Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3345 - State Universities - General Powers

• Section 3345.01 - Tuition Charge For Nonresidents Of Ohio.
  Except as provided in sections 3333.17, 3333.32, and 3333.42 of the Revised Code, the board of trustees of a state university or college, as...
• Section 3345.011 - State University Definitions.
  State university" means a public institution of higher education which is a body politic and corporate. Each of the following institutions of higher education...
• Section 3345.02 - Statement Of Student Charges To Include List Of Fees.
  As used in this section, "state institution of higher education" has the same meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. Beginning in...
• Section 3345.021 - Control Of Use Of College Facilities For Speaking Purposes.
  The board of trustees of any college or university, which receives any state funds in support thereof, shall have full power and authority on...
• Section 3345.022 - Group Legal Services Insurance Plan - Prepaid Legal Services Plan.
  The board of trustees of any college or university supported in part or in whole by state funds, or two or more such boards,...
• Section 3345.023 - Denial Of Benefits To Religious Student Group Prohibited.
  (A) No state institution of higher education shall take any action or enforce any policy that would deny a religious student group any benefit...
• Section 3345.03 - Audit Of Accounts.
  The expenditure of all moneys under sections 3345.01 to 3345.07 of the Revised Code, or for the purpose of carrying out such sections[,] raised...
• Section 3345.031 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 06-20-1997
• Section 3345.033 - Publication Of Rules.
  (A) As used in this section:"Rule" includes the enactment of a new rule or the amendment or rescission of an existing rule. "State institution...
• Section 3345.04 - State University Law Enforcement Officers.
  (A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B) Subject to division (C)...
• Section 3345.041 - Agreements To Provide Police Services To Political Subdivision Or Another State University Or College - Civil Liability.
  (A) The board of trustees of a state university or college may enter into an agreement with one or more townships, municipal corporations, counties,...
• Section 3345.042 - Intrastate Mutual Aid Program; Participation By State Institutions Of Higher Education.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Community college" has the same meaning as in section 3354.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Countywide emergency...
• Section 3345.05 - Administration Of Moneys - Annual Reports By Recipients - Investments - Investment Committee.
  (A) All registration fees, nonresident tuition fees, academic fees for the support of off-campus instruction, laboratory and course fees when so assessed and collected,...
• Section 3345.06 - Entrance Requirements Of High School Graduates - Core Curriculum.
  (A) Subject to divisions (B) and (C) of this section, a graduate of the twelfth grade shall be entitled to admission without examination to...
• Section 3345.061 - Sunset For State Operating Subsidies For Remedial Courses.
  (A) Ohio's two-year institutions of higher education are respected points of entry for students embarking on post-secondary careers and courses completed at those institutions...
• Section 3345.062 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 487, §2, eff. 9/17/2014. Amended by 128th General AssemblyFile No.9, HB 1, §101.01, eff. 10/16/2009....
• Section 3345.07 - Housing And Dining Facilities.
  Each state university or college may acquire, by purchase, lease, lease-purchase, lease with option to purchase, or otherwise, construct, equip, furnish, reconstruct, alter, enlarge,...
• Section 3345.08 - Temporary Dwelling Accommodations.
  The board of trustees of a state university may continue to maintain and operate the temporary dwelling accommodations made available by the federal government...
• Section 3345.09 - American Sign Language Recognized As Foreign Language - Courses.
  For purposes of this section, American sign language is hereby recognized as a foreign language, and any state institution of higher education may offer...
• Section 3345.10 - Competitive Bidding - Contracts For Printed Material.
  (A) As used in this section, "state institution of higher education" has the same meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. (B)...
• Section 3345.11 - Auxiliary Or Education Facilities.
  Each state university or college may acquire, by purchase, lease, lease-purchase, lease with option to purchase, or otherwise, construct, equip, furnish, reconstruct, alter, enlarge,...
• Section 3345.12 - State University Additional Definitions - Issuance Of Obligations.
  (A) As used in this section and sections 3345.07 and 3345.11 of the Revised Code, in other sections of the Revised Code that make...
• Section 3345.121 - Notice To Legislative Authorities Of Educational Facility Construction Or Renovation - Comments Or Objections.
  As used in this section: (A) "Board of trustees" means the board of trustees of a state university, university housing commission, state medical university,...
