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Ohio Rev Code § 737.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 737 | Public Safety|Section 737.04 | Mutual Aid Contracts for Police Protection.

Effective: September 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly|The legislative authority of any municipal corporation, in order to obtain police protection or to obtain additional police protection, or to allow its police officers to work in multijurisdictional drug, gang, or career criminal task forces, may enter into contracts with one or more municipal corporations, townships, township police districts, joint police districts, or county sheriffs in this state, with one or more park districts created pursuant to section 511.18 or 1545.01 of the Revised Code, with one or more port authorities, or with a contiguous municipal corporation in an adjoining state, upon any terms that are agreed upon, for services of police departments or the use of police equipment or for the interchange of services of police departments or police equipment within the several territories of the contracting subdivisions. Chapter 2744. of the Revised Code, insofar as it applies to the operation of police departments, shall apply to the contracting political subdivisions and to the police department members when they are rendering service outside their own subdivisions pursuant to the contracts.Police department members acting outside the subdivision in which they are employed, pursuant to a contract entered into under this section, shall be entitled to participate in any indemnity fund established by their employer to the same extent as while acting within the employing subdivision. Those members shall be entitled to all the rights and benefits of Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code, to the same extent as while performing service within the subdivision.The contracts may provide for:(A) A fixed annual charge to be paid at the times agreed upon and stipulated in the contract;(B) Compensation based upon:(1) A stipulated price for each call or emergency;(2) The number of members or pieces of equipment employed;(3) The elapsed time of service required in each call or emergency.(C) Compensation for loss or damage to equipment while engaged in rendering police services outside the limits of the subdivision owning and furnishing the equipment;(D) Reimbursement of the subdivision in which the police department members are employed for any indemnity award or premium contribution assessed against the employing subdivision for workers' compensation benefits for injuries or death of its police department members occurring while engaged in rendering police services pursuant to the contract.
Ohio Rev Code § 737.041 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 737 | Public Safety|Section 737.041 | Providing Police Service Without Contract.

Effective: September 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly|The police department of any municipal corporation may provide police protection to any county, municipal corporation, township, township police district, or joint police district of this state, to a park district created pursuant to section 511.18 or 1545.01 of the Revised Code, to a port authority, to any multijurisdictional drug, gang, or career criminal task force, or to a governmental entity of an adjoining state without a contract to provide police protection, upon the approval, by resolution, of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation in which the department is located and upon authorization by an officer or employee of the police department providing the police protection who is designated by title of office or position, pursuant to the resolution of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, to give the authorization. Chapter 2744. of the Revised Code, insofar as it applies to the operation of police departments, shall apply to any municipal corporation and to members of its police department when the members are rendering police services pursuant to this section outside the municipal corporation by which they are employed.Police department members acting, as provided in this section, outside the municipal corporation by which they are employed shall be entitled to participate in any pension or indemnity fund established by their employer to the same extent as while acting within the municipal corporation by which they are employed. Those members shall be entitled to all the rights and benefits of Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code to the same extent as while performing services within the municipal corporation by which they are employed.
Ohio Rev Code § 737.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 737 | Public Safety|Section 737.05 | Composition and Control of Police Department.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The police department of each city shall be composed of a chief of police and such other officers, patrolmen, and employees as the legislative authority thereof provides by ordinance.The director of public safety of such city shall have the exclusive management and control of all other officers, surgeons, secretaries, clerks, and employees in the police department as provided by ordinances or resolution of such legislative authority. He may commission private policemen, who may not be in the classified list of the department, under such rules and regulations as the legislative authority prescribes.
Ohio Rev Code § 737.051 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 737 | Public Safety|Section 737.051 | City Auxiliary Police Unit - City Parking Enforcement Unit.

