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545.01 GENERAL OFFENSES CODE 110
<br />(w) "Rented property" means personal property in which the right of possession and
<br />use of the property is for a short and possibly indeterminate term in return for
<br />consideration; the rentee generally controls the duration of possession of the
<br />property, within any applicable minimum or maximum term; and the amount of
<br />consideration generally is determined by the duration of possession of the property.
<br />(x) "Telecommunication" means the origination, emission, dissemination,
<br />transmission, or reception of data, images, signals, sounds, or other intelligence
<br />or equivalence of intelligence or any nature over any communications system by
<br />any method, including, but not limited to, a fiber optic, electronic, magnetic,
<br />optical, digital, or analog method.
<br />(y) "Telecommunications device" means any instrument, equipment, machine, or other
<br />device that facilitates telecommunication, including, but not limited to, a computer,
<br />computer network, computer chip, computer circuit, scanner, telephone, cellular
<br />telephone, pager, personal communications device, transponder, receiver, radio,
<br />modem, or device that enables the use of a modem.
<br />(z) "Telecommunications service" means the providing, allowing, facilitating, or
<br />generating of any form of telecommunication through the use of a
<br />telecommunications device over a telecommunications system.
<br />(aa) "Counterfeit telecommunications device" means a telecommunications device that,
<br />alone or with another telecommunications device, has been altered, constructed,
<br />manufactured, or programmed to acquire, intercept, receive, or otherwise facilitate
<br />the use of a telecommunications service or information service without the
<br />authority or consent of the provider of the telecommunications service or
<br />information service. "Counterfeit telecommunications device" includes, but is not
<br />limited to, a clone telephone, clone microchip, tumbler telephone, or tumbler
<br />microchip; a wireless scanning device capable of acquiring, intercepting, receiving,
<br />or otherwise facilitating the use of telecommunications service or information
<br />service without immediate detection; or a device, equipment, hardware, or software
<br />designed for, or capable of, altering or changing the electronic serial number in a
<br />wireless telephone.
<br />(bb) (1) "Information service" means, subject to subsection (bb)(2) hereof, the
<br />offering of a capability for generating, acquiring, storing, transforming,
<br />processing, retrieving, utilizing, or making available information via
<br />telecommunications, including, but not limited to, electronic publishing.
<br />(2) "Information service" does not include any use of a capability of a type
<br />described in subsection (bb)(1) hereof for the management, control, or
<br />operation of a telecommunications system or the management of a
<br />telecommunications service.
<br />(cc) "Elderly person" means a person who is sixty-five years of age or older.
<br />(dd) "Disabled adult" means a person who is eighteen years of age or older and has
<br />some impairment of body or mind that makes the person unfit to work at any
<br />substantially remunerative employment that the person otherwise would be able to
<br />perform and that will, with reasonable probability, continue for a period of at least
<br />twelve months without any present indication of recovery from the impairment, or
<br />who is eighteen years of age or older and has been certified as permanently and
<br />totally disabled by an agency of this State or the United States that has the function
<br />of so classifying persons.
<br />(ee) "Firearm" and "dangerous ordnance" have the same meanings as in Ohio R.C.
<br />2923.11.
<br />(ff) "Motor vehicle" has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 4501.01.
<br />(gg) "Dangerous drug" has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 4729.01.
<br />(hh) "Drug abuse offense" has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2925.01.
<br />(ORC 2913.01)
<br />2000 Replacement
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