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...rt of common pleas of a county, the commissioners of jurors, or the appropriate court employee shall grant, a postponement of the juror's initial appearance for jury duty if both of the following apply: (1) The juror has not previously been granted a postponement. (2) The juror and the appropriate court employee appointed by the court agree to a specified date on which the juror will appear for jury service....

...A challenge to the array may be made by any party. The whole array may be set aside by the court when the jury, grand or petit, was not selected, drawn, or summoned as required by Chapter 2313. of the Revised Code or if any group protected by section 2313.13 of the Revised Code is systematically excluded from the jury selection process. No indictment shall be quashed or verdict set aside for any irregularity in...

...(A) Any person called as a juror for the trial of any cause shall be examined under oath or upon affirmation as to the person's qualifications. A person is qualified to serve as a juror if the person is eighteen years of age or older, is a resident of the county, and is an elector or would be an elector if the person were registered to vote, regardless of whether the person actually is registered to vote. (B)...

...e prospective juror by the court or commissioners of jurors. (B) If a prospective juror is required to answer written questions during the voir dire process, the questionnaire shall contain a prominent legend advising the prospective juror that the juror has the right to request and have an in-camera hearing on the record with counsel for the parties present regarding any legitimate privacy interest of the pr...

...(A) No employer shall discharge, threaten to discharge, or take any disciplinary action that could lead to the discharge of any permanent employee who is summoned to serve as a juror pursuant to Chapter 2313. of the Revised Code if the employee gives reasonable notice to the employer of the summons prior to the commencement of the employee's service as a juror and if the employee is absent from employment becau...

...No person whose name is drawn and who is notified to attend a jury year, part of a jury year, or specified date within a part of a jury year as a juror or who has had the person's jury service postponed shall fail to attend at the time specified in the notice or from day to day.

... as prescribed in this section, the commissioners of jurors upon request shall certify to that fact. No person shall be exempted from jury service for any reason, but a person may be excused from jury service or have the person's jury service postponed in accordance with Chapter 2313. of the Revised Code and the general statutes of the state.

...(A) The board of county commissioners by resolution shall fix the compensation of each juror payable out of the county treasury. (B) After ten days of actual service, except as otherwise authorized by this division, the compensation of a juror shall be fixed for each additional day of actual service at an amount equal to the greater of fifteen dollars or one and one-half times the compensation fixed pursuant ...

...and electronic media filed with the commissioners of jurors in compliance with applicable rules of superintendence for the courts of Ohio.

...Chapters 2313. and 2315. of the Revised Code do not contravene or affect any section of the Revised Code relating to jurors in the inferior courts in any county of the state.

...(A) Whoever violates section 2313.18, 2313.19, or 2313.20 of the Revised Code may be punished as for contempt of court pursuant to Chapter 2705. of the Revised Code. (B) Whoever violates section 2313.13 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, imprisoned not less than thirty nor more than ninety days, or both. (C) Any fine assessed for a contempt against a per...

...ction is guilty of abuse of a corpse, a misdemeanor of the second degree. Whoever violates division (B) of this section is guilty of gross abuse of a corpse, a felony of the fifth degree.

...(A) A board of county commissioners may appoint a health commissioner of the board of health of a city or general health district that is entirely or partially located in the county in which the board of county commissioners is located to establish a domestic violence fatality review board to review the deaths of individuals over eighteen years of age by domestic violence that occurred in the county. (B) The boards...

...(A)(1) If a health commissioner establishes a domestic violence fatality review board as described in division (A) of section 307.651 of the Revised Code, the commissioner shall select the following to serve on the review board: (a) The county coroner or designee; (b) The chief of police of a police department in the county or the county sheriff or a designee of the chief or sheriff; (c) A public health offici...

...(A) If a domestic violence fatality review board is established under section 307.651 of the Revised Code, the board members shall select, by majority vote, a member of the board to serve as the chairperson of the review board. (B) The chairperson of the review board shall be responsible for all of the following: (1) Convening board meetings; (2) Notifying members of board meetings; (3) Providing members with...

...The purpose of a domestic violence fatality review board established under section 307.651 of the Revised Code is to decrease the incidence of deaths occurring as a result of domestic violence by doing all of the following: (A) Promoting cooperation, collaboration, and communication between all groups, professions, agencies, or entities engaged in the prevention of, and education about, domestic violence; (B) Mai...

...e law enforcement agency conducting the criminal investigation, on the conclusion of the investigation, and the prosecuting attorney prosecuting the case, on the conclusion of the prosecution, shall notify the chairperson of the review board of the conclusion.

