Ohio Revised Code Chapter 124 - Department Of Administrative Services - Personnel

• Section 124.01 - Department Of Administrative Services - Personnel Definitions.
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, as used in this chapter: (A) "Civil service" includes all offices and positions of trust or employment...
• Section 124.011 - City School Districts - Civil Service Commissions.
  (A) When the territory of a city school district is not located in more than one city, the civil service commission of the city...
• Section 124.02 - Director Of Administrative Services And State Personnel Board Of Review To Serve As State Civil Service Commission.
  The director of administrative services and the state personnel board of review shall exercise all functions, powers, and duties that formerly were by law...
• Section 124.03 - State Personnel Board Of Review - Powers And Duties.
  (A) The state personnel board of review shall exercise the following powers and perform the following duties: (1) Hear appeals, as provided by law,...
• Section 124.04 - Director Of Administrative Services Powers, Duties, Functions.
  In addition to those powers enumerated in Chapters 123. and 125. of the Revised Code and as provided elsewhere by law, the powers, duties,...
• Section 124.05 - State Personnel Board Of Review Organization.
  The state personnel board of review shall be composed of three members, not more than two of whom shall be affiliated with the same...
• Section 124.06 - Civil Service Appointments And Removals To Be Made In Accordance With Chapter.
  No person shall be appointed, removed, transferred, laid off, suspended, reinstated, promoted, or reduced as an officer or employee in the civil service, in...
• Section 124.07 - Director Of Administrative Services Employees, Services And Facilities.
  (A) The director of administrative services shall appoint examiners, inspectors, clerks, and other assistants as necessary to carry out sections 124.01 to 124.64 of...
• Section 124.08 - Director Of Administrative Services Offices.
  The director of administrative services shall maintain suitable offices. The officers of the state, or any political subdivision thereof, at any place where examinations...
• Section 124.09 - Civil Service Powers Of Director Of Administrative Services.
  The director of administrative services shall do all of the following: (A) Prescribe, amend, and enforce administrative rules for the purpose of carrying out...
• Section 124.10 - Garnishment Actions Against State Employees And Officers.
  (A) Any creditor or judgment creditor of an employee or officer of the state may maintain against the state any action or proceeding in...
• Section 124.11 - Unclassified Service - Classified Service.
  The civil service of the state and the several counties, cities, civil service townships, city health districts, general health districts, and city school districts...
• Section 124.12 - Notice Of Appointment To Unclassified Position.
  (A) Within ninety days after an appointing authority appoints an employee to an unclassified position in the service of the state, the appointing authority...
• Section 124.13 - Vacation Leave.
  (A) As used in this section, "state employee" means a state employee who does not accrue vacation leave under section 124.134 of the Revised...
• Section 124.131 - Vacation Leave For Employees Of Institution Of Higher Education Transferred To State Control.
  An employee of a state institution of higher education to whom section 124.13 of the Revised Code is applicable, which is limited in any...
• Section 124.132 - Disaster Service Leave.
  A state employee who is a certified disaster service volunteer of the American red cross may be granted leave from his work with pay...
• Section 124.133 - Experimental Leave And Benefits Program.
  The director of administrative services may establish, by rule adopted under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, an experimental program to be implemented on...
• Section 124.134 - Vacation Leave - Employees Exempt From Collective Bargaining.
  (A) Each full-time permanent state employee paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the Revised Code and those employees listed in divisions (B)(2) and...
• Section 124.135 - Jury Or Trial Participation Leave - Charitable Advisory Panel Leave.
  (A) State employees are entitled to paid leave when summoned for jury duty by a court of competent jurisdiction . (B) State employees are...
• Section 124.136 - Parental Leave And Benefits.
  (A) (1) Each permanent full-time and permanent part-time employee paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the Revised Code and each employee listed in...
• Section 124.137 - Parental Leave Benefit Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the parental leave benefit fund. The director of administrative services shall use moneys credited to the...
• Section 124.138 - Paid Leave And Benefits For Eligible Full-time Fire Fighters Employed By Adjutant General.
  The director of administrative services may establish paid leaves and employee benefits for eligible full-time fire fighters employed by the adjutant general's department that...
• Section 124.139 - Organ Donor Leave.
  (A) A full-time state employee shall receive up to two hundred forty hours of leave with pay during each calendar year to use during...
• Section 124.1310 - Emt-basic, Emt-i, First Responder, Paramedic, Or Volunteer Firefighter Leave.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Emergency medical service," "EMT-basic," "EMT-I," "first responder," and "paramedic" have the same meanings as in section 4765.01...
