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(a) At all times mentioned in Section 437.02, at least two (2) lighted lights shall be displayed, one (1) near each side of the front of every motor vehicle and trackless trolley, except when the vehicle or trackless trolley is parked subject to the regulations governing lights on parked vehicles or trackless trolleys. The Ohio Director of Public Safety shall prescribe and promulgate regulations relating to the design and use of such lights and such regulations shall be in accordance with currently recognized standards.
(RC 4513.14)
(b) However, on a motorcycle there shall be displayed at least one (1) and not more than two (2) lighted lights as required herein.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. No. 655-17. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
(a) Whenever a motor vehicle is being operated on a roadway or shoulder adjacent thereto during the times specified in Section 437.02, the driver shall use a distribution of light, or composite beam, directed high enough and of sufficient intensity to reveal persons, vehicles, and substantial objects at a safe distance in advance of the vehicle, subject to the following requirements:
(1) Whenever the driver of a vehicle approaches an oncoming vehicle, the driver shall use a distribution of light, or composite beam, so aimed that the glaring rays are not projected into the eyes of the oncoming driver.
(2) Every new motor vehicle registered in this state which has multiple-beam road lighting equipment shall be equipped with a beam indicator, which shall be lighted whenever the uppermost distribution of light from the headlights is in use, and shall not otherwise be lighted. This indicator shall be so designed and located that, when lighted, it will be readily visible without glare to the driver of the vehicle.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(RC 4513.15; Ord. No. 655-17. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
Any motor vehicle may be operated under the conditions specified in Section 437.02 when it is equipped with two (2) lighted lights upon the front thereof capable of revealing persons and substantial objects seventy-five (75) feet ahead in lieu of lights required in Section 437.13, provided that such vehicle shall not be operated at a speed in excess of twenty (20) miles per hour.
(RC 4513.16; Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
(a) Whenever a motor vehicle equipped with headlights is also equipped with any auxiliary lights or spotlight or any other light on the front thereof projecting a beam of an intensity greater than three hundred (300) candle power, not more than a total of five (5) of any such lights on the front of a vehicle shall be lighted at any one time when such vehicle is upon a highway.
(b) Any lighted light or illuminating device upon a motor vehicle, other than headlights, spotlights, signal lights or auxiliary driving lights, that projects a beam of light of an intensity greater than three hundred (300) candle power shall be so directed that no part of the beam will strike the level of the roadway on which the vehicle stands at a distance of more than seventy-five (75) feet from the vehicle.
(c) (1) Flashing lights are prohibited on motor vehicles, except as a means for indicating a right or a left turn, or in the presence of a vehicular traffic hazard requiring unusual care in approaching, or overtaking or passing. This prohibition does not apply to emergency vehicles, road service vehicles servicing or towing a disabled vehicle, rural mail delivery vehicles, vehicles transporting schoolchildren as provided in RC 4513.182, highway maintenance vehicles, funeral hearses, funeral escort vehicles, and similar equipment operated by State or local authorities, which shall be equipped with and display, when used on a street or highway for the special purpose necessitating those lights, a flashing, oscillating, or rotating amber light, but shall not display a flashing, oscillating, or rotating light of any other color, nor to vehicles or machinery permitted by Section 437.10 to have a flashing red light.
(2) When used on a street or highway, farm machinery and vehicles escorting farm machinery may be equipped with and display a flashing, oscillating, or rotating amber light, and the prohibition contained in division (c)(1) of this section does not apply to such machinery or vehicles. Farm machinery may also display the lights described in Section 437.10.
(d) Except a person operating a public safety vehicle, as defined in RC 4511.01(E), or a school bus, no person shall operate, move, or park upon, or permit to stand within the right-of-way of any public street or highway any vehicle or equipment that is equipped with and displaying a flashing red or a flashing combination red and white light, or an oscillating or rotating red light, or a combination red and white oscillating or rotating light; and except a public law enforcement officer, or other person sworn to enforce the criminal and traffic laws of the state, operating a public safety vehicle when on duty, no person shall operate, move, or park upon, or permit to stand within the right-of-way of any street or highway any vehicle or equipment that is equipped with, or upon which is mounted, and displaying a flashing blue or a flashing combination blue and white light, or an oscillating or rotating blue light, or a combination blue and white oscillating or rotating light.
