Regards registration, titling, and use of replica motor vehicles

As Introduced

136th
General Assembly

Regular
Session
H. B. No. 70

2025-2026

Representatives Fowler Arthur, Dean

Cosponsors: Representatives Williams,
Johnson, Brennan, Klopfenstein

A
BILL

To
amend sections 4501.01, 4505.08, 4513.071, 4513.38, and 4513.41 and
to enact sections 4503.183 and 4505.072 of the Revised Code to

establish
requirements relative to the registration, titling, and use of
replica motor vehicles.

BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section
1.
That
sections 4501.01, 4505.08, 4513.071, 4513.38, and 4513.41 be amended
and sections 4503.183 and 4505.072 of the Revised Code be enacted to
read as follows:

Sec.
4501.01.
As
used in this chapter and Chapters 4503., 4505., 4507., 4509., 4510.,
4511., 4513., 4515., and 4517. of the Revised Code, and in the penal
laws, except as otherwise provided:

(A)
"Vehicles" means everything on wheels or runners, including
motorized bicycles, but does not mean electric personal assistive
mobility devices, low-speed micromobility devices, vehicles that are
operated exclusively on rails or tracks or from overhead electric
trolley wires, and vehicles that belong to any police department,
municipal fire department, or volunteer fire department, or that are
used by such a department in the discharge of its functions.

(B)
"Motor vehicle" means any vehicle, including mobile homes
and recreational vehicles, that is propelled or drawn by power other
than muscular power or power collected from overhead electric trolley
wires. "Motor vehicle" does not include utility vehicles as
defined in division (VV) of this section, under-speed vehicles as
defined in division (XX) of this section, mini-trucks as defined in
division (BBB) of this section, motorized bicycles, electric
bicycles, road rollers, traction engines, power shovels, power
cranes, and other equipment used in construction work and not
designed for or employed in general highway transportation,
well-drilling machinery, ditch-digging machinery, farm machinery, and
trailers that are designed and used exclusively to transport a boat
between a place of storage and a marina, or in and around a marina,
when drawn or towed on a public road or highway for a distance of no
more than ten miles and at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour or
less.

(C)
"Agricultural tractor" and "traction engine" mean
any self-propelling vehicle that is designed or used for drawing
other vehicles or wheeled machinery, but has no provisions for
carrying loads independently of such other vehicles, and that is used
principally for agricultural purposes.

(D)
"Commercial tractor," except as defined in division (C) of
this section, means any motor vehicle that has motive power and
either is designed or used for drawing other motor vehicles, or is
designed or used for drawing another motor vehicle while carrying a
portion of the other motor vehicle or its load, or both.

(E)
"Passenger car" means any motor vehicle that is designed
and used for carrying not more than nine persons and includes any
motor vehicle that is designed and used for carrying not more than
fifteen persons in a ridesharing arrangement.

(F)
"Collector's vehicle" means any motor vehicle or
agricultural tractor or traction engine that is of special interest,
that has a fair market value of one hundred dollars or more, whether
operable or not, and that is owned, operated, collected, preserved,
restored, maintained, or used essentially as a collector's item,
leisure pursuit, or investment, but not as the owner's principal
means of transportation. "Licensed collector's vehicle"
means a collector's vehicle, other than an agricultural tractor or
traction engine, that displays current, valid license tags issued
under section 4503.45 of the Revised Code, or a similar type of motor
vehicle that displays current, valid license tags issued under
substantially equivalent provisions in the laws of other states.

(G)
"Historical motor vehicle" means any motor vehicle that is
over twenty-five years old and is owned solely as a collector's item
and for participation in club activities, exhibitions, tours,
parades, and similar uses, but that in no event is used for general
transportation.

(H)
"Noncommercial motor vehicle" means any motor vehicle,
including a farm truck as defined in section 4503.04 of the Revised
Code, that is designed by the manufacturer to carry a load of no more
than one ton and is used exclusively for purposes other than engaging
in business for profit.

(I)
"Bus" means any motor vehicle that has motor power and is
designed and used for carrying more than nine passengers, except any
motor vehicle that is designed and used for carrying not more than
fifteen passengers in a ridesharing arrangement.

(J)
"Commercial car" or "truck" means any motor
vehicle that has motor power and is designed and used for carrying
merchandise or freight, or that is used as a commercial tractor.

(K)
"Bicycle" means every device, other than a device that is
designed solely for use as a play vehicle by a child, that is
propelled solely by human power upon which a person may ride, and
that has two or more wheels, any of which is more than fourteen
inches in diameter.

(L)
"Motorized bicycle" or "moped" means any vehicle
that either has two tandem wheels or one wheel in the front and two
wheels in the rear, that may be pedaled, and that is equipped with a
helper motor of not more than fifty cubic centimeters piston
displacement that produces no more than one brake horsepower and is
capable of propelling the vehicle at a speed of no greater than
twenty miles per hour on a level surface. "Motorized bicycle"
or "moped" does not include an electric bicycle.

(M)
"Trailer" means any vehicle without motive power that is
designed or used for carrying property or persons wholly on its own
structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle, and includes any
such vehicle that is formed by or operated as a combination of a
semitrailer and a vehicle of the dolly type such as that commonly
known as a trailer dolly, a vehicle used to transport agricultural
produce or agricultural production materials between a local place of
storage or supply and the farm when drawn or towed on a public road
or highway at a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour, and a
vehicle that is designed and used exclusively to transport a boat
between a place of storage and a marina, or in and around a marina,
when drawn or towed on a public road or highway for a distance of
more than ten miles or at a speed of more than twenty-five miles per
hour. "Trailer" does not include a manufactured home or
travel trailer.

(N)
"Noncommercial trailer" means any trailer, except a travel
trailer or trailer that is used to transport a boat as described in
division (B) of this section, but, where applicable, includes a
vehicle that is used to transport a boat as described in division (M)
of this section, that has a gross weight of no more than ten thousand
pounds, and that is used exclusively for purposes other than engaging
in business for a profit, such as the transportation of personal
items for personal or recreational purposes.

(O)
"Mobile home" means a building unit or assembly of closed
construction that is fabricated in an off-site facility, is more than
thirty-five body feet in length or, when erected on site, is three
hundred twenty or more square feet, is built on a permanent chassis,
is transportable in one or more sections, and does not qualify as a
manufactured home as defined in division (C)(4) of section 3781.06 of
the Revised Code or as an industrialized unit as defined in division
(C)(3) of section 3781.06 of the Revised Code.

(P)
"Semitrailer" means any vehicle of the trailer type that
does not have motive power and is so designed or used with another
and separate motor vehicle that in operation a part of its own weight
or that of its load, or both, rests upon and is carried by the other
vehicle furnishing the motive power for propelling itself and the
vehicle referred to in this division, and includes, for the purpose
only of registration and taxation under those chapters, any vehicle
of the dolly type, such as a trailer dolly, that is designed or used
for the conversion of a semitrailer into a trailer.

(Q)
"Recreational vehicle" means a vehicular portable structure
that meets all of the following conditions:

(1)
It is designed for the sole purpose of recreational travel.

(2)
It is not used for the purpose of engaging in business for profit.

(3)
It is not used for the purpose of engaging in intrastate commerce.

(4)
It is not used for the purpose of commerce as defined in 49 C.F.R.
383.5, as amended.

(5)
It is not regulated by the public utilities commission pursuant to
Chapter 4905., 4921., or 4923. of the Revised Code.

(6)
It is classed as one of the following:

(a)
"Travel trailer" or "house vehicle" means a
nonself-propelled recreational vehicle that does not exceed an
overall length of forty feet, exclusive of bumper and tongue or
coupling. "Travel trailer" includes a tent-type fold-out
camping trailer as defined in section 4517.01 of the Revised Code.

(b)
"Motor home" means a self-propelled recreational vehicle
that has no fifth wheel and is constructed with permanently installed
facilities for cold storage, cooking and consuming of food, and for
sleeping.

(c)
"Truck camper" means a nonself-propelled recreational
vehicle that does not have wheels for road use and is designed to be
placed upon and attached to a motor vehicle. "Truck camper"
does not include truck covers that consist of walls and a roof, but
do not have floors and facilities enabling them to be used as a
dwelling.

(d)
"Fifth wheel trailer" means a vehicle that is of such size
and weight as to be movable without a special highway permit, that is
constructed with a raised forward section that allows a bi-level
floor plan, and that is designed to be towed by a vehicle equipped
with a fifth-wheel hitch ordinarily installed in the bed of a truck.

(e)
"Park trailer" means a vehicle that is commonly known as a
park model recreational vehicle, meets the American national standard
institute standard A119.5 (1988) for park trailers, is built on a
single chassis, has a gross trailer area of four hundred square feet
or less when set up, is designed for seasonal or temporary living
quarters, and may be connected to utilities necessary for the
operation of installed features and appliances.

(R)
"Pneumatic tires" means tires of rubber and fabric or tires
of similar material, that are inflated with air.

(S)
"Solid tires" means tires of rubber or similar elastic
material that are not dependent upon confined air for support of the
load.

(T)
"Solid tire vehicle" means any vehicle that is equipped
with two or more solid tires.

(U)
"Farm machinery" means all machines and tools that are used
in the production, harvesting, and care of farm products, and
includes trailers that are used to transport agricultural produce or
agricultural production materials between a local place of storage or
supply and the farm, agricultural tractors, threshing machinery,
hay-baling machinery, corn shellers, hammermills, and machinery used
in the production of horticultural, agricultural, and vegetable
products.

