(2) Except as otherwise
provided in this division or
division | 34 |
(B)(3), (4), (5), or (6) of
this section, a violation of
this | 35 |
section is petty theft, a
misdemeanor of the first degree.
If the | 36 |
value of the property or
services stolen is five hundred
dollars | 37 |
or more and is less than
five thousand dollars or if the
property | 38 |
stolen is any of the
property listed in section 2913.71
of the | 39 |
Revised Code, a
violation of this section is theft, a
felony of | 40 |
the fifth
degree. If the value of the property or
services stolen | 41 |
is five
thousand dollars or more and is less than
one hundred | 42 |
thousand
dollars, a violation of this
section is grand
theft, a | 43 |
felony of the fourth degree. If the value of the
property or | 44 |
services stolen is one hundred thousand dollars or
more and is | 45 |
less than five hundred thousand dollars, a
violation of this | 46 |
section is aggravated theft, a felony of
the
third degree.
If the | 47 |
value of the property or services is five hundred thousand dollars | 48 |
or more and is less than one million dollars, a violation of this | 49 |
section is aggravated theft, a felony of the second degree. If the | 50 |
value of the property or services
stolen is one million dollars or | 51 |
more, a violation of this section
is aggravated theft of one | 52 |
million dollars or more, a felony of
the first degree. | 53 |
(3) Except as otherwise provided in division (B)(4),
(5), or | 54 |
(6)
of this section, if the victim of the offense is an elderly | 55 |
person or
disabled adult, a violation
of this section is theft | 56 |
from an elderly person or disabled adult, and
division (B)(3) of | 57 |
this section applies. Except as
otherwise provided in this | 58 |
division, theft from an elderly person or disabled
adult is a | 59 |
felony of the fifth degree. If the value of the property or | 60 |
services stolen is five hundred dollars or more and is less than | 61 |
five thousand dollars, theft from an elderly person or disabled | 62 |
adult is a felony of the fourth degree. If the value of the | 63 |
property or services stolen is five thousand dollars or more and | 64 |
is less than twenty-five thousand dollars, theft from an elderly | 65 |
person or disabled adult is a felony of the third degree. If the | 66 |
value of the property or services stolen is twenty-five thousand | 67 |
dollars or more and is less than one hundred thousand dollars, | 68 |
theft from an elderly person or disabled adult is
a felony of the | 69 |
second degree. If the value of the property or services stolen is | 70 |
one hundred thousand dollars or more, theft from an elderly person | 71 |
or disabled adult is a felony of the first degree. | 72 |
(b) If the offender's driver's license, probationary
driver's | 95 |
license, commercial driver's license, temporary
instruction | 96 |
permit, or nonresident operating privilege has
previously been | 97 |
suspended pursuant to division (B)(7)(a) of this
section, impose a | 98 |
class seven suspension of the offender's license, permit, or | 99 |
privilege from the range specified in division (A)(7) of section | 100 |
4510.02 of the Revised Code, provided that the suspension shall be | 101 |
for at least six months. | 102 |
(D) This section does not prohibit or restrict a lawfully | 123 |
authorized investigative, law enforcement, protective, or | 124 |
intelligence gathering employee or agent of the government of this | 125 |
state or a political subdivision of this state, or of the federal | 126 |
government, when acting in an official capacity, from operating an | 127 |
audiovisual recording function of a device in any facility in | 128 |
which a motion picture is being shown. | 129 |
Sec. 2935.041. (A) A merchant, or hisan employee or agent | 136 |
of a
merchant, who has probable cause to believe that items | 137 |
offered for sale by
a mercantile establishment have been | 138 |
unlawfully taken by a person, may, for
the purposes set forth in | 139 |
division (C) of this section, detain the person in a
reasonable | 140 |
manner for a reasonable length of time within the mercantile | 141 |
establishment or its immediate vicinity. | 142 |
(B) Any officer, employee, or agent of a library, museum, or | 143 |
archival
institution may, for the purposes set forth in division | 144 |
(C) of this section or
for the purpose of conducting a reasonable | 145 |
investigation of a belief that the
person has acted in a manner | 146 |
described in divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this
section, detain a | 147 |
person in a reasonable manner for a reasonable length of
time | 148 |
within, or in the immediate vicinity of, the library, museum, or | 149 |
archival
institution, if the officer, employee, or agent has | 150 |
probable cause to believe
that the person has either: | 151 |
(2) With purpose to deprive the library, museum, or archival | 156 |
institution of
property owned by it or in its custody, knowingly | 157 |
obtained or exerted control
over the property without the consent | 158 |
of the owner or person authorized to
give consent, beyond the | 159 |
scope of the express or implied consent of the owner
or person | 160 |
authorized to give consent, by deception, or by threat. | 161 |
(D) The owner or lessee of a facility in which a motion | 171 |
picture is being shown, or the owner's or lessee's employee or | 172 |
agent, who has probable cause to believe that a person is or has | 173 |
been operating an audiovisual recording function of a device in | 174 |
violation of section 2913.07 of the Revised Code may, for the | 175 |
purpose of causing an arrest to be made by a peace officer or of | 176 |
obtaining an arrest warrant, detain the person in a reasonable | 177 |
manner for a reasonable length of time within the facility or its | 178 |
immediate vicinity. | 179 |
