2006 Ohio Revised Code - 2929.01. Definitions.

§ 2929.01. Definitions.
 

As used in this chapter: 

(A) (1) "Alternative residential facility" means, subject to division (A)(2) of this section, any facility other than an offender's home or residence in which an offender is assigned to live and that satisfies all of the following criteria: 

(a) It provides programs through which the offender may seek or maintain employment or may receive education, training, treatment, or habilitation. 

(b) It has received the appropriate license or certificate for any specialized education, training, treatment, habilitation, or other service that it provides from the government agency that is responsible for licensing or certifying that type of education, training, treatment, habilitation, or service. 

(2) "Alternative residential facility" does not include a community-based correctional facility, jail, halfway house, or prison. 

(B) "Bad time" means the time by which the parole board administratively extends an offender's stated prison term or terms pursuant to section 2967.11 of the Revised Code because the parole board finds by clear and convincing evidence that the offender, while serving the prison term or terms, committed an act that is a criminal offense under the law of this state or the United States, whether or not the offender is prosecuted for the commission of that act. 

(C) "Basic probation supervision" means a requirement that the offender maintain contact with a person appointed to supervise the offender in accordance with sanctions imposed by the court or imposed by the parole board pursuant to section 2967.28 of the Revised Code. "Basic probation supervision" includes basic parole supervision and basic post-release control supervision. 

(D) "Cocaine," "crack cocaine," "hashish," "L.S.D.," and "unit dose" have the same meanings as in section 2925.01 of the Revised Code. 

(E) "Community-based correctional facility" means a community-based correctional facility and program or district community-based correctional facility and program developed pursuant to sections 2301.51 to 2301.58 of the Revised Code. 

(F) "Community control sanction" means a sanction that is not a prison term and that is described in section 2929.15, 2929.16, 2929.17, or 2929.18 of the Revised Code or a sanction that is not a jail term and that is described in section 2929.26, 2929.27, or 2929.28 of the Revised Code. "Community control sanction" includes probation if the sentence involved was imposed for a felony that was committed prior to July 1, 1996, or if the sentence involved was imposed for a misdemeanor that was committed prior to January 1, 2004. 

(G) "Controlled substance," "marihuana," "schedule I," and "schedule II" have the same meanings as in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code. 

(H) "Curfew" means a requirement that an offender during a specified period of time be at a designated place. 

(I) "Day reporting" means a sanction pursuant to which an offender is required each day to report to and leave a center or other approved reporting location at specified times in order to participate in work, education or training, treatment, and other approved programs at the center or outside the center. 

(J) "Deadly weapon" has the same meaning as in section 2923.11 of the Revised Code. 

(K) "Drug and alcohol use monitoring" means a program under which an offender agrees to submit to random chemical analysis of the offender's blood, breath, or urine to determine whether the offender has ingested any alcohol or other drugs. 

(L) "Drug treatment program" means any program under which a person undergoes assessment and treatment designed to reduce or completely eliminate the person's physical or emotional reliance upon alcohol, another drug, or alcohol and another drug and under which the person may be required to receive assessment and treatment on an outpatient basis or may be required to reside at a facility other than the person's home or residence while undergoing assessment and treatment. 

(M) "Economic loss" means any economic detriment suffered by a victim as a direct and proximate result of the commission of an offense and includes any loss of income due to lost time at work because of any injury caused to the victim, and any property loss, medical cost, or funeral expense incurred as a result of the commission of the offense. "Economic loss" does not include non-economic loss or any punitive or exemplary damages. 

(N) "Education or training" includes study at, or in conjunction with a program offered by, a university, college, or technical college or vocational study and also includes the completion of primary school, secondary school, and literacy curricula or their equivalent. 

(O) "Firearm" has the same meaning as in section 2923.11 of the Revised Code. 

(P) "Halfway house" means a facility licensed by the division of parole and community services of the department of rehabilitation and correction pursuant to section 2967.14 of the Revised Code as a suitable facility for the care and treatment of adult offenders. 

(Q) "House arrest" means a period of confinement of an offender that is in the offender's home or in other premises specified by the sentencing court or by the parole board pursuant to section 2967.28 of the Revised Code and during which all of the following apply: 

(1) The offender is required to remain in the offender's home or other specified premises for the specified period of confinement, except for periods of time during which the offender is at the offender's place of employment or at other premises as authorized by the sentencing court or by the parole board. 

