(B) There is hereby established the state victims assistance | 22 |
advisory council. The council shall consist of a chairperson, to | 23 |
be appointed by the attorney general, three ex officio members, | 24 |
and fifteen members to be appointed by the attorney general as | 25 |
follows: one member who represents the Ohio victim-witness | 26 |
association; three members who represent local victim assistance | 27 |
programs, including one from a municipally operated program and | 28 |
one from a county-operated program; one member who represents the | 29 |
interests of elderly victims; one member who is a board member of | 30 |
any statewide or local organization that exists primarily to aid | 31 |
victims of domestic violence, or who is an employee of, or | 32 |
counselor for, such an organization; one member who represents | 33 |
rape crisis centers; one member who is an employee or officer of a | 34 |
county probation department or a probation department operated by | 35 |
the department of rehabilitation and correction; one member who is | 36 |
a county prosecuting attorney; one member who is a city law | 37 |
director; one member who is a county sheriff; one member who is a | 38 |
member or officer of a township or municipal police department; | 39 |
one member who is a court of common pleas judge; one member who is | 40 |
a municipal court judge or county court judge; and two members who | 41 |
are private citizens and are not government employees. | 42 |
Members of the council shall serve without compensation, but | 48 |
shall be reimbursed for travel and other necessary expenses that | 49 |
are incurred in the conduct of their official duties as members of | 50 |
the council. The chairperson and members of the council appointed | 51 |
by the attorney general shall serve at the pleasure of the | 52 |
attorney general. The attorney general shall serve on the council | 53 |
until the end of the term of office that qualified the attorney | 54 |
general for membership on the council. The member of the senate | 55 |
and the member of the house of representatives shall serve at the | 56 |
pleasure of the president of the senate and the speaker of the | 57 |
house of representatives, respectively. | 58 |
(b) Programs offering or proposing to offer the broadest | 74 |
range of services and referrals to the community served, including | 75 |
medical, psychological, financial, educational, vocational, and | 76 |
legal services that were not in existence on July 1, 1985, shall | 77 |
be given second priority; | 78 |
(B) There is hereby created in the state treasury the rape | 119 |
crisis program trust fund, consisting of moneys paid into the fund | 120 |
pursuant to section 2949.095 of the Revised Code out of the | 121 |
additional court costs imposed under that section and any moneys | 122 |
appropriated to the fund by the general assembly. The attorney | 123 |
general shall administer the fund. The attorney general may use | 124 |
not more than five per cent of the moneys deposited or | 125 |
appropriated into the fund to pay costs associated with | 126 |
administering this section and shall use at least ninety-five per | 127 |
cent of the moneys deposited or appropriated into the fund for the | 128 |
purpose of providing funding to eligible rape crisis centers under | 129 |
this section. | 130 |
(2) The juvenile court in which a child is found to be a | 163 |
delinquent child or a juvenile traffic offender for an act which, | 164 |
if committed by an adult, would be an offense other than a traffic | 165 |
offense that is not a moving violation, shall impose the following | 166 |
sum as costs in the case in addition to any other court costs that | 167 |
the court is required or permitted by law to impose upon the | 168 |
delinquent child or juvenile traffic offender: | 169 |
The thirtyfifty- or nine dollarsfifteen-dollar court costs | 174 |
cost shall be collected in all cases unless the court determines | 175 |
the juvenile is indigent and waives the payment of all court | 176 |
costs, or enters an order on its journal stating that it has | 177 |
determined that the juvenile is indigent, that no other court | 178 |
costs are to be taxed in the case, and that the payment of the | 179 |
thirtyfifty- or nine dollarsfifteen-dollar court costscost is | 180 |
waived. All such moneys collected during a month shall be | 181 |
transmitted on or before the twentieth day of the following month | 182 |
by the clerk of the court to the treasurer of state and deposited | 183 |
by the treasurer in the reparations fund. | 184 |
(B) Whenever a person is charged with any offense other than | 185 |
a traffic offense that is not a moving violation and posts bail | 186 |
pursuant to sections 2937.22 to 2937.46 of the Revised Code, | 187 |
