Ohio Code 5119.392 – Prohibition against operation without being certified or accredited
(A) Beginning January 1, 2025, no person or government entity shall operate a recovery housing residence unless either of the following applies:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 5119.392
- Addiction: means the chronic and habitual use of alcoholic beverages, the use of a drug of abuse as defined in section 3719. See Ohio Code 5119.01
- Addiction services: means services, including intervention, for the treatment of persons with alcohol, drug, or gambling addictions, and for the prevention of such addictions. See Ohio Code 5119.01
- in writing: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures; this provision does not affect any law relating to signatures. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Recovery housing residence: means a residence for individuals recovering from alcohol use disorder or drug addiction that provides an alcohol-free and drug-free living environment, peer support, assistance with obtaining alcohol and drug addiction services, and other recovery assistance for alcohol use disorder and drug addiction. See Ohio Code 5119.01
- residence: means that county in which the person maintained the person's primary place of residence at the time the person entered the facility;
(ii) If a person is committed pursuant to section 2945. See Ohio Code 5119.01
(1)(a) If the department of mental health and addiction services certifies recovery housing residences, the recovery housing residence is certified by the department.
(b) If the department accepts accreditation or its equivalent from an organization specified in section 5119.39 of the Revised Code, the residence is accredited by such an organization.
(2) The recovery housing residence has been operating for not more than eighteen months and is actively engaged in efforts to obtain certification or accreditation, as applicable. For purposes of identifying this eighteen-month timeframe, a recovery housing residence is considered to begin operating on the date that the first resident occupies the residence, as specified on the form filed in accordance with section 5119.391 of the Revised Code.
(B) If the director of mental health and addiction services determines that a recovery housing residence is operating in violation of this section, the director may request, in writing, that the attorney general petition the court of common pleas of the county in which the recovery housing residence is located for an order enjoining operation of the recovery housing residence.
Last updated October 4, 2023 at 2:57 PM