Ohio Revised Code Chapter 9 - Miscellaneous

• Section 9.01 - Official Records - Preserving And Maintaining.
  When any officer, office, court, commission, board, institution, department, agent, or employee of the state, of a county, or of any other political subdivision...
• Section 9.02 - Inspection And Review Of Financial Institution Records.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Customer" means any person or authorized representative of that person who has maintained or is maintaining an...
• Section 9.03 - Newsletters Of Political Subdivisions.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Political subdivision" means any body corporate and politic, except a municipal corporation that has adopted a charter...
• Section 9.04 - State Funds For Nontherapeutic Abortion Benefits.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Nontherapeutic abortion" means an abortion that is performed or induced when the life of the mother would...
• Section 9.041 - Childbirth Preferred Over Abortion.
  It is the public policy of the state of Ohio to prefer childbirth over abortion to the extent that is constitutionally permissible. Effective Date:
• Section 9.06 - Private Operation And Management Of Initial Intensive Program Prison.
  (A) (1) The department of rehabilitation and correction may contract for the private operation and management pursuant to this section of the initial intensive...
• Section 9.07 - Correctional Facility To House Out-of-state Prisoners.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Deadly weapon" has the same meaning as in section 2923.11 of the Revised Code. (2) "Governing authority...
• Section 9.08 - Improper Internet Access - Private Correctional Facilities.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Computer," "computer network," "computer system," "computer services," "telecommunications service," and "information service" have the same meanings as...
• Section 9.10 - Facsimile Signature Defined.
  As used in sections 9.10 to 9.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, "facsimile signature" includes, but is not limited to, the reproduction of any...
• Section 9.11 - Public Officials Using Facsimile Signature.
  Any elected or appointed public official of this state or of any political subdivision or instrumentality thereof, or any member, agent, or employee of...
• Section 9.12 - Validity Of Instrument With Facsimile Signature.
  Any check, draft, warrant, voucher, or other instrument for the payment of money bearing a duly adopted facsimile signature as authorized by section 9.11...
• Section 9.13 - Highway Project Not Located Within Subdivision Boundaries.
  A county, municipal corporation, or township may spend money on highway projects that are not located within its boundaries. Effective Date: 07-01-1989
• Section 9.14 - Loss Of Funds Occasioned By Use Of Duly Adopted Facsimile Signature.
  Sections 9.10 to 9.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not release the liability of any public official, employee, or other person for loss...
• Section 9.15 - Burial Or Cremation Of Body At Expense Of Township Or Municipal Corporation.
  When the body of a dead person is found in a township or municipal corporation, and such person was not an inmate of a...
• Section 9.20 - Receipt Of Gift, Devise, Or Bequest Moneys, Lands, Or Other Properties By Public Authority.
  The state; a county, a township, or a cemetery association or the commissioners or trustees of a county, township, or cemetery association; a municipal...
• Section 9.23 - Disbursements By Government Entities Definitions.
  As used in sections 9.23 to 9.239 of the Revised Code: (A) "Allocable nondirect costs" means the amount of nondirect costs allocated as a...
• Section 9.231 - Disbursements Over $25,000 - Contract Required - Exceptions.
  (A) (1) Subject to divisions (A)(2) and (3) of this section, a governmental entity shall not disburse money totaling twenty-five thousand dollars or more...
• Section 9.232 - Contract For Disbursements.
  A contract entered into under section 9.231 of the Revised Code shall, at a minimum, set forth all of the following: (A) The minimum...
• Section 9.233 - Recipient Of Disbursements Entitled Only To Contract Payment Earned.
  (A) A recipient shall be entitled to the contract payment earned. In no event shall a recipient be entitled to more than the contract...
• Section 9.234 - Records And Reports By Recipient - Financial Review - Financial Audit.
  (A) Unless otherwise explicitly provided in the Revised Code, a recipient shall do all of the following: (1) With respect to any money received...
• Section 9.235 - Records Open To Government Inspection.
  (A) (1) Subject to division (A)(2) of this section, the financial books and records of a recipient, and the financial books and records of...
• Section 9.236 - Recipient To Repay Excess Payment - Civil Action To Recover.
  (A) A recipient is liable to repay to the governmental entity any money received in excess of the contract payment earned. (B) (1) A...
• Section 9.237 - Rules Governing Terms Of Disbursement Contracts.
  The attorney general shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code governing the terms of any contract entered into under...
• Section 9.238 - Form For Financial Reviews And Rules For Audit Reports.