(2) The offender is required to report periodically to a person designated by the court or parole board. 

(3) The offender is subject to any other restrictions and requirements that may be imposed by the sentencing court or by the parole board. 

(R) "Intensive probation supervision" means a requirement that an offender maintain frequent contact with a person appointed by the court, or by the parole board pursuant to section 2967.28 of the Revised Code, to supervise the offender while the offender is seeking or maintaining necessary employment and participating in training, education, and treatment programs as required in the court's or parole board's order. "Intensive probation supervision" includes intensive parole supervision and intensive post-release control supervision. 

(S) "Jail" means a jail, workhouse, minimum security jail, or other residential facility used for the confinement of alleged or convicted offenders that is operated by a political subdivision or a combination of political subdivisions of this state. 

(T) "Jail term" means the term in a jail that a sentencing court imposes or is authorized to impose pursuant to section 2929.24 or 2929.25 of the Revised Code or pursuant to any other provision of the Revised Code that authorizes a term in a jail for a misdemeanor conviction. 

(U) "Mandatory jail term" means the term in a jail that a sentencing court is required to impose pursuant to division (G) of section 1547.99 of the Revised Code, division (E) of section 2929.24 of the Revised Code, division (E) of section 2903.06 or division (D) of section 2903.08 of the Revised Code, division (B) of section 4510.14 of the Revised Code, or division (G) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code or pursuant to any other provision of the Revised Code that requires a term in a jail for a misdemeanor conviction. 

(V) "Delinquent child" has the same meaning as in section 2152.02 of the Revised Code. 

(W) "License violation report" means a report that is made by a sentencing court, or by the parole board pursuant to section 2967.28 of the Revised Code, to the regulatory or licensing board or agency that issued an offender a professional license or a license or permit to do business in this state and that specifies that the offender has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to an offense that may violate the conditions under which the offender's professional license or license or permit to do business in this state was granted or an offense for which the offender's professional license or license or permit to do business in this state may be revoked or suspended. 

(X) "Major drug offender" means an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to the possession of, sale of, or offer to sell any drug, compound, mixture, preparation, or substance that consists of or contains at least one thousand grams of hashish; at least one hundred grams of crack cocaine; at least one thousand grams of cocaine that is not crack cocaine; at least two thousand five hundred unit doses or two hundred fifty grams of heroin; at least five thousand unit doses of L.S.D. or five hundred grams of L.S.D. in a liquid concentrate, liquid extract, or liquid distillate form; or at least one hundred times the amount of any other schedule I or II controlled substance other than marihuanaÅ that is necessary to commit a felony of the third degree pursuant to section 2925.03, 2925.04, 2925.05, or 2925.11 of the Revised Code that is based on the possession of, sale of, or offer to sell the controlled substance. 

(Y) "Mandatory prison term" means any of the following: 

(1) Subject to division (Y)(2) of this section, the term in prison that must be imposed for the offenses or circumstances set forth in divisions (F)(1) to (8) or (F)(12) to (14) of section 2929.13 and division (D) of section 2929.14 of the Revised Code. Except as provided in sections 2925.02, 2925.03, 2925.04, 2925.05, and 2925.11 of the Revised Code, unless the maximum or another specific term is required under section 2929.14 of the Revised Code, a mandatory prison term described in this division may be any prison term authorized for the level of offense. 

(2) The term of sixty or one hundred twenty days in prison that a sentencing court is required to impose for a third or fourth degree felony OVI offense pursuant to division (G)(2) of section 2929.13 and division (G)(1)(d) or (e) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code or the term of one, two, three, four, or five years in prison that a sentencing court is required to impose pursuant to division (G)(2) of section 2929.13 of the Revised Code.. 

(3) The term in prison imposed pursuant to section 2971.03 of the Revised Code for the offenses and in the circumstances described in division (F)(11) of section 2929.13 of the Revised Code and that term as modified or terminated pursuant to section 2971.05 of the Revised Code. 

(Z) "Monitored time" means a period of time during which an offender continues to be under the control of the sentencing court or parole board, subject to no conditions other than leading a law-abiding life. 

(AA) "Offender" means a person who, in this state, is convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony or a misdemeanor. 

(BB) "Prison" means a residential facility used for the confinement of convicted felony offenders that is under the control of the department of rehabilitation and correction but does not include a violation sanction center operated under authority of section 2967.141 of the Revised Code. 

