Ohio Revised Code Chapter 2929 - Penalties And Sentencing

• Section 2929.01 - Penalties And Sentencing General Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) (1) "Alternative residential facility" means, subject to division (A)(2) of this section, any facility other than an offender's...
• Section 2929.02 - Murder Penalties.
  (A) Whoever is convicted of or pleads guilty to aggravated murder in violation of section 2903.01 of the Revised Code shall suffer death or...
• Section 2929.021 - Notice To Supreme Court Of Indictment Charging Aggravated Murder With Aggravating Circumstances.
  (A) If an indictment or a count in an indictment charges the defendant with aggravated murder and contains one or more specifications of aggravating...
• Section 2929.022 - Sentencing Hearing - Determining Existence Of Aggravating Circumstance.
  (A) If an indictment or count in an indictment charging a defendant with aggravated murder contains a specification of the aggravating circumstance of a...
• Section 2929.023 - Raising The Matter Of Age At Trial.
  A person charged with aggravated murder and one or more specifications of an aggravating circumstance may, at trial, raise the matter of his age...
• Section 2929.024 - Investigation Services And Experts For Indigent Defendant.
  If the court determines that the defendant is indigent and that investigation services, experts, or other services are reasonably necessary for the proper representation...
• Section 2929.03 - Imposition Of Sentence For Aggravated Murder.
  (A) If the indictment or count in the indictment charging aggravated murder does not contain one or more specifications of aggravating circumstances listed in...
• Section 2929.04 - Death Penalty Or Imprisonment - Aggravating And Mitigating Factors.
  (A) Imposition of the death penalty for aggravated murder is precluded unless one or more of the following is specified in the indictment or...
• Section 2929.05 - Supreme Court Review Upon Appeal Of Sentence Of Death.
  (A) Whenever sentence of death is imposed pursuant to sections 2929.03 and 2929.04 of the Revised Code, the court of appeals, in a case...
• Section 2929.06 - Resentencing Hearing.
  (A) If a sentence of death imposed upon an offender is set aside, nullified, or vacated because the court of appeals, in a case...
• Section 2929.11 - Purposes Of Felony Sentencing.
  (A) A court that sentences an offender for a felony shall be guided by the overriding purposes of felony sentencing. The overriding purposes of...
• Section 2929.12 - Seriousness Of Crime And Recidivism Factors.
  (A) Unless otherwise required by section 2929.13 or 2929.14 of the Revised Code, a court that imposes a sentence under this chapter upon an...
• Section 2929.13 - Sanction Imposed By Degree Of Felony.
  (A) Except as provided in division (E), (F), or (G) of this section and unless a specific sanction is required to be imposed or...
• Section 2929.14 - Definite Prison Terms.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B)(1), (B)(2), (B)(3), (B)(4), (B)(5), (B)(6), (B)(7), (B)(8), (E), (G), (H), or (J) of this section or in...
• Section 2929.141 - Person On Release Committing A Felony.
  (A) Upon the conviction of or plea of guilty to a felony by a person on post-release control at the time of the commission...
• Section 2929.142 - Aggravated Vehicular Homicide - Mandatory Prison Term.
  Notwithstanding the definite prison term specified in division (A) of section 2929.14 of the Revised Code for a felony of the first degree, if...
• Section 2929.143 - Risk Reduction Sentences.
  (A) When a court sentences an offender who is convicted of a felony to a term of incarceration in a state correctional institution, the...
• Section 2929.15 - Community Control Sanctions - Felony.
  (A) (1) If in sentencing an offender for a felony the court is not required to impose a prison term, a mandatory prison term,...
• Section 2929.16 - Community Residential Sanctions - Felony.
  (A) Except as provided in this division, the court imposing a sentence for a felony upon an offender who is not required to serve...
• Section 2929.17 - Nonresidential Sanctions - Felony.
  Except as provided in this section, the court imposing a sentence for a felony upon an offender who is not required to serve a...
• Section 2929.18 - Financial Sanctions - Felony.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in this division and in addition to imposing court costs pursuant to section 2947.23 of the Revised Code, the...
• Section 2929.181 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1996
• Section 2929.19 - Sentencing Hearing.
  (A) The court shall hold a sentencing hearing before imposing a sentence under this chapter upon an offender who was convicted of or pleaded...
• Section 2929.191 - Correction Of Judgment Of Conviction To Include Supervision Information.
  (A) (1) If, prior to July 11, 2006, a court imposed a sentence including a prison term of a type described in division (B)...
• Section 2929.192 - Forfeiture Of Retirement Benefits On Conviction.
  (A) If an offender is being sentenced for any felony offense listed in division (D) of this section that was committed on or after...
• Section 2929.193 - Offenses While Serving In A Position Of Honor, Trust, Or Profit; Hearing; Recovery Of Benefits.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Position of honor, trust, or profit" has the same meaning as in division (F)(1)(b) of section 2929.192...
