Ohio Revised Code Search
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Section 1923.06 | Summons - service of process.
... to evict you has been filed with this court. No person shall be evicted unless the person's right to possession has ended and no person shall be evicted in retaliation for the exercise of the person's lawful rights. If you are depositing rent with the clerk of this court you shall continue to deposit such rent until the time of the court hearing. The failure to continue to deposit such rent may result in your e... |
Section 1923.061 | Defenses - counterclaims.
...of the Revised Code. In that event, the court from time to time may order the tenant or resident to pay into court all or part of the past due rent and rent becoming due during the pendency of the action. After trial and judgment, the party to whom a net judgment is owed shall be paid first from the money paid into court, and any balance shall be satisfied as any other judgment. If no rent remains due after app... |
Section 1923.062 | Stay or adjustment of obligation for tenant on active duty.
...the effective date of this section, the court may, on its own motion, and shall, upon motion made by or on behalf of the tenant or resident, do either of the following if the tenant's or resident's ability to pay the agreed rent is materially affected by the deployment on active duty: (1) Stay the proceedings for a period of ninety days, unless, in the opinion of the court, justice and equity require a longer or sho... |
Section 1923.07 | Proceedings if defendant fails to appear.
...nd the summons was properly served, the court shall try the cause as though the defendant were present. |
Section 1923.08 | Continuance and bond.
...ficient surety, that is approved by the court and conditioned for the payment of rent that may accrue, if judgment is rendered against the defendant. |
Section 1923.081 | Joinder of claims.
...ement, unless for good cause shown the court continues the trial on those claims. For purposes of this section, good cause includes the request of the defendant to file an answer or counterclaim to the claims of the plaintiff or for discovery, in which case the proceedings shall be the same in all respects as in other civil cases. If, at the time of the trial, the defendant has filed an answer or counterclaim, ... |
Section 1923.09 | Suit tried by county court judge.
...turn day of the summons, a judge of the court shall try the cause. After hearing the evidence, if the judge concludes that the complaint is not true, the judge shall enter judgment against the plaintiff for costs. If the judge finds the complaint to be true, the judge shall render a general judgment against the defendant, in favor of the plaintiff, for restitution of the premises and costs of suit. If the judge f... |
Section 1923.10 | Trial by jury.
...If a jury is demanded by either party in an action under this chapter, until the impaneling of the jury, the proceedings shall be in all respects as in other cases. The jury shall be sworn to try and determine whether the complaint, naming the plaintiff, about to be presented to them, is true according to the evidence. If the jury finds that the complaint is true, it shall render a general verdict against the defenda... |
Section 1923.101 | Deposit of jury fee.
...ions under this chapter before a county court, a party demanding a jury shall first deposit money with the court sufficient to pay the jury fee. |
Section 1923.11 | Entry and judgment.
...(A) The court shall enter the verdict rendered by a jury under section 1923.10 of the Revised Code upon the docket, and render judgment in the action as if the facts, authorizing the finding of the verdict, had been found by the court itself. (B) If a judgment is entered under this section in favor of a plaintiff who is a park operator, the judge shall include in the judgment entry authority for the plaintiff to pe... |
Section 1923.12 | Eviction of resident or resident's estate from manufactured home park; notice to remove home or vehicle.
...gment of eviction entered in __________ court on __________ against ___________ If the manufactured home, mobile home, or recreational vehicle is not removed from the manufactured home park within fourteen days from the date of delivery of this notice, the home or vehicle may be sold or destroyed, or its title may be transferred to __________, pursuant to division (B) of both sections 1923.13 and 1923.14 of the Revis... |
Section 1923.15 | Inspection of residential premises - order to correct conditions.
...ntial premises under this chapter, the court may order an appropriate governmental agency to inspect the residential premises. If the agency determines and the court finds conditions which constitute a violation of section 4781.38 or 5321.04 of the Revised Code, and if the premises have been vacated or are to be restored to the landlord, the court may issue an order forbidding the re-rental of the property unt... |
Section 1925.01 | Small claims division established.