(CC) "Prison term" includes any of the following sanctions for an offender: 

(1) A stated prison term; 

(2) A term in a prison shortened by, or with the approval of, the sentencing court pursuant to section 2929.20, 2967.26, 5120.031 [5120.03.1], 5120.032 [5120.03.2], or 5120.073 [5102.07.3] of the Revised Code; 

(3) A term in prison extended by bad time imposed pursuant to section 2967.11 of the Revised Code or imposed for a violation of post-release control pursuant to section 2967.28 of the Revised Code. 

(DD) "Repeat violent offender" means a person about whom both of the following apply: 

(1) The person is being sentenced for committing or for complicity in committing any of the following: 

(a) Aggravated murder, murder, any felony of the first or second degree that is an offense of violence, or an attempt to commit any of these offenses if the attempt is a felony of the first or second degree; 

(b) An offense under an existing or former law of this state, another state, or the United States that is or was substantially equivalent to an offense described in division (DD)(1)(a) of this section. 

(2) The person previously was convicted of or pleaded guilty to an offense described in division (DD)(1)(a) or (b) of this section.  

(EE) "Sanction" means any penalty imposed upon an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to an offense, as punishment for the offense. "Sanction" includes any sanction imposed pursuant to any provision of sections 2929.14 to 2929.18 or 2929.24 to 2929.28 of the Revised Code. 

(FF) "Sentence" means the sanction or combination of sanctions imposed by the sentencing court on an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to an offense. 

(GG) "Stated prison term" means the prison term, mandatory prison term, or combination of all prison terms and mandatory prison terms imposed by the sentencing court pursuant to section 2929.14 or 2971.03 of the Revised Code. "Stated prison term" includes any credit received by the offender for time spent in jail awaiting trial, sentencing, or transfer to prison for the offense and any time spent under house arrest or house arrest with electronic monitoring imposed after earning credits pursuant to section 2967.193 [2967.19.3] of the Revised Code. 

(HH) "Victim-offender mediation" means a reconciliation or mediation program that involves an offender and the victim of the offense committed by the offender and that includes a meeting in which the offender and the victim may discuss the offense, discuss restitution, and consider other sanctions for the offense. 

(II) "Fourth degree felony OVI offense" means a violation of division (A) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code that, under division (G) of that section, is a felony of the fourth degree. 

(JJ) "Mandatory term of local incarceration" means the term of sixty or one hundred twenty days in a jail, a community-based correctional facility, a halfway house, or an alternative residential facility that a sentencing court may impose upon a person who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a fourth degree felony OVI offense pursuant to division (G)(1) of section 2929.13 of the Revised Code and division (G)(1)(d) or (e) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code. 

(KK) "Designated homicide, assault, or kidnapping offense," "violent sex offense," "sexual motivation specification," "sexually violent offense," "sexually violent predator," and "sexually violent predator specification" have the same meanings as in section 2971.01 of the Revised Code. 

(LL) "Habitual sex offender," "sexually oriented offense," "sexual predator," "registration-exempt sexually oriented offense," "child-victim oriented offense," "habitual child-victim offender," and "child-victim predator" have the same meanings as in section 2950.01 of the Revised Code. 

(MM) An offense is "committed in the vicinity of a child" if the offender commits the offense within thirty feet of or within the same residential unit as a child who is under eighteen years of age, regardless of whether the offender knows the age of the child or whether the offender knows the offense is being committed within thirty feet of or within the same residential unit as the child and regardless of whether the child actually views the commission of the offense. 

(NN) "Family or household member" has the same meaning as in section 2919.25 of the Revised Code. 

(OO) "Motor vehicle" and "manufactured home" have the same meanings as in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code. 

(PP) "Detention" and "detention facility" have the same meanings as in section 2921.01 of the Revised Code. 

(QQ) "Third degree felony OVI offense" means a violation of division (A) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code that, under division (G) of that section, is a felony of the third degree. 

(RR) "Random drug testing" has the same meaning as in section 5120.63 of the Revised Code. 

(SS) "Felony sex offense" has the same meaning as in section 2967.28 of the Revised Code. 

(TT) "Body armor" has the same meaning as in section 2941.1411 [2941.14.11] of the Revised Code. 

(UU) "Electronic monitoring" means monitoring through the use of an electronic monitoring device. 