  (A) The auditor of state shall prescribe a single form of the financial reviews required by divisions (B)(1) and (2) of section 9.234 of...
• Section 9.239 - Government Contracting Advisory Council.
  (A) There is hereby created the government contracting advisory council. The attorney general and auditor of state shall consult with the council on the...
• Section 9.24 - Findings For Recovery.
  (A) Except as may be allowed under division (F) of this section, no state agency and no political subdivision shall award a contract as...
• Section 9.241 - Civil Action For Recovery Of Money.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Governmental entity" and "a judgment is uncollectible" have the same meanings as in section 9.23 of the...
• Section 9.25 - Purchase Of Surplus Commodities From Federal Government.
  Whenever the superintendent of purchases and printing or the director of transportation finds that personal property can be obtained from the federal government at...
• Section 9.26 - Gifts Or Grants Of Federal Property.
  The state or any of its political subdivisions may receive any gifts or grants of federal property that are needed or required by requesting...
• Section 9.29 - Multi-year Asset Management Professional Service Contracts.
  (A) The following political subdivisions may enter into, by direct negotiation or through the solicitation of requests for proposals or requests for qualifications, a...
• Section 9.30 - Public Utility Service Without Bidding And Notice.
  The appropriate public officer of the state, county, municipal corporation, township, school, or other public body or institution, may acquire the service, product, or...
• Section 9.31 - Erroneous Bids.
  A bidder for a contract with the state or any political subdivision, district, institution, or other agency thereof, excluding therefrom the Ohio department of...
• Section 9.311 - Bonds Accompanying Bid To Be Executed By Approved Surety.
  (A) A bid for a contract with the state or any political subdivision, district, institution, or other agency of the state, for the rendering...
• Section 9.312 - Factors To Determine Whether Bid Is Responsive And Bidder Is Responsible.
  (A) If a state agency or political subdivision is required by law or by an ordinance or resolution adopted under division (C) of this...
• Section 9.313 - Reduction Of Performance Bond After Substantial Performance.
  A contract for the rendering of services or the supplying of materials entered into on or after the effective date of this section shall...
• Section 9.314 - Purchasing Services Or Supplies By Reverse Auction.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Contracting authority" has the same meaning as in section 307.92 of the Revised Code. (2) "Political subdivision"...
• Section 9.315 - Requiring Particular Surety Or Insurance Company Or A Particular Agent Or Broker On Public Bids Prohibited.
  (A) As used in sections 9.315 and 9.316 of the Revised Code: (1) "Public authority" means the state or a county, township, municipal corporation,...
• Section 9.316 - Injunctive Relief.
  (A) A person that is likely to be damaged by a violation of section 9.315 of the Revised Code may commence a civil action...
• Section 9.317 - Purchase Of Supplies Or Services By Reverse Auction.
  As used in this section, "reverse auction" has the meaning defined in section 9.314 of the Revised Code, and "state agency" has the meaning...
• Section 9.318 - Veteran-friendly Business Procurement Program.
  (A) As used in this section:"Armed forces" means the armed forces of the United States, including the army, navy, air force, marine corps, coast...
• Section 9.32 - Notification Of Surety And Agent Of Construction Contract Award.
  Whenever the state, or any political subdivision, district, institution, or other agency thereof awards a contract for the construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction...
• Section 9.33 - Construction Management Services Definitions.
  As used in sections 9.33 to 9.335 of the Revised Code: (A) "Construction manager" means a person with substantial discretion and authority to plan,...
• Section 9.331 - Notice Of Accepting Bids For Construction Manager Or Construction Manager At Risk.
  (A) Before entering into a contract to employ a construction manager or construction manager at risk, a public authority shall advertise, in a newspaper...
• Section 9.332 - Selection Of And Contract With Construction Manager.
  Every public authority planning to contract for construction management services with a construction manager shall evaluate the proposals submitted and may hold discussions with...
• Section 9.333 - Financial Assurance To Be Provided By Construction Manager.
  (A) No public authority shall enter into a construction management contract with a construction manager unless the construction manager provides a letter of credit...
• Section 9.334 - Evaluation Of Most Qualified Proposals; Pricing Proposals; Contract Negotiations.
  (A) Every public authority planning to contract for construction management services with a construction manager at risk shall evaluate the proposals submitted and select...
• Section 9.335 - Construction Of Statutes With Other Code Provisions.
  The requirements set forth in sections 9.33 to 9.334 of the Revised Code for the bidding, selection, and award of a construction management contract...
