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H. B. No. 126 As IntroducedAs Introduced
129th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2011-2012 |
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Representatives Grossman, Gonzales
A BILL
To amend section 4501.81 of the Revised Code to
provide that when a person submits an application
to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles or a deputy
registrar for a new or renewal driver's license,
commercial driver's license, temporary instruction
permit, motorcycle operator's license or
endorsement, or identification card, the
individual must be furnished with a next of kin
information form on which the individual may list
information for inclusion in the next of kin
database of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 4501.81 of the Revised Code be
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 4501.81. (A) The bureau of motor vehicles shall
establish a database of the next of kin of persons who are issued
and driver's licenses, commercial driver's licenses, temporary
instruction permits, motorcycle operator's licenses and
endorsements, and identification cards. Information in the
database shall be accessible only to employees of the bureau and
to criminal justice agencies and is not a public record for
purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
(B) An When an individual holding a valid Ohio submits an
application to the registrar of motor vehicles or a deputy
registrar for a driver's license, commercial driver's license,
temporary instruction permit, motorcycle operator's license or
endorsement, or identification card, or renewal of any of them,
the individual shall be afforded the opportunity to furnished with
a next of kin information form on which the individual may list
the name, address, telephone number, and relationship to the
individual of at least one contact person whom the individual
wishes to be contacted if the individual is involved in a motor
vehicle accident or emergency situation and the individual dies or
is seriously injured or rendered unconscious and is unable to
communicate with the contact person. The contact person may or may
not be the next of kin of the applicant, except that if the
applicant is under eighteen years of age and is not emancipated,
the contact person shall include the parent, guardian, or
custodian of the applicant.
The form described in this division shall inform the
individual that, after completing the form, the individual may
return the form to the registrar or any deputy registrar, each of
whom shall accept the form from the individual without payment of
any fee. The form also shall contain the mailing address of the
bureau, to which the individual may mail the completed form, and
also instructions whereby the individual may furnish the
information described in this division to the registrar through
use of the internet.
(C) The bureau, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the
Revised Code, shall adopt rules to implement this section. The
rules shall address both all of the following:
(1) The methods whereby a person who has submitted the name
of a contact person for inclusion in the database may make changes
to that entry;
(2) The contents of the next of kin information form;
(3) Any other aspect of the database or its operation that
the registrar of motor vehicles determines is necessary in order
to implement this section.
(D) In the event of a motor vehicle accident or emergency
situation in which a person dies or is seriously injured or
rendered unconscious and is unable to communicate with the contact
person specified in the database, an employee of a criminal
justice agency shall make a good faith effort to notify the
contact person of the situation, but neither the bureau of motor
vehicles nor the employee nor the criminal justice agency that
employs that employee incurs any liability if the employee is not
able to make contact with the contact person.
Section 2. That existing section 4501.81 of the Revised Code
is hereby repealed.
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