(V)
"Owner" includes any person or firm, other than a
manufacturer or dealer, that has title to a motor vehicle, except
that, in sections 4505.01 to 4505.19 of the Revised Code, "owner"
includes in addition manufacturers and dealers.

(W)
"Manufacturer" and "dealer" include all persons
and firms that are regularly engaged in the business of
manufacturing, selling, displaying, offering for sale, or dealing in
motor vehicles, at an established place of business that is used
exclusively for the purpose of manufacturing, selling, displaying,
offering for sale, or dealing in motor vehicles. A place of business
that is used for manufacturing, selling, displaying, offering for
sale, or dealing in motor vehicles shall be deemed to be used
exclusively for those purposes even though snowmobiles or all-purpose
vehicles are sold or displayed for sale thereat, even though farm
machinery is sold or displayed for sale thereat, or even though
repair, accessory, gasoline and oil, storage, parts, service, or
paint departments are maintained thereat, or, in any county having a
population of less than seventy-five thousand at the last federal
census, even though a department in a place of business is used to
dismantle, salvage, or rebuild motor vehicles by means of used parts,
if such departments are operated for the purpose of furthering and
assisting in the business of manufacturing, selling, displaying,
offering for sale, or dealing in motor vehicles. Places of business
or departments in a place of business used to dismantle, salvage, or
rebuild motor vehicles by means of using used parts are not
considered as being maintained for the purpose of assisting or
furthering the manufacturing, selling, displaying, and offering for
sale or dealing in motor vehicles.

(X)
"Operator" includes any person who drives or operates a
motor vehicle upon the public highways.

(Y)
"Chauffeur" means any operator who operates a motor
vehicle, other than a taxicab, as an employee for hire; or any
operator whether or not the owner of a motor vehicle, other than a
taxicab, who operates such vehicle for transporting, for gain,
compensation, or profit, either persons or property owned by another.
Any operator of a motor vehicle who is voluntarily involved in a
ridesharing arrangement is not considered an employee for hire or
operating such vehicle for gain, compensation, or profit.

(Z)
"State" includes the territories and federal districts of
the United States, and the provinces of Canada.

(AA)
"Public roads and highways" for vehicles includes all
public thoroughfares, bridges, and culverts.

(BB)
"Manufacturer's number" means the manufacturer's original
serial number that is affixed to or imprinted upon the chassis or
other part of the motor vehicle.

(CC)
"Motor number" means the manufacturer's original number
that is affixed to or imprinted upon the engine or motor of the
vehicle.

(DD)
"Distributor" means any person who is authorized by a motor
vehicle manufacturer to distribute new motor vehicles to licensed
motor vehicle dealers at an established place of business that is
used exclusively for the purpose of distributing new motor vehicles
to licensed motor vehicle dealers, except when the distributor also
is a new motor vehicle dealer, in which case the distributor may
distribute at the location of the distributor's licensed dealership.

(EE)
"Ridesharing arrangement" means the transportation of
persons in a motor vehicle where the transportation is incidental to
another purpose of a volunteer driver and includes ridesharing
arrangements known as carpools, vanpools, and buspools.

(FF)
"Apportionable vehicle" means any vehicle that is used or
intended for use in two or more international registration plan
member jurisdictions that allocate or proportionally register
vehicles, that is used for the transportation of persons for hire or
designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of
property, and that meets any of the following qualifications:

(1)
Is a power unit having a gross vehicle weight in excess of twenty-six
thousand pounds;

(2)
Is a power unit having three or more axles, regardless of the gross
vehicle weight;

(3)
Is a combination vehicle with a gross vehicle weight in excess of
twenty-six thousand pounds.

"Apportionable
vehicle" does not include recreational vehicles, vehicles
displaying restricted plates, city pick-up and delivery vehicles, or
vehicles owned and operated by the United States, this state, or any
political subdivisions thereof.

(GG)
"Chartered party" means a group of persons who contract as
a group to acquire the exclusive use of a passenger-carrying motor
vehicle at a fixed charge for the vehicle in accordance with the
carrier's tariff, lawfully on file with the United States department
of transportation, for the purpose of group travel to a specified
destination or for a particular itinerary, either agreed upon in
advance or modified by the chartered group after having left the
place of origin.

(HH)
"International registration plan" means a reciprocal
agreement of member jurisdictions that is endorsed by the American
association of motor vehicle administrators, and that promotes and
encourages the fullest possible use of the highway system by
authorizing apportioned registration of fleets of vehicles and
recognizing registration of vehicles apportioned in member
jurisdictions.

(II)
"Restricted plate" means a license plate that has a
restriction of time, geographic area, mileage, or commodity, and
includes license plates issued to farm trucks under division (J) of
section 4503.04 of the Revised Code.

(JJ)
"Gross vehicle weight," with regard to any commercial car,
trailer, semitrailer, or bus that is taxed at the rates established
under section 4503.042 or 4503.65 of the Revised Code, means the
unladen weight of the vehicle fully equipped plus the maximum weight
of the load to be carried on the vehicle.

