Ohio · statute · Ohio Rev. Code ch. 1901 · 74 active provisions
(A) There is hereby established a municipal court in each of the following municipal corporations: Akron, Alliance, Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Avon Lake, Barberton, Bedford, Bellefontaine, Bellevue, Berea, Bowling Green, Bryan, Bucyrus, Cambridge, Campbell, Canton, Carrollton, Celina, Chardon, Chesapeake, Chillicothe,…
There is hereby created a housing division in the Cleveland municipal court and in the Toledo municipal court, and an environmental division in the Franklin county municipal court.
(A) The municipal courts established by section 1901.01 of the Revised Code have jurisdiction within the corporate limits of their respective municipal corporations, or, for the Clermont county municipal court, and, effective January 1, 2008, the Erie county municipal court, within the municipal corporation or unincorp…
(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (M) of this section, the judge or judges of any municipal court established under division (A) of section 1901.01 of the Revised Code having territorial jurisdiction outside the corporate limits of the municipal corporation in which it is located may sit outside the corporat…
In addition to the territorial jurisdiction conferred by section 1901.02 of the Revised Code, all municipal courts shall also have jurisdiction within the limits of the county or counties in which their territory is situated, except within the territorial jurisdiction of another municipal court, to appoint trustees to…
In addition to the territorial jurisdiction conferred by section 1901.02 of the Revised Code, the municipal courts of Ashtabula, Avon Lake, Cleveland, Conneaut, Erie county, Euclid, Huron, Lakewood, Lorain, Mentor, Oregon, Ottawa county, Painesville, Rocky River, Sandusky, Toledo, Vermilion, and Willoughby have jurisdi…
(A) The board of county commissioners of Hamilton county shall pay all of the costs of operation of the Hamilton county municipal court. Subject to sections 307.515, 4511.19, 4511.193, and 5503.04 of the Revised Code and to any other section of the Revised Code that requires a specific manner of disbursement of any mon…
The housing or environmental division of a municipal court created pursuant to section 1901.011 of the Revised Code has the same territorial jurisdiction as the municipal court of which it is a part, but shall be styled and known as the "housing division of the _________," or the "environmental division of the ________…
(A) The current operating costs of a municipal court, other than a county-operated municipal court, that has territorial jurisdiction under section 1901.02 or 1901.182 of the Revised Code that extends beyond the corporate limits of the municipal corporation in which the court is located shall be apportioned pursuant to…
In addition to the territorial jurisdiction conferred by section 1901.02 of the Revised Code, the municipal courts established in Athens, Batavia, Gallipolis, Georgetown, Cincinnati, Ironton, Chesapeake, Marietta, Portsmouth, and Steubenville and the municipal court established within Columbiana county that is describe…
(A) In the event of a natural or man-made disaster, civil disorder, or any extraordinary circumstance that interrupts or threatens to interrupt the orderly operation of a municipal court within the territorial jurisdiction of the court, the administrative judge of the court may issue an order authorizing the court to o…
As used in this chapter: (A) "Territory" means the geographical areas within which municipal courts have jurisdiction as provided in sections 1901.01 and 1901.02 of the Revised Code. (B) "Legislative authority" means the legislative authority of the municipal corporation in which a municipal court, other than a county-…
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, "municipal court" includes the housing or environmental division of the municipal court, and "judge" includes the judge of the housing or environmental division of the municipal court, as created by section 1901.011 of the Revised Code.
Upon the institution of a municipal court other than the Brown county municipal court or the Morrow county municipal court, the jurisdiction of the mayor in all civil and criminal causes terminates within the municipal corporation in which the municipal court is located. The institution of the Brown county municipal co…
(A) Except as authorized by or provided in division (B) of section 1901.181 of the Revised Code, all cases filed after the institution of a housing or environmental division of a municipal court and over which the division has jurisdiction shall be assigned by the administrative judge of the municipal court to the judg…
(A) The housing division of the Cleveland municipal court shall consist of one full-time judge. The judge of the housing division shall be elected specifically as the housing division judge and shall be the judge of the Cleveland municipal court whose term began January 2, 1978, and his successors.(B) The housing divis…
(A) A municipal judge during the judge's term of office shall be a qualified elector and a resident of the territory of the court to which the judge is elected or appointed. A municipal judge shall have been admitted to the practice of law in this state for at least one year preceding appointment or the commencement of…
(A) All municipal court judges shall be elected on the nonpartisan ballot for terms of six years. In a municipal court in which only one judge is to be elected in any one year, that judge's term commences on the first day of January after the election. In a municipal court in which two or more judges are to be elected…
The number of, and the time for election of, judges of the following municipal courts and the beginning of their terms shall be as follows: In the Akron municipal court, two full-time judges shall be elected in 1951, two full-time judges shall be elected in 1953, one full-time judge shall be elected in 1967, and one fu…
(A) In a municipal court having only one judge, that judge shall be designated as both the presiding judge and the administrative judge.(B) In a municipal court having two or more judges, the presiding and administrative judge shall be elected or designated as provided in the Rules of Superintendence for the Courts of…
(A) The judges of a municipal court and officers of the court shall take an oath of office as provided in section 3.23 of the Revised Code. (B) The office of judge of a municipal court is subject to forfeiture, and the judge may be removed from office, for the causes and by the procedure provided in sections 3.07 to 3.…
(A)(1) Beginning July 1, 1997, judges designated as part-time judges by section 1901.08 of the Revised Code, other than part-time judges to whom division (B)(1)(a) of this section applies, shall receive as compensation thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars each year in addition to the compensation payable from the…
(A) As used in this section, "health care coverage" means sickness and accident insurance or other coverage of hospitalization, surgical care, major medical care, disability, dental care, eye care, medical care, hearing aids, and prescription drugs, or any combination of those benefits or services.(B) The legislative a…
(A) A judge of a municipal court is entitled to thirty days of vacation in each calendar year. Not less than two hundred forty days of open session of the municipal court shall be held by each judge during the year, unless all business of the court is disposed of sooner. (B) If a municipal court consists of two or more…
(A)(1) If a vacancy occurs in the office of a judge of a municipal court that consists of only one judge or if the judge of a municipal court of that nature is incapacitated or unavailable due to disqualification, suspension, or recusal, the chief justice of the supreme court may assign a sitting judge of another court…