Ohio Revised Code Chapter 5502 - Department Of Public Safety

• Section 5502.01 - General Duties Of Department.
  (A) The department of public safety shall administer and enforce the laws relating to the registration, licensing, sale, and operation of motor vehicles and...
• Section 5502.011 - Duties Of Director.
  (A) As used in this section, "department of public safety" and "department" include all divisions within the department of public safety. (B) The director...
• Section 5502.02 - State Highway Patrol Retirement System - Mandatory Membership.
  All expenditures for the administration and enforcement of motor vehicle and traffic laws by the department of public safety shall be paid out of...
• Section 5502.03 - Division Of Homeland Security.
  (A) There is hereby created in the department of public safety a division of homeland security. (B) The division shall do all of the...
• Section 5502.031 - Regulation Of Amateur Radio Service Communications And Structures.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Amateur radio service" means the amateur service, the amateur-satellite service, and the radio amateur civil emergency service...
• Section 5502.05 - Driver's License Examination Section.
  There is hereby created in the department of public safety, a driver's license examination section . The director of public safety may appoint necessary...
• Section 5502.06 - Duty Of Examiners.
  Driver's license examiners assigned to the driver's license examination section shall conduct all examinations for driver's licenses as required by sections 4507.01 to 4507.36...
• Section 5502.07 - Training Schools For Examiners.
  The director of public safety may conduct training schools for prospective driver's license examiners and may establish rules governing the qualifications for admission to...
• Section 5502.10 - State Registry Of Habitual Ovi/omwi Offenders.
  (A) The department of public safety, not later than ninety days after the effective date of this section, shall do all of the following:...
• Section 5502.11 - Written Report Of Motor Vehicle Accident.
  Every law enforcement agency representing a township, county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision investigating a motor vehicle accident involving a fatality, personal injury,...
• Section 5502.12 - Use Of Written Report Of Motor Vehicle Accident.
  (A) The accident reports submitted pursuant to section 5502.11 of the Revised Code shall be for the use of the director of public safety...
• Section 5502.13 - Investigative Unit.
  The department of public safety shall maintain an investigative unit in order to conduct investigations and other enforcement activity authorized by Chapters 4301., 4303.,...
• Section 5502.131 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 53, §105.01, eff. 7/1/2015. Added by 128th General Assemblych.9, HB 2, §101.01, eff. 7/1/2009.
• Section 5502.132 - Ohio Investigative Unit Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the Ohio investigative unit fund. The fund shall consist of any nonfederal money received by the...
• Section 5502.14 - Enforcement Agent.
  (A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B) (1) Any person who...
• Section 5502.15 - Using Federal Funds.
  Any funding provided or made available by the United States or by any agency designated and authorized by the United States government for the...
• Section 5502.16 - Cooperative Or Contractual Arrangements With Other Governmental Entities.
  The director of public safety, on behalf of enforcement agents, may enter into cooperative or contractual arrangements with the United States, any agency or...
• Section 5502.17 - Public Safety Enforcement Agents Requirements.
  Enforcement agents of the department of public safety shall comply with the certification requirements established in section 109.77 of the Revised Code, take an...
• Section 5502.18 - Enforcement Agents May Assist State Or Local Law Enforcement Officers.
  Enforcement agents of the department of public safety may render assistance to a state or local law enforcement officer at the request of that...
• Section 5502.19 - Department Of Public Safety Inspections Of Retail Liquor Permit Premises.
  The department of public safety shall conduct inspections of retail liquor permit premises to determine their compliance with Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the...
• Section 5502.21 - Emergency Management Definitions.
  As used in sections 5502.21 to 5502.51 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agency" means any administrative or operational division, including an office, department, bureau,...
• Section 5502.22 - Emergency Management Agency.
  (A) There is hereby established within the department of public safety an emergency management agency, which shall be governed under rules adopted by the...
• Section 5502.23 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-02-1996
• Section 5502.24 - Designation Of Temporary Seats Of State And Local Government In Event Of Emergency.
  (A) The governor may designate by written proclamation an emergency temporary location, or locations, for the seat of government for use in the event...
