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Ohio Rev Code § 1907.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.06 | Jurisdiction in Cases of Replevin - Appraisals of Property.

Effective: July 1, 1997|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 438 - 121st General Assembly|(A) County courts have exclusive, original jurisdiction in all cases of replevin in which the value of the specific personal property that is sought to be recovered does not exceed five hundred dollars and original have jurisdiction in all cases of replevin in which the value of the specific personal property that is sought to be recovered does not exceed fifteen thousand dollars.(B) Upon the filing of a replevin action, the county court shall order appraisals of the property. The appraisals shall be made under oath by at least two disinterested freeholders who are residents of the court's territorial jurisdiction or as the court otherwise directs. If the value of the property according to the appraisals exceeds fifteen thousand dollars, the court shall certify the action to the court of common pleas. If a replevin action is certified to the court of common pleas, the clerk of the county court shall take action as described in division (C) of section 1907.03 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 1907.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.07 | Balance Not Exceeding Fifteen Thousand Dollars.

Effective: July 1, 1997|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 438 - 121st General Assembly|When the balance claimed to be due on an open or unsettled account or on a bill, note, or bond, is fifteen thousand dollars or less, the party by whom the balance is claimed may commence an action for the balance before a county court. The court may hear and determine the matters in controversy, without regard to the original account or contract, and render judgment for any balance found due, not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars.
Ohio Rev Code § 1907.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.08 | Action on Bond or Undertaking.

Effective: March 17, 1987|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 158 - 116th General Assembly|In civil actions founded upon a bond or undertaking, a judge of a county court has jurisdiction coextensive with his county.
Ohio Rev Code § 1907.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.09 | Judgment Confessed for Sum Not Exceeding Fifteen Thousand Dollars.

Effective: July 1, 1997|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 438 - 121st General Assembly|If a debtor appears before a county court, without process and confesses that the debtor is indebted a debt owed to a creditor, on the application of the creditor, the court shall render judgment on the confession against the debtor for a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars.
Ohio Rev Code § 1907.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.10 | Concurrent Criminal Jurisdiction of Mayor's Court.

Effective: March 17, 1987|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 158 - 116th General Assembly|Mayors retain jurisdiction in all criminal cases involving the violation of ordinances of their respective municipal corporations and in all criminal cases involving moving traffic violations occurring on state highways located within their respective municipal corporations, to be exercised concurrently with the county court.
Ohio Rev Code § 1907.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.13 | Qualifications of County Court Judges.

Effective: September 10, 2012|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly|A county court judge, at the time of filing a nominating petition for the office or at the time of appointment to the office and during the judge's term of office, shall be a qualified elector and a resident of the county court district in which the judge is elected or appointed. A county court judge does not have to be a resident of an area of separate jurisdiction in the county court district to which the judge may be assigned pursuant to section 1907.15 of the Revised Code. Every county court judge shall have been admitted to the practice of law in this state and shall have been engaged, for a total of at least six years preceding the judge's appointment or the commencement of the judge's term, in the practice of law in this state, except that the six-year practice requirement does not apply to a county court judge who is holding office on the effective date of the amendment of this section by H.B. 487 of the 129th general assembly, and who subsequently is a candidate for that office. Judges shall be elected by the electors of the county court district at the general election in even-numbered years as set forth in section 1907.11 of the Revised Code for a term of six years commencing on the first day of January following the election for the county court or on the dates specified in section 1907.11 of the Revised Code for particular county court judges. Their successors shall be elected in even-numbered years every six years.All candidates for county court judge shall be nominated by petition. The nominating petition shall be in the general form and signed and verified as prescribed by section 3513.261 of the Revised Code and shall be signed by the lesser of fifty qualified electors of the county court district or a number of qualified electors of the county court district not less than one per cent of the number of electors who voted for governor at the most recent regular state election in the district. A nominating petition shall not be accepted for filing or filed if it appears on its face to contain signatures aggregating in number more than twice the minimum aggregate number of signatures required by this section. A nominating petition shall be filed with the board of elections not later than four p.m. of the ninetieth day before the day of the general election.
Ohio Rev Code § 1907.131 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.131 | Presiding and Administrative Judge.

