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[§ 9.82.2] § 9.822. Insurance and self-insurance plans for state and its officers, employees and agents.
 

(A)  The department of administrative services through the office of risk management shall establish an insurance plan or plans that may provide for self-insurance or the purchase of insurance, or both, for any of the following purposes: 

(1) Insuring state real and personal property against losses occasioned by fire, windstorm, or other accidents and perils; 

(2) Insuring the state and its officers and employees against liability resulting from any civil action, demand, or claim against the state or its officers and employees arising out of any act or omission of an officer or employee in the performance of official duties, except acts and omissions for which indemnification is prohibited under section 9.87 of the Revised Code; 

(3) Insuring the state through the fidelity bonding of state officers, employees, and agents who are required by law to provide a fidelity bond. 

(B) (1)  Prior to the establishment of any self-insured fidelity bond program for a particular class or subclass of state officer, employee, or agent authorized pursuant to division (A)(3) of this section, the director of administrative services shall follow the procedures for holding a hearing and adopting rules set forth in division (C)(6)(a) of section 9.821 [9.82.1] of the Revised Code. 

(2) Division (B)(1) of this section does not apply to any self-insured blanket fidelity bond program that, on September 20, 1993, has been established pursuant to section 9.831 [9.83.1] of the Revised Code. 

(3) The director shall prepare annually a written report detailing any self-insured fidelity bond program established pursuant to division (A)(3) of this section. The report shall include, but is not limited to, information relating to premiums collected, income from recovery, loss experience, and administrative costs of the program. A copy of the report, together with a copy of those portions of the most recent reports submitted under division (D) of section 9.823 [9.82.3] of the Revised Code that pertain to any such self-insured fidelity bond program, shall be submitted to the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate by the last day of March of each year. 
 

HISTORY: 145 v H 23 (Eff 9-20-93); 149 v H 94. Eff 9-5-2001.
 

The effective date is set by section 204 of HB 94.