Ohio Revised Code Chapter 1901 - Municipal Court

• Section 1901.01 - Organization Of Municipal Courts.
  (A) There is hereby established a municipal court in each of the following municipal corporations: Akron, Alliance, Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Avon Lake, Barberton, Bedford,...
• Section 1901.011 - Housing Divisions - Environmental Division.
  There is hereby created a housing division in the Cleveland municipal court and in the Toledo municipal court, and an environmental division in the...
• Section 1901.02 - Jurisdiction Of Municipal Courts.
  (A) The municipal courts established by section 1901.01 of the Revised Code have jurisdiction within the corporate limits of their respective municipal corporations, or,...
• Section 1901.021 - Court Sitting Outside Corporate Limits Of Municipal Corporation.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (M) of this section, the judge or judges of any municipal court established under division (A) of...
• Section 1901.022 - Jurisdiction To Appoint Trustees To Receive And Distribute Earnings In Executions Against Property.
  In addition to the territorial jurisdiction conferred by section 1901.02 of the Revised Code, all municipal courts shall also have jurisdiction within the limits...
• Section 1901.023 - Extension Of Jurisdiction For Municipal Courts On South Shore Of Lake Erie.
  In addition to the territorial jurisdiction conferred by section 1901.02 of the Revised Code, the municipal courts of Ashtabula, Avon Lake, Cleveland, Conneaut, Euclid,...
• Section 1901.024 - Costs, Fees, Receipts Of County Municipal Courts.
  (A) The board of county commissioners of Hamilton county shall pay all of the costs of operation of the Hamilton county municipal court. Subject...
• Section 1901.025 - Jurisdiction Of Housing And Environmental Divisions.
  The housing or environmental division of a municipal court created pursuant to section 1901.011 of the Revised Code has the same territorial jurisdiction as...
• Section 1901.026 - Current Operating Costs Apportioned.
  (A) The current operating costs of a municipal court, other than a county-operated municipal court, that has territorial jurisdiction under section 1901.02 or 1901.182...
• Section 1901.027 - Ohio River Jurisdiction.
  In addition to the territorial jurisdiction conferred by section 1901.02 of the Revised Code, the municipal courts established in Athens, Batavia, East Liverpool, Gallipolis,...
• Section 1901.028 - Temporary Location Of Court In Event Of Emergency.
  (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...
• Section 1901.03 - Municipal Court Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) "Territory" means the geographical areas within which municipal courts have jurisdiction as provided in sections 1901.01 and 1901.02...
• Section 1901.031 - Terms Include Housing Or Environmental Division Of Municipal Court.
  As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, "municipal court" includes the housing or environmental division of the municipal court, and "judge"...
• Section 1901.04 - Transfer Of Pending Actions.
  Upon the institution of a municipal court other than the Brown county municipal court or the Morrow county municipal court, the jurisdiction of the...
• Section 1901.041 - Assignment And Referral Of Cases To Special Divisions Of Court.
  (A) Except as authorized by or provided in division (B) of section 1901.181 of the Revised Code, all cases filed after the institution of...
• Section 1901.05 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-08-1991
• Section 1901.051 - Housing And Environmental Division Judges Election.
  (A) The housing division of the Cleveland municipal court shall consist of one full-time judge. The judge of the housing division shall be elected...
• Section 1901.06 - Qualifications And Election Of Judge.
  A municipal judge during the judge's term of office shall be a qualified elector and a resident of the territory of the court to...
• Section 1901.07 - Term Of Office Of Judge - Nomination, Election.
  (A) All municipal court judges shall be elected on the nonpartisan ballot for terms of six years. In a municipal court in which only...
• Section 1901.08 - Election Of Judges.
  The number of, and the time for election of, judges of the following municipal courts and the beginning of their terms shall be as...
• Section 1901.09 - Presiding And Administrative Judge.
  (A) In a municipal court having only one judge, that judge shall be designated as both the presiding judge and the administrative judge. (B)...
• Section 1901.10 - Oath Of Office Required - Vacancy.
  (A) The judges of a municipal court and officers of the court shall take an oath of office as provided in section 3.23 of...
• Section 1901.11 - Compensation.
  (A) (1) Beginning July 1, 1997, judges designated as part-time judges by section 1901.08 of the Revised Code, other than part-time judges to whom...
• Section 1901.111 - Group Health Care Coverage For Municipal Court Judges.
  (A) As used in this section, "health care coverage" means sickness and accident insurance or other coverage of hospitalization, surgical care, major medical care,...
