Ohio Revised Code Search

...(A)(1) Except as provided in divisions (B), (C), and (D) of this section, no person shall operate any snowmobile, off-highway motorcycle, or all-purpose vehicle within this state unless the snowmobile, off-highway motorcycle, or all-purpose vehicle is registered and numbered in accordance with sections 4519.03 and 4519.04 of the Revised Code. (2) Except as provided in section 4511.215 of the Revised Code, no registr...

...egistration with the registrar of motor vehicles or a deputy registrar, on blanks furnished by the registrar for that purpose and containing all of the following information: (1) A brief description of the snowmobile, off-highway motorcycle, or all-purpose vehicle, including the year, make, model, and the vehicle identification number; (2) The name, residence, and business address of the owner; (3) A statement tha...

...The registrar of motor vehicles shall transmit to the tax commissioner the names, addresses, and any other information requested by the commissioner, of all persons who register a snowmobile, off-highway motorcycle, or all-purpose vehicle under section 4519.03 of the Revised Code. Such information shall be transmitted in a form agreed to by the registrar and the commissioner.

...e tax therefor, the registrar of motor vehicles or a deputy registrar shall assign to the snowmobile, off-highway motorcycle, or all-purpose vehicle a distinctive number and issue and deliver to the owner in such manner as the registrar may select, a certificate of registration, in such form as the registrar shall prescribe. Any number so assigned to a snowmobile, off-highway motorcycle, or all-purpose vehicle...

... registration to the registrar of motor vehicles or a deputy registrar within fifteen days following the destruction or disposal. The registrar thereupon shall cancel the certificate and enter that fact in the registrar's records. In the case of an off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle for which a certificate of title has been issued, the owner also shall surrender the certificate of title to the clerk of th...

...lunteer organization that uses such vehicles exclusively for emergency purposes shall be registered free of charge. The registration number and registration sticker assigned to each such snowmobile or off-highway motorcycle, and the license plate and validation sticker assigned to such an all-purpose vehicle, shall be displayed as required by section 4519.04 of the Revised Code.

...apply to the registrar of motor vehicles or a deputy registrar for a temporary operating permit. The temporary operating permit shall be issued for a period not to exceed one year from the date of issuance, shall be in such form as the registrar determines, shall include the name and address of the owner and operator of the snowmobile, off-highway motorcycl...

...rm prescribed by the registrar of motor vehicles, shall differ in some distinctive manner from a registration issued under section 4503.182 of the Revised Code, shall be valid for a period of forty-five days from the date of issuance, and shall not be transferable or renewable. The temporary motor vehicle license registration either shall consist of or be coated with such material as will enable it to remain legible ...

...ff-highway motorcycles, and all-purpose vehicles within the state, for the purpose of expanding the activities of the department of natural resources to provide trails and other areas for the operation of such vehicles on state-controlled land and waters, for the purchase of additional land to be used for such purposes, and for the development and implementation by the department of programs relating to the safe use ...

...ff-highway motorcycles, and all-purpose vehicles. The rules may be revised from time to time as the director considers necessary, and shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, requirements for the following items of equipment: (1) At least one headlight having a minimum candlepower of sufficient intensity to reveal persons and objects at a distance of at least one hundred feet ahead under normal atmospheric ...

...ff-highway motorcycles, and all-purpose vehicles to determine their degree of conformity to rules adopted under section 4519.20 of the Revised Code. In prescribing tests for muffler equipment, the director may require sound pressure levels in decibels to be measured on the "A" scale of a sound level meter having characteristics defined by the American standards association standard S1.4-1961 "General Purpose Sound Me...

...(A) No person shall have for sale, sell, offer for sale, lease, rent, or otherwise furnish for hire in this state any new snowmobile, off-highway motorcycle, or all-purpose vehicle that fails to comply with any rule adopted by the director of public safety under section 4519.20 of the Revised Code, after the effective date of the rule. (B) Except as otherwise provided in this division, whoever violates this section ...

...ff-highway motorcycles, and all-purpose vehicles, except that no person shall operate a snowmobile, off-highway motorcycle, or all-purpose vehicle as follows: (1) On any state highway, including a limited access highway or freeway or the right-of-way thereof, except for emergency travel during such time and in such manner as the director of public safety designates or except as authorized by division (F) of section ...

...(A) Except as provided in this section and section 4511.215 of the Revised Code, no person shall operate a mini-truck within this state. (B) A person may operate a mini-truck on a farm for agricultural purposes only when the owner of the farm qualifies for the current agricultural use valuation tax credit. A mini-truck may be operated by or on behalf of such a farm owner on public roads and rights-of-way only when...

...ff-highway motorcycles, and all-purpose vehicles may be operated as follows: (A) To make a crossing of a highway, other than a highway as designated in division (A)(1) of section 4519.40 of the Revised Code, whenever the crossing can be made in safety and will not interfere with the movement of vehicular traffic approaching from any direction on the highway, and provided that the operator yields the right-of-way to ...

