Ohio Revised Code Chapter 311 - Sheriff

• Section 311.01 - Election And Qualifications Of Sheriff.
  (A) A sheriff shall be elected quadrennially in each county. A sheriff shall hold office for a term of four years, beginning on the...
• Section 311.02 - Bond.
  The sheriff shall, within ten days after receiving his commission and before the first Monday of January next after his election, give a bond,...
• Section 311.03 - Absence, Sickness, Or Other Disability.
  When the sheriff, by reason of absence, sickness, or other disability, is incapable of serving any process required to be served, or by reason...
• Section 311.04 - Deputy Sheriffs.
  (A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B) (1) Subject to division...
• Section 311.05 - Conduct Of Deputies.
  The sheriff shall only be responsible for the neglect of duty or misconduct in office of any of his deputies if he orders, has...
• Section 311.06 - Location Of Sheriff's Office.
  (A) The sheriff's office shall be maintained at the county seat of justice, or at another location as provided in division (B) of this...
• Section 311.07 - General Powers And Duties Of Sheriff.
  (A) Each sheriff shall preserve the public peace and cause all persons guilty of any breach of the peace, within the sheriff's knowledge or...
• Section 311.08 - Execution And Return Of Process.
  (A) The sheriff shall, except as provided in division (B) of this section, execute every summons, order, or other process directed to him by...
• Section 311.09 - Indorsement On Writs.
  The sheriff shall indorse upon every writ or order the day and hour such writ or order was received by him. Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• Section 311.10 - Foreign Execution Docket.
  (A) There shall be kept in the office of the sheriff a foreign execution docket, furnished by the county, in which, on the receipt...
• Section 311.11 - Cashbook.
  There shall be kept in the office of the sheriff a cashbook, to be furnished by the county, in which, on receipt by him...
• Section 311.12 - Inspection Of Books - Certified Copy Of Entry - Fee.
  The books required to be kept by sections 311.01 to 311.23 of the Revised Code, shall be open to the search and inspection of...
• Section 311.13 - Books To Be Delivered To Successor.
  The books required to be kept by sections 311.01 to 311.23 of the Revised Code, shall not be removed from the sheriff's office. Such...
• Section 311.14 - Moneys, Books, And Papers To Be Delivered To Successor.
  Upon retiring from office, the sheriff shall pay over to his successor in office all moneys received by such sheriff and remaining in his...
• Section 311.15 - Process, Goods, And Prisoners To Be Delivered To Successor.
  When the term of office for which a sheriff has been elected expires, or he resigns or moves outside the county, such sheriff shall...
• Section 311.16 - Annual Report Of Sheriff.
  On the first Monday in September of each year, the sheriff shall make a certified statement to the board of county commissioners of all...
• Section 311.17 - Fees.
  Except as provided in a contract entered into under division (A) of section 3125.141 of the Revised Code, for the services specified in this...
• Section 311.171 - Fees For Sex Offender Registration And Notification.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Federal poverty level" means the income level represented by the poverty guidelines as revised annually by the...
• Section 311.172 - Fees For Sexual Offender Registration.
  (A) The sheriff shall charge a one-time fee of one hundred dollars when a person who, on or after the effective date of this...
• Section 311.18 - Mileage Fees On Foreign Process.
  When a sheriff returns, in any manner other than by himself or his deputy personally, any process issued from the court of common pleas...
• Section 311.19 - Fees Of Appraisers.
  In all cases in which an attachment is issued, the freeholders required to be called by the sheriff to appraise property shall be allowed...
• Section 311.20 - Allowance For Prisoners.
  On or before the twenty-first day of June of each year, the sheriff shall prepare and submit to the board of county commissioners a...
• Section 311.21 - Fees In Cases Relating To Dower.
  The sheriff shall be allowed fees as follows for service relating to dower: For summoning and swearing the board of county commissioners, traveling fees,...
• Section 311.22 - Service Of Process.
  The court or judge may, for good cause, appoint a person to serve a particular process or order, and such person shall have the...
• Section 311.23 - Adjournment Of Court.
  If the judge of the court of common pleas, or a quorum of the judges of the court of appeals, fails to attend at...
• Section 311.24 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-27-1981
• Section 311.25 - County Sheriffs' Standard Car-marking And Uniform Commission.
  A commission is hereby established to be known as the county sheriffs' standard car-marking and uniform commission. It shall consist of three members, not...
• Section 311.26 - Organization Of Commission.
  The county sheriffs' standard car-marking and uniform commission shall elect one of its members as president, who shall preside at its meetings and who...
• Section 311.27 - Members Receive No Compensation.
  The members of the county sheriffs' standard car-marking and uniform commission shall receive no compensation for their services. Effective Date: 09-27-1963 Related Legislative Provision:...
• Section 311.28 - Duties.
  The county sheriffs' standard car-marking and uniform commission shall prescribe a uniform of standard design and color for the use of all county sheriffs...
• Section 311.281 - Use Of Sheriff's Uniform And Vehicle Markings Prohibited.
  (A) No person, except a county sheriff or the deputies of a county sheriff, shall wear the badge, the standard uniform, or any distinctive...
• Section 311.29 - Contracts For Police Services.
  (A) As used in this section, "Chautauqua assembly" has the same meaning as in section 4511.90 of the Revised Code. (B) The sheriff may,...
• Section 311.30 - Parking Enforcement Unit.
  (A) The board of county commissioners may establish, by resolution, a parking enforcement unit within the office of the sheriff to operate in the...
• Section 311.301 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-06-1971
• Section 311.31 - Voluntary Motor Vehicle Decal Registration Program.
  (A) The board of county commissioners of a county may establish, by resolution, a voluntary motor vehicle decal registration program to be controlled and...
• Section 311.32 To 311.34 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-06-1971
• Section 311.37 - Regulation Of Transient Vendors.
  (A) No transient vendor, as defined in section 5739.17 of the Revised Code, who obtains a transient vendor's license pursuant to section 5739.17 of...
• Section 311.41 - Criminal Records Check And Incompetency Check Of Applicant.
  (A) (1) Upon receipt of an application for a concealed handgun license under division (C) of section 2923.125 of the Revised Code, an application...
• Section 311.42 - Sheriff's Concealed Handgun License Issuance Expense Fund.
  (A) Each county shall establish in the county treasury a sheriff's concealed handgun license issuance expense fund. The sheriff of that county shall deposit...
• Section 311.43 - Certification By A Chief Law Enforcement Officer.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Certification" means the participation and assent of the chief law enforcement officer necessary under federal law for...
• Section 311.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 311.13 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars and imprisoned in the county jail...

Last modified: October 10, 2016