COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The Ohio High School Athletic Association announced Tuesday it will stage an emergency vote of its member schools on adopting a formal policy on name, image and likeness rules.

That vote is expected to happen in mid-November with the OHSAA board of directors set to hold a meeting on Thursday to decide the voting date. Each member high school's principal will cast a vote.

That action follows Monday's temporary restraining order from a Franklin County judge for a 45-day allowance of NIL in Ohio.

"Right now, we're just in the temporary period where we have this 45-day window to go out to our member schools again and ask them for their vote on this issue," OSHAA Director of Communications Tim Stried said. "We really need to wait and see what our schools vote on first

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