Sec. 109.71. There is hereby created in the office of the | 9 |
attorney general the Ohio peace officer training commission. The | 10 |
commission shall consist of nine members appointed by the governor | 11 |
with the advice and consent of the senate and selected as
follows: | 12 |
one member representing the public; two members who are
incumbent | 13 |
sheriffs; two members who are incumbent chiefs of
police; one | 14 |
member from the bureau of criminal identification and | 15 |
investigation; one member from the state highway patrol; one | 16 |
member who is the special agent in charge of a field office of
the | 17 |
federal bureau of investigation in this state; and one member
from | 18 |
the department of education, trade and industrial
education | 19 |
services, law enforcement training. | 20 |
(1) A deputy sheriff, marshal, deputy marshal, member of
the | 27 |
organized police department of a township or municipal | 28 |
corporation, member of a township police district or joint | 29 |
township police district police force, member of a police force | 30 |
employed by a metropolitan housing authority under division (D)
of | 31 |
section 3735.31 of the Revised Code, or township constable,
who is | 32 |
commissioned and employed as a peace officer by a
political | 33 |
subdivision of this state or by a metropolitan housing
authority, | 34 |
and whose primary duties are to preserve the peace, to
protect | 35 |
life and property, and to enforce the laws of this state, | 36 |
ordinances of a municipal corporation, resolutions of a township, | 37 |
or regulations of a board of county commissioners or board of | 38 |
township trustees, or any of those laws, ordinances,
resolutions, | 39 |
or regulations; | 40 |
(6) An employee of the department of natural resources who
is | 53 |
a natural resources law enforcement staff officer designated | 54 |
pursuant to
section 1501.013, a park officer designated pursuant | 55 |
to
section
1541.10, a
forest officer designated pursuant to | 56 |
section 1503.29, a preserve
officer designated pursuant to section | 57 |
1517.10, a wildlife officer designated
pursuant to section | 58 |
1531.13, or a state watercraft
officer designated pursuant to | 59 |
section 1547.521 of the Revised
Code; | 60 |
(12) A state university law enforcement officer appointed | 75 |
under section 3345.04 of the Revised Code or a person serving as a | 76 |
state
university law enforcement officer on a permanent basis on | 77 |
June 19,
1978, who has been awarded a certificate by the executive | 78 |
director of the
Ohio peace officer training
commission
attesting | 79 |
to
the person's
satisfactory completion of an approved
state, | 80 |
county,
municipal, or department
of natural resources peace | 81 |
officer basic
training program; | 82 |
(17) A special police officer designated by the | 95 |
superintendent of the
state highway patrol pursuant to section | 96 |
5503.09 of the Revised Code
or a person who was serving as a | 97 |
special police officer pursuant
to that section
on a permanent | 98 |
basis on
October 21, 1997, and who has
been awarded a certificate | 99 |
by the executive director of the
Ohio peace officer training | 100 |
commission attesting to the person's satisfactory completion of
an | 101 |
approved state, county, municipal, or department of natural | 102 |
resources peace officer basic training program; | 103 |
(18) A special police officer employed by a port
authority | 104 |
under section
4582.04 or 4582.28 of the Revised Code
or
a person | 105 |
serving as a special police officer employed
by a port
authority | 106 |
on a permanent basis on
May
17, 2000, who has been
awarded a | 107 |
certificate by the
executive director of the Ohio
peace officer | 108 |
training
commission
attesting to the person's
satisfactory | 109 |
completion of an
approved
state, county, municipal,
or department | 110 |
of natural
resources peace
officer basic training
program; | 111 |
(19) A special police officer employed by a municipal | 112 |
corporation who has been awarded a certificate by the executive | 113 |
director of the Ohio peace officer training commission for | 114 |
satisfactory completion of an approved peace officer basic | 115 |
training program and who is employed on a permanent basis on or | 116 |
after March 19, 2003, at a municipal airport,
or other municipal | 117 |
air navigation facility, that
has scheduled
operations, as defined | 118 |
in section 119.3 of Title 14
of the Code of
Federal Regulations, | 119 |
