Eight voting members of the Holocaust and genocide memorial and education commission constitute a quorum of the commission. No action of the commission shall be taken without the affirmative vote of eight voting members.

Terms Used In Ohio Code 197.06

  • Genocide: means an internationally recognized crime where the following acts are committed against a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group's members with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the group:

    (1) Killing;

    (2) Causing serious bodily or mental harm;

    (3) Deliberately inflicting life conditions calculated to bring about physical destruction, in whole or in part;

    (4) Imposing measures intended to prevent births;

    (5) Forcibly transferring a group's children to another group. See Ohio Code 197.01

  • Holocaust: means the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies and collaborators. See Ohio Code 197.01
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.

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