• Section 124.1311 - Veteran Funeral Honors Detail Leave.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Funeral honors detail" means a funeral honors detail as described in the "National Defense Authorization Act of...
• Section 124.14 - Job Classification - Pay Ranges.
  (A) (1) The director of administrative services shall establish, and may modify or rescind, a job classification plan for all positions, offices, and employments...
• Section 124.141 - Appointment Incentive Program.
  The director of administrative services may establish, by rule adopted under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, an appointment incentive program that allows an...
• Section 124.142 - Compensation Of Chaplains.
  Twenty-five per cent of the compensation paid under section 124.15 or 124.152 of the Revised Code to a person designated as a chaplain or...
• Section 124.15 - Pay Ranges And Step Values.
  (A) Board and commission members appointed prior to July 1, 1991, shall be paid a salary or wage in accordance with the following schedules...
• Section 124.151 - Direct Deposit Of Compensation.
  (A) As used in this section, "compensation" includes, but is not limited to, wages and salary, travel allowances paid pursuant to section 101.27 of...
• Section 124.152 - Salary Schedules.
  (A) (1) Except as provided in divisions (A)(2) and (3) of this section, each exempt employee shall be paid a salary or wage in...
• Section 124.16 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-14-1989
• Section 124.17 - Employee Awards System.
  The director of administrative services may institute an employee awards system designed to encourage all state employees to submit suggestions that will reduce the...
• Section 124.18 - Standard Work Week - Compensatory Time - Overtime Pay - Holidays.
  (A) Forty hours shall be the standard work week for all employees whose salary or wage is paid in whole or in part by...
• Section 124.181 - Pay Supplements - Shift Differentials.
  (A) Except as provided in divisions (M) and (P) of this section, any employee paid in accordance with schedule B of section 124.15 or...
• Section 124.182 - Professional Development Fund.
  (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the professional development fund. The director of administrative services shall use moneys credited to the...
• Section 124.183 - [Repealed Effective 9/29/2015] One-time Pay Supplements.
  (A) As used in this section, "active payroll" means conditions under which an employee is in active pay status or eligible to receive pay...
• Section 124.183 - One-time Pay Supplements.
  (A) As used in this section, "active payroll" means conditions under which an employee is in active pay status or eligible to receive pay...
• Section 124.19 - State Holidays - University Holidays.
  (A) State holidays shall be the first day of January, the third Monday in January, the third Monday in February, the day designated in...
• Section 124.20 - Classification Rules - Record Keeping.
  The director of administrative services, with the approval of the state personnel board of review, shall adopt rules: (A) For appointment, promotions, transfers, layoffs,...
• Section 124.21 - Civil Service Districts.
  The director of administrative services may divide the state into civil service districts, and establish an officer in each of such districts. The director...
• Section 124.22 - Educational And Citizenship Requirements For Civil Service Examinations.
  Rules establishing educational requirements as a condition of taking a civil service examination shall only be adopted with respect to positions for which educational...
• Section 124.23 - Examinations.
  (A) All applicants for positions and places in the classified service shall be subject to examination, except for applicants for positions as professional or...
• Section 124.231 - Special Examinations For Legally Blind Or Legally Deaf Persons.
  (A) As used in this section, "legally blind person" means any person who qualifies as being blind under any Ohio or federal statute, or...
• Section 124.24 - Examinations For Employees Engaged In Mineral Resource Safety.
  (A) Notwithstanding sections 124.01 to 124.64 and Chapter 145. of the Revised Code, the examinations of applicants for the positions of deputy mine inspector,...
• Section 124.241 - Professional Employees And Registered Service Employees Of County Board Of Developmental Disabilities.
  As used in this section, "professional employee" has the same meaning as in section 5126.20 of the Revised Code and "registered service employee" means...
• Section 124.25 - Formal Application For Examination.
  The director of administrative services shall require persons applying for an examination for original appointment in the service of the state to file with...
• Section 124.26 - Eligibility Lists; Veteran's Preference; Expiration Of List.
  From the returns of examinations for positions in the service of the state, the director of administrative services or the director's designee shall prepare...
• Section 124.27 - Appointments From Eligible Lists - Probation.
  (A) Appointments to all positions in the classified civil service, that are not filled by promotion, transfer, or reduction, as provided in sections 124.01...
• Section 124.271 - Provisional Employees.
  Any employee in the classified service of the state or any county, city, city health district, general health district, or city school district who...
