Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3318 - School Facilities

• Section 3318.01 - Bond Issues And Tax Levy Definitions.
  As used in sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 of the Revised Code: (A) "Ohio school facilities commission" means the commission created pursuant to section 3318.30...
• Section 3318.011 - Ranking Districts In Order Of Adjusted Valuation Per Pupil From District.
  For purposes of providing assistance under sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 of the Revised Code, the department of education shall annually do all of the...
• Section 3318.02 - Periodic Assessment Of Classroom Facility Needs - On-site Visits.
  (A) For purposes of sections 3318.01 to 3318.32 of the Revised Code, the Ohio school facilities commission shall periodically perform an assessment of the...
• Section 3318.021 - On-site Visits To Districts Intending To Participate In Expedited Local Partnership Program.
  Notwithstanding section 3318.02 of the Revised Code, the Ohio school facilities commission may conduct on-site visits to any school district whose district board adopts...
• Section 3318.022 - District Not Yet Eligible For State Assistance May Request Assessment.
  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 3318.02 of the Revised Code, within two years following the request of the school district, the Ohio...
• Section 3318.023 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2013. Effective Date: 06-28-2002; 2007 HB119 09-29-2007
• Section 3318.024 - Use Of Unspent And Unencumbered Funds.
  In the first year of a capital biennium, any funds appropriated to the Ohio school facilities commission for classroom facilities projects under this chapter...
• Section 3318.03 - School Facilities Commission To Determine Need For Additional Classroom Facilities.
  (A) Before conducting an on-site evaluation of a school district under section 3318.02 of the Revised Code, at the request of the district board...
• Section 3318.031 - Commission To Consider Student And Staff Safety And Health.
  (A) The Ohio school facilities commission shall consider student and staff safety and health when reviewing design plans for classroom facility construction projects proposed...
• Section 3318.032 - Portion Of Basic Project Cost Supplied By School District.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (C) and (D) of this section, the portion of the basic project cost supplied by the school...
• Section 3318.033 - Recalculation Of District Percentile Ranking.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Formula ADM" has the same meaning as in section 3317.02 of the Revised Code. (2) "Open enrollment...
• Section 3318.034 - Division Of District Classroom Needs Into Segments.
  (A) This section applies to both of the following: (1) Any school district that has not executed an agreement for a project under sections...
• Section 3318.035 - Change Of Assessment Rates On Gas Pipelines.
  (A) This section applies only if there is a change in the assessment rates on gas pipelines imposed under state law. (B) If at...
• Section 3318.04 - Conditional Approval - Encumbering Funds.
  (A) If the Ohio school facilities commission makes a determination under section 3318.03 of the Revised Code in favor of constructing, acquiring, reconstructing, or...
• Section 3318.041 - District May Adopt And Certify Proposed Project.
  A school district ranked in the first through twenty-fifth percentiles may adopt and certify to the Ohio school facilities commission a resolution specifying a...
• Section 3318.042 - Additional Assistance.
  (A) The board of education of any school district that is receiving assistance under sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 of the Revised Code after May...
• Section 3318.05 - District Board Acceptance Of Conditional Approval Of Commission Of Project - Election On Propositions.
  The conditional approval of the Ohio school facilities commission for a project shall lapse and the amount reserved and encumbered for such project shall...
• Section 3318.051 - Alternative Funding For State-assisted Classroom Projects.
  (A) Any city, exempted village, or local school district that commences a project under sections 3318.01 to 3318.20, 3318.36, 3318.37, or 3318.38 of the...
• Section 3318.052 - Use Of Property Tax Or School District Income Tax Proceeds To Pay Costs Of Project Or For Maintenance Of Classroom Facilities - Options Of School District Board.
  At any time after the electors of a school district have approved either or both a property tax levied under section 5705.21 or 5705.218...
• Section 3318.053 - Use Of Tax Proceeds On Improvements Not Included In Basic Project Cost.
  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, a school district board may use proceeds from the tax described in division (B) or...
• Section 3318.054 - Lapse Of Classroom Facilities Project Due To Failure Of Voters To Approve Ballot Measures.
  (A) If conditional approval of a city, exempted village, or local school district's project lapses as provided in section 3318.05 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 3318.055 - Maintenance Tax Not Be Included On Ballot Proposal.
