Ohio Revised Code Chapter 121 - State Departments

• Section 121.01 - Definition Of Terms.
  As used in sections 121.01 to 121.20 of the Revised Code: (A) "Department" means the several departments of state administration enumerated in section 121.02...
• Section 121.02 - Administrative Departments And Directors Created.
  The following administrative departments and their respective directors are hereby created: (A) The office of budget and management, which shall be administered by the...
• Section 121.03 - Appointment Of Administrative Department Heads.
  The following administrative department heads shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, and shall hold their offices...
• Section 121.04 - [Effective Until 1/1/2016] Offices Created In The Several Departments.
  Offices are created within the several departments as follows: In the department of commerce: Commissioner of securities; Superintendent of real estate and professional licensing;...
• Section 121.04 - [Effective 1/1/2016] Offices Created In The Several Departments.
  Offices are created within the several departments as follows: In the department of commerce: Commissioner of securities; Superintendent of real estate and professional licensing;...
• Section 121.05 - Assistant Directors.
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, in each department, there shall be an assistant director designated by the director of that department. In...
• Section 121.06 - Appointment Of Officers - Term.
  The officers mentioned in sections 121.04 and 121.05 of the Revised Code shall be appointed by the director of the department in which their...
• Section 121.07 - Supervision And Control Of Departments - Establishing Divisions.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in this division, the officers mentioned in sections 121.04 and 121.05 of the Revised Code and the offices and...
• Section 121.08 - Deputy Director Of Administration In Department Of Commerce.
  (A) There is hereby created in the department of commerce the position of deputy director of administration. This officer shall be appointed by the...
• Section 121.081 - Department Of Insurance - Powers And Duties.
  All powers and duties vested in and imposed upon the department of commerce prior to September 9, 1957, respecting the superintendent of insurance and...
• Section 121.082 - Superintendent Of Insurance - Prohibited Activities.
  The superintendent of insurance shall have no official connection with any insurance company, nor own any stock therein, nor be interested in the business...
• Section 121.083 - Superintendent Of Industrial Compliance - Powers And Duties.
  The superintendent of industrial compliance in the department of commerce shall do all of the following: (A) Administer and enforce the general laws of...
• Section 121.084 - Industrial Compliance Operating Fund.
  (A) All moneys collected under sections 3783.05, 3791.07, 4104.07, 4104.18, 4104.44, 4105.17, 4105.20, 4169.03, and 5104.051 of the Revised Code, and any other moneys...
• Section 121.085 - Financial Literacy Education Fund.
  The financial literacy education fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of funds transferred to it from the consumer...
• Section 121.09 - Qualifications Of Director Of Agriculture And Chief Of Division Of Animal Health.
  The director of agriculture shall be a person actively identified with agriculture. The chief of the division of animal health shall be a graduate...
• Section 121.10 - Director Of Health - Qualifications.
  The director of health shall be either: (A) A physician holding the degree of doctor of medicine from a medical college approved by the...
• Section 121.11 - Bond And Oath Of Office - Blanket Bonds - Bond May Be Required Of Employee.
  (A) Each officer whose office is created by sections 121.02, 121.04, and 121.05 of the Revised Code, before entering upon the duties of office,...
• Section 121.12 - Officer To Devote Entire Time To Duties And Hold No Other Office - Reimbursement For Expenses.
  Except as otherwise authorized in this section and section 108.05 of the Revised Code, each officer whose office is created by sections 121.02, 121.04,...
• Section 121.13 - Advisory Boards May Be Provided.
  The director of each department may, with the approval of the governor, establish and appoint advisory boards to aid in the conduct of the...
• Section 121.14 - Employment Subject To Civil Service Laws.
  Each department may employ, subject to the civil service laws in force at the time the employment is made, the necessary employees, and, if...
• Section 121.15 - Central Office For Each Department - Branch Offices - Restrictions On Relocation.
  The director of each department shall, with the approval of the governor, maintain a central office at a location in the state that the...
• Section 121.16 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1962
• Section 121.161, 121.162 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 124.13, 124.131.
  Effective Date: 11-26-1982
• Section 121.17 - Co-operation And Coordination Of Work Under Direction Of Governor.
  Under the direction of the governor, the directors of departments shall devise a practical and working basis for co-operation and co-ordination of work and...
• Section 121.18 - Report By Each Department.
  Each department shall make and file a report of its transactions and proceedings at the time and in the manner prescribed by section 149.01...
• Section 121.181 - Identification Of Department Acquiring Interest In Real Property.
  Any instrument by which a department acquires an interest in real property, including any deed, transfer, grant, reservation, agreement creating an easement, or lease,...
• Section 121.19 - Power To Inspect And Examine.
  Whenever power is vested in any state department, board, or commission, to inspect, examine, secure data or information, or to procure assistance from another...
• Section 121.20 - Seal For Each Department - Specifications - Use.
  Each department shall adopt and keep an official seal, which shall consist of the coat of arms of the state, as described in section...
• Section 121.21 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1985
• Section 121.211 - Retention And Disposition Of Records.
  Records in the custody of each agency shall be retained for time periods in accordance with law establishing specific retention periods, and in accordance...
• Section 121.212 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1985
• Section 121.22 - Public Meetings - Exceptions.
  (A) This section shall be liberally construed to require public officials to take official action and to conduct all deliberations upon official business only...
• Section 121.23 - No Award Of Contract To Person Found In Contempt For Failure To Correct An Unfair Labor Practice.
  (A) The secretary of state shall establish and maintain a list of all persons against whom more than one final, unappealable finding of contempt...
• Section 121.24 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.2, SB 2, §3, eff. 1/1/2012. Effective Date: 05-24-2002 Related Legislative Provision: See 129th General AssemblyFile No.28, HB 153,...
• Section 121.30 - Spanish-speaking Affair Definitions.
  As used in sections 121.30 to 121.34 of the Revised Code, "Spanish-speaking people" means persons who possess any of the following characteristics: (A) Use...
• Section 121.31 - Commission On Hispanic-latino Affairs.
  There is hereby created the commission on Hispanic-Latino affairs consisting of eleven voting members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of...
• Section 121.32 - Powers And Duties Of Commission.
  The commission on Hispanic-Latino affairs shall: (A) Gather and disseminate information and conduct hearings, conferences, investigations, and special studies on problems and programs concerning...
• Section 121.33 - Office Of Hispanic-latino Affairs - Powers And Duties.
  The office of Hispanic-Latino affairs is hereby created. The office shall be accountable to the commission on Hispanic-Latino affairs. The chief administrator of the...
• Section 121.34 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-02-1996
• Section 121.35 - Revision Of Uniform The Eligibility Standards.
  (A) Subject to division (B) of this section, the following state agencies shall collaborate to revise and make more uniform the eligibility standards and...
• Section 121.36 - Contracts Entered Into By Department For Provision Of Home Care Services To Home Care Dependent Adults.
  (A) As used in this section, "home care dependent adult" means an individual who resides in a private home or other noninstitutional and unlicensed...
• Section 121.37 - Ohio Family And Children First Cabinet Council.
  (A) (1) There is hereby created the Ohio family and children first cabinet council. The council shall be composed of the superintendent of public...
• Section 121.371 - Wellness Block Grant Program.
  There is hereby created the wellness block grant program. The Ohio family and children first cabinet council shall oversee the program, and the department...
• Section 121.372 - Rules For Certification Or Licensure Of Substitute Care Providers.
  (A) As used in this section, "substitute care provider" means any of the following: (1) A community addiction services provider , as defined in...
• Section 121.373 - Family And Children First Administration Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the family and children first administration fund. The fund shall consist of money that the director...
• Section 121.374 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.39, SB 171, §2, eff. 6/30/2011.
• Section 121.375 - Information Provided To Ohio Family And Children First Cabinent Council.
  (A) As used in this section: "At-risk individual" means an individual at great risk of not being able to access available health and social...
• Section 121.38 - Resolving Agency Disputes Concerning Services Or Funding.
  (A) An agency represented on a county family and children first council that disagrees with the council's decision concerning the services or funding for...
• Section 121.381 - Family And Children First Dispute Resolution Process.
  A parent or custodian who disagrees with a decision rendered by a county family and children first council regarding services for a child may...
• Section 121.382 - Services Continued Pending Dispute Resolution Process.
  Each agency represented on a county family and children first council that is providing services or funding for services that are the subject of...
