1997 Regular Session (Ohio Session Laws)

AN ACT To amend sections 2907.01, 2907.02, 2907.03, 2907.05, 2929.13, and 2929.14 of the Revised Code to increase criminal penalties for gross sexual imposition when the offender administers a controlled substance to the victim surreptitiously or by force, threat of force, or deception; to make sexual battery a third degree felony in all circumstances; to modify the definition of sexual conduct;...

AN ACT To amend sections 305.03 and 5705.34 of the Revised Code to require the coroner to serve as county commissioner whenever two of a county's commissioners are absent because of illness or injury to require a county budget commission to include, in the information that it certifies to a taxing authority after completing its work on a tax budget, the expiration date of each tax levy

AN ACT To amend sections 133.09, 133.20, 717.07, 742.30, 742.37, 742.3715, 742.3718, and 742.39 and to enact sections 505.265 and 742.3720 of the Revised Code to increase the pensions payable to certain retirees and survivors of the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund, to allow a township to pay in a single payment its accrued liability to the Fund by entering into an agreement with...

AN ACT To amend sections 3316.06 and 3319.02 of the Revised Code to permit a school board to enter into administrative contracts with nonlicensed employees who are considered to be supervisory or management level employees for purposes of collective bargaining, to permit a school district that has been declared to be in a state of fiscal emergency to issue, following approval of the district...

AN ACT To amend section 153.56 and to enact section 4113.62 of the Revised Code to void various types of provisions of a construction contract or subcontract that are considered to be against public policy and to establish new requirements and limitations relative to exercising rights under a bond for certain public improvements

AN ACT To amend sections 5543.10 and 5543.14 of the Revised Code to authorize counties and townships under certain conditions to remove or trim trees, shrubs, and other vegetation located in or encroaching on sidewalk easements, to specify that counties and townships may remove or trim trees, shrubs, and other vegetation located in or encroaching on road rights-of-way without the consent of...

AN ACT To amend sections 4511.75 and 4549.99 of the Revised Code to increase the penalty for leaving the scene of an accident that results in serious physical harm or death and to require drivers of other vehicles to stop for any bus operated by an agency offering a Head Start program when the bus is equipped and marked as a school bus and is stopped to receive or discharge a child attending the...

AN ACT To amend sections 109.79, 119.12, 121.22, 503.41, 1785.01, 2151.421, 2317.02, 2925.01, 4713.01, 4713.12, 4713.14, 4730.10, 4730.12, 4730.25, 4730.26, 4730.27, 4730.31, 4730.32, 4730.34, 4731.08, 4731.13, 4731.142, 4731.15, 4731.151, 4731.16 to 4731.20, 4731.22, 4731.221, 4731.222, 4731.223, 4731.224, 4731.225, 4731.25, 4731.281, 4731.29, 4731.291, 4731.341, 4731.41, 4731.61, 4731.99, 4773.0

AN ACT To amend sections 2743.51 and 2929.01 of the Revised Code to include terrorism as criminally injurious conduct for purposes of the Crime Victims Reparations Awards Law

AN ACT To amend sections 109.21, 2923.32, 2923.35, 2925.03, 2933.41, 2933.43, and 2933.74 and to repeal sections 1727.04 and 5309.97 of the Revised Code and to repeal Section 3 of Sub. H.B. 444 of the 122nd General Assembly to eliminate the requirement that the Attorney General send to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives copies of reports of drugs or other...

AN ACT To amend sections 2929.02, 2929.05, 2929.06, 2949.28, 2949.29, and 2949.31 and to repeal sections 2949.30 and 2949.32 of the Revised Code to revise the mechanism for vacating a sentence of death because it is imposed upon an offender under 18 and to revise the mechanism for suspending the execution of a pregnant or insane offender who is sentenced to death

AN ACT To amend sections 3747.05 and 3747.06 and to enact section 3747.061 of the Revised Code to clarify that the Board of Directors of the Ohio Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facility Development Authority may select more than one contractor to execute the duties assigned to a contractor for the development and operation of such a facility and to make other changes in the statutes governing the...

AN ACT To amend sections 317.20, 1923.06, 3953.01, 3953.04, 3953.07, 5309.01, 5309.06, 5309.09, 5309.24, 5309.28, 5309.33, 5309.36, 5309.38, 5309.40, and 5309.76 and to enact sections 765.01 to 765.04, 1901.183, 3953.29, and 5309.281 of the Revised Code to aid in the eradication of urban and rural blight by authorizing municipal corporations within the jurisdiction of the environmental division...

AN ACT To amend sections 126.14, 131.35, 131.44, 133.06, 325.19, 703.21, 718.01, 3301.0711, 3302.03, 3313.646, 3313.841, 3313.842, 3313.975, 3313.98, 3314.03, 3314.07, 3314.08, 3317.01, 3317.013, 3317.02, 3317.021, 3317.022, 3317.023, 3317.024, 3317.029, 3317.0212, 3317.0213, 3317.0214, 3317.0215, 3317.0216, 3317.03, 3317.05, 3317.051, 3317.06, 3317.082, 3317.10, 3317.11, 3317.161, 3317.19, 3318.0

AN ACT To amend sections 2917.31 and 3313.482 of the Revised Code to increase the penalty for the offense of inducing panic when the public place involved in the offense is a school and to permit school districts that close or evacuate a school building as a result of a bomb threat to make up the time the school was closed, for purposes of compliance with the laws that specify the number of days...

