Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3517 - Campaigns; Political Parties

• Section 3517.01 - Political Party Definitions.
  (A) (1) A political party within the meaning of Title XXXV of the Revised Code is any group of voters that meets either of...
• Section 3517.011 - Petition Form.
  The petition required in section 3517.01 of the Revised Code shall be on a form prescribed by the secretary of state. The petition may...
• Section 3517.012 - Party Comes Into Legal Existence On Date Of Filing.
  (A) (1) When a party formation petition meeting the requirements of section 3517.01 of the Revised Code declaring the intention to organize a political...
• Section 3517.013 - Candidate Of New Party Not Disqualified By Having Voted In Different Party Primary.
  Section 3513.191 of the Revised Code does not apply to persons desiring to become candidates for party nomination of a newly formed political party...
• Section 3517.014 - Candidate Of New Party Not Disqualified At First Primary Election After Formation.
  Those provisions of section 3513.19 of the Revised Code relating to the determination of membership in or political affiliation with a party do not...
• Section 3517.015 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 43, SB 193, §2, eff. 2/5/2014.
• Section 3517.016 - New Party Primary Vote Not Barred By Prior Party Affiliation.
  At the first primary election held by a newly formed political party meeting the requirements of sections 3517.011 and 3517.012 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 3517.02 - Controlling Committees Of Major Or Intermediate Political Party.
  All members of controlling committees of a major political party shall be elected by direct vote of the members of the party, except as...
• Section 3517.03 - Controlling Committees Of Major Or Intermediate Political Party Membership.
  The controlling committees of each major political party or organization shall be a state central committee consisting of two members, one a man and...
• Section 3517.04 - Organization Of State Central Committees.
  The members-elect of each major political party state central committee shall, except as otherwise provided in this section, meet following the declaration of the...
• Section 3517.05 - Terms Of Party Committees - Determining Rightful County Central Or Executive Committee.
  All party committees, the selection of which is provided for in sections 3517.02 and 3517.03 of the Revised Code, shall, except as otherwise provided...
• Section 3517.06 - Names And Addresses Of Members And Officers Of County Central Committee And County Executive Committee.
  A list of the names and addresses of the members and officers of the county central committee and the county executive committee of each...
• Section 3517.07 - Parties Or Groups Advocating Overthrow Of Government By Force Or Violence.
  No political party or group which advocates, either directly or indirectly, the overthrow, by force or violence, of our local, state, or national government...
• Section 3517.08 - Expenses Of Candidate, Political Action Committee, Political Party, Or Political Contributing Entity.
  (A) The personal expenses of a candidate paid for by the candidate, from the candidate's personal funds, shall not be considered as a contribution...
• Section 3517.081 - Campaign Committee, Treasurer.
  (A) Each candidate shall have no more than one campaign committee for purposes of receiving contributions and making expenditures. No campaign committee shall receive...
• Section 3517.082 - Political Action Committee - Separate Segregated Fund.
  (A) Any corporation, any nonprofit corporation, or any labor organization may establish, administer, and solicit contributions from the persons listed in division (B) of...
• Section 3517.09 - Coercing Political Contributions.
  (A) No person or committee shall solicit, ask, invite, or demand, directly or indirectly, orally or in writing, a contribution, subscription, or payment from...
• Section 3517.091 - Door-to-door Solicitations For Political Contributions.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (E) of this section, any person or organization that makes door-to-door solicitations for contributions to influence legislation,...
• Section 3517.092 - Solicitation Of Political Contributions From Public Employees By Appointing Authorities.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Appointing authority" has the same meaning as in section 124.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "State elected...
• Section 3517.093 - [See Note] Deleted.
  Editor's Note: Deleted per the decision in United Auto Workers, Local Union 1112 v. Brunner, 182 Ohio App.3d 1, 2009-Ohio-1750.
• Section 3517.10 - Statements Of Campaign Contributions And Expenditures.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in this division, every campaign committee, political action committee, legislative campaign fund, political party, and political contributing entity that...
• Section 3517.101 - Gift To Pay For Office Facilities.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Gift" means a gift, subscription, loan, advance, or deposit of money or anything of value, given to...
• Section 3517.102 - Dollar Limits On Campaign Contributions.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in section 3517.103 of the Revised Code, as used in this section and sections 3517.103 and 3517.104 of the...
• Section 3517.103 - Deposit Of Personal Funds In Candidate's Own Campaign Fund.
  (A) For purposes of this section: (1) "Statewide candidate" means the joint candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor or a candidate...
• Section 3517.104 - Contribution Limitations Adjustments.
  (A) In January of each odd-numbered year, the secretary of state, in accordance with this division and division (B) of this section, shall adjust...
• Section 3517.105 - Identification Of Source Of Political Advertising.
  (A) (1) As used in this section, "public political advertising" means advertising to the general public through a broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine, poster, yard...
• Section 3517.106 - Statements Of Contributions And Expenditures Computerized By Secretary Of State.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Statewide office" means any of the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor of state,...
• Section 3517.107 - Federal Political Committee Registration.
  (A) As used in this section, "federal political committee" means a political committee, as defined in the Federal Election Campaign Act, that is registered...
• Section 3517.108 - Additional Contributions For Unpaid Debt.
  (A) As used in divisions (A) and (B) of this section: (1) "Candidate" has the same meaning as in section 3517.01 of the Revised...
