(a) Any driver or operator of a commercial car, trailer or semitrailer may obtain from any person, firm, partnership, corporation or association including the owner, lessee or operator of such commercial car, trailer or semitrailer, owning and operating sealed scales in this State, a written "statement of gross vehicle weight" showing the gross weight of the vehicle including the cargo on the vehicle, the name and address of the person issuing the statement, and the date and place where the vehicle and its cargo were weighed. The driver or operator of the commercial car, trailer or semitrailer shall retain such statement of gross vehicle weight on his person, and any law enforcement officer of this State may request that such driver or operator exhibit it to him. If, upon examining the statement of gross vehicle weight, the law enforcement officer has reason to believe that the information contained therein is correct in every respect, he shall endorse it with his name and the date and place where it was exhibited to him. The law enforcement officer may then permit such driver or operator to proceed without weighing by a law enforcement officer of this State. No person shall willfully issue a written statement of gross vehicle weight and knowingly give any false information in such statement.
(ORC 5577.10)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.