Effective: March 17, 1987 Latest Legislation: House Bill 158 – 116th General Assembly There is hereby created in each county of the state, in which the territorial jurisdiction of a municipal court or municipal courts is not coextensive with the boundaries of the county, a court to be known as the county court. The county […]
Effective: December 18, 2002 Latest Legislation: House Bill 530 – 124th General Assembly In addition to the territorial jurisdiction conferred by section 1907.01 of the Revised Code, the county courts of Adams, Belmont, Jefferson, Meigs, and Monroe counties have jurisdiction beyond the north or northwest shore of the Ohio river extending to the opposite shore […]
Effective: August 17, 2006 Latest Legislation: House Bill 23 – 126th General Assembly In addition to other jurisdiction granted a county court in the Revised Code, a county court has jurisdiction over violations of township resolutions adopted pursuant to section 503.52 or 503.53 or Chapter 504. of the Revised Code. For procedural purposes, a case […]
Effective: July 3, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 62 – 133rd General Assembly (A)(1) In addition to other jurisdiction granted a county court in the Revised Code, a county court has jurisdiction of all misdemeanor cases. A county court has jurisdiction to conduct preliminary hearings in felony cases, to bind over alleged felons to the […]
Effective: July 1, 1997 Latest Legislation: House Bill 438 – 121st General Assembly (A) Under the restrictions and limitations of this chapter, county courts have exclusive original jurisdiction in civil actions for the recovery of sums not exceeding five hundred dollars and original jurisdiction in civil actions for the recovery of sums not exceeding fifteen […]
Effective: July 3, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 62 – 133rd General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in section 1907.03 of the Revised Code and in addition to the jurisdiction authorized in other sections of this chapter and in section 1909.11 of the Revised Code, a county court has original jurisdiction within its district […]
Effective: October 13, 2004 Latest Legislation: House Bill 368 – 125th General Assembly In addition to the jurisdiction authorized in other sections of this chapter, a county court has original jurisdiction in actions filed under section 3729.13 of the Revised Code.
Effective: March 23, 2015 Latest Legislation: House Bill 290 – 130th General Assembly (A) In the event of a natural or man-made disaster, civil disorder, or any extraordinary circumstance that interrupts or threatens to interrupt the orderly operation of a county court within the territorial jurisdiction of the court, the administrative judge of the court […]
Effective: July 1, 1997 Latest Legislation: House Bill 438 – 121st General Assembly County courts have jurisdiction in civil actions in which the title to real estate may be drawn in question as follows: (A) In actions for trespass on real estate in which the damages demanded do not exceed fifteen thousand dollars; (B) In […]
Effective: July 1, 1997 Latest Legislation: House Bill 438 – 121st General Assembly (A) County courts have exclusive, original jurisdiction in all cases of replevin in which the value of the specific personal property that is sought to be recovered does not exceed five hundred dollars and original have jurisdiction in all cases of replevin […]
Effective: July 1, 1997 Latest Legislation: House Bill 438 – 121st General Assembly When the balance claimed to be due on an open or unsettled account or on a bill, note, or bond, is fifteen thousand dollars or less, the party by whom the balance is claimed may commence an action for the balance before […]
Effective: March 17, 1987 Latest Legislation: House Bill 158 – 116th General Assembly In civil actions founded upon a bond or undertaking, a judge of a county court has jurisdiction coextensive with his county.
Effective: July 1, 1997 Latest Legislation: House Bill 438 – 121st General Assembly If a debtor appears before a county court, without process and confesses that the debtor is indebted a debt owed to a creditor, on the application of the creditor, the court shall render judgment on the confession against the debtor for a […]
Effective: March 17, 1987 Latest Legislation: House Bill 158 – 116th General Assembly Mayors retain jurisdiction in all criminal cases involving the violation of ordinances of their respective municipal corporations and in all criminal cases involving moving traffic violations occurring on state highways located within their respective municipal corporations, to be exercised concurrently with the […]
Effective: September 23, 2022 Latest Legislation: House Bill 518 – 134th General Assembly (A) Each county court district shall have the following county court judges, to be elected as follows: In the Adams county county court, one part-time judge shall be elected in 1982. In the Ashtabula county county court, one part-time judge shall be […]
Effective: September 10, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 487 – 129th General Assembly A county court judge, at the time of filing a nominating petition for the office or at the time of appointment to the office and during the judge’s term of office, shall be a qualified elector and a resident of the county […]
Effective: August 3, 1999 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 89 – 123rd General Assembly (A) In a county court district having only one judge, that judge shall be the presiding and administrative judge for that district. (B) In a county court district having two or more judges, the presiding and administrative judge shall be elected or […]
Effective: July 10, 2014 Latest Legislation: House Bill 261 – 130th General Assembly (A) A judge of a county court shall take an oath of office as provided in section 3.23 of the Revised Code. (B) The office of judge of a county court is subject to forfeiture, and a judge may be removed from […]
Effective: July 10, 2014 Latest Legislation: House Bill 261 – 130th General Assembly (A)(1) If a vacancy occurs in the office of a judge of a county court that consists of only one judge or if the judge of a county court of that nature is incapacitated or unavailable due to disqualification, suspension, or recusal, […]
Effective: July 10, 2014 Latest Legislation: House Bill 261 – 130th General Assembly (A) An acting judge appointed pursuant to division (A)(2)(a), (B)(1), or (C)(1) of section 1907.141 of the Revised Code shall receive reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses and a per diem compensation established by the incumbent judge, provided the per diem compensation […]