• Section 2929.194 - Offenders Under Physical Or Mental Disability; Forfeiture.
  (A) This section applies to members of the public employees retirement system except that in any circumstance in which either section 2929.192 or 2929.193...
• Section 2929.20 - Sentence Reduction Through Judicial Release.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) (a) Except as provided in division (A)(1)(b) of this section, "eligible offender" means any person who, on...
• Section 2929.201 - Application For Shock Probation.
  Notwithstanding the time limitation for filing a motion under former section 2947.061 of the Revised Code, an offender whose offense was committed before July...
• Section 2929.21 - Purposes Of Misdemeanor Sentencing.
  (A) A court that sentences an offender for a misdemeanor or minor misdemeanor violation of any provision of the Revised Code, or of any...
• Section 2929.22 - Determining Appropriate Sentence For Misdemeanors.
  (A) Unless a mandatory jail term is required to be imposed by division (G) of section 1547.99, division (B) of section 4510.14, division (G)...
• Section 2929.221 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 2929.34.
  Effective Date: 01-01-2004
• Section 2929.223 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-06-2002
• Section 2929.23 - Sentence For Sexually Oriented Misdemeanor Committed On Or After 1-1-97.
  (A) If an offender is being sentenced for a sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense that is a misdemeanor committed on or after...
• Section 2929.24 - Definite Jail Terms For Misdemeanors.
  (A) Except as provided in section 2929.22 or 2929.23 of the Revised Code or division (E) or (F) of this section and unless another...
• Section 2929.25 - Community Control Sanctions - Misdemeanor.
  (A) (1) Except as provided in sections 2929.22 and 2929.23 of the Revised Code or when a jail term is required by law, in...
• Section 2929.26 - Community Residential Sanctions - Misdemeanor.
  (A) Except when a mandatory jail term is required by law, the court imposing a sentence for a misdemeanor, other than a minor misdemeanor,...
• Section 2929.27 - Nonresidential Sanctions - Misdemeanor.
  (A) Except when a mandatory jail term is required by law, the court imposing a sentence for a misdemeanor, other than a minor misdemeanor,...
• Section 2929.28 - Financial Sanctions - Misdemeanor.
  (A) In addition to imposing court costs pursuant to section 2947.23 of the Revised Code, the court imposing a sentence upon an offender for...
• Section 2929.29 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 2929.43.
  Effective Date: 01-01-2004
• Section 2929.31 - Fines For Organizations By Degree Of Offense.
  (A) Regardless of the penalties provided in sections 2929.02, 2929.14 to 2929.18, and 2929.24 to 2929.28 of the Revised Code, an organization convicted of...
• Section 2929.32 - Additional Fines For Certain Offenses.
  (A) (1) Subject to division (A)(2) of this section, notwithstanding the fines prescribed in section 2929.02 of the Revised Code for a person who...
• Section 2929.34 - Where Imprisonment To Be Served.
  (A) A person who is convicted of or pleads guilty to aggravated murder, murder, or an offense punishable by life imprisonment and who is...
• Section 2929.35 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 2929.36.
  Effective Date: 01-01-2004
• Section 2929.36 - Confinement Costs Definitions.
  As used in sections 2929.36 to 2929.38 of the Revised Code: (A) "Chief legal officer" includes a prosecuting attorney, village solicitor, city director of...
• Section 2929.37 - Confinement Cost Policy.
  (A) A board of county commissioners, in an agreement with the sheriff, a legislative authority of a municipal corporation, a corrections commission, a facility...
• Section 2929.38 - Reception And Other Fees.
  (A) A board of commissioners of a county, in an agreement with the sheriff, a legislative authority of a municipal corporation, a corrections commission,...
• Section 2929.41 - Concurrent And Consecutive Sentences.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, division (C) of section 2929.14, or division (D) or (E) of section 2971.03 of...
• Section 2929.42 - Notice Of Conviction Sent To Licensing Board.
  (A) The prosecutor in any case against any person licensed, certified, registered, or otherwise authorized to practice under Chapter 3719., 4715., 4723., 4729., 4730.,...
• Section 2929.43 - Procedure For Accepting Peace Officer's Guilty Plea To Felony Or After Conviction; Negotiated Misdemeanor Pleas.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Peace officer" has the same meaning as in section 109.71 of the Revised Code. (2) "Felony" has...
• Section 2929.44 - Court-ordered To Receive Mental Health Evaluations; Reports To Local Law Enforcement Agencies.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Local law enforcement agency" means the police department of a municipal corporation in which an offense occurred...
• Section 2929.51 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-2004
• Section 2929.61 - Sentencing Under Prior Law.
  (A) Persons charged with a capital offense committed prior to January 1, 1974, shall be prosecuted under the law as it existed at the...
• Section 2929.71 - Reimbursement Of Investigative Costs Of Arson.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Agency" means any law enforcement agency, other public agency, or public official involved in the investigation or...
• Section 2929.72 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1996

Last modified: October 10, 2016