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...The unidentified public safety receipts fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of money received by the department of public safety that is provisional in nature or for which proper identification or disposition cannot immediately be determined. Refunds and other disbursements from the fund shall be made once proper identification and disposition is determined. All investment ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, on and after September 13, 1997, the registrar of motor vehicles, and any employee or contractor of the bureau of motor vehicles, shall not knowingly disclose or otherwise make available to any person or entity any personal information about an individual that the bureau obtained in connection with a motor vehicle record. (B)(1) On and after September 13, 1997...

...(A)(1) A peace officer, correctional employee, or youth services employee may file a written request with the bureau of motor vehicles to do either or both of the following: (a) Prohibit disclosure of the officer's or employee's residence address as contained in motor vehicle records of the bureau; (b) Provide a business address to be displayed on the officer's or employee's driver's license or certificate o...

...The registrar of motor vehicles or deputy registrar shall ask each person applying for or renewing a special license plate after July 1, 2009, under Chapter 4503. of the Revised Code and paying a contribution to an organization for issuance of the special license plate, whether the person consents to contact from the organization sponsoring the special license plate. The applicant shall sign a form provided by ...

...The department of administrative services shall collect user fees from participants in the multi-agency radio communications system (MARCS). The director of administrative services, with the advice of the MARCS steering committee and the consent of the director of budget and management, shall determine the amount of the user fees and the manner by which the fees shall be collected. All moneys from user fees sha...

...As used in sections 4501.30 to 4501.303 of the Revised Code: "MARCS" means the multi-agency radio communications system. "P25 standards" means standards for digital radio communications for use by federal, state, provincial, and local public safety agencies in North America to enable communications with other agencies and mutual aid response teams in emergencies. "P25 standards" are the standards produced thr...

...Any communications project related to MARCS that is funded in whole or in part with federal grant funds or funds from the state shall be a P25 system and may not limit interoperability in mission critical communications.

...The MARCS steering committee shall certify that the P25 system complies with P25 standards based on business planning documents it approves. The planning documents shall outline the various end user costs for monthly access to the system depending on the number of MARCS users and including adequate funding for future repairs, maintenance, and upgrades of MARCS statewide.

...The department of administrative services shall seek controlling board approval prior to making purchases of the P25 system.

...(A) No driver's license, commercial driver's license, temporary instruction permit, and identification card issued by the registrar of motor vehicles or a deputy registrar on or after the effective date of this amendment shall display the social security number of the person to whom the license, permit, or card is issued unless the person to whom the license, permit, or card is to be issued specifically requests t...

...(A) The registrar of motor vehicles may adopt and publish rules to govern the registrar's proceedings. All proceedings of the registrar shall be open to the public, and all documents in the registrar's possession are public records. The registrar shall adopt a seal bearing the inscription: "Motor Vehicle Registrar of Ohio." The seal shall be affixed to all writs and authenticated copies of records, and, when it has b...

...An order, except an order relating to a license as defined in section 119.01 of the Revised Code, made by the registrar of motor vehicles may be reversed, vacated, or modified by the court of common pleas of Franklin county, or by the court of common pleas in the county in which the party affected is a resident, or in which the matter complained of arose.

...A proceeding to obtain the reversal, vacation, or modification of an order of the registrar of motor vehicles shall be by appeal. Any party to the proceedings before the registrar shall file notice of the appeal in the court of common pleas on or before the expiration of thirty days from date of entry of the order. The court shall set the appeal for hearing and take any testimony as is necessary to decide the mat...

...(A) No court may reverse, suspend, or delay any order made by the registrar of motor vehicles, or enjoin, restrain, or interfere with the registrar or a deputy registrar in the performance of official duties, except as provided in this chapter and Chapter 4507. or 4510. of the Revised Code. (B) A court shall not order the bureau of motor vehicles to delete a record of conviction unless the court finds that deletion...

...Upon the request of the registrar of motor vehicles, the prosecuting attorney of the county in which any proceedings are pending shall aid in any investigation, prosecution, hearing, or trial held under this chapter or Chapter 4506., 4507., 4510., or 4511. of the Revised Code and shall institute and prosecute any actions or proceedings for the enforcement of the sections contained in those chapters, and for the p...

...(A) Every law enforcement agency whose law enforcement officers investigate motor vehicle accidents shall develop and adopt a written policy establishing reasonable procedures for determining and notifying the next of kin of any person who is found dead or is pronounced dead at the scene of a motor vehicle accident or who suffers a serious, life-threatening injury in a motor vehicle accident and who the investigating...

...(A) The bureau of motor vehicles shall establish a database of the next of kin of persons who are issued driver's licenses, commercial driver's licenses, temporary instruction permits, motorcycle operator's licenses and endorsements, and identification cards. Information in the database shall be accessible only to employees of the bureau and to criminal justice agencies and is not a public record for purposes ...

..."Motor vehicle" as defined in section 4505.01 of the Revised Code applies to sections 4503.02 to 4503.10, and 4503.12 to 4503.18 of the Revised Code. For the purposes of sections 4503.02 to 4503.04, 4503.10 to 4503.12, 4503.182, 4503.19, 4503.21, 4503.22, and 4503.25 of the Revised Code, the term "motor vehicle" also includes a motorized bicycle and a trailer or semitrailer whose weight is four thousand pounds or les...

...An annual license tax is hereby levied upon the operation of motor vehicles on the public roads or highways, for the purpose of enforcing and paying the expense of administering the law relative to the registration and operation of such vehicles; planning, constructing, maintaining, and repairing public roads, highways, and streets; maintaining and repairing bridges and viaducts; paying the counties' proportion of th...

...(A)(1)(a) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the registrar of motor vehicles may designate one or more of the following persons to act as a deputy registrar in each county: (i) The county auditor in any county; (ii) The clerk of a court of common pleas in any county; (iii) An individual; (iv) A nonprofit corporation as defined in division (C) of section 1702.01 of the Revised Code. All...

...(A)(1) If the registrar of motor vehicles determines that space is available at a deputy registrar's office, the clerk of the court of common pleas in the county where the deputy is located shall be given the opportunity to use the space for the purpose of carrying out the clerk's duties related to the titling of motor vehicles. Each clerk of the court of common pleas using space in a deputy registrar's office ...

...(A) As used in this section, "candidate," "contribution," and "campaign committee" have the same meanings as in section 3517.01 of the Revised Code. (B) No person shall knowingly solicit directly or indirectly, orally or by letter, or be in any manner concerned in soliciting any assessment, subscription, or contribution for any political party, for the governor or his campaign committee, or for any candidate for pub...

...(A) Annually, on or before the thirty-first day of January, every deputy registrar shall file with the registrar of motor vehicles on a form prescribed by the registrar, a statement disclosing all of the following: (1) The name of the person filing the statement, and, if applicable, of his spouse and of members of his immediate family; (2) Any contribution made within the previous calendar year by the person and, i...

...(A) Notwithstanding sections 4503.10, 4503.102, 4503.12, 4503.182, 4503.24, 4505.061, 4506.08, 4507.24, 4507.50, 4507.52, 4519.03, 4519.05, 4519.10, 4519.56, and 4519.69 of the Revised Code: (1) Each deputy registrar shall be allowed the increased fee otherwise allowed in those sections and commencing on January 1, 2003, for performing the services specified in those sections only if the deputy registrars achieve a ...

...The registrar of motor vehicles shall designate as an electronic motor vehicle dealer a motor vehicle dealer who meets all of the following criteria: (A) The dealer holds a current, valid dealer license issued under Chapter 4517. of the Revised Code. (B) The dealer participates in the title defect recision fund created by section 1345.52 of the Revised Code. (C) The dealer has the capability, via electroni...