Crime and Traffic
Eligible offenses for BMV fee reduction
If you lose your driver's license, you may have to pay fees to the BMV to get it back. If you cannot afford those fees, you may be eligible for the BMV Driver’s License Reinstatement Fee Debt Reduction and Amnesty Program. But, you only qualify if you lost your license for an eligible offense.
To participate in the Ohio BMV's driver's license reinstatement fee reduction program, you must have lost your license due to an "eligible offense." If your offense involved alcohol, drugs or a deadly weapon you will not be eligible, even if your offense is on this list. The eligible offenses are:
- Unruly child (R.C. 2151.354)
- Delinquent child (R.C. 2152.19)
- Juvenile traffic offender (R.C. 2152.21)
- Theft of gasoline (R.C. 2913.02)
- Incompetence by examination (R.C. 4507.20)
- Operating vehicle without proof of insurance (R.C. 4509.101)
- Failure to pay security deposit, or failure to request a hearing after receiving notice regarding a motor vehicle accident (R.C. 4509.17)
- Default on a payment that was required by written agreement after a motor vehicle accident (R.C. 4509.24)
- Nonpayment of a judgment (R.C. 4509.40)
- Repeat traffic offender (R.C. 4510.037)
- Violation of a municipal ordinance that is substantially similar to a statutory violation that imposes a suspension (R.C. 4510.05)
- Suspension under the federal Assimilative Crimes Act (R.C. 4510.06)
- Reckless operation (R.C. 4510.15)
- Failure to appear or failure to pay a fine related to specific vehicle-related violations (R.C. 4510.22)
- Incompetency adjudication (R.C. 4510.23)
- Commission of specific motor vehicle offenses by a minor (R.C. 4510.31)
- Habitual absence from school (R.C. 4510.32)
- Wrongful entrustment of a motor vehicle (R.C. 4511.203)
- Use of an electronic wireless communication device by a minor while driving (R.C. 4511.205)
- Street racing (R.C. 4511.251)
- Failure to stop for a school bus (R.C. 4511.75)
- Failure to stop after an accident (R.C. 4549.02)
- Failure to stop after a nonpublic road accident (R.C. 4549.021)
- Trafficking in cigarettes or tobacco products with intent to avoid tax, when a motor vehicle was used in the offense (R.C. 5743.99)