| Sec. 2950.05. (A) If an offender
or delinquent child is | 13 |
|
required to
register
pursuant to section 2950.04 or 2950.041 of | 14 |
| the Revised
Code, the offender
or delinquent
child,
at least
| 15 |
|
twenty days
prior
to
changing the offender's
or delinquent child's | 16 |
| residence
address, or the offender, at least twenty days prior to | 17 |
| changing the address of the offender's school or institution of | 18 |
| higher education and not later than five days after changing the | 19 |
| address of the offender's place of employment,
during
the period | 20 |
| during which the
offender
or delinquent
child is
required to | 21 |
| register, shall provide
written
notice of the
residence, school, | 22 |
| institution of higher education, or place of employment address | 23 |
| change, as applicable, to the sheriff
with whom the offender
or | 24 |
|
delinquent child most recently registered the address
under | 25 |
| section 2950.04 or 2950.041 of
the
Revised Code or under division | 26 |
| (B) of this section. If a residence address change is not to a | 27 |
| fixed address, the offender or delinquent child shall include in | 28 |
| that notice a detailed description of the place or places at which | 29 |
| the offender or delinquent child intends to stay and, not later | 30 |
| than the end of the first business day immediately following the | 31 |
| day on which the person obtains a fixed residence address, shall | 32 |
| provide that sheriff written notice of that fixed residence | 33 |
| address. If a person whose residence address change is not to a | 34 |
| fixed address describes in a notice under this division the place | 35 |
| or places at which the person intends to stay, for purposes of | 36 |
| divisions (C) to (H) of this section, sections 2950.06 to 2950.13 | 37 |
| of the Revised Code, and sections 311.171 and 2919.24 of the | 38 |
| Revised Code, the place or places so described in the notice shall | 39 |
| be considered the person's residence address and registered | 40 |
| residence address, until the person provides the written notice of | 41 |
| a fixed residence address as described in this division. | 42 |
| (B) If an offender
is required to
provide notice of a | 43 |
| residence, school, institution of higher education, or place of | 44 |
| employment address change under division
(A) of
this section, or a | 45 |
| delinquent child is required to provide notice of a residence | 46 |
| address change under that division, the offender
or delinquent | 47 |
| child, at least
twenty
days prior to
changing the residence, | 48 |
| school, or institution of higher education address and not later | 49 |
| than five days after changing the place of employment address, as | 50 |
| applicable, also shall
register
the new address in the manner | 51 |
| described in
divisions (B)
and (C) of section 2950.04 or 2950.041 | 52 |
| of the
Revised Code, whichever is applicable, with
the sheriff of | 53 |
|
the county in
which the offender's
or delinquent
child's new
| 54 |
| address is
located, subject to division (C)
of this
section. If a | 55 |
| residence address change is not to a fixed address, the offender | 56 |
| or delinquent child shall include in the registration a detailed | 57 |
| description of the place or places at which the offender or | 58 |
| delinquent child intends to stay and, not later than the end of | 59 |
| the first business day immediately following the day on which the | 60 |
| person obtains a fixed residence address, shall register with that | 61 |
| sheriff that fixed residence address. If a person whose residence | 62 |
| address change is not to a fixed address describes in a | 63 |
| registration under this division the place or places at which the | 64 |
| person intends to stay, for purposes of divisions (C) to (H) of | 65 |
| this section, sections 2950.06 to 2950.13 of the Revised Code, and | 66 |
| sections 311.171 and 2919.24 of the Revised Code, the place or | 67 |
| places so described in the registration shall be considered the | 68 |
| person's residence address and registered residence address, until | 69 |
| the person registers a fixed residence address as described in | 70 |
| this division. | 71 |
| (C) Divisions (A) and (B) of this section apply
to a person | 72 |
|
who is required to register pursuant to
section 2950.04 or | 73 |
| 2950.041 of the
Revised Code regardless of whether the new | 74 |
| residence, school, institution of higher education, or place of | 75 |
| employment
address is in
this state or in another state. If the | 76 |
| new address is
in another state, the person shall register with | 77 |
| the appropriate
law
enforcement officials in that state in the | 78 |
| manner required
under the law of
that state and within the earlier | 79 |
| of the period
of time required under the law
of that state or at | 80 |
| least seven
days prior to changing the address. | 81 |
| (D)(1) Upon receiving from an offender
or delinquent child | 82 |
|
pursuant to
division
(A) of this section notice of a change of the | 83 |
|
offender's