• Section 9.34 - Fiscal Year And Period Of State And Political Subdivisions.
  (A) The fiscal year of the state , every school district, and, beginning July 1, 2013, the city of Cincinnati, shall begin on the...
• Section 9.35 - Contracts For Ministerial Duties By Public Officials.
  (A) As used in this section, "public official" means an elected or appointed officer, employee, or agent of any political subdivision, board, commission, bureau,...
• Section 9.36 - Contract For Services Of Fiscal And Management Consultants.
  The board of county commissioners of any county or the township trustees of any township may contract for the services of fiscal and management...
• Section 9.361 - Payroll Deduction Benefit Program.
  A board of county commissioners may authorize, by resolution, a payroll deduction benefit program to implement the qualified transportation fringe benefit provided for in...
• Section 9.37 - Direct Deposits.
  (A) As used in this section, "public official" means any elected or appointed officer, employee, or agent of the state, any state institution of...
• Section 9.38 - Deposit Of Public Moneys.
  As used in this section and section 9.39 of the Revised Code: (1) "Color of office," "public office," and "public official" have the same...
• Section 9.39 - Liability For Public Money Received Or Collected - Unclaimed Money.
  All public officials are liable for all public money received or collected by them or by their subordinates under color of office. All money...
• Section 9.40 - Payroll Deduction For United States Savings Bonds.
  Any public employee of the state, or any political subdivision thereof, who desires to purchase United States savings bonds by the payroll deduction plan...
• Section 9.41 - Payroll Accounts.
  The director of budget and management or any fiscal officer of any county, city, city health district, general health district, or city school district...
• Section 9.42 - Municipal Income Tax Deductions.
  Notwithstanding section 1321.32 of the Revised Code, the state and any of its political subdivisions or instrumentalities shall deduct from the wages or salaries...
• Section 9.43 - Savings In Share Accounts In Chartered Credit Unions Deductions.
  Notwithstanding section 1321.32 of the Revised Code, the state and any of its political subdivisions or instrumentalities may deduct from the wages or salaries...
• Section 9.44 - Prior Public Service Counted In Computing Vacation Leave.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person employed, other than as an elective officer, by the state or any political subdivision...
• Section 9.441 - Continuing Rights Or Benefits For Prior Service.
  (A) As used in this section, "affected employee" means a municipal employee who becomes a county employee, or a county employee who becomes a...
• Section 9.45 - Nonprofit Debt Pooling Company Deductions.
  Notwithstanding section 1321.32 of the Revised Code, the state and any of its political subdivisions or instrumentalities may deduct from the wages or salaries...
• Section 9.451 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 124.151.
  Effective Date: 07-01-1985
• Section 9.46 - U. S. Olympic Participation Leave.
  The state and any political subdivisions shall grant employees leave from employment to participate in olympic competition sanctioned by the United States olympic committee....
• Section 9.47 - Certificate Of Compliance With Affirmative Action Programs.
  (A) Any person desiring to bid on a contract awarded pursuant to Chapter 153. of the Revised Code by an owner referred to in...
• Section 9.48 - Joint Purchasing Programs.
  (A) As used in this section, "political subdivision" has the same meaning as in section 2744.01 of the Revised Code and includes a county...
• Section 9.481 - Residency Requirements Prohibited For Certain Employees.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Political subdivision" has the same meaning as in section 2743.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Volunteer" means...
• Section 9.482 - Contracting For Services Between Political Subdivisions.
  (A) As used in this section : (1) "Political subdivision" has the meaning defined in section 2744.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "State agency"...
• Section 9.483 - Sale And Leaseback Agreements.
  Notwithstanding limitations imposed by the Revised Code to the contrary, a political subdivision may enter into a sale and leaseback agreement under which the...
• Section 9.49 - Transparency In Contracts Between State And Private Attorneys.
  Sections 9.49 to 9.498 of the Revised Code shall be known as the transparency in private attorney contracts act. Added by 131st General Assembly...
• Section 9.491 - Definitions.
  As used in sections 9.49 to 9.498 of the Revised Code: (A) "Legal matter" means any administrative proceeding, case, group of cases, or legal...
• Section 9.492 - Contingency Fee Contract With Private Attorney.
  (A) The state shall not enter into a contingency fee contract with a private attorney unless the attorney general or the attorney general's designee...
• Section 9.493 - Contract With Private Attorney Outside Ohio.
