Ohio § 1901.01

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§ 1901.01.

(A) There is hereby established a municipal court in each of the following municipal

corporations: Akron, Alliance, Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Avon Lake, Barberton, Bedford, Bellefontaine,

Bellevue, Berea, Bowling Green, Bryan, Bucyrus, Cambridge, Campbell, Canton, Carrollton,

Celina, Chardon, Chesapeake, Chillicothe, Cincinnati, Circleville, Cleveland, Cleveland

Heights, Columbus, Conneaut, Coshocton, Cuyahoga Falls, Dayton, Defiance, Delaware,

East Cleveland, Eaton, Elyria, Euclid, Fairborn, Fairfield, Findlay, Franklin, Fremont,

Gallipolis, Garfield Heights, Georgetown, Girard, Greenville, Hamilton, Hillsboro,

Huron, Ironton, Jackson, Kenton, Kettering, Lakewood, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lima, Logan,

London, Lorain, Lyndhurst, Mansfield, Marietta, Marion, Marysville, Mason, Massillon,

Maumee, Medina, Mentor, Miamisburg, Middletown, Millersburg, Mount Gilead, Mount Vernon,

Napoleon, Newark, New Lexington, New Philadelphia, Newton Falls, Niles, Norwalk, Oakwood,

Oberlin, Oregon, Ottawa, Painesville, Parma, Paulding, Perrysburg, Port Clinton, Portsmouth,

Ravenna, Rocky River, Sandusky, Shaker Heights, Shelby, Sidney, South Euclid, Springfield,

Steubenville, Struthers, Sylvania, Tiffin, Toledo, Troy, Upper Sandusky, Urbana, Vandalia,

Van Wert, Vermilion, Wadsworth, Wapakoneta, Warren, City of Washington in Fayette

county, to be known as Washington Court House, Wauseon, Willoughby, Wilmington, Wooster,

Xenia, Youngstown, and Zanesville. (B) There is hereby established a municipal court within Clermont county in Batavia or

in any other municipal corporation or unincorporated territory within Clermont county

that is selected by the legislative authority of the Clermont county municipal court.  The municipal court established by this division is a continuation of the municipal

court previously established in Batavia by this section before the enactment of this

division. (C) There is hereby established a municipal court within Columbiana county in Lisbon

or in any other municipal corporation or unincorporated territory within Columbiana

county that is selected by the judges of the municipal court pursuant to division (I) of section 1901.021 of the Revised Code . (D) Effective January 1, 2008, there is hereby established a municipal court within Erie

county in Milan or in any other municipal corporation or unincorporated territory

within Erie county that is within the territorial jurisdiction of the Erie county

municipal court and is selected by the legislative authority of that court. (E) The Cuyahoga Falls municipal court shall remain in existence until December 31, 2008,

and shall be replaced by the Stow municipal court on January 1, 2009. (F) Effective January 1, 2009, there is hereby established a municipal court in the municipal

corporation of Stow. (G) Effective July 1, 2010, there is hereby established a municipal court within Montgomery

county in any municipal corporation or unincorporated territory within Montgomery

county, except the municipal corporations of Centerville, Clayton, Dayton, Englewood,

Germantown, Kettering, Miamisburg, Moraine, Oakwood, Union, Vandalia, and West Carrollton

and Butler, German, Harrison, Miami, and Washington townships, that is selected by

the legislative authority of that court.

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