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To amend sections 109.54, 2151.414, 2151.419, | 1 |
2901.13, 2905.32, 2907.02, 2907.05, 2907.07, | 2 |
2907.22, 2907.24, 2907.241, 2907.25, 2929.01, | 3 |
2937.11, 2950.01, and 2951.041 and to enact | 4 |
sections 149.435, 2907.19, and 2927.17 of the | 5 |
Revised Code to authorize a judge or magistrate to | 6 |
order the testimony of a victim of trafficking in | 7 |
persons to be taken by closed circuit television | 8 |
equipment under certain circumstances, to prohibit | 9 |
the disclosure of names or other information in a | 10 |
routine police report that is highly likely to | 11 |
identify an alleged delinquent child arrestee who | 12 |
is abused and under 18, to specify that a public | 13 |
children services agency or private child | 14 |
placement agency is not required to make | 15 |
reasonable efforts to prevent the removal of a | 16 |
child from the child's home, eliminate the | 17 |
continued removal of a child from the child's | 18 |
home, or return a child to the child's home and | 19 |
that a court find that a child cannot be placed | 20 |
with either parent under specified circumstances, | 21 |
to extend the period within which a prosecution | 22 |
for trafficking in persons must be commenced from | 23 |
six to twenty years after the offense is | 24 |
committed, to specify that the Rape Shield Law | 25 |
applies to evidence of a rape victim's involuntary | 26 |
sexual activity as well as evidence of a rape | 27 |
victim's voluntary sexual activity, to prohibit | 28 |
the admission of evidence pertaining to a victim's | 29 |
sexual activity in a case of trafficking in | 30 |
persons in the same manner as the Rape Shield Law | 31 |
does in a case of rape, to eliminate as an element | 32 |
of the offense of importuning the offender's | 33 |
knowledge or reckless disregard of the age of the | 34 |
person importuned when the person importuned is a | 35 |
victim of trafficking in persons who is 16 or 17 | 36 |
years of age, to provide that a minor or | 37 |
developmentally disabled person is a victim of | 38 |
trafficking in persons if recruited or otherwise | 39 |
obtained or held to engage in certain specified | 40 |
sexual, nudity, or obscenity related activities, | 41 |
to include in the offense of promoting | 42 |
prostitution certain specified activities that | 43 |
through electronic means promotes or facilitates | 44 |
sexual activity for hire, to increase the penalty | 45 |
for soliciting when the person solicited is a | 46 |
minor, to create an affirmative defense that a | 47 |
defendant charged with soliciting or prostitution | 48 |
after a positive HIV test was being trafficked, to | 49 |
require offenders convicted of solicitation when | 50 |
the person solicited is under 18 years of age to | 51 |
register as sex offenders, to prohibit the | 52 |
advertisement of massage or massage techniques or | 53 |
methods unless certain circumstances apply, to | 54 |
allow a victim of trafficking in persons to be | 55 |
eligible for intervention in lieu of conviction, | 56 |
and to declare an emergency. | 57 |
Section 1. That sections 109.54, 2151.414, 2151.419, 2901.13, | 58 |
2905.32, 2907.02, 2907.05, 2907.07, 2907.22, 2907.24, 2907.241, | 59 |
2907.25, 2929.01, 2937.11, 2950.01, and 2951.041 be amended and | 60 |
sections 149.435, 2907.19, and 2927.17 of the Revised Code be | 61 |
enacted to read as follows: | 62 |
Sec. 109.54. (A) The bureau of criminal identification and | 63 |
investigation may investigate any criminal activity in this state | 64 |
that is of statewide or intercounty concern when requested by | 65 |
local authorities and may aid federal authorities, when requested, | 66 |
in their investigation of any criminal activity in this state. The | 67 |
bureau may investigate any criminal activity in this state related | 68 |
to the conduct of elections when requested by the secretary of | 69 |
state. The bureau may investigate any criminal activity in this | 70 |
state involving drug abuse or illegal drug distribution prohibited | 71 |
under Chapter 3719. or 4729. of the Revised Code. The | 72 |
superintendent and any agent of the bureau may participate, as the | 73 |
director of an organized crime task force established under | 74 |
section 177.02 of the Revised Code or as a member of the | 75 |
investigatory staff of a task force established under that | 76 |
section, in an investigation of organized criminal activity | 77 |
anywhere within this state under sections 177.01 to 177.03 of the | 78 |
Revised Code. | 79 |
(B) The bureau may provide any trained investigative | 80 |
personnel and specialized equipment that are requested by any | 81 |
sheriff or chief of police, by the authorized designee of any | 82 |
sheriff or chief of police, or by any other authorized law | 83 |
enforcement officer to aid and assist the officer in the | 84 |
investigation and solution of any crime or the control of any | 85 |
criminal activity occurring within the officer's jurisdiction. | 86 |
This assistance shall be furnished by the bureau without | 87 |
disturbing or impairing any of the existing law enforcement | 88 |
authority or the prerogatives of local law enforcement authorities | 89 |
or officers. Investigators provided pursuant to this section, or | 90 |
engaged in an investigation pursuant to section 109.83 of the | 91 |
Revised Code, may go armed in the same manner as sheriffs and | 92 |
regularly appointed police officers under section 2923.12 of the | 93 |
Revised Code. | 94 |
(C)(1) The bureau shall obtain recording equipment that can | 95 |
be used to record depositions of the type described in division | 96 |
(A) of section 2152.81 and division (A) of section 2945.481 of the | 97 |
Revised Code | 98 |
of section 2152.81 and division (D) of section 2945.481 or in | 99 |
division (C) of section 2937.11 of the Revised Code, shall obtain | 100 |
closed circuit equipment that can be used to televise testimony of | 101 |
the type described in division (C) of section 2152.81 and division | 102 |
(C) of section 2945.481 or in division (B) or (D) of section | 103 |
2937.11 of the Revised Code, and shall provide the equipment, upon | 104 |
request, to any court for use in recording any deposition or | 105 |
testimony of one of those types or in televising the testimony in | 106 |
accordance with the applicable division. | 107 |
(2) The bureau shall obtain the names, addresses, and | 108 |
telephone numbers of persons who are experienced in questioning | 109 |
children in relation to an investigation of a violation of section | 110 |
2905.03, 2905.05, 2907.02, 2907.03, 2907.04, 2907.05, 2907.06, | 111 |
2907.07, 2907.09, 2907.21, 2907.23, 2907.24, 2907.31, 2907.32, | 112 |
2907.321, 2907.322, 2907.323, or 2919.22 of the Revised Code or an | 113 |
offense of violence and shall maintain a list of those names, | 114 |
addresses, and telephone numbers. The list shall include a | 115 |
classification of the names, addresses, and telephone numbers by | 116 |
appellate district. Upon request, the bureau shall provide any | 117 |
county sheriff, chief of police, prosecuting attorney, village | 118 |
solicitor, city director of law, or similar chief legal officer | 119 |
with the name, address, and telephone number of any person | 120 |
contained in the list. | 121 |
Sec. 149.435. (A) As used in this section: | 122 |
(1) "Abused child" has the same meaning as in section | 123 |
2151.031 of the Revised Code. | 124 |
(2) "Confidential law enforcement investigatory record" has | 125 |
the same meaning as in section 149.43 of the Revised Code. | 126 |
(3) "Law enforcement agency" means a municipal or township | 127 |
police department, the office of a sheriff, the state highway | 128 |
patrol, federal law enforcement, a county prosecuting attorney, | 129 |
the office of the United States attorney, or a state or local | 130 |
governmental body that enforces criminal laws and that has | 131 |
employees who have a statutory power of arrest. | 132 |
(4) "Routine factual report" means a police blotter, arrest | 133 |
log, incident report, or other record of events maintained in | 134 |
paper, electronic, or other form by a law enforcement agency, | 135 |
other than a confidential law enforcement investigatory record. | 136 |
(B)(1) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, a | 137 |
law enforcement agency or employee of a law enforcement agency | 138 |
shall not disclose a name or other information contained in a | 139 |
routine factual report that is highly likely to identify an | 140 |
alleged delinquent child or arrestee who is also an abused child | 141 |
and who is under eighteen years of age at the time the report is | 142 |
created. If the agency or employee does not know whether the | 143 |
alleged delinquent child or arrestee is an abused child, the | 144 |
agency or employee shall attempt to determine whether or not the | 145 |
alleged delinquent child or arrestee is an abused child and shall | 146 |
not disclose the name or other information before making the | 147 |
determination. | 148 |
(2) No person to whom information described in division | 149 |
(B)(1) of this section is disclosed, and no employer of that | 150 |
person, shall further disclose that information except as provided | 151 |
in division (C) of this section. | 152 |
(C) This section does not prohibit the disclosure of | 153 |
information described in division (B) of this section to any of | 154 |
the following: | 155 |
(1) An employee of a law enforcement agency for the purpose | 156 |
of investigating or prosecuting a crime or delinquent act; | 157 |
(2) An employee of the department of youth services or a | 158 |
probation officer who is supervising an alleged delinquent child | 159 |
or arrestee who is also an abused child and who is under eighteen | 160 |
years of age; | 161 |
(3) An employee of a law enforcement agency for use in the | 162 |
employee's defense of a civil or administrative action arising out | 163 |
of the employee's involvement in the case that gave rise to the | 164 |
civil or administrative action; | 165 |
(4) An employee of the attorney general's office responsible | 166 |
for administering awards of reparations under section 2743.191 of | 167 |
the Revised Code; | 168 |
(5) Any other person pursuant to a court order. | 169 |
Sec. 2151.414. (A)(1) Upon the filing of a motion pursuant | 170 |
to section 2151.413 of the Revised Code for permanent custody of a | 171 |
child, the court shall schedule a hearing and give notice of the | 172 |
filing of the motion and of the hearing, in accordance with | 173 |
section 2151.29 of the Revised Code, to all parties to the action | 174 |
and to the child's guardian ad litem. The notice also shall | 175 |
contain a full explanation that the granting of permanent custody | 176 |
permanently divests the parents of their parental rights, a full | 177 |
explanation of their right to be represented by counsel and to | 178 |
have counsel appointed pursuant to Chapter 120. of the Revised | 179 |
Code if they are indigent, and the name and telephone number of | 180 |
the court employee designated by the court pursuant to section | 181 |
2151.314 of the Revised Code to arrange for the prompt appointment | 182 |
of counsel for indigent persons. | 183 |
The court shall conduct a hearing in accordance with section | 184 |
2151.35 of the Revised Code to determine if it is in the best | 185 |
interest of the child to permanently terminate parental rights and | 186 |
grant permanent custody to the agency that filed the motion. The | 187 |
adjudication that the child is an abused, neglected, or dependent | 188 |
child and any dispositional order that has been issued in the case | 189 |
under section 2151.353 of the Revised Code pursuant to the | 190 |
adjudication shall not be readjudicated at the hearing and shall | 191 |
not be affected by a denial of the motion for permanent custody. | 192 |
(2) The court shall hold the hearing scheduled pursuant to | 193 |
division (A)(1) of this section not later than one hundred twenty | 194 |
days after the agency files the motion for permanent custody, | 195 |
except that, for good cause shown, the court may continue the | 196 |
hearing for a reasonable period of time beyond the | 197 |
one-hundred-twenty-day deadline. The court shall issue an order | 198 |
that grants, denies, or otherwise disposes of the motion for | 199 |
permanent custody, and journalize the order, not later than two | 200 |
hundred days after the agency files the motion. | 201 |
If a motion is made under division (D)(2) of section 2151.413 | 202 |
of the Revised Code and no dispositional hearing has been held in | 203 |
the case, the court may hear the motion in the dispositional | 204 |
hearing required by division (B) of section 2151.35 of the Revised | 205 |
Code. If the court issues an order pursuant to section 2151.353 of | 206 |
the Revised Code granting permanent custody of the child to the | 207 |
agency, the court shall immediately dismiss the motion made under | 208 |
division (D)(2) of section 2151.413 of the Revised Code. | 209 |
The failure of the court to comply with the time periods set | 210 |
forth in division (A)(2) of this section does not affect the | 211 |
authority of the court to issue any order under this chapter and | 212 |
does not provide any basis for attacking the jurisdiction of the | 213 |
court or the validity of any order of the court. | 214 |
(B)(1) Except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section, | 215 |
the court may grant permanent custody of a child to a movant if | 216 |
the court determines at the hearing held pursuant to division (A) | 217 |
of this section, by clear and convincing evidence, that it is in | 218 |
the best interest of the child to grant permanent custody of the | 219 |
child to the agency that filed the motion for permanent custody | 220 |
and that any of the following apply: | 221 |
(a) The child is not abandoned or orphaned, has not been in | 222 |
the temporary custody of one or more public children services | 223 |
agencies or private child placing agencies for twelve or more | 224 |
months of a consecutive twenty-two-month period, or has not been | 225 |
in the temporary custody of one or more public children services | 226 |
agencies or private child placing agencies for twelve or more | 227 |
months of a consecutive twenty-two-month period if, as described | 228 |
in division (D)(1) of section 2151.413 of the Revised Code, the | 229 |
child was previously in the temporary custody of an equivalent | 230 |
agency in another state, and the child cannot be placed with | 231 |
either of the child's parents within a reasonable time or should | 232 |
not be placed with the child's parents. | 233 |
(b) The child is abandoned. | 234 |
(c) The child is orphaned, and there are no relatives of the | 235 |
child who are able to take permanent custody. | 236 |
(d) The child has been in the temporary custody of one or | 237 |
more public children services agencies or private child placing | 238 |
agencies for twelve or more months of a consecutive | 239 |
twenty-two-month period, or the child has been in the temporary | 240 |
custody of one or more public children services agencies or | 241 |
private child placing agencies for twelve or more months of a | 242 |
consecutive twenty-two-month period and, as described in division | 243 |
(D)(1) of section 2151.413 of the Revised Code, the child was | 244 |
previously in the temporary custody of an equivalent agency in | 245 |
another state. | 246 |
For the purposes of division (B)(1) of this section, a child | 247 |
shall be considered to have entered the temporary custody of an | 248 |
agency on the earlier of the date the child is adjudicated | 249 |
pursuant to section 2151.28 of the Revised Code or the date that | 250 |
is sixty days after the removal of the child from home. | 251 |
(2) With respect to a motion made pursuant to division (D)(2) | 252 |
of section 2151.413 of the Revised Code, the court shall grant | 253 |
permanent custody of the child to the movant if the court | 254 |
determines in accordance with division (E) of this section that | 255 |
the child cannot be placed with one of the child's parents within | 256 |
a reasonable time or should not be placed with either parent and | 257 |
determines in accordance with division (D) of this section that | 258 |
permanent custody is in the child's best interest. | 259 |
(C) In making the determinations required by this section or | 260 |
division (A)(4) of section 2151.353 of the Revised Code, a court | 261 |
shall not consider the effect the granting of permanent custody to | 262 |
the agency would have upon any parent of the child. A written | 263 |
report of the guardian ad litem of the child shall be submitted to | 264 |
the court prior to or at the time of the hearing held pursuant to | 265 |
division (A) of this section or section 2151.35 of the Revised | 266 |
Code but shall not be submitted under oath. | 267 |
If the court grants permanent custody of a child to a movant | 268 |
under this division, the court, upon the request of any party, | 269 |
shall file a written opinion setting forth its findings of fact | 270 |
and conclusions of law in relation to the proceeding. The court | 271 |
shall not deny an agency's motion for permanent custody solely | 272 |
because the agency failed to implement any particular aspect of | 273 |
the child's case plan. | 274 |
(D)(1) In determining the best interest of a child at a | 275 |
hearing held pursuant to division (A) of this section or for the | 276 |
purposes of division (A)(4) or (5) of section 2151.353 or division | 277 |
(C) of section 2151.415 of the Revised Code, the court shall | 278 |
consider all relevant factors, including, but not limited to, the | 279 |
following: | 280 |
(a) The interaction and interrelationship of the child with | 281 |
the child's parents, siblings, relatives, foster caregivers and | 282 |
out-of-home providers, and any other person who may significantly | 283 |
affect the child; | 284 |
(b) The wishes of the child, as expressed directly by the | 285 |
child or through the child's guardian ad litem, with due regard | 286 |
for the maturity of the child; | 287 |
(c) The custodial history of the child, including whether the | 288 |
child has been in the temporary custody of one or more public | 289 |
children services agencies or private child placing agencies for | 290 |
twelve or more months of a consecutive twenty-two-month period, or | 291 |
the child has been in the temporary custody of one or more public | 292 |
children services agencies or private child placing agencies for | 293 |
twelve or more months of a consecutive twenty-two-month period | 294 |
and, as described in division (D)(1) of section 2151.413 of the | 295 |
Revised Code, the child was previously in the temporary custody of | 296 |
an equivalent agency in another state; | 297 |
(d) The child's need for a legally secure permanent placement | 298 |
and whether that type of placement can be achieved without a grant | 299 |
of permanent custody to the agency; | 300 |
(e) Whether any of the factors in divisions (E)(7) to (11) of | 301 |
this section apply in relation to the parents and child. | 302 |
For the purposes of division (D)(1) of this section, a child | 303 |
shall be considered to have entered the temporary custody of an | 304 |
agency on the earlier of the date the child is adjudicated | 305 |
pursuant to section 2151.28 of the Revised Code or the date that | 306 |
is sixty days after the removal of the child from home. | 307 |
(2) If all of the following apply, permanent custody is in | 308 |
the best interest of the child, and the court shall commit the | 309 |
child to the permanent custody of a public children services | 310 |
agency or private child placing agency: | 311 |
(a) The court determines by clear and convincing evidence | 312 |
that one or more of the factors in division (E) of this section | 313 |
exist and the child cannot be placed with one of the child's | 314 |
parents within a reasonable time or should not be placed with | 315 |
either parent. | 316 |
(b) The child has been in an agency's custody for two years | 317 |
or longer, and no longer qualifies for temporary custody pursuant | 318 |
to division (D) of section 2151.415 of the Revised Code. | 319 |
(c) The child does not meet the requirements for a planned | 320 |
permanent living arrangement pursuant to division (A)(5) of | 321 |
section 2151.353 of the Revised Code. | 322 |
(d) Prior to the dispositional hearing, no relative or other | 323 |
interested person has filed, or has been identified in, a motion | 324 |
for legal custody of the child. | 325 |
(E) In determining at a hearing held pursuant to division (A) | 326 |