• Section 124.28 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-18-1997
• Section 124.29 - Authority For Temporary Furloughs.
  (A) Notwithstanding any provision of sections 124.321 to 124.328 of the Revised Code to the contrary, if the operation of an appointing authority is...
• Section 124.30 - Filling Classified Positions In Civil Service Without Competition.
  (A) Classified positions in the civil service may be filled without competition as follows: (1) Whenever there are urgent reasons for filling a vacancy...
• Section 124.301 - Waive Residency For Job And Family Services Employee.
  The director of administrative services shall waive any residency requirement for the civil service established by a rule adopted under division (A) of section...
• Section 124.31 - Promotions.
  Vacancies in positions in the classified civil service of the state shall be filled insofar as practicable by promotions. The director of administrative services...
• Section 124.311 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-2007
• Section 124.312 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-30-1999
• Section 124.32 - Transfers - Reinstatements.
  (A) A person holding an office or position in the classified service may be transferred to a similar position in another office, department, or...
• Section 124.321 - Reduction In Work Force - Layoffs - Job Abolishment.
  (A) Whenever it becomes necessary for an appointing authority to reduce its work force, the appointing authority shall lay off employees or abolish their...
• Section 124.322 - Layoff Procedures.
  Whenever a reduction in the work force is necessary, the appointing authority of an agency shall decide in which classification or classifications the layoff...
• Section 124.323 - Layoff Order.
  Employees shall be laid off in the order set forth in this section within the primary appointment categories of part-time probationary, part-time permanent, full-time...
• Section 124.324 - Layoff Displacement Rights.
  (A) A laid-off employee has the right to displace the employee with the fewest retention points in the following order: (1) Within the classification...
• Section 124.325 - Retention Points For Continuous Service And Efficiency.
  (A) Retention points to reflect the length of continuous service and efficiency in service for all employees affected by a layoff shall be verified...
• Section 124.326 - Layoff Jurisdictions.
  (A) The order of layoff and displacement shall apply within layoff jurisdictions. Each of the layoff jurisdictions, as defined in this section, is autonomous,...
• Section 124.327 - Layoff Lists - Reinstatement - Reemployment.
  (A) Employees who have been laid off or have, by virtue of exercising their displacement rights, been displaced to a lower classification in their...
• Section 124.328 - Layoff, Displacement Appeals.
  A classified employee may appeal a layoff, or a displacement that is the result of a layoff, to the state personnel board of review....
• Section 124.33 - Transfers - Appeal - Reimbursement Of Expenses.
  An employee holding a position in the classified service may be temporarily transferred from the employee's original position to a similar position for a...
• Section 124.34 - Reduction In Pay Or Position - Suspension - Removal.
  (A) The tenure of every officer or employee in the classified service of the state and the counties, civil service townships, cities, city health...
• Section 124.341 - Violation Or Misuse - Whistleblower Protection.
  (A) If an employee in the classified or unclassified civil service becomes aware in the course of employment of a violation of state or...
• Section 124.35 - Refusal To Testify Constitutes Unfitness.
  In any hearing on the question of fitness and continued employment of any person holding a position, job, or office under the authority of...
• Section 124.36 - Cause For Removal - Teacher Terminations.
  It shall be sufficient cause for the removal of any public employees including teachers in the public schools or any state supported educational institution...
• Section 124.37 - Police And Fire Departments Reduction In Work Force - Layoffs - Job Abolishment.
  When it becomes necessary in a police or fire department, through lack of work or funds, or for causes other than those outlined in...
• Section 124.38 - Sick Leave.
  Each of the following shall be entitled for each completed eighty hours of service to sick leave of four and six-tenths hours with pay:...
• Section 124.381 - Occupational Injury Leave Program.
  (A) (1) (a) An employee in the service of the state may be eligible to receive salary continuation not to exceed four hundred eighty...
• Section 124.382 - Sick Leave Credit - Misuse Of Sick Leave.
  (A) As used in this section and sections 124.383, 124.386, 124.387, and 124.388 of the Revised Code: (1) "Pay period" means the fourteen-day period...
• Section 124.383 - Options With Respect To Sick Leave Credit Remaining At End Of Year.
  (A) The director of administrative services shall allow a full-time or part-time employee who is credited with sick leave pursuant to division (B) of...
• Section 124.384 - Accumulated Sick Leave.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, employees whose salaries or wages are paid by warrant of the director of budget and management...
• Section 124.385 - Disability Leave Benefits.
  (A) An employee is eligible for disability leave benefits under this section if the employee has completed one year of continuous state service immediately...
