4506.08 Application and driving record information fees.
4506.08 Application and driving record information fees.
(A)(1) Each application for a commercial driver’s license temporary instruction permit shall be accompanied by a fee of ten dollars. Each application for a commercial driver’s license, restricted commercial driver’s license, renewal of such a license, or waiver for farm-related service industries shall be accompanied by a fee of twenty-five dollars, except that an application for a commercial driver’s license or restricted commercial driver’s license received pursuant to division (A)(3) of section 4506.14 of the Revised Code shall be accompanied by a fee of eighteen dollars and seventy-five cents if the license will expire on the licensee’s birthday three years after the date of issuance, a fee of twelve dollars and fifty cents if the license will expire on the licensee’s birthday two years after the date of issuance, and a fee of six dollars and twenty-five cents if the license will expire on the licensee’s birthday one year after the date of issuance. Each application for a duplicate commercial driver’s license shall be accompanied by a fee of ten dollars.
(2) In addition, the registrar of motor vehicles or deputy registrar may collect and retain an additional fee of no more than three dollars and fifty cents for each application for a commercial driver’s license temporary instruction permit, commercial driver’s license, renewal of a commercial driver’s license, or duplicate commercial driver’s license received by the registrar or deputy.
(B) In addition to the fees imposed under division (A) of this section, the registrar of motor vehicles or deputy registrar shall collect a fee of twelve dollars for each application for a commercial driver’s license temporary instruction permit, commercial driver’s license, or duplicate commercial driver’s license and for each application for renewal of a commercial driver’s license . The additional fee is for the purpose of defraying the department of public safety’s costs associated with the administration and enforcement of the motor vehicle and traffic laws of Ohio.
(C) Commencing on October 1, 2009, if an application for a commercial driver’s license made by a person who previously held such a license is not applied for within the period specified in section 4506.14 of the Revised Code or within seven days after the period so specified, the registrar or deputy registrar shall collect a fee of twenty dollars for the issuance of the commercial driver’s license, but may waive the fee for good cause shown if the application is accompanied by supporting evidence as the registrar may require. The fee is in addition to all other fees established by this section. A deputy registrar shall retain fifty cents of the fee and shall transmit the remaining amount in accordance with division (D) of this section.
(D) Each deputy registrar shall transmit the fees collected under divisions (A)(1), (B), and (C) of this section in the time and manner prescribed by the registrar. The registrar shall deposit all moneys received under division (D) of this section into the state highway safety fund established in section 4501.06 of the Revised Code.
(E) Information regarding the driving record of any person holding a commercial driver’s license issued by this state shall be furnished by the registrar, upon request and payment of a fee of five dollars, to the employer or prospective employer of such a person and to any insurer.
Of each five-dollar fee the registrar collects under this division, the registrar shall pay two dollars into the state treasury to the credit of the state bureau of motor vehicles fund established in section 4501.25 of the Revised Code, sixty cents into the state treasury to the credit of the trauma and emergency medical services fund established in section 4513.263 of the Revised Code, sixty cents into the state treasury to the credit of the homeland security fund established in section 5502.03 of the Revised Code, thirty cents into the state treasury to the credit of the investigations fund established in section 5502.131 of the Revised Code, one dollar and twenty-five cents into the state treasury to the credit of the emergency management agency service and reimbursement fund established in section 5502.39 of the Revised Code, and twenty-five cents into the state treasury to the credit of the justice program services fund established in section 5502.67 of the Revised Code.
Amended by 128th General Assembly ch. 1, HB 2, § 101.01, eff. 7/1/2009.
Effective Date: 01-01-2004; 09-16-2004; 03-29-2005