  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in sections 3318.05, 3318.06, 3318.061, 3318.08, 3318.36, 3318.361, and 3318.38 of the Revised Code, if the amount of...
• Section 3318.056 - Combining Questions On Tax Levy Ballot.
  A school district may adopt a resolution proposing that any of the following questions be combined with the questions specified in divisions (A) and...
• Section 3318.06 - Submitting Resolution Relative To Tax Levy In Excess Of Ten-mill Limitation - Bond Issue.
  (A) After receipt of the conditional approval of the Ohio school facilities commission, the school district board by a majority of all of its...
• Section 3318.061 - Resolution Proposing Extension Of Existing Tax Levy.
  This section applies only to school districts eligible to receive additional assistance under division (B)(2) of section 3318.04 of the Revised Code. The board...
• Section 3318.062 - Form Of Ballot Where Bonds Are To Be Issued In Multiple Series - Combination With Other Questions.
  (A) If authority is sought to issue bonds in more than one series to pay the school district's portion of the basic project cost...
• Section 3318.063 - Rescission Of Alternative Funding Agreement - Tax Levy.
  If the board of education of a city, exempted village, or local school district that has entered into an agreement under section 3318.051 of...
• Section 3318.07 - Certification Of Election Results To Tax Commissioner.
  The board of elections shall certify the result of the election to the tax commissioner, to the auditor of the county or counties in...
• Section 3318.08 - Agreement With Ohio School Facilities Commission For Construction And Sale Of Project.
  Except in the case of a joint vocational school district that receives assistance under sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code, if the...
• Section 3318.081 - Supplemental Agreement With Ohio School Facilities Commission.
  If the board of education of a school district authorized to impose a tax pursuant to section 3318.06 of the Revised Code determines that...
• Section 3318.082 - Supplemental Agreement For Distributing Certain Tax Proceeds.
  The board of education of any school district imposing a tax for the purpose of paying the state pursuant to section 3318.06 of the...
• Section 3318.083 - Sharing Of Approved Increase In Basic Project Cost.
  If, after the Ohio school facilities commission and a school district enter into a written agreement under section 3318.08 of the Revised Code for...
• Section 3318.084 - Applying Local Donated Contribution Toward Project.
  (A) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Chapter 3318. of the Revised Code, a school district board may apply any local donated contribution toward...
• Section 3318.085 - Agreement By Eligible Districts For Joint Issuance Of Certificates Of Participation In Bond Proceeds.
  (A) As used in this section, "eligible school district" means a school district that is eligible for state assistance under Chapter 3318. of the...
• Section 3318.086 - Contingency Reserve.
  The construction budget for any project under sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 or sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code shall contain a contingency...
• Section 3318.09 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 08-05-1959
• Section 3318.091 - Issuing Bonds - Preparing Of Plans And Estimates.
  (A) Promptly after the written agreement between the school district board and the Ohio school facilities commission has been entered into, the school district...
• Section 3318.10 - Advertising And Awarding Of Construction Bids.
  When such working drawings, specifications, and estimates of cost have been approved by the school district board and the Ohio school facilities commission, the...
• Section 3318.11 - Amount Of State Appropriations Encumbered For Project - Project Priority For State Funds.
  For any project undertaken with financial assistance from the state under this chapter, the amount of state appropriations to be encumbered for the project...
• Section 3318.111 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1998
• Section 3318.112 - Standards For Solar-ready Equipment.
  (A) As used in this section, "solar ready" means capable of accommodating the eventual installation of roof top, solar photovoltaic energy equipment. (B) The...
• Section 3318.12 - Transfer And Disbursement Of Funds.
  (A) The Ohio school facilities commission shall cause to be transferred to the school district's project construction fund the necessary amounts from amounts appropriated...
• Section 3318.121 - Transfer Of Earnings From Big-8 Project Fund To Special Fund.
  As used in this section, "big-eight school district" has the same meaning as in section 3314.02 of the Revised Code. Notwithstanding any provision to...
• Section 3318.13 - Including Balance Due In District Tax Budget.
  Notwithstanding any provision of sections 5705.27 to 5705.50 of the Revised Code, the tax to be levied on all taxable property within a school...
• Section 3318.14 - County Treasurer To Pay Proceeds Of Tax Levy.
  Notwithstanding the provision of section 321.31 of the Revised Code, immediately after each settlement with the county auditor, on presentation of the warrant of...
