Ohio
Ohio Revised Code — Title 45, Motor Vehicles
266 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 4510.01 — License suspension definitions
- § 4510.011 — Drug of abuse defined as in RC 3719.01
- § 4510.02 — Definite periods of suspension - suspension classes
- § 4510.021 — Granting limited driving privileges
- § 4510.022 — Petition for unlimited driving privileges with certified ignition interlock device
- § 4510.03 — Court records and abstracts of traffic violations
- § 4510.031 — Traffic offenses on federal property
- § 4510.032 — Abstracts where charges dismissed or reduced or bail forfeiture
- § 4510.034 — Ineligibility for vehicle registration
- § 4510.035 — Failure to comply with traffic record requirements
- § 4510.036 — Records of bureau of motor vehicles - points assessed
- § 4510.037 — Warning letter - notice of suspension - remedial driving course
- § 4510.038 — Conditions for reinstatement of driving privileges
- § 4510.04 — Affirmative defenses to driving under suspension or cancellation
- § 4510.05 — Suspension of driver's license for violation of municipal ordinance substantially similar to state statute
- § 4510.06 — Suspension or cancellation of license by federal court
- § 4510.07 — Suspension of driver's license for violation of municipal ordinance substantially similar to certain criminal offenses
- § 4510.10 — Reinstatement fees payment plan or payment extension plan
- § 4510.101 — Definitions
- § 4510.102 — Permanent driver's license reinstatement fee debt reduction and amnesty program
- § 4510.103 — First phase
- § 4510.104 — Second phase
- § 4510.105 — Reinstatement; payment plans
- § 4510.106 — Notice
- § 4510.107 — Verification of address
- § 4510.108 — Promotion; administration
- § 4510.11 — Driving under suspension or in violation of license restriction
- § 4510.111 — Driving under suspended license for failing to appear or pay fine or for default in payment of child support
- § 4510.12 — Operating a motor vehicle without a valid license
- § 4510.13 — Restrictions on suspending suspension periods or granting limited driving privileges
- § 4510.14 — Driving under OVI suspension
- § 4510.15 — Suspension of license for reckless operation
- § 4510.16 — Driving under financial responsibility law suspension or cancellation; driving under a nonpayment of judgment suspension
- § 4510.161 — Additional sanctions for violations of municipal ordinance substantially similar to driving under suspension
- § 4510.17 — Suspension of license for drug or OVI offense substantially similar to state statute
- § 4510.18 — Driving under specified lifetime suspension
- § 4510.21 — Failure to reinstate license
- § 4510.22 — Suspension of license for failure to appear or to pay fine
- § 4510.23 — Suspension of license upon adjudication of incompetence
- § 4510.31 — Suspension of probationary, restricted license, or temporary permit for juvenile adjudications
- § 4510.311 — Juvenile driver improvement programs
- § 4510.33 — Insufficient age person using license to purchase intoxicating liquor or beer
- § 4510.34 — Suspension of probationary motorized bicycle license for juvenile adjudications
- § 4510.41 — Seizure of vehicle and removal of license plates upon arrest for certain traffic violations - immobilization orders
- § 4510.43 — Director of public safety certification of immobilization and disabling devices
- § 4510.44 — Immobilization or disabling device violation
- § 4510.45 — License for ignition interlock device required for certification
- § 4510.46 — Monitoring entity to inform court if vehicle operation prevented
- § 4510.52 — Registrar may destroy suspended or canceled license or permit
- § 4510.53 — Registrar may destroy license or permit suspended for OVI violation
- § 4510.54 — Motion for modification or termination of suspension
- § 4510.61 — Driver license compact
- § 4510.62 — Designation of executive head and licensing authority
- § 4510.63 — Information or documents furnished to appropriate authorities of other party states
- § 4510.64 — Reimbursement for travel and expenses to compact administrator
- § 4510.71 — Nonresident violator compact
- § 4510.72 — License reinstatement fee - designation of compact administrator
- § 4510.73 — Litigation of all issues concerning driver's licenses
- § 4511.01 — Traffic laws - operation of motor vehicles definitions
- § 4511.011 — Designating freeway, expressway, and thruway
