The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Ohio
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Ohio Const. art. III, sec. 5
- Issued
- 2020-04-01 Apr. 1, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-04-01
- End
- Requests for at least ninety consecutive days; tied to the state of emergency (read as 2020-09-30)
- In force
- Apr. 1, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Other
- Addressees
- landlords of small business commercial tenants
- commercial mortgage lenders and servicers
- Functions reached
- PM property management and leasing
- CM commercial leasing
- SV servicing and forbearance
- BL business lending
- Collection
- Ohio OH
Operative words
1. Landlords are requested to suspend, for a term of at least ninety (90) consecutive days, rent payments for small business commercial tenants in the State of Ohio that are facing financial hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic; and 2. Landlords are requested to provide for a moratorium of evictions of small business commercial tenants for a term of at least ninety (90) consecutive days; and 3. Lenders are requested to provide commercial real estate borrowers with a commercial mortgage loan for a property located in the State of Ohio an opportunity for a forbearance of a term of at least ninety (90) consecutive days...
Enforcement
Precatory ('requested'); no penalty
Notes
Recites that the Supreme Court of Ohio 'has provided guidance to local courts to temporarily continue eviction filings, pending eviction proceedings, scheduled move-outs, and the execution of foreclosure judgments.'
Retrieval noteScanned; pages 1-2 read visually. A request, not a mandate; pleaded as the State's own recognition of the commercial dislocation.