Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3599 - Offenses And Penalties

• Section 3599.01 - Bribery.
  (A) No person shall before, during, or after any primary, convention, or election: (1) Give, lend, offer, or procure or promise to give, lend,...
• Section 3599.02 - Bribery - Offenses Concerning Voters Or Voting.
  No person shall before, during, or after any primary, general, or special election or convention solicit, request, demand, receive, or contract for any money,...
• Section 3599.03 - Use Of Corporation And Labor Organization Funds For Political Purposes.
  (A) (1) Except to carry on activities specified in sections 3517.082, 3517.101, and 3517.1011, division (A)(2) of section 3517.1012, division (B) of section 3517.1013,...
• Section 3599.031 - Payroll Deductions Of Political Contributions - Separate Account.
  (A) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary and subject to division (C) of section 3517.09 of the Revised Code and...
• Section 3599.04 - Corrupt Practices - Contributions For Illegal Election Purposes.
  No person shall, directly or indirectly, in connection with any election, pay, lend, or contribute or offer or promise to pay, lend, or contribute...
• Section 3599.05 - Corrupt Practices - Employer Shall Not Influence Political Opinions Or Votes Of Employees.
  No employer or his agent or a corporation shall print or authorize to be printed upon any pay envelopes any statements intended or calculated...
• Section 3599.06 - Employer Shall Not Interfere With Employee On Election Day.
  No employer, his officer or agent, shall discharge or threaten to discharge an elector for taking a reasonable amount of time to vote on...
• Section 3599.07 - Unlawful Possession Or Distribution Of Ballots.
  No precinct election official, observer, or police officer admitted into the polling rooms at the election, at any time while the polls are open,...
• Section 3599.08 - Corrupt Practices - Influencing Candidates And Voters By Publications.
  No owner, editor, writer, or employee of any newspaper, magazine, or other publication of any description, whether published regularly or irregularly, shall use the...
• Section 3599.09 - Seeking Nomination Or Election To More Than One Prohibited Office At Same Election.
  Whoever knowingly violates division (A) of section 3513.052 is guilty of seeking nomination or election to more than one prohibited office at the same...
• Section 3599.091, 3599.092 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 3517.21, 3517.22.
  Effective Date: 08-24-1995
• Section 3599.10 - Corrupt Practices - Candidate For General Assembly Shall Not Be Asked To Pledge Vote.
  No person, firm, or corporation shall demand of any candidate for the general assembly any pledge concerning his vote on any legislation, question, or...
• Section 3599.11 - False Voter Registration - Registration Forms.
  (A) No person shall knowingly register or make application or attempt to register in a precinct in which the person is not a qualified...
• Section 3599.111 - Per Signature Or Per Volume Voter Registration Compensation Prohibited - Penalty.
  (A) As used in this section, "registering a voter" or "registering voters" includes any effort, for compensation, to provide voter registration forms or to...
• Section 3599.12 - Illegal Voting.
  (A) No person shall do any of the following: (1) Vote or attempt to vote in any primary, special, or general election in a...
• Section 3599.13 - Signing Of Petitions.
  (A) No person shall do any of the following: (1) Sign an initiative, supplementary, referendum, recall, or nominating petition knowing that the person is...
• Section 3599.14 - Prohibited Acts Concerning Declarations Or Petitions.
  (A) No person shall knowingly, directly or indirectly, do any of the following in connection with any declaration of candidacy and petition, declaration of...
• Section 3599.15 - Purchase, Theft, Sale, Destruction, Or Mutilation Of Petitions.
  No person shall purchase, steal, attempt to steal, sell, attempt to sell, or willfully destroy or mutilate any initiative, supplementary, referendum, recall, or nominating...
• Section 3599.16 - Misconduct Of Member, Director, Or Employee Of Board Of Elections - Dismissal.
  No member, director, or employee of a board of elections shall: (A) Willfully or negligently violate or neglect to perform any duty imposed upon...
• Section 3599.161 - Prohibiting Inspection Of Election Records.
  (A) The director of elections, deputy director of elections, or an employee of the board of elections designated by the director or deputy director...
• Section 3599.17 - Prohibitions Concerning Elections Officials.
  (A) No elections official serving as a registrar or precinct election official shall do any of the following: (1) Fail to appear before the...
• Section 3599.18 - Prohibitions Concerning Registration Of Electors.
  (A) No election official, person assisting in the registration of electors, or police officer shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) Refuse, neglect,...
• Section 3599.19 - Prohibitions Concerning Precinct Election Officials.
  (A) No precinct election official shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) Unlawfully open or permit to be opened the sealed package containing...
