Chapter 339: Commercial and Heavy Vehicles

Sections

Cross references

  • See sectional histories for similar State law
  • Weighing vehicle; removal of excess load - see Ohio R.C. 4513.33
  • Arrest notice of driver - see Ohio R.C. 5577.14
  • Slower moving vehicles to be driven in right-hand lane - see TRAF. 331.01(b)

339.01   Oversize or overweight vehicle operation on state routes; state permit

  1. (a) No person shall operate or move a vehicle or combination of vehicles of a size or weight of vehicle or load exceeding the maximum specified in Ohio R.C. 5577.01 to 5577.09, inclusive, or otherwise not in conformity with Ohio R.C. 4513.01 to 4513.37, inclusive, upon any State route within the Municipality, except pursuant to special written permit issued by the Ohio Director of Transportation, or upon any local truck route. Every such permit shall be carried in the vehicle or combination of vehicles to which it refers and shall be open to inspection by any police officer. No holder of a permit issued by the Ohio Director of Transportation shall be required to obtain any local permit or license or pay any local fee or charge for movement on any State route within the Municipality; however, it shall be unlawful to operate any such vehicle or combination of vehicles upon any roadway within the Municipality which is not a State route, except as provided in Section 339.02.
    (ORC 4513.34)

  2. (b)

    1. (1) No person shall violate the terms of a permit issued under this section that relate to gross load limits.

    2. (2) No person shall violate the terms of a permit issued under this section that relate to axle load by more than 2000 pounds per axle or group of axles.

    3. (3) No person shall violate the terms of a permit issued under this section that relate to an approved route except upon order of a law enforcement officer.

  3. (c) Whoever violates any provision of this section for which no other penalty is provided is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
    (ORC 4513.99)

339.02   Use of local streets; local permit and conditions

  1. (a) The Mayor, or his authorized representative, with respect to streets and highways under jurisdiction of the Municipality may, in his discretion, upon application in writing and good cause being shown therefor, issue a special permit in writing authorizing the applicant to operate or move a vehicle or combination of vehicles of a size or weight or load exceeding the maximum specified in Ohio R.C. 5577.01 through 5577.09 or otherwise not in conformity with the provisions of this Traffic Code upon any highway under the jurisdiction of the Municipality. Any such permit may be issued for a single or round trip, in special instances, for a certain period of time.

  2. (b) The application for any such permit shall be in such form as the Mayor or his authorized representative may prescribe.

  3. (c) The Mayor or his authorized representative is authorized to issue or withhold such permit at his discretion, or, if such permit is issued, to limit or prescribe conditions of operation of such vehicle and require such bond or other security as may be deemed necessary to compensate for any damage to any roadway or road structure.

  4. (d) Every such permit shall be carried in the vehicle or combination of vehicles to which it refers and shall be open to inspection by any police officer or authorized agent of any authority granting such permit, and no person shall violate any of the terms or conditions of such permit.
    (ORC 4513.33, 4513.34; Ord. 1957-420. Passed 12-28-57.)

339.03   Maximum width, height and length

  1. (a) No vehicle shall be operated upon the public highways, streets, bridges and culverts within the Municipality, whose dimensions exceed those specified in this section.

  2. (b) No such vehicle shall have a width in excess of:

    1. (1) 104 inches for passenger bus type vehicles operated exclusively within municipal corporations;

    2. (2) 102 inches, excluding such safety devices as are required by law, for passenger bus type vehicles operated over freeways, and such other State roads with minimum pavement widths of twenty-two feet, except those roads or portions of roads over which operation of 102-inch buses is prohibited by order of the Ohio Director of Transportation;

    3. (3) 132 inches for traction engines;

    4. (4) 102 inches for recreational vehicles, excluding safety devices and retracted awnings and other appurtenances of six inches or less in width and except that the Director may prohibit the operation of 102-inch recreational vehicles on designated State highways or portions of highways;

    5. (5) 102 inches, including load, for all other vehicles, except that the Director may prohibit the operation of 102-inch vehicles on such State highways or portions of State highways as the Director designates.

