[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 felony or any misdemeanor, other than
a minor misdemeanor, which is reasonably related to a person's ability to serve
safely and honestly in connection with a driver training
enterprise
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training coordinator, instructor or online instructor whose license has been
revoked or denied may apply for a license by following the training procedure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
unfit
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.
(3) The authorizing official is
responsible for maintaining records for an instructor's or adult training
coordinator's behavioral problem(s) that give good cause for the belief that
the instructor, online instructor, or adult training coordinator could be
physically or mentally unfit to perform their duties. The authorizing official
is also responsible for maintaining records of disciplinary actions taken to
correct such behavior in the instructor's or training manager's
file.
(F)
Except for an online instructor, instructors and adult training coordinators
shall provide an annual
a completed "Driver Training Personnel Physical
Examination" to the authorizing official of the enterprise
every two years. The
authorizing official shall maintain the "Driver Training Personnel Physical
Examination" in each instructor's and adult training coordinator's personnel
file. The authorizing official shall make these records available for
inspection upon request of the director.