(e) This section does not prohibit the use of warning lights required by law or the simultaneous flashing of turn signals on disabled vehicles or on vehicles being operated in unfavorable atmospheric conditions in order to enhance their visibility. This section also does not prohibit the simultaneous flashing of turn signals or warning lights either on farm machinery or vehicles escorting farm machinery when used on a street or highway.
(f) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(RC 4513.17; Ord. No. 655-17. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
(b) The headlights on any motor vehicle shall comply with the headlamp color requirements contained in Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard Number 108, 49 C.F.R. § 571.108. No person shall operate a motor vehicle in violation of this division.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(RC 4513.19; Ord. No. 655-17. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
(a) The following requirements govern as to brake equipment on vehicles:
(1) Every trackless trolley and motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, when operated upon a highway shall be equipped with brakes adequate to control the movement of and to stop and hold the trackless trolley or motor vehicle, including two (2) separate means of applying the brakes, each of which means shall be effective to apply the brakes to at least two (2) wheels. If these two (2) separate means of applying the brakes are connected in any way, then on those trackless trolleys or motor vehicles, manufactured or assembled after January 1, 1942, they shall be so constructed that failure of any one (1) part of the operating mechanism shall not leave the trackless trolley or motor vehicle without brakes on at least two (2) wheels.
(2) Every motorcycle, when operated upon a highway shall be equipped with at least one (1) adequate brake, which may be operated by hand or by foot.
(3) Every motorized bicycle shall be equipped with brakes meeting the rules adopted by the Ohio Director of Public Safety under RC 4511.521.
(4) When operated upon the highways of this state, the following vehicles shall be equipped with brakes adequate to control the movement of and to stop and to hold the vehicle, designed to be applied by the driver of the towing motor vehicle from its cab, and also designed and connected so that, in case of a breakaway of the towed vehicle, the brakes shall be automatically applied:
A. Except as otherwise provided in this section, every trailer or semitrailer, except a pole trailer, with an empty weight of two thousand (2,000) pounds or more, manufactured or assembled on or after January 1, 1942;
B. Every manufactured home or travel trailer with an empty weight of two thousand (2,000) pounds or more, manufactured or assembled on or after January 1, 2001.
(5) Every watercraft trailer with a gross weight or manufacturer’s gross vehicle weight rating of three thousand (3,000) pounds or more that is manufactured or assembled on or after January 1, 2008, shall have separate brakes equipped with hydraulic surge or electrically operated brakes on two (2) wheels.
(6) In any combination of motor- drawn trailers or semitrailers equipped with brakes, means shall be provided for applying the rearmost brakes in approximate synchronism with the brakes on the towing vehicle, and developing the required braking effort on the rearmost wheels at the fastest rate; or means shall be provided for applying braking effort first on the rearmost brakes; or both of the above means, capable of being used alternatively, may be employed.
(7) Every vehicle and combination of vehicles, except motorcycles and motorized bicycles, and except trailers and semitrailers of a gross weight of less than two thousand (2,000) pounds, and pole trailers, shall be equipped with parking brakes adequate to hold the vehicle on any grade on which it is operated, under all conditions of loading, on a surface free from snow, ice or loose material. The parking brakes shall be capable of being applied in conformance with the foregoing requirements by the driver’s muscular effort or by spring action or by equivalent means. Their operation may be assisted by the service brakes or other source of power provided that failure of the service brake actuation system or other power assisting mechanism will not prevent the parking brakes from being applied in conformance with the foregoing requirements. The parking brakes shall be so designed that when once applied they shall remain applied with the required effectiveness despite exhaustion of any source of energy or leakage of any kind.
