Ohio Implied Consent

If you are arrested for DUI (called ‘OVI’ in Ohio), you can lose your driver’s license immediately, before even going to court or seeing a judge. That loss of driving privileges, imposed by the BMV (not a court), is an Administrative License Suspension (ALS).

The ALS is triggered by a single document completed by the arresting officer: the BMV Form 2255. That form was revised in 2025. The revisions are important in the context of Ohio’s implied consent law and can affect the validity of an ALS.