Effective: August 3, 1999|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 89 - 123rd General Assembly|(A) In a county court district having only one judge, that judge shall be the presiding and administrative judge for that district.(B) In a county court district having two or more judges, the presiding and administrative judge shall be elected or designated as provided in the Rules of Superintendence for the Courts of Ohio.
Ohio Rev Code § 1907.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.14 | Oath of Office.

Effective: July 10, 2014|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 261 - 130th General Assembly|(A) A judge of a county court shall take an oath of office as provided in section 3.23 of the Revised Code. (B) The office of judge of a county court is subject to forfeiture, and a judge may be removed from office, for the causes and by the procedure provided in sections 3.07 to 3.10 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 1907.142 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.142 | Reimbursement and Compensation.

Effective: July 10, 2014|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 261 - 130th General Assembly|(A) An acting judge appointed pursuant to division (A)(2)(a), (B)(1), or (C)(1) of section 1907.141 of the Revised Code shall receive reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses and a per diem compensation established by the incumbent judge, provided the per diem compensation of the acting judge shall not exceed the per diem compensation paid to the incumbent judge based upon a work year of one hundred thirty days. The per diem compensation of the acting judge shall be payable in the same manner as the compensation paid to the incumbent judge during the same period. (B) An assigned judge assigned pursuant to division (A)(1), (A)(2)(b), (B)(2), or (C)(2) of section 1907.141 of the Revised Code shall receive reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses and a per diem compensation computed as follows:(1) If the assigned judge receives compensation as described in division (A)(5) of section 141.04 of the Revised Code, thirty dollars;(2) If the assigned judge receives compensation as described in division (A)(6) of section 141.04 of the Revised Code, the per diem compensation of a judge of a municipal court compensated as described in division (A)(5) of section 141.04 of the Revised Code, less the per diem compensation of the assigned judge, each calculated on the basis of two hundred fifty working days per year;(3) If the assigned judge is a retired judge of a municipal or county court or a court of common pleas, the established per diem compensation for a judge of a municipal court compensated as described in division (A)(5) of section 141.04 of the Revised Code, calculated on the basis of two hundred fifty working days per year, in addition to any retirement benefits to which the assigned judge may be entitled;(4) If the assigned judge is a sitting judge of the court of appeals or a court of common pleas, fifty dollars.
Ohio Rev Code § 1907.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.15 | Division of County Court District.

Effective: January 1, 2022|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly|(A)(1) In counties having more than one county court judge, the presiding judge of the county court may divide the county court district into areas of separate jurisdiction and may designate the location at which each judge shall hold court. Except in county court districts exceeding one hundred twenty thousand population, each area of separate jurisdiction shall be made up of one or more townships. In assigning areas of separate jurisdiction, the presiding judge shall make each area of separate jurisdiction as equal in population and case load to others in the district as is possible under existing conditions. Whenever the territory of a county court district is reduced by the territorial expansion of municipal court jurisdiction, the presiding judge may redetermine areas of separate jurisdiction and, if necessary, reassign areas so as to make each area of separate jurisdiction as equal in population and case load to others in the district as is possible under the altered conditions. In county court districts exceeding one hundred twenty thousand population, the presiding judge of the county court may assign more than one county court judge to an area of separate jurisdiction. In any county court district of that nature, the presiding judge from time to time may assign a judge from one area of separate jurisdiction to another area of separate jurisdiction and redetermine and reassign areas of separate jurisdiction. Upon that redetermination and reassignment, the presiding judge shall consider, in addition to population, the case load of each area of separate jurisdiction. (2) In counties having only one county court judge, the area of jurisdiction shall consist of the entire county court district, and the county court judge, with the concurrence of the board of county commissioners, shall designate the location at which the judge shall hold court. (B) The jurisdiction of each county court judge shall be coextensive with the boundaries of the county court district. Last updated January 1, 2022 at 4:00 AM
Ohio Rev Code § 1907.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.16 | Compensation of County Court Judges.