of this section or for the purposes of division (A)(4) of section | 327 |
2151.353 of the Revised Code whether a child cannot be placed with | 328 |
either parent within a reasonable period of time or should not be | 329 |
placed with the parents, the court shall consider all relevant | 330 |
evidence. If the court determines, by clear and convincing | 331 |
evidence, at a hearing held pursuant to division (A) of this | 332 |
section or for the purposes of division (A)(4) of section 2151.353 | 333 |
of the Revised Code that one or more of the following exist as to | 334 |
each of the child's parents, the court shall enter a finding that | 335 |
the child cannot be placed with either parent within a reasonable | 336 |
time or should not be placed with either parent: | 337 |
(1) Following the placement of the child outside the child's | 338 |
home and notwithstanding reasonable case planning and diligent | 339 |
efforts by the agency to assist the parents to remedy the problems | 340 |
that initially caused the child to be placed outside the home, the | 341 |
parent has failed continuously and repeatedly to substantially | 342 |
remedy the conditions causing the child to be placed outside the | 343 |
child's home. In determining whether the parents have | 344 |
substantially remedied those conditions, the court shall consider | 345 |
parental utilization of medical, psychiatric, psychological, and | 346 |
other social and rehabilitative services and material resources | 347 |
that were made available to the parents for the purpose of | 348 |
changing parental conduct to allow them to resume and maintain | 349 |
parental duties. | 350 |
(2) Chronic mental illness, chronic emotional illness, mental | 351 |
retardation, physical disability, or chemical dependency of the | 352 |
parent that is so severe that it makes the parent unable to | 353 |
provide an adequate permanent home for the child at the present | 354 |
time and, as anticipated, within one year after the court holds | 355 |
the hearing pursuant to division (A) of this section or for the | 356 |
purposes of division (A)(4) of section 2151.353 of the Revised | 357 |
Code; | 358 |
(3) The parent committed any abuse as described in section | 359 |
2151.031 of the Revised Code against the child, caused the child | 360 |
to suffer any neglect as described in section 2151.03 of the | 361 |
Revised Code, or allowed the child to suffer any neglect as | 362 |
described in section 2151.03 of the Revised Code between the date | 363 |
that the original complaint alleging abuse or neglect was filed | 364 |
and the date of the filing of the motion for permanent custody; | 365 |
(4) The parent has demonstrated a lack of commitment toward | 366 |
the child by failing to regularly support, visit, or communicate | 367 |
with the child when able to do so, or by other actions showing an | 368 |
unwillingness to provide an adequate permanent home for the child; | 369 |
(5) The parent is incarcerated for an offense committed | 370 |
against the child or a sibling of the child; | 371 |
(6) The parent has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to an | 372 |
offense under division (A) or (C) of section 2919.22 or under | 373 |
section 2903.16, 2903.21, 2903.34, 2905.01, 2905.02, 2905.03, | 374 |
2905.04, 2905.05, 2907.07, 2907.08, 2907.09, 2907.12, 2907.21, | 375 |
376 | |
2907.323, 2911.01, 2911.02, 2911.11, 2911.12, 2919.12, 2919.24, | 377 |
2919.25, 2923.12, 2923.13, 2923.161, 2925.02, or 3716.11 of the | 378 |
Revised Code, and the child or a sibling of the child was a victim | 379 |
of the offense, or the parent has been convicted of or pleaded | 380 |
guilty to an offense under section 2903.04 of the Revised Code, a | 381 |
sibling of the child was the victim of the offense, and the parent | 382 |
who committed the offense poses an ongoing danger to the child or | 383 |
a sibling of the child. | 384 |
(7) The parent has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to one | 385 |
of the following: | 386 |
(a) An offense under section 2903.01, 2903.02, or 2903.03 of | 387 |
the Revised Code or under an existing or former law of this state, | 388 |
any other state, or the United States that is substantially | 389 |
equivalent to an offense described in those sections and the | 390 |
victim of the offense was a sibling of the child or the victim was | 391 |
another child who lived in the parent's household at the time of | 392 |
the offense; | 393 |
(b) An offense under section 2903.11, 2903.12, or 2903.13 of | 394 |
the Revised Code or under an existing or former law of this state, | 395 |
any other state, or the United States that is substantially | 396 |
equivalent to an offense described in those sections and the | 397 |
victim of the offense is the child, a sibling of the child, or | 398 |
another child who lived in the parent's household at the time of | 399 |
the offense; | 400 |
(c) An offense under division (B)(2) of section 2919.22 of | 401 |
the Revised Code or under an existing or former law of this state, | 402 |
any other state, or the United States that is substantially | 403 |
equivalent to the offense described in that section and the child, | 404 |
a sibling of the child, or another child who lived in the parent's | 405 |
household at the time of the offense is the victim of the offense; | 406 |
(d) An offense under section 2907.02, 2907.03, 2907.04, | 407 |
2907.05, or 2907.06 of the Revised Code or under an existing or | 408 |
former law of this state, any other state, or the United States | 409 |
that is substantially equivalent to an offense described in those | 410 |
sections and the victim of the offense is the child, a sibling of | 411 |
the child, or another child who lived in the parent's household at | 412 |
the time of the offense; | 413 |
(e) An offense under section 2905.32, 2907.21, or 2907.22 of | 414 |
the Revised Code or under an existing or former law of this state, | 415 |
any other state, or the United States that is substantially | 416 |
equivalent to the offense described in that section and the victim | 417 |
of the offense is the child, a sibling of the child, or another | 418 |
child who lived in the parent's household at the time of the | 419 |
offense; | 420 |
(f) A conspiracy or attempt to commit, or complicity in | 421 |
committing, an offense described in division (E)(7)(a) | 422 |
(e) of this section. | 423 |
(8) The parent has repeatedly withheld medical treatment or | 424 |
food from the child when the parent has the means to provide the | 425 |
treatment or food, and, in the case of withheld medical treatment, | 426 |
the parent withheld it for a purpose other than to treat the | 427 |
physical or mental illness or defect of the child by spiritual | 428 |
means through prayer alone in accordance with the tenets of a | 429 |
recognized religious body. | 430 |
(9) The parent has placed the child at substantial risk of | 431 |
harm two or more times due to alcohol or drug abuse and has | 432 |
rejected treatment two or more times or refused to participate in | 433 |
further treatment two or more times after a case plan issued | 434 |
pursuant to section 2151.412 of the Revised Code requiring | 435 |
treatment of the parent was journalized as part of a dispositional | 436 |
order issued with respect to the child or an order was issued by | 437 |
any other court requiring treatment of the parent. | 438 |
(10) The parent has abandoned the child. | 439 |
(11) The parent has had parental rights involuntarily | 440 |
terminated with respect to a sibling of the child pursuant to this | 441 |
section or section 2151.353 or 2151.415 of the Revised Code, or | 442 |
under an existing or former law of this state, any other state, or | 443 |
the United States that is substantially equivalent to those | 444 |
sections, and the parent has failed to provide clear and | 445 |
convincing evidence to prove that, notwithstanding the prior | 446 |
termination, the parent can provide a legally secure permanent | 447 |
placement and adequate care for the health, welfare, and safety of | 448 |
the child. | 449 |
(12) The parent is incarcerated at the time of the filing of | 450 |
the motion for permanent custody or the dispositional hearing of | 451 |
the child and will not be available to care for the child for at | 452 |
least eighteen months after the filing of the motion for permanent | 453 |
custody or the dispositional hearing. | 454 |
(13) The parent is repeatedly incarcerated, and the repeated | 455 |
incarceration prevents the parent from providing care for the | 456 |
child. | 457 |
(14) The parent for any reason is unwilling to provide food, | 458 |
clothing, shelter, and other basic necessities for the child or to | 459 |
prevent the child from suffering physical, emotional, or sexual | 460 |
abuse or physical, emotional, or mental neglect. | 461 |
(15) The parent has committed abuse as described in section | 462 |
2151.031 of the Revised Code against the child or caused or | 463 |
allowed the child to suffer neglect as described in section | 464 |
2151.03 of the Revised Code, and the court determines that the | 465 |
seriousness, nature, or likelihood of recurrence of the abuse or | 466 |
neglect makes the child's placement with the child's parent a | 467 |
threat to the child's safety. | 468 |
(16) Any other factor the court considers relevant. | 469 |
(F) The parents of a child for whom the court has issued an | 470 |
order granting permanent custody pursuant to this section, upon | 471 |
the issuance of the order, cease to be parties to the action. This | 472 |
division is not intended to eliminate or restrict any right of the | 473 |
parents to appeal the granting of permanent custody of their child | 474 |
to a movant pursuant to this section. | 475 |
Sec. 2151.419. (A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) | 476 |
of this section, at any hearing held pursuant to section 2151.28, | 477 |
division (E) of section 2151.31, or section 2151.314, 2151.33, or | 478 |
2151.353 of the Revised Code at which the court removes a child | 479 |
from the child's home or continues the removal of a child from the | 480 |
child's home, the court shall determine whether the public | 481 |
children services agency or private child placing agency that | 482 |
filed the complaint in the case, removed the child from home, has | 483 |
custody of the child, or will be given custody of the child has | 484 |
made reasonable efforts to prevent the removal of the child from | 485 |
the child's home, to eliminate the continued removal of the child | 486 |
from the child's home, or to make it possible for the child to | 487 |
return safely home. The agency shall have the burden of proving | 488 |
that it has made those reasonable efforts. If the agency removed | 489 |
the child from home during an emergency in which the child could | 490 |
not safely remain at home and the agency did not have prior | 491 |
contact with the child, the court is not prohibited, solely | 492 |
because the agency did not make reasonable efforts during the | 493 |
emergency to prevent the removal of the child, from determining | 494 |
that the agency made those reasonable efforts. In determining | 495 |
whether reasonable efforts were made, the child's health and | 496 |
safety shall be paramount. | 497 |
(2) If any of the following apply, the court shall make a | 498 |
determination that the agency is not required to make reasonable | 499 |
efforts to prevent the removal of the child from the child's home, | 500 |
eliminate the continued removal of the child from the child's | 501 |
home, and return the child to the child's home: | 502 |
(a) The parent from whom the child was removed has been | 503 |
convicted of or pleaded guilty to one of the following: | 504 |
(i) An offense under section 2903.01, 2903.02, or 2903.03 of | 505 |
the Revised Code or under an existing or former law of this state, | 506 |
any other state, or the United States that is substantially | 507 |
equivalent to an offense described in those sections and the | 508 |
victim of the offense was a sibling of the child or the victim was | 509 |
another child who lived in the parent's household at the time of | 510 |
the offense; | 511 |
(ii) An offense under section 2903.11, 2903.12, or 2903.13 of | 512 |
the Revised Code or under an existing or former law of this state, | 513 |
any other state, or the United States that is substantially | 514 |
equivalent to an offense described in those sections and the | 515 |
victim of the offense is the child, a sibling of the child, or | 516 |
another child who lived in the parent's household at the time of | 517 |
the offense; | 518 |
(iii) An offense under division (B)(2) of section 2919.22 of | 519 |
the Revised Code or under an existing or former law of this state, | 520 |
any other state, or the United States that is substantially | 521 |
equivalent to the offense described in that section and the child, | 522 |
a sibling of the child, or another child who lived in the parent's | 523 |
household at the time of the offense is the victim of the offense; | 524 |
(iv) An offense under section 2907.02, 2907.03, 2907.04, | 525 |
2907.05, or 2907.06 of the Revised Code or under an existing or | 526 |
former law of this state, any other state, or the United States | 527 |
that is substantially equivalent to an offense described in those | 528 |
sections and the victim of the offense is the child, a sibling of | 529 |
the child, or another child who lived in the parent's household at | 530 |
the time of the offense; | 531 |
(v) An offense under section 2907.21 or 2907.22 of the | 532 |
Revised Code or under an existing or former law of this state, any | 533 |
other state, or the United States that is substantially equivalent | 534 |
to the offense described in those sections and the victim of the | 535 |
offense is the child, a sibling of the child, or another child who | 536 |
lived in the parent's household at the time of the offense; | 537 |
(vi) An offense under division (A)(1) of section 2907.21 of | 538 |
the Revised Code or under an existing or former law of this state, | 539 |
any other state, or the United States that is substantially | 540 |
equivalent to the offense described in that division and the | 541 |
parent compels another to engage in sexual activity for hire with | 542 |
the child, a sibling of the child, or another child who lived in | 543 |
the parent's household at the time of the offense; | 544 |
(vii) An offense under section 2905.32 of the Revised Code or | 545 |
under an existing or former law of this state, any other state, or | 546 |
the United States that is substantially equivalent to the offense | 547 |
described in that section and the victim of the offense is the | 548 |
child, a sibling of the child, or another child who lived in the | 549 |
parent's household at the time of the offense; | 550 |
(viii) A conspiracy or attempt to commit, or complicity in | 551 |
committing, an offense described in division (A)(2)(a)(i) | 552 |
(iv), (v), (vi), or (vii) of this section. | 553 |
(b) The parent from whom the child was removed has repeatedly | 554 |
withheld medical treatment or food from the child when the parent | 555 |
has the means to provide the treatment or food. If the parent has | 556 |
withheld medical treatment in order to treat the physical or | 557 |
mental illness or defect of the child by spiritual means through | 558 |
prayer alone, in accordance with the tenets of a recognized | 559 |
religious body, the court or agency shall comply with the | 560 |
requirements of division (A)(1) of this section. | 561 |
(c) The parent from whom the child was removed has placed the | 562 |
child at substantial risk of harm two or more times due to alcohol | 563 |
or drug abuse and has rejected treatment two or more times or | 564 |
refused to participate in further treatment two or more times | 565 |
after a case plan issued pursuant to section 2151.412 of the | 566 |
Revised Code requiring treatment of the parent was journalized as | 567 |
part of a dispositional order issued with respect to the child or | 568 |
an order was issued by any other court requiring such treatment of | 569 |
the parent. | 570 |
(d) The parent from whom the child was removed has abandoned | 571 |
the child. | 572 |
(e) The parent from whom the child was removed has had | 573 |
parental rights involuntarily terminated with respect to a sibling | 574 |
of the child pursuant to section 2151.353, 2151.414, or 2151.415 | 575 |
of the Revised Code or under an existing or former law of this | 576 |
state, any other state, or the United States that is substantially | 577 |
equivalent to those sections. | 578 |
(3) At any hearing in which the court determines whether to | 579 |
return a child to the child's home, the court may issue an order | 580 |
that returns the child in situations in which the conditions | 581 |
described in divisions (A)(2)(a) to (e) of this section are | 582 |
present. | 583 |
(B)(1) A court that is required to make a determination as | 584 |
described in division (A)(1) or (2) of this section shall issue | 585 |
written findings of fact setting forth the reasons supporting its | 586 |
determination. If the court makes a written determination under | 587 |
division (A)(1) of this section, it shall briefly describe in the | 588 |
findings of fact the relevant services provided by the agency to | 589 |
the family of the child and why those services did not prevent the | 590 |
removal of the child from the child's home or enable the child to | 591 |
return safely home. | 592 |
(2) If a court issues an order that returns the child to the | 593 |
child's home in situations in which division (A)(2)(a), (b), (c), | 594 |
(d), or (e) of this section applies, the court shall issue written | 595 |
findings of fact setting forth the reasons supporting its | 596 |
determination. | 597 |
(C) If the court makes a determination pursuant to division | 598 |
(A)(2) of this section, the court shall conduct a review hearing | 599 |
pursuant to section 2151.417 of the Revised Code to approve a | 600 |
permanency plan with respect to the child, unless the court issues | 601 |
an order returning the child home pursuant to division (A)(3) of | 602 |
this section. The hearing to approve the permanency plan may be | 603 |
held immediately following the court's determination pursuant to | 604 |
division (A)(2) of this section and shall be held no later than | 605 |
thirty days following that determination. | 606 |
Sec. 2901.13. (A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) | 607 |
or (3) of this section or as otherwise provided in this section, a | 608 |
prosecution shall be barred unless it is commenced within the | 609 |
following periods after an offense is committed: | 610 |
(a) For a felony, six years; | 611 |
(b) For a misdemeanor other than a minor misdemeanor, two | 612 |
years; | 613 |
(c) For a minor misdemeanor, six months. | 614 |
(2) There is no period of limitation for the prosecution of a | 615 |
violation of section 2903.01 or 2903.02 of the Revised Code. | 616 |
(3) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B) to (H) of | 617 |
this section, a prosecution of any of the following offenses shall | 618 |
be barred unless it is commenced within twenty years after the | 619 |
offense is committed: | 620 |
(a) A violation of section 2903.03, 2903.04, 2905.01, | 621 |
2905.32, 2907.02, 2907.03, 2907.04, 2907.05, 2907.21, 2909.02, | 622 |
2909.22, 2909.23, 2909.24, 2909.26, 2909.27, 2909.28, 2909.29, | 623 |
2911.01, 2911.02, 2911.11, 2911.12, or 2917.02 of the Revised | 624 |
Code, a violation of section 2903.11 or 2903.12 of the Revised | 625 |
Code if the victim is a peace officer, a violation of section | 626 |
2903.13 of the Revised Code that is a felony, or a violation of | 627 |
former section 2907.12 of the Revised Code; | 628 |
(b) A conspiracy to commit, attempt to commit, or complicity | 629 |
in committing a violation set forth in division (A)(3)(a) of this | 630 |
section. | 631 |
(B)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (B)(2) of | 632 |
this section, if the period of limitation provided in division | 633 |
(A)(1) or (3) of this section has expired, prosecution shall be | 634 |
commenced for an offense of which an element is fraud or breach of | 635 |
a fiduciary duty, within one year after discovery of the offense | 636 |
either by an aggrieved person, or by the aggrieved person's legal | 637 |
representative who is not a party to the offense. | 638 |
(2) If the period of limitation provided in division (A)(1) | 639 |
or (3) of this section has expired, prosecution for a violation of | 640 |
section 2913.49 of the Revised Code shall be commenced within five | 641 |
