Ohio Code § 2949.12

§ 2949.12.

Unless the execution of sentence is suspended or the convicted felon has less than

thirty days to serve in prison and the department of rehabilitation and correction,

the county sheriff, and the court agree otherwise, a convicted felon who is sentenced

to serve a term of imprisonment in a state correctional institution shall be conveyed,

within five days after sentencing, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays,

by the sheriff of the county in which the conviction was had to the facility that

is designated by the department of rehabilitation and correction for the reception

of convicted felons.  The sheriff shall deliver the convicted felon into the custody of the managing officer

of the reception facility and, at that time, unless the department and the sheriff

have agreed to electronically processed prisoner commitment, shall present the managing

officer with a copy of the convicted felon's sentence that clearly describes each

offense for which the felon was sentenced to a correctional institution, designates

each section of the Revised Code that the felon violated and that resulted in the

felon's conviction and sentence to a correctional institution, designates the sentence

imposed for each offense for which the felon was sentenced to a correctional institution,

and, pursuant to section 2967.191 of the Revised Code , specifies the total number of days, if any, that the felon was confined for any

reason prior to conviction and sentence.  The sheriff, at that time, also shall present the managing officer with a copy of

the indictment.  The clerk of the court of common pleas shall furnish the copies of the sentence

and indictment.  In the case of a person under the age of eighteen years who is certified to the

court of common pleas by the juvenile court, the clerk of the court of common pleas

also shall attach a copy of the certification to the copy of the indictment. The convicted felon shall be assigned to an institution or designated to be housed

in a county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jail

or workhouse, if authorized pursuant to section 5120.161 of the Revised Code , shall be conveyed to the institution, jail, or workhouse, and shall be kept within

the institution, jail, or workhouse until the term of the felon's imprisonment expires,

the felon is pardoned, paroled, or placed under a post-release control sanction, or

the felon is transferred under laws permitting the transfer of prisoners.  If the execution of the felon's sentence is suspended, and the judgment thereafter

affirmed, the felon shall be conveyed, in the same manner as if the execution of the

felon's sentence had not been suspended, to the reception facility as soon as practicable

after the judge directs the execution of sentence.  The trial judge or other judge of the court, in the judge's discretion and for good

cause shown, may extend the time of the conveyance.