2011 Ohio Revised Code
Title [51] LI PUBLIC WELFARE
Chapter 5119: DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH
5119.80 Classifying violations for civil penalties.

The department of mental health shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that set guidelines for classifying violations sections 5119.70 to 5119.88 of the Revised Code or rules adopted under those sections for the purpose of imposing civil penalties. The rules shall establish the following classifications:

(A) Class I violations are conditions or occurrences that present an immediate and serious threat to the physical or emotional health, safety, or security of residents of an adult care facility. Whoever is determined to have committed a class I violation is subject to a civil penalty of not less than seven hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars for each violation.

(B) Class II violations are conditions or occurrences, other than class I violations, that directly threaten the physical or emotional health, safety, or security of residents of an adult care facility. Whoever is determined to have committed a class II violation is subject to a civil penalty of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than seven hundred dollars for each violation.

(C) Class III violations are conditions or occurrences, other than class I or class II violations, that indirectly or potentially threaten the physical or emotional health, safety, or security of residents of a facility. Whoever is determined to have committed a class III violation is subject to a civil penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each violation.

Amended and renumbered by 129th General Assembly File No. 28, HB 153, § 101.01, eff. 7/1/2011.

Effective Date: 11-15-1990