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...o protect against an imminent threat to public health or safety.

...(A)(1) The court shall conduct a hearing not later than sixty days after the filing of a motion for expedited relief, unless the court orders a later hearing to allow for limited discovery under section 2747.03 of the Revised Code or delays the hearing for other good cause. (2) If the court orders a later hearing to allow for limited discovery, the court shall conduct the hearing not later than sixty days after the...

...(A) If the court grants a motion for expedited relief under section 2747.04 of the Revised Code, the court shall award reasonable attorney's fees, court costs, and other reasonable litigation expenses to the moving party. The court shall not fail to award, or reduce an award of, attorney's fees, court costs, and other reasonable litigation expenses under this division on the grounds that the representation of the mov...

... the United States Constitution and the Ohio Constitution. (C) In construing and applying sections 2747.01 to 2747.06 of the Revised Code, a court shall consider the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact a substantially similar law.

...(A) No person shall knowingly engage in conduct designed to urge or incite another to commit any offense of violence, when either of the following apply: (1) The conduct takes place under circumstances that create a clear and present danger that any offense of violence will be committed; (2) The conduct proximately results in the commission of any offense of violence. (B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of...

...(A) No person shall participate with four or more others in a course of disorderly conduct in violation of section 2917.11 of the Revised Code: (1) With purpose to commit or facilitate the commission of a felony; (2) With purpose to commit or facilitate the commission of any offense of violence; (3) When the offender or any participant to the knowledge of the offender has on or about the offender's or participant'...

...pose to intimidate a public official or employee into taking or refraining from official action, or with purpose to hinder, impede, or obstruct a function of government; (3) With purpose to hinder, impede, or obstruct the orderly process of administration or instruction at an educational institution, or to interfere with or disrupt lawful activities carried on at such institution. (B) No person shall participate wi...

...For the purposes of prosecuting violations of sections 2917.02 and 2917.03 of the Revised Code, the state is not required to allege or prove that the offender expressly agreed with four or more others to commit any act that constitutes a violation of either section prior to or while committing those acts.

...rm to persons or property or of serious public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm, a law enforcement officer or other public official may order the participants and such other persons to disperse. No person shall knowingly fail to obey such order. (B) Nothing in this section requires persons to disperse who are peaceably assembled for a lawful purpose. (C)(1) Whoever violates this section is guilty of failure to di...

...A law enforcement officer or fireman, engaged in suppressing riot or in protecting persons or property during riot: (A) Is justified in using force, other than deadly force, when and to the extent he has probable cause to believe such force is necessary to disperse or apprehend rioters; (B) Is justified in using force, including deadly force, when and to the extent he has probable cause to believe such force is nec...

...preventing the movement of persons on a public street, road, highway, or right-of-way, or to, from, within, or upon public or private property, so as to interfere with the rights of others, and by any act that serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender; (5) Creating a condition that is physically offensive to persons or that presents a risk of physical harm to persons or property, by any act that serves...

...ip, through use of a computer, computer system, telecommunications device, or other electronic device or system, or in any other manner. (C) As used in this section: (1) "Computer," "computer system," and "telecommunications device" have the same meanings as in section 2913.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Virtual meeting or gathering" means a meeting or gathering by interactive video conference or teleconference, ...

...(A) No person shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) Hamper the lawful operations of any law enforcement officer, firefighter, rescuer, medical person, emergency medical services person, or other authorized person, engaged in the person's duties at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind; (2) Hamper the lawful activities of any emergency facility person who is engaged in the pe...

...highway, street, sidewalk, or any other public passage in such a manner as to render the highway, street, sidewalk, or passage impassable without unreasonable inconvenience or hazard if both of the following apply: (1) The obstruction prevents an emergency vehicle from accessing a highway or street, prevents an emergency service responder from responding to an emergency, or prevents an emergency vehicle or an emer...

...mation service, or against any officer, employee, or agent of a telecommunication service, interactive computer service as defined in section 230 of Title 47 of the United States Code, or information service, for any injury, death, or loss to person or property that allegedly arises out of the provider's, officer's, employee's, or agent's provision of information, facilities, or assistance in accordance with the term...

...mage is disseminated for another lawful public purpose. (6) If the person in the image or fabricated sexual image is eighteen years of age or older, the person in the image or fabricated sexual image is knowingly and willingly in a state of nudity or engaged in a sexual act and is knowingly and willingly in a location in which the person does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy. (7) The image or fabricat...

...salaries, or other compensation paid to employees for time those employees are prevented from working as a result of the criminal conduct; (iii) The overhead costs incurred for the time that a business is shut down as a result of the criminal conduct; (iv) The loss of value to tangible or intangible property that was damaged as a result of the criminal conduct. (b) All costs incurred by the state or any poli...

...or warning is false and likely to cause public inconvenience or alarm; (2) Knowingly cause a false alarm of fire or other emergency to be transmitted to or within any organization, public or private, for dealing with emergencies involving a risk of physical harm to persons or property; (3) Report to any law enforcement agency an alleged offense or other incident within its concern, knowing that such offense did n...

...fety, or property of any person. (2) "Public safety answering point" and "emergency service provider" have the same meanings as in section 128.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Telecommunications device" and "telecommunications service" have the same meanings as in section 2913.01 of the Revised Code. (B) No person by means of a telecommunications device or telecommunications service shall report or cause to be repo...

...gical agent, toxin, vector, or delivery system. (2) "Biological agent" means any microorganism, virus, infectious substance, or biological product that may be engineered through biotechnology, or any naturally occurring or bioengineered component of any microorganism, virus, infectious substance, or biological product that may be engineered through biotechnology, capable of causing any of the following: (a) Death, ...

...ht thousand tickets are offered to the public; (b) A concert that is not exempted under division (D) of this section and for which more than three thousand tickets are offered to the public. (2) No person shall advertise any live entertainment performance as described in division (B)(1)(a) of this section or any concert as described in division (B)(1)(b) of this section, unless the advertisement contains the ...

... known fares of a public transportation system. (B) No person shall alter any transfer, pass, ticket, or token of a public transportation system with the purpose of evading the payment of fares or of defrauding the system. (C) No person shall do any of the following while in any facility or on any vehicle of a public transportation system: (1) Play sound equipment without the proper use of a private earphone; (2)...

...ice services in the state department of public safety pursuant to section 5502.62 of the Revised Code unless authorized in accordance with that section, any rule adopted pursuant to that section, or former section 3313.206 of the Revised Code prior to its repeal on April 8, 2019. (D) No person, with intent to identify a home or building as a mcgruff house program home or building, shall display a symbol that false...

...ervices, or investigation of disease by public health agencies. (C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of improperly handling infectious agents, a felony of the second degree.

...s any elected or appointed officer, or employee, or agent of the state or any political subdivision, whether in a temporary or permanent capacity, and includes, but is not limited to, legislators, judges, and law enforcement officers. "Public official" does not include an employee, officer, or governor-appointed member of the board of directors of the nonprofit corporation formed under section 187.01 of the Rev...