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Title 19, Title 19. Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County

6 chapters · 215 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 19215 Ch 1901, Chapter 1901 | Municipal Court74 Ch 1907, Chapter 1907 | County Court - Genera…73 Ch 1905, Chapter 1905 | Mayor's Court29 Ch 1923, Chapter 1923 | Forcible Entry And De…20 Ch 1925, Chapter 1925 | Small Claims Divisions18 Ch 1909, Chapter 1909 | County Court - Jurisd…1

29 sections·Filtered byTitle 19✕Ch 1905✕

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.01 Jurisdiction in ordinance cases and traffic violations
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(A) In Georgetown in Brown county, in Mount Gilead in Morrow county, in any municipal corporation located entirely on an island in Lake Erie, and in all other municipal corporations having a population of more than two hundred, other than Batavia in Clermont county, not being the…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.02 Application of county court provisions
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The provisions of Chapter 1907. of the Revised Code, insofar as they are relevant, apply in proceedings in a mayor's court, if the municipal corporation in which the mayor's court is located is within the jurisdiction of a county court.
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.03 Rules prescribing educational standards for mayor wishing to exercise OVI jurisdiction -continuing education
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(A) The supreme court may adopt rules prescribing educational standards for mayors of municipal corporations who conduct a mayor's court and who wish to exercise the jurisdiction granted by section 1905.01 of the Revised Code over a prosecution or criminal cause involving a viola…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.031 Rules prescribing educational standards and procedural and operational standards for mayors

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(A) The supreme court may adopt rules prescribing educational standards and procedural and operational standards for mayors of municipal corporations who conduct a mayor's court and who wish to exercise the jurisdiction granted by section 1905.01 of the Revised Code over a prosec…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.032 Transfer of cases

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(A) If a person who is charged with a violation of a law or an ordinance is brought before a mayor's court and the violation charged is not within the jurisdiction of the court, as set forth in section 1905.01 of the Revised Code, the mayor promptly shall transfer the case to the…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.033 Annual registration

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(A) The mayor of a municipal corporation who conducts a mayor's court shall register annually with the supreme court as provided in this division. The mayor shall file the registration on a form prescribed by the supreme court and not later than the fifteenth day of January in an…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.04 Clerk, deputy and mayor's court magistrate must be disinterested

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Neither the clerk of a mayor's court, nor his deputy, nor a mayor's court magistrate, shall be concerned as counsel or agent in the prosecution or defense of any case before the mayor's court.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.05 Mayor's court magistrate

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(A) A mayor of a municipal corporation that has a mayor's court may appoint a person as mayor's court magistrate to hear and determine prosecutions and criminal causes in the mayor's court that are within the jurisdiction of the mayor's court, as set forth in section 1905.01 of t…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.08 Duties of police chief or village marshal

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The chief of police of the city or village or a police officer of the city or village designated by him, or the marshal of a village shall attend the sittings of the mayor's court to execute the orders and process of the court, and to preserve order in it. The chief of police, ot…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.17 Boundary line between villages adjoining each other

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When two villages adjoin each other on opposite sides of the line of any railroad, the boundary line between such villages, except where otherwise established by law is along the middle of the right of way of such railroad.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.20 Powers of mayors and magistrates in criminal matters

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(A) The mayor of a municipal corporation has, within the corporate limits, all the powers conferred upon sheriffs to suppress disorder and keep the peace.(B) The mayor of a municipal corporation shall award and issue all writs and process that are necessary to enforce the adminis…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.201 License suspension in OVI cases

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The mayor of a municipal corporation that has a mayor's court, and a mayor's court magistrate, are entitled to suspend, and shall suspend, in accordance with sections 4510.02, 4510.07, and 4511.19 of the Revised Code, the driver's or commercial driver's license or permit or nonre…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.202 Alternative methods for collecting court costs; notice of balance due

