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...(A) The registrar of motor vehicles, or a deputy registrar, upon receiving an application for a temporary instruction permit and a temporary instruction permit identification card for a driver's license from any person who is at least fifteen years six months of age, may issue such a permit and identification card entitling the applicant to drive a motor vehicle, other than a commercial motor vehicle, upon the ...

...(A) The registrar of motor vehicles shall not grant the application of any minor under eighteen years of age for a probationary license, a restricted license, or a temporary instruction permit, unless the application is signed by one of the minor's parents, the minor's guardian, another person having custody of the applicant, or, if there is no parent or guardian, a responsible person who is willing to assume the obl...

...s medical condition to the registrar on forms provided by the registrar and signed by the licensee's physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner at intervals required by the registrar. The registrar shall determine the validity period of the restricted license. (4) Any person who is unable to understand highway warnings or traffic signs or directions given in the E...

...(A) Upon the expiration of a restricted license issued under division (D)(3) of section 4507.08 of the Revised Code and submission of a statement as provided in division (C) of this section, the registrar of motor vehicles may issue a driver's license to the person to whom the restricted license was issued. A driver's license issued under this section, unless otherwise suspended or canceled, shall be effective for on...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, every driver's license issued to a resident of this state expires on the birthday of the applicant in the fourth or eighth year after the date it is issued, based on the period of renewal requested by the applicant. A resident who is sixty-five years of age or older may only apply for a driver's license that expires on the birthday of the applicant in the fou...

...(A)(1) The registrar of motor vehicles shall issue a driver's license to every person licensed as an operator of motor vehicles other than commercial motor vehicles. No person licensed as a commercial motor vehicle driver under Chapter 4506. of the Revised Code need procure a driver's license, but no person shall drive any commercial motor vehicle unless licensed as a commercial motor vehicle driver. (2) Every dri...

...The registrar of motor vehicles upon issuing a driver's license, a motorcycle operator's endorsement, a driver's license renewal, or the renewal of any other license issued under this chapter, whenever good cause appears, may impose restrictions suitable to the licensee's driving ability with respect to the type of or special mechanical control devices required on a motor vehicle that the licensee may operate, or a...

...(A) The registrar of motor vehicles shall permit all of the following to renew a driver's license or motorcycle operator's endorsement issued by this state by electronic means: (1) Any person who is on active duty in the armed forces of the United States who is stationed outside of this state; (2) The spouse of a person described in division (A)(1) of this section who is also outside of this state; (3) The d...

...(A) The registrar of motor vehicles or deputy registrar shall provide each applicant for a temporary instruction permit, driver's license, commercial driver's license, motorized bicycle license, motorcycle operator's license, or the renewal thereof, a one-page summary of Ohio's laws governing the use of an electronic wireless communications device while operating a motor vehicle. The summary shall explain the prohibi...

...(A)(1) Each identification card issued by the registrar of motor vehicles or a deputy registrar shall display a distinguishing number assigned to the cardholder, and shall display the following inscription: "STATE OF OHIO IDENTIFICATION CARD This card is not valid for the purpose of operating a motor vehicle. It is provided solely for the purpose of establishing the identity of the bearer described on the card....

...(A) No person shall establish a driver training school or continue the operation of an existing school unless the person applies for and obtains from the director of public safety a license in the manner and form prescribed by the director. The director shall adopt rules that establish the requirements for a school license, including requirements concerning location, equipment, courses of instruction, instructors,...

...(A) No person shall act as a driver training instructor, and no person shall act as a driver training instructor for persons with disabilities, unless such person applies for and obtains from the director of public safety a license in the manner and form prescribed by the director. The director shall provide by rule for instructors' license requirements including physical condition, knowledge of the courses of instru...

...(A) A lead school district may apply for a driver training school license for the purpose of providing instruction and training to individuals other than regularly enrolled, full-time high school students in the operation of trucks, commercial cars, and commercial tractors, trailers, and semi-trailers. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, upon the district's compliance with all provisions that govern t...

...hool with the certificate of completion forms. (B) The fee for each driver's license certificate of completion provided by the department to a driver training school is four dollars. A driver training school shall remit payment for certificates at the time they are requested from the department. Failure to timely remit payment to the department is grounds for the director of public safety to take action against the ...

... public safety, shall provide suitable forms for the purposes of sections 4509.01 to 4509.78 of of the Revised Code.

...Any order or act, including the adoption of the form of accident report, of the registrar of motor vehicles under sections 4509.01 to 4509.78 of the Revised Code is subject to the provisions of sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code, except as otherwise provided under section 4509.101 of the Revised Code.

...(A) As used in this section and sections 4509.101 and 4509.102 of the Revised Code, "electronic wireless communications device" includes any of the following: (1) A wireless telephone, including a cellular telephone; (2) A personal digital assistant; (3) A computer, including a laptop computer, a netbook computer, and a tablet computer; (4) Any other substantially similar wireless device that is designed or used ...

...(A) The requirements as to security and suspension in sections 4509.12 and 4509.17 of the Revised Code do not apply: (1) To the driver or the owner of a motor vehicle involved in an accident in which no injury or damage was caused to the person or property of anyone other than such driver or owner; (2) To the driver or owner of a motor vehicle which at the time of the accident was parked, unless such motor vehicle ...

...If the judgment creditor consents in writing, in such form as the registrar of motor vehicles prescribes, that the judgment debtor be allowed license and registration or nonresident's operating privilege, the same may be allowed by the registrar for six months from the date of the consent and thereafter until the consent is revoked in writing, notwithstanding default in the payment of such judgment, or of any install...

...(A) After consultation with the insurance companies authorized to issue automobile liability or physical damage policies, or both, in this state, the superintendent of insurance shall approve a reasonable plan, fair and equitable to the insurers and to their policyholders, for the apportionment among such companies of applicants for such policies and for motor-vehicle liability policies who are in good faith entitled...

...(A) Every owner registering a chauffeured limousine shall furnish and maintain proof of financial responsibility with respect to the limousine by filing with the registrar of motor vehicles any of the following: (1) A certificate of insurance as provided in section 4509.46 or 4509.47 of the Revised Code; (2) A policy of liability insurance, a declaration page of a policy of liability insurance, or liability bond, i...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "First-time offender" means a person whose driver's license or commercial driver's license or permit or nonresident operating privilege has been suspended for being convicted of, or pleading guilty to, an OVI offense under any of the following: (a) Division (G)(1)(a) or (H)(1) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code; (b) Section 4510.07 of the Revised Code for a municipal OVI offens...

...(A) Every county court judge, mayor of a mayor's court, and clerk of a court of record shall keep a full record of every case in which a person is charged with any violation of any provision of sections 4511.01 to 4511.771 or 4513.01 to 4513.36 of the Revised Code or of any other law or ordinance regulating the operation of vehicles, streetcars, and trackless trolleys on highways or streets. (B) If a person is con...

...(A) When the registrar of motor vehicles determines that the total points charged against any person under section 4510.036 of the Revised Code exceed five, the registrar shall send a warning letter to the person at the person's last known address by regular mail. The warning letter shall list the reported violations that are the basis of the points charged, list the number of points charged for each violation, and o...

...ed by the Revised Code and utilizes the forms prescribed by the registrar of motor vehicles, the bureau of motor vehicles shall make the appropriate notation or record and shall take any other action that is prescribed or permitted by the Revised Code.