Ohio App. R. 14 (2026)

(A) Computing time

In computing any time period prescribed or allowed by these rules, by any local rule or court order, or by any applicable statute that does not specify a method of computing time, exclude the day of the event that triggers the period. Except as indicated in the last sentence of this paragraph, count every day, including intermediate Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays. Include the last day of the period, unless it is a Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, in which case the period runs until the end of the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday. When the time period prescribed or allowed is less than seven days, exclude intermediate Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays.

(B) Extending or reducing time

For good cause, the court, upon motion, may extend or reduce the time prescribed by these rules or by its order for doing any act, or may permit an act to be done after that time expires. The court may not extend or reduce the time for filing a notice of appeal under App.R. 4 or a motion to certify under App.R. 25.

(C) Additional time after service by mail or commercial carrier service

When a party may or must act within a specified time after being served, and the paper— whether it is sent by the clerk or by a party to the case—is served on the party by mail or commercial carrier service under App.R. 13(D)(4), three days are added to the specified period. When, however, the court has ordered a party to act by a particular date, that party must comply with the court’s order and is not entitled to an additional three days.

This division does not apply to responses to service of summons in original actions.

Effective Date: July 1, 1971 Amended: July 1, 1994; July 1, 2010; July 1, 2012; July 1, 2026

Staff Note (July 1, 2010 Amendment)

The amendment is a technical amendment to reflect the procedure in App.R. 26.

Staff Note (July 1, 2012 Amendment)

The amendment to App.R. 14(C) now extends the “three-day rule” - traditionally available after service of a document by regular mail - to other service methods that do not provide same-day delivery to the recipient. The language of the amendment largely tracks the language of the 2012 amendment to Civ.R. 6(D).

Staff Note (July 1, 2026 Amendment)

A contemporaneous amendment to App.R. 13 necessitated a change to division (C) of this rule. Before today, division (C) referred to “App.R. 13(C)(4),” but that latter provision is now designated as App.R. 13(D)(4), and division (C) has therefore been updated to reflect that change.

A sentence that addressed extensions of the time period for the filing of applications for reconsideration or for en banc consideration has been removed from division (B). Similar language now appears in App.R. 26(A), which is the provision that governs all other aspects of rehearing and en banc applications.

Other stylistic updates intended to improve the readability of the rule and to bring greater clarity to some of its existing provisions have also been made.