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(a) No law enforcement officer shall negligently do any of the following:
(1) Fail to serve a lawful warrant without delay.
(2) Fail to prevent or halt the commission of an offense or to apprehend an offender, when it is in the law enforcement officer’s power to do so alone or with available assistance.
(b) No law enforcement, ministerial, or judicial officer shall negligently fail to perform a lawful duty in a criminal case or proceeding.
(c) No officer, having charge of a detention facility, shall negligently do any of the following:
(1) Allow the detention facility to become littered or unsanitary.
(2) Fail to provide persons confined in the detention facility with adequate food, clothing, bedding, shelter, and medical attention.
(3) Fail to control an unruly prisoner, or to prevent intimidation of or physical harm to a prisoner by another.
(4) Allow a prisoner to escape.
(5) Fail to observe any lawful and reasonable regulation for the management of the detention facility.
(d) No public official shall recklessly create a deficiency, incur a liability, or expend a greater sum than is appropriated by the Council for the use in any one year of the department, agency, or institution with which the public official is connected.
(e) No public servant shall recklessly fail to perform a duty expressly imposed by law with respect to the public servant’s office, or recklessly do any act expressly forbidden by law with respect to the public servant’s office.
(f) Whoever violates this section is guilty of dereliction of duty, a misdemeanor of the second degree.
(g) Except as otherwise provided by law, a public servant who is a county treasurer; county auditor; township fiscal officer; city auditor; city treasurer; village fiscal officer; village clerk-treasurer; village clerk; in the case of a municipal corporation having a charter that designates an officer who, by virtue of the charter, has duties and functions similar to those of the city or village officers referred to in this section, the officer so designated by the charter; school district treasurer; fiscal officer of a community school established under Ohio R.C. Chapter 3314; treasurer of a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school established under R.C. Chapter 3326; or fiscal officer of a college-preparatory boarding school established under Ohio R.C. Chapter 3328 and is convicted of or pleads guilty to dereliction of duty is disqualified from holding any public office, employment, or position of trust in this state for four years following the date of conviction or of entry of the plea, and is not entitled to hold any public office until any repayment or restitution required by the court is satisfied.
(h) As used in this section, “public servant” includes the following:
(1) An officer or employee of a contractor as defined in Ohio R.C. 9.08;
(2) A fiscal officer employed by the operator of a community school established under Ohio R.C. Chapter 3314 or by the operator of a college-preparatory boarding school established under Ohio R.C. Chapter 3328.
(ORC 2921.44)
(a) No public servant, under color of the public servant’s office, employment, or authority, shall knowingly deprive, or conspire or attempt to deprive any person of a constitutional or statutory right.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of interfering with civil rights, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(R.C. § 2921.45)
Statutory reference:
Restraining or confining pregnant children or pregnant women, see R.C. § 2152.75(B) and R.C. § 2901.10
(a) No person who is not entitled to do so shall knowingly display on a motor vehicle the emblem of a law enforcement agency or an organization of law enforcement officers.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of the unlawful display of the emblem of a law enforcement agency or an organization of law enforcement officers, a minor misdemeanor.
(ORC 2913.441)
(a) No person shall knowingly cause, or attempt to cause, physical harm to a police dog or horse in either of the following circumstances:
(1) The police dog or horse is assisting a law enforcement officer in the performance of his official duties at the time the physical harm is caused or attempted.
(2) The police dog or horse is not assisting a law enforcement officer in the performance of his official duties at the time the physical harm is caused or attempted, but the offender has actual knowledge that the dog or horse is a police dog or horse.
(b) No person shall recklessly do any of the following:
(1) Taunt, torment, or strike a police dog or horse;
(2) Throw an object or substance at a police dog or horse;
(3) Interfere with or obstruct a police dog or horse, or interfere with or obstruct a law enforcement officer who is being assisted by a police dog or horse, in a manner that does any of the following:
A. Inhibits or restricts the law enforcement officer's control of the police dog or horse;
B. Deprives the law enforcement officer of control of the police dog or horse;
C. Releases the police dog or horse from its area of control;
D. Enters the area of control of the police dog or horse without the consent of the law enforcement officer, including placing food or any other object or substance into that area;
E. Inhibits or restricts the ability of the police dog or horse to assist a law enforcement officer;
(4) Engage in any conduct that is likely to cause serious physical injury or death to a police dog or horse.