...(A) A domestic violence fatality review board shall establish a system for collecting and maintaining information necessary for the review of deaths by domestic violence in the county or region. In an effort to ensure confidentiality, each board shall do all of the following: (1) Maintain all records in a secure location; (2) Develop security measures to prevent unauthorized access to records containing informat...

...(A)(1) Notwithstanding section 3701.17 and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, on the request of the domestic violence fatality review board, any individual, law enforcement agency, or other public or private entity that provided services to any of the following shall submit to the review board a summary sheet of information: (a) A person whose death is being reviewed by a domestic ...

...amages, or any other recourse, civil or criminal, arising from any act, proceeding, decision, or determination undertaken or performed or recommendation made by the review board. No organization, institution, or person furnishing information, data, testimony, reports, or records to the domestic violence fatality review board is civilly or criminally liable or subject to any other recourse for providing the informa...

...(A) Any information, document, or report presented to a domestic violence fatality review board, all statements made by review board members during meetings of the review board, all work products of the review board, and data submitted by the review board to the department of health, other than the report prepared pursuant to section 307.656 of the Revised Code, are confidential, are not public records open to public...

..., or alternative nicotine products is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to illegal distribution of cigarettes, other tobacco products, or alternative nicotine products is a misdemeanor of the third degree. (H)(1) Notwithstanding division (A)(2) of section 2929.28 of the Revised Code, if an offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation ...

...The board of county commissioners, annually, shall appropriate, and advance upon application made no more than one hundred twenty days prior to memorial day, to each garrison or naval branch of the Army and Navy Union, U.S.A. and to each chartered post, garrison, or naval branch of any organization of veterans recognized and chartered by the congress, upon request of their officials, in the county, a sum of mon...

...(A) As used in this section and section 2927.022 of the Revised Code: (1) "Card holder" means any person who presents a driver's or commercial driver's license or an identification card to a seller, or an agent or employee of a seller, to purchase or receive cigarettes, other tobacco products, or alternative nicotine products from the seller, agent, or employee. (2) "Identification card" means an identificati...

... that of the card holder. (C) In any criminal action in which the affirmative defense provided by division (A) of this section is raised, the registrar of motor vehicles or a deputy registrar who issued an identification card under sections 4507.50 to 4507.52 of the Revised Code shall be permitted to submit certified copies of the records of that issuance in lieu of the testimony of the personnel of or contractors...

... consumer shipment issued by the tax commissioner under section 5743.71 of the Revised Code. (b) In the case of electronic smoking devices or vapor products, a person who is: (i) Licensed as a distributor of tobacco or vapor products under section 5743.61 of the Revised Code; (ii) A retail dealer of vapor products, as defined in division (C)(3) of section 5743.01 of the Revised Code, that is not licensed as ...

...rmation to obtain tobacco products is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of division (A) of this section, furnishing false information to obtain tobacco products is a misdemeanor of the third degree.

...ion (A) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...amage, pollute, or otherwise physically mistreat any of the following: (1) The flag of the United States or of this state; (2) Any public monument; (3) Any historical or commemorative marker, or any structure, Indian mound or earthwork, cemetery, thing, or site of great historical or archaeological interest; (4) A place of worship, its furnishings, or religious artifacts or sacred texts within the place of worshi...

...t higher degree than the offense the commission of which is a necessary element of ethnic intimidation.

...(A) No person, with knowledge that the person is a carrier of a virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome, shall sell or donate the person's blood, plasma, or a product of the person's blood, if the person knows or should know the blood, plasma, or product of the person's blood is being accepted for the purpose of transfusion to another individual. (B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of selling o...

... collection of a bodily substance is a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of division (A) of this section, unlawful collection of a bodily substance is a felony of the fifth degree.

...ated service, with the suggestion or promise of sexual activity. (B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of unlawful advertising of massage, a misdemeanor of the first degree. (C) Nothing in this section prevents the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or township from enacting any regulation of the advertising of massage further than and in addition to the provisions of divisions (A) and (B)...

...Whenever a canal or waterway of substantially definite route is authorized to be constructed by or under the authority, management, and control of the government of the United States, or of this state, either separately or jointly, or in co-operation with any state, or under the authority, management, and control of any state adjoining this state, to connect the great lakes or the ocean with the navigable waters of t...

...t the proceeds were derived from the commission of an offense subject to forfeiture proceedings. (C) It is not a defense to a charge of receiving proceeds of an offense subject to forfeiture proceedings in violation of this section that the proceeds were derived by means other than the commission of an offense subject to forfeiture proceedings if the property was explicitly represented to the accused person as ha...

