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5 General Provisions and Penalty 501.01 (k) "Law enforcement officer" means any of the following: (1) A sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, police officer of a township or joint township police district, marshal, deputy marshal, municipal police officer, member of a police force employed by a metropolitan housing authority under Ohio R.C. 3735.31(D) or State highway patrol trooper; (2) An officer, agent or employee of the State or any of its agencies; instrumentalities orpolitical subdivisions, upon whom, by statute, Charter or ordinance, a duty to conserve the peace or to enforce all or certain laws is imposed and the authority to arrest violators is conferred, within the limits of that statutory duty and authority; (3) A mayor or manager in the mayor's or manager's capacity as chief conservator of the peace within the mayor's or manager's municipal corporation; (4) A .member of an auxiliary police force organized by county, township or municipal law enforcement authorities, within the scope of the member's appointment or commission; (5) A person lawfully called pursuant to Ohio R.C. 311.07 to aid a sheriff in keeping the peace, for the purposes and during the time when the person is called; (6) A person appointed by a mayor pursuant to Ohio R.C. 737.01 as a special patrolling officer during riot or emergency, for the purposes and during the time when the person is appointed; (7) A member of the organized militia of this State or the armed forces of the United States, lawfully called to duty to aid civil authorities in keeping the peace or protect against domestic violence; (8) A prosecuting attorney, assistant prosecuting attorney, secret service officer or municipal prosecutor. - (9) A veterans' home police officer appointed under Ohio R.C. 5907.02. (10) A member of a police force employed by a regional transit authority under Ohio R.C. 306.35(Y). (11) A special police officer employed by a port authority under Ohio R.C. 4582.04 or 4582.28. (12) A special police officer employed by a municipal corporation at a municipal airport, or other municipal air navigation facility, that has scheduled operations, as defined in Section 119.3 of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations, 14 C.F.R. 119.3, as amended, and that is required to be under a security program and is governed by aviation security rules of the transportation security administration of the United States Department of Transportation as provided in Parts 1542 and 1544 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as amended. (1) "Privilege" means an immunity, license or right conferred by law, or bestowed by express or implied grant, or arising out of status, position, office or relationship, or growing out of necessity. (m) "Contraband" means any property described in the following categories: (1) Property that in and of itself is unlawful for a person to acquire or possess; (2) Property that is not in and of itself unlawful for a person to acquire or possess, but that has been determined by a court of this State, in accordance with law, to be contraband because of its use in an unlawful activity or manner, of its nature, or of the circumstances of the person who acquires or possesses it including, but not limited to, goods and personal property described in Ohio R.C. 2913.34(D); (3) Property that is specifically stated to be contraband by a section of the . Ohio Revised Code or by an ordinance, regulation or resolution; 2003 Replacement