Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4501 - Department of Public Safety - Administration and Director › Chapter 4501-7 - Commercial Driver Training Schools › Section 4501-7-03 - Character and fitness for class "D," CDL, and online license schools

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1,
			 2024
[Comment: For dates and availability of material incorporated
				by reference in this rule, see paragraph (A) in rule
				4501-7-39
				of the Administrative Code.]
(A) Any
			 person connected in any manner with a driver training enterprise, including but
			 not limited to an owner, partner, training manager, instructor, online
			 instructor, or authorizing official, shall be of good character and
			 reputation.
(B) The conviction of
			 any persons of any disqualifying offense shall
			 be grounds to deny issuing or renewing a license or grounds for suspending or
			 revoking a previously issued license.
(C) Every person connected in any manner with
			 a driver training enterprise, including but not limited to an owner, partner,
			 training manager, office manager, instructor, online instructor, or authorizing
			 official, shall comply with all applicable state and federal laws which
			 prohibit discrimination based upon race, color, national origin, sex, age,
			 handicap, disability, ancestry or religion.
(D) The director may deny the issuance of a
			 license to any person if the person applying for a license has had a driver
			 training school, training manager, online instructor, or instructor license
			 revoked or denied within the five years immediately preceding the current
			 filing for an application.
After the five-year revocation period has lapsed, any training
				manager, online instructor, or instructor whose license has been revoked may
				apply for a license by following the training procedure set forth in rule
				4501-7-05
				of the Administrative Code. Granting of a license shall be based upon
				successful completion of the training procedure including an appropriate course
				approved by the director and no further violations of Chapter 4507. or Chapter
				4508. of the Revised Code or the rules amplifying those chapters.
(E) No training manager or
			 authorizing official shall knowingly permit any training manager, online
			 instructor, or instructor of the enterprise who is not physically or mentally 
								sound to be in
			 contact with students.
(1) Any person who
			 applies for or holds a driver training instructor's, online instructor's,
			 authorizing official's school, or training manager's license shall submit to an
			 examination of that person's physical or mental fitness when the director or
			 the school's training manager or enterprise's authorizing official has evidence
			 to believe the instructor, official, or manager may not be mentally or
			 physically fit to instruct students or operate a motor vehicle.
(2) Any person who applies for or holds a
			 driver training instructor's, online instructor's, or training manager's
			 license shall notify the authorizing official of any driver training enterprise
			 with which the person is affiliated of any injury, any physical or mental
			 impairment, or any drug or medicine the person is taking that gives good cause
			 to believe such injury, impairment, drug or medicine may affect that
			 instructor's or manager's ability to drive or to effectively and safely
			 instruct students or manage training.