...ff-highway motorcycles, and all-purpose vehicles on land or waters controlled by the state. The director also shall undertake a program relating to the development of trails and special areas for the use of snowmobiles, off-highway motorcycles, and all-purpose vehicles, and may require any permits for such use as the director considers necessary. The director may designate employees of the department of natural reso...

...ff-highway motorcycles, and all-purpose vehicles in the parks, parkways, and other reservations of land under its jurisdiction, and shall file a copy of any such rules with the director of natural resources. Any employee of a board of park commissioners designated pursuant to section 1545.13 of the Revised Code shall have full authority to enforce any of the provisions of this chapter with respect to the proper titl...

...(A) No person who does not hold a valid, current motor vehicle driver's or commercial driver's license, motorcycle operator's endorsement, or probationary license, issued under Chapter 4506. or 4507. of the Revised Code or a valid, current driver's license issued by another jurisdiction, shall operate a snowmobile, off-highway motorcycle, or all-purpose vehicle on any street or highway in this state, on any p...

...(A) Any dealer who rents, leases, or otherwise furnishes a snowmobile, off-highway motorcycle, or all-purpose vehicle for hire shall maintain the vehicle in safe operating condition. No dealer, or agent or employee of a dealer, shall rent, lease, or otherwise furnish a snowmobile, off-highway motorcycle, or all-purpose vehicle for hire to any person who does not hold a license as required by division (A) of section 4...

... the accident to the registrar of motor vehicles on a form prescribed by the registrar. If the operator is physically incapable of making the reports and there is another participant in the accident not so incapacitated, the participant shall make the reports. In the event there is no other participant, and the operator is other than the owner, the owner, within the prescribed periods of time, shall make the reports....

...cable, to the registrar of motor vehicles, who shall retain the certificate of registration and license plate, if applicable, until the expiration of the period of impoundment. (B) If a court impounds the certificate of registration and license plate of an all-purpose vehicle pursuant to section 2911.21 of the Revised Code, the court shall send the impounded certificate of registration and li...

...ff-highway motorcycles, and all-purpose vehicles on streets and highways and other public property under their jurisdiction, and within the reasonable exercise of the police power, except that no local authority shall require the registration or licensing of any snowmobile, off-highway motorcycle, or all-purpose vehicle required to be registered or titled under this chapter.

...The registrar of motor vehicles shall adopt rules the registrar considers necessary to ensure uniform and orderly operation of sections 4519.51 to 4519.70 of the Revised Code, and the clerks of the courts of common pleas shall conform to those rules. The registrar shall receive and file in the registrar's office all information forwarded to the registrar by the clerks under those sections, and the clerk...

...The registrar of motor vehicles shall designate as an electronic dealer a dealer who meets both of the following criteria: (A) The dealer has the capability, via electronic means, to send title and registration information relating to off-highway motorcycles and all-purpose vehicles, as specified by the registrar, to the registrar and the clerks of the courts of common pleas. (B) The dealer meets other c...

...The owner of an off-highway motorcycle or all-purpose vehicle shall apply for a certificate of title for the motorcycle or vehicle when required by this chapter, but, except as otherwise specifically required in this chapter, the owner may elect whether or not to have the clerk of the court of common pleas to whom the certificate of title application is submitted issue a physical certificate of title for ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Bond proceedings" means, with respect to obligations authorized under this section, the resolutions, certifications and agreements, including without limitation a venture capital agreement, the loan documents and any trust agreements, and any authorized credit enhancement facilities or swaps or other hedging instruments, and amendments or supplements thereto, or to any one or...

...Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no port authority created under section 4582.02 or 4582.22 of the Revised Code shall enter an agreement providing for the construction or renovation of improvements to real property located outside of the port authority's jurisdiction to which all of the following applies without first obtaining approval from the board of county commissioners in the county where th...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Credit enhancement facilities" has the same meaning as in section 133.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Common bond fund program" means any program authorized by a port authority for the purpose of financing port authority facilities and enhancing the credit of port authority obligations using credit enhancement facilities, cash reserves, or other moneys available for such purpose. ...

...(A) No person shall keep a ferry across a stream running through or bounding on a county in this state, without having obtained a license therefor from the court of common pleas of such county. (B) Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than thirty dollars.

...The person applying for a ferry license shall produce satisfactory evidence to the court of common pleas, by the affidavit of the applicant or otherwise, that he has given notice by advertisement posted in at least three public places in the township or neighborhood where a ferry is proposed to be kept, twenty days prior to the sitting of such court, of his intention to apply to such court for a license to keep such ...

...The court of common pleas, upon being satisfied that the notice required by section 4583.02 of the Revised Code, has been given, that a ferry is needed at such place, and that the applicant for a ferry license is a suitable person, may grant to such applicant a license to keep such ferry for the term of one year, on his paying into the county treasury a sum fixed by the court of not less than two nor more than fifty ...

...The person owning land on both sides of a stream where a ferry is proposed to be established shall have exclusive right of a license for a ferry at such place. When the opposit banks are owned by different persons, the right to the ferry shall be mutual. If such owner does not apply, the court of common pleas shall grant a license to a person applying for it. If either of the landings is not on a public highway, the ...