• Section 3318.15 - Public School Building Fund.
  There is hereby created the public school building fund within the state treasury consisting of any moneys transferred or appropriated to the fund by...
• Section 3318.16 - Commission Has Interest In Real Property Purchased With School District's Project Construction Fund.
  The Ohio school facilities commission shall have an interest in real property purchased with moneys in the school district's project construction fund. Once obligations...
• Section 3318.17 - Rate And Maximum Period Of Tax Levies.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, when a school district receives classroom assistance from the state from time to time...
• Section 3318.18 - Statewide Average Valuation Per Pupil - Half-mill Equalization Fund.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Valuation" of a school district means the sum of the amounts described in divisions (A)(1) and (2)...
• Section 3318.19 - Commission To Make Biennial Reports To General Assembly.
  A complete detailed report of the expenditure of funds pursuant to sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 and sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code...
• Section 3318.20 - Constitutionality.
  No holding that sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 of the Revised Code or any provision thereof are unconstitutional in their application to any school district...
• Section 3318.21 - Educational Revitalization Of Certain Districts Definitions.
  As used in sections 3318.21 to 3318.29 of the Revised Code: (A) "Allowable costs" means all or part of the costs of a permanent...
• Section 3318.22 - Authorization To Provide Assistance And Contribute To Educational Revitalization Of Certain Districts.
  (A) The general assembly finds that many school districts are prevented by their size, tax base, or other conditions from performing their essential functions...
• Section 3318.23, 3318.24 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-28-1999
• Section 3318.25 - School Building Program Assistance Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the school building program assistance fund. The fund shall consist of the proceeds of obligations issued...
• Section 3318.26 - Issuing Obligations Of State.
  (A) The provisions of this section apply only to obligations issued by the issuing authority prior to December 1, 1999. (B) Subject to the...
• Section 3318.27 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-28-1999
• Section 3318.28 - Alternative, Supplemental Provisions.
  The authority provided by sections 3318.21 to 3318.29 of the Revised Code is in addition to and provides alternative methods for any other authority...
• Section 3318.29 - Maximum Maturity And Terms Of Obligations.
  The maximum maturity of any obligations issued pursuant to section 3318.26 of the Revised Code to provide moneys for the school building program assistance...
• Section 3318.30 - Ohio School Facilities Commission.
  (A) There is hereby created the Ohio school facilities commission as an independent agency of the state within the Ohio facilities construction commission, which...
• Section 3318.31 - Powers And Duties Of Commission.
  (A) The Ohio school facilities commission may perform any act and ensure the performance of any function necessary or appropriate to carry out the...
• Section 3318.311 - Design Specifications Classroom Facilities For Joint Vocational Education Programs.
  Not later than six months after September 14, 2000, the Ohio school facilities commission shall establish design specifications for classroom facilities that are appropriate...
• Section 3318.312 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.8, HB 30, §2, eff. 7/1/2011. Added by 128th General AssemblyFile No.9, HB 1, §101.01, eff. 10/16/2009.
• Section 3318.32 - Guidelines For Prioritizing Facility Funding For Districts Developing Cooperative Agreements.
  The Ohio school facilities commission shall adopt rules providing guidelines for prioritizing facility funding for school districts that voluntarily develop joint use or other...
• Section 3318.33 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 64, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2015. Effective Date: 06-29-1999; 06-30-2005
• Section 3318.35 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 06-26-2003
• Section 3318.351 - School Building Emergency Assistance Program.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Classroom facilities" has the same meaning as in section 3318.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Emergency project"...
• Section 3318.36 - School Building Assistance Expedited Local Partnership Program.
  (A) (1) As used in this section: (a) "Ohio school facilities commission," "classroom facilities," "school district," "school district board," "net bonded indebtedness," "required percentage...
• Section 3318.361 - Proposing Tax Levy For Expedited Local Partnership Program Purposes.
  A school district board opting to qualify for state assistance pursuant to section 3318.36 of the Revised Code through levying the tax specified in...
• Section 3318.362 - Term Of Bonds.
  This section applies only to a school district that participates in the school building assistance expedited local partnership program under section 3318.36 of the...
• Section 3318.363 - Tax Valuation Decrease.
  (A) This section applies beginning in fiscal year 2003 and only to a school district participating in the school building assistance expedited local partnership...