• Section 5502.25 - Rules For Emergency Management Of State.
  The director of public safety, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt, may amend or rescind, and shall enforce rules...
• Section 5502.26 - Countywide Emergency Management Agency.
  (A) The board of county commissioners of a county and the chief executive of all or a majority of the other political subdivisions within...
• Section 5502.261 - Appropriation From General Fund For Agency Functions.
  A board of county commissioners that has entered into an agreement to establish a countywide emergency management agency may appropriate money from its general...
• Section 5502.27 - Regional Authority For Emergency Management.
  (A) In lieu of establishing a countywide emergency management agency under section 5502.26 of the Revised Code, the boards of county commissioners of two...
• Section 5502.271 - Program For Emergency Management.
  The chief executive of any political subdivision that has not entered into a written agreement establishing either a countywide emergency management agency under section...
• Section 5502.28 - Cooperation With Governor And Executive Director.
  (A) In carrying out sections 5502.21 to 5502.51 of the Revised Code, the governor shall utilize the services, equipment, supplies, and facilities of existing...
• Section 5502.281 - Volunteer Database; Registration; Privacy Provisions; Liability.
  (A) The executive director of the emergency management agency, jointly with the director of health, shall do both of the following: (1) Advise, assist,...
• Section 5502.29 - Mutual Emergency Management Assistance Or Aid Agreements.
  (A) As used in this section, "political subdivision" has the same meaning as in section 5502.41 of the Revised Code. (B) Political subdivisions, in...
• Section 5502.291 - Interstate Arrangements - Coordination Of Mutual Aid Plans.
  The governor may enter into mutual aid arrangements for reciprocal emergency management aid and assistance with other states and shall coordinate mutual aid plans...
• Section 5502.30 - Immunity From Liability.
  (A) The state, any political subdivision, any municipal agency, any emergency management volunteer, another state, or an emergency management agency thereof or of the...
• Section 5502.31 - Appropriations For Expenses.
  Each political subdivision may make appropriations for the payment of the expenses of its local activities for emergency management incurred by an agency established...
• Section 5502.32 - Acceptance Of Private Offers Of Assistance For Purposes Of Emergency Management.
  When any person, firm, or corporation offers to the state or to any political subdivision thereof services, equipment, supplies, materials, or funds by way...
• Section 5502.33 - Political Activity Prohibited.
  No agency for emergency management established under sections 5502.21 to 5502.51 of the Revised Code shall participate in any form of political activity, nor...
• Section 5502.34 - Disqualification For Subversive Activities - Registration And Oath Required.
  No person shall be employed or associated in any capacity in any position or agency established under sections 5502.21 to 5502.51 of the Revised...
• Section 5502.35 - Exercising Emergency Management Powers Outside Jurisdiction.
  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of law, persons engaged in emergency management activities, members of emergency management agencies in this state, and members of the...
• Section 5502.36 - Judicial Notice.
  All courts shall take judicial notice of plans, ordinances, resolutions, rules, or orders adopted pursuant to sections 5502.21 to 5502.51 of the Revised Code....
• Section 5502.37 - Emergency Management Prohibitions.
  (A) No person shall wear or display an emergency management insignia, bear official emergency management identification, or identify himself as being affiliated with or...
• Section 5502.38 - Emergency Response Provisions Not Affected By Emergency Planning Provisions.
  Except as provided in this section, sections 5502.21 to 5502.51 of the Revised Code and rules adopted under those sections do not apply to...
• Section 5502.39 - Emergency Management Agency Service And Reimbursement Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the emergency management agency service and reimbursement fund. The fund shall consist of the money collected...
• Section 5502.40 - Emergency Management Assistance Compact.
  The emergency management assistance compact is hereby ratified, enacted into law, and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining in it, in the...
• Section 5502.41 - Intrastate Mutual Aid Compact.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Chief executive of a participating political subdivision" means the elected chief executive of a participating political subdivision...
• Section 5502.42 - Civil Defense Certificate Of Necessity - Application.
  Application for a civil defense certificate of necessity shall be filed at such time, in such manner, and in such office as may be...
• Section 5502.43 - Notice And Hearing Prior To Issuance Of Certificate - Revocation Or Modification.
