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Section 3599.15 | Purchase, theft, sale, destruction, or mutilation of petitions.

Ohio Revised Code
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Title 35 Elections
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Chapter 3599 Offenses And Penalties
 
Effective:
July 1, 1996
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly
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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.

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