Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4501 - Department of Public Safety - Administration and Director › Chapter 4501-8 - Abbreviated Adult Driver Training Course › Section 4501-8-03 - Character and fitness for adult driver training courses

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
				4501-8-21
				of the Administrative Code.]
(A) Any
			 person connected in any manner with a driver training enterprise, including but
			 not limited to an owner, partner, adult training coordinator, instructor,
			 online instructor, or authorizing official, shall be of good character and
			 reputation.
(B) The conviction of
			 any of the above 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, adult training coordinator,
			 office manager, 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, adult training coordinator, instructor, or
			 online 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 adult
				training coordinator, instructor or online instructor whose license has been
				revoked or denied may apply for a license by following the training procedure
				set forth in rule
				4501-8-05
				of the Administrative Code. Granting of a license shall be based upon
				successful completion of the training procedure, which includes an appropriate
				course approved by the director, and successful completion of the probationary
				license period, and no further violations of Chapter 4507. or Chapter 4508. of
				the Revised Code or the rules amplifying those chapters.
(E) No adult training coordinator or
			 authorizing official shall knowingly permit any adult training coordinator,
			 instructor, or online 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 an abbreviated adult driver training instructor's,
			 online instructor's, authorizing official's school, or adult training
			 coordinator's license shall submit to an examination of that person's physical
			 or mental fitness when the director or the school's adult training coordinator
			 or enterprise's authorizing official has evidence to believe the instructor,
			 online instructor, or coordinator 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 adult training
			 coordinator'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, online instructor's or adult training coordinator's
			 ability to drive or to effectively and safely instruct students or manage
			 training.