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2017 Ohio Revised Code
Title [35] XXXV ELECTIONS
Chapter 3599 - OFFENSES AND PENALTIES
Section 3599.15 - Purchase, theft, sale, destruction, or mutilation of petitions.
Universal Citation: Ohio Rev Code § 3599.15 (2017)
No person shall purchase, steal, attempt to steal, sell, attempt to sell, or willfully destroy or mutilate any initiative, supplementary, referendum, recall, or nominating petition, or any part of a petition, that is being or has been lawfully circulated; provided that the words "purchase" and "sell" do not apply to persons paying or receiving pay for soliciting signatures to or circulating a petition or petition paper.
Whoever violates this section is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree.
Effective Date: 07-01-1996 .
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