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537.03 GENERAL OFFENSES CODE 94B <br />(3) <br />(4) <br />D. The offense occurs off the grounds of a local correctional facility, <br />the victim of the offense is an employee of the local correctional <br />facility or a probation department, the offense occurs during the <br />employee's official work hours and while the employee is engaged <br />in official work responsibilities, and the offense is committed by a <br />person who is under custody in the facility subsequent to the <br />person's arrest for any crime or delinquent act, subsequent to the <br />person being charged with or convicted of any crime, or subsequent <br />to the person being alleged to be or adjudicated a delinquent child <br />and who temporarily is outside of the facility for any purpose or by <br />a probationer or parolee, by an offender under transitional control, <br />under a community control sanction, or on an escorted visit, by a <br />person under post-release control, or by an offender under any other <br />type of supervision by a government agency. <br />E. The victim of the offense is a school teacher or administrator or a <br />school bus operator, and the offense occurs in a school, on school <br />premises, in a school building, on a school bus or while the victim <br />is outside of school premises or a school bus and is engaged in <br />duties or official responsibilities associated with the victim's <br />employment or position as a school teacher or administrator or a <br />school bus operator, including, but not limited to, driving, <br />accompanying, or chaperoning students at or on class or field trips, <br />athletic events, or other school extracurricular activities or functions <br />outside of school premises. <br />If the victim of the offense is a peace officer, a firefighter, or a person <br />performing emergency medical service, while in the performance of their <br />official duties. <br />As used in this section: <br />A. "Peace officer" has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2935.01. <br />B. "Firefighter" has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 3937.41. <br />C. "Emergency medical service" has the same meaning as in Ohio <br />R.C. 4765.01. <br />D. - "Local correctional facility" means a county, multicounty, <br />municipal, municipal-county or multicounty-municipal jail or <br />workhouse. A minimum security jail established under Ohio R.C. <br />341.23 or 753.21, or another county, multicounty, municipal, <br />municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal facility used for the <br />custody of persons arrested for any crime or delinquent act, persons <br />charged with or convicted of any crime, or persons alleged to be or <br />adjudicated a delinquent child. <br />E. "Employee of a local correctional facility" means a person who is <br />an employee of the political subdivision or of one or more of the <br />affiliated political subdivisions that operates the local correctional <br />facility and who operates or assists in the operation of the facility. <br />F. "School teacher or administrator" means either of the following: <br />1. A person who is employed in the public schools of the State <br />under a contract described in Ohio R.C. 3319.08 in a <br />position in which the person is required to have a certificate <br />issued pursuant to Ohio R.C. 3319.22 to 3319.311. <br />2. A person who is employed by a nonpublic school for which <br />the State Board of Education prescribes minimum standards <br />under Ohio R.C. 3301.07 and who is certified in accordance <br />with Ohio R.C. 3301.071. <br />2000 Replacement <br />