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4723.83 Application for certificate.
(A) An individual seeking a community health worker certificate shall submit an application to the board of nursing on forms the board shall prescribe and furnish. The applicant shall include all information the board requires to process the application. The application shall be accompanied by the fee established in rules adopted under section 4723.88 of the Revised Code.
(B) An applicant for a community health worker certificate shall submit a request to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation for a criminal records check of the applicant. The request shall be on the form prescribed pursuant to division (C)(1) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code, accompanied by a standard impression sheet to obtain fingerprints prescribed pursuant to division (C)(2) of that section, and accompanied by the fee prescribed pursuant to division (C)(3) of that section. On receipt of the completed form, the completed impression sheet, and the fee, the bureau shall conduct a criminal records check of the applicant. On completion of the criminal records check, the bureau shall send the results of the check to the board. The applicant shall ask the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to request that the federal bureau of investigation provide the superintendent with any information it has with respect to the applicant. The results of any criminal records check conducted pursuant to a request made under this section, and any report containing those results, are not public records for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and shall not be made available to any person or for any purpose other than the following:
(1) The results may be made available to any person for use in determining whether the individual who is the subject of the check should be issued a community health worker certificate.
(2) The results may be made available to the individual who is the subject of the check or that individual’s representative.
Effective Date: 09-26-2003
