(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.
(b) Whoever violates the weight provisions of this section shall be fined $80.00 for the first 2,000 pounds, or fraction thereof, of overload; for overloads in excess of 2,000 pounds, but not in excess of 5,000 pounds, such person shall be fined $100.00, and in addition thereto $1.00 per 100 pounds of overload; for overloads in excess of 5,000 pounds but not in excess of 10,000 pounds, such person shall be fined $130.00, and in addition thereto $2.00 per 100 pounds of overload, or imprisoned not more than 30 days, or both. For all overloads in excess of 10,000 pounds, such person shall be fined $160.00, and in addition thereto $3.00 per 100 pounds of overload, or imprisoned not more than 30 days, or both. Whoever violates the weight provisions of vehicle and load relating to gross load limits shall be fined not less than $100.00. No penalty prescribed in this subsection shall be imposed on any vehicle combination if the overload on any one axle does not exceed 1,000 pounds, and if the immediately preceding or following axle, excepting the front axle of the vehicle combination, is underloaded by the same or greater amount. For purposes of this subsection, two axles on one vehicle less than eight feet apart shall be considered as one axle.
(ORC 5577.99(A))
(c) (1) No person shall operate a motor vehicle on the streets or rights of way, except for designated state routes, within the Village of Bradford, if such motor vehicle has a gross vehicle weight rating of 26,001 pounds or more. In order to determine the gross weight of any such vehicle, the law enforcement official may check any one or more of the following:
A. The Statement of Gross Vehicle Weight that may be carried by the operator of the vehicle, as referred to in Section 74.48 of the Ohio Basic Code;
B. The registration information for such vehicle;
C. The weight of the vehicle by means of a portable sealed scale specially adapted to determining the wheel loads of vehicles on highways.
(2) Such vehicles may be operated on the streets or rights of way in the Village if the purpose is to make a delivery, to assist in a construction project, or in the operation of a bonafide business. In any event, the operator of such vehicle shall use designated state routes as much as possible.
(3) Whoever violates this paragraph shall be subject to the penalties set forth in subsection (b) hereof.
(Ord. 05-03. Passed 2-24-05.)