Ohio · statute · Ohio Rev. Code ch. 2707 · 7 active provisions
If an execution or order of sale directed to an officer comes to his hands to be executed, and he neglects or refuses to execute it; or if he neglects or refuses to sell property of any kind which, by a writ or order, he is directed to sell; or fails to call an inquest, or to return to the clerk's office a copy of the…
If the officer resides in the county in which the motion mentioned in section 2707.01 of the Revised Code is made, notice shall be served upon him at least two days before it is heard. If he is an officer of another county, the notice shall be served upon him, or left at his office, at least fifteen days before the fir…
If an officer fails to execute a summons, order, execution, or other process directed to him, or to return it, as required by law, unless he makes it appear, to the satisfaction of the court, that he was prevented by unavoidable accident from so doing, he shall be amerced, upon motion and notice, as provided in section…
If a clerk of a court neglects or refuses, on demand, to pay, to the person entitled thereto, money by him received in his official capacity for the use of such person, he may be amerced, on motion and notice as provided in sections 2707.01 and 2707.02 of the Revised Code.
When the cause of amercement is the refusal to pay over money collected, the officer shall not be amerced in a greater sum than the amount withheld, with ten per cent thereon.
A surety of an officer may be made party to the judgment rendered against such officer under sections 2707.01 to 2707.05, inclusive, of the Revised Code, by action, but the goods and chattels, and lands and tenements, of such surety shall not be liable to execution when sufficient goods and chattels, and lands and tene…
If an officer who is amerced has not collected the amount of the original judgment, he may sue out an execution and collect, for his own use, the amount of the judgment, in the name of the original plaintiff.