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Title 29, Title 29. Crimes-Procedure

36 chapters · 1,154 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 291,154 Ch 2941, Chapter 2941 | Indictment87 Ch 2945, Chapter 2945 | Trial83 Ch 2929, Chapter 2929 | Penalties and Sentencing53 Ch 2933, Chapter 2933 | Peace Warrants; Searc…53 Ch 2919, Chapter 2919 | Offenses Against the …52 Ch 2923, Chapter 2923 | Conspiracy, Attempt, …50 Ch 2937, Chapter 2937 | Preliminary Examinati…49 Ch 2907, Chapter 2907 | Sex Offenses46 Ch 2953, Chapter 2953 | Appeals; Other Postco…43 Ch 2903, Chapter 2903 | Homicide and Assault40 Ch 2935, Chapter 2935 | Arrest, Citation, and…39 Ch 2913, Chapter 2913 | Theft and Fraud36 Ch 2930, Chapter 2930 | Victim's Rights35 Ch 2949, Chapter 2949 | Execution of Sentence35

34 sections·Filtered byTitle 29✕Ch 2925✕

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.01 Drug offense definitions
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As used in this chapter: (A) "Administer," "controlled substance," "controlled substance analog," "dispense," "distribute," "hypodermic," "manufacturer," "official written order," "person," "pharmacist," "pharmacy," "sale," "schedule I," "schedule II," "schedule III," "schedule I…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.02 Corrupting another with drugs
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(A) No person shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) By force, threat, or deception, administer to another or induce or cause another to use a controlled substance; (2) By any means, administer or furnish to another or induce or cause another to use a controlled substance w…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.03 Trafficking, aggravated trafficking in drugs
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(A) No person shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) Sell or offer to sell a controlled substance or a controlled substance analog; (2) Prepare for shipment, ship, transport, deliver, prepare for distribution, or distribute a controlled substance or a controlled substance a…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.04 Illegal manufacture of drugs - illegal cultivation of marihuana - methamphetamine offenses
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(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 t…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.041 Illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for manufacture of drugs

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(A) No person shall knowingly assemble or possess one or more chemicals that may be used to manufacture a controlled substance in schedule I or II with the intent to manufacture a controlled substance in schedule I or II in violation of section 2925.04 of the Revised Code. (B) In…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.05 Funding, aggravated funding of drug or marihuana trafficking

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(A) No person shall knowingly provide money or other items of value to another person with the purpose that the recipient of the money or items of value use them to obtain any controlled substance for the purpose of violating section 2925.04 of the Revised Code or for the purpose…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.06 Illegal administration or distribution of anabolic steroids

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(A) No person shall knowingly administer to a human being, or prescribe or dispense for administration to a human being, any anabolic steroid not approved by the United States food and drug administration for administration to human beings. (B) This section does not apply to any …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.09 Unapproved drugs - dangerous drug offenses involving livestock

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(A) No person shall administer, dispense, distribute, manufacture, possess, sell, or use any drug, other than a controlled substance, that is not approved by the United States food and drug administration, or the United States department of agriculture, unless one of the followin…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.11 Possession of controlled substances

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(A) No person shall knowingly obtain, possess, or use a controlled substance or a controlled substance analog. (B)(1) This section does not apply to any of the following: (a) Manufacturers, licensed health professionals authorized to prescribe drugs, pharmacists, owners of pharma…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.12 Possessing drug abuse instruments

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(A) No person shall knowingly make, obtain, possess, or use any instrument, article, or thing the customary and primary purpose of which is for the administration or use of a dangerous drug, other than marihuana, when the instrument involved is a hypodermic or syringe, whether or…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.13 Permitting drug abuse

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(A) No person who is the owner, operator, or person in charge of a locomotive, watercraft, aircraft, or other vehicle, as defined in division (A) of section 4501.01 of the Revised Code, shall knowingly permit the vehicle to be used for the commission of a felony drug abuse offens…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.14 Illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia

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(A) As used in this section, "drug paraphernalia" means any equipment, product, or material of any kind that is used by the offender, intended by the offender for use, or designed for use, in propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, p…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.141 Illegal use or possession of marihuana drug paraphernalia

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(A) As used in this section, "drug paraphernalia" has the same meaning as in section 2925.14 of the Revised Code. (B) In determining if any equipment, product, or material is drug paraphernalia, a court or law enforcement officer shall consider, in addition to other relevant fact…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.22 Deception to obtain a dangerous drug

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(A) No person, by deception, shall procure the administration of, a prescription for, or the dispensing of, a dangerous drug or shall possess an uncompleted preprinted prescription blank used for writing a prescription for a dangerous drug. (B) Whoever violates this section is gu…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.23 Illegal processing of drug documents

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(A) No person shall knowingly make a false statement in any prescription, order, report, or record required by Chapter 3719. or 4729. of the Revised Code. (B) No person shall intentionally make, utter, or sell, or knowingly possess any of the following that is a false or forged: …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.24 Tampering with drugs

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(A) No person shall knowingly adulterate or alter any dangerous drug or substitute any dangerous drug with another substance.(B) No person shall knowingly adulterate or alter any package or receptacle containing any dangerous drug or substitute any package or receptacle containin…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.31 Abusing harmful intoxicants

