Effective: June 29, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 9 – 129th General Assembly All statutes of a permanent and general nature of the state as revised and consolidated into general provisions, titles, chapters, and sections shall be known and designated as the “Revised Code”, for which designation “R.C.” may be substituted. Except as otherwise provided […]
Effective: October 12, 2016 Latest Legislation: House Bill 158 – 131st General Assembly As used in the Revised Code, unless the context otherwise requires: (A) “Whoever” includes all persons, natural and artificial; partners; principals, agents, and employees; and all officials, public or private. (B) “Another,” when used to designate the owner of property which is […]
Effective: August 27, 1976 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1040 – 111th General Assembly As used in any section of the Revised Code for the violation of which there is provided a penalty or forfeiture, unless the context otherwise requires, “anything of value” includes: (A) Money, bank bills or notes, United States treasury notes, and other […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The standard time throughout this state shall be the mean astronomical time of the seventy-fifth degree of longitude west from Greenwich. Courts, public offices, and official legal proceedings subject to the laws of this state shall be regulated thereby. Whenever the time […]
Effective: September 29, 2015 Latest Legislation: House Bill 64 – 131st General Assembly (A) As used in the Revised Code, unless the context otherwise requires, “imprisoned” or “imprisonment” means being imprisoned under a sentence imposed for an offense or serving a term of imprisonment, prison term, jail term, term of local incarceration, or other term […]
Effective: January 1, 1974 Latest Legislation: House Bill 511 – 109th General Assembly Except as provided in sections 2909.11 and 2913.61 of the Revised Code, when an evidence of debt or a written instrument is the subject of a criminal act, the amount of money due on the evidence of debt or the written instrument […]
Effective: October 10, 2007 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 7 – 127th General Assembly As used in the Revised Code: (A) “Blighted area” and “slum” mean an area in which at least seventy per cent of the parcels are blighted parcels and those blighted parcels substantially impair or arrest the sound growth of the state or […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Remedial laws and all proceedings under them shall be liberally construed in order to promote their object and assist the parties in obtaining justice. The rule of the common law that statutes in derogation of the common law must be strictly construed […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When a special provision is made in a remedial law as to service, pleadings, competency of witnesses, or in any other respect inconsistent with the general provisions of sections of the Revised Code relating to procedure in the court of common pleas […]
Effective: September 30, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 110 – 134th General Assembly The time within which an act is required by law to be done shall be computed by excluding the first and including the last day; except that, when the last day falls on Sunday or a legal holiday, the act may be […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When an act is to take effect or become operative from and after a day named, no part of that day shall be included. If priority of legal rights depends upon the order of events of the same day, such priority shall […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When an officer or board of a county, township, or municipal corporation by ordinance, resolution, order, or other proceeding, in pursuance of a statute of the state, has authorized or caused the issue and delivery of any bonds, obligations, or instruments of […]
Effective: August 26, 1977 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 112th General Assembly (A) Wherever in a penalty section reference is made to a violation of a series of sections, or of divisions or subdivisions of a section, such reference shall be construed to mean a violation of any section, division, or subdivision included in […]
Effective: April 19, 1988 Latest Legislation: House Bill 708 – 117th General Assembly (A) In enacting any legislation with the stated purpose of correcting nonsubstantive errors in the Revised Code, it is the intent of the general assembly not to make substantive changes in the law in effect on the date of such enactment. A […]
Effective: January 1, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 339 – 133rd General Assembly In enacting H.B. 339 of the 133rd general assembly with the stated purpose of correcting nonsubstantive errors in the Revised Code, it is the intent of the general assembly not to make substantive changes in the law in effect on the date […]
Effective: September 14, 1995 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 98 – 121st General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) Language is “gender neutral” if it does not expressly or implicitly refer to one sex to the real or apparent exclusion of the other and expressly or implicitly refers to both sexes without distinguishing between […]
Effective: January 3, 1972 Latest Legislation: House Bill 607 – 109th General Assembly Sections 1.41 to 1.59, inclusive, of the Revised Code apply to all statutes, subject to the conditions stated in section 1.51 of the Revised Code, and to rules adopted under them.
Effective: January 3, 1972 Latest Legislation: House Bill 607 – 109th General Assembly Words and phrases shall be read in context and construed according to the rules of grammar and common usage. Words and phrases that have acquired a technical or particular meaning, whether by legislative definition or otherwise, shall be construed accordingly.
Effective: January 3, 1972 Latest Legislation: House Bill 607 – 109th General Assembly (A) The singular includes the plural, and the plural includes the singular. (B) Words of one gender include the other genders. (C) Words in the present tense include the future.
Effective: January 3, 1972 Latest Legislation: House Bill 607 – 109th General Assembly (A) “Week” means seven consecutive days. (B) “Year” means twelve consecutive months.
