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| To enact section 4501.81 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
| establish a next of kin database within the Bureau | 2 |
| of Motor Vehicles. | 3 |
| Section 1. That section 4501.81 of the Revised Code be | 4 |
| enacted to read as follows: | 5 |
| Sec. 4501.81. (A) The bureau of motor vehicles shall | 6 |
| establish a database of the next of kin of persons who are issued | 7 |
| and driver's licenses, commercial driver's licenses, temporary | 8 |
| instruction permits, and identification cards. Information in | 9 |
| the database shall be accessible only to employees of the bureau | 10 |
| and to criminal justice agencies. | 11 |
| (B) An individual holding a valid Ohio driver's license, | 12 |
| commercial driver's license, temporary instruction permit, or | 13 |
| identification card shall be afforded the opportunity to list the | 14 |
| name, address, telephone number, and relationship to the | 15 |
| individual of at least one contact person whom the individual | 16 |
| wishes to be contacted if the individual is involved in a motor | 17 |
| vehicle accident or emergency situation and the individual is | 18 |
| killed or is seriously injured or rendered unconscious and is | 19 |
| unable to communicate with the contact person. The contact | 20 |
| person may or may not be the next of kin of the applicant. | 21 |
| (C) The bureau, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the | 22 |
| Revised Code, shall adopt rules to implement this section. The | 23 |
| rules shall address both of the following: | 24 |
| (1) The methods whereby a person who has submitted the name | 25 |
| of a contact person for inclusion in the database may make changes | 26 |
| to that entry; | 27 |
| (2) Any other aspect of the database or its operation that | 28 |
| the registrar of motor vehicles determines is necessary in order | 29 |
| to implement this section. | 30 |
| (D) In the event of a motor vehicle accident or emergency | 31 |
| situation in which a person is killed or is seriously injured or | 32 |
| rendered unconscious and is unable to communicate with the contact | 33 |
| person specified in the database, an employee of a criminal | 34 |
| justice agency shall make a good faith effort to notify the | 35 |
| contact person of the situation, but neither the employee nor the | 36 |
| criminal justice agency that employs that employee incurs any | 37 |
| liability if the employee is not able to make contact with the | 38 |
| contact person. | 39 |
| Section 2. The Bureau of Motor Vehicles shall adopt rules | 40 |
| establishing the next of kin database described in Section 1 of | 41 |
| this act, and the database shall be operational, not later than | 42 |
| one hundred eighty days after the effective date of this section. | 43 |
| Section 3. This act shall be known as the "Money-Burge Act." | 44 |