  3. (c) No such vehicle shall have a length in excess of:

    1. (1) 66 feet for passenger bus type vehicles and articulated passenger bus type vehicles operated by a regional transit authority pursuant to Ohio R.C. 306.30 to 306.54;

    2. (2) 45 feet for all other passenger bus type vehicles;

    3. (3) 53 feet for any semitrailer when operated in a commercial tractor- semitrailer combination, with or without load, except that the Director may, by journal entry, prohibit the operation of any such commercial tractor- semitrailer combination on such State highways or portions of State highways as the Director designates;

    4. (4) 28.5 feet for any semitrailer or trailer when operated in a commercial tractor-semitrailer-trailer or commercial tractor-semitrailer- semitrailer combination, except that the Director may prohibit the operation of any such commercial tractor-semitrailer-trailer or commercial tractor- semitrailer-semitrailer combination on such State highways or portions of State highways as the Director designates;

    5. (5)

      1. (A) 97 feet for drive-away saddlemount vehicle transporter combinations and drive-away saddlemount with fullmount vehicle transporter combinations when operated on any interstate, United States route, or State route, including reasonable access travel on all other roadways for a distance not to exceed one road mile from any interstate, United States route, or State route, not to exceed three saddlemounted vehicles, but which may include one fullmount;

      2. (B) 75 feet for drive-away saddlemount vehicle transporter combinations and drive-away saddlemount with fullmount vehicle transporter combinations, when operated on any roadway not designated as an interstate, United States route, or State route, not to exceed three saddlemounted vehicles, but which may include one fullmount;

    6. (6) 65 feet for any other combination of vehicles coupled together, with or without load, except as provided in subsections (c)(3) and (4) and in subsection (e) hereof;

    7. (7) 45 feet for recreational vehicles.

    8. (8) 50 feet for all other vehicles except trailers and semitrailers, with or without load.

  4. (d) No such vehicle shall have a height in excess of thirteen feet six inches, with or without load.

  5. (e) An automobile transporter or boat transporter shall be allowed a length of sixty-five feet and a stinger-steered automobile transporter or stinger-steered boat transporter shall be allowed a length of seventy-five feet, except that the load thereon may extend no more than four feet beyond the rear of such vehicles and may extend no more than three feet beyond the front of such vehicles, and except further that the Director may prohibit the operation of any stinger- steered automobile transporter or stinger-steered boat transporter or a B-train assembly on any State highway or portion of any State highway that the Director designates.

  6. (f) The widths prescribed in subsection (b) shall not include side mirrors, turn signal lamps, marker lamps, handholds for cab entry and egress, flexible fender extensions, mud flaps, splash and spray suppressant devices, and load-induced tire bulge.

    The width prescribed in subsection (b)(5) shall not include automatic covering devices, tarp and tarp hardware, and tiedown assemblies, provided these safety devices do not extend more than three inches from each side of the vehicle.

    The lengths prescribed in subsections (c)(2) to (8) hereof shall not include safety devices, bumpers attached to the front or rear of such bus or combination, nonproperty carrying devices or components that do not extend more than twenty-four inches beyond the rear of the vehicle and are needed for loading or unloading, B-train assembly used between the first and second semitrailer of a commercial tractor-semitrailer-semitrailer combination, energy conservation devices as provided in any regulations adopted by the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation, or any noncargo-carrying refrigeration equipment attached to the front of trailers and semitrailers. In special cases, vehicles whose dimensions exceed those prescribed by this section may operate in accordance with rules adopted by the Ohio Director of Transportation.

  7. (g) This section does not apply to fire engines, fire trucks or other vehicles or apparatus belonging to any municipal corporation or to the volunteer fire department of any municipal corporation or used by such department in the discharge of its functions. This section does not apply to vehicles and pole trailers used in the transportation of wooden and metal poles, nor to the transportation of pipes or well-drilling equipment, nor to farm machinery and equipment. The owner or operator of any vehicle, machinery or equipment not specifically enumerated in this section but the dimensions of which exceed the dimensions provided by this section, when operating the same on the highways and streets of this State shall comply with the rules of the Director governing such movement, that the Director may adopt. Ohio R.C. 119.01 to 119.13 apply to any rules the Director adopts under this section, or the amendment or rescission of the rules, and any person adversely affected shall have the same right of appeal as provided in those sections.

