Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4501 - Department of Public Safety - Administration and Director › Chapter 4501-7 - Commercial Driver Training Schools › Section 4501-7-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed
			 through July 1, 2024
(A)
			 "Armed forces" means the armed forces of the United States, including the army,
			 navy, air force, marine corps, coast guard, or any reserve components of those
			 forces; the national guard of any state; the commissioned corps of the United
			 State public health service; the merchant marine service during wartime; such
			 other service as may be designated by congress; or the Ohio organized militia
			 when engaged in full-time national guard duty for a period of more than thirty
			 days.
(B) "Applicant" or
			 "candidate" means any person applying for a license to be an authorizing
			 official for a driver training school, an instructor, an online instructor, or
			 a training manager.
(C)
								"Asynchronous" means education not occurring at the
			 same time nor in real time with a live instructor.
(D)
			 "Authorizing official" or "official" means any person who owns or who maintains
			 responsibility on behalf of an individual, corporation, business trust, estate,
			 trust, partnership, or an association for the facilities, equipment,
			 instructors, managers and other employees of a driver training enterprise or an
			 enterprise providing online driver education.
(E) "Beginning driver"
			 or "beginning student" means any person being trained to drive a particular
			 class of motor vehicle who has not been previously licensed to drive that motor
			 vehicle by any state or country.
(F) "Behind-the-wheel
			 instruction" means that portion of a driver training course which is devoted to
			 teaching a student driving skill, provided to a student who is operating an
			 approved motor vehicle, and presented by a licensed instructor.
(G)
			 "Biometric authentication" means the verification of a user's identity by means
			 of a physical trait or behavioral characteristic.
(H) "Certificate of
			 completion" means a certificate electronically furnished by the department to a
			 licensed driver training enterprise and issued by the enterprise to students
			 under age eighteen who have completed the required twenty-four hours of
			 classroom instruction, or equivalent online instruction, and eight hours of
			 behind-the-wheel instruction to the satisfaction of the school's authorizing
			 official or training manager as required by division (C) of section
			 4508.02 of the Revised
			 Code.
(I) "Certificate of
			 completion of an online driver education program" means a certificate
			 electronically furnished by the department to a licensed driver training
			 enterprise and issued by the enterprise to students under the age of eighteen
			 who have completed the online equivalent of the required twenty-four hours of
			 classroom instruction.
(J) "Certified Driver
			 Rehabilitation Specialist" means a person certified through the association of
			 driver rehabilitation specialists (ADED) and who plans, develops,
			 coordinates, and implements driver rehabilitation
			 services for individuals with disabilities.
(K) "Chargeable crash"
			 means a conviction of, a guilty plea to, a finding of guilty following a plea
			 of no contest to, or the forfeiture of any bail or collateral deposited to
			 secure an appearance for a moving traffic violation as a result of a motor
			 vehicle crash.
(L) "Class D license
			 school" means any school training students in the operation of motor vehicles
			 for class "D" operator's licenses as defined in Chapter 4507. of the Revised
			 Code.
(M) Class "D" operators
			 are licensed instructors who teach any part of a curriculum, including
			 classroom, and behind-the-wheel instruction, or who provide curriculum support
			 for an online driver training enterprise; for the operation of motor vehicles
			 to persons learning to operate a passenger
			 vehicle.
(N) "Classroom" means
			 any room within a driver training school used to teach students driver
			 knowledge.
(O) "Classroom
			 instruction" means that portion of a driver training course that is devoted to
			 teaching driver knowledge and provided in a physical classroom location.
			 Classroom instruction does not include the student's operation of a motor
			 vehicle.
(P) "Commercial driver
			 license" or "CDL" means a license issued in accordance with Chapter 4506. of
			 the Revised Code that authorizes an individual to drive a commercial motor
			 vehicle.
(Q) "Commercial motor
			 vehicle" means any motor vehicle designed or used to transport persons or
			 property that meets the qualifications listed in divisions (E) and (D) of
			 section 4506.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(R) "Current textbook
			 or workbook" means a book published within the past ten years containing
			 information for safe and responsible driver practices and used as part of an
			 approved driver training curriculum.
(S) "Department" means
			 the "Ohio Department of Public Safety."
(T) "Director" means
			 the director of the "Ohio Department of Public Safety" as set forth in division
			 (G) of section 121.03 of the Revised Code, or
			 the director's designee.
(U) "Disqualifying
			 offense" has the same meaning as in section
			 9.79 of the Revised
			 Code.
(V) "Driver education,"
			 "theory," or "theory instruction" means that portion of a driver training
			 course that is devoted to teaching driver knowledge and does not include the
			 student's operation of a motor vehicle. See also "classroom instruction,"
			 "virtual classroom," and "online driver education program."
(W)
			 "Driver training" means that portion of a driver training course which is
			 devoted to teaching a student driving skill, provided to a student who is
			 operating an approved motor vehicle, and presented by a licensed instructor.
			 (Also known as "behind-the-wheel instruction.")
(X) "Driver training
			 course" or "training program" means a course consisting of classroom
			 instruction and behind-the-wheel training or an online driver education program
			 offered by a driver training school, as defined in paragraph (Y) of this
			 rule.
(Y) "Driver license" or
			 "operator license" means a class D license issued to any person to operate a
			 motor vehicle, other than a commercial motor vehicle, including a "probationary
			 license" or a "restricted license" as defined in division (A) of section
			 4507.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(Z) "Driver training
			 school" or "school" means each facility where a driver training course is
			 conducted. A driver training school includes:
(1) A business enterprise conducted by a
			 person for the training of persons to operate motor vehicles that use public
			 streets or highways to provide training and charges a fee for such
			 services,
(2) A business enterprise
			 that offers the equivalent to classroom instruction via an
			 asynchronous online internet education
			 program,
(3) A lead school district
			 as provided in section
			 4508.09 of the Revised
			 Code,
(4) A board of education of a
			 city, exempted village, local, or joint vocational school district or the
			 governing board of an educational service center that offers a driver education
			 course for high school students enrolled in the district or in a district
			 served by the educational service center, or
(5) A college or university that offers
			 training in licensure classes other than "D."