{"data":{"id":"us-oh/ohio-rev.-code-4549.08","jurisdiction":"us-oh","citation":"Ohio Rev. Code § 4549.08","heading":"Fictitious license plates or identification number or mark.","body":"(A) No person shall operate or drive a motor vehicle upon the public roads and highways in this state if it displays a license plate or a distinctive number or identification mark that meets any of the following criteria:\n(1) Is fictitious;\n(2) Is a counterfeit or an unlawfully made copy of any distinctive number or identification mark;\n(3) Belongs to another motor vehicle, provided that this section does not apply to a motor vehicle that is operated on the public roads and highways in this state when the motor vehicle displays license plates that originally were issued for a motor vehicle that previously was owned by the same person who owns the motor vehicle that is operated on the public roads and highways in this state, during the thirty-day period described in division (A)(4) of section 4503.12 of the Revised Code.\n(B) A person who fails to comply with the transfer of registration provisions of section 4503.12 of the Revised Code and is charged with a violation of that section shall not be charged with a violation of this section.\n(C) Whoever violates division (A)(1), (2), or (3) of this section is guilty of operating a motor vehicle bearing an invalid license plate or identification mark, a misdemeanor of the fourth degree on a first offense and a misdemeanor of the third degree on each subsequent offense.","path":["Title 45 Motor Vehicles-Aeronautics-Watercraft","Chapter 4549 Motor Vehicle Crimes"],"source_url":"https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4549.08","current_through":"2004-01-01 (Senate Bill 123 - 124th General Assembly)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:24:37Z","sha256":"406d9353a745d9deb8d6ebac56385ab91f500c2280cb4009f53adf7675ae699e","source_id":"us-oh","stale":false,"prev":"us-oh/ohio-rev.-code-4549.05","next":"us-oh/ohio-rev.-code-4549.081"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}