Ohioans can’t be found guilty of driving with a license suspended for operating a vehicle under the influence of drugs or alcohol so long as they don’t move the vehicle, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
COLUMBUS, Ohio—
Brunner, a Democrat running for chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court this year, noted that the Oxford English Dictionary defines the word “operate” as “[t]o cause or actuate the working of; to work .” She continued that “the particular function of a ‘motor vehicle’ is to move and provide transportation on roads.”
But, Brunner stated, if the definition of “operate” were to include merely sitting in the driver’s seat of a motor vehicle while in possession of the key, “then a child who listens to music while sitting in the driver’s seat of a car parked on a public road while the key is in the ignition is guilty of ‘operating a motor vehicle without a valid license.’” She added it could also make it illegal for a person with an OVI suspension to temporarily take shelter in a car during bad weather.
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