• Section 121.39 - Identifying Documentation That Is Basis For Legislation Dealing With Environmental Protection.
  (A) As used in this section, "environmental protection" means any of the following: (1) Protection of human health or safety, biological resources, or natural...
• Section 121.40 - Ohio Commission On Service And Volunteerism.
  (A) There is hereby created the Ohio commission on service and volunteerism consisting of twenty-one voting members including the superintendent of public instruction or...
• Section 121.401 - Adoption Of Recommended Best Practices When Volunteers Have Unsupervised Access To Children.
  (A) As used in this section and section 121.402 of the Revised Code, "organization or entity" and "unsupervised access to a child" have the...
• Section 121.402 - Educational Program For Volunteers Having Unsupervised Access To Children.
  (A) The Ohio commission on service and volunteerism shall establish and maintain an educational program that does all of the following: (1) Makes available...
• Section 121.403 - Powers Of Commission - Gifts And Donations Fund - Use Of Moneys.
  (A) The Ohio commission on service and volunteerism may do any of the following: (1) Accept monetary gifts or donations; (2) Sponsor conferences, meetings,...
• Section 121.404 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.95, SB 243, §2, eff. 7/3/2012. Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.28, HB 153, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2011. Effective Date:...
• Section 121.41 - Inspector General Definitions.
  As used in sections 121.41 to 121.50 of the Revised Code: (A) "Appropriate ethics commission" has the same meaning as in section 102.01 of...
• Section 121.42 - Inspector General - Powers And Duties.
  The inspector general shall do all of the following: (A) Investigate the management and operation of state agencies on his own initiative in order...
• Section 121.421 - Investigation Of Casino Control Commission Enforcement Personnel.
  (A) Notwithstanding division (D)(3) of section 121.41 of the Revised Code, in order to determine whether wrongful acts or omissions have been committed or...
• Section 121.43 - Subpoena Power - Contempt.
  In performing any investigation, the inspector general and any deputy inspector general may administer oaths, examine witnesses under oath, and issue subpoenas and subpoenas...
• Section 121.44 - Reports Of Investigations.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the report of any investigation conducted by the inspector general or any deputy inspector general is...
• Section 121.45 - Cooperating In Investigations.
  Each state agency, and every state officer and state employee, shall cooperate with, and provide assistance to, the inspector general and any deputy inspector...
• Section 121.46 - Filing Complaint - Form.
  Any person who knows or has reasonable cause to believe that a state officer or state employee has committed, or is in the process...
• Section 121.47 - Confidential Information.
  No person shall disclose to any person who is not legally entitled to disclosure of the information, any information that is designated as confidential...
• Section 121.48 - Appointment Of Inspector General.
  There is hereby created the office of the inspector general, to be headed by the inspector general. The governor shall appoint the inspector general,...
• Section 121.481 - Special Investigations Fund.
  The special investigations fund is hereby created in the state treasury for the purpose of paying costs of investigations conducted by the inspector general....
• Section 121.482 - Disposition Of Money Received.
  Money the inspector general receives pursuant to court orders or settlements shall be deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the general...
• Section 121.483 - Status Of Deputy Inspector General As Peace Officer.
  A deputy inspector general appointed under section 121.48 of the Revised Code, who has been awarded a certificate by the executive director of the...
• Section 121.49 - Qualifications.
  (A) Subject to division (B) of this section, only an individual who meets one or more of the following qualifications is eligible to be...
• Section 121.50 - Administrative Rules.
  The inspector general, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt, and may amend and rescind, those rules he finds necessary...
• Section 121.51 - Deputy Inspector General For Transportation Department.
  There is hereby created in the office of the inspector general the position of deputy inspector general for the department of transportation. The inspector...
• Section 121.52 - Deputy Inspector General For Workers' Compensation.
  There is hereby created in the office of the inspector general the office of deputy inspector general for the bureau of workers' compensation and...
• Section 121.53 - [Repealed].
  Amended by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §620.10, eff. 9/29/2013. Repealed by 128th General Assemblych.126, HB 2, §105.05, eff. 6/30/2014. Added...
• Section 121.531 - Signs Specifying Arra Funding Prohibited.
  No recipient or distributor of funds received under the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009," Pub. L. No. 111-5, 123 Stat. 115, shall...
• Section 121.60 - Executive Agency Lobbying Definitions.
