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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

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2903.216 Illegal use of a tracking device or application
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(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" …
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2903.22 Menacing
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(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…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2903.31 Hazing
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(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…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2903.311 Reckless failure to immediately report knowledge of hazing
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(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-sec…

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2903.32 Female genital mutilation

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(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…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2903.33 Patient abuse and neglect in care facilities definitions

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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 f…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2903.34 Patient abuse or neglect

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(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 negl…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2903.341 Patient endangerment

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(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 r…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2903.35 Filing false patient abuse or neglect complaints

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(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…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2903.36 Whistleblower protection

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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.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2903.37 License revocation upon conviction

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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…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2903.41 Definitions related to violent offender database

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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, 29…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2903.42 Enrollment in violent offender database; presumption

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(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 re…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2903.421 Qualifying out-of-state offenders

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(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…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2903.43 Offenders who have VOD duties; enrollment

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(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 …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2903.44 Out-of-state offenders with VOD duties; enrollment

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(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 sectio…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2905.01 Kidnapping

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(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 pu…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2905.02 Abduction

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(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 physi…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2905.03 Unlawful restraint

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(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 g…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2905.05 Criminal child enticement

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(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 ag…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2905.11 Extortion and sexual extortion

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(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 "Telecommu…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2905.111 Sexual extortion - person or child as victim

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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 vi…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2905.12 Coercion

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(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…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2905.21 Extortionate extension of credit - criminal usury definitions

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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 acknowle…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2905.22 Extortionate extension of credit - criminal usury

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(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 criminall…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2905.23 Probable cause to believe that extension of credit was extortionate

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In any prosecution under sections 2905.21 to 2905.24 of the Revised Code, if it is shown that any of the following factors were present in connection with the extension of credit, there is probable cause to believe that the extension of credit was extortionate:(A) The extension o…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2905.24 Evidence showing an implicit threat as means of collection

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In any prosecution under sections 2905.21 to 2905.24 of the Revised Code, for the purpose of showing an implicit threat as a means of collection, evidence may be introduced tending to show that one or more extensions of credit by the creditor were, to the knowledge of the person …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2905.31 Definitions for sections 2905.31 to 2905.33

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As used in sections 2905.31 to 2905.33 of the Revised Code: (A) "Involuntary servitude" means being compelled to perform labor or services for another against one's will.(B) "Material that is obscene, sexually oriented, or nudity oriented" and "performance that is obscene, sexual…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2905.32 Trafficking in persons

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(A) No person shall knowingly recruit, lure, entice, isolate, harbor, transport, provide, obtain, or maintain, or knowingly attempt to recruit, lure, entice, isolate, harbor, transport, provide, obtain, or maintain, another person if either of the following applies: (1) The offen…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2905.33 Unlawful conduct with respect to documents

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(A) No person, without privilege to do so, shall knowingly destroy, conceal, remove, confiscate, or possess any actual or purported government identification document or passport of another person in the course of a violation of, with intent to violate, or with intent to facilita…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.01 Sex offenses general definitions

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As used in sections 2907.01 to 2907.38 and 2917.211 of the Revised Code: (A) "Sexual conduct" means vaginal intercourse between a male and female; anal intercourse, fellatio, and cunnilingus between persons regardless of sex; and, without privilege to do so, the insertion, howeve…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.02 Rape

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(A)(1) No person shall engage in sexual conduct with another when any of the following applies: (a) For the purpose of preventing resistance, the offender substantially impairs the other person's judgment or control by administering any drug, intoxicant, or controlled substance t…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.03 Sexual battery

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(A) No person shall engage in sexual activity with another; cause another to engage in sexual activity with the offender; or cause two or more other persons to engage in sexual activity when any of the following apply: (1) The offender knowingly coerces the other person, or one o…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.04 Unlawful sexual conduct with minor

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(A) No person who is eighteen years of age or older shall engage in sexual conduct with another when the offender knows the other person is thirteen years of age or older but less than sixteen years of age, or the offender is reckless in that regard. (B) Whoever violates this sec…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.05 Gross sexual imposition