AN ACT To amend sections 3307.38 and 3307.384 and to enact section 3307.4013 of the Revised Code to increase benefits under the State Teachers Retirement System, and to declare an emergency

AN ACT To amend sections 1907.24, 2303.201, 2743.70, 2949.091, 3109.14, 3316.03, 5705.12, 5705.29, 5705.35, 5705.36, 5705.38, 5705.41, 5709.61, 5733.33, 5747.51, and 5747.62; to amend, for the purpose of adopting a new section number as indicated in parentheses, section 5705.13 (5705.121); to enact new section 5705.13 and section 5705.131; and to repeal sections 305.23, 505.83, and 505.831 of the

AN ACT To amend section 2505.02 of the Revised Code to specify circumstances under which an order granting or denying a provisional remedy is a final appealable order and to specify that an order that determines whether an action may be maintained as a class action is a final appealable order

AN ACT To authorize the conveyance of two parcels of state-owned real estate located in Franklin County to the City of Columbus for construction of the West Columbus Local Protection Project, a k a the Franklinton Floodwall, to authorize the conveyance of any additional parcels of real estate necessary for the completion of the project, to authorize the conveyance of two parcels of state-owned...

AN ACT To amend sections 109.57, 109.58, 109.60, 311.07, 505.43, 737.04, and 737.041 of the Revised Code to expand the authority of a county sheriff to obtain aid from other specified political subdivisions, to expand a township's authority to obtain additional police protection by contract, to permit municipal corporations to allow their police officers to work in multijurisdictional drug, gang,

AN ACT To amend sections 111.15, 124.11, 141.02, 145.01, 145.30, 718.01, 1751.54, 3319.13, 3319.14, 3923.381, 3923.382, 4117.01, 4141.01, 4506.02, 4911.04, 5101.312, 5903.01, 5903.99, 5911.011, 5911.03, 5911.04, 5911.08, 5913.01, 5913.02, 5913.021, 5913.03, 5913.04, 5913.05, 5913.051, 5913.06, 5913.07, 5913.08, 5913.09, 5913.10, 5913.17, 5919.01, 5919.02, 5919.04, 5919.071, 5919.09, 5919.12, 5919.

AN ACT To amend sections 3745.11, 6103.22, 6109.01, 6109.04, 6109.07, 6111.14, 6121.01, 6121.04, and 6121.06 and to enact sections 6109.22, 6109.23, and 6109.24 of the Revised Code to authorize the Director of Environmental Protection to develop and implement a drinking water assistance loan program consistent with the federal Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996 and to receive and disburse

AN ACT To amend sections 3301.0710, 3301.0711, 3302.07, 3313.533, 3313.61, 3313.98, 3313.981, 3313.983, 3314.01, 3314.02, 3314.03, 3314.05, 3314.10, 3317.06, and 3317.064; to enact new sections 3302.01, 3302.02, 3302.03, 3302.04, and 3302.05 and sections 3313.534, 3313.603, 3313.608, 3313.609, 3313.6010, 3314.11, 3314.20, 3321.05, 3333.35, and 3365.15; and to repeal sections 3301.85, 3302.01, 3302

AN ACT To amend sections 3702.30, 3702.51, 3727.01, 4723.41, and 4751.05 and to enact sections 5.2213 and 3701.75 of the Revised Code to establish standards for using electronic signatures in health care records, to extend exemptions from hospital and nursing home regulations that apply to Christian Science sanatoriums to other institutions that meet similar criteria, to eliminate an extension on

AN ACT To amend section 5705.23 of the Revised Code to provide that when a voter-approved library tax is levied for a specific permanent improvement or class of improvements, the period for which notes may be issued in anticipation of the revenue be increased from five to ten years

AN ACT To amend sections 5107.02, 5115.03, 5120.17, and 5149.03 and to enact sections 3113.16, 5101.20, 5101.21, 5107.36, 5107.37, 5115.04, and 5120.37 of the Revised Code to deny eligibility for certain public assistance to fugitive felons and probation and parole violators; to require the Department of Human Services to exchange data with law enforcement agencies concerning fugitive felons and...

AN ACT To amend sections 4507.23 and 4507.24 of the Revised Code to exempt veterans who have a service-connected disability rated at 100% by the Veterans' Administration from payment of any application or service fees when obtaining a driver's license or motorized bicycle license, or fee for laminating such a license

AN ACT To amend section 5728.08 of the Revised Code to require the Highway Use Tax to be paid annually, instead of quarterly, on farm trucks that consume less than fifteen thousand gallons of motor fuel annually, and to allow the Highway Use Tax to be paid either annually or quarterly, at the option of the person liable for payment of the tax, on trucks that consume fifteen thousand gallons or...

AN ACT To enact sections 319.281 and 3709.091 of the Revised Code to require, in the absence of the landowner's objection, that the county auditor place as a lien on real property any unpaid household sewage disposal system operation permit or inspection fee that is certified to the auditor by a health district, and to authorize the county prosecutor to commence civil action to obtain such unpaid

AN ACT To amend sections 149.43, 169.03, 169.08, 329.12, 1336.07, 1336.08, 1349.01, 1533.82, 2105.18, 2151.23, 2151.231, 2151.33, 2151.49, 2301.34, 2301.35, 2301.353, 2301.356, 2301.357, 2301.358, 2301.36, 2301.37, 2301.371, 2301.373, 2301.374, 2705.02, 2919.21, 2919.231, 3103.03, 3103.031, 3105.18, 3105.21, 3107.01, 3107.06, 3107.064, 3109.05, 3109.12, 3109.19, 3111.02, 3111.03, 3111.04, 3111.06,