14 C.F.R. 119.3, as amended,
and that is
required to be under a | 120 |
security program and is
governed by
aviation security rules of the | 121 |
transportation security
administration of the United States | 122 |
department of transportation
as provided in Parts 1542. and 1544. | 123 |
of Title 49 of the Code of
Federal Regulations, as amended; | 124 |
(21) A police officer who is employed by a bank, savings and | 132 |
loan association, savings bank, credit union, or association of | 133 |
banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, or credit | 134 |
unions, who has been appointed and commissioned by the secretary | 135 |
of state pursuant to sections 4973.17 to 4973.22 of the Revised | 136 |
Code, and who has been awarded a certificate by the executive | 137 |
director of the Ohio peace officer training commission attesting | 138 |
to the person's satisfactory completion of a state, county, | 139 |
municipal, or department of natural resources peace officer basic | 140 |
training program; | 141 |
(23) A state fire marshal law enforcement officer appointed | 148 |
under section 3737.22 of the Revised Code or a person serving as a | 149 |
state fire marshal law enforcement officer on a permanent basis on | 150 |
or after July 1, 1982, who has been awarded a certificate by the | 151 |
executive director of the Ohio peace officer training commission | 152 |
attesting to the person's satisfactory completion of an approved | 153 |
state, county, municipal, or department of natural resources peace | 154 |
officer basic training program; | 155 |
(4) The requirements of minimum basic training that peace | 180 |
officers appointed to probationary terms shall complete before | 181 |
being eligible for permanent appointment, which requirements
shall | 182 |
include a minimum of fifteen hours of training in the
handling of | 183 |
the offense of domestic violence, other types of
domestic | 184 |
violence-related offenses and incidents, and protection
orders and | 185 |
consent agreements issued or approved under section
2919.26 or | 186 |
3113.31 of the Revised Code; a minimum of six hours of
crisis | 187 |
intervention training; and a specified amount of training
in the | 188 |
handling of missing children and child abuse and neglect
cases; | 189 |
and the time within which such basic training shall be
completed | 190 |
following appointment to a probationary term; | 191 |
(5) The requirements of minimum basic training that peace | 192 |
officers not appointed for probationary terms but appointed on | 193 |
other than a permanent basis shall complete in order to be | 194 |
eligible for continued employment or permanent appointment, which | 195 |
requirements shall include a minimum of fifteen hours of training | 196 |
in the handling of the offense of domestic violence, other types | 197 |
of domestic violence-related offenses and incidents, and | 198 |
protection orders and consent agreements issued or approved under | 199 |
section 2919.26 or 3113.31 of the Revised Code, a minimum of six | 200 |
hours of crisis intervention training, and a specified amount of | 201 |
training in the handling of missing children and child abuse and | 202 |
neglect cases, and the time within which such basic training
shall | 203 |
be completed following appointment on other than a
permanent | 204 |
basis; | 205 |
(6) Categories or classifications of advanced in-service | 206 |
training programs for peace officers, including programs in the | 207 |
handling of the offense of domestic violence, other types of | 208 |
domestic violence-related offenses and incidents, and protection | 209 |
orders and consent agreements issued or approved under section | 210 |
2919.26 or 3113.31 of the Revised Code, in crisis intervention, | 211 |
and in the handling of missing children and child abuse and | 212 |
neglect cases, and minimum courses of study and attendance | 213 |
requirements with respect to such categories or classifications; | 214 |
(7) Permitting persons, who are employed as members of a | 215 |
campus police department appointed under section 1713.50 of the | 216 |
Revised Code; who are employed as members of a regional water and | 217 |
sewer district police department appointed under section 6119.63 | 218 |
of the Revised Code; who are employed as police officers by a | 219 |
qualified
nonprofit corporation police department pursuant to | 220 |
section
1702.80 of the Revised Code; who are appointed and | 221 |
