(a) No person, being the owner, operator or person in charge of a locomotive, watercraft, aircraft or other vehicles as defined in Ohio R.C 4501.01(A), shall knowingly permit such vehicle to be used for 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 premises, or real estate, including vacant land, to be used for 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. If the felony drug abuse offense in question is a violation of Ohio R.C. 2925.02, 2925.03, 2925.04 or 2925.041 as provided in Ohio R.C. 2925.13, permitting drug abuse is a felony and shall be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
(d) In addition to any other sanction imposed for an offense under this section, the court that sentences a person who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation of this section may suspend for not more than five years the offender’s driver’s or commercial driver’s license or permit. However, if the offender pleaded guilty to or was convicted of a violation of Ohio R.C. 4511.19 or a substantially similar municipal ordinance or the law of another state or the United States arising out of the same set of circumstances as the violation, the court shall suspend the offender’s driver’s or commercial driver’s license or permit for not more than five years.
(ORC 2925.13)
(e) Vehicles used in violation of subsection (a) hereof shall be seized and forfeited to the Municipality, upon motion to the common pleas court. Forfeiture shall not apply to common carriers or innocent owners, nor shall they affect the rights of a holder of a valid lien.
(Ord. 96-106. Enacted 6-24-96.)
(f) Any premises or real estate that is permitted to be used in violation of subsection (b) hereof constitutes a nuisance subject to abatement pursuant to Ohio R.C. Chapter 3767.
(ORC 2925.13)