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Ohio Rev Code § 2721.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2721 | Declaratory Judgments|Section 2721.02 | Force and Effect of Declaratory Judgments - Action or Proceeding Against Insurer.

Effective: September 24, 1999|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 58 - 123rd General Assembly|(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, courts of record may declare rights, status, and other legal relations whether or not further relief is or could be claimed. No action or proceeding is open to objection on the ground that a declaratory judgment or decree is prayed for under this chapter. The declaration may be either affirmative or negative in form and effect. The declaration has the effect of a final judgment or decree.(B) A plaintiff who is not an insured under a particular policy of liability insurance may not commence against the insurer that issued the policy an action or proceeding under this chapter that seeks a declaratory judgment or decree as to whether the policy's coverage provisions extend to an injury, death, or loss to person or property that a particular insured under the policy allegedly tortiously caused the plaintiff to sustain or caused another person for whom the plaintiff is a legal representative to sustain, until a court of record enters in a distinct civil action for damages between the plaintiff and that insured as a tortfeasor a final judgment awarding the plaintiff damages for the injury, death, or loss to person or property involved.(C) In an action or proceeding for declaratory relief that a judgment creditor commences in accordance with divisions (A) and (B) of this section against an insurer that issued a particular policy of liability insurance, the insurer has and may assert as an affirmative defense against the judgment creditor any coverage defenses that the insurer possesses and could assert against the holder of the policy in an action or proceeding under this chapter between the holder and the insurer.If, prior to the judgment creditor's commencement of the action or proceeding for declaratory relief, the holder of the policy commences a similar action or proceeding against the insurer for a determination as to whether the policy's coverage provisions extend to the injury, death, or loss to person or property underlying the judgment creditor's judgment, and if the court involved in that action or proceeding enters a final judgment with respect to the policy's coverage or noncoverage of that injury, death, or loss, that final judgment shall be deemed to also have binding legal effect upon the judgment creditor for purposes of the judgment creditor's action or proceeding for declaratory relief against the insurer. This division shall apply notwithstanding any contrary common law principles of res judicata or adjunct principles of collateral estoppel.
Ohio Rev Code § 2721.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2721 | Declaratory Judgments|Section 2721.03 | Construction or Validity of Instrument or Legal Provision.

Effective: March 22, 2019|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 595 - 132nd General Assembly|Subject to division (B) of section 2721.02 of the Revised Code, any person interested under a deed, will, written contract, or other writing constituting a contract or any person whose rights, status, or other legal relations are affected by a constitutional provision, statute, rule as defined in section 119.01 of the Revised Code, municipal ordinance, township resolution, contract, or franchise may have determined any question of construction or validity arising under the instrument, constitutional provision, statute, rule, ordinance, resolution, contract, or franchise and obtain a declaration of rights, status, or other legal relations under it.The testator of a will may have the validity of the will determined at any time during the testator's lifetime pursuant to Chapter 5817. of the Revised Code. The settlor of a trust may have the validity of the trust determined at any time during the settlor's lifetime pursuant to Chapter 5817. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 2721.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2721 | Declaratory Judgments|Section 2721.04 | Contract.

Effective: September 24, 1999|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 58 - 123rd General Assembly|Subject to division (B) of section 2721.02 of the Revised Code, a contract may be construed by a declaratory judgment or decree either before or after there has been a breach of the contract.
Ohio Rev Code § 2721.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2721 | Declaratory Judgments|Section 2721.05 | Determination of Rights or Legal Relations.

Effective: October 12, 2016|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly|As used in this section, "incompetent person" means a person who is so mentally impaired, as a result of a mental or physical illness or disability, as a result of an intellectual disability, or as a result of chronic substance abuse, that the person is incapable of taking proper care of the person's self or property or fails to provide for the person's family or other persons for whom the person is charged by law to provide.Any person interested as or through an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, or other fiduciary, creditor, devisee, legatee, heir, next of kin, or cestui que trust, in the administration of a trust, or of the estate of a decedent, an infant, an incompetent person, or an insolvent person, may have a declaration of rights or legal relations in respect thereto in any of the following cases:(A) To ascertain any class of creditors, devisees, legatees, heirs, next of kin, or others;(B) To direct the executors, administrators, trustees, or other fiduciaries to do or abstain from doing any particular act in their fiduciary capacity;(C) To determine any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust, including questions of construction of wills and other writings.
Ohio Rev Code § 2721.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2721 | Declaratory Judgments|Section 2721.06 | Powers Not Restricted.

