Senate Bill 129
Police/fire clear roadways-damaged/inoperable vehicles-immunity
To amend sections 305.12, 308.04, 503.01, 715.72, 715.74, 715.75, 715.76, 715.761, 715.77, 715.78, 715.81, 4501.21, 4517.21, 4765.43, 4931.61, 4931.62, 4931.63, 4931.64, 4931.65, 4931.66, and 4931.70; to contingently amend sections 4503.494, 4503.496, 4503.531, and 4503.92; and to enact sections 4503.712, 4513.66, 4765.431, and 4931.651 of the Revised Code to permit local law enforcement agencies and fire departments to remove motor vehicles from the roadway after a motor vehicle accident and to provide immunity to local law enforcement agencies and fire personnel for the removal of damaged or inoperable vehicles from roadways; to temporarily authorize counties to enter into new or amended joint economic development district contracts with townships and municipal corporations; to permit a board of trustees of a regional airport authority to enter into a contract in which a board member has a direct or indirect interest if certain conditions are met; to create "Ohio C.O.P.S." license plates; to provide that an insurer or subrogee may sell through a licensed motor vehicle auction owner a motor vehicle that comes into its possession through the operation of an insurance contract; to modify the staffing requirements for ambulances during emergency runs and while transporting patients; to remove motorcycles from the kinds of motor vehicles that can be issued certain special license plates; to extend until 2012 the wireless 9-1-1 charge, raise the minimum annual fund disbursement amount for each county from $25,000 to $90,000, and alter local uses of that revenue; and to declare an emergency.
Current Version
Effective Date
December 30, 2008
Primary Sponsors
Robert Schuler
Cosponsors
Senators
Stephen Austria
Stephen Buehrer
Gary Cates
Teresa Fedor
Randy Gardner
David Goodman
Timothy Grendell
Bill Harris
Eric Kearney
Lance Mason
Thomas Niehaus
Joy Padgett
Thomas Sawyer
Tim Schaffer
J. Kirk Schuring
Bill Seitz
Shirley Smith
Robert Spada
Steve Stivers
Mark Wagoner
Jason Wilson
Representatives
Jim Aslanides
Jim Carmichael
Kathleen Chandler
Michael DeBose
John Domenick
Steve Driehaus
Lorraine Fende
Larry Flowers
Jennifer Garrison
Cliff Hite
Tom Letson
Deborah Newcomb
Jon Peterson
Steve Reinhard
Carol-Ann Schindel
John Schlichter
Joseph Uecker
Kenny Yuko
James Zehringer
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