OH HB338

Legislative Description

To allow, in certain circumstances, all issues concerning a person's driver's license to be litigated in a single court, to create the Putnam County Municipal Court in Ottawa on January 1, 2011, to establish one full-time judgeship in that court, to provide for the nomination of the judge by petition only, to abolish the Putnam County County Court on that date, to designate the Putnam County Clerk of Courts as the clerk of the Putnam County Municipal Court, to provide for the election for the Putnam County Municipal Court of one full-time judge in 2011, to make deputy sheriffs and members of a township or joint township police force ex officio deputy bailiffs of municipal courts, to require the Clerk of the Court of Claims to request that the Controlling Board, within 60 days after the date of the entry of a court's determination that a person is a wrongfully imprisoned individual, pay 50 per cent of a certain specified amount of money to that wrongfully imprisoned individual, to permit a trial judge to impose a prison term or jail time, to extend the duration of a community control sanction, to impose a more restrictive sanction when a felony or a misdemeanant violates any condition of a community control sanction, to allow a judge or magistrate to base a finding on the facts contained in a complaint, to authorize judicial release of misdemeanants who are serving jail sentences, to modify the conditions for increased penalties for the offenses of failure to stop after an accident and failure to stop after a nonpublic road accident, to modify the penalty for repeat offenders under "operating a motor vehicle without a valid license" who never have held a valid driver's or commercial driver's license or permit, and to clarify the manner of sentencing for that offense and three other traffic offenses when they are unclassified misdemeanors.

Driver's license-litigate all issues concerning in a single court

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