Opinions

2014-033

Requested by: Adams County Prosecuting Attorney
Affordable Care Act preemption of Article II, § 20 of the Ohio Constitution.

2014-032

Requested by: Hocking County Prosecuting Attorney
Compatibility: township trustee also may serve as auxiliary deputy sheriff in same county, subject to conditions.

2014-031

Requested by: Highland County Prosecuting Attorney
Board of county commissioners’ waiver of sanitary rates imposed on properties served or capable of being served by county sewer district.

2014-030

Requested by: Paulding County Prosecuting Attorney
County law library resources board contracting to digitize public records and post them on website; purchase of computer and furniture for county law library.

2014-029

Requested by: West Chester Township Law Director
Public records status of personal email addresses in an email communication from a township fiscal officer.

2014-028

Requested by: Geauga County Prosecuting Attorney
Township trustees may not expend fire or police protection tax revenues for collective bargaining legal expenses.

2014-027

Requested by: Brown County Prosecuting Attorney
Township trustees may not expend fuel tax revenues to purchase real property upon which to build a garage.

2014-026

Requested by: Ashtabula County Prosecuting Attorney
The meaning of the phrase “support themselves by their own labor” as used in R.C. 3313.64(F)(1).

2014-025

Requested by: Lawrence County Prosecuting Attorney
Penalties for the offense of failure to register a dog and the authority of a county dog warden to issue a citation or make an arrest for that offense.

2014-024

Requested by: Meigs County Prosecuting Attorney
Explaining the statutory provisions that authorize a county to establish a tuberculosis clinic.