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Can a landlord charge for a pet in Ohio, and what does the law require for an assistance animal?

Verified September 21, 2026 Correction October 8, 2026 All Ohio topics →

Ohio has no pet-money law at all: no pet deposit rule, no pet rent rule, no cap on either, and in fact no deposit cap of any kind, so the amounts are whatever the lease says.

Cited to Ohio Rev. Code § 5321.16 (A)–(C) and 12 more cited sources · Verified September 21, 2026

The one consequence of a larger deposit is interest — any deposit above fifty dollars or one month's rent, whichever is more, earns five percent a year on the excess once the tenant has lived there six months. Nothing requires a lease to state a pet policy, and nothing limits a landlord's breed, size or weight rule; a city may write its own dog ordinance, including a breed one. The assistance-animal rule is not in a statute but in the Civil Rights Commission's housing rule, which has existed since 1971: a person with a disability who has an animal assistant, meaning any animal that aids the person, is entitled to keep it and may not be charged any extra charge for it, though the tenant is liable for damage it does. An appellate district held in September 2026 that a pet fee charged to every tenant alike is not an extra charge, on claims brought outside the accommodation duty. Ohio sets no documentation standard, and it is unlawful to ask an applicant about a disability at all. Faking an assistance animal carries no penalty here.

Ohio pets & assistance animals at a glance

Which law governs Ohio's landlord-tenant chapter, Revised Code chapter 5321, does not contain the word animal. It supplies the money background — freedom of contract in section 5321.06, the closed list of prohibited lease terms in section 5321.13, the unconscionability provision in section 5321.14, the deposit interest and return rules in section 5321.16, the two things a written lease must state in section 5321.18, and the limit on what a city may regulate in section 5321.19. The assistance-animal answer is in the civil rights chapter, chapter 4112, whose section 4112.02, division (H)(19), makes it an unlawful discriminatory practice to refuse a reasonable accommodation in housing, and in the Civil Rights Commission's own rules at Ohio Administrative Code chapter 4112-5, where rule 4112-5-07 governs private housing and rule 4112-5-02 defines an animal assistant. The remedy is the housing civil action in section 4112.055. The dog chapter, chapter 955, carries a separate public-accommodation right for a trained assistance dog and the express power of counties, townships and cities to regulate dogs; it was renumbered on March 20, 2026, so older citations to it may point at nothing.
Where in the state the answers differ Statewide — every answer applies across the state
Which landlords are covered Every residential landlord, and on the assistance-animal side Ohio reaches further than most states. The civil rights chapter's housing duties are subject to one section of exemptions and no other: that section covers housing owned or operated by a religious or fraternal organization for its own members, reasonable occupancy standards, the direct-threat and substantial-damage defense, housing for older persons as to familial status only, and a clause saying a landlord need not modify property or give a higher degree of care. There is no small-landlord exemption, no owner-occupied exemption and no single-family exemption anywhere in the chapter, and housing accommodations expressly include those offered by the owner or the owner's legal representative. The money side is contract: the landlord-tenant chapter says nothing about animals at all.
Pet deposit

Yes, with no statutory limit.

No Ohio statute mentions a pet deposit, and Ohio has no security-deposit cap of any kind, so the amount is whatever the lease says. The one consequence the law attaches to size is interest: any security deposit greater than fifty dollars or one month's rent, whichever is more, bears interest at five percent a year on the excess once the tenant has been in possession six months or more, computed and paid annually (section 5321.16, division (A)). Adding a pet deposit on top of a one-month deposit is lawful and starts that clock on the excess. The deposits page carries the rest of the scheme — the thirty-day itemized return, the tenant's duty to give a written forwarding address, and the penalty for wrongful withholding. One limit comes from outside the landlord-tenant chapter: no extra charge of any kind may be required for an animal assistant, described under assistance animals below.
Pet rent and pet fees

Yes — no statute caps, authorizes or forbids pet rent or a pet fee.

Ohio leaves pet rent and pet fees to the lease. A landlord and tenant may include any terms and conditions in a rental agreement that are not inconsistent with or prohibited by the landlord-tenant chapter or any other rule of law (section 5321.06), and the closed list of terms a lease may not contain — waiving the chapter, confessing judgment, shifting attorney's fees, excusing the landlord from liability — contains nothing about fees or animals (section 5321.13), with unconscionability as the only other outer limit (section 5321.14). There is no ceiling, no reasonableness standard and no general non-refundable-fee bar. The assistance-animal charge rule described below is the one exception, and one appellate district has now read it narrowly.

