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(a) In addition to any other lawful requirements of load distribution, no person shall operate any vehicle upon a street or highway unless such vehicle is so laden as to prevent its contents from shifting or otherwise unbalancing the vehicle to such an extent as to interfere with the safe operation of the same.
(b) No motor vehicle or trailer shall be driven unless the tailboard or tailgate, tarpaulins, chains (except ground or contact chains), ropes, stakes, poles, and the like, or any part of the load, are securely fastened to prevent dangling, flapping, swinging or falling from the side, end or top of the load or body. All projecting cargo shall be properly guarded by a red flag or cloth or a red light or lantern as required by Section 437.08.
(Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
(a) No person shall drive over the improved highways of this City a traction engine or tractor with tires or wheels equipped with ice picks, spuds, spikes, chains or other projections of any kind extending beyond the cleats, or no person shall tow or in any way pull another vehicle over the improved highways of this City which towed or pulled vehicle has tires or wheels equipped with ice picks, spuds, spikes, chains or other projections of any kind. “Traction engine” or “tractor”, as used in this section, applies to all self-propelling engines equipped with metal-tired wheels operated or propelled by any form of engine, motor or mechanical power.
(b) This City shall not adopt, enforce or maintain any ordinance, rule or regulation contrary to or inconsistent with division (a), nor shall this City require any license tax upon or registration fee for any traction engine, tractor or trailer, or any permit or license to operate. Operators of traction engines or tractors shall have the same rights upon the public streets and highways as the drivers of any other vehicles, unless some other safe and convenient way is provided, and no public road open to traffic shall be closed to traction engines or tractors.
(RC 5589.08)
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(RC 5589.99(B); Ord. No. 1281-15. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
(a) For the purposes of this section, “studded tire” means any tire designed for use on a vehicle and equipped with metal studs or studs of wear- resisting material that project beyond the tread of the traction surface of the tire. “Motor vehicle”, “street or highway”, “public safety vehicle”, and “school bus” have the same meaning as given those terms in Chapter 401.
(b) (1) Except as provided in division (b)(2) of this section, no person shall operate any motor vehicle other than a public safety vehicle or school bus that is equipped with studded tires on any street or highway in this City, except during the period extending from the first day of November of each year through the fifteenth day of April of the succeeding year.
(2) A person may operate a motor vehicle that is equipped with retractable studded tires with the studs retracted at any time of the year, but shall operate the motor vehicle with the studs extended only as provided in division (b)(1) of this section.
(c) Division (b) of this section does not apply to the use of tire chains when there is snow or ice on the streets or highways where the chains are being used, or the immediate vicinity thereof.
(RC 5589.081)
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(RC 5589.99(B); Ord. No. 1281-15. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
(a) No person shall drive a commercial motor vehicle, as defined in RC 4506.01, or a commercial car or commercial tractor, as defined in RC 4501.01, while the person’s ability or alertness is so impaired by fatigue, illness or other causes that it is unsafe for the person to drive the vehicle. No driver shall use any drug which would adversely affect the driver’s ability or alertness.
(b) No owner, as defined in RC 4501.01, of a commercial motor vehicle, commercial car or commercial tractor, or a person employing or otherwise directing the driver of the vehicle, shall require or knowingly permit a driver in any such condition described in division (a) of this section to drive the vehicle upon any street or highway.
(c) Except as otherwise provided in this division, whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. If the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to one (1) or more violations of this section or RC 4511.79, or RC 4511.63, 4511.76, 4511.761, 4511.762, 4511.764 or 4511.77, or a municipal ordinance that is substantially equivalent to any of those sections, whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(RC 4511.79; Ord. No. 1281-15. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)