preservation advisory board, to consist of seventeen members appointed by the governor with the advice...
• Section 149.302 - National Museum Of Afro-american History And Culture.
  (A) The Ohio history connection , in addition to its other functions, shall establish a museum in the vicinity of Wilberforce to be known...
• Section 149.303 - National Museum Of Afro-american History And Culture Planning Committee.
  (A) (1) There is hereby created the national museum of Afro-American history and culture planning committee to advise the Ohio history connection in the...
• Section 149.304 - Historic Homestead Register Program.
  Any person owning or in possession of an Ohio homestead or tract of land which has been owned or in the possession of the...
• Section 149.305 - Ohio African-american Hall Of Fame.
  (A) The Ohio history connection , in addition to its other public functions, shall cooperate with the Ohio African-American hall of fame governing board...
• Section 149.306 - Ohio African-american Hall Of Fame Governing Board.
  (A) There is hereby created the Ohio African-American hall of fame governing board to raise funds for the Ohio African-American hall of fame, to...
• Section 149.307 - Ohio History License Plate Contribution Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the Ohio history license plate contribution fund. The fund shall consist of the contributions that are...
• Section 149.308 - Ohio History Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the Ohio history fund, which shall consist of money contributed to it under section 5747.113 of...
• Section 149.31 - Archives Administration For The State.
  (A) The Ohio history connection , in addition to its other functions, shall function as the state archives administration for the state and its...
• Section 149.311 - Application For Rehabilitation Tax Credit Certificate.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Historic building" means a building, including its structural components, that is located in this state and that...
• Section 149.312, 149.313 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-23-1986
• Section 149.314 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-31-1988
• Section 149.32 - The War Of 1812 Bicentennial Commission; Duties.
  The war of 1812 bicentennial commission shall do all of the following: (A) Study and recommend activities that this state may carry out to...
• Section 149.321 - [Effective 9/29/2015] The War Of 1812 Bicentennial Commission; Creation.
  There is hereby created the war of 1812 bicentennial commission, which for administrative purposes shall be a part of northwest state community college. The...
• Section 149.322 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-30-2004
• Section 149.33 - State Records Program - Office Of State Records Administration.
  (A) The department of administrative services shall have responsibility for establishing and administering a state records program for all state agencies, except for state-supported...
• Section 149.331 - State Record Administration Program.
  The state records program of the department of administrative services shall do all of the following: (A) Establish and promulgate in consultation with the...
• Section 149.332 - Records Management Programs In The Legislative And Judicial Branches Of State Government.
  Upon request the director of administrative services and the state archivist shall assist and advise in the establishment of records management programs in the...
• Section 149.333 - Applying For Record Disposal Or Transfer.
  No state agency shall retain, destroy, or otherwise transfer its state records in violation of this section. This section does not apply to state-supported...
• Section 149.34 - Records Management Procedures.
  The head of each state agency, office, institution, board, or commission shall do the following: (A) Establish, maintain, and direct an active continuing program...
• Section 149.35 - Laws Prohibiting The Destruction Of Records.
  If any law prohibits the destruction of records, the director of administrative services, the director's designee, or the boards of trustees of state-supported institutions...
• Section 149.351 - Prohibiting Destruction Or Damage Of Records.
  (A) All records are the property of the public office concerned and shall not be removed, destroyed, mutilated, transferred, or otherwise damaged or disposed...
• Section 149.352 - Replevin Of Public Records.
  Upon request of the department of administrative services, the attorney general may replevin any public records which have been unlawfully transferred or removed in...
• Section 149.36 - Authority Not Restricted.
  The provisions of sections 149.31 to 149.42, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall not impair or restrict the authority given by other statutes over...
• Section 149.37 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1985
• Section 149.38 - County Records Commission.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in section 307.847 of the Revised Code, there is hereby created in each county a county records commission, composed...
• Section 149.381 - Review Of Applications For Disposal Of Records Or Schedules Of Records Retention And Disposition By History Connection.
  (A) As used in this section, "records commission" means a records commission created under section 149.39 of the Revised Code, a school district records...
• Section 149.39 - Records Commission - Municipal Corporation.
  There is hereby created in each municipal corporation a records commission composed of the chief executive or the chief executive's appointed representative, as chairperson,...
• Section 149.40 - Making Only Necessary Records.
  The head of each public office shall cause to be made only such records as are necessary for the adequate and proper documentation of...
• Section 149.41 - School District Records Commission - Educational Service Center Records Commission.
  There is hereby created in each city, local, joint vocational, and exempted village school district a school district records commission, and in each educational...
• Section 149.411 - Library Records Commission.
  There is hereby created in each county free public library, municipal free public library, township free public library, school district free public library as...
• Section 149.412 - Special Taxing District Records Commission.
  (A) There is hereby created in each special taxing district that is a public office as defined in section 149.011 of the Revised Code...
• Section 149.42 - Township Records Commission.
  There is hereby created in each township a township records commission, composed of the chairperson of the board of township trustees and the fiscal...
• Section 149.43 - Availability Of Public Records For Inspection And Copying.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Public record" means records kept by any public office, including, but not limited to, state, county, city,...
• Section 149.431 - Records Of Governmental Or Nonprofit Organizations Receiving Governmental Funds.
  (A) Except as provided in sections 9.833 and 2744.081 of the Revised Code, any governmental entity or agency and any nonprofit corporation or association,...
• Section 149.432 - Releasing Library Record Or Patron Information.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Library" means a library that is open to the public, including any of the following: (a) A...
• Section 149.433 - Exempting Security And Infrastructure Records.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Act of terrorism" has the same meaning as in section 2909.21 of the Revised Code. (2) "Infrastructure...
• Section 149.434 - Public Offices To Maintain Employee Database.
  (A) Each public office or person responsible for public records shall maintain a database or a list that includes the name and date of...
• Section 149.435 - Confidentiality Of Records Regarding Abused Children.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Abused child" has the same meaning as in section 2151.031 of the Revised Code. (2) "Confidential law...
• Section 149.44 - Rules And Procedures For Operation Of State Records Centers And Archival Institutions Holding Public Records.
  Any state records center or archival institution established pursuant to sections 149.31 and 149.331 of the Revised Code is an extension of the departments,...
• Section 149.45 - Internet Access To Social Security Numbers.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Personal information" means any of the following: (a) An individual's social security number; (b) An individual's federal...
• Section 149.51 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2013. Effective Date: 08-24-1976
• Section 149.52 - Filing Articles Of Dedication.
  As used in this section, "archaeological site" means any mounds, earthworks, burial or settlement sites, or other place where evidence of prehistoric or early...
• Section 149.53 - Archaeological And Historic Survey And Salvage Work.
  All departments, agencies, units, instrumentalities, and political subdivisions of the state shall cooperate with the Ohio history connection and the Ohio historic site preservation...
• Section 149.54 - Archaeological And Historic Survey And Salvage Work Permit.
  In order to ensure that archaeological survey and salvage work on public lands, dedicated archaeological preserves, and registered state archaeological landmarks is conducted in...
• Section 149.55 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2013. Effective Date: 08-24-1976
• Section 149.56 - Program To Locate, Identify, And Evaluate Abandoned Property And Other Resources In Lake Erie.
  (A) As used in this section, "abandoned property" has the same meaning as in section 1506.30 of the Revised Code. (B) The Ohio history...
• Section 149.99 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-15-1987

Last modified: October 10, 2016