years after discovery of the offense either by an aggrieved person | 642 |
or the aggrieved person's legal representative who is not a party | 643 |
to the offense. | 644 |
(C)(1) If the period of limitation provided in division | 645 |
(A)(1) or (3) of this section has expired, prosecution shall be | 646 |
commenced for the following offenses during the following | 647 |
specified periods of time: | 648 |
(a) For an offense involving misconduct in office by a public | 649 |
servant, at any time while the accused remains a public servant, | 650 |
or within two years thereafter; | 651 |
(b) For an offense by a person who is not a public servant | 652 |
but whose offense is directly related to the misconduct in office | 653 |
of a public servant, at any time while that public servant remains | 654 |
a public servant, or within two years thereafter. | 655 |
(2) As used in this division: | 656 |
(a) An "offense is directly related to the misconduct in | 657 |
office of a public servant" includes, but is not limited to, a | 658 |
violation of section 101.71, 101.91, 121.61 or 2921.13, division | 659 |
(F) or (H) of section 102.03, division (A) of section 2921.02, | 660 |
division (A) or (B) of section 2921.43, or division (F) or (G) of | 661 |
section 3517.13 of the Revised Code, that is directly related to | 662 |
an offense involving misconduct in office of a public servant. | 663 |
(b) "Public servant" has the same meaning as in section | 664 |
2921.01 of the Revised Code. | 665 |
(D) An offense is committed when every element of the offense | 666 |
occurs. In the case of an offense of which an element is a | 667 |
continuing course of conduct, the period of limitation does not | 668 |
begin to run until such course of conduct or the accused's | 669 |
accountability for it terminates, whichever occurs first. | 670 |
(E) A prosecution is commenced on the date an indictment is | 671 |
returned or an information filed, or on the date a lawful arrest | 672 |
without a warrant is made, or on the date a warrant, summons, | 673 |
citation, or other process is issued, whichever occurs first. A | 674 |
prosecution is not commenced by the return of an indictment or the | 675 |
filing of an information unless reasonable diligence is exercised | 676 |
to issue and execute process on the same. A prosecution is not | 677 |
commenced upon issuance of a warrant, summons, citation, or other | 678 |
process, unless reasonable diligence is exercised to execute the | 679 |
same. | 680 |
(F) The period of limitation shall not run during any time | 681 |
when the corpus delicti remains undiscovered. | 682 |
(G) The period of limitation shall not run during any time | 683 |
when the accused purposely avoids prosecution. Proof that the | 684 |
accused departed this state or concealed the accused's identity or | 685 |
whereabouts is prima-facie evidence of the accused's purpose to | 686 |
avoid prosecution. | 687 |
(H) The period of limitation shall not run during any time a | 688 |
prosecution against the accused based on the same conduct is | 689 |
pending in this state, even though the indictment, information, or | 690 |
process that commenced the prosecution is quashed or the | 691 |
proceedings on the indictment, information, or process are set | 692 |
aside or reversed on appeal. | 693 |
(I) The period of limitation for a violation of any provision | 694 |
of Title XXIX of the Revised Code that involves a physical or | 695 |
mental wound, injury, disability, or condition of a nature that | 696 |
reasonably indicates abuse or neglect of a child under eighteen | 697 |
years of age or of a mentally retarded, developmentally disabled, | 698 |
or physically impaired child under twenty-one years of age shall | 699 |
not begin to run until either of the following occurs: | 700 |
(1) The victim of the offense reaches the age of majority. | 701 |
(2) A public children services agency, or a municipal or | 702 |
county peace officer that is not the parent or guardian of the | 703 |
child, in the county in which the child resides or in which the | 704 |
abuse or neglect is occurring or has occurred has been notified | 705 |
that abuse or neglect is known, suspected, or believed to have | 706 |
occurred. | 707 |
(J) As used in this section, "peace officer" has the same | 708 |
meaning as in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code. | 709 |
Sec. 2905.32. (A) No person shall knowingly recruit, lure, | 710 |
entice, isolate, harbor, transport, provide, obtain, or maintain, | 711 |
or knowingly attempt to recruit, lure, entice, isolate, harbor, | 712 |
transport, provide, obtain, or maintain, another person knowing | 713 |
that the person will be subjected to involuntary servitude or be | 714 |
compelled to engage in sexual activity for hire, engage in a | 715 |
performance that is obscene, sexually oriented, or nudity | 716 |
oriented, or be a model or participant in the production of | 717 |
material that is obscene, sexually oriented, or nudity oriented. | 718 |
(B) No person shall knowingly recruit, lure, entice, isolate, | 719 |
harbor, transport, provide, obtain, or maintain, or knowingly | 720 |
attempt to recruit, lure, entice, isolate, harbor, transport, | 721 |
provide, obtain, or maintain, a person who is less than eighteen | 722 |
years of age or is a developmentally disabled person knowing that | 723 |
the person will be subjected to involuntary servitude or for any | 724 |
of the following purposes: | 725 |
(a) To engage in sexual activity for hire; | 726 |
(b) To engage in a performance for hire that is obscene, | 727 |
sexually oriented, or nudity oriented; | 728 |
(c) To be a model or participant for hire in the production | 729 |
of material that is obscene, sexually oriented, or nudity | 730 |
oriented. | 731 |
(C) For a prosecution under division (A) of this section, the | 732 |
element "compelled" does not require that the compulsion be openly | 733 |
displayed or physically exerted. The element "compelled" has been | 734 |
established if the state proves that the victim's will was | 735 |
overcome by force, fear, duress, or intimidation. | 736 |
| 737 |
defendant engaged in sexual activity with any person, or solicited | 738 |
sexual activity with any person, whether or not for hire, without | 739 |
more, does not constitute a violation of this section. | 740 |
| 741 |
preclude a prosecution of a violation of any other section of the | 742 |
Revised Code. One or more acts, a series of acts, or a course of | 743 |
behavior that can be prosecuted under this section or any other | 744 |
section of the Revised Code may be prosecuted under this section, | 745 |
the other section of the Revised Code, or both sections. However, | 746 |
if an offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation of | 747 |
this section and also is convicted of or pleads guilty to a | 748 |
violation of section 2907.21 of the Revised Code based on the same | 749 |
conduct involving the same victim that was the basis of the | 750 |
violation of this section, or is convicted of or pleads guilty to | 751 |
any other violation of Chapter 2907. of the Revised Code based on | 752 |
the same conduct involving the same victim that was the basis of | 753 |
the violation of this section, the two offenses are allied | 754 |
offenses of similar import under section 2941.25 of the Revised | 755 |
Code. | 756 |
| 757 |
activity, opinion evidence of the victim's sexual activity, and | 758 |
reputation evidence of the victim's sexual activity, shall not be | 759 |
admitted under this section unless it involves evidence of the | 760 |
origin of semen, pregnancy, or disease, or the victim's past | 761 |
sexual activity with the offender, and only to the extent that the | 762 |
court finds that the evidence is material to a fact at issue in | 763 |
the case and that its inflammatory or prejudicial nature does not | 764 |
outweigh its probative value. | 765 |
As used in this division, sexual activity includes both | 766 |
voluntary and involuntary sexual activity. | 767 |
(G) Whoever violates this section is guilty of trafficking in | 768 |
persons, a felony of the first degree. Notwithstanding division | 769 |
(A)(1) of section 2929.14 of the Revised Code, the court shall | 770 |
sentence the offender to a definite prison term of ten, eleven, | 771 |
twelve, thirteen, fourteen, or fifteen years. | 772 |
(H) As used in this section: | 773 |
(1) "Developmentally disabled person" has the same meaning as | 774 |
in section 5123.01 of the Revised Code. | 775 |
(2) "For hire" means done in exchange for anything of value | 776 |
given to or received by any person. | 777 |
Sec. 2907.02. (A)(1) No person shall engage in sexual | 778 |
conduct with another who is not the spouse of the offender or who | 779 |
is the spouse of the offender but is living separate and apart | 780 |
from the offender, when any of the following applies: | 781 |
(a) For the purpose of preventing resistance, the offender | 782 |
substantially impairs the other person's judgment or control by | 783 |
administering any drug, intoxicant, or controlled substance to the | 784 |
other person surreptitiously or by force, threat of force, or | 785 |
deception. | 786 |
(b) The other person is less than thirteen years of age, | 787 |
whether or not the offender knows the age of the other person. | 788 |
(c) The other person's ability to resist or consent is | 789 |
substantially impaired because of a mental or physical condition | 790 |
or because of advanced age, and the offender knows or has | 791 |
reasonable cause to believe that the other person's ability to | 792 |
resist or consent is substantially impaired because of a mental or | 793 |
physical condition or because of advanced age. | 794 |
(2) No person shall engage in sexual conduct with another | 795 |
when the offender purposely compels the other person to submit by | 796 |
force or threat of force. | 797 |
(B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of rape, a felony | 798 |
of the first degree. If the offender under division (A)(1)(a) of | 799 |
this section substantially impairs the other person's judgment or | 800 |
control by administering any controlled substance described in | 801 |
section 3719.41 of the Revised Code to the other person | 802 |
surreptitiously or by force, threat of force, or deception, the | 803 |
prison term imposed upon the offender shall be one of the prison | 804 |
terms prescribed for a felony of the first degree in section | 805 |
2929.14 of the Revised Code that is not less than five years. | 806 |
Except as otherwise provided in this division, notwithstanding | 807 |
sections 2929.11 to 2929.14 of the Revised Code, an offender under | 808 |
division (A)(1)(b) of this section shall be sentenced to a prison | 809 |
term or term of life imprisonment pursuant to section 2971.03 of | 810 |
the Revised Code. If an offender is convicted of or pleads guilty | 811 |
to a violation of division (A)(1)(b) of this section, if the | 812 |
offender was less than sixteen years of age at the time the | 813 |
offender committed the violation of that division, and if the | 814 |
offender during or immediately after the commission of the offense | 815 |
did not cause serious physical harm to the victim, the victim was | 816 |
ten years of age or older at the time of the commission of the | 817 |
violation, and the offender has not previously been convicted of | 818 |
or pleaded guilty to a violation of this section or a | 819 |
substantially similar existing or former law of this state, | 820 |
another state, or the United States, the court shall not sentence | 821 |
the offender to a prison term or term of life imprisonment | 822 |
pursuant to section 2971.03 of the Revised Code, and instead the | 823 |
court shall sentence the offender as otherwise provided in this | 824 |
division. If an offender under division (A)(1)(b) of this section | 825 |
previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to violating | 826 |
division (A)(1)(b) of this section or to violating an existing or | 827 |
former law of this state, another state, or the United States that | 828 |
is substantially similar to division (A)(1)(b) of this section, if | 829 |
the offender during or immediately after the commission of the | 830 |
offense caused serious physical harm to the victim, or if the | 831 |
victim under division (A)(1)(b) of this section is less than ten | 832 |
years of age, in lieu of sentencing the offender to a prison term | 833 |
or term of life imprisonment pursuant to section 2971.03 of the | 834 |
Revised Code, the court may impose upon the offender a term of | 835 |
life without parole. If the court imposes a term of life without | 836 |
parole pursuant to this division, division (F) of section 2971.03 | 837 |
of the Revised Code applies, and the offender automatically is | 838 |
classified a tier III sex offender/child-victim offender, as | 839 |
described in that division. | 840 |
(C) A victim need not prove physical resistance to the | 841 |
offender in prosecutions under this section. | 842 |
(D)(1) Evidence of specific instances of the victim's sexual | 843 |
activity, opinion evidence of the victim's sexual activity, and | 844 |
reputation evidence of the victim's sexual activity shall not be | 845 |
admitted under this section unless it involves evidence of the | 846 |
origin of semen, pregnancy, or disease, or the victim's past | 847 |
sexual activity with the offender, and only to the extent that the | 848 |
court finds that the evidence is material to a fact at issue in | 849 |
the case and that its inflammatory or prejudicial nature does not | 850 |
outweigh its probative value. | 851 |
(2) Evidence of specific instances of the defendant's sexual | 852 |
activity, opinion evidence of the defendant's sexual activity, and | 853 |
reputation evidence of the defendant's sexual activity shall not | 854 |
be admitted under this section unless it involves evidence of the | 855 |
origin of semen, pregnancy, or disease, the defendant's past | 856 |
sexual activity with the victim, or is admissible against the | 857 |
defendant under section 2945.59 of the Revised Code, and only to | 858 |
the extent that the court finds that the evidence is material to a | 859 |
fact at issue in the case and that its inflammatory or prejudicial | 860 |
nature does not outweigh its probative value. | 861 |
(3) As used in division (D)(1) of this section, sexual | 862 |
activity includes both voluntary and involuntary sexual activity. | 863 |
(E) Prior to taking testimony or receiving evidence of any | 864 |
sexual activity of the victim or the defendant in a proceeding | 865 |
under this section, the court shall resolve the admissibility of | 866 |
the proposed evidence in a hearing in chambers, which shall be | 867 |
held at or before preliminary hearing and not less than three days | 868 |
before trial, or for good cause shown during the trial. | 869 |
(F) Upon approval by the court, the victim may be represented | 870 |
by counsel in any hearing in chambers or other proceeding to | 871 |
resolve the admissibility of evidence. If the victim is indigent | 872 |
or otherwise is unable to obtain the services of counsel, the | 873 |
court, upon request, may appoint counsel to represent the victim | 874 |
without cost to the victim. | 875 |
(G) It is not a defense to a charge under division (A)(2) of | 876 |
this section that the offender and the victim were married or were | 877 |
cohabiting at the time of the commission of the offense. | 878 |
Sec. 2907.05. (A) No person shall have sexual contact with | 879 |
another, not the spouse of the offender; cause another, not the | 880 |
spouse of the offender, to have sexual contact with the offender; | 881 |
or cause two or more other persons to have sexual contact when any | 882 |
of the following applies: | 883 |
(1) The offender purposely compels the other person, or one | 884 |
of the other persons, to submit by force or threat of force. | 885 |
(2) For the purpose of preventing resistance, the offender | 886 |
substantially impairs the judgment or control of the other person | 887 |
or of one of the other persons by administering any drug, | 888 |
intoxicant, or controlled substance to the other person | 889 |
surreptitiously or by force, threat of force, or deception. | 890 |
(3) The offender knows that the judgment or control of the | 891 |
other person or of one of the other persons is substantially | 892 |
impaired as a result of the influence of any drug or intoxicant | 893 |
administered to the other person with the other person's consent | 894 |
for the purpose of any kind of medical or dental examination, | 895 |
treatment, or surgery. | 896 |
(4) The other person, or one of the other persons, is less | 897 |
than thirteen years of age, whether or not the offender knows the | 898 |
age of that person. | 899 |
(5) The ability of the other person to resist or consent or | 900 |
the ability of one of the other persons to resist or consent is | 901 |
substantially impaired because of a mental or physical condition | 902 |
or because of advanced age, and the offender knows or has | 903 |
reasonable cause to believe that the ability to resist or consent | 904 |
of the other person or of one of the other persons is | 905 |
substantially impaired because of a mental or physical condition | 906 |
or because of advanced age. | 907 |
(B) No person shall knowingly touch the genitalia of another, | 908 |
when the touching is not through clothing, the other person is | 909 |
less than twelve years of age, whether or not the offender knows | 910 |
the age of that person, and the touching is done with an intent to | 911 |
abuse, humiliate, harass, degrade, or arouse or gratify the sexual | 912 |
desire of any person. | 913 |
(C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of gross sexual | 914 |
imposition. | 915 |
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, gross | 916 |
sexual imposition committed in violation of division (A)(1), (2), | 917 |
(3), or (5) of this section is a felony of the fourth degree. If | 918 |
the offender under division (A)(2) of this section substantially | 919 |
impairs the judgment or control of the other person or one of the | 920 |
other persons by administering any controlled substance described | 921 |
in section 3719.41 of the Revised Code to the person | 922 |
surreptitiously or by force, threat of force, or deception, gross | 923 |
sexual imposition committed in violation of division (A)(2) of | 924 |
this section is a felony of the third degree. | 925 |
(2) Gross sexual imposition committed in violation of | 926 |
division (A)(4) or (B) of this section is a felony of the third | 927 |
degree. Except as otherwise provided in this division, for gross | 928 |
sexual imposition committed in violation of division (A)(4) or (B) | 929 |
of this section there is a presumption that a prison term shall be | 930 |
imposed for the offense. The court shall impose on an offender | 931 |
convicted of gross sexual imposition in violation of division | 932 |
(A)(4) or (B) of this section a mandatory prison term equal to one | 933 |
of the prison terms prescribed in section 2929.14 of the Revised | 934 |
Code for a felony of the third degree if either of the following | 935 |
applies: | 936 |
(a) Evidence other than the testimony of the victim was | 937 |
admitted in the case corroborating the violation; | 938 |
(b) The offender previously was convicted of or pleaded | 939 |
guilty to a violation of this section, rape, the former offense of | 940 |
felonious sexual penetration, or sexual battery, and the victim of | 941 |
the previous offense was less than thirteen years of age. | 942 |
(D) A victim need not prove physical resistance to the | 943 |
offender in prosecutions under this section. | 944 |
(E)(1) Evidence of specific instances of the victim's sexual | 945 |
activity, opinion evidence of the victim's sexual activity, and | 946 |
reputation evidence of the victim's sexual activity shall not be | 947 |
admitted under this section unless it involves evidence of the | 948 |
origin of semen, pregnancy, or disease, or the victim's past | 949 |
sexual activity with the offender, and only to the extent that the | 950 |
court finds that the evidence is material to a fact at issue in | 951 |
the case and that its inflammatory or prejudicial nature does not | 952 |
outweigh its probative value. | 953 |
(2) Evidence of specific instances of the defendant's sexual | 954 |
activity, opinion evidence of the defendant's sexual activity, and | 955 |
reputation evidence of the defendant's sexual activity shall not | 956 |
be admitted under this section unless it involves evidence of the | 957 |
origin of semen, pregnancy, or disease, the defendant's past | 958 |
sexual activity with the victim, or is admissible against the | 959 |
