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(a) No person, without privilege to do so, shall knowingly restrain another of his or her liberty.
(b) No person, without privilege to do so and with a sexual motivation, shall knowingly restrain another of the other person’s liberty.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of unlawful restraint, a misdemeanor of the third degree, and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 698.02.
(d) As used in this section, “sexual motivation” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2971.01.
(ORC 2905.03)
(a) No person, with purpose to coerce another into taking or refraining from action concerning which the other person has a legal freedom of choice, shall do any of the following:
(1) Threaten to commit any offense;
(2) Utter or threaten any calumny against any person;
(3) Expose or threaten to expose any matter tending to subject any person to hatred, contempt or ridicule, or to damage any person’s personal or business repute, or to impair his or her credit;
(4) Institute or threaten criminal proceedings against any person;
(5) Take or withhold, or threaten to take or withhold official action, or cause or threaten to cause official action to be taken or withheld.
(b) Paragraphs (a)(4) and (5) hereof shall not be construed to prohibit a prosecutor or court from doing any of the following in good faith and in the interests of justice:
(1) Offering or agreeing to grant, or granting, immunity from prosecution pursuant to Ohio R.C. 2945.44;
(2) In return for a plea of guilty to one or more offenses charged or to one or more other or lessor offenses, or in return for the testimony of the accused in a case to which the accused is not a party, offering or agreeing to dismiss, or dismissing, one or more charges pending against an accused, or offering or agreeing to impose or imposing, a certain sentence or modification of sentence;
(3) Imposing a community control sanction on certain conditions, including, without limitation, requiring the offender to make restitution or redress to the victim of the offense.
(c) It is an affirmative defense to a charge under paragraph (a)(3), (4) or (5) hereof that the actor's conduct was a reasonable response to the circumstances which occasioned it, and that the actor’s purpose was limited to any of the following:
(1) Compelling another to refrain from misconduct or to desist from further misconduct;
(2) Preventing or redressing a wrong or injustice;
(3) Preventing another from taking action for which the actor reasonably believed such other person to be disqualified;
(4) Compelling another to take action which the actor reasonably believed such other person to be under a duty to take.
(d) As used in this section:
(1) “Community control sanction” has the same meaning as in R.C. § 2929.01.
(2) “Threat” includes a direct threat and a threat by innuendo.
(e) Whoever violates this section is guilty of coercion, a misdemeanor of the second degree. Punishment shall be as provided in Section 698.02.
(ORC 2905.12)
(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) (1) No person shall abandon, or fail to provide support as established by a court order to, another person whom, by court order or decree, the person:
A. Is legally obligated to support; or
B. Was legally obligated to support, and an amount for support:
1. Was due and owing prior to the date the person’s duty to pay current support terminated; and
2. Remains unpaid.
(2) The period of limitation under R.C. § 2901.13 applicable to division (b)(1)B. of this section shall begin to run on the date the person’s duty to pay current support terminates.
(c) No person shall aid, abet, induce, cause, encourage, or contribute to a child or a ward of the juvenile court becoming a dependent child, as defined in Ohio R.C. 2151.04, or a neglected child, as defined in Ohio R.C. 2151.03.
(d) It is an affirmative defense to a charge of failure to provide adequate support under subsection (a) hereof or a charge of failure to provide support established by a court order under subsection (b) hereof that the accused was unable to provide adequate support or the established support, but did provide the support that was within his or her ability and means.
(e) 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.
(f) It is not a defense to a charge under subsection (b) hereof that the person whom a court has ordered the accused to support is being adequately supported by someone other than the accused.
(g) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this division, whoever violates subsection (a) or (b) hereof is guilty of nonsupport of dependents, a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of paragraph (a)(2) or (b) hereof or a substantially equivalent state law or municipal ordinance, or if the offender has failed to provide support under paragraph (a)(2) or (b) hereof for a total accumulated period of 26 weeks out of 104 consecutive weeks, whether or not the 26 weeks were consecutive, then a violation of paragraph (a)(2) or (b) hereof is a felony to be prosecuted under appropriate state law. If the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a felony violation of this section or a substantially equivalent state law or municipal ordinance, a violation of paragraph (a)(2) or (b) hereof this section is a felony to be prosecuted under appropriate state law.
(2) If the offender is guilty of nonsupport of dependents by reason of failing to provide support to his or her child as required by a child support order issued on or after April 15, 1985, pursuant to Ohio R.C. 2151.23, 2151.231, 2151.232, 2151.33, 3105.21, 3109.05, 3111.13, 3113.04, 3113.31, or 3115.31, the court, in addition to any other sentence imposed, shall assess all court costs arising out of the charge against the person and require the person to pay any reasonable attorney's fees of any adverse party other than the state, as determined by the court, that arose in relation to the charge.
(3) Whoever violates subsection (c) hereof is guilty of contributing to the nonsupport of dependents, a misdemeanor of the first degree. Each day of a violation of division (c) of this section is a separate offense.
(ORC 2919.21)
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