reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
Ohio Rev Code § 3501.37 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3501 | Election Procedure; Election Officials|Section 3501.37 | Safekeeping of Election Booths and Equipment.

Effective: February 25, 2014|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 109 - 130th General Assembly|After each election, the precinct election officials of each precinct, except when the board of elections assumes the duty, shall see that the movable booths and other equipment are returned for safekeeping to the fiscal officer of the township or to the clerk or auditor of the municipal corporation in which the precinct is situated. The fiscal officer, clerk, or auditor shall have booths and equipment on hand and in place at the polling places in each precinct before the time for opening the polls on election days, and for this service the board may allow the necessary expenses incurred. In cities, this duty shall devolve on the board.
Ohio Rev Code § 3501.381 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3501 | Election Procedure; Election Officials|Section 3501.381 | Compensation Regarding Signature Gathering Activities - Forms to Be Filed With Secretary of State.

Effective: March 31, 2005|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1SPECIALSESSION - 125th General Assembly|(A)(1) Any person who will receive compensation for supervising, managing, or otherwise organizing any effort to obtain signatures for a declaration of candidacy, nominating petition, or declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate for a person seeking to become a statewide candidate or for a statewide initiative petition or a statewide referendum petition shall file a statement to that effect with the office of the secretary of state before any signatures are obtained for the petition or before the person is engaged to supervise, manage, or otherwise organize the effort to obtain signatures for the petition, whichever is later.(2) Any person who will compensate a person for supervising, managing, or otherwise organizing any effort to obtain signatures for a declaration of candidacy, nominating petition, or declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate for a person seeking to become a statewide candidate or for a statewide initiative or a statewide referendum petition shall file a statement to that effect with the office of the secretary of state before any signatures are obtained for the petition or before the person engages a person to supervise, manage, or otherwise organize the effort to obtain signatures for the petition, whichever is later.(B) The secretary of state shall prescribe the form and content of the statements required under division (A) of this section.(C) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, and the petition for which a person was compensated for supervising, managing, or otherwise organizing the effort to obtain signatures shall be deemed invalid.(D) As used in this section, "statewide candidate" means the joint candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor or a candidate for the office of secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of state, or attorney general.
Ohio Rev Code § 3501.39 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3501 | Election Procedure; Election Officials|Section 3501.39 | Grounds for Rejection of Petition or Declaration of Candidacy.

Effective: April 6, 2017|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 463 - 131st General Assembly|(A) The secretary of state or a board of elections shall accept any petition described in section 3501.38 of the Revised Code unless one of the following occurs: (1) A written protest against the petition or candidacy, naming specific objections, is filed, a hearing is held, and a determination is made by the election officials with whom the protest is filed that the petition is invalid, in accordance with any section of the Revised Code providing a protest procedure.(2) A written protest against the petition or candidacy, naming specific objections, is filed, a hearing is held, and a determination is made by the election officials with whom the protest is filed that the petition violates any requirement established by law. (3) In the case of an initiative petition received by the board of elections, the petition falls outside the scope of authority to enact via initiative or does not satisfy the statutory prerequisites to place the issue on the ballot, as described in division (M) of section 3501.38 of the Revised Code. The petition shall be invalid if any portion of the petition is not within the initiative power. (4) The candidate's candidacy or the petition violates the requirements of this chapter, Chapter 3513. of the Revised Code, or any other requirements established by law. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section or section 3513.052 of the Revised Code, a board of elections shall not invalidate any declaration of candidacy or nominating petition under division (A) (4) of this section after the sixtieth day prior to the election at which the candidate seeks nomination to office, if the candidate filed a declaration of candidacy, or election to office, if the candidate filed a nominating petition.(C)(1) If a petition is filed for the nomination or election of a candidate in a charter municipal corporation with a filing deadline that occurs after the ninetieth day before the day of the election, a board of elections may invalidate the petition within fifteen days after the date of that filing deadline.(2) If a petition for the nomination or election of a candidate is invalidated under division (C)(1) of this section, that person's name shall not appear on the ballots for any office for which the person's petition has been invalidated. If the ballots have already been prepared, the board of elections shall remove the name of that person from the ballots to the extent practicable in the time remaining before the election. If the name is not removed from the ballots before the day of the election, the votes for that person are void and shall not be counted.
Ohio Rev Code § 3501.40 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3501 | Election Procedure; Election Officials|Section 3501.40 | Public Officials' Orders Concerning Elections.