(KK)
"Combined gross vehicle weight" with regard to any
combination of a commercial car, trailer, and semitrailer, that is
taxed at the rates established under section 4503.042 or 4503.65 of
the Revised Code, means the total unladen weight of the combination
of vehicles fully equipped plus the maximum weight of the load to be
carried on that combination of vehicles.

(LL)
"Chauffeured limousine" means a motor vehicle that is
designed to carry nine or fewer passengers and is operated for hire
pursuant to a prearranged contract for the transportation of
passengers on public roads and highways along a route under the
control of the person hiring the vehicle and not over a defined and
regular route. "Prearranged contract" means an agreement,
made in advance of boarding, to provide transportation from a
specific location in a chauffeured limousine. "Chauffeured
limousine" does not include any vehicle that is used exclusively
in the business of funeral directing.

(MM)
"Manufactured home" has the same meaning as in division
(C)(4) of section 3781.06 of the Revised Code.

(NN)
"Acquired situs," with respect to a manufactured home or a
mobile home, means to become located in this state by the placement
of the home on real property, but does not include the placement of a
manufactured home or a mobile home in the inventory of a new motor
vehicle dealer or the inventory of a manufacturer, remanufacturer, or
distributor of manufactured or mobile homes.

(OO)
"Electronic" includes electrical, digital, magnetic,
optical, electromagnetic, or any other form of technology that
entails capabilities similar to these technologies.

(PP)
"Electronic record" means a record generated, communicated,
received, or stored by electronic means for use in an information
system or for transmission from one information system to another.

(QQ)
"Electronic signature" means a signature in electronic form
attached to or logically associated with an electronic record.

(RR)
"Financial transaction device" has the same meaning as in
division (A) of section 113.40 of the Revised Code.

(SS)
"Electronic motor vehicle dealer" means a motor vehicle
dealer licensed under Chapter 4517. of the Revised Code whom the
registrar of motor vehicles determines meets the criteria designated
in section 4503.035 of the Revised Code for electronic motor vehicle
dealers and designates as an electronic motor vehicle dealer under
that section.

(TT)
"Electric personal assistive mobility device" means a
self-balancing two non-tandem wheeled device that is designed to
transport only one person, has an electric propulsion system of an
average of seven hundred fifty watts, and when ridden on a paved
level surface by an operator who weighs one hundred seventy pounds
has a maximum speed of less than twenty miles per hour.

(UU)
"Limited driving privileges" means the privilege to operate
a motor vehicle that a court grants under section 4510.021 of the
Revised Code to a person whose driver's or commercial driver's
license or permit or nonresident operating privilege has been
suspended.

(VV)
"Utility vehicle" means a self-propelled vehicle designed
with a bed, principally for the purpose of transporting material or
cargo in connection with construction, agricultural, forestry,
grounds maintenance, lawn and garden, materials handling, or similar
activities.

(WW)
"Low-speed vehicle" means a three- or four-wheeled motor
vehicle with an attainable speed in one mile on a paved level surface
of more than twenty miles per hour but not more than twenty-five
miles per hour and with a gross vehicle weight rating less than three
thousand pounds.

(XX)
"Under-speed vehicle" means a three- or four-wheeled
vehicle, including a vehicle commonly known as a golf cart, with an
attainable speed on a paved level surface of not more than twenty
miles per hour and with a gross vehicle weight rating less than three
thousand pounds.

(YY)
"Motor-driven cycle or motor scooter" means any vehicle
designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the
ground, with a seat for the driver and floor pad for the driver's
feet, and is equipped with a motor with a piston displacement between
fifty and one hundred cubic centimeters piston displacement that
produces not more than five brake horsepower and is capable of
propelling the vehicle at a speed greater than twenty miles per hour
on a level surface.

(ZZ)
"Motorcycle" means a motor vehicle with motive power having
a seat or saddle for the use of the operator, designed to travel on
not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, and having no
occupant compartment top or occupant compartment top that can be
installed or removed by the user.

(AAA)
"Cab-enclosed motorcycle" means a motor vehicle with motive
power having a seat or saddle for the use of the operator, designed
to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground,
and having an occupant compartment top or an occupant compartment top
that is installed.

(BBB)
"Mini-truck" means a vehicle that has four wheels, is
propelled by an electric motor with a rated power of seven thousand
five hundred watts or less or an internal combustion engine with a
piston displacement capacity of six hundred sixty cubic centimeters
or less, has a total dry weight of nine hundred to two thousand two
hundred pounds, contains an enclosed cabin and a seat for the vehicle
operator, resembles a pickup truck or van with a cargo area or bed
located at the rear of the vehicle, and was not originally
manufactured to meet federal motor vehicle safety standards.