• Section 3318.364 - Assistance For Schools That Have Entered Into An Expedited Local Partnership Agreement.
  In any fiscal year, the Ohio school facilities commission may, at its discretion, provide assistance under sections 3318.01 to 3318.20 of the Revised Code...
• Section 3318.37 - Exceptional Needs School Facilities Assistance Program.
  [As amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.128, SB 316, §101.01 ] (A) (1) As used in this section , a "school district with an...
• Section 3318.371 - Assistance For Relocation Or Replacement Of Classroom Facilities Due To Contamination.
  The Ohio school facilities commission may provide assistance under the exceptional needs school facilities program established by section 3318.37 of the Revised Code to...
• Section 3318.38 - Accelerated Urban School Building Assistance Program.
  (A) As used in this section, "big-eight school district" has the same meaning as in section 3314.02 of the Revised Code. (B) There is...
• Section 3318.40 - Vocational School Facilities Assistance Program.
  (A) (1) Sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised Code apply only to joint vocational school districts. (2) As used in sections 3318.40 to...
• Section 3318.41 - Annual Assessment Of Needs.
  (A) (1) The Ohio school facilities commission annually shall assess the classroom facilities needs of the number of joint vocational school districts that the...
• Section 3318.42 - Selecting Districts For Assistance.
  (A) Not later than the sixty-first day after March 14, 2003, and subsequently not later than the sixty-first day after the first day of...
• Section 3318.43 - Moneys Dedicated To Maintenance Of Classroom Facilities.
  Each year for twenty-three successive years after the commencement of a joint vocational school district's project under sections 3318.40 to 3318.45 of the Revised...
• Section 3318.44 - Generating District's Portion Of Basic Project Cost.
  (A) A joint vocational school district board of education may generate the school district's portion of the basic project cost of its project under...
• Section 3318.45 - Election On Issuing Securities To Generate District's Portion Of Basic Project Cost.
  (A) Unless division (B) of section 3318.44 of the Revised Code applies, if a joint vocational school district board of education proposes to issue...
• Section 3318.46 - Expenditure Of Local Resources Prior To School District's Eligibility For State Assistance.
  By rule adopted in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code, the Ohio school facilities commission shall establish a program whereby the board...
• Section 3318.47 - Transfer Of Amounts To Rc 3318.15 Fund.
  (A) On the effective date of this section, the director of budget and management shall transfer any amount on hand in the fund established...
• Section 3318.48 - Certificate Of Completion.
  (A) When all of the following have occurred, a project undertaken by a school district pursuant to this chapter shall be considered complete and...
• Section 3318.49 - Corrective Action Program.
  (A) The corrective action program is hereby established to provide funding for the correction of work, in connection with a project funded under sections...
• Section 3318.50 - Community School Classroom Facilities Loan Guarantee Program.
  (A) As used in this section and in section 3318.52 of the Revised Code, "classroom facilities" means buildings, land, grounds, equipment, and furnishings used...
• Section 3318.52 - Community School Classroom Facilities Loan Guarantee Fund.
  There is hereby established the community school classroom facilities loan guarantee fund. The fund shall consist of such moneys as the general assembly appropriates...
• Section 3318.60 - College-preparatory Boarding School Facilities Program.
  (A) As used in this section and section 3318.61 of the Revised Code: (1) "Acquisition of classroom facilities" means constructing, reconstructing, repairing, or making...
• Section 3318.61 - Alternative To Participation In College-preparatory Boarding School Facilities Program; Leasing Of Facilities To Person Or Entity; Agreement.
  (A) In lieu of participating in the college-preparatory boarding school facilities program under section 3318.60 of the Revised Code, if the board of trustees...
• Section 3318.62 - Agreements To Provide Facilities Assistance; Mandatory Stipulations.
  Any agreement between the Ohio school facilities commission and the board of trustees of a college-preparatory boarding school to provide facilities assistance under section...
• Section 3318.70 - Funding To Assist Stem Schools In The Acquisition Of Classroom Facilities.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Acquisition of classroom facilities" has the same meaning as in section 3318.40 of the Revised Code. (2)...
• Section 3318.71 - Guidelines For Acquisition Of Classroom Facilities To Be Used For A Joint Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics Education Programs..
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Acquisition of classroom facilities" has the same meaning as in section 3318.40 of the Revised Code. (2)...

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