Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly There shall be elected quadrennially in each county, a prosecuting attorney, who shall hold his office for four years, beginning on the first Monday of January next after his election.
Effective: August 19, 1992 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 243 – 119th General Assembly No person shall be eligible as a candidate for the office of prosecuting attorney, or shall be elected to such office, who is not an attorney at law licensed to practice law in this state. No prosecuting attorney shall be a member […]
Effective: March 20, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 291 – 132nd General Assembly Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, before entering upon the discharge of the official duties of the prosecuting attorney, the prosecuting attorney shall give a bond, signed by a bonding or surety company approved by the court […]
Effective: September 16, 2004 Latest Legislation: House Bill 252 – 125th General Assembly On complaint, in writing, signed by one or more taxpayers, containing distinct charges and specifications of wanton and willful neglect of duty or gross misconduct in office by the prosecuting attorney, supported by affidavit and filed in the court of common pleas, […]
Effective: March 2, 1994 Latest Legislation: House Bill 285 – 120th General Assembly (A) On or before the first Monday in January of each year, the judge of the court of common pleas or, if there is more than one judge, the judges of the court of common pleas in joint session may fix an […]
Effective: October 24, 1969 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 94 – 108th General Assembly The prosecuting attorney may appoint secret service officers whose duty it shall be to aid him in the collection and discovery of evidence to be used in the trial of criminal cases and matters of a criminal nature. Such appointment shall be […]
Effective: July 1, 2007 Latest Legislation: House Bill 241 – 126th General Assembly (A) The prosecuting attorney may inquire into the commission of crimes within the county. The prosecuting attorney shall prosecute, on behalf of the state, all complaints, suits, and controversies in which the state is a party, except for those required to be […]
Effective: November 2, 2018 Latest Legislation: House Bill 34 – 132nd General Assembly (A) The prosecuting attorney shall be the legal adviser of the board of county commissioners, board of elections, all other county officers and boards, and all tax-supported public libraries, and any of them may require written opinions or instructions from the prosecuting […]
Effective: October 6, 2009 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 79 – 128th General Assembly Sections 309.08 and 309.09 of the Revised Code do not prevent a school board from employing counsel to represent it, but when counsel is employed, the counsel shall be paid by the school board from the school fund. Sections 309.08 and 309.09 […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The prosecuting attorney shall prepare, in legal form, the official bonds for all county officers, and shall see that the acceptance of such bonds by the proper authorities, the signing thereof, and all the indorsements thereon, are in conformity to law, and […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Upon being satisfied that funds of the county, or public moneys in the hands of the county treasurer or belonging to the county, are about to be or have been misapplied, or that any such public moneys have been illegally drawn or […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly If the prosecuting attorney fails, upon the written request of a taxpayer of the county, to make the application or institute the civil action contemplated in section 309.12 of the Revised Code, the taxpayer may make such application or institute such civil […]
Effective: July 1, 1985 Latest Legislation: House Bill 201 – 116th General Assembly When trees standing or growing on any land belonging to the state, or to any school district, are, without lawful authority, cut down, or in any way injured, the prosecuting attorney shall prosecute the wrongdoer, and shall seize all timber so cut […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly On or before the first day of September in each year, if so required by the attorney general by a written notice given on or before the first day of August, the prosecuting attorney shall transmit to the attorney general a report […]
Effective: July 31, 1980 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 198 – 113th General Assembly (A) On the first Monday of September in each year, each prosecuting attorney shall make a certified statement to the board of county commissioners specifying: (1) The number of criminal prosecutions pursued to final conviction and sentence under his official care, during […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When the prosecuting attorney of a county is informed that a person has in his possession money or other property belonging to a person found dead within such county, upon whose estate no letters of administration have been issued, the prosecuting attorney, […]
Effective: September 30, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 86 – 129th General Assembly (A) If a prosecuting attorney of a county receives notice from the sheriff of the county pursuant to section 341.011 of the Revised Code that a person indicted for or otherwise charged with an offense of violence that is a felony and […]
