The grid below charts many of the provisions of the Ohio Revised Code which concern immunity and indemnity issues for members of the University community. While they do not constitute legal advice by the OGC, they may answer some of your preliminary questions.
Should you have further questions, you may visit our question and answer page or call the Office of General Counsel at 330-972-6018.
| O.R.C. Citation |
Applicable Section |
Subject of Law |
|
Entire Law |
Conditions in which the state will/will not indemnify an officer/employee |
|
(B)(1) & (B)(2) |
Immunity for federal law enforcement officers within the scope and course of their duties |
|
(A)(1) |
Court of Claims act, conditional waiver of sovereign immunity |
|
(J) |
Immunity of Trustees and Directors of Universities |
|
(B), (D) |
Immunity and Indemnity Insurance for Trustees of State Universities |
|
(C)(1), (2) |
Indemnification of students by Universities for required clinical or field-based activities |
|
(B)(1)-(3) |
Limitation of Damages in suits against Universities |
|
(B) |
Immunity and Indemnity issues for university law-enforcement personnel |
Users may access the pertinent sections of the Ohio Revised Code by clicking on the link above. This will take the user to the home of Anderson's Online Documents. To view the sections of the Revised Code listed above, users should click on the link for the Ohio Revised Code. Users should then click on the title and chapter of the Revised Code they wish to view. Once the user has done this, the user should click on section of the chapter he or she wishes to view.
The citations listed above include both Revised Code title, chapter and section numbers. The title number is the first two numbers preceeding the dot. Chapter numbers precede the dot and section numbers follow the dot.
Example: R.C 3345.041 stands for Revised Code title 33, chapter 3345, section 041.