  The state shall not enter into a contract with a private attorney located outside this state unless the attorney general determines that at least...
• Section 9.494 - Publication Of Contract.
  (A) A copy of the executed contingency fee contract between the state and a private attorney pursuant to section 9.492 or 9.493 of the...
• Section 9.495 - Annual Report.
  By the first day of September of each year, the attorney general shall submit a report to the president of the senate and the...
• Section 9.496 - Applicability.
  Sections 9.491 to 9.495 of the Revised Code do not apply to contingency fee contracts and renewals thereof that are in existence on the...
• Section 9.497 - Construction.
  Nothing in sections 9.49 to 9.496 of the Revised Code shall be construed to expand the authority of any state agency or state agent...
• Section 9.498 - Legislative Intent.
  The general assembly intends that any limitations on entering into a contingency fee contract, as provided by sections 9.491 to 9.495 of the Revised...
• Section 9.50 - Display Of The Pow/mia Flag During Normal Business Hours At Public Buildings.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "POW/MIA flag" means the flag that depicts the profile of a prisoner of war against the background...
• Section 9.54 - Accessibility Signs.
  Whoever erects or replaces a sign containing the international symbol of access shall use forms of the word "accessible" rather than forms of the...
• Section 9.55 - Installation Of Teletypewriters For Deaf Or Hearing-impaired At State Agencies.
  (A) As used in this section, "state agency" means the house of representatives, the senate, the governor, the secretary of state, the auditor of...
• Section 9.56 - Plans And Drawings For Public Buildings Filed With County Recorder.
  (A) As used in this section, "owner of any public building" means any state agency, public institution, political subdivision, or any other organized body,...
• Section 9.57 - Use Of Forms Of The Word "Accessible".
  Whoever erects or replaces a sign containing the international symbol of access shall use forms of the word "accessible" rather than forms of the...
• Section 9.60 - Contracts For Firefighting Agency, Private Fire Company, Or Emergency Medical Service Organization.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Emergency medical service" and "emergency medical service organization" have the same meanings as in section 4765.01 of...
• Section 9.61 - Residency Not Required For Fire Chief.
  (A) "Firefighting agency" means a municipal corporation, township, township fire district, joint fire district, fire and ambulance district, or other political subdivision that operates...
• Section 9.62 - Purchase Of Police Dog Or Horse.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Police dog or horse" means a dog or horse that has been trained, and may be used,...
• Section 9.63 - Compliance With Lawful Requests Under Patriot Act.
  (A) Notwithstanding any law, ordinance, or collective bargaining contract to the contrary, no state or local employee shall unreasonably fail to comply with any...
• Section 9.65 - Annuity Program For Volunteer Fire Fighters.
  (A) A board of township trustees, a board of fire district trustees of a joint fire district, or the legislative authority of a municipal...
• Section 9.66 - Indication Of Outstanding Liability Owed To State In Application For Economic Development Assistance.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Economic development assistance" means all of the following: (a) The programs and assistance provided or administered by...
• Section 9.661 - Liens To Secure Performance On Development Loans And Property Tax Incentives.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Borrower" means any person obligated to repay a development loan pursuant to a development loan agreement or...
• Section 9.67 - Restrictions On Owner Of Professional Sports Team That Uses A Tax-supported Facility.
  No owner of a professional sports team that uses a tax-supported facility for most of its home games and receives financial assistance from the...
• Section 9.68 - Right To Bear Arms - Challenge To Law.
  (A) The individual right to keep and bear arms, being a fundamental individual right that predates the United States Constitution and Ohio Constitution, and...
• Section 9.70 - Permission For Street On Lands Of Public Institution.
  A street, alley, or road shall not be laid out or established through or over the lands belonging to a public institution of the...
• Section 9.73 - [Effective 3/23/2016] Public Employer Inquiries Regarding Criminal Background.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Public employer" means a state agency or a political subdivision of the state. (2) "State agency" means...
• Section 9.80 - Contribution To Charity Deductions.
  The chief officer of any department or division of the state, and the budgeting authority of any political subdivision or school district, or any...
• Section 9.81 - Payroll Deduction Plans.
  After an authorization adopted under section 9.80 of the Revised Code, any public officer or employee of any department or division of the state,...
• Section 9.82 - Risk Management And Insurance Programs Definitions.
  As used in sections 9.82 to 9.83 of the Revised Code: (A) "State" means the state of Ohio, including, but not limited to, the...
• Section 9.821 - Office Of Risk Management.
