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

Ohio Rev Code § 3599.15 (2019) (N/A)
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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.

Effective Date: 07-01-1996 .

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