Ohio Revised Code Chapter 2305 - Jurisdiction; Limitation Of Actions

• Section 2305.01 - Jurisdiction In Civil Cases - Trial Transfer.
  Except as otherwise provided by this section or section 2305.03 of the Revised Code, the court of common pleas has original jurisdiction in all...
• Section 2305.011, 2305.012 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-06-2001
• Section 2305.02 - Wrongful Imprisonment Claim.
  The court of common pleas in the county where the underlying criminal action was initiated has exclusive, original jurisdiction to hear and determine a...
• Section 2305.03 - Lapse Of Time A Bar.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and unless a different limitation is prescribed by statute, a civil action may be...
• Section 2305.04 - Recovery Of Real Estate.
  An action to recover the title to or possession of real property shall be brought within twenty-one years after the cause of action accrued,...
• Section 2305.041 - Action For Breach Of Oil Or Gas Lease Or License.
  With respect to a lease or license by which a right is granted to operate or to sink or drill wells on land in...
• Section 2305.05 - Real Estate Dedicated To Public Uses.
  If a street or alley, or any part thereof, laid out and shown on the recorded plat of a municipal corporation, has not been...
• Section 2305.06 - Contract In Writing.
  Except as provided in sections 126.301 and 1302.98 of the Revised Code, an action upon a specialty or an agreement, contract, or promise in...
• Section 2305.07 - Contract Not In Writing - Statutory Liability.
  Except as provided in sections 126.301 and 1302.98 of the Revised Code, an action upon a contract not in writing, express or implied, or...
• Section 2305.08 - Partial Payment.
  If payment has been made upon any demand founded on a contract, or a written acknowledgment thereof, or a promise to pay it has...
• Section 2305.09 - Four Years - Certain Torts.
  Except as provided for in division (C) of this section, an action for any of the following causes shall be brought within four years...
• Section 2305.091 - Asbestos Actions By School Districts.
  (A) An action to obtain a judgment for any of the following shall be brought by a board of education of any school district...
• Section 2305.10 - Bodily Injury Or Injury To Personal Property.
  (A) Except as provided in division (C) or (E) of this section, an action based on a product liability claim and an action for...
• Section 2305.101 - Limitation Of Actions Against Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust.
  (A) Notwithstanding the limitations provided for in sections 2125.02 and 2305.10 of the Revised Code, a claimant who alleges bodily injury or wrongful death...
• Section 2305.11 - Time Limitations For Bringing Certain Actions.
  (A) An action for libel, slander, malicious prosecution, or false imprisonment, an action for malpractice other than an action upon a medical, dental, optometric,...
• Section 2305.111 - Assault Or Battery Actions - Childhood Sexual Abuse.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Childhood sexual abuse" means any conduct that constitutes any of the violations identified in division (A)(1)(a) or...
• Section 2305.112 - Actions Based On Identity Fraud.
  A civil action brought pursuant to division (A) of section 2307.60 of the Revised Code when the person filing the action is injured in...
• Section 2305.113 - Medical Malpractice Actions.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, an action upon a medical, dental, optometric, or chiropractic claim shall be commenced within one year...
• Section 2305.114 - Partial Birth Feticide Actions.
  A civil action pursuant to section 2307.53 of the Revised Code for partial birth feticide shall be commenced within one year after the commission...
• Section 2305.115 - Assault Or Battery Actions Against Mental Health Professional Based On Sexual Conduct Or Contact.
  (A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, an action for assault or battery shall be brought within two years after the...
• Section 2305.116 - No Cause Of Action For Failure To Perform Abortion.
  (A) No person has a civil action or may receive an award of damages in a civil action, and no other person shall be...
• Section 2305.12 - On Official Bond.
  An action on the official bond, or undertaking of an officer, assignee, trustee, executor, administrator, or guardian, or on a bond or undertaking given...
• Section 2305.121 - Actions Concerning Certain Revocable Trusts.
  This section amended and renumbered 5806.04 effective 01-01-2007 (A) Any of the following actions pertaining to a revocable trust that is made irrevocable by...
• Section 2305.13 - Limitation Of Actions For Recovery Of Charges By And Against Carriers - Overcharge Defined.
  All actions by carriers for recovery of their charges or part thereof, arising out of the intrastate transportation of persons or property in this...
• Section 2305.131 - Ten-year Statute Of Repose For Certain Premises Liability Actions.
  (A) (1) Notwithstanding an otherwise applicable period of limitations specified in this chapter or in section 2125.02 of the Revised Code and except as...
• Section 2305.14 - For Other Relief.
  An action for relief not provided for in sections 2305.04 to 2305.131 and section 1304.35 of the Revised Code shall be brought within ten...
• Section 2305.15 - Tolling During Defendant's Absence, Concealment Or Imprisonment.
  (A) When a cause of action accrues against a person, if the person is out of the state, has absconded, or conceals self, the...
• Section 2305.16 - Tolling Due To Minority Or Unsound Mind.