(VV) "Electronic monitoring device" means any of the following: 

(1) Any device that can be operated by electrical or battery power and that conforms with all of the following: 

(a) The device has a transmitter that can be attached to a person, that will transmit a specified signal to a receiver of the type described in division (VV)(1)(b) of this section if the transmitter is removed from the person, turned off, or altered in any manner without prior court approval in relation to electronic monitoring or without prior approval of the department of rehabilitation and correction in relation to the use of an electronic monitoring device for an inmate on transitional control or otherwise is tampered with, that can transmit continuously and periodically a signal to that receiver when the person is within a specified distance from the receiver, and that can transmit an appropriate signal to that receiver if the person to whom it is attached travels a specified distance from that receiver. 

(b) The device has a receiver that can receive continuously the signals transmitted by a transmitter of the type described in division (VV)(1)(a) of this section, can transmit continuously those signals by telephone to a central monitoring computer of the type described in division (VV)(1)(c) of this section, and can transmit continuously an appropriate signal to that central monitoring computer if the receiver is turned off or altered without prior court approval or otherwise tampered with. 

(c) The device has a central monitoring computer that can receive continuously the signals transmitted by telephone by a receiver of the type described in division (VV)(1)(b) of this section and can monitor continuously the person to whom an electronic monitoring device of the type described in division (VV)(1)(a) of this section is attached. 

(2) Any device that is not a device of the type described in division (VV)(1) of this section and that conforms with all of the following: 

(a) The device includes a transmitter and receiver that can monitor and determine the location of a subject person at any time, or at a designated point in time, through the use of a central monitoring computer or through other electronic means. 

(b) The device includes a transmitter and receiver that can determine at any time, or at a designated point in time, through the use of a central monitoring computer or other electronic means the fact that the transmitter is turned off or altered in any manner without prior approval of the court in relation to the electronic monitoring or without prior approval of the department of rehabilitation and correction in relation to the use of an electronic monitoring device for an inmate on transitional control or otherwise is tampered with. 

(3) Any type of technology that can adequately track or determine the location of a subject person at any time and that is approved by the director of rehabilitation and correction, including, but not limited to, any satellite technology, voice tracking system, or retinal scanning system that is so approved. 

(WW) "Non-economic loss" means nonpecuniary harm suffered by a victim of an offense as a result of or related to the commission of the offense, including, but not limited to, pain and suffering; loss of society, consortium, companionship, care, assistance, attention, protection, advice, guidance, counsel, instruction, training, or education; mental anguish; and any other intangible loss. 

(XX) "Prosecutor" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code. 

(YY) "Continuous alcohol monitoring" means the ability to automatically test and periodically transmit alcohol consumption levels and tamper attempts at least every hour, regardless of the location of the person who is being monitored. 

(ZZ) A person is "adjudicated a sexually violent predator" if the person is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violent sex offense and also is convicted of or pleads guilty to a sexually violent predator specification that was included in the indictment, count in the indictment, or information charging that violent sex offense or if the person is convicted of or pleads guilty to a designated homicide, assault, or kidnapping offense and also is convicted of or pleads guilty to both a sexual motivation specification and a sexually violent predator specification that were included in the indictment, count in the indictment, or information charging that designated homicide, assault, or kidnapping offense. 
 

HISTORY: 146 v S 2 (Eff 7-1-96); 146 v S 269 (Eff 7-1-96); 146 v H 445 (Eff 9-3-96); 146 v H 480 (Eff 10-16-96); 146 v S 166 (Eff 10-17-96); 146 v H 180 (Eff 1-1-97); 147 v H 378 (Eff 3-10-98); 147 v S 111 (Eff 3-17-98); 148 v S 9 (Eff 3-8-2000); 148 v S 107 (Eff 3-23-2000); 148 v S 22 (Eff 5-17-2000); 148 v H 349 (Eff 9-22-2000); 148 v S 222 (Eff 3-22-2001); 148 v S 179, § 3 (Eff 1-1-2002); 149 v H 327. Eff 7-8-2002; 149 v H 490, § 1, eff. 1-1-04; 149 v S 123, § 1, eff. 1-1-04; 150 v S 5, § 1, Eff 7-31-03; 150 v S 5, § 3, eff. 1-1-04; 150 v S 57, § 1, eff. 1-1-04; 150 v H 52, § 1, eff. 6-1-04; 150 v H 163, § 1, eff. 9-23-04; 150 v H 473, § 1, eff. 4-29-05; 151 v H 95, § 1, eff. 8-3-06; 151 v H 162, § 1, eff. 10-12-06.
 

