Ohio Revised Code Search

... (A) As used in this section: (1) "Business entity" means any form of corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, joint venture, business trust, or sole proprietorship that conducts business in this state. (2) "Business of private investigation" and "private investigator" have the same meanings as in section 4749.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Disabled adult" and "elderly person" have the same meanings as...

... (A)(1) No person shall knowingly cause another to believe that the offender will cause physical harm to the person or property of the other person, the other person's unborn, or a member of the other person's immediate family. In addition to any other basis for the other person's belief that the offender will cause physical harm to the person or property of the other person, the other person's unborn, or a member of...

... (A) As used in this section: (1) "Hazing" means doing any act or coercing another, including the victim, to do any act of initiation into any student or other organization or any act to continue or reinstate membership in or affiliation with any student or other organization that causes or creates a substantial risk of causing mental or physical harm to any person, including coercing another to consume alcohol o...

... (A) As used in this section, "hazing" and "organization" have the same meanings as in section 2903.31 of the Revised Code. (B) No administrator, employee, faculty member, teacher, consultant, alumnus, or volunteer of any organization, including any primary, secondary, or post-secondary school or any other public or private educational institution, who is acting in an official and professional capacity shall reckle...

...(A)(1) No person shall knowingly circumcise, excise, or infibulate any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris of another person who is under the age of eighteen. (2) No person shall knowingly transport a minor to a facility or location for the purpose of facilitating the commission of an offense prohibited by division (A)(1) of this section. (B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of female genita...

...As used in sections 2903.33 to 2903.36 of the Revised Code: (A) "Care facility" means any of the following: (1) Any "home" as defined in section 3721.10 of the Revised Code; (2) Any "residential facility" as defined in section 5123.19 of the Revised Code; (3) Any institution or facility operated or provided by the department of mental health and addiction services or by the department of developmental disab...

...(A) No person who owns, operates, or administers, or who is an agent or employee of, a care facility shall do any of the following: (1) Commit abuse against a resident or patient of the facility; (2) Commit gross neglect against a resident or patient of the facility; (3) Commit neglect against a resident or patient of the facility. (B)(1) A person who relies upon treatment by spiritual means through prayer alone,...

... (A) As used in this section: (1) "Developmental disabilities caretaker" means any developmental disabilities employee or any person who assumes the duty to provide for the care and protection of a person with a developmental disability on a voluntary basis, by contract, through receipt of payment for care and protection, as a result of a family relationship, or by order of a court of competent jurisdiction. "Devel...

...(A) No person shall knowingly make a false statement, or knowingly swear or affirm the truth of a false statement previously made, alleging a violation of section 2903.34 of the Revised Code, when the statement is made with purpose to incriminate another. (B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of filing a false patient abuse or neglect complaint, a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...No care facility shall discharge or in any manner discriminate or retaliate against any person solely because such person, in good faith, filed a complaint, affidavit, or other document alleging a violation of section 2903.34 of the Revised Code.

...Any individual, who owns, operates, or administers, or who is an agent or employee of, a care facility, who is convicted of a felony violation of section 2903.34 of the Revised Code, and who is required to be licensed under any law of this state, shall have his license revoked in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

...As used in sections 2903.41 to 2903.44 of the Revised Code: (A) "Violent offender" means any of the following: (1) A person who on or after the effective date of this section is convicted of or pleads guilty to any of the following: (a) A violation of section 2903.01, 2903.02, 2903.03, 2905.01 of the Revised Code or a violation of section 2905.02 of the Revised Code that is a felony of the second degree; (b) Any ...

... (A)(1) For each person who is classified a violent offender, it is presumed that the violent offender shall be required to enroll in the violent offender database with respect to the offense that so classifies the person and shall have all violent offender database duties with respect to that offense for ten years after the offender initially enrolls in the database. The presumption is a rebuttable presumption that...

... (A) For each person who is a qualifying out-of-state violent offender, it is presumed that the qualifying out-of-state violent offender shall be required to enroll in the violent offender database with respect to the offense that so classifies the person and will have all violent offender database duties with respect to that offense for ten years after the offender initially enrolls in the database. The presumption...

...(A) Each violent offender who has VOD duties imposed pursuant to section 2903.42 of the Revised Code shall enroll in the violent offender database personally with the sheriff of the county in which the violent offender resides or that sheriff's designee within the following time periods: (1) If the person is classified a violent offender under division (A)(1) of section 2903.41 of the Revised Code and the judge sent...

... (A) Pursuant to this section, if a violent offender or qualifying out-of-state violent offender has VOD duties imposed under section 2903.42 or 2903.421 of the Revised Code and if a court has extended the offender's ten-year enrollment period pursuant to division (D)(2) of section 2903.43 of the Revised Code, the offender may file a motion to the court of common pleas of the county in which the offender resides req...

... (A) No person, by force, threat, or deception, or, in the case of a victim under the age of thirteen or mentally incompetent, by any means, shall remove another from the place where the other person is found or restrain the liberty of the other person, for any of the following purposes: (1) To hold for ransom, or as a shield or hostage; (2) To facilitate the commission of any felony or flight thereafter; (3) To t...

...(A) No person, without privilege to do so, shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) By force or threat, remove another from the place where the other person is found; (2) By force or threat, restrain the liberty of another person under circumstances that create a risk of physical harm to the victim or place the other person in fear; (3) Hold another in a condition of involuntary servitude. (B) No person,...

...(A) No person, without privilege to do so, shall knowingly restrain another of the other person's liberty. (B) No person, without privilege to do so and with a sexual motivation, shall knowingly restrain another of the other person's liberty. (C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of unlawful restraint, a misdemeanor of the third degree. (D) As used in this section, "sexual motivation" has the same mea...

...(A) No person, by any means and without privilege to do so, shall knowingly solicit, coax, entice, or lure any child under fourteen years of age to accompany the person in any manner, including entering into any vehicle or onto any vessel, whether or not the offender knows the age of the child, if both of the following apply: (1) The actor does not have the express or implied permission of the parent, guardian, or o...

... (A) As used in this section and section 2905.111 of the Revised Code: (1) "Elderly person" and "disabled adult" have the same meanings as in section 2913.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Information service" and "telecommunications service" have the same meanings as in the "Telecommunications Act of 1996," 47 U.S.C. 153, as amended. (3) "Interactive computer service" has the same meaning as in the "Telecommunicati...

... Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, no person shall be convicted of an offense, and no child shall be adjudicated a delinquent child, for disseminating private images of that person or child to another person as a direct and proximate result of a violation of division (D) of section 2905.11 of the Revised Code in which the person or child was a victim.

...(A) No person, with purpose to coerce another into taking or refraining from action concerning which the other person has a legal freedom of choice, shall do any of the following: (1) Threaten to commit any offense; (2) Utter or threaten any calumny against any person; (3) Expose or threaten to expose any matter tending to subject any person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule, to damage any person's personal or b...

...As used in sections 2905.21 to 2905.24 of the Revised Code: (A) "To extend credit" means to make or renew any loan, or to enter into any agreement, express or implied, for the repayment or satisfaction of any debt or claim, regardless of whether the extension of credit is acknowledged or disputed, valid or invalid, and however arising. (B) "Creditor" means any person who extends credit, or any person claiming by, u...

...(A) No person shall: (1) Knowingly make or participate in an extortionate extension of credit; (2) Knowingly engage in criminal usury; (3) Possess any writing, paper, instrument, or article used to record criminally usurious transactions, knowing that the contents record a criminally usurious transaction. (B) Whoever violates division (A)(1) or (2) of this section is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree. Whoev...