(a) No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any highway unless the 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 the roadway.
(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 highway unless the load is covered with a sufficient cover to prevent the load or any part of the load from spilling onto the highway.
(ORC 4513.31; Adopting Ordinance)
(c) No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any street or highway in such manner as to deposit dirt, mud or any other foreign object on the street or highway, except that sand or other substances may be dropped for the purpose of securing traction, or water or any other substance may be sprinkled on a roadway in cleaning or maintaining such roadway.
(d) It shall be the duty of the driver of a vehicle who unlawfully drops or deposits dirt, mud or any other foreign object, or permits the load or any portion thereof to be dropped or deposited, upon any street, highway, sidewalk or other public place to immediately remove the same or cause it to be removed.
(Ord. 27-70. Passed 3-17-70.)