(8) The same brake drums, brake shoes and lining assemblies, brake shoe anchors, and mechanical brake shoe actuation mechanism normally associated with the wheel brake assemblies may be used for both the service brakes and the parking brakes. If the means of applying the parking brakes and the service brakes are connected in any way, they shall be so constructed that failure of any one (1) part shall not leave the vehicle without operative brakes.
(9) Every trackless trolley, motor vehicle, or combination of motor-drawn vehicles shall be capable at all times and under all conditions of loading of being stopped on a dry, smooth, level road free from loose material, upon application of the service or foot brake, within the following specified distances, or shall be capable of being decelerated at a sustained rate corresponding to these distances:
A. Trackless trolleys, vehicles, or combinations of vehicles having brakes on all wheels shall come to a stop in thirty (30) feet or less from a speed of twenty (20) miles per hour.
B. Vehicles or combinations of vehicles not having brakes on all wheels shall come to a stop in forty (40) feet or less from a speed of twenty (20) miles per hour.
(10) All brakes shall be maintained in good working order and shall be so adjusted as to operate as equally as practicable with respect to the wheels on opposite sides of the trackless trolley or vehicle.
(RC 4513.20)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(RC 4513.99; Ord. No. 655-17. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
(a) Every motor vehicle or trackless trolley when operated upon a street shall be equipped with a horn which is in good working order and capable of emitting sound audible, under normal conditions, from a distance of not less than two hundred (200) feet.
(b) No motor vehicle or trackless trolley shall be equipped with, nor shall any person use upon a vehicle, any siren, whistle, or bell. Any vehicle may be equipped with a theft alarm signal device which shall be so arranged that it cannot be used as an ordinary warning signal. Every emergency vehicle shall be equipped with a siren, whistle, or bell capable of emitting sound audible under normal conditions from a distance of not less than five hundred (500) feet and of a type approved by the Ohio Director of Public Safety. Such equipment shall not be used except when such vehicle is operated in response to an emergency call or is in the immediate pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law, in which case the driver of the emergency vehicle shall sound the equipment when it is necessary to warn pedestrians and other drivers of the approach thereof.
(c) No person shall use the horn of a motor vehicle except to give warnings to other drivers or pedestrians.
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(RC 4513.21; Ord. No. 655-17. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
(a) No person shall own, operate or have in his or her possession any motor vehicle or motorcycle equipped with a device for producing excessive smoke or gas, or so equipped as to permit oil or any other chemical to flow into or upon the exhaust pipe or muffler of such vehicle or in any other way to produce or emit smoke or dangerous or annoying gases from any portion of such vehicle other than the ordinary gases emitted by the exhaust of an internal combustion engine under normal operation.
(b) No person shall own, operate or have in his or her possession any motor vehicle or motorcycle which emits a flame generated by the ignition of any flammable substance in a muffler or any other device.
(c) No person shall own, operate or have in his or her possession any motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine which is not equipped with an adequate muffler or a motorcycle which is not equipped with a compound muffler, in constant operation and properly maintained to prevent any excessive or unusual noise or sound, and no muffler or exhaust system shall be equipped with a cutout, by-pass or similar device. No person shall modify the exhaust system of a motor vehicle in a manner which will amplify or increase the noise or sound emitted by the motor of the vehicle in excess of that emitted by the muffler originally installed on the vehicle, and the original muffler shall comply with all of the requirements of this section.
(d) For the purpose of this section “muffler” means a device consisting of a series of chambers or baffle plates, or other mechanical design for the purpose of receiving exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine, and effective in reducing noise. Exhaust pipes shall be parallel to the ground and vehicle, or vertical, and if vertical, the exhaust from the pipes shall not be directed to the side of the vehicle.
(e) No person shall operate any motor vehicle which produces a sound or noise in excess of ninety- five (95) decibels as measured not less than five (5) feet from the source of such sound or noise. The term “decibel” means a unit for measurement of relative sound levels as indicated by a sound level meter having those properties essential for the purpose of administration and enforcement of this section of a nature defined by the current American Standard Association Specification (Z 24.3-1944).
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
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