Effective: December 16, 2020|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 272 - 133rd General Assembly|Except as permitted under section 161.09 of the Revised Code, and notwithstanding any other contrary provision of the Revised Code, no public official shall cause an election to be conducted other than in the time, place, and manner prescribed by the Revised Code. As used in this section, "public official" means any elected or appointed officer, employee, or agent of the state or any political subdivision, board, commission, bureau, or other public body established by law.
Ohio Rev Code § 3503.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration|Section 3503.01 | Qualifications of Electors - Precinct Assignment for School Elections.

Effective: September 12, 2008|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 350 - 127th General Assembly|(A) Every citizen of the United States who is of the age of eighteen years or over and who has been a resident of the state thirty days immediately preceding the election at which the citizen offers to vote, is a resident of the county and precinct in which the citizen offers to vote, and has been registered to vote for thirty days, has the qualifications of an elector and may vote at all elections in the precinct in which the citizen resides. (B) When only a portion of a precinct is included within the boundaries of an election district, the board of elections may assign the electors residing in such portion of a precinct to the nearest precinct or portion of a precinct within the boundaries of such election district for the purpose of voting at any special election held in such district. In any election in which only a part of the electors in a precinct is qualified to vote, the board may assign voters in such part to an adjoining precinct. Such assignment may be made to an adjoining precinct in another county with the consent and approval of the board of elections of such other county if the number of voters assigned to vote in a precinct in another county is two hundred or less.The board shall notify all such electors so assigned, at least ten days prior to the holding of any such election, of the location of the polling place where they are entitled to vote at such election.As used in division (B) of this section, "election district" means a school district, municipal corporation, township, or other political subdivision that includes territory in more than one precinct or any other district or authority that includes territory in more than one precinct and that is authorized by law to place an issue on the ballot at a special election.
Ohio Rev Code § 3503.011 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration|Section 3503.011 | Qualifications of Electors for Primary Elections.

Effective: March 23, 1981|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1062 - 113th General Assembly|At a primary election every qualified elector who is or will be on the day of the next general election eighteen or more years of age, and who is a member of or is affiliated with the political party whose primary election ballot he desires to vote, shall be entitled to vote such ballot at the primary election.
Ohio Rev Code § 3503.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration|Section 3503.03 | Residence for Soldiers in National Home for Such Soldiers.

Effective: August 22, 1995|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 99 - 121st General Assembly|Infirm or disabled soldiers who are inmates of a national home for such soldiers, who are citizens of the United States and have resided in this state thirty days immediately preceding any election, and who are otherwise qualified as to age and residence within the county and township shall have their lawful residence in the county and township in which such home is located.
Ohio Rev Code § 3503.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration|Section 3503.04 | Residence for Inmates of a Public or Private Institution.

Effective: August 22, 1995|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 99 - 121st General Assembly|Persons who are inmates of a public or private institution who are citizens of the United States and have resided in this state thirty days immediately preceding the election, and who are otherwise qualified as to age and residence within the county shall have their lawful residence in the county, city, village and township in which said institution is located provided, that the lawful residence of a qualified elector who is an inmate in such an institution for temporary treatment only, shall be the residence from which he entered such institution.
Ohio Rev Code § 3503.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration|Section 3503.06 | Registration as Elector - Circulation or Signing of Petition.

