2006 Ohio Revised Code - 4507.13. Contents and characteristics of license; lamination.

§ 4507.13. Contents and characteristics of license; lamination.
 

(A)  The registrar of motor vehicles shall issue a driver's license to every person licensed as an operator of motor vehicles other than commercial motor vehicles. No person licensed as a commercial motor vehicle driver under Chapter 4506. of the Revised Code need procure a driver's license, but no person shall drive any commercial motor vehicle unless licensed as a commercial motor vehicle driver. 
 

Every driver's license shall display on it the distinguishing number assigned to the licensee and shall display the licensee's name and date of birth; the licensee's residence address and county of residence; a color photograph of the licensee; a brief description of the licensee for the purpose of identification; a facsimile of the signature of the licensee as it appears on the application for the license; a notation, in a manner prescribed by the registrar, indicating any condition described in division (D)(3) of section 4507.08 of the Revised Code to which the licensee is subject; if the licensee has executed a durable power of attorney for health care or a declaration governing the use or continuation, or the withholding or withdrawal, of life-sustaining treatment and has specified that the licensee wishes the license to indicate that the licensee has executed either type of instrument, any symbol chosen by the registrar to indicate that the licensee has executed either type of instrument; and any additional information that the registrar requires by rule. No license shall display the licensee's social security number unless the licensee specifically requests that the licensee's social security number be displayed on the license. If federal law requires the licensee's social security number to be displayed on the license, the social security number shall be displayed on the license notwithstanding this section. 
 

The driver's license for licensees under twenty-one years of age shall have characteristics prescribed by the registrar distinguishing it from that issued to a licensee who is twenty-one years of age or older, except that a driver's license issued to a person who applies no more than thirty days before the applicant's twenty-first birthday shall have the characteristics of a license issued to a person who is twenty-one years of age or older. 
 

The driver's license issued to a temporary resident shall contain the word "nonrenewable" and shall have any additional characteristics prescribed by the registrar distinguishing it from a license issued to a resident. 
 

Every driver's or commercial driver's license displaying a motorcycle operator's endorsement and every restricted license to operate a motor vehicle also shall display the designation "novice," if the endorsement or license is issued to a person who is eighteen years of age or older and previously has not been licensed to operate a motorcycle by this state or another jurisdiction recognized by this state. The "novice" designation shall be effective for one year after the date of issuance of the motorcycle operator's endorsement or license. 
 

Each license issued under this section shall be of such material and so designed as to prevent its reproduction or alteration without ready detection and, to this end, shall be laminated with a transparent plastic material. 

(B)  Except in regard to a driver's license issued to a person who applies no more than thirty days before the applicant's twenty-first birthday, neither the registrar nor any deputy registrar shall issue a driver's license to anyone under twenty-one years of age that does not have the characteristics prescribed by the registrar distinguishing it from the driver's license issued to persons who are twenty-one years of age or older. 

(C)  Whoever violates division (B) of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. 
 

HISTORY: GC § 6296-13; 116 v Pt II, 33, § 13; 119 v 701; 120 v 289; 123 v 246; Bureau of Code Revision, 10-1-53; 131 v 1087 (Eff 9-1-66); 132 v H 193 (Eff 12-11-67); 132 v S 43 (Eff 1-1-69); 132 v S 452 (Eff 1-1-69); 136 v H 650 (Eff 1-5-76); 137 v H 71 (Eff 8-26-77); 137 v H 115 (Eff 7-10-78); 138 v H 328 (Eff 9-13-79); 140 v H 183 (Eff 10-1-84); 142 v H 643 (Eff 3-17-89); 143 v H 329 (Eff 6-30-89); 143 v H 381 (Eff 7-1-89); 143 v S 131 (Eff 7-25-90); 144 v H 134 (Eff 10-10-91); 144 v H 427 (Eff 10-8-92); 145 v H 580 (Eff 12-9-94); 147 v S 60 (Eff 10-21-97); 147 v S 213, § 1 (Eff 7-29-98); 147 v S 35 (Eff 1-1-99); 147 v S 213, § 4 (Eff 1-1-99); 149 v H 46. Eff 2-1-2002; 149 v S 123, § 1, eff. 1-1-04; 150 v H 230, § 1, eff. 9-16-04.
 

The effective date is set by section 4 of S.B. 123. 

See provisions, § 5 of S.B. 123 (149 v  - ), following RC § 4501.01. 

The provisions of § 199 of HB 94 (149 v  - ) read as follows: 

SECTION 199. (A) In prescribing distinguishing characteristics for a driver's license issued to a person who is under twenty-one years of age, the Registrar of Motor Vehicles shall consider both of the following: 

(1) Formatting the license vertically; 

(2) Conspicuously indicating the month, day, and years on which the licensee becomes eighteen and twenty-one years of age. 

(B) In accordance with section 4507.13 of the Revised Code, the Registrar may prescribe either or both of the distinguishing driver's license characteristics considered under this section. 

 

Effect of Amendments

150 v H 230, effective September 16, 2004, deleted "a space marked 'blood type' in which a licensee may specify the licensee's blood type" following "for the license" in the second paragraph of (A). 

S.B. 123, Acts 2002, effective January 1, 2004, added (C).