• Section 3345.122 - Immunity Of Trustees From Civil Action.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a member of a board of trustees of an institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.12...
• Section 3345.13 - Duplication Of Keys Prohibited.
  No person shall knowingly make or cause to be made any key for any building, laboratory, facility, or room of any college or university...
• Section 3345.14 - Rights To And Interests In Discoveries, Inventions Or Patents - Establishment Of Rules.
  (A) As used in this section, "state college or university" means any state university or college defined in division (A)(1) of section 3345.12 of...
• Section 3345.15 - Attorney General To Be Attorney And Legal Advisor.
  The attorney general shall be the attorney for each state college and university and shall provide legal advice in all matters relating to its...
• Section 3345.16 - Board Of Trustees To Receive And Hold Property Or Funds - Investments - Endowments.
  The board of trustees of a state college or university may receive, and hold in trust, for the use and benefit of the college...
• Section 3345.17 - Property Exempt From Taxation.
  All property, personal, real, or mixed of the boards of trustees and of the housing commissions of the state universities, the northeast Ohio medical...
• Section 3345.18 - Grant Or Transfer Of Lands By Boards Of Trustees.
  The boards of trustees of the state universities, or other university or college created by the general assembly, may upon such consideration, terms, and...
• Section 3345.181 - Contracts Or Leases To Mine Minerals.
  The board of trustees of a state university, by majority vote, may make, execute, and deliver contracts or leases to mine minerals upon lands...
• Section 3345.19 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 484, §2, eff. 9/4/2014. Effective Date: 09-05-2001; 09-29-2005
• Section 3345.20 - Procurement Of Liability Insurance For Student Teachers And Students In Teacher Preparation Programs - Prohibitions.
  (A) The board of trustees of a state college, university, or state affiliated college or university may procure a policy or policies insuring its...
• Section 3345.201 - Purchase Of Liability Insurance For Hospital Services.
  The board of trustees of a state college or university which operates a clinical teaching or research hospital or ambulatory facility may purchase liability...
• Section 3345.202 - Board Of Trustees May Provide Liability Insurance Coverage.
  (A) As used in this section, "state university or college" has the same meaning as in division (A)(1) of section 3345.12 of the Revised...
• Section 3345.21 - Board Of Trustees To Maintain Law And Order On Campus - Administration And Enforcement Of Rules.
  The board of trustees of any college or university which receives any state funds in support thereof, shall regulate the use of the grounds,...
• Section 3345.22 - Hearing For Suspension Of Arrested Student, Faculty Or Staff Member, Or Employee - Responsibilities Of Referee.
  (A) A student, faculty or staff member, or employee of a college or university that receives any state funds in support thereof, arrested for...
• Section 3345.23 - Dismissal Of Convicted Student, Faculty Or Staff Member, Or Employee - Reinstatement.
  (A) The conviction of a student, faculty or staff member, or employee of a college or university which receives any state funds in support...
• Section 3345.24 - Duty And Authority Of College Administrators.
  (A) Sections 3345.22 and 3345.23 of the Revised Code shall be applied and followed, notwithstanding any rule, regulation, or procedure of the college or...
• Section 3345.25 - Dismissed Or Suspended Person Not To Enter College Premises.
  No student, faculty or staff member, or employee under dismissal or suspension from a college or university pursuant to section 3345.22 or 3345.23 of...
• Section 3345.26 - Board Of Trustees Or President May Declare State Of Emergency.
  (A) The board of trustees or president of a college or university which receives any state funds in support thereof, may declare a state...
• Section 3345.27 - Attendance By Senior Citizens.
  (A) Each state university or college shall permit any person who is sixty years of age or older and who has resided in the...
• Section 3345.28 - Faculty Improvement Program - Establishment And Administration.
  The board of trustees of any state university, medical university, technical college, state community college, community college, or the board of trustees or managing...
• Section 3345.281 - Program To Assess Oral English Language Proficiency Of Teaching Assistants Providing Classroom Instruction.
  As used in this section, "teaching assistant" means a student enrolled full-time or part-time in a graduate degree program at an educational institution for...
• Section 3345.29 - Office Of Contract Compliance - Duties.
  Each state university listed in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code and each state college established through procedures provided in Chapter 3354., 3357., or...
• Section 3345.30 - Liability Insurance For Students.
  (A) As used in this section, "course required for graduation" means an accredited, academic course that a state college or university, by published rule...
• Section 3345.31 - Boards Of Trustees May Establish Compensation Plans.
  The boards of trustees of a state university, the board of trustees of the northeast Ohio medical university, the board of trustees of a...
• Section 3345.311 - Excess Benefits Prohibited.
  (A) As used in this section, "excess benefits" has the same meaning as in section 4980I of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. 4980I....
• Section 3345.32 - Student Noncompliance With Selective Service Law.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "State university or college" means the institutions described in section 3345.27 of the Revised Code and the...
• Section 3345.33 - Removing Armed Forces Training Unit Or Class.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "State university or college" has the same meaning as in division (A)(1) of section 3345.32 of the...
• Section 3345.34 - Student Trustee Not To Receive Special Treatment Or Benefits.
  (A) No student trustee of a state university or the northeast Ohio medical university shall use the trusteeship to influence any grade or other...
• Section 3345.35 - Course Evaluation Based On Enrollment And Performance.
  Not later than January 1, 2016, and by the first day of January of every fifth year thereafter, the board of trustees of each...
• Section 3345.36 - Establishment And Development Of Entrepreneurial Projects.
  (A) For purposes of this section: (1) "Entrepreneurial project" means an effort to develop or commercialize technology through research or technology transfer or investment...
• Section 3345.37 - Policies Regarding Availability Of Suicide Prevention Programs.
  (A) Not later than one year after the effective date of this section, each state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011...
• Section 3345.38 - Undergraduate Course Credit For Completion Of International Baccalaureate Diploma Program.
  (A) The board of trustees of each state institution of higher education shall adopt and implement a policy to grant undergraduate course credit to...
• Section 3345.39 - Report On Increased Auxilliary Fees.
  (A) Beginning with the fall semester, or equivalent quarter, of the 2015-2016 academic year, and the fall semester, or equivalent quarter, of each academic...
• Section 3345.40 - Limits On Damages For Wrongful Death Or Injury To Person Or Property.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "State university or college" has the same meaning as in division (A)(1) of section 3345.12 of the...
• Section 3345.41 - Warning Concerning Anabolic Steroids To Be Conspicuously Posted.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Anabolic steroid" has the same meaning as in section 3719.41 of the Revised Code. (2) "State university...
• Section 3345.42 - Definitions.
  As used in sections 3345.421, 3345.422, 3345.423, and 3345.424 of the Revised Code: "Service member" means a person who is serving in the armed...
• Section 3345.421 - Assistance And Support To Veterans And Service Members By Institutions Of Higher Education.
  Not later than December 31, 2014, the board of trustees of each state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the...
• Section 3345.422 - Priority Course Registration For Veterans.
  Not later than December 31, 2014, and continuing thereafter, each state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 3345.423 - Appeals Process For Resolution Of Disputes Over Credit For Military Experience.
  Not later than December 31, 2014, the board of trustees or managing authority of each state institution of higher education, as defined in section...
• Section 3345.424 - Fees.
  On or after December 31, 2014, no state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, shall charge a...
• Section 3345.45 - Standards For Instructional Workloads For Faculty - Faculty Workload Policy.
  On or before January 1, 1994, the chancellor of higher education jointly with all state universities, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised...
• Section 3345.46 - Overload Fees.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Full course load" shall be defined by the board of trustees of each state institution of higher...
• Section 3345.47 - Requirements To Live In On-campus Housing.
  (A) No state university shall require a student to live in on-campus student housing, if the student lives within twenty-five miles of the campus....
• Section 3345.48 - Undergraduate Tuition Guarantee Program.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Cohort" means a group of students who will complete their bachelor's degree requirements and graduate from a...
• Section 3345.50 - Administration Of Capital Facilities Project - State Appropriations Under $ 4 Million.
  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in sections 123.01 and 123.10 of the Revised Code, a state university, a state community college, or the northeast...
• Section 3345.51 - Administration Of Capital Facilities Project - State Appropriations Immaterial.
  (A) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in sections 123.20 and 123.21 of the Revised Code, a state university, the northeast Ohio medical university, or...
• Section 3345.53 - Military Leave Of Absence For Student On Active Duty.
  As used in this section, "active duty" means full-time duty in the active military service of the United States, including full-time training duty, annual...
• Section 3345.54 - Conveyance Of Auxiliary Facilities To Conduit Entity.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Auxiliary facilities" has the same meaning as in section 3345.12 of the Revised Code. (2) "Conduit entity"...
• Section 3345.55 - Lease Agreements For Campus Housing Facilities.
  (A) For purposes of this section, "university" includes a state institution of higher education as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code and...
• Section 3345.56 - Student's Not Employee's Based Upon Athletic Participation.
  Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, a student attending a state university as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised...
• Section 3345.61 - Energy Conservation Measures Definitions.
  As used in this section and sections 3345.62 to 3345.66 of the Revised Code: (A) "Avoided capital costs" means a measured reduction in the...
• Section 3345.62 - Contract For Report Containing Analysis And Recommendations On Energy Conservation Measures.
  The board of trustees of a state institution of higher education may contract with an energy or water services company, architect, professional engineer, contractor,...
• Section 3345.63 - Procedure For Contracts Other Than Installment Payment Contracts.
  If the board of trustees of a state institution of higher education wishes to enter into a contract, other than an installment payment contract...
• Section 3345.64 - Procedure For Installment Payment Contracts.
  In accordance with this section, the board of trustees of a state institution of higher education may enter into an installment payment contract for...
• Section 3345.65 - Request For Proposals - Awarding Of Contract.
  To enter into a contract under this section pursuant to section 3345.63 or division (B) of section 3345.64 of the Revised Code, a board...
• Section 3345.66 - Issuance Of Notes.
  The board of trustees of a state institution of higher education may issue notes of the institution signed by the chairperson and treasurer or...
• Section 3345.69 - Committee To Develop Guidelines For Energy Efficiency.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "State institution of higher education" has the same meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code....
• Section 3345.691 - Purchase Of Biobased Products.
  A state institution of higher education, as defined in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, shall comply with section 125.092 of the Revised Code...
• Section 3345.692 - Annual Reports On Purchases Of Biobased Products.
  (A) Not later than September 15, 2010, and the fifteenth day of September each year thereafter, a state institution of higher education shall prepare...
• Section 3345.70 - Powers And Duties Of Board Where Fiscal Exigency Declared.
  (A) Whenever the board of trustees of a state university, as defined under section 3345.011 of the Revised Code, declares that the university is...
• Section 3345.71 - Fiscal Watch Definitions.
  As used in sections 3345.72 to 3345.77 of the Revised Code: (A) "State university or college" means any state university listed in section 3345.011...
• Section 3345.72 - Rules For Fiscal Watches.
  (A) The office of budget and management shall work with the auditor of state, the chancellor of higher education, and two representatives of state...
• Section 3345.73 - Financial Indicators And Standards For Using Indicators.
  The office of budget and management shall work with the auditor of state, the chancellor of higher education, and two representatives of state universities...
• Section 3345.74 - Determination That Appointment Of Conservator Is Warranted.
  (A) The chancellor of higher education at least annually shall apply the indicators and standards adopted under division (A) of section 3345.73 of the...
• Section 3345.75 - Appointment Of Governance Authority.
  (A) Not later than thirty days after the date of the appointment of a conservator for a state university or college under section 3345.74...
• Section 3345.76 - Termination Of Governance Authority.
  (A) A governance authority appointed for a state university or college under section 3345.75 of the Revised Code at least annually shall apply the...
• Section 3345.77 - Employment Contracts With President Or Chief Executive Officer.
  Notwithstanding any section of the Revised Code, a contract of employment entered into on or after the effective date of this section between the...
• Section 3345.78 - Prohibition Against Certain Actions By Current Or Former Employees And Officers Of Institution.
  No current or former employee or current or former officer of a state university or college shall knowingly conceal any information from, withhold any...
• Section 3345.81 - Strategic Completion Plan.
  Not later than June 30, 2014, the board of trustees of each institution of higher education, as defined by section 3345.12 of the Revised...
• Section 3345.85 - Meningitis And Hepatitis B Vaccination.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "On-campus student housing" means a dormitory or other student residence that is owned or operated by, or...
• Section 3345.86 - Enrollment In Program To Earn High School Diploma.
  (A) As used in this section, an "eligible institution" means a community college established under Chapter 3354. of the Revised Code, a university branch...
• Section 3345.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 3345.13 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than one hundred fifty dollars. (B)...

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