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... fee, if all of the following apply: (1) The license or card is valid and its expiration date is not within ninety days of the date for renewal. (2) The license or card indicates the licensee or cardholder was a noncitizen. (3) At the time of application, the applicant is a United States citizen. (B) The applicant shall include any documentary evidence of United States citizenship with an application made und...

...ing obtained a driver's license. (B)(1) Except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section, whoever violates this section is guilty of an unclassified misdemeanor. When the offense is an unclassified misdemeanor, the offender shall be sentenced pursuant to sections 2929.21 to 2929.28 of the Revised Code, except that the offender shall not be sentenced to a jail term; the offender shall not be sentenced to ...

... Ohio credential issued after July 2, 2018, may apply online to obtain an exact reprint of that Ohio credential. Not more than one hundred eighty days after April 12, 2021, the registrar of motor vehicles shall make the reprint application process available through electronic means on the bureau of motor vehicle's web site. A reprint of an Ohio credential shall be available only through the online process. (C) An a...

...school" means any of the following: (1) A private business enterprise conducted by an individual, association, partnership, or corporation for the education and training of persons to operate or drive motor vehicles, that does any of the following: (a) Uses public streets or highways to provide training and charges a consideration or tuition for such services; (b) Provides an online driver education course a...

...ersons with disabilities after June 30, 1978, unless it has been licensed for such operation by the director. No person shall act as a specially trained instructor in a driver training program for persons with disabilities operated by a school after June 30, 1978, unless that person has been licensed by the director. (C) The director shall certify instructors to teach driver training to persons with disabilities i...

...As used in sections 4509.01 to 4509.78 of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" includes every natural person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation. (B) "Driver" means every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle. (C) "License" includes any license, permit, or privilege to operate a motor vehicle issued under the laws of this state including: (1) Any temporary instruction per...

...formation with respect to any person: (1) An enumeration of the motor vehicle accidents in which such person has been involved except accidents certified as described in division (D) of section 3937.41 of the Revised Code; (2) Such person's record of convictions for violation of the motor vehicle laws. (B) The registrar shall collect for each abstract a fee of five dollars. (C) The registrar may permit deputy reg...

... 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 to com...

...ded under division (K) of section 4509.01 of the Revised Code for proof of financial responsibility shall contain a clear and conspicuous warning on the face of the policy stating the policy does not constitute proof of financial responsibility as required for the operation of a motor vehicle under division (A)(1) of section 4509.101 of the Revised Code.

...ecurity 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 was parked at a place where ...

...ecified in division (B)(6) of section 4510.02 of the Revised Code on the person as provided in section 4509.17 of the Revised Code. Such an order of suspension remains in effect until any of the following occurs: (1) Security is deposited by the person to whom the suspension applies in such amount as the registrar may then determine; (2) The registrar receives satisfactory evidence that the entire obligation has be...

...ecified in division (B)(6) of section 4510.02 of the Revised Code of the license and registration and any nonresident's operating privilege of any person against whom such judgment was rendered, except as provided in sections 4509.01 to 4509.78 of the Revised Code. Such certified copy of a judgment shall include the last known address, the social security number, if known, and the operator's license number, of the j...

...fied for the purpose of sections 4509.01 to 4509.78, inclusive, of the Revised Code, in each of the following cases: (1) When twenty-five thousand dollars has been credited upon any judgments in excess of that amount because of bodily injury to or death of one person as a result of any one accident; (2) When the sum of fifty thousand dollars has been credited upon any judgments in excess of that amount becaus...

...has the same meaning as in section 4509.103 of the Revised Code. (B) Proof of financial responsibility when required under section 4509.101, 4509.33, 4509.34, 4509.38, 4509.40, 4509.42, 4509.44, or 4510.038 of the Revised Code may be given by filing and maintaining any of the following: (1) A financial responsibility identification card as provided in section 4509.104 of the Revised Code; (2) A certificate of i...

... each such motor vehicle, as follows: (1) Twenty-five thousand dollars because of bodily injury to or death of one person in any one accident; (2) Fifty thousand dollars because of bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident; (3) Twenty-five thousand dollars because of injury to property of others in any one accident.

...ny money deposited under sections 4509.01 to 4509.78 of the Revised Code, as proof of financial responsibility, or waive the requirement of filing proof, in any of the following events: (1) At any time after one year from the date such proof was required when, during the one year preceding the request, the registrar has not received record of a conviction or bail forfeiture which would require or permit the suspen...

...in amounts and coverage no less than: (1) One hundred thousand dollars because of bodily injury to or death of one person in any one accident; (2) Three hundred thousand dollars because of bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident; (3) Fifty thousand dollars because of injury to property of others in any one accident. (C) Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than five t...

... 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, if the policy or bond provides coverage in accordance with division (B) of this section and otherwise complies with sections 4509.49 to 4509.61 of the Revised Code, and if the...

...nless expressly prohibited by section 2919.22, section 4510.13, or any other section of the Revised Code, a court may grant limited driving privileges for any purpose described in division (A) of this section during any suspension imposed by the court. In granting the privileges, the court shall specify the purposes, times, and places of the privileges and may impose any other reasonable conditions on the person's dr...