• Section 1901.12 - Vacation Period Of Judge.
  (A) A judge of a municipal court is entitled to thirty days of vacation in each calendar year. Not less than two hundred forty...
• Section 1901.121 - Appointment Of Assigned And Substitute Judges.
  (A) (1) If a vacancy occurs in the office of a judge of a municipal court that consists of only one judge or if...
• Section 1901.122 - Reimbursements And Compensation; Limitations.
  (A) (1) An acting judge appointed pursuant to division (A)(2)(a), (B)(1), or (C)(1) of section 1901.121 of the Revised Code shall receive reimbursement for...
• Section 1901.123 - Payment Of Compensation.
  (A) (1) Subject to reimbursement under division (B) of this section, the treasurer of the county in which a county-operated municipal court or other...
• Section 1901.13 - Powers Of The Court.
  (A) In any action or proceeding of which a municipal court has jurisdiction, the court or any judge of the court has the power...
• Section 1901.131 - Jurisdiction Of Housing Or Environmental Division.
  Whenever an action or proceeding is properly brought in the housing or environmental division of a municipal court, the division has jurisdiction to determine,...
• Section 1901.14 - Additional Powers Of Judges - Fees - Rules - Annual Report.
  (A) Municipal judges have the following powers and duties: (1) To perform marriage ceremonies anywhere in this state, take acknowledgment of deeds and other...
• Section 1901.141 - Special Constables.
  (A) (1) Upon the written application of the director of administrative services or of at least three freeholders of the territory, a municipal judge...
• Section 1901.15 - Powers Of The Presiding Municipal Judge.
  In addition to the exercise of all the powers of a municipal judge, the presiding municipal judge has the general supervision of the business...
• Section 1901.151 - Notice Of Insufficient Caseload.
  (A) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, upon a determination by the judge of the housing or environmental division...
• Section 1901.16 - Powers When More Than One Judge.
  When a municipal court consists of more than one judge: (A) The several municipal judges may sit separately or otherwise, as the presiding judge...
• Section 1901.17 - Monetary Jurisdiction.
  A municipal court shall have original jurisdiction only in those cases in which the amount claimed by any party, or the appraised value of...
• Section 1901.18 - Subject Matter Jurisdiction.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in this division or section 1901.181 of the Revised Code, subject to the monetary jurisdiction of municipal courts as...
• Section 1901.181 - Exclusive And Concurrent Jurisdiction Of Housing Or Environmental Divisions.
  (A) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this division and division (A)(2) of this section and subject to division (B) of this section, if...
• Section 1901.182 - Jurisdiction Over Violations Of Township Resolutions.
  In addition to other jurisdiction granted a municipal court in the Revised Code, a municipal court has jurisdiction over violations of township resolutions adopted...
• Section 1901.183 - Environmental Division Additional Jurisdiction.
  In addition to jurisdiction otherwise granted in this chapter, the environmental division of a municipal court shall have jurisdiction within its territory in all...
• Section 1901.184 - Jurisdiction Where Property Not Removed At Expiration Of Campsite Use Agreement.
  In addition to jurisdiction otherwise granted by this chapter, a municipal court shall have jurisdiction in actions filed under section 3729.13 of the Revised...
• Section 1901.185 - Jurisdiction To Foreclose Lien On Blighted Parcel.
  In addition to jurisdiction otherwise granted in this chapter, the environmental division, where established, of the municipal court shall have jurisdiction within its territory...
• Section 1901.19 - Jurisdictional Powers.
  (A) Subject to the monetary jurisdiction of municipal courts as set forth in section 1901.17 of the Revised Code and the subject matter jurisdiction...
• Section 1901.20 - Criminal And Traffic Jurisdiction.
  (A) (1) The municipal court has jurisdiction to hear misdemeanor cases committed within its territory and has jurisdiction over the violation of any ordinance...
• Section 1901.21 - Criminal And Civil Procedure - Bond.
  (A) In a criminal case or proceeding, the practice, procedure, and mode of bringing and conducting prosecutions for offenses shall be as provided in...
• Section 1901.22 - Civil Actions.
  Civil actions and proceedings in the municipal court shall be commenced pursuant to the Civil Rules by filing a complaint upon which summons or...
• Section 1901.23 - Issuance Of Writs And Process.
  Writs and process in a municipal court shall be served, returned, and publication made in the manner provided for service, return, and publication of...
• Section 1901.24 - Demand For Jury Trial - Number Of Jurors - Verdict.
  (A) A jury trial in a municipal court shall be demanded in the manner prescribed in the Rules of Civil Procedure or the Rules...