(CCC)
"Autocycle" means a three-wheeled motorcycle that is
manufactured to comply with federal safety requirements for
motorcycles and that is equipped with safety belts, a steering wheel,
and seating that does not require the operator to straddle or sit
astride to ride the motorcycle.

(DDD)
"Plug-in hybrid electric motor vehicle" means a passenger
car powered in part by a battery cell energy system that can be
recharged via an external source of electricity.

(EEE)
"Hybrid motor vehicle" means a passenger car powered by an
internal propulsion system consisting of both of the following:

(1)
A combustion engine;

(2)
A battery cell energy system that cannot be recharged via an external
source of electricity but can be recharged by other vehicle
mechanisms that capture and store electric energy.

(FFF)
"Low-speed micromobility device" means a device weighing
less than one hundred pounds that has handlebars, is propelled by an
electric motor or human power, and has an attainable speed on a paved
level surface of not more than twenty miles per hour when propelled
by the electric motor.

(GGG)
"Specialty license plate" means a license plate, authorized
by the general assembly, that displays a combination of words,
markings, logos, or other graphic artwork that is in addition to the
words, images, and distinctive numbers and letters required by
section 4503.22 of the Revised Code.

(HHH)
"Battery electric motor vehicle" means a passenger car
powered wholly by a battery cell energy system that can be recharged
via an external source of electricity.

(III)
"Adaptive mobility vehicle" means either a new passenger
car or bus purchased from a new motor vehicle dealer or a used
passenger car or bus, provided that such passenger car or bus is
designed, modified, or equipped to enable an individual with a
disability to operate or to be transported in the passenger car or
bus, in accordance with 49 C.F.R. part 568 or 595, and contains at
least one of the following:

(1)
An electronic or mechanical lift that enables a person to enter or
exit the motor vehicle while occupying a wheelchair or scooter;

(2)
An electronic or mechanical wheelchair ramp;

(3)
A system to secure a wheelchair or scooter in order to allow a person
to operate or be transported safely while occupying that wheelchair
or scooter.

(JJJ)
"Replica motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle that is
constructed, assembled, or modified so as to replicate the make,
model, and model year of a motor vehicle that is at least twenty-five
years old.

Sec.
4503.183.
(A)
No person shall use a replica motor vehicle for general
transportation. However, a person may operate a replica motor vehicle
registered under this section on the public roads and highways as
follows:

(1)
For club activities, exhibitions, tours, parades, and similar uses;

(2)
To and from a location where maintenance is performed on the replica
motor vehicle.

(B)
In lieu of the annual license tax levied in sections 4503.02 and
4503.04 of the Revised Code, the registrar of motor vehicles or a
deputy registrar shall collect a license fee of ten dollars for the
registration of a replica motor vehicle under this section. The fee
shall be deposited into the public safety - highway purposes fund
established in section 4501.06 of the Revised Code.

(C)
A person who owns a replica motor vehicle and applies for
registration and a replica license plate under this section shall
execute an affidavit that the replica motor vehicle for which the
plate is requested is owned and operated solely for the purposes
enumerated in division (A) of this section. The affidavit also shall
set forth that the replica motor vehicle has been inspected and found
safe to operate on the public roads and highways in the state. No
registration issued pursuant to this section need specify the weight
of the replica motor vehicle.

(D)
The owner of a replica motor vehicle registered under this section
shall display in plain view on the rear of the replica motor vehicle
a replica license plate issued by the registrar. A replica license
plate shall not display a date, but shall display the inscription
"Replica Motor Vehicle--Ohio" and the registration number
assigned to that replica motor vehicle.

(E)
A replica license plate is valid without renewal as long as the
replica motor vehicle for which it was issued or procured is in
existence. A replica license plate is issued for the owner's use only
for such replica motor vehicle unless later transferred to another
replica motor vehicle owned by that person. In order to effect such a
transfer, the owner of the replica motor vehicle that originally
displayed the replica license plate shall comply with division (C) of
this section. In the event of a transfer of title, the transferor
shall surrender the replica license plate or transfer it to another
replica motor vehicle owned by the transferor. The registrar may
revoke any replica license plate issued under this section, for cause
shown and after a hearing, for failure of the applicant to comply
with this section. Upon revocation, a replica license plate shall be
surrendered.

Sec.
4505.072.
(A)
The owner of a motor vehicle seeking to obtain a certificate of title
indicating that the motor vehicle is a replica motor vehicle shall do
all of the following:

(1)
Have that motor vehicle inspected by the state highway patrol in the
manner specified in section 4505.111 of the Revised Code and obtain
an inspection report from the state highway patrol;

(2)
Obtain a signed written statement from a person or nonprofit
corporation with expertise in historical motor vehicles that the
owner's motor vehicle reasonably replicates the make, model, and
model year of motor vehicle that the owner is intending to replicate;

(3)
Sign the written statement and have it notarized by a notary public.

