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(a) No person shall knowingly, without privilege to do so or being reckless in that regard, entice, take, keep or harbor any of the following persons from his parent, guardian or custodian:
(1) A child under the age of eighteen or a mentally or physically handicapped child under the age of twenty-one;
(2) A person committed by law to an institution for delinquent, unruly, neglected or dependent children;
(3) A person committed by law to an institution for the mentally ill or mentally deficient.
(b) It is an affirmative defense to a charge of enticing or taking under subsection (a)(1) that the actor reasonably believed that his conduct was necessary to preserve the child's health or safety. It is an affirmative defense to a charge of keeping or harboring under subsection (a) that the actor in good faith gave notice to law enforcement or judicial authorities within a reasonable time after the child or committed person came under his shelter, protection or influence.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(ORC 2919.23)
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Section 537.20 was repealed as part of the 2004 updating and revision of these Codified Ordinances because substantially identical State law (Ohio R.C. 2905.04) was repealed by the Ohio General Assembly by Amended S.B. No. 2, effective July 1, 1996.)
(1) Use in a threatening manner any weapon or object which, if used as a weapon, would be capable of inflicting death or serious bodily harm to another.
(2) Use in a threatening manner any object which a reasonable and prudent person would assume to be a weapon capable of inflicting death or serious bodily harm, whether or not such object is in fact a weapon capable of inflicting death or serious bodily harm.
(3) Do any act which is reasonably calculated to cause another to believe that the offender will use as a weapon any object capable of inflicting death or serious physical harm to another, under circumstances which would cause a reasonable and prudent person to believe that such a weapon or object is present and readily available to the offender.
(b) Where the weapon or object described in subsection (a) hereof is any firearm or dangerous ordnance, it shall be no defense to a charge under this section that the firearm was unloaded, or that the firearm or dangerous ordnance was in an inoperative condition.
(c) Any person violating this section is guilty of threatening violence, a misdemeanor of the first degree. If at the time of the offense the offender actually had on his person, or ready at hand, such weapon or object described in subsection (a) hereof, the court shall impose a sentence of actual incarceration of not less than ten days or more than six months to be served consecutively with any sentence imposed for any other offense arising out of the same incident.
If at the time of the offense the offender had been previously convicted of a violation of this section, the court shall impose a sentence of actual incarceration of six months to be served consecutively with any sentence imposed for any other offense arising out of the same incident.
(Ord. 84-84. Passed 8-27-84.)
(a) As used in this section:
(1) “Hazing” means doing any act or coercing another, including the victim, to do any act of initiation into any student or other organization or any act to continue or reinstate membership in or affiliation with any student or other organization that causes or creates a substantial risk of causing mental or physical harm to any person, including coercing another to consume alcohol or a drug of abuse, as defined in Ohio R.C. 3719.011.
(2) “Organization” includes a national or international organization with which a fraternity or sorority is affiliated.
(b) (1) No person shall recklessly participate in the hazing of another.
(2) No administrator, employee, faculty member, teacher, consultant, alumnus, or volunteer of any organization, including any primary, secondary, or post-secondary school or any other educational institution, public or private, shall recklessly permit the hazing of any person associated with the organization.
(c) (1) No person shall recklessly participate in the hazing of another when the hazing includes coerced consumption of alcohol or drugs of abuse resulting in serious physical harm to the other person.
(2) No administrator, employee, faculty member, teacher, consultant, alumnus, or volunteer of any organization, including any primary, secondary, or post-secondary school or other educational institution, public or private, shall recklessly permit the hazing of any person associated with the organization when the hazing includes coerced consumption of alcohol or drugs of abuse resulting in serious physical harm to that person.
(d) Whoever violates subsections (b) or (c) of this section is guilty of hazing. A violation of subsections (b)(1) or (b)(2) of this section is a misdemeanor of the second degree. A violation of subsections (c)(1) or (c)(2) of this section is a felony to be prosecuted under appropriate state law. (ORC 2903.31)
(e) Reckless failure to immediately report knowledge of hazing.
(1) No administrator, employee, faculty member, teacher, consultant, alumnus, or volunteer of any organization, including any primary, secondary, or post-secondary school or any other public or private educational institution, who is acting in an official and professional capacity shall recklessly fail to immediately report the knowledge of hazing to a law enforcement agency in the county in which the victim of hazing resides or in which the hazing is occurring or has occurred.
(2) A violation of subsection (e)(1) of this section is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree, except that the violation is a misdemeanor of the first degree if the hazing causes serious physical harm.
(ORC 2903.311(B), (C))