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335.14  VEHICLE ACCIDENT RESULTING IN DAMAGE TO REALTY.
   (a)   The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in damage to real property, or personal property attached to real property, legally upon or adjacent to a public road or highway immediately shall stop and take reasonable steps to locate and notify the owner or person in charge of the property of that fact, of the driver’s name and address, and of the registration number of the vehicle the driver is driving and, upon request and if available, shall exhibit the driver’s or commercial driver’s license.
   If the owner or person in charge of the property cannot be located after reasonable search, the driver of the vehicle involved in the accident resulting in damage to the property, within twenty-four hours after the accident, shall forward to the police authority in the municipality in which the accident or collision occurred, the same information required to be given to the owner or person in control of the property and give the location of the accident and a description of the damage insofar as it is known.
   (b)   Whoever violates subsection (a) of this section is guilty of failure to stop after an accident involving the property of others, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
   The offender shall provide the court with proof of financial responsibility as defined in Ohio R.C. 4509.01.  If the offender fails to provide that proof of financial responsibility, then, in addition to any other penalties provided by law, the court may order restitution pursuant to Ohio R.C. 2929.28 in an amount not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000) for any economic loss arising from an accident or collision that was the direct and proximate result of the offender’s operation of the motor vehicle before, during or after committing the offense charged under this section.  (ORC 4549.03)
335.15  GARAGES TO REPORT DAMAGED CARS.
   (a)   Every person, firm, or corporation in charge of any garage or repair shop to which is brought any vehicle which shows evidence of having been involved in any accident shall keep a record of the make, color, serial number and engine number of the vehicle, the name and address of the owner and the operator, and the type of damage to such vehicle.  Such record shall be open to inspection by the Police Division at all times.  If any vehicle so received shows evidence of having been struck by bullets, the person, firm, or corporation in charge of such garage or repair shop shall immediately report the same to the Division of Police, giving the make of vehicle, the serial number, the engine number, the license number, the name and address of the owner and operator of such vehicle, and the time the vehicle was received.
(1980 Code 73.24; Ord. 349.)
   (b)   Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.