(a) (1) No offender with limited driving privileges, during any period that the offender is required to operate only a motor vehicle equipped with an immobilizing or disabling device, shall request or permit any other person to breathe into the device if it is an ignition interlock device or another type of device that monitors the concentration of alcohol in a person's breath or to otherwise start the motor vehicle equipped with the device, for the purpose of providing the offender with an operable motor vehicle.
(2) A. Except as provided in division (a)(2)B. of this section, no person shall breathe into an immobilizing or disabling device that is an ignition interlock device or another type of device that monitors the concentration of alcohol in a person's breath or otherwise start a motor vehicle equipped with an immobilizing or disabling device, for the purpose of providing an operable motor vehicle to an offender with limited driving privileges who is permitted to operate only a motor vehicle equipped with an immobilizing or disabling device.
B. Division (a)(2)A. of this section does not apply to a person in the following circumstances:
1. The person is an offender with limited driving privileges.
2. The person breathes into an immobilizing or disabling device that is an ignition interlock device or another type of device that monitors the concentration of alcohol in a person's breath or otherwise starts a motor vehicle equipped with an immobilizing or disabling device.
3. The person breathes into the device or starts the vehicle for the purpose of providing the person with an operable motor vehicle.
(3) No unauthorized person shall tamper with or circumvent the operation of an immobilizing or disabling device.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of an immobilizing or disabling device violation, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(R.C. § 4510.44)