57-12 Amend 335.06, 335.07, 335.071 Traffic Code

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A. A mandatory jail term of thirty consecutive days. Notwith- standing the jail terms provided in Ohio R.C. Chapter 2929, the court may sentence the offender to a longer jail term of not more than one year. The court shall not sentence the of- fender to a term of house arrest with electronic monitoring in lieu of the mandatory portion of the jail term. B. Notwithstanding the fines set forth in Ohio R.C. Chapter 2929, a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500.00) and not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500). C. A license suspension under subsection (e) of this section. (c) No court shall impose an alternative sentence of house arrest with elec- tronic monitoring under subsection (b)(1) or (2) of this section unless, within sixty days of the date of sentencing, the court issues a written find- ing on the record that, due to the unavailability of space at the jail where the offender is required to serve the jail term mrposed, the offender will not be able to begin serving that term within the sixty-day period follow- ing the date of sentencing. An offender sentenced under this section to a period of house arrest with electronic monitoring shall be permitted work release during that period. (d) Fifty per cent of any fine imposed by a court under subsection (b)(1), (2) or (3) of this section shall be deposited into the county indigent drivers al- cohol treatment fund or municipal indigent drivers alcohol heatment fund under the control of that court, as created by the county or municipal cor- poration pursuant to division (H} of Ohio R.C. 4511.191. (e) In addition to or independent of all other penalties provided by law or or- dinance, the trial judge of any court of record or the mayor of a mayor's court shall impose on an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation of this section a class seven suspension of the offender's driver's or commercial driver's license or permit or nonresident operating privilege fiom the range specified in division (A)(7) of Ohio R:C. 4510.02. When permitted as specified in Ohio R.C. 4510.021, if the court grants limited driving privileges during a suspension imposed under this section, the privileges shall be granted on the additional condition that the offender must display restricted license plates, issued under Ohio R.C. 4503.231, on the vehicle driven subject to the privileges, except as pro- vided in division (B) of that section. A suspension of a commercial driver's license under this section shall be concurrent with any period of suspension or disqualification under Ohio R.C. 3123.58 or 4506.16. No person wlro is drsqualified for life from holding a commercial driver's license under Ohio R.C. 4506.16 shall be issued a driver's license under Ohio R.C. Chapter 4507 during the pe- riod for which the commercial driver's license was suspended under this section, and no person whose commercial driver's license is suspended un- der this section shall be issued a driver's license under Ohio R.C. Chapter 4507 during the period of the suspension. (ORC 4510.14) (f) If a person rs convreted of or pleads guilty to a violation of this section, the court, in addition to and independent of any sentence that it imposes upon the offender for the offense, if the vehicle the offender was operating at the time of the offense is registered in the offender's name, shall do whichever of the following is applicable: (1) If, within five years of the current offense, the offender has not been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of Ohio R.C. 4510.14 or former division (D)(2) of Ohio R.C. 4507.02 or a mu- nicipal ordinance that is substantially equivalent to that section or former division, the court shall order the rmmobilization for thirty