Ohio Revised Code Search

...onsolidated into general provisions, titles, chapters, and sections shall be known and designated as the "Revised Code", for which designation "R.C." may be substituted. Except as otherwise provided in section 1301.107 of the Revised Code, Title, Chapter, and section headings and marginal General Code section numbers do not constitute any part of the law as contained in the "Revised Code". The enactment of the Revi...

...As used in the Revised Code, unless the context otherwise requires: (A) "Whoever" includes all persons, natural and artificial; partners; principals, agents, and employees; and all officials, public or private. (B) "Another," when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. (C) "Of unsound mind" means that ...

...ey are taken, a part of the freehold, whether they are of the substance or produce thereof or affixed thereto, although there may be no interval between the severing and taking away; (G) Any interest in realty, including fee simple and partial interests, present and future, contingent or vested interests, beneficial interests, leasehold interests, and any other interest in realty; (H) Any promise of future employme...

... of any act, or the time of accrual or determination of any rights, is fixed or governed by the statutes of this state or by any resolutions, rules, regulations, or orders in effect under authority of such statutes, such time shall be the standard time provided in this section. All clocks maintained in or upon public buildings, existing as such under the laws of this state, shall be set and run according to this sec...

...(A) As used in the Revised Code, unless the context otherwise requires, "imprisoned" or "imprisonment" means being imprisoned under a sentence imposed for an offense or serving a term of imprisonment, prison term, jail term, term of local incarceration, or other term under a sentence imposed for an offense in an institution under the control of the department of rehabilitation and correction, a county, multicounty, m...

...Except as provided in sections 2909.11 and 2913.61 of the Revised Code, when an evidence of debt or a written instrument is the subject of a criminal act, the amount of money due on the evidence of debt or the written instrument or secured thereby, or the amount of money or the value of property affected thereby, shall be deemed the value of the evidence of debt or the written instrument.

... a political subdivision of the state, retard the provision of housing accommodations, constitute an economic or social liability, or are a menace to the public health, safety, morals, or welfare in their present condition and use. (B) "Blighted parcel" means either of the following: (1) A parcel that has one or more of the following conditions: (a) A structure that is dilapidated, unsanitary, unsafe, or ver...

...the parties in obtaining justice. The rule of the common law that statutes in derogation of the common law must be strictly construed has no application to remedial laws; but this section does not require a liberal construction of laws affecting personal liberty, relating to amercement, or of a penal nature.

...edial law as to service, pleadings, competency of witnesses, or in any other respect inconsistent with the general provisions of sections of the Revised Code relating to procedure in the court of common pleas and procedure on appeal, the special provision shall govern, unless it appears that the provisions are cumulative.

...emoration of Memorial day; (E) The nineteenth day of June, known as Juneteenth day; (F) The fourth day of July, known as Independence day; (G) The first Monday in September, known as Labor day; (H) The second Monday in October, known as Columbus day; (I) The eleventh day of November, known as Veterans' day; (J) The fourth Thursday in November, known as Thanksgiving day; (K) The twenty-fifth day of Decem...

...h priority shall be determined by the times in the day at which they respectively occurred.

...ts, grants, franchises, rights, or privileges to be made or given, which were valid according to judicial construction and adjudication at the date of such action or proceeding, and loans or other things of value have been effected or acquired or expenditures have been made by other persons in reliance upon such construction or adjudication, such bonds, obligations, contracts, grants, franchises, rights, and privileg...

...n taken or authorized under the applicable section of the General Code which is superseded by the Revised Code.

...(A) In enacting any legislation with the stated purpose of correcting nonsubstantive errors in the Revised Code, it is the intent of the general assembly not to make substantive changes in the law in effect on the date of such enactment. A section of the Revised Code affected by any such act shall be construed as a restatement and correction of, and substituted in a continuing way for, the corresponding statutory pro...

...In enacting H.B. 339 of the 133rd general assembly with the stated purpose of correcting nonsubstantive errors in the Revised Code, it is the intent of the general assembly not to make substantive changes in the law in effect on the date of such enactment, except for the changes to sections 167.03, 1317.04, 1317.05, 3905.85, 3905.87, 3907.15, 3915.13, 3951.06, 4505.11, and 4509.70 of the Revised Code. Other than sect...

...age with gender neutral language, the rule of construction in division (B)(1) of this section does not apply. (C) The rule of construction in division (B) of section 1.43 of the Revised Code declares that words of one gender include the other genders. The rules of construction contained in divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section do not affect this rule of construction with respect to statutes that contain gender sp...

...tion 1.51 of the Revised Code, and to rules adopted under them.

...ed a technical or particular meaning, whether by legislative definition or otherwise, shall be construed accordingly.

...(A) The singular includes the plural, and the plural includes the singular. (B) Words of one gender include the other genders. (C) Words in the present tense include the future.

...(A) "Week" means seven consecutive days. (B) "Year" means twelve consecutive months.

... from which the computation is begun, unless there are not that many days in the concluding month, in which case the period ends on the last day of that month.

...If there is a conflict between figures and words in expressing a number, the words govern.

...o be effective; (C) A just and reasonable result is intended; (D) A result feasible of execution is intended.

...expresses the general assembly's interpretation of State, ex rel. Ohio AFL-CIO, v. Voinovich (1994), 69 Ohio St. 3d 225, 234 to 237, insofar as the case holds with respect to the effective date of sections of law contained in acts that contain an appropriation for current expenses. A codified or uncodified section of law contained in an act that contains an appropriation for current expenses is not subject to the re...

...in its operation unless expressly made retrospective.