...When a person applies for a renewal of his ferry license at the same place where he kept a ferry the preceding year, it may be granted or renewed without notice or petition.

...When a ferry license expires in vacation, and the person obtaining it procures a renewal thereof, the renewal license shall include the time from the expiration of the former in addition to the time to which it shall extend in the future. The applicant shall pay a ratable proportion for the whole time therein mentioned, and be exonerated from any penalty to which he would be otherwise liable. In applications for a l...

...A person may ferry passengers across a small stream in high water, and the court of common pleas may direct the clerk of the court of common pleas to give a person a permit for that purpose, when in its opinion, the stream is too small to justify the expense of a license.

...At the time it grants a license to keep a ferry, the court of common pleas shall fix the rate of ferriages which the ferrykeeper may demand and receive for the transportation of persons and property. The clerk of the court of common pleas shall furnish a person taking out a license to keep a ferry with a list of the rate of ferriages. The ferrykeeper shall post such list at the door of his ferryhouse, or at a conspic...

...A person obtaining a license to keep a ferry shall provide and keep in complete repair a sufficient boat for the safe conveyance of persons and property. When the stream over which such ferry is kept is passable, he shall give due attendance from daylight in the morning until dark in the evening with sufficient hands to manage such boat. During the day he shall cross the stream at intervals of not longer than fiftee...

...The county auditor shall inform against offenders and prosecute violations of sections 4583.01 to 4583.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...Actions brought under sections 4583.01 to 4583.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be in the name of the state and the court taking cognizance thereof shall keep a record of all fines and forfeitures recovered thereunder. Sheriffs, constables, and other officers shall pay all moneys within thirty days after receiving them into the county treasury.

...A keeper of a ferry demanding and receiving a higher rate or sum for ferriage than that allowed by the court of common pleas of the county in which such ferry is kept shall forfeit and pay for each offense not exceeding ten dollars, recoverable before a judge of a county court or judge of a municipal court having jurisdiction, by a person making due proof thereof.

...A person having obtained a ferry license, and failing or neglecting to perform the duties provided in section 4583.10 of the Revised Code, shall forfeit and pay for each offense not exceeding five dollars, to be recovered before a judge of a county court or judge of a municipal court having jurisdiction, by a person prosecuting for, and making due proof of such failure or neglect.

...If the court of common pleas refuses to renew the license of a ferryman, he shall be exonerated from the penalties of sections 4583.01 to 4583.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, by paying into the county treasury, previous to a prosecution being commenced against him, such sum, for the time which has elapsed between the expiration of his license and the next term of the court, as bears a ratable proportion to the a...

...Any officer neglecting or failing to comply with sections 4583.01 to 4583.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall forfeit and pay for each offense not exceeding fifty dollars, at the discretion of any judge before whom it may be recovered, for the use of the county.

...County court judges, municipal court judges, and clerks of the courts of common pleas before whom the fines provided for in sections 4583.01 to 4583.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, are recovered, shall present an accurate account thereof to the county auditor on or before the first day of June annually. Clerks shall also return a list of all licenses issued by them, and to whom, and the price of each respectively...

...(A) Any watercraft navigating the waters within or bordering upon this state, is liable for the following: (1) All debts contracted on account of such watercraft by the master, owner, steward, consignee, or other agent for the following: (a) Materials, supplies, or labor in the building, repairing, furnishing, or equipping of the watercraft; (b) Insurance; (c) Wharfage. (2) Damages arising out of any contract fo...

...If a liability provided for in section 4585.01 of the Revised Code arises beyond the jurisdiction of this state, a lien therefor shall attach and may be enforced as provided in sections 4585.01 to 4585.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, except against purchasers without notice.

...A person who has a lien under section 4585.01 of the Revised Code may proceed against the owner of the watercraft, the master who contracted a debt, or the watercraft itself. The person may file a complaint as in a civil action in the appropriate municipal or county court or court of common pleas, against the watercraft by name, or if it does not have a name, by a pertinent and substantial description of it. Upon th...

...On the filing of a complaint under section 4585.03 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the court shall issue a summons, as in other cases, with a warrant returnable as other writs, directing the sheriff to seize the watercraft, or such part of its apparel or furniture as is necessary to satisfy the claim for relief of the plaintiff, and to detain them until discharged by due course of law. The officer who executes the ...

...The officer holding the warrant issued under section 4585.04 of the Revised Code, may require the plaintiff to deposit with him such sum of money as he deems reasonable to defray all necessary expenses in taking charge of, detaining, and securing the property. In no case shall he pay to a person employed by him for such purpose more than two dollars per day for the time actually employed.

...The officer shall return an account of the expenses incurred by him under section 4585.05 of the Revised Code. If the amount deposited with him is greater than the sum expended, he shall pay the balance in his hands to the plaintiff; if it is less than that sum, the plaintiff shall forthwith pay him the balance.