• Section 124.386 - Personal Leave.
  (A) Each full-time permanent employee paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the Revised Code and those full-time permanent employees listed in divisions (B)(2)...
• Section 124.387 - Bereavement Leave.
  Each full-time permanent and part-time permanent employee whose salary or wage is paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management shall...
• Section 124.388 - Administrative Leave.
  (A) An appointing authority may, in its discretion, place an employee on administrative leave with pay. Administrative leave with pay is to be used...
• Section 124.389 - Employee Exchange Program.
  The director of administrative services may establish an employee exchange program for employees whose salary or wage is paid directly by warrant of the...
• Section 124.39 - Unused Sick Leave.
  As used in this section, "retirement" means disability or service retirement under any state or municipal retirement system in this state. (A) (1) Except...
• Section 124.391 - Donation Of Paid Leave Program.
  (A) As used in this section, "paid leave" means sick leave, personal leave, or vacation leave. (B) The director of administrative services may establish...
• Section 124.392 - Exempt Employees Cost Savings Program.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Exempt employee" has the same meaning as in section 124.152 of the Revised Code. (2) "Fiscal emergency"...
• Section 124.393 - Mandatory Cost Savings Program Applicable To Exempt Employees.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) " Exempt employee" means a permanent full-time or permanent part-time county, township, or municipal corporation employee who...
• Section 124.394 - Modified Work Week Schedule Program.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Exempt employee" means a permanent full-time or permanent part-time county employee , township, or municipal corporation who...
• Section 124.40 - Civil Service Commissions In Municipalities And Townships.
  (A) The mayor or other chief appointing authority of each city in the state shall appoint three persons, one for a term of two...
• Section 124.41 - Police Department Qualifications - Police Cadet Program.
  No person shall be eligible to receive an original appointment to a police department, as a police officer, subject to the civil service laws...
• Section 124.411 - Police Department Appointment From Annexed Territory.
  Notwithstanding section 124.41 of the Revised Code, the appointing authority of a municipal corporation that has been incorporated pursuant to Chapter 707., of the...
• Section 124.42 - Firefighter Qualifications.
  No person shall be eligible to receive an original appointment as a firefighter in a fire department, subject to the civil service laws of...
• Section 124.43 - Separate Examinations And Eligibility Lists For Police And Firemen.
  Separate examinations shall be given and separate eligibility lists maintained by municipal and civil service township civil service commissions for original appointments to and...
• Section 124.44 - Police Department Promotions.
  No positions above the rank of patrol officer in the police department shall be filled by original appointment. Vacancies in positions above the rank...
• Section 124.45 - Fire Department Promotions.
  Vacancies in positions above the rank of regular fire fighter in a fire department shall be filled by competitive promotional examinations, and promotions shall...
• Section 124.46 - Fire Department Eligibility Lists.
  The names of the examinees who have passed the examination shall be placed on the eligible list in accordance with their grades. The examinee...
• Section 124.47 - Fire Department Special Positions.
  Within any rank, the municipal council or board of trustees of a civil service township may establish such special positions having special duties with...
• Section 124.48 - Fire Department Vacancies.
  Whenever a vacancy occurs in a promoted rank in a fire department and no eligible list for that rank exists, the appointing authority shall...
• Section 124.49 - Fire Department Probationary Period.
  All promotional appointments in a fire department may be for a probationary period to be fixed by the rules of the civil service commission...
• Section 124.491 - Authorized Educational Achievement Of Police Officer Or Firefighter.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, by ordinance, adopt a plan granting an increase in salary for authorized educational achievement attained prior...
• Section 124.50 - Reinstatement After Separation Due To Injury Or Physical Disability Incurred In The Performance Of Duty.
  Any person holding an office or position under the classified service in a fire department or a police department who is separated therefrom due...
• Section 124.51 - Secretary Of Police - Secretary Of Fire.
  In any city which by action of its legislative authority establishes the position of secretary of police or the position of secretary of fire,...
• Section 124.52 - Police Department Traffic Control Unit Head Exempt From Civil Service.
  In any city with a population of seven hundred thousand or more as shown by the last federal census, which by action of the...
• Section 124.53 - Superintendent Of Buildings - Superintendent Of Fire Equipment Exempt From Civil Service.
  In any city which, by action of its legislative authority, establishes the position of superintendent of buildings or the position of superintendent of fire...
• Section 124.54 - Boards Of Education To Share Cost Of Civil Service Administration.
  Where municipal civil service commission serves a city school district whose territory is located in more than one city, the board of education of...