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(A) No person shall have sexual contact with another; cause another to have sexual contact with the offender; or cause two or more other persons to have sexual contact when any of the following applies: (1) The offender purposely compels the other person, or one of the other pers…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.06 Sexual imposition

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(A) No person shall have sexual contact with another; cause another to have sexual contact with the offender; or cause two or more other persons to have sexual contact when the offender knows that the sexual contact is offensive to the other person, or one of the other persons, o…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.07 Importuning

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(A) No person shall solicit a person who is less than thirteen years of age to engage in sexual activity with the offender, whether or not the offender knows the age of such person. (B)(1) No person shall solicit another, not the spouse of the offender, to engage in sexual conduc…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.071 Grooming

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(A) As used in this section, "pattern of conduct" has the same meaning as in section 2903.211 of the Revised Code. (B) No person who is eighteen years of age or older shall engage in a pattern of conduct with a minor who is less than sixteen years of age and who is four or more y…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.08 Voyeurism

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(A) No person, for the purpose of sexually arousing or gratifying the person's self, shall commit trespass or otherwise surreptitiously invade the privacy of another, to spy or eavesdrop upon another. (B) No person shall knowingly commit trespass or otherwise secretly or surrepti…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.09 Public indecency

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(A) No person shall recklessly do any of the following, under circumstances in which the person's conduct is likely to be viewed by and affront others who are in the person's physical proximity and who are not members of the person's household:(1) Expose the person's private part…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.10 Preliminary polygraph test of sex offense victim

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(A)(1) A peace officer, prosecutor, other public official, defendant, defendant's attorney, alleged juvenile offender, or alleged juvenile offender's attorney shall not ask or require a victim of an alleged sex offense to submit to a polygraph examination as a condition for proce…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.11 Suppression of names of victim and offender and details of the alleged offense

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Upon the request of the victim or offender in a prosecution under any provision of sections 2907.02 to 2907.07 of the Revised Code, the judge before whom any person is brought on a charge of having committed an offense under a provision of one of those sections shall order that t…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.13 Fraudulent assisted reproduction

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(A) As used in this section: (1) "Human reproductive material" means: (a) Human spermatozoa or ova; (b) A human organism at any stage of development from fertilized ovum to embryo. (2) "Assisted reproduction" means a method of causing pregnancy other than through sexual intercour…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.14 Reporting fraudulent assisted reproduction to professional licensing board

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If a health care professional is convicted of, or pleads guilty to, fraudulent assisted reproduction under section 2907.13 of the Revised Code, the court in which the conviction or plea of guilty occurs shall notify the appropriate professional licensing board of the health care …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.15 Withholding moneys needed for restitution to crime victims from state retirement funds

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(A) As used in this section: (1) "Public retirement system" means the public employees retirement system, state teachers retirement system, school employees retirement system, Ohio police and fire pension fund, state highway patrol retirement system, or a municipal retirement sys…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.17 Notice of indictment of mental health professional sent to regulatory or licensing board or agency

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If a mental health professional or a licensed medical professional is indicted or charged and bound over to the court of common pleas for trial for an alleged violation of division (A)(10) or (11) of section 2907.03 of the Revised Code, whichever is applicable, the prosecuting at…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.171 Prosecutor's failure to give notice

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The failure of the prosecuting attorney to give the notice required by section 2907.17 of the Revised Code does not give rise to a claim for damages against the prosecuting attorney or the county. The failure of the prosecuting attorney to give the notice does not constitute grou…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.18 Notice of conviction of mental health professional sent to regulatory or licensing board or agency

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If a mental health professional or a licensed medical professional is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation of division (A)(10) or (11) of section 2907.03 of the Revised Code, whichever is applicable, the court shall transmit a certified copy of the judgment entry of convi…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.19 Commercial sexual exploitation of a minor

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(A) As used in this section: (1) "Advertisement for sexual activity for hire" or "advertisement" means any advertisement or offer in electronic or print media that includes an explicit or implicit offer for sexual activity for hire to occur in this state.(2) "Depiction" means any…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.21 Compelling prostitution

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(A) No person shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) Compel another to engage in sexual activity for hire; (2) Induce, procure, encourage, solicit, request, or otherwise facilitate either of the following: (a) A minor to engage in sexual activity for hire, whether or not th…