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Ohio Rev. Code § 339.01 (2026)

County acquisition or improvement of hospitals or outpatient health facility

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Effective:
September 28, 2018
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 111 - 132nd General Assembly
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(A) As used in sections 339.01 to 339.17 of the Revised Code:

(1) "Hospital facilities" has the meaning given in section 140.01 of the Revised Code.

(2) "County hospital" includes all of the county hospital's branches and hospital facilities, wherever located.

(3) "Outpatient health facility" means a facility where medical care and preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, or palliative items or services are provided to outpatients by or under the direction of a physician or dentist.

(B) A board of county commissioners may purchase, acquire, lease, appropriate, and construct a county hospital or hospital facilities thereof. After a county hospital or hospital facilities have been fully completed and sufficiently equipped for occupancy, any subsequent improvements, enlargements, or rebuilding of any such facility shall be made by the board of county hospital trustees or a hospital commission appointed pursuant to section 339.14 of the Revised Code.

(C)(1) A board of county commissioners, board of county hospital trustees, or hospital commission may purchase, acquire, lease, appropriate, or construct an outpatient health facility in another county to serve as a branch of the county hospital. The outpatient health facility may include office space for physicians. The facility shall be operated pursuant to the law that regulates the operation of the county hospital.

(2) When a proposal to establish an outpatient health facility in another county is made by a board of hospital trustees or a hospital commission, all of the following apply:

(a) The board of county hospital trustees or hospital commission shall give written notice to its board of county commissioners and to the board of county commissioners of the county where the facility is to be located. The board of county commissioners where the facility is to be located, by resolution adopted within forty days after receipt of the notice, may object to the proposed facility. The resolution shall include an explanation of the objection and may make any recommendations the board considers necessary. The board shall send a copy of the resolution to the board of county hospital trustees or the hospital commission and to the board of county commissioners of the county that proposes to locate the facility in the other county.

(b) Except as provided in division (C)(2)(c) of this section, the board of county hospital trustees or the hospital commission may establish and operate the facility, unless the board of county commissioners of the county proposing to locate the facility in the other county, not later than twenty days after receiving a resolution of objection from the other county's board of county commissioners pursuant to division (C)(2)(a) of this section, adopts a resolution denying the trustees or commission the right to establish the facility.

(c) If a board of county commissioners provides a subsidy for uncompensated care to a board of county hospital trustees or hospital commission, the board of county hospital trustees or hospital commission may establish and operate the outpatient health facility only if that board of county commissioners approves the establishment of the facility.

(D) Notwithstanding division (C) of this section, a board of county hospital trustees of a charter county hospital, as defined in section 339.061 of the Revised Code, may purchase, acquire, lease, construct, own, operate, or manage hospital facilities in a county contiguous to a charter county. Such hospital facilities shall be operated pursuant to the law that regulates the operation of a charter county hospital.

(E) A county hospital may be designated as a monument to commemorate the services of the soldiers, sailors, marines, and pioneers of the county.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 8 cases, 1963–2020 · leading case: State ex rel. Drouhard v. Morrow Cty. Bd. of Commrs. (Slip Opinion), 2020 Ohio 4160 (Ohio 2020).
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State ex rel. Drouhard v. Morrow Cty. Bd. of Commrs. (Slip Opinion), 2020 Ohio 4160 (Ohio 2020). · cites it 2× “See R.C. 339.01(B); R.C. 339.02(B). The Revised Code specifies that the hospital trustees shall be appointed by “[t]he board of county commissioners together with the probate judge of the county senior in point of service and the judge of the court of common pleas of the county…”
State ex rel. Dist. 1199, Health Care & Soc. Serv. Union v. Lawrence Cnty. Gen. Hosp., 83 Ohio St. 3d 351 (Ohio 1998). “, PERS membership for hospital employees, appointment of hospital trustees by county officials in accordance with R.C. 339.01 et seq., and treatment by the State Auditor of the hospital as a public office for purposes of R.”
In Re Tax Exemption Ex Rel. Dana W. Morey Found., 256 N.E.2d 232 (Ohio Ct. App. 1970). · cites it 4× “the purposes set forth in the trust instrument, on September 5,1968, the trustee, also hereinafter referred to as the lessor, with the approval of the advisory committee, entered into a lease agreement with the Board of Trustees of the Union County Memorial Hospital and with the…”
Wierzbicki v. Carmichael, 187 N.E.2d 184 (Ohio Ct. App. 1963). · cites it 2× “Section 339.01, Revised Code, authorizes the Board of County Commissioners of a county to construct a county hospital out of public funds.”
State ex rel. Dist. 1199, Health Care & Soc. Serv. Union, SEIU, AFL-CIO v. Lawrence Cty. Gen. Hosp., 1998 Ohio 49 (Ohio 1998). “, PERS membership for hospital employees, appointment of hospital trustees by county officials in accordance with R.C. 339.01 et seq., and treatment by the State Auditor of the hospital as a public office for purposes of R.”
Wierzbicki v. Carmichael, 91 Ohio Law. Abs. 220 (Ohio Ct. App. 1963). · cites it 2× “Section 339.01, Revised Code, authorizes the board of county commissioners of a county to construct a county hospital out of public funds.”
Elyria v. Swagger, 5 Ohio App. Unrep. 239 (Ohio Ct. App. 1990). · cites it 4× “One count of operating an overweight vehicle in violation of Elyria Codified Ordinances Section 339.01; "2. Two counts of operating a motor vehicle with foreign plates in violation of R.”
Canton v. Cameron, 2019 Ohio 3850 (Ohio Ct. App. 2019). “Cameron appeals the judgment entered by the Canton Municipal Court convicting him of gross overload of a vehicle (R.C. 339.01) upon his plea of no contest and fining him $214.”
Ohio Rev. Code § 339.01(B): 1 case
State ex rel. Drouhard v. Morrow Cty. Bd. of Commrs. (Slip Opinion), 2020 Ohio 4160 (Ohio 2020). “See R.C. 339.01(B); R.C. 339.02(B). The Revised Code specifies that the hospital trustees shall be appointed by “[t]he board of county commissioners together with the probate judge of the county senior in point of service and the judge of the court of common pleas of the county…”
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