• Section 1901.25 - Selection And Impaneling Of Jury.
  A municipal court may provide by rule the manner in which jurors shall be chosen, and may provide that jurors to be used in...
• Section 1901.26 - Costs.
  (A) Subject to division (E) of this section, costs in a municipal court shall be fixed and taxed as follows: (1) (a) The municipal...
• Section 1901.261 - Computerizing Court Of Paying Cost Of Computerized Legal Research.
  (A) (1) A municipal court may determine that for the efficient operation of the court additional funds are required to computerize the court, to...
• Section 1901.262 - Rules For Procedures For Resolution Of Disputes.
  (A) A municipal court may establish by rule procedures for the resolution of disputes between parties. Any procedures so adopted shall include, but are...
• Section 1901.263 - Cancellation Of Uncollectible Debts.
  If at any time the court finds that an amount owing to the court is due and uncollectible, in whole or in part, the...
• Section 1901.27 - When Action Is Pending.
  An action is pending so as to charge third persons with notice of its pendency when summons has been served or the first publication...
• Section 1901.28 - Bond For Appeal.
  (A) A person against whom a judgment has been rendered may stay execution on the judgment by entering into a bond to the adverse...
• Section 1901.29 - No Term Of Court.
  There is no term in municipal court, but for the purpose of computing time, ninety days following judgment shall be considered within term and...
• Section 1901.30 - Appeals.
  Appeals from the municipal court may be taken as follows: (A) To the court of appeals in accordance with the Rules of Appellate Procedure...
• Section 1901.31 - Clerk Of Court.
  The clerk and deputy clerks of a municipal court shall be selected, be compensated, give bond, and have powers and duties as follows: (A)...
• Section 1901.311 - Branch Offices - Special Deputy Clerks.
  (A) A municipal court may establish one or more branch offices and may appoint a special deputy clerk to administer each branch office. Each...
• Section 1901.312 - Group Health Care Coverage For Clerks And Deputy Clerks.
  (A) As used in this section, "health care coverage" has the same meaning as in section 1901.111 of the Revised Code. (B) The legislative...
• Section 1901.313 - Posting Notice Of Federal Short Term Interest Rate.
  Upon receiving the notification of the interest rate per annum from the county auditor pursuant to section 319.19 of the Revised Code, the clerk...
• Section 1901.32 - Bailiffs.
  (A) The bailiffs and deputy bailiffs of a municipal court shall be provided for, and their duties are, as follows: (1) Except for the...
• Section 1901.33 - Court Employees.
  (A) The judge or judges of a municipal court may appoint one or more interpreters, one or more mental health professionals, one or more...
• Section 1901.331 - Housing Or Environmental Division Officers And Employees.
  (A) (1) Except as provided in divisions (A)(2) and (3) of this section, in those municipal courts in which a housing or environmental division...
• Section 1901.34 - Criminal Prosecutions - Compensation Of Prosecuting Officers.
  (A) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (D) of this section, the village solicitor, city director of law, or similar chief legal officer...
• Section 1901.35 - Transcript Of Records.
  The records of a municipal court may be proved by a transcript certified by the clerk of the municipal court under its official seal,...
• Section 1901.36 - Accommodations And Needs Of The Court.
  (A) The legislative authority of a municipal court shall provide suitable accommodations for the municipal court and its officers. The legislative authority of a...
• Section 1901.37 - Bonds.
  All official bonds required by sections 1901.01 to 1901.37 of the Revised Code, when properly executed and approved, shall be filed with the city...
• Section 1901.38 - Liability Coverage For Municipal Court Judges And Employees.
  The legislative authority may procure insurance covering the judges of the municipal court and the employees of the municipal court, including but not limited...
• Section 1901.381 - Liability Coverage For Municipal Court Clerk.
  (A) Each clerk of a municipal court shall have liability coverage as a condition of performing the duties of his office. (B) The legislative...
• Section 1901.41 - Case Files Retention And Destruction.
  (A) Notwithstanding sections 149.381 and 149.39 of the Revised Code and subject to division (E) of this section, each municipal court, by rule, may...
• Section 1901.43 - Order For Accused To Appear For Fingerprinting.
  (A) If a sheriff or chief of police has not taken, or caused to be taken, a person's or child's fingerprints in accordance with...
• Section 1901.44 - Alternative Methods For Collecting Court Costs; Notice Of Balance Due.
  (A) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code, if at the time of sentencing or at any time after sentencing a municipal...

Last modified: October 10, 2016