(5) If the person is the owner, keeper, or harborer of a dog, fail to reasonably restrain the dog from taunting, tormenting, chasing, approaching in a menacing fashion or apparent attitude of attack, or attempting to bite or otherwise endanger a police dog or horse that at the time of the conduct is assisting a law enforcement officer in the performance of the officer’s duties or that the person knows is a police dog or horse.
(c) No person shall knowingly cause, or attempt to cause, physical harm to an assistance dog in either of the following circumstances:
(1) The dog is assisting or serving a blind, deaf or hearing impaired, or mobility impaired person at the time the physical harm is caused or attempted.
(2) The dog is not assisting or serving a blind, deaf or hearing impaired, or mobility impaired person at the time the physical harm is caused or attempted, but the offender has actual knowledge that the dog is an assistance dog.
(d) No person shall recklessly do any of the following:
(1) Taunt, torment, or strike an assistance dog;
(2) Throw an object or substance at an assistance dog;
(3) Interfere with or obstruct an assistance dog, or interfere with or obstruct a blind, deaf or hearing impaired, or mobility impaired person who is being assisted or served by an assistance dog, in a manner that does any of the following:
A. Inhibits or restricts the assisted or served person’s control of the dog;
B. Deprives the assisted or served person of control of the dog;
C. Releases the dog from its area of control;
D. Enters the area of control of the dog without the consent of the assisted or served person, including placing food or any other object or substance into that area;
E. Inhibits or restricts the ability of the dog to assist the assisted or served person;
(4) Engage in any conduct that is likely to cause serious physical injury or death to an assistance dog;
(5) If the person is the owner, keeper, or harborer of a dog, fail to reasonably restrain the dog from taunting, tormenting, chasing, approaching in a menacing fashion or apparent attitude of attack, or attempting to bite or otherwise endanger a service dog that at the time of the conduct is assisting or serving a blind, deaf or hearing impaired, or mobility impaired person or that the person knows is an assistance dog.
(e) (1) Whoever violates division (a) of this section is guilty of assaulting a police dog or horse. Except as otherwise provided in this division, assaulting a police dog or horse is a misdemeanor of the second degree. If the violation results in physical harm to the police dog or horse other than death or serious physical harm, assaulting a police dog or horse is a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the violation results in serious physical harm to the police dog or horse or results in its death, assaulting a police dog or horse is a felony to be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
(2) Whoever violates division (b) of this section is guilty of harassing a police dog or horse. Except as otherwise provided this division, harassing a police dog or horse is a misdemeanor of the second degree. If the violation results in physical harm to the police dog or horse but does not result in its death or in serious physical harm to it, harassing a police dog or horse is a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the violation results in serous physical harm to the police dog or horse or results in its death, harassing a police dog or horse is a felony to be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
(3) Whoever violates division (c) of this section is guilty of assaulting an assistance dog. Except as otherwise provided in this division, assaulting an assistance dog is a misdemeanor of the second degree. If the violation results in physical harm to the dog other than death or serious physical harm, assaulting an assistance dog is a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the violation results in serious physical harm to the dog or results in its death, assaulting an assistance dog is a felony to be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
(4) Whoever violates division (d) of this section is guilty of harassing an assistance dog. Except as otherwise provided in this division, harassing an assistance dog is a misdemeanor of the second degree. If the violation results in physical harm to the assistance dog but does not result in the death or in serious physical harm to it, harassing an assistance dog is a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the violation results in serious physical harm to the assistance dog or results in its death, harassing an assistance dog is a felony to be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
(5) In addition to any other sanctions or penalty imposed for the offense under this section, Ohio R.C. Chapter 2929 or any other provision of the Ohio Revised Code or this code, whoever violates division (a), (b), (c), or (d) of this section is responsible for the payment of all of the following:
A. Any veterinary bill or bill for medication incurred as a result of the violation by the Police Department regarding a violation of division (a) or (b) of this section or by the blind, deaf or hearing impaired, or mobility impaired person assisted or served by the assistance dog regarding a violation of division (c) or (d) of this section;
B. The cost of any damaged equipment that results from the violation;
C. If the violation did not result in the death of the police dog or horse or the assistance dog that was the subject of the violation and if, as a result of that dog or horse being the subject of the violation, the dog or horse needs further training or retraining to be able to continue in the capacity of a police dog or horse or an assistance dog, the cost of any further training or retraining of that dog or horse by a law enforcement officer or by the blind, deaf or hearing impaired, or mobility impaired person assisted or served by the assistance dog;
D. If the violation resulted in the death of the assistance dog that was the subject of the violation or resulted in serious physical harm to the police dog or horse or the assistance dog that was the subject of the violation to the extent that the dog or horse needs to be replaced on either a temporary or a permanent basis, the cost of replacing that dog or horse and of any further training of a new police dog or horse or a new service dog by a law enforcement officer or by the blind, deaf or hearing impaired, or mobility impaired person assisted or served by the service dog, which replacement or training is required because of the death of or the serious physical harm to the dog or horse that was the subject of the violation.
