As used in these Codified Ordinances, unless otherwise expressly provided, or unless the context clearly indicates that a different meaning is intended:
(a) "Law enforcement officer" means any of the following:
(1) A sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, police officer of a township or joint township police district, marshal, deputy marshal, Municipal police officer, member of a police force employed by a metropolitan housing authority under Ohio R.C. 3735.31(D), or State Highway Patrol trooper;
(2) An officer, agent or employee of the State or any of its agencies, instrumentalities or political subdivisions, upon whom, by statute, a duty to conserve the peace or to enforce all or certain laws is imposed and the authority to arrest violators is conferred, within the limits of that statutory duty and authority;
(3) The Mayor in the Mayor's capacity as chief conservator of the peace within the Mayor's Municipality;
(4) A member of an auxiliary police force organized by County, Township, or Municipal law enforcement authorities, within the scope of the member's appointment or commission;
(5) A person lawfully called pursuant to Ohio R.C. 311.07 to aid a sheriff in keeping the peace for the purposes and during the time when the person is called;
(6) A person appointed by the Mayor pursuant to Ohio R.C. 737.10 as a special patrolling officer or officer during riot or emergency, for the purposes and during the time when the person is appointed;
(7) A member of the organized militia of the State or the Armed Forces of the United States, lawfully called to duty to aid civil authorities in keeping the peace or to protect against domestic violence;
(8) A prosecuting attorney, assistant prosecuting attorney, secret service officer or the Municipal Prosecutor;
(9) A veterans' home police officer appointed under Ohio R.C. 5907.02.
(10) A member of a police force employed by a regional transit authority under Ohio R.C. 306.35(Y).
(11) A special police officer employed by a port authority under Ohio R.C. 4582.04 or 4582.28.
(12) A special police officer employed by a municipal corporation at a municipal airport, or other municipal air navigation facility, that has scheduled operations, as defined in Section 119.3 of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations, 14 C.F.R. 119.3, as amended, and that is required to be under a security program and is governed by aviation security rules of the transportation security administration of the United States Department of Transportation as provided in Parts 1542 and 1544 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as amended.
(b) "Person" is defined as follows:
(1) A. Subject to paragraph (b)(2) hereof, as used in any section contained in this General Offenses Code that sets forth a criminal offense, "person" includes all of the following:
1. An individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership and association;
2. An unborn human who is viable.
B. As used in any section contained in this General Offenses Code that does not set forth a criminal offense, "person" includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership and association.
C. As used in paragraph (b)(1)A. hereof:
1. "Unborn human" means an individual organism of the species homo sapiens from fertilization until live birth.
2. "Viable" means the stage of development of a human fetus at which there is a realistic possibility of maintaining and nourishing of a life outside the womb with or without temporary artificial life-sustaining support.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (b)(1)A. hereof, in no case shall the portion of the definition of the term "person" that is set forth in paragraph (b)(1)A.2. hereof be applied or construed in any section contained in this General Offenses Code that sets forth a criminal offense in any of the following manners:
A. Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, in a manner so that the offense prohibits or is construed as prohibiting any pregnant woman or her physician from performing an abortion with the consent of the pregnant woman, with the consent of the pregnant woman implied by law in a medical emergency or with the approval of one otherwise authorized by law to consent to medical treatment on behalf of the pregnant woman. An abortion that violates the conditions described in the immediately preceding sentence may be punished as a violation of Ohio R.C. 2903.01 to 2903.08, 2903.11 to 2903.14, 2903.21 or 2903.22, as applicable. An abortion that does not violate the conditions described in the second immediately preceding sentence, but that does violate Ohio R.C. 2919.12, 2919.13(B), 2919.15, 2919.17 or 2919.18, may be punished as a violation of Ohio R.C. 2919.12, 2919.13(B), 2919.15, 2919.17 or 2919.18, as applicable. Consent is sufficient under this paragraph if it is of the type otherwise adequate to permit medical treatment to the pregnant woman, even if it does not comply with Ohio R.C. 2919.12.
B. In a manner so that the offense is applied or is construed as applying to a woman based on an act or omission of the woman that occurs while she is or was pregnant and that results in any of the following:
1. Her delivery of a stillborn baby;
2. Her causing, in any other manner, the death in utero of a viable, unborn human that she is carrying;
3. Her causing the death of her child who is born alive, but who dies from one or more injuries that are sustained while the child is a viable, unborn human;
4. Her causing her child who is born alive to sustain one or more injuries while the child is a viable, unborn human.
5. Her causing, threatening to cause, or attempting to cause, in any other manner, an injury, illness or other physiological impairment, regardless of its duration or gravity, or a mental illness or condition, regardless of its duration or gravity, to a viable, unborn human that she is carrying.
(c) (1) "Property" means any property, real or personal, tangible or intangible, and any interest or license in that property. "Property" includes, but is not limited to, cable television service, other telecommunications service, telecommunications devices, information service, computer, data, computer software, financial instruments associated with computers, other documents associated with computers, or copies of the documents, whether in machine or human readable form, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, patents, and property protected by a trademark, copyright or patent. "Financial instruments associated with computers" include, but are not limited to, checks, drafts, warrants, money orders, notes of indebtedness, certificates of deposit, letters of credit, bills of credit or debit cards, financial transaction authorization mechanisms, marketable securities, or any computer system representations of any of them.
(2) As used in this subsection "trade secret" has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 1333.61 and "telecommunications service" and "information service" have the same meanings as in Ohio R.C. 2913.01.
(3) As used in this subsection, "cable television service," "computer," "computer software," "computer system," "computer network," "data" and "telecommunications device" have the same meanings as in Ohio R.C. 2913.01.
(d) "Public official" means any elected or appointed officer or employee or agent of the State or the Municipality, whether in a temporary or permanent capacity, and includes, but is not limited to, legislators, judges and law enforcement officers;
(e) Words, terms and phrases not defined in this section that are used in this General Offenses Code shall have the meanings given in Ohio R.C. 2901.01 and 2921.01. (ORC 2901.01, 2921.01)