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As Reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee
122nd General Assembly
Regular Session
1997-1998 | S. B. No. 58 |
SENATORS LATTA-BLESSING
A BILL
To amend sections 4705.07 and 4705.99 of the Revised Code to increase the
criminal penalties for engaging in the unauthorized practice of law.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 4705.07 and 4705.99 of the Revised Code be amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 4705.07. (A) No person who is not regularly licensed to
practice law in this
state shall hold himself DO EITHER OF THE FOLLOWING:
(1) HOLD THAT PERSON out in any manner as an attorney at law,
or shall
represent himself either;
(2) REPRESENT THAT PERSON orally or in writing, directly or
indirectly, as BEING authorized to practice law.
(B) The use of "lawyer," "attorney at law," "counselor at law,"
"law," "law
office," or other equivalent words by any person WHO IS not licensed to
practice law, in
connection with his THAT PERSON'S own name, or any sign,
advertisement, card, letterhead,
circular, or other writing, document, or design, the evident purpose of which
is to induce others to believe such THAT person to be an
attorney, constitutes
holding out within the meaning of DIVISION (A) OF this
section.
Sec. 4705.99. Whoever violates section 4705.07 of the Revised
Code shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than five hundred
dollars IS GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR OF THE FIRST DEGREE.
Section 2. That existing sections 4705.07 and 4705.99 of the Revised Code are
hereby repealed.
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