Ohio Revised Code Title XXIX. Crimes Procedure § 2903.41

(A) “Violent offender” means any of the following:

(B) “Community control sanction,” “jail,” and “prison” have the same meanings as in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code.

(C) “Out-of-state violent offender” means a person who is convicted of, pleads guilty to, has been convicted of, or has pleaded guilty to a violation of any existing or former municipal ordinance or law of another state or the United States, or any existing or former law applicable in a military court or in an Indian tribal court, that is or was substantially equivalent to any offense listed in division (A)(1) of this section.

(D) “Qualifying out-of-state violent offender” means an out-of-state violent offender who is aware of the existence of the violent offender database.

(E) “Post-release control sanction” and “supervised release” have the same meanings as in section 2950.01 of the Revised Code.

(F) “Change of address” means a change to a violent offender's or out-of-state violent offender's residence address, employment address, or school or institution of higher education address.

(G) “Violent offender database” means the database of violent offenders and out-of-state violent offenders that is established and maintained by the bureau of criminal identification and investigation under division (F)(2) of section 2903.43 of the Revised Code, that is operated by sheriffs under sections 2903.42 and 2903.43 of the Revised Code, and for which sheriffs obtain information from violent offenders and out-of-state violent offenders pursuant to sections 2903.42 and 2903.43 of the Revised Code.

(H) “Violent offender database duties” and “VOD duties” mean the duty to enroll, duty to re-enroll, and duty to provide notice of a change of address imposed on a violent offender or a qualifying out-of-state violent offender under section 2903.42, 2903.421, 2903.43, or 2903.44 of the Revised Code.

(I) “Ten-year enrollment period” means, for a violent offender who has violent offender database duties pursuant to section 2903.42 of the Revised Code or a qualifying out-of-state violent offender who has violent offender database duties pursuant to section 2903.421 of the Revised Code, ten years from the date on which the offender initially enrolls in the violent offender database.

(J) “Extended enrollment period” means, for a violent offender who has violent offender database duties pursuant to section 2903.42 of the Revised Code or a qualifying out-of-state violent offender who has violent offender database duties pursuant to section 2903.421 of the Revised Code, the offender's enrollment period as extended pursuant to division (D)(2) of section 2903.43 of the Revised Code.

(K) “Prosecutor” means one of the following: