(a) No person, being the owner, operator or person in charge of a locomotive, watercraft, aircraft or other vehicle, as defined in Ohio R.C. 4501.01(A), shall knowingly permit the vehicle to be used for the commission of a felony drug abuse offense.
(b) No person who is the owner, lessee or occupant, or who has custody, control or supervision, of premises or real estate, including vacant land, shall knowingly permit the premises or real estate, including vacant land, to be used for the commission of a felony drug abuse offense by another person.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of permitting drug abuse, a misdemeanor of the first degree, provided the offender has not previously been convicted of a drug abuse offense and provided the felony drug abuse offense in question is not a violation of Ohio R.C. 2925.02 or 2925.03(A)(1), (5), (7) or (10) that was committed on school premises, in a school building, or within 1,000 feet of the boundaries of any school premises, or within 100 feet of any juvenile or within the view of any juvenile, whether or not the offender knows the age of the juvenile, the offender knows the juvenile is within 100 feet or within view of the commission of the offense, or the juvenile views the commission of the offense.
(d) (1) Notwithstanding the fines otherwise required to be imposed pursuant to Section 501.99, for violations of this section, and notwithstanding Ohio R.C. 2929.22, a court shall impose a mandatory fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000) if the violation of this section was a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(2) The court may impose a fine in addition to a mandatory fine imposed pursuant to paragraph (d)(1) hereof if the total of the additional and mandatory fines does not exceed the maximum fine that could be imposed pursuant to Section 501.99.
(3) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of Ohio R.C. 2925.13 or 3719.21, fifty percent of any mandatory fine imposed pursuant to paragraph (d)(1) hereof shall be paid by the clerk of the court into the Law Enforcement Trust Fund of the Municipality required to be established by Ohio R.C. 2933.43(D)(1)(c), and fifty percent shall be paid into the General Fund of the Municipality. Any additional fine imposed pursuant to paragraph (d)(2) hereof shall be disbursed by the clerk of the court as otherwise provided by law.
(4) If a person is charged with any violation of this section and posts bail pursuant to Ohio R.C. 2937.22 to 2937.46 or Rule 46 of the Ohio Rules of Criminal Procedure, and if the person forfeits the bail, the forfeited bail shall be paid by the clerk of the court in accordance with and subject to the requirements of, and shall be used as specified in, paragraph (d)(3) hereof.
(5) No court shall impose a mandatory fine pursuant to paragraph (d)(1) hereof upon an offender who alleges, in an affidavit filed with the court prior to his or her sentencing, that he or she is indigent and is unable to pay any mandatory fine imposed pursuant to such paragraph, if the court determines the offender is an indigent person and is unable to pay the fine.
(e) In addition to the penalties provided in this section, the court may proceed as provided in Ohio R.C. 2925.13(E) and the State Registrar of Motor Vehicles shall proceed as provided in Ohio R.C. 4507.169.
(ORC 2925.13, 4507.169)