Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4121 - Industrial Commission; Bureau Of Workers' Compensation

• Section 4121.01 - Industrial Commission - Bureau Of Workers' Compensation Definitions.
  (A) As used in sections 4121.01 to 4121.29 of the Revised Code: (1) "Place of employment" means every place, whether indoors or out, or...
• Section 4121.02 - Industrial Commission.
  (A) There is hereby created the industrial commission. The commission shall consist of three members appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent...
• Section 4121.021 - Industrial Commission Operating Fund.
  The industrial commission operating fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of all moneys transferred to the fund pursuant...
• Section 4121.03 - Chairperson - Executive Director - Powers And Duties Generally.
  (A) The governor shall appoint from among the members of the industrial commission the chairperson of the industrial commission. The chairperson shall serve as...
• Section 4121.04 - Industrial Commission Nominating Council - Initial Appointments - Challenges.
  (A) There is hereby created the industrial commission nominating council consisting of five employer representatives , four labor representatives, one representative from the Ohio...
• Section 4121.05 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 11-03-1989
• Section 4121.06 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 08-06-1999; 2007 HB100 09-10-2007
• Section 4121.07 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-20-1993
• Section 4121.08 - Expenses.
  The members of the industrial commission, the administrator of workers' compensation, and employees and deputies of the commission and the bureau of workers' compensation...
• Section 4121.09 - Official Seal.
  The industrial commission shall have an official seal for the authentication of its orders and proceedings, upon which seal shall be engraved "The Industrial...
• Section 4121.10 - Session Of Industrial Commission Continuous And Open To Public - Records Of Proceedings.
  The industrial commission shall be in continuous session and open for the transaction of business during all business hours of every day excepting Sundays...
• Section 4121.11 - Bureau Rules Of Procedure.
  Subject to any applicable sections of sections 4101.01 to 4101.16 and 4121.01 to 4121.29 of the Revised Code, the bureau of workers' compensation may...
• Section 4121.12 - Workers' Compensation Board Of Directors.
  (A) There is hereby created the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors consisting of eleven members to be appointed by the governor with...
• Section 4121.121 - Bureau Of Workers' Compensation - Appointment, Powers And Duties Of Administrator - Chief Operating Officer.
  (A) There is hereby created the bureau of workers' compensation, which shall be administered by the administrator of workers' compensation. A person appointed to...
• Section 4121.122 - Discipline Of Commission And Bureau Employees.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation, for employees of the bureau of workers' compensation, and the industrial commission, for employees of the commission may...
• Section 4121.123 - Workers' Compensation Board Nominating Committee.
  (A) There is hereby created the workers' compensation board of directors nominating committee consisting of the following: (1) Three individuals who are members of...
• Section 4121.124 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.16, HB 123, §102, eff. 7/29/2011. Effective Date: 04-04-1985
• Section 4121.125 - Monitoring Performance Of System.
  (A) The bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, based upon recommendations of the workers' compensation actuarial committee, may contract with one or more...
• Section 4121.126 - Conflicts Of Interest By Board Members Or Bureau Employees.
  Except as provided in this chapter, no member of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors or employee of the bureau of workers'...
• Section 4121.127 - Transactions By Fiduciary Involving Conflict Of Interest.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a fiduciary shall not cause the bureau of workers' compensation to engage in a...
• Section 4121.128 - Attorney General Legal Adviser Of Board.
  The attorney general shall be the legal adviser of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors . Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.28,...
• Section 4121.129 - Audit, Actuarial, And Investment Committees.
  (A) There is hereby created the workers' compensation audit committee consisting of at least three members. One member shall be the member of the...
• Section 4121.13 - Administrator Of Workers' Compensation - Powers And Duties.
  The administrator of workers' compensation shall: (A) Investigate, ascertain, and declare and prescribe what hours of labor, safety devices, safeguards, or other means or...
• Section 4121.131 - Special Investigation Department Access To Crime Databases.
  The bureau of workers' compensation special investigation department is a criminal justice agency in investigating reported violations of law relating to workers' compensation, and...
• Section 4121.14 - Investigating Agent.
  For the purpose of making any investigation with regard to any employment or place of employment, the administrator of workers' compensation may appoint, by...
• Section 4121.15 - Power To Administer Oaths, Issue Subpoenas, And Compel Attendance Of Witnesses.
  The administrator of workers' compensation and his designees, for the purposes mentioned in sections 4121.01 to 4121.29 of the Revised Code may administer oaths,...
• Section 4121.16 - Witness Attendance - Fees And Mileage.
  Each witness who appears before the bureau of workers' compensation by its order shall receive for the witness's attendance the fees and mileage provided...
• Section 4121.17 - Examination Of Place Of Employment Upon Petition That Same Is Unsafe.