...eceived under this section or section 4510.03, 4510.031, 4510.032, or 4510.034 of the Revised Code and shall maintain records of convictions and bond forfeitures for any violation of a state law or a municipal ordinance regulating the operation of vehicles, streetcars, and trackless trolleys on highways and streets, except a violation related to parking a motor vehicle. (B) Every court of record or mayor's court b...

...(A)(1) Prior to sending the notification under division (A) or (C) of section 4510.106 of the Revised Code, the director of public safety may search the bureau of motor vehicle records or the office of vital statistics records to verify the person's last known address, whether the person is still a resident of this state, and whether the person is still living or deceased. (2) If the director discovers that the per...

... (B) of this section and in sections 4510.111 and 4510.16 of the Revised Code, no person whose driver's or commercial driver's license or permit or nonresident operating privilege has been suspended under any provision of the Revised Code, other than Chapter 4509. of the Revised Code, or under any applicable law in any other jurisdiction in which the person's license or permit was issued, shall operate any mot...

... substantially equivalent to section 4510.14 of the Revised Code. (B) If a person is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation of a municipal ordinance that is substantially equivalent to section 4510.14 of the Revised Code, the court, in addition to and independent of any sentence that it imposes upon the offender for the offense, if the vehicle the offender was operating at the time of the offense is reg...

...nse and shall be punished as follows: (1) Except as provided in division (C)(2) of this section, whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of an unclassified misdemeanor. When the offense is an unclassified misdemeanor, the offender shall be sentenced pursuant to sections 2929.21 to 2929.28 of the Revised Code, except that the offender shall not be sentenced to a jail term; the offender shall not ...

...(A)(1) No offender who has been granted limited or unlimited driving privileges, during any period that the offender is required to operate only a motor vehicle equipped with an immobilizing or disabling device, shall request or permit any other person to breathe into the device if it is an ignition interlock device or another type of device that monitors the concentration of alcohol in a person's breath or to otherw...

...(A) As used in this section: (1)(a) "Case document" means a document or information in a document, or audio or video recording of a victim of violating a protection order, an offense of violence, or a sexually oriented offense, regarding a case that is submitted to a court, a law enforcement agency or officer, or a prosecutor or filed with a clerk of court, including, but not limited to, pleadings, motions, exhibit...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Body cavity search" means an inspection of the anal or vaginal cavity of a person that is conducted visually, manually, by means of any instrument, apparatus, or object, or in any other manner. (2) "Medical practitioner" has the same meaning as in section 4743.10 of the Revised Code. (3) "Strip search" means an inspection of the genitalia, buttocks, breasts, or undergarments of...

...e the same meanings as in section 2933.51 of the Revised Code. (B) A judge of a court of common pleas, in accordance with this section, may issue an order authorizing or approving the installation and use, within the jurisdiction of the court, of a pen register or a trap and trace device to obtain information in connection with a criminal investigation. (C) A law enforcement officer or investigative officer may mak...

...e applicable to any of the following: (1) Repeat offenders or dangerous offenders; (2) Persons accused of an offense of violence, of a violation of section 2903.06, 2907.04, 2907.05, 2907.21, 2907.22, 2907.31, 2907.32, 2907.34, 2911.31, 2919.12, 2919.13, 2919.22, 2921.02, 2921.11, 2921.12, 2921.32, or 2923.20 of the Revised Code, or of a violation of section 2905.01, 2905.02, or 2919.23 of the Revised Code that, ha...

...erm upon an offender under division (B)(1)(a) (iii) of section 2929.14 of the Revised Code is precluded unless the indictment, count in the indictment, or information charging the offense specifies that the offender had a firearm on or about the offender's person or under the offender's control while committing the offense. The specification shall be stated at the end of the body of the indictment, count, or informat...

...erm upon an offender under division (B)(1)(a)(i) of section 2929.14 of the Revised Code is precluded unless the indictment, count in the indictment, or information charging the offense specifies that the offender had a firearm that is an automatic firearm or that was equipped with a firearm muffler or suppressor on or about the offender's person or under the offender's control while committing the offense. The specif...

...erm upon an offender under division (B)(1)(a) (ii) of section 2929.14 of the Revised Code is precluded unless the indictment, count in the indictment, or information charging the offense specifies that the offender had a firearm on or about the offender's person or under the offender's control while committing the offense and displayed the firearm, brandished the firearm, indicated that the offender possessed the fir...

...A)(3)(e)(iv) or (B)(2)(c) of section 2971.03 of the Revised Code is precluded unless the offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to attempted rape and unless the indictment, count in the indictment, or information charging the offense specifies that, had the offender completed the rape that was attempted, the offender would have been guilty of rape in violation of division (A)(1)(b) of section 2907.02 of the Revise...

