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501.04 GENERAL OFFENSES CODE 8 <br />501.04 RULES OF CONSTRUCTION. <br />(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) hereof, sections of the Codified <br />Ordinances defining offenses or penalties shall be strictly construed against the Municipality and <br />liberally construed in favor of the accused. <br />(b) Rules of criminal procedure and sections of the Ohio Revised Code providing for <br />criminal procedure shall be construed so as to effect the fair, impartial, speedy and sure <br />administration of justice. <br />(c) Any provision of a section of the Codified Ordinances that refers to a previous <br />conviction of or plea of guilty to a violation of a section of the Codified Ordinances or Ohio <br />Revised Code or of a division of a section of the Codified Ordinances or Ohio Revised Code shall <br />be construed to also refer to a previous conviction of or plea of guilty to a substantially equivalent <br />offense under an existing or former law of this State, another state, or the United States or under <br />an existing or former municipal ordinance. <br />(d) Any provision of the Codified Ordinances that refers to a section, or to a division <br />of a section, of the Codified Ordinances that defines or specifies a criminal offense shall be <br />construed to also refer to an existing or former law of this State, another state, or the United <br />States, to an existing or former municipal ordinance, or to an existing or former division of any <br />such existing or former law or ordinance that defines or specifies, or that defined or specified, a <br />substantially equivalent offense. (ORC 2901.04) <br />501.05 CRIMINAL LAW JURISDICTION. <br />(a) A person is subject to misdemeanor prosecution and punishment in this Municipality <br />if any of the following occur: <br />(1) The person commits an offense under the laws of this Municipality, any <br />element of which takes place in this Municipality. <br />2006 Replacement