commissioned as bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, | 222 |
credit union, or association of banks, savings and loan | 223 |
associations, savings banks, or credit unions police officers,
as | 224 |
railroad police officers, or as hospital
police officers
pursuant | 225 |
to sections 4973.17 to 4973.22 of the Revised Code; or who are | 226 |
appointed and commissioned as amusement park police officers | 227 |
pursuant to section 4973.17 of the Revised Code, to
attend | 228 |
approved peace officer training schools, including the
Ohio peace | 229 |
officer training academy, and to receive certificates
of | 230 |
satisfactory completion of basic training programs, if the
private | 231 |
college or university that established the campus police | 232 |
department; regional water and sewer district police department; | 233 |
qualified nonprofit corporation police department; bank, savings | 234 |
and loan association, savings bank, credit union, or association | 235 |
of banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, or credit | 236 |
unions;
railroad company; hospital; or amusement park sponsoring | 237 |
the police
officers pays
the entire cost of the training and | 238 |
certification
and if trainee
vacancies are available; | 239 |
(8) Permitting undercover drug agents to attend approved | 240 |
peace officer training schools, other than the Ohio peace officer | 241 |
training academy, and to receive certificates of satisfactory | 242 |
completion of basic training programs, if, for each undercover | 243 |
drug agent, the county, township, or municipal corporation that | 244 |
employs that undercover drug agent pays the entire cost of the | 245 |
training and certification; | 246 |
(B) The commission shall appoint an executive director,
with | 269 |
the approval of the attorney general, who shall hold office
during | 270 |
the pleasure of the commission. The executive
director shall | 271 |
perform such duties assigned by the
commission. The
executive | 272 |
director
shall receive a salary fixed pursuant to
Chapter 124. of | 273 |
the
Revised Code and reimbursement for expenses
within the amounts | 274 |
available by appropriation. The executive
director may appoint | 275 |
officers, employees, agents, and consultants
as the executive | 276 |
director considers
necessary, prescribe their
duties, and provide | 277 |
for reimbursement
of their expenses within the
amounts available | 278 |
for reimbursement
by appropriation and with the
approval of the | 279 |
commission. | 280 |
(D) In establishing the requirements, under division (A)(12) | 301 |
of this section, the commission may consider any portions of the | 302 |
curriculum for instruction on the topic of animal husbandry | 303 |
practices, if any, of the Ohio state university college of | 304 |
veterinary medicine. No person or entity that fails to provide | 305 |
instruction on traditional animal husbandry methods and training | 306 |
techniques, including customary owner-performed practices, shall | 307 |
qualify to train a humane agent for appointment under section | 308 |
1717.06 of the Revised Code. | 309 |
(B)(1) Notwithstanding any general, special,
or local law or | 312 |
charter to the contrary, and except as otherwise
provided in this | 313 |
section, no person shall receive an original
appointment on a | 314 |
permanent basis as any of the following unless
the person | 315 |
previously has been awarded a certificate by the
executive | 316 |
director of the Ohio peace officer training commission
attesting | 317 |
to the person's satisfactory completion of an approved
state, | 318 |
county, municipal, or department of natural resources
peace | 319 |
officer basic training program: | 320 |
(i) A special police officer employed by a municipal | 341 |
corporation at a municipal airport, or other municipal air | 342 |
navigation facility, that has scheduled operations, as defined in | 343 |
section 119.3 of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations, 14 | 344 |
C.F.R. 119.3, as amended, and that is required to be under a | 345 |
security program and is governed by aviation security rules of the | 346 |
transportation security administration of the United States | 347 |
department of transportation as provided in Parts 1542. and 1544. | 348 |
of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as amended; | 349 |
(2) Every person who is appointed on a temporary basis or
for | 353 |
a probationary term or on other than a permanent basis as any
of | 354 |
