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525.01 GENERAL OFFEN5ES CODE 68 <br />(3) A person who is a candidate for public office, whether or not the pers.on <br />is elected or appointed to the office for which the person is a candidate. <br />A person is a candidate for purposes of this subsection if the person has <br />been nominated according to law for election or appointment to public <br />office, or if the person has filed a petition or petitions as required by law <br />to have the person's name placed on the ballot in a primary, general or <br />special election, or if the person campaigns as a write-in candidate in any <br />primary, general or special election. <br />(c) "Party official" means any person who holds an elective or appointive post in a <br />political party in the United States or this State, by virtue of which the person <br />directs, conducts or participates in directing or conducting party affairs at any <br />level of responsibility. <br />(d) "Official proceeding" means any proceeding before a legislative, judicial, <br />administrative or other governmental agency or official authorized to take <br />evidence under oath, and includes any proceeding before a referee, hearing <br />examiner, commissioner, notary or other person taking testimony or a deposition <br />in connection with an off'icial proceeding. <br />(e) "Detention" means arrest, confinement in any vehicle subsequent to an arrest, <br />confinement in any public or private facility for custody of persons charged with <br />or convicted of a crime in this State or another state or under the laws of the <br />United States or alleged or found to be a delinquent child or unruly child in this <br />State or another state or under the laws of the United States; hospitalization, <br />institutionalization or confinement in any public or private facility that is ordered <br />pursuant to or under the authority of Ohio R.C. 2945.37, 2945.371, 2945.38, <br />2945.39 or 2945.40, 2945.401 or 2945.402; confinement in any vehicle for <br />transportation to or from any facility of any of those natures; detention for <br />extradition or deportation, except as provided in this subsection, supervision by <br />any employee of any facility of any of those natures; that is incidental to <br />hospitalization, institutionalization or confinement in the facility but that occurs <br />outside the facility; supervision by an employee of the Department of <br />Rehabilitation and Correction of a person on any type of release from a State <br />correctional institution; or confinement in any vehicle, airplane, or place while <br />being returned from outside of this State into this State by a private person or <br />entity pursuant to a contract entered into under Ohio R.C. 311.29(E) or Ohio <br />R.C. 5149.03(B). For a person confined in a county jail who participates in a <br />county jail industry program pursuant to Ohio R. C. 5147.30, "detention" includes <br />time spent at an assigned work site and going to and from the work site. <br />( fl "Detention facility" means any public or private place used for the confinement of <br />a person charged with or convicted of any crime in this State or another state or <br />under the laws of the United States or alleged or found to be a delinquent child or <br />unruly child in this State or another state or under the laws of the United States. <br />(g) "Valuable thing or valuable benefit" includes, but is not limited to, a contribution. <br />This inclusion does not indicate or imply that a contribution was not included in <br />those terms before September 17, 1986. <br />(h) "Campaign committee, " "contribution, " "political action committee, " "legislative <br />campaign fund", "political party" and "political contributing entity " have the same <br />meanings as in Ohio R.C. 3517.01. <br />(i) "Provider agreement" and "medical assistance program" have the same meanings <br />as in Ohio R.C. 2913.40. <br />(ORC 2921.01) <br />2006 Replacement