2006 Ohio Revised Code - 317.24. Record of soldier\'s discharge; expungement of record or separation program number.

§ 317.24. Record of soldier's discharge; expungement of record or separation program number.
 

(A)  Upon request of any discharged member of the armed forces of the United States and presentation of the member's discharge, the county recorder shall record the discharge in a book to be furnished by the board of county commissioners for that purpose. There shall be no fee for the recording. The record of discharge, or a certified copy of the record, shall be received in evidence in all cases where the original discharge would be received. 

(B)  Upon application by a person whose discharge has been recorded pursuant to this section, the county recorder shall, without fee, expunge the person's record of discharge, expunge the person's separation program number or separation code from the person's record of discharge and from any of the person's other service-related documents that have been recorded, or expunge the person's social security number from the person's record of discharge and from any of the person's other service-related documents that have been recorded. The application shall be in the following form:  
     
 


   
"APPLICATION FOR EXPUNGEMENT OF
DISCHARGE RECORD OR OTHER
INFORMATION

    I,  ...... (Name of Applicant), the undersigned, hereby request the County Recorder of the County of  ............ (Name of County), state of Ohio, to expunge my  ........ (Insert Record of Discharge, Separation Program Number or Separation Code from my Record of Discharge and other service-related documents, or Social Security Number from my Record of Discharge and other service-related documents).

    Dated this  ....... day of  .......,  ..... 
 
  /U                                                    .................... 

                                                    (Signature of Applicant) 

    Sworn to and subscribed before me by  ........ (Name of Applicant) on  .......,  .....

                                                         ....................

                                                                Notary Public

                                        My commission expires  ......,  ...."

(C)  As used in this section: 

(1) "Separation code" or "separation program number" means the coded number or numbers used to specify the reasons for a person's separation from active duty, as contained in one of the following: 

(a) Regarding a separation code, as contained in line 23 or 26 of a veteran's discharge paper, United States department of defense form DD-214; 

(b) Regarding a separation program number, as contained in line 9 (c) or line 11 (c) of a veteran's discharge paper, under prior versions of United States department of defense form DD-214. 

(2) "Service-related document" means any United States department of defense form DD-215 or DD-220, or any National Guard Bureau form NGB-22 or NGB-22A. 

(D)  Upon the request of any person who served during World War I or World War II as a member of any armed force of the government of Poland or Czechoslovakia and participated while so serving in armed conflict with an enemy of the United States and who has been a citizen of the United States for at least ten years, and the presentation of the person's discharge, the county recorder shall record the person's discharge in a book to be furnished by the board of county commissioners for that purpose. No fee shall be charged for the recording. The record, or a certified copy of it, shall be received in evidence in all cases where the original would be received. 
 

HISTORY: RS § 1161; S&S 655, 656; 62 v 59, §§ 1-3; GC § 2770; 121 v 67; Bureau of Code Revision, 10-1-53; 137 v S 84 (Eff 11-4-77); 137 v H 414 (Eff 11-4-77); 138 v H 1 (Eff 5-16-79); 148 v H 495 (Eff 5-9-2000); 149 v H 309. Eff 9-27-2002.