(a) No person shall abandon or fail to provide adequate support to:
(1) The person’s spouse, as required by law;
(2) The person’s child who is under age 18, or the persons’s child with a mental or physical disability who is under age 21;
(3) The person’s aged or infirm parent or adoptive parent, who from lack of ability and means is unable to provide adequately for the parent’s own support.
(b) It is an affirmative defense to a charge under this section that the actor was unable to provide adequate support, and provided such support as was within his ability and means.
(c) It is an affirmative defense to a charge under division (a)(3) of this section that the parent abandoned the accused or failed to support the accused as required by law, while the accused was under age 18, or had a mental or physical disability and was under age 21.
(ORC 2919.21; Ord. 4128-74. Passed 1-7-74)
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.