- § 4511.03 — Emergency vehicles at red signal or stop sign
- § 4511.031 — Portable signal preemption devices prohibited
- § 4511.04 — Exception to traffic rules
- § 4511.041 — Exceptions to traffic rules for emergency or public safety vehicle responding to emergency call
- § 4511.042 — Exceptions to traffic rules for coroner's vehicles
- § 4511.043 — Ticket, summons, or citation for secondary traffic offense
- § 4511.05 — Persons riding or driving animals upon roadways
- § 4511.051 — Freeways - prohibited acts
- § 4511.06 — Applicability and uniformity of traffic laws
- § 4511.07 — Local traffic regulations
- § 4511.071 — No liability for lessor under written lease
- § 4511.08 — Use of private property for vehicular travel
- § 4511.09 — Manual for uniform system of traffic control devices
- § 4511.091 — Arrest or citation of driver based on radar, timing device or radio message from another officer
- § 4511.0910 — Violations for which civil penalty imposed
- § 4511.0911 — Traffic law photo-monitoring device maintenance records; accuracy; issuance of certain tickets prohibited
- § 4511.0912 — Speeding tickets
- § 4511.0913 — Applicable law
- § 4511.0914 — Bans on use of traffic law photo-monitoring devices
- § 4511.092 — Definitions
- § 4511.093 — Traffic law photo-monitoring devices
- § 4511.094 — Signs required for photo-monitoring devices
- § 4511.095 — Prerequisites for deployment of device
- § 4511.096 — Examination of evidence
- § 4511.097 — Classification of violation as civil violation
- § 4511.098 — Rights of those ticketed
- § 4511.099 — Advance deposit for filing civil action
- § 4511.10 — Placement and maintenance of traffic control devices
- § 4511.101 — Placement of business logos on directional signs along interstates
- § 4511.102 — Tourist-oriented directional sign program definitions
- § 4511.103 — Administrative rules for placement of tourist-oriented directional signs and trailblazer markers
- § 4511.104 — Participation in tourist-oriented directional sign program
- § 4511.105 — Tourist-oriented directional signs to conform to federal manual of uniform traffic control devices
- § 4511.106 — Local tourist-oriented directional sign programs
- § 4511.107 — Acquiring outdoor advertising devices
- § 4511.108 — Traffic generator sign program
- § 4511.11 — Local conformity to manual for uniform system of traffic control devices
- § 4511.12 — Obedience to traffic control devices
- § 4511.121 — Bypassing vehicle weighing locations
- § 4511.122 — Hands free law signs
- § 4511.13 — Highway traffic signal indications; section not applicable to railroad crossings
- § 4511.131 — Lane-use control signal indications
- § 4511.132 — Operation at intersections with malfunctioning traffic control signal lights
- § 4511.14 — Special pedestrian control signals
- § 4511.15 — Bicycle symbol signal indications
- § 4511.16 — Unauthorized sign or signal resembling a traffic control device
- § 4511.17 — Tampering with traffic control device, freshly applied pavement material, manhole covers
- § 4511.18 — Purchase, possession or sale of traffic control device
- § 4511.181 — OVI definitions
- § 4511.19 — Operating vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs - OVI
- § 4511.191 — Implied consent
- § 4511.192 — Advice to OVI arrestee
- § 4511.193 — Portion fine deposited in municipal or county indigent drivers alcohol treatment fund
- § 4511.194 — Having physical control of vehicle while under the influence
- § 4511.195 — Seizing and detaining vehicle if operator has prior conviction
- § 4511.196 — Initial appearance
- § 4511.197 — Appeal of implied consent suspension
- § 4511.198 — Limited driving privileges - remote continuous alcohol monitor
- § 4511.20 — Operation in willful or wanton disregard of the safety of persons or property
- § 4511.201 — Operation off street or highway in willful or wanton disregard of the safety of persons or property
- § 4511.202 — Operation without being in reasonable control of vehicle, trolley, or streetcar
- § 4511.203 — Wrongful entrustment of motor vehicle
- § 4511.204 — Driving while texting
- § 4511.205 — Use of devices by persons under 18 years of age
- § 4511.21 — Speed limits - assured clear distance
- § 4511.211 — Establishing speed limit on private road
- § 4511.212 — Complaint of noncompliance by local authority with school zone sign laws