defendant under section 2945.59 of the Revised Code, and only to | 960 |
the extent that the court finds that the evidence is material to a | 961 |
fact at issue in the case and that its inflammatory or prejudicial | 962 |
nature does not outweigh its probative value. | 963 |
(3) As used in division (E)(1) of this section, sexual | 964 |
activity includes both voluntary and involuntary sexual activity. | 965 |
(F) Prior to taking testimony or receiving evidence of any | 966 |
sexual activity of the victim or the defendant in a proceeding | 967 |
under this section, the court shall resolve the admissibility of | 968 |
the proposed evidence in a hearing in chambers, which shall be | 969 |
held at or before preliminary hearing and not less than three days | 970 |
before trial, or for good cause shown during the trial. | 971 |
(G) Upon approval by the court, the victim may be represented | 972 |
by counsel in any hearing in chambers or other proceeding to | 973 |
resolve the admissibility of evidence. If the victim is indigent | 974 |
or otherwise is unable to obtain the services of counsel, the | 975 |
court, upon request, may appoint counsel to represent the victim | 976 |
without cost to the victim. | 977 |
Sec. 2907.07. (A) No person shall solicit a person who is | 978 |
less than thirteen years of age to engage in sexual activity with | 979 |
the offender, whether or not the offender knows the age of such | 980 |
person. | 981 |
(B)(1) No person shall solicit another, not the spouse of the | 982 |
offender, to engage in sexual conduct with the offender, when the | 983 |
offender is eighteen years of age or older and four or more years | 984 |
older than the other person, and the other person is thirteen | 985 |
years of age or older but less than sixteen years of age, whether | 986 |
or not the offender knows the age of the other person. | 987 |
(2) No person shall solicit another, not the spouse of the | 988 |
offender, to engage in sexual conduct with the offender, when the | 989 |
offender is eighteen years of age or older and four or more years | 990 |
older than the other person, and the other person is sixteen or | 991 |
seventeen years of age | 992 |
993 | |
994 | |
other person is a developmentally disabled person. | 995 |
(3) As used in division (B)(2) of this section, | 996 |
"developmentally disabled person" has the same meaning as in | 997 |
section 5123.01 of the Revised Code. | 998 |
(C) No person shall solicit another by means of a | 999 |
telecommunications device, as defined in section 2913.01 of the | 1000 |
Revised Code, to engage in sexual activity with the offender when | 1001 |
the offender is eighteen years of age or older and either of the | 1002 |
following applies: | 1003 |
(1) The other person is less than thirteen years of age, and | 1004 |
the offender knows that the other person is less than thirteen | 1005 |
years of age or is reckless in that regard. | 1006 |
(2) The other person is a law enforcement officer posing as a | 1007 |
person who is less than thirteen years of age, and the offender | 1008 |
believes that the other person is less than thirteen years of age | 1009 |
or is reckless in that regard. | 1010 |
(D) No person shall solicit another by means of a | 1011 |
telecommunications device, as defined in section 2913.01 of the | 1012 |
Revised Code, to engage in sexual activity with the offender when | 1013 |
the offender is eighteen years of age or older and either of the | 1014 |
following applies: | 1015 |
(1) The other person is thirteen years of age or older but | 1016 |
less than sixteen years of age, the offender knows that the other | 1017 |
person is thirteen years of age or older but less than sixteen | 1018 |
years of age or is reckless in that regard, and the offender is | 1019 |
four or more years older than the other person. | 1020 |
(2) The other person is a law enforcement officer posing as a | 1021 |
person who is thirteen years of age or older but less than sixteen | 1022 |
years of age, the offender believes that the other person is | 1023 |
thirteen years of age or older but less than sixteen years of age | 1024 |
or is reckless in that regard, and the offender is four or more | 1025 |
years older than the age the law enforcement officer assumes in | 1026 |
posing as the person who is thirteen years of age or older but | 1027 |
less than sixteen years of age. | 1028 |
(E) Divisions (C) and (D) of this section apply to any | 1029 |
solicitation that is contained in a transmission via a | 1030 |
telecommunications device that either originates in this state or | 1031 |
is received in this state. | 1032 |
(F)(1) Whoever violates this section is guilty of | 1033 |
importuning. | 1034 |
(2) Except as otherwise provided in this division, a | 1035 |
violation of division (A) or (C) of this section is a felony of | 1036 |
the third degree on a first offense, and, notwithstanding division | 1037 |
(C) of section 2929.13 of the Revised Code, there is a presumption | 1038 |
that a prison term shall be imposed as described in division (D) | 1039 |
of section 2929.13 of the Revised Code. If the offender previously | 1040 |
has been convicted of a sexually oriented offense or a | 1041 |
child-victim oriented offense, a violation of division (A) or (C) | 1042 |
of this section is a felony of the second degree, and the court | 1043 |
shall impose upon the offender as a mandatory prison term one of | 1044 |
the prison terms prescribed in section 2929.14 of the Revised Code | 1045 |
for a felony of the second degree. | 1046 |
(3) A violation of division (B) or (D) of this section is a | 1047 |
felony of the fifth degree on a first offense, and, | 1048 |
notwithstanding division (B) of section 2929.13 of the Revised | 1049 |
Code, there is a presumption that a prison term shall be imposed | 1050 |
as described in division (D) of section 2929.13 of the Revised | 1051 |
Code. If the offender previously has been convicted of a sexually | 1052 |
oriented offense or a child-victim oriented offense, a violation | 1053 |
of division (B) or (D) of this section is a felony of the fourth | 1054 |
degree, and the court shall impose upon the offender as a | 1055 |
mandatory prison term one of the prison terms prescribed in | 1056 |
section 2929.14 of the Revised Code for a felony of the fourth | 1057 |
degree that is not less than twelve months in duration. | 1058 |
Sec. 2907.19. (A) As used in this section: | 1059 |
(1) "Advertisement for sexual activity for hire" or | 1060 |
"advertisement" means any advertisement or offer in electronic or | 1061 |
print media that includes an explicit or implicit offer for sexual | 1062 |
activity for hire to occur in this state. | 1063 |
(2) "Depiction" means any photograph, film, videotape, visual | 1064 |
material, or printed material. | 1065 |
(3) "Person" has the same meaning as in section 1.59 of the | 1066 |
Revised Code. | 1067 |
(B)(1) No person shall knowingly purchase or otherwise obtain | 1068 |
advertising space for an advertisement for sexual activity for | 1069 |
hire that includes a depiction of a minor. | 1070 |
(2) No person shall knowingly publish, disseminate, or | 1071 |
display or directly or indirectly cause to be published, | 1072 |
disseminated, or displayed any advertisement for sexual activity | 1073 |
for hire that includes the depiction of a minor. | 1074 |
(C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of commercial | 1075 |
sexual exploitation of a minor, a felony of the third degree. | 1076 |
(D)(1) In any prosecution under this section, it is not a | 1077 |
defense that the offender did not know the age of the person | 1078 |
depicted in the advertisement, relied on an oral or written | 1079 |
representation of the age of the person depicted in the | 1080 |
advertisement, or relied on the apparent age of the person | 1081 |
depicted in the advertisement. | 1082 |
(2) In any prosecution under this section, it is an | 1083 |
affirmative defense that the offender, prior to purchasing | 1084 |
advertising space for the advertisement, made a reasonable bona | 1085 |
fide attempt to ascertain the true age of the person depicted in | 1086 |
the advertisement by requiring the person depicted in the | 1087 |
advertisement to produce a driver's license, marriage license, | 1088 |
birth certificate, or other government issued or school issued | 1089 |
document that identifies the age of the person, provided the | 1090 |
offender retains and produces a copy or other record of the | 1091 |
driver's license, marriage license, birth certificate, or other | 1092 |
document used to ascertain the age of the person depicted in the | 1093 |
advertisement. | 1094 |
Sec. 2907.22. (A) No person shall knowingly: | 1095 |
(1) Establish, maintain, operate, manage, supervise, control, | 1096 |
or have an interest in a brothel or any other enterprise that | 1097 |
through electronic means promotes or facilitates sexual activity | 1098 |
for hire; | 1099 |
(2) Supervise, manage, or control the activities of a | 1100 |
prostitute in engaging in sexual activity for hire; | 1101 |
(3) Transport another, or cause another to be transported | 1102 |
1103 | |
in order to facilitate the other person's engaging in sexual | 1104 |
activity for hire; | 1105 |
(4) For the purpose of violating or facilitating a violation | 1106 |
of this section, induce or procure another to engage in sexual | 1107 |
activity for hire. | 1108 |
(B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of promoting | 1109 |
prostitution. Except as otherwise provided in this division, | 1110 |
promoting prostitution is a felony of the fourth degree. If any | 1111 |
prostitute in the brothel involved in the offense, or the | 1112 |
prostitute whose activities are supervised, managed, or controlled | 1113 |
by the offender, or the person transported, induced, or procured | 1114 |
by the offender to engage in sexual activity for hire, is a minor, | 1115 |
whether or not the offender knows the age of the minor, then | 1116 |
promoting prostitution is a felony of the third degree. If the | 1117 |
offender in any case also is convicted of or pleads guilty to a | 1118 |
specification as described in section 2941.1422 of the Revised | 1119 |
Code that was included in the indictment, count in the indictment, | 1120 |
or information charging the offense, the court shall sentence the | 1121 |
offender to a mandatory prison term as provided in division (B)(7) | 1122 |
of section 2929.14 of the Revised Code and shall order the | 1123 |
offender to make restitution as provided in division (B)(8) of | 1124 |
section 2929.18 of the Revised Code. | 1125 |
Sec. 2907.24. (A)(1) No person shall solicit another who is | 1126 |
eighteen years of age or older to engage with such other person in | 1127 |
sexual activity for hire. | 1128 |
(2) No person shall solicit another who is less than eighteen | 1129 |
years of age or is a developmentally disabled person to engage | 1130 |
with such other person in sexual activity for hire. | 1131 |
(B) No person, with knowledge that the person has tested | 1132 |
positive as a carrier of a virus that causes acquired | 1133 |
immunodeficiency syndrome, shall engage in conduct in violation of | 1134 |
division (A) of this section. | 1135 |
(C)(1) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is | 1136 |
guilty of soliciting | 1137 |
section is a misdemeanor of the third degree. A violation of | 1138 |
division (A)(2) of this section is a felony of the third degree. | 1139 |
(2) Whoever violates division (B) of this section is guilty | 1140 |
of engaging in solicitation after a positive HIV test. If the | 1141 |
offender commits the violation prior to July 1, 1996, engaging in | 1142 |
solicitation after a positive HIV test is a felony of the second | 1143 |
degree. If the offender commits the violation on or after July 1, | 1144 |
1996, engaging in solicitation after a positive HIV test is a | 1145 |
felony of the third degree. | 1146 |
(D) If a person is convicted of or pleads guilty to a | 1147 |
violation of any provision of this section, an attempt to commit a | 1148 |
violation of any provision of this section, or a violation of or | 1149 |
an attempt to commit a violation of a municipal ordinance that is | 1150 |
substantially equivalent to any provision of this section and if | 1151 |
the person, in committing or attempting to commit the violation, | 1152 |
was in, was on, or used a motor vehicle, the court, in addition to | 1153 |
or independent of all other penalties imposed for the violation, | 1154 |
may impose upon the offender a class six suspension of the | 1155 |
person's driver's license, commercial driver's license, temporary | 1156 |
instruction permit, probationary license, or nonresident operating | 1157 |
privilege from the range specified in division (A)(6) of section | 1158 |
4510.02 of the Revised Code. In lieu of imposing upon the offender | 1159 |
the class six suspension, the court instead may require the | 1160 |
offender to perform community service for a number of hours | 1161 |
determined by the court. | 1162 |
(E) It is an affirmative defense to a charge under division | 1163 |
(B) of this section that the defendant, at the time the defendant | 1164 |
engaged in the prohibited conduct, was being victimized by a | 1165 |
violation of section 2905.32 of the Revised Code, regardless of | 1166 |
whether anyone has been convicted of a violation of that section | 1167 |
or any other section of the Revised Code for victimizing the | 1168 |
defendant. | 1169 |
(F) As used in this section: | 1170 |
(1) "Developmentally disabled person" has the same meaning as | 1171 |
in section 5123.01 of the Revised Code. | 1172 |
(2) "Sexually oriented offense" and "child-victim oriented | 1173 |
offense" have the same meanings as in section 2950.01 of the | 1174 |
Revised Code. | 1175 |
Sec. 2907.241. (A) No person, with purpose to solicit | 1176 |
another to engage in sexual activity for hire and while in or near | 1177 |
a public place, shall do any of the following: | 1178 |
(1) Beckon to, stop, or attempt to stop another; | 1179 |
(2) Engage or attempt to engage another in conversation; | 1180 |
(3) Stop or attempt to stop the operator of a vehicle or | 1181 |
approach a stationary vehicle; | 1182 |
(4) If the offender is the operator of or a passenger in a | 1183 |
vehicle, stop, attempt to stop, beckon to, attempt to beckon to, | 1184 |
or entice another to approach or enter the vehicle of which the | 1185 |
offender is the operator or in which the offender is the | 1186 |
passenger; | 1187 |
(5) Interfere with the free passage of another. | 1188 |
(B) No person, with knowledge that the person has tested | 1189 |
positive as a carrier of a virus that causes acquired | 1190 |
immunodeficiency syndrome, shall engage in conduct in violation of | 1191 |
division (A) of this section. | 1192 |
(C) As used in this section: | 1193 |
(1) "Vehicle" has the same meaning as in section 4501.01 of | 1194 |
the Revised Code. | 1195 |
(2) "Public place" means any of the following: | 1196 |
(a) A street, road, highway, thoroughfare, bikeway, walkway, | 1197 |
sidewalk, bridge, alley, alleyway, plaza, park, driveway, parking | 1198 |
lot, or transportation facility; | 1199 |
(b) A doorway or entrance way to a building that fronts on a | 1200 |
place described in division (C)(2)(a) of this section; | 1201 |
(c) A place not described in division (C)(2)(a) or (b) of | 1202 |
this section that is open to the public. | 1203 |
(D) It is an affirmative defense to a charge under division | 1204 |
(B) of this section that the defendant, at the time the defendant | 1205 |
engaged in the prohibited conduct, was being victimized by a | 1206 |
violation of section 2905.32 of the Revised Code, regardless of | 1207 |
whether anyone has been convicted of a violation of that section | 1208 |
or any other section of the Revised Code for victimizing the | 1209 |
defendant. | 1210 |
(E)(1) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is | 1211 |
guilty of loitering to engage in solicitation, a misdemeanor of | 1212 |
the third degree. | 1213 |
(2) Whoever violates division (B) of this section is guilty | 1214 |
of loitering to engage in solicitation after a positive HIV test. | 1215 |
If the offender commits the violation prior to July 1, 1996, | 1216 |
loitering to engage in solicitation after a positive HIV test is a | 1217 |
felony of the fourth degree. If the offender commits the violation | 1218 |
on or after July 1, 1996, loitering to engage in solicitation | 1219 |
after a positive HIV test is a felony of the fifth degree. | 1220 |
Sec. 2907.25. (A) No person shall engage in sexual activity | 1221 |
for hire. | 1222 |
(B) No person, with knowledge that the person has tested | 1223 |
positive as a carrier of a virus that causes acquired | 1224 |
immunodeficiency syndrome, shall engage in sexual activity for | 1225 |
hire. | 1226 |
(C) It is an affirmative defense to a charge under division | 1227 |
(B) of this section that the defendant, at the time the defendant | 1228 |
engaged in the prohibited conduct, was being victimized by a | 1229 |
violation of section 2905.32 of the Revised Code, regardless of | 1230 |
whether anyone has been convicted of a violation of that section | 1231 |
or any other section of the Revised Code for victimizing the | 1232 |
defendant. | 1233 |
(D)(1) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is | 1234 |
guilty of prostitution, a misdemeanor of the third degree. | 1235 |
(2) Whoever violates division (B) of this section is guilty | 1236 |
of engaging in prostitution after a positive HIV test. If the | 1237 |
offender commits the violation prior to July 1, 1996, engaging in | 1238 |
prostitution after a positive HIV test is a felony of the second | 1239 |
degree. If the offender commits the violation on or after July 1, | 1240 |
1996, engaging in prostitution after a positive HIV test is a | 1241 |
felony of the third degree. | 1242 |
Sec. 2927.17. (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this | 1243 |
section, no person, by means of a statement, solicitation, or | 1244 |
offer in a print or electronic publication, sign, placard, | 1245 |
storefront display, or other medium, shall advertise the practice | 1246 |
of massage or, directly or by implication, relaxation massage or | 1247 |
any other massage technique or method. | 1248 |
(B) Division (A) of this section does not apply to any of the | 1249 |
following if the services advertised are within the scope of | 1250 |
practice for which the individual who performs the services is | 1251 |
certified or licensed: | 1252 |
(1) An individual who holds a certificate or license issued | 1253 |
under Title XLVII of the Revised Code that authorizes the | 1254 |
certificate or license holder to practice massage or a massage | 1255 |
technique or method; | 1256 |
(2) A person that employs or contracts with an individual who | 1257 |
holds a certificate or license issued under Title XLVII of the | 1258 |
Revised Code that authorizes the certificate or license holder to | 1259 |
practice massage or a massage technique or method; | 1260 |
(3) An individual who holds a certificate or license issued | 1261 |
by a political subdivision of this state to engage in massage; | 1262 |
(4) A person that holds a certificate or license issued by a | 1263 |
political subdivision of this state to operate a massage | 1264 |
establishment. | 1265 |
(C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of unlawful | 1266 |
advertising of massage, a felony of the fifth degree. | 1267 |
Sec. 2929.01. As used in this chapter: | 1268 |
(A)(1) "Alternative residential facility" means, subject to | 1269 |
division (A)(2) of this section, any facility other than an | 1270 |
offender's home or residence in which an offender is assigned to | 1271 |
live and that satisfies all of the following criteria: | 1272 |
(a) It provides programs through which the offender may seek | 1273 |
or maintain employment or may receive education, training, | 1274 |
treatment, or habilitation. | 1275 |
(b) It has received the appropriate license or certificate | 1276 |
for any specialized education, training, treatment, habilitation, | 1277 |
or other service that it provides from the government agency that | 1278 |
is responsible for licensing or certifying that type of education, | 1279 |
training, treatment, habilitation, or service. | 1280 |
(2) "Alternative residential facility" does not include a | 1281 |
community-based correctional facility, jail, halfway house, or | 1282 |
prison. | 1283 |
(B) "Basic probation supervision" means a requirement that | 1284 |
the offender maintain contact with a person appointed to supervise | 1285 |
the offender in accordance with sanctions imposed by the court or | 1286 |
