339.01 OVERSIZE OR OVERWEIGHT VEHICLE OPERATION ON STATE ROUTES, EXPRESSWAYS AND FREEWAYS; STATE PERMIT.
   (a)   No person shall operate or move a vehicle or combination of vehicles of a size or weight or containing a load exceeding the maximums 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 improved public highways, streets, bridges or culverts of any State route, expressway or freeway within the Municipality, except pursuant to special written permit issued by the Ohio Director of Transportation, or upon any 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 for purposes of enforcement. Definitions as set forth in Ohio R.C. 4511.01 shall apply to this section and chapter.
   (b)   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 improved public highways, streets, bridges or culverts within the City which is not a State route, except as provided in Section 339.02.
(ORC 4513.34; Ord. 91-12. Passed 1-24-91.)
   (c)   Whoever violates the weight provisions of this section shall be fined eighty dollars for the first two thousand pounds, or fraction thereof, of overload; for overloads in excess of two thousand pounds, but not in excess of five thousand pounds, such person shall be fined one hundred dollars, and in addition thereto one dollar per one hundred pounds of overload; for overloads in excess of five thousand pounds, but not in excess of ten thousand pounds, such person shall be fined one hundred thirty dollars and in addition thereto two dollars per one hundred pounds of overload, or imprisoned not more than 180 days, or both. For all overloads in excess of ten thousand pounds such person shall be fined one hundred sixty dollars, and in addition thereto three dollars per one hundred pounds of overload, or imprisoned not more than 180 days, or both. Whoever violates the weight provisions of vehicle and load relating to gross load limits shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars. No penalty prescribed in this subsection shall be imposed on any vehicle combination if the overload on any axle does not exceed one thousand pounds, and if the immediately preceding or following axle, excepting the front axle of the vehicle combination, is underloaded by the same or a greater amount. For purposes of this division, two axles on one vehicle less than eight feet apart, shall be considered as one axle.
(ORC 5577.99)