(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 RC 5577.01 to 5577.09, inclusive, or otherwise not in conformity with RC 4513.01 to 4513.37, inclusive, upon any State route within the City, 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.
(b) 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 City. However, no person shall operate any such vehicle or combination of vehicles upon any roadway within the City which is not a State route, except as provided in Section 439.02.
(c) (1) Whoever violates the weight provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree for overloads not in excess of five thousand (5,000) pounds; and is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree for overloads in excess of five thousand (5,000) pounds but not in excess of ten thousand (10,000) pounds.
(2) Whoever violates the weight provisions of this for overloads in excess of ten thousand (10,000) pounds shall be fined three dollars ($3.00) per one hundred (100) pounds of overload plus court costs, and may be imprisoned not more than sixty (60) days, or both.
(3) Whoever violates any other provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree on the first offense. On each subsequent offense within one (1) year of the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(Ord. No. 1281-15. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)