• Section 124.55 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 9.40.
  Effective Date: 07-01-1985
• Section 124.56 - Investigation Of Violations.
  When the state personnel board of review or a municipal or civil service township civil service commission has reason to believe that any officer,...
• Section 124.57 - Prohibition Against Partisan Political Activity.
  (A) No officer or employee in the classified service of the state, the several counties, cities, and city school districts of the state, or...
• Section 124.58 - Fraud Or False Representation In Examinations.
  No person or officer shall willfully or corruptly, by himself or in co-operation with one or more persons, defeat, deceive, or obstruct any person...
• Section 124.59 - Payment For Appointment Or Promotion.
  No applicant for appointment or promotion in the classified service shall, directly or indirectly, pay or promise to pay any money or other valuable...
• Section 124.60 - Abuse Of Power For Political Reasons.
  No officer or employee of the state or the several counties, cities, and city school districts thereof, or civil service townships, shall appoint, promote,...
• Section 124.61 - Abuse Of Political Authority Or Influence.
  No person who holds any public office, or who has been nominated for, or who seeks a nomination or appointment to any public office,...
• Section 124.62 - Violations Of Civil Service Rules Or Statutes.
  After a rule has been duly established and published by the director of administrative services or by any municipal or civil service township civil...
• Section 124.63 - Taxpayer's Suit.
  The right of any taxpayer to bring an action to restrain the payment of compensation to any person appointed to or holding any office...
• Section 124.64 - Prosecutions For Violations Of Civil Service Rules Or Statutes.
  Prosecutions for the violation of sections 124.01 to 124.64 of the Revised Code, or the rules and regulations of the director of administrative services...
• Section 124.70 - No Residency Requirement For Higher Education Employees.
  No state institution of higher education shall prohibit, and nothing in this chapter prohibits, an employee in the classified civil service of the institution...
• Section 124.71 - Unauthorized Operation Of Motor Vehicles.
  No person shall willfully operate a motor vehicle, motor vehicle with auxiliary equipment, or self-propelling equipment or trailers owned or to be operated by...
• Section 124.73 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 11-08-1992
• Section 124.81 - Insurance Benefits.
  (A) Except as provided in division (F) of this section, the department of administrative services in consultation with the superintendent of insurance shall negotiate...
• Section 124.82 - Health Insurance Benefits.
  (A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, the department of administrative services, in consultation with the superintendent of insurance, shall, in...
• Section 124.821 - Health Care Spending Account Fund.
  The health care spending account fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The director of administrative services shall use money in the fund...
• Section 124.822 - Dependent Care Spending Account Fund.
  The dependent care spending account fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The director of administrative services shall use money in the fund...
• Section 124.823 - Medical Savings Account Pilot Program.
  The department of administrative services shall establish a pilot program under which it includes medical savings accounts as part of any package of health...
• Section 124.83 - Disability And Income Protection - State Employee Disability Leave Benefit Fund.
  (A) The department of administrative services shall do one of the following: (1) In consultation with the superintendent of insurance, in accordance with the...
• Section 124.84 - Long-term Care Insurance - State Employees.
  (A) The department of administrative services, in consultation with the superintendent of insurance and subject to division (D) of this section, may negotiate and...
• Section 124.841 - Long-term Care Insurance - Political Subdivision Employees.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Long-term care insurance" has the same meaning as in section 3923.41 of the Revised Code. (2) "Political...
• Section 124.85 - [Renumbered].
  Renumbered by 129th General AssemblyFile No.28, HB 153, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2011.
• Section 124.86 - Employee Educational Development Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the employee educational development fund, to be used to pay the state administrative costs of any...
• Section 124.87 - State Employee Health Benefit Fund.
  (A) There is hereby established in the state treasury the state employee health benefit fund for the sole purpose of enabling the department of...
• Section 124.88 - State Employee Assistance Program.
  (A) The employee assistance program is hereby established in the department of administrative services for the purpose of referring state employees paid by warrant...
• Section 124.90 - Waiver Of Federal Law Concerning Discrimination In Employment.
  (A) Any municipal corporation may, by a two-thirds vote of its legislative authority, waive, suspend, or alter any of the provisions of this chapter...
• Section 124.91 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-30-1988
• Section 124.92 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-30-1999; 03-30-2006
• Section 124.93 - Discrimination By Health Insuring Corporation Against Physician.
  (A) As used in this section, "physician" means any person who holds a valid certificate to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and...
• Section 124.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 124.62 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars or be...

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