Monthly pet rent: Nothing in Ohio law addresses monthly pet rent. A 2026 appellate record shows a lease charging fifty dollars a month in pet rent alongside a hundred-dollar non-refundable pet deposit, and no question was raised about either as a matter of landlord-tenant law.

A one-time pet fee: Nothing addresses a one-time pet fee either, and Ohio has no general bar on non-refundable charges to catch one. One caution that is not a rule: money a landlord holds as security may be treated as a security deposit by a court whatever the lease calls it, which is a question for a judge under section 5321.16 rather than something any statute says about pets.
Pet policy in the lease, and changing it mid-tenancy

No — no statute requires a lease to state a pet policy, and no written-rules provision governs one.

No Ohio statute requires a lease to state a pet policy, supplies a default when it is silent, limits the number or size of animals, or governs a change to a pet rule mid-term. The only content a written residential lease must carry is the name and address of the owner and of the owner's agent; a landlord who leaves it out loses the right to the statutory notices before an eviction (section 5321.18). Ohio has no pet mandate for publicly financed housing. One constraint on a pet clause does exist, and it comes from fair-housing law rather than any disclosure duty: the Civil Rights Commission sanctioned a landlord whose rules said no pets or animals of any kind, with no written exception for service or emotional support animals, and the decision upholding that order was affirmed on the merits in 2023.
Breed, size and weight restrictions

Yes.

No Ohio statute limits, authorizes or preempts a landlord's breed, size or weight rule. The word breed does not appear in the landlord-tenant chapter or in the civil rights chapter, and the phrase pit bull appears nowhere in the Revised Code: Ohio dropped its statewide breed designation in 2012, and nuisance, dangerous and vicious dogs are now defined by what a dog has done. Two consequences follow. A landlord's breed rule in a lease is an ordinary contract term. And because Ohio expressly lets counties, townships and municipalities adopt their own dog-control ordinances with no breed limit and no preemption, a local breed ordinance can reach a tenant's dog. An animal a landlord must allow as an accommodation is a different question, answered below: the Commission's rule is open as to species, so a breed or weight rule applied to an animal assistant is analyzed as a refusal to accommodate rather than under any breed statute.

Size and weight: Size and weight are equally unaddressed; no Ohio provision reaches a landlord's rule about an animal's breed, size or weight in a tenancy.
Assistance animals: the state instrument and who it binds

Only through the state fair-housing act's reasonable-accommodation duty, the sole state instrument reaching assistance animals in housing; no state text sets a documentation standard. Both a statute and an administrative rule under it speak to it.

Ohio's statute carries the duty and the rule carries the animal. It is an unlawful discriminatory practice to refuse to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices or services when necessary to afford a person with a disability an equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling unit, including associated public and common use areas (section 4112.02, division (H)(19)) — and the statute says nothing about animals. The Commission's rule on private housing does: every person with a disability who has or obtains an animal assistant is entitled to keep the animal on the premises purchased, leased, rented, assigned or subleased, may not be required to pay any extra charge for it, and is liable for damage it does to the premises (rule 4112-5-07, paragraph (C)). The rule's chain of prior effective dates runs back to November 4, 1971. Three other paragraphs of the same rule matter to a request: it is unlawful housing discrimination to make any written or oral inquiry, or keep any record, concerning the disability of an applicant or intended occupant unless federal contract requirements of a bona fide affirmative action plan call for it (paragraph (B)); where an applicant is refused housing or treated differently because of disability, the owner, landlord or agent carries the burden of establishing the basis for the refusal (paragraph (E)); and a direct-threat defense exists but will be closely scrutinized, with speculative evidence of hazards to health and safety not sufficing (paragraph (F)). The rule's duty-to-accommodate paragraph limits what a landlord must do — no modification of the property, no higher degree of care, no relief from lease obligations imposed on everyone — and then closes by requiring that reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices or services be made when necessary for equal opportunity to use and enjoy the premises (paragraph (D)).

Who it binds: Every landlord. Ohio's housing discrimination duties open with the words subject to section 4112.024, and that section is the whole of the exemption set: housing owned or operated for other than a commercial purpose by a religious organization or by a nonprofit it controls, limited or preferred for people of the same religion; a bona fide private or fraternal organization limiting lodging to its members; reasonable occupancy standards; the direct-threat and substantial-damage defense; housing for older persons, as to familial status only; and a clause that a landlord need not modify property or provide a higher degree of care. There is no owner-occupied exemption, no single-family exemption and no unit threshold anywhere in the chapter, and housing accommodations are defined to include those held or offered by the owner or the owner's legal representative, with person defined to include the state and its political subdivisions. Ohio's own accommodation duty therefore binds a wider set of landlords than the federal act does. One limit inside that section matters here: the clause saying a landlord need not relieve a person with a disability of an obligation imposed on all tenants is written to reach only divisions (H)(1) to (18) of the discrimination section, and the accommodation duty is division (H)(19).

