Ohio Revised Code Search

...d in this state and which has been manufactured or assembled on or after January 1, 1936, unless the motor vehicle is equipped with safety glass wherever glass is used in the windshields, doors, partitions, rear windows, and windows on each side immediately adjacent to the rear window. "Safety glass" means any product composed of glass so manufactured, fabricated, or treated as substantially to prevent shattering an...

...on shall operate any motor vehicle manufactured or assembled on or after January 1, 1954, unless the vehicle is equipped with electrical or mechanical directional signals. (2) No person shall operate any motorcycle or motor-driven cycle manufactured or assembled on or after January 1, 1968, unless the vehicle is equipped with electrical or mechanical directional signals. (B) "Directional signals" means an electrica...

...gistered in this state and that is manufactured or assembled on or after January 1, 1962, unless the passenger car is equipped with sufficient anchorage units at the attachment points for attaching at least two sets of seat safety belts to its front seat. Such anchorage units at the attachment points shall be of such construction, design, and strength to support a loop load pull of not less than four thousand pounds ...

...(1) "Automobile" means any commercial tractor, passenger car, commercial car, or truck that is required to be factory-equipped with an occupant restraining device for the operator or any passenger by regulations adopted by the United States secretary of transportation pursuant to the "National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966," 80 Stat. 719, 15 U.S.C.A. 1392. (2) "Occupant restraining device" means a se...

...or vehicle in a work area designated by protection equipment devices that are displayed and used in accordance with the manual adopted by the department of transportation under section 4511.09 of the Revised Code. (D) Whoever violates this section shall be punished as provided in section 4513.99 of the Revised Code.

...ny vehicle in a work area designated by protection equipment devices that are displayed and used in accordance with the manual adopted by the department of transportation under section 4511.09 of the Revised Code. (H) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

...(A) Any person operating any vehicle transporting explosives upon a highway shall at all times comply with the following requirements: (1) Said vehicle shall be marked or placarded on each side and on the rear with the word "explosives" in letters not less than eight inches high, or there shall be displayed on the rear of such vehicle a red flag not less than twenty-four inches square marked with the word "danger" i...

...(A) No passenger-type vehicle shall be operated on a highway with any load carried on such vehicle which extends more than six inches beyond the line of the fenders on the vehicle's left side. (B) Whoever violates this section shall be punished as provided in section 4513.99 of the Revised Code.

...e dropped for the purpose of securing traction, or water or other substance may be sprinkled on a roadway in cleaning or maintaining the roadway. (B) Except for a farm vehicle used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials or a rubbish vehicle in the process of acquiring its load, no vehicle loaded with garbage, swill, cans, bottles, waste paper, ashes, refuse, trash, rubbish, waste, wir...

...hich is not connected to a commercial tractor by means of a fifth wheel shall be coupled with stay chains or cables to the vehicle by which it is being drawn. The chains or cables shall be of sufficient size and strength to prevent the towed vehicle's parting from the drawing vehicle in case the drawbar or other connection should break or become disengaged. In case of a loaded pole trailer, the connecting pole to the...

...t to a weighing of it by means of a compact, self-contained, portable, sealed scale specially adapted to determining the wheel loads of vehicles on highways; a sealed scale permanently installed in a fixed location, having a load-receiving element specially adapted to determining the wheel loads of highway vehicles; a sealed scale, permanently installed in a fixed location, having a load-receiving element specially a...

...(A)(1) The director of transportation with respect to all highways that are a part of the state highway system and local authorities with respect to highways under their jurisdiction, upon application in writing, shall issue a special regional heavy hauling permit authorizing the applicant to operate or move a vehicle or combination of vehicles as follows: (a) At a size or weight of vehicle or load exceeding the ma...

...(A) All fines collected under sections 4511.01 to 4511.78, 4511.99, and 4513.01 to 4513.37 of the Revised Code shall be paid into the county treasury and, with the exception of that portion distributed under section 307.515 of the Revised Code, shall be placed to the credit of the fund for the maintenance and repair of the highways within that county, except that: (1) All fines for violations of division (B) of sec...

...(A) No person shall resist, hinder, obstruct, or abuse any sheriff, constable, or other official while that official is attempting to arrest offenders under any provision of sections 4511.01 to 4511.78, 4511.99, and 4513.01 to 4513.37 of the Revised Code. No person shall interfere with any person charged under any provision of any of those sections with the enforcement of the law relative to public highways. (B) ...

...(A) No person shall knowingly present, display, or orally communicate a false name, social security number, or date of birth to a law enforcement officer who is in the process of issuing to the person a traffic ticket or complaint. (B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...he department of public safety an abstract of the court record covering the case in which said person was convicted or forfeited bail, which abstract must be certified by the person required to prepare the same to be true and correct. The abstract shall be made upon a form approved and furnished by the department and shall include the name and address of the party charged, the number of the party's driver's or...