    This section does not require the State, the Municipality, County, township or any railroad or other private corporation to provide sufficient vertical clearance to permit the operation of such vehicle, or to make any changes in or about existing structures now crossing streets, roads and other public thoroughfares in the Municipality.

  8. (h) As used in this section, “recreational vehicle” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 4501.01.
    (ORC 5577.05)

  9. (i) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense or subsequent offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
    (ORC 5577.99)

339.04   Route and load information

Drivers of vehicles described in this chapter shall be required, upon request by a police officer, to give full and true information as to the route they are following and the name of the consignor and consignee and place of delivery or removal and the location of any consignment being hauled or goods being removed, and upon a designation by such police officer of a route to be followed, shall immediately adopt and pursue such route.

339.05   Wheel protectors

  1. (a) No person shall drive or operate, or cause to be driven or operated, any commercial car, trailer or semitrailer, used for the transportation of goods or property, the gross weight of which, with load, exceeds three tons, upon the streets, bridges and culverts within this Municipality unless such vehicle is equipped with suitable metal protectors or substantial flexible flaps on the rearmost wheels of such vehicle or combination of vehicles to prevent, as far as practicable, the wheels from throwing dirt, water or other materials on the windshields of following vehicles. Such protectors or flaps shall have a ground clearance of not more than one-third of the distance from the center of the rearmost axle to the center of the flaps under any conditions of loading of the vehicle, and they shall be at least as wide as the tires they are protecting. If the vehicle is so designed and constructed that such requirements are accomplished by means of fenders, body construction or other means of enclosure, then no such protectors or flaps are required. Rear wheels not covered at the top by fenders, bodies or other parts of the vehicle shall be covered at the top by protective means extending at least to the center line of the rearmost axle.
    (ORC 5577.11)

  2. (b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

339.06   Vehicles transporting explosives

  1. (a) Any person operating any vehicle transporting explosives upon a street or highway shall at all times comply with the following requirements:

    1. (1) Such vehicle shall be marked or placarded on each side and on the rear with the word “EXPLOSIVES” in letters not less than eight inches high, or there shall be displayed on the rear of such vehicle a red flag not less than twenty-four inches square marked with the word “DANGER” in white letters six inches high, or shall be marked or placarded in accordance with Section 177.823 of the United States Department of Transportation Regulations.

    2. (2) Such vehicle shall be equipped with not less than two fire extinguishers, filled and ready for immediate use, and placed at convenient points on such vehicle.
      (ORC 4513.29)

  2. (b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
    (ORC 4513.99)

339.07   Towing requirements

  1. (a) When one vehicle is towing another vehicle, the drawbar or other connection shall be of sufficient strength to pull all weight towed thereby, and such drawbar or other connection shall not exceed fifteen feet from one vehicle to the other, except the connection between any two vehicles transporting poles, pipe, machinery or other objects of structural nature which cannot readily be dismembered.

  2. (b) When one vehicle is towing another and the connection consists only of a chain, rope or cable, there shall be displayed upon such connection a white flag or cloth not less than twelve inches square.

  3. (c) In addition to such drawbar or other connection, each trailer and each semitrailer which is not connected to a commercial tractor by means of a fifth wheel shall be coupled with stay chains or cables to the vehicle by which it is being drawn. The chains or cables shall be of sufficient size and strength to prevent the towed vehicle’s parting from the drawing vehicle in case the drawbar or other connection should break or become disengaged. In case of a loaded pole trailer, the connecting pole to the drawing vehicle shall be coupled to the drawing vehicle with stay chains or cables of sufficient size and strength to prevent the towed vehicle’s parting from the drawing vehicle.

  4. (d) Every trailer or semitrailer, except pole and cable trailers and pole and cable dollies operated by a public utility, as defined in Ohio R.C. 5727.01, shall be equipped with a coupling device which shall be so designed and constructed that the trailer will follow substantially in the path of the vehicle drawing it, without whipping or swerving from side to side. Vehicles used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials between a local place of storage and supply and the farm, when drawn or towed on a street or highway at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour or less, and vehicles designed and used exclusively to transport a boat between a place of storage and a marina, or in and around a marina, when drawn or towed on a street or highway for a distance of no more than ten miles and at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour or less shall have a drawbar or other connection, including the hitch mounted on the towing vehicle, which shall be of sufficient strength to pull all the weight towed thereby. Only one such vehicle used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials as provided in this section may be towed or drawn at one time, except as follows:

