[§ 125.02.1] § 125.021. Telecommunication and computer services; bulk long distance telephone services for family members of persons on active duty.

(A)  Except as to the military department, the general assembly, the bureau of workers' compensation, the industrial commission, and institutions administered by boards of trustees, the office of information technology may contract for, operate, and superintend telephone, other telecommunication, and computer services for state agencies. Nothing in this division precludes the bureau or the commission from contracting with the office to authorize the office to contract for, operate, or superintend those services for the bureau or the commission. 

(B) (1)  As used in this division: 

(a) "Active duty" means active duty pursuant to an executive order of the president of the United States, an act of the congress of the United States, or section 5919.29 or 5923.21 of the Revised Code. 

(b) "Immediate family" means a person's spouse residing in the person's household, brothers and sisters of the whole or of the half blood, children, including adopted children and stepchildren, parents, and grandparents. 

(2) The office of information technology may enter into a contract to purchase bulk long distance telephone services and make them available at cost, or may make bulk long distance telephone services available at cost under any existing contract the office has entered into, to members of the immediate family of persons deployed on active duty so that those family members can communicate with the persons so deployed. If the office enters into contracts under division (B)(2) of this section, it shall do so in accordance with sections 125.01 to 125.11 of the Revised Code and in a nondiscriminatory manner that does not place any potential vendor at a competitive disadvantage. 

(3) If the office decides to exercise either option under division (B)(2) of this section, it shall adopt, and may amend, rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement that division. 

HISTORY: 141 v H 201 (Eff 7-1-85); 145 v H 107. Eff 10-20-93; 150 v H 426, § 1, eff. 5-18-05; 151 v H 65, § 1, eff. 6-21-05; 151 v S 321, § 101.01, eff. 9-5-06.
 

The effective date is set by § 512.03 of 151 v S 321. 

The provisions of § 515.03 of 151 v S 321 read as follows: 

SECTION 515.03. Section 125.021 of the Revised Code is presented in this act as a composite of the section as amended by Am. Sub. H.B. 426 of the 125th General Assembly and H.B. 65 of the 126th General Assembly. The General Assembly, applying the principle stated in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised Code that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation, finds that the composite is the resulting version of the section in effect prior to the effective date of the section as presented in this act. 

The effective date is set by section 21 of HB 107. 

 

Effect of Amendments

151 v S 321, effective September 5, 2006, in (A) and (B)(2), substituted "office of information technology" for "department of administrative services" and "office" for "department" twice in each; and made minor stylistic changes. 

151 v H 65, effective June 21, 2005, in present (A), inserted "the industrial commission" and "or the commission" twice. 

150 v H 426, effective May 18, 2005, rewrote the section.

§ 9.30. Contracts for utility services without advertising for bids.

The appropriate public officer of the state, county, municipal corporation, township, school, or other public body or institution, may acquire the service, product, or commodity of a public utility at the schedule of rates and charges applicable to such service, product, or commodity on file with the public utilities commission, or the applicable charge established by a utility operating its property not for profit, at any location where such public utility service, product, or commodity is not available, from alternate public utilities, without the necessity of advertising to obtain bids, and without notice, irrespective of the amount of money involved. 

HISTORY: 126 v 322. Eff 9-29-55.