The rule's currency: Ohio Administrative Code rule 4112-5-07, Discrimination against the disabled in private housing accommodations, effective April 11, 2023, promulgated under section 119.03, authorized by section 4112.04 and amplifying sections 4112.02, 4112.04 and 4112.05, with a five-year review date of March 31, 2028 and prior effective dates of November 4, 1971, November 15, 1977, October 2, 1992 and January 11, 1998; and rule 4112-5-02, the chapter's definitions, effective September 14, 2023. Both were read in the Administrative Code as the Legislative Service Commission publishes it, where each rule carries its own currency block.
What counts as an assistance animal Ohio uses two different terms in two different places, and blending them produces the wrong answer. In housing, the Civil Rights Commission's rules define an animal assistant as any animal which aids the person with a disability, giving as examples a dog that alerts a hearing impaired person to sounds, a dog that guides a visually impaired person, and a monkey that collects or retrieves items for a person whose mobility is impaired (rule 4112-5-02, paragraph (C)). That definition is open as to species, states no training requirement, and by its own words applies when used in chapter 4112 of the Revised Code and in the Commission's rule chapters. In public accommodations, the dog chapter defines an assistance dog as a dog trained by a nonprofit or for-profit special agency that is a guide dog, a hearing dog or a service dog, and defines a person with a mobility impairment to include a person with a neurological or psychological disability limiting the ability to walk, a person with a seizure disorder and a person diagnosed with autism (section 955.021); that definition is scoped by its own words to three sections of the dog chapter and does not touch chapter 4112. Disability in the civil rights chapter means a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, a record of one, or being regarded as having one. The phrases emotional support animal, support animal and assistance animal appear nowhere in the Revised Code.
Documentation a landlord may request, and what a certifier must meet

No state text sets a documentation standard for an assistance animal in housing.

Ohio has no documentation rule at all: nothing says what a landlord may ask for, who may write a letter, how recent it must be, whether an online certificate counts, whether a form or proof of vaccination may be required, how quickly a landlord must answer, or what duty the person who signs owes. No Ohio provision places any duty or discipline on a certifying professional. What Ohio has instead runs the other way. The Commission's rule makes it unlawful housing discrimination to make any written or oral inquiry, or to keep any record, concerning the disability of an applicant or an intended occupant, unless the federal contract requirements of a bona fide affirmative action plan require it, in which case the records must be kept so they cannot be used for a discriminatory purpose. On its face that bars the ordinary verification question at the application stage; it is written about applicants and intended occupants rather than a sitting tenant's request, and Ohio publishes nothing reconciling it with the back-and-forth a request normally involves. The same rule puts the burden of justifying a refusal on the landlord.
Charges for an assistance animal

No — a state bar on an extra charge reaches an emotional support animal on the face of the definition it hangs on; the bar is an express no-extra-charge clause, in an administrative rule.

The charge bar is in the Civil Rights Commission's rule, not in a statute, and since September 14, 2026 it is narrower than it reads: the Eleventh District Court of Appeals held in Constellation Ohio, L.L.C. v. McClain that extra charge means extra relative to what every tenant pays, so a flat statement that Ohio bans pet fees for assistance animals is now too simple. The rule itself is worded broadly: a person with a disability who has or obtains an animal assistant is entitled to keep it on the premises and may not be required to pay any extra charge for it (rule 4112-5-07, paragraph (C)). Because an animal assistant is any animal which aids the person with a disability, with no training requirement, the bar reaches an animal that gives emotional support — the trained-dog-only definition in the dog chapter is scoped to that chapter and does not apply here. In Constellation the court held that a tenant charged the same pet fee as everyone else could not show discrimination on the claims she had brought, leaning on the clause that a landlord need not relieve a person with a disability of an obligation imposed on all tenants. Two things limit that holding: the claims were not brought under the accommodation duty, and the clause the court relied on is written to reach only divisions (H)(1) to (18) of the discrimination section, while the accommodation duty is division (H)(19). A landlord who charges a pet fee for an animal a tenant needs is still exposed to an accommodation claim.

