2909.32 State licenses posing potential risks by terrorist holders.
2909.32 State licenses posing potential risks by terrorist holders.
(A)(1) The director of public safety shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to identify licenses the state issues for which a holder with a connection to a terrorist organization would present a potential risk to the residents of this state. The rules shall not identify a renewable driver’s license or permit as a license of this nature if the applicant is a resident of this state.
(2)(a) The director shall prepare a document to serve as a declaration of material assistance/nonassistance for agencies to use to identify whether an applicant for a license or the renewal of a license has provided material assistance to an organization listed in the United States department of state terrorist exclusion list. The declaration shall be substantially in the form and of the same content as set forth in division (A)(2)(b) of this section. The director shall make the declaration available to each issuing agency of a license the director identifies pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section, along with a then-current copy of the United States department of state terrorist exclusion list. The director may adopt rules governing the preparation of the declaration and the distribution of the declaration and the list.
(b) The declaration of material assistance/nonassistance this section requires shall be substantially as follows and shall include the following questions and the associated spaces for answering the questions:
“DECLARATION REGARDING MATERIAL ASSISTANCE/NONASSISTANCE
TO TERRORIST ORGANIZATION
(1) Are you a member of an organization on the U.S. Department of State Terrorist Exclusion List? Yes …..; No …...
(2) Have you used any position of prominence you have within any country to persuade others to support an organization on the U.S. Department of State Terrorist Exclusion List? Yes …..; No …...
(3) Have you knowingly solicited funds or other things of value for an organization on the U.S. Department of State Terrorist Exclusion List? Yes …..; No …...
(4) Have you solicited any individual for membership in an organization on the U.S. Department of State Terrorist Exclusion List? Yes …..; No …...
(5) Have you committed an act that you know, or reasonably should have known, affords “material support or resources” (see below) to an organization on the U.S. Department of State Terrorist Exclusion List? Yes …..; No …...
(6) Have you hired or compensated a person you knew to be a member of an organization on the U.S. Department of State Terrorist Exclusion List or a person you knew to be engaged in planning, assisting, or carrying out an act of terrorism? Yes …..; No …...
For purposes of this declaration of material assistance/nonassistance, “material support or resources” means currency, payment instruments, other financial securities, funds, transfer of funds, and financial services that are in excess of one hundred dollars, as well as communications, lodging, training, safe houses, false documentation or identification, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel, transportation, and other physical assets, except medicine or religious materials.”
(B)(1) Any agency that issues a license the director identifies pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section shall include with the agency’s application form a copy of the declaration of material assistance/nonassistance the director prepares pursuant to this section and a then-current copy of the terrorist exclusion list. The agency shall inform applicants that they must truthfully answer each question.
(2) Any person provided a declaration of material assistance/nonassistance pursuant to this section shall answer each question and attach the completed declaration to the application for the license or the license renewal.
(C)(1) Any answer of “yes” to any question, or the failure to answer “no” to any question, on a declaration of material assistance/nonassistance an agency provides pursuant to this section shall serve for purposes of this section as a disclosure that the applicant has provided material assistance to an organization listed on the terrorist exclusion list.
(2) Any person who discloses the provision of material assistance to any organization on the terrorist exclusion list shall be denied the license or the renewal of the license unless the department of public safety reinstates the application pursuant to division (D) of this section.
(3) Any licensing entity that denies a license or a renewal of a license pursuant to this division shall send written notice of that denial to the applicant within three business days of the decision to deny. The notice shall inform the applicant of the right to have the department of public safety review the denial if the applicant requests a review within sixty days after the mailing date of the notice. The licensing entity shall provide the department of public safety with a copy of any notice that it sends to an applicant pursuant to this division.
(D) The department of public safety shall review any decision to deny an application within thirty days of receiving an applicant’s request for a review. The department shall reinstate the license application for good cause if it determines all of the following pursuant to guidelines the director adopts by rule:
(1) That the provision of material assistance to an organization on the terrorist exclusion list was made more than ten years prior to the time of the application, or the applicant provided material assistance during the ten years prior to the application and the date of the review, but at the time of the assistance, the organization was either not on the list or was not involved in any activity or conduct that would have merited inclusion on the list had it existed at the time, or at the time of the assistance it was not reasonable to know of the organization’s activities that would have merited its inclusion on the list.
(2) That the applicant is unlikely in the future to provide material assistance to any organization on the terrorist exclusion list;
(3) That the applicant does not pose a risk to the residents of this state.
(E) The failure of an applicant for a license to complete and attach a declaration of material assistance/nonassistance as this section requires, the failure to disclose material assistance to an organization on the terrorist exclusion list, or the making of false statements regarding material assistance to an organization the applicant knew or should have known was on the terrorist exclusion list, shall result in the denial of the application and in the revocation of the license.
(F) The failure of an applicant for a license to disclose, as this section requires, the provision of material assistance to an organization on the terrorist exclusion list or knowingly making false statements regarding material assistance to an organization on that list is a felony of the fifth degree.
(G) An issuing agency shall notify the department of public safety if it denies an application for a license or the renewal of a license because the applicant disclosed the provision of material assistance to an organization listed on the terrorist exclusion list.
(H) An agency may revoke a license issued to any person who, after providing a declaration of material assistance/nonassistance pursuant to this section, takes an action that would result in “yes” being the correct answer to any question on the declaration, had the declaration been readministered after taking that action. The agency shall conduct a hearing pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code prior to revoking any license pursuant to this division.
(I) This section does not apply to a license issued to either of the following:
(1) A federally insured depository institution that is subject to anti-money laundering and antiterrorism requirements under federal law, any subsidiary of such a depository institution, or an officer or employee of such a depository institution or subsidiary when that license is related to the person’s duties as an officer or employee;
(2) Any affiliate of a depository institution described in division (I)(1) of this section, other than an affiliate that is a subsidiary of a depository institution, when that affiliate is subject to anti-money laundering and antiterrorism requirements under federal law, or an officer or employee of such an affiliate when that license is related to the person’s duties as an officer or employee.
Effective Date: 04-14-2006; 04-04-2007