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2011 Ohio Revised Code
Title [29] XXIX CRIMES - PROCEDURE
Chapter 2905: KIDNAPPING AND EXTORTION
2905.22 Extortionate extension of credit - criminal usury.

Universal Citation:
OH Rev Code § 2905.22
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(A) No person shall:

(1) Knowingly make or participate in an extortionate extension of credit;

(2) Knowingly engage in criminal usury;

(3) Possess any writing, paper, instrument, or article used to record criminally usurious transactions, knowing that the contents record a criminally usurious transaction.

(B) Whoever violates division (A)(1) or (2) of this section is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree. Whoever violates division (A)(3) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

Effective Date: 07-01-1996

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