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2025 Ohio Revised Code
Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile
Chapter 2151 | Juvenile Court
Section 2151.46 | Foster Children in Residential Facilities - Definitions.

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OH Rev Code § 2151.46 (2025)
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Effective: April 3, 2025

Latest Legislation: House Bill 315 - 135th General Assembly

As used in sections 2151.46 to 2151.4610 of the Revised Code:

(A) "Community organization" means an organization that provides services, including recreation, mental health care, and academic support, for a child placed in foster care.

(B) "Emergency department" includes a hospital emergency department and freestanding emergency department.

(C) "Freestanding emergency department" has the same meaning as in section 3727.49 of the Revised Code.

(D) "First responder" means an EMT, EMT-basic, AEMT, EMT-I, paramedic, firefighter, or volunteer firefighter.

(E) "Law enforcement officer" means a sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, police officer of a township or joint police district, marshal, deputy marshal, municipal police officer, or state highway patrol trooper.

(F) "Residential facility" has the same meaning as in section 5103.05 of the Revised Code, except that it applies only to a residential facility that is operated by a public children services agency, private child placing agency, private noncustodial agency, or superintendent of a county or district children's home for the placement of foster children.

(G) "Volunteer firefighter" has the same meaning as in section 146.01 of the Revised Code.

Last updated February 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM

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