Ohio Rev. Code § 3599.31

Current with legislation from 2024 received as of March 20, 2024.

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 of the voting location manager at an election, against persons unlawfully congregating or loitering within one hundred feet of a polling place, hindering or delaying an elector from reaching or leaving the polling place, soliciting or attempting, within one hundred feet of the polling place, to influence an elector in casting the elector's vote, or interfering with the registration of voters or casting and counting of the ballots.

Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

R.C. §3599.31

Amended by 130th General Assembly File No. 47, SB 109,§1, eff. 2/25/2014.

Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.105,SB 295, §1, eff. 8/15/2012.

Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.40,HB 194, §1 Made subject to referendum in the Nov. 6, 2012 election. The version of this section thus amended was repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.105,SB 295, §1, eff. 8/15/2012.

Effective Date: 12-09-1997 .