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(128th General Assembly)
(Amended Substitute House Bill Number 238)
AN ACT
To amend sections 124.81, 141.04, 1901.01, 1901.02,
1901.021, 1901.03, 1901.06, 1901.07, 1901.08,
1901.31, 1901.312, 1901.32, 1901.34, 1905.01,
1907.11, 1907.18, 1907.26, 2903.213, 2919.26,
3105.171, 3105.63, and 3105.65 of the Revised Code
to require the court in divorce or legal
separation proceedings to require the spouses to
fully disclose their assets and to include
nondisclosure of assets as financial misconduct,
to permit a court to modify a division of property
in a divorce decree or decree of dissolution of
marriage upon the express written consent or
agreement of both spouses, to eliminate the
prohibition against a municipal or county court
judge being eligible for life insurance coverage
from a county or other political subdivision, to
change the statutory designation of the Chardon,
Lyndhurst, and Miamisburg Municipal Court judges
from part-time to full-time judges, to prohibit a
county court judge from retaining a fee for
performing a marriage ceremony, to remove the
statutorily required notice regarding possessing
or purchasing a firearm when subject to certain
nondomestic violence protection orders issued as a
pretrial condition of release, to modify the
notice requirements regarding possessing or
purchasing a firearm when subject to a domestic
violence-related temporary protection order, to
create the Putnam County Municipal Court in Ottawa
on January 1, 2011, to establish one full-time
judgeship in that court, to provide for the
nomination of the judge by petition only, to
abolish the Putnam County County Court on that
date, to designate the Putnam County Clerk of
Courts as the clerk of the Putnam County Municipal
Court, to provide for the election for the Putnam
County Municipal Court of one full-time judge in
2011, to make deputy sheriffs ex officio bailiffs
of municipal courts, to create the Montgomery
County Municipal Court on July 1, 2010; to abolish
the Montgomery County County Court on that date;
to designate the Montgomery County Clerk of Courts
as the Clerk of the Montgomery County Municipal
Court; to provide for the election for the
Montgomery County Municipal Court of one full-time
judge and one part-time judge in 2011 and one
full-time and one part-time judge in 2013; and to
abolish one of the four judgeships by December 31,
2015, and one of the remaining three judgeships by
December 31, 2021.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:
SECTION 1. That sections 124.81, 141.04, 1901.01, 1901.02,
1901.021, 1901.03, 1901.06, 1901.07, 1901.08, 1901.31, 1901.312,
1901.32, 1901.34, 1905.01, 1907.11, 1907.18, 1907.26, 2903.213,
2919.26, 3105.171, 3105.63, and 3105.65 of the Revised Code be
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 124.81. (A) Except as provided in division (F) of this
section, the department of administrative services in consultation
with the superintendent of insurance shall negotiate with and, in
accordance with the competitive selection procedures of Chapter
125. of the Revised Code, contract with one or more insurance
companies authorized to do business in this state, for the
issuance of one of the following:
(1) A policy of group life insurance covering all state
employees who are paid directly by warrant of the state auditor,
including elected state officials;
(2) A combined policy, or coordinated policies of one or more
insurance companies or health insuring corporations in combination
with one or more insurance companies providing group life and
health, medical, hospital, dental, or surgical insurance, or any
combination thereof, covering all such employees;
(3) A policy that may include, but is not limited to,
hospitalization, surgical, major medical, dental, vision, and
medical care, disability, hearing aids, prescription drugs, group
life, life, sickness, and accident insurance, group legal
services, or a combination of the above benefits for some or all
of the employees paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the
Revised Code and for some or all of the employees listed in
divisions (B)(2) and (4) of section 124.14 of the Revised Code,
and their immediate dependents.
(B) The department of administrative services in consultation
with the superintendent of insurance shall negotiate with and, in
accordance with the competitive selection procedures of Chapter
125. of the Revised Code, contract with one or more insurance
companies authorized to do business in this state, for the
issuance of a policy of group life insurance covering all
municipal and county court judges. The amount of such coverage
shall be an amount equal to the aggregate salary set forth for
each municipal court judge in sections 141.04 and 1901.11 of the
Revised Code, and set forth for each county court judge in
sections 141.04 and 1907.16 of the Revised Code. On and after the
effective date of the policy of group life insurance coverage, a
municipal or county court judge is ineligible for life insurance
coverage from a county or other political subdivision.
(C) If a state employee uses all accumulated sick leave and
then goes on an extended medical disability, the policyholder
shall continue at no cost to the employee the coverage of the
group life insurance for such employee for the period of such
extended leave, but not beyond three years.
(D) If a state employee insured under a group life insurance
policy as provided in division (A) of this section is laid off
pursuant to section 124.32 of the Revised Code, such employee by
request to the policyholder, made no later than the effective date
of the layoff, may elect to continue the employee's group life
insurance for the one-year period through which the employee may
be considered to be on laid-off status by paying the policyholder
through payroll deduction or otherwise twelve times the monthly
premium computed at the existing average rate for the group life
case for the amount of the employee's insurance thereunder at the
time of the employee's layoff. The policyholder shall pay the
premiums to the insurance company at the time of the next regular
monthly premium payment for the actively insured employees and
furnish the company appropriate data as to such laid-off
employees. At the time an employee receives written notice of a
layoff, the policyholder shall also give such employee written
notice of the opportunity to continue group life insurance in
accordance with this division. When such laid-off employee is
reinstated for active work before the end of the one-year period,
the employee shall be reclassified as insured again as an active
employee under the group and appropriate refunds for the number of
full months of unearned premium payment shall be made by the
policyholder.
(E) This section does not affect the conversion rights of an
insured employee when the employee's group insurance terminates
under the policy.
(F) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, the
department may provide benefits equivalent to those that may be
paid under a policy issued by an insurance company, or the
department may, to comply with a collectively bargained contract,
enter into an agreement with a jointly administered trust fund
which receives contributions pursuant to a collective bargaining
agreement entered into between this state, or any of its political
subdivisions, and any collective bargaining representative of the
employees of this state or any political subdivision for the
purpose of providing for self-insurance of all risk in the
provision of fringe benefits similar to those that may be paid
pursuant to division (A) of this section, and the jointly
administered trust fund may provide through the self-insurance
method specific fringe benefits as authorized by the rules of the
board of trustees of the jointly administered trust fund. Amounts
from the fund may be used to pay direct and indirect costs that
are attributable to consultants or a third-party administrator and
that are necessary to administer this section. Benefits provided
under this section include, but are not limited to,
hospitalization, surgical care, major medical care, disability,
dental care, vision care, medical care, hearing aids, prescription
drugs, group life insurance, sickness and accident insurance,
group legal services, or a combination of the above benefits, for
the employees and their immediate dependents.
(G) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code,
any public employer, including the state, and any of its political
subdivisions, including, but not limited to, any county, county
hospital, municipal corporation, township, park district, school
district, state institution of higher education, public or special
district, state agency, authority, commission, or board, or any
other branch of public employment, and any collective bargaining
representative of employees of the state or any political
subdivision may agree in a collective bargaining agreement that
any mutually agreed fringe benefit including, but not limited to,
hospitalization, surgical care, major medical care, disability,
dental care, vision care, medical care, hearing aids, prescription
drugs, group life insurance, sickness and accident insurance,
group legal services, or a combination thereof, for employees and
their dependents be provided through a mutually agreed upon
contribution to a jointly administered trust fund. Amounts from
the fund may be used to pay direct and indirect costs that are
attributable to consultants or a third-party administrator and
that are necessary to administer this section. The amount, type,
and structure of fringe benefits provided under this division is
subject to the determination of the board of trustees of the
jointly administered trust fund. Notwithstanding any other
provision of the Revised Code, competitive bidding does not apply
to the purchase of fringe benefits for employees under this
division through a jointly administered trust fund.
Sec. 141.04. (A) The annual salaries of the chief justice of
the supreme court and of the justices and judges named in this
section payable from the state treasury are as follows, rounded to
the nearest fifty dollars:
(1) For the chief justice of the supreme court, the following
amounts effective in the following years:
(a) Beginning January 1, 2000, one hundred twenty-four
thousand nine hundred dollars;
(b) Beginning January 1, 2001, one hundred twenty-eight
thousand six hundred fifty dollars;
(c) After 2001, the amount determined under division (E)(1)
of this section.
(2) For the justices of the supreme court, the following
amounts effective in the following years:
(a) Beginning January 1, 2000, one hundred seventeen thousand
two hundred fifty dollars;
(b) Beginning January 1, 2001, one hundred twenty thousand
seven hundred fifty dollars;
(c) After 2001, the amount determined under division (E)(1)
of this section.
(3) For the judges of the courts of appeals, the following
amounts effective in the following years:
(a) Beginning January 1, 2000, one hundred nine thousand two
hundred fifty dollars;
(b) Beginning January 1, 2001, one hundred twelve thousand
five hundred fifty dollars;
(c) After 2001, the amount determined under division (E)(1)
of this section.
(4) For the judges of the courts of common pleas, the
following amounts effective in the following years:
(a) Beginning January 1, 2000, one hundred thousand five
hundred dollars, reduced by an amount equal to the annual
compensation paid to that judge from the county treasury pursuant
to section 141.05 of the Revised Code;
(b) Beginning January 1, 2001, one hundred three thousand
five hundred dollars, reduced by an amount equal to the annual
compensation paid to that judge from the county treasury pursuant
to section 141.05 of the Revised Code;
(c) After 2001, the aggregate annual salary amount determined
under division (E)(2) of this section reduced by an amount equal
to the annual compensation paid to that judge from the county
treasury pursuant to section 141.05 of the Revised Code.
(5) For the full-time judges of a municipal court or the
part-time judges of a municipal court of a territory having a
population of more than fifty thousand, the following amounts
effective in the following years, which amounts shall be in
addition to all amounts received pursuant to divisions (B)(1)(a)
and (2) of section 1901.11 of the Revised Code from municipal
corporations and counties:
(a) Beginning January 1, 2000, thirty-two thousand six
hundred fifty dollars;
(b) Beginning January 1, 2001, thirty-five thousand five
hundred dollars;
(c) After 2001, the amount determined under division (E)(3)
of this section.
(6) For judges of a municipal court designated as part-time
judges by section 1901.08 of the Revised Code, other than
part-time judges to whom division (A)(5) of this section applies,
and for judges of a county court, the following amounts effective
in the following years, which amounts shall be in addition to any
amounts received pursuant to division (A) of section 1901.11 of
the Revised Code from municipal corporations and counties or
pursuant to division (A) of section 1907.16 of the Revised Code
from counties:
(a) Beginning January 1, 2000, eighteen thousand eight
hundred dollars;
(b) Beginning January 1, 2001, twenty thousand four hundred
fifty dollars;
(c) After 2001, the amount determined under division (E)(4)
of this section.
(B) Except as provided in section 1901.121 of the Revised
Code, except as otherwise provided in this division, and except
for the compensation to which the judges described in division
(A)(5) of this section are entitled pursuant to divisions
(B)(1)(a) and (2) of section 1901.11 of the Revised Code, the
annual salary of the chief justice of the supreme court and of
each justice or judge listed in division (A) of this section shall
be paid in equal monthly installments from the state treasury. If
the chief justice of the supreme court or any justice or judge
listed in division (A)(2), (3), or (4) of this section delivers a
written request to be paid biweekly to the administrative director
of the supreme court prior to the first day of January of any
year, the annual salary of the chief justice or the justice or
judge that is listed in division (A)(2), (3), or (4) of this
section shall be paid, during the year immediately following the
year in which the request is delivered to the administrative
director of the supreme court, biweekly from the state treasury.
(C) Upon the death of the chief justice or a justice of the
supreme court during that person's term of office, an amount shall
be paid in accordance with section 2113.04 of the Revised Code, or
to that person's estate. The amount shall equal the amount of the
salary that the chief justice or justice would have received
during the remainder of the unexpired term or an amount equal to
the salary of office for two years, whichever is less.
(D) Neither the chief justice of the supreme court nor any
justice or judge of the supreme court, the court of appeals, the
court of common pleas, or the probate court shall hold any other
office of trust or profit under the authority of this state or the
United States.
(E)(1) Each year from 2002 through 2008, the annual salaries
of the chief justice of the supreme court and of the justices and
judges named in divisions (A)(2) and (3) of this section shall be
increased by an amount equal to the adjustment percentage for that
year multiplied by the compensation paid the preceding year
pursuant to division (A)(1), (2), or (3) of this section.
(2) Each year from 2002 through 2008, the aggregate annual
salary payable under division (A)(4) of this section to the judges
named in that division shall be increased by an amount equal to
the adjustment percentage for that year multiplied by the
aggregate compensation paid the preceding year pursuant to
division (A)(4) of this section and section 141.05 of the Revised
Code.
(3) Each year from 2002 through 2008, the salary payable from
the state treasury under division (A)(5) of this section to the
judges named in that division shall be increased by an amount
equal to the adjustment percentage for that year multiplied by the
aggregate compensation paid the preceding year pursuant to
division (A)(5) of this section and division (B)(1)(a) of section
1901.11 of the Revised Code.
(4) Each year from 2002 through 2008, the salary payable from
the state treasury under division (A)(6) of this section to the
judges named in that division shall be increased by an amount
equal to the adjustment percentage for that year multiplied by the
aggregate compensation paid the preceding year pursuant to
division (A)(6) of this section and division (A) of section
1901.11 of the Revised Code from municipal corporations and
counties or division (A) of section 1907.16 of the Revised Code
from counties.
(F) In addition to the salaries payable pursuant to this
section, the chief justice of the supreme court and the justices
of the supreme court shall be entitled to a vehicle allowance of
five hundred dollars per month, payable from the state treasury.
The allowance shall be increased on the first day of January of
each odd numbered year by an amount equal to the percentage
increase, if any, in the consumer price index for the immediately
preceding twenty-four month period for which information is
available.
(G) On or before the first day of December of each year, the
Ohio supreme court, through its chief administrator, shall notify
the administrative judge of the Montgomery county municipal court,
the board of county commissioners of Montgomery county, and the
treasurer of the state of the yearly salary cost of five part-time
county court judges as of that date. If the total yearly salary
costs of all of the judges of the Montgomery county municipal
court as of the first day of December of that same year exceeds
that amount, the administrative judge of the Montgomery county
municipal court shall cause payment of the excess between those
two amounts less any reduced amount paid for the health care costs
of the Montgomery county municipal court judges in comparison to
the health care costs of five part-time county court judges from
the general special projects fund or the fund for a specific
special project created pursuant to section 1901.26 of the Revised
Code to the treasurer of Montgomery county and to the treasurer of
the state in amounts proportional to the percentage of the
salaries of the municipal court judges paid by the county and by
the state.
(H) As used in this section:
(1) The "adjustment percentage" for a year is the lesser of
the following:
(a) Three per cent;
(b) The percentage increase, if any, in the consumer price
index over the twelve-month period that ends on the thirtieth day
of September of the immediately preceding year, rounded to the
nearest one-tenth of one per cent.
(2) "Consumer price index" has the same meaning as in section
101.27 of the Revised Code.
(3) "Salary" does not include any portion of the cost,
premium, or charge for health, medical, hospital, dental, or
surgical benefits, or any combination of those benefits, covering
the chief justice of the supreme court or a justice or judge named
in this section and paid on the chief justice's or the justice's
or judge's behalf by a governmental entity.
Sec. 1901.01. (A) There is hereby established a municipal
court in each of the following municipal corporations:
Akron, Alliance, Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Avon Lake,
Barberton, Bedford, Bellefontaine, Bellevue, Berea, Bowling Green,
Bryan, Bucyrus, Cambridge, Campbell, Canton, Carrollton, Celina,
Chardon, Chesapeake, Chillicothe, Cincinnati, Circleville,
Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, Columbus, Conneaut, Coshocton,
Cuyahoga Falls, Dayton, Defiance, Delaware, East Cleveland, East
Liverpool, Eaton, Elyria, Euclid, Fairborn, Fairfield, Findlay,
Fostoria, Franklin, Fremont, Gallipolis, Garfield Heights,
Georgetown, Girard, Greenville, Hamilton, Hillsboro, Huron,
Ironton, Jackson, Kenton, Kettering, Lakewood, Lancaster, Lebanon,
Lima, Logan, London, Lorain, Lyndhurst, Mansfield, Marietta,
Marion, Marysville, Mason, Massillon, Maumee, Medina, Mentor,
Miamisburg, Middletown, Millersburg, Mount Gilead, Mount Vernon,
Napoleon, Newark, New Philadelphia, Newton Falls, Niles, Norwalk,
Oakwood, Oberlin, Oregon, Painesville, Parma, Perrysburg, Port
Clinton, Portsmouth, Ravenna, Rocky River, Sandusky, Shaker
Heights, Shelby, Sidney, South Euclid, Springfield, Steubenville,
Struthers, Sylvania, Tiffin, Toledo, Troy, Upper Sandusky, Urbana,
Vandalia, Van Wert, Vermilion, Wadsworth, Wapakoneta, Warren, City
of Washington in Fayette county, to be known as Washington Court
House, Willoughby, Wilmington, Wooster, Xenia, Youngstown, and
Zanesville.
(B) There is hereby established a municipal court within
Clermont county in Batavia or in any other municipal corporation
or unincorporated territory within Clermont county that is
selected by the legislative authority of the Clermont county
municipal court. The municipal court established by this division
is a continuation of the municipal court previously established in
Batavia by this section before the enactment of this division.
(C) There is hereby established a municipal court within
Columbiana county in Lisbon or in any other municipal corporation
or unincorporated territory within Columbiana county, except the
municipal corporation of East Liverpool or Liverpool or St. Clair
township, that is selected by the judges of the municipal court
pursuant to division (I) of section 1901.021 of the Revised Code.
(D) Effective January 1, 2008, there is hereby established a
municipal court within Erie county in Milan or in any other
municipal corporation or unincorporated territory within Erie
county that is within the territorial jurisdiction of the Erie
county municipal court and is selected by the legislative
authority of that court.
(E) The Cuyahoga Falls municipal court shall remain in
existence until December 31, 2008, and shall be replaced by the
Stow municipal court on January 1, 2009.
(F) Effective January 1, 2009, there is hereby established a
municipal court in the municipal corporation of Stow.
(G) Effective January 1, 2011, there is hereby established a
municipal court in the municipal corporation of Ottawa.
(H) Effective July 1, 2010, there is hereby established a
municipal court within Montgomery county in any municipal
corporation or unincorporated territory within Montgomery county,
except the municipal corporations of Centerville, Clayton, Dayton,
Englewood, Germantown, Kettering, Miamisburg, Moraine, Oakwood,
Union, Vandalia, and West Carrollton and Butler, German, Harrison,
Miami, and Washington townships, that is selected by the
legislative authority of that court.
Sec. 1901.02. (A) The municipal courts established by
section 1901.01 of the Revised Code have jurisdiction within the
corporate limits of their respective municipal corporations, or,
for the Clermont county municipal court, the Columbiana county
municipal court, and, effective January 1, 2008, the Erie county
municipal court, within the municipal corporation or
unincorporated territory in which they are established, and are
courts of record. Each of the courts shall be styled
".................................. municipal court," inserting
the name of the municipal corporation, except the following
courts, which shall be styled as set forth below:
(1) The municipal court established in Chesapeake that shall
be styled and known as the "Lawrence county municipal court";
(2) The municipal court established in Cincinnati that shall
be styled and known as the "Hamilton county municipal court";
(3) The municipal court established in Ravenna that shall be
styled and known as the "Portage county municipal court";
(4) The municipal court established in Athens that shall be
styled and known as the "Athens county municipal court";
(5) The municipal court established in Columbus that shall be
styled and known as the "Franklin county municipal court";
(6) The municipal court established in London that shall be
styled and known as the "Madison county municipal court";
(7) The municipal court established in Newark that shall be
styled and known as the "Licking county municipal court";
(8) The municipal court established in Wooster that shall be
styled and known as the "Wayne county municipal court";
(9) The municipal court established in Wapakoneta that shall
be styled and known as the "Auglaize county municipal court";
(10) The municipal court established in Troy that shall be
styled and known as the "Miami county municipal court";
(11) The municipal court established in Bucyrus that shall be
styled and known as the "Crawford county municipal court";
(12) The municipal court established in Logan that shall be
styled and known as the "Hocking county municipal court";
(13) The municipal court established in Urbana that shall be
styled and known as the "Champaign county municipal court";
(14) The municipal court established in Jackson that shall be
styled and known as the "Jackson county municipal court";
(15) The municipal court established in Springfield that
shall be styled and known as the "Clark county municipal court";
(16) The municipal court established in Kenton that shall be
styled and known as the "Hardin county municipal court";
(17) The municipal court established within Clermont county
in Batavia or in any other municipal corporation or unincorporated
territory within Clermont county that is selected by the
legislative authority of that court that shall be styled and known
as the "Clermont county municipal court";
(18) The municipal court established in Wilmington that,
beginning July 1, 1992, shall be styled and known as the "Clinton
county municipal court";
(19) The municipal court established in Port Clinton that
shall be styled and known as "the Ottawa county municipal court";
(20) The municipal court established in Lancaster that,
beginning January 2, 2000, shall be styled and known as the
"Fairfield county municipal court";
(21) The municipal court established within Columbiana county
in Lisbon or in any other municipal corporation or unincorporated
territory selected pursuant to division (I) of section 1901.021 of
the Revised Code, that shall be styled and known as the
"Columbiana county municipal court";
(22) The municipal court established in Georgetown that,
beginning February 9, 2003, shall be styled and known as the
"Brown county municipal court";
(23) The municipal court established in Mount Gilead that,
beginning January 1, 2003, shall be styled and known as the
"Morrow county municipal court";
(24) The municipal court established in Greenville that,
beginning January 1, 2005, shall be styled and known as the "Darke
county municipal court";
(25) The municipal court established in Millersburg that,
beginning January 1, 2007, shall be styled and known as the
"Holmes county municipal court";
(26) The municipal court established in Carrollton that,
beginning January 1, 2007, shall be styled and known as the
"Carroll county municipal court";
(27) The municipal court established within Erie county in
Milan or established in any other municipal corporation or
unincorporated territory that is within Erie county, is within the
territorial jurisdiction of that court, and is selected by the
legislative authority of that court that, beginning January 1,
2008, shall be styled and known as the "Erie county municipal
court;
(28) The municipal court established in Ottawa that,
beginning January 1, 2011, shall be styled and known as the
"Putnam county municipal court";
(29) The municipal court established within Montgomery county
in any municipal corporation or unincorporated territory within
Montgomery county, except the municipal corporations of
Centerville, Clayton, Dayton, Englewood, Germantown, Kettering,
Miamisburg, Moraine, Oakwood, Union, Vandalia, and West Carrollton
and Butler, German, Harrison, Miami, and Washington townships,
that is selected by the legislative authority of that court and
that, beginning July 1, 2010, shall be styled and known as the
"Montgomery county municipal court."
(B) In addition to the jurisdiction set forth in division (A)
of this section, the municipal courts established by section
1901.01 of the Revised Code have jurisdiction as follows:
The Akron municipal court has jurisdiction within Bath,
Richfield, and Springfield townships, and within the municipal
corporations of Fairlawn, Lakemore, and Mogadore, in Summit
county.
The Alliance municipal court has jurisdiction within
Lexington, Marlboro, Paris, and Washington townships in Stark
county.
The Ashland municipal court has jurisdiction within Ashland
county.
The Ashtabula municipal court has jurisdiction within
Ashtabula, Plymouth, and Saybrook townships in Ashtabula county.
The Athens county municipal court has jurisdiction within
Athens county.
The Auglaize county municipal court has jurisdiction within
Auglaize county.
The Avon Lake municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Avon and Sheffield in Lorain county.
The Barberton municipal court has jurisdiction within
Coventry, Franklin, and Green townships, within all of Copley
township except within the municipal corporation of Fairlawn, and
within the municipal corporations of Clinton and Norton, in Summit
county.
The Bedford municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Bedford Heights, Oakwood, Glenwillow,
Solon, Bentleyville, Chagrin Falls, Moreland Hills, Orange,
Warrensville Heights, North Randall, and Woodmere, and within
Warrensville and Chagrin Falls townships, in Cuyahoga county.
The Bellefontaine municipal court has jurisdiction within
Logan county.
The Bellevue municipal court has jurisdiction within Lyme and
Sherman townships in Huron county and within York township in
Sandusky county.
The Berea municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Strongsville, Middleburgh Heights, Brook
Park, Westview, and Olmsted Falls, and within Olmsted township, in
Cuyahoga county.
The Bowling Green municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Bairdstown, Bloomdale, Bradner, Custar,
Cygnet, Grand Rapids, Haskins, Hoytville, Jerry City, Milton
Center, North Baltimore, Pemberville, Portage, Rising Sun,
Tontogany, Wayne, and Weston, and within Bloom, Center, Freedom,
Grand Rapids, Henry, Jackson, Liberty, Middleton, Milton,
Montgomery, Plain, Portage, Washington, Webster, and Weston
townships in Wood county.
Beginning February 9, 2003, the Brown county municipal court
has jurisdiction within Brown county.
The Bryan municipal court has jurisdiction within Williams
county.
The Cambridge municipal court has jurisdiction within
Guernsey county.
The Campbell municipal court has jurisdiction within
Coitsville township in Mahoning county.
The Canton municipal court has jurisdiction within Canton,
Lake, Nimishillen, Osnaburg, Pike, Plain, and Sandy townships in
Stark county.
The Carroll county municipal court has jurisdiction within
Carroll county.
The Celina municipal court has jurisdiction within Mercer
county.
The Champaign county municipal court has jurisdiction within
Champaign county.
The Chardon municipal court has jurisdiction within Geauga
county.
The Chillicothe municipal court has jurisdiction within Ross
county.
The Circleville municipal court has jurisdiction within
Pickaway county.
The Clark county municipal court has jurisdiction within
Clark county.
The Clermont county municipal court has jurisdiction within
Clermont county.
The Cleveland municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporation of Bratenahl in Cuyahoga county.
Beginning July 1, 1992, the Clinton county municipal court
has jurisdiction within Clinton county.
The Columbiana county municipal court has jurisdiction within
all of Columbiana county except within the municipal corporation
of East Liverpool and except within Liverpool and St. Clair
townships.
The Coshocton municipal court has jurisdiction within
Coshocton county.
The Crawford county municipal court has jurisdiction within
Crawford county.
Until December 31, 2008, the Cuyahoga Falls municipal court
has jurisdiction within Boston, Hudson, Northfield Center,
Sagamore Hills, and Twinsburg townships, and within the municipal
corporations of Boston Heights, Hudson, Munroe Falls, Northfield,
Peninsula, Reminderville, Silver Lake, Stow, Tallmadge, Twinsburg,
and Macedonia, in Summit county.
Beginning January 1, 2005, the Darke county municipal court
has jurisdiction within Darke county except within the municipal
corporation of Bradford.
The Defiance municipal court has jurisdiction within Defiance
county.
The Delaware municipal court has jurisdiction within Delaware
county.
The East Liverpool municipal court has jurisdiction within
Liverpool and St. Clair townships in Columbiana county.
The Eaton municipal court has jurisdiction within Preble
county.
The Elyria municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Grafton, LaGrange, and North Ridgeville,
and within Elyria, Carlisle, Eaton, Columbia, Grafton, and
LaGrange townships, in Lorain county.
Beginning January 1, 2008, the Erie county municipal court
has jurisdiction within Erie county except within the townships of
Florence, Huron, Perkins, and Vermilion and the municipal
corporations of Bay View, Castalia, Huron, Sandusky, and
Vermilion.
The Fairborn municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporation of Beavercreek and within Bath and
Beavercreek townships in Greene county.
Beginning January 2, 2000, the Fairfield county municipal
court has jurisdiction within Fairfield county.
The Findlay municipal court has jurisdiction within all of
Hancock county except within Washington township.
The Fostoria municipal court has jurisdiction within Loudon
and Jackson townships in Seneca county, within Washington township
in Hancock county, and within Perry township in Wood county.
The Franklin municipal court has jurisdiction within Franklin
township in Warren county.
The Franklin county municipal court has jurisdiction within
Franklin county.
The Fremont municipal court has jurisdiction within Ballville
and Sandusky townships in Sandusky county.
The Gallipolis municipal court has jurisdiction within Gallia
county.
The Garfield Heights municipal court has jurisdiction within
the municipal corporations of Maple Heights, Walton Hills, Valley
View, Cuyahoga Heights, Newburgh Heights, Independence, and
Brecksville in Cuyahoga county.
The Girard municipal court has jurisdiction within Liberty,
Vienna, and Hubbard townships in Trumbull county.
The Hamilton municipal court has jurisdiction within Ross and
St. Clair townships in Butler county.
The Hamilton county municipal court has jurisdiction within
Hamilton county.
The Hardin county municipal court has jurisdiction within
Hardin county.
The Hillsboro municipal court has jurisdiction within all of
Highland county except within Madison township.
The Hocking county municipal court has jurisdiction within
Hocking county.
The Holmes county municipal court has jurisdiction within
Holmes county.
The Huron municipal court has jurisdiction within all of
Huron township in Erie county except within the municipal
corporation of Sandusky.
The Ironton municipal court has jurisdiction within Aid,
Decatur, Elizabeth, Hamilton, Lawrence, Upper, and Washington
townships in Lawrence county.
The Jackson county municipal court has jurisdiction within
Jackson county.
The Kettering municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Centerville and Moraine, and within
Washington township, in Montgomery county.
Until January 2, 2000, the Lancaster municipal court has
jurisdiction within Fairfield county.
The Lawrence county municipal court has jurisdiction within
the townships of Fayette, Mason, Perry, Rome, Symmes, Union, and
Windsor in Lawrence county.
The Lebanon municipal court has jurisdiction within
Turtlecreek township in Warren county.
The Licking county municipal court has jurisdiction within
Licking county.
The Lima municipal court has jurisdiction within Allen
county.
The Lorain municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporation of Sheffield Lake, and within Sheffield
township, in Lorain county.
The Lyndhurst municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Mayfield Heights, Gates Mills, Mayfield,
Highland Heights, and Richmond Heights in Cuyahoga county.
The Madison county municipal court has jurisdiction within
Madison county.
The Mansfield municipal court has jurisdiction within
Madison, Springfield, Sandusky, Franklin, Weller, Mifflin, Troy,
Washington, Monroe, Perry, Jefferson, and Worthington townships,
and within sections 35-36-31 and 32 of Butler township, in
Richland county.
The Marietta municipal court has jurisdiction within
Washington county.
The Marion municipal court has jurisdiction within Marion
county.
The Marysville municipal court has jurisdiction within Union
county.
The Mason municipal court has jurisdiction within Deerfield
township in Warren county.
The Massillon municipal court has jurisdiction within
Bethlehem, Perry, Sugar Creek, Tuscarawas, Lawrence, and Jackson
townships in Stark county.
The Maumee municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Waterville and Whitehouse, within
Waterville and Providence townships, and within those portions of
Springfield, Monclova, and Swanton townships lying south of the
northerly boundary line of the Ohio turnpike, in Lucas county.
The Medina municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Briarwood Beach, Brunswick,
Chippewa-on-the-Lake, and Spencer and within the townships of
Brunswick Hills, Chatham, Granger, Hinckley, Lafayette,
Litchfield, Liverpool, Medina, Montville, Spencer, and York
townships, in Medina county.
The Mentor municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporation of Mentor-on-the-Lake in Lake county.
The Miami county municipal court has jurisdiction within
Miami county and within the part of the municipal corporation of
Bradford that is located in Darke county.
The Miamisburg municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Germantown and West Carrollton, and
within German and Miami townships in Montgomery county.
The Middletown municipal court has jurisdiction within
Madison township, and within all of Lemon township, except within
the municipal corporation of Monroe, in Butler county.
Beginning July 1, 2010, the Montgomery county municipal court
has jurisdiction within all of Montgomery county except for the
municipal corporations of Centerville, Clayton, Dayton, Englewood,
Germantown, Kettering, Miamisburg, Moraine, Oakwood, Union,
Vandalia, and West Carrollton and Butler, German, Harrison, Miami,
and Washington townships.
Beginning January 1, 2003, the Morrow county municipal court
has jurisdiction within Morrow county.
The Mount Vernon municipal court has jurisdiction within Knox
county.
The Napoleon municipal court has jurisdiction within Henry
county.
The New Philadelphia municipal court has jurisdiction within
the municipal corporation of Dover, and within Auburn, Bucks,
Fairfield, Goshen, Jefferson, Warren, York, Dover, Franklin,
Lawrence, Sandy, Sugarcreek, and Wayne townships in Tuscarawas
county.
The Newton Falls municipal court has jurisdiction within
Bristol, Bloomfield, Lordstown, Newton, Braceville, Southington,
Farmington, and Mesopotamia townships in Trumbull county.
The Niles municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporation of McDonald, and within Weathersfield
township in Trumbull county.
The Norwalk municipal court has jurisdiction within all of
Huron county except within the municipal corporation of Bellevue
and except within Lyme and Sherman townships.
The Oberlin municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Amherst, Kipton, Rochester, South
Amherst, and Wellington, and within Henrietta, Russia, Camden,
Pittsfield, Brighton, Wellington, Penfield, Rochester, and
Huntington townships, and within all of Amherst township except
within the municipal corporation of Lorain, in Lorain county.
The Oregon municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporation of Harbor View, and within Jerusalem
township, in Lucas county, and north within Maumee Bay and Lake
Erie to the boundary line between Ohio and Michigan between the
easterly boundary of the court and the easterly boundary of the
Toledo municipal court.
The Ottawa county municipal court has jurisdiction within
Ottawa county.
The Painesville municipal court has jurisdiction within
Painesville, Perry, Leroy, Concord, and Madison townships in Lake
county.
The Parma municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Parma Heights, Brooklyn, Linndale, North
Royalton, Broadview Heights, Seven Hills, and Brooklyn Heights in
Cuyahoga county.
The Perrysburg municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Luckey, Millbury, Northwood, Rossford,
and Walbridge, and within Perrysburg, Lake, and Troy townships, in
Wood county.
The Portage county municipal court has jurisdiction within
Portage county.
The Portsmouth municipal court has jurisdiction within Scioto
county.
Effective January 1, 2011, the Putnam county municipal court
has jurisdiction within Putnam county.
The Rocky River municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Bay Village, Westlake, Fairview Park,
and North Olmsted, and within Riveredge township, in Cuyahoga
county.
The Sandusky municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Castalia and Bay View, and within
Perkins township, in Erie county.
The Shaker Heights municipal court has jurisdiction within
the municipal corporations of University Heights, Beachwood,
Pepper Pike, and Hunting Valley in Cuyahoga county.
The Shelby municipal court has jurisdiction within Sharon,
Jackson, Cass, Plymouth, and Blooming Grove townships, and within
all of Butler township except sections 35-36-31 and 32, in
Richland county.
The Sidney municipal court has jurisdiction within Shelby
county.
Beginning January 1, 2009, the Stow municipal court has
jurisdiction within Boston, Hudson, Northfield Center, Sagamore
Hills, and Twinsburg townships, and within the municipal
corporations of Boston Heights, Cuyahoga Falls, Hudson, Munroe
Falls, Northfield, Peninsula, Reminderville, Silver Lake, Stow,
Tallmadge, Twinsburg, and Macedonia, in Summit county.
The Struthers municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Lowellville, New Middleton, and Poland,
and within Poland and Springfield townships in Mahoning county.
The Sylvania municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Berkey and Holland, and within Sylvania,
Richfield, Spencer, and Harding townships, and within those
portions of Swanton, Monclova, and Springfield townships lying
north of the northerly boundary line of the Ohio turnpike, in
Lucas county.
The Tiffin municipal court has jurisdiction within Adams, Big
Spring, Bloom, Clinton, Eden, Hopewell, Liberty, Pleasant, Reed,
Scipio, Seneca, Thompson, and Venice townships in Seneca county.
The Toledo municipal court has jurisdiction within Washington
township, and within the municipal corporation of Ottawa Hills, in
Lucas county.
The Upper Sandusky municipal court has jurisdiction within
Wyandot county.
The Vandalia municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Clayton, Englewood, and Union, and
within Butler, Harrison, and Randolph townships, in Montgomery
county.
The Van Wert municipal court has jurisdiction within Van Wert
county.
The Vermilion municipal court has jurisdiction within the
townships of Vermilion and Florence in Erie county and within all
of Brownhelm township except within the municipal corporation of
Lorain, in Lorain county.
The Wadsworth municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Gloria Glens Park, Lodi, Seville, and
Westfield Center, and within Guilford, Harrisville, Homer, Sharon,
Wadsworth, and Westfield townships in Medina county.
The Warren municipal court has jurisdiction within Warren and
Champion townships, and within all of Howland township except
within the municipal corporation of Niles, in Trumbull county.
The Washington Court House municipal court has jurisdiction
within Fayette county.
The Wayne county municipal court has jurisdiction within
Wayne county.
The Willoughby municipal court has jurisdiction within the
municipal corporations of Eastlake, Wickliffe, Willowick,
Willoughby Hills, Kirtland, Kirtland Hills, Waite Hill,
Timberlake, and Lakeline, and within Kirtland township, in Lake
county.
Through June 30, 1992, the Wilmington municipal court has
jurisdiction within Clinton county.
The Xenia municipal court has jurisdiction within
Caesarcreek, Cedarville, Jefferson, Miami, New Jasper, Ross,
Silvercreek, Spring Valley, Sugarcreek, and Xenia townships in
Greene county.
(C) As used in this section:
(1) "Within a township" includes all land, including, but not
limited to, any part of any municipal corporation, that is
physically located within the territorial boundaries of that
township, whether or not that land or municipal corporation is
governmentally a part of the township.
(2) "Within a municipal corporation" includes all land within
the territorial boundaries of the municipal corporation and any
townships that are coextensive with the municipal corporation.
Sec. 1901.021. (A) The Except as otherwise provided in
division (M) of this section, the judge or judges of any municipal
court established under division (A) of section 1901.01 of the
Revised Code having territorial jurisdiction outside the corporate
limits of the municipal corporation in which it is located may sit
outside the corporate limits of the municipal corporation within
the area of its territorial jurisdiction.
(B) Two or more of the judges of the Hamilton county
municipal court shall be assigned by the presiding judge of the
court to sit outside the municipal corporation of Cincinnati.
(C) Two of the judges of the Portage county municipal court
shall sit within the municipal corporation of Ravenna, and one of
the judges shall sit within the municipal corporation of Kent. The
judges may sit in other incorporated areas of Portage county.
(D) One of the judges of the Wayne county municipal court
shall sit within the municipal corporation of Wooster, and one
shall sit within the municipal corporation of Orrville. Both
judges may sit in other incorporated areas of Wayne county.
(E) The judge of the Auglaize county municipal court shall
sit within the municipal corporations of Wapakoneta and St. Marys
and may sit in other incorporated areas in Auglaize county.
(F) At least one of the judges of the Miami county municipal
court shall sit within the municipal corporations of Troy, Piqua,
and Tipp City, and the judges may sit in other incorporated areas
of Miami county.
(G) The judge of the Crawford county municipal court shall
sit within the municipal corporations of Bucyrus and Galion and
may sit in other incorporated areas in Crawford county.
(H) The judge of the Jackson county municipal court shall sit
within the municipal corporations of Jackson and Wellston and may
sit in other incorporated areas in Jackson county.
(I) Each judge of the Columbiana county municipal court may
sit within the municipal corporation of Lisbon, Salem, or East
Palestine until the judges jointly select a central location
within the territorial jurisdiction of the court. When the judges
select a central location, the judges shall sit at that location.
(J) In any municipal court, other than the Hamilton county
municipal court and the Montgomery county municipal court, that
has more than one judge, the decision for one or more judges to
sit outside the corporate limits of the municipal corporation
shall be made by rule of the court as provided in division (C) of
sections 1901.14 and 1901.16 of the Revised Code.
(K) The assignment of a judge to sit in a municipal
corporation other than that in which the court is located does not
affect the jurisdiction of the mayor except as provided in section
1905.01 of the Revised Code.
(L) The judges of the Clermont county municipal court may sit
in any municipal corporation or unincorporated territory within
Clermont county.
(M) Beginning July 1, 2010, the judges of the Montgomery
county municipal court shall sit in the same locations as the
judges of the Montgomery county county court sat before the county
court was abolished on that date. The legislative authority of the
Montgomery county municipal court may determine after that date
that the judges of the Montgomery county municipal court shall sit
in any municipal corporation or unincorporated territory within
Montgomery county.
Sec. 1901.03. As used in this chapter:
(A) "Territory" means the geographical areas within which
municipal courts have jurisdiction as provided in sections 1901.01
and 1901.02 of the Revised Code.
(B) "Legislative authority" means the legislative authority
of the municipal corporation in which a municipal court, other
than a county-operated municipal court, is located, and means the
respective board of county commissioners of the county in which a
county-operated municipal court is located.
(C) "Chief executive" means the chief executive of the
municipal corporation in which a municipal court, other than a
county-operated municipal court, is located, and means the
respective chairman of the board of county commissioners of the
county in which a county-operated municipal court is located.
(D) "City treasury" means the treasury of the municipal
corporation in which a municipal court, other than a
county-operated municipal court, is located.
(E) "City treasurer" means the treasurer of the municipal
corporation in which a municipal court, other than a
county-operated municipal court, is located.
(F) "County-operated municipal court" means the Auglaize
county, Brown county, Carroll county, Clermont county, Columbiana
county, Crawford county, Darke county, Hamilton county, Hocking
county, Holmes county, Jackson county, Lawrence county, Madison
county, Miami county, Montgomery county, Morrow county, Ottawa
county, Portage county, or Wayne county municipal court and,
effective January 1, 2008, also includes the Erie county municipal
court and effective January 1, 2011, also includes the Putnam
county municipal court.
(G) "A municipal corporation in which a municipal court is
located" includes each municipal corporation named in section
1901.01 of the Revised Code, but does not include one in which a
judge sits pursuant to any provision of section 1901.021 of the
Revised Code except division (M) of that section.
Sec. 1901.06. A municipal judge during his the judge's term
of office shall be a qualified elector and a resident of the
territory of the court to which
he the judge is elected or
appointed. A municipal judge shall have been admitted to the
practice of law in this state and shall have been, for a total of
at least six years preceding his appointment or the commencement
of his
the judge's term, engaged in the practice of law in this
state or served as a judge of a court of record in any
jurisdiction in the United States, or both.
Except as provided in section 1901.08 of the Revised Code,
the first election of any newly created office of a municipal
judge shall be held at the next regular municipal election
occurring not less than one hundred days after the creation of the
office. The Except as otherwise provided in division (G) of
section 1901.01 of the Revised Code, the institution of a new
municipal court shall take place on the first day of January next
after the first election for the court.
Sec. 1901.07. (A) All municipal court judges shall be
elected on the nonpartisan ballot for terms of six years. In a
municipal court in which only one judge is to be elected in any
one year, that judge's term commences on the first day of January
after the election. In a municipal court in which two or more
judges are to be elected in any one year, their terms commence on
successive days beginning the first day of January, following the
election, unless otherwise provided by section 1901.08 of the
Revised Code.
(B) All candidates for municipal court judge may be nominated
either by nominating petition or by primary election, except that
if the jurisdiction of a municipal court extends only to the
corporate limits of the municipal corporation in which the court
is located and that municipal corporation operates under a
charter, all candidates shall be nominated in the same manner
provided in the charter for the office of municipal court judge
or, if no specific provisions are made in the charter for the
office of municipal court judge, in the same manner as the charter
prescribes for the nomination and election of the legislative
authority of the municipal corporation.
If the jurisdiction of a municipal court extends beyond the
corporate limits of the municipal corporation in which it is
located or if the jurisdiction of the court does not extend beyond
the corporate limits of the municipal corporation in which it is
located and no charter provisions apply, all candidates for party
nomination to the office of municipal court judge shall file a
declaration of candidacy and petition not later than four p.m. of
the seventy-fifth day before the day of the primary election, or
if the primary election is a presidential primary election, not
later than four p.m. of the sixtieth day before the day of the
presidential primary election, in the form prescribed by section
3513.07 of the Revised Code. The petition shall conform to the
requirements provided for those petitions of candidacy contained
in section 3513.05 of the Revised Code, except that the petition
shall be signed by at least fifty electors of the territory of the
court. If no valid declaration of candidacy is filed for
nomination as a candidate of a political party for election to the
office of municipal court judge, or if the number of persons
filing the declarations of candidacy for nominations as candidates
of one political party for election to the office does not exceed
the number of candidates that that party is entitled to nominate
as its candidates for election to the office, no primary election
shall be held for the purpose of nominating candidates of that
party for election to the office, and the candidates shall be
issued certificates of nomination in the manner set forth in
section 3513.02 of the Revised Code.
If the jurisdiction of a municipal court extends beyond the
corporate limits of the municipal corporation in which it is
located or if the jurisdiction of the court does not extend beyond
the corporate limits of the municipal corporation in which it is
located and no charter provisions apply, nonpartisan candidates
for the office of municipal court judge shall file nominating
petitions not later than four p.m. of the day before the day of
the primary election in the form prescribed by section 3513.261 of
the Revised Code. The petition shall conform to the requirements
provided for those petitions of candidacy contained in section
3513.257 of the Revised Code, except that the petition shall be
signed by at least fifty electors of the territory of the court.
The nominating petition or declaration of candidacy for a
municipal court judge shall contain a designation of the term for
which the candidate seeks election. At the following regular
municipal election, the candidacies of the judges nominated shall
be submitted to the electors of the territory on a nonpartisan,
judicial ballot in the same manner as provided for judges of the
court of common pleas, except that, in a municipal corporation
operating under a charter, all candidates for municipal court
judge shall be elected in conformity with the charter if
provisions are made in the charter for the election of municipal
court judges.
(C) Notwithstanding divisions (A) and (B) of this section, in
the following municipal courts, the judges shall be nominated and
elected as follows:
(1) In the Cleveland municipal court, the judges shall be
nominated only by petition. The petition shall be signed by at
least fifty electors of the territory of the court. It shall be in
the statutory form and shall be filed in the manner and within the
time prescribed by the charter of the city of Cleveland for filing
petitions of candidates for municipal offices. Each elector shall
have the right to sign petitions for as many candidates as are to
be elected, but no more. The judges shall be elected by the
electors of the territory of the court in the manner provided by
law for the election of judges of the court of common pleas.
(2) In the Toledo municipal court, the judges shall be
nominated only by petition. The petition shall be signed by at
least fifty electors of the territory of the court. It shall be in
the statutory form and shall be filed in the manner and within the
time prescribed by the charter of the city of Toledo for filing
nominating petitions for city council. Each elector shall have the
right to sign petitions for as many candidates as are to be
elected, but no more. The judges shall be elected by the electors
of the territory of the court in the manner provided by law for
the election of judges of the court of common pleas.
(3) In the Akron municipal court, the judges shall be
nominated only by petition. The petition shall be signed by at
least fifty electors of the territory of the court. It shall be in
statutory form and shall be filed in the manner and within the
time prescribed by the charter of the city of Akron for filing
nominating petitions of candidates for municipal offices. Each
elector shall have the right to sign petitions for as many
candidates as are to be elected, but no more. The judges shall be
elected by the electors of the territory of the court in the
manner provided by law for the election of judges of the court of
common pleas.
(4) In the Hamilton county municipal court, the judges shall
be nominated only by petition. The petition shall be signed by at
least fifty electors of the territory of the court, which
petitions shall be signed, verified, and filed in the manner and
within the time required by law for nominating petitions for
members of council of the city of Cincinnati. The judges shall be
elected by the electors of the territory of the court at the
regular municipal election and in the manner provided by law for
the election of judges of the court of common pleas.
(5) In the Franklin county municipal court, the judges shall
be nominated only by petition. The petition shall be signed by at
least fifty electors of the territory of the court. The petition
shall be in the statutory form and shall be filed in the manner
and within the time prescribed by the charter of the city of
Columbus for filing petitions of candidates for municipal offices.
The judges shall be elected by the electors of the territory of
the court in the manner provided by law for the election of judges
of the court of common pleas.
(6) In the Auglaize, Brown, Carroll, Clermont, Crawford,
Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Madison, Miami, Morrow, Putnam, and
Wayne county municipal courts, the judges shall be nominated only
by petition. The petitions shall be signed by at least fifty
electors of the territory of the court and shall conform to the
provisions of this section.
(D) In the Portage county municipal court, the judges shall
be nominated either by nominating petition or by primary election,
as provided in division (B) of this section.
(E) As used in this section, as to an election for either a
full or an unexpired term, "the territory within the jurisdiction
of the court" means that territory as it will be on the first day
of January after the election.
Sec. 1901.08. The number of, and the time for election of,
judges of the following municipal courts and the beginning of
their terms shall be as follows:
In the Akron municipal court, two full-time judges shall be
elected in 1951, two full-time judges shall be elected in 1953,
one full-time judge shall be elected in 1967, and one full-time
judge shall be elected in 1975.
In the Alliance municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1953.
In the Ashland municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1951.
In the Ashtabula municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1953.
In the Athens county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1967.
In the Auglaize county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1975.
In the Avon Lake municipal court, one part-time judge shall
be elected in 1957.
In the Barberton municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1969, and one full-time judge shall be elected in
1971.
In the Bedford municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1975, and one full-time judge shall be elected in 1979.
In the Bellefontaine municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1993.
In the Bellevue municipal court, one part-time judge shall be
elected in 1951.
In the Berea municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 2005.
In the Bowling Green municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1983.
In the Brown county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 2005. Beginning February 9, 2003, the
part-time judge of the Brown county county court that existed
prior to that date whose term commenced on January 2, 2001, shall
serve as the full-time judge of the Brown county municipal court
until December 31, 2005.
In the Bryan municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1965.
In the Cambridge municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1951.
In the Campbell municipal court, one part-time judge shall be
elected in 1963.
In the Canton municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1951, one full-time judge shall be elected in 1969, and
two full-time judges shall be elected in 1977.
In the Carroll county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 2009. Beginning January 1, 2007, the judge
elected in 2006 to the part-time judgeship of the Carroll county
county court that existed prior to that date shall serve as the
full-time judge of the Carroll county municipal court until
December 31, 2009.
In the Celina municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1957.
In the Champaign county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 2001.
In the Chardon municipal court, one part-time full-time judge
shall be elected in 1963.
In the Chillicothe municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1951, and one full-time judge shall be elected in
1977.
In the Circleville municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1953.
In the Clark county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1989, and two full-time judges shall be
elected in 1991. The full-time judges of the Springfield municipal
court who were elected in 1983 and 1985 shall serve as the judges
of the Clark county municipal court from January 1, 1988, until
the end of their respective terms.
In the Clermont county municipal court, two full-time judges
shall be elected in 1991, and one full-time judge shall be elected
in 1999.
In the Cleveland municipal court, six full-time judges shall
be elected in 1975, three full-time judges shall be elected in
1953, and four full-time judges shall be elected in 1955.
In the Cleveland Heights municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1957.
In the Clinton county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1997. The full-time judge of the Wilmington
municipal court who was elected in 1991 shall serve as the judge
of the Clinton county municipal court from July 1, 1992, until the
end of that judge's term on December 31, 1997.
In the Columbiana county municipal court, two full-time
judges shall be elected in 2001.
In the Conneaut municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1953.
In the Coshocton municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1951.
In the Crawford county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1977.
In the Cuyahoga Falls municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1953, and one full-time judge shall be elected
in 1967. Effective December 31, 2008, the Cuyahoga Falls municipal
court shall cease to exist; however, the judges of the Cuyahoga
Falls municipal court who were elected pursuant to this section in
2003 and 2007 for terms beginning on January 1, 2004, and January
1, 2008, respectively, shall serve as full-time judges of the Stow
municipal court until December 31, 2009, and December 31, 2013,
respectively.
In the Darke county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 2005. Beginning January 1, 2005, the part-time
judge of the Darke county county court that existed prior to that
date whose term began on January 1, 2001, shall serve as the
full-time judge of the Darke county municipal court until December
31, 2005.
In the Dayton municipal court, three full-time judges shall
be elected in 1987, their terms to commence on successive days
beginning on the first day of January next after their election,
and two full-time judges shall be elected in 1955, their terms to
commence on successive days beginning on the second day of January
next after their election.
In the Defiance municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1957.
In the Delaware municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1953, and one full-time judge shall be elected in 2007.
In the East Cleveland municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1957.
In the East Liverpool municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1953.
In the Eaton municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1973.
In the Elyria municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1955, and one full-time judge shall be elected in 1973.
In the Erie county municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 2007.
In the Euclid municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1951.
In the Fairborn municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1977.
In the Fairfield county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 2003, and one full-time judge shall be elected
in 2005.
In the Fairfield municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1989.
In the Findlay municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1955, and one full-time judge shall be elected in 1993.
In the Fostoria municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1975.
In the Franklin municipal court, one part-time judge shall be
elected in 1951.
In the Franklin county municipal court, two full-time judges
shall be elected in 1969, three full-time judges shall be elected
in 1971, seven full-time judges shall be elected in 1967, one
full-time judge shall be elected in 1975, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1991, and one full-time judge shall be elected
in 1997.
In the Fremont municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1975.
In the Gallipolis municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1981.
In the Garfield Heights municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1951, and one full-time judge shall be elected
in 1981.
In the Girard municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1963.
In the Hamilton municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1953.
In the Hamilton county municipal court, five full-time judges
shall be elected in 1967, five full-time judges shall be elected
in 1971, two full-time judges shall be elected in 1981, and two
full-time judges shall be elected in 1983. All terms of judges of
the Hamilton county municipal court shall commence on the first
day of January next after their election, except that the terms of
the additional judges to be elected in 1981 shall commence on
January 2, 1982, and January 3, 1982, and that the terms of the
additional judges to be elected in 1983 shall commence on January
4, 1984, and January 5, 1984.
In the Hardin county municipal court, one part-time judge
shall be elected in 1989.
In the Hillsboro municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 2011. On and after the effective date of this
amendment December 30, 2008, the part-time judge of the Hillsboro
municipal court who was elected in 2005 shall serve as a full-time
judge of the court until the end of that judge's term on December
31, 2011.
In the Hocking county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1977.
In the Holmes county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 2007. Beginning January 1, 2007, the part-time
judge of the Holmes county county court that existed prior to that
date whose term commenced on January 1, 2007, shall serve as the
full-time judge of the Holmes county municipal court until
December 31, 2007.
In the Huron municipal court, one part-time judge shall be
elected in 1967.
In the Ironton municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1951.
In the Jackson county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 2001. On and after March 31, 1997, the
part-time judge of the Jackson county municipal court who was
elected in 1995 shall serve as a full-time judge of the court
until the end of that judge's term on December 31, 2001.
In the Kettering municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1971, and one full-time judge shall be elected in
1975.
In the Lakewood municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1955.
In the Lancaster municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1951, and one full-time judge shall be elected in
1979. Beginning January 2, 2000, the full-time judges of the
Lancaster municipal court who were elected in 1997 and 1999 shall
serve as judges of the Fairfield county municipal court until the
end of those judges' terms.
In the Lawrence county municipal court, one part-time judge
shall be elected in 1981.
In the Lebanon municipal court, one part-time judge shall be
elected in 1955.
In the Licking county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1951, and one full-time judge shall be elected
in 1971.
In the Lima municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1951, and one full-time judge shall be elected in 1967.
In the Lorain municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1953, and one full-time judge shall be elected in 1973.
In the Lyndhurst municipal court, one part-time full-time
judge shall be elected in 1957.
In the Madison county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1981.
In the Mansfield municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1951, and one full-time judge shall be elected in
1969.
In the Marietta municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1957.
In the Marion municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1951.
In the Marysville municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 2011. On and after January 18, 2007, the part-time
judge of the Marysville municipal court who was elected in 2005
shall serve as a full-time judge of the court until the end of
that judge's term on December 31, 2011.
In the Mason municipal court, one part-time judge shall be
elected in 1965.
In the Massillon municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1953, and one full-time judge shall be elected in
1971.
In the Maumee municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1963.
In the Medina municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1957.
In the Mentor municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1971.
In the Miami county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1975, and one full-time judge shall be elected
in 1979.
In the Miamisburg municipal court, one part-time full-time
judge shall be elected in 1951.
In the Middletown municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1953.
In the Montgomery county municipal court:
One judge shall be elected in 2011 to a part-time judgeship
for a term to begin on January 1, 2012. If any one of the other
judgeships of the court becomes vacant and is abolished after July
1, 2010, this judgeship shall become a full-time judgeship on that
date. If only one other judgeship of the court becomes vacant and
is abolished as of December 31, 2021, this judgeship shall be
abolished as of that date. Beginning July 1, 2010, the part-time
judge of the Montgomery county county court that existed before
that date whose term commenced on January 1, 2005, shall serve as
a part-time judge of the Montgomery county municipal court until
December 31, 2011.
One judge shall be elected in 2011 to a full-time judgeship
for a term to begin on January 2, 2012, and this judgeship shall
be abolished on January 1, 2016. Beginning July 1, 2010, the
part-time judge of the Montgomery county county court that existed
before that date whose term commenced on January 2, 2005, shall
serve as a full-time judge of the Montgomery county municipal
court until January 1, 2012.
One judge shall be elected in 2013 to a full-time judgeship
for a term to begin on January 2, 2014. Beginning July 1, 2010,
the part-time judge of the Montgomery county county court that
existed before that date whose term commenced on January 2, 2007,
shall serve as a full-time judge of the Montgomery county
municipal court until January 1, 2014.
One judge shall be elected in 2013 to a judgeship for a term
to begin on January 1, 2014. If no other judgeship of the court
becomes vacant and is abolished by January 1, 2014, this judgeship
shall be a part-time judgeship. When one or more of the other
judgeships of the court becomes vacant and is abolished after July
1, 2010, this judgeship shall become a full-time judgeship.
Beginning July 1, 2010, the part-time judge of the Montgomery
county county court that existed before that date whose term
commenced on January 1, 2007, shall serve as this judge of the
Montgomery county municipal court until December 31, 2013.
If any one of the judgeships of the court becomes vacant
before December 31, 2021, that judgeship is abolished on the date
that it becomes vacant, and the other judges of the court shall be
or serve as full-time judges. The abolishment of judgeships for
the Montgomery county municipal court shall cease when the court
has two full-time judgeships.
In the Morrow county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 2005. Beginning January 1, 2003, the part-time
judge of the Morrow county county court that existed prior to that
date shall serve as the full-time judge of the Morrow county
municipal court until December 31, 2005.
In the Mount Vernon municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1951.
In the Napoleon municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 2005.
In the New Philadelphia municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1975.
In the Newton Falls municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1963.
In the Niles municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1951.
In the Norwalk municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1975.
In the Oakwood municipal court, one part-time judge shall be
elected in 1953.
In the Oberlin municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1989.
In the Oregon municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1963.
In the Ottawa county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1995, and the full-time judge of the Port
Clinton municipal court who is elected in 1989 shall serve as the
judge of the Ottawa county municipal court from February 4, 1994,
until the end of that judge's term.
In the Painesville municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1951.
In the Parma municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1951, one full-time judge shall be elected in 1967, and
one full-time judge shall be elected in 1971.
In the Perrysburg municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1977.
In the Portage county municipal court, two full-time judges
shall be elected in 1979, and one full-time judge shall be elected
in 1971.
In the Port Clinton municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1953. The full-time judge of the Port Clinton
municipal court who is elected in 1989 shall serve as the judge of
the Ottawa county municipal court from February 4, 1994, until the
end of that judge's term.
In the Portsmouth municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1951, and one full-time judge shall be elected in
1985.
In the Putnam county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 2011. Beginning January 1, 2011, the part-time
judge of the Putnam county county court that existed prior to that
date whose term commenced on January 1, 2007, shall serve as the
full-time judge of the Putnam county municipal court until
December 31, 2011.
In the Rocky River municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1957, and one full-time judge shall be elected in
1971.
In the Sandusky municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1953.
In the Shaker Heights municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1957.
In the Shelby municipal court, one part-time judge shall be
elected in 1957.
In the Sidney municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1995.
In the South Euclid municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1999. The part-time judge elected in 1993,
whose term commenced on January 1, 1994, shall serve until
December 31, 1999, and the office of that judge is abolished on
January 1, 2000.
In the Springfield municipal court, two full-time judges
shall be elected in 1985, and one full-time judge shall be elected
in 1983, all of whom shall serve as the judges of the Springfield
municipal court through December 31, 1987, and as the judges of
the Clark county municipal court from January 1, 1988, until the
end of their respective terms.
In the Steubenville municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1953.
In the Stow municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 2009, and one full-time judge shall be elected in 2013.
Beginning January 1, 2009, the judge of the Cuyahoga Falls
municipal court that existed prior to that date whose term
commenced on January 1, 2008, shall serve as a full-time judge of
the Stow municipal court until December 31, 2013. Beginning
January 1, 2009, the judge of the Cuyahoga Falls municipal court
that existed prior to that date whose term commenced on January 1,
2004, shall serve as a full-time judge of the Stow municipal court
until December 31, 2009.
In the Struthers municipal court, one part-time judge shall
be elected in 1963.
In the Sylvania municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1963.
In the Tiffin municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1953.
In the Toledo municipal court, two full-time judges shall be
elected in 1971, four full-time judges shall be elected in 1975,
and one full-time judge shall be elected in 1973.
In the Upper Sandusky municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 2011. The part-time judge elected in 2005,
whose term commenced on January 1, 2006, shall serve as a
full-time judge on and after January 1, 2008, until the expiration
of that judge's term on December 31, 2011, and the office of that
judge is abolished on January 1, 2012.
In the Vandalia municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1959.
In the Van Wert municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1957.
In the Vermilion municipal court, one part-time judge shall
be elected in 1965.
In the Wadsworth municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1981.
In the Warren municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1951, and one full-time judge shall be elected in 1971.
In the Washington Court House municipal court, one full-time
judge shall be elected in 1999. The part-time judge elected in
1993, whose term commenced on January 1, 1994, shall serve until
December 31, 1999, and the office of that judge is abolished on
January 1, 2000.
In the Wayne county municipal court, one full-time judge
shall be elected in 1975, and one full-time judge shall be elected
in 1979.
In the Willoughby municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1951.
In the Wilmington municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1991, who shall serve as the judge of the Wilmington
municipal court through June 30, 1992, and as the judge of the
Clinton county municipal court from July 1, 1992, until the end of
that judge's term on December 31, 1997.
In the Xenia municipal court, one full-time judge shall be
elected in 1977.
In the Youngstown municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1951, and two full-time judges shall be elected in
1953.
In the Zanesville municipal court, one full-time judge shall
be elected in 1953.
Sec. 1901.31. The clerk and deputy clerks of a municipal
court shall be selected, be compensated, give bond, and have
powers and duties as follows:
(A) There shall be a clerk of the court who is appointed or
elected as follows:
(1)(a) Except in the Akron, Barberton, Toledo, Hamilton
county, Montgomery county, Portage county, and Wayne county
municipal courts and through December 31, 2008, the Cuyahoga Falls
municipal court, if the population of the territory equals or
exceeds one hundred thousand at the regular municipal election
immediately preceding the expiration of the term of the present
clerk, the clerk shall be nominated and elected by the qualified
electors of the territory in the manner that is provided for the
nomination and election of judges in section 1901.07 of the
Revised Code.
The clerk so elected shall hold office for a term of six
years, which term shall commence on the first day of January
following the clerk's election and continue until the clerk's
successor is elected and qualified.
(b) In the Hamilton county municipal court, the clerk of
courts of Hamilton county shall be the clerk of the municipal
court and may appoint an assistant clerk who shall receive the
compensation, payable out of the treasury of Hamilton county in
semimonthly installments, that the board of county commissioners
prescribes. The clerk of courts of Hamilton county, acting as the
clerk of the Hamilton county municipal court and assuming the
duties of that office, shall receive compensation at one-fourth
the rate that is prescribed for the clerks of courts of common
pleas as determined in accordance with the population of the
county and the rates set forth in sections 325.08 and 325.18 of
the Revised Code. This compensation shall be paid from the county
treasury in semimonthly installments and is in addition to the
annual compensation that is received for the performance of the
duties of the clerk of courts of Hamilton county, as provided in
sections 325.08 and 325.18 of the Revised Code.
(c) In the Portage county and Wayne county municipal courts,
the clerks of courts of Portage county and Wayne county shall be
the clerks, respectively, of the Portage county and Wayne county
municipal courts and may appoint a chief deputy clerk for each
branch that is established pursuant to section 1901.311 of the
Revised Code and assistant clerks as the judges of the municipal
court determine are necessary, all of whom shall receive the
compensation that the legislative authority prescribes. The clerks
of courts of Portage county and Wayne county, acting as the clerks
of the Portage county and Wayne county municipal courts and
assuming the duties of these offices, shall receive compensation
payable from the county treasury in semimonthly installments at
one-fourth the rate that is prescribed for the clerks of courts of
common pleas as determined in accordance with the population of
the county and the rates set forth in sections 325.08 and 325.18
of the Revised Code.
(d) In the Montgomery county municipal court, the clerk of
courts of Montgomery county shall be the clerk of the municipal
court. The clerk of courts of Montgomery county, acting as the
clerk of the Montgomery county municipal court and assuming the
duties of that office, shall receive compensation at one-fourth
the rate that is prescribed for the clerks of courts of common
pleas as determined in accordance with the population of the
county and the rates set forth in sections 325.08 and 325.18 of
the Revised Code. This compensation shall be paid from the county
treasury in semimonthly installments and is in addition to the
annual compensation that is received for the performance of the
duties of the clerk of courts of Montgomery county, as provided in
sections 325.08 and 325.18 of the Revised Code.
(e) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(1)(d) (e) of
this section, in the Akron municipal court, candidates for
election to the office of clerk of the court shall be nominated by
primary election. The primary election shall be held on the day
specified in the charter of the city of Akron for the nomination
of municipal officers. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of
section 3513.05 or 3513.257 of the Revised Code, the declarations
of candidacy and petitions of partisan candidates and the
nominating petitions of independent candidates for the office of
clerk of the Akron municipal court shall be signed by at least
fifty qualified electors of the territory of the court.
The candidates shall file a declaration of candidacy and
petition, or a nominating petition, whichever is applicable, not
later than four p.m. of the seventy-fifth day before the day of
the primary election, in the form prescribed by section 3513.07 or
3513.261 of the Revised Code. The declaration of candidacy and
petition, or the nominating petition, shall conform to the
applicable requirements of section 3513.05 or 3513.257 of the
Revised Code.
If no valid declaration of candidacy and petition is filed by
any person for nomination as a candidate of a particular political
party for election to the office of clerk of the Akron municipal
court, a primary election shall not be held for the purpose of
nominating a candidate of that party for election to that office.
If only one person files a valid declaration of candidacy and
petition for nomination as a candidate of a particular political
party for election to that office, a primary election shall not be
held for the purpose of nominating a candidate of that party for
election to that office, and the candidate shall be issued a
certificate of nomination in the manner set forth in section
3513.02 of the Revised Code.
Declarations of candidacy and petitions, nominating
petitions, and certificates of nomination for the office of clerk
of the Akron municipal court shall contain a designation of the
term for which the candidate seeks election. At the following
regular municipal election, all candidates for the office shall be
submitted to the qualified electors of the territory of the court
in the manner that is provided in section 1901.07 of the Revised
Code for the election of the judges of the court. The clerk so
elected shall hold office for a term of six years, which term
shall commence on the first day of January following the clerk's
election and continue until the clerk's successor is elected and
qualified.
(e) (f) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(1)(e)
(f) of this section, in the Barberton municipal court, candidates
for election to the office of clerk of the court shall be
nominated by primary election. The primary election shall be held
on the day specified in the charter of the city of Barberton for
the nomination of municipal officers. Notwithstanding any contrary
provision of section 3513.05 or 3513.257 of the Revised Code, the
declarations of candidacy and petitions of partisan candidates and
the nominating petitions of independent candidates for the office
of clerk of the Barberton municipal court shall be signed by at
least fifty qualified electors of the territory of the court.
The candidates shall file a declaration of candidacy and
petition, or a nominating petition, whichever is applicable, not
later than four p.m. of the seventy-fifth day before the day of
the primary election, in the form prescribed by section 3513.07 or
3513.261 of the Revised Code. The declaration of candidacy and
petition, or the nominating petition, shall conform to the
applicable requirements of section 3513.05 or 3513.257 of the
Revised Code.
If no valid declaration of candidacy and petition is filed by
any person for nomination as a candidate of a particular political
party for election to the office of clerk of the Barberton
municipal court, a primary election shall not be held for the
purpose of nominating a candidate of that party for election to
that office. If only one person files a valid declaration of
candidacy and petition for nomination as a candidate of a
particular political party for election to that office, a primary
election shall not be held for the purpose of nominating a
candidate of that party for election to that office, and the
candidate shall be issued a certificate of nomination in the
manner set forth in section 3513.02 of the Revised Code.
Declarations of candidacy and petitions, nominating
petitions, and certificates of nomination for the office of clerk
of the Barberton municipal court shall contain a designation of
the term for which the candidate seeks election. At the following
regular municipal election, all candidates for the office shall be
submitted to the qualified electors of the territory of the court
in the manner that is provided in section 1901.07 of the Revised
Code for the election of the judges of the court. The clerk so
elected shall hold office for a term of six years, which term
shall commence on the first day of January following the clerk's
election and continue until the clerk's successor is elected and
qualified.
(f)(g)(i) Through December 31, 2008, except as otherwise
provided in division (A)(1)(f)(g)(i) of this section, in the
Cuyahoga Falls municipal court, candidates for election to the
office of clerk of the court shall be nominated by primary
election. The primary election shall be held on the day specified
in the charter of the city of Cuyahoga Falls for the nomination of
municipal officers. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of
section 3513.05 or 3513.257 of the Revised Code, the declarations
of candidacy and petitions of partisan candidates and the
nominating petitions of independent candidates for the office of
clerk of the Cuyahoga Falls municipal court shall be signed by at
least fifty qualified electors of the territory of the court.
The candidates shall file a declaration of candidacy and
petition, or a nominating petition, whichever is applicable, not
later than four p.m. of the seventy-fifth day before the day of
the primary election, in the form prescribed by section 3513.07 or
3513.261 of the Revised Code. The declaration of candidacy and
petition, or the nominating petition, shall conform to the
applicable requirements of section 3513.05 or 3513.257 of the
Revised Code.
If no valid declaration of candidacy and petition is filed by
any person for nomination as a candidate of a particular political
party for election to the office of clerk of the Cuyahoga Falls
municipal court, a primary election shall not be held for the
purpose of nominating a candidate of that party for election to
that office. If only one person files a valid declaration of
candidacy and petition for nomination as a candidate of a
particular political party for election to that office, a primary
election shall not be held for the purpose of nominating a
candidate of that party for election to that office, and the
candidate shall be issued a certificate of nomination in the
manner set forth in section 3513.02 of the Revised Code.
Declarations of candidacy and petitions, nominating
petitions, and certificates of nomination for the office of clerk
of the Cuyahoga Falls municipal court shall contain a designation
of the term for which the candidate seeks election. At the
following regular municipal election, all candidates for the
office shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the
territory of the court in the manner that is provided in section
1901.07 of the Revised Code for the election of the judges of the
court. The clerk so elected shall hold office for a term of six
years, which term shall commence on the first day of January
following the clerk's election and continue until the clerk's
successor is elected and qualified.
(ii) Division (A)(1)(f)(g)(i) of this section shall have no
effect after December 31, 2008.
(g)(h) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(1)(g)(h)
of this section, in the Toledo municipal court, candidates for
election to the office of clerk of the court shall be nominated by
primary election. The primary election shall be held on the day
specified in the charter of the city of Toledo for the nomination
of municipal officers. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of
section 3513.05 or 3513.257 of the Revised Code, the declarations
of candidacy and petitions of partisan candidates and the
nominating petitions of independent candidates for the office of
clerk of the Toledo municipal court shall be signed by at least
fifty qualified electors of the territory of the court.
The candidates shall file a declaration of candidacy and
petition, or a nominating petition, whichever is applicable, not
later than four p.m. of the seventy-fifth day before the day of
the primary election, in the form prescribed by section 3513.07 or
3513.261 of the Revised Code. The declaration of candidacy and
petition, or the nominating petition, shall conform to the
applicable requirements of section 3513.05 or 3513.257 of the
Revised Code.
If no valid declaration of candidacy and petition is filed by
any person for nomination as a candidate of a particular political
party for election to the office of clerk of the Toledo municipal
court, a primary election shall not be held for the purpose of
nominating a candidate of that party for election to that office.
If only one person files a valid declaration of candidacy and
petition for nomination as a candidate of a particular political
party for election to that office, a primary election shall not be
held for the purpose of nominating a candidate of that party for
election to that office, and the candidate shall be issued a
certificate of nomination in the manner set forth in section
3513.02 of the Revised Code.
Declarations of candidacy and petitions, nominating
petitions, and certificates of nomination for the office of clerk
of the Toledo municipal court shall contain a designation of the
term for which the candidate seeks election. At the following
regular municipal election, all candidates for the office shall be
submitted to the qualified electors of the territory of the court
in the manner that is provided in section 1901.07 of the Revised
Code for the election of the judges of the court. The clerk so
elected shall hold office for a term of six years, which term
shall commence on the first day of January following the clerk's
election and continue until the clerk's successor is elected and
qualified.
(2)(a) Except for the Alliance, Auglaize county, Brown
county, Columbiana county, Holmes county, Lorain, Massillon, and
Youngstown municipal courts and, effective January 1, 2011, the
Putnam county municipal court, in a municipal court for which the
population of the territory is less than one hundred thousand, the
clerk shall be appointed by the court, and the clerk shall hold
office until the clerk's successor is appointed and qualified.
(b) In the Alliance, Lorain, Massillon, and Youngstown
municipal courts, the clerk shall be elected for a term of office
as described in division (A)(1)(a) of this section.
(c) In the Auglaize county, Brown county, and Holmes county
municipal courts and, effective January 1, 2011, in the Putnam
county municipal court, the clerks of courts of Auglaize county,
Brown county, and Holmes county, and Putnam county shall be the
clerks, respectively, of the Auglaize county, Brown county, and
Holmes county, and Putnam county municipal courts and may appoint
a chief deputy clerk for each branch office that is established
pursuant to section 1901.311 of the Revised Code, and assistant
clerks as the judge of the court determines are necessary, all of
whom shall receive the compensation that the legislative authority
prescribes. The clerks of courts of Auglaize county, Brown county,
and Holmes county, and Putnam county, acting as the clerks of the
Auglaize county, Brown county, and Holmes county, and Putnam
county municipal courts and assuming the duties of these offices,
shall receive compensation payable from the county treasury in
semimonthly installments at one-fourth the rate that is prescribed
for the clerks of courts of common pleas as determined in
accordance with the population of the county and the rates set
forth in sections 325.08 and 325.18 of the Revised Code.
(d) In the Columbiana county municipal court, the clerk of
courts of Columbiana county shall be the clerk of the municipal
court, may appoint a chief deputy clerk for each branch office
that is established pursuant to section 1901.311 of the Revised
Code, and may appoint any assistant clerks that the judges of the
court determine are necessary. All of the chief deputy clerks and
assistant clerks shall receive the compensation that the
legislative authority prescribes. The clerk of courts of
Columbiana county, acting as the clerk of the Columbiana county
municipal court and assuming the duties of that office, shall
receive in either biweekly installments or semimonthly
installments, as determined by the payroll administrator,
compensation payable from the county treasury at one-fourth the
rate that is prescribed for the clerks of courts of common pleas
as determined in accordance with the population of the county and
the rates set forth in sections 325.08 and 325.18 of the Revised
Code.
(3) During the temporary absence of the clerk due to illness,
vacation, or other proper cause, the court may appoint a temporary
clerk, who shall be paid the same compensation, have the same
authority, and perform the same duties as the clerk.
(B) Except in the Hamilton county, Montgomery county, Portage
county, and Wayne county municipal courts, if a vacancy occurs in
the office of the clerk of the Alliance, Lorain, Massillon, or
Youngstown municipal court or occurs in the office of the clerk of
a municipal court for which the population of the territory equals
or exceeds one hundred thousand because the clerk ceases to hold
the office before the end of the clerk's term or because a
clerk-elect fails to take office, the vacancy shall be filled,
until a successor is elected and qualified, by a person chosen by
the residents of the territory of the court who are members of the
county central committee of the political party by which the last
occupant of that office or the clerk-elect was nominated. Not less
than five nor more than fifteen days after a vacancy occurs, those
members of that county central committee shall meet to make an
appointment to fill the vacancy. At least four days before the
date of the meeting, the chairperson or a secretary of the county
central committee shall notify each such member of that county
central committee by first class mail of the date, time, and place
of the meeting and its purpose. A majority of all such members of
that county central committee constitutes a quorum, and a majority
of the quorum is required to make the appointment. If the office
so vacated was occupied or was to be occupied by a person not
nominated at a primary election, or if the appointment was not
made by the committee members in accordance with this division,
the court shall make an appointment to fill the vacancy. A
successor shall be elected to fill the office for the unexpired
term at the first municipal election that is held more than one
hundred twenty days after the vacancy occurred.
(C)(1) In a municipal court, other than the Auglaize county,
the Brown county, the Columbiana county, the Holmes county, and
the Lorain municipal courts and, effective January 1, 2011, the
Putnam county municipal court, for which the population of the
territory is less than one hundred thousand, the clerk of the
municipal court shall receive the annual compensation that the
presiding judge of the court prescribes, if the revenue of the
court for the preceding calendar year, as certified by the auditor
or chief fiscal officer of the municipal corporation in which the
court is located or, in the case of a county-operated municipal
court, the county auditor, is equal to or greater than the
expenditures, including any debt charges, for the operation of the
court payable under this chapter from the city treasury or, in the
case of a county-operated municipal court, the county treasury for
that calendar year, as also certified by the auditor or chief
fiscal officer. If the revenue of a municipal court, other than
the Auglaize county, the Brown county, the Columbiana county, the
Putnam county, and the Lorain municipal courts, for which the
population of the territory is less than one hundred thousand for
the preceding calendar year as so certified is not equal to or
greater than those expenditures for the operation of the court for
that calendar year as so certified, the clerk of a municipal court
shall receive the annual compensation that the legislative
authority prescribes. As used in this division, "revenue" means
the total of all costs and fees that are collected and paid to the
city treasury or, in a county-operated municipal court, the county
treasury by the clerk of the municipal court under division (F) of
this section and all interest received and paid to the city
treasury or, in a county-operated municipal court, the county
treasury in relation to the costs and fees under division (G) of
this section.
(2) In a municipal court, other than the Hamilton county,
Montgomery county, Portage county, and Wayne county municipal
courts, for which the population of the territory is one hundred
thousand or more, and in the Lorain municipal court, the clerk of
the municipal court shall receive annual compensation in a sum
equal to eighty-five per cent of the salary of a judge of the
court.
(3) The compensation of a clerk described in division (C)(1)
or (2) of this section and of the clerk of the Columbiana county
municipal court is payable in either semimonthly installments or
biweekly installments, as determined by the payroll administrator,
from the same sources and in the same manner as provided in
section 1901.11 of the Revised Code, except that the compensation
of the clerk of the Carroll county municipal court is payable in
biweekly installments.
(D) Before entering upon the duties of the clerk's office,
the clerk of a municipal court shall give bond of not less than
six thousand dollars to be determined by the judges of the court,
conditioned upon the faithful performance of the clerk's duties.
(E) The clerk of a municipal court may do all of the
following: administer oaths, take affidavits, and issue executions
upon any judgment rendered in the court, including a judgment for
unpaid costs; issue, sign, and attach the seal of the court to all
writs, process, subpoenas, and papers issuing out of the court;
and approve all bonds, sureties, recognizances, and undertakings
fixed by any judge of the court or by law. The clerk may refuse to
accept for filing any pleading or paper submitted for filing by a
person who has been found to be a vexatious litigator under
section 2323.52 of the Revised Code and who has failed to obtain
leave to proceed under that section. The clerk shall do all of the
following: file and safely keep all journals, records, books, and
papers belonging or appertaining to the court; record the
proceedings of the court; perform all other duties that the judges
of the court may prescribe; and keep a book showing all receipts
and disbursements, which book shall be open for public inspection
at all times.
The clerk shall prepare and maintain a general index, a
docket, and other records that the court, by rule, requires, all
of which shall be the public records of the court. In the docket,
the clerk shall enter, at the time of the commencement of an
action, the names of the parties in full, the names of the
counsel, and the nature of the proceedings. Under proper dates,
the clerk shall note the filing of the complaint, issuing of
summons or other process, returns, and any subsequent pleadings.
The clerk also shall enter all reports, verdicts, orders,
judgments, and proceedings of the court, clearly specifying the
relief granted or orders made in each action. The court may order
an extended record of any of the above to be made and entered,
under the proper action heading, upon the docket at the request of
any party to the case, the expense of which record may be taxed as
costs in the case or may be required to be prepaid by the party
demanding the record, upon order of the court.
(F) The clerk of a municipal court shall receive, collect,
and issue receipts for all costs, fees, fines, bail, and other
moneys payable to the office or to any officer of the court. The
clerk shall each month disburse to the proper persons or officers,
and take receipts for, all costs, fees, fines, bail, and other
moneys that the clerk collects. Subject to sections 307.515 and
4511.193 of the Revised Code and to any other section of the
Revised Code that requires a specific manner of disbursement of
any moneys received by a municipal court and except for the
Hamilton county, Lawrence county, and Ottawa county municipal
courts, the clerk shall pay all fines received for violation of
municipal ordinances into the treasury of the municipal
corporation the ordinance of which was violated and shall pay all
fines received for violation of township resolutions adopted
pursuant to section 503.52 or 503.53 or Chapter 504. of the
Revised Code into the treasury of the township the resolution of
which was violated. Subject to sections 1901.024 and 4511.193 of
the Revised Code, in the Hamilton county, Lawrence county, and
Ottawa county municipal courts, the clerk shall pay fifty per cent
of the fines received for violation of municipal ordinances and
fifty per cent of the fines received for violation of township
resolutions adopted pursuant to section 503.52 or 503.53 or
Chapter 504. of the Revised Code into the treasury of the county.
Subject to sections 307.515, 4511.19, and 5503.04 of the Revised
Code and to any other section of the Revised Code that requires a
specific manner of disbursement of any moneys received by a
municipal court, the clerk shall pay all fines collected for the
violation of state laws into the county treasury. Except in a
county-operated municipal court, the clerk shall pay all costs and
fees the disbursement of which is not otherwise provided for in
the Revised Code into the city treasury. The clerk of a
county-operated municipal court shall pay the costs and fees the
disbursement of which is not otherwise provided for in the Revised
Code into the county treasury. Moneys deposited as security for
costs shall be retained pending the litigation. The clerk shall
keep a separate account of all receipts and disbursements in civil
and criminal cases, which shall be a permanent public record of
the office. On the expiration of the term of the clerk, the clerk
shall deliver the records to the clerk's successor. The clerk
shall have other powers and duties as are prescribed by rule or
order of the court.
(G) All moneys paid into a municipal court shall be noted on
the record of the case in which they are paid and shall be
deposited in a state or national bank, or a domestic savings and
loan association, as defined in section 1151.01 of the Revised
Code, that is selected by the clerk. Any interest received upon
the deposits shall be paid into the city treasury, except that, in
a county-operated municipal court, the interest shall be paid into
the treasury of the county in which the court is located.
On the first Monday in January of each year, the clerk shall
make a list of the titles of all cases in the court that were
finally determined more than one year past in which there remains
unclaimed in the possession of the clerk any funds, or any part of
a deposit for security of costs not consumed by the costs in the
case. The clerk shall give notice of the moneys to the parties who
are entitled to the moneys or to their attorneys of record. All
the moneys remaining unclaimed on the first day of April of each
year shall be paid by the clerk to the city treasurer, except
that, in a county-operated municipal court, the moneys shall be
paid to the treasurer of the county in which the court is located.
The treasurer shall pay any part of the moneys at any time to the
person who has the right to the moneys upon proper certification
of the clerk.
(H) Deputy clerks of a municipal court other than the Carroll
county municipal court may be appointed by the clerk and shall
receive the compensation, payable in either biweekly installments
or semimonthly installments, as determined by the payroll
administrator, out of the city treasury, that the clerk may
prescribe, except that the compensation of any deputy clerk of a
county-operated municipal court shall be paid out of the treasury
of the county in which the court is located. The judge of the
Carroll county municipal court may appoint deputy clerks for the
court, and the deputy clerks shall receive the compensation,
payable in biweekly installments out of the county treasury, that
the judge may prescribe. Each deputy clerk shall take an oath of
office before entering upon the duties of the deputy clerk's
office and, when so qualified, may perform the duties appertaining
to the office of the clerk. The clerk may require any of the
deputy clerks to give bond of not less than three thousand
dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the deputy
clerk's duties.
(I) For the purposes of this section, whenever the population
of the territory of a municipal court falls below one hundred
thousand but not below ninety thousand, and the population of the
territory prior to the most recent regular federal census exceeded
one hundred thousand, the legislative authority of the municipal
corporation may declare, by resolution, that the territory shall
be considered to have a population of at least one hundred
thousand.
(J) The clerk or a deputy clerk shall be in attendance at all
sessions of the municipal court, although not necessarily in the
courtroom, and may administer oaths to witnesses and jurors and
receive verdicts.
Sec. 1901.312. (A) As used in this section, "health care
coverage" has the same meaning as in section 1901.111 of the
Revised Code.
(B) The legislative authority, after consultation with the
clerk and deputy clerks of the municipal court, shall negotiate
and contract for, purchase, or otherwise procure group health care
coverage for the clerk and deputy clerks and their spouses and
dependents from insurance companies authorized to engage in the
business of insurance in this state under Title XXXIX of the
Revised Code or health insuring corporations holding certificates
of authority under Chapter 1751. of the Revised Code, except that
if the county or municipal corporation served by the legislative
authority provides group health care coverage for its employees,
the group health care coverage required by this section shall be
provided, if possible, through the policy or plan under which the
group health care coverage is provided for the county or municipal
corporation employees.
(C) The portion of the costs, premiums, or charges for the
group health care coverage procured pursuant to division (B) of
this section that is not paid by the clerk and deputy clerks of
the municipal court, or all of the costs, premiums, or charges for
the group health care coverage if the clerk and deputy clerks will
not be paying any such portion, shall be paid as follows:
(1) If the municipal court is a county-operated municipal
court, the portion of the costs, premiums, or charges or all of
the costs, premiums, or charges shall be paid out of the treasury
of the county.
(2)(a) If the municipal court is not a county-operated
municipal court, the portion of the costs, premiums, or charges in
connection with the clerk or all of the costs, premiums, or
charges in connection with the clerk shall be paid in three-fifths
and two-fifths shares from the city treasury and appropriate
county treasuries as described in division (C) of section 1901.31
of the Revised Code. The three-fifths share of a city treasury is
subject to apportionment under section 1901.026 of the Revised
Code.
(b) If the municipal court is not a county-operated municipal
court, the portion of the costs, premiums, or charges in
connection with the deputy clerks or all of the costs, premiums,
or charges in connection with the deputy clerks shall be paid from
the city treasury and shall be subject to apportionment under
section 1901.026 of the Revised Code.
(D) This section does not apply to the clerk of the Auglaize
county, Hamilton county, Portage county, Putnam county, or Wayne
county municipal court, if health care coverage is provided to the
clerk by virtue of the clerk's employment as the clerk of the
court of common pleas of Auglaize county, Hamilton county, Portage
county, Putnam county, or Wayne county.
Sec. 1901.32. (A) The bailiffs and deputy bailiffs of a
municipal court shall be provided for, and their duties are, as
follows:
(1) Except for the Hamilton county municipal court, the court
shall appoint a bailiff who shall receive the annual compensation
that the court prescribes payable in either biweekly installments
or semimonthly installments, as determined by the payroll
administrator, from the same sources and in the same manner as
provided in section 1901.11 of the Revised Code. The court may
provide that the chief of police of the municipal corporation or a
member of the police force be appointed by the court to be the
bailiff of the court. Before entering upon the duties of office,
the bailiff shall take an oath to faithfully perform the duties of
the office and shall give a bond of not less than three thousand
dollars, as the legislative authority prescribes, conditioned for
the faithful performance the duties of chief bailiff.
(2) Except for the Hamilton county municipal court, deputy
bailiffs may be appointed by the court. Deputy bailiffs shall
receive the compensation payable in semimonthly installments out
of the city treasury that the court prescribes, except that the
compensation of deputy bailiffs in a county-operated municipal
court shall be paid out of the treasury of the county in which the
court is located. Each deputy bailiff shall give a bond in an
amount not less than one thousand dollars, and, when so qualified,
may perform the duties pertaining to the office of chief bailiff
of the court.
(3) The bailiff and all deputy bailiffs of the Hamilton
county municipal court shall be appointed by the clerk and shall
receive the compensation payable in semimonthly installments out
of the treasury of Hamilton county that the clerk prescribes. Each
judge of the Hamilton county municipal court may appoint a
courtroom bailiff, each of whom shall receive the compensation
payable in semimonthly installments out of the treasury of
Hamilton county that the court prescribes.
(4) The legislative authority may purchase motor vehicles for
the use of the bailiffs and deputy bailiffs as the court
determines they need to perform the duties of their office. All
expenses, maintenance, and upkeep of the vehicles shall be paid by
the legislative authority upon approval by the court. Any
allowances, costs, and expenses for the operation of private motor
vehicles by bailiffs and deputy bailiffs for official duties,
including the cost of oil, gasoline, and maintenance, shall be
prescribed by the court and, subject to the approval of the
legislative authority, shall be paid from the city treasury,
except that the allowances, costs, and expenses for the bailiffs
and deputy bailiffs of a county-operated municipal court shall be
paid from the treasury of the county in which the court is
located.
(5) Every police officer of any municipal corporation and
police constable of a township within the territory of the court
is ex officio a deputy bailiff of the court in and for the
municipal corporation or township in which commissioned as a
police officer or police constable, and shall perform any duties
in respect to cases within the officer
officer's or constable's
jurisdiction that are required by a judge of the court, or by the
clerk or a bailiff or deputy bailiff of the court, without
additional compensation.
(6) In Putnam county, in addition to the persons who are ex
officio deputy bailiffs under division (A)(5) of this section,
every deputy sheriff of Putnam county is ex officio a deputy
bailiff of the Putnam county municipal court and shall perform
without additional compensation any duties in respect to cases
within the deputy sheriff's jurisdiction that are required by a
judge of the court, by the clerk of the court, or by a bailiff or
deputy bailiff of the court.
(7) The bailiff and deputy bailiffs shall perform for the
court services similar to those performed by the sheriff for the
court of common pleas and shall perform any other duties that are
requested by rule of court.
The bailiff or deputy bailiff may administer oaths to
witnesses and jurors and receive verdicts in the same manner and
form and to the same extent as the clerk or deputy clerks of the
court. The bailiff may approve all undertakings and bonds given in
actions of replevin and all redelivery bonds in attachments.
(B) In the Cleveland municipal court, the chief clerks and
all deputy clerks are in the classified civil service of the city
of Cleveland. The clerk, the chief deputy clerks, the probation
officers, one private secretary, one personal stenographer to the
clerk, and one personal bailiff to each judge are in the
unclassified civil service of the city of Cleveland. Upon demand
of the clerk, the civil service commission of the city of
Cleveland shall certify a list of those eligible for the position
of deputy clerk. From the list, the clerk shall designate chief
clerks and the number of deputy clerks that the legislative
authority determines are necessary.
Except as otherwise provided in this division, the bailiff,
chief deputy bailiffs, and all deputy bailiffs of the Cleveland
municipal court appointed after January 1, 1968, and the chief
housing specialist, housing specialists, and housing division
referees of the housing division of the Cleveland municipal court
appointed under section 1901.331 of the Revised Code are in the
unclassified civil service of the city of Cleveland. All deputy
bailiffs of the housing division of the Cleveland municipal court
appointed pursuant to that section are in the classified civil
service of the city of Cleveland. Upon the demand of the judge of
the housing division of the Cleveland municipal court, the civil
service commission of the city of Cleveland shall certify a list
of those eligible for the position of deputy bailiff of the
housing division. From the list, the judge of the housing division
shall designate the number of deputy bailiffs that the judge
determines are necessary.
The chief deputy clerks, the chief clerks, and all other
deputy clerks of the Cleveland municipal court shall receive the
compensation that the clerk prescribes. Except as provided in
division (A)(4)(a) of section 1901.331 of the Revised Code with
respect to officers and employees of the housing division of the
Cleveland municipal court, the bailiff, all deputy bailiffs, and
assignment room personnel of the Cleveland municipal court shall
receive the compensation that the court prescribes.
Any appointee under sections 1901.01 to 1901.37 of the
Revised Code may be dismissed or discharged by the same power that
appointed the appointee. In the case of the removal of any civil
service appointee under those sections, an appeal may be taken
from the decision of the civil service commission to the court of
common pleas of Cuyahoga county to determine the sufficiency of
the cause of removal. The appeal shall be taken within ten days of
the finding of the commission.
In the Cleveland municipal court, the presiding judge may
appoint on a full-time, per diem, or contractual basis any
official court reporters for the civil branch of the court that
the business of the court requires. The compensation of official
court reporters shall be determined by the presiding judge of the
court. The compensation shall be payable from the city treasury
and from the treasury of Cuyahoga county in the same proportion as
designated in section 1901.11 of the Revised Code for the payment
of compensation of municipal judges. In every trial in which the
services of a court reporter so appointed are requested by the
judge, any party, or the attorney for any party, there shall be
taxed for each day's services of the court reporter a fee in the
same amount as may be taxed for similar services in the court of
common pleas under section 2301.21 of the Revised Code, to be
collected as other costs in the case. The fees so collected shall
be paid quarterly by the clerk into the city treasury and the
treasury of Cuyahoga county in the same proportion as the
compensation for the court reporters is paid from the city and
county treasuries and shall be credited to the general funds of
the city and county treasuries.
(C) In the Hamilton county municipal court, all employees,
including the bailiff, deputy bailiff, and courtroom bailiffs, are
in the unclassified civil service.
Sec. 1901.34. (A) Except as provided in divisions (B) and
(D) of this section, the village solicitor, city director of law,
or similar chief legal officer for each municipal corporation
within the territory of a municipal court shall prosecute all
cases brought before the municipal court for criminal offenses
occurring within the municipal corporation for which that person
is the solicitor, director of law, or similar chief legal officer.
Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the village
solicitor, city director of law, or similar chief legal officer of
the municipal corporation in which a municipal court is located
shall prosecute all criminal cases brought before the court
arising in the unincorporated areas within the territory of the
municipal court.
