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(a) Except where route direction signs indicate otherwise, all commercial vehicles of the tractor-trailer type shall remain in the right-hand lane of all streets and highways within the City, except when such lane is obstructed, and no operator of any such commercial vehicle shall pass another vehicle proceeding in the same direction.
(b) For the purpose of this subsection (b), the word "truck" means every motor vehicle designed and used to carry property wherein the overall length of such vehicle, including a trailer, if any, is in excess of twenty feet, or any truck-tractor.
The operator of a truck shall not follow another truck more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard for the speed of such vehicle and the traffic upon and condition of the street or highway. Except when the truck ahead is stopped by a traffic control device or by a police officer, it shall be prima-facie unlawful for any operator of a truck to operate the same so that there is less than 300 feet between it and any truck ahead.
(Ord. 1962-76. Passed 11-26-62.)
(a) No person shall operate any truck, trailer, semitrailer, bus or commercial tractor upon any street or highway within the City under the conditions specified in Section 337.02, unless there is carried in such vehicle, except as provided in subsection (b) hereof, the following equipment, which shall be of a type approved by the Ohio Director of Transportation:
(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 nighttime;
(2) At least three red-burning fusees, unless red reflectors or red electric lanterns are carried; and
(3) At least two red cloth flags, not less than twelve inches square, with standards to support the same.
(b) No person shall operate, under the conditions stated in Section 337.02, 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. In any such vehicle no flares, fusees or signals produced by a flame shall be carried.
(ORC 4513.27)
(a) Whenever any truck, trailer, semitrailer, bus, commercial tractor or pole trailer is disabled upon any freeway, expressway, thruway and connecting, entering or exiting ramps at any time when lighted lights are required on vehicles, the operator of such vehicle shall display the following warning devices upon the street or highway during the time the vehicle is so disabled, except as provided in subsection (b) hereof:
(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) 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: One at a distance of forty paces or approximately 100 feet in advance of the vehicle; one at a distance of forty paces or approximately 100 feet to the rear of the vehicle; and one at the traffic side of the vehicle. Except as hereinafter provided, each of the first two mentioned shall be placed in the center of the lane of traffic occupied by the disabled vehicle.
(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 specified in subsection (a) hereof, the driver of such vehicle shall display upon the roadway the following warning devices: One red electric lantern or one red reflector shall be immediately placed on the roadway at the traffic side of the vehicle and 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 in subsection (a) hereof for flares.
When a vehicle of a type specified in this subsection is disabled, the use of flares, fusees or any signal produced by flame as warning signals is prohibited.
(c) The flares, fusees, lanterns and flags to be displayed as required in this section shall conform with the requirements of Section 339.14 applicable thereto.
(d) 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 100 feet, nor more than 120 paces or approximately 300 feet from the disabled vehicle.
(ORC 4513.28)
(ORC 4513.28)
Whenever any vehicle of a type referred to in Section 339.15 is disabled upon any freeway, expressway, thruway and connecting, entering or exiting ramp within the Municipality, 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 100 feet in advance of the vehicle, and one at a distance of forty paces or approximately 100 feet to the rear of the vehicle, except under the conditions specified in Section 339.15(d). The flags to be displayed as required in this section shall conform with the requirements of Section 339.14 applicable thereto.
(ORC 4513.28; Ord. 1965-46. Passed 9-27-65.)
(a) “Trailer” means every vehicle designed or used for carrying property wholly on or within its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle, including any such vehicle when formed by or operated as a combination of a semitrailer and a vehicle of the dolly type, such as that commonly known as a trailer dolly, and a vehicle used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials between a local place of storage or supply and the farm when drawn or towed on a public street or highway at a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour.
(b) “Semitrailer” means every vehicle designed or used for carrying property with another and separate motor vehicle so that in operation a part of its own weight or that of its load, or both, rests upon and is carried by another vehicle.
(c) No person shall keep, store or maintain any trailer or semitrailer on any premises within any retail business district, commercial district or industrial district in the City for more than 168 consecutive hours.
(d) A separate offense shall be deemed committed for each trailer or semitrailer kept, stored or maintained in violation of this section. A separate offense shall also be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
(Ord. 1974-26. Passed 5-31-74.)
(a) No person shall drive or operate, or cause to be driven or operated, any truck, trailer, semitrailer or heavy construction equipment other than for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries at or to residences on the following streets:
Idlewood Shady Lane Melody Lane Brookwood Elizabeth Lane Roadoan Forest Edge Bentwood Heather Lane Saybrook Brook-High Springwood Autumn Lane Southwood Summer Lane Brook Lane Sunny Lane Fairway Lane Kennedy Drive Deborah Lynn |
(b) Appropriate signs shall be placed upon such streets, which signs shall state that trucks, trailers, semitrailers and construction equipment are prohibited from using such streets within the City limits.
(Ord. 1983-40. Passed 10-24-83.)
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a commercial car with three or more axles and/or a commercial car as part of a commercial tandem, and/or a commercial tractor as part of a commercial combination and/or a commercial tandem on a public highway without a valid highway use permit for such commercial car and/or commercial tractor.
(b) The judge or magistrate of any court finding any person guilty of unlawfully operating a commercial car or commercial tractor as provided in this section shall notify the Tax Commissioner of such violation and shall transmit to the Commissioner the name and permanent address of the owner of the commercial car or commercial tractor operated in violation of this section, the registration number, the state of registration, and the certificate of title number of the commercial car or commercial tractor.
(Ord. 2003-27. Passed 4-14-03.)