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ACTIVITY PERMIT below.) The same restriction applies to referees except that the required permit can be replaced by evidence of an approved training program completed within the last three years and focused on recognizing the symptoms of concussions and head injuries. Student athletes exhibiting symptoms consistent with having sustained a concussion or head injury must be removed from the practice or competition by either the coach or the referee and may not return to the practice or competition that day. Moreover, the student cannot return to practice or competition until the student is assessed and receives written clearance from a physician or other licensed health care provider that it is safe for the student to return to competition. To be eligible to clear an athlete to return to practice or competition, the health care professional’s licensing agency has to have adopted rules establishing stringent standards for the return of the athlete to practice or competition, and the health care professional meets those standards. A licensed health care professional is authorized to assess athletes and clear them to return to practice or competition in one of two ways: (1) satisfying the above requirements or (2) satisfying the requirements and obtaining authorization from a district board to assess athletes and clear them to return to practice or competition.

The physician or other health care provider may be a volunteer.

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST, BOARD MEMBERS

3313.33

No board member shall have any pecuniary interest, direct or indirect, in any contract of the board or be employed in any manner for compensation by the board. The Attorney General also has opined that a board of education cannot purchase services from an educational service center if a member of the purchasing board is employed by the ESC.

3313.70

No board member shall be eligible for employment as school physician, school dentist, or school nurse.

3319.21

No board member can vote in the making of a contract with a teacher, when the board member is related to the teacher as father, mother, brother, or sister. Normally, superintendents are prohibited from recommending for any employment a members of their immediate families (under ORC 2921.42). However, a board of education may designate another individual to make the employment recommendation for a superintendent’s family member if the superintendent’s recommendation would be a violation of ORC 2921.42. The Joint Legislative Ethics Commission has decided that school district superintendents are not prohibited from discussing, lobbying, or participating in any part of the decision-making process regarding a collective bargaining agreement even though the superintendent’s daughter is a member of the labor organization so long as: 1) the daughter is treated in the same manner as a “similarly situated” employee; and 2) the daughter is not an officer, board member, or member of the negotiating team of the labor organization. It can possibly be inferred that the same applies to any collective bargaining situation in which any member of the superintendent’s family is a member of the labor organization.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST, EMPLOYING

3319.07

SUPERINTENDENT’S IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBER AS

CONFLICT OF INTEREST,

SUPERINTENDENTS AND NEGOTIATIONS

CONTINUING

For teachers licensed before January 1, 2011 , the teacher must hold

3319.08