Wright v. Brice

Citations

• 2021 Ohio 2246

Syllabus

Appellant lacked authority to permit an administrative hearing officer to exercise quasi-judicial power in carrying out its speeding-camera civil-enforcement system because R.C. 1920.01(A) granted the municipal court exclusive jurisdiction of every civil action concerning a violation of a state traffic law or a municipal traffic ordinance. Accordingly, the only relief the municipal court was authorized to provide appellee, in reviewing that administrative hearing officer's order, was a judgment vacating the order for the lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. The municipal court was not authorized to pass judgment on the validity of other substantive provisions of appellant' s speeding-camera civil-enforcement system. Judgment reversed and vacated cause remanded for the municipal court to issue an order vacating the administrative hearing officer's order for lack of jurisdiction.