...tion of division (B) of this section is misuse of criminal record information, a misdemeanor of the first degree. (D) Each payment solicited or accepted in violation of this section constitutes a separate violation. (E) In a civil action brought pursuant to section 2307.60 of the Revised Code for a violation of this section, a subject individual who suffers a loss or harm as a result of the violation may be awarded...

...ised Code. (B) The board of county commissioners of a county, a port authority, and a host municipal corporation may enter into a cooperative agreement with a corporation, under which: (1) The board of county commissioners agrees to do all of the following: (a) Levy a tax under division (N) of section 5739.09 of the Revised Code exclusively for the purposes described in divisions (B)(1)(c) and (d) of this secti...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Bonds" means general obligation bonds, or notes in anticipation thereof, of the county described in division (B)(1)(b) of this section, and general obligation bonds, or notes in anticipation thereof, of the host municipal corporation described in division (B)(2)(a) of this section. (2) "Corporation" means a nonprofit corporation that is organized under the laws of this state and ...

...s taxes levied by a board of county commissioners under division (D) of section 307.697, division (B) of section 4301.421, division (C) of section 5743.024, and section 5743.323 of the Revised Code. (2) "Corporation" means a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of this state and that includes among the purposes for which it is incorporated the authority to acquire, construct, renovate, repair, equip,...

... to the Ohio facilities construction commission may be provided by a port authority or a corporation that occupies, will occupy, or is responsible for that facility, as determined by the commission. The construction services and general building services to be provided by the port authority or the corporation shall be specified in an agreement between the commission and the port authority or corporation. That agreeme...

...ecommendation to the board of county commissioners for the issuance of indebtedness of the county as provided under division (C) of this section if the county engineer determines that the projected savings from the use of long life expectancy material in the construction or repair of the bridge deck of a bridge for which the county has construction or maintenance responsibility are sufficient to pay any additional de...

... and beverages to be consumed on the premises where sold to pay the expenses of administering the tax and to provide revenues for the county general fund. Such resolution shall direct the board of elections to submit the question of levying the tax to the electors of the county at the next primary or general election in the county occurring not less than ninety days after the resolution is certified to the board of e...

...and beverages to be consumed on the premises where sold to pay the expenses of administering the tax and to provide revenues for paying the direct and indirect costs of constructing, improving, expanding, equipping, financing, or operating a convention center. The resolution shall direct the board of elections to submit the question of levying the tax to the electors of the county at the next primary or genera...

...ns taxes levied by a board of county commissioners of an eligible county under divisions (A) to (L) of section 5739.09 of the Revised Code. (9) "Financing costs" means all costs, fees, and expenses relating to the authorization, including any required election, issuance, sale, delivery, authentication, deposit, custody, clearing, registration, transfer, exchange, fractionalization, replacement, payment, and servici...

...vised Code. (B) The board of county commissioners of a county having a population greater than seventy-five thousand but less than seventy-eight thousand according to the 2010 federal decennial census may enter into a cooperative agreement with a port authority, eligible corporation, operator, or any other person under which: (1) The board agrees to do any or all of the following: (a) Levy a tax or increase the ra...

...The board of county commissioners, upon the petition of one hundred or more resident taxpayers and qualified voters of the county, the approval of the court of common pleas of the county, and a favorable vote of the electors in accordance with section 133.18 of the Revised Code, may issue bonds for the purpose of assisting the construction of the canal or waterway mentioned in section 307.67 of the Revised Code. The ...

...ons, the respective boards of county commissioners may enter into such proper arrangements and agreements with the secretary of defense, or any other public authority empowered to act in the premises under any act of congress or of the general assembly of this or the legislative authority of any other state, as is necessary for such purposes; and also with counties and other public authorities, of this or other state...

...The board of county commissioners of any county or the legislative authority of a municipal corporation may cooperate with, give financial assistance to, and provide equipment to any nonprofit corporation engaged in promoting safety in this state, to any nonprofit corporation that provides ambulance service, emergency medical services, or nonemergency patient transport services in this state, to any nonprofit corpora...

...The legislative authority of a county may appropriate moneys from its general fund to be expended by the county or by joint agreement with one or more other political subdivisions or by private, nonprofit organizations for the public purpose of encouraging economic development of the county or area through promotion of tourism. Semiannual reports on the use of the expenditures shall be made to the legislative author...

...A board of county commissioners may appropriate moneys from the general fund to make contributions to convention and visitors' bureaus operating within the county.