Effective: July 13, 1990|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 174 - 118th General Assembly|(A) The legislative authority of a city may establish, by ordinance, an auxiliary police unit within the police department of the city, and provide for the regulation of auxiliary police officers. The director of public safety shall be the executive head of the auxiliary police unit, shall make all appointments and removals of auxiliary police officers, subject to any general rules prescribed by the legislative authority by ordinance, and shall prescribe rules for the organization, training, administration, control, and conduct of the auxiliary police unit. Members of the auxiliary police unit shall not be in the classified service of the city.(B)(1) The legislative authority of a city may establish, by ordinance, a parking enforcement unit within the police department of the city, and provide for the regulation of parking enforcement officers. The director of public safety shall be the executive head of the parking enforcement unit, shall make all appointments and removals of parking enforcement officers, subject to any general rules prescribed by the legislative authority by ordinance, and shall prescribe rules for the organization, training, administration, control, and conduct of the parking enforcement unit. The director may appoint parking enforcement officers who agree to serve for nominal compensation, and persons with physical disabilities may receive appointments as parking enforcement officers.(2) The authority of the parking enforcement officers shall be limited to the enforcement of ordinances governing parking in handicapped parking locations and fire lanes and any other parking ordinances specified in the ordinance creating the parking enforcement unit. Parking enforcement officers shall have no other powers.(3) The training the parking enforcement officers shall receive shall include instruction in general administrative rules and procedures governing the parking enforcement unit, the role of the judicial system as it relates to parking regulation and enforcement, proper techniques and methods relating to the enforcement of parking ordinances, human interaction skills, and first aid.
Ohio Rev Code § 737.052 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 737 | Public Safety|Section 737.052 | Felony Conviction Precludes or Terminates Employment.

Effective: January 1, 2004|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 490 - 124th General Assembly|(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 public safety shall not appoint a person as a chief of police, a member of the police department of the municipal corporation, or an auxiliary police officer on a permanent basis, on a temporary basis, for a probationary term, or on other than a permanent basis if the person previously has been convicted of or has pleaded guilty to a felony.(2)(a) The director of public safety shall terminate the employment of a chief of police, member of the police department, or auxiliary police officer who does either of the following:(i) Pleads guilty to a felony;(ii) Pleads guilty to a misdemeanor pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement as provided in division (D) of section 2929.43 of the Revised Code in which the chief of police, member of the police department, or auxiliary police officer agrees to surrender the certificate awarded to the chief of police, member of the police department, or auxiliary police officer under section 109.77 of the Revised Code.(b) The director shall suspend from employment a chief of police, member of the police department, or auxiliary police officer who is convicted, after trial, of a felony. If the chief of police, member of the police department, or auxiliary police officer files an appeal from that conviction and the conviction is upheld by the highest court to which the appeal is taken or if the chief of police, member of the police department, or auxiliary police officer does not file a timely appeal, the director shall terminate that person's employment. If the chief of police, member of the police department, or auxiliary police officer files an appeal that results in that person's acquittal of the felony or conviction of a misdemeanor, or in the dismissal of the felony charge against that person, the director shall reinstate that person. A chief of police, member of the police department, or auxiliary police officer who is reinstated under division (B)(2)(b) of this section shall not receive any back pay unless that person's conviction of the felony was reversed on appeal, or the felony charge was dismissed, because the court found insufficient evidence to convict that person of the felony.(3) Division (B) of this section does not apply regarding an offense that was committed prior to January 1, 1997.(4) The suspension from employment, or the termination of the employment, of the chief of police, member of the police department, or auxiliary police officer under division (B)(2) of this section shall be in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 737.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 737 | Public Safety|Section 737.06 | Chief of Police.

Effective: May 6, 1963|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 121 - 105th General Assembly|The chief of police shall have exclusive control of the stationing and transfer of all patrolmen, auxiliary police officers, and other officers and employees in the police department, and police auxiliary unit, under such general rules and regulations as the director of public safety prescribes.
Ohio Rev Code § 737.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 737 | Public Safety|Section 737.07 | Hours of Work for Policemen in Cities - Leave of Absence.

Effective: November 19, 1969|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 28 - 108th General Assembly|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 work and not to exceed forty-four hours constitute a week's work for policemen. Annually, in each city, each policeman shall be given not less than two weeks' leave of absence with full pay.
Ohio Rev Code § 737.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 737 | Public Safety|Section 737.08 | Composition and Control of City Fire Department.