  (A) The department of administrative services shall direct and manage for state agencies all risk management and insurance programs authorized under section 9.822 of...
• Section 9.822 - Self-insured Fidelity Bond Program.
  (A) The department of administrative services through the office of risk management shall establish an insurance plan or plans that may provide for self-insurance...
• Section 9.823 - Risk Management Reserve Fund.
  (A) All contributions collected by the director of administrative services under division (E) of this section shall be deposited into the state treasury to...
• Section 9.83 - Liability Insurance For Public Employees.
  (A) The state and any political subdivision may procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring its officers and employees against liability for injury,...
• Section 9.831 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-02-1997
• Section 9.832 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-05-2001
• Section 9.833 - Self-insurance Program For Health Care Benefits.
  (A) As used in this section, "political subdivision" has the meaning defined in sections 2744.01 and 3905.36 of the Revised Code. For purposes of...
• Section 9.835 - Energy Price Risk Management Contract.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Energy price risk management contract" means a contract that is intended to mitigate, for the term of...
• Section 9.84 - Witness Has Right Of Counsel - Participation In Hearing Limited.
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, any person appearing as a witness before any public official, department, board, bureau, commission, or agency, or...
• Section 9.85 - Immunity Of Public Officers And Employees Definitions.
  As used in this section and sections 9.86 and 9.87 of the Revised Code: (A) "Officer or employee" has the same meaning as in...
• Section 9.86 - Immunity Of Public Officers And Employees.
  Except for civil actions that arise out of the operation of a motor vehicle and civil actions in which the state is the plaintiff,...
• Section 9.87 - Indemnification Of Public Officers And Employees.
  (A) The state, except as provided in division (B) of this section, shall indemnify an officer or employee from liability incurred in the performance...
• Section 9.871 - Indemnification Of Correctional Employee.
  (A) If an employee of the department of rehabilitation and correction is subject to criminal charges for actions occurring within the scope and in...
• Section 9.88 - Immunity Of Federal Law Enforcement Officers.
  (A) As used in this section, "federal law enforcement officer" means any officer of the United States who is authorized by federal law to...
• Section 9.90 - Purchase Or Procurement Of Insurance For Educational Employees.
  (A) The board of trustees or other governing body of a state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised...
• Section 9.901 - Design And Delivery Of Health Care Plans; Authority Of Department Of Administrative Services.
  (A) (1) Health care plans that provide benefits to persons employed by public employers as defined by this section may consider best practices established...
• Section 9.91 - Placement Or Purchase Of Tax-sheltered Annuity For Educational Employees.
  If the board of education of a school district procures a tax-sheltered annuity for an employee, pursuant to section 9.90 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 9.911 - Annuity Contracts And Custodial Accounts.
  (A) An annuity contract or custodial account procured for an employee of a public institution of higher education pursuant to section 9.90 of the...
• Section 9.92 - Citizens' Reward Program.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Citizens' reward program" means any organization that satisfies all of the following criteria: (a) It is a...
• Section 9.94 - Fractionalized Interests In Any One Or More Public Obligations.
  Third parties shall not issue and sell to others or publicly underwrite fractionalized interests in any one or more public obligations, as defined in...
• Section 9.95 - Maximum Or Maximum Average Annual Interest Rate On Public Securities.
  Securities to which this section applies shall bear interest at not to exceed the maximum or maximum average annual interest rate per annum determined...
• Section 9.96 - Issue Public Securities.
  (A) The authority granted by this section is in addition to and not a limitation upon other authorizations granted by or pursuant to law...
• Section 9.97 - Exemption Of Bond Interest From Income Tax.
  (A) Any one of the governor, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the secretary of state, the treasurer of state, or the auditor of...
• Section 9.98 - Bond Financing Definitions.
  As used in sections 9.98 to 9.983 of the Revised Code: (A) "Absolute obligor" means the person, other than the issuer, ultimately responsible under...
• Section 9.981 - Applicability.
  (A) Sections 9.98 to 9.983 of the Revised Code are applicable to bonds: (1) The payment of the debt service on which is to...
• Section 9.982 - Bond Proceedings.
  (A) The bond proceedings for bonds referred to in division (A) or (B) of section 9.981 of the Revised Code may provide for one...
• Section 9.983 - Costs, Expenses And Fees.
  (A) Provision may be made for costs and expenses of providing credit facilities, put arrangements, and interest rate hedges, and for fees and expenses...
• Section 9.99 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1974

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