... the calendar year the vehicle was manufactured, and no licensed collector's vehicle or historical motor vehicle shall be prohibited from displaying or using any such feature of design, type of material, or article of equipment. No person shall be prohibited from owning or operating a licensed collector's vehicle or historical motor vehicle for failing to comply with an equipment provision contained in Chapter 4513....

...(A) The state highway patrol and sheriffs or their deputies shall exercise, to the exclusion of all other peace officers, except within municipal corporations and except as specified in divisions (B) and (C) of this section and division (E) of section 2935.03 of the Revised Code, the power to make arrests for violations on all state highways, of sections 4503.11, 4503.21, 4511.14 to 4511.16, 4511.20 to 4511.23, 4511....

...et at a railroad grade crossing for the protection of the traveling public, the municipal corporation shall place a warning sign not less than two hundred feet from the crossing. The driver of any vehicle shall place his vehicle under control at the location of said warning signs so as to be able to bring said vehicle to a complete stop at said safety device. Colliding with such safety device at the crossing is prim...

...tor's vehicle that is an agricultural tractor or traction engine shall be required to comply with an emission, noise control, or fuel usage provision contained in a law or rule of this state or its political subdivisions that was enacted or adopted subsequent to the calendar year in which the vehicle was manufactured. (B) No person shall be prohibited from operating a licensed collector's vehicle, a historical motor...

...(a) Was originally designed by the manufacturer to transport more than fifteen passengers, including the driver; (b) Either the gross vehicle weight rating or the gross vehicle weight exceeds ten thousand pounds. (2) "Bus" does not include a church bus as defined in section 4503.07 of the Revised Code or a school bus unless the church bus or school bus is used in the transportation of passengers by a motor car...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, on and after July 1, 2001, no person shall operate a bus, nor shall any person being the owner of a bus or having supervisory responsibility for a bus permit the operation of any bus, unless the bus displays a valid, current safety inspection decal issued by the state highway patrol under section 4513.52 of the Revised Code. (B) For the purpose of complying wit...

...(A) The department of public safety, with the advice of the public utilities commission, shall adopt and enforce rules relating to the inspection of buses to determine whether a bus is safe and lawful, including whether its equipment is in proper adjustment or repair. (B) The rules shall determine the safety features, items of equipment, and other safety-related conditions subject to inspection. The rules may author...

...(A) The superintendent of the state highway patrol, with approval of the director of public safety, may appoint and maintain necessary staff to carry out the inspection of buses. (B) The superintendent of the state highway patrol shall adopt a distinctive annual safety inspection decal bearing the date of inspection. The state highway patrol may remove any decal from a bus that fails any inspection. (C) Bus inspect...

... prepared for removal, but prior to its actual removal from the property, the towing service shall give the owner or operator oral or written notification at the time of such arrival that the vehicle owner or operator may pay a fee of not more than one-half of the fee for the removal of the motor vehicle established by the public utilities commission in rules adopted under section 4921.25 of the Revised Code, in orde...

...10 of the Revised Code apply to a transaction to the extent that it is governed by Chapter 1302., 1303., 1304., 1305., 1307., 1308., 1309., or 1310. of the Revised Code.

...nize the law governing commercial transactions; (2) To permit the continued expansion of commercial practices through custom, usage, and agreement of the parties; and (3) To make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions. (B) Unless displaced by the particular provisions of Chapters 1301., 1302., 1303., 1304., 1305., 1307., 1308., 1309., and 1310. of the Revised Code, the principles of law and equity, in...

...10. of the Revised Code being a general act intended as a unified coverage of its subject matter, no part of it shall be deemed to be impliedly repealed by subsequent legislation if such construction can reasonably be avoided.

...Severability [UCC 1-105] If any provision or clause of Chapter 1301., 1302., 1303., 1304., 1305., 1307., 1308., 1309., or 1310. of the Revised Code or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of Chapter 1301., 1302., 1303., 1304., 1305., 1307., 1308., 1309., or 1310. of the Revised Code which can be given effect without the ...

...Use of singular and plural; gender [UCC 1-106] In Chapters 1301., 1302., 1303., 1304., 1305., 1307., 1308., 1309., and 1310. of the Revised Code, unless the statutory context otherwise requires: (A) Words in the singular number include the plural, and those in the plural include the singular; and (B) Words of any gender also refer to any other gender.

...Section captions [UCC 1-107] Section captions are part of Chapters 1301. and 1307. of the Revised Code.

...atures in Global and National Commerce Act [UCC 1-108] This chapter modifies, limits, and supersedes the federal "Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act," 15 U.S.C. section 7001 et seq., except that nothing in this chapter modifies, limits, or supersedes section 7001(c) of that act or authorizes electronic delivery of any of the notices described in section 7003(b) of that act.

...lar chapters or sections therein: (1) "Action", in the sense of a judicial proceeding, includes recoupment, counterclaim, set-off, suit in equity, and any other proceeding in which rights are determined. (2) "Aggrieved party" means a party entitled to pursue a remedy. (3) "Agreement", as distinguished from "contract", means the bargain of the parties in fact, as found in their language or inferred from other ...

...s section, a person has "notice" of a fact if the person: (1) Has actual knowledge of it; (2) Has received a notice or notification of it; or (3) From all the facts and circumstances known to the person at the time in question, has reason to know that it exists. (B) "Knowledge" means actual knowledge. "Knows" has a corresponding meaning. (C) "Discover", "learn", or words of similar import refer to knowledge ...

...erest [UCC 1-203] (A) Whether a transaction in the form of a lease creates a lease or security interest is determined by the facts of each case. (B) A transaction in the form of a lease creates a security interest if the consideration that the lessee is to pay the lessor for the right to possession and use of the goods is an obligation for the term of the lease and is not subject to termination by the lesse...

...urity for, or in total or partial satisfaction of, a preexisting claim; (C) By accepting delivery under a preexisting contract for purchase; or (D) In return for any consideration sufficient to support a simple contract.

...205] (A) Whether a time for taking an action required by Chapters 1301., 1302., 1303., 1304., 1305., 1307., 1308., 1309., and 1310. of the Revised Code is reasonable depends on the nature, purpose, and circumstances of the action. (B) An action is taken seasonably if it is taken at or within the time agreed or, if no time is agreed, at or within a reasonable time.

...tes a "presumption" with respect to a fact, or provides that a fact is "presumed," the trier of fact must find the existence of the fact unless and until evidence is introduced that supports a finding of its nonexistence.

... provided in this section, when a transaction bears a reasonable relation to this state and also to another state or nation the parties may agree that the law either of this state or of such other state or nation shall govern their rights and duties. (B) In the absence of an agreement effective under division (A) of this section, and except as provided in division (C) of this section, Chapters 1301., 1302., 13...

...r 1310. of the Revised Code requires an action to be taken within a reasonable time, a time that is not manifestly unreasonable may be fixed by agreement. (C) The presence in certain provisions of Chapter 1301., 1302., 1303., 1304., 1305., 1307., 1308., 1309., or 1310. of the Revised Code of the phrase "unless otherwise agreed", or words of similar import, does not imply that the effect of other provisions may...

...etween the parties to a particular transaction that exists if: (1) The agreement of the parties with respect to the transaction involves repeated occasions for performance by a party; and (2) The other party, with knowledge of the nature of the performance and opportunity for objection to it, accepts the performance or acquiesces in it without objection. (B) A "course of dealing" is a sequence of conduct conce...

... of good faith [UCC 1-304] Every contract or duty within Chapters 1301., 1302., 1303., 1304., 1305., 1307., 1308., 1309., and 1310. of the Revised Code imposes an obligation of good faith in its performance and enforcement.

... of the Revised Code is enforceable by action unless the provision declaring it specifies a different and limited effect.

...Waiver or renunciation of claim or right after breach [UCC 1-306] A claim or right arising out of an alleged breach may be discharged in whole or in part without consideration by agreement of the aggrieved party in an authenticated record.

...ent authorized or required by the contract to be issued by a third party is prima facie evidence of its own authenticity and genuineness and of the facts stated in the document by the third party.

... does not apply to an accord and satisfaction.

...Option to accelerate at will [UCC 1-309] A term providing that one party or that party's successor in interest may accelerate payment or performance or require collateral or additional collateral "at will" or when the party "deems itself insecure," or in words of similar import, means that the party has power to do so only if that party in good faith believes that the prospect of payment or performance is impa...

...Subordinated obligations [UCC 1-310] An obligation may be issued as subordinated to performance of another obligation of the person obligated, or a creditor may subordinate its right to performance of an obligation by agreement with either the person obligated or another creditor of the person obligated. Subordination does not create a security interest as against either the common debtor or a subordinated cre...

...Transactions entered into before 7-1-62 [UCC 10-102(2)] Transactions validly entered into before July 1, 1962, and the rights, duties, and interests flowing from them remain valid after that date and may be terminated, completed, consummated, or enforced as required or permitted by any statute or other law amended or repealed by Amended Senate Bill No. 5 of the 104th General Assembly as though that repeal or ...

...ent as a public record and of any transaction referred to in that public record, including, but not limited to, any transfer, conveyance, or assignment reflected in that record. (C) Any person contesting the validity or effectiveness of any transaction referred to in a public record is considered to have discovered that public record and any transaction referred to in the record as of the time that the record ...