imposed by the parole board pursuant to section 2967.28 of the | 1287 |
Revised Code. "Basic probation supervision" includes basic parole | 1288 |
supervision and basic post-release control supervision. | 1289 |
(C) "Cocaine," "hashish," "L.S.D.," and "unit dose" have the | 1290 |
same meanings as in section 2925.01 of the Revised Code. | 1291 |
(D) "Community-based correctional facility" means a | 1292 |
community-based correctional facility and program or district | 1293 |
community-based correctional facility and program developed | 1294 |
pursuant to sections 2301.51 to 2301.58 of the Revised Code. | 1295 |
(E) "Community control sanction" means a sanction that is not | 1296 |
a prison term and that is described in section 2929.15, 2929.16, | 1297 |
2929.17, or 2929.18 of the Revised Code or a sanction that is not | 1298 |
a jail term and that is described in section 2929.26, 2929.27, or | 1299 |
2929.28 of the Revised Code. "Community control sanction" includes | 1300 |
probation if the sentence involved was imposed for a felony that | 1301 |
was committed prior to July 1, 1996, or if the sentence involved | 1302 |
was imposed for a misdemeanor that was committed prior to January | 1303 |
1, 2004. | 1304 |
(F) "Controlled substance," "marihuana," "schedule I," and | 1305 |
"schedule II" have the same meanings as in section 3719.01 of the | 1306 |
Revised Code. | 1307 |
(G) "Curfew" means a requirement that an offender during a | 1308 |
specified period of time be at a designated place. | 1309 |
(H) "Day reporting" means a sanction pursuant to which an | 1310 |
offender is required each day to report to and leave a center or | 1311 |
other approved reporting location at specified times in order to | 1312 |
participate in work, education or training, treatment, and other | 1313 |
approved programs at the center or outside the center. | 1314 |
(I) "Deadly weapon" has the same meaning as in section | 1315 |
2923.11 of the Revised Code. | 1316 |
(J) "Drug and alcohol use monitoring" means a program under | 1317 |
which an offender agrees to submit to random chemical analysis of | 1318 |
the offender's blood, breath, or urine to determine whether the | 1319 |
offender has ingested any alcohol or other drugs. | 1320 |
(K) "Drug treatment program" means any program under which a | 1321 |
person undergoes assessment and treatment designed to reduce or | 1322 |
completely eliminate the person's physical or emotional reliance | 1323 |
upon alcohol, another drug, or alcohol and another drug and under | 1324 |
which the person may be required to receive assessment and | 1325 |
treatment on an outpatient basis or may be required to reside at a | 1326 |
facility other than the person's home or residence while | 1327 |
undergoing assessment and treatment. | 1328 |
(L) "Economic loss" means any economic detriment suffered by | 1329 |
a victim as a direct and proximate result of the commission of an | 1330 |
offense and includes any loss of income due to lost time at work | 1331 |
because of any injury caused to the victim, and any property loss, | 1332 |
medical cost, or funeral expense incurred as a result of the | 1333 |
commission of the offense. "Economic loss" does not include | 1334 |
non-economic loss or any punitive or exemplary damages. | 1335 |
(M) "Education or training" includes study at, or in | 1336 |
conjunction with a program offered by, a university, college, or | 1337 |
technical college or vocational study and also includes the | 1338 |
completion of primary school, secondary school, and literacy | 1339 |
curricula or their equivalent. | 1340 |
(N) "Firearm" has the same meaning as in section 2923.11 of | 1341 |
the Revised Code. | 1342 |
(O) "Halfway house" means a facility licensed by the division | 1343 |
of parole and community services of the department of | 1344 |
rehabilitation and correction pursuant to section 2967.14 of the | 1345 |
Revised Code as a suitable facility for the care and treatment of | 1346 |
adult offenders. | 1347 |
(P) "House arrest" means a period of confinement of an | 1348 |
offender that is in the offender's home or in other premises | 1349 |
specified by the sentencing court or by the parole board pursuant | 1350 |
to section 2967.28 of the Revised Code and during which all of the | 1351 |
following apply: | 1352 |
(1) The offender is required to remain in the offender's home | 1353 |
or other specified premises for the specified period of | 1354 |
confinement, except for periods of time during which the offender | 1355 |
is at the offender's place of employment or at other premises as | 1356 |
authorized by the sentencing court or by the parole board. | 1357 |
(2) The offender is required to report periodically to a | 1358 |
person designated by the court or parole board. | 1359 |
(3) The offender is subject to any other restrictions and | 1360 |
requirements that may be imposed by the sentencing court or by the | 1361 |
parole board. | 1362 |
(Q) "Intensive probation supervision" means a requirement | 1363 |
that an offender maintain frequent contact with a person appointed | 1364 |
by the court, or by the parole board pursuant to section 2967.28 | 1365 |
of the Revised Code, to supervise the offender while the offender | 1366 |
is seeking or maintaining necessary employment and participating | 1367 |
in training, education, and treatment programs as required in the | 1368 |
court's or parole board's order. "Intensive probation supervision" | 1369 |
includes intensive parole supervision and intensive post-release | 1370 |
control supervision. | 1371 |
(R) "Jail" means a jail, workhouse, minimum security jail, or | 1372 |
other residential facility used for the confinement of alleged or | 1373 |
convicted offenders that is operated by a political subdivision or | 1374 |
a combination of political subdivisions of this state. | 1375 |
(S) "Jail term" means the term in a jail that a sentencing | 1376 |
court imposes or is authorized to impose pursuant to section | 1377 |
2929.24 or 2929.25 of the Revised Code or pursuant to any other | 1378 |
provision of the Revised Code that authorizes a term in a jail for | 1379 |
a misdemeanor conviction. | 1380 |
(T) "Mandatory jail term" means the term in a jail that a | 1381 |
sentencing court is required to impose pursuant to division (G) of | 1382 |
section 1547.99 of the Revised Code, division (E) of section | 1383 |
2903.06 or division (D) of section 2903.08 of the Revised Code, | 1384 |
division (E) or (G) of section 2929.24 of the Revised Code, | 1385 |
division (B) of section 4510.14 of the Revised Code, or division | 1386 |
(G) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code or pursuant to any | 1387 |
other provision of the Revised Code that requires a term in a jail | 1388 |
for a misdemeanor conviction. | 1389 |
(U) "Delinquent child" has the same meaning as in section | 1390 |
2152.02 of the Revised Code. | 1391 |
(V) "License violation report" means a report that is made by | 1392 |
a sentencing court, or by the parole board pursuant to section | 1393 |
2967.28 of the Revised Code, to the regulatory or licensing board | 1394 |
or agency that issued an offender a professional license or a | 1395 |
license or permit to do business in this state and that specifies | 1396 |
that the offender has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to an | 1397 |
offense that may violate the conditions under which the offender's | 1398 |
professional license or license or permit to do business in this | 1399 |
state was granted or an offense for which the offender's | 1400 |
professional license or license or permit to do business in this | 1401 |
state may be revoked or suspended. | 1402 |
(W) "Major drug offender" means an offender who is convicted | 1403 |
of or pleads guilty to the possession of, sale of, or offer to | 1404 |
sell any drug, compound, mixture, preparation, or substance that | 1405 |
consists of or contains at least one thousand grams of hashish; at | 1406 |
least one hundred grams of cocaine; at least two thousand five | 1407 |
hundred unit doses or two hundred fifty grams of heroin; at least | 1408 |
five thousand unit doses of L.S.D. or five hundred grams of L.S.D. | 1409 |
in a liquid concentrate, liquid extract, or liquid distillate | 1410 |
form; at least fifty grams of a controlled substance analog; or at | 1411 |
least one hundred times the amount of any other schedule I or II | 1412 |
controlled substance other than marihuana that is necessary to | 1413 |
commit a felony of the third degree pursuant to section 2925.03, | 1414 |
2925.04, 2925.05, or 2925.11 of the Revised Code that is based on | 1415 |
the possession of, sale of, or offer to sell the controlled | 1416 |
substance. | 1417 |
(X) "Mandatory prison term" means any of the following: | 1418 |
(1) Subject to division (X)(2) of this section, the term in | 1419 |
prison that must be imposed for the offenses or circumstances set | 1420 |
forth in divisions (F)(1) to (8) or (F)(12) to (18) of section | 1421 |
2929.13 and division (B) of section 2929.14 of the Revised Code. | 1422 |
Except as provided in sections 2925.02, 2925.03, 2925.04, 2925.05, | 1423 |
and 2925.11 of the Revised Code, unless the maximum or another | 1424 |
specific term is required under section 2929.14 or 2929.142 of the | 1425 |
Revised Code, a mandatory prison term described in this division | 1426 |
may be any prison term authorized for the level of offense. | 1427 |
(2) The term of sixty or one hundred twenty days in prison | 1428 |
that a sentencing court is required to impose for a third or | 1429 |
fourth degree felony OVI offense pursuant to division (G)(2) of | 1430 |
section 2929.13 and division (G)(1)(d) or (e) of section 4511.19 | 1431 |
of the Revised Code or the term of one, two, three, four, or five | 1432 |
years in prison that a sentencing court is required to impose | 1433 |
pursuant to division (G)(2) of section 2929.13 of the Revised | 1434 |
Code. | 1435 |
(3) The term in prison imposed pursuant to division (A) of | 1436 |
section 2971.03 of the Revised Code for the offenses and in the | 1437 |
circumstances described in division (F)(11) of section 2929.13 of | 1438 |
the Revised Code or pursuant to division (B)(1)(a), (b), or (c), | 1439 |
(B)(2)(a), (b), or (c), or (B)(3)(a), (b), (c), or (d) of section | 1440 |
2971.03 of the Revised Code and that term as modified or | 1441 |
terminated pursuant to section 2971.05 of the Revised Code. | 1442 |
(Y) "Monitored time" means a period of time during which an | 1443 |
offender continues to be under the control of the sentencing court | 1444 |
or parole board, subject to no conditions other than leading a | 1445 |
law-abiding life. | 1446 |
(Z) "Offender" means a person who, in this state, is | 1447 |
convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony or a misdemeanor. | 1448 |
(AA) "Prison" means a residential facility used for the | 1449 |
confinement of convicted felony offenders that is under the | 1450 |
control of the department of rehabilitation and correction but | 1451 |
does not include a violation sanction center operated under | 1452 |
authority of section 2967.141 of the Revised Code. | 1453 |
(BB) "Prison term" includes either of the following sanctions | 1454 |
for an offender: | 1455 |
(1) A stated prison term; | 1456 |
(2) A term in a prison shortened by, or with the approval of, | 1457 |
the sentencing court pursuant to section 2929.143, 2929.20, | 1458 |
2967.26, 5120.031, 5120.032, or 5120.073 of the Revised Code. | 1459 |
(CC) "Repeat violent offender" means a person about whom both | 1460 |
of the following apply: | 1461 |
(1) The person is being sentenced for committing or for | 1462 |
complicity in committing any of the following: | 1463 |
(a) Aggravated murder, murder, any felony of the first or | 1464 |
second degree that is an offense of violence, or an attempt to | 1465 |
commit any of these offenses if the attempt is a felony of the | 1466 |
first or second degree; | 1467 |
(b) An offense under an existing or former law of this state, | 1468 |
another state, or the United States that is or was substantially | 1469 |
equivalent to an offense described in division (CC)(1)(a) of this | 1470 |
section. | 1471 |
(2) The person previously was convicted of or pleaded guilty | 1472 |
to an offense described in division (CC)(1)(a) or (b) of this | 1473 |
section. | 1474 |
(DD) "Sanction" means any penalty imposed upon an offender | 1475 |
who is convicted of or pleads guilty to an offense, as punishment | 1476 |
for the offense. "Sanction" includes any sanction imposed pursuant | 1477 |
to any provision of sections 2929.14 to 2929.18 or 2929.24 to | 1478 |
2929.28 of the Revised Code. | 1479 |
(EE) "Sentence" means the sanction or combination of | 1480 |
sanctions imposed by the sentencing court on an offender who is | 1481 |
convicted of or pleads guilty to an offense. | 1482 |
(FF) "Stated prison term" means the prison term, mandatory | 1483 |
prison term, or combination of all prison terms and mandatory | 1484 |
prison terms imposed by the sentencing court pursuant to section | 1485 |
2929.14, 2929.142, or 2971.03 of the Revised Code or under section | 1486 |
2919.25 of the Revised Code. "Stated prison term" includes any | 1487 |
credit received by the offender for time spent in jail awaiting | 1488 |
trial, sentencing, or transfer to prison for the offense and any | 1489 |
time spent under house arrest or house arrest with electronic | 1490 |
monitoring imposed after earning credits pursuant to section | 1491 |
2967.193 of the Revised Code. If an offender is serving a prison | 1492 |
term as a risk reduction sentence under sections 2929.143 and | 1493 |
5120.036 of the Revised Code, "stated prison term" includes any | 1494 |
period of time by which the prison term imposed upon the offender | 1495 |
is shortened by the offender's successful completion of all | 1496 |
assessment and treatment or programming pursuant to those | 1497 |
sections. | 1498 |
(GG) "Victim-offender mediation" means a reconciliation or | 1499 |
mediation program that involves an offender and the victim of the | 1500 |
offense committed by the offender and that includes a meeting in | 1501 |
which the offender and the victim may discuss the offense, discuss | 1502 |
restitution, and consider other sanctions for the offense. | 1503 |
(HH) "Fourth degree felony OVI offense" means a violation of | 1504 |
division (A) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code that, under | 1505 |
division (G) of that section, is a felony of the fourth degree. | 1506 |
(II) "Mandatory term of local incarceration" means the term | 1507 |
of sixty or one hundred twenty days in a jail, a community-based | 1508 |
correctional facility, a halfway house, or an alternative | 1509 |
residential facility that a sentencing court may impose upon a | 1510 |
person who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a fourth degree | 1511 |
felony OVI offense pursuant to division (G)(1) of section 2929.13 | 1512 |
of the Revised Code and division (G)(1)(d) or (e) of section | 1513 |
4511.19 of the Revised Code. | 1514 |
(JJ) "Designated homicide, assault, or kidnapping offense," | 1515 |
"violent sex offense," "sexual motivation specification," | 1516 |
"sexually violent offense," "sexually violent predator," and | 1517 |
"sexually violent predator specification" have the same meanings | 1518 |
as in section 2971.01 of the Revised Code. | 1519 |
(KK) "Sexually oriented offense," "child-victim oriented | 1520 |
offense," and "tier III sex offender/child-victim offender" have | 1521 |
the same meanings as in section 2950.01 of the Revised Code. | 1522 |
(LL) An offense is "committed in the vicinity of a child" if | 1523 |
the offender commits the offense within thirty feet of or within | 1524 |
the same residential unit as a child who is under eighteen years | 1525 |
of age, regardless of whether the offender knows the age of the | 1526 |
child or whether the offender knows the offense is being committed | 1527 |
within thirty feet of or within the same residential unit as the | 1528 |
child and regardless of whether the child actually views the | 1529 |
commission of the offense. | 1530 |
(MM) "Family or household member" has the same meaning as in | 1531 |
section 2919.25 of the Revised Code. | 1532 |
(NN) "Motor vehicle" and "manufactured home" have the same | 1533 |
meanings as in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code. | 1534 |
(OO) "Detention" and "detention facility" have the same | 1535 |
meanings as in section 2921.01 of the Revised Code. | 1536 |
(PP) "Third degree felony OVI offense" means a violation of | 1537 |
division (A) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code that, under | 1538 |
division (G) of that section, is a felony of the third degree. | 1539 |
(QQ) "Random drug testing" has the same meaning as in section | 1540 |
5120.63 of the Revised Code. | 1541 |
(RR) "Felony sex offense" has the same meaning as in section | 1542 |
2967.28 of the Revised Code. | 1543 |
(SS) "Body armor" has the same meaning as in section | 1544 |
2941.1411 of the Revised Code. | 1545 |
(TT) "Electronic monitoring" means monitoring through the use | 1546 |
of an electronic monitoring device. | 1547 |
(UU) "Electronic monitoring device" means any of the | 1548 |
following: | 1549 |
(1) Any device that can be operated by electrical or battery | 1550 |
power and that conforms with all of the following: | 1551 |
(a) The device has a transmitter that can be attached to a | 1552 |
person, that will transmit a specified signal to a receiver of the | 1553 |
type described in division (UU)(1)(b) of this section if the | 1554 |
transmitter is removed from the person, turned off, or altered in | 1555 |
any manner without prior court approval in relation to electronic | 1556 |
monitoring or without prior approval of the department of | 1557 |
rehabilitation and correction in relation to the use of an | 1558 |
electronic monitoring device for an inmate on transitional control | 1559 |
or otherwise is tampered with, that can transmit continuously and | 1560 |
periodically a signal to that receiver when the person is within a | 1561 |
specified distance from the receiver, and that can transmit an | 1562 |
appropriate signal to that receiver if the person to whom it is | 1563 |
attached travels a specified distance from that receiver. | 1564 |
(b) The device has a receiver that can receive continuously | 1565 |
the signals transmitted by a transmitter of the type described in | 1566 |
division (UU)(1)(a) of this section, can transmit continuously | 1567 |
those signals by a wireless or landline telephone connection to a | 1568 |
central monitoring computer of the type described in division | 1569 |
(UU)(1)(c) of this section, and can transmit continuously an | 1570 |
appropriate signal to that central monitoring computer if the | 1571 |
device has been turned off or altered without prior court approval | 1572 |
or otherwise tampered with. The device is designed specifically | 1573 |
for use in electronic monitoring, is not a converted wireless | 1574 |
phone or another tracking device that is clearly not designed for | 1575 |
electronic monitoring, and provides a means of text-based or voice | 1576 |
communication with the person. | 1577 |
(c) The device has a central monitoring computer that can | 1578 |
receive continuously the signals transmitted by a wireless or | 1579 |
landline telephone connection by a receiver of the type described | 1580 |
in division (UU)(1)(b) of this section and can monitor | 1581 |
continuously the person to whom an electronic monitoring device of | 1582 |
the type described in division (UU)(1)(a) of this section is | 1583 |
attached. | 1584 |
(2) Any device that is not a device of the type described in | 1585 |
division (UU)(1) of this section and that conforms with all of the | 1586 |
following: | 1587 |
(a) The device includes a transmitter and receiver that can | 1588 |
monitor and determine the location of a subject person at any | 1589 |
time, or at a designated point in time, through the use of a | 1590 |
central monitoring computer or through other electronic means. | 1591 |
(b) The device includes a transmitter and receiver that can | 1592 |
determine at any time, or at a designated point in time, through | 1593 |
the use of a central monitoring computer or other electronic means | 1594 |
the fact that the transmitter is turned off or altered in any | 1595 |
manner without prior approval of the court in relation to the | 1596 |
electronic monitoring or without prior approval of the department | 1597 |
of rehabilitation and correction in relation to the use of an | 1598 |
electronic monitoring device for an inmate on transitional control | 1599 |
