2006 Ohio Revised Code - 2921.35. Aiding escape or resistance to lawful authority.

§ 2921.35. Aiding escape or resistance to lawful authority.
 

(A)  No person, with purpose to promote or facilitate an escape or resistance to lawful authority, shall convey into a detention facility, or provide anyone confined therein with any instrument or thing which may be used for such purposes. 

(B)  No person who is confined in a detention facility, and with purpose to promote or facilitate an escape or resistance to lawful authority, shall make, procure, conceal, unlawfully possess, or give to another inmate, any instrument or thing which may be used for such purposes. 

(C)  Whoever violates this section is guilty of aiding escape or resistance to lawful authority, a felony of the fourth degree. 
 

HISTORY: 134 v H 511 (Eff 1-1-74); 146 v S 2. Eff 7-1-96.
 

The effective date is set by section 6 of SB 2. 

 

19xx Committee Report or Comment.

1974 Committee Comment to H 511

This section contains elements of several former sections pertaining to conveying contraband articles into a jail. The section requires that the act be done with intent to promote or facilitate an escape or resistance to lawful authority, thereby excluding the case where a person innocently conveys a potentially dangerous article into a jail or prison. 

Aiding escape or resistance to authority is a felony of the fourth degree. When the offense is committed by an inmate in a jail or prison, sentence of imprisonment imposed for violation of this section must be served consecutively to any other sentence of imprisonment imposed on the offender.