Each public children services agency shall designate an executive officer known as the “executive director,” who shall not be in the classified civil service. The superintendent of the children’s home, the county director of job and family services, or other individual may serve as the executive director.

Terms Used In Ohio Code 5153.10

  • Child: means any person under eighteen years of age or a person with a mental or physical disability, as defined by rule adopted by the director of job and family services, under twenty-one years of age. See Ohio Code 5153.01
  • Executive director: means the person charged with the responsibility of administering the powers and duties of a public children services agency appointed pursuant to section 5153. See Ohio Code 5153.01
  • public children services agency: means an entity specified in section 5153. See Ohio Code 5153.01

The agency shall, from time to time, inquire into community conditions affecting the welfare of children and study the work of the agency and its relation to the work of other organizations whose functions are related to child welfare. The agency may, after consultation with the executive director, adopt rules of general application, not inconsistent with law or with the rules adopted by the director of job and family services.

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