Section 5705.17 - [repealed Effective 7/17/1995 by H.b. 249, 121st General Assembly] Transfer Funds for General Assistance

In addition to sections 5705.14 and 5705.15 of the Revised Code, and any other sections of the Revised Code relating to the transfer of funds between subdivisions, the board of county commissioners of any county, the council or other legislative authority of any municipal corporation, and the trustees of any township, not furnishing general assistance, upon a vote of two-thirds of the members of the board of county commissioners of any county, the council of any municipal corporation, or the board of trustees of any township may transfer general assistance funds, or any other funds not otherwise appropriated, to the county, municipal corporation, or townships furnishing general assistance; provided that transfers by the board of county commissioners shall be to municipal corporations or townships located within the county, transfers by township trustees shall be to the county in which the township is located or to municipal corporations located wholly or in part within the township, and transfers by a municipal corporation shall be to the county or the township in which such municipal corporation is located in whole or in part. Immediately upon receipt of notice of the action of the legislative authority transferring funds, the officer of the political subdivision making such transer who is charged with the duty of distributing its funds shall make distribution in accordance therewith.

Funds received pursuant to any transfer under this section shall be credited to the general assistance fund of the transferee subdivision and shall be expended solely for the purposes of general assistance.

This section does not mean that any subdivision may transfer to any other subdivision funds for assistance purposes that the transferring subdivision may not expend in its own subdivision for purposes of assistance.

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