residence, school, institution of higher education, or | 84 |
| place of employment address or the delinquent child's residence | 85 |
| address, a sheriff
promptly
shall
forward the new address to the | 86 |
| bureau of
criminal
identification and investigation in accordance | 87 |
| with the
forwarding procedures
adopted pursuant to section 2950.13 | 88 |
| of the
Revised Code
if the new address is in another state or,
if | 89 |
| the new
address is
located in another county in this state, to the | 90 |
| sheriff
of that
county. The bureau
shall include all information | 91 |
| forwarded to it
under this division in the state
registry of sex | 92 |
| offenders and child-victim offenders
established and maintained | 93 |
| under section 2950.13 of
the Revised
Code and shall forward
notice | 94 |
| of the offender's
or delinquent
child's new residence, school, | 95 |
| institution of higher education, or place of employment address, | 96 |
| as applicable, to
the appropriate officials in the
other state. | 97 |
| (2) When an offender
registers a new
residence, school, | 98 |
| institution of higher education, or place of employment
address or | 99 |
| a delinquent child registers a new residence address pursuant to | 100 |
|
division (B) of this section, the
sheriff with whom the offender | 101 |
|
or delinquent child registers and
the bureau of criminal | 102 |
|
identification and investigation shall
comply with division
(D) of | 103 |
| section 2950.04 or 2950.041 of the Revised Code, whichever is | 104 |
| applicable. | 105 |
| (F)(1) It is an affirmative defense to a charge of a | 116 |
| violation of division (E)(1) of this section that it was | 117 |
| impossible for the person to provide the written notice to the | 118 |
| sheriff as required under division (A) of this section because of | 119 |
| a lack of knowledge, on the date specified for the provision of | 120 |
| the written notice, of a residence, school, institution of higher | 121 |
| education, or place of employment address change, and that the | 122 |
| person provided notice of the residence, school, institution of | 123 |
| higher education, or place of employment address change to the | 124 |
| sheriff specified in division (A) of this section as soon as | 125 |
| possible after learning of the address change by doing either of | 126 |
| the following: | 127 |
| (a) The person provided notice of the address change to the | 128 |
| sheriff specified in division (A) of this section by telephone | 129 |
| immediately upon learning of the address change or, if the person | 130 |
| did not have reasonable access to a telephone at that time, as | 131 |
| soon as possible after learning of the address change and having | 132 |
| reasonable access to a telephone, and the person, as soon as | 133 |
| possible after providing notice of the address change to the | 134 |
| sheriff by telephone, provided written notice of the address | 135 |
| change to that sheriff. | 136 |
| (2) It is an affirmative defense to a charge of a violation | 140 |
| of division (E)(2) of this section that it was impossible for the | 141 |
| person to register the new address with the sheriff or the | 142 |
| official of the other state as required under division (B) or (C) | 143 |
| of this section because of a lack of knowledge, on the date | 144 |
| specified for the registration of the new address, of a residence, | 145 |
| school, institution of higher education, or place of employment | 146 |
| address change, and that the person registered the new residence, | 147 |
| school, institution of higher education, or place of employment | 148 |
| address with the sheriff or the official of the other state | 149 |
| specified in division (B) or (C) of this section as soon as | 150 |
| possible after learning of the address change by doing either of | 151 |
| the following: | 152 |
| (a) The person provided notice of the new address to the | 153 |
| sheriff or official specified in division (B) or (C) of this | 154 |
| section by telephone immediately upon learning of the new address | 155 |
| or, if the person did not have reasonable access to a telephone at | 156 |
| that time, as soon as possible after learning of the new address | 157 |
| and having reasonable access to a telephone, and the person, as | 158 |
| soon as possible after providing notice of the new address to the | 159 |
| sheriff or official by telephone, registered the new address with | 160 |
| that sheriff or official in accordance with division (B) or (C) of | 161 |
| this section. | 162 |
| (H) As used in this section, and in all other sections of the | 171 |
| Revised Code that refer to the duties imposed on an offender or | 172 |
| delinquent child under this section relative to a change in the | 173 |
| offender's or delinquent child's residence, school, institution of | 174 |
| higher education, or place of employment address, "change in | 175 |
| address" includes any circumstance in which the old address for | 176 |
| the person in question no longer is accurate, regardless of | 177 |
| whether the person in question has a new address. | 178 |