the following shall forfeit the appointed position unless
the | 355 |
person previously has completed
satisfactorily or, within the time | 356 |
prescribed by rules adopted by the attorney general pursuant to | 357 |
section 109.74 of the Revised Code, satisfactorily completes a | 358 |
state, county, municipal, or department of natural resources
peace | 359 |
officer basic training program for temporary or
probationary | 360 |
officers and is awarded a certificate by the
director attesting to | 361 |
the satisfactory completion of the program: | 362 |
(h) A special police officer employed by a municipal | 382 |
corporation at a municipal airport, or other municipal air | 383 |
navigation facility, that has scheduled operations, as defined in | 384 |
section 119.3 of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations, 14 | 385 |
C.F.R. 119.3, as amended, and that is required to be under a | 386 |
security program and is governed by aviation security rules of the | 387 |
transportation security administration of the United States | 388 |
department of transportation as provided in Parts 1542. and 1544. | 389 |
of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as amended; | 390 |
(3) For purposes of division (B) of this section, a state, | 394 |
county, municipal, or department of natural resources peace | 395 |
officer basic training program, regardless of whether the program | 396 |
is to be completed by peace officers appointed on a permanent or | 397 |
temporary, probationary, or other nonpermanent basis, shall | 398 |
include at least fifteen hours of training in the handling of the | 399 |
offense of domestic violence, other types of domestic | 400 |
violence-related offenses and incidents, and protection orders
and | 401 |
consent agreements issued or approved under section 2919.26
or | 402 |
3113.31 of the Revised Code and at least six hours of crisis | 403 |
intervention training. The requirement to complete fifteen hours | 404 |
of training in the handling of the offense of domestic violence, | 405 |
other types of domestic violence-related offenses and incidents, | 406 |
and protection orders and consent agreements issued or approved | 407 |
under section 2919.26 or 3113.31 of the Revised Code does not | 408 |
apply to any person serving as a peace officer on March 27, 1979, | 409 |
and the requirement to complete six hours of training in crisis | 410 |
intervention does not apply to any person serving as a peace | 411 |
officer on April 4, 1985. Any person who is serving as a peace | 412 |
officer on April 4, 1985, who terminates that employment after | 413 |
that date, and who subsequently is hired as a peace officer by
the | 414 |
same or another law enforcement agency shall complete the six | 415 |
hours of training in crisis intervention within the time | 416 |
prescribed by rules adopted by the attorney general pursuant to | 417 |
section 109.742 of the Revised Code. No peace officer shall have | 418 |
employment as a peace officer terminated and then be reinstated | 419 |
with intent to
circumvent this section. | 420 |
(4) Division (B) of this section does not apply to any
person | 421 |
serving on a permanent basis on March 28, 1985, as a park
officer, | 422 |
forest officer, preserve officer, wildlife officer, or
state | 423 |
watercraft officer of the department of natural resources
or
as an | 424 |
employee of a park district under section 511.232 or
1545.13
of | 425 |
the Revised Code, to any person serving on a permanent
basis on | 426 |
March 6, 1986, as an employee of a conservancy district
designated | 427 |
pursuant to section 6101.75 of the Revised Code, to
any person | 428 |
serving on a permanent basis on January 10, 1991, as a
preserve | 429 |
officer of the department of natural resources, to
any person | 430 |
employed on a permanent basis on July 2, 1992, as a
special police | 431 |
officer by the
department of mental health pursuant to section | 432 |
5119.14 of the
Revised Code or by the department of mental | 433 |
retardation and
developmental disabilities pursuant to section | 434 |
5123.13 of the
Revised Code, to any person serving on a permanent | 435 |
basis on
May 17, 2000, as a
special
police officer employed by a | 436 |
port authority under section
4582.04 or 4582.28
of the Revised | 437 |
Code,
to any person serving on a
permanent basis on the effective | 438 |
date of this amendmentMarch 19, 2003, as a
special police officer | 439 |
employed by a municipal corporation at a
