Ohio § 5101.161

§ 5101.161.

Prior to the sixteenth day of May annually, the department of job and family services

shall certify to the board of county commissioners of each county the amount estimated

by the department to be needed in the following state fiscal year to meet the county

share, as determined under division (B) of section 5101.16 of the Revised Code , of public assistance expenditures.  Each January, the board shall appropriate the amount certified by the department

and an additional five per cent of that amount.  Each June, the board may reappropriate, for any purpose the board determines to

be appropriate, the amount appropriated in January that exceeds the total of the amount

certified by the department for the last six months of the current state fiscal year

and the first six months of the following state fiscal year. Before the fifteenth day of each payment period the department establishes by rule,

the department shall pay a county the estimated state and federal share of the county's

public assistance expenditures for that payment period increased or decreased by the

amount the department underpaid or overpaid the county for the most recent payment

period that the department knows an underpayment or overpayment was made. If the department establishes a maximum amount that it will reimburse a county for

public assistance expenditures and a county spends more for such an expenditure than

is reimbursable, the department shall not pay the county a state or, except as provided

in section 5101.162 of the Revised Code , a federal share for the amount of the expenditure that exceeds the maximum allowable

reimbursement amount.  County expenditures that exceed the maximum allowable reimbursement amount shall

not be credited to a county's share of public assistance expenditures under section 5101.16 of the Revised Code .  The department also shall not pay a county a state or, except as provided in section 5101.162 of the Revised Code , a federal share for an administrative expenditure that is not allowed by the department. A county shall deposit all funds appropriated by a board of county commissioners and

received from the department under this section in a special fund in the county treasury

known as the public assistance fund.  A county shall make payments for public assistance expenditures from the public

assistance fund. The attorney general shall bring mandamus proceedings in the Franklin county court

of appeals against any board of county commissioners that fails to make appropriations

or deposits into the public assistance fund required by this section. The director of job and family services shall adopt internal management rules in accordance

with section 111.15 of the Revised Code to do all of the following: (A) Establish the method by which the department is to make payments to counties under

this section; (B) Establish procedures for payment by counties of the county share of public assistance

expenditures; (C) Establish payment periods for paying a county its estimated state and federal share

of public assistance expenditures; (D) Allow county departments of job and family services to use the public assistance

fund for other purposes and programs similar to the purposes and programs specified

in this section. The director may adopt internal management rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code to establish a maximum amount that it will reimburse a county for public assistance

expenditures.