The definition it hangs on: "'Animal assistant' means any animal which aids the persons with a disability. Specific examples include: (1) A dog which alerts a hearing impaired person to sounds; (2) A dog which guides a visually impaired person; (3) A monkey which collects or retrieves items for a person whose mobility is impaired" (Ohio Adm. Code 4112-5-02(C)) — species-open, with no training requirement stated.

Remedy: A charge for an animal assistant is housing discrimination, enforced by the Ohio Civil Rights Commission and in court. The Commission's orders in this area have included a cease-and-desist order, actual damages of $18,293.02, a $10,000 civil penalty and fair-housing training against a landlord whose rules banned animals of any kind with no written exception, and that order was upheld on the merits on appeal in 2023. The housing civil action gives a one-year limitation period from the discriminatory act, a right to a jury trial, court-appointed counsel without costs on a proper showing, and actual damages, attorney's fees, court costs, expert witness fees and other litigation expenses, including punitive damages; since September 30, 2025 it also gives the complainant a fallback right to bring the action where the Commission or the attorney general does not act (section 4112.055).
Damage caused by an assistance animal

The tenant is liable for damage the animal causes like any other tenant, by express words.

The same sentence that bars the charge preserves the liability: a person with a disability who keeps an animal assistant is liable for damage the animal does to the premises (rule 4112-5-07, paragraph (C)). There is no wear-and-tear carve-out and no separate parity clause. Outside housing, a dog being trained must be covered by the training agency's liability insurance (section 955.43).
Misrepresenting an assistance animal

None — no offense, penalty, forfeiture, eviction ground or licensing sanction exists.

Ohio has no offense for misrepresenting an animal as a service or assistance animal, in housing or anywhere else, and no sanction on a person who writes a letter without a basis. The word misrepresent does not appear in the dog chapter at all, and no section of the Revised Code pairs it with a service animal. The offense that does exist runs the other way and is described above: recklessly denying access to a person with an assistance dog in a public place, or charging them for the dog, is a fourth-degree misdemeanor. A bill to make declawing a cat a criminal offense is in committee, and it would not by itself make a lease clause requiring declawing unenforceable.

The landlord-side offense: The sanctions in Ohio all run against the person who refuses. A landlord who denies an accommodation faces the Civil Rights Commission's cease-and-desist orders, actual damages and civil penalties, and the housing civil action in section 4112.055 with attorney's fees and punitive damages. In public places, recklessly depriving a person who is blind, deaf or hearing impaired, a person with a mobility impairment or an assistance-dog trainer of the access the dog chapter gives them, or charging them a fee for the dog, is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree (section 955.43) — but that list of places covers public conveyances, hotels, lodging places, places of public accommodation, amusement or resort and institutions of education, not a dwelling.
Can cities add their own rules

In part — state law preempts the kinds of local rule named as barred, and any power named is one state law grants.

Ohio pulls in two directions and a reader needs both halves. Since September 23, 2022 no city, county or township may adopt or enforce a measure that conflicts with the landlord-tenant chapter or that regulates rights and obligations of parties to a rental agreement which that chapter regulates, rent control expressly included; housing, building, health and safety codes are preserved, as is rent regulation for premises the subdivision itself owns. Whether that stops a local pet rule is unresolved, because the second half of the sentence is limited to what the chapter regulates and the chapter regulates nothing about animals. Pulling the other way, the dog chapter expressly authorizes counties, townships and municipalities to adopt dog-control ordinances about the ownership, keeping or harboring of dogs, with no breed limit and no preemption, and municipalities hold home-rule power over local police regulations that do not conflict with general laws. The practical reading: a local ordinance about dogs as such stands on firm ground, while a local ordinance about what a landlord may charge for one does not. No Ohio city ordinance on pets in rental housing has been recorded on the locality pages.

The whole landlord-tenant field occupied: No political subdivision may adopt, renew, maintain or enforce any charter provision, ordinance, resolution, rule or other measure that conflicts with the landlord-tenant chapter, or that regulates the rights and obligations of parties to a rental agreement that are regulated by that chapter, including by imposing rent control or rent stabilization (section 5321.19, division (A), in force since September 23, 2022). Division (B) preserves housing, building, health and safety codes, rent regulation for premises the subdivision itself owns or operates, and voluntary incentive programs. How far this reaches a local pet rule is genuinely open: the second limb is limited to rights the chapter regulates, and the chapter regulates nothing about animals, so whether a local pet-deposit cap or pet-friendly mandate conflicts with it has not been decided by any Ohio court. Text: Ohio Rev. Code § 5321.19 · (A), (B).

