Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 5120.29 – Institutional services fund; Ohio penal industries manufacturing fund

(A) There is hereby created, in the state treasury, the institutional services fund, which shall be used for the:
1. (1) Purchase of material, supplies, and equipment and the erection and extension of buildings used in services provided between institutions of the department of rehabilitation and correction;
2. (2) Payment of compensation to employees necessary to carry on institutional services;
3. (3) Payment of prisoners confined in state correctional institutions a portion of their earnings in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to section 5145.03 of the Revised Code.
(B) There is hereby created, in the state treasury, the Ohio penal industries manufacturing fund, which shall be used for the:
1. (1) Purchase of material, supplies, and equipment and the erection and extension of buildings used in manufacturing industries and agriculture;
2. (2) Purchase of lands and buildings necessary to carry on or extend the manufacturing industries and agriculture upon the approval of the governor;
3. (3) Payment of compensation to employees necessary to carry on the manufacturing industries and agriculture;
4. (4) Payment of prisoners confined in state correctional institutions a portion of their earnings in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to section 5145.03 of the Revised Code.
(C) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall, in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to section 5145.03 of the Revised Code and subject to any pledge made as provided in division (D) of this section, place to the credit of each prisoner the prisoner's earnings and pay the earnings so credited to the prisoner or the prisoner's family.
(D) Receipts credited to the funds created in divisions (A) and (B) of this section constitute available receipts as defined in section 154.24 of the Revised Code, and may be pledged to the payment of bond service charges on obligations issued by the treasurer of state pursuant to that section to construct, reconstruct, or otherwise improve capital facilities useful to the department. The treasurer of state may, with the consent of the department, provide in the bond proceedings for a pledge of all or such portion of receipts credited to the funds as the treasurer of state determines. The treasurer of state may provide in the bond proceedings for the transfer of receipts credited to the funds to the appropriate bond service fund or bond service reserve fund as required to pay the bond service charges when due, and any such provision for the transfer of receipts shall be controlling notwithstanding any other provision of law pertaining to such receipts. All receipts received by the treasurer of state on account of the department and required by the applicable bond proceedings to be deposited, transferred, or credited to the bond service fund or bond service reserve fund established by such bond proceedings shall be transferred by the treasurer of state to such fund, whether or not such fund is in the custody of the treasurer of state, without necessity for further appropriation. The treasurer of state may covenant in the bond proceedings that so long as any obligations are outstanding to which receipts credited to the fund are pledged, the state and the department shall neither reduce the prices charged pursuant to section 5120.28 of the Revised Code nor the level of manpower collectively devoted to the production of goods and services for which prices are set pursuant to section 5120.28 of the Revised Code, which covenant shall be controlling notwithstanding any other provision of law; provided, that no covenant shall require the general assembly to appropriate money derived from the levying of excises or taxes to purchase such goods and services or to pay rent or bond service charges.