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Ohio Department Of Public Safety
The Ohio Department of Public Safety (ODPS) is the administrative department of the Ohio state government responsible for the protection and safety of residents and visitors. The Department of Public Safety's headquarters is located in Columbus, Ohio. History On May 19, 1953, Amended House Bill 243 created the Ohio Department of Highway Safety, consisting of the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Ohio State Highway Patrol, effective October 2, 1953. On September 24, 1992, the department was renamed the Ohio Department of Public Safety. Divisions * Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles * Ohio Emergency Management Agency * Emergency Medical Services * Office of Criminal Justice Services * Ohio Office of Homeland Security * Ohio State Highway Patrol ** Ohio Investigative Unit See also * List of law enforcement agencies in Ohio References External links Ohio Department of Public Safety {{DEFAULTSORT:Ohio Department of Public Safety Public Safety Public Safety Public secu ...
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Columbus, Ohio
Columbus () is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago, and the third-most populous state capital. Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County; it also extends into Delaware and Fairfield counties. It is the core city of the Columbus metropolitan area, which encompasses 10 counties in central Ohio. The metropolitan area had a population of 2,138,926 in 2020, making it the largest entirely in Ohio and 32nd-largest in the U.S. Columbus originated as numerous Native American settlements on the banks of the Scioto River. Franklinton, now a city neighborhood, was the first European settlement, laid out in 1797. The city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and laid out to become the state capital. The city was named for Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. ...
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Government Of Ohio
The government of the U.S. state of Ohio consists of the executive, judicial, and legislative branches. Its basic structure is set forth in the Constitution of Ohio, Constitution and law of Ohio. Executive branch The daily administration of the state’s laws are carried out by six State constitutional officer, elected statewide officials; the chief executive the Governor of Ohio, Governor, and their second in command the List of lieutenant governors of Ohio, Lieutenant Governor, the Ohio Secretary of State, Secretary Of State, the Ohio Attorney General, Attorney General, the Ohio State Treasurer, State Treasurer, the Ohio State Auditor, State Auditor, and by the staff and employees of the executive branch agencies. All are elected statewide for four-year terms, all on a partisan ballot, with the Governor of Ohio, Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, Lieutenant Governor elected on a single ticket. Departments The state government is primarily organized into several cabi ...
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Ohio Revised Code
The ''Ohio Revised Code'' contains all current statutes of the Ohio General Assembly of a permanent and general nature, consolidated into provisions, titles, chapters and sections. However, the only official publication of the enactments of the General Assembly is the ''Laws of Ohio''; the ''Ohio Revised Code'' is only a reference. The ''Ohio Revised Code'' is not officially printed, but there are several unofficial but certified (by the Ohio Secretary of State) commercial publications: ''Baldwin's Ohio Revised Code Annotated'' and ''Page's Ohio Revised Code Annotated'' are annotated, while ''Anderson's Ohio Revised Code Unannotated'' is not. ''Baldwin's'' is available online from Westlaw and ''Page's'' is available online from LexisNexis. History The ''Ohio Revised Code'' replaced the ''Ohio General Code'' in 1953.http://www.lexisnexis.com/infopro/zimmerman/disp.aspx?z=1794. ''URL accessed 15 September 2006.'' However the current organization and form of the ''Ohio Revised Code' ...
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Ohio Bureau Of Motor Vehicles
The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (abbreviated BMV) is an agency of the Ohio Department of Public Safety that registers motor vehicles and issues license plates and driver's licenses in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is headquartered in the state capital, Columbus, and operates deputy registrar's offices and driver exam stations throughout the state. The agency is administered by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles. , there are 8,071,426 valid Ohio driver's licenses, 839,474 Ohio identification cards, and 13,285,303 registered vehicles in the state. History On May 19, 1902, Cleveland became one of the first cities in the country to require motorists to display government-issued registration numbers on their vehicles. In 1906, the state attempted to take over auto registration under the Ward Automobile Law, but litigation delayed the program until the state Supreme Court ruled in favor of the law. The Secretary of State's Automobile Division was established in 1907. The Ward Law went into ...
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Ohio State Highway Patrol
The Ohio State Highway Patrol is a division of the Ohio Department of Public Safety and has the primary responsibility of traffic enforcement in the state of Ohio. Divisions Operationally, the Patrol is divided into units whose varying tasks complement the mission of the Patrol to provide safe roadways throughout the state. Operational units include the Office of Field Operations, units specializing in Aviation, a Special Response Team, Crash reconstruction, Inspections, Mobile Field Force, and Criminal Patrol; Human Resource Management, includes Labor Relations, Career Development and the Administrative Investigation Unit; Office of Investigative Services, includes statewide investigation of crimes occurring on state owned or leased property, crime lab, polygraph services, executive protection for the governor, criminal intelligence and computer crime unit; License and Commercial Standards, which provide for oversight of driver's license and commercial vehicle regulations through ...
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List Of Law Enforcement Agencies In Ohio
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Ohio. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 ''Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies'', the state had 831 law enforcement agencies employing 25,992 sworn police officers, about 225 for each 100,000 residents. State agencies * Ohio Board of Pharmacy Agents * Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation * Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation Special Investigations Department * Ohio Casino Control Commission Enforcement Division * Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services Police * Ohio Department of Natural Resources (Division of Parks and Watercraft and Division of Wildlife) * Ohio Department of Public Safety * Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction * Ohio Department of Youth Services * Ohio Department of Taxation, Criminal Investigations * Office of the Ohio Inspector General * Ohio Office of the Attorney General Investigation Unit * Ohio State Fire Marshal * Ohio Stat ...
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State Agencies Of Ohio
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