layout: default title: “666.12 DECEPTION TO OBTAIN MATTER HARMFUL TO JUVENILES.”—


​(a) No person, for the purpose of enabling a juvenile to obtain any material or gain admission to any performance which is harmful to juveniles shall do either of the following:

​(1) Falsely represent that he is the parent, guardian or spouse of such juvenile;

​(2) Furnish such juvenile with any identification or document purporting to show that such juvenile is eighteen years of age or over or married.

​(b) No juvenile, for the purpose of obtaining any material or gaining admission to any performance which is harmful to juveniles, shall do either of the following:

​(1) Falsely represent that he is eighteen years of age or over or married;

​(2) Exhibit any identification or document purporting to show that he is eighteen years of age or over or married.

​(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of deception to obtain matter harmful to juveniles, a misdemeanor of the second degree. A juvenile who violates subsection (b) hereof shall be adjudged an unruly child, with such disposition of the case as may be appropriate under Ohio R.C. Chapter 2151. (ORC 2907.33)