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(a) No person shall possess or have under the person’s control any substance, device, instrument, or article, with purpose to use it criminally.
(b) Each of the following constitutes prima-facie evidence of criminal purpose:
(1) Possession or control of any dangerous ordnance, or the materials or parts for making dangerous ordnance, in the absence of circumstances indicating the dangerous ordnance, materials, or parts are intended for legitimate use;
(2) Possession or control of any substance, device, instrument, or article designed or specially adapted for criminal use;
(3) Possession or control of any substance, device, instrument, or article commonly used for criminal purposes, under circumstances indicating the item is intended for criminal use.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of possessing criminal tools, a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the circumstances indicate that the substance, device, instrument, or article involved in the offense was intended for use in the commission of a felony, possessing criminal tools is a felony and shall be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
(ORC 2923.24; Ord. 34-96. Passed 7-1-96.)
(a) No person shall knowingly do either of the following:
(1) Forge an identification card;
(2) Sell or otherwise distribute a card that purports to be an identification card, knowing it to have been forged.
(3) As used in this section, "identification card" means a card that includes personal information or characteristics of an individual, a purpose of which is to establish the identity of the bearer described on the card, whether the words "identity," "identification," "identification card" or other similar words appear on the card.
(b) Whoever violates subsection (a) hereof is guilty of forging identification cards or selling or distributing forged identification cards. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, forging or selling or distributing forged identification cards is a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the offender previously has been convicted of a violation of this section or Ohio R.C. 2913.31 (B), forging identification cards or selling or distributing forged identification cards is a misdemeanor of the first degree and, in addition, the court shall impose upon the offender a fine of not less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00).
(ORC 2913.31; Ord. 34-96. Passed 7-1-96.)
(a) No person, with purpose to defraud or knowing that he is facilitating a fraud, shall do either of the following:
(1) Hire an aircraft, motor vehicle, motorcycle, motorboat, sailboat, camper, trailer, horse or buggy, or keep or operate any of the same which has been hired;
(2) Engage accommodations at a hotel, motel, inn, campground or other hostelry.
(b) It is prima-facie evidence of purpose to defraud if the offender does any of the following:
(1) Uses deception to induce the rental agency to furnish the offender with any of the property listed in subsection (a)(1) hereof or uses deception to induce the hostelry to furnish him with accommodations;
(2) Hires any of the property named in subsection (a)(1) hereof, or engages accommodations, knowing he is without sufficient means to pay the hire or rental;
(3) Absconds without paying the hire or rental;
(4) Knowingly fails to pay the hire or rental as required by the contract of hire or rental, without reasonable excuse for such failure;
(5) Knowingly fails to return hired property as required by the contract of hire, without reasonable excuse for such failure.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of defrauding a livery or hostelry, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 34-96. Passed 7-1-96.)