Section
135.01 Definitions
135.02 Negligent homicide
135.03 Vehicular homicide; vehicular manslaughter; vehicular assault
135.04 Assault; negligent assault
135.05 Injury to persons by hunters
135.06 Menacing; aggravated menacing; menacing by stalking
135.07 Unlawful restraint
135.08 Unlawful collection of bodily substances
135.09 Coercion
135.10 Bigamy
135.11 Unlawful abortion; failure to perform viability testing; abortion trafficking
135.12 Misrepresentation relating to provision of child care
135.13 Nonsupport of dependents
135.14 Endangering children
135.15 Interference with custody; interference with support orders
135.16 Domestic violence
135.17 Hazing prohibited
135.18 Contributing to unruliness or delinquency of a child
135.19 Failure to provide for a person with a functional impairment
135.20 Patient abuse or neglect; patient endangerment; exceptions; false statements; retaliation
135.21 Interference with right of person to engage in housing transactions because of race, religion, or the like
135.22 Ethnic intimidation
135.23 Violating a protection order, consent agreement, anti-stalking protection order or order issued by a court of another state
135.24 Adulteration of food
135.25 Illegal distribution of cigarettes, other tobacco products, or alternative nicotine products; transaction scans
135.26 Nonsmoking areas in places of public assembly
135.27 Spreading contagion
135.28 Abuse of a corpse
Statutory reference:
Child care, misrepresentations by providers and failure to disclose death or serious injuries, misdemeanors, see R.C. §§ 2919.223 et seq.
Extortionate extension of credit, see R.C. §§ 2905.21 through 2905.24
Failure to send child to school, see R.C. § 3321.38
Permitting child abuse, felony offense, see R.C. § 2903.15
Reckless homicide, felony offense, see R.C. § 2903.041
Rights of victims of crimes, see R.C. Chapter 2930
(A) For the purpose of §§ 135.01 through 135.06, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ANOTHER’S UNBORN or OTHER PERSON’S UNBORN. A member of the species Homo sapiens who is or was carried in the womb of another during a period that begins with fertilization and that continues unless and until live birth occurs.
UNLAWFUL TERMINATION OF ANOTHER’S PREGNANCY. Causing the death of an unborn member of the species Homo sapiens who is or was carried in the womb of another, as a result of injuries inflicted during the period that begins with fertilization and that continues unless and until live birth occurs.
(B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, in no case shall the definitions of the terms “another’s unborn”, “other person’s unborn” and “unlawful termination of another’s pregnancy” that are set forth in division (A) of this section be applied or construed in any of the following manners:
(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (B)(1) of this section, in a manner so that the offense prohibits or is construed as prohibiting any pregnant woman or her physician from performing an abortion with the consent of the pregnant woman, with the consent of the pregnant woman implied by law in a medical emergency, or with the approval of one otherwise authorized by law to consent to medical treatment on behalf of the pregnant woman. An abortion that violates the conditions described in the immediately preceding sentence may be punished as any violation of R.C. § 2903.01, 2903.02, 2903.03, 2903.04, 2903.05, 2903.06, 2903.08, 2903.11, 2903.12, 2903.13, 2903.14, 2903.21 or 2903.22, or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance, as applicable. An abortion that does not violate the conditions described in the second immediately preceding sentence but that does violate R.C. § 2919.12, 2919.13(B), 2919.15, 2919.151, 2919.17 or 2919.18, or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance, may be punished as a violation of such section, as applicable.
(2) In a manner so that the offense is applied or is construed as applying to a woman based on an act or omission of the woman that occurs while she is or was pregnant and that results in any of the following:
(a) Her delivery of a stillborn baby.
(b) Her causing, in any other manner, the death in utero of a viable, unborn human that she is carrying.
(c) Her causing the death of her child who is born alive but who dies from one or more injuries that are sustained while the child is a viable, unborn human.
(d) Her causing her child who is born alive to sustain one or more injuries while the child is a viable, unborn human.
(e) Her causing, threatening to cause, or attempting to cause, in any other manner, an injury, illness, or other psychological illness or condition, regardless of its duration or gravity, to a viable, unborn human that she is carrying.
(R.C. § 2903.09) (Rev. 2020)
(A) No person shall negligently cause the death of another or the unlawful termination of another’s pregnancy by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance, as defined in R.C. § 2923.11.
(B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of negligent homicide, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(R.C. § 2903.05) (Rev. 1997)
Statutory reference:
Reckless homicide, felony offense, see R.C. § 2903.041
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