(A)The registrar of motor vehicles or the clerk of the court of common pleas, upon the application of any person and payment of the proper fee, may prepare and furnish title information regarding off-highway motorcycles and all-purpose vehicles in the form and subject to any territorial division or other classification as they may direct. The registrar or the clerk may search the records of the bureau of motor vehicles regarding off-highway motorcycles and all-purpose vehicles and furnish reports of those records under the signature of the registrar or the clerk.
(B)(1) Fees for lists containing title information shall be charged and collected as follows:
(a)For lists containing three thousand titles or more, twenty-five dollars per thousand or part thereof;
(b)For each report of a s
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(A) The registrar of motor vehicles or the clerk of the court of common pleas, upon the application of any person and payment of the proper fee, may prepare and furnish title information regarding off-highway motorcycles and all-purpose vehicles in the form and subject to any territorial division or other classification as they may direct. The registrar or the clerk may search the records of the bureau of motor vehicles regarding off-highway motorcycles and all-purpose vehicles and furnish reports of those records under the signature of the registrar or the clerk.
(B)(1) Fees for lists containing title information shall be charged and collected as follows:
(a) For lists containing three thousand titles or more, twenty-five dollars per thousand or part thereof;
(b) For each report of a search of the records, the fee is five dollars per copy. The registrar and clerk may certify copies of records generated by an automated title processing system.
(2) A copy of any such report shall be taken as prima-facie evidence of the facts therein stated in any court of the state. The registrar and the clerk shall furnish information on any title without charge to state highway patrol troopers, sheriffs, chiefs of police, or the attorney general. The clerk also may provide a copy of a certificate of title to a public agency without charge.
(C)(1) Those fees collected by the registrar as provided in division (B)(1)(a) of this section shall be paid to the treasurer of state to the credit of the public safety - highway purposes fund established in section4501.06of the Revised Code. Those fees collected by the clerk as provided in division (B)(1)(a) of this section shall be paid to the certificate of title administration fund created by section325.33of the Revised Code.
(2) The registrar shall pay each five-dollar fee the registrar collects under division (B)(1)(b) of this section into the state treasury to the credit of the public safety - highway purposes fund established in section4501.06of the Revised Code.
(3) The clerk of the court of common pleas shall retain two dollars of each fee the clerk collects under division (B)(1)(b) of this section and deposit that two dollars into the certificate of title administration fund created by section325.33of the Revised Code. The clerk shall forward the remaining three dollars to the registrar not later than the fifth day of the month next succeeding that in which the transaction occurred. The registrar shall deposit the three-dollar portion of each fee into the state treasury to the credit of the public safety - highway purposes fund established in section4501.06of the Revised Code.