(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 R.C. Chapter 4507 or a valid commercial driver's license issued under R.C. Chapter 4506.
(b) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever violates division (a) of this section is guilty of an unclassified misdemeanor. When the offense is an unclassified misdemeanor, the offender shall be sentenced pursuant to R.C. §§ 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 R.C. § 2929.26; notwithstanding division (A)(2)(a) of R.C. § 2929.28, the offender may be fined up to $1,000; and, notwithstanding division (A)(3) of R.C. § 2929.27, the offender may be ordered pursuant to division (C) of that section to serve a term of community service of up to 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 division (A) of R.C. § 2705.02 that may be filed in the underlying case.
(2) If, within three years of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to two or more violations of R.C. § 4507.02 or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance, the offense is a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 288-09. Passed 12-7-09; Ord. 58-13. Passed 3-25-13.)