CHAPTER 435 – LICENSING AND ACCIDENTS

435.01   Driver’s or Commercial Driver’s License Required; Restriction Violation

435.02   Possession of More Than One License Prohibited

435.03   Driving with Temporary Instruction Permit Without Licensed Driver

435.04   Certain Acts Prohibited

435.05   Owner or Operator Allowing Another to Drive

435.06   Display of License

435.07   Driver Under Suspension or Revocation

435.08   Operation or Sale Without Certificate of Title

435.09   Display of License Plates; Expired or Unlawful Plates

435.10   License Plates to Be Unobstructed

435.11   Use of Illegal License Plates; Transfer of Registration

435.12   License Plate Loan or Sale

435.13   Reporting Motor Vehicle Repossession

435.14   Reporting Unclaimed Motor Vehicles

435.15   Stopping After Accident upon Streets; Collision with Unattended Vehicle

435.16   Stopping After Accident upon Property Other Than Streets

435.17   Vehicle Accident Resulting in Damage to Realty

Cross-reference:
   Glass removal from street after accident, CO 411.01
   Impounding vehicle with illegal license plates, CO 405.02
   Reports of accidents at airports, CO 571.11
   Sight-seeing car driver’s license, CO 445.06 et seq.
   Sight-seeing car license required, CO 445.01
   Taxicab driver’s license, CO 443.13 et seq.
   Tow truck licensing, CO 405.10
   Vehicular homicide, CO 621.02

Statutory reference:
   See sectional histories for similar State law
   Deposit of driver’s license as bond, RC 2937.221
   Driver’s license law, RC Ch. 4507
   Motor vehicle licensing law, RC Ch. 4503
   Power of trial court of record to suspend or revoke license for certain violations, RC 4507.16
   State accident reports, RC 4509.01, 4509.06, 4509.74, 5502.11

§ 435.01 Driver’s or Commercial Driver’s License Required; Restriction Violation

   (a)   No person shall permit the operation of a motor vehicle upon any public or private property used by the public for purposes of vehicular travel or parking, knowing the operator does not have a valid driver's license issued to the operator by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles under RC Chapter 4507 or a valid commercial driver's license issued under RC Chapter 4506. Except as otherwise provided in this division, whoever violates this division is guilty of an unclassified misdemeanor. When the offense is an unclassified misdemeanor, the offender shall be sentenced pursuant to RC 2929.21 to 2929.28, except that the offender shall not be sentenced to a jail term; the offender shall not be sentenced to a community residential sanction pursuant to RC 2929.26; notwithstanding RC 2929.28(A)(2)(a), the offender may be fined up to one thousand dollars ($1,000.00); and, notwithstanding RC 2929.27(A)(3), the offender may be ordered pursuant to RC 2929.27(C) to serve a term of community service of up to five hundred (500) hours. The failure of an offender to complete a term of community service imposed by the court may be punished as indirect criminal contempt under RC 2705.02(A) that may be filed in the underlying case. If, within three (3) years of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to two (2) or more violations of this section or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance, the offense is a misdemeanor of the first degree.

(RC 4507.02(A)(1))

   (b)   Nonresidents, permitted to drive upon the highways of their own state, may operate any motor vehicle upon any highway in this state without examination or license under RC 4507.01 to 4507.39, inclusive, upon condition that the nonresident may be required at any time or place to prove lawful possession or their right to operate the motor vehicle, and to establish proper identity.

(RC 4507.04)

   (c)   No person shall operate any motor vehicle in violation of any restriction imposed on his or her driver's or commercial driver's license by the Ohio Registrar of Motor Vehicles pursuant to RC 4507.14.

(Ord. No. 1280-15. Passed 4-24-17, eff. 4-25-17)

§ 435.02 Possession of More Than One License Prohibited

   (a)   No person shall receive a driver's license, or a motorcycle operator's endorsement of a driver's or commercial driver's license, unless and until the person surrenders to the Registrar all valid licenses issued to the person by another jurisdiction recognized by this state. The Registrar shall report the surrender of a license to the issuing authority, together with information that a license is now issued in this state. The Registrar shall destroy any such license that is not returned to the issuing authority. No person shall be permitted to have more than one (1) valid license at any time.

(RC 4507.02(A)(2))

   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

(RC 4507.99; Ord. No. 1280-15. Passed 4-24-17, eff. 4-25-17)