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Ohio Rev Code § 1901.185 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1901 | Municipal Court|Section 1901.185 | Jurisdiction to Foreclose Lien on Blighted Parcel.

Effective: April 7, 2009|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 277 - 127th General Assembly|In addition to jurisdiction otherwise granted in this chapter, the environmental division, where established, of the municipal court shall have jurisdiction within its territory in all of the following actions or proceedings and to perform all of the following functions: (A) To exercise exclusive original jurisdiction to hear actions arising under section 3767.50 of the Revised Code and in those actions to make findings and orders pertaining to blighted parcels;(B) When in aid of execution of a judgment of the environmental division of the municipal court rendered pursuant to section 3767.50 of the Revised Code, in actions for the foreclosure of a mortgage on real property given to secure the payment of money, or the enforcement of a specific lien for money or other encumbrance or charge on real property, when the real property is situated within the territory, to foreclose all liens and all vested and contingent rights, render judgments, and make findings and orders, between the parties, in the same manner and to the same extent as in similar cases in the court of common pleas.
Ohio Rev Code § 1901.186 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1901 | Municipal Court|Section 1901.186 | Concurrent Jurisdiction of Tiffin-Fostoria and Seneca County Courts.

Effective: August 1, 2018|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 354 - 132nd General Assembly|(A) As used in this section:(1) "Felony sex offense" has the same meaning as in section 2967.28 of the Revised Code.(2) "Offense of violence" has the same meaning as in section 2901.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Informant" means a person who is assisting a law enforcement agency in a criminal investigation by purchasing controlled substances from others in return for compensation from the law enforcement agency. (B) In addition to all other jurisdictions granted a municipal court in this chapter, except as provided in division (C) of this section, the Tiffin-Fostoria municipal court has concurrent jurisdiction with the Seneca county court of common pleas in all criminal actions or proceedings to which both of the following apply:(1) The court finds that the offender's addiction to a drug of abuse was the primary factor leading to the offender's commission of the offense charged.(2) The offender is admitted to participate in the participating in victory of transition (PIVOT) drug recovery program.(C) The Tiffin-Fostoria municipal court does not have concurrent jurisdiction with the Seneca county court of common pleas in a criminal action or proceeding when any of the following applies:(1) The defendant is not a resident of Seneca county. (2) The defendant is charged with a felony offense of violence. ( 3 ) The defendant is charged with a felony sex offense or has a duty to comply with sections 2950.04, 2950.041, 2950.05, and 2950.06 of the Revised Code.(4) The defendant is charged with a felony violation of section 2925.04 or 2925.041 of the Revised Code. (5) The defendant is under a community control sanction or post-release control sanction imposed by another court or is on parole or probation under the supervision of another jurisdiction.(6) Criminal proceedings are pending against the defendant for a felony offense in another jurisdiction.(7) The defendant is serving a prison term imposed by another court.(8) The defendant is engaged as an informant for a law enforcement agency.(D) The concurrent jurisdiction granted by this section shall expire five years after the effective date of this section, unless renewed or made permanent by the general assembly prior to its expiration.
Ohio Rev Code § 1901.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1901 | Municipal Court|Section 1901.22 | Civil Actions.

Effective: March 19, 1987|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 159 - 116th General Assembly|Civil actions and proceedings in the municipal court shall be commenced pursuant to the Civil Rules by filing a complaint upon which summons or writ shall be issued by the clerk of the municipal court. A form of summons or writ shall be prescribed by rule of court. The procedure in a civil case in the municipal court shall be in accordance with the following provisions:(A) The return day shall be fixed by rule of court, and the summons or writ shall, unless accompanied by an order to arrest, be served at least three days before the time of appearance.(B) In attachment and garnishment proceedings, a true copy of the affidavit shall be served with the summons and order of attachment or garnishment.(C) In any action in a municipal court for the recovery of personal property, the appraised value of which exceeds the jurisdictional amount as defined in section 1901.17 of the Revised Code, the judge, upon the return of the appraisement prior to judgment, shall certify the proceedings in the case to the court of common pleas.(D) Whenever any property is seized or sought to be recovered in any action in a municipal court, the property shall be at once appraised. The value of such property may be ascertained by the oath of two disinterested freeholders who are residents of the territory of the court.(E) In any action in a municipal court in which the amount claimed by any defendant in any statement of counterclaim exceeds the jurisdictional amount, the judge shall certify the proceedings in the case to the court of common pleas, except in the Cleveland municipal court.(F) When the amount due either party exceeds the sum for which a municipal court is authorized to enter judgment, such party may in writing remit the excess and judgment shall be entered for the residue. Any party defendant may, at his option, withhold setting up any statement of counterclaim and make the counterclaim the subject of a separate action.(G) Upon certification of any proceedings to the court of common pleas, the clerk of the municipal court shall forthwith transmit the original papers and pleadings, together with a certified transcript of the journal entries in the case, to the clerk of the court of common pleas to be filed. The bailiff shall turn over the property in his possession to the sheriff of the county to be held by him as in like cases originating in the court of common pleas. The case shall then proceed as if it had been commenced originally in the court of common pleas.
Ohio Rev Code § 1901.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1901 | Municipal Court|Section 1901.23 | Issuance of Writs and Process.

