For purposes of this code, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AND. May be read OR, and OR may be read AND, if the sense requires it.
(R.C. § 1.02(F))
ANOTHER. When used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property.
(R.C. § 1.02(B))
BOND. Includes an undertaking. (R.C. § 1.02(D))
CITY, TOWN, VILLAGE, MUNICIPALITY, or MUNICIPAL CORPORATION. When used in this code, shall denote the Municipality of New Lebanon irrespective of its population or legal classification.
COUNCIL. The legislative authority of the Municipality.
COUNTY. Montgomery County, Ohio.
IMPRISONED. Includes the following:
(1) Imprisoned in a county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse if the offense is a misdemeanor.
(2) Imprisoned in a state correctional institution if the offense is an aggravated murder, murder, or an offense punishable by life imprisonment or if the offense is another felony for which the offender is sentenced pursuant to R.C. § 2929.14.
(3) Imprisoned in a county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse pursuant to R.C. § 2929.16 if the offense is a felony, or imprisoned in a county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse pursuant to R.C. § 5120.161 if the offense is a felony of the fourth or fifth degree and is committed by a person who previously has not been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a felony, if the offense is not an offense of violence, and if the department of rehabilitation and correction designates, pursuant to that section, that the person is to be imprisoned in the jail or workhouse.
(4) Imprisoned in another residential facility under R.C. § 2929.16.
(R.C. § 1.05)
INTERNET. The international computer network of both federal and non-federal interoperable packet switched data networks, including the graphical subnetwork known as the world wide web.
KEEPER or PROPRIETOR. Includes all persons, whether acting by themselves or as a servant, agent, or employee.
LAND or REAL ESTATE. Includes rights and easements of incorporeal nature.
(R.C. § 701.01(F))
MAY. The act referred to is permissive.
OATH. Includes affirmation, and SWEAR includes affirm.
(R.C. §§ 1.59(B), 701.01(C))
OF UNSOUND MIND. The person lacks the relevant mental capacity. (R.C. § 1.02(C))
OWNER. When applied to property, includes any part owner, joint owner, or tenant in common of the whole or part of such property.
PERSON. Includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association.
(R.C. § 1.59(C))
PERSONAL PROPERTY. Includes all property except real.
PLAN OF SEWERAGE, SEWER, SEWERS, and SYSTEM OF SEWERAGE. Includes sewers, sewage disposal works and treatment plants, and sewage pumping stations, together with facilities and appurtenances necessary and proper therefor.
(R.C. § 701.01(G))
PREMISES. As applied to property, includes land and buildings.
PROPERTY. Includes real, personal, and mixed estates and interests.
(R.C. § 701.01(E))
PUBLIC AUTHORITY. Includes boards of education; the municipal, county, state, or federal government, its officers or an agency thereof; or any duly authorized public official.
PUBLIC PLACE. Includes any street, sidewalk, park, cemetery, school yard, body of water or water-course, public conveyance, or any other place for the sale of merchandise, public accommodation, or amusement.
R.C. or REVISED CODE. Refers to the Revised Code of Ohio.
REAL PROPERTY. Includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments.
REGISTERED MAIL. Includes certified mail, and CERTIFIED MAIL includes registered mail.
(R.C. § 1.02(G))
SHALL. The act referred to is mandatory.
SIDEWALK. That portion of the street between the curb line and the adjacent property line intended for the use of pedestrians.
STATE. The State of Ohio.
STREET. Includes alleys, avenues, boulevards, lanes, roads, highways, viaducts, and all other public thoroughfares within the municipality.
TENANT or OCCUPANT. As applied to premises, includes any person holding a written or oral lease, or who actually occupies the whole or any part of such premises, alone or with others.
UNDERTAKING. Includes a bond. (R.C. § 1.02(E))
WEEK. Seven consecutive days.
(R.C. § 1.44)
WHOEVER. Includes all persons, natural and artificial; partners; principals, agents, and employees; and all officials, public or private.
(R.C. § 1.02(A))
WRITTEN or IN WRITING. Includes printing and any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures; this provision does not affect any law relating to signatures.
(R.C. § 1.59(J))
YEAR. Twelve consecutive months.
(R.C. § 1.44)
('80 Code, § 10.02)