Ohio Code 4509.79 – Liability insurance for motor vehicles used in ridesharing arrangement
(A) As used in this section, “ridesharing arrangement” means the transportation of persons in a motor vehicle where such transportation is incidental to another purpose of a volunteer driver and includes ridesharing arrangements known as carpools, vanpools, and buspools.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 4509.79
- Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Whoever: includes all persons, natural and artificial; partners; principals, agents, and employees; and all officials, public or private. See Ohio Code 1.02
(B) Every owner registering as a passenger car a motor vehicle designed and used for carrying more than nine but not more than fifteen passengers or registering a bus under division (G) of section 4503.04 of the Revised Code shall have in effect, whenever the motor vehicle is used in a ridesharing arrangement, a policy of liability insurance with respect to the motor vehicle in amounts and coverage no less than:
(1) One hundred thousand dollars because of bodily injury to or death of one person in any one accident;
(2) Three hundred thousand dollars because of bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident;
(3) Fifty thousand dollars because of injury to property of others in any one accident.
(C) Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars.