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...(A) A law enforcement officer who finds an incapacitated person shall make a diligent effort to determine whether the person has a physical or mental illness that would cause the incapacitated condition. Whenever feasible, this effort shall be made before the person is charged with a crime or taken to a place of detention. (B) In seeking to determine whether an incapacitated person has an illness, a law enforcement...

...(A) When examining or treating an incapacitated person, an emergency medical service provider or health care practitioner may make a prompt and reasonable search for an identifying device or identification card. If found, the emergency medical service provider or health care practitioner may scan or examine it for emergency information, including by inspecting both sides of the identifying device or identification ca...

... provider, health care practitioner, or law enforcement officer, who finds an incapacitated person shall make a reasonable effort to notify an emergency medical service provider, health care practitioner, or law enforcement officer. If an emergency medical service provider, health care practitioner, or law enforcement officer is not present, a person who finds an incapacitated person may do either or both of the foll...

...(A) No person, with purpose to deceive, shall provide, wear, use, or possess a false identifying device or identification card. (B) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.

...ion of, other duties existing under the law of this state.

...se to make uniform among the states the law with respect to duties to incapacitated persons.

...Sections 2305.41 to 2305.49 of the Revised Code may be cited as the "Uniform Duties to Incapacitated Persons Act."

...endent practice; (4) Communicate to a law enforcement agency with jurisdiction in the area where each potential victim resides, where a structure threatened by a mental health client or patient is located, or where the mental health client or patient resides, and if feasible, communicate to each potential victim or a potential victim's parent or guardian if the potential victim is a minor or has been adjudicated in...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a provision, clause, covenant, or agreement contained in, collateral to, or affecting a motor carrier transportation contract that purports to indemnify, defend, or hold harmless, or has the effect of indemnifying, defending, or holding harmless, the promisee from or against any liability for loss or damage resulting from the negligence or intentional acts or om...

...An action is an ordinary proceeding in a court of justice, involving process, pleadings, and ending in a judgment or decree, by which a party prosecutes another for the redress of a legal wrong, enforcement of a legal right, or the punishment of a public offense.

...As used in Chapters 2307. and 2315. of the Revised Code: (A) "Conduct" means actions or omissions. (B) "Contributory fault" means contributory negligence, other contributory tortious conduct, or, except as provided with respect to product liability claims in section 2307.711 of the Revised Code, express or implied assumption of the risk. (C) "Economic loss" means any of the following types of pecuniary harm: (1) ...

...When a person forfeits his bond, or renders his sureties liable thereon, a person injured thereby, or who is entitled to the benefit of the security, may bring an action thereon, in his own name, against the person and his sureties, to recover the amount to which he is entitled by reason of the delinquency, which action may be prosecuted on a certified copy of the bond. A judgment for one delinquency does not preclu...

...perative, if other provision is made by law.

...A married woman may sue and be sued as if she were unmarried, and her husband may be joined with her only when the cause of action is in favor of or against both.

...When husband and wife are sued together, the wife may defend for her own right; and if the husband neglects to defend she also may defend for his right.

...The next friend shall be liable for the costs of the action brought by him. When a next friend is insolvent the court, on motion, may require security for such costs.

...If in any action it shall appear that any persons not yet born are or may become entitled to, or may upon coming into being claim to be entitled to, any future interest, legal or equitable, whether arising by way of remainder, reversion, possibility of reverter, executory devise, upon the happening of a condition subsequent, or otherwise, in any property, real or personal, involved in such suit, the court may, and up...

...The court shall require a guardian ad litem, or a trustee appointed under section 2307.131 of the Revised Code, faithfully to discharge the guardian ad litem's or trustee's duty, and upon failure to do so, may remove the guardian ad litem or trustee, and appoint another. The court may fix a compensation for the guardian ad litem's or trustee's services, which shall be taxed in the costs against the mino...

...When the insanity of a party is not manifest to the court, and the fact of insanity is disputed by a party or an attorney in the action, the court may try the question, or impanel a jury to try it.

...A partnership formed for the purpose of carrying on a trade or business in this state, or holding property in this state, may sue or be sued by the usual or ordinary name that it has assumed, or by which it is known.

...In an action for the recovery of real or personal property, a person claiming an interest in the property, on application, may be made a party.

...A judicial officer against whom an action is brought to recover personal property taken by the officer on execution, or for the proceeds of such property sold by the officer, upon exhibiting to the court the process under which the officer acted, with the officer's affidavit that the property was taken or sold by the officer under such process, may have the benefit of Civil Rule 22, against the party in whose f...

...(A) Subject to sections 2307.23 and 2307.24 and except as provided in division (B) of section 2307.70, division (B) of section 4507.07, section 4399.02, or another section of the Revised Code that expressly establishes joint and several tort liability for specified persons, joint and several tort liability shall be determined as follows: (1) In a tort action in which the trier of fact determines that two or more per...

...the Revised Code or available at common law, to which the person may be entitled under circumstances not covered by this section. (E) Subject to division (B) of this section, there is a presumption that a person who approaches or enters a nonprofit corporation's premises or event with intent to commit an offense of violence is liable for any injury, death, or loss to person or property resulting from an act of self...

...(A) In determining the percentage of tortious conduct attributable to a party in a tort action under section 2307.22 or sections 2315.32 to 2315.36 of the Revised Code, the court in a nonjury action shall make findings of fact, and the jury in a jury action shall return a general verdict accompanied by answers to interrogatories, that shall specify all of the following: (1) The percentage of tortious conduct that p...