Effective: March 19, 1987|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 159 - 116th General Assembly|Writs and process in a municipal court shall be served, returned, and publication made in the manner provided for service, return, and publication of summons, writs, and process in the court of common pleas.In any civil action or proceeding in which the subject matter of the action or proceeding is located within the territory or a defendant resides or is served with summons within the territory, the court may issue summons, orders of interpleader, all other writs, and mesne and final process, including executions necessary or proper for the complete adjudication of the issues and determination of the action, to the bailiff for service in the county or counties in which the court is situated and to the sheriff of any other county against one or more of the remaining defendants.All warrants, executions, subpoenas, writs, and processes in all criminal and quasi-criminal cases may be issued to the bailiff of the court, a police officer of the appropriate municipal corporation, or to the sheriff of the appropriate county.In any civil action in which the bailiff is a party or is interested, writs and process shall be directed to the sheriff. If both of these officers are interested, the writs and process shall be directed to and executed by a person appointed by the court or a judge of the court, and that person has the same power to execute the writs and process that the bailiff has. The return of the appointee shall be verified by affidavit, and he is entitled to the fees allowed to the bailiff for similar service.
Ohio Rev Code § 1901.24 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1901 | Municipal Court|Section 1901.24 | Demand for Jury Trial - Number of Jurors - Verdict.

Effective: March 19, 1987|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 159 - 116th General Assembly|(A) A jury trial in a municipal court shall be demanded in the manner prescribed in the Rules of Civil Procedure or the Rules of Criminal Procedure. The number of persons composing a jury and the verdicts of jurors shall be governed by those rules.(B) The right of a person to a jury trial in a municipal court is waived under the circumstances prescribed in the Rules of Civil Procedure or the Rules of Criminal Procedure.
Ohio Rev Code § 1901.25 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1901 | Municipal Court|Section 1901.25 | Selection and Impaneling of Jury.

Effective: September 8, 2016|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 359 - 131st General Assembly|(A)(1) A municipal court may provide by rule the manner in which jurors shall be chosen, and may provide that jurors to be used in the court may be chosen and summoned by the jury commissioners of the county as provided in Chapter 2313. of the Revised Code. Selection shall be made from residents within the territory and those appearing to reside outside the territory shall be returned to the annual jury list. (2) If the rules of the court provide for jurors to be chosen in a manner other than by the jury commissioners of the county, the rules shall require any person who appears to the court to be a program participant in the address confidentiality program described in sections 111.41 to 111.99 of the Revised Code to be excluded from the list of possible jurors. (B) Jurors shall be impaneled in the same manner, shall have the same qualifications, and shall be challenged for the same causes as jurors in the court of common pleas. (C) Each municipal court shall establish the fees of jurors in that court. The fees of jurors in any criminal case involving the violation of state law shall be paid out of the county treasury. The fees of jurors in any criminal case involving a violation of a municipal ordinance shall be paid out of the treasury of the municipal corporation in which the violation occurred.
Ohio Rev Code § 1901.262 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1901 | Municipal Court|Section 1901.262 | Rules for Procedures for Resolution of Disputes.

