Effective: September 29, 1995
Latest Legislation: House Bill 117 - 121st General Assembly
A municipal legislative authority may, by ordinance, provide for the keeping of persons convicted and sentenced for misdemeanors, during the term of their imprisonment, at such place as the legislative authority determines, provided that the place selected is in substantial compliance with the minimum standards for jails in Ohio promulgated by the department of rehabilitation and correction. The legislative authority may enter into a contract under section 9.06 of the Revised Code for the private operation and management of any municipal correctional facility, but only if the facility is used to house only misdemeanant inmates.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 7 | Municipal Corporations
Chapter 753 | Reformatory Institutions
Section 753.02 | Sustaining Persons Sentenced to or Confined in Prison.
Section 753.021 | Submitting Health Insurance Claims for Prison Inmates.
Section 753.03 | Disposition of Prisoners Sentenced for Misdemeanors.
Section 753.04 | Commitment to Workhouse.
Section 753.041 | Submitting Health Insurance Claims for Workhouse Inmates.
Section 753.05 | Employment of Prisoners.
Section 753.06 | Qualified Immunity for Injuries to Work Detail Prisoners.
Section 753.08 | Prompt Commitment - Fees.
Section 753.10 | Parole of Inmates.
Section 753.11 | Violation of Parole.
Section 753.13 | Joint Municipal and County Workhouse.
Section 753.14 | Withdrawal From Support and Maintenance of Joint Workhouse.
Section 753.15 | Workhouses - Management by Joint Board - Privatization.
Section 753.161 | Receiving Prisoners From Out of County or From State.
Section 753.17 | Officers to Have Police Powers.
Section 753.18 | Religious Services in City Jail or Workhouse.
Section 753.21 | Minimum Security Jails.
Section 753.22 | Commissary - Fund.
Section 753.32 | Improper Internet Access - Municipal Facilities.
Section 753.33 | Contracts for Random Drug Testing of Municipal Prisoners.