  As used in sections 121.60 to 121.69 of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" and "compensation" have the same meanings as in section 101.70 of...
• Section 121.61 - Prohibited Acts.
  (A) No person shall knowingly fail to register as required under section 121.62 of the Revised Code. (B) No person shall knowingly fail to...
• Section 121.62 - Initial Registration Statement - Updating Information.
  (A) Each executive agency lobbyist and each employer shall file with the joint legislative ethics committee, within ten days following the engagement of an...
• Section 121.621 - Disqualification As Executive Agency Lobbyist For Certain Offenses.
  (A) No person shall be permitted to register as an executive agency lobbyist under division (A) or (B) of section 121.62 of the Revised...
• Section 121.63 - Statement Of Expenditures - Records.
  (A) Each executive agency lobbyist and each employer shall file with the joint legislative ethics committee, with the updated registration statement required by division...
• Section 121.64 - Statement Of Financial Transactions.
  (A) Each executive agency lobbyist who has had any financial transaction with or for the benefit of an elected executive official, the director of...
• Section 121.65 - Disputed Expenditure Or Transaction.
  If a dispute arises between an elected executive official, the director of a department created under section 121.02 of the Revised Code, an executive...
• Section 121.66 - Exceptions.
  (A) Sections 121.62 and 121.63 of the Revised Code do not apply to efforts to influence executive agency decisions or conduct executive agency lobbying...
• Section 121.67 - Prohibiting Contingent Fees.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no person shall engage any person to influence executive agency decisions or conduct executive...
• Section 121.68 - Statements Are Public Records.
  (A) The joint legislative ethics committee shall keep on file the statements required by sections 121.62, 121.63, and 121.64 of the Revised Code. These...
• Section 121.69 - Investigations.
  The attorney general and any assistant or special counsel designated by him may investigate compliance with sections 121.60 to 121.68 of the Revised Code...
• Section 121.71 - Incorporation By Reference In Rule Definitions.
  As used in sections 121.71 to 121.76 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agency" means an "agency" as defined in section 111.15 or 119.01 of...
• Section 121.72 - Incorporating Rule By Reference.
  An agency incorporates a text or other material into a rule by reference when it states in the rule that a text or other...
• Section 121.73 - Filing Material Incorporated By Reference Electronically.
  As used in this section, "rule" has the same meaning as in section 121.71 of the Revised Code and also includes the rescission of...
• Section 121.74 - Access To Material Incorporated In Rule In Final Form.
  As used in this section, "rule" has the same meaning as in section 121.71 of the Revised Code and also includes the rescission of...
• Section 121.75 - Sufficiency Of Citations.
  Sections 121.71 to 121.74 of the Revised Code do not apply with regard to the incorporation by reference into a rule of any of...
• Section 121.76 - Exceptions.
  (A) Sections 121.71 to 121.75 of the Revised Code do not apply to the incorporation by reference of: (1) A section of the Revised...
• Section 121.81 - "Agency" And "Draft Rule" Defined; Construction Of Sections.
  As used in sections 121.81 to 121.83 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agency" means a state agency that is required to file proposed rules...
• Section 121.811 - Applicability Of Business Review Provisions.
  The offices of the governor, lieutenant governor, auditor of state, secretary of state, treasurer of state, and attorney general shall comply with the business...
• Section 121.82 - Evaluation Of Draft Rules; Business Impact Analysis.
  In the course of developing a draft rule that is intended to be proposed under division (D) of section 111.15 or division (C) of...
• Section 121.83 - Filing Proposed Rules; Rejection By Joint Committee On Rule Review.
  (A) When an agency files a proposed rule for legislative review under division (D) of section 111.15 of the Revised Code or division (C)...
• Section 121.91 - Customer Service Standards.
  (A) Each state agency shall develop, and as it becomes necessary or advisable may improve, customer service standards for each employee of the agency...
• Section 121.92 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 483, §105.01, eff. 9/15/2014. Added by 129th General AssemblyFile No.139, HB 331, §1, eff. 9/28/2012.
• Section 121.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates division (A), (B), or (C) of section 121.61 or section 121.67 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of...
• Section 121.991 - Penalty For Disclosing Confidential Information.
  Whoever violates section 121.47 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree. Effective Date: 10-31-1990

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