(B) The Auglaize county, Brown county, Clermont county,
Hocking county, Holmes county, Jackson county, Morrow county,
Ottawa county, and Portage county prosecuting attorneys and,
effective January 1, 2011, the Putnam county prosecuting attorney
shall prosecute in municipal court all violations of state law
arising in their respective counties. The Carroll county, Crawford
county, Hamilton county, Madison county, and Wayne county
prosecuting attorneys and beginning January 1, 2008, the Erie
county prosecuting attorney shall prosecute all violations of
state law arising within the unincorporated areas of their
respective counties. The Columbiana county prosecuting attorney
shall prosecute in the Columbiana county municipal court all
violations of state law arising in the county, except for
violations arising in the municipal corporation of East Liverpool,
Liverpool township, or St. Clair township. The Darke county
prosecuting attorney shall prosecute in the Darke county municipal
court all violations of state law arising in the county, except
for violations of state law arising in the municipal corporation
of Greenville and violations of state law arising in the village
of Versailles. The Greene county board of county commissioners may
provide for the prosecution of all violations of state law arising
within the territorial jurisdiction of any municipal court located
in Greene county. The Montgomery county prosecuting attorney shall
prosecute in the Montgomery county municipal court all felony,
misdemeanor, and traffic violations arising in the unincorporated
townships of Jefferson, Jackson, Perry, and Clay and all felony
violations of state law and all violations involving a state or
county agency arising within the jurisdiction of the court. All
other violations arising in the territory of the Montgomery county
municipal court shall be prosecuted by the village solicitor, city
director of law, or similar chief legal officer for each municipal
corporation within the territory of the Montgomery county
municipal court.
The prosecuting attorney of any county given the duty of
prosecuting in municipal court violations of state law shall
receive no additional compensation for assuming these additional
duties, except that the prosecuting attorney of Hamilton, Portage,
and Wayne counties shall receive compensation at the rate of four
thousand eight hundred dollars per year, and the prosecuting
attorney of Auglaize county shall receive compensation at the rate
of one thousand eight hundred dollars per year, each payable from
the county treasury of the respective counties in semimonthly
installments.
(C) The village solicitor, city director of law, or similar
chief legal officer shall perform the same duties, insofar as they
are applicable to the village solicitor, city director of law, or
similar chief legal officer, as are required of the prosecuting
attorney of the county. The village solicitor, city director of
law, similar chief legal officer or any assistants who may be
appointed shall receive for such services additional compensation
to be paid from the treasury of the county as the board of county
commissioners prescribes.
(D) The prosecuting attorney of any county, other than
Auglaize, Brown, Clermont, Hocking, Holmes, Jackson, Morrow,
Ottawa, or Portage county or, effective January 1, 2011, Putnam
county, may enter into an agreement with any municipal corporation
in the county in which the prosecuting attorney serves pursuant to
which the prosecuting attorney prosecutes all criminal cases
brought before the municipal court that has territorial
jurisdiction over that municipal corporation for criminal offenses
occurring within the municipal corporation. The prosecuting
attorney of Auglaize, Brown, Clermont, Hocking, Holmes, Jackson,
Morrow, Ottawa, or Portage county or, effective January 1, 2011,
the prosecuting attorney of Putnam county may enter into an
agreement with any municipal corporation in the county in which
the prosecuting attorney serves pursuant to which the respective
prosecuting attorney prosecutes all cases brought before the
Auglaize county, Brown county, Clermont county, Hocking county,
Holmes county, Jackson county, Morrow county, Ottawa county, or
Portage county, or Putnam county municipal court for violations of
the ordinances of the municipal corporation or for criminal
offenses other than violations of state law occurring within the
municipal corporation. For prosecuting these cases, the
prosecuting attorney and the municipal corporation may agree upon
a fee to be paid by the municipal corporation, which fee shall be
paid into the county treasury, to be used to cover expenses of the
office of the prosecuting attorney.
Sec. 1905.01. (A) In Georgetown in Brown county, in Mount
Gilead in Morrow county, and in all other municipal corporations
having a population of more than one hundred, other than Batavia
in Clermont county, not being the site of a municipal court nor a
place where a judge of the Auglaize county, Crawford county,
Jackson county, Miami county, Montgomery county, Portage county,
or Wayne county municipal court sits as required pursuant to
section 1901.021 of the Revised Code or by designation of the
judges pursuant to section 1901.021 of the Revised Code, the mayor
of the municipal corporation has jurisdiction, except as provided
in divisions (B), (C), and (E) of this section and subject to the
limitation contained in section 1905.03 and the limitation
contained in section 1905.031 of the Revised Code, to hear and
determine any prosecution for the violation of an ordinance of the
municipal corporation, to hear and determine any case involving a
violation of a vehicle parking or standing ordinance of the
municipal corporation unless the violation is required to be
handled by a parking violations bureau or joint parking violations
bureau pursuant to Chapter 4521. of the Revised Code, and to hear
and determine all criminal causes involving any moving traffic
violation occurring on a state highway located within the
boundaries of the municipal corporation, subject to the
limitations of sections 2937.08 and 2938.04 of the Revised Code.
(B)(1) In Georgetown in Brown county, in Mount Gilead in
Morrow county, and in all other municipal corporations having a
population of more than one hundred, other than Batavia in
Clermont county, not being the site of a municipal court nor a
place where a judge of a court listed in division (A) of this
section sits as required pursuant to section 1901.021 of the
Revised Code or by designation of the judges pursuant to section
1901.021 of the Revised Code, the mayor of the municipal
corporation has jurisdiction, subject to the limitation contained
in section 1905.03 of the Revised Code, to hear and determine
prosecutions involving a violation of an ordinance of the
municipal corporation relating to operating a vehicle while under
the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse, or a combination of
them or relating to operating a vehicle with a prohibited
concentration of alcohol, a controlled substance, or a metabolite
of a controlled substance in the whole blood, blood serum or
plasma, breath, or urine, and to hear and determine criminal
causes involving a violation of section 4511.19 of the Revised
Code that occur on a state highway located within the boundaries
of the municipal corporation, subject to the limitations of
sections 2937.08 and 2938.04 of the Revised Code, only if the
person charged with the violation, within six years of the date of
the violation charged, has not been convicted of or pleaded guilty
to any of the following:
(a) A violation of an ordinance of any municipal corporation
relating to operating a vehicle while under the influence of
alcohol, a drug of abuse, or a combination of them or relating to
operating a vehicle with a prohibited concentration of alcohol, a
controlled substance, or a metabolite of a controlled substance in
the whole blood, blood serum or plasma, breath, or urine;
(b) A violation of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code;
(c) A violation of any ordinance of any municipal corporation
or of any section of the Revised Code that regulates the operation
of vehicles, streetcars, and trackless trolleys upon the highways
or streets, to which all of the following apply:
(i) The person, in the case in which the conviction was
obtained or the plea of guilty was entered, had been charged with
a violation of an ordinance of a type described in division
(B)(1)(a) of this section, or with a violation of section 4511.19
of the Revised Code;
(ii) The charge of the violation described in division
(B)(1)(c)(i) of this section was dismissed or reduced;
(iii) The violation of which the person was convicted or to
which the person pleaded guilty arose out of the same facts and
circumstances and the same act as did the charge that was
dismissed or reduced.
(d) A violation of a statute of the United States or of any
other state or a municipal ordinance of a municipal corporation
located in any other state that is substantially similar to
section 4511.19 of the Revised Code.
(2) The mayor of a municipal corporation does not have
jurisdiction to hear and determine any prosecution or criminal
cause involving a violation described in division (B)(1)(a) or (b)
of this section, regardless of where the violation occurred, if
the person charged with the violation, within six years of the
violation charged, has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any
violation listed in division (B)(1)(a), (b), (c), or (d) of this
section.
If the mayor of a municipal corporation, in hearing a
prosecution involving a violation of an ordinance of the municipal
corporation the mayor serves relating to operating a vehicle while
under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse, or a combination
of them or relating to operating a vehicle with a prohibited
concentration of alcohol, a controlled substance, or a metabolite
of a controlled substance in the whole blood, blood serum or
plasma, breath, or urine, or in hearing a criminal cause involving
a violation of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code, determines
that the person charged, within six years of the violation
charged, has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any violation
listed in division (B)(1)(a), (b), (c), or (d) of this section,
the mayor immediately shall transfer the case to the county court
or municipal court with jurisdiction over the violation charged,
in accordance with section 1905.032 of the Revised Code.
(C)(1) In Georgetown in Brown county, in Mount Gilead in
Morrow county, and in all other municipal corporations having a
population of more than one hundred, other than Batavia in
Clermont county, not being the site of a municipal court and not
being a place where a judge of a court listed in division (A) of
this section sits as required pursuant to section 1901.021 of the
Revised Code or by designation of the judges pursuant to section
1901.021 of the Revised Code, the mayor of the municipal
corporation, subject to sections 1901.031, 2937.08, and 2938.04 of
the Revised Code, has jurisdiction to hear and determine
prosecutions involving a violation of a municipal ordinance that
is substantially equivalent to division (A) of section 4510.14 or
section 4510.16 of the Revised Code and to hear and determine
criminal causes that involve a moving traffic violation, that
involve a violation of division (A) of section 4510.14 or section
4510.16 of the Revised Code, and that occur on a state highway
located within the boundaries of the municipal corporation only if
all of the following apply regarding the violation and the person
charged:
(a) Regarding a violation of section 4510.16 of the Revised
Code or a violation of a municipal ordinance that is substantially
equivalent to that division, the person charged with the
violation, within six years of the date of the violation charged,
has not been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any of the
following:
(i) A violation of section 4510.16 of the Revised Code;
(ii) A violation of a municipal ordinance that is
substantially equivalent to section 4510.16 of the Revised Code;
(iii) A violation of any municipal ordinance or section of
the Revised Code that regulates the operation of vehicles,
streetcars, and trackless trolleys upon the highways or streets,
in a case in which, after a charge against the person of a
violation of a type described in division (C)(1)(a)(i) or (ii) of
this section was dismissed or reduced, the person is convicted of
or pleads guilty to a violation that arose out of the same facts
and circumstances and the same act as did the charge that was
dismissed or reduced.
(b) Regarding a violation of division (A) of section 4510.14
of the Revised Code or a violation of a municipal ordinance that
is substantially equivalent to that division, the person charged
with the violation, within six years of the date of the violation
charged, has not been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any of the
following:
(i) A violation of division (A) of section 4510.14 of the
Revised Code;
(ii) A violation of a municipal ordinance that is
substantially equivalent to division (A) of section 4510.14 of the
Revised Code;
(iii) A violation of any municipal ordinance or section of
the Revised Code that regulates the operation of vehicles,
streetcars, and trackless trolleys upon the highways or streets in
a case in which, after a charge against the person of a violation
of a type described in division (C)(1)(b)(i) or (ii) of this
section was dismissed or reduced, the person is convicted of or
pleads guilty to a violation that arose out of the same facts and
circumstances and the same act as did the charge that was
dismissed or reduced.
(2) The mayor of a municipal corporation does not have
jurisdiction to hear and determine any prosecution or criminal
cause involving a violation described in division (C)(1)(a)(i) or
(ii) of this section if the person charged with the violation,
within six years of the violation charged, has been convicted of
or pleaded guilty to any violation listed in division
(C)(1)(a)(i), (ii), or (iii) of this section and does not have
jurisdiction to hear and determine any prosecution or criminal
cause involving a violation described in division (C)(1)(b)(i) or
(ii) of this section if the person charged with the violation,
within six years of the violation charged, has been convicted of
or pleaded guilty to any violation listed in division
(C)(1)(b)(i), (ii), or (iii) of this section.
(3) If the mayor of a municipal corporation, in hearing a
prosecution involving a violation of an ordinance of the municipal
corporation the mayor serves that is substantially equivalent to
division (A) of section 4510.14 or section 4510.16 of the Revised
Code or a violation of division (A) of section 4510.14 or section
4510.16 of the Revised Code, determines that, under division
(C)(2) of this section, mayors do not have jurisdiction of the
prosecution, the mayor immediately shall transfer the case to the
county court or municipal court with jurisdiction over the
violation in accordance with section 1905.032 of the Revised Code.
(D) If the mayor of a municipal corporation has jurisdiction
pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section to hear and determine
a prosecution or criminal cause involving a violation described in
division (B)(1)(a) or (b) of this section, the authority of the
mayor to hear or determine the prosecution or cause is subject to
the limitation contained in division (C) of section 1905.03 of the
Revised Code. If the mayor of a municipal corporation has
jurisdiction pursuant to division (A) or (C) of this section to
hear and determine a prosecution or criminal cause involving a
violation other than a violation described in division (B)(1)(a)
or (b) of this section, the authority of the mayor to hear or
determine the prosecution or cause is subject to the limitation
contained in division (C) of section 1905.031 of the Revised Code.
(E)(1) The mayor of a municipal corporation does not have
jurisdiction to hear and determine any prosecution or criminal
cause involving any of the following:
(a) A violation of section 2919.25 or 2919.27 of the Revised
Code;
(b) A violation of section 2903.11, 2903.12, 2903.13,
2903.211, or 2911.211 of the Revised Code that involves a person
who was a family or household member of the defendant at the time
of the violation;
(c) A violation of a municipal ordinance that is
substantially equivalent to an offense described in division
(E)(1)(a) or (b) of this section and that involves a person who
was a family or household member of the defendant at the time of
the violation.
(2) The mayor of a municipal corporation does not have
jurisdiction to hear and determine a motion filed pursuant to
section 2919.26 of the Revised Code or filed pursuant to a
municipal ordinance that is substantially equivalent to that
section or to issue a protection order pursuant to that section or
a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance.
(3) As used in this section, "family or household member" has
the same meaning as in section 2919.25 of the Revised Code.
(F) In keeping a docket and files, the mayor, and a mayor's
court magistrate appointed under section 1905.05 of the Revised
Code, shall be governed by the laws pertaining to county courts.
Sec. 1907.11. (A) Each county court district shall have the
following county court judges, to be elected as follows:
In the Adams county county court, one part-time judge shall
be elected in 1982.
In the Ashtabula county county court, one part-time judge
shall be elected in 1980, and one part-time judge shall be elected
in 1982.
In the Belmont county county court, one part-time judge shall
be elected in 1992, term to commence on January 1, 1993, and two
part-time judges shall be elected in 1994, terms to commence on
January 1, 1995, and January 2, 1995, respectively.
In the Butler county county court, one part-time judge shall
be elected in 1992, term to commence on January 1, 1993, and two
part-time judges shall be elected in 1994, terms to commence on
January 1, 1995, and January 2, 1995, respectively.
Until December 31, 2007, in the Erie county county court, one
part-time judge shall be elected in 1982. Effective January 1,
2008, the Erie county county court shall cease to exist.
In the Fulton county county court, one part-time judge shall
be elected in 1980, and one part-time judge shall be elected in
1982.
In the Harrison county county court, one part-time judge
shall be elected in 1982.
In the Highland county county court, one part-time judge
shall be elected in 1982.
In the Jefferson county county court, one part-time judge
shall be elected in 1992, term to commence on January 1, 1993, and
two part-time judges shall be elected in 1994, terms to commence
on January 1, 1995, and January 2, 1995, respectively.
In the Mahoning county county court, one part-time judge
shall be elected in 1992, term to commence on January 1, 1993, and
three part-time judges shall be elected in 1994, terms to commence
on January 1, 1995, January 2, 1995, and January 3, 1995,
respectively.
In the Meigs county county court, one part-time judge shall
be elected in 1982.
In the Monroe county county court, one part-time judge shall
be elected in 1982.
In the Montgomery county county court, three part-time judges
shall be elected in 1998, terms to commence on January 1, 1999,
January 2, 1999, and January 3, 1999, respectively, and two
part-time judges shall be elected in 1994, terms to commence on
January 1, 1995, and January 2, 1995, respectively.
In the Morgan county county court, one part-time judge shall
be elected in 1982.
In the Muskingum county county court, one part-time judge
shall be elected in 1980, and one part-time judge shall be elected
in 1982.
In the Noble county county court, one part-time judge shall
be elected in 1982.
In the Paulding county county court, one part-time judge
shall be elected in 1982.
In the Perry county county court, one part-time judge shall
be elected in 1982.
In the Pike county county court, one part-time judge shall be
elected in 1982.
In the Putnam county county court, one part-time judge shall
be elected in 1980, and one part-time judge shall be elected in
1982.
In the Sandusky county county court, two part-time judges
shall be elected in 1994, terms to commence on January 1, 1995,
and January 2, 1995, respectively.
In the Trumbull county county court, one part-time judge
shall be elected in 1992, and one part-time judge shall be elected
in 1994.
In the Tuscarawas county county court, one part-time judge
shall be elected in 1982.
In the Vinton county county court, one part-time judge shall
be elected in 1982.
In the Warren county county court, one part-time judge shall
be elected in 1980, and one part-time judge shall be elected in
1982.
(B)(1) Additional judges shall be elected at the next regular
election for a county court judge as provided in section 1907.13
of the Revised Code.
(2) Vacancies caused by the death or the resignation from,
forfeiture of, or removal from office of a judge shall be filled
in accordance with section 107.08 of the Revised Code, except as
provided in section 1907.15 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 1907.18. (A) County court judges, within and
coextensive with their respective counties, have jurisdiction and
authority to:
(1) Administer an oath authorized or required by law to be
administered;
(2) Take acknowledgments of instruments of writing;
(3) Issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses to
give evidence in causes or matters pending before the judges, or
for the purpose of taking depositions or perpetuating testimony;
(4) Proceed against sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, and constables
failing to make return, making false return, or failing to pay
over money collected on execution issued by the judges;
(5) Try actions against other county court judges for
refusing or neglecting to pay over moneys collected in their
official capacity when the amount claimed does not exceed five
hundred dollars. This division does not deny or impair any remedy
provided by law in such a case by suit on the official bond of
such a county court judge, or by amercement or otherwise, for
neglect or failure to pay over money so collected.
(6) Hear actions concerning the issuance and enforcement of,
issue, and enforce temporary protection orders pursuant to section
2919.26 of the Revised Code and protection orders pursuant to
section 2903.213 of the Revised Code;
(7) Hear actions concerning the enforcement of protection
orders issued by courts of another state, as defined in section
2919.27 of the Revised Code, and to enforce those protection
orders.
(B) County court judges may punish contempts, and exercise
powers necessary to give effect to the jurisdiction of the court
and to enforce its judgments, orders, and decrees, as provided in
this chapter or, in the absence of a provision in this chapter, in
a manner authorized by the Revised Code or common law for the
judges of the courts of common pleas.
(C)(1) County court judges have jurisdiction and authority to
perform marriage ceremonies anywhere in the state.
(2) A county court judge shall pay all marriage fees
collected by the judge when not connected with any cause or
proceeding pending in the county court to the treasurer of the
county in which the court is located.
Sec. 1907.26. Judges of a county court shall not retain any
of the costs or fees specified in the schedules adopted pursuant
to section 1907.24 of the Revised Code, except nor shall they may
retain a fee for performing a marriage ceremony and making return.
Those costs and fees that cannot be retained shall be transmitted
to the general fund of the county on the first business day of
each month.
