(a) No person whose driver’s license, commercial driver’s license, temporary instruction permit, or nonresident’s operating privilege has been suspended shall operate any motor vehicle upon a public road or highway or any public or private property after the suspension has expired unless the person has complied with all license reinstatement requirements imposed by the court, the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, or another provision of the Ohio Revised Code.
(b) Upon the request or motion of the prosecuting authority, a noncertified copy of the law enforcement automated data system report or a noncertified copy of a record of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles that shows the name, date of birth, and social security number of a person charged with a violation of subsection (a) of this section may be admitted into evidence as prima- facie evidence that the license of the person had not been reinstated by the person at the time of the alleged violation of subsection (a) hereof. The person charged with a violation of subsection (a) hereof may offer evidence to rebut this prima-facie evidence.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of failure to reinstate a license, a misdemeanor of the first degree. The court may impose upon the offender a class seven suspension of the offender’s driver’s license, commercial driver’s license, temporary instruction permit, probationary driver’s license, or nonresident operating privilege from the range specified in division (A)(7) of Ohio R.C. 4510.02. (ORC 4510.21)
(1) If the vehicle is registered in the offender’s name and if, within three years of the current offense, the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to one violation of Ohio R.C. 4510.161 or Ohio R.C. 4510.11, 4510.111, or 4510.16, or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance, the court, in addition to or independent of any other sentence that it imposes upon the offender, may order the immobilization of the vehicle involved in the offense for thirty days and the impoundment of that vehicle’s license plates for thirty days in accordance with Ohio R.C. 4503.233.
(2) If the vehicle is registered in the offender’s name and if, within three years of the current offense, the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to two violations of Ohio R.C. 4510.161 or any combination of two violations of Ohio R.C. 4510.161 or Ohio R.C. 4510.11, 4510.111, or 4510.16 or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance, the court in addition to or independent of any other sentence that it imposes upon the offender, may order the immobilization for sixty days of the vehicle involved in the offense and the impoundment of that vehicle’s license plates for sixty days in accordance with Ohio R.C. 4503.233.
(3) If the vehicle is registered in the offender’s name and if, within three years of the current offense, the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to three or more violations of Ohio R.C. 4510.161 or any combination of three or more violations of Ohio R.C. 4510.161 or Ohio R.C. 4510.11, 4510.111 or 4510.16, or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance, the court may order the criminal forfeiture to the State of the vehicle the offender was operating at the time of the offense. If title to a motor vehicle that is subject to an order for criminal forfeiture under this division is assigned or transferred and division (B)(2) or (3) of Ohio R.C. 4503.234 applies, in addition to or independent of any other penalty established by law, the court may fine the offender the value of the motor vehicle as determined by publications of national automobile dealer’s association. The proceeds from any fine so imposed shall be distributed in accordance with division (C)(2) of that section.