(A) Specifications for the manufacture of
validation stickers required for the annual registration of passenger,
commercial, motorcycle, and other vehicles are presented herein. Except for
vehicles issued permanent license plates, there shall be a single validation
sticker showing the month and year that the current registration period expires
issued for each vehicle. The validation sticker shall be made of
weather-resistant reflective sheeting
that is
manufactured in a manner that ensures that the information displayed thereon
remains visible for at least five years
having
a smooth flat outer surface consisting of lens elements enclosed within a
transparent plastic. The sheeting shall have pre-coated pressure-sensitive
adhesive on the back side, protected by a removable liner, for convenient and
durable attachment to the license plate or upon a previously applied
sticker.
(B) The reflective sheeting shall be
free from ragged edges, cracks and blisters, and shall be readily cut without
cracking or flaking. All sheets shall be free of foreign
matter.
(C) The pre-coated adhesive on all
stickers shall be of a pressure-sensitive type which shall permit the sticker
to be applied to the surface of the license plate or upon a previously applied
validation sticker while license plates are attached to the vehicles. The use
of additional adhesive coats, water solvents, or heat techniques to apply the
sticker shall not be required. The adhesive shall have no staining effect on
the reflective material and shall permit application of the sticker to the
license plate or previously applied sticker at temperatures of minus ten
degrees Fahrenheit or warmer. The adhesive shall withstand drying oven
temperatures of one hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit to at least three hundred
fifty degrees Fahrenheit without melting or running and shall not exude from
edges of sheeting to cause stacked sheets or processed stickers to stick
together during manufacture and distribution.
(D)(B)
The validation sticker shall be manufactured in a manner that insures that it
shall not become brittle, flaky, discolored, or acquire a powdery surface for a
period of at least five years and that permits the stacking of at least five
stickers.
(E) The adhesive protective liner
may have a scalloped scoreline or a straight scoreline at or near the center of
each sticker for easy removal.
(F)(C) The validation
sticker under normal service use shall adhere to the surface of the license
plate and, when stacked up to five stickers high, shall adhere to the sticker
to which it is applied for a minimum of five years and shall not be removable
intact.
(G)(D) The director of
public safety shall designate the design and colors of the validation stickers.
Except as provided in paragraph (J) of this rule, the sticker design and colors
for each month of each registration year shall be the same except for the
applicable monthly code numbers one to twelve. The first code number shown on
the sticker shall identify the month of expiration and the second series of
numbers shall identify the last two digits of the year of expiration.
(H)(E)
Stickers applied in accordance with instructions shall not blister, lift, or
delaminate when subjected to gasoline, kerosene, diesel oils, water, steam, and
cleaning detergents normally encountered in cleaning and washing service, nor
shall stickers fade, disintegrate, or come off from extended exposure within a
period of five years.
(I)(F) The dimensions of
each validation sticker shall be approximately one and one-half inches in width
and one inch in height.
(J)(G) A license plate
issued to a permanently registered vehicle shall bear the inscriptions
"PERMANENT" and "NO EXP" in lieu of any validation sticker.
(K)(H)
The validation stickers may be produced by Ohio penal industries or
onsite at the registrar's offices or
by the
at
deputy registrar or limited authority deputy
registrars
registrar
agencies, as authorized by the registrar. Validation stickers produced
on-site at
by
the
registrar's
registrar's offices or
at deputy
registrar
registrars,
or limited authority deputy
registrar
agencies
registrars shall be produced by
a '"print on demand" process, whereby the registration expiration month and
year shall be printed on the validation sticker as each validation sticker is
issued.
Notes
Ohio Admin. Code 4501-27-07
Effective:
2/1/2022
Five Year Review (FYR) Dates:
11/10/2021 and
11/01/2026
Promulgated
Under:
119.03
Statutory Authority:
4503.02,
4503.191,
4503.22
Rule Amplifies:
4503.191,
4503.22
Prior Effective Dates: 07/01/1976, 02/13/1981, 08/13/1984,
02/09/1987, 12/23/1988 (Emer.), 04/09/1989, 06/13/1996, 04/27/2006, 10/22/2011,
11/13/2014, 06/23/2016