Sec. 2903.213. (A) Except when the complaint involves a
person who is a family or household member as defined in section
2919.25 of the Revised Code, upon the filing of a complaint that
alleges a violation of section 2903.11, 2903.12, 2903.13, 2903.21,
2903.211, 2903.22, or 2911.211 of the Revised Code, a violation of
a municipal ordinance substantially similar to section 2903.13,
2903.21, 2903.211, 2903.22, or 2911.211 of the Revised Code, or
the commission of a sexually oriented offense, the complainant,
the alleged victim, or a family or household member of an alleged
victim may file a motion that requests the issuance of a
protection order as a pretrial condition of release of the alleged
offender, in addition to any bail set under Criminal Rule 46. The
motion shall be filed with the clerk of the court that has
jurisdiction of the case at any time after the filing of the
complaint. If the complaint involves a person who is a family or
household member, the complainant, the alleged victim, or the
family or household member may file a motion for a temporary
protection order pursuant to section 2919.26 of the Revised Code.
(B) A motion for a protection order under this section shall
be prepared on a form that is provided by the clerk of the court,
and the form shall be substantially as follows:
"Motion for Protection Order
............................
Name and address of court
State of Ohio
.............................
Name of Defendant
(Name of person), moves the court to issue a protection order
containing terms designed to ensure the safety and protection of
the complainant or the alleged victim in the above-captioned case,
in relation to the named defendant, pursuant to its authority to
issue a protection order under section 2903.213 of the Revised
Code.
A complaint, a copy of which has been attached to this
motion, has been filed in this court charging the named defendant
with a violation of section 2903.11, 2903.12, 2903.13, 2903.21,
2903.211, 2903.22, or 2911.211 of the Revised Code, a violation of
a municipal ordinance substantially similar to section 2903.13,
2903.21, 2903.211, 2903.22, or 2911.211 of the Revised Code, or
the commission of a sexually oriented offense.
I understand that I must appear before the court, at a time
set by the court not later than the next day that the court is in
session after the filing of this motion, for a hearing on the
motion, and that any protection order granted pursuant to this
motion is a pretrial condition of release and is effective only
until the disposition of the criminal proceeding arising out of
the attached complaint or until the issuance under section
2903.214 of the Revised Code of a protection order arising out of
the same activities as those that were the basis of the attached
complaint.
.....................................
Signature of person
.....................................
Address of person"
(C)(1) As soon as possible after the filing of a motion that
requests the issuance of a protection order under this section,
but not later than the next day that the court is in session after
the filing of the motion, the court shall conduct a hearing to
determine whether to issue the order. The person who requested the
order shall appear before the court and provide the court with the
information that it requests concerning the basis of the motion.
If the court finds that the safety and protection of the
complainant or the alleged victim may be impaired by the continued
presence of the alleged offender, the court may issue a protection
order under this section, as a pretrial condition of release, that
contains terms designed to ensure the safety and protection of the
complainant or the alleged victim, including a requirement that
the alleged offender refrain from entering the residence, school,
business, or place of employment of the complainant or the alleged
victim.
(2)(a) If the court issues a protection order under this
section that includes a requirement that the alleged offender
refrain from entering the residence, school, business, or place of
employment of the complainant or the alleged victim, the order
shall clearly state that the order cannot be waived or nullified
by an invitation to the alleged offender from the complainant, the
alleged victim, or a family or household member to enter the
residence, school, business, or place of employment or by the
alleged offender's entry into one of those places otherwise upon
the consent of the complainant, the alleged victim, or a family or
household member.
(b) Division (C)(2)(a) of this section does not limit any
discretion of a court to determine that an alleged offender
charged with a violation of section 2919.27 of the Revised Code,
with a violation of a municipal ordinance substantially equivalent
to that section, or with contempt of court, which charge is based
on an alleged violation of a protection order issued under this
section, did not commit the violation or was not in contempt of
court.
(D)(1) Except when the complaint involves a person who is a
family or household member as defined in section 2919.25 of the
Revised Code, upon the filing of a complaint that alleges a
violation specified in division (A) of this section, the court,
upon its own motion, may issue a protection order under this
section as a pretrial condition of release of the alleged offender
if it finds that the safety and protection of the complainant or
the alleged victim may be impaired by the continued presence of
the alleged offender.
(2) If the court issues a protection order under this section
as an ex parte order, it shall conduct, as soon as possible after
the issuance of the order but not later than the next day that the
court is in session after its issuance, a hearing to determine
whether the order should remain in effect, be modified, or be
revoked. The hearing shall be conducted under the standards set
forth in division (C) of this section.
(3) If a municipal court or a county court issues a
protection order under this section and if, subsequent to the
issuance of the order, the alleged offender who is the subject of
the order is bound over to the court of common pleas for
prosecution of a felony arising out of the same activities as
those that were the basis of the complaint upon which the order is
based, notwithstanding the fact that the order was issued by a
municipal court or county court, the order shall remain in effect,
as though it were an order of the court of common pleas, while the
charges against the alleged offender are pending in the court of
common pleas, for the period of time described in division (E)(2)
of this section, and the court of common pleas has exclusive
jurisdiction to modify the order issued by the municipal court or
county court. This division applies when the alleged offender is
bound over to the court of common pleas as a result of the person
waiving a preliminary hearing on the felony charge, as a result of
the municipal court or county court having determined at a
preliminary hearing that there is probable cause to believe that
the felony has been committed and that the alleged offender
committed it, as a result of the alleged offender having been
indicted for the felony, or in any other manner.
(E) A protection order that is issued as a pretrial condition
of release under this section:
(1) Is in addition to, but shall not be construed as a part
of, any bail set under Criminal Rule 46;
(2) Is effective only until the disposition, by the court
that issued the order or, in the circumstances described in
division (D)(3) of this section, by the court of common pleas to
which the alleged offender is bound over for prosecution, of the
criminal proceeding arising out of the complaint upon which the
order is based or until the issuance under section 2903.214 of the
Revised Code of a protection order arising out of the same
activities as those that were the basis of the complaint filed
under this section;
(3) Shall not be construed as a finding that the alleged
offender committed the alleged offense and shall not be introduced
as evidence of the commission of the offense at the trial of the
alleged offender on the complaint upon which the order is based.
(F) A person who meets the criteria for bail under Criminal
Rule 46 and who, if required to do so pursuant to that rule,
executes or posts bond or deposits cash or securities as bail,
shall not be held in custody pending a hearing before the court on
a motion requesting a protection order under this section.
(G)(1) A copy of a protection order that is issued under this
section shall be issued by the court to the complainant, to the
alleged victim, to the person who requested the order, to the
defendant, and to all law enforcement agencies that have
jurisdiction to enforce the order. The court shall direct that a
copy of the order be delivered to the defendant on the same day
that the order is entered. If a municipal court or a county court
issues a protection order under this section and if, subsequent to
the issuance of the order, the defendant who is the subject of the
order is bound over to the court of common pleas for prosecution
as described in division (D)(3) of this section, the municipal
court or county court shall direct that a copy of the order be
delivered to the court of common pleas to which the defendant is
bound over.
(2) Upon the issuance of a protection order under this
section, the court shall provide the parties to the order with the
following notice orally or by form:
"NOTICE
If you are convicted of a misdemeanor crime involving
violence in which you are or were a spouse, intimate partner,
parent, or guardian of the victim or are or were involved in
another, similar relationship with the victim, it may be unlawful
for you to possess or purchase a firearm, including a rifle,
pistol, or revolver, or ammunition pursuant to federal law under
18 U.S.C. 922(g)(9). If you have any questions whether this law
makes it illegal for you to possess or purchase a firearm or
ammunition, you should consult an attorney."
(3) All law enforcement agencies shall establish and maintain
an index for the protection orders delivered to the agencies
pursuant to division (G)(1) of this section. With respect to each
order delivered, each agency shall note on the index the date and
time of the agency's receipt of the order.
(4)(3) Regardless of whether the petitioner has registered
the protection order in the county in which the officer's agency
has jurisdiction, any officer of a law enforcement agency shall
enforce a protection order issued pursuant to this section in
accordance with the provisions of the order.
(H) Upon a violation of a protection order issued pursuant to
this section, the court may issue another protection order under
this section, as a pretrial condition of release, that modifies
the terms of the order that was violated.
(I) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary and
regardless of whether a protection order is issued or a consent
agreement is approved by a court of another county or by a court
of another state, no court or unit of state or local government
shall charge any fee, cost, deposit, or money in connection with
the filing of a motion pursuant to this section, in connection
with the filing, issuance, registration, or service of a
protection order or consent agreement, or for obtaining certified
copies of a protection order or consent agreement.
(J) As used in this section, "sexually oriented offense" has
the same meaning as in section 2950.01 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 2919.26. (A)(1) Upon the filing of a complaint that
alleges a violation of section 2909.06, 2909.07, 2911.12, or
2911.211 of the Revised Code if the alleged victim of the
violation was a family or household member at the time of the
violation, a violation of a municipal ordinance that is
substantially similar to any of those sections if the alleged
victim of the violation was a family or household member at the
time of the violation, any offense of violence if the alleged
victim of the offense was a family or household member at the time
of the commission of the offense, or any sexually oriented offense
if the alleged victim of the offense was a family or household
member at the time of the commission of the offense, the
complainant, the alleged victim, or a family or household member
of an alleged victim may file, or, if in an emergency the alleged
victim is unable to file, a person who made an arrest for the
alleged violation or offense under section 2935.03 of the Revised
Code may file on behalf of the alleged victim, a motion that
requests the issuance of a temporary protection order as a
pretrial condition of release of the alleged offender, in addition
to any bail set under Criminal Rule 46. The motion shall be filed
with the clerk of the court that has jurisdiction of the case at
any time after the filing of the complaint.
(2) For purposes of section 2930.09 of the Revised Code, all
stages of a proceeding arising out of a complaint alleging the
commission of a violation, offense of violence, or sexually
oriented offense described in division (A)(1) of this section,
including all proceedings on a motion for a temporary protection
order, are critical stages of the case, and a victim may be
accompanied by a victim advocate or another person to provide
support to the victim as provided in that section.
(B) The motion shall be prepared on a form that is provided
by the clerk of the court, which form shall be substantially as
follows:
"MOTION FOR TEMPORARY PROTECTION ORDER
.......................... Court
Name and address of court
State of Ohio
..........................................
Name of Defendant
(name of person), moves the court to issue a temporary protection
order containing terms designed to ensure the safety and
protection of the complainant, alleged victim, and other family or
household members, in relation to the named defendant, pursuant to
its authority to issue such an order under section 2919.26 of the
Revised Code.
A complaint, a copy of which has been attached to this
motion, has been filed in this court charging the named defendant
with .......................... (name of the specified violation,
the offense of violence, or sexually oriented offense charged) in
circumstances in which the victim was a family or household member
in violation of (section of the Revised Code designating the
specified violation, offense of violence, or sexually oriented
offense charged), or charging the named defendant with a violation
of a municipal ordinance that is substantially similar to
........................ (section of the Revised Code designating
the specified violation, offense of violence, or sexually oriented
offense charged) involving a family or household member.
I understand that I must appear before the court, at a time
set by the court within twenty-four hours after the filing of this
motion, for a hearing on the motion or that, if I am unable to
appear because of hospitalization or a medical condition resulting
from the offense alleged in the complaint, a person who can
provide information about my need for a temporary protection order
must appear before the court in lieu of my appearing in court. I
understand that any temporary protection order granted pursuant to
this motion is a pretrial condition of release and is effective
only until the disposition of the criminal proceeding arising out
of the attached complaint, or the issuance of a civil protection
order or the approval of a consent agreement, arising out of the
same activities as those that were the basis of the complaint,
under section 3113.31 of the Revised Code.
..........................................
Signature of person
(or signature of the arresting officer who filed the motion on
behalf of the alleged victim)
..........................................
Address of person (or office address of the arresting officer who
filed the motion on behalf of the alleged victim)"
(C)(1) As soon as possible after the filing of a motion that
requests the issuance of a temporary protection order, but not
later than twenty-four hours after the filing of the motion, the
court shall conduct a hearing to determine whether to issue the
order. The person who requested the order shall appear before the
court and provide the court with the information that it requests
concerning the basis of the motion. If the person who requested
the order is unable to appear and if the court finds that the
failure to appear is because of the person's hospitalization or
medical condition resulting from the offense alleged in the
complaint, another person who is able to provide the court with
the information it requests may appear in lieu of the person who
requested the order. If the court finds that the safety and
protection of the complainant, alleged victim, or any other family
or household member of the alleged victim may be impaired by the
continued presence of the alleged offender, the court may issue a
temporary protection order, as a pretrial condition of release,
that contains terms designed to ensure the safety and protection
of the complainant, alleged victim, or the family or household
member, including a requirement that the alleged offender refrain
from entering the residence, school, business, or place of
employment of the complainant, alleged victim, or the family or
household member.
(2)(a) If the court issues a temporary protection order that
includes a requirement that the alleged offender refrain from
entering the residence, school, business, or place of employment
of the complainant, the alleged victim, or the family or household
member, the order shall state clearly that the order cannot be
waived or nullified by an invitation to the alleged offender from
the complainant, alleged victim, or family or household member to
enter the residence, school, business, or place of employment or
by the alleged offender's entry into one of those places otherwise
upon the consent of the complainant, alleged victim, or family or
household member.
(b) Division (C)(2)(a) of this section does not limit any
discretion of a court to determine that an alleged offender
charged with a violation of section 2919.27 of the Revised Code,
with a violation of a municipal ordinance substantially equivalent
to that section, or with contempt of court, which charge is based
on an alleged violation of a temporary protection order issued
under this section, did not commit the violation or was not in
contempt of court.
(D)(1) Upon the filing of a complaint that alleges a
violation of section 2909.06, 2909.07, 2911.12, or 2911.211 of the
Revised Code if the alleged victim of the violation was a family
or household member at the time of the violation, a violation of a
municipal ordinance that is substantially similar to any of those
sections if the alleged victim of the violation was a family or
household member at the time of the violation, any offense of
violence if the alleged victim of the offense was a family or
household member at the time of the commission of the offense, or
any sexually oriented offense if the alleged victim of the offense
was a family or household member at the time of the commission of
the offense, the court, upon its own motion, may issue a temporary
protection order as a pretrial condition of release if it finds
that the safety and protection of the complainant, alleged victim,
or other family or household member of the alleged offender may be
impaired by the continued presence of the alleged offender.
(2) If the court issues a temporary protection order under
this section as an ex parte order, it shall conduct, as soon as
possible after the issuance of the order, a hearing in the
presence of the alleged offender not later than the next day on
which the court is scheduled to conduct business after the day on
which the alleged offender was arrested or at the time of the
appearance of the alleged offender pursuant to summons to
determine whether the order should remain in effect, be modified,
or be revoked. The hearing shall be conducted under the standards
set forth in division (C) of this section.
(3) An order issued under this section shall contain only
those terms authorized in orders issued under division (C) of this
section.
(4) If a municipal court or a county court issues a temporary
protection order under this section and if, subsequent to the
issuance of the order, the alleged offender who is the subject of
the order is bound over to the court of common pleas for
prosecution of a felony arising out of the same activities as
those that were the basis of the complaint upon which the order is
based, notwithstanding the fact that the order was issued by a
municipal court or county court, the order shall remain in effect,
as though it were an order of the court of common pleas, while the
charges against the alleged offender are pending in the court of
common pleas, for the period of time described in division (E)(2)
of this section, and the court of common pleas has exclusive
jurisdiction to modify the order issued by the municipal court or
county court. This division applies when the alleged offender is
bound over to the court of common pleas as a result of the person
waiving a preliminary hearing on the felony charge, as a result of
the municipal court or county court having determined at a
preliminary hearing that there is probable cause to believe that
the felony has been committed and that the alleged offender
committed it, as a result of the alleged offender having been
indicted for the felony, or in any other manner.
(E) A temporary protection order that is issued as a pretrial
condition of release under this section:
(1) Is in addition to, but shall not be construed as a part
of, any bail set under Criminal Rule 46;
(2) Is effective only until the occurrence of either of the
following:
(a) The disposition, by the court that issued the order or,
in the circumstances described in division (D)(4) of this section,
by the court of common pleas to which the alleged offender is
bound over for prosecution, of the criminal proceeding arising out
of the complaint upon which the order is based;
(b) The issuance of a protection order or the approval of a
consent agreement, arising out of the same activities as those
that were the basis of the complaint upon which the order is
based, under section 3113.31 of the Revised Code;
(3) Shall not be construed as a finding that the alleged
offender committed the alleged offense, and shall not be
introduced as evidence of the commission of the offense at the
trial of the alleged offender on the complaint upon which the
order is based.
(F) A person who meets the criteria for bail under Criminal
Rule 46 and who, if required to do so pursuant to that rule,
executes or posts bond or deposits cash or securities as bail,
shall not be held in custody pending a hearing before the court on
a motion requesting a temporary protection order.
(G)(1) A copy of any temporary protection order that is
issued under this section shall be issued by the court to the
complainant, to the alleged victim, to the person who requested
the order, to the defendant, and to all law enforcement agencies
that have jurisdiction to enforce the order. The court shall
direct that a copy of the order be delivered to the defendant on
the same day that the order is entered. If a municipal court or a
county court issues a temporary protection order under this
section and if, subsequent to the issuance of the order, the
defendant who is the subject of the order is bound over to the
court of common pleas for prosecution as described in division
(D)(4) of this section, the municipal court or county court shall
direct that a copy of the order be delivered to the court of
common pleas to which the defendant is bound over.
(2) Upon the issuance of a protection order under this
section, the court shall provide the parties to the order with the
following notice orally or by form:
"NOTICE
If you are convicted of a misdemeanor crime involving
violence in which you are or were a spouse, intimate partner,
parent, or guardian of the victim or are or were involved in
another, similar relationship with the victim As a result of this
protection order, it may be unlawful for you to possess or
purchase a firearm, including a rifle, pistol, or revolver, or
ammunition pursuant to federal law under 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(9)(8).
If you have any questions whether this law makes it illegal for
you to possess or purchase a firearm or ammunition, you should
consult an attorney."
(3) All law enforcement agencies shall establish and maintain
an index for the temporary protection orders delivered to the
agencies pursuant to division (G)(1) of this section. With respect
to each order delivered, each agency shall note on the index, the
date and time of the receipt of the order by the agency.
(4) A complainant, alleged victim, or other person who
obtains a temporary protection order under this section may
provide notice of the issuance of the temporary protection order
to the judicial and law enforcement officials in any county other
than the county in which the order is issued by registering that
order in the other county in accordance with division (N) of
section 3113.31 of the Revised Code and filing a copy of the
registered protection order with a law enforcement agency in the
other county in accordance with that division.
(5) Any officer of a law enforcement agency shall enforce a
temporary protection order issued by any court in this state in
accordance with the provisions of the order, including removing
the defendant from the premises, regardless of whether the order
is registered in the county in which the officer's agency has
jurisdiction as authorized by division (G)(4) of this section.
(H) Upon a violation of a temporary protection order, the
court may issue another temporary protection order, as a pretrial
condition of release, that modifies the terms of the order that
was violated.
(I)(1) As used in divisions (I)(1) and (2) of this section,
"defendant" means a person who is alleged in a complaint to have
committed a violation, offense of violence, or sexually oriented
offense of the type described in division (A) of this section.