- § 4511.213 — Approaching stationary public safety vehicle displaying emergency light
- § 4511.214 — Operation of low-speed, under-speed, or utility vehicle, or a mini-truck
- § 4511.215 — Local authorization for operation of low-speed, under-speed, or utility vehicle, or a mini-truck
- § 4511.216 — Traveling from one farm field to another for agricultural purposes
- § 4511.22 — Slow speed
- § 4511.23 — Speed limits on bridges
- § 4511.24 — Speed limits not applicable to emergency or public safety vehicles
- § 4511.25 — Lanes of travel upon roadways of sufficient width
- § 4511.251 — Street racing
- § 4511.252 — Closing roads for supervised sports car racing
- § 4511.26 — Vehicles traveling in opposite directions
- § 4511.27 — Overtaking and passing of vehicles proceeding in the same direction
- § 4511.28 — Overtaking and passing upon the right of another vehicle
- § 4511.29 — Driving to left of center of roadway in overtaking and passing traffic proceeding in same direction
- § 4511.30 — Driving upon left side of roadway
- § 4511.31 — Establishing hazardous zones
- § 4511.32 — One-way traffic - rotary islands
- § 4511.33 — Driving in marked lanes
- § 4511.34 — Space between moving vehicles
- § 4511.35 — Divided roadways
- § 4511.36 — Rules for turns at intersections
- § 4511.37 — Turning in roadway prohibited - exceptions
- § 4511.38 — Rules for starting and backing vehicles
- § 4511.39 — Turn and stop signals
- § 4511.40 — Hand and arm signals
- § 4511.41 — Right-of-way rule at intersections
- § 4511.42 — Right-of-way rule when turning left
- § 4511.43 — Right-of-way rule at through highways, stop signs, yield signs
- § 4511.431 — Stop prior to driving on sidewalk area
- § 4511.432 — Stop signs on private road
- § 4511.44 — Right-of-way at highway from any place other than another roadway
- § 4511.441 — Right-of-way of pedestrian on sidewalk
- § 4511.45 — Right-of-way of public safety or coroner's vehicle
- § 4511.451 — Right-of way of funeral vehicle
- § 4511.452 — Right-of-way yielded by pedestrian to public safety vehicle
- § 4511.453 — Immunity of funeral home operator
- § 4511.454 — Reporting failure of motor vehicle operator to yield right-of-way to public safety vehicle
- § 4511.46 — Right-of-way of pedestrian within crosswalk
- § 4511.47 — Right-of-way of blind person
- § 4511.48 — Right-of-way yielded by pedestrian
- § 4511.481 — Intoxicated or drugged pedestrian on highway
- § 4511.49 — Pedestrians on right half of crosswalk
- § 4511.50 — Pedestrian walking in roadway
- § 4511.51 — Hitchhiking - soliciting employment, business, or contributions from occupant of vehicle
- § 4511.511 — Pedestrian on bridge or railroad grade crossing
- § 4511.512 — Operation of electric personal assistive mobility devices
- § 4511.513 — Operation of personal delivery device on sidewalks and crosswalks
- § 4511.514 — Low-speed micromobility devices
- § 4511.52 — Bicycles and electric bicycles - issuance of ticket - points not assessed
- § 4511.521 — Operation of motorized bicycles
- § 4511.522 — Electric bicycles; labels; compliance with federal regulations; permitted use; violations
- § 4511.53 — Operation of bicycles, motorcycles and snowmobiles
- § 4511.54 — Prohibition against attaching bicycle, skates, sleds, etc., to vehicles
- § 4511.55 — Operating bicycles, electric bicycles, and motorcycles on roadway
- § 4511.56 — Bicycle signal devices
- § 4511.57 — Passing on left side of streetcar
- § 4511.58 — Vehicle shall not pass streetcar discharging passengers - exception
- § 4511.59 — Driving and turning in front of streetcars
- § 4511.60 — Driving through safety zone
- § 4511.61 — Stop signs at dangerous highway crossings over railroad tracks
- § 4511.62 — Stopping at railroad grade crossing
- § 4511.63 — Stopping at grade crossings
- § 4511.64 — Slow-moving vehicles or equipment crossing railroad tracks
- § 4511.65 — Designation of through highways
- § 4511.66 — Prohibition against parking on highways
- § 4511.661 — Unattended motor vehicles
- § 4511.67 — Police may remove illegally parked vehicle
- § 4511.68 — Parking - prohibited acts
- § 4511.681 — Parking on private property - prohibited acts
- § 4511.69 — Parking requirements
- § 4511.70 — Obstructing view and control of driver - opening door into moving traffic
- § 4511.701 — Occupying moving trailer prohibited
- § 4511.71 — Prohibition against driving upon closed highway