1999 Regular Session (Ohio Session Laws)

AN ACT To enact sections 2151.3515, 2151.3516, 2151.3517, 2151.3518, 2151.3519, 2151.3520, 2151.3521, 2151.3522, 2151.3523, 2151.3524, 2151.3525, 2151.3526, 2151.3527, 2151.3528, 2151.3529, and 2151.3530 of the Revised Code to provide that a parent who deserts a child under 72 hours old in accordance with certain procedures does not commit any criminal offense in this state and may not be subject

AN ACT To amend section 517.30 of the Revised Code to permit a board of township trustees, on its own initiative, to erect a monument commemorating deceased members of the armed forces and to increase the maximum appropriation for the monument from $500 to $5,000

AN ACT To amend section 4731.22 and to enact section 4731.31 of the Revised Code to permit rural hospitals to employ physicians

AN ACT To create a task force to study consumer access to preferred provider plans, point of service plans, and other open panel plans for health care coverage, and to declare an emergency

AN ACT To amend sections 159.03, 159.04, 1901.02, 1901.08, 1901.09, 1901.183, and 1907.131 of the Revised Code to clarify the jurisdiction of the environmental division of a municipal court in foreclosure actions, to provide that the presiding judge and administrative judge in multi-judge municipal courts and county courts are to be determined as provided in the Rules of Superintendence for the...

AN ACT To amend sections 2925.02, 2925.03, 2925.11, 2925.12, 2925.14, 2925.23, 2925.36, 3719.06, 3719.81, 4723.02, 4723.04, 4723.06, 4723.08, 4723.151, 4723.28, 4723.41, 4723.42, 4723.43, 4723.431, 4723.44, 4723.47, 4723.48, 4723.52, 4723.561, 4723.58, 4723.59, 4729.01, 4729.51, 4731.22, and 4731.27; to amend, for the purpose of adopting a new section number, as indicated in parentheses, section 4

AN ACT To amend sections 1721.21, 1721.211, 3705.17, 4767.01, 4767.03, 4767.04, and 4767.08 of the Revised Code to exempt certain political subdivisions from the requirement of paying a cemetery registration fee, to make changes to the law governing fees for the issuance of burial permits, to revise the permissible uses of dividend and interest income from cemetery endowment care trusts, to...

AN ACT To amend sections 4931.40, 4931.44, 4931.49, 4931.50, and 4931.53; to amend, for the purpose of adopting a new section number as shown in parentheses, section 4931.53 (4931.54); and to enact new section 4931.53 of the Revised Code to provide for a monthly charge not exceeding fifty cents on telephone access lines to fund the operating and equipment costs of establishing and maintaining no...

AN ACT To amend sections 109.92, 2743.09, 2743.121, 2743.191, 2743.51, 2743.52, 2743.53, 2743.54, 2743.55, 2743.56, 2743.58, 2743.59, 2743.60, 2743.61, 2743.62, 2743.63, 2743.64, 2743.65, 2743.66, 2743.68, 2743.69, 2743.71, 2743.72, and 2907.28, to enact new section 2743.67 and sections 2743.521, 2743.531, and 2743.711, and to repeal sections 2743.57 and 2743.67 of the Revised Code and to amend...

AN ACT To amend sections 3313.64 and 3319.02 of the Revised Code to authorize school districts and educational service centers to employ under administrative contracts individuals licensed as pupil services employees or administrative specialists or their equivalent who are not school counselors and spend less than fifty per cent of their time teaching or working with students, to enable a child...

AN ACT To amend sections 3709.085, 3745.11, 6111.01, 6111.03, 6111.04, 6111.042, 6111.05, 6111.07, 6111.44, 6111.45, and 6111.46 and to enact section 6111.039 of the Revised Code to authorize the Director of Environmental Protection to issue permits for the use, storage, treatment, or disposal of sludge and sludge materials, to impose an annual sludge fee, and to otherwise regulate sludge and...

AN ACT To amend sections 145.23, 145.27, 145.293, 145.295, 145.31, 145.33, 145.37, 145.38, 145.383, 145.40, 145.43, 145.45, 145.452, 145.473, 145.49, 145.56, 145.563, 145.58, 148.01, 742.379, 742.41, 742.47, 2907.15, 2921.41, 3111.20, 3113.21, 3305.01, 3305.02, 3305.03, 3305.04, 3305.05, 3305.051, 3305.06, 3305.07, 3305.08, 3305.09, 3307.19, 3307.20, 3307.25, 3307.251, 3307.26, 3307.35, 3307.351,

AN ACT To amend sections 955.22, 955.99, and 959.99 of the Revised Code to prohibit debarking or surgically silencing a vicious dog, to prohibit the possession of a debarked or surgically silenced vicious dog, to prohibit falsely attesting on a written waiver form prior to having a dog debarked or surgically silenced that the dog is not a vicious dog, to provide an affirmative defense to the...

AN ACT To amend sections 113.061, 133.04, 715.013, 718.01, 1551.33, 1551.35, 3317.028, 4905.01, 4905.03, 4905.10, 4905.14, 4905.33, 4905.34, 4905.40, 4905.402, 4905.42, 4905.46, 4905.70, 4906.10, 4909.01, 4909.05, 4909.15, 4909.161, 4911.18, 4933.14, 4933.15, 4933.33, 4933.81, 4935.03, 4935.04, 5117.01, 5117.02, 5117.03, 5117.04, 5117.05, 5117.07, 5117.08, 5117.09, 5117.10, 5117.12, 5701.03, 5703.

