Ohio Code 4501.31 – Display of social security number on licenses
(A) No driver’s license, commercial driver’s license, temporary instruction permit, and identification card issued by the registrar of motor vehicles or a deputy registrar on or after the effective date of this amendment shall display the social security number of the person to whom the license, permit, or card is issued unless the person to whom the license, permit, or card is to be issued specifically requests that the person’s social security number be displayed on the license, permit, or card. If federal law requires the person’s social security number to be displayed on the license, permit, or card, the social security number shall be displayed on the license, permit, or card notwithstanding this division.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 4501.31
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
- 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. See Ohio Code 4501.01
(B) For purposes of compliance with subparagraph (b)(1)(B) of section 656 of Public Law No. 104-208, as statutorily noted under 5 U.S.C.A. 301, the registrar shall do both of the following:
(1) Require every applicant for a driver’s license, temporary instruction permit, commercial driver’s license, or identification card to submit the applicant’s social security number, if one has been assigned;
(2) Verify that the number is valid.