    1. (1) An agricultural tractor may tow or draw more than one such vehicle;

    2. (2) A pickup truck or straight truck designed by the manufacturer to carry a load of not less than one-half ton and not more than two tons may tow or draw not more than two such vehicles that are being used to transport agricultural produce from the farm to a local place of storage. No vehicle being so towed by such a pickup truck or straight truck shall be considered to be a motor vehicle.
      (ORC 4513.32)

  5. (e) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
    (ORC 4513.99)

339.08   Loads dropping or leaking; removal required; tracking mud

  1. (a) No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any street, highway or other public place unless such vehicle is so constructed, loaded or covered as to prevent any of its load from dropping, sifting, leaking or otherwise escaping therefrom, except that sand or other substances may be dropped for the purpose of securing traction, or water or other substances may be sprinkled on a roadway in cleaning or maintaining such roadway.

  2. (b) Except for a farm vehicle used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials or a rubbish vehicle in the process of acquiring its load, no vehicle loaded with garbage, swill, cans, bottles, waste paper, ashes, refuse, trash, rubbish, waste, wire, paper, cartons, boxes, glass, solid waste or any other material of an unsanitary nature that is susceptible to blowing or bouncing from a moving vehicle shall be driven or moved on any street, highway or other public place unless the load is covered with a sufficient cover to prevent the load or any part of the load from spilling onto the street, highway or other public place.
    (ORC 4513.31)

  3. (c) No person shall operate any vehicle so as to track or drop mud, stones, gravel or other similar material on any street, highway or other public place.

  4. (d) It shall be the duty of the driver of a vehicle who unlawfully drops or deposits mud, stones, gravel or other similar material or permits the load or any portion thereof to be dropped or deposited upon any street, highway or other public place to immediately remove the same or cause it to be removed.
    (ORC 4513.31)

  5. (e) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
    (ORC 4513.99)

339.09   Shifting load; loose loads

  1. (a) In addition to any other lawful requirements of load distribution, no person shall operate any vehicle upon a street or highway unless such vehicle is so laden as to prevent its contents from shifting or otherwise unbalancing the vehicle to such an extent as to interfere with the safe operation of the same.

  2. (b) No motor vehicle or trailer shall be driven unless the tailboard or tailgate, tarpaulins, chains (except ground or contact chains), ropes, stakes, poles, and the like, or any part of the load, are securely fastened to prevent dangling, flapping, swinging or falling from the side, end or top of the load or body. All projecting cargo shall be properly guarded by a red flag or cloth or a red light or lantern as required by Section 337.08.

  3. (c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.

339.10   Vehicles with spikes, lugs and chains

  1. (a) No person shall drive over the improved streets of this Municipality a traction engine or tractor with tires or wheels equipped with ice picks, spuds, spikes, chains or other projections of any kind extending beyond the cleats, or no person shall tow or in any way pull another vehicle over the improved streets of this Municipality, which towed or pulled vehicle has tires or wheels equipped with ice picks, spuds, spikes, chains or other projections of any kind. “Traction engine” or “tractor,” as used in this section, applies to all self-propelling engines equipped with metal-tired wheels operated or propelled by any form of engine, motor or mechanical power.
    (ORC 5589.08)

  2. (b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
    (ORC 5589.99)

339.11   Use of studded tires and chains

  1. (a) For purposes of this section, “studded tire” means any tire designed for use on a vehicle, and equipped with metal studs or studs of wear-resisting material that project beyond the tread of the traction surface of the tire. “Motor vehicle,” “street or highway,” “public safety vehicle” and “school bus” have the same meanings as given those terms in Chapter 301.

  2. (b)

    1. (1) Except as provided in subsection (b)(2) hereof, no person shall operate any motor vehicle, other than a public safety vehicle or bus, that is equipped with studded tires on any street or highway, except during the period extending from November 1 of each year through April 15 of the succeeding year.

    2. (2) A person may operate a motor vehicle that is equipped with retractable studded tires with the studs retracted at any time of the year, but shall operate the motor vehicle with the studs extended only as provided in subsection (b)(1) hereof.