(2) If a complaint is filed that alleges that a person
committed a violation, offense of violence, or sexually oriented
offense of the type described in division (A) of this section, the
court may not issue a temporary protection order under this
section that requires the complainant, the alleged victim, or
another family or household member of the defendant to do or
refrain from doing an act that the court may require the defendant
to do or refrain from doing under a temporary protection order
unless both of the following apply:
(a) The defendant has filed a separate complaint that alleges
that the complainant, alleged victim, or other family or household
member in question who would be required under the order to do or
refrain from doing the act committed a violation or offense of
violence of the type described in division (A) of this section.
(b) The court determines that both the complainant, alleged
victim, or other family or household member in question who would
be required under the order to do or refrain from doing the act
and the defendant acted primarily as aggressors, that neither the
complainant, alleged victim, or other family or household member
in question who would be required under the order to do or refrain
from doing the act nor the defendant acted primarily in
self-defense, and, in accordance with the standards and criteria
of this section as applied in relation to the separate complaint
filed by the defendant, that it should issue the order to require
the complainant, alleged victim, or other family or household
member in question to do or refrain from doing the act.
(J) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary and
regardless of whether a protection order is issued or a consent
agreement is approved by a court of another county or a court of
another state, no court or unit of state or local government shall
charge any fee, cost, deposit, or money in connection with the
filing of a motion pursuant to this section, in connection with
the filing, issuance, registration, or service of a protection
order or consent agreement, or for obtaining a certified copy of a
protection order or consent agreement.
(K) As used in this section:
(1) "Sexually oriented offense" has the same meaning as in
section 2950.01 of the Revised Code.
(2) "Victim advocate" means a person who provides support and
assistance for a victim of an offense during court proceedings.
Sec. 3105.171. (A) As used in this section:
(1) "Distributive award" means any payment or payments, in
real or personal property, that are payable in a lump sum or over
time, in fixed amounts, that are made from separate property or
income, and that are not made from marital property and do not
constitute payments of spousal support, as defined in section
3105.18 of the Revised Code.
(2) "During the marriage" means whichever of the following is
applicable:
(a) Except as provided in division (A)(2)(b) of this section,
the period of time from the date of the marriage through the date
of the final hearing in an action for divorce or in an action for
legal separation;
(b) If the court determines that the use of either or both of
the dates specified in division (A)(2)(a) of this section would be
inequitable, the court may select dates that it considers
equitable in determining marital property. If the court selects
dates that it considers equitable in determining marital property,
"during the marriage" means the period of time between those dates
selected and specified by the court.
(3)(a) "Marital property" means, subject to division
(A)(3)(b) of this section, all of the following:
(i) All real and personal property that currently is owned by
either or both of the spouses, including, but not limited to, the
retirement benefits of the spouses, and that was acquired by
either or both of the spouses during the marriage;
(ii) All interest that either or both of the spouses
currently has in any real or personal property, including, but not
limited to, the retirement benefits of the spouses, and that was
acquired by either or both of the spouses during the marriage;
(iii) Except as otherwise provided in this section, all
income and appreciation on separate property, due to the labor,
monetary, or in-kind contribution of either or both of the spouses
that occurred during the marriage;
(iv) A participant account, as defined in section 148.01 of
the Revised Code, of either of the spouses, to the extent of the
following: the moneys that have been deferred by a continuing
member or participating employee, as defined in that section, and
that have been transmitted to the Ohio public employees deferred
compensation board during the marriage and any income that is
derived from the investment of those moneys during the marriage;
the moneys that have been deferred by an officer or employee of a
municipal corporation and that have been transmitted to the
governing board, administrator, depository, or trustee of the
deferred compensation program of the municipal corporation during
the marriage and any income that is derived from the investment of
those moneys during the marriage; or the moneys that have been
deferred by an officer or employee of a government unit, as
defined in section 148.06 of the Revised Code, and that have been
transmitted to the governing board, as defined in that section,
during the marriage and any income that is derived from the
investment of those moneys during the marriage.
(b) "Marital property" does not include any separate
property.
(4) "Passive income" means income acquired other than as a
result of the labor, monetary, or in-kind contribution of either
spouse.
(5) "Personal property" includes both tangible and intangible
personal property.
(6)(a) "Separate property" means all real and personal
property and any interest in real or personal property that is
found by the court to be any of the following:
(i) An inheritance by one spouse by bequest, devise, or
descent during the course of the marriage;
(ii) Any real or personal property or interest in real or
personal property that was acquired by one spouse prior to the
date of the marriage;
(iii) Passive income and appreciation acquired from separate
property by one spouse during the marriage;
(iv) Any real or personal property or interest in real or
personal property acquired by one spouse after a decree of legal
separation issued under section 3105.17 of the Revised Code;
(v) Any real or personal property or interest in real or
personal property that is excluded by a valid antenuptial
agreement;
(vi) Compensation to a spouse for the spouse's personal
injury, except for loss of marital earnings and compensation for
expenses paid from marital assets;
(vii) Any gift of any real or personal property or of an
interest in real or personal property that is made after the date
of the marriage and that is proven by clear and convincing
evidence to have been given to only one spouse.
(b) The commingling of separate property with other property
of any type does not destroy the identity of the separate property
as separate property, except when the separate property is not
traceable.
(B) In divorce proceedings, the court shall, and in legal
separation proceedings upon the request of either spouse, the
court may, determine what constitutes marital property and what
constitutes separate property. In either case, upon making such a
determination, the court shall divide the marital and separate
property equitably between the spouses, in accordance with this
section. For purposes of this section, the court has jurisdiction
over all property, excluding the social security benefits of a
spouse other than as set forth in division (F)(9) of this section,
in which one or both spouses have an interest.
(C)(1) Except as provided in this division or division (E) of
this section, the division of marital property shall be equal. If
an equal division of marital property would be inequitable, the
court shall not divide the marital property equally but instead
shall divide it between the spouses in the manner the court
determines equitable. In making a division of marital property,
the court shall consider all relevant factors, including those set
forth in division (F) of this section.
(2) Each spouse shall be considered to have contributed
equally to the production and acquisition of marital property.
(3) The court shall provide for an equitable division of
marital property under this section prior to making any award of
spousal support to either spouse under section 3105.18 of the
Revised Code and without regard to any spousal support so awarded.
(4) If the marital property includes a participant account,
as defined in section 148.01 of the Revised Code, the court shall
not order the division or disbursement of the moneys and income
described in division (A)(3)(a)(iv) of this section to occur in a
manner that is inconsistent with the law, rules, or plan governing
the deferred compensation program involved or prior to the time
that the spouse in whose name the participant account is
maintained commences receipt of the moneys and income credited to
the account in accordance with that law, rules, and plan.
(D) Except as otherwise provided in division (E) of this
section or by another provision of this section, the court shall
disburse a spouse's separate property to that spouse. If a court
does not disburse a spouse's separate property to that spouse, the
court shall make written findings of fact that explain the factors
that it considered in making its determination that the spouse's
separate property should not be disbursed to that spouse.
(E)(1) The court may make a distributive award to facilitate,
effectuate, or supplement a division of marital property. The
court may require any distributive award to be secured by a lien
on the payor's specific marital property or separate property.
(2) The court may make a distributive award in lieu of a
division of marital property in order to achieve equity between
the spouses, if the court determines that a division of the
marital property in kind or in money would be impractical or
burdensome.
(3) The court shall require each spouse to disclose in a full
and complete manner all marital property, separate property, and
other assets, debts, income, and expenses of the spouse.
(4) If a spouse has engaged in financial misconduct,
including, but not limited to, the dissipation, destruction,
concealment, nondisclosure, or fraudulent disposition of assets,
the court may compensate the offended spouse with a distributive
award or with a greater award of marital property.
(5) If a spouse has substantially and willfully failed to 12
disclose marital property, separate property, or other assets, 13
debts, income, or expenses as required under division (E)(3) of 14
this section, the court may compensate the offended spouse with 15
a distributive award or with a greater award of marital property
16 not to exceed three times the value of the marital property, 17
separate property, or other assets, debts, income, or expenses 18
that are not disclosed by the other spouse.
(F) In making a division of marital property and in
determining whether to make and the amount of any distributive
award under this section, the court shall consider all of the
following factors:
(1) The duration of the marriage;
(2) The assets and liabilities of the spouses;
(3) The desirability of awarding the family home, or the
right to reside in the family home for reasonable periods of time,
to the spouse with custody of the children of the marriage;
(4) The liquidity of the property to be distributed;
(5) The economic desirability of retaining intact an asset or
an interest in an asset;
(6) The tax consequences of the property division upon the
respective awards to be made to each spouse;
(7) The costs of sale, if it is necessary that an asset be
sold to effectuate an equitable distribution of property;
(8) Any division or disbursement of property made in a
separation agreement that was voluntarily entered into by the
spouses;
(9) Any retirement benefits of the spouses, excluding the
social security benefits of a spouse except as may be relevant for
purposes of dividing a public pension;
(10) Any other factor that the court expressly finds to be
relevant and equitable.
(G) In any order for the division or disbursement of property
or a distributive award made pursuant to this section, the court
shall make written findings of fact that support the determination
that the marital property has been equitably divided and shall
specify the dates it used in determining the meaning of "during
the marriage."
(H) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the holding
of title to property by one spouse individually or by both spouses
in a form of co-ownership does not determine whether the property
is marital property or separate property.
(I) A division or disbursement of property or a distributive
award made under this section is not subject to future
modification by the court except upon the express written consent
or agreement to the modification by both spouses.
(J) The court may issue any orders under this section that it
determines equitable, including, but not limited to, either of the
following types of orders:
(1) An order granting a spouse the right to use the marital
dwelling or any other marital property or separate property for
any reasonable period of time;
(2) An order requiring the sale or encumbrancing of any real
or personal property, with the proceeds from the sale and the
funds from any loan secured by the encumbrance to be applied as
determined by the court.
Sec. 3105.63. (A)(1) A petition for dissolution of marriage
shall be signed by both spouses and shall have attached and
incorporated a separation agreement agreed to by both spouses. The
separation agreement shall provide for a division of all property;
spousal support; if there are minor children of the marriage, the
allocation of parental rights and responsibilities for the care of
the minor children, the designation of a residential parent and
legal custodian of the minor children, child support, and
parenting time rights; and, if the spouses so desire, an
authorization for the court to modify the amount or terms of
spousal support, or the division of property, provided in the
separation agreement. If there are minor children of the marriage,
the spouses may address the allocation of the parental rights and
responsibilities for the care of the minor children by including
in the separation agreement a plan under which both parents will
have shared rights and responsibilities for the care of the minor
children. The spouses shall file the plan with the petition for
dissolution of marriage and shall include in the plan the
provisions described in division (G) of section 3109.04 of the
Revised Code.
(2) The division of property in the separation agreement
shall include any participant account, as defined in section
148.01 of the Revised Code, of either of the spouses, to the
extent of the following:
(a) The moneys that have been deferred by a continuing member
or participating employee, as defined in that section, and that
have been transmitted to the Ohio public employees deferred
compensation board during the marriage and any income that is
derived from the investment of those moneys during the marriage;
(b) The moneys that have been deferred by an officer or
employee of a municipal corporation and that have been transmitted
to the governing board, administrator, depository, or trustee of
the deferred compensation program of the municipal corporation
during the marriage and any income that is derived from the
investment of those moneys during the marriage;
(c) The moneys that have been deferred by an officer or
employee of a government unit, as defined in section 148.06 of the
Revised Code, and that have been transmitted to the governing
board, as defined in that section, during the marriage and any
income that is derived from the investment of those moneys during
the marriage.
(3) The separation agreement shall not require or permit the
division or disbursement of the moneys and income described in
division (A)(2) of this section to occur in a manner that is
inconsistent with the law, rules, or plan governing the deferred
compensation program involved or prior to the time that the spouse
in whose name the participant account is maintained commences
receipt of the moneys and income credited to the account in
accordance with that law, rules, and plan.
(B) An amended separation agreement may be filed at any time
prior to or during the hearing on the petition for dissolution of
marriage. Upon receipt of a petition for dissolution of marriage,
the court may cause an investigation to be made pursuant to the
Rules of Civil Procedure.
(C)(1) If a petition for dissolution of marriage contains an
authorization for the court to modify the amount or terms of
spousal support provided in the separation agreement, the
modification shall be in accordance with section 3105.18 of the
Revised Code.
(2) If a petition for dissolution of marriage contains an
authorization for the court to modify the division of property
provided in the separation agreement, the modification shall be
made with the express written consent or agreement of both
spouses.
Sec. 3105.65. (A) If, at the time of the hearing, either
spouse is not satisfied with the separation agreement or does not
wish a dissolution of the marriage and if neither spouse files a
motion pursuant to division (C) of this section to convert the
action to an action for divorce, the court shall dismiss the
petition and refuse to validate the proposed separation agreement.
(B) If, upon review of the testimony of both spouses and of
the report of the investigator pursuant to the Rules of Civil
Procedure, the court approves the separation agreement and any
amendments to it agreed upon by the parties, it shall grant a
decree of dissolution of marriage that incorporates the separation
agreement. If the separation agreement contains a plan for the
exercise of shared parenting by the spouses, the court shall
review the plan in accordance with the provisions of division
(D)(1) of section 3109.04 of the Revised Code that govern the
review of a pleading or motion requesting shared parenting jointly
submitted by both spouses to a marriage. A decree of dissolution
of marriage has the same effect upon the property rights of the
parties, including rights of dower and inheritance, as a decree of
divorce. The court has full power to enforce its decree and
retains jurisdiction to modify all matters pertaining to the
allocation of parental rights and responsibilities for the care of
the children, to the designation
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of a residential parent and
legal custodian of the children, to child support, to parenting
time of parents with the children, and to visitation for persons
who are not the children's parents. The court, only in accordance
with division (E)(2) of section 3105.18 of the Revised Code, may
modify the amount or terms of spousal support. The court may
modify the division of property provided in the separation
agreement only upon the express written consent or agreement of
both spouses.
(C) At any time before a decree of dissolution of marriage
has been granted under division (B) of this section, either spouse
may convert the action for dissolution of marriage into a divorce
action by filing a motion with the court in which the action for
dissolution of marriage is pending for conversion of the action
for dissolution of marriage. The motion shall contain a complaint
for divorce that contains grounds for a divorce and that otherwise
complies with the Rules of Civil Procedure and this chapter. The
divorce action then shall proceed in accordance with the Rules of
Civil Procedure in the same manner as if the motion had been the
original complaint in the action, including, but not limited to,
the issuance and service of summons pursuant to Civil Rules 4 to
4.6, except that no court fees shall be charged upon conversion of
the action for dissolution of marriage into a divorce action under
this division.
SECTION 2. That existing sections 124.81, 141.04, 1901.01,
1901.02, 1901.021, 1901.03, 1901.06, 1901.07, 1901.08, 1901.31,
1901.312, 1901.32, 1901.34, 1905.01, 1907.11, 1907.18, 1907.26,
2903.213, 2919.26, 3105.171, 3105.63, and 3105.65 of the Revised
Code are hereby repealed.
(C) All employees of the Putnam County County Court shall be
transferred to and shall become employees of the Putnam County
Municipal Court on January 1, 2011.
(D) Effective January 1, 2011, the part-time judgeship in the
Putnam County County Court is abolished.
SECTION 3. (A) Effective July 1, 2010, the Montgomery County
County Court is abolished.
(B) All causes, executions, and other proceedings pending in
the Montgomery County County Court at the close of business on
June 30, 2010, shall be transferred to and proceed in the
Montgomery County Municipal Court on July 1, 2010, as if
originally instituted in the Montgomery County Municipal Court.
Parties to those causes, judgments, executions, and proceedings
may make any amendments to their pleadings that are required to
conform them to the rules of the Montgomery County Municipal
Court. The Clerk of the Montgomery County County Court or other
custodian shall transfer to the Montgomery County Municipal Court
all pleadings, orders, entries, dockets, bonds, papers, records,
books, exhibits, files, moneys, property, and persons that belong
to, are in the possession of, or are subject to the jurisdiction
of the Montgomery County County Court, or any officer of that
court, at the close of business on June 30, 2010, and that pertain
to those causes, judgments, executions, and proceedings.
(C) All employees of the Montgomery County County Court shall
be transferred to and shall become employees of the Montgomery
County Municipal Court on July 1, 2010.
(D) Effective July 1, 2010, the part-time judgeships in the
Montgomery County County Court are abolished.
SECTION 4. Any additional funds that were collected by the
Montgomery County County Court and paid to the Montgomery County
Treasurer for deposit into either a general special projects fund
or a fund established for a specific special project pursuant to
division (B)(1) of section 1907.24 of the Revised Code or that
were collected by the Montgomery County County Court and paid to
the Montgomery County Treasurer to computerize the court, to make
available computerized legal research services, or to do both or
to computerize the office of the clerk of the court pursuant to
section 1907.261 of the Revised Code, or for any other purpose
determined by the court, shall be transferred on July 1, 2010,
into either the general special projects fund or the fund
established for a specific special project for the Montgomery
County Municipal Court, as provided in division (B)(1) of section
1901.26 of the Revised Code, in a separate fund pursuant to
divisions (A)(2) and (B)(1) of section 1901.261 of the Revised
Code, or into any other fund established by the court.
SECTION 5. Sections 141.04, 1901.01, 1901.02, 1901.021,
1901.03, 1901.06, 1901.31, 1901.34, 1905.01, and 1907.11 of the
Revised Code, as amended by this act, shall take effect July 1,
2010.
SECTION 6. (A) Effective January 1, 2011, the Putnam County
County Court is abolished.
(B) All causes, executions, and other proceedings pending in
the Putnam County County Court at the close of business on
December 31, 2010, shall be transferred to and proceed in the
Putnam County Municipal Court on January 1, 2011, as if originally
instituted in the Putnam County Municipal Court. Parties to those
causes, judgments, executions, and proceedings may make any
amendments to their pleadings that are required to conform them to
the rules of the Putnam County Municipal Court. The Clerk of the
Putnam County County Court or other custodian shall transfer to
the Putnam County Municipal Court all pleadings, orders, entries,
dockets, bonds, papers, records, books, exhibits, files, moneys,
property, and persons that belong to, are in the possession of, or
are subject to the jurisdiction of the Putnam County County Court,
or any officer of that court, at the close of business on December
31, 2010, and that pertain to those causes, judgments, executions,
and proceedings.
(C) All employees of the Putnam County County Court shall be
transferred to and shall become employees of the Putnam County
Municipal Court on January 1, 2011.
(D) Effective January 1, 2011, the part-time judgeship in the
Putnam County County Court is abolished.
SECTION 7. Sections 1901.07, 1901.08, 1901.312, and 1901.32
of the Revised Code, as amended by this act, shall take effect
January 1, 2011.
SECTION 8. Section 1901.31 of the Revised Code is presented
in this act as a composite of the section as amended by both Am.
Sub. H.B. 420 of the 127th General Assembly and Am. Sub. H.B. 1 of
the 128th General Assembly. The General Assembly, applying the
principle stated in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised
Code that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of
simultaneous operation, finds that the composite is the resulting
version of the section in effect prior to the effective date of
the section as presented in this act.
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