• FAQ's: http://clevelandmunicipalcourt.org/how-do-i-

• Pay Your Fine on the Web: https://clevelandmunicipalcourt.org/ePayment

2. Statutes and Ordinances:

• Ohio Revised Code:
  • Senate Bill 123 (made changes to the traffic laws) went into effect on January 1, 2004,

  • ORC Chapter 4513 - Traffic Laws - Equipment & Loads

  • ORC Chapter 4503 - Licensing of Motor Vehicles

  • ORC Chapter 4507 - Driver’s License Law

  • ORC Chapter 4509 - Financial Responsibility

  • ORC Chapter 4510 - Driver’s License Suspension, Cancellation, Revocation

  • ORC Chapter 4511 - Traffic Laws, Operation of Motor Vehicles: Includes DUI, Reckless Operation, Speed, etc.

  • ORC Chapter 4521 - Local, Noncriminal Parking Violations

  • ORC Chapter 4549 - Motor Vehicle Crimes

• Ohio Sentencing Chart for OVI and Traffic Offenses

  • Penalty Charts by Judge Jennifer P. Weiler, Garfield Heights Municipal Court. Show penalties for OVI and traffic offenses. Length of time for administrative license suspension.

• Traffic laws in the fifty states.

  • For a handy table of speed limits and traffic laws in the fifty states, see State Traffic and Speed Laws

  • The AAA Digest of Motor Laws is an online compendium of laws and rules related to driving and owning a motor vehicle in the United States and Canada.

  • For a chart of motorcycle laws in the fifty states, see: American Motorcycle Association: State by State Motorcycle Laws

  • Truck Accident Attorneys: Trucking laws in the fifty states.

• Municipal Ordinances: Cleveland Law Library - Links to Ordinances. Some cities do not have their ordinances on-line. These ordinances can be obtained from the city itself, or from a local public library.

• Ohio Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (current)

• Ohio Traffic Rules

• Also see the relevant municipal ordinances and municipal court rules.

• To find the website of the court you are in, try: Cleveland Law Library: Municipal Courts or Ohio Trial Courts. Some websites contain FAQs, procedural information, etc. for traffic cases, others have only phone numbers and contact information.

• Generally helpful information can be found on these sites:
  • Medina Municipal Court

  • Cleveland Heights Municipal Court: Forms.

• City-specific information can be found on the city's or clerk of court's website. For example, see:
  • City of Cleveland Parking Violations Bureau: FAQs, Pay your fine on the web.

  • City of Columbus Parking Violations Bureau: FAQs, Pay your fine on the web.

  • City of Cincinnati: Pay tickets online, look-up traffic and parking tickets by ticket number or license plate number.

• Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles: Includes info on DUI laws, Financial Responsibility, Digest of Ohio Motor Vehicle Laws and more.

• Ohio Department of Transportation, including Division of Highway Operations and Office of Traffic Engineering.

• Ohio Driver's License Suspensions and Reinstatement Handbook by Judge Deborah J. Nicastro and Magistrate Robert G. Walton

• Traffic Law

  • Traffic violations from LexisNexis

  • Traffic Law Summaries from the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission

  • Publications of the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission

  • Findlaw.com: Traffic Tickets Center

  • Nolo Law Center - Traffic Tickets

  • OSBA: What to Expect in Traffic Court

  • Summary of Ohio Speed Laws - National Traffic Highway Safety Administration - United States Department of Transportation.

  • Ohio Insurance Institute

  • DMV.org: Ohio Parking Tickets

  • National Center for State Courts: Traffic Courts and Procedures

• Driving Under the Influence
  • DWI Detection and Standardized Field Sobriety Testing - Student Manual - 2004 Edition

  • LSC Member's Only Briefs: An Update Summary of OVI and OVUAC Law

  • A.H. Fromet, Attorney at Law - Ohio's DUI Law

• Bicycle Laws
  • Digest of Ohio Bicycle Traffic Laws

  • "Sidewalk Laws" and Other Dangerous Bicycle Ordinances

10. Books which may be available at your local public library:

• Ohio Traffic Law Handbook / by Harold E. Wonnell. (Anderson Pub. Co.)

• Ohio Driving Under the Influence Law / by Mark P. Painter and James M. Looker. (Banks-Baldwin Law Pub. Co.)

• Ohio Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (Ohio Bureau of Traffic Control)

11. Videos:

• Law.com: Get a Traffic Ticket

12. Articles:

• Armstrong, Maria J., Recent developments in home rule authority: concealed weapons and traffic cameras, 19 Finley's Ohio Municipal Service 13 (Mar./Apr. 2007)

• Fitch, Mike, The work zone safety quiz: Knowledge can help save lives, 58 Cities & Villages 11 (Sept./Oct. 2010)

• Gallagher, Sean C., Big Brother? Cleveland adopts "red light/speed" cameras, 82 Law & Fact 27 (Jan. 2006)