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...Digitalized photographic records of the department of public safety may be released only to the following: (A) State, local, or federal governmental agencies for criminal justice purposes; (B) Any court; (C) The American association of motor vehicle administrators to allow state department of motor vehicles participating in the association's state-to-state verification services and digital image access and exch...

...Unless another penalty is provided by the section that contains the provision violated or otherwise is provided by the laws of this state, whoever violates any provision of sections 4507.01 to 4507.081 or 4507.10 to 4507.37 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Beginning driver" means any person being trained to drive a particular motor vehicle who has not been previously licensed to drive that motor vehicle by any state or country. (B) "Person with a disability" means a person who, in the opinion of the registrar of motor vehicles, has a physical or mental disability or disease that prevents the person, in the absence of special training...

...(A)(1) The director of public safety, subject to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt and prescribe such rules concerning the administration and enforcement of this chapter as are necessary to protect the public. The rules shall require an assessment of the holder of a probationary instructor license. The director shall inspect the school facilities and equipment of applicants and licensees and examine appli...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "State agency" has the same meaning as in section 1.60 of the Revised Code. (2) "Electronic medium" means a web site, electronic mail communication, compact disc media, or other electronic format through which information is sent or conveyed. (B) The classroom instruction required by division (C) of section 4508.02 of the Revised Code shall include the dissemination of inform...

...(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 licensed driver training school shall comply with the requirements of 49 C.F.R. 380, subpart F and all applicable appendices, if the school provides commercial driver's license education courses that train drivers in the operation of commercial trucks, commercial cars, buses, and commercial tractors, trailers, and semitrailers.

...(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...

...All nonprobationary licenses expire on the last day of the calendar year and a person may renew such a license upon application to the director of public safety, either annually or biennially, as prescribed in rules adopted by the director. An applicant for an original school license shall include with the application a fee of two hundred fifty dollars, and an applicant for a renewal school license shall include with...

...(A) The director of public safety may refuse to issue, or may suspend or revoke, a license or may impose a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars per occurrence in any case in which the director finds the applicant or licensee has violated any of the provisions of this chapter, or any of the rules adopted by the director, or has failed to pay a fine imposed under this division. No person whose license has been su...

...Sections 4508.01 to 4508.06, inclusive, of the Revised Code, do not apply to any person giving driver training lessons without charge, to employers maintaining driver training schools without charge for their employees only, nor to schools or classes conducted by colleges and universities for regularly enrolled full time students as a part of a normal program for such institutions.

...There is hereby created in the department of public safety the motorcycle safety and education program. The director of public safety shall administer the program in accordance with the following guidelines: (A)(1) The program shall include courses of instruction conducted at vocational schools, community colleges, or other suitable locations, by instructors who have obtained certification in the manner and form pr...

...(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...

...(A) No person who operates a driver training school shall use or cause to be used in the operation of the driving school and upon any public property or private property used for vehicular traffic any vehicle that does not meet the minimum standards that are established by the director of public safety and that are applicable to vehicles used in the operation of a driving school. (B) Whoever violates this section is...

...(A) A driver training school shall issue a certificate of completion to each person who successfully completes a course of instruction necessary to obtain or maintain a driver's license. The department of public safety shall provide each driver training school 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 scho...

...The attorney general, the prosecuting attorney of the county, or the city director of law, upon complaint of the director of public safety, shall prosecute to termination or bring an action for injunction against any person violating this chapter or the rules adopted under it. The court of common pleas in which an action for an injunction is filed has jurisdiction to grant injunctive relief upon a showing that the re...

...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...

...Sections 4509.01 to 4509.78 of the Revised Code apply to minor drivers in the same manner as they apply to adult drivers.

...As used in sections 4509.291 to 4509.67 of the Revised Code: (A) "Judgment" means any judgment which has become final by expiration without appeal of the time within which an appeal might have been perfected, or by final affirmation on appeal, rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction of any state or of the United States, upon a cause of action arising out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of any motor vehi...

...(A) The registrar of motor vehicles shall administer and enforce sections 4509.01 to 4509.78 of the Revised Code. He may make rules necessary for such administration and shall provide for hearings upon request of persons aggrieved by his orders or acts in accordance with sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code except as otherwise provided under section 4509.101 or any other section 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) Upon request, the registrar of motor vehicles shall search and furnish a certified abstract of the following information 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....

...(A) The driver of any motor vehicle which is in any manner involved in a motor vehicle accident within six months of the accident may forward a written report of the accident to the registrar of motor vehicles on a form prescribed by the registrar alleging that a driver or owner of any other vehicle involved in the accident was uninsured at the time of the accident. (B) Upon receipt of the accident report, th...

...The report prescribed by the registrar of motor vehicles shall request only information sufficient to enable the registrar to administer and enforce the provisions of sections 4509.01 to 4509.78, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The driver or owner of a motor vehicle involved in an accident shall furnish such additional relevant information as the registrar requires.

...A driver involved in a motor vehicle accident is not subject to section 4509.06 of the Revised Code if, during the time provided in such section, the driver is physically incapable of making a report, but in such event, the owner, if he were not the driver of the motor vehicle involved in the accident, shall within thirty days after learning of the accident make the report.