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S. B. No. 105  As Introduced
As Introduced

128th General Assembly
Regular Session
2009-2010
S. B. No. 105


Senator Patton 

Cosponsor: Senator Seitz 



A BILL
To enact section 4931.71 of the Revised Code to prohibit broadcasting an actual 9-1-1 call that has been made available as a public record and to prescribe a penalty.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 4931.71 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 4931.71. (A) A recording of a 9-1-1 call is a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. However, no person shall play a recording of a 9-1-1 call that has been made available as a public record over a broadcast medium such as radio, television, or the internet. This division does not prohibit reading a transcript of a recording of a 9-1-1 call over a broadcast medium but rather prohibits only causing a recording to give out an actual 9-1-1 call over a broadcast medium.
(B) Whoever violates division (A) of this section shall be fined ten thousand dollars.
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