or otherwise is tampered with. | 1600 |
(3) Any type of technology that can adequately track or | 1601 |
determine the location of a subject person at any time and that is | 1602 |
approved by the director of rehabilitation and correction, | 1603 |
including, but not limited to, any satellite technology, voice | 1604 |
tracking system, or retinal scanning system that is so approved. | 1605 |
(VV) "Non-economic loss" means nonpecuniary harm suffered by | 1606 |
a victim of an offense as a result of or related to the commission | 1607 |
of the offense, including, but not limited to, pain and suffering; | 1608 |
loss of society, consortium, companionship, care, assistance, | 1609 |
attention, protection, advice, guidance, counsel, instruction, | 1610 |
training, or education; mental anguish; and any other intangible | 1611 |
loss. | 1612 |
(WW) "Prosecutor" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 | 1613 |
of the Revised Code. | 1614 |
(XX) "Continuous alcohol monitoring" means the ability to | 1615 |
automatically test and periodically transmit alcohol consumption | 1616 |
levels and tamper attempts at least every hour, regardless of the | 1617 |
location of the person who is being monitored. | 1618 |
(YY) A person is "adjudicated a sexually violent predator" if | 1619 |
the person is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violent sex | 1620 |
offense and also is convicted of or pleads guilty to a sexually | 1621 |
violent predator specification that was included in the | 1622 |
indictment, count in the indictment, or information charging that | 1623 |
violent sex offense or if the person is convicted of or pleads | 1624 |
guilty to a designated homicide, assault, or kidnapping offense | 1625 |
and also is convicted of or pleads guilty to both a sexual | 1626 |
motivation specification and a sexually violent predator | 1627 |
specification that were included in the indictment, count in the | 1628 |
indictment, or information charging that designated homicide, | 1629 |
assault, or kidnapping offense. | 1630 |
(ZZ) An offense is "committed in proximity to a school" if | 1631 |
the offender commits the offense in a school safety zone or within | 1632 |
five hundred feet of any school building or the boundaries of any | 1633 |
school premises, regardless of whether the offender knows the | 1634 |
offense is being committed in a school safety zone or within five | 1635 |
hundred feet of any school building or the boundaries of any | 1636 |
school premises. | 1637 |
(AAA) "Human trafficking" means a scheme or plan to which all | 1638 |
of the following apply: | 1639 |
(1) Its object is to subject a victim or victims to | 1640 |
involuntary servitude, as defined in section 2905.31 of the | 1641 |
Revised Code, to compel a victim who is not a minor or victims who | 1642 |
are not minors to engage in sexual activity for hire, to engage in | 1643 |
a performance that is obscene, sexually oriented, or nudity | 1644 |
oriented, or to be a model or participant in the production of | 1645 |
material that is obscene, sexually oriented, or nudity oriented, | 1646 |
or to facilitate, permit, encourage, or recruit a victim who is a | 1647 |
minor or victims who are minors to engage in sexual activity for | 1648 |
hire, to engage in a performance that is obscene, sexually | 1649 |
oriented, or nudity oriented, or to be a model or participant in | 1650 |
the production of material that is obscene, sexually oriented, or | 1651 |
nudity oriented. | 1652 |
(2) It involves at least two felony offenses, whether or not | 1653 |
there has been a prior conviction for any of the felony offenses, | 1654 |
to which all of the following apply: | 1655 |
(a) Each of the felony offenses is a violation of section | 1656 |
2905.01, 2905.02, 2905.32, 2907.21, 2907.22, or 2923.32, division | 1657 |
(A)(1) or (2) of section 2907.323, or division (B)(1), (2), (3), | 1658 |
(4), or (5) of section 2919.22 of the Revised Code or is a | 1659 |
violation of a law of any state other than this state that is | 1660 |
substantially similar to any of the sections or divisions of the | 1661 |
Revised Code identified in this division. | 1662 |
(b) At least one of the felony offenses was committed in this | 1663 |
state. | 1664 |
(c) The felony offenses are related to the same scheme or | 1665 |
plan and are not isolated instances. | 1666 |
(BBB) "Material," "nudity," "obscene," "performance," and | 1667 |
"sexual activity" have the same meanings as in section 2907.01 of | 1668 |
the Revised Code. | 1669 |
(CCC) "Material that is obscene, sexually oriented, or nudity | 1670 |
oriented" means any material that is obscene, that shows a person | 1671 |
participating or engaging in sexual activity, masturbation, or | 1672 |
bestiality, or that shows a person in a state of nudity. | 1673 |
(DDD) "Performance that is obscene, sexually oriented, or | 1674 |
nudity oriented" means any performance that is obscene, that shows | 1675 |
a person participating or engaging in sexual activity, | 1676 |
masturbation, or bestiality, or that shows a person in a state of | 1677 |
nudity. | 1678 |
Sec. 2937.11. (A)(1) As used in divisions (B) and (C) of | 1679 |
this section, "victim" includes any person who was a victim of a | 1680 |
felony violation identified in division (B) of this section or a | 1681 |
felony offense of violence or against whom was directed any | 1682 |
conduct that constitutes, or that is an element of, a felony | 1683 |
violation identified in division (B) of this section or a felony | 1684 |
offense of violence. | 1685 |
(2) As used in division (D) of this section, "victim" | 1686 |
includes any person who was a victim of a violation of section | 1687 |
2905.32 of the Revised Code or against whom was directed any | 1688 |
conduct that constitutes, or is an element of, a violation of | 1689 |
section 2905.32 of the Revised Code. | 1690 |
(3) At the preliminary hearing set pursuant to section | 1691 |
2937.10 of the Revised Code and the Criminal Rules, the prosecutor | 1692 |
may state, but is not required to state, orally the case for the | 1693 |
state and shall then proceed to examine witnesses and introduce | 1694 |
exhibits for the state. The accused and the magistrate have full | 1695 |
right of cross examination, and the accused has the right of | 1696 |
inspection of exhibits prior to their introduction. The hearing | 1697 |
shall be conducted under the rules of evidence prevailing in | 1698 |
criminal trials generally. On motion of either the state or the | 1699 |
accused, witnesses shall be separated and not permitted in the | 1700 |
hearing room except when called to testify. | 1701 |
(B) In a case involving an alleged felony violation of | 1702 |
section 2905.05, 2905.32, 2907.02, 2907.03, 2907.04, 2907.05, | 1703 |
2907.21, 2907.24, 2907.31, 2907.32, 2907.321, 2907.322, 2907.323, | 1704 |
or 2919.22 of the Revised Code or an alleged felony offense of | 1705 |
violence and in which an alleged victim of the alleged violation | 1706 |
or offense was less than thirteen years of age when the complaint | 1707 |
or information was filed, whichever occurred earlier, upon motion | 1708 |
of the prosecution, the testimony of the child victim at the | 1709 |
preliminary hearing may be taken in a room other than the room in | 1710 |
which the preliminary hearing is being conducted and be televised, | 1711 |
by closed circuit equipment, into the room in which the | 1712 |
preliminary hearing is being conducted, in accordance with | 1713 |
division (C) of section 2945.481 of the Revised Code. | 1714 |
(C) In a case involving an alleged felony violation listed in | 1715 |
division (B) of this section or an alleged felony offense of | 1716 |
violence and in which an alleged victim of the alleged violation | 1717 |
or offense was less than thirteen years of age when the complaint | 1718 |
or information was filed, whichever occurred earlier, the court, | 1719 |
on written motion of the prosecutor in the case filed at least | 1720 |
three days prior to the hearing, shall order that all testimony of | 1721 |
the child victim be recorded and preserved on videotape, in | 1722 |
addition to being recorded for purposes of the transcript of the | 1723 |
proceeding. If such an order is issued, it shall specifically | 1724 |
identify the child victim concerning whose testimony it pertains, | 1725 |
apply only during the testimony of the child victim it | 1726 |
specifically identifies, and apply to all testimony of the child | 1727 |
victim presented at the hearing, regardless of whether the child | 1728 |
victim is called as a witness by the prosecution or by the | 1729 |
defense. | 1730 |
(D)(1)(a) In a case involving an alleged violation of section | 1731 |
2905.32 of the Revised Code, upon motion of the prosecution, the | 1732 |
testimony of the victim at the preliminary hearing may be taken in | 1733 |
a place or room other than the room in which the preliminary | 1734 |
hearing is being conducted and be televised, by closed circuit | 1735 |
equipment, into the room in which the preliminary hearing is being | 1736 |
conducted, to be viewed by the accused and any other persons who | 1737 |
are not permitted in the room in which the testimony is to be | 1738 |
taken but who would have been present during the testimony of the | 1739 |
victim had it been given in the room in which the preliminary | 1740 |
hearing is being conducted. Except for good cause shown, the | 1741 |
prosecution shall file a motion under this division at least seven | 1742 |
days before the date of the preliminary hearing. | 1743 |
(b) Upon the motion of the prosecution filed under division | 1744 |
(D)(1)(a) of this section and if the judge or magistrate | 1745 |
determines that the victim is unavailable to testify in the room | 1746 |
in which the preliminary hearing is being conducted in the | 1747 |
physical presence of the accused for one or more of the reasons | 1748 |
set forth in division (D)(2) of this section, the judge or | 1749 |
magistrate may issue an order for the testimony of the victim to | 1750 |
be taken in a place or room other than the room in which the | 1751 |
preliminary hearing is being conducted and televised, by closed | 1752 |
circuit equipment, into the room in which the preliminary hearing | 1753 |
is being conducted. If a judge or magistrate issues an order of | 1754 |
that nature, the judge or magistrate shall exclude from the room | 1755 |
in which the testimony of the victim is to be taken every person | 1756 |
except the following: | 1757 |
(i) The victim giving the testimony; | 1758 |
(ii) The judge or magistrate; | 1759 |
(iii) One or more interpreters if needed; | 1760 |
(iv) The attorneys for the prosecution and the defense; | 1761 |
(v) Any person needed to operate the equipment to be used; | 1762 |
(vi) One person chosen by the victim giving the testimony; | 1763 |
(vii) Any person whose presence the judge or magistrate | 1764 |
determines would contribute to the welfare and well-being of the | 1765 |
victim giving the testimony. | 1766 |
(c) The person chosen by the victim under division | 1767 |
(D)(1)(b)(vi) of this section shall not be a witness in the | 1768 |
preliminary hearing and, both before and during the testimony, | 1769 |
shall not discuss the testimony of the victim with any other | 1770 |
witness in the preliminary hearing. | 1771 |
(d) The judge or magistrate, at the judge's or magistrate's | 1772 |
discretion, may preside during the giving of the testimony by | 1773 |
electronic means from outside the room in which it is being given, | 1774 |
subject to the limitations set forth in this division. If the | 1775 |
judge or magistrate presides by electronic means, the judge or | 1776 |
magistrate shall be provided with monitors on which the judge or | 1777 |
magistrate can see each person in the room in which the testimony | 1778 |
is to be taken and with an electronic means of communication with | 1779 |
each person, and each person in the room shall be provided with a | 1780 |
monitor on which that person can see the judge or magistrate and | 1781 |
with an electronic means of communication with the judge or | 1782 |
magistrate. To the extent feasible, any person operating the | 1783 |
televising equipment shall be restricted to a room adjacent to the | 1784 |
room in which the testimony is being taken, or to a location in | 1785 |
the room in which the testimony is being taken that is behind a | 1786 |
screen or mirror, so that the person operating the televising | 1787 |
equipment can see and hear, but cannot be seen or heard by, the | 1788 |
victim giving the testimony during the testimony. The accused | 1789 |
shall be permitted to observe and hear the testimony of the victim | 1790 |
giving the testimony on a monitor, shall be provided with an | 1791 |
electronic means of immediate communication with the attorney of | 1792 |
the accused during the testimony, and shall be restricted to a | 1793 |
location from which the accused cannot be seen or heard by the | 1794 |
victim giving the testimony, except on a monitor provided for that | 1795 |
purpose. The accused and the judge or magistrate have full right | 1796 |
of cross examination, and the accused has the right of inspection | 1797 |
of exhibits prior to their introduction. The victim giving the | 1798 |
testimony shall be provided with a monitor on which the victim can | 1799 |
observe the accused during the testimony. | 1800 |
(2) For purposes of division (D)(1) of this section, a judge | 1801 |
or magistrate may order the testimony of a victim to be taken at a | 1802 |
place or room outside the room in which the preliminary hearing is | 1803 |
being conducted if the judge or magistrate determines that the | 1804 |
victim is unavailable to testify in the room in the physical | 1805 |
presence of the accused due to one or more of the following: | 1806 |
(a) The inability of the victim to communicate about the | 1807 |
alleged offense because of extreme fear, severe trauma, or another | 1808 |
similar reason; | 1809 |
(b) The substantial likelihood that the victim will suffer | 1810 |
serious emotional trauma from so testifying; | 1811 |
(c) The victim is at a hospital for care and treatment for | 1812 |
any physical, mental, or emotional injury suffered by reason of | 1813 |
the alleged offense. | 1814 |
Sec. 2950.01. As used in this chapter, unless the context | 1815 |
clearly requires otherwise: | 1816 |
(A) "Sexually oriented offense" means any of the following | 1817 |
violations or offenses committed by a person, regardless of the | 1818 |
person's age: | 1819 |
(1) A violation of section 2907.02, 2907.03, 2907.05, | 1820 |
2907.06, 2907.07, 2907.08, 2907.21, 2907.22, 2907.32, 2907.321, | 1821 |
2907.322, or 2907.323 of the Revised Code; | 1822 |
(2) A violation of section 2907.04 of the Revised Code when | 1823 |
the offender is less than four years older than the other person | 1824 |
with whom the offender engaged in sexual conduct, the other person | 1825 |
did not consent to the sexual conduct, and the offender previously | 1826 |
has not been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of | 1827 |
section 2907.02, 2907.03, or 2907.04 of the Revised Code or a | 1828 |
violation of former section 2907.12 of the Revised Code; | 1829 |
(3) A violation of section 2907.04 of the Revised Code when | 1830 |
the offender is at least four years older than the other person | 1831 |
with whom the offender engaged in sexual conduct or when the | 1832 |
offender is less than four years older than the other person with | 1833 |
whom the offender engaged in sexual conduct and the offender | 1834 |
previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation | 1835 |
of section 2907.02, 2907.03, or 2907.04 of the Revised Code or a | 1836 |
violation of former section 2907.12 of the Revised Code; | 1837 |
(4) A violation of section 2903.01, 2903.02, or 2903.11 of | 1838 |
the Revised Code when the violation was committed with a sexual | 1839 |
motivation; | 1840 |
(5) A violation of division (A) of section 2903.04 of the | 1841 |
Revised Code when the offender committed or attempted to commit | 1842 |
the felony that is the basis of the violation with a sexual | 1843 |
motivation; | 1844 |
(6) A violation of division (A)(3) of section 2903.211 of the | 1845 |
Revised Code; | 1846 |
(7) A violation of division (A)(1), (2), (3), or (5) of | 1847 |
section 2905.01 of the Revised Code when the offense is committed | 1848 |
with a sexual motivation; | 1849 |
(8) A violation of division (A)(4) of section 2905.01 of the | 1850 |
Revised Code; | 1851 |
(9) A violation of division (B) of section 2905.01 of the | 1852 |
Revised Code when the victim of the offense is under eighteen | 1853 |
years of age and the offender is not a parent of the victim of the | 1854 |
offense; | 1855 |
(10) A violation of division (B) of section 2903.03, of | 1856 |
division (B) of section 2905.02, of division (B) of section | 1857 |
2905.03, of division (B) of section 2905.05, or of division (B)(5) | 1858 |
of section 2919.22 of the Revised Code; | 1859 |
(11) A violation of section 2905.32 of the Revised Code when | 1860 |
the offender knowingly recruited, lured, enticed, isolated, | 1861 |
harbored, transported, provided, obtained, or maintained, or | 1862 |
knowingly attempted to recruit, lure, entice, isolate, harbor, | 1863 |
transport, provide, obtain, or maintain, another person knowing | 1864 |
that the person would be compelled to engage in sexual activity | 1865 |
for hire, engage in a performance that was obscene, sexually | 1866 |
oriented, or nudity oriented, or be a model or participant in the | 1867 |
production of material that was obscene, sexually oriented, or | 1868 |
nudity oriented; | 1869 |
(12) A violation of any former law of this state, any | 1870 |
existing or former municipal ordinance or law of another state or | 1871 |
the United States, any existing or former law applicable in a | 1872 |
military court or in an Indian tribal court, or any existing or | 1873 |
former law of any nation other than the United States that is or | 1874 |
was substantially equivalent to any offense listed in division | 1875 |
(A)(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), or (11) of | 1876 |
this section; | 1877 |
(13) A violation of division (A)(2) of section 2907.24 of the | 1878 |
Revised Code; | 1879 |
(14) Any attempt to commit, conspiracy to commit, or | 1880 |
complicity in committing any offense listed in division (A)(1), | 1881 |
(2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), | 1882 |
(13) of this section. | 1883 |
(B)(1) "Sex offender" means, subject to division (B)(2) of | 1884 |
this section, a person who is convicted of, pleads guilty to, has | 1885 |
been convicted of, has pleaded guilty to, is adjudicated a | 1886 |
delinquent child for committing, or has been adjudicated a | 1887 |
delinquent child for committing any sexually oriented offense. | 1888 |
(2) "Sex offender" does not include a person who is convicted | 1889 |
of, pleads guilty to, has been convicted of, has pleaded guilty | 1890 |
to, is adjudicated a delinquent child for committing, or has been | 1891 |
adjudicated a delinquent child for committing a sexually oriented | 1892 |
offense if the offense involves consensual sexual conduct or | 1893 |
consensual sexual contact and either of the following applies: | 1894 |
(a) The victim of the sexually oriented offense was eighteen | 1895 |
years of age or older and at the time of the sexually oriented | 1896 |
offense was not under the custodial authority of the person who is | 1897 |
convicted of, pleads guilty to, has been convicted of, has pleaded | 1898 |
guilty to, is adjudicated a delinquent child for committing, or | 1899 |
has been adjudicated a delinquent child for committing the | 1900 |
sexually oriented offense. | 1901 |
(b) The victim of the offense was thirteen years of age or | 1902 |
older, and the person who is convicted of, pleads guilty to, has | 1903 |
been convicted of, has pleaded guilty to, is adjudicated a | 1904 |
delinquent child for committing, or has been adjudicated a | 1905 |
delinquent child for committing the sexually oriented offense is | 1906 |
not more than four years older than the victim. | 1907 |
(C) "Child-victim oriented offense" means any of the | 1908 |
following violations or offenses committed by a person, regardless | 1909 |
of the person's age, when the victim is under eighteen years of | 1910 |
age and is not a child of the person who commits the violation: | 1911 |
(1) A violation of division (A)(1), (2), (3), or (5) of | 1912 |
section 2905.01 of the Revised Code when the violation is not | 1913 |
included in division (A)(7) of this section; | 1914 |
(2) A violation of division (A) of section 2905.02, division | 1915 |