...(A) Each municipal and county court shall establish a small claims division. (B) Proceedings in the small claims division of a municipal court or a county court may be conducted by a magistrate appointed by the court. The magistrate shall be a person admitted to the practice of law in this state and shall receive the annual compensation that the court prescribes. In the case of a municipal court magistrate, the comp... |
Section 1925.02 | Jurisdiction.
... concurrent with that of the respective court under its procedures in ordinary civil actions. Jurisdiction over the person of a defendant may not be obtained by any form of published or substituted service or warrant of attorney. (B) A counterclaim or cross-claim of six thousand dollars or less does not affect the jurisdiction of a small claims division. If a counterclaim or cross-claim exceeds six thousand dollars... |
Section 1925.03 | Voluntary conciliation procedures.
...The court may establish, by rule, voluntary conciliation procedures for the small claims division, except that it shall establish, by rule, voluntary conciliation procedures for the recovery of taxes in the small claims division. |
Section 1925.04 | Commencing an action.
... nature of the plaintiff's claim to the court as provided in this section. The commencement constitutes a waiver of any right of the plaintiff to trial by jury upon such action. At the time of the commencement of an action, the plaintiff, or the plaintiff's attorney, shall pay both of the following: (1) A filing fee as determined by the court; (2) The sum required by division (C) of section 1901.26 or division (C) ... |
Section 1925.05 | Service of notice of filing.
...ice after setting forth the name of the court, shall read substantially as follows: "To (here insert the name of defendant or defendants). "(Here insert the name of plaintiff or plaintiffs) ask judgment in this court against you for (here insert the amount claimed in dollars and cents) upon the following claim (here insert the nature of the claim, but no list of items need be included). "The court will hold tria... |
Section 1925.06 | Stay of execution to permit deferred payment.
...d this request may be considered by the court in determining whether there shall be a stay of execution to permit deferred payment or a weekly order of payment. |
Section 1925.07 | No attachment proceedings.
...No attachment proceedings will be permitted prior to judgment in any case pending before the small claims division. |
Section 1925.09 | Amendments - no depositions or interrogatories.
...The court, before judgment or upon vacation of a judgment, may allow any claim to be amended. No deposition or interrogatories shall be taken except by leave of court. |
Section 1925.10 | Transferring case.
...ransferred to the regular docket of the court upon the motion of the court made at any stage of the civil action or by the filing of a counterclaim or cross-claim for more than six thousand dollars. (B) In the discretion of the court, a case duly entered on the docket of the small claims division may be transferred to the regular docket of the court upon the motion of a party against whom a claim, counterclaim, or... |
Section 1925.11 | Subpoenas fees and services.
...issued by the clerk, or by order of the court or referee. The court may require the party requesting the issuance of a subpoena to pay a fee to cover the actual cost of issuance and service. |
Section 1925.12 | Dismissal for want of prosecution.
...t appear at the time set for trial, the court may dismiss the claim for want of prosecution, or enter a finding on the merits for the defendant, or make such other disposition as may be proper. The judgment of the small claims division shall be recorded in the same manner and shall have the same force and effect as any other judgment of the court. |
Section 1925.13 | Collecting and enforcing judgments.
...(A) The court, in its discretion, may order that the judgment, interest, and costs be paid at a certain date or by specified weekly installments, and, during compliance with the order, the court may stay the issue of execution and other proceedings in aid of execution. The court may modify or vacate the stay at any time. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a judgment creditor may commence any proceedings t... |
Section 1925.14 | Modification or vacation of judgments.
...Judgments of the small claims division may be modified or vacated in the same manner as other civil actions. |
Section 2743.15 | Settle or compromise civil action against state.
...pproval of the attorney general and the court of claims, may settle or compromise any civil action against the state insofar as the department, board, office, commission, agency, institution, or other instrumentality is named as a defendant; (2) Shall notify the office of risk management in the department of administrative services of any settlement or compromise to allow for the proper reservation of funds. (B) ... |
Section 2743.16 | Statute of limitations - compromise of claims.
