Ohio Administrative Decisions and Executive Orders
Administrative Decisions
The Administrative Procedure Act, ORC Ch. 119, provides for enforcement of regulations and agency statutes through quasi-judicial actions. Many agency cases are informally adjudicated, ie. the Rules of Evidence are not strictly applied and the Civil Rules do not apply. Agency decisions are required to be entered in the agency's journal, but they are not required to be published (ORC 119.09). Agency orders may be appealed to a higher agency authority according to the agency enabling statute. A final agency decision may be appealed to the common pleas court as allowed by the Administrative Procedure Act, the agency enabling statute, general appellate procedure defined in ORC Chapter 2506 or other statute. For more details on administrative agency adjudications, see Ohio Administrative Law Handbook, (Thomson West 2007) KFO 34.5 O35 .
Free Access via Agency Web Sites
Here are some of the agency decisions available on the web. For others not listed here, you may want to check the agency web site, via the list of all state agencies.
-Ohio Attorney General (1994-)
-Board of Building Standards Document Catalog, including BBS Memos (1991-)
-Consumer Protection Board - select Consumer Protection Board as "court" in the OPIF file
-Ohio Board of Tax Appeals (1997-)
-Tax Commissioner Opinions (selected)
-Ohio Ethics Commission Advisory Opinions (1974-)
-Ohio Supreme Court Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline Advisory Opinions (1986-)
-Ohio Civil Rights Commission Decisions by the OCRC Administrative Law Judge (2000-)
-Ohio Elections Commission Advisory Opinions (1986- )
-Ohio Public Utilities Commission Entries and Orders (1997- )
-Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation Selected Legal Opinions
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State Personnel Board of Review (1996-)
Chart of the Agency Opinions Accessible via the Cleveland Marshall College of Law Library ( current as of June, 2007):
| Print or Microform | Lexis | Westlaw | LLMC Digital | Internet- |
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| Attorney General | KFO 440 .A553 [Ohio Room (1846 -) Reserve 1998 -] Microforms Room, Drawer ZZ53] (1846 - 1972) |
1977- | 1977- | 1992- | 1902- 1975 |
1994- |
| Board of Tax Appeals | Baldwin's Ohio Tax Service KFO470.A6 B32 1978-1993 KF6285 .O55 1982- |
1942- | 1985- | 1997 | ||
| Tax Commissioner | Department Reports of the State of Ohio , KFO47 .O34 1914-1964 | 1990- 1994 | some | |||
| Board of Building Standards | 1991- | |||||
| Civil Rights Commission | Selected decisions pertaining to School Law: Baldwin's Ohio School Law Service, KFO390.A6 S662 1975-1988 | 1996- 2003 | 1980- | 2000- | ||
| Consumer Protection Section (AG) | yes | |||||
| Ohio Ethics Commission Advisory Opinions | KFO406.A8 O54 1974- | 1977- | 1987- | 1974- | ||
Ohio Supreme Court Board of Commissioners on Grievances & Discipline Advisory Opinions |
( KFO76.5 .A2 S96 ) (1986- ) - current copies in Reserve | 1987- | 1987- | 1986- | 1986- | |
| Joint Legislative Ethics Committee Opinions | 1995- | |||||
| Elections Commission | 1987- | 1987- | 1987- | |||
Environmental Bd of Review now known as Environmental Review Appeals Commission |
Cases Before the Environmental Board of Review, KFO354.A552, 1974-1986 Summaries in OhioEPA, KFO354 .A43, current in Reserve |
1973- | 1973- | |||
| Department of Insurance Bulletins | 1991- | 1950- | ||||
| Insurance Commission Decisions | Department Reports of the State of Ohio, KFO47 .O34 1914-1964 | |||||
| PUCO | Department Reports of the State of Ohio, KFO47 .O341914-1964 | 1973- | Ohio Public Utilities |
1997- | ||
| Securities Admin. Decisions | 1965- | 1983- | ||||
| State Employment Relations Board | Official Reporter SERB (West Group, 1988 - ) KFO 331 .A6 O43 [Current in Reserve] Ohio Public Employee Reporter - KFO332.8.P77 O3 (1984-2006) [Reserve] |
1983- | 1984- |
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| State Personnel Bd of Review | 1996- | |||||
| Workers' Compensation | Merriman and Sutherly Industrial Commission Reports 1925-1986 |
1994- 2006 | some | |||
| Unemployment Compensation Review Commission | Selected decisions pertaining to School Law: Baldwin's Ohio School Law Service,KFO390.A6 S662 1975-1988 |
Some agency decisions are unpublished and hard to find. For example:
Decisions of the Ohio Unemployment Compensation Review Commission -- formerly the Ohio Unemployment Compensation Board of Review -- are available for a small fee from the Banks-Baldwin research department (216-520-5586). The Ohio Supreme Court library also collects these decisions.
Further Reading: Ohio Legal Research Guide by Putnam and Schaefgen, Chapter 11, KFO75.P88 1997 Zimmerman's Research Guide - Ohio Agencies Ohio Legal Research, Hall & Sampson, KFO75 .H357 2009 , Ch. 7 |
Executive Orders
- Current Governor's executive orders are on the Governor's Web Page.
- Ohio Capitol Connection - Online starting with 1999.
- For prior executive orders, contact the Governor's office (Contact Information), the Ohio Historical Society, or possibly contact the Ohio Secretary of State. The Cleveland Law Library has a few older executive orders on file. You may be able to find some executive orders via searching the Internet, for example: Strickland's Executive Order 2007-8S
SA , July 3, 2007
Links Checked 5/1/2009, SA