Effective: September 24, 1999|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 58 - 123rd General Assembly|Sections 2721.03 to 2721.05 of the Revised Code do not limit or restrict the exercise of the general powers conferred by division (A) of section 2721.02 of the Revised Code in any action or proceeding in which declaratory relief is sought under this chapter and in which a judgment or decree will terminate the controversy or remove an uncertainty.
Ohio Rev Code § 2721.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2721 | Declaratory Judgments|Section 2721.07 | Court May Refuse Judgment.

Effective: September 24, 1999|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 58 - 123rd General Assembly|Courts of record may refuse to render or enter a declaratory judgment or decree under this chapter if the judgment or decree would not terminate the uncertainty or controversy giving rise to the action or proceeding in which the declaratory relief is sought.
Ohio Rev Code § 2721.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2721 | Declaratory Judgments|Section 2721.08 | Appeals.

Effective: September 24, 1999|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 58 - 123rd General Assembly|All judgments and decrees under this chapter may be reviewed on appeal as are other judgments and decrees of the court of record involved.
Ohio Rev Code § 2721.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2721 | Declaratory Judgments|Section 2721.09 | Further Relief Granted.

Effective: September 24, 1999|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 58 - 123rd General Assembly|Subject to section 2721.16 of the Revised Code, whenever necessary or proper, a court of record may grant further relief based on a declaratory judgment or decree previously granted under this chapter. The application for the further relief shall be by a complaint filed in a court of record with jurisdiction to grant the further relief. If the application is sufficient, the court, on reasonable notice, shall require any adverse party whose rights have been adjudicated by the declaratory judgment or decree to show cause why the further relief should not be granted forthwith.
Ohio Rev Code § 2721.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2721 | Declaratory Judgments|Section 2721.10 | Determination of Issues of Fact.

Effective: September 24, 1999|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 58 - 123rd General Assembly|When an action or proceeding in which declaratory relief is sought under this chapter involves the determination of an issue of fact, that issue may be tried and determined in the same manner as issues of fact are tried and determined in other civil actions in the court in which the action or proceeding is pending.
Ohio Rev Code § 2721.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2721 | Declaratory Judgments|Section 2721.11 | Costs.

Effective: September 24, 1999|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 58 - 123rd General Assembly|In any action or proceeding in which declaratory relief is sought under this chapter, the court may make an award of court costs as is equitable and just.
Ohio Rev Code § 2721.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2721 | Declaratory Judgments|Section 2721.12 | Declaratory Judgment Procedure.

Effective: September 24, 1999|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 58 - 123rd General Assembly|(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, when declaratory relief is sought under this chapter in an action or proceeding, all persons who have or claim any interest that would be affected by the declaration shall be made parties to the action or proceeding. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a declaration shall not prejudice the rights of persons who are not made parties to the action or proceeding. In any action or proceeding that involves the validity of a municipal ordinance or franchise, the municipal corporation shall be made a party and shall be heard, and, if any statute or the ordinance or franchise is alleged to be unconstitutional, the attorney general also shall be served with a copy of the complaint in the action or proceeding and shall be heard. In any action or proceeding that involves the validity of a township resolution, the township shall be made a party and shall be heard.(B) A declaratory judgment or decree that a court of record enters in an action or proceeding under this chapter between an insurer and a holder of a policy of liability insurance issued by the insurer and that resolves an issue as to whether the policy's coverage provisions extend to an injury, death, or loss to person or property that an insured under the policy allegedly tortiously caused shall be deemed to have the binding legal effect described in division (C)(2) of section 3929.06 of the Revised Code and to also have binding legal effect upon any person who seeks coverage as an assignee of the insured's rights under the policy in relation to the injury, death, or loss involved. This division applies whether or not an assignee is made a party to the action or proceeding for declaratory relief and notwithstanding any contrary common law principles of res judicata or adjunct principles of collateral estoppel.
Ohio Rev Code § 2721.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2721 | Declaratory Judgments|Section 2721.13 | Liberal Construction of Chapter.