...or any such claim shall be filed in the court of claims until the person, the representative of that person, or the estate of the person asserting the claim has complied with this division. Any compromise by the office of risk management shall be paid from the risk management reserve fund created in section 9.823 of the Revised Code. The acceptance by the claimant of any such compromise or settlement shall be final a... |
Section 2743.17 | Prior decision by sundry claims board.
...No person may commence an action in the court of claims if the transactions, facts, and circumstances giving rise to the action were the subject of a claim of that person decided by the sundry claims board. |
Section 2743.191 | Reparations fund.
...on or order granting an award until all appeals have been determined and all rights to appeal exhausted, except as otherwise provided in this section. If any party to a claim for an award of reparations appeals from only a portion of an award, and a remaining portion provides for the payment of money by the state, that part of the award calling for the payment of money by the state and not a subject of the appeal sha... |
Section 2743.31 | Assumption of liability in shared equipment service agreements.
...(A) As used in this section: "Governmental function," "political subdivision," and "proprietary function" have the same meanings as in section 2744.01 of the Revised Code. "State agency" has the same meaning as in section 117.01 of the Revised Code. (B) If a shared equipment service agreement is entered into by a contracting lender state agency or political subdivision to lend its capital equipment to a contrac... |
Section 2743.43 | Expert testimony on liability issues in medical claim.
...similar specialty as the defendant. The court shall not permit an expert in one medical specialty to testify against a health care provider in another medical specialty unless the expert shows both that the standards of care and practice in the two specialties are similar and that the expert has substantial familiarity between the specialties. (4) If the person is certified in a specialty, the person must be certifi... |
Section 2743.49 | Adjusting amount recoverable for wrongful imprisonment.
...port to the general assembly and to the court of claims. |
Section 2743.51 | Reparation award to victim of crime definitions.
...asonable travel time incurred to attend court hearings, not exceeding three hours' round-trip for each court hearing, assessed at a rate not exceeding thirty dollars per hour. (G) "Work loss" means loss of income from work that the injured person would have performed if the person had not been injured and expenses reasonably incurred by the person to obtain services in lieu of those the person would have performed... |
Section 2743.52 | Awards of reparations for economic loss arising from criminally injurious conduct.
...of reparations have been met. (B) The court of claims has appellate jurisdiction to order awards of reparations for economic loss arising from criminally injurious conduct, if satisfied by a preponderance of the evidence that the requirements for an award of reparations have been met. (C) A decision of the attorney general or judgment of the court of claims concerning an OVI violation shall not be used as the... |
Section 2743.521 | Auditing fee bill payments and adjust fee bill reimbursements.
...(A) For claims for medical, psychological, dental, chiropractic, hospital, physical therapy, and nursing services, the attorney general may audit fee bill payments and adjust fee bill reimbursements in accordance with appropriate cost containment and reimbursement guidelines adopted by the administrator of workers compensation. (B) A medical provider that accepts payment for medical care-related allowable exp... |
Section 2743.531 | Court of claims victims of crime fund.
...The court of claims victims of crime fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall be used to pay the compensation of the judges of the court of claims, the compensation of any court of claims personnel needed to administer sections 2743.51 to 2743.72 of the Revised Code, and other administrative expenses of hearing and determining claims under sections 2743.51 to 2743.72 of the Revised Code. A... |
Section 2743.55 | Determination of claims for an award of reparations.
...The attorney general or the court of claims shall determine all matters relating to claims for an award of reparations. The attorney general or the court of claims may order law enforcement officers to provide copies of any information or data gathered in the investigation of the criminally injurious conduct that is the basis of any claim to enable the attorney general or the court of claims to determine whethe... |
Section 2743.56 | Application for award of reparations.
...uthorizing the attorney general and the court of claims to obtain any report, document, or information that relates to the determination of the claim for an award of reparations that is requested in the application. (B) All applications for an award of reparations may be filed at any time within three years after the occurrence of the criminally injurious conduct, except as provided in divisions (A)(2)(b) to (d) of... |
Section 2743.58 | Immunity from civil liability.