(E) The officer, agent, or employee of the library, museum, | 180 |
or archival
institution, or the merchant or his employee or agent | 181 |
of a
merchant, or the owner, lessee, employee, or agent of the | 182 |
facility acting under division (A) or, (B), or (D) of this section | 183 |
shall not search
the person detained, search or seize any property | 184 |
belonging to the person detained
without the person's consent, or | 185 |
use undue restraint upon the person detained. | 186 |
(E)(F) Any peace officer may arrest without a warrant any | 187 |
person that hethe officer has probable cause to believe has | 188 |
committed any act
described in division (B)(1) or (2) of this | 189 |
section or, that hethe
officer has probable cause to believe has | 190 |
committed an unlawful taking in
a mercantile establishment, or | 191 |
that the officer has reasonable cause to believe has committed an | 192 |
act prohibited by section 2913.07 of the Revised Code. An arrest | 193 |
under this division shall be made
within a reasonable time after | 194 |
the commission of the act or unlawful taking. | 195 |
(1) "Archival institution" means any public or private | 197 |
building, structure,
or shelter in which are stored historical | 198 |
documents, devices, records,
manuscripts, or items of public | 199 |
interest, which historical materials are
stored to preserve the | 200 |
materials or the information in the materials, to
disseminate the | 201 |
information contained in the materials, or to make the
materials | 202 |
available for public inspection or for inspection by certain | 203 |
persons
who have a particular interest in, use for, or knowledge | 204 |
concerning the
materials. | 205 |
(C) The privilege provided in this section does not apply to | 234 |
criminal investigations or proceedings. Where an audit report
is | 235 |
obtained, reviewed, or used in a criminal proceeding, the | 236 |
privilege provided in this section applicable to civil or | 237 |
administrative proceedings is not waived or eliminated. | 238 |
Furthermore, the
privilege provided in this section does not apply | 239 |
to
particular information under any of the following | 240 |
circumstances: | 241 |
(7) The owner or operator to whom the privilege belongs | 263 |
waives the
privilege, in whole or in part, explicitly or by | 264 |
engaging in conduct that
manifests a clear intent that the | 265 |
information not be
privileged. If an owner or operator introduces | 266 |
part of an environmental
audit report into evidence in a civil or | 267 |
administrative
proceeding to prove that
the owner or operator did | 268 |
not violate, or is no longer violating, any
environmental laws, | 269 |
the privilege provided by this section is waived with
respect to | 270 |
all information in the audit report that is relevant to that | 271 |
issue. | 272 |
(D) If the privilege provided in this section belongs to an | 316 |
owner
or operator who is not an individual, the privilege may be | 317 |
asserted or waived,
in whole or in part, on behalf of the owner or | 318 |
operator only by an officer,
manager, partner, or other comparable | 319 |
person who has a fiduciary relationship
with the owner or operator | 320 |
and is authorized generally to act on behalf of the
owner or | 321 |
operator or is a person who is authorized specifically to assert | 322 |
or
waive the privilege. | 323 |
(E) A person asserting the privilege provided in this section | 324 |
has the burden of proving the applicability of the privilege by a | 325 |
preponderance of the evidence. If a person seeking disclosure of | 326 |
information
with respect to which a privilege is asserted under | 327 |
this section shows
evidence of noncompliance with environmental | 328 |
laws pursuant to
division (C)(8) of this section, the person | 329 |
asserting the privilege
also has the burden of proving by a | 330 |
preponderance of the evidence that
reasonable efforts to achieve | 331 |
compliance with those laws were initiated
promptly and
that | 332 |
compliance was pursued with reasonable diligence and achieved | 333 |
within a reasonable time. | 334 |
(G)(1) The prosecuting attorney of a county or the attorney | 341 |
general, having
probable cause to believe, based on information | 342 |
obtained from a source
other than an environmental audit report, | 343 |
that a violation has been
committed under environmental laws for | 344 |
which a civil or administrative
action may be initiated, may | 345 |
obtain information with respect to
which a privilege is asserted | 346 |
under this section pursuant to a search warrant,
subpoena, or | 347 |
discovery under the Rules of Civil
Procedure. The prosecuting | 348 |
attorney or the attorney general
immediately shall place the | 349 |
information under seal and shall not review or disclose its | 350 |
contents. | 351 |
(2) Not later than sixty days after receiving an | 352 |
environmental audit report under division
(G)(1) of this section, | 353 |
the
prosecuting attorney or the attorney general may file with the | 354 |
court of common pleas of a county in which
there is proper venue | 355 |
to bring a civil or administrative
action pertaining to the | 356 |
alleged violation a petition
requesting an in camera hearing to | 357 |
determine if the information described in
division (G)(1) of this | 358 |
section is subject to disclosure under this
section. Failure to | 359 |
file such a petition shall cause the information to be
released to | 360 |
the owner or operator to whom it belongs. | 361 |
(3) Upon the filing of a petition under division
(G)(2) of | 362 |
this section, the
court shall issue an order scheduling an in | 363 |
camera hearing, not
later than forty-five days after the filing of | 364 |
the petition, to
determine if any or all of the
information | 365 |
described in division (G)(1) of this section is subject
to | 366 |
disclosure under this section.
