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335.072 TRAFFIC CODE 64D 335.072 DRIVING UNDER FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY LAW . SUSPENSION OR CANCELLATION. (a) No person, whose driver's or commercial driver's license or temporary instruction permit or nonresident's operating privilege has been suspended or canceled pursuant to Ohio R.C. Chapter 4509, shall operate any motor vehicle within this Municipality, or knowingly permit any motor vehicle owned by the person to be operated by another person m the Municipality, during the period of the suspension or cancellation, except as specifically authorized by Ohio R.C. Chapter 4509. No person shall operate a motor vehicle within this Municipality, or knowingly permit any motor vehicle owned by the person to be operated by another person in the Municipality, during the period in which the person is required by Ohio R.C. 4509.45 to file and maintain proof of financial responsibility for a violation of Ohio R.C. 4509.101, unless proof of financial responsibility is maintained with respect to that vehicle. (b) Whoever violates. this section is guilty of driving under financial responsibility law suspension or cancellation, a misdemeanor of the first degree. The court shall impose a class seven suspension of the offender's driver's or commercial driver's license or permit or nonresident operating privilege for the period of time specified in division (A)(7) of Ohio R.C. 4510.02. (ORC 4510.16) (c) If a person is convicted 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 division (A) of Ohio R.C. 4510.16 or former division (B)(1) of Ohio R.C. 4507.02 or a municipal ordinance that is substantially equivalent to either division, the court shall order the immobilization for thirty days of the vehicle the offender was _ operating at the time of the offense and the impoundment for thirty days of the identification license plates of that vehicle. (2) If, within five years of the current offense, the offender has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to one violation of division (A) of Ohio R.C. 4510.16 or former division (B)(1) of Ohio R.C. 4507.02 or a municipal ordinance that is substantially equivalent to either division, the court shall order the immobilization for sixty days of the vehicle the offender was operating at the time of the offense and the impoundment for sixty days of the identification license plates of that vehicle. (3) If, within five years of the current offense, the offender has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to two or more violations of division (A) of Ohio R.C. 4510._16 or former division (B)(1) of Ohio R.C. 4507.02 or a municipal ordinance that is substantially equivalent to either division, the court shall order the criminal forfeiture to the State of the vehicle the offender was. operating at the time of the offense. The order of criminal forfeiture shall be issued and enforced in accordance with Ohio R.C. 4503.234. (ORC 4510.161) 2003 Replacement