municipal airport or | 440 |
other municipal air navigation facility
described in division | 441 |
(A)(19) of section 109.71 of the Revised
Code, to any person | 442 |
serving on a permanent basis on
June 19, 1978,
as a state | 443 |
university law enforcement officer pursuant
to section
3345.04 of | 444 |
the Revised Code and who, immediately prior to June 19,
1978, was | 445 |
serving as a special police officer
designated under
authority of | 446 |
that section, or to any person serving
on a permanent
basis on | 447 |
September 20, 1984, as a liquor control
investigator,
known after | 448 |
June 30, 1999, as an enforcement agent of
the
department of public | 449 |
safety, engaged in the enforcement of
Chapters 4301. and 4303. of | 450 |
the Revised Code. | 451 |
(5) Division (B) of this section does not apply to any
person | 452 |
who is appointed as a regional transit authority police
officer | 453 |
pursuant to division (Y) of section 306.35 of the Revised
Code if, | 454 |
on or
before July 1, 1996, the person has completed
satisfactorily | 455 |
an approved
state, county, municipal, or department
of natural | 456 |
resources peace officer
basic training program and has
been | 457 |
awarded a certificate by the executive
director of the Ohio
peace | 458 |
officer training commission attesting to the
person's
satisfactory | 459 |
completion of such an approved program and if, on
July 1, 1996, | 460 |
the person is performing peace officer functions for
a
regional | 461 |
transit authority. | 462 |
(C) No person, after September 20, 1984, shall receive an | 463 |
original appointment on a permanent basis as a veterans'
home | 464 |
police
officer
designated under section
5907.02 of the
Revised | 465 |
Code unless the person previously has been awarded a
certificate | 466 |
by the executive director of the Ohio peace officer
training | 467 |
commission
attesting to the person's satisfactory
completion of an | 468 |
approved
police officer basic training program.
Every person who | 469 |
is appointed
on
a temporary basis or for a
probationary term or on | 470 |
other than a
permanent basis as a
veterans' home police officer | 471 |
designated under section 5907.02 of
the Revised Code shall
forfeit | 472 |
that position unless the person
previously has
completed | 473 |
satisfactorily or, within one year from
the time of appointment, | 474 |
satisfactorily completes an approved
police officer basic training | 475 |
program. | 476 |
Upon receipt of the
executive director's request, the bureau
| 514 |
of criminal identification and investigation and the
federal | 515 |
bureau of investigation shall conduct a criminal history
records | 516 |
check on the person and, upon completion of the check,
shall | 517 |
provide a copy of the criminal history records
check to the
| 518 |
executive director. The
executive director shall not award any | 519 |
certificate prescribed in
this section
unless the executive | 520 |
director has received a copy of
the criminal history
records check | 521 |
on the person to whom the
certificate is to be awarded. | 522 |
(2) The executive director of the commission shall suspend | 549 |
any
certificate that has been awarded to a person as prescribed in | 550 |
this section if the person is convicted, after trial, of a
felony | 551 |
committed on or after January 1,
1997. The executive director | 552 |
shall suspend the certificate
pursuant to division (F)(2) of this | 553 |
section
pending the outcome of an appeal by the
person from that | 554 |
conviction to the
highest court to which the appeal is taken or | 555 |
until the
expiration of the period in which an appeal is required | 556 |
to be
filed. If the person files an appeal that results in that | 557 |
person's
acquittal of the felony or conviction of a misdemeanor, | 558 |
or in the dismissal of
the felony charge against that person, the | 559 |
executive
director shall reinstate the certificate awarded to the | 560 |
person
under this section. If the person files an appeal from
that | 561 |
person's
conviction of the felony and the conviction is
upheld by | 562 |
the highest court to which the appeal is taken or if
the
person | 563 |
does not file a timely appeal, the executive director
shall
revoke | 564 |
the certificate awarded to the person under this
section. | 565 |
(H)(1) A person who was employed as a peace officer of a | 574 |
county, township, or municipal corporation of the state on
January | 575 |
1, 1966, and who has completed at least sixteen years of
