Ohio Revised Code Chapter 5153 - County Children Services

• Section 5153.01 - County Children Services Definitions.
  (A) As used in the Revised Code, "public children services agency" means an entity specified in section 5153.02 of the Revised Code that has...
• Section 5153.02 - Who May Serve As County Public Children Services Agency.
  Each county shall have a public children services agency. Any of the following may be the public children services agency: (A) A county children...
• Section 5153.03 - Appointment To County Board.
  If a county children services board is a public children services agency for a county, the board of county commissioners shall appoint five members...
• Section 5153.04 - Officers - Meetings.
  A county children services board appointed under section 5153.03 of the Revised Code shall elect one of its members as chairperson and another as...
• Section 5153.05 - Advisory Committee On Children Services.
  If a county children services board appointed under section 5153.03 of the Revised Code is a public children services agency for a county, the...
• Section 5153.06 - Employment Contract With Executive Director.
  The county children services board may enter into a written contract with the board's executive director specifying terms and conditions of the executive director's...
• Section 5153.07 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-01-1997
• Section 5153.08 To 5153.091 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 5153.03 To 5153.05.
  Effective Date: 10-01-1997
• Section 5153.10 - Executive Director - Inquiry Into Community Conditions.
  Each public children services agency shall designate an executive officer known as the "executive director," who shall not be in the classified civil service....
• Section 5153.11 - Executive Director - Powers And Duties.
  The executive director shall administer the work of the public children services agency, subject to the rules of the agency. With the approval of...
• Section 5153.111 - Criminal Records Check.
  (A) (1) The executive director of a public children services agency shall request the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to...
• Section 5153.112 - Caseworker Qualifications.
  (A) A public children services agency may hire as a caseworker only the following: (1) A person who has a bachelor's degree in human...
• Section 5153.12 - Classified Civil Service Status Of Employees.
  All employees of the public children services agency shall be in the classified civil service. The agency may establish compensation rates and vacation benefits...
• Section 5153.121 - Permitting Employee Sharing Between Department And County Board.
  (A) The board of county commissioners and the county children services board may agree to permit any employee of the department of job and...
• Section 5153.122 - Caseworker In-service Training.
  Each PCSA caseworker hired after January 1, 2007, shall complete at least one hundred two hours of in-service training during the first year of...
• Section 5153.123 - Caseworker Supervisor In-service Training.
  Each PCSA caseworker supervisor shall complete at least sixty hours of in-service training during the first year of the supervisor's continuous employment as a...
• Section 5153.124 - Rules Implementing Training Requirements.
  (A) The director of job and family services shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the training requirements of sections 5153.122 and 5153.123 of...
• Section 5153.125 - Determining Caseworker's Training Needs.
  Each PCSA caseworker supervisor shall work with each PCSA caseworker the supervisor supervises to determine the caseworker's training needs in accordance with, and ensure...
• Section 5153.126 - Determining Supervisor's Training Needs.
  The executive director of each public children services agency or a person designated by the executive director shall work with each PCSA caseworker supervisor...
• Section 5153.127 - Collect And Maintaining Data From Individual Training Needs Assessment Forms.
  The executive director of each public children services agency or a person designated by the executive director shall collect and maintain the data from...
• Section 5153.13 - Bonds.
  Before entering upon official duties, the executive director shall give a bond to the county in such sum as is fixed by the public...
• Section 5153.131 - Liability Insurance.
  A public children services agency may procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring employees of the agency, volunteers, foster caregivers associated with the...
• Section 5153.14 - Reports.
  The executive director shall prepare and submit an annual report to the public children services agency at the end of each calendar year and...
• Section 5153.15 - Vesting Powers In Single County Agency.
  The powers and duties enumerated in sections 5153.16 to 5153.19 of the Revised Code, with respect to the care of children, needing or likely...
• Section 5153.16 - Duties Of Agency.
  (A) Except as provided in section 2151.422 of the Revised Code, in accordance with rules adopted under section 5153.166 of the Revised Code, and...
• Section 5153.161 - Place For Providing Care.
  (A) As used in this section, "qualified nonrelative" means a nonrelative adult whom a child or the current custodial caretaker of a child identifies...
• Section 5153.162 - Operation, Acquisition, Or Maintenance Of Children's Home, Training School, Or Other Institution For Care Of Children.
  Pursuant to an agreement entered into under division (A)(9) of section 5153.16 of the Revised Code respecting the operation, acquisition, or maintenance of a...
• Section 5153.163 - Payments To Adoptive Parent Of Child With Special Needs.
  (A) As used in this section, "adoptive parent" means, as the context requires, a prospective adoptive parent or an adoptive parent. (B) (1) Before...
• Section 5153.164 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 06-30-1997
• Section 5153.165 - Emergency Benefits And Services Necessary To Prevent Removal Or Permit Return Of Child To Home.
  If a family is encountering an emergency that could lead, or has led, to removal of a child from the family's home pursuant to...
