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(a) No person shall violate Ohio R.C. 2903.21, 2903.22, 2909.06 or 2909.07, or 2917.21(A)(3), (A)(4) or (A)(5), or any substantially equivalent municipal ordinance to any of these sections, by reason of the race, color, religion or national origin of another person or group of persons.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of ethnic intimidation. Ethnic intimidation is an offense of the next higher degree than the offense the commission of which is a necessary element of ethnic intimidation. In the case of an offense that is a misdemeanor of the first degree, ethnic intimidation is a felony to be prosecuted under appropriate state law.
(ORC 2927.12)
(a) No person, whether or not acting under color of law, shall by force or threat of force willfully injure, intimidate or interfere with, or attempt to injure, intimidate or interfere with any of the following:
(1) Any person because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status, as defined in Ohio R.C. 4112.01, national origin, military status as defined in that section, disability as defined in that section, or ancestry and because that person is or has been selling, purchasing, renting, financing, occupying, contracting or negotiating for the sale, purchase, rental, financing or occupation of any housing accommodations, or applying for or participating in any service, organization or facility relating to the business of selling or renting housing accommodations.
(2) Any person because that person is or has been doing, or in order to intimidate that person or any other person or any class of persons from doing either of the following:
A. Participating, without discrimination on account of race, color, religion, sex, familial status, as defined in Ohio R.C. 4112.01, national origin, military status as defined in that section, disability as defined in that section, or ancestry, in any of the activities, services, organizations, or facilities described in division (a)(1) of this section;
B. Affording another person or class of persons opportunity or protection so to participate.
(3) Any person because that person is or has been, or in order to discourage that person or any other person from, lawfully aiding or encouraging other persons to participate, without discrimination on account of race, color, religion, sex, familial status as defined in Ohio R.C. 4112.01, national origin, military status as defined in that section, disability as defined in that section, or ancestry, in any of the activities, services, organizations or facilities described in division (a)(1) of this section, or participating lawfully in speech or peaceful assembly opposing any denial of the opportunity to so participate.
(b) Whoever violates division (a) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(ORC 2927.03)
(a) No caretaker shall knowingly fail to provide a functionally impaired person under his or her care with any treatment, care, goods or service that is necessary to maintain the health or safety of the functionally impaired person when this failure results in physical harm or serious physical harm to the functionally impaired person.
(b) No caretaker shall recklessly fail to provide a functionally impaired person under his or her care with any treatment, care, goods or service that is necessary to maintain the health or safety of the functionally impaired person when this failure results in serious physical harm to the functionally impaired person.
(c) (1) Whoever violates division (a) of this section is guilty of knowingly failing to provide for a functionally impaired person, a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the functionally impaired person under the offender's care suffers serious physical harm as a result of the violation of this section, a violation of division (a) of this section is a felony to be prosecuted under appropriate state law.
(2) Whoever violates division (b) of this section is guilty of recklessly failing to provide for a functionally impaired person, a misdemeanor of the second degree. If the functionally impaired person under the offender's care suffers serious physical harm as a result of the violation of this section, a violation of division (b) of this section is a felony to be prosecuted under appropriate state law.
(ORC 2903.16)
(d) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(1) “Caretaker.” A person who assumes the duty to provide for the care and protection of a functionally impaired person on a voluntary basis, by contract, through receipt of payment for care and protection, as a result of a family relationship, or by order of a court of competent jurisdiction. “Caretaker” does not include a person who owns, operates or administers, or who is an agent or employee of, a care facility, as defined in Ohio R.C. 2903.33.
(2) “Functionally impaired person.” Any person who has a physical or mental impairment that prevents the person from providing for his or her own care or protection or whose infirmities caused by aging prevent the person from providing for his or her own care or protection.
(ORC 2903.10)
(a) Except in a medical emergency that prevents compliance with this division, no physician shall perform or induce or attempt to perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman after the beginning of the twentieth week of gestation unless, prior to the performance or inducement of the abortion or the attempt to perform or induce the abortion, the physician determines, in the physician's good faith medical judgment, that the unborn child is not viable, and the physician makes that determination after performing a medical examination of the pregnant woman and after performing or causing to be performed those tests for assessing gestational age, weight, lung maturity, or other tests that the physician, in that physician's good faith medical judgment, believes are necessary to determine whether an unborn child is viable.
(b) Except in a medical emergency that prevents compliance with this division, no physician shall perform or induce or attempt to perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman after the beginning of the twentieth week of gestation without first entering the determination made in division (a) of this section and the associated findings of the medical examination and tests in the medical record of the pregnant woman.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of failure to perform viability testing, a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(d) The State Medical Board shall suspend a physician's license to practice medicine in this state for a period of not less than six months if the physician violates this section.
(ORC 2919.18)
(a) No person shall knowingly collect any blood, urine, tissue, or other bodily substance of another person without privilege or consent to do so.
(b) (1) Division (a) of this section does not apply to any of the following:
A. The collection of any bodily substance of a person by a law enforcement officer, or by another person pursuant to the direction or advice of a law enforcement officer, for purposes of a chemical test or tests of the substance under Ohio R.C. 1547.111(A)(1) or 4511.191(A)(2) to determine the alcohol, drug, controlled substance, metabolite of a controlled substance, or combination content of the bodily substance;
B. The collection of any bodily substance of a person by a peace officer, or by another person pursuant to the direction or advice of a peace officer, for purposes of a test or tests of the substance as provided in Ohio R.C. 4506.17(A) to determine the person's alcohol concentration or the presence of any controlled substance or metabolite of a controlled substance.
(2) Division (b)(1) of this section shall not be construed as implying that the persons identified in divisions (b)(1)A. and B. of this section do not have privilege to collect the bodily substance of another person as described in those divisions or as limiting the definition of “privilege” set forth in Ohio R.C. 2901.01.
(c) Whoever violates division (a) of this section is guilty of unlawful collection of a bodily substance. Except as otherwise provided in this division, unlawful collection of a bodily substance is a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of division (a) of this section or a substantially equivalent state law or municipal ordinance, unlawful collection of a bodily substance is a felony to be prosecuted under appropriate state law.
(ORC 2927.15)