Effective: September 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly|(A) A municipal court may establish by rule procedures for the resolution of disputes between parties. Any procedures so adopted shall include, but are not limited to, mediation. If the court establishes any procedures under this division, the court may include in the court's schedule of fees and costs under section 1901.26 of the Revised Code a reasonable fee, that is to be collected on the filing of each civil or criminal action or proceeding, and that is to be used to implement the procedures, and the court shall direct the clerk of the court to charge the fee. (B) All fees collected under division (A) of this section shall be paid to the county treasurer if the court is a county-operated municipal court or to the city treasurer if the court is not a county-operated municipal court. The treasurer shall place the funds from the fees in a separate fund to be disbursed either upon an order of the court, subject to an appropriation by the board of county commissioners if the court is a county-operated municipal court or by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation if the court is not a county-operated municipal court, or upon an order of the court, subject to the court making an annual report available to the public listing the use of all such funds.(C) If the court determines that the amount of the moneys in the fund described in division (B) of this section is more than the amount sufficient to satisfy the purpose for which the additional fee described in division (A) of this section was imposed, the court may declare a surplus in the fund and, subject to an appropriation by the board of county commissioners if the court is a county-operated municipal court or by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation if the court is not a county-operated municipal court, expend the surplus moneys, or upon an order of the court, subject to the court making an annual report available to the public listing the use of all such funds, expend the surplus moneys for other appropriate expenses of the court.
Ohio Rev Code § 1901.263 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1901 | Municipal Court|Section 1901.263 | Cancellation of Uncollectible Debts.

Effective: March 22, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 247 - 129th General Assembly|If at any time the court finds that an amount owing to the court is due and uncollectible, in whole or in part, the court may direct the clerk of the court to cancel all or part of the claim. The clerk shall then effect the cancellation.
Ohio Rev Code § 1901.27 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1901 | Municipal Court|Section 1901.27 | When Action Is Pending.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|An action is pending so as to charge third persons with notice of its pendency when summons has been served or the first publication made. While pending, no interest can be acquired by third persons in the subject of the action as against the plaintiff's title.
Ohio Rev Code § 1901.28 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1901 | Municipal Court|Section 1901.28 | Bond for Appeal.

Effective: March 19, 1987|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 159 - 116th General Assembly|(A) A person against whom a judgment has been rendered may stay execution on the judgment by entering into a bond to the adverse party within ten days after the rendition of the judgment with sufficient surety, who shall be a freeholder owning real property situated in the county or a corporation authorized to execute surety bonds in this state, which bond shall be approved by the clerk of the municipal court and conditioned for the payment of the amount of the judgment, interest, and costs. The bond shall be entered on the docket by the clerk of court and shall be signed by the surety.(B) A stay of execution shall not be allowed on:(1) Judgments against sureties or bail for the stay of execution;(2) Judgments rendered in favor of sureties or bail who have been compelled by judgment to pay money on account of their principal;(3) Judgments rendered against a surety on a bond or undertaking given in any action or proceeding in any court;(4) Judgments for an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars rendered in favor of any person for wages due for manual labor by him performed;(5) Judgments and decrees in actions of foreclosures of mortgages, mechanics' liens, and in proceedings to subject real property to the payment of judgments and marshalling of liens.(C) In the Cleveland municipal court, if a freeholder of Cuyahoga county is a surety, the undertaking shall be a lien on the real property of the freeholder situated in Cuyahoga county from the time of signing the undertaking until the judgment and all costs in the case upon which the stay of execution has been granted are satisfied.
Ohio Rev Code § 1901.29 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1901 | Municipal Court|Section 1901.29 | No Term of Court.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|There is no term in municipal court, but for the purpose of computing time, ninety days following judgment shall be considered within term and time thereafter shall be considered after term.
Ohio Rev Code § 1901.30 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1901 | Municipal Court|Section 1901.30 | Appeals.

Effective: April 19, 1988|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 708 - 117th General Assembly|Appeals from the municipal court may be taken as follows:(A) To the court of appeals in accordance with the Rules of Appellate Procedure and any relevant sections of the Revised Code, including, but not limited to, Chapter 2505. of the Revised Code to the extent it is not in conflict with those rules.(B) When an appeal is taken from the municipal court, the clerk of the municipal court shall transmit, pursuant to the Rules of Appellate Procedure, the record on appeal to the clerk of the appellate court to be filed.(C) In all appeal proceedings relating to judgments or orders of a municipal court, the reviewing courts shall take judicial notice of all rules relating to pleadings, practice, or procedure of the municipal court.
Ohio Rev Code § 1901.311 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1901 | Municipal Court|Section 1901.311 | Branch Offices - Special Deputy Clerks.

