Ohio Revised Code Chapter 5321 - Landlords And Tenants

• Section 5321.01 - Landlord And Tenant Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) "Tenant" means a person entitled under a rental agreement to the use and occupancy of residential premises to...
• Section 5321.02 - Retaliatory Action By Landlord Prohibited.
  (A) Subject to section 5321.03 of the Revised Code, a landlord may not retaliate against a tenant by increasing the tenant's rent, decreasing services...
• Section 5321.03 - Action For Possession By Landlord.
  (A) Notwithstanding section 5321.02 of the Revised Code, a landlord may bring an action under Chapter 1923. of the Revised Code for possession of...
• Section 5321.031 - College Or University Student Tenant Rental Agreements.
  A college or university may terminate a rental agreement with a student tenant prior to the expiration of the term of the agreement and...
• Section 5321.04 - Landlord Obligations.
  (A) A landlord who is a party to a rental agreement shall do all of the following: (1) Comply with the requirements of all...
• Section 5321.05 - Tenant Obligations.
  (A) A tenant who is a party to a rental agreement shall do all of the following: (1) Keep that part of the premises...
• Section 5321.051 - Eviction Of Tenant Allowing Sex Or Child Victim Offenders To Occupy Premises Near School.
  (A) (1) No tenant of any residential premises located within one thousand feet of any school premises or preschool or child day-care center premises...
• Section 5321.06 - Terms And Conditions Of Rental Agreement.
  A landlord and a tenant may include in a rental agreement any terms and conditions, including any term relating to rent, the duration of...
• Section 5321.07 - Failure Of Landlord To Fulfill Obligations - Remedies Of Tenant.
  (A) If a landlord fails to fulfill any obligation imposed upon him by section 5321.04 of the Revised Code, other than the obligation specified...
• Section 5321.08 - Rent Deposits - Duty Of Clerk Of Court.
  (A) Whenever a tenant deposits rent with the clerk of a court as provided in section 5321.07 of the Revised Code, the clerk shall...
• Section 5321.09 - Landlord Application For Release Of Rent.
  (A) A landlord who receives notice that rent due him has been deposited with a clerk of a municipal or county court pursuant to...
• Section 5321.10 - Release Of Part Of Rent.
  (A) If a landlord brings an action for the release of rent deposited with a clerk of court, the court may, during the pendency...
• Section 5321.11 - Failure Of Tenant To Fulfill Obligations - Remedies Of Landlord.
  If the tenant fails to fulfill any obligation imposed upon him by section 5321.05 of the Revised Code that materially affects health and safety,...
• Section 5321.12 - Recovery Of Damages.
  In any action under Chapter 5321. of the Revised Code, any party may recover damages for the breach of contract or the breach of...
• Section 5321.13 - Terms Prohibited In Rental Agreement.
  (A) No provision of this chapter may be modified or waived by any oral or written agreement except as provided in division (F) of...
• Section 5321.14 - Unconscionable Terms.
  (A) If the court as a matter of law finds a rental agreement, or any clause thereof, to have been unconscionable at the time...
• Section 5321.15 - Acts Of Landlord Prohibited If Residential Property Involved.
  (A) No landlord of residential premises shall initiate any act, including termination of utilities or services, exclusion from the premises, or threat of any...
• Section 5321.16 - Procedures For Security Deposits.
  (A) Any security deposit in excess of fifty dollars or one month's periodic rent, whichever is greater, shall bear interest on the excess at...
• Section 5321.17 - Termination Of Tenancy.
  (A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the landlord or the tenant may terminate or fail to renew a week-to-week tenancy...
• Section 5321.18 - Written Rental Agreement For Residential Premises Provisions.
  (A) Every written rental agreement for residential premises shall contain the name and address of the owner and the name and address of the...
• Section 5321.19 - Effect Of Chapter On Municipal Ordinances, Township Resolutions.
  No municipal corporation may adopt or continue in existence any ordinance and no township may adopt or continue in existence any resolution that is...

Last modified: October 10, 2016