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2012 Ohio Revised Code
Title [51] LI PUBLIC WELFARE
Chapter 5145 - PENITENTIARY
Section 5145.27 - Prohibited acts.

Universal Citation:
Ohio Rev Code ยง 5145.27 (2012)
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No officer or employee of a state correctional institution, contractor, or the employee of such contractor, shall make a present to, receive a present from, or have barter or dealings with a convict.

An officer shall not receive compensation for his services other than that prescribed by law, or for an act or service which he performs for or on behalf of a contractor, or the agent, or employee of such contractor.

Whoever violates this section shall be dismissed, and a contractor, or the agent, or employee of such contractor, concerned in the violation, shall be expelled from the state correctional institution and not again permitted within it in such capacity.

Effective Date: 10-06-1994

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