(f) This section does not apply to a licensed veterinarian whose conduct is in accordance with Ohio R.C. Chapter 4741.
(g) This section only applies to an offender who knows or should know at the time of the violation that the police dog or horse or an assistance dog that is the subject of a violation under this section is a police dog or horse or an assistance dog.
(h) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(1) “Assistance dog”, “blind”, and "mobility impaired person" have the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 955.011.
(2) "Physical harm" means any injury, illness, or other psychological impairment, regardless of its gravity or duration.
(3) "Police dog or horse" means a dog or horse that has been trained and may be used to assist law enforcement officers in the performance of their official duties.
(4) "Serious physical harm" means any of the following:
A. Any physical harm that carries a substantial risk of death.
B. Any physical harm that causes permanent maiming or that involves some temporary, substantial maiming.
C. Any physical harm that causes acute pain of a duration that results in substantial suffering.
(ORC 2921.321)
(a) If the person summoned to appear as provided in Ohio R.C. 2935.10(B) fails to appear without just cause and personal service of the summons was had upon him, he may be found guilty of contempt of court.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 88-85. Passed 11-25-85.)
(a) Any person coming into or now within the City who has been convicted of any felony in any court shall, within twenty-four hours of arrival within this City, register with the Police Division by giving a written statement setting forth his name, address, all felonies of which he has been convicted, the date and place of the convictions and the length of time he intends to remain within this City. Any person required to so register shall report any change of address to the Police Division within twenty-four hours.
(Ord. 705. Passed 12-8-58.)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree.
(a) No person who is in a public place shall refuse to disclose the person’s name, address, or date of birth, when requested by a law enforcement officer who reasonably suspects either of the following:
(1) The person is committing, has committed, or is about to commit a criminal offense.
(2) The person witnessed any of the following:
A. An offense of violence that would constitute a felony under the laws of this State;
B. A felony offense that causes or results in, or creates a substantial risk of, serious physical harm to another person or property;
C. Any attempt or conspiracy to commit, or complicity in committing, any offenses identified in division (a)(2)A. or (a)(2)B. of this section;
D. Any conduct reasonably indicating that any offense identified in division (a)(2)A. or (a)(2)B. of this section or any attempt, conspiracy, or complicity described in division (a)(2)C. of this section has been, is being, or is about to be committed.
(b) Whoever violates division (a) of this section is guilty of failure to disclose one’s personal information, a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(c) Nothing in division (a) of this section requires a person to answer any questions beyond that person’s name, address, or date of birth. Nothing in division (a) of this section authorizes a law enforcement officer to arrest a person for not providing any information beyond the person’s name, address, or date of birth or for refusing to describe the offense observed.
(d) It is not a violation of division (a) of this section to refuse to answer a question that would reveal a person’s age or date of birth if age is an element of the crime that the person is suspected of committing.
(ORC 2921.29)
(e) No person entering an airport, train station, port, or other similar critical transportation infrastructure site shall refuse to show identification when requested by a law enforcement officer when there is a threat to security and the law enforcement officer is requiring identification of all persons entering the site.
(f) A law enforcement officer may prevent any person who refuses to show identification when asked under the circumstances described in division (e) of this section from entering the critical transportation infrastructure site.
(ORC 2909.31)
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