  Before issuing any civil defense certificate, the certifying authority shall give notice in writing by registered mail to the tax commissioner, and, in case...
• Section 5502.44 - Distribution Of Certificate.
  A civil defense certificate, when issued, shall be sent by registered mail to the applicant and notice of such issuance, in the form of...
• Section 5502.45 - Appeal.
  Any party aggrieved by the issuance, the refusal to issue, the revocation, or the modification of a civil defense certificate may appeal to the...
• Section 5502.46 - Revocation Due To Fraud - Taxes And Penalties.
  Whenever a civil defense certificate is revoked because it was obtained by fraud or misrepresentation, all taxes that would have been payable had no...
• Section 5502.47 - Exemption From Real Property Tax.
  No civil defense structure shall be considered an improvement on the land on which the same is located for the purpose of real property...
• Section 5502.48 - Exemption From Personal Property Tax.
  No civil defense structure or equipment shall be considered as "used in business" for the purpose of personal property taxation. Effective Date: 10-29-1995
• Section 5502.49 - Exemption From Corporate Franchise Tax.
  No civil defense structure or equipment for which a civil defense certificate has been issued shall be considered as an asset of any corporation...
• Section 5502.50 - Cost Of Superior Protection From Attack Does Not Increase Tax Value Of Structure.
  Where for reasons of national defense, a structure is constructed by an industry that is included on the list of critical industries as furnished...
• Section 5502.51 - Rules And Standards For Issuance Of Certificates.
  The director of public safety shall adopt and may amend or rescind rules and standards, consistent with sections 5502.42 to 5502.51 of the Revised...
• Section 5502.52 - Statewide Emergency Alert Program - Abducted Children - False Report.
  (A) There is hereby created the statewide emergency alert program to aid in the identification and location of children who are under eighteen years...
• Section 5502.521 - Amber Alert Advisory Committee.
  (A) There is hereby created the AMBER alert advisory committee, consisting of members to be appointed by the governor. The committee shall advise the...
• Section 5502.522 - Statewide Emergency Alert Program.
  (A) There is hereby created the statewide emergency alert program to aid in the identification and location of any individual who has a mental...
• Section 5502.53 - Statewide Blue Alert Program.
  (A) As used in this section:"Cable system" has the meaning defined in section 2913.04 of the Revised Code. "Law enforcement agency" means an organization...
• Section 5502.61 - Criminal Justice Services Definitions.
  As used in sections 5502.61 to 5502.66 of the Revised Code: (A) "Federal criminal justice acts" means any federal law that authorizes financial assistance...
• Section 5502.62 - Office Of Criminal Justice Services - Powers And Duties.
  (A) There is hereby created in the department of public safety a division of criminal justice services. The director of public safety, with the...
• Section 5502.63 - Poster And Brochure Describing Safe Firearms Practices And Information Regarding Human Trafficking.
  (A) The division of criminal justice services in the department of public safety shall prepare a poster and a brochure that describe safe firearms...
• Section 5502.64 - Metropolitan County Criminal Justice Services Agency - Powers And Duties.
  (A) A county may enter into an agreement with the largest city within the county to establish a metropolitan county criminal justice services agency,...
• Section 5502.65 - Metropolitan County Criminal Justice Services Agency - Funding, Supervisory Board.
  (A) (1) When funds are available for criminal justice purposes pursuant to section 5502.64 of the Revised Code, the division of criminal justice services...
• Section 5502.66 - Metropolitan County Criminal Justice Services Agency - Administrative Planning District, Criminal Or Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council.
  (A) In counties in which a metropolitan county criminal justice services agency does not exist, the division of criminal justice services shall discharge the...
• Section 5502.67 - Justice Program Service Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the justice program services fund. The fund shall consist of the court costs designated for the...
• Section 5502.68 - Drug Law Enforcement Fund.
  (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the drug law enforcement fund. Ninety-seven per cent of three dollars and fifty cents out...
• Section 5502.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates division (A) of section 5502.37 of the Revised Code shall be fined fifty dollars or imprisoned for not less than sixty...

Last modified: October 10, 2016