  3. (c) This section does not apply to the use of tire chains when there is snow or ice on the streets or highways where such chains are being used, or the immediate vicinity thereof.
    (ORC 5589.081)

  4. (d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
    (ORC 5589.99)

339.12   Equipment and lighting requirements generally

  1. (a) Busses, trucks, commercial tractors, trailers, semitrailers and pole trailers, respectively, when operated upon any street or highway, shall be equipped as required by such regulations and such equipment as authorized by the Ohio Director of Highway Safety and shall be lighted at all times mentioned in Section 337.02, except that clearance and side marker lights need not be lighted on any such vehicle when operated within the Municipality where there is sufficient light to reveal any person or substantial object on the highway at a distance of 500 feet.

    Such equipment shall be in addition to all other lights specifically required by this Traffic Code.

    Vehicles operated under the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio shall not be subject to the requirements of the regulations provided for by this section.
    (Ord. 1957-420. Passed 12-28-57.)

  2. (b) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to one predicate motor vehicle or traffic offense, whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of two or more predicate motor vehicle or traffic offenses, whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.

339.13   Equipment required at night

  1. (a) No person shall operate any motor truck, bus or commercial tractor upon any highway at any time from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise unless there is carried in such vehicle, except as provided in subsection (b) hereof, the following equipment which shall be of the types approved by the Director of Transportation:

    1. (1) At least three flares or three red reflectors or three red electric lanterns, each of which is capable of being seen and distinguished at a distance of 500 feet under normal atmospheric conditions at night time;

    2. (2) At least three red-burning fusees, unless red reflectors or red electric lanterns are carried;

    3. (3) At least two red cloth flags, not less than twelve inches square, with standards to support them;

    4. (4) The type of red reflectors shall comply with such standards and specifications in effect on September 16, 1963, or later established by the Interstate Commerce Commission and must be certified as meeting such standards by Underwriter’s Laboratories.

  2. (b) No person shall operate at the time and under the conditions stated in this section any motor vehicle used in transporting flammable liquids in bulk, or in transporting compressed flammable gases, unless there is carried in such vehicle three red electric lanterns or three red reflectors meeting the requirements stated in subsection (a) hereof. There shall not be carried in any such vehicle any flare, fusee, or signal produced by a flame.
    (ORC 4513.27)

  3. (c) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to one predicate motor vehicle or traffic offense, whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of two or more predicate motor vehicle or traffic offenses, whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.

339.14   Display of warning devices on disabled vehicles

  1. (a) Whenever any motor truck, bus, commercial tractor, trailer, semi- trailer or pole trailer is disabled upon the traveled portion of any highway or the shoulder thereof, at any time when lighted lamps are required on vehicles, the operator of such vehicle shall display the following warning devices upon the highway during the time the vehicle is so disabled on the highway except as provided in subsection (b) hereof.

    1. (1) A lighted fusee shall be immediately placed on the roadway at the traffic side of such vehicle, unless red electric lanterns or red reflectors are displayed.

    2. (2) Within the burning period of the fusee and as promptly as possible, three lighted flares or pot torches, or three red reflectors or three red electric lanterns shall be placed on the roadway as follows:

      1. (A) One at a distance of forty paces or approximately one hundred feet in advance of the vehicle;

      2. (B) One at a distance of forty paces or approximately one hundred feet to the rear of the vehicle except as provided in this section, each in the center of the lane of traffic occupied by the disabled vehicle;

      3. (C) One at the traffic side of the vehicle.

  2. (b) Whenever any vehicle used in transporting flammable liquids in bulk, or in transporting compressed flammable gases, is disabled upon a highway at any time or place mentioned in subsection (a) hereof, the driver of such vehicle shall display upon the roadway the following warning devices:

    1. (1) One red electric lantern or one red reflector shall be immediately placed on the roadway at the traffic side of the vehicle;

    2. (2) Two other red electric lanterns or two other red reflectors shall be placed to the front and rear of the vehicle in the same manner prescribed for flares in subsection (a) hereof.

  3. (c) When a vehicle of a type specified in subsection (b) hereof is disabled, the use of flares, fusees or any signal produced by flame as warning signals is prohibited.