• Section 5153.166 - Additional Rules Governing Agency Performance Of Duties.
  In addition to other rules specifically authorized by the Revised Code, the director of job and family services may adopt rules governing public children...
• Section 5153.17 - Maintenance Of Records.
  The public children services agency shall prepare and keep written records of investigations of families, children, and foster homes, and of the care, training,...
• Section 5153.171 - Request For Nformation Concerning Deceased Child Whose Death May Have Been Caused By Abuse, Neglect, Or Other Criminal Conduct.
  (A) On receipt by a public children services agency of a request for the release of information about a child under eighteen years of...
• Section 5153.172 - Information Concerning Deceased Child Whose Death May Have Been Caused By Abuse, Neglect, Or Other Criminal Conduct.
  (A) Notwithstanding sections 2151.421, 3701.243, 5153.17, and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality and unless precluded by section 5153.173 of...
• Section 5153.173 - Court Determination Against Disclosure.
  The director shall not disclose any information pursuant to section 5153.172 of the Revised Code if a judge of the common pleas court of...
• Section 5153.175 - Information Regarding Fitness Of Day-care License Applicant To Be Provided.
  (A) Notwithstanding division (H)(1) of section 2151.421, section 5153.17, and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, when a public children...
• Section 5153.176 - Information Concerning Child Abuse Or Neglect By Licensee.
  As used in this section, "license" has the same meaning as in section 3319.31 of the Revised Code. (A) Notwithstanding division (H)(1) of section...
• Section 5153.18 - Public Children Services Agency - Executive Director - Powers And Duties.
  (A) The public children services agency shall have the capacity possessed by natural persons to institute proceedings in any court. (B) When appointed by...
• Section 5153.19 - Determining Ability To Pay Cost Of Care.
  The public children services agency shall, before entering into any agreement obligating the agency with respect to the care of any child, determine the...
• Section 5153.20 - Cost Of Care Charged To County Of Legal Residence.
  (A) (1) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the cost of care furnished by the public children services agency or the...
• Section 5153.21 - Establishing Children's Home.
  The board of county commissioners may establish a children's home upon the recommendation of the public children services agency and subject to certification by...
• Section 5153.22 - Frnishing Of Institutional Care To Children Of County.
  If there is no children's home in the county or if the facilities for institutional care are inadequate, the public children services agency may,...
• Section 5153.23 - Superintendent Of Home - Powers And Duties.
  The superintendent of the county children's home shall control, manage, operate, and have general charge of such home, subject to the rules, standards, and...
• Section 5153.24 - Admission, Removal And Transfer Of Children To Children's Home.
  The children to be admitted for care in a county children's home, the period during which such children shall be cared for therein, and...
• Section 5153.25 - Industrial, Agricultural, And Other Pursuits.
  The superintendent of the county children's home may provide and carry on, in connection with a children's home, such industrial, agricultural, and other pursuits...
• Section 5153.26 - Fund For Payment Of Emergency Accounts.
  At the request of the superintendent of the county children's home, the public children services agency may issue orders upon the county auditor for...
• Section 5153.27 - Department Of Job And Family Services Certification.
  A public children services agency operating a children's home or other institution is subject to sections 5103.03 and 5103.04 of the Revised Code respecting...
• Section 5153.28 - Reporting Child In Need Of Public Care.
  Boards of township trustees, the superintendent of any county home, and other officers and employees of any county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivisions...
• Section 5153.29 - Sale, Lease Or Other Use Of County Children's Home.
  The board of county commissioners of any county having a county children's home, may, upon the recommendation of the public children services agency and...
• Section 5153.30 - Accepting Gifts And Bequests.
  The public children services agency may accept and receive bequests, donations, and gifts of funds or property, real or personal, for child care and...
• Section 5153.31 - Institution Or Agency - Transfer Of Power And Duties.
  All personal property, records, files, and other documents and papers belonging to or in the possession of any agency or institution, the powers and...
• Section 5153.32 - Transfer From Corporation To Child Welfare Institution Or Agency.
  Any corporation, organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of establishing, conducting, and maintaining a child welfare institution or agency, which...
• Section 5153.33 - Investing Funds.
  Funds in the hands of the public children services agency, donated or transferred to such agency under sections 5153.31 and 5153.32 of the Revised...
• Section 5153.34 - Acquiring Property And Equipment.
  The public children services agency may acquire such property and equipment and purchase such supplies and services as are necessary for the proper conduct...
• Section 5153.35 - Levying Taxes And Making Appropriations For Public Children Services Agency.
  The boards of county commissioners shall levy taxes and make appropriations sufficient to enable the public children services agency to perform its functions and...
• Section 5153.36 - Joint Board For Establishment Of District Children's Home.
  The boards of county commissioners of two or more adjoining counties, not to exceed four, may, upon the recommendation of the public children services...
• Section 5153.37 - Annual Assessment Of Taxes For Support Of Home.
