The 13 Worst Mistakes Ohio Curfew Law Rookies Make—and How to Avoid Them

October 20, 2021

 

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You might be thinking that those who are unfamiliar with the Ohio curfew law might be unaware of the most common mistakes people make. If you want to be able to avoid trouble, it is important to be aware of what is going on when you are violating the law.

Worst Mistakes Ohio Curfew Law Rookies Make—and How to Avoid Them

According to the law, if you are found out of your house while on the wrong street or on the wrong side of the law you are guilty of disorderly conduct. The trouble here is that it’s not enough that you are breaking the law. You are also causing a delay in other people’s ability to get to their own homes.


When people are caught running away from their homes, they are often told to stay in their own homes, and they are also told to stay inside. But the law is also clear that it is not enough to just stay inside your house. If your home is on fire, it is not enough just to stay inside your house. The law also says that you are to come outside and get help from the police.


This is the most unfortunate of all mistakes.


As soon as you hear the word “curfew” in your head you should immediately take to Facebook and Twitter and let everyone else know that there is no curfew here. I’ve seen too many people who live in the wrong neighborhoods make the fatal mistake of ignoring the law and staying out in their own communities.


First, most people have a curfew, so this is pretty easy; the rest is the details. For those who do not have a curfew, be aware that they must be out of your house by 9 p.m. if they are on duty. At night, they must be out of your house by midnight if they are not on duty. If they are on duty, they must be out by 2 a.m. if they are not out by 9 p.m.


The first thing that many people do is ignore the state of curfew, and go out of their way to go to their neighbor's houses.


If they are out by 9 p.m. and they are not on duty, they must be out by midnight. If they are on duty, they must be out by 2 a.m.

If you have a curfew, you are required to be at home by 9 p.m. no matter what time you go out. If you are not out until midnight, you must be out by 9 p.m. if you are not out until 2 a.m.

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The Ohio curfew law is a good place to start because it’s a good example of how the law can be abused. And it doesn’t take long to realize that if you’re in bed by 2 a.m. and you’re not on duty, you’re probably not on duty unless you are.

If you're not on duty, you're not on duty. I know this, I was there when the Ohio curfew law was passed in the late 1980s. It was a horrible law that made it much harder for people like me to get a job. As it turns out, the law was abused by a lot of people who were already behind bars, so to say that it's a good law is putting it mildly.


I'm not going to lie, when I was in law school there was a lot of talk about how stupid the law was.


It was also quite clear that we were going to be making a lot of mistakes. I had a professor tell us that it was better to put a police officer in the situation he was in so that he could make a proper arrest, and not just hand over someone because they were drunk.


For the record, I think a lot of the problem is that the law isn't written well. It is written to be interpreted by the person who wrote it, which means the person who wrote the bill is making all the right mistakes. In fact, it’s quite possible that no one in the legislature actually reads the laws they pass, which explains why some laws are so ambiguous that they can be applied to an entirely different situation.

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