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(A)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code, if at the time of sentencing or at any time after sentencing a mayor's court finds that a person who is found guilty of an offense is unable to pay costs, the court may order the offender to perform community service…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.21 Docket - compensation - office - seal

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The mayor of a municipal corporation and a mayor's court magistrate shall keep a docket. Neither the mayor of a municipal corporation nor a mayor's court magistrate shall retain or receive for his own use any of the fines, forfeitures, fees, or costs he collects. A mayor's court …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.22 Appeals

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Appeals from a mayor's court may be taken to the municipal court or county court having jurisdiction within the municipal corporation.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.23 Notice of appeal

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Within ten days from the time a mayor renders judgment, the appellant shall file with the mayor's court a written notice of appeal designating the order or judgment appealed from and the court to which the appeal is taken.All further proceedings in the mayor's court shall be stay…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.24 Certified transcript of proceedings

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Upon the filing of the notice of appeal, the clerk of the mayor's court shall make a certified transcript of the proceedings and deliver such transcript together with the original papers used on the trial, to the court to which the appeal is taken, within fifteen days from the re…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.25 Appeal is trial de novo

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An appeal from the mayor's court to the municipal court or county court shall proceed as a trial de novo.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.26 Fees of witnesses

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In cases for the violation of ordinances, the fees of witnesses shall be paid, on the certificate of the officer presiding at the trial, from the treasury of the municipal corporation. Witnesses shall be paid the fees and mileage provided for under section 1901.26 of the Revised …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.28 Contempts - rules

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The mayor or mayor's court magistrate presiding at any trial under this chapter may punish contempts, compel the attendance of jurors and witnesses, and establish rules for the examination and trial of all cases brought before him, in the same manner as judges of county courts.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.29 Temporary use of municipal corporation prison

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The mayor of a municipal corporation, and in his absence, the president of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, may grant to officials of adjoining or contiguous townships the temporary use of the municipal corporation prison, station house, or watchhouse to co…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.30 Offender may be confined until fine paid

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When a fine is the whole or part of a sentence, the mayor's court may order the person sentenced to remain confined in the county jail, workhouse, or prison of the municipal corporation, until the fine is paid or secured to be paid, or the offender is legally discharged.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.31 Jurisdiction over railroad forming part of boundary line

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When the line of a railroad adjoins or forms a part of the boundary line of a municipal corporation, such municipal corporation has jurisdiction over the entire width of the right of way of the line of such railroad for the punishment of the violation of the ordinances of such mu…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.32 Fines and forfeitures recovered

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Fines, penalties, and forfeitures may, in all cases, and in addition to any other mode provided, be recovered by action before any judge of a county court, or other court of competent jurisdiction, in the name of the proper municipal corporation, and for its use. In any action in…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.34 Party committed in default of payment

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When a fine imposed for the violation of an ordinance of a municipal corporation is not paid, the party convicted may, by order of the mayor of the municipal corporation, or other proper authority, or on process issued for the purpose, be committed until such fine and the costs o…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.35 Imprisonment

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Imprisonment under the ordinances of a municipal corporation shall be in the workhouse or other jail of the municipal corporation. Any municipal corporation not provided with a workhouse, or other jail, may, for the purpose of imprisonment, use the county jail, at the expense of …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.36 Use of county jail prohibited

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The board of county commissioners, at such board's discretion, on giving ninety days' written notice to the legislative authority of any municipal corporation, may prohibit the use of the county jail for the purpose authorized in section 1905.35 of the Revised Code.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.37 Limit of prohibition

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If, within ninety days after the notice mentioned in section 1905.36 of the Revised Code is given, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation provides by ordinance and the necessary contracts for the immediate erection of a prison, workhouse, or house of correction, t…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1905.38 Cancellation of uncollectible debts

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If at any time the court finds that an amount owing to the court is due and uncollectible, in whole or in part, the court may direct the clerk of the court to cancel all or part of the claim. The clerk shall then effect the cancellation.