Friendly reminder that you can get a DUI for drunk biking.
I'm curious, does this apply only to city streets, county and township roads and highways, or does it also apply to the bike path? I ask this because I've never been sure who actually has jurisdiction on the bike path for traffic regulations.
Two paths to the same answer to your question:
1.
http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4511.01v1 (A) "Vehicle" means every device, including a motorized bicycle, in, upon, or by which any person or property may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except that "vehicle" does not include any motorized wheelchair, any electric personal assistive mobility device, any device that is moved by power collected from overhead electric trolley wires or that is used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks, or any device, other than a bicycle, that is moved by human power.
(BB) "Street" or "highway" means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way open to the use of the public as a thoroughfare for purposes of vehicular travel.
--Since the bike path is open to the public generally, it would be considered a highway, and since a bicycle is specifically excepted from the exception to the definition of a vehicle, the OVI statute applies on it.
2.
http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4511.19v1 (A)(1) No person shall operate any vehicle, streetcar, or trackless trolley within this state, if, at the time of the operation, any of the following apply:
(a) The person is under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse, or a combination of them.
(b) The person has a concentration of eight-hundredths of one per cent or more but less than seventeen-hundredths of one per cent by weight per unit volume of alcohol in the person's whole blood.
--The OVI statute doesn't actually require that you be on a "highway", just that you be operating a vehicle.
...which is yet another reason we should have these local microbrews at football games! We don't want people drinking-and-biking in violation of the law!