The provisions of § 3 of H.B. 473 (150 v  - ) read as follows: 

SECTION 3. * * * Sections 2929.01, 2929.13, and 2929.14 of the Revised Code are presented in this act as composites of the sections as amended by both Sub. H.B. 52 and Am. Sub. H.B. 163 of the 125th General Assembly. * * * The General Assembly, applying the principle stated in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised Code that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation, finds that the composites are the resulting versions of the sections in effect prior to the effective date of the sections as presented in this act. 

The effective date is set by section 4 of H.B. 490. 

Not analogous to former RC § 2929.01 (134 v H 511; 136 v H 300; 137 v H 565; 139 v S 199; 140 v S 210; 142 v H 261; 145 v H 571; 145 v S 186, repealed 146 v S 2, § 2, eff 7-1-96.

The provisions of § 5 of S.B. 123 (149 v  - ), as amended by § 3 of H.B. 163 (150 v  - ), read as follows: 

SECTION 5. Notwithstanding division (B) of section 1.58 of the Revised Code, the provisions of the Revised Code amended or enacted in Sections 1 and 2 of this act shall apply only in relation to conduct and offenses committed on or after January 1, 2004. Conduct and offenses committed prior to January 1, 2004, shall be governed by the law in effect on the date the conduct or offense was committed. 

See provisions, § 4 of HB 327 (149 v  - ) following RC § 2919.25. 

See provisions, § 11 of SB 179 (148 v  - ) following RC § 2923.36. 

 

Effect of Amendments

151 v H 162, effective October 12, 2006, corrected internal references. 

151 v H 95, effective August 3, 2006, rewrote (DD). 

150 v H 473, effective April 29, 2005, inserted "violent sex offense" in (KK); added (ZZ); and made minor stylistic changes. 

150 v H 163, effective September 23, 2004, inserted "division (E) of section 2929.24 of the Revised Code" in (U); added "or the term of one ... of the Revised Code" to the end of (Y)(2); and added (WW). 

150 v H 52, effective June 1, 2004, in (M), inserted "direct and proximate", and added the last sentence; in (U), inserted "division (E) of section 2903.06 or division (D) of section 2903.08 of the Revised Code"; and added (WW) and (XX). 

S.B. 57, Acts 2003, effective January 1, 2004, in (M), substituted "offense" for "felony" twice, and made related changes. 

Section 3, S.B. 5, Acts 2003, effective January 1, 2004, inserted "'registration-exempt sexually oriented offense,"' "'child-victim oriented offense,"' "'habitual child-victim offender,"' and "'child-victim predator"' in (LL); and added (UU) and (VV). 

S.B. 123, Acts 2002, effective January 1, 2004, substituted "OVI" for "OMVI" in (Y)(2), (II), (JJ), and (QQ); substituted "(G)(1)(d)" for "(A)(4)", "(e)" for "(8)" and "4511.19" for "4511.99" in (Y)(2); inserted "division (G) of that" and deleted "4511.99 of the Revised Code" preceding "is a felony of the forth degree" in (II); substituted "(G)(1)(d)" for "(A)(4)", "(e)" for "(8)" and "4511.19" for "4511.99" in (JJ); in (QQ), inserted "division (G) of that" and deleted "4511.99 of the Revised Code" preceding "is a felony of the third degree". 

H.B. 490, Acts 2002, effective January 1, 2004, inserted "or a sanction that is not a jail term and that is described in section 2929.26. 2929.27, or 2929.28 of the Revised Code. 'Community control sanction' includes probation of the sentence involved was imposed for a felony that was committed prior to July 1, 1996, or if the sentence involved was imposed for a misdemeanor that was committed prior to January 1, 2004" in (F); deleted former (O) and (P); and redesignated former provisions and added (T) and (U); deleted "eligible" eight times and "that may be electronically monitored house arrest" in the introductory paragraph of (Q); inserted "2929.24 to 2929.28" in (EE); substituted "an offense" for "a felony" in (FF); substituted "house arrest electronic monitoring" for "electronically monitored house arrest" in (GG); substituted "2967.28" for "2957.28" in (SS); and added (UU) and (VV). 

Section 1, S.B. 5, Acts 2003, effective July 31, 2003, inserted "'registration-exempt sexually oriented offense,"' "'child-victim oriented offense,"' "'habitual child-victim offender,"' and "'child-victim predator"' in (LL).