...The prosecuting attorney and any officer or employee of the office of the prosecuting attorney or of the law enforcement agency shall be immune from any civil liability that might otherwise be incurred as the result of providing information on criminally injurious conduct and related matters to the attorney general. |
Section 2743.59 | Investigating claim for award of reparations.
...subpoenaed may file with a judge of the court of claims a petition to extend the return day or to modify or quash the subpoena or subpoena duces tecum. The petition shall state good cause. (d) A person or entity who is subpoenaed under division (B)(2)(a) of this section shall comply with the terms of the subpoena or subpoena duces tecum unless otherwise provided by an order of a judge of the court of claims entered... |
Section 2743.60 | Denial of claim or reduction of award of reparations.
...(A)(1) The attorney general or the court of claims shall not make or order an award of reparations to a claimant if the criminally injurious conduct upon which the claimant bases a claim never was reported to a law enforcement officer or agency. (2)(a) Except as provided in division (A)(2)(b), (c), or (d) of this section, the attorney general or court of claims shall not make or order an award of reparations to a ... |
Section 2743.601 | Applicability of certain provisions pertaining to reparations.
...e claim by the attorney general or the court of claims has not yet become final. The amendments to section 2743.60 of the Revised Code made by the act in which this section was enacted, to the extent that they eliminate the statute of limitations and to the extent that they remove the seventy-two hour reporting requirement, and the amendments to section 2743.51 of the Revised Code concerning guardian bonds shal... |
Section 2743.62 | Privilege - mental and physical examinations.
... section, any record or report that the court of claims or the attorney general has obtained prior to, or obtains on or after, June 30, 1998, under the provisions of sections 2743.51 to 2743.72 of the Revised Code and that is confidential or otherwise exempt from public disclosure under section 149.43 of the Revised Code while in the possession of the creator of the record or report shall remain confidential or... |
Section 2743.63 | Contempt finding.
... the attorney general may petition the court of claims for an appropriate order, including but not limited to a finding of contempt, but the court shall not find a person in contempt for refusal to submit to a mental or physical examination. |
Section 2743.66 | Payment of award of reparations in lump sum or in installments.
...ey general or order or judgment of the court of claims granting an award of reparations may provide for the payment of the award in a lump sum or in installments. The part of an award equal to the amount of economic loss accrued to the date of the award shall be paid in a lump sum. An award for allowable expense that would accrue after the award is made shall not be paid in a lump sum. Except as provided in di... |
Section 2743.67 | Making emergency awards.
...d dollars. The attorney general or the court of claims shall deduct an amount of the emergency award from the final award, or the claimant or victim shall repay the amount of the emergency award that exceeds the final award made to the claimant. If no final award is made, the claimant or victim shall repay the entire emergency award. |
Section 2743.671 | Emergency award for funeral expenses.
...(A) As used in this section, notwithstanding the definition of the term set forth in section 2743.51 of the Revised Code, "funeral expenses" means the payment of cremation or burial services of the decedent. (B) Before acting on an application for an award of reparations that has been filed pursuant to section 2743.56 of the Revised Code, the attorney general may make an emergency award for funeral expenses if at ... |
Section 2743.68 | Application for supplemental reparations.
... a claim if the attorney general or the court of claims, within s ix years prior to the filing of the supplemental application, has made any of the following determinations: (A) That an award, supplemental award, or installment award be granted; (B) That an award, supplemental award, or installment award be conditioned or denied because of actual or potential recovery from a collateral source; (C) That an award, s... |
Section 2743.69 | Annual report.
...curred by the attorney general and the court of claims, the amount awarded as attorney's fees, and the amount of payments made pursuant to divisions (A)(1)(k) and (l) of section 2743.191 of the Revised Code. (B) The director of budget and management shall assist the attorney general in the preparation of the report required by this section. |
Section 2743.70 | Additional court costs and bail for reparations fund.
...(A)(1) The court, in which any person is convicted of or pleads guilty to any offense other than a traffic offense that is not a moving violation, shall impose the following sum as costs in the case in addition to any other court costs that the court is required by law to impose upon the offender: (a) Thirty dollars, if the offense is a felony; (b) Nine dollars, if the offense is a misdemeanor. The court shall... |