• Section 3599.20 - Prohibitions Concerning Ballots Generally.
  No person shall attempt to induce an elector to show how the elector marked the elector's ballot at an election; or, being an elector,...
• Section 3599.21 - Prohibitions Concerning Absent Voter's Ballot.
  (A) No person shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) Impersonate another, or make a false representation in order to obtain an absent...
• Section 3599.22 - Prohibitions Concerning Printing Of Ballots.
  (A) No person employed to print or engage in printing the official ballots shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) Print or cause...
• Section 3599.23 - Prohibitions Concerning Election Materials Or Papers.
  (A) No printer or other person entrusted with the printing, custody, or delivery of registration cards or forms, ballots, blanks, pollbooks, cards of instruction,...
• Section 3599.24 - Interference With Conduct Of Election.
  (A) No person shall do any of the following: (1) By force, fraud, or other improper means, obtain or attempt to obtain possession of...
• Section 3599.25 - Inducing Illegal Voting.
  (A) No person shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) Counsel or advise another to vote at an election, knowing that the person...
• Section 3599.26 - Tampering With Ballots.
  No person shall fraudulently put a ballot or ticket into a ballot box; or knowingly and willfully vote a ballot other than an official...
• Section 3599.27 - Possession Of Or Tampering With Voting Machine, Automatic Tabulating Equipment, Or Marking Device Prohibited.
  No unauthorized person shall have in the person's possession any voting machine that may be owned or leased by any county or any of...
• Section 3599.28 - False Signatures.
  No person, with intent to defraud or deceive, shall write or sign the name of another person to any document, petition, registration card, or...
• Section 3599.29 - Possession Of False Records.
  No person shall have in the person's possession a falsely made, altered, forged, or counterfeited registration card, form, or list, pollbook, tally sheet, or...
• Section 3599.31 - Failure Of Officer Of Law To Assist Election Officers.
  No officer of the law shall fail to obey forthwith an order of the voting location manager and aid in enforcing a lawful order...
• Section 3599.32 - General Prohibition Concerning Election Officials.
  No official upon whom a duty is imposed by an election law for the violation of which no penalty is otherwise provided shall knowingly...
• Section 3599.33 - Fraudulent Marking Or Altering Ballots Or Election Records.
  No person, from the time ballots are cast or counted until the time has expired for using them as evidence in a recount or...
• Section 3599.34 - Prohibitions Concerning Destruction Of Election Records.
  No person, from the time ballots are cast or voted until the time has expired for using them in a recount or as evidence...
• Section 3599.35 - Proxies Not To Be Given By Party Representatives - Impersonation Of Representatives.
  No party committeeperson or party delegate or alternate chosen at an election, or a delegate or alternate appointed to a convention provided by law,...
• Section 3599.36 - Election Falsification.
  No person, either orally or in writing, on oath lawfully administered or in a statement made under penalty of election falsification, shall knowingly state...
• Section 3599.37 - Disobedience Of Subpoena Concerning Violation Of Election Laws.
  (A) No person having been subpoenaed or ordered to appear before a grand jury, court, board, or officer in a proceeding or prosecution upon...
• Section 3599.38 - Illegally Influencing Voters While Performing Election Duties.
  (A) No election official, observer, deputy sheriff, special deputy sheriff, or police officer, while performing that person's duties related to the casting of votes,...
• Section 3599.39 - Second Conviction Under Election Laws.
  Any person convicted of a violation of any provision of Title XXXV [35] of the Revised Code, who is again convicted of a violation...
• Section 3599.40 - General Penalty.
  Except as otherwise provided in section 3599.39 of the Revised Code, whoever violates any provision of Title XXXV [35] of the Revised Code, unless...
• Section 3599.41 - Person Violating Election Laws May Testify Against Other Violators.
  A person violating any provision of Title XXXV [35] of the Revised Code is a competent witness against another person so offending, and may...
• Section 3599.42 - Prima-facie Case Of Fraud.
  A violation of any provision of Title XXXV [35] of the Revised Code constitutes a prima-facie case of fraud within the purview of such...
• Section 3599.43 - Prohibitions Concerning Communication Purporting To Be From Board Of Elections.
  No person, not authorized by a board of elections, shall send or transmit to any other person any written or oral communication which purports...
• Section 3599.44 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-23-1974
• Section 3599.45 - Candidates Prohibited From Accepting Contributions From Medicaid Providers.
  (A) As used in this section:"Candidate," "campaign committee," and "contribution" have the same meanings as in section 3517.01 of the Revised Code. "Medicaid provider"...

Last modified: October 10, 2016