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...(A) No later than seventy-two hours after the complaint is filed, the court shall fix a time for an adjudicatory hearing. The court shall conduct the adjudicatory hearing within one of the following periods of time: (1) Subject to division (C) of section 2152.13 of the Revised Code and division (A)(3) of this section, if the complaint alleged that the child violated section 2151.87 of the Revised Code or is a delinq...

...When a public children services agency files a motion pursuant to division (E) of section 2151.3519 of the Revised Code, the juvenile court shall hold an emergency hearing as soon as possible to determine whether the child was delivered in accordance with section 2151.3516 of the Revised Code. The court shall give notice to the parents of the child in accordance with Rule 16 of the Rules of Juvenile Procedure. If the...

...(A) Each agency that is required by section 2151.412 of the Revised Code to prepare a case plan for a child shall complete a semiannual administrative review of the case plan no later than six months after the earlier of the date on which the complaint in the case was filed or the child was first placed in shelter care. After the first administrative review, the agency shall complete semiannual administrative reviews...

...The judge, in a county maintaining a school, forestry camp, or other facility or facilities created under section 2151.65 of the Revised Code, shall appoint the superintendent of any such facility. In the case of a district facility created under such section, the board of trustees shall appoint the superintendent. Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, a superintendent, before entering up...

...(A) As used in sections 2151.90 to 2151.9011 of the Revised Code: (1) "Host family" means any individual who provides care in the individual's private residence for a child or single-family group, at the request of the child's custodial parent, guardian, or legal custodian, under a host family agreement. The individual also may provide care for the individual's own child or children. The term "host family" exclude...

...A qualified organization shall not authorize hosting with a host family if any person eighteen years of age or older who resides with the prospective host family previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any of the violations described in division (A)(4) of section 109.572 of the Revised Code, unless all of the following conditions are satisfied: (A) If the offense was a misdemeanor, or would be a misde...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Act charged" means the act that is identified in a complaint, indictment, or information alleging that a child is a delinquent child. (B) "Admitted to a department of youth services facility" includes admission to a facility operated, or contracted for, by the department and admission to a comparable facility outside this state by another state or the United States. (C)(1) "Child" ...

...(A) A juvenile court shall impose a serious youthful dispositional sentence on a child when required under division (B)(3) of section 2152.121 of the Revised Code. In such a case, the remaining provisions of this division and divisions (B) and (C) do not apply to the child, and the court shall impose the mandatory serious youthful dispositional sentence under division (D)(1) of this section. In all other case...

...(A)(1) The director of youth services may request the prosecuting attorney of the county in which is located the juvenile court that imposed a serious youthful offender dispositional sentence upon a person under section 2152.121 or 2152.13 of the Revised Code to file a motion with that juvenile court to invoke the adult portion of the dispositional sentence if all of the following apply to the person: (a) The person...

...(A) When a child is committed to the legal custody of the department of youth services under this chapter, the juvenile court relinquishes control with respect to the child so committed, except as provided in divisions (B), (C), (D), and (H) of this section or in sections 2152.82 to 2152.86 of the Revised Code. Subject to divisions (B), (C), and (D) of this section, sections 2151.353 and 2151.412 to 2151.421 of...

...(A) Any detention facility established under section 2152.41 of the Revised Code shall be under the direction of a superintendent. The superintendent shall be appointed by, and under the direction of, the judge or judges or, for a district facility, the board of trustees of the facility. The superintendent serves at the pleasure of the juvenile court or, in a district detention facility, at the pleasure of the board ...

...The administrative juvenile judge shall have the care and custody of the files, papers, books, records, and moneys pertaining to the juvenile court, and shall be the clerk of said court, with all the powers and duties of a clerk of the court of common pleas in connection with the business of said juvenile court. He may appoint and employ such deputies, clerks, stenographers, and other assistants and attaches as are r...

...The juvenile court has the same jurisdiction in contempt of court proceedings provided for the court of common pleas and for other courts of record.

...(A) There shall be a court of common pleas in each county held by one or more judges, each of whom has been admitted to practice as an attorney at law in this state for at least one year preceding the judge's appointment or commencement of the judge's term, resides in the county, is elected by the electors therein, and, for a total of at least six years preceding the judge's appointment or commencement of the judge's...

...In every case recorded as provided in section 2301.20 of the Revised Code, there shall be taxed for each day's service of the official or assistant reporters a fee of twenty-five dollars, to be collected as other costs in the case. The fees so collected shall be paid quarterly by the clerk of the court of common pleas in which the cases were tried into the treasury of the county and shall be credited by the cou...

...The court of common pleas of a county in which a county department of probation is established under division (A) of section 2301.27 of the Revised Code shall require the department, in the rules through which the supervision of the department is exercised or otherwise, to do all of the following: (A) Furnish to each person under a community control sanction or post-release control sanction or on parole under ...

...(A)(1) Upon the advice of the judicial advisory board, the facility governing board of a community-based correctional facility and program or district community-based correctional facility and program shall appoint a director who, or enter into a contract with a nonprofit or private entity that, shall control, manage, operate, and have general charge of the facility and program and shall have custody of its property,...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, before entering upon the discharge of official duties, the clerk of the court of common pleas shall give a bond signed by a bonding or surety company authorized to do business in this state, or, at the clerk's option, by two or more freeholders having real estate in the value of double the amount of the bond over and above all encumbrances to the st...

...The clerk of the court of common pleas shall indorse on each pleading or paper in a cause filed in the clerk's office the time of filing, enter all orders, decrees, judgments, and proceedings of the courts of which such individual is the clerk, make a complete record when ordered on the journal to do so, and pay over to the proper parties all moneys coming into the clerk's hands as clerk. The clerk may refuse to acce...

...(A) Pleadings or documents may be filed with the clerk of court either in paper format or in electronic format. (B)(1) The clerk shall determine whether the filing of pleadings or documents in electronic format may be accomplished either by electronic mail or through the use of an online platform. (2) The fee for filing pleadings or documents in electronic format may be paid after the filing. The clerk shall not...

...The clerk of the court of common pleas shall enter upon the appearance docket at the time of the commencement of an action or proceeding, the names of the parties in full, with names of counsel, and forthwith index the case direct and reverse in the name of each plaintiff and defendant. In like manner and at the time it occurs, he shall also index the name of each person who becomes a party to such action or proceedi...

...The clerk of the court of common pleas shall maintain all materials as referenced in the Rules of Superintendence for the Courts of Ohio appertaining to the court and record its proceedings.

...When it is necessary in an appeal, or other civil action to procure a transcript of a judgment or proceeding, or exemplification of a record, as evidence in such action or for any other purpose, the expense of procuring such transcript or exemplification shall be taxed in the bill of costs and recovered as in other cases.

...The duties prescribed by law for the clerk of the court of common pleas shall, so far as they are applicable, apply to the clerks of other courts of record.

...With respect to a lease or license by which a right is granted to operate or to sink or drill wells on land in this state for natural gas or petroleum and that is recorded in accordance with section 5301.09 of the Revised Code, an action alleging breach of any express or implied provision of the lease or license concerning the calculation or payment of royalties shall be brought within the time period that is specifi...