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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 and is not a public record for | 11 |
purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code. | 12 |
(B) An individual holding a valid Ohio driver's license, | 13 |
commercial driver's license, temporary instruction permit, or | 14 |
identification card shall be afforded the opportunity to list the | 15 |
name, address, telephone number, and relationship to the | 16 |
individual of at least one contact person whom the individual | 17 |
wishes to be contacted if the individual is involved in a motor | 18 |
vehicle accident or emergency situation and the individual dies | 19 |
or is seriously injured or rendered unconscious and is unable | 20 |
to communicate with the contact person. The contact person may | 21 |
or may not be the next of kin of the applicant, except that if | 22 |
the applicant is under eighteen years of age and is not | 23 |
emancipated, the contact person shall include the parent, | 24 |
guardian, or custodian of the applicant. | 25 |
(C) The bureau, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the | 26 |
Revised Code, shall adopt rules to implement this section. The | 27 |
rules shall address both of the following: | 28 |
(1) The methods whereby a person who has submitted the name | 29 |
of a contact person for inclusion in the database may make changes | 30 |
to that entry; | 31 |
(2) Any other aspect of the database or its operation that | 32 |
the registrar of motor vehicles determines is necessary in order | 33 |
to implement this section. | 34 |
(D) In the event of a motor vehicle accident or emergency | 35 |
situation in which a person dies or is seriously injured or | 36 |
rendered unconscious and is unable to communicate with the contact | 37 |
person specified in the database, an employee of a criminal | 38 |
justice agency shall make a good faith effort to notify the | 39 |
contact person of the situation, but neither the bureau of motor | 40 |
vehicles nor the employee nor the criminal justice agency that | 41 |
employs that employee incurs any liability if the employee is | 42 |
not able to make contact with the contact person. | 43 |
Section 2. The Bureau of Motor Vehicles shall adopt rules | 44 |
establishing the next of kin database described in Section 1 of | 45 |
this act, and the database shall be operational, not later than | 46 |
one hundred eighty days after the effective date of this section. | 47 |
Section 3. This act shall be known as the "Money-Burge Act." | 48 |