§ 3517.09Coercing 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 a candidate for nomination or election or from
the campaign committee of that candidate, and no person shall solicit, ask, invite, or demand that a
candidate for nomination or election or the campaign committee of that candidate subscribe to the
support of a club or organization, buy tickets to an entertainment, ball, supper, or other meeting, or
pay for space in a book, program, or publication. This division does not apply to any of the
following:


(1) Regular advertisements in periodicals having an established circulation;


(2) Regular payments to civic, political, fraternal, social, charitable, or religious organizations of
which the candidate was a member or contributor six months before the candidate's candidacy;


(3) Regular party assessments made by a party against its own candidates.


(B) No person shall coerce, intimidate, or cause harm to another person by an act or failure to act, or
shall threaten to coerce, intimidate, or cause harm to another person, because that other person makes
or does not make a contribution to a candidate, campaign committee, political party, legislative
campaign fund, political action committee, political contributing entity, or person making
disbursements to pay the direct costs of producing or airing electioneering communications.


(C) An employer or labor organization, directly or through another person, may obtain contributions
for a candidate, campaign committee, political action committee, legislative campaign fund, political
party, or person making disbursements to pay the direct costs of producing or airing electioneering
communications from an employee or member from whom the employer or labor organization was
not obtaining contributions for that candidate, campaign committee, political action committee,
legislative campaign fund, political party, or person making disbursements to pay the direct costs of
producing or airing electioneering communications before March 31, 2005, on an automatic basis



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pursuant to a payroll deduction plan only if the employee or member who is contributing to that
candidate, campaign committee, political action committee, legislative campaign fund, political
party, or person making disbursements to pay the direct costs of producing or airing electioneering
communications affirmatively consents to the contribution in writing.


(D) In addition to the laws listed in division (A) of section 4117.10 of the Revised Code that prevail
over conflicting agreements between employee organizations and public employers, this section
prevails over any conflicting provisions of agreements between labor organizations and public
employers that are entered into on or after March 31, 2005, pursuant to Chapter 4117. of the Revised
Code.




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