full-time | 576 |
active service as such a peace officer may receive an
original | 577 |
appointment on a permanent basis and serve as a peace
officer of a | 578 |
county, township, or municipal corporation, or as a
state | 579 |
university law enforcement officer, without complying with
the | 580 |
requirements of division (B) of this section. | 581 |
(I) No person who is appointed as a peace officer of a | 588 |
county, township, or municipal corporation on or after April 9, | 589 |
1985, shall serve as a peace officer of that county, township, or | 590 |
municipal corporation unless the person has received training in | 591 |
the
handling of missing children and child abuse and neglect cases | 592 |
from an approved state, county, township, or municipal police | 593 |
officer basic training program or receives the training within the | 594 |
time
prescribed by rules adopted by the attorney general pursuant | 595 |
to
section 109.741 of the Revised Code. | 596 |
(J) No part of any approved state, county, or municipal
basic | 597 |
training program for bailiffs and deputy bailiffs of courts
of | 598 |
record and no part of any approved state, county, or municipal | 599 |
basic training program for criminal investigators employed by the | 600 |
state public defender shall be used as credit toward the | 601 |
completion by a peace officer of any part of the approved state, | 602 |
county, or municipal peace officer basic training program that
the | 603 |
peace officer is required by this section to complete | 604 |
satisfactorily. | 605 |
Sec. 6119.61. Subject to the requirements and limitations | 622 |
established in sections 6119.60 to 6119.64 of the Revised Code, | 623 |
the board of trustees of a regional water and sewer district may | 624 |
establish a police department to provide police services within or | 625 |
at facilities that are owned, operated, or leased by the district | 626 |
within one or more political subdivisions, provided that the | 627 |
district has entered into an authorizing agreement with each | 628 |
political subdivision within which it intends to provide police | 629 |
services. | 630 |
Sec. 6119.62. (A) A regional water and sewer district | 631 |
seeking to establish a police department under sections 6119.60 to | 632 |
6119.64 of the Revised Code shall enter into an authorizing | 633 |
agreement with each political subdivision within which the | 634 |
district intends to provide police services within or at | 635 |
facilities that are owned, operated, or leased by the district. | 636 |
Such an agreement shall be entered into with the chief of police | 637 |
of the political subdivision by the board of trustees of the | 638 |
district and shall apply only to that political subdivision. The | 639 |
district shall enter into a separate authorizing agreement with | 640 |
each political subdivision within which the police department of | 641 |
the district will provide police services. | 642 |
(C) An authorizing agreement shall not require, or contain | 660 |
any provision granting authority to, the chief of police or any | 661 |
other officer, official, or employee of a political subdivision to | 662 |
appoint, or to approve or disapprove the appointment of, a police | 663 |
officer of a regional water and sewer district police department. | 664 |
An authorizing agreement shall comply with any applicable | 665 |
provisions of the Revised Code and with any charter, ordinance, | 666 |
resolution, or regulation of the applicable political subdivision | 667 |
that may apply to it. | 668 |
Sec. 6119.63. (A) The board of trustees of a regional water | 669 |
and sewer district that establishes a police department under | 670 |
sections 6119.60 to 6119.64 of the Revised Code may appoint and | 671 |
employ persons as police officers of the department. District | 672 |
police officers shall have the power and duty to act as peace | 673 |
officers within or at facilities that are owned, operated, or | 674 |
leased by the district, to protect the regional water and sewer | 675 |
district's property, to preserve the peace, and to enforce all | 676 |
laws of the state and all charter provisions, ordinances, | 677 |
resolutions, and regulations of political subdivisions with which | 678 |
the district has authorizing agreements. | 679 |
(B) A person who is appointed and employed as a police | 694 |
officer by a regional water and sewer district police department | 695 |
under this section may act as a police officer only to the extent | 696 |