(A) of section 2905.03, or division (A) of section 2905.05 of the | 1916 |
Revised Code; | 1917 |
(3) A violation of any former law of this state, any existing | 1918 |
or former municipal ordinance or law of another state or the | 1919 |
United States, any existing or former law applicable in a military | 1920 |
court or in an Indian tribal court, or any existing or former law | 1921 |
of any nation other than the United States that is or was | 1922 |
substantially equivalent to any offense listed in division (C)(1) | 1923 |
or (2) of this section; | 1924 |
(4) Any attempt to commit, conspiracy to commit, or | 1925 |
complicity in committing any offense listed in division (C)(1), | 1926 |
(2), or (3) of this section. | 1927 |
(D) "Child-victim offender" means a person who is convicted | 1928 |
of, pleads guilty to, has been convicted of, has pleaded guilty | 1929 |
to, is adjudicated a delinquent child for committing, or has been | 1930 |
adjudicated a delinquent child for committing any child-victim | 1931 |
oriented offense. | 1932 |
(E) "Tier I sex offender/child-victim offender" means any of | 1933 |
the following: | 1934 |
(1) A sex offender who is convicted of, pleads guilty to, has | 1935 |
been convicted of, or has pleaded guilty to any of the following | 1936 |
sexually oriented offenses: | 1937 |
(a) A violation of section 2907.06, 2907.07, 2907.08, | 1938 |
2907.22, or 2907.32 of the Revised Code; | 1939 |
(b) A violation of section 2907.04 of the Revised Code when | 1940 |
the offender is less than four years older than the other person | 1941 |
with whom the offender engaged in sexual conduct, the other person | 1942 |
did not consent to the sexual conduct, and the offender previously | 1943 |
has not been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of | 1944 |
section 2907.02, 2907.03, or 2907.04 of the Revised Code or a | 1945 |
violation of former section 2907.12 of the Revised Code; | 1946 |
(c) A violation of division (A)(1), (2), (3), or (5) of | 1947 |
section 2907.05 of the Revised Code; | 1948 |
(d) A violation of division (A)(3) of section 2907.323 of the | 1949 |
Revised Code; | 1950 |
(e) A violation of division (A)(3) of section 2903.211, of | 1951 |
division (B) of section 2905.03, or of division (B) of section | 1952 |
2905.05 of the Revised Code; | 1953 |
(f) A violation of any former law of this state, any existing | 1954 |
or former municipal ordinance or law of another state or the | 1955 |
United States, any existing or former law applicable in a military | 1956 |
court or in an Indian tribal court, or any existing or former law | 1957 |
of any nation other than the United States, that is or was | 1958 |
substantially equivalent to any offense listed in division | 1959 |
(E)(1)(a), (b), (c), (d), or (e) of this section; | 1960 |
(g) Any attempt to commit, conspiracy to commit, or | 1961 |
complicity in committing any offense listed in division (E)(1)(a), | 1962 |
(b), (c), (d), (e), or (f) of this section. | 1963 |
(2) A child-victim offender who is convicted of, pleads | 1964 |
guilty to, has been convicted of, or has pleaded guilty to a | 1965 |
child-victim oriented offense and who is not within either | 1966 |
category of child-victim offender described in division (F)(2) or | 1967 |
(G)(2) of this section. | 1968 |
(3) A sex offender who is adjudicated a delinquent child for | 1969 |
committing or has been adjudicated a delinquent child for | 1970 |
committing any sexually oriented offense and who a juvenile court, | 1971 |
pursuant to section 2152.82, 2152.83, 2152.84, or 2152.85 of the | 1972 |
Revised Code, classifies a tier I sex offender/child-victim | 1973 |
offender relative to the offense. | 1974 |
(4) A child-victim offender who is adjudicated a delinquent | 1975 |
child for committing or has been adjudicated a delinquent child | 1976 |
for committing any child-victim oriented offense and who a | 1977 |
juvenile court, pursuant to section 2152.82, 2152.83, 2152.84, or | 1978 |
2152.85 of the Revised Code, classifies a tier I sex | 1979 |
offender/child-victim offender relative to the offense. | 1980 |
(F) "Tier II sex offender/child-victim offender" means any of | 1981 |
the following: | 1982 |
(1) A sex offender who is convicted of, pleads guilty to, has | 1983 |
been convicted of, or has pleaded guilty to any of the following | 1984 |
sexually oriented offenses: | 1985 |
(a) A violation of section 2907.21, 2907.321, or 2907.322 or | 1986 |
a felony violation of section 2905.321 of the Revised Code; | 1987 |
(b) A violation of section 2907.04 of the Revised Code when | 1988 |
the offender is at least four years older than the other person | 1989 |
with whom the offender engaged in sexual conduct, or when the | 1990 |
offender is less than four years older than the other person with | 1991 |
whom the offender engaged in sexual conduct and the offender | 1992 |
previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation | 1993 |
of section 2907.02, 2907.03, or 2907.04 of the Revised Code or | 1994 |
former section 2907.12 of the Revised Code; | 1995 |
(c) A violation of division (A)(4) of section 2907.05, of | 1996 |
division (A)(2) of section 2907.24, or of division (A)(1) or (2) | 1997 |
of section 2907.323 of the Revised Code; | 1998 |
(d) A violation of division (A)(1), (2), (3), or (5) of | 1999 |
section 2905.01 of the Revised Code when the offense is committed | 2000 |
with a sexual motivation; | 2001 |
(e) A violation of division (A)(4) of section 2905.01 of the | 2002 |
Revised Code when the victim of the offense is eighteen years of | 2003 |
age or older; | 2004 |
(f) A violation of division (B) of section 2905.02 or of | 2005 |
division (B)(5) of section 2919.22 of the Revised Code; | 2006 |
(g) A violation of section 2905.32 of the Revised Code when | 2007 |
the offender knowingly recruited, lured, enticed, isolated, | 2008 |
harbored, transported, provided, obtained, or maintained, or | 2009 |
knowingly attempted to recruit, lure, entice, isolate, harbor, | 2010 |
transport, provide, obtain, or maintain, another person knowing | 2011 |
that the person would be compelled to engage in sexual activity | 2012 |
for hire, engage in a performance that was obscene, sexually | 2013 |
oriented, or nudity oriented, or be a model or participant in the | 2014 |
production of material that was obscene, sexually oriented, or | 2015 |
nudity oriented; | 2016 |
(h) A violation of any former law of this state, any existing | 2017 |
or former municipal ordinance or law of another state or the | 2018 |
United States, any existing or former law applicable in a military | 2019 |
court or in an Indian tribal court, or any existing or former law | 2020 |
of any nation other than the United States that is or was | 2021 |
substantially equivalent to any offense listed in division | 2022 |
(F)(1)(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), or (g) of this section; | 2023 |
(i) Any attempt to commit, conspiracy to commit, or | 2024 |
complicity in committing any offense listed in division (F)(1)(a), | 2025 |
(b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), or (h) of this section; | 2026 |
(j) Any sexually oriented offense that is committed after the | 2027 |
sex offender previously has been convicted of, pleaded guilty to, | 2028 |
or has been adjudicated a delinquent child for committing any | 2029 |
sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense for | 2030 |
which the offender was classified a tier I sex | 2031 |
offender/child-victim offender. | 2032 |
(2) A child-victim offender who is convicted of, pleads | 2033 |
guilty to, has been convicted of, or has pleaded guilty to any | 2034 |
child-victim oriented offense when the child-victim oriented | 2035 |
offense is committed after the child-victim offender previously | 2036 |
has been convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or been adjudicated a | 2037 |
delinquent child for committing any sexually oriented offense or | 2038 |
child-victim oriented offense for which the offender was | 2039 |
classified a tier I sex offender/child-victim offender. | 2040 |
(3) A sex offender who is adjudicated a delinquent child for | 2041 |
committing or has been adjudicated a delinquent child for | 2042 |
committing any sexually oriented offense and who a juvenile court, | 2043 |
pursuant to section 2152.82, 2152.83, 2152.84, or 2152.85 of the | 2044 |
Revised Code, classifies a tier II sex offender/child-victim | 2045 |
offender relative to the offense. | 2046 |
(4) A child-victim offender who is adjudicated a delinquent | 2047 |
child for committing or has been adjudicated a delinquent child | 2048 |
for committing any child-victim oriented offense and whom a | 2049 |
juvenile court, pursuant to section 2152.82, 2152.83, 2152.84, or | 2050 |
2152.85 of the Revised Code, classifies a tier II sex | 2051 |
offender/child-victim offender relative to the current offense. | 2052 |
(5) A sex offender or child-victim offender who is not in any | 2053 |
category of tier II sex offender/child-victim offender set forth | 2054 |
in division (F)(1), (2), (3), or (4) of this section, who prior to | 2055 |
January 1, 2008, was adjudicated a delinquent child for committing | 2056 |
a sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense, and | 2057 |
who prior to that date was determined to be a habitual sex | 2058 |
offender or determined to be a habitual child-victim offender, | 2059 |
unless either of the following applies: | 2060 |
(a) The sex offender or child-victim offender is reclassified | 2061 |
pursuant to section 2950.031 or 2950.032 of the Revised Code as a | 2062 |
tier I sex offender/child-victim offender or a tier III sex | 2063 |
offender/child-victim offender relative to the offense. | 2064 |
(b) A juvenile court, pursuant to section 2152.82, 2152.83, | 2065 |
2152.84, or 2152.85 of the Revised Code, classifies the child a | 2066 |
tier I sex offender/child-victim offender or a tier III sex | 2067 |
offender/child-victim offender relative to the offense. | 2068 |
(G) "Tier III sex offender/child-victim offender" means any | 2069 |
of the following: | 2070 |
(1) A sex offender who is convicted of, pleads guilty to, has | 2071 |
been convicted of, or has pleaded guilty to any of the following | 2072 |
sexually oriented offenses: | 2073 |
(a) A violation of section 2907.02 or 2907.03 of the Revised | 2074 |
Code; | 2075 |
(b) A violation of division (B) of section 2907.05 of the | 2076 |
Revised Code; | 2077 |
(c) A violation of section 2903.01, 2903.02, or 2903.11 of | 2078 |
the Revised Code when the violation was committed with a sexual | 2079 |
motivation; | 2080 |
(d) A violation of division (A) of section 2903.04 of the | 2081 |
Revised Code when the offender committed or attempted to commit | 2082 |
the felony that is the basis of the violation with a sexual | 2083 |
motivation; | 2084 |
(e) A violation of division (A)(4) of section 2905.01 of the | 2085 |
Revised Code when the victim of the offense is under eighteen | 2086 |
years of age; | 2087 |
(f) A violation of division (B) of section 2905.01 of the | 2088 |
Revised Code when the victim of the offense is under eighteen | 2089 |
years of age and the offender is not a parent of the victim of the | 2090 |
offense; | 2091 |
(g) A violation of division (B) of section 2903.03 of the | 2092 |
Revised Code; | 2093 |
(h) A violation of any former law of this state, any existing | 2094 |
or former municipal ordinance or law of another state or the | 2095 |
United States, any existing or former law applicable in a military | 2096 |
court or in an Indian tribal court, or any existing or former law | 2097 |
of any nation other than the United States that is or was | 2098 |
substantially equivalent to any offense listed in division | 2099 |
(G)(1)(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), or (g) of this section; | 2100 |
(i) Any attempt to commit, conspiracy to commit, or | 2101 |
complicity in committing any offense listed in division (G)(1)(a), | 2102 |
(b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), or (h) of this section; | 2103 |
(j) Any sexually oriented offense that is committed after the | 2104 |
sex offender previously has been convicted of, pleaded guilty to, | 2105 |
or been adjudicated a delinquent child for committing any sexually | 2106 |
oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense for which the | 2107 |
offender was classified a tier II sex offender/child-victim | 2108 |
offender or a tier III sex offender/child-victim offender. | 2109 |
(2) A child-victim offender who is convicted of, pleads | 2110 |
guilty to, has been convicted of, or has pleaded guilty to any | 2111 |
child-victim oriented offense when the child-victim oriented | 2112 |
offense is committed after the child-victim offender previously | 2113 |
has been convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or been adjudicated a | 2114 |
delinquent child for committing any sexually oriented offense or | 2115 |
child-victim oriented offense for which the offender was | 2116 |
classified a tier II sex offender/child-victim offender or a tier | 2117 |
III sex offender/child-victim offender. | 2118 |
(3) A sex offender who is adjudicated a delinquent child for | 2119 |
committing or has been adjudicated a delinquent child for | 2120 |
committing any sexually oriented offense and who a juvenile court, | 2121 |
pursuant to section 2152.82, 2152.83, 2152.84, or 2152.85 of the | 2122 |
Revised Code, classifies a tier III sex offender/child-victim | 2123 |
offender relative to the offense. | 2124 |
(4) A child-victim offender who is adjudicated a delinquent | 2125 |
child for committing or has been adjudicated a delinquent child | 2126 |
for committing any child-victim oriented offense and whom a | 2127 |
juvenile court, pursuant to section 2152.82, 2152.83, 2152.84, or | 2128 |
2152.85 of the Revised Code, classifies a tier III sex | 2129 |
offender/child-victim offender relative to the current offense. | 2130 |
(5) A sex offender or child-victim offender who is not in any | 2131 |
category of tier III sex offender/child-victim offender set forth | 2132 |
in division (G)(1), (2), (3), or (4) of this section, who prior to | 2133 |
January 1, 2008, was convicted of or pleaded guilty to a sexually | 2134 |
oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense or was | 2135 |
adjudicated a delinquent child for committing a sexually oriented | 2136 |
offense or child-victim oriented offense and classified a juvenile | 2137 |
offender registrant, and who prior to that date was adjudicated a | 2138 |
sexual predator or adjudicated a child-victim predator, unless | 2139 |
either of the following applies: | 2140 |
(a) The sex offender or child-victim offender is reclassified | 2141 |
pursuant to section 2950.031 or 2950.032 of the Revised Code as a | 2142 |
tier I sex offender/child-victim offender or a tier II sex | 2143 |
offender/child-victim offender relative to the offense. | 2144 |
(b) The sex offender or child-victim offender is a delinquent | 2145 |
child, and a juvenile court, pursuant to section 2152.82, 2152.83, | 2146 |
2152.84, or 2152.85 of the Revised Code, classifies the child a | 2147 |
tier I sex offender/child-victim offender or a tier II sex | 2148 |
offender/child-victim offender relative to the offense. | 2149 |
(6) A sex offender who is convicted of, pleads guilty to, was | 2150 |
convicted of, or pleaded guilty to a sexually oriented offense, if | 2151 |
the sexually oriented offense and the circumstances in which it | 2152 |
was committed are such that division (F) of section 2971.03 of the | 2153 |
Revised Code automatically classifies the offender as a tier III | 2154 |
sex offender/child-victim offender; | 2155 |
(7) A sex offender or child-victim offender who is convicted | 2156 |
of, pleads guilty to, was convicted of, pleaded guilty to, is | 2157 |
adjudicated a delinquent child for committing, or was adjudicated | 2158 |
a delinquent child for committing a sexually oriented offense or | 2159 |
child-victim offense in another state, in a federal court, | 2160 |
military court, or Indian tribal court, or in a court in any | 2161 |
nation other than the United States if both of the following | 2162 |
apply: | 2163 |
(a) Under the law of the jurisdiction in which the offender | 2164 |
was convicted or pleaded guilty or the delinquent child was | 2165 |
adjudicated, the offender or delinquent child is in a category | 2166 |
substantially equivalent to a category of tier III sex | 2167 |
offender/child-victim offender described in division (G)(1), (2), | 2168 |
(3), (4), (5), or (6) of this section. | 2169 |
(b) Subsequent to the conviction, plea of guilty, or | 2170 |
adjudication in the other jurisdiction, the offender or delinquent | 2171 |
child resides, has temporary domicile, attends school or an | 2172 |
institution of higher education, is employed, or intends to reside | 2173 |
in this state in any manner and for any period of time that | 2174 |
subjects the offender or delinquent child to a duty to register or | 2175 |
provide notice of intent to reside under section 2950.04 or | 2176 |
2950.041 of the Revised Code. | 2177 |
(H) "Confinement" includes, but is not limited to, a | 2178 |
community residential sanction imposed pursuant to section 2929.16 | 2179 |
or 2929.26 of the Revised Code. | 2180 |
(I) "Prosecutor" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 | 2181 |
of the Revised Code. | 2182 |
(J) "Supervised release" means a release of an offender from | 2183 |
a prison term, a term of imprisonment, or another type of | 2184 |
confinement that satisfies either of the following conditions: | 2185 |
(1) The release is on parole, a conditional pardon, under a | 2186 |
community control sanction, under transitional control, or under a | 2187 |
post-release control sanction, and it requires the person to | 2188 |
report to or be supervised by a parole officer, probation officer, | 2189 |
field officer, or another type of supervising officer. | 2190 |
(2) The release is any type of release that is not described | 2191 |
in division (J)(1) of this section and that requires the person to | 2192 |
report to or be supervised by a probation officer, a parole | 2193 |
officer, a field officer, or another type of supervising officer. | 2194 |
(K) "Sexually violent predator specification," "sexually | 2195 |
violent predator," "sexually violent offense," "sexual motivation | 2196 |
specification," "designated homicide, assault, or kidnapping | 2197 |
offense," and "violent sex offense" have the same meanings as in | 2198 |
section 2971.01 of the Revised Code. | 2199 |
(L) "Post-release control sanction" and "transitional | 2200 |
control" have the same meanings as in section 2967.01 of the | 2201 |
Revised Code. | 2202 |
(M) "Juvenile offender registrant" means a person who is | 2203 |
adjudicated a delinquent child for committing on or after January | 2204 |
1, 2002, a sexually oriented offense or a child-victim oriented | 2205 |
offense, who is fourteen years of age or older at the time of | 2206 |
committing the offense, and who a juvenile court judge, pursuant | 2207 |
to an order issued under section 2152.82, 2152.83, 2152.84, | 2208 |
2152.85, or 2152.86 of the Revised Code, classifies a juvenile | 2209 |
offender registrant and specifies has a duty to comply with | 2210 |
sections 2950.04, 2950.041, 2950.05, and 2950.06 of the Revised | 2211 |
Code. "Juvenile offender registrant" includes a person who prior | 2212 |
to January 1, 2008, was a "juvenile offender registrant" under the | 2213 |
definition of the term in existence prior to January 1, 2008, and | 2214 |
a person who prior to July 31, 2003, was a "juvenile sex offender | 2215 |
registrant" under the former definition of that former term. | 2216 |
(N) "Public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant" | 2217 |
means a person who is adjudicated a delinquent child and on whom a | 2218 |
juvenile court has imposed a serious youthful offender | 2219 |
dispositional sentence under section 2152.13 of the Revised Code | 2220 |
before, on, or after January 1, 2008, and to whom all of the | 2221 |
following apply: | 2222 |
(1) The person is adjudicated a delinquent child for | 2223 |
committing, attempting to commit, conspiring to commit, or | 2224 |
complicity in committing one of the following acts: | 2225 |
(a) A violation of section 2907.02 of the Revised Code, | 2226 |
division (B) of section 2907.05 of the Revised Code, or section | 2227 |
2907.03 of the Revised Code if the victim of the violation was | 2228 |
less than twelve years of age; | 2229 |
(b) A violation of section 2903.01, 2903.02, or 2905.01 of | 2230 |
the Revised Code that was committed with a purpose to gratify the | 2231 |
