Except as may otherwise be provided in the Ohio Revised Code, whenever an offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation of any provision of this General Offenses Code that is substantially similar to a provision of the Ohio Revised Code, and a court is permitted or required to suspend or revoke a person's driver's or commercial driver's license or permit for a violation of that provision, a court, in addition to any other penalties it is authorized by law to impose upon the offender, may suspend the offender's driver's or commercial driver's license or permit for the period of time the court determines appropriate, or may revoke the license or permit, but in no case shall the period of suspension imposed for the violation of the provision of this General Offenses Code exceed the period of suspension that is permitted or required to be imposed for the violation of the provision of the Ohio Revised Code to which the provision of this General Offenses Code is substantially similar. (ORC 4507.1611)