(a) The Mayor is hereby authorized to utilize electronically monitored house arrest as a condition of probation and/or as an alternative for incarceration for misdemeanor offenses in the City in the course of the exercise of his duties in the Mayor’s Court.
(b) The equipment and devices that shall be utilized to effectuate electronically monitored house arrest, as it may from time to time be used by the Mayor, shall conform to all of the rules, regulations and guidelines set forth in Ohio R.C. 2929.23 as presently enacted and as in the future may from time to time be modified and shall include but shall not be limited to an active continuously signalling transmitter and receiver.
(c) Should the Mayor choose to utilize electronically monitored house arrest as a condition of probation and/or as an alternative to incarceration, the period of time during which electronically monitored house arrest shall be utilized shall, when added to any time of actual incarceration, not exceed the maximum term of imprisonment that may be imposed upon an eligible offender pursuant to Ohio R.C. 2929.11 and/or Ohio R.C. 2929.21.
(d) Should the Mayor choose to utilize electronically monitored house arrest as a condition of probation and/or as an alternative to incarceration, any and all costs of such electronically monitored house arrest shall be paid for and shall be the obligation of the offender and shall be paid for by the offender prior to the commencement of his term of electronically monitored house arrest.
(e) Should the Mayor utilize electronically monitored house arrest as a condition of probation and/or as an alternative to incarceration, the Mayor is authorized to and may in his sound judgment and discretion allow and permit an offender who is the subject of electronically monitored house arrest to leave his place of house arrest to go to and from his place of employment and/or such other specified places or locations as the Mayor designates and permits.
(f) Should any individual be subjected to and serve any period of probation and/or period of time as an alternative to incarceration under electronically monitored house arrest, and should such individual while serving such period of probation and/or period of time as an alternative to incarceration violate any restrictions, rules, regulations or other terms of his period of time of electronically monitored house arrest, such individual shall not receive credit for any time served on his period of electronically monitored house arrest towards or as a credit for any sentence of imprisonment imposed upon him and any such period of time served under electronically monitored house arrest and shall not be credited to nor applied to any term of imprisonment that was imposed upon such an individual prior to his commencing his period of electronically monitored house arrest.
(Ord 83-91. Passed 9-24-91.)
(Ord 83-91. Passed 9-24-91.)