Ohio Code 5120.09 – Division of business administration – powers and duties
Under the supervision and control of the director of rehabilitation and correction, the division of business administration shall do all of the following:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 5120.09
- Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
(A) Submit the budgets for the several divisions of the department of rehabilitation and correction, as prepared by the respective chiefs of those divisions, to the director. The director, with the assistance of the chief of the division of business administration, shall compile a departmental budget that contains all proposals submitted by the chiefs of the divisions and shall forward the departmental budget to the governor with comments and recommendations that the director considers necessary.
(B) Maintain accounts and records and compile statistics that the director prescribes;
(C) Under the control of the director, coordinate and make the necessary purchases and requisitions for the department and its divisions, except when goods and services are provided to the department as described in section 5119.44 of the Revised Code;
(D) Administer within this state federal criminal justice acts that the governor requires the department to administer. In order to improve the criminal justice system of this state, the division of business administration shall apply for, allocate, disburse, and account for grants that are made available pursuant to those federal criminal justice acts and grants that are made available from other federal government sources, state government sources, or private sources. As used in this division, “criminal justice system” and “federal criminal justice acts” have the same meanings as in section 5502.61 of the Revised Code.
(E) Audit the activities of governmental entities, persons as defined in section 1.59 of the Revised Code, and other types of nongovernmental entities that are financed in whole or in part by funds that the department allocates or disburses and that are derived from grants described in division (D) of this section;
(F) Enter into contracts, including contracts with federal, state, or local governmental entities, persons as defined in section 1.59 of the Revised Code, foundations, and other types of nongovernmental entities, that are necessary for the department to carry out its duties and that neither the director nor another section of the Revised Code authorizes another division of the department to enter;
(G) Exercise other powers and perform other duties that the director may assign to the division of business administration.