Ohio Revised Code Chapter 737 - Public Safety

• Section 737.01 - Director Of Public Safety.
  In each city there shall be a department of public safety, which shall be administered by a director of public safety. The director shall...
• Section 737.02 - General Duties - Records - Contracts.
  Under the direction of the mayor, the director of public safety shall be the executive head of the police and fire departments and the...
• Section 737.021 - Division Of Traffic Engineering And Safety In Department Of Public Safety.
  The legislative authority of a city may create and abolish, by ordinance, a division of traffic engineering and safety within the department of public...
• Section 737.022 - Authority Of Director Of Public Safety To Promulgate Certain Traffic Regulations.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Occupy or use," with respect to a public way, means to create parking spaces and install, repair,...
• Section 737.03 - Management Of Certain Institutions - Contracts And Expenditures.
  The director of public safety shall manage and make all contracts with reference to police stations, fire houses, reform schools, infirmaries, hospitals other than...
• Section 737.04 - Mutual Aid Contracts For Police Protection.
  The legislative authority of any municipal corporation, in order to obtain police protection or to obtain additional police protection, or to allow its police...
• Section 737.041 - Providing Police Service Without Contract.
  The police department of any municipal corporation may provide police protection to any county, municipal corporation, township, township police district, or joint police district...
• Section 737.05 - Composition And Control Of Police Department.
  The police department of each city shall be composed of a chief of police and such other officers, patrolmen, and employees as the legislative...
• Section 737.051 - City Auxiliary Police Unit - City Parking Enforcement Unit.
  (A) The legislative authority of a city may establish, by ordinance, an auxiliary police unit within the police department of the city, and provide...
• Section 737.052 - Felony Conviction Precludes Or Terminates Employment.
  (A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B) (1) The director of...
• Section 737.06 - Chief Of Police.
  The chief of police shall have exclusive control of the stationing and transfer of all patrolmen, auxiliary police officers, and other officers and employees...
• Section 737.07 - Hours Of Work For Policemen In Cities - Leave Of Absence.
  In each city, except in case of necessary appearances in court and emergency special duty assignments, not to exceed eight hours constitute a day's...
• Section 737.08 - Composition And Control Of City Fire Department.
  (A) The fire department of each city shall be composed of a chief of the fire department and other officers, firefighters, and employees provided...
• Section 737.081 - Criminal Records Check.
  (A) The fire chief of a city fire department may request the superintendent of BCII to conduct a criminal records check with respect to...
• Section 737.082 - Employee Status Of Volunteer Firefighter.
  A volunteer firefighter appointed pursuant to this chapter is a bona fide volunteer and not an employee for purposes of section 513 of the...
• Section 737.09 - Chief Of Fire Department.
  The chief of the fire department shall have exclusive control of the stationing and transferring of all firemen and other officers and employees in...
• Section 737.10 - Additional Patrolmen And Firemen In Emergency Situation.
  In case of riot or other like emergency, the mayor may appoint additional patrolmen and officers for temporary service in the police department, or...
• Section 737.11 - General Duties Of Police And Fire Departments.
  The police force of a municipal corporation shall preserve the peace, protect persons and property, and obey and enforce all ordinances of the legislative...
• Section 737.111 - Fines, Rewards And Fees Of Police Department Credited To General Fund.
  All fines imposed as discipline or punishment upon members of the police department of a municipal corporation by the authority having charge or control...
• Section 737.112 - Fines, Proceeds And Fees Of Fire Department Credited To General Fund.
  All fines imposed as discipline or punishment upon members of the fire department of a municipal corporation by the authority having charge or control...
• Section 737.12 - Suspension Of Police And Fire Personnel.
  Except as provided in section 737.052 of the Revised Code, the chief of police and the chief of the fire department have the exclusive...
• Section 737.13 - Classification Of Service - Rules And Regulations.
  The director of public safety of a city shall classify the service in the police and fire departments in conformity with the ordinance of...
• Section 737.14 - Relief For Members Of Police Or Fire Department.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may provide by general ordinance for the relief, out of the police or fire funds, of members...
• Section 737.15 - Appointment Of Village Marshal.
  Each village shall have a marshal, designated chief of police, appointed by the mayor with the advice and consent of the legislative authority of...