Effective: April 5, 2007|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 401 - 126th General Assembly|(A) The fire department of each city shall be composed of a chief of the fire department and other officers, firefighters, and employees provided for by ordinance. Neither this section nor any other section of the Revised Code requires, or shall be construed to require, that the fire chief be a resident of the city.(B) No person shall be appointed as a permanent full-time paid member, whose duties include fire fighting, of the fire department of any city, unless either of the following applies:(1) The person has received a certificate issued under former section 3303.07 of the Revised Code or section 4765.55 of the Revised Code evidencing satisfactory completion of a firefighter training program.(2) The person began serving as a permanent full-time paid firefighter with the fire department of a village or other city prior to July 2, 1970, and receives a fire training certificate issued under section 4765.55 of the Revised Code.(C) No person who is appointed as a volunteer firefighter of a city fire department shall remain in that position, unless either of the following applies:(1) Within one year of the appointment, the person has received a certificate issued under former section 3303.07 of the Revised Code or section 4765.55 of the Revised Code evidencing satisfactory completion of a firefighter training program.(2) The person began serving as a permanent full-time paid firefighter with the fire department of a village or other city prior to July 2, 1970, or as a volunteer firefighter with the fire department of a township, fire district, village, or other city prior to July 2, 1979, and receives a fire training certificate issued under section 4765.55 of the Revised Code.(D) The director of public safety shall have the exclusive management and control of other surgeons, secretaries, clerks, and employees provided for by ordinance or resolution of the legislative authority of the city.
Ohio Rev Code § 737.082 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 737 | Public Safety|Section 737.082 | Employee Status of Volunteer Firefighter.

Effective: March 23, 2015|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 201 - 130th General Assembly|A volunteer firefighter appointed pursuant to this chapter is a bona fide volunteer and not an employee for purposes of section 513 of the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," 124 Stat. 119 (2010), 26 U.S.C. 4980H, if, for providing those fire protection services, the volunteer receives any of the benefits provided in Chapter 146., 4121., or 4123. or section 9.65, 505.23, 3333.26, 3923.13, or 4113.41 of the Revised Code. Last updated November 23, 2021 at 3:52 PM
Ohio Rev Code § 737.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 737 | Public Safety|Section 737.09 | Chief of Fire Department.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The chief of the fire department shall have exclusive control of the stationing and transferring of all firemen and other officers and employees in the department, under such general rules and regulations as the director of public safety prescribes.
Ohio Rev Code § 737.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 737 | Public Safety|Section 737.10 | Additional Patrolmen and Firemen in Emergency Situation.

Effective: January 17, 1977|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 545 - 111th General Assembly|In case of riot or other like emergency, the mayor may appoint additional patrolmen and officers for temporary service in the police department, or additional firemen and officers for temporary service in the fire department, who need not be in the classified list of such department. Such additional persons shall be employed only for the time during which the emergency exists.The mayor may call upon the sheriff of the county in which all or part of the municipal corporation lies or the sheriff of any adjoining county, the mayor or other chief executive of any municipal corporation in the same or any adjoining county, and the chairman of the board of township trustees of any township in the same or any adjoining county, to furnish such law enforcement or fire protection personnel, or both, together with appropriate equipment and apparatus, as may be necessary to preserve the public peace and protect persons and property in the requesting municipal corporation in the event of riot. Such aid shall be furnished to the mayor requesting it, insofar as possible without withdrawing from the political subdivision furnishing such aid the minimum police and fire protection appearing necessary under the circumstances. In such case, law enforcement and fire protection personnel acting outside the territory of their regular employment shall be considered as performing services within the territory of their regular employment for purposes of compensation, pension or indemnity fund rights, workers' compensation, and other rights or benefits to which they may be entitled as incidents of their regular employment. The municipal corporation receiving such aid shall reimburse the political subdivision furnishing it the cost of furnishing such aid, including compensation of personnel, expenses incurred by reason of the injury or death of any such personnel while rendering such aid, expenses of furnishing equipment and apparatus, compensation for damage to or loss of equipment or apparatus while in service outside the territory of its regular use, and such other reasonable expenses as may be incurred by any such political subdivision in furnishing such aid. Nothing in this section shall be construed as superseding or modifying in any way any provision of a contract entered into pursuant to section 737.04 of the Revised Code. Law enforcement officers acting pursuant to this section outside the territory of their regular employment have the same authority to enforce the law as when acting within the territory of their regular employment.
Ohio Rev Code § 737.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 737 | Public Safety|Section 737.11 | General Duties of Police and Fire Departments.