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(A) Except for lawful research, clinical, medical, dental, or veterinary purposes, no person, with purpose to induce intoxication or similar physiological effects, shall obtain, possess, or use a harmful intoxicant. (B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of abusing harmful i…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.32 Trafficking in harmful intoxicants - improperly dispensing or distributing nitrous oxide

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(A) Divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section do not apply to the dispensing or distributing of nitrous oxide. (1) No person shall knowingly dispense or distribute a harmful intoxicant to a person age eighteen or older if the person who dispenses or distributes it knows or has rea…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.33 Possessing nitrous oxide in motor vehicle

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(A) As used in this section, "motor vehicle," "street," and "highway" have the same meanings as in section 4511.01 of the Revised Code.(B) Unless authorized under Chapter 3719., 4715., 4729., 4731., 4741., or 4765. of the Revised Code, no person shall possess an open cartridge of…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.34 Sale of pure caffeine product

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(A) As used in this section:(1) "Pure caffeine product" means, subject to division (A)(2) of this section, a product that consists solely or primarily of caffeine and is manufactured into a crystalline, liquid, or powdered form.(2) "Pure caffeine product" does not include any of …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.36 Illegal dispensing of drug samples

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(A) No person shall knowingly furnish another a sample drug. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply to manufacturers, wholesalers, pharmacists, owners of pharmacies, licensed health professionals authorized to prescribe drugs, and other persons whose conduct is in accord…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.37 Counterfeit controlled substance offenses

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(A) No person shall knowingly possess any counterfeit controlled substance. (B) No person shall knowingly make, sell, offer to sell, or deliver any substance that the person knows is a counterfeit controlled substance. (C) No person shall make, possess, sell, offer to sell, or de…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.38 Notice of conviction of professionally licensed person sent to regulatory or licensing board or agency

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If a person who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation of section 2925.02, 2925.03, 2925.04, 2925.041, 2925.05, 2925.06, 2925.11, 2925.12, 2925.13, 2925.14, 2925.141, 2925.22, 2925.23, 2925.31, 2925.32, 2925.36, or 2925.37 of the Revised Code is a professionally licensed…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.42 Criminal forfeiture of property relating to felony drug abuse offense

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(A) If a person is convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony drug abuse offense, or a juvenile is found by a juvenile court to be a delinquent child for an act that, if committed by an adult, would be a felony drug abuse offense, and derives profits or other proceeds from the off…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.50 Conviction or acquittal under federal drug abuse control laws bar to state prosecution

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If a violation of this chapter is a violation of the federal drug abuse control laws, as defined in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code, a conviction or acquittal under the federal drug abuse control laws for the same act is a bar to prosecution in this state.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.51 Evidence in drug offense cases

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(A) In any criminal prosecution for a violation of this chapter or Chapter 3719. of the Revised Code, a laboratory report from the bureau of criminal identification and investigation, a laboratory operated by another law enforcement agency, or a laboratory established by or under…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.511 Reimbursement for costs of positive drug tests

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In addition to the financial sanctions authorized or required under sections 2929.18 and 2929.28 of the Revised Code and to any costs otherwise authorized or required under any provision of law, the court imposing sentence upon an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.52 Motion for destruction of chemicals for methamphetamine production

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(A) If a person is charged with a violation of section 2925.041 of the Revised Code or with any violation of this chapter or Chapter 3719. of the Revised Code that is based on the possession of chemicals sufficient to produce methamphetamine, the law enforcement agency that has c…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.55 Unlawful purchase of pseudoephedrine or ephedrine product

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(A) As used in sections 2925.55 to 2925.58 of the Revised Code: (1) "Consumer product" means any food or drink that is consumed or used by humans and any drug, including a drug that may be provided legally only pursuant to a prescription, that is intended to be consumed or used b…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.56 Unlawful sale of pseudoephedrine or ephedrine product

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(A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, no retailer or terminal distributor of dangerous drugs or an employee of a retailer or terminal distributor of dangerous drugs shall knowingly sell, offer to sell, hold for sale, deliver, or otherwise provide to any in…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.57 Illegal pseudoephedrine or ephedrine product transaction scan

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(A) As used in this section and section 2925.58 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 any pseudoephedrine pr…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.58 Unlawful sale of pseudoephedrine product to minor - affirmative defense

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(A) A seller or an agent or employee of a seller may not be found guilty of a charge of a violation of section 2925.56 of the Revised Code in which the age of the purchaser or other recipient of a pseudoephedrine product is an element of the alleged violation if the seller, agent…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.62 Illegally selling dextromethorphan

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(A) As used in this section: (1) "Dextromethorphan" means the dextrorotatory isomer of 3-methoxy-N-methylmorphinan, including its salts, but not including its racemic or levorotatory forms. (2) "Evidence of majority and identity" means a document issued by the federal government …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2925.64 Immunity for administering epinephrine

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(A) As used in this section:(1) "Administer epinephrine" means to inject an individual with epinephrine using an autoinjector in a manufactured dosage form.(2) "Prescriber" and "qualified entity" have the same meanings as in section 3728.01 of the Revised Code.(B) An individual o…