  Unless otherwise provided in sections 1302.98, 1304.35, and 2305.04 to 2305.14 of the Revised Code, if a person entitled to bring any action mentioned...
• Section 2305.17 - Commencement Of Action.
  An action is commenced within the meaning of sections 2305.03 to 2305.22 and sections 1302.98 and 1304.35 of the Revised Code by filing a...
• Section 2305.18 - Summons On Corporation In Hands Of A Receiver.
  If a defendant is a corporation, either foreign or domestic, and whether its charter prescribes the manner and place of service, or either, and...
• Section 2305.19 - Saving In Case Of Reversal.
  (A) In any action that is commenced or attempted to be commenced, if in due time a judgment for the plaintiff is reversed or...
• Section 2305.20 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 11-05-1965
• Section 2305.21 - Survival Of Actions.
  In addition to the causes of action which survive at common law, causes of action for mesne profits, or injuries to the person or...
• Section 2305.22 - Exceptions.
  Sections 2305.03 to 2305.21, 1302.98, and 1304.35 of the Revised Code, respecting lapse of time as a bar to suit, do not apply in...
• Section 2305.23 - Liability For Emergency Care.
  No person shall be liable in civil damages for administering emergency care or treatment at the scene of an emergency outside of a hospital,...
• Section 2305.231 - Immunity Of Health Professionals Volunteering Services To School Athletic Program.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Dentist" means a person who is licensed under Chapter 4715. of the Revised Code to practice dentistry....
• Section 2305.232 - Immunity Of Person Assisting In Clean-up Of Hazardous Material.
  (A) No person who gives aid or advice in an emergency situation relating to the prevention of an imminent release of hazardous material, to...
• Section 2305.233 - Immunity Of Person Rendering Assistance Under Reciprocal Fire Protection Agreement.
  (A) No officer or employee as defined in section 109.36 of the Revised Code, or employee as defined in section 2744.01 of the Revised...
• Section 2305.234 - Immunity Of Volunteer Health Care Professionals And Workers And Of Nonprofit Shelters And Facilities.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Chiropractic claim," "medical claim," and "optometric claim" have the same meanings as in section 2305.113 of the...
• Section 2305.235 - Immunity Of Person Involved With Providing Automated External Defibrillation.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Automated external defibrillation" means the process of applying a specialized defibrillator to a person in cardiac arrest,...
• Section 2305.236 - Immunity Concerning Domestic Violence Shelter Definitions.
  As used in sections 2305.236 to 2305.239 of the Revised Code: (A) "Conduct" means actions or omissions. (B) "Domestic violence," "shelter," and "shelter for...
• Section 2305.237 - Immunity Of Domestic Violence Shelter And Associated Persons Concerning Torts Committed On Shelter Premises.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and subject to section 2305.239 of the Revised Code, a shelter for victims of...
• Section 2305.238 - Immunity Where Tort Committed Off Domestic Violence Shelter Premises.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and subject to section 2305.239 of the Revised Code, a shelter for victims of...
• Section 2305.239 - No New Cause Of Action Or Substantive Legal Rights Created - Effect On Other Laws.
  (A) Sections 2305.237 and 2305.238 of the Revised Code do not create a new cause of action or substantive legal right against a shelter...
• Section 2305.2341 - Medical Liability Insurance Reimbursement Program.
  (A) The medical liability insurance reimbursement program is hereby established. Free clinics and federally qualified health center look-alikes, including the clinics' and centers' staff...
• Section 2305.24 - Information Furnished To Quality Assurance Or Utilization Committee To Be Confidential.
  Any information, data, reports, or records made available to a quality assurance committee or utilization committee of a hospital or long-term care facility or...
• Section 2305.25 - Peer Review Committee Definitions.
  As used in this section and sections 2305.251 to 2305.253 of the Revised Code: (A) (1) "Health care entity" means an entity, whether acting...
• Section 2305.251 - Peer Review Committee Immunity.
  (A) No health care entity shall be liable in damages to any person for any acts, omissions, decisions, or other conduct within the scope...
• Section 2305.252 - Confidentiality Of Proceedings And Records Within Scope Of Peer Review Committee Of Health Care Entity.
  (A) Proceedings and records within the scope of a peer review committee of a health care entity shall be held in confidence and shall...
• Section 2305.253 - Incident Or Risk Management Report Not Admissible Or Discoverable.
  (A) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of section 149.43, 1751.21, 2305.24, 2305.25, 2305.251, 2305.252, or 2305.28 of the Revised Code, an incident report or risk...
• Section 2305.26 - Action To Enforce Lien - Limitations - Notice Of Continuation.
  (A) An action by the state or an agency or political subdivision of the state to enforce a lien upon real or personal property...
• Section 2305.27 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 04-11-2003
• Section 2305.28 - Peer Or Professional Standards Review Committee Or Counseling And Assistance Committee Of A Professional Organization Not Liable For Actions Taken.
