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...cribed by regulations issued under this code. (C) All officers to whom such processes or mandates may be so directed shall execute them and make return of their acts thereunder according to the requirements of those documents. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this code, no such officer may demand or require payment of any fee or charge for receiving, executing, or returning such a process or mandate, or...

...Fines may be paid to a military court or to an officer executing its process. The amount of such a fine may be noted upon any state roll or account for pay of the delinquent and deducted from any pay or allowance due or thereafter to become due him, until the fine is liquidated. Any sum so deducted shall be turned in to the military court which imposed the fine and shall be paid over by the officer receiving it in l...

...No action or proceeding may be prosecuted against the convening authority or a member of a military court or officer or person acting under its authority or reviewing its proceedings because of the approval, imposition, or execution of any sentence, or the imposition or collection of a fine or penalty, or the execution of any process or mandate of a military court.

...y courts and boards established by this code shall be presumed and the burden of proof rests on any person seeking to oust those courts or boards of jurisdiction in any action or proceeding.

...ons 5924.77 to 5924.134 of the Revised Code and of this code, unless it was committed while the person was in a military or national guard technician duty status.

...This chapter of the Revised Code may be cited as the "Ohio code of military justice."

...(A) Under such regulations as the adjutant general may prescribe, limitations may be placed on the powers granted by this section with respect to the kind and amount of punishment authorized, the categories of commanding officers and warrant officers exercising command authorized to exercise those powers, the applicability of this section to an accused who demands trial by court-martial, and the kinds of courts...

...(A) In the organized militia, there are general, special, and summary courts-martial. General and special courts-martial are courts of record with original jurisdiction. (B) A general court-martial consists of one of the following: (1) A military judge and not fewer than five members; (2) Only a military judge if, before the court is assembled, the accused, knowing the identity of the military judge and after ...

...iction over all persons subject to this code. The exercise of jurisdiction by the Ohio national guard over personnel of another element of the organized militia shall be in accordance with regulations prescribed by the adjutant general.

...ject to section 5924.17 of the Revised Code, summary courts-martial have jurisdiction to try persons subject to this code for any offense made punishable by this code. (B) No person with respect to whom summary courts-martial have jurisdiction may be brought to trial before a summary court-martial if the person objects to being brought to trial before a summary court-martial. If objection to trial by summary ...

...The provisions of this code that confer jurisdiction on courts-martial do not deprive military commissions, provost courts, other military tribunals, or state or federal courts of concurrent jurisdiction with respect to offenders or offenses that by statute or by the law of war may be tried by military commissions, provost courts, other military tribunals, or state or federal courts.

...In the organized militia not in federal service, the governor, adjutant general, assistant adjutant general for army, or assistant adjutant general for air may convene general courts-martial.

...In the organized militia not in federal service, any commander authorized by regulation in the grade of colonel or a higher grade may convene special courts-martial.

...In the organized militia not in federal service, any commander authorized by regulation in the grade of lieutenant colonel or a higher grade may convene a summary court-martial.

...an be avoided, a person subject to this code shall not be tried by a court-martial, any member of which is junior to the person in rank or grade. (2) When convening a court-martial, the convening authority shall detail as members of the court-martial members of the organized militia who, in the convening authority's opinion, are best qualified for the duty by reason of age, education, training, experience, len...

...e to perform legal functions under this code may perform those functions, as needed, for any other component of the organized militia.

...(A) The state judge advocate shall detail trial counsel, defense counsel, and assistants that the state judge advocate considers appropriate. No person who has acted as investigating officer, military judge, or court member in any case may act later as trial counsel, assistant trial counsel, defense counsel, or assistant defense counsel in the same case. No person who has acted for the prosecution may act later...

...Under such regulations as the adjutant general may prescribe, the convening authority of a general or special court-martial shall detail or employ qualified court reporters, who shall record the proceedings of and testimony taken before that court, and may detail or employ interpreters, who shall interpret for the court.

...(A) No member of a general or special court-martial shall be absent or excused after the court has been assembled for the trial of the accused except for physical disability, as a result of a challenge, or by order of the convening authority for good cause. (B) Whenever a general court-martial, other than a general court-martial composed of a military judge only, is reduced below five members, the trial may n...

... be signed by a person subject to this code under oath before a commissioned officer of the organized militia authorized to administer oaths and shall state both of the following: (1) That the signer has personal knowledge of, or has investigated, the matters set forth in the charges and specifications; (2) That those matters are true in fact to the best of the person's knowledge and belief. (B) Upon the pr...

...(A) No person subject to this code may compel any other person to incriminate the other person or to answer any question, the answer to which may tend to incriminate the other person. (B) No person subject to this code may interrogate or request any statement from an accused or a person suspected of an offense, without first informing the accused or person suspected of the nature of the accusation and advisin...

...When a person is held for trial by general court-martial, the commanding officer shall, not later than the eighth day after the accused is ordered into arrest or confinement, forward the charges, together with the investigation and allied papers, to the general court-martial convening authority. If that is not practicable, the commanding officer shall report in writing to the convening authority the reasons for...

...e charge alleges an offense under this code and is warranted by evidence indicated in the report of the investigation. (B) If the charges or specifications are not formally correct or do not conform to the substance of the evidence contained in the report of the investigating officer, formal corrections and such changes in the charges and specifications as are needed to make them conform to the evidence may b...

...The trial counsel to whom court-martial charges are referred for trial shall cause to be served upon the accused a copy of the charges upon which trial is to be had. Except in time of declared war, no person may, against the person's objection, be brought to trial or be required to participate alone or with counsel in a session called by the military judge in a general or special court-martial case within twen...

... contrary to or inconsistent with this code.