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OH HB468
Bill
Status
3/1/2012
Primary Sponsor
Michael Stinziano
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AI Summary
H.B. 468 Summary
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Amends Ohio Revised Code section 2903.05 to establish negligent homicide liability for property owners who knowingly permit occupancy of uninhabitable properties determined so by municipal, township, county, or state authorities.
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Property owner or representative must have received notice that the property has been determined uninhabitable before liability applies.
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Liability requires the owner knowingly permit the victim to inhabit the property as living quarters in exchange for mutually agreed upon consideration.
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Victim must be killed as a proximate result of engaging in an activity that a reasonable person would undertake to alleviate the uninhabitable condition.
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Violation constitutes negligent homicide, classified as a misdemeanor of the first degree.
Legislative Description
To provide that a property owner or a representative of a property owner who knowingly permits another person or persons to inhabit a property that the person knows to have been determined to be uninhabitable by a municipal, township, county, or state authority and the person or persons are killed as a proximate result of engaging in an activity that a reasonable person would engage in to alleviate the uninhabitable condition is guilty of negligent homicide.
Uninhabitable dwelling-person owner allows to occupy killed thereby-negligent homicide
Last Action
To Criminal Justice
3/1/2012