(a) No person shall violate Ohio R.C. 2903.21, 2903.22, 2909.06, 2909.07 or 2917.21(A)(3) to (5) or Sections 537.05, 537.06, 537.10(a)(3) to (5), 541.03, 541.04 or 541.10 of the General Offenses Code by reason of the race, color, religion, handicap, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation or national origin of another person or group of persons.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of ethnic intimidation/hate crime. Ethnic intimidation/Hate Crime is an offense of the next higher degree than the offense the commission of which is a necessary element of ethnic intimidation/hate crime.
(Ord. 66-21. Passed 9-7-21.)