Effective: September 24, 1999|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 58 - 123rd General Assembly|The provisions of this chapter are remedial and shall be liberally construed and administered.
Ohio Rev Code § 2721.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2721 | Declaratory Judgments|Section 2721.14 | Interpretation.

Effective: September 24, 1999|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 58 - 123rd General Assembly|The provisions of this chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate their general purpose to make the law of this state uniform with the law of those states that enact similar provisions and to harmonize, insofar as possible, with federal laws and regulations on the subject of declaratory judgments and decrees.
Ohio Rev Code § 2721.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2721 | Declaratory Judgments|Section 2721.15 | Independent Sections.

Effective: September 24, 1999|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 58 - 123rd General Assembly|With the exception of sections 2721.02 and 2721.03 of the Revised Code, the provisions of this chapter are independent and severable, and the invalidity of any part of those provisions does not affect or render the remainder of those provisions invalid or inoperative.
Ohio Rev Code § 2721.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2721 | Declaratory Judgments|Section 2721.16 | Award of Attorney's Fees.

Effective: January 25, 2002|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 233 - 124th General Assembly|(A)(1) A court of record shall not award attorney's fees to any party on a claim or proceeding for declaratory relief under this chapter unless any of the following applies:(a) A section of the Revised Code explicitly authorizes a court of record to award attorney's fees on a claim for declaratory relief under this chapter.(b) An award of attorney's fees is authorized by section 2323.51 of the Revised Code, by the Civil Rules, or by an award of punitive or exemplary damages against the party ordered to pay attorney's fees.(c) Regardless of whether a claim for declaratory relief is granted under this chapter, a court of record awards attorney's fees to a fiduciary, beneficiary, or other interested party, the attorney's fees are to be paid out of trust property, estate property, or other property that is the subject of a fiduciary relationship and that is involved in that claim or proceeding for declaratory relief, and the attorney's fees are awarded in accordance with equitable principles that permit recovery of attorney's fees incurred for services that are beneficial to the trust or estate.(2) References in another section of the Revised Code to an award of costs or expenses incurred in connection with an action or proceeding does not authorize an award of attorney's fees for purposes of division (A)(1) of this section.(B) Consistent with section 2721.13 of the Revised Code, the provisions of this section are remedial in nature. Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code in existence on the day immediately prior to September 24, 1999, notwithstanding any judicial construction prior to September 24, 1999, of a statutory provision of that nature, notwithstanding the holding in any decision of a court of this state, other than a decision based on equitable principles described in division (A)(1)(c) of this section, that authorized an award of attorney's fees to a party to a civil action or proceeding based on common law grounds rather than a statutory authorization of the general assembly, regardless of the date upon which a cause of action accrued that pertains to an action or proceeding in which declaratory relief is sought under this chapter, and regardless of who is the plaintiff or the defendant in an action or proceeding in which declaratory relief is sought under this chapter, division (A) of this section shall apply in connection with both of the following:(1) An action or proceeding that is commenced on or after September 24, 1999, and that seeks declaratory relief under this chapter;(2) An action or proceeding that was commenced prior to September 24, 1999, that is pending in a court of record on that date, and that seeks declaratory relief under this chapter.
Ohio Rev Code § 2723.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2723 | Enjoining and Recovering Illegal Taxes and Assessments|Section 2723.01 | Jurisdiction of Courts of Common Pleas.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Courts of common pleas may enjoin the illegal levy or collection of taxes and assessments and entertain actions to recover them when collected, without regard to the amount thereof, but no recovery shall be had unless the action is brought within one year after the taxes or assessments are collected.
Ohio Rev Code § 2723.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2723 | Enjoining and Recovering Illegal Taxes and Assessments|Section 2723.02 | Parties to Actions to Enjoin Levy.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Actions to enjoin the illegal levy of taxes and assessments must be brought against the corporation or person for whose use and benefit the levy is made. If the levy would go upon the county duplicate, the county auditor must be joined in the action.
Ohio Rev Code § 2723.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2723 | Enjoining and Recovering Illegal Taxes and Assessments|Section 2723.03 | Parties to Actions to Enjoin Collection of Taxes or to Recover Taxes.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Actions to enjoin the collection of taxes and assessments must be brought against the officer whose duty it is to collect them. Actions to recover taxes and assessments must be brought against the officer who made the collection, or if he is dead, against his personal representative. When they were not collected on the county duplicate, each corporation or board which is entitled to share in the revenue so collected must be joined in the action.If a plaintiff in an action to recover taxes or assessments, or both, alleges and proves that he or the corporation or deceased person whose estate he represents, at the time of paying such taxes or assessments, filed a written protest as to the portion sought to be recovered, specifying the nature of his claim as to the illegality thereof, together with notice of his intention to sue under sections 2723.01 to 2723.05, inclusive, of the Revised Code, such action shall not be dismissed on the ground that the taxes or assessments, sought to be recovered, were voluntarily paid.
Ohio Rev Code § 2723.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2723 | Enjoining and Recovering Illegal Taxes and Assessments|Section 2723.04 | Amount Admitted Must Be Tendered - Bond.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If the plaintiff in an action to enjoin the collection of taxes or assessments admits that a part thereof was legally levied, he first must pay or tender the sum admitted to be due. When an injunction is allowed, bond must be given as in other cases. The injunction shall be a justification of the officers charged with the collection of such taxes or assessments for not collecting them.
Ohio Rev Code § 2723.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2723 | Enjoining and Recovering Illegal Taxes and Assessments|Section 2723.05 | Refunding an Illegal Tax or Assessment.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If, by judgment or final order of any court of competent jurisdiction in this state, in an action not pending on appeal, it is determined that any tax or assessment or part thereof was illegal and such judgment or order is not made in time to prevent the collection or payment of such tax or assessment, then such tax or assessment or such part thereof as is at the time of such judgment or order unexpended and in the possession of the officer collecting the same shall be refunded to the person paying such tax or assessment by the officer having the same in his possession.
Ohio Rev Code § 2725.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2725 | Habeas Corpus|Section 2725.01 | Persons Entitled to Writ of Habeas Corpus.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Whoever is unlawfully restrained of his liberty, or entitled to the custody of another, of which custody such person is unlawfully deprived, may prosecute a writ of habeas corpus, to inquire into the cause of such imprisonment, restraint, or deprivation.
Ohio Rev Code § 2725.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2725 | Habeas Corpus|Section 2725.02 | Courts Authorized to Grant Writ.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The writ of habeas corpus may be granted by the supreme court, court of appeals, court of common pleas, probate court, or by a judge of any such court.
Ohio Rev Code § 2725.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2725 | Habeas Corpus|Section 2725.03 | Jurisdiction for Production or Discharge of Inmate of Institution.