  The board of county commissioners of any county having a children's home, and the joint boards of county commissioners of district children's homes, shall...
• Section 5153.38 - Accepting Gifts And Bequests.
  When any person donates or bequeaths the person's real or personal estate, or any part thereof, to the use and benefit of a district...
• Section 5153.39 - Appointing Board Of Trustees.
  Immediately upon the organization of the joint board of county commissioners as provided by section 5153.36 of the Revised Code, or as soon thereafter...
• Section 5153.40 - Meetings.
  A majority of the board of trustees appointed under section 5153.39 of the Revised Code constitutes a quorum. Board meetings shall be held quarterly....
• Section 5153.41 - Superintendent Of Home - Bond - Powers And Duties.
  The board of trustees of a district children's home shall appoint the superintendent thereof. Before entering upon his duties such superintendent shall give a...
• Section 5153.42 - Management And Operation Of District Children's Homes.
  District children's homes shall be established, operated, maintained, and managed in the same manner so far as applicable as county children's homes and shall...
• Section 5153.43 - Site Of District Children's Home.
  When the board of trustees appointed under section 5153.39 of the Revised Code does not choose an established institution in one of the counties...
• Section 5153.44 - Appointing Trustees.
  Each county in the district, organized under section 5153.36 of the Revised Code, shall be entitled to one trustee, and in districts composed of...
• Section 5153.45 - Removal - Vacancy.
  The joint board of county commissioners organized under section 5153.36 of the Revised Code may remove any trustee appointed under section 5153.39 of the...
• Section 5153.46 - Powers Between Selection And Purchase Of Site, And Erection And Occupancy.
  In the interim, between the selection and purchase of a site, and the erection and occupancy of the district children's home, the joint board...
• Section 5153.47 - Control Of Farm.
  The choice of an established site and buildings, or the purchase of a site, stock, implements, and general farm equipment, should there be a...
• Section 5153.48 - Appraising Value Of Site And Buildings.
  When an established site and buildings are used for a district children's home the joint board of county commissioners organized under section 5153.36 of...
• Section 5153.49 - County Withdrawing From District.
  The board of county commissioners of any county within a children's home district may, upon the recommendation of the public children services agency, and...
• Section 5153.50 - Meeting Of County Auditors Of Counties Comprising District.
  The county auditors of the several counties composing a children's home district, shall meet at the district children's home, not less than once in...
• Section 5153.51 - Expenses Of County Commissioners.
  Members of the board of county commissioners who meet by appointment to consider the organization of a district children's home, shall, upon presentation of...
• Section 5153.52 - County May Support Private Children's Homes.
  The board of county commissioners of any county which has no county children's home may aid an incorporated children's home or other unincorporated society,...
• Section 5153.53 - Operating Buses For Educational Purposes.
  The public children services agency may purchase, operate, and maintain buses to be used for educational purposes. The operation and maintenance of such buses...
• Section 5153.60 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 5103.30.
  Effective Date: 01-01-2004; 09-03-2004; 09-21-2006
• Section 5153.61 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 5103.35.
  Effective Date: 10-05-2000; 09-21-2006
• Section 5153.62 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 5103.36.
  Effective Date: 10-05-2000; 09-21-2006
• Section 5153.63 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 5103.362.
  Effective Date: 10-05-2000; 09-21-2006
• Section 5153.64 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 5103.30.
  Effective Date: 10-05-2000; 09-21-2006
• Section 5153.65 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 5103.37.
  Effective Date: 10-05-2000; 09-21-2006
• Section 5153.66 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 5103.39.
  Effective Date: 09-21-2006
• Section 5153.67 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 5103.391.
  Effective Date: 10-05-2000; 09-21-2006
• Section 5153.68 - Adopting Bylaws.
  After the training program steering committee is appointed under section 5153.67 of the Revised Code, the director of job and family services shall call...
• Section 5153.69 - Monitoring And Evaluation.
  The training program steering committee shall monitor and evaluate the Ohio child welfare training program to ensure the following: (A) That the Ohio child...
• Section 5153.70 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 5103.38.
  Effective Date: 09-21-2006
• Section 5153.71 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 5103.41.
  Effective Date: 09-21-2006
• Section 5153.72 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 5103.42.
  Effective Date: 09-21-2006
• Section 5153.73 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 5103.421.
  Effective Date: 09-21-2006
• Section 5153.74 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 5103.422.
  Effective Date: 09-21-2006
• Section 5153.75 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 5103.125.
  Effective Date: 09-21-2006
• Section 5153.76 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 5103.126.
  Effective Date: 09-21-2006
• Section 5153.77 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 5103.127.
  Effective Date: 09-21-2006
• Section 5153.78 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 5103.32.
  Effective Date: 09-21-2006
• Section 5153.99 - Penalty.
  Whoever violates division (F) of section 5153.176 of the Revised Code shall be punished as follows: (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B)...

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