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501.105 GIVING FALSE OR FICTITIOUS INFORMATION TO ENFORCEMENT AGENTS.
   (a)   No person shall purposely give or assist in giving any false or fictitious information, or use any false or fictitious identification for the purpose of visiting or communicating with any person in custody of the Police Department.
(Ord. 219-1973. Passed 11-19-73.)
   (b)   No person shall knowingly give or assist in giving any false or fictitious information relative to the name, address, date of birth or relationship of any person to any duly authorized law enforcement officer or Humane Officer.
(Ord. 242-1997. Passed 12-1-97; Eff. 1-1-98.)
   (c)   No person shall purposely give any false or fictitious information or practice any fraud in order to secure any license required to be obtained by an ordinance of the City.
(Ord. 142-1976. Passed 6-7-76.)
   (d)   Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 599.02.
501.107 FALSE REPORT OF CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT.
   (a)   No person shall knowingly make or cause another person to make a false report under Ohio R.C. 2151.421(B) alleging that any person has committed an act or omission that resulted in a child being an abused child as defined in Ohio R.C. 2151.031 or a neglected child as defined in Ohio R.C. 2151.03.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of making or causing a false report of child abuse or child neglect, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(ORC 2921.14)
501.11 COMPOUNDING A CRIME.
   (a)   No person shall knowingly demand, accept, or agree to accept anything of value in consideration of abandoning or agreeing to abandon a pending criminal prosecution.
   (b)   It is an affirmative defense to a charge under this section when both of the following apply:
      (1)   The pending prosecution involved is for a violation of Ohio R.C. 2913.02, 2913.11, 2913.21(B)(2), or 2913.47, or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance, of which the actor under this section was the victim.
      (2)   The thing of value demanded, accepted, or agreed to be accepted, in consideration of abandoning or agreeing to abandon the prosecution, did not exceed an amount that the actor reasonably believed due him or her as restitution for the loss caused him or her by the offense.
   (c)   When a prosecuting witness abandons or agrees to abandon a prosecution under division (b) of this section, the abandonment or agreement in no way binds the State to abandoning the prosecution.
   (d)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of compounding a crime, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(ORC 2921.21)
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