Effective: July 29, 1998|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 302 - 122nd General Assembly|The police force of a municipal corporation shall preserve the peace, protect persons and property, and obey and enforce all ordinances of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, all criminal laws of the state and the United States, all court orders issued and consent agreements approved pursuant to sections 2919.26 and 3113.31 of the Revised Code, all protection orders issued pursuant to section 2903.213 or 2903.214 of the Revised Code, and protection orders issued by courts of another state, as defined in section 2919.27 of the Revised Code. The fire department shall protect the lives and property of the people in case of fire. Both the police and fire departments shall perform any other duties that are provided by ordinance. The police and fire departments in every city shall be maintained under the civil service system.A chief or officer of a police force of a municipal corporation may participate, as the director of an organized crime task force established under section 177.02 of the Revised Code or as a member of the investigatory staff of such a task force, in an investigation of organized criminal activity in any county or counties in this state under sections 177.01 to 177.03 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 737.111 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 737 | Public Safety|Section 737.111 | Fines, Rewards and Fees of Police Department Credited to General Fund.

Effective: July 1, 1985|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly|All fines imposed as discipline or punishment upon members of the police department of a municipal corporation by the authority having charge or control thereof, all rewards, fees, or proceeds of gifts and emoluments allowed by such authority paid and given for or on account of any extraordinary service of any member of the department, and moneys arising from the sale of unclaimed property or money, after deducting all expenses incident thereto, shall be credited to the general fund of the municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 737.112 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 737 | Public Safety|Section 737.112 | Fines, Proceeds and Fees of Fire Department Credited to General Fund.

Effective: July 1, 1985|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly|All fines imposed as discipline or punishment upon members of the fire department of a municipal corporation by the authority having charge or control thereof, the proceeds of all suits for penalties for the violation of state statutes and municipal ordinances with the execution of which such department is charged, license fees or other fees payable thereunder, and fees received by such municipal corporation for any services performed or inspections made by the fire department, except fees charged and received by the municipal corporation from other subdivisions for fire protection or fire fighting therein shall be credited to the general fund of the municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 737.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 737 | Public Safety|Section 737.12 | Suspension of Police and Fire Personnel.

Effective: October 16, 1996|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 566 - 121st General Assembly|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 right to suspend any of the deputies, officers, or employees in their respective departments and under their management and control, for incompetence, gross neglect of duty, gross immorality, habitual drunkenness, failure to obey orders given them by the proper authority, or for any other reasonable and just cause.If an employee is suspended under this section, the chief of police or the chief of the fire department, as the case may be, shall forthwith certify that fact in writing, together with the cause for the suspension, to the director of public safety, who, within five days from the receipt of that certification, shall proceed to inquire into the cause of the suspension and render judgment on it. If the charge is sustained, the judgment may be for the person's suspension, reduction in rank, or dismissal from the department. The judgment shall be final except as otherwise provided by law.The director, in any investigation of charges against a member of the police or fire department, shall have the same powers to administer oaths and to secure the attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers that are conferred upon the mayor.
Ohio Rev Code § 737.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 737 | Public Safety|Section 737.13 | Classification of Service - Rules and Regulations.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The director of public safety of a city shall classify the service in the police and fire departments in conformity with the ordinance of the legislative authority thereof determining the number of persons to be employed in the departments, and shall make all rules for the regulation and discipline of such departments, except as otherwise provided by law.