and in the manner described in sections 6119.60 to 6119.64 of the | 697 |
Revised Code and in rules of the district when directly engaged in | 698 |
the discharge of that person's duties as a police officer for the | 699 |
district. Before exercising powers of arrest and other powers and | 700 |
duties of a peace officer, a regional water and sewer district | 701 |
police officer shall take an oath and give bond to the state, in | 702 |
an amount that the board of trustees of the district prescribes, | 703 |
for the proper exercise of those powers. | 704 |
(b) The board of trustees of a district shall suspend from | 720 |
employment a police officer of its police department if the police | 721 |
officer is convicted, after trial, of a felony. If the police | 722 |
officer files an appeal from that conviction and the conviction is | 723 |
upheld by the highest court to which the appeal is taken or if the | 724 |
police officer does not file a timely appeal, the board shall | 725 |
terminate the employment of the police officer. If the police | 726 |
officer files an appeal that results in the police officer's | 727 |
acquittal of the felony or conviction of a misdemeanor, or in the | 728 |
dismissal of the felony charge against the police officer, the | 729 |
board shall reinstate the police officer. A police officer who is | 730 |
reinstated under division (B)(2)(b) of this section shall not | 731 |
receive any back pay unless the police officer's conviction of the | 732 |
felony was reversed on appeal, or the felony charge was dismissed, | 733 |
because the court found insufficient evidence to convict the | 734 |
police officer of the felony. | 735 |
Sec. 6119.64. If a regional water and sewer district | 736 |
establishes a police department under sections 6119.60 to 6119.64 | 737 |
of the Revised Code, the district, within the geographical | 738 |
territory of a political subdivision with which the district has | 739 |
entered into an authorizing agreement, concurrently with the | 740 |
political subdivision shall preserve the peace, protect persons | 741 |
and property, enforce the laws of the state, and enforce the | 742 |
charter provisions, ordinances, resolutions, and regulations, as | 743 |
applicable, of the political subdivision that apply within that | 744 |
geographical territory. Except as limited by the terms of the | 745 |
authorizing agreement, a police officer who is appointed and | 746 |
employed by a police department established by a district and who | 747 |
satisfies the requirement established in division (A)(1) of | 748 |
section 6119.63 of the Revised Code is vested, while directly in | 749 |
the discharge of that police officer's duties as a police officer, | 750 |
with the same powers and authority as are vested in a police | 751 |
officer of a political subdivision under Title XXIX of the Revised | 752 |
Code and the Rules of Criminal Procedure and with the same powers | 753 |
and authority, including the operation of a public safety vehicle, | 754 |
as are vested in a police officer of a political subdivision under | 755 |
Chapter 4511. of the Revised Code. In addition, a police officer | 756 |
who is appointed and employed by a police department established | 757 |
by a district may render emergency assistance to another peace | 758 |
officer if there is a threat of imminent physical danger to the | 759 |
peace officer, a threat of physical harm to another person, or any | 760 |
other serious emergency situation and if either the peace officer | 761 |
who is assisted requests emergency assistance or it appears that | 762 |
the peace officer who is assisted is unable to request emergency | 763 |
assistance and the circumstances observed by the regional water | 764 |
and sewer district police officer reasonably indicate that | 765 |
emergency assistance is appropriate. | 766 |
Section 3. Section 109.77 of the Revised Code is presented | 769 |
in
this act as a composite of the section as amended by Am. Sub. | 770 |
H.B. 490, Sub. H.B. 545, and H.B. 675 of
the 124th General | 771 |
Assembly. The General Assembly, applying the
principle stated in | 772 |
division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised
Code that amendments | 773 |
are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of
simultaneous | 774 |
operation, finds that the composite is the resulting
version of | 775 |
the section in effect prior to the effective date of
the section | 776 |
as presented in this act. | 777 |