58-12 Amend 335.072, 335.073, 335.12, 335.13, 335.14 Traffic

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335.073 DRIVING WITHOUT COMPLYING WITH LICENSE REINSTATE- MENT REQUIREMENTS. (a) No person whose driver's license, commercial driver's license, temporary instruction permit, or nonresident's operating privilege has been suspended shall operate any motor vehicle upon a public road or highway or any pub- lic or private property after the suspension has expired unless the person has complied with all license reinstatement requirements imposed by the court, the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, or another provision of the Ohio Re- vised Code. b 11/1 I e.... N ' t'.,., 'It.. F F 'L...,, s.. epee I'..a.,,.o ( ) e, xioc ~c3 ~Ioxa eea vi3$ S2ce3vxx 35~•cHxcjvx mixeae cv rcliiScace c[ riwnoe, a. 18:)-Upon the request or motion of the prosecuting authorif,~, a non- certified copy of the law enforcement automated data system report or a na:certified copy of a record of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles that shows the name, date of birth, and social security mm~ber of a person charged with a violation of subsection (a) of this section maybe admit- ted into evidence as prima-facie evidence that the license of the person had not been reinstated by the persmc at the time of the alleged viola- tion of subsection (a) hereof. The person charged with a violation of subsection (a) hereof ma}• offer evidence to rebut this prima-facie evi- dence. (c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of faihu•e to reinstate a license and shall be punished as follows: (1) Txcept as provided in subsectimr (c)(2) of this scctimc, whoever violates subsection (a) hereof is guilty of mr mtclassified mis- demeanor. When the offense is an unclassified misdemeanor, the offender shall be sentenced pursuant to Ohio 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 cmumunity residential sanction pursuant to Ohio R.C. 2929.26; notwith- standing division (A)(2)(a) of Ohio R.C. 2929.28, the offender may be fined up to mte thousand dollars (51,000); and, not- withstanding division (A)(3) of Ohio R.C. 2929.27, the offender may be ordered pursuant to division (C) of that sectim: to sec•~•e a term of community ser•~•ice of up to five iuuulred bows. The faihu•e of an offender to complete a terni of community service imposed by the court may be punished as indirect c:•iminal cmrtempt wider division (A) of Ohio R.C. 2705.02 that may be filed in the underlying case. (2) lf, within three years of a violation of subsection (a) of this sec- tiar, the offender previously has pleaded guilty to m• been con- victed of two m• more violations of Ohio R.C. 4510.21(A) or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance, the offender is guilt3~ of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (3) In all cases, the court may impose upmt the offender a class seven suspension of the offender's driver's license, cocwuercial ch•iver's license, temporary insh•uction permit, probationary ch•iver's license, or nonresident operating privilege from the range specified in division (A)(7) of Ohio R.C. 4510.02. (ORC 4510.21).