  (A) As used in this section, "counseling and assistance committee" means a committee of a professional organization whose purpose is to render counseling and...
• Section 2305.29 - No Civil Liability For Breach Of A Promise To Marry, Alienation Of Affections, Or Criminal Conversation.
  No person shall be liable in civil damages for any breach of a promise to marry, alienation of affections, or criminal conversation, and no...
• Section 2305.31 - Promisee Indemnified Against Damage Liability.
  A covenant, promise, agreement, or understanding in, or in connection with or collateral to, a contract or agreement relative to the design, planning, construction,...
• Section 2305.32 - Sponsoring Employer In Ridesharing Arrangements Not Liable.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Ridesharing arrangement" means the transportation of persons in a motor vehicle where such transportation is incidental to...
• Section 2305.321 - Certain Equine Activities No Liability.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Equine" means a horse, pony, mule, donkey, hinny, zebra, zebra hybrid, or alpaca. (2) (a) "Equine activity"...
• Section 2305.33 - Physician Reporting To Public Transportation Employer Employee's Use Of A Drug Of Abuse No Liability.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Bus" has the same meaning as in section 4511.78 of the Revised Code. (2) "Business of public...
• Section 2305.34 - Hydrant Failure Of Nonprofit Corporation Or Water And Sewer District No Liability.
  (A) Neither a nonprofit corporation organized under Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code that owns or operates a water supply or waterworks that regularly...
• Section 2305.35 - Donor Not Liable For Injuries To Gleaner.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Agency" has the same meaning as in section 2305.37 of the Revised Code. (2) "Donor" means an...
• Section 2305.36 - Limited Immunity For Injury Due To Cumulative Consumption, Weight Gain, Or Obesity.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Cumulative consumption" means, with respect to a health condition, any health condition, including, but not limited to,...
• Section 2305.37 - Person Donating Perishable Food For Distribution To Needy Individuals Not Liable For Injuries.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Agency" means any nonhospital, charitable nonprofit corporation that is organized and operated pursuant to Chapter 1702. of...
• Section 2305.38 - Uncompensated Volunteers Of Nonprofit Charitable Organizations No Liability.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Charitable organization" means either of the following: (a) Any charitable nonprofit corporation that is organized and operated...
• Section 2305.381, 2305.382 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-06-2001
• Section 2305.39 - Non-responsible Persons Responding To Oil Spill Not Liable.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Damages" means damages of any kind for which liability may exist under the laws of this state...
• Section 2305.40 - Owner, Lessee, Or Renter Of Real Property Not Liable To Trespasser.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Firearm" has the same meaning as in section 2923.11 of the Revised Code. (2) "Tort action" means...
• Section 2305.401 - Member Of The Firearms Industry Not Liable For Harm Sustained As A Result Of The Operation Or Discharge Of Firearm.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Ammunition" means any projectile capable of being expelled or propelled from a firearm by the action of...
• Section 2305.402 - Duties Owed To Trespassers.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Possessor of real property" means the owner, lessee, renter, or other occupant of real property. (2) "Tort...
• Section 2305.41 - Duties To Disabled Persons Definitions.
  As used in sections 2305.41 to 2305.49 of the Revised Code: (A) "Disabled condition" means the condition of being unconscious, semiconscious, incoherent, or otherwise...
• Section 2305.42 - Identifying Devices.
  (A) A person who suffers from epilepsy, diabetes, a cardiac condition, or any other type of illness that causes temporary blackouts, semiconscious periods, or...
• Section 2305.43 - Duty Of Law Enforcement Officer.
  (A) A law enforcement officer shall make a diligent effort to determine whether any disabled person he finds is an epileptic or a diabetic,...
• Section 2305.44 - Duty Of Medical Practitioner.
  (A) A medical practitioner or a trained paramedic, in discharging his duty to a disabled person whom he has undertaken to examine or treat,...
• Section 2305.45 - Duty Of Others.
  (A) A person, other than a law enforcement officer, medical practitioner, or a trained paramedic, who finds a disabled person shall make a reasonable...
• Section 2305.46 - False Identifying Information.
  (A) No person, with purpose to deceive, shall provide, wear, use, or possess a false identifying device or identification card. (B) Whoever violates division...
• Section 2305.47 - Other Duties.
  The duties imposed by sections 2305.41 to 2305.49 of the Revised Code are in addition to, and not in limitation of, other duties existing...
• Section 2305.48 - Uniformity Of Application.
  Sections 2305.41 to 2305.49 of the Revised Code shall be so applied and construed as to effectuate its [their] general purpose to make uniform...
• Section 2305.49 - Title And Citation.
  Sections 2305.41 to 2305.49 of the Revised Code may be cited as the "uniform duties to disabled persons act." Effective Date: 09-30-1976
• Section 2305.51 - Mental Health Professional Or Organization Not Liable For Violent Behavior By Client Or Patient.
  (A) (1) As used in this section: (a) "Civil Rights" has the same meaning as in section 5122.301 of the Revised Code. (b) "Mental...

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