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2023 Ohio Revised Code
Title 23 | Courts-Common Pleas
Chapter 2307 | Civil Actions
Section 2307.40 | Members and Officers of the General Assembly Privileged From Answering.

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OH Rev Code § 2307.40 (2023)
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Effective: September 17, 1973

Latest Legislation: House Bill 994 - 110th General Assembly

A member of the senate or house of representatives, or an officer of either branch of the general assembly, shall be privileged from answering to a suit instituted against him in a county other than the one in which he resides upon a cause of action which accrued ten days before the first day of a session of the general assembly of which he is an officer or a member. All proceedings in actions to which such a person is a party shall be stayed during such session, and the time necessarily employed in going thereto and returning therefrom.

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