Effective: October 6, 1994|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 571 - 120th General Assembly|If a person restrained of his liberty is an inmate of a state benevolent or correctional institution, the location of which is fixed by statute and at the time is in the custody of the officers of the institution, no court or judge other than the courts or judges of the county in which the institution is located has jurisdiction to issue or determine a writ of habeas corpus for his production or discharge. Any writ issued by a court or judge of another county to an officer or person in charge at the state institution to compel the production or discharge of an inmate thereof is void.
Ohio Rev Code § 2725.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2725 | Habeas Corpus|Section 2725.04 | Application for Writ.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Application for the writ of habeas corpus shall be by petition, signed and verified either by the party for whose relief it is intended, or by some person for him, and shall specify:(A) That the person in whose behalf the application is made is imprisoned, or restrained of his liberty;(B) The officer, or name of the person by whom the prisoner is so confined or restrained; or, if both are unknown or uncertain, such officer or person may be described by an assumed appellation and the person who is served with the writ is deemed the person intended;(C) The place where the prisoner is so imprisoned or restrained, if known;(D) A copy of the commitment or cause of detention of such person shall be exhibited, if it can be procured without impairing the efficiency of the remedy; or, if the imprisonment or detention is without legal authority, such fact must appear.
Ohio Rev Code § 2725.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies|Chapter 2725 | Habeas Corpus|Section 2725.05 | Writ Not Allowed.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If it appears that a person alleged to be restrained of his liberty is in the custody of an officer under process issued by a court or magistrate, or by virtue of the judgment or order of a court of record, and that the court or magistrate had jurisdiction to issue the process, render the judgment, or make the order, the writ of habeas corpus shall not be allowed. If the jurisdiction appears after the writ is allowed, the person shall not be discharged by reason of any informality or defect in the process, judgment, or order.