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Whoever violates any provision of this Traffic Code, for which no penalty otherwise is provided, is guilty of one of the following:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in division (b) or (c) of this section, a minor misdemeanor;
(b) If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to one violation of any provision of this Traffic Code for which no penalty is otherwise provided or of a state law or municipal ordinance that is substantially equivalent to any provisions of this Traffic Code for which no penalty is otherwise provided, a misdemeanor of the fourth degree;
(c) If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to two or more violations of any provision described in division (b) of this section or any state law or municipal ordinance that is substantially equivalent to those provisions, a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(ORC 4511.99)
Except as otherwise provided in Ohio R.C. 4510.07 or in any other provision of the Revised Code, whenever an offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation of any provision of this Traffic Code that is substantially equivalent to a provision of the Revised Code, and a court is permitted or required to suspend 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 authorized by law, may suspend the offender's driver's or commercial driver's license or permit or nonresident operating privilege for the period of time the court determines appropriate, but the period of suspension imposed for the violation of the provision of this Traffic Code shall not exceed the period of suspension that is permitted or required to be imposed for the violation of the provision of the Revised Code to which the provision of this Traffic Code is substantially equivalent.
(ORC 4510.05)