  (A) Upon petition by any person that any employment or place of employment is not safe or is injurious to the welfare of any...
• Section 4121.18 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.127, HB 487, §105.01, eff. 9/10/2012. Effective Date: 11-03-1989
• Section 4121.19 - Record Of Proceedings.
  A full and complete record shall be kept of all proceedings had before the bureau of workers' compensation on any investigation, and all testimony...
• Section 4121.20 - Depositions.
  The bureau of workers' compensation or any party may in any investigation cause depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state to be...
• Section 4121.21 - Effective Date Of Orders - Time For Compliance.
  (A) All general orders of the bureau of workers' compensation shall take effect within thirty days after their publication. Special orders shall take effect...
• Section 4121.22 - Jurisdiction Over Places Of Employment.
  Sections 4101.01 to 4101.16 and 4121.01 to 4121.29 of the Revised Code do not deprive the legislative authority of any municipal corporation or any...
• Section 4121.23 - Petition For Hearing By Employer.
  Any employer or other person interested either because of ownership in or occupation of any property affected by any order of the bureau of...
• Section 4121.24 - No Action To Vacate Allowed Until After Hearing.
  No action, proceeding, or suit to set aside, vacate, or amend any order of the bureau of workers' compensation, or to enjoin the enforcement...
• Section 4121.25 - Action To Set Aside, Vacate, Or Amend Order.
  Any employer or other person in interest who is dissatisfied with any order of the bureau of workers' compensation may commence an action in...
• Section 4121.26 - Statement Of Issues Not Adequately Considered - Stay Of Proceedings.
  If upon the trial of an action under section 4121.25 of the Revised Code it appears that all issues arising in the action have...
• Section 4121.27 - Exclusive Jurisdiction Of Supreme Court.
  No court of this state, except the supreme court to the extent specified by sections 4101.01 to 4101.16 and 4121.01 to 4121.29 of the...
• Section 4121.28 - Order Of Bureau Of Workers' Compensation Not Stayed By Pendency Of Action.
  The pendency of an action to set aside, vacate, or amend an order of the bureau of workers' compensation shall not of itself stay...
• Section 4121.29 - Priority To Be Given Actions.
  All actions and proceedings under sections 4101.01 to 4101.16 and 4121.01 to 4121.29 of the Revised Code and all actions or proceedings to which...
• Section 4121.30 - Administrative Rules.
  (A) All rules governing the operating procedure of the bureau of workers' compensation and the industrial commission shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter...
• Section 4121.31 - Joint Adoption Of Administrative Rules.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation and the industrial commission jointly shall adopt rules covering the following general topics with respect to this chapter...
• Section 4121.32 - Supplementing Rules With Operating Manuals.
  (A) The rules covering operating procedure and criteria for decision-making that the administrator of workers' compensation and the industrial commission are required to adopt...
• Section 4121.34 - District Hearing Officers - Jurisdiction.
  (A) District hearing officers shall hear the matters listed in division (B) of this section. District hearing officers are in the classified civil service...
• Section 4121.35 - Staff Hearing Officers - Jurisdiction.
  (A) Staff hearing officers shall consider and decide all matters specified in division (B) of this section. All staff hearing officers are full-time employees...
• Section 4121.351 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 51, §1, eff. 9/29/2015. Effective Date: 10-01-1996
• Section 4121.36 - Industrial Commission Hearing Rules.
  (A) The industrial commission shall adopt rules as to the conduct of all hearings before the commission and its staff and district hearing officers...
• Section 4121.37 - Creation Of Division Of Safety And Hygiene.
  The administrator of workers' compensation having, by virtue of Section 35 of Article II, Ohio Constitution, the expenditure of the fund therein created for...
• Section 4121.38 - Impairment Evaluation.
  (A) The industrial commission shall: (1) Implement a program of impairment evaluation training for its staff physicians; (2) Issue a manual of commission policy...
• Section 4121.39 - Administrator Of Workers' Compensation - Powers And Duties.
  The administrator of workers' compensation shall do all of the following: (A) Except as provided in section 4123.402 of the Revised Code, review and...
• Section 4121.40 - Service Directors - Investigators And Field Auditors - Duties.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall appoint a service director for each service office who shall have all of the following duties: (1)...
• Section 4121.41 - Information On Rights And Responsibilities - Optimum Level Of Premium Payment - Complaints.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall operate a program designed to inform employees and employers of their rights and responsibilities under Chapter 4123....
• Section 4121.42 - In-service Training Programs.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation and the industrial commission shall cooperatively implement with adequate staff a comprehensive in-service training program for their respective...
• Section 4121.43 - Compensation Payments.
  The administrator of workers' compensation shall: (A) Adopt rules to ensure that all compensation payments are accompanied by information which clearly indicates the source...