Effective: December 18, 2002|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 530 - 124th General Assembly|(A) Beginning July 1, 1997, judges of a county court shall receive as compensation thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars each year in addition to the compensation payable under division (A)(6) of section 141.04 of the Revised Code.(B) The compensation of judges of a county court may be paid in either biweekly installments or semimonthly installments, as determined by the payroll administrator, and shall be paid from the treasury of the county in which the court is situated.A judge of a county court shall be disqualified from the practice of law only as to matters pending or originating in that county court during the judge's term of office. No county court judge shall hold any other office of trust or profit under the authority of this state or the United States.(C) The presiding judge of a county court who is also the administrative judge of the court shall receive, pursuant to division (B) of this section, an additional one thousand five hundred dollars per annum.(D) As used in this section, "compensation" does not include any portion of the cost, premium, or charge for health, medical, hospital, dental, or surgical benefits, or any combination of those benefits, covering a judge of the county court and paid on the judge's behalf from the treasury of the county in which the court is located.
Ohio Rev Code § 1907.161 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.161 | Group Health Care Coverage for County Court Judges.

Effective: March 22, 1999|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 698 - 122nd General Assembly|(A) As used in this section, "health care coverage" means sickness and accident insurance or other coverage of hospitalization, surgical care, major medical care, disability, dental care, eye care, medical care, hearing aids, and prescription drugs or any combination of those benefits or services.(B) The board of county commissioners, after consultation with the judges of the county court, shall negotiate and contract for, purchase, or otherwise procure group health care coverage for the judges and their spouses and dependents from insurance companies authorized to engage in the business of insurance in this state under Title XXXIX of the Revised Code or health insuring corporations organized under Chapter 1751. of the Revised Code, except that, if the county provides group health care coverage for its employees, the group health care coverage required by this section shall be provided, if possible, through the policy or plan under which the group health care coverage is provided for the county employees.(C) The portion of the costs, premiums, or charges for the group health care coverage procured pursuant to division (B) of this section that is not paid by the judges of the county court, or all of the costs, premiums, or charges for the group health care coverage if the judges will not be paying any portion of those costs, premiums, or charges, shall be paid out of the county treasury.
Ohio Rev Code § 1907.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.17 | Commissioners May Provide Additional Compensation.

Effective: March 17, 1987|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 158 - 116th General Assembly|In addition to the compensation provided in section 1907.16 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners may provide for payment of a fixed annual amount, not to exceed two thousand dollars, to each county court judge.
Ohio Rev Code § 1907.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.18 | County Court Judges - Jurisdiction and Authority.

Effective: September 8, 2010|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 238 - 128th General Assembly|(A) County court judges, within and coextensive with their respective counties, have jurisdiction and authority to: (1) Administer an oath authorized or required by law to be administered;(2) Take acknowledgments of instruments of writing;(3) Issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses to give evidence in causes or matters pending before the judges, or for the purpose of taking depositions or perpetuating testimony;(4) Proceed against sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, and constables failing to make return, making false return, or failing to pay over money collected on execution issued by the judges;(5) Try actions against other county court judges for refusing or neglecting to pay over moneys collected in their official capacity when the amount claimed does not exceed five hundred dollars. This division does not deny or impair any remedy provided by law in such a case by suit on the official bond of such a county court judge, or by amercement or otherwise, for neglect or failure to pay over money so collected.(6) Hear actions concerning the issuance and enforcement of, issue, and enforce temporary protection orders pursuant to section 2919.26 of the Revised Code and protection orders pursuant to section 2903.213 of the Revised Code;(7) Hear actions concerning the enforcement of protection orders issued by courts of another state, as defined in section 2919.27 of the Revised Code, and to enforce those protection orders.(B) County court judges may punish contempts, and exercise powers necessary to give effect to the jurisdiction of the court and to enforce its judgments, orders, and decrees, as provided in this chapter or, in the absence of a provision in this chapter, in a manner authorized by the Revised Code or common law for the judges of the courts of common pleas.(C)(1) County court judges have jurisdiction and authority to perform marriage ceremonies anywhere in the state.(2) A county court judge shall pay all marriage fees collected by the judge when not connected with any cause or proceeding pending in the county court to the treasurer of the county in which the court is located.
Ohio Rev Code § 1907.181 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.181 | Order for Accused to Appear for Fingerprinting.