sexual needs or desires of the child; | 2232 |
(c) A violation of division (B) of section 2903.03 of the | 2233 |
Revised Code. | 2234 |
(2) The person was fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, or seventeen | 2235 |
years of age at the time of committing the act. | 2236 |
(3) A juvenile court judge, pursuant to an order issued under | 2237 |
section 2152.86 of the Revised Code, classifies the person a | 2238 |
juvenile offender registrant, specifies the person has a duty to | 2239 |
comply with sections 2950.04, 2950.05, and 2950.06 of the Revised | 2240 |
Code, and classifies the person a public registry-qualified | 2241 |
juvenile offender registrant, and the classification of the person | 2242 |
as a public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant has | 2243 |
not been terminated pursuant to division (D) of section 2152.86 of | 2244 |
the Revised Code. | 2245 |
(O) "Secure facility" means any facility that is designed and | 2246 |
operated to ensure that all of its entrances and exits are locked | 2247 |
and under the exclusive control of its staff and to ensure that, | 2248 |
because of that exclusive control, no person who is | 2249 |
institutionalized or confined in the facility may leave the | 2250 |
facility without permission or supervision. | 2251 |
(P) "Out-of-state juvenile offender registrant" means a | 2252 |
person who is adjudicated a delinquent child in a court in another | 2253 |
state, in a federal court, military court, or Indian tribal court, | 2254 |
or in a court in any nation other than the United States for | 2255 |
committing a sexually oriented offense or a child-victim oriented | 2256 |
offense, who on or after January 1, 2002, moves to and resides in | 2257 |
this state or temporarily is domiciled in this state for more than | 2258 |
five days, and who has a duty under section 2950.04 or 2950.041 of | 2259 |
the Revised Code to register in this state and the duty to | 2260 |
otherwise comply with that applicable section and sections 2950.05 | 2261 |
and 2950.06 of the Revised Code. "Out-of-state juvenile offender | 2262 |
registrant" includes a person who prior to January 1, 2008, was an | 2263 |
"out-of-state juvenile offender registrant" under the definition | 2264 |
of the term in existence prior to January 1, 2008, and a person | 2265 |
who prior to July 31, 2003, was an "out-of-state juvenile sex | 2266 |
offender registrant" under the former definition of that former | 2267 |
term. | 2268 |
(Q) "Juvenile court judge" includes a magistrate to whom the | 2269 |
juvenile court judge confers duties pursuant to division (A)(15) | 2270 |
of section 2151.23 of the Revised Code. | 2271 |
(R) "Adjudicated a delinquent child for committing a sexually | 2272 |
oriented offense" includes a child who receives a serious youthful | 2273 |
offender dispositional sentence under section 2152.13 of the | 2274 |
Revised Code for committing a sexually oriented offense. | 2275 |
(S) "School" and "school premises" have the same meanings as | 2276 |
in section 2925.01 of the Revised Code. | 2277 |
(T) "Residential premises" means the building in which a | 2278 |
residential unit is located and the grounds upon which that | 2279 |
building stands, extending to the perimeter of the property. | 2280 |
"Residential premises" includes any type of structure in which a | 2281 |
residential unit is located, including, but not limited to, | 2282 |
multi-unit buildings and mobile and manufactured homes. | 2283 |
(U) "Residential unit" means a dwelling unit for residential | 2284 |
use and occupancy, and includes the structure or part of a | 2285 |
structure that is used as a home, residence, or sleeping place by | 2286 |
one person who maintains a household or two or more persons who | 2287 |
maintain a common household. "Residential unit" does not include a | 2288 |
halfway house or a community-based correctional facility. | 2289 |
(V) "Multi-unit building" means a building in which is | 2290 |
located more than twelve residential units that have entry doors | 2291 |
that open directly into the unit from a hallway that is shared | 2292 |
with one or more other units. A residential unit is not considered | 2293 |
located in a multi-unit building if the unit does not have an | 2294 |
entry door that opens directly into the unit from a hallway that | 2295 |
is shared with one or more other units or if the unit is in a | 2296 |
building that is not a multi-unit building as described in this | 2297 |
division. | 2298 |
(W) "Community control sanction" has the same meaning as in | 2299 |
section 2929.01 of the Revised Code. | 2300 |
(X) "Halfway house" and "community-based correctional | 2301 |
facility" have the same meanings as in section 2929.01 of the | 2302 |
Revised Code. | 2303 |
Sec. 2951.041. (A)(1) If an offender is charged with a | 2304 |
criminal offense, including but not limited to a violation of | 2305 |
section 2913.02, 2913.03, 2913.11, 2913.21, 2913.31, or 2919.21 of | 2306 |
the Revised Code, and the court has reason to believe that drug or | 2307 |
alcohol usage by the offender was a factor leading to the criminal | 2308 |
offense with which the offender is charged or that, at the time of | 2309 |
committing that offense, the offender had a mental illness | 2310 |
a person with intellectual disability, or was a victim of a | 2311 |
violation of section 2905.32 of the Revised Code and that the | 2312 |
mental illness
| 2313 |
disability, or fact that the offender was a victim of a violation | 2314 |
of section 2905.32 of the Revised Code was a factor leading to the | 2315 |
offender's criminal behavior, the court may accept, prior to the | 2316 |
entry of a guilty plea, the offender's request for intervention in | 2317 |
lieu of conviction. The request shall include a statement from the | 2318 |
offender as to whether the offender is alleging that drug or | 2319 |
alcohol usage by the offender was a factor leading to the criminal | 2320 |
offense with which the offender is charged or is alleging that, at | 2321 |
the time of committing that offense, the offender had a mental | 2322 |
illness | 2323 |
victim of a violation of section 2905.32 of the Revised Code and | 2324 |
that the mental illness | 2325 |
disability, or fact that the offender was a victim of a violation | 2326 |
of section 2905.32 of the Revised Code was a factor leading to the | 2327 |
criminal offense with which the offender is charged. The request | 2328 |
also shall include a waiver of the defendant's right to a speedy | 2329 |
trial, the preliminary hearing, the time period within which the | 2330 |
grand jury may consider an indictment against the offender, and | 2331 |
arraignment, unless the hearing, indictment, or arraignment has | 2332 |
already occurred. The court may reject an offender's request | 2333 |
without a hearing. If the court elects to consider an offender's | 2334 |
request, the court shall conduct a hearing to determine whether | 2335 |
the offender is eligible under this section for intervention in | 2336 |
lieu of conviction and shall stay all criminal proceedings pending | 2337 |
the outcome of the hearing. If the court schedules a hearing, the | 2338 |
court shall order an assessment of the offender for the purpose of | 2339 |
determining the offender's eligibility for intervention in lieu of | 2340 |
conviction and recommending an appropriate intervention plan. | 2341 |
If the offender alleges that drug or alcohol usage by the | 2342 |
offender was a factor leading to the criminal offense with which | 2343 |
the offender is charged, the court may order that the offender be | 2344 |
assessed by a program certified pursuant to section 3793.06 of the | 2345 |
Revised Code or a properly credentialed professional for the | 2346 |
purpose of determining the offender's eligibility for intervention | 2347 |
in lieu of conviction and recommending an appropriate intervention | 2348 |
plan. The program or the properly credentialed professional shall | 2349 |
provide a written assessment of the offender to the court. | 2350 |
(2) The victim notification provisions of division (C) of | 2351 |
section 2930.08 of the Revised Code apply in relation to any | 2352 |
hearing held under division (A)(1) of this section. | 2353 |
(B) An offender is eligible for intervention in lieu of | 2354 |
conviction if the court finds all of the following: | 2355 |
(1) The offender previously has not been convicted of or | 2356 |
pleaded guilty to a felony offense of violence or previously has | 2357 |
been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any felony that is not an | 2358 |
offense of violence and the prosecuting attorney recommends that | 2359 |
the offender be found eligible for participation in intervention | 2360 |
in lieu of treatment under this section, previously has not been | 2361 |
through intervention in lieu of conviction under this section or | 2362 |
any similar regimen, and is charged with a felony for which the | 2363 |
court, upon conviction, would impose a community control sanction | 2364 |
on the offender under division (B)(2) of section 2929.13 of the | 2365 |
Revised Code or with a misdemeanor. | 2366 |
(2) The offense is not a felony of the first, second, or | 2367 |
third degree, is not an offense of violence, is not a violation of | 2368 |
division (A)(1) or (2) of section 2903.06 of the Revised Code, is | 2369 |
not a violation of division (A)(1) of section 2903.08 of the | 2370 |
Revised Code, is not a violation of division (A) of section | 2371 |
4511.19 of the Revised Code or a municipal ordinance that is | 2372 |
substantially similar to that division, and is not an offense for | 2373 |
which a sentencing court is required to impose a mandatory prison | 2374 |
term, a mandatory term of local incarceration, or a mandatory term | 2375 |
of imprisonment in a jail. | 2376 |
(3) The offender is not charged with a violation of section | 2377 |
2925.02, 2925.04, or 2925.06 of the Revised Code, is not charged | 2378 |
with a violation of section 2925.03 of the Revised Code that is a | 2379 |
felony of the first, second, third, or fourth degree, and is not | 2380 |
charged with a violation of section 2925.11 of the Revised Code | 2381 |
that is a felony of the first, second, or third degree. | 2382 |
(4) If an offender alleges that drug or alcohol usage by the | 2383 |
offender was a factor leading to the criminal offense with which | 2384 |
the offender is charged, the court has ordered that the offender | 2385 |
be assessed by a program certified pursuant to section 3793.06 of | 2386 |
the Revised Code or a properly credentialed professional for the | 2387 |
purpose of determining the offender's eligibility for intervention | 2388 |
in lieu of conviction and recommending an appropriate intervention | 2389 |
plan, the offender has been assessed by a program of that nature | 2390 |
or a properly credentialed professional in accordance with the | 2391 |
court's order, and the program or properly credentialed | 2392 |
professional has filed the written assessment of the offender with | 2393 |
the court. | 2394 |
(5) If an offender alleges that, at the time of committing | 2395 |
the criminal offense with which the offender is charged, the | 2396 |
offender had a mental illness | 2397 |
disability, or was a victim of a violation of section 2905.32 of | 2398 |
the Revised Code and that the mental illness | 2399 |
person with intellectual disability, or fact that the offender was | 2400 |
a victim of a violation of section 2905.32 of the Revised Code was | 2401 |
a factor leading to that offense, the offender has been assessed | 2402 |
by a psychiatrist, psychologist, independent social worker, or | 2403 |
professional clinical counselor for the purpose of determining the | 2404 |
offender's eligibility for intervention in lieu of conviction and | 2405 |
recommending an appropriate intervention plan. | 2406 |
(6) The offender's drug usage, alcohol usage, mental illness, | 2407 |
or intellectual disability, or the fact that the offender was a | 2408 |
victim of a violation of section 2905.32 of the Revised Code, | 2409 |
whichever is applicable, was a factor leading to the criminal | 2410 |
offense with which the offender is charged, intervention in lieu | 2411 |
of conviction would not demean the seriousness of the offense, and | 2412 |
intervention would substantially reduce the likelihood of any | 2413 |
future criminal activity. | 2414 |
(7) The alleged victim of the offense was not sixty-five | 2415 |
years of age or older, permanently and totally disabled, under | 2416 |
thirteen years of age, or a peace officer engaged in the officer's | 2417 |
official duties at the time of the alleged offense. | 2418 |
(8) If the offender is charged with a violation of section | 2419 |
2925.24 of the Revised Code, the alleged violation did not result | 2420 |
in physical harm to any person, and the offender previously has | 2421 |
not been treated for drug abuse. | 2422 |
(9) The offender is willing to comply with all terms and | 2423 |
conditions imposed by the court pursuant to division (D) of this | 2424 |
section. | 2425 |
(10) The offender is not charged with an offense that would | 2426 |
result in the offender being disqualified under Chapter 4506. of | 2427 |
the Revised Code from operating a commercial motor vehicle or | 2428 |
would subject the offender to any other sanction under that | 2429 |
chapter. | 2430 |
(C) At the conclusion of a hearing held pursuant to division | 2431 |
(A) of this section, the court shall enter its determination as to | 2432 |
whether the offender is eligible for intervention in lieu of | 2433 |
conviction and as to whether to grant the offender's request. If | 2434 |
the court finds under division (B) of this section that the | 2435 |
offender is eligible for intervention in lieu of conviction and | 2436 |
grants the offender's request, the court shall accept the | 2437 |
offender's plea of guilty and waiver of the defendant's right to a | 2438 |
speedy trial, the preliminary hearing, the time period within | 2439 |
which the grand jury may consider an indictment against the | 2440 |
offender, and arraignment, unless the hearing, indictment, or | 2441 |
arraignment has already occurred. In addition, the court then may | 2442 |
stay all criminal proceedings and order the offender to comply | 2443 |
with all terms and conditions imposed by the court pursuant to | 2444 |
division (D) of this section. If the court finds that the offender | 2445 |
is not eligible or does not grant the offender's request, the | 2446 |
criminal proceedings against the offender shall proceed as if the | 2447 |
offender's request for intervention in lieu of conviction had not | 2448 |
been made. | 2449 |
(D) If the court grants an offender's request for | 2450 |
intervention in lieu of conviction, the court shall place the | 2451 |
offender under the general control and supervision of the county | 2452 |
probation department, the adult parole authority, or another | 2453 |
appropriate local probation or court services agency, if one | 2454 |
exists, as if the offender was subject to a community control | 2455 |
sanction imposed under section 2929.15, 2929.18, or 2929.25 of the | 2456 |
Revised Code. The court shall establish an intervention plan for | 2457 |
the offender. The terms and conditions of the intervention plan | 2458 |
shall require the offender, for at least one year from the date on | 2459 |
which the court grants the order of intervention in lieu of | 2460 |
conviction, to abstain from the use of illegal drugs and alcohol, | 2461 |
to participate in treatment and recovery support services, and to | 2462 |
submit to regular random testing for drug and alcohol use and may | 2463 |
include any other treatment terms and conditions, or terms and | 2464 |
conditions similar to community control sanctions, which may | 2465 |
include community service or restitution, that are ordered by the | 2466 |
court. | 2467 |
(E) If the court grants an offender's request for | 2468 |
intervention in lieu of conviction and the court finds that the | 2469 |
offender has successfully completed the intervention plan for the | 2470 |
offender, including the requirement that the offender abstain from | 2471 |
using illegal drugs and alcohol for a period of at least one year | 2472 |
from the date on which the court granted the order of intervention | 2473 |
in lieu of conviction, the requirement that the offender | 2474 |
participate in treatment and recovery support services, and all | 2475 |
other terms and conditions ordered by the court, the court shall | 2476 |
dismiss the proceedings against the offender. Successful | 2477 |
completion of the intervention plan and period of abstinence under | 2478 |
this section shall be without adjudication of guilt and is not a | 2479 |
criminal conviction for purposes of any disqualification or | 2480 |
disability imposed by law and upon conviction of a crime, and the | 2481 |
court may order the sealing of records related to the offense in | 2482 |
question in the manner provided in sections 2953.31 to 2953.36 of | 2483 |
the Revised Code. | 2484 |
(F) If the court grants an offender's request for | 2485 |
intervention in lieu of conviction and the offender fails to | 2486 |
comply with any term or condition imposed as part of the | 2487 |
intervention plan for the offender, the supervising authority for | 2488 |
the offender promptly shall advise the court of this failure, and | 2489 |
the court shall hold a hearing to determine whether the offender | 2490 |
failed to comply with any term or condition imposed as part of the | 2491 |
plan. If the court determines that the offender has failed to | 2492 |
comply with any of those terms and conditions, it shall enter a | 2493 |
finding of guilty and shall impose an appropriate sanction under | 2494 |
Chapter 2929. of the Revised Code. If the court sentences the | 2495 |
offender to a prison term, the court, after consulting with the | 2496 |
department of rehabilitation and correction regarding the | 2497 |
availability of services, may order continued court-supervised | 2498 |
activity and treatment of the offender during the prison term and, | 2499 |
upon consideration of reports received from the department | 2500 |
concerning the offender's progress in the program of activity and | 2501 |
treatment, may consider judicial release under section 2929.20 of | 2502 |
the Revised Code. | 2503 |
(G) As used in this section: | 2504 |
(1) "Community control sanction" has the same meaning as in | 2505 |
section 2929.01 of the Revised Code. | 2506 |
(2) "Intervention in lieu of conviction" means any | 2507 |
court-supervised activity that complies with this section. | 2508 |
(3) "Peace officer" has the same meaning as in section | 2509 |
2935.01 of the Revised Code. | 2510 |
(4) "Mental illness" and "psychiatrist" have the same | 2511 |
meanings as in section 5122.01 of the Revised Code. | 2512 |
(5) "Person with intellectual disability" means a person | 2513 |
having significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning | 2514 |
existing concurrently with deficiencies in adaptive behavior, | 2515 |
manifested during the developmental period. | 2516 |
(6) "Psychologist" has the same meaning as in section 4732.01 | 2517 |
of the Revised Code. | 2518 |
(H) Whenever the term "mentally retarded person" is used in | 2519 |
any statute, rule, contract, grant, or other document, the | 2520 |
reference shall be deemed to include a "person with intellectual | 2521 |
disability," as defined in this section. | 2522 |
Section 2. That existing sections 109.54, 2151.414, 2151.419, | 2523 |
2901.13, 2905.32, 2907.02, 2907.05, 2907.07, 2907.22, 2907.24, | 2524 |
2907.241, 2907.25, 2929.01, 2937.11, 2950.01, and 2951.041 of the | 2525 |
Revised Code are hereby repealed. | 2526 |
Section 3. Section 2901.13 of the Revised Code is presented | 2527 |
in this act as a composite of the section as amended by both Sub. | 2528 |
H.B. 46 and S.B. 219 of the 127th General Assembly. The General | 2529 |
Assembly, applying the principle stated in division (B) of section | 2530 |
1.52 of the Revised Code that amendments are to be harmonized if | 2531 |
reasonably capable of simultaneous operation, finds that the | 2532 |
composite is the resulting version of the section in effect prior | 2533 |
to the effective date of the section as presented in this act. | 2534 |
Section 4. This act is hereby declared to be an emergency | 2535 |
measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public | 2536 |
peace, health, and safety. The reason for such necessity is that | 2537 |
minors are particularly vulnerable to becoming victims of the | 2538 |
offenses described in this act. Therefore this act shall go into | 2539 |
immediate effect. | 2540 |