AN ACT To amend section 5122.34 and to enact section 2305.51 of the Revised Code with regard to actions by mental health professionals and organizations to predict, warn of, or take precautions to prevent the violent behavior of mental health clients or patients

AN ACT To amend sections 3313.64, 3317.02, 3321.01, and 3323.01 of the Revised Code to require a child under the age of six who attends kindergarten to be considered of compulsory school age

AN ACT To amend sections 2151.355, 2151.62, 2929.01, 2929.13, and 2929.14 and to enact section 2941.1411 of the Revised Code to enhance the penalties for an offender who wears or carries body armor while committing a felony offense of violence and to make more severe the dispositions available for a child who is adjudicated a delinquent child for committing an act that would be a felony offense...

AN ACT To amend sections 3313.484, 3313.642, 3317.021, 3317.029, 3317.0216, 3317.06, 3329.01, and 3329.03 to 3329.10 of the Revised Code to permit school districts to purchase electronic textbooks under the same conditions as textbooks are purchased, to permit school districts to furnish electronic textbooks to students in lieu of traditional textbooks provided the electronic textbooks are...

AN ACT To amend sections 1309.47 and 1309.49 and to enact section 1301.21 of the Revised Code to provide for the enforceability of commitments to pay attorneys' fees in certain commercial contracts of indebtedness

AN ACT To enact section 5533.54 of the Revised Code to designate a portion of State Route 7 within Belmont County the "A.G. Lancione Memorial Highway."

AN ACT To amend sections 2903.211, 2903.213, 2909.04, 2917.11, 2917.13, 2919.26, 2921.31, and 2937.222 of the Revised Code to extend the offenses of disrupting public services and misconduct at an emergency to activities of emergency medical services personnel, to increase the penalties for misconduct at an emergency and obstructing official business if risk of physical harm is involved, to...

AN ACT To amend section 5511.04 and to enact section 5533.64 of the Revised Code to eliminate the per mile cap on the amount of money the Department of Transportation may spend on improvements made to roads leading into and within a conservancy district and to designate State Route 60, in Ashland County only, the "Thomas A. Van Meter Memorial Highway."

AN ACT To amend sections 3317.01, 3317.021, 3317.025, 5709.61, 5727.08, 5727.47, and 5727.471 of the Revised Code to require public utilities to pay only the undisputed portion of property taxes if the utility disputes the Tax Commissioner's valuation, to provide for notification of any disputes to be given to county auditors and affected taxing districts, and to allow electricity generation...

AN ACT To amend sections 505.29, 505.31, 505.79, and 4109.02 and to enact sections 503.161, 503.162, and 505.95 of the Revised Code to permit a township to regulate, , by license or otherwise, the resale of tickets to theatrical, sporting, or other public amusements; to authorize townships to use their waste collection fund moneys to pay for the collection and disposal of tree leaves; to alter...

AN ACT To amend section 2913.61 of the Revised Code to provide that a series of offenses an offender commits under the theft in office statute in the offender's same employment, capacity, or relationship to another may be tried as a single offense, and that, if the series of offenses is so tried, the value of the property or services for purposes of a prosecution is the aggregate value of all...

AN ACT To amend sections 121.04, 124.24, 127.16, 317.08, 1501.01, 1501.022, 1505.10, 1507.02 to 1507.07, 1507.071, 1507.08 to 1507.11, 1509.01 to 1509.05, 1509.06, 1509.061, 1509.07, 1509.071, 1509.072, 1509.08, 1509.09 to 1509.15, 1509.17, 1509.18, 1509.21, 1509.22, 1509.221, 1509.222, 1509.223, 1509.224, 1509.225, 1509.226, 1509.23 to 1509.29, 1509.31 to 1509.33, 1509.36, 1509.38 to 1509.40, 151

AN ACT To amend sections 1333.82, 4301.01, 4301.241, 4301.28, 4301.333, 4301.351, 4301.354, 4301.355, 4301.361, 4301.364, 4301.365, 4301.37, 4301.40, 4301.62, 4303.181, and 4303.182 and to enact section 4303.184 of the Revised Code to create the D-8 permit to be issued to certain retail stores to allow the sale of tasting samples of beer, wine, and mixed beverages; to allow local option elections

AN ACT To amend section 2744.01 of the Revised Code to amend the definition of "governmental function" in the political subdivision tort immunity law to include the operation of all types of aquatic facilities

AN ACT To enact sections 4116.01, 4116.02, 4116.03, and 4116.04 of the Revised Code to prohibit public authorities from imposing certain labor requirements as a condition of performing public works

AN ACT To amend sections 2901.01 and 2903.09, to enact sections 2305.114, 2307.53, and 2919.151, and to repeal sections 2307.51 and 2919.15 of the Revised Code to create the offense of partial birth feticide, to allow specified persons to commence a civil action for partial birth feticide, and to repeal the prohibition against performing a dilation and extraction procedure on a pregnant woman and