Effective: August 14, 2008|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 163 - 127th General Assembly|(A) If a sheriff or chief of police has not taken, or caused to be taken, a person's or child's fingerprints in accordance with division (A)(1) of section 109.60 of the Revised Code with respect to a crime or act set forth in that division by the time of the arraignment or first appearance of the person or child with respect to that crime or act, the county court shall order the person or child to appear before the sheriff or chief of police within twenty-four hours of the arraignment or first appearance to have the person's or child's fingerprints taken as provided in division (A)(2) of section 109.60 of the Revised Code. (B) If the county court has jurisdiction over a case involving a person or child with respect to whom division (A)(1) or (2) of section 109.60 of the Revised Code requires a sheriff or chief of police to take the person's or child's fingerprints, the county court shall inquire at the time of the person's or child's sentencing or adjudication for the crime or act for which the fingerprints were required to be taken whether or not the person or child has been fingerprinted pursuant to division (A)(1) or (2) of section 109.60 of the Revised Code for the original arrest or court appearance upon which the sentence or adjudication is based. If a person or child was not fingerprinted for the original arrest or court appearance, the county court shall order the person or child to appear before the sheriff or chief of police within twenty-four hours to have the person's or child's fingerprints taken as provided in division (A)(3) of section 109.60 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 1907.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.19 | Office Space and Materials for Court.

Effective: April 19, 1988|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 708 - 117th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners shall provide for each county court judge in the county suitable court and office space and all materials necessary for the business of the court, including a current set of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 1907.201 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.201 | Appointment of Employees.

Effective: July 1, 1997|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 438 - 121st General Assembly|(A) The judge or judges of a county court may appoint an interpreter, one or more mental health professionals, one or more probation officers, an assignment commissioner, a deputy assignment commissioner, and other court aides on a full-time, part-time, per diem, hourly, or other basis, who shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing judge or judges and who shall receive compensation as prescribed by the board of county commissioners from the county treasury or other authorized funds. Probation officers have all the powers of deputy sheriffs or 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.(B) The judge or judges may appoint one or more typists, stenographers, statistical clerks, bookkeepers, and official court reporters, each of whom shall be paid compensation as prescribed by the board of county commissioners from the county treasury or other authorized funds.(C) A probation officer, assignment commissioner, or official court reporter appointed pursuant to this section is in the unclassified civil service.
Ohio Rev Code § 1907.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.21 | Alphabetical Index to Docket.

Effective: March 17, 1987|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 158 - 116th General Assembly|Each clerk of a county court shall keep an alphabetical index to his docket, in which he shall enter the names of the parties to each judgment, direct and reverse, with a reference to the page of the entry. The names of the parties shall be entered in the index in the alphabetical order of the first letter of the family name. The clerk shall number the cases progressively on his docket, and shall correspondingly number the papers in each case. The clerk shall keep the entire papers in each action together, in packages of proper and convenient size, and in the order in which the cases are numbered on his docket.
Ohio Rev Code § 1907.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.22 | Depositing Official Dockets With Successor Clerk.

Effective: March 17, 1987|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 158 - 116th General Assembly|Upon the expiration of his term of office , the clerk of a county court shall deposit with his successor such clerk's official dockets, the official dockets of his predecessors that are in his custody, and all files, papers, and other materials that pertain to his office and that are kept at his office as public records and property.
Ohio Rev Code § 1907.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 19 | Courts-Municipal-Mayor's-County|Chapter 1907 | County Court - General Provisions|Section 1907.23 | Receipt for Official Dockets of County Court.

Effective: March 17, 1987|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 158 - 116th General Assembly|A clerk of a county court who receives by succession dockets, files, papers, and materials as provided in section 1907.22 of the Revised Code shall, if requested, give a receipt for them to the person from whom they are received.