...th an offense described in division (C)(1) or (2) of section 2945.38 of the Revised Code is found incompetent to stand trial, after the expiration of the maximum time for treatment as specified in division (C) of that section or after the court finds that there is not a substantial probability that the defendant will become competent to stand trial even if the defendant is provided with a course of treatment, one of ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Expunge" means to destroy, delete, and erase a record as appropriate for the record's physical or electronic form or characteristic so that the record is permanently irretrievable. (2) "Official records" and "prosecutor" have the same meanings as in section 2953.31 of the Revised Code. (B) If a person, prior to the effective date of this section, was the defendant named in a di...

...fender shall do all of the following: (1) Within the three-year period or, if the action was initiated before the separate account was established, within ninety days after the separate account is established, notify the clerk of the court of claims that a civil action has been brought against the offender or the representatives of the offender and, if money in the separate account was obtained from a member of the ...

...fender shall do all of the following: (1) Within the three-year period or, if the action was initiated before the separate account was established, within ninety days after the separate account is established, notify the clerk of the court of claims that a civil action has been brought against the offender or the representatives of the offender; (2) Notify the clerk of the court of claims of the entry of any judgme...

...(A)(1) Whenever an inmate commences a civil action or appeal against a government entity or employee on or after October 17, 1996, all of the following apply: (a) The clerk of the court in which the civil action or appeal is filed shall notify the inmate and either the department of rehabilitation and correction, the sheriff or other administrator of the jail or workhouse, or the administrator of the violation sanct...

... commissioners pursuant to division (D)(1) of section 307.697, section 322.02, or 322.06, sections 940.32 and 940.35, division (B)(1) of section 4301.421, section 4504.02, 5739.021, or 5739.026, division (F), (J), or (U) of section 5739.09, section 5741.021 or 5741.023, or division (C)(1) of section 5743.024 of the Revised Code; or a rule adopted pursuant to section 307.79 of the Revised Code shall be as prescribed b...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Bonds" means general obligation bonds, or notes in anticipation thereof, of the county described in division (B)(1)(b) of this section, and general obligation bonds, or notes in anticipation thereof, of the host municipal corporation described in division (B)(2)(a) of this section. (2) "Corporation" means a nonprofit corporation that is organized under the laws of this state and ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Division of parole and community services" means the division of parole and community services of the department of rehabilitation and correction. (2) "Eligible offender" means, in relation to a particular community alternative sentencing center or district community alternative sentencing center established and operated under this section, an offender who has been convicted of o...

...(A)(1) As used in the Revised Code: (a) "County family services agency" means all of the following: (i) A child support enforcement agency; (ii) A county department of job and family services; (iii) A public children services agency. (b) "Family services duty" means a duty state law requires or allows a county family services agency to assume, including financial and general administrative duties. "Fam...

...orm prescribed pursuant to division (A)(1)(d), or (B)(1)(c), of section 3107.083 of the Revised Code shall provide the materials the birth parent requests be given to the birth parent's child or adoptive parent to the agency or attorney arranging the adoption. At the request of the birth parent's child or adoptive parent, the agency or attorney shall provide the materials to the child or adoptive parent. A birth par...

...ony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Subject to division (C) of this section, the sheriff may appoint, in writing, one or more deputies. At the time of the appointment, the sheriff shall file the writing upon which the appointment is made with the clerk of the court of common pleas, and the clerk of the court shall enter it upon the journal of the court. The sheriff shall pay t...

...(A)(1) In any action instituted under sections 3111.01 to 3111.18 of the Revised Code, the court, upon its own motion, may order and, upon the motion of any party to the action, shall order the child's mother, the child, the alleged father, and any other person who is a defendant in the action to submit to genetic tests. Instead of or in addition to genetic testing ordered pursuant to this section, the court may use ...

... the schedule and do the following: (1) Determine the amount of child support that each parent would be ordered to pay for all children for whom the parent has the legal duty to support, according to each parent's annual income. If the number of children subject to the order is greater than six, multiply the amount for three children in accordance with division (C)(4) of this section to determine the amount of chi...

...(A)(1) Upon the filing of a motion for relief under section 3119.961 of the Revised Code, a court shall grant relief from a final judgment, court order, or administrative determination or order that determines that a person or male minor is the father of a child or from a child support order under which a person or male minor is the obligor if all of the following apply: (a) The court receives genetic test results f...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, to be eligible to the office of coroner, a person shall be a physician who is licensed under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery, and who is in good standing in the person's profession. For a county other than a charter county, the person also shall have been licensed under Chapter 4731. of...

... these actions occur prior to September 1, 1961, such notice shall be filed within six months following such date. The filing of the notice of the levy of special assessments or charges shall take place within twenty days after the earliest of the following actions: the adoption of an ordinance or resolution levying such assessments or charges; the adoption of an ordinance or resolution certifying the same to the au...

... is elected at a special election. (B)(1) The auditor of state shall determine the manner and content of the initial education programs in the subject areas of governmental accounting and portfolio reporting and compliance. In those areas, newly elected county treasurers shall take at least thirteen hours of education before taking office. (2) The treasurer of state shall determine the manner and content of the ini...