Effective: June 21, 2013|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 47 - 130th General Assembly|(A) No person shall be entitled to vote at any election, unless the person is registered as an elector and will have resided in the county and precinct where the person is registered for at least thirty days at the time of the next election. (B) No person shall be entitled to sign any petition, unless the person is registered as an elector and resides in a precinct in which the candidacy or issue that is the subject of the petition will appear on the ballot.(C)(1)(a) Except for a nominating petition for presidential electors, no person shall be entitled to circulate any petition unless the person is a resident of this state and is at least eighteen years of age.(b) No person shall be entitled to circulate a nominating petition for presidential electors unless the person is at least eighteen years of age.(2) All election officials, in determining the residence of a person circulating a petition under division (C)(1) of this section, shall be governed by the following rules:(a) That place shall be considered the residence of a person in which the person's habitation is fixed and to which, whenever the person is absent, the person has the intention of returning.(b) A person shall not be considered to have lost the person's residence who leaves the person's home and goes into another state for temporary purposes only, with the intention of returning.(c) A person shall not be considered to have gained a residence in any county of this state into which the person comes for temporary purposes only, without the intention of making that county the permanent place of abode.(d) If a person removes to another state with the intention of making that state the person's residence, the person shall be considered to have lost the person's residence in this state.(e) Except as otherwise provided in division (C)(2)(f) of this section, if a person removes from this state and continuously resides outside this state for a period of four years or more, the person shall be considered to have lost the person's residence in this state, notwithstanding the fact that the person may entertain an intention to return at some future period.(f) If a person removes from this state to engage in the services of the United States government, the person shall not be considered to have lost the person's residence in this state during the period of that service, and likewise should the person enter the employment of the state, the place where that person resided at the time of the person's removal shall be considered to be the person's place of residence.(g) If a person goes into another state and, while there, exercises the right of a citizen by voting, the person shall be considered to have lost the person's residence in this state.
Ohio Rev Code § 3503.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration|Section 3503.07 | Qualification for Registration.

Effective: March 23, 1972|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 460 - 109th General Assembly|Each person who will be of the age of eighteen years or more at the next ensuing November election, who is a citizen of the United States, and who, if he continues to reside in the precinct until the next election, will at that time have fulfilled all the requirements as to length of residence to qualify him as an elector shall, unless otherwise disqualified, be entitled to be registered as an elector in such precinct. When once registered, an elector shall not be required to register again unless his registration is canceled.
Ohio Rev Code § 3503.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration|Section 3503.08 | Registration Equipment, Supplies and Rules.

Effective: May 31, 1977|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 125 - 112th General Assembly|The board of elections shall provide such printed forms, blanks, supplies, and equipment and prescribe such reasonable rules as are necessary to carry out sections 3503.06 to 3503.32 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3503.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration|Section 3503.09 | Electronic Transfer of Voter Registration Database Changes.

Effective: September 29, 2007|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly|(A)(1) The secretary of state shall adopt rules for the electronic transmission by boards of elections, designated agencies, offices of deputy registrars of motor vehicles, public high schools and vocational schools, public libraries, and offices of county treasurers, where applicable, of name and residence changes for voter registration records in the statewide voter registration database. (2) The secretary of state shall adopt rules for the purpose of improving the speed of processing new voter registrations that permit information from a voter registration application received by a designated agency or an office of deputy registrar of motor vehicles to be made available electronically, in addition to requiring the original voter registration application to be transmitted to the applicable board of elections under division (E)(2) of section 3503.10 or section 3503.11 of the Revised Code.(B) Rules adopted under division (A) of this section shall do all of the following:(1) Prohibit any direct electronic connection between a designated agency, office of deputy registrar of motor vehicles, public high school or vocational school, public library, or office of a county treasurer and the statewide voter registration database;(2) Require any updated voter registration information to be verified by the secretary of state or a board of elections before the information is added to the statewide voter registration database for the purpose of modifying an existing voter registration;(3) Require each designated agency or office of deputy registrar of motor vehicles that transmits voter registration information electronically to transmit an identifier for data relating to each new voter registration that shall be used by the secretary of state or a board of elections to match the electronic data to the original voter registration application.
Ohio Rev Code § 3503.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration|Section 3503.11 | Registering to Vote With Registrar of Motor Vehicles.