The order shall allow the | 367 |
prosecuting attorney or the
attorney general to remove the seal | 368 |
from the report in order to
review it and shall place appropriate | 369 |
limitations on
distribution and review of the report to protect | 370 |
against
unnecessary disclosure. | 371 |
(4) The prosecuting attorney or the attorney general may | 372 |
consult with government agencies regarding the contents of the | 373 |
report to prepare for the in camera hearing.
Information described | 374 |
in division (G)(1) of this section that is used
by the prosecuting | 375 |
attorney or the attorney general to prepare for the in
camera | 376 |
hearing shall not be used by the prosecuting attorney, the | 377 |
attorney
general,
an employee or agent of either of them, or an | 378 |
agency described in division
(G)(4) of this section in any | 379 |
investigation or proceeding against the
respondent, and otherwise | 380 |
shall be kept confidential, unless the information
is subject to | 381 |
disclosure under this section. | 382 |
Sec. 3745.72. (A) The owner or operator of a facility or | 401 |
property who conducts an environmental audit of the facility or | 402 |
property and
promptly and voluntarily discloses information | 403 |
contained in or derived from an
audit report that is based on the | 404 |
audit and
concerns an alleged violation of environmental laws to | 405 |
the director of the
state agency that has jurisdiction over the | 406 |
alleged violation is immune from
any administrative and
civil | 407 |
penalties for the specific violation
disclosed, except that where | 408 |
the disclosed violation has
resulted in significant economic | 409 |
benefit to the owner or operator of the
facility or property, | 410 |
there is no immunity
for the economic benefit component of the | 411 |
administrative and
civil penalties for that violation.
An owner or | 412 |
operator asserting entitlement
to such immunity has the burden of | 413 |
proving that entitlement by a preponderance
of the evidence. | 414 |
(1) Within the three-year period prior to disclosure,
the | 464 |
owner or operator of a facility or property has committed | 465 |
significant violations that constitute a pattern of continuous
or | 466 |
repeated violations of environmental laws, environmental related | 467 |
settlement
agreements, or environmental related judicial orders | 468 |
and that arose from
separate and
distinct events. For the purposes | 469 |
of division
(E)(1) of this section, a
pattern of continuous or | 470 |
repeated violations also may be
demonstrated by multiple | 471 |
settlement agreements related to
substantially the same alleged | 472 |
significant violations that
occurred within the three-year period | 473 |
immediately prior to the
voluntary disclosure. Determination of | 474 |
whether a person has a
pattern of continuous or repeated | 475 |
violations under division
(E)(1) of this section shall be
based on | 476 |
the compliance history of the property or specific
facility at | 477 |
issue. | 478 |
(H) Each state agency that receives a
disclosure under this | 494 |
section promptly shall record receipt of the disclosure,
determine | 495 |
whether it has jurisdiction over the alleged violation of | 496 |
environmental laws indicated in the disclosure, and, if it does | 497 |
not have such
jurisdiction, deliver the disclosure documents to | 498 |
the director of a state
agency that has jurisdiction over the | 499 |
alleged violation. If a disclosure
indicates alleged violations of | 500 |
environmental laws that are under the
jurisdiction of more than | 501 |
one state agency, the state agency that first
receives the | 502 |
disclosure and has jurisdiction over any of the alleged
violations | 503 |
promptly shall notify the director of each state agency that has | 504 |
jurisdiction over any of such alleged violations. The director of | 505 |
each state
agency that receives a disclosure under this section, | 506 |
or is notified by
another state agency that the director's agency | 507 |
has jurisdiction over an
alleged violation of environmental laws | 508 |
indicated in the disclosure, promptly
shall deliver written
notice | 509 |
of that fact by certified mail to the owner or operator who made | 510 |
the
disclosure. The notice shall identify the state agency that | 511 |
sends the notice;
state the name, title, address, and telephone | 512 |
number of a person in the agency
whom the owner or operator may | 513 |
contact regarding the
disclosure; and state the
name, address, and | 514 |
telephone number of the director of any other state agency | 515 |
notified about the disclosure because that agency has jurisdiction | 516 |
over an
alleged violation of environmental laws indicated in the | 517 |
disclosure. | 518 |
Section 3. The General Assembly declares that the sections of | 521 |
the Revised Code that regulate persons who leave the premises of | 522 |
establishments at which gasoline is offered for retail sale | 523 |
without the person making full payment for gasoline that was | 524 |
dispensed at that establishment, including section 2913.02 of the | 525 |
Revised Code, are general laws that completely fill the field of | 526 |
regulation of that nature. Any municipal ordinance that prohibits | 527 |
establishments at which gasoline is offered for retail sale from | 528 |
requiring the prepayment of gasoline is in conflict with those | 529 |
general laws. | 530 |