Effective: April 6, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 388 – 131st General Assembly (A) In Georgetown in Brown county, in Mount Gilead in Morrow county, in any municipal corporation located entirely on an island in Lake Erie, and in all other municipal corporations having a population of more than two hundred, other than Batavia in […]
Effective: March 17, 1987 Latest Legislation: House Bill 158 – 116th General Assembly The provisions of Chapter 1907. of the Revised Code, insofar as they are relevant, apply in proceedings in a mayor’s court, if the municipal corporation in which the mayor’s court is located is within the jurisdiction of a county court.
Effective: August 17, 2006 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 8 – 126th General Assembly (A) The supreme court may adopt rules prescribing educational standards for mayors of municipal corporations who conduct a mayor’s court and who wish to exercise the jurisdiction granted by section 1905.01 of the Revised Code over a prosecution or criminal cause involving […]
Effective: December 2, 1996 Latest Legislation: House Bill 670 – 121st General Assembly (A) The supreme court may adopt rules prescribing educational standards and procedural and operational standards for mayors of municipal corporations who conduct a mayor’s court and who wish to exercise the jurisdiction granted by section 1905.01 of the Revised Code over a […]
Effective: July 1, 1997 Latest Legislation: House Bill 438 – 121st General Assembly (A) If a person who is charged with a violation of a law or an ordinance is brought before a mayor’s court and the violation charged is not within the jurisdiction of the court, as set forth in section 1905.01 of the […]
Effective: January 1, 2004 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 57 – 125th General Assembly (A) The mayor of a municipal corporation who conducts a mayor’s court shall register annually with the supreme court as provided in this division. The mayor shall file the registration on a form prescribed by the supreme court and not later than […]
Effective: July 25, 1990 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 131 – 118th General Assembly Neither the clerk of a mayor’s court, nor his deputy, nor a mayor’s court magistrate, shall be concerned as counsel or agent in the prosecution or defense of any case before the mayor’s court.
Effective: August 17, 2006 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 8 – 126th General Assembly (A) A mayor of a municipal corporation that has a mayor’s court may appoint a person as mayor’s court magistrate to hear and determine prosecutions and criminal causes in the mayor’s court that are within the jurisdiction of the mayor’s court, as […]
Effective: March 17, 1987 Latest Legislation: House Bill 158 – 116th General Assembly The chief of police of the city or village or a police officer of the city or village designated by him, or the marshal of a village shall attend the sittings of the mayor’s court to execute the orders and process of […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When two villages adjoin each other on opposite sides of the line of any railroad, the boundary line between such villages, except where otherwise established by law is along the middle of the right of way of such railroad.
Effective: July 25, 1990 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 131 – 118th General Assembly (A) The mayor of a municipal corporation has, within the corporate limits, all the powers conferred upon sheriffs to suppress disorder and keep the peace. (B) The mayor of a municipal corporation shall award and issue all writs and process that are […]
Effective: August 17, 2006 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 8 – 126th General Assembly The mayor of a municipal corporation that has a mayor’s court, and a mayor’s court magistrate, are entitled to suspend, and shall suspend, in accordance with sections 4510.02, 4510.07, and 4511.19 of the Revised Code, the driver’s or commercial driver’s license or […]
Effective: September 19, 2014 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 143 – 130th General Assembly (A)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code, if at the time of sentencing or at any time after sentencing a mayor’s court finds that a person who is found guilty of an offense is unable to pay costs, the court […]
Effective: July 25, 1990 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 131 – 118th General Assembly The mayor of a municipal corporation and a mayor’s court magistrate shall keep a docket. Neither the mayor of a municipal corporation nor a mayor’s court magistrate shall retain or receive for his own use any of the fines, forfeitures, fees, or […]
Effective: June 12, 1970 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 530 – 108th General Assembly Appeals from a mayor’s court may be taken to the municipal court or county court having jurisdiction within the municipal corporation.
Effective: June 12, 1970 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 530 – 108th General Assembly Within ten days from the time a mayor renders judgment, the appellant shall file with the mayor’s court a written notice of appeal designating the order or judgment appealed from and the court to which the appeal is taken. All further proceedings […]
Effective: June 12, 1970 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 530 – 108th General Assembly Upon the filing of the notice of appeal, the clerk of the mayor’s court shall make a certified transcript of the proceedings and deliver such transcript together with the original papers used on the trial, to the court to which the appeal […]
Effective: June 12, 1970 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 530 – 108th General Assembly An appeal from the mayor’s court to the municipal court or county court shall proceed as a trial de novo.
Effective: July 1, 2009 Latest Legislation: House Bill 525 – 127th General Assembly In cases for the violation of ordinances, the fees of witnesses shall be paid, on the certificate of the officer presiding at the trial, from the treasury of the municipal corporation. Witnesses shall be paid the fees and mileage provided for under […]
Effective: July 25, 1990 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 131 – 118th General Assembly The mayor or mayor’s court magistrate presiding at any trial under this chapter may punish contempts, compel the attendance of jurors and witnesses, and establish rules for the examination and trial of all cases brought before him, in the same manner as […]
