Effective: August 22, 1995
Latest Legislation: House Bill 99 - 121st General Assembly
Each of the judges of the juvenile court division shall be elected for six years at the general election immediately preceding the year in which the term, as provided in this section, commences, and the judge's successor shall be elected at the general election immediately preceding the expiration of such term.
Each judge shall be elected by the electors of Cuyahoga county in the same manner as is provided for the election of judges of the court of common pleas. The terms of office of the judges of the juvenile court shall begin as follows: January 1, 1959, January 2, 1959, January 1, 1963, January 2, 1963, January 3, 1977, and January 3, 1987. Each of the judges of the juvenile court shall have the same judicial duties.
In addition to the judge's regular judicial duties, one of the judges shall be the administrator of the juvenile court's subdivisions and departments.
The administrative judge shall be elected in the manner provided by rule 3 of the rules adopted by the supreme court of Ohio for the superintendence of the common pleas court. During any absence from the court by the administrative judge, the administrative judge may designate one of the other judges to serve in the administrative judge's place and stead as the clerk of the court and as the administrator of the court's subdivisions and departments.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile
Chapter 2153 | Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court
Section 2153.01 | Juvenile Court Division Established.
Section 2153.02 | Judges - Qualifications.
Section 2153.03 | Election of Judges - Terms of Office - Administrative Judge.
Section 2153.05 | Substitute Judge - Vacancies.
Section 2153.06 | Removal From Office.
Section 2153.07 | Accommodations for Court.
Section 2153.081 | Computerizing Court of Paying Cost of Computerized Legal Research.
Section 2153.09 | Compensation of Employees.
Section 2153.10 | Bond of Clerk - Amount.
Section 2153.11 | Bailiffs - Compensation.
Section 2153.12 | Calendar of Court - Term.
Section 2153.13 | Contempt Proceedings.
Section 2153.14 | Seal of Court - Form.
Section 2153.15 | May Vacate and Modify Judgments.