(B)
When a clerk of a court of common pleas issues a physical or
electronic certificate of title for a motor vehicle, the owner of the
motor vehicle may request that the certificate of title indicate that
the motor vehicle is a replica motor vehicle.

When
a clerk of a court of common pleas issues a duplicate certificate of
title or memorandum certificate of title for a replica motor vehicle,
that certificate of title shall be identical to the existing
certificate of title.

Prior
to issuance of the certificate of title, the owner of the replica
motor vehicle shall surrender to the clerk any existing certificate
of title, a copy of the inspection report, and the signed notarized
written statement described in division (A) of this section.

(C)(1)
Upon compliance with divisions (A) and (B) of this section and
payment of the fee prescribed in section 4505.09 of the Revised Code,
the clerk shall issue to the owner a certificate of title that
complies with this section.

(2)
The clerk shall use reasonable care in performing the duties imposed
on the clerk by this section in issuing a certificate of title
pursuant to this section, but the clerk is not liable for any of the
clerk's errors or omissions or those of the clerk's deputies, or the
automated title processing system in the performance of those duties.

(D)(1)
The registrar of motor vehicles shall ensure that the certificate of
title of a replica motor vehicle issued under this section complies
with all of the following:

(a)
It is in the same form as the original certificate of title.

(b)
It displays the word "REPLICA" in black boldface letters on
its face.

(c)
It includes the make, model, and model year of motor vehicle that the
owner is intending the motor vehicle to replicate.

(d)
It includes the year the replica motor vehicle was constructed,
assembled, or modified.

(2)
The registrar shall determine the exact location on the face of the
certificate of title of the word "REPLICA," the make,
model, and model year of motor vehicle the owner is intending to
replicate, and the year the replica motor vehicle was constructed,
assembled, or modified. The registrar shall develop an automated
procedure within the automated title processing system for purposes
of this section.

(3)
Every memorandum certificate of title or duplicate certificate of
title issued for a replica motor vehicle for which a certificate of
title has been issued under this section shall display the same
information as is required under division (D)(1) of this section.

Any
subsequent certificate of title issued for a replica motor vehicle
for which a certificate of title has been issued under this section
shall display the same information as is required under division
(D)(1) of this section.

(E)(1)
The owner of a replica motor vehicle who titles that vehicle as a
replica motor vehicle under this section shall obtain replica license
plates and comply with the requirements of section 4503.183 of the
Revised Code.

(2)
The owner of a replica motor vehicle who does not title that motor
vehicle as a replica motor vehicle under this section is not required
to obtain replica motor vehicle license plates and comply with the
requirements of section 4503.183 of the Revised Code. Such an owner
is subject to the general registration requirements of Chapter 4503.,
the titling requirements of Chapter 4505., and the equipment
requirements of Chapter 4513. of the Revised Code.

Sec.
4505.08.
(A)
When the clerk of a court of common pleas issues a physical
certificate of title, the clerk shall issue the certificate of title
on a form and in a manner prescribed by the registrar of motor
vehicles. The clerk shall file a copy of the physical evidence for
the creation of the certificate of title in a manner prescribed by
the registrar. A clerk may retain digital images of documents used as
evidence for issuance of a certificate of title. Certified printouts
of documents retained as digital images shall have the same
evidentiary value as the original physical documents. The record of
the issuance of the certificate of title shall be maintained in the
automated title processing system. The clerk shall sign and affix the
clerk's seal to the original certificate of title and, if there are
no liens on the motor vehicle, shall deliver the certificate to the
applicant or the selling dealer. If there are one or more liens on
the motor vehicle, the certificate of title shall be delivered to the
holder of the first lien or the selling dealer, who shall deliver the
certificate of title to the holder of the first lien.

The
registrar shall prescribe a uniform method of numbering certificates
of title, and such numbering shall be in such manner that the county
of issuance is indicated. The clerk shall assign numbers to
certificates of title in the manner prescribed by the registrar. The
clerk shall file all certificates of title according to rules to be
prescribed by the registrar, and the clerk shall maintain in the
clerk's office indexes for the certificates of title.

The
clerk need not retain on file any current certificates of title,
current duplicate certificates of title, current memorandum
certificates of title, or current salvage certificates of title, or
supporting evidence of them covering any motor vehicle or
manufactured or mobile home for a period longer than seven years
after the date of its filing; thereafter, the documents and
supporting evidence may be destroyed. The clerk need not retain on
file any inactive records, including certificates of title, duplicate
certificates of title, or memorandum certificates of title, or
supporting evidence of them, including the electronic record
described in division (A) of section 4505.06 of the Revised Code,
covering any motor vehicle or manufactured or mobile home for a
period longer than five years after the date of its filing;
thereafter, the documents and supporting evidence may be destroyed.

