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7 General Provisions and Penaltv 501.05 <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. (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 />(2) While in this Municipality, the person conspires or attempts to commit, <br />or is guilty of complicity m the commission of an offense in another <br />jurisdiction, which offense is an offense under both the laws of this <br />Municipality and the other jurisdiction. <br />(3) While out of this Municipality, the person conspires or attempts to <br />commit, or is guilty of complicity in the commission of, an offense m this <br />Municipality. <br />(4) While out of this Municipality, the person omits to perform a legal duty <br />imposed by the laws of this Mumcipality, which omission affects a <br />legitimate interest of the Municipality in protecting, governing or <br />regulating any person, property, thing, transaction or activity in this <br />Municipality. <br />(5) While out of this Municipality, the person unlawfully takes or retains <br />property and subsequently brings any of the unlawfully taken or retained <br />property into this Municipality. <br />°(6) While out of this Municipality, the person unlawfully takes or entices <br />another and subsequently brings the other .person into this Municipality. <br />(7) The person, by means of a computer, computer system, computer <br />network, telecommunication, telecommunications device, <br />telecommunications service, or information service, causes or knowingly <br />permits any writing, data, image, or other telecommunication to be <br />disseminated or transmitted into this Municipality in violation of the law <br />of this Municipality. <br />(b) In homicide, the element referred to in subsection (a)(1) hereof is either the act that <br />causes death, or the physical contact that causes death, or the death itself. If any part of the body <br />of a homicide victim is found in this Municipality, the death is presumed to have occurred within <br />this Municipality. <br />(c) This Municipality includes the land and water within its boundaries and the air <br />space above such land and water, and real property outside the corporate limits, with respect to <br />which this Municipality has either exclusive or concurrent legislative jurisdiction. Where the <br />boundary between this Municipality and another jurisdiction is disputed, the disputed territory is <br />conclusively presumed to be within this Municipality for purposes of this section. <br />2000 Replacement <br />