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Ohio Rev. Code § 715.16 (2026)

Places of correction - quarters for municipal courts and offices

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Effective:

October 1, 1953

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House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly

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Any municipal corporation may:

(A) Establish, erect, maintain, and regulate jails, morgues, workhouses, station houses, prisons, and farm schools;

(B) Agree with the board of county commissioners of any county in which such municipal corporation is located for the lease of suitable quarters in county buildings, existing or to be erected, for police and municipal courts, police stations, police prosecutors' offices, probation officers' quarters, and other similar municipal purposes.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 5 cases, 1959–2017 · leading case: Watson v. McGee, 527 F. Supp. 234 (S.D. Ohio 1981).

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Watson v. McGee, 527 F. Supp. 234 (S.D. Ohio 1981). · cites it 4× “Ohio Rev.Code Ann. § 715.16 (Page) provides that: Any municipal corporation may: (A) Establish, erect, maintain and regulate jails, morgues, workhouses, stationhouses, prisons and farm schools.”

City of Toledo v. Corr. Comm'n of Nw. Ohio, 2017-Ohio-9149, 103 N.E.3d 209. · cites it 2× “See R.C. 715.16(A) ("Any municipal corporation may: (A) Establish, erect, maintain, and regulate jails, * * * workhouses, station houses, [and] prisons * * *.”

State ex rel. Hazel v. Cuyahoga Cnty. Bd. of Elections, 685 N.E.2d 224 (Ohio 1997). “Parma has general authority under R.C. 715.16(A) to enact the proposed ordinance.”

State ex rel. Hazel v. Cuyahoga Cty. Bd. of Elections, 80 Ohio St. 3d 165 (1997). “{¶ 15} Parma has general authority under R.C. 715.16(A) to enact the proposed ordinance.”

Savage v. Alvis, Warden, 161 N.E.2d 633 (Ohio Ct. App. 1959). “Cities have been given the power to establish workhouses under §715.16 R. C., and Chapter 753 R. C., leaves the control and supervision of the workhouses, erected by the city, with the municipal government.”

Ohio Rev. Code § 715.16(A): 3 cases

City of Toledo v. Corr. Comm'n of Nw. Ohio, 2017-Ohio-9149, 103 N.E.3d 209. “See R.C. 715.16(A) ("Any municipal corporation may: (A) Establish, erect, maintain, and regulate jails, * * * workhouses, station houses, [and] prisons * * *.”

State ex rel. Hazel v. Cuyahoga Cnty. Bd. of Elections, 685 N.E.2d 224 (Ohio 1997). “Parma has general authority under R.C. 715.16(A) to enact the proposed ordinance.”

State ex rel. Hazel v. Cuyahoga Cty. Bd. of Elections, 80 Ohio St. 3d 165 (1997). “{¶ 15} Parma has general authority under R.C. 715.16(A) to enact the proposed ordinance.”

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