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...Any building, premises, or real estate, including vacant land, that is used or occupied by a criminal gang on more than two occasions within a one-year period to engage in a pattern of criminal gang activity constitutes a nuisance subject to abatement pursuant to sections 3767.01 to 3767.11 of the Revised Code.

...(A) No person shall knowingly cultivate marihuana or knowingly manufacture or otherwise engage in any part of the production of a controlled substance. (B) This section does not apply to any person listed in division (B)(1), (2), or (3) of section 2925.03 of the Revised Code to the extent and under the circumstances described in those divisions. (C)(1) Whoever commits a violation of division (A) of this section t...

...sed in this division, "advertise" means engaging in "advertisement," as defined in section 3715.01 of the Revised Code. (G) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of possession of counterfeit controlled substances, a misdemeanor of the first degree. (H) Whoever violates division (B) or (C) of this section is guilty of trafficking in counterfeit controlled substances. Except as otherwise provided ...

...2) or (D) of this section is guilty of engaging in an illegal pseudoephedrine product or ephedrine product transaction scan, and the court may impose upon the offender a civil penalty of up to one thousand dollars for each violation. The clerk of the court shall pay each collected civil penalty to the county treasurer for deposit into the county treasury.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Authorized recipient of tobacco products" means: (a) In the case of cigarettes, a person who is: (i) Licensed as a cigarette wholesale dealer under section 5743.15 of the Revised Code; (ii) Licensed as a retail dealer as long as the person purchases cigarettes with the appropriate tax stamp affixed; (iii) An export warehouse proprietor as defined in section 5702 of the...

...(A) Imposition of the death penalty for aggravated murder is precluded unless one or more of the following is specified in the indictment or count in the indictment pursuant to section 2941.14 of the Revised Code and proved beyond a reasonable doubt: (1) The offense was the assassination of the president of the United States or a person in line of succession to the presidency, the governor or lieutenant governor of...

...g prostitution, promoting prostitution, engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, a violation of division (A)(1) or (2) of section 2907.323 of the Revised Code that involves a minor, or endangering children in violation of division (B)(1), (2), (3), (4), or (5) of section 2919.22 of the Revised Code, if the offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to a specification as described in section 2941.1422 of the Revised ...

...egree; (f) A prison term imposed for engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity in violation of section 2923.32 of the Revised Code; (g) A prison term imposed pursuant to section 2971.03 of the Revised Code; (h) A prison term imposed for any sexually oriented offense. (11) "Eligible prison term" means any prison term that is not a disqualifying prison term and is not a restricting prison term. (12) "Res...

...A judge of a court of common pleas, in accordance with sections 2933.51 to 2933.66 of the Revised Code, may accept applications for interception warrants, may issue interception warrants, may accept applications for extensions of interception warrants, may order extensions of interception warrants, may accept applications for grants of oral orders for interceptions, may grant oral orders for interceptions, and may is...

...When an arrest is made without a warrant by an officer, he shall inform the person arrested of such officer's authority to make the arrest and the cause of the arrest. When an arrest is made by a private person, he shall, before making the arrest, inform the person to be arrested of the intention to arrest him and the cause of the arrest. When a person is engaged in the commission of a criminal offense, it is not...

...The board of county commissioners or the prosecuting attorney of any county, with the consent of the court of common pleas, may contract with any company engaged in broadcasting by radio, for the purpose of immediate broadcasting of information concerning any violent felony, when the perpetrator thereof has escaped. The sheriff and heads of police departments, immediately upon the commission of any such felony and th...

...If accused does not desire counsel or, having engaged counsel, appears at the end of granted continuance, he may then raise, by motion to dismiss the affidavit or complaint, any exception thereto which could be asserted against an indictment or information by motion to quash, plea in abatement, or demurrer. Such motion may be made orally and ruled upon by the court or magistrate at the time of presentation, with minu...