• Section 3517.109 - Disposal Of Any Excess Funds And Excess Aggregate Contributions.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Candidate" has the same meaning as in section 3517.01 of the Revised Code but includes only candidates...
• Section 3517.1010 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2013. Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.105, SB 295, §1, eff. 8/15/2012....
• Section 3517.1011 - Notices And Disclosures Regarding Electioneering Communications.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Address" has the same meaning as in section 3517.10 of the Revised Code. (2) "Broadcast, cable, or...
• Section 3517.1012 - Political Parties To Establish Restricted Funds - Deposits And Disbursements.
  (A) (1) Each state and county political party shall establish a restricted fund that is separate from all other accounts of the political party....
• Section 3517.1013 - Gifts To Defray Costs Of Campaign Activities - Separate Account - Statement To Be Filed.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Gift" means a gift, subscription, loan, advance, or deposit of money, or anything of value given to...
• Section 3517.1014 - Transition Funds.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Donation" means a gift, subscription, loan, advance, or deposit of money, or anything of value that is...
• Section 3517.1015 - Disclosure Of Contributions.
  Each person licensed under Chapter 3772. of the Revised Code shall disclose quarterly to the secretary of state any contribution of one hundred dollars...
• Section 3517.11 - Requirement Of Filing Statement.
  (A) (1) Campaign committees of candidates for statewide office or the state board of education, political action committees or political contributing entities that make...
• Section 3517.12 - Itemized Statement Of Expenditures On Issues.
  (A) Prior to receiving a contribution or making an expenditure, the circulator or committee in charge of an initiative or referendum petition, or supplementary...
• Section 3517.13 - Failure To File Statements.
  (A) (1) No campaign committee of a statewide candidate shall fail to file a complete and accurate statement required under division (A)(1) of section...
• Section 3517.14 - Ohio Elections Commission - Prior To 1996.
  (A) There is hereby created the Ohio elections commission consisting of five members, four of whom shall be appointed by the secretary of state...
• Section 3517.15 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 08-24-1995
• Section 3517.151 - Filing Complaints For Acts Occurring Before July 13, 1998.
  (A) On and after January 1, 1996, complaints with respect to acts or failures to act under the sections listed in division (A) of...
• Section 3517.152 - Ohio Elections Commission.
  (A) (1) There is hereby created the Ohio elections commission consisting of seven members. Not later than forty-five days after August 24, 1995, the...
• Section 3517.153 - Filing Complaint.
  (A) Upon the filing of a complaint with the Ohio elections commission, which shall be made by affidavit of any person, on personal knowledge,...
• Section 3517.154 - Review Of Complaint.
  (A) (1) The full-time attorney for the Ohio elections commission shall review each complaint filed with the commission under section 3517.153 of the Revised...
• Section 3517.155 - Hearing On Complaint.
  (A) (1) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, the Ohio elections commission shall hold its first hearing on a complaint...
• Section 3517.156 - Probable Cause Hearing.
  (A) If a complaint filed with the Ohio elections commission is to receive an expedited hearing pursuant to section 3517.154 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 3517.157 - Time Limit For Complaint.
  (A) A complaint shall be filed with the Ohio elections commission within two years after the occurrence of the act or failure to act...
• Section 3517.16 - Ohio Political Party Fund.
  (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the Ohio political party fund. All moneys received as a result of individuals exercising the...
• Section 3517.17 - Division Of Ohio Political Party Fund.
  (A) At the beginning of each calendar quarter, after the costs of audits are deducted under division (B)(1) of section 3517.16 of the Revised...
• Section 3517.18 - Uses Of Ohio Political Party Fund.
  (A) A political party receiving moneys from the Ohio political party fund may expend the moneys only for the following purposes: (1) The defraying...
• Section 3517.19 - Sale Of Membership And Mailing Lists.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Financial institution" means a bank, savings and loan association, or credit union with its principal office in...
• Section 3517.20 - Political Communications; Identification Of Source.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Political publication for or against a candidate" means a notice, placard, advertisement, sample ballot, brochure, flyer, direct...
• Section 3517.21 - Infiltration Of Campaign - False Statements In Campaign Materials - Election Of Candidate.
  (A) No person, during the course of any campaign for nomination or election to public office or office of a political party, shall knowingly...
• Section 3517.22 - Infiltration Of Campaign - False Statements In Campaign Materials - Issues.
  (A) No person during the course of any campaign in advocacy of or in opposition to the adoption of any proposition or issue submitted...
• Section 3517.23 - Rules For Administration Of Campaign Finance And Advertising.
  The secretary of state shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that are necessary for the administration and enforcement...
• Section 3517.99 - Penalty.
  This section establishes penalties only with respect to acts or failures to act that occur before the effective date of this amendment. (A) Any...
• Section 3517.991 - Fine Schedule For Violations Before 8-24-95.
  This section authorizes fines to be imposed only with respect to acts or failures to act that occur before the effective date of this...
• Section 3517.992 - Penalties For Violations On Or After 8-24-95.
  This section establishes penalties only with respect to acts or failures to act that occur on and after August 24, 1995. (A) (1) A...
• Section 3517.993 - Fine Schedule For Violations After 8-24-95.
  This section authorizes the establishment of fines that may be imposed only with respect to acts or failures to act that occur on and...

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