Localities may regulate the keeping or licensing of animals: Counties, townships and municipalities may each adopt and enforce their own dog-control measures, which the statute says include measures concerned with the ownership, keeping or harboring of dogs, the restraint of dogs, dogs as public nuisances and dogs as a threat to public health, safety and welfare, so long as they do not conflict with another provision of the Revised Code (section 955.10, renumbered from section 955.221 on March 20, 2026). There is no breed limit in the grant and no breed preemption anywhere in Ohio law, so a local breed ordinance reaching a tenant's dog is within local power. Text: Ohio Rev. Code § 955.10 · (A), (B)(1)–(3).

Another express grant: Municipalities have authority to exercise all powers of local self-government and to adopt and enforce within their limits such local police, sanitary and other similar regulations as are not in conflict with general laws (Constitution, article XVIII, section 3). That home-rule power is the background against which the landlord-tenant preemption operates. Text: Ohio Const. art. XVIII, § 3.
Housing classes with their own pet rule No manufactured-home park, publicly financed, public-housing or senior-housing rule departs from the answers above
Insurance and dog breeds No statute restricts an insurer's use of dog breed in underwriting
How state law refers to the federal rules State law adds nothing to, and refers to nothing in, the federal rules
Changes already signed into law No signed act is waiting to change these answers
Leading court decisions

Constellation Ohio, L.L.C. v. McClain, 2026-Ohio-3579, No. 2025-P-0076 (Ohio Court of Appeals, Eleventh Appellate District (Portage County); residential setting; bears on charges for an assistance animal): A tenant whose daughter needed an emotional support animal signed a lease carrying a hundred-dollar non-refundable pet deposit and fifty dollars a month in pet rent, and the landlord insisted on both after deciding the animal was not a service animal. On her counterclaims the court held she could not show discrimination, because she had not alleged that the landlord asked her to pay any charge that was extra — at most she was asked to pay the same pet fee every other tenant pays — and the civil rights chapter contemplates that a landlord need not relieve a person with a disability of an obligation imposed on all tenants. Two limits go with the holding: the counterclaims were brought under the general discrimination and retaliation divisions rather than the accommodation duty, and the clause the court relied on is written to reach only divisions (H)(1) to (18), while the accommodation duty is division (H)(19). Decided September 14, 2026.

V.T. Larney, Ltd. v. Ohio Civil Rights Commission, 2023-Ohio-3123, No. 2022-T-0112 (Ohio Court of Appeals, Eleventh Appellate District (Trumbull County); residential setting; bears on the assistance-animal rule): A landlord's tenant rules said no pets or animals of any kind, resident or visiting, with no written exception for service animals or emotional support animals. The hearing officer held that the accommodation duty in the civil rights chapter and the Commission's private-housing rule together require an exception for animals that assist people with disabilities, and the Commission's order — cease and desist, actual damages of $18,293.02, a civil penalty of $10,000 and fair-housing training — was upheld on the merits; the partial reversal concerned the trial court's description of which division the hearing officer had found violated, and the matter was sent back on that point. Decided September 5, 2023.

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Ohio Pet & Assistance Animal Laws (verified September 21, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/pets/ohio/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Everything above is cited in the citations section below.

Ohio assistance-animal documentation at a glance

The state's instrument sets no documentation standard, so every row below reads not stated unless a slot is addressed elsewhere in state law; the federal rules further down this page apply on top. The full text of each slot, with its section, is in the table above.

Slot What the state's text says
Who may certify, and on what test Not stated
The certifier's minimum relationship period Not stated
Telehealth Not stated
Online registration or certificate Not stated
Form Not stated
Medical records Not stated
Written answer from the landlord Not stated
Annual re-evaluation Not stated
Proof of vaccination or licensing Not stated

Federal law on pets and assistance animals, in every state

The federal layer for the pets and assistance-animals topic, carried once for the whole site. It is a dated history rather than a single rule: the Fair Housing Act's accommodation duty has not changed since 1988 and the regulation under it has never contained the word animal, while the HUD guidance that most writing on this subject still quotes was withdrawn in September 2025, permanently rescinded in May 2026, and replaced by an enforcement position that governs HUD's own cause determinations and nothing else. Every row names who it binds, and most of the rows that carry real figures bind only federally assisted, public or rural-development housing. No state record restates these rows; a state record says only where its own law references or extends them. Each row below says who it binds before it says what it does. The full text of each row, with its citations, is on the 50-state page.