• Section 4121.44 - Implementation Of Qualified Health Plan System And Health Partnership Program - Health Care Data Program.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall oversee the implementation of the Ohio workers' compensation qualified health plan system as established under section 4121.442...
• Section 4121.441 - Health Care Partnership Program - Adoption Of Rules.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules under...
• Section 4121.442 - Health Care Quality Advisory Council.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall develop standards for qualification of health care plans of the Ohio workers' compensation qualified health plan system...
• Section 4121.443 - Summary Suspension.
  (A) The bureau of workers' compensation may summarily suspend the certification of a provider to participate in the health partnership program created under sections...
• Section 4121.444 - Obtaining Workers' Compensation Payments By Deception Prohibited.
  (A) No person, health care provider, managed care organization, or owner of a health care provider or managed care organization shall obtain or attempt...
• Section 4121.446 - Selection Of Managed Care Organizations.
  The department of administrative services shall select one or more managed care organizations for each state office, agency, institution, board, or commission, except for...
• Section 4121.447 - Data Security Agreement.
  Each contract the administrator of workers' compensation enters into with a managed care organization under division (B)(4) of section 4121.44 of the Revised Code...
• Section 4121.45 - Workers' Compensation Ombudsperson System.
  (A) There is hereby created a workers' compensation ombudsperson system to assist claimants and employers in matters dealing with the bureau of workers' compensation...
• Section 4121.47 - Violating Specific Safety Rule Or Employee Welfare Legislation.
  (A) No employer shall violate a specific safety rule adopted by the administrator of workers' compensation pursuant to section 4121.13 of the Revised Code...
• Section 4121.48 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 52, §2, eff. 6/30/2015.
• Section 4121.50 - Rules To Implement Coordinated Services Program For Prescription Drug Abuse.
  Not later than July 1, 2012, the administrator of workers' compensation shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to...
• Section 4121.61 - Aiding Rehabilitation Of Injured Workers.
  (A) As used in sections 4121.61 to 4121.70 of the Revised Code, "self-insuring employer" has the same meaning as in section 4123.01 of the...
• Section 4121.62 - Contracts For Rendition Of Rehabilitation Services.
  (A) The authority granted to the administrator of workers' compensation pursuant to sections 4121.61 to 4121.69 of the Revised Code includes the authority to...
• Section 4121.63 - Living Maintenance Payments Paid To Claimants Agreeing To Rehabilitation.
  Claimants who the administrator of workers' compensation determines could probably be rehabilitated to achieve the goals established by section 4121.61 of the Revised Code...
• Section 4121.64 - Appeals.
  Notwithstanding section 4123.512 of the Revised Code, no person may appeal to court any action or decision issued under sections 4121.61 to 4121.69 of...
• Section 4121.65 - Employer May Furnish Rehabilitation Services.
  Self-insuring employers may furnish rehabilitation services as long as the quality and content of the services are equal to or greater than that provided...
• Section 4121.66 - Rehabilitation Services, Counseling, Training, And Living Maintenance Payments Paid From Surplus Fund.
  (A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, the administrator of workers' compensation shall pay the expense of providing rehabilitation services, counseling,...
• Section 4121.67 - Administrative Rules For Payments For Employing Rehabilitated Workers - Wage Loss Compensation.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules: (1)...
• Section 4121.68 - Compensation And Benefits To Rehabilitation Program Participants.
  In the event a claimant sustains an injury or occupational disease or dies as a result of any injury or disease received in the...
• Section 4121.69 - Compensation Of Professional, Administrative, And Managerial Employees.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation may establish compensation plans, including schedules of hourly rates, for the compensation of professional, administrative, and managerial employees...
• Section 4121.70 - Labor-management Government Advisory Council.
  (A) There is hereby created the labor-management government advisory council consisting of fifteen members appointed as follows: (1) The governor, with the advice and...
• Section 4121.71 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1995
• Section 4121.75 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.39, SB 171, §2, eff. 6/30/2011. Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.28, HB 153, §105.01, eff. 6/30/2011.
• Section 4121.76 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.39, SB 171, §2, eff. 6/30/2011. Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.28, HB 153, §105.01, eff. 6/30/2011.
• Section 4121.77 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.39, SB 171, §2, eff. 6/30/2011. Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.28, HB 153, §105.01, eff. 6/30/2011.
• Section 4121.78 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.39, SB 171, §2, eff. 6/30/2011. Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.28, HB 153, §105.01, eff. 6/30/2011.
• Section 4121.79 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.39, SB 171, §2, eff. 6/30/2011. Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.28, HB 153, §105.01, eff. 6/30/2011.
• Section 4121.80 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-01-1992
• Section 4121.99 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.16, HB 123, §102, eff. 7/29/2011. Effective Date: 10-20-1993

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