The
automated title processing system shall contain all active records
and an index of the active records, a record and index of all
inactive titles for ten years, and a record and index of all inactive
titles for manufactured and mobile homes for thirty years. If the
clerk provides a written copy of any information contained in the
database, the copy shall be considered the original for purposes of
the clerk certifying the record of the information for use in any
legal proceeding.

(B)(1)
If the clerk issues a certificate of title for a motor vehicle that
was last previously registered in another state, the clerk shall
record verbatim, where practicable, in the space on the title
described in division (B)(19) of section 4505.07 of the Revised Code,
the words that appear as a notation to the vehicle on the title
issued by the previous state. These notations may include, but are
not limited to, words to the effect that the vehicle was considered
or was categorized by the state in which it was last previously
registered to be a law enforcement vehicle or a taxicab or was once
in a flood.

(2)
If the clerk, while issuing a certificate of title for a motor
vehicle that was last previously registered in another state,
receives information from the automated title processing system
indicating that a title to the vehicle previously was issued by this
state and that the previous title contained notations that appeared
in the space described in division (B)(19) or (20) of section 4505.07
of the Revised Code, the clerk shall enter the notations that
appeared on the previous certificate of title issued by this state on
the new certificate of title in the space described in division
(B)(19) or (20) of section 4505.07 of the Revised Code, irrespective
of whether the notations appear on the certificate of title issued by
the state in which the vehicle was last previously registered.

(3)
If the clerk, while issuing a certificate of title for a motor
vehicle that was last previously registered in another state,
receives information from the automated title processing system
indicating that the vehicle was previously issued a title by this
state and that the previous title bore the notation "REBUILT
SALVAGE" as required by division (E) of section 4505.11 of the
Revised Code, or the previous title to the vehicle issued by this
state was a salvage certificate of title, the clerk shall cause the
certificate of title the clerk issues to bear the notation "REBUILT
SALVAGE" in the location prescribed by the registrar pursuant to
that division.

(4)
If the clerk, while issuing a certificate of title for a motor
vehicle that was last previously registered in another state,
receives information from the automated title processing system
indicating that the vehicle was previously issued a title by this
state and that the previous title included the notation "REPLICA"
in accordance with section 4505.072 of the Revised Code, or the
previous title to the vehicle issued by another state indicates that
the vehicle is a replica motor vehicle, the clerk shall cause the
certificate of title the clerk issues to display the notation
"REPLICA" in the location prescribed by the registrar
pursuant to that section.

(C)
When the clerk issues a certificate of title for a motor vehicle that
was last previously registered in this state and was a law
enforcement vehicle or a taxicab or was once in a flood, the clerk
shall record that information in the space on the title described in
division (B)(20) of section 4505.07 of the Revised Code. The
registrar, by rule, may prescribe any additional uses of or
happenings to a motor vehicle that the registrar has reason to
believe should be noted on the certificate of title as provided in
this division.

(D)
The clerk shall use reasonable care in recording or entering onto
titles the clerk issues any notation and information the clerk is
required by divisions (B) and (C) of this section to record or enter
and in causing the titles the clerk issues to bear any notation
required by those divisions, but the clerk is not liable for any of
the clerk's errors or omissions or those of the clerk's deputies, or
the automated title processing system, in the performance of the
duties imposed on the clerk by this section.

(E)
The clerk may issue a duplicate title, when duly applied for, of any
title that has been destroyed as herein provided.

(F)
Except as provided in section 4505.021 of the Revised Code, the clerk
shall issue a physical certificate of title to an applicant unless
the applicant specifically requests the clerk not to issue a physical
certificate of title and instead to issue an electronic certificate
of title. The fact that a physical certificate of title is not issued
for a motor vehicle does not affect ownership of the vehicle. In that
case, when the clerk completes the process of entering certificate of
title application information into the automated title processing
system, the effect of the completion of the process is the same as if
the clerk actually issued a physical certificate of title for the
motor vehicle.

(G)
An electronic motor vehicle dealer who applies for a certificate of
title on behalf of a customer who purchases a motor vehicle from the
dealer may print a non-negotiable evidence of ownership for the
customer if the customer so requests. The authorization to print the
non-negotiable evidence of ownership shall come from the clerk with
whom the dealer makes application for the certificate of title for
the customer, but the printing by the dealer does not create an
agency relationship of any kind between the dealer and the clerk.

(H)
The owner of a motor vehicle may apply at any time to a clerk of a
court of common pleas for a non-negotiable evidence of ownership for
the motor vehicle.

(I)
In accordance with rules adopted by the registrar, a clerk may issue
a certificate of title applied for by an agent of a licensed motor
vehicle dealer when that agent has a properly executed power of
attorney from the dealer.