Notes and caveats

Common questions: Ohio pets & assistance animals

Each answer is the verified value from the table above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

Can a landlord charge a pet deposit in Ohio, and is there a limit?
Yes, with no statutory limit. No Ohio statute mentions a pet deposit, and Ohio has no security-deposit cap of any kind, so the amount is whatever the lease says.
Can a landlord charge pet rent or a non-refundable pet fee in Ohio?
Yes — no statute caps, authorizes or forbids pet rent or a pet fee. Ohio leaves pet rent and pet fees to the lease.
Does an Ohio lease have to state a pet policy?
No — no statute requires a lease to state a pet policy, and no written-rules provision governs one. No Ohio statute requires a lease to state a pet policy, supplies a default when it is silent, limits the number or size of animals, or governs a change to a pet rule mid-term.
Can an Ohio landlord restrict pets by breed, size or weight?
Yes. No Ohio statute limits, authorizes or preempts a landlord's breed, size or weight rule.
Does Ohio have its own assistance-animal law for rentals?
Only through the state fair-housing act's reasonable-accommodation duty, the sole state instrument reaching assistance animals in housing; no state text sets a documentation standard. Both a statute and an administrative rule under it speak to it.
What documentation can an Ohio landlord ask for when a tenant requests an assistance animal?
No state text sets a documentation standard for an assistance animal in housing. Ohio has no documentation rule at all: nothing says what a landlord may ask for, who may write a letter, how recent it must be, whether an online certificate counts, whether a form or proof of vaccination may be required, how quickly a landlord must answer, or what duty the person who signs owes.
Can an Ohio landlord charge a pet deposit or pet rent for an emotional support animal?
No — a state bar on an extra charge reaches an emotional support animal on the face of the definition it hangs on; the bar is an express no-extra-charge clause, in an administrative rule. The charge bar is in the Civil Rights Commission's rule, not in a statute, and since September 14, 2026 it is narrower than it reads: the Eleventh District Court of Appeals held in Constellation Ohio, L.L.C. v. McClain that extra charge means extra relative to what every tenant pays, so a flat statement that Ohio bans pet fees for assistance animals is now too simple.
What is the penalty for falsely claiming an assistance animal in Ohio?
None — no offense, penalty, forfeiture, eviction ground or licensing sanction exists. Ohio has no offense for misrepresenting an animal as a service or assistance animal, in housing or anywhere else, and no sanction on a person who writes a letter without a basis.

Changes since last full verification

The Verified date above (September 21, 2026) marks the last time every figure on this page was verified end-to-end against official sources. The changes below were published since then, each verified against the official source it names (what these dates mean).

Citations

How this record was verified: Direct reading of the Ohio Revised Code and the Ohio Administrative Code as the Legislative Service Commission publishes them. Ohio prints no edition number; currency is carried section by section, each page giving its own effective date and the act that last amended it, and each administrative rule giving its effective date, the section it was promulgated under, what it amplifies, its five-year review date and its prior effective dates. Chapters 5321 (landlords and tenants), 4112 (civil rights), 955 (dogs) and 4781 (manufactured homes) were each read whole, every section with its own currency lines; chapter 4112-5 of the Administrative Code was read whole, with rules 4112-5-02, 4112-5-06 and 4112-5-07 read in full — rule 4112-5-07 is effective April 11, 2023 and its prior effective dates run back to November 4, 1971. Eleven phrases were run against the whole Revised Code and the whole Administrative Code through the Commission's own search, using the joined form that the site requires, with a control query first, because the other form returns nothing at all and would have produced false negatives; every hit was opened, since the search is weighted rather than an exact phrase match. Point-in-time versions were compared for section 955.43 as it read in 2006, in 2023 and today, and for section 4112.055 as it read in 2021 and after its September 30, 2025 amendment. The enrolled 2025 act that renumbered the dog chapter effective March 20, 2026 was read in full from the legislature's own document, including its list of renumbered sections and the repeal of the chapter's consolidated penalty section; the pre-repeal text of that penalty section is not served by the code host at any date and was not read. The legislature's own roster of the current General Assembly, 2,550 measures, was read by subject for the landlord-tenant list of twelve and the animals list of twenty-three, each in full; the roster carries no long titles and its filters are ignored, so the statement that no other measure in this area is moving is solid for those two lists and weaker beyond them. The Constitution's home-rule section was read on the same host. The state appellate opinion archive was searched four times and two opinions were read in full.

What was read to state each absence on this page: