(A) No person shall operate or drive a motor vehicle upon the public roads and highways in this municipality if it displays a license plate or a distinctive number or identification mark that meets any of the following criteria:
(1) It is fictitious;
(2) It is a counterfeit or an unlawfully made copy of any distinctive number or identification mark;
(3) It belongs to another motor vehicle, provided that this section does not apply to a motor vehicle that is operated on the public roads and highways in this municipality when the motor vehicle displays license plates that originally were issued for a motor vehicle that previously was owned by the same person who owns the motor vehicle that is operated on the public roads and highways in this municipality during the 30-day period described in Ohio R.C. 4503.12(A)(4).
(B) A person who fails to comply with the transfer of registration provisions of Ohio R.C. 4503.12 and is charged with a violation of that section shall not be charged with a violation of this section.
(ORC 4549.08) (Adopting Ordinance)
(C) No person shall loan, sell, give away or otherwise traffic in any number of license plates issued by other states or other duly authorized governmental agencies in connection with the registration of a motor vehicle, provided, however, that nothing herein shall be deemed to apply to the issuance of numbered license plates pursuant to law.