FAQs
Drugs and Alcohol
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What is the blood-alcohol limit in Ohio?
How many drinks can I consume before becoming impaired?
Bars: How old do you have to be to get into a bar?
Drinking Under Age: If I am under 21, what is the punishment for
being in possession of alcohol?
Fake I.D.: If I am under 21 and caught with a fake ID,
what can happen to me?
Keg Law Punishment, What is it ?
Meth Lab: What are the signs of a Meth Lab?
Penalties for impaired driving in Ohio, What are they?
Bars: How old do you have to be to get into a bar?
There is no law that prevents any age of person from entering a bar.
Each bar establishes their own policy regarding the ages of its
clientele and it is the bar's discretion to allow persons under the
age of twenty-one inside. However, it is illegal to purchase or
consume alcohol if you are under the age of 21.
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Drinking Under Age: If I am under 21, what is the punishment for
being in possession of alcohol?
The punishments is set by the judge and can be a fine of up to
$1000- per offense and up to 6 months in the County jail.
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Fake I.D.: If I am under 21 and caught with a fake ID, what can
happen to me?
The punishments is set by the judge and can be a fine of up to
$1000- per offense and up to 6 months in the County jail.
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Keg Law Penalties
1st Offense: A fine ranging from $250- to $1000- and up to 6 months
in the County jail.
2nd Offense: A fine ranging from $500- to $1000-, up to 6 months in
the County jail and a suspended drivers license for up to 60 days.
3rd Offense: A fine ranging from $500- to $1000-, up to 6 months in
the County jail and a suspended drivers license for 90 days and
community service selected by the judge.
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What
are the penalties for impaired driving in Ohio?
Administrative license suspension for a refusal of the BAC test will
last from one to five years, depending on the number of prior
refusals. For a failure, the administrative license suspension will
last from 90 days to three years, depending on the number of prior
drunk driving convictions.
Those convicted of the offense are subject to the mandatory
penalties of time in jail, a court-imposed driver license
suspension, and a minimum of $200 to a maximum of $10,000 fine.
Penalties are based upon the number of previous DUI convictions over
a five-year period.
FIRST OFFENSE -- at least 72 consecutive hours in jail, court
license suspension from six months to three years.
SECOND OFFENSE -- at least 10 consecutive days in jail, court
license suspension from one to five years.
THIRD OFFENSE -- at least 30 consecutive days in jail, license
suspension from one year to 10 years.
FOURTH OFFENSE -- at least 60 consecutive days in jail, court
license suspension from three years to permanent revocation.
All offenders must pay a $250 reinstatement fee for ALS.
To regain a suspended license, all DUI offenders must pay a $250
reinstatement fee and show proof of a policy for liability insurance
or bond. Repeat offenders will be required to file proof of
liability coverage and maintain that coverage for three years.
Third and fourth time impaired driving offenders are also subject to
having their vehicle immobilized or forfeited. A vehicle owner who
knowingly allows someone whose license is suspended to operate their
vehicle may also be subject to these penalties.
Motorists who are convicted of vehicular homicide or aggravated
vehicular homicide and are judged to have been under the influence
of alcohol or drugs at the time of the offense will, in addition to
other penalties, suffer permanent loss of driving privileges.
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Blood-alcohol
limit in Ohio?
Ohio Law states that no person shall operate a motor vehicle while
under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse, or both. The state
of Ohio has set a per se level of 0.1 BAC (blood-alcohol content) as
the presumptive level at which an adult is considered to be an
impaired driver of a passenger car. However, being under the
presumptive 0.1 BAC level does not mean you are not impaired and,
depending upon roadside sobriety checks, you may be charged with DUI
with a BAC which measures below 0.1.
In other words, the presumptive BAC level is the level at which you
are automatically considered to be "legally" impaired -- it does not
mean that you are not illegal if you are not at the 0.1 BAC level.
As such, there is no absolute "legal limit" except "zero."
Other presumptive BAC levels in Ohio are:
.04 BAC for commercial vehicle drivers;
.02 BAC for drivers under the age of 21.
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How many drinks can I consume before becoming
impaired?
There is no reliable means to predict how many alcoholic beverages
an individual can consume before becoming impaired.
In past years, various entities have published charts which outline
the blood-alcohol content (BAC) you will attain if you weigh X
pounds and consume X drinks. However, these charts only consider two
variables -- number of drinks and body weight. Actually, there are
many more variables which must be considered, so a generalized
estimate as to level of intoxication or potential BAC would be very
unreliable.
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What are the signs of a
Meth Lab?
The Signs of a Possible Meth Lab are:
1. Stained coffee filters
2. Empty pseudoephedrine blister packs
3. Strong solvent or ammonia odors*
4. Acetone
5. Toluene
6. Denatured alcohol
7. Red Devil Lye
8. Red Phosphorous*
9. Lithium batteries
10. Anhydrous Ammonia*
11. Heet or gas-line treatments with methyl alcohol
12. Drain cleaner with sulfuric acid
13. Heat source*
14. Glassware (beakers or mason jars)
15. Coffee grinder with white powder residue*
16. Stained tubing*
17. Hypodermic syringes
18. Written recipes*
*Items to be aware of but not in photo
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Meth Lab Recognition and Awareness
Clandestine methamphetamine (meth) manufacture is one of the most
serious and dangerous of current drug issues being faced by law
enforcement and the public. Illicit manufacture of meth involves the
process of combining multiple chemicals to another substance to
create methamphetamine. The process of combining these chemicals
creates hazardous conditions, including a strong risk of fire,
explosion or toxic gases, as well as a substantial amount of
hazardous chemical waste. This creates not only an increased threat
to the safety of law enforcement and medical first-responders, but
also to the public.
Some of the common chemicals used are: Acetone, Toluene, Methanol or
Methyl Alcohol, Denatured Alcohol, Ether, Anhydrous Ammonia,
Lithium, Red Phosphorous, Iodine or Iodine Crystals, Muriatic Acid,
Sulfuric Acid, Lye, Hydrochloric Acid, and Hypophosphorous Acid.
These chemicals have limited household uses independently, but they
are only combined with one another in methamphetamine production. If
you see combinations of these chemicals being used in your
neighborhood, you should suspect the possibility of a meth lab being
present.
You should also be suspicious of strong chemical odors associated
with the process of making meth. It can include strong solvent
odors, ammonia odors, or a pungent odor that some have compared to
“smelly sweatsocks.” There are other “indicators” of the presence of
a meth lab to watch for: multiple coffee filters with chemical
stains, glass or plastic jars with chemicals separating into layers
or containing chemical residue, broken open lithium battery casings,
multiple empty containers of gas-line treatment, and multiple empty
packages or blister packs from cold and allergy medications.
If you suspect the possible presence of a meth lab near you, please
contact the Miami Township Police at (513) 732-2231 or (513)
248-3721
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