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... is authorized to carry firearms and is acting within the scope of the officer's, agent's, or employee's duties; (b) A law enforcement officer or investigator who is authorized to carry firearms but is not acting within the scope of the officer's or investigator's duties, as long as all of the following apply: (i) The officer or investigator is carrying validating identification. (ii) If the firearm the officer...

...ly weapons or dangerous ordnance and is acting within the scope of the officer's, agent's, or employee's duties; (b) A law enforcement officer who is authorized to carry deadly weapons or dangerous ordnance; (c) A security officer employed by a board of education or governing body of a school during the time that the security officer is on duty pursuant to that contract of employment; (d) Any person not desc...

...of that individual's duties, and who is acting within the scope of that individual's duties at the time of that possession or control; (b) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, a person who is employed in this state, who is authorized to carry a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance, who possesses or has under that individual's control a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance as a requirement of that perso...

...7.01 of the Revised Code. (H) "Civil protection order" means a protection order issued, or consent agreement approved, under section 2903.214 or 3113.31 of the Revised Code. (I) "Temporary protection order" means a protection order issued under section 2903.213 or 2919.26 of the Revised Code. (J) "Protection order issued by a court of another state" has the same meaning as in section 2919.27 of the Revised C...

...ant is not currently subject to a civil protection order, a temporary protection order, or a protection order issued by a court of another state. (k) The applicant certifies that the applicant desires a legal means to carry a concealed handgun for defense of the applicant or a member of the applicant's family while engaged in lawful activity. (l) The applicant submits a competency certification of the type descri...

...icense is valid when the licensee is in actual possession of a concealed handgun. The licensee shall give notice of any change in the licensee's residence address to the sheriff who issued the license within forty-five days after that change. (B) A valid concealed handgun license does not authorize the licensee to carry a concealed handgun in any manner prohibited under division (B) of section 2923.12 of the Revis...

...(A) If a sheriff denies an application for a concealed handgun license under section 2923.125 of the Revised Code, denies the renewal of a concealed handgun license under that section, or denies an application for a concealed handgun license on a temporary emergency basis under section 2923.1213 of the Revised Code as a result of the criminal records check conducted pursuant to section 311.41 of the Revised Cod...

...e license, notify the licensee of that fact, and require the licensee to surrender the license. Upon revoking the license, the sheriff also shall comply with division (H) of section 2923.125 of the Revised Code. (C) If a sheriff who issues a concealed handgun license to a licensee becomes aware that at the time of the issuance of the license the licensee had been convicted of or pleaded guilty to an offense identif...

...es are immune from liability in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property that allegedly was caused by or related to any of the following: (a) The issuance, renewal, suspension, or revocation of a concealed handgun license; (b) The failure to issue, renew, suspend, or revoke a concealed handgun license; (c) Any action or misconduct with a handgun committed by a licensee. (2) Any action of a ...

... section may be found liable in a civil action for injunctive relief brought by any individual injured by the violation. The court may grant any injunctive relief it finds appropriate. (C) No business entity, property owner, or public or private employer shall be held liable in any civil action for damages, injuries, or death resulting from or arising out of another person's actions involving a firearm or ammunition...

...(A) No person shall alter a concealed handgun license or create a fictitious document that purports to be a license of that nature. (B) No person, except in the performance of official duties, shall possess a concealed handgun license that was issued and that has been revoked or suspended. (C) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of falsification of a concealed handgun license, a felony of ...

...Each person, board, or entity that owns or controls any place or premises identified in division (B) of section 2923.126 of the Revised Code as a place into which a valid license does not authorize the licensee to carry a concealed handgun, or a designee of such a person, board, or entity, shall post in one or more conspicuous locations in the premises a sign that contains a statement in substantially the following f...

..., but are not limited to, any temporary protection order, civil protection order, protection order issued by another state, or other court order, any court report, and any report filed with or made by a law enforcement agency or prosecutor. (2) "Prosecutor" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) A person seeking a concealed handgun license on a temporary emergency basis shall submi...

... whether the officer or investigator is acting within the scope of that officer's or investigator's duties while carrying the weapon. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply with respect to a law enforcement officer's or investigator's carrying of a weapon on the premises of an establishment serving the public if the officer or investigator is not acting within the scope of the officer's or investigator's ...

...(A) Unless relieved from disability under operation of law or legal process, no person shall knowingly acquire, have, carry, or use any firearm or dangerous ordnance, if any of the following apply: (1) The person is a fugitive from justice. (2) The person is under indictment for or has been convicted of any felony offense of violence or has been adjudicated a delinquent child for the commission of an offense that...

...if at the time the offender commits the act for which the offender was under detention it would not be a felony if committed by an adult, possession of a deadly weapon while under detention is a misdemeanor of the first degree. (2) If the offender, at the time of the commission of the offense, was under detention in any other manner, possession of a deadly weapon while under detention is one of the following: (a) A...

...(A) As used in this section: (1)(a) "Violent career criminal" means a person who within the preceding eight years, subject to extension as provided in division (A)(1)(b) of this section, has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to two or more violent felony offenses that are separated by intervening sentences and are not so closely related to each other and connected in time and place that they constitute a course of...

... or, if the disability is based upon a factor other than an indictment, a conviction, or an adjudication, the factor upon which the disability is based and all details related to that factor; (2) Facts showing the applicant to be a fit subject for relief under this section. (C) A copy of the application shall be served on the county prosecutor. The county prosecutor shall cause the matter to be investigated and sha...

...(A) No person, while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, shall carry or use any firearm or dangerous ordnance. (B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of using weapons while intoxicated, a misdemeanor of the first degree.

... length, either in plain sight with the action open or the weapon stripped, or, if the firearm is of a type on which the action will not stay open or which cannot easily be stripped, in plain sight. (D) No person shall knowingly transport or have a loaded handgun in a motor vehicle if, at the time of that transportation or possession, any of the following applies: (1) The person is under the influence of alcohol,...

...he school building, or at a function or activity associated with the school; (b) Cause panic or fear of physical harm to another who is in the school, in the school building, or at a function or activity associated with the school; (c) Cause the evacuation of the school, the school building, or a function or activity associated with the school. (B) This section does not apply to any officer, agent, or employee of ...

...(A) No person shall do any of the following: (1) Without permission from the proper officials and subject to division (B)(1) of this section, discharge a firearm upon or over a cemetery or within one hundred yards of a cemetery; (2) Subject to division (B)(2) of this section, discharge a firearm on a lawn, park, pleasure ground, orchard, or other ground appurtenant to a schoolhouse, church, or inhabited dwelling, t...

...If a law enforcement officer stops a person for any law enforcement purpose and the person voluntarily or pursuant to a request or demand of the officer surrenders a firearm to the officer, if a law enforcement officer stops a motor vehicle for any purpose and a person in the motor vehicle voluntarily or pursuant to a request or demand of the officer surrenders a firearm to the officer, or if a law enforcement ...

...ous ordnance. (B) No person shall manufacture or process an explosive at any location in this state unless the person first has been issued a license, certificate of registration, or permit to do so from a fire official of a political subdivision of this state or from the office of the fire marshal. (C) Division (A) of this section does not apply to: (1) Officers, agents, or employees of this or any other state or...

... for the following purposes: (1) Contractors, wreckers, quarriers, mine operators, and other persons regularly employing explosives in the course of a legitimate business, with respect to explosives and explosive devices acquired, possessed, carried, or used in the course of such business; (2) Farmers, with respect to explosives and explosive devices acquired, possessed, carried, or used for agricultural purposes...