Effective: June 27, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 141 - 130th General Assembly|(A) A municipal court may establish one or more branch offices and may appoint a special deputy clerk to administer each branch office. Each special deputy clerk shall take an oath of office before entering upon the duties of office, and, when so qualified, may perform any one or more of the duties appertaining to the office of clerk, as the court prescribes. Special deputy clerks appointed by the court pursuant to this section shall receive such compensation payable in either biweekly installments or semimonthly installments, as determined by the payroll administrator, out of the city treasury as the court may prescribe, except that the compensation of any special deputy clerk of a county-operated municipal court shall be payable out of the treasury of the county in which the court is located. The court may require any of the special deputy clerks to give bond of not less than three thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of duties. (B) The Tiffin-Fostoria municipal court shall establish a branch office in Fostoria and shall appoint a special deputy clerk to administer the branch office on a full-time basis. The special deputy clerk shall take the oath of office, perform the duties appertaining to the office of the clerk of court as the court prescribes, and receive compensation as provided in division (A) of this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 1901.321 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1901 | Municipal Court|Section 1901.321 | Municipal Court Contracts for Transportation Persons Between Jail and Court.

Effective: March 23, 2018|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 8 - 132nd General Assembly|A municipal court may enter into contracts with a county sheriff whose territorial jurisdiction includes the municipal court for the transportation of persons between the county jail and the municipal court. Each contract shall provide for the costs of providing transportation services from the county jail to the court and shall not apply to a period in excess of four years.
Ohio Rev Code § 1901.33 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1901 | Municipal Court|Section 1901.33 | Court Employees.

Effective: June 30, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 530 - 126th General Assembly|(A) The judge or judges of a municipal court may appoint one or more interpreters, one or more mental health professionals, one or more probation officers, an assignment commissioner, deputy assignment commissioners, and other court aides on a full-time, part-time, hourly, or other basis. Each appointee shall receive the compensation out of the city treasury that the legislative authority prescribes in either biweekly installments or semimonthly installments, as determined by the payroll administrator, except that in a county-operated municipal court they shall receive the compensation out of the treasury of the county in which the court is located that the board of county commissioners prescribes. Probation officers have all the powers of regular police officers and shall perform any duties that are designated by the judge or judges of the court. Assignment commissioners shall assign cases for trial and perform any other duties that the court directs.The judge or judges may appoint one or more typists, stenographers, statistical clerks, and official court reporters, each of whom shall be paid the compensation out of the city treasury that the legislative authority prescribes, except that in a county-operated municipal court they shall be paid the compensation out of the treasury of the county in which the court is located that the board of county commissioners prescribes.(B) If a municipal court appoints one or more probation officers, those officers shall constitute the municipal court department of probation unless the court designates other employees as the department of probation for the court.(C) The chief probation officer may grant permission to a probation officer to carry firearms when required in the discharge of the probation officer's official duties if the probation officer has successfully completed a basic firearm training program that is approved by the executive director of the Ohio peace officer training commission. A probation officer who has been granted permission to carry a firearm in the discharge of the probation officer's official duties annually shall successfully complete a firearms requalification program in accordance with section 109.801 of the Revised Code.(D) The judge or judges of a municipal court in which the clerk of the court is elected as provided in division (A)(1)(a) or (d) or (A)(2)(b) of section 1901.31 of the Revised Code may appoint an administrative assistant. The administrative assistant shall have charge of personnel related matters of the court and shall perform any other administrative duties assigned by the court. The administrative assistant shall receive the compensation out of the city treasury that the court prescribes, except that, in a county-operated municipal court, the administrative assistant shall receive the compensation out of the treasury of the county in which the court is located that the court prescribes.
Ohio Rev Code § 1901.35 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1901 | Municipal Court|Section 1901.35 | Transcript of Records.

Effective: December 15, 1967|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 164 - 107th General Assembly|The records of a municipal court may be proved by a transcript certified by the clerk of the municipal court under its official seal, which seal shall consist of the coat of arms of the state within a circle one and one-fourth inches in diameter, and shall be surrounded by the name of the municipal court.