Bill Title: To provide that a property owner or a representative of a property owner who knowingly permits another person or persons to inhabit a property that the person knows to have been determined to be uninhabitable by a municipal, township, county, or state authority and the person or persons are killed as a proximate result of engaging in an activity that a reasonable person would engage in to alleviate the uninhabitable condition is guilty of negligent homicide.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-01 - To Criminal Justice
[HB468 Detail]Download: Ohio-2011-HB468-Introduced.html
As Introduced
| 129th General Assembly | | Regular Session | | 2011-2012 |
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A BILL
| To amend section 2903.05 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
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provide that a property owner or a representative | 2 |
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of a property owner who knowingly permits another | 3 |
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person or persons to inhabit a property that the | 4 |
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person knows to have been determined to be | 5 |
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uninhabitable by a municipal, township, county, or | 6 |
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state authority and the person or persons are | 7 |
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killed as a proximate result of engaging in an | 8 |
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activity that a reasonable person would engage in | 9 |
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to alleviate the uninhabitable condition is guilty | 10 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| Section 1. That section 2903.05 of the Revised Code be | 12 |
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amended to read as follows: | 13 |
| Sec. 2903.05. (A) No person shall negligently cause the | 14 |
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death of another or the unlawful termination of another's | 15 |
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pregnancy by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance as | 16 |
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defined in section 2923.11 of the Revised Code. | 17 |
| (B) No person shall cause the death of another when all of | 18 |
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the following apply: | 19 |
| (1) The person owns real property, or represents the owner of | 20 |
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real property, that has been determined to be uninhabitable by a | 21 |
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municipal, township, county, or state authority. | 22 |
| (2) The person has received notice that the property | 23 |
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described in division (B)(1) of this section has been determined | 24 |
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to be uninhabitable. | 25 |
| (3) The person knowingly permits the victim to inhabit the | 26 |
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property described in division (B)(1) of this section as the | 27 |
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victim's living quarters and in exchange for mutually agreed upon | 28 |
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consideration. | 29 |
| (4) The victim engages in an activity that a reasonable | 30 |
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person would engage in to alleviate the uninhabitable condition of | 31 |
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the property described in division (B)(1) of this section, and as | 32 |
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a proximate result of that activity the victim is killed. | 33 |
| (C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of negligent | 34 |
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homicide, a misdemeanor of the first degree. | 35 |
| Section 2. That existing section 2903.05 of the Revised Code | 36 |
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is hereby repealed. | 37 |
