Effective: October 2, 1969 Latest Legislation: House Bill 279 – 108th General Assembly In each city there shall be a department of public safety, which shall be administered by a director of public safety. The director shall be appointed by the mayor and need not be a resident of the city at the time of […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Under the direction of the mayor, the director of public safety shall be the executive head of the police and fire departments and the chief administrative authority of the charity, correction, and building departments. He shall have all powers and duties connected […]
Effective: November 1, 1965 Latest Legislation: House Bill 927 – 106th General Assembly The legislative authority of a city may create and abolish, by ordinance, a division of traffic engineering and safety within the department of public safety. The director of public safety of such city shall be the executive head of such division. He […]
Effective: September 29, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 153 – 129th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) “Occupy or use,” with respect to a public way, means to create parking spaces and install, repair, maintain, replace, and operate parking meters or other similar devices for the purpose of providing on-street parking. (2) […]
Effective: September 28, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 509 – 129th General Assembly The director of public safety shall manage and make all contracts with reference to police stations, fire houses, reform schools, infirmaries, hospitals other than municipal hospitals operated pursuant to Chapter 749. of the Revised Code, workhouses, farms, pesthouses, and all other charitable […]
Effective: September 29, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 153 – 129th General Assembly The legislative authority of any municipal corporation, in order to obtain police protection or to obtain additional police protection, or to allow its police officers to work in multijurisdictional drug, gang, or career criminal task forces, may enter into contracts with one […]
Effective: September 29, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 153 – 129th General Assembly The police department of any municipal corporation may provide police protection to any county, municipal corporation, township, township police district, or joint police district of this state, to a park district created pursuant to section 511.18 or 1545.01 of the Revised Code, […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The police department of each city shall be composed of a chief of police and such other officers, patrolmen, and employees as the legislative authority thereof provides by ordinance. The director of public safety of such city shall have the exclusive management […]
Effective: July 13, 1990 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 174 – 118th General Assembly (A) The legislative authority of a city may establish, by ordinance, an auxiliary police unit within the police department of the city, and provide for the regulation of auxiliary police officers. The director of public safety shall be the executive head of […]
Effective: January 1, 2004 Latest Legislation: House Bill 490 – 124th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, “felony” has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) The director of public safety shall not appoint a person as a chief of police, a member of the police department of […]
Effective: May 6, 1963 Latest Legislation: House Bill 121 – 105th General Assembly The chief of police shall have exclusive control of the stationing and transfer of all patrolmen, auxiliary police officers, and other officers and employees in the police department, and police auxiliary unit, under such general rules and regulations as the director of […]
Effective: November 19, 1969 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 28 – 108th General Assembly In each city, except in case of necessary appearances in court and emergency special duty assignments, not to exceed eight hours constitute a day’s work and not to exceed forty-four hours constitute a week’s work for policemen. Annually, in each city, each […]
Effective: April 5, 2007 Latest Legislation: House Bill 401 – 126th General Assembly (A) The fire department of each city shall be composed of a chief of the fire department and other officers, firefighters, and employees provided for by ordinance. Neither this section nor any other section of the Revised Code requires, or shall be […]
Effective: April 9, 2003 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 258 – 124th General Assembly (A) The fire chief of a city fire department may request the superintendent of BCII to conduct a criminal records check with respect to any person who is under consideration for appointment or employment as a permanent, full-time paid firefighter or any […]
Effective: March 23, 2015 Latest Legislation: House Bill 201 – 130th General Assembly A volunteer firefighter appointed pursuant to this chapter is a bona fide volunteer and not an employee for purposes of section 513 of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” 124 Stat. 119 (2010), 26 U.S.C. 4980H, if, for providing those fire […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The chief of the fire department shall have exclusive control of the stationing and transferring of all firemen and other officers and employees in the department, under such general rules and regulations as the director of public safety prescribes.
Effective: January 17, 1977 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 545 – 111th General Assembly In case of riot or other like emergency, the mayor may appoint additional patrolmen and officers for temporary service in the police department, or additional firemen and officers for temporary service in the fire department, who need not be in the classified […]
Effective: July 29, 1998 Latest Legislation: House Bill 302 – 122nd General Assembly The police force of a municipal corporation shall preserve the peace, protect persons and property, and obey and enforce all ordinances of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, all criminal laws of the state and the United States, all court orders […]
Effective: July 1, 1985 Latest Legislation: House Bill 201 – 116th General Assembly All fines imposed as discipline or punishment upon members of the police department of a municipal corporation by the authority having charge or control thereof, all rewards, fees, or proceeds of gifts and emoluments allowed by such authority paid and given for […]
Effective: July 1, 1985 Latest Legislation: House Bill 201 – 116th General Assembly All fines imposed as discipline or punishment upon members of the fire department of a municipal corporation by the authority having charge or control thereof, the proceeds of all suits for penalties for the violation of state statutes and municipal ordinances with […]
