4507.03 Exemptions.

(A)(1) No person shall be required to obtain a driver’s or commercial driver’s license for the purpose of temporarily driving, operating, drawing, moving, or propelling a road roller or road machinery upon a street or highway.

(2) No person shall be required to obtain a driver’s or commercial driver’s license for the purpose of temporarily driving, operating, drawing, moving, or propelling any agricultural tractor or implement of husbandry upon a street or highway at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour or less.

(3) No person shall drive, operate, draw, move, or propel any agricultural tractor or implement of husbandry upon a street or highway at a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour unless the person has a current, valid driver’s or commercial driver’s license.

(B) Every person on active duty in the military or naval forces of the United States, when furnished with a driver’s permit and when operating an official motor vehicle in connection with such duty, is exempt from the license requirements of Chapters 4506. and 4507. of the Revised Code.

Every person on active duty in the military or naval forces of the United States or in service with the peace corps, volunteers in service to America, or the foreign service of the United States, is exempt from the license requirements of such sections for the period of the person’s active duty or service and for six months thereafter, provided such person was a licensee under such sections at the time the person commenced such active duty or service. This section does not prevent such person from making an application, as provided in division (C) of section 4507.10 of the Revised Code, for the renewal of a driver’s license or motorcycle operator’s endorsement or as provided in section 4506.14 of the Revised Code for the renewal of a commercial driver’s license during the period of the person’s active duty or service.

Effective Date: 05-10-1994; 2007 HB9 10-18-2007