• Section 737.16 - Appointment Of Deputy Marshals, Police Officers, Night Guards And Special Police Officers.
  The mayor shall, when provided for by the legislative authority of a village, and subject to its confirmation, appoint all deputy marshals, police officers,...
• Section 737.161 - Village Auxiliary Police Unit - Parking Enforcement Unit.
  (A) The legislative authority of a village may establish, by ordinance, an auxiliary police unit within the police department of the village, and provide...
• Section 737.162 - Felony Conviction Precludes Or Terminates Employment.
  (A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B) (1) The mayor shall...
• Section 737.17 - Probationary Period - Final Appointment.
  All appointments made under sections 737.15 and 737.16 of the Revised Code shall be for a probationary period of six months' continuous service, and...
• Section 737.171 - Procedure For Removal Of Village Marshal.
  Except as provided in section 737.162 of the Revised Code, if the mayor of a village has reason to believe that a duly appointed...
• Section 737.18 - General Powers Of Village Police Officers.
  The marshal shall be the peace officer of a village and the executive head, under the mayor, of the police force. The marshal, and...
• Section 737.19 - Powers And Duties Of Village Marshal.
  (A) The marshal of a village has exclusive authority over the stationing and transfer of all deputies, officers, and employees within the police department...
• Section 737.20 - Disposition Of Fines And Penalties.
  All fees, costs, fines, and penalties collected by the marshal shall immediately be paid to the mayor, who shall report to the legislative authority...
• Section 737.21 - Municipal Fire Regulations, Department, Companies, And Rescue Units.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may establish all necessary regulations to guard against the occurrence of fires, protect the property and lives...
• Section 737.22 - Appointment Of Fire Chief Or Fire Prevention Officer And Firefighters.
  (A) Each village establishing a fire department shall have a fire chief as the department's head, appointed by the mayor with the advice and...
• Section 737.221 - Criminal Records Check.
  (A) The fire chief of a village fire department may request the superintendent of BCII to conduct a criminal records check with respect to...
• Section 737.222 - Employee Status Of Volunteer Firefighter.
  A volunteer firefighter appointed pursuant to this chapter is a bona fide volunteer and not an employee for purposes of section 513 of the...
• Section 737.23 - Schooling Of Officers And Firemen Of Fire Department.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may send any of the officers and firemen of its fire department to schools of instruction designed...
• Section 737.24 - Legislative Authority May Purchase Engines And Equipment.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may purchase the necessary fire engines and such other equipment as is necessary for the extinguishment of...
• Section 737.25 - Buildings For Department.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may provide or erect necessary and suitable buildings containing rooms for fire engines, and other equipment, and...
• Section 737.26 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 04-16-1998
• Section 737.27 - Investigation Of Fires.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may invest any officer of the fire or police department with the power, and impose on him...
• Section 737.28 - Erection Of Houses And Business Structures - Removal.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may regulate the erection of houses and business structures and prohibit the erection of buildings within such...
• Section 737.29 - Property Recovered By Police.
  Stolen or other property recovered by members of the police force of a municipal corporation shall be deposited and kept in a place designated...
• Section 737.30 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-2004
• Section 737.31 - Disposition To Claimant.
  If, within thirty days, the money or property recovered under section 737.29 of the Revised Code is claimed by any other person, it shall...
• Section 737.311 To 737.314 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-06-1971
• Section 737.32 - Sale Or Donation Of Unclaimed Property.
  Except as otherwise provided in this section and unless the property involved is required to be disposed of pursuant to another section of the...
• Section 737.33 - Expenses Of Storage And Sale - Notice.
  Upon the sale of any unclaimed or impounded property as provided in section 737.32 of the Revised Code, if any such unclaimed or impounded...
• Section 737.331 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-06-1971
• Section 737.34 To 737.36 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-26-1996
• Section 737.37 - Power Of Legislative Authority To Regulate.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may make such regulations pertaining to public buildings as it considers necessary for the public safety. Effective...
• Section 737.40 - Voluntary Motor Vehicle Decal Registration Program.
  (A) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may establish, by ordinance or resolution, a voluntary motor vehicle decal registration program to be controlled...
• Section 737.41 - Municipal Probation Services Fund.
  (A) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation in which is established a municipal court, other than a county-operated municipal court, that has a...
• Section 737.99 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-2004

Last modified: October 10, 2016