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.
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