Ohio § 1901.04

§ 1901.04.

Upon the institution of a municipal court other than the Brown county municipal court

or the Morrow county municipal court, the jurisdiction of the mayor in all civil and

criminal causes terminates within the municipal corporation in which the municipal

court is located.  The institution of the Brown county municipal court or the Morrow county municipal

court does not terminate or affect the jurisdiction of the mayor of Georgetown or

the mayor of Mount Gilead, respectively, in any civil or criminal cause.  Upon the institution of either court, the mayor of Georgetown and the mayor of Mount

Gilead retain jurisdiction in causes as described in section 1905.01 of the Revised Code .  Those mayors shall exercise that jurisdiction concurrently with the municipal court.  Upon the institution of a municipal court, all mayors of municipal corporations

within the territory other than the municipal corporation in which the court is located

may retain any jurisdiction that is now provided in all criminal causes involving

violation of ordinances of their respective municipal corporations and in all criminal

causes involving moving traffic violations occurring on state highways located within

their respective municipal corporations, to be exercised concurrently with the municipal

court. Upon the institution of a municipal court, the jurisdiction of county courts in all

civil and criminal causes terminates in any township or municipal corporation that

is entirely within the territory. Upon the institution of a municipal court, all causes, judgments, executions, and

proceedings then pending in courts of mayors and county courts within the territory

as to which their jurisdiction is terminated by this section shall proceed in the

municipal court as if originally instituted in the municipal court.  The parties may make any amendments to their pleadings that are required to conform

to the rules of the municipal court. In all cases over which the municipal court is given jurisdiction and for which the

jurisdiction of county courts and the courts of mayors is terminated by this section

upon the institution of the municipal court, the pleadings, orders, entries, dockets,

bonds, papers, records, books, exhibits, files, moneys, property, and persons that

belong to, are in the possession of, or are subject to the jurisdiction of the courts

of mayors or county courts or any officer of either court and that are in any municipal

corporation or township which is entirely within the territory of a municipal court

shall be transferred by their custodian to the municipal court.  If a part of any township that was within the jurisdiction of a county court is

included within the territory of a municipal court, all pleadings, orders, entries,

dockets, bonds, papers, records, books, exhibits, files, moneys, property, and persons

that belong to, are in the possession of, or are subject to the jurisdiction of the

county court or any officer of the county court and that pertain to causes, judgments,

executions, and proceedings then pending in the county court and arising from the

court's jurisdiction in that part of the township within the territory of the municipal

court shall be transferred by their custodian to the municipal court. The termination of a municipal court reinstates the jurisdiction of the mayor of the

municipal corporation in which the terminated municipal court was located, if the

jurisdiction of the mayor was terminated by this section.