As Introduced

130th General Assembly Regular Session 2013-2014

H. B. No. 43

Representatives Carney, Duffey 

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A BILL

To enact section 5.075 of the Revised Code to adopt

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the Adena Pipe as the official artifact of the

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state.

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BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section 1. That section 5.075 of the Revised Code be enacted	4
to read as follows:	5

Sec. 5.075. The artifact known as the Adena pipe, which is a	6
prehistoric effigy pipe that was discovered in 1901 by William C.	7
Mills within a burial mound near Chillicothe and that was created	8
by the ancient Adena culture from native Ohio pipestone, is	9
adopted as the official state artifact.	10