Criminal Rule 46, or Traffic Rule 4, the court shall add to the | 188 |
amount of the bail the thirtyfifty or ninefifteen dollars | 189 |
required to be paid by division (A)(1) of this section. The thirty | 190 |
fifty or ninefifteen dollars shall be retained by the clerk of | 191 |
the court until the person is convicted, pleads guilty, forfeits | 192 |
bail, is found not guilty, or has the charges dismissed. If the | 193 |
person is convicted, pleads guilty, or forfeits bail, the clerk | 194 |
shall transmit the thirtyfifty or ninefifteen dollars to the | 195 |
treasurer of state, who shall deposit it in the reparations fund. | 196 |
If the person is found not guilty or the charges are dismissed, | 197 |
the clerk shall return the thirtyfifty or ninefifteen dollars to | 198 |
the person. | 199 |
(1) "Moving violation" means any violation of any statute or | 205 |
ordinance, other than section 4513.263 of the Revised Code or an | 206 |
ordinance that is substantially equivalent to that section, that | 207 |
regulates the operation of vehicles, streetcars, or trackless | 208 |
trolleys on highways or streets or that regulates size or load | 209 |
limitations or fitness requirements of vehicles. "Moving | 210 |
violation" does not include the violation of any statute or | 211 |
ordinance that regulates pedestrians or the parking of vehicles. | 212 |
(2) "Bail" means cash, a check, a money order, a credit card, | 213 |
or any other form of money that is posted by or for an offender | 214 |
pursuant to sections 2937.22 to 2937.46 of the Revised Code, | 215 |
Criminal Rule 46, or Traffic Rule 4 to prevent the offender from | 216 |
being placed or held in a detention facility, as defined in | 217 |
section 2921.01 of the Revised Code. | 218 |
Sec. 2949.092. If a person is convicted of or pleads guilty | 219 |
to an offense and the court specifically is required, pursuant to | 220 |
section 2743.70, 2949.091, 2949.093, or 2949.094, or 2949.095 of | 221 |
the Revised Code or pursuant to any other section of the Revised | 222 |
Code to impose a specified sum of money as costs in the case in | 223 |
addition to any other costs that the court is required or | 224 |
permitted by law to impose in the case, the court shall not waive | 225 |
the payment of the specified additional court costs that the | 226 |
section of the Revised Code specifically requires the court to | 227 |
impose unless the court determines that the offender is indigent | 228 |
and the court waives the payment of all court costs imposed upon | 229 |
the offender. | 230 |
The clerk may retain one dollar out of each | 236 |
one-hundred-dollar court cost collected under this division as a | 237 |
service charge of the clerk's office. The clerk of the court shall | 238 |
transmit on or before the twentieth day of the following month all | 239 |
moneys collected pursuant to this division during a month, after | 240 |
deduction of any service charges allowed and retained under this | 241 |
division, to the treasurer of state. The treasurer of state shall | 242 |
deposit all moneys received pursuant to this section into the | 243 |
state treasury to the credit of the rape crisis trust fund | 244 |
established under section 109.921 of the Revised Code. The court | 245 |
shall not waive the payment of the additional one-hundred-dollar | 246 |
court cost unless the court determines that the offender is | 247 |
indigent and waives the payment of all court costs imposed upon | 248 |
the indigent offender. | 249 |
(B) Whenever a person is charged with any sexually oriented | 250 |
offense and posts bail, the court shall add to the amount of the | 251 |
bail the one hundred dollars required to be paid by division (A) | 252 |
of this section. The clerk of the court shall retain the one | 253 |
hundred dollars until the person is convicted, pleads guilty, | 254 |
forfeits bail, is found not guilty, or has the charges dismissed. | 255 |
If the person is convicted, pleads guilty, or forfeits bail, the | 256 |
clerk may retain one dollar out of each one-hundred-dollar court | 257 |
cost collected under this division as a service charge of the | 258 |
clerk's office. The clerk shall transmit the one hundred dollars, | 259 |
after deduction of any service charges allowed and retained under | 260 |
this division, on or before the twentieth day of the month | 261 |
following the month in which the person was convicted, pleaded | 262 |
guilty, or forfeited bail to the treasurer of state. The treasurer | 263 |
of state shall deposit that money into the state treasury to the | 264 |
credit of the rape crisis trust fund established under section | 265 |
109.921 of the Revised Code. If the person is found not guilty or | 266 |
the charges are dismissed, the clerk shall return the one hundred | 267 |
dollars to the person. | 268 |