Effective: March 20, 2014|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 200 - 130th General Assembly|When any person applies for a driver's license, commercial driver's license, a state of Ohio identification card issued under section 4507.50 of the Revised Code, or motorcycle operator's license or endorsement, or the renewal or duplicate of any license or endorsement under Chapter 4506. or 4507. of the Revised Code, the registrar of motor vehicles or deputy registrar shall offer the applicant the opportunity to register to vote or to update the applicant's voter registration. The registrar of motor vehicles or deputy registrar also shall make available to all other customers voter registration applications and change of residence and change of name, forms, but is not required to offer assistance to these customers in completing a voter registration application or other form. The deputy registrar shall send any registration application or any change of residence or change of name form that was completed and submitted in paper form to the deputy registrar to the board of elections of the county in which the office of the deputy registrar is located, within five days after accepting the application or other form. The registrar shall send any completed registration application received at the bureau of motor vehicles headquarters location and any completed change of residence or change of name form processed electronically in systems or programs operated and maintained by the bureau of motor vehicles to the secretary of state within five days after accepting the application or other form.The registrar shall collect from each deputy registrar through the reports filed under division (J) of section 4503.03 of the Revised Code and transmit to the secretary of state information on the number of voter registration applications and change of residence or change of name forms completed or declined, and any additional information required by the secretary of state to comply with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. No information relating to an applicant's decision to decline to register or update the applicant's voter registration at the office of the registrar or deputy registrar may be used for any purpose other than voter registration record-keeping required by the secretary of state, and all such information shall be kept confidential.The secretary of state shall prescribe voter registration applications and change of residence and change of name forms for use by the bureau of motor vehicles. The bureau of motor vehicles shall supply all of its deputy registrars with a sufficient number of voter registration applications and change of residence and change of name forms.
Ohio Rev Code § 3503.111 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration|Section 3503.111 | Registering in Another County.

Effective: January 1, 1995|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 300 - 120th General Assembly|The board of elections of any county shall register or change the registration of any person determined not to be a resident in that county under section 3503.02 of the Revised Code, who is a resident and a qualified elector of another county in this state, on behalf of the county of residence.The director of any board of elections registering a person under this section shall send the completed registration form of that person to the director of the board of elections of the county of residence, who shall enter the form in the proper registration files and shall promptly send an acknowledgment notice as prescribed by the secretary of state to the registrant at the new address listed on the registration form.
Ohio Rev Code § 3503.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration|Section 3503.12 | Duplicate Registration - Advertising Registration Opportunities - Registration Places to Be Accessible.

Effective: March 23, 1981|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1062 - 113th General Assembly|All registrations shall be carefully checked, and in case any person is found to have registered more than once, the additional registration forms shall be canceled by the board of elections.Six weeks prior to the day of a special, primary, or general election, the board shall publish notices in one or more newspapers of general circulation advertising the places, dates, times, methods of registration, and voter qualifications for registration.The board shall establish a schedule or program to assure to the extent reasonably possible that, on or before November 1, 1980, all registration places shall be free of barriers that would impede the ingress and egress of handicapped persons. Entrances shall be level or shall be provided with a nonskid ramp of not over eight per cent gradient, and doors shall be a minimum of thirty-two inches wide. Registration places located at polling places shall, however, comply with the requirements of section 3501.29 of the Revised Code for the elimination of barriers.As used in this section, "handicapped" means having lost the use of one or both legs, one or both arms, or any combination thereof, or being blind or so severely disabled as to be unable to move about without the aid of crutches or a wheelchair.
Ohio Rev Code § 3503.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration|Section 3503.13 | Registration Forms - Records - Electronic Data Processing System.

Effective: September 8, 2016|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 359 - 131st General Assembly|(A) Except as otherwise provided in section 111.44 of the Revised Code or by state or federal law, registration forms submitted by applicants and the statewide voter registration database established under section 3503.15 of the Revised Code shall be open to public inspection at all times when the office of the board of elections is open for business, under such regulations as the board adopts, provided that no person shall be permitted to inspect voter registration forms except in the presence of an employee of the board.(B) A board of elections may use a legible digitized signature list of voter signatures, copied from the signatures on the registration forms in a form and manner prescribed by the secretary of state, provided that the board includes the required voter registration information in the statewide voter registration database established under section 3503.15 of the Revised Code, and provided that the precinct election officials have computer printouts at the polls prepared in the manner required under section 3503.23 of the Revised Code.