Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4501 - Department of Public Safety - Administration and Director › Chapter 4501-8 - Abbreviated Adult Driver Training Course › Section 4501-8-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1,
			 2024
(A) "Abbreviated
			 adult driver training course" or "abbreviated adult course" means a driver
			 training course, as establish in division (F) of section
			 4508.02
			 of the Revised Code, consisting of classroom education, online education, and
			 may include on the road training.
(B) "Adult student" or "student" means a
			 person, who is at least eighteen years of age, and meets the requirements as
			 set forth in division (C) of section
			 4507.21
			 of the Revised Code.
(C) "Adult
			 training coordinator" or "adult coordinator" means a person designated by an
			 authorizing official of a driver training enterprise to carry out orders,
			 instruct, conduct the business and manage the training program of a school,
			 assess, train and supervise current and candidate instructors.
(D) "Applicant" or "candidate" means any
			 person applying for a license to be an authorizing official for a driver
			 training enterprise or school, an instructor or a training manager.
(E) "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.
(F) "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.
(G) "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.
(H) "Biometric authentication" means the
			 verification of a user's identity by means of a physical trait or behavioral
			 characteristic.
(I) "Certificate of
			 completion" means a certificate electronically furnished by the department to a
			 licensed driver training enterprise and issued by the enterprise to students
			 who have completed the required four hours of classroom instruction or the
			 online instruction and four hours of behind-the-wheel instruction to the
			 satisfaction of the school's authorizing official or adult training coordinator
			 as required by division (C) of section
			 4508.02
			 of the Revised Code.
(J)
			 "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.
(K)
			 "Classroom" means any room within a driver training school used to teach
			 students driver knowledge.
(L)
			 "Classroom instruction" means that portion of an abbreviated adult 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.
(M) "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.
(N) "Department" means
			 the "Ohio Department of Public Safety."
(O) "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.
(P)
								"Disqualifying
			 offense" has the same meaning an in section
			 9.79
			 of the Revised Code.
(Q) "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.
(R) "Driver training
			 school," "adult driver training school" or "school" means each facility where
			 an abbreviated adult 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 a motor vehicle
			 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 online
			 internet education program,
(3) A
			 lead school district as provided in section
			 4508.09
			 of the Revised Code; or
(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 an
			 adult driver training course for high school students enrolled in the district
			 or in a district served by the educational service center.