Ohio · statute · Ohio Rev. Code ch. 5924 · 137 active provisions
As used in Chapter 5924. of the Revised Code unless the context otherwise requires: (A) "Organized militia" means the Ohio national guard, the Ohio naval militia, the Ohio military reserve, and the Ohio cyber reserve.(B) "Officer" means commissioned or warrant officer.(C) "Commissioned officer" includes a commissioned…
The following persons who are not in federal service are subject to this code: (A) Members of the organized militia, including Ohio national guard dual-status technicians during their normal duty hours;(B) Persons who have been placed on the state retired list pursuant to section 5913.07 or 5919.13 of the Revised Code;…
(A) Each person discharged from the organized militia who is later charged with having fraudulently obtained the discharge is, subject to section 5924.43 of the Revised Code, subject to trial by court-martial on that charge and is, after apprehension, subject to this code while in the custody of the military for that t…
(A) This code applies throughout the state. It also applies to all persons otherwise subject to this code while they are serving outside the state, and while they are going to and returning from such service outside the state, in the same manner and to the same extent as if they were serving inside the state.(B) Courts…
(A) The adjutant general shall appoint an officer of the Ohio national guard as state judge advocate. The officer shall be a member in good standing of the bar of this state and be eligible to be recognized as a colonel under regulations prescribed by the national guard bureau. (B) The adjutant general shall appoint ju…
(A) Apprehension is the taking of a person into custody. (B) Any person authorized by this code, or by regulations issued pursuant to this code, to apprehend persons subject to this code, any marshal of a court-martial appointed pursuant to the provisions of this code, and any peace officer authorized to do so by law m…
A peace officer having authority to apprehend offenders under the laws of the United States, or of a state, territory, commonwealth, or possession, or the District of Columbia may summarily apprehend a deserter from the organized militia and deliver the deserter into the custody of the organized militia.
(A) Arrest is the restraint of a person by an oral or written order, not imposed as a punishment for an offense, directing the person to remain within certain specified limits. Confinement is the physical restraint of a person that is imposed by order of competent authority and deprives the person of freedom pending di…
(A) Any person subject to this code charged with an offense under this code shall be ordered into arrest or confinement, as circumstances may require; but when charged only with an offense normally tried by a summary court-martial, such person shall not ordinarily be placed into confinement. When any person subject to…
(A) All persons subject to this code shall secure all property taken from the enemy for the service of the United States and this state and shall give notice and turn over to the proper authority without delay all captured or abandoned property in their possession, custody, or control. (B) Any person subject to this co…
Any person subject to this code who, with intent to deceive, signs any false record, return, regulation, order, or other official document, knowing it to be false, or makes any other false official statement knowing it to be false, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
Any person subject to this code who, without proper authority, does any of the following with regard to any military property of the United States or of this state shall be punished as a court-martial may direct: (A) Sells or otherwise disposes of the property;(B) Willfully or through neglect damages, destroys, or lose…
Any person subject to this code who willfully or recklessly wastes, spoils, or otherwise willfully and wrongfully destroys or damages any property other than military property of the United States or of the state shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
(A) No sheriff, keeper, or officer of a detention facility may refuse to receive or keep any prisoner committed to the sheriff's, keeper's, or officer's charge when the committing person furnishes a statement, signed by the committing person, of the offense charged against the prisoner. (B) A sheriff, keeper, or office…
(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, any person subject to this code who does any of the following shall be punished as a court-martial may direct: (1) Operates or physically controls any vehicle, aircraft, or vessel in a reckless or wanton manner;(2) Operates or physically controls any vehicle, aircraft, or ve…
Any person subject to this code, other than a sentinel or lookout, who is found drunk on duty shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
Any sentinel or lookout who is found drunk or sleeping on the sentinel's or lookout's post, or leaves it before the sentinel or lookout is regularly relieved, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
Any person subject to this code who for the purpose of avoiding work, duty, or service in the organized militia does either of the following shall be punished as a court-martial may direct: (A) Feigns physical or mental illness, physical disablement, or mental lapse; (B) Intentionally inflicts self-injury. Last updated…
Any person subject to this code who causes or participates in any riot or breach of the peace shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
Any person subject to this code who uses provoking or reproachful words or gestures toward any other person subject to this code shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
(A) As used in this section, "prohibited substance" means any of the following: (1) Opium, heroin, cocaine, amphetamine, lysergic acid diethylamide, methamphetamine, phencyclidine, barbituric acid, or marihuana or any compound or derivative of any of those substances;(2) Any substance not specified in division (A)(1) o…
(A) As used in this section: (1) "Affirmative defense" means any special defense that, although not denying that the accused committed the objective acts constituting the offense charged, denies, in whole or in part, criminal responsibility for those acts.(2) "Bodily harm" means any offensive touching of another, howev…
(A) Any person subject to this code who wrongfully takes, obtains, or withholds, by any means, from the possession of the owner or of any other person any money, personal property, or article of value of any kind:(1) With intent permanently to deprive or defraud another person of the use and benefit of property or to a…
Any person subject to this code who, with intent to defraud:(A) Falsely makes or alters any signature to, or any part of, any writing which would, if genuine, apparently impose a legal liability on another or change his legal right or liability to his prejudice; or(B) Utters, offers, issues, or transfers such a writing…
Any person subject to this code who communicates threats to another person with the intention thereby to obtain anything of value or any acquittance, advantage, or immunity is guilty of extortion and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.