  4. (d) Whenever any vehicle of a type referred to in this section is disabled upon the traveled portion of a highway or the shoulder thereof, at any time when the display of fusees, flares, red reflectors or electric lanterns is not required, the operator of such vehicle shall display two red flags upon the roadway in the lane of traffic occupied by the disabled vehicle, one at a distance of forty paces or approximately one hundred feet in advance of the vehicles and one at a distance of forty paces or approximately one hundred feet to the rear of the vehicle, except as provided in this section.

  5. (e) The flares, fusees, lanterns, red reflectors and flags to be displayed as required in this section shall conform with the requirements of Section 339.13 applicable thereto.

  6. (f) In the event the vehicle is disabled near a curve, crest of a hill or other obstruction of view, the flare, flag, reflector or lantern in that direction shall be placed as to afford ample warning to other users of the highway, but in no case shall it be placed less than forty paces or approximately one hundred feet nor more than 120 paces or approximately 300 feet from the disabled vehicle.
    (ORC 4513.28)

  7. (g) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to one predicate motor vehicle or traffic offense, whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of two or more predicate motor vehicle or traffic offenses, whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.

339.15   Use of farm trucks

  1. (a) No person shall use a farm truck on any public street or highway for commercial purposes or for any purpose other than exclusively in farm use.
    (Ord. 1957-420. Passed 12-28-57.)

  2. (b) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to one predicate motor vehicle or traffic offense, whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of two or more predicate motor vehicle or traffic offenses, whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.

339.16   Restricted through truck traffic

  1. (a) All vehicular trucks, excepting those specifically excluded from this section as set forth in subsection (d) hereof, not intending to discharge cargo within the Village, shall follow State Route 422 through the Village, such street being designated hereby as the through truck route, and such vehicular trucks shall be prohibited from the use of any other routes or streets within or through the Village.

  2. (b) All vehicular trucks, excepting those trucks specifically excluded from this section by subsection (d) hereof, which intend to discharge cargo within the Village, shall be permitted to use a street upon which truck traffic is prohibited only if such truck is intending to discharge cargo on such street. Such trucks shall follow State Route 422 through the Village to the furthest extent possible in driving to the particular street of cargo discharge.

  3. (c) The Mayor as Director of Public Safety is hereby directed to prohibit truck traffic as indicated in the other sections of this Traffic Code, and is further directed to enforce such prohibitions within the full extent of his authority, and is further directed to cause notice of the prohibited streets for truck traffic to be sufficiently posted at those points within the Village which are appropriate for notification to truck traffic.

  4. (d) The prohibitions on through truck traffic contained herein shall be and are applicable to all trucks, resident and nonresident, through and local, in the same manner and to the same extent, except as set forth hereinafter. The following trucks are specifically excluded from the provisions of this section: Village Safety and Service Department vehicles; trucks owned and operated by Municipalities having a mutual aid agreement with the Village in effect; trucks equal to or less in size than two-ton, or 8,000 pounds total gross weight, single-axle trucks, such as delivery trucks, vans or all-purpose pick-up trucks.

  5. (e) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
    (Ord. 1984-26. Passed 6-10-85.)

339.17   Weighing vehicle; scales to be used; removal of excess load

Any police officer having reason to believe that the weight of a vehicle and its load is unlawful may require the driver of such vehicle to stop and submit to a weighing of it by means of a compact, self-contained, portable, sealed scale specially adapted to determining the wheel loads of vehicles on highways; a sealed scale permanently installed in a fixed location, having a load- receiving element specially adapted to determining the wheel loads of highway vehicles; a sealed scale, permanently installed in a fixed location, having a load-receiving element specially adapted to determining the combined load of all wheels on a single axle or on successive axles of a highway vehicle, or a sealed scale adapted to weighing highway vehicles, loaded or unloaded. The driver of such vehicle shall, if necessary, be directed to proceed to the nearest available of such sealed scales to accomplish the weighing, provided such scales are within three miles of the point where such vehicle is stopped. Any vehicle stopped in accordance with this section may be held by the police officer for a reasonable time only to accomplish the weighing as prescribed by this section.

Whenever such officer upon weighing a vehicle and load determines that the weight is unlawful, he may require the driver to stop the vehicle in a suitable place and remain standing until such portion of the load is removed as is necessary to reduce the weight of such vehicle to the limit permitted under this chapter.
(ORC 4513.33)