Sec.
4513.071.
(A)
Every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, and pole trailer when
operated upon a highway shall be equipped with two or more stop
lights, except that passenger cars manufactured or assembled prior to
January 1, 1967, motorcycles, and motor-driven cycles shall be
equipped with at least one stop light. Stop lights shall be mounted
on the rear of the vehicle, actuated upon application of the service
brake, and may be incorporated with other rear lights. Such stop
lights when actuated shall emit a red light visible from a distance
of five hundred feet to the rear, provided that in the case of a
train of vehicles only the stop lights on the rear-most vehicle need
be visible from the distance specified.

Such
stop lights when actuated shall give a steady warning light to the
rear of a vehicle or train of vehicles to indicate the intention of
the operator to diminish the speed of or stop a vehicle or train of
vehicles.

When
stop lights are used as required by this section, they shall be
constructed or installed so as to provide adequate and reliable
illumination and shall conform to the appropriate rules and
regulations established under section 4513.19 of the Revised Code.

Historical

A
historical
motor

vehicles
as defined in section 4503.181 of the Revised Code,
vehicle
that was
not
originally manufactured with stop lights
,
are

or a replica motor vehicle that replicates a motor vehicle that was
not originally manufactured with stop lights is
not
subject to this section.

(B)
Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

(C)
As used in this section, "replica motor vehicle" means a
replica motor vehicle for which a certificate of title is issued
under section 4505.072 of the Revised Code.

Sec.
4513.38.
(A)

No
person shall be prohibited from owning or operating a licensed
collector's vehicle

or
,

historical
motor vehicle
,
or replica motor vehicle

that is equipped with a feature of design, type of material, or
article of equipment that was not in violation of any motor vehicle
equipment law of this state or of its political subdivisions in
effect during the calendar year the vehicle was manufactured

or the calendar year that it replicates
,
and no licensed collector's vehicle

or
,

historical
motor vehicle
,
or replica motor vehicle

shall be prohibited from displaying or using any such feature of
design, type of material, or article of equipment.

No
person shall be prohibited from owning or operating a licensed
collector's vehicle

or
,

historical
motor vehicle
,
or replica motor vehicle

for failing to comply with an equipment provision contained in
Chapter 4513. of the Revised Code or in any state rule that was
enacted or adopted in a year subsequent to that in which the vehicle
was manufactured

or the calendar year that it replicates
,
and no licensed collector's vehicle

or
,

historical
motor vehicle
,
or replica motor vehicle

shall be required to comply with an equipment provision enacted into
Chapter 4513. of the Revised Code or adopted by state rule subsequent
to the calendar year in which it was manufactured

or the calendar year that it replicates
.
No political subdivision shall require an owner of a licensed
collector's vehicle

or
,

historical
motor vehicle
,
or replica motor vehicle

to comply with equipment provisions contained in laws or rules that
were enacted or adopted subsequent to the calendar year in which the
vehicle was manufactured

or the calendar year that it replicates
,
and no political subdivision shall prohibit the operation of a
licensed collector's vehicle

or
,

historical
motor vehicle
,
or replica motor vehicle

for failure to comply with any such equipment laws or rules.

(B)
As used in this section, "replica motor vehicle" means a
replica motor vehicle for which a certificate of title is issued
under section 4505.072 of the Revised Code.

Sec.
4513.41.
(A)
No owner of a licensed collector's vehicle, a historical motor
vehicle,
a
replica motor vehicle,
or
a collector's vehicle that is an agricultural tractor or traction
engine shall be required to comply with an emission, noise control,
or fuel usage provision contained in a law or rule of this state or
its political subdivisions that was enacted or adopted subsequent to
the calendar year in which the vehicle was manufactured

or the calendar year that it replicates
.

(B)
No person shall be prohibited from operating a licensed collector's
vehicle, a historical motor vehicle,
a
replica motor vehicle,
or
a collector's vehicle that is an agricultural tractor or traction
engine for failing to comply with an emission, noise control, or fuel
usage law or rule of this state or its political subdivisions that
was enacted or adopted subsequent to the calendar year in which his
vehicle was manufactured

or the calendar year that it replicates
.

(C)
Except as provided in section 4505.061 of the Revised Code, no person
shall be required to submit
his

the
person's
collector's
vehicle to a physical inspection prior to or in connection with an
issuance of title to, or the sale or transfer of ownership of such
vehicle, except that a police officer may inspect it to determine
ownership.

In
accordance with section 1.51 of the Revised Code, this section shall,
without exception, prevail over any special or local provision of the
Revised Code that requires owners or operators of collector's
vehicles to comply with standards of emission, noise, fuel usage, or
physical condition in connection with an issuance of title to, or the
sale or transfer of ownership of such vehicle or part thereof.

(D)
As used in this section, "replica motor vehicle" means a
replica motor vehicle for which a certificate of title is issued
under section 4505.072 of the Revised Code.

Section
2.
That
existing sections 4501.01, 4505.08, 4513.071, 4513.38, and 4513.41 of
the Revised Code are hereby repealed.

Section
3.
Sections
1 and 2 of this act take effect one hundred eighty days after the
effective date of this section.