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 ...

... is provided a penalty or forfeiture, unless the context otherwise requires, "anything of value" includes: (A) Money, bank bills or notes, United States treasury notes, and other bills, bonds, or notes issued by lawful authority and intended to pass and circulate as money; (B) Goods and chattels; (C) Promissory notes, bills of exchange, orders, drafts, warrants, checks, or bonds given for the payment of money; (D...

... 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 section.

...(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.

...ion and deterioration; (b) Age and obsolescence; (c) Inadequate provision for ventilation, light, air, sanitation, or open spaces; (d) Unsafe and unsanitary conditions; (e) Hazards that endanger lives or properties by fire or other causes; (f) Noncompliance with building, housing, or other codes; (g) Nonworking or disconnected utilities; (h) Is vacant or contains an abandoned structure; (i) Excessive dwelli...

...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.

..., the special provision shall govern, unless it appears that the provisions are cumulative.

... when the last day falls on Sunday or a legal holiday, the act may be done on the next succeeding day that is not Sunday or a legal holiday. When a public office in which an act, required by law, is to be performed is closed to the public for the entire day that constitutes the last day for doing the act or before its usual closing time on that day, the act may be performed on the next succeeding day that is not a ...

...t day shall be included. If priority of legal rights depends upon the order of events of the same day, such 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...

...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 specific language.

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

...ontext and construed according to the rules of grammar and common usage. Words and phrases that have acquired 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.

...contemplated by Ohio Constitution, Article II, Section 1d. This section 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 tha...

...ed to be prospective in its operation unless expressly made retrospective.