...(A)(1) The application of Chapter 2971. of the Revised Code to an offender is precluded unless one of the following applies: (a) The offender is charged with a violent sex offense, and the indictment, count in the indictment, or information charging the violent sex offense also includes a specification that the offender is a sexually violent predator, or the offender is charged with a designated homicide, assault, ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Person" has the same meaning as in section 1.59 of the Revised Code. (2) "Licensing authority" means an entity, board, department, commission, association, or agency that issues a license to a person or entity. (3) "Public office" has the same meaning as in section 117.01 of the Revised Code. (B) If, at any time prior to the day that is twenty-four months after the effective dat...

...ild-victim offenders pose a risk of engaging in further sexually abusive behavior even after being released from imprisonment, a prison term, or other confinement or detention, and protection of members of the public from sex offenders and child-victim offenders is a paramount governmental interest. (3) The penal, juvenile, and mental health components of the justice system of this state are largely hidd...

...(A)(1) If an offender is charged with a criminal offense, including but not limited to a violation of section 2913.02, 2913.03, 2913.11, 2913.21, 2913.31, or 2919.21 of the Revised Code, and the court has reason to believe that drug or alcohol usage by the offender was a factor leading to the criminal offense with which the offender is charged or that, at the time of committing that offense, the offender had a mental...

...m, or otherwise transacting business or engaging in activity with the individual to whom the certificate of qualification for employment was issued if the person knew of the certificate at the time of the alleged negligence or other fault. (2) In any proceeding on a claim against an employer for negligent hiring, a certificate of qualification for employment issued to an individual under this section shall provide...

...As used in sections 2961.21 to 2961.24 of the Revised Code: (A)(1) "Discretionary civil impact" means any section of the Revised Code or the Administrative Code that creates a penalty, disability, or disadvantage, however denominated, to which all of the following apply: (a) It is triggered in whole or in part by a person's conviction of an offense, whether or not the penalty, disability, or disadvantage is ...

...o is serving a term of imprisonment for engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity; (e) A person who is serving a prison term or term of life imprisonment without parole imposed pursuant to section 2971.03 of the Revised Code; (f) A person who was denied parole or release pursuant to section 2929.20 of the Revised Code during the term of imprisonment the person currently is serving. (2) A declaration of the governo...

...rson to apprehend a person suspected of engaging in an offense. (C) "Member of the family of an offender" means an individual who is related by consanguinity or affinity to an offender.

...rson to apprehend a person suspected of engaging in an offense committed by an offender in whose name a separate account is maintained in the crime victims recovery fund pursuant to section 2969.12 of the Revised Code.

...(A)(1) After control over an offender's service of a prison term imposed pursuant to division (A)(3), (B)(1)(a), (b), or (c), (B)(2)(a), (b), or (c), or (B)(3)(a), (b), (c), or (d) of section 2971.03 of the Revised Code has been transferred pursuant to section 2971.04 of the Revised Code to the court, the court shall schedule, within thirty days of any of the following, a hearing on whether to modify in accorda...

...Each commissioner, appointed as provided by section 301.14 of the Revised Code, shall receive three dollars for each day he is employed in discharging the duties required of him by sections 301.14, 301.15, 301.16, 301.19, 301.20, and 301.22 of the Revised Code, and his actual expenses while engaged in such duties, to be paid from the county treasury of the county where such proceedings are returned, and to which the ...

...(A) As used in this section, "county office" means any officer, department, board, commission, or agency of a county. (B) There is hereby created in each county a county law library resources board. The board shall consist of five members who shall be appointed and hold office as provided in section 307.511 of the Revised Code. Beginning on January 1, 2010, subject to app...

...The purpose of a drug overdose fatality review committee is to decrease the incidence of preventable overdose deaths by doing all of the following: (A) Promoting cooperation, collaboration, and communication between all groups, professions, agencies, or entities engaged in drug abuse prevention, education, or treatment efforts; (B) Maintaining a comprehensive database of all overdose deaths that occur in the coun...