(a) (1) 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.
(2) 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)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(ORC 4513.99)
(c) No person shall haul or transport any material over any portion of any street or highway in the City without such adequate provisions as will prevent the spillage of any such material upon such highway or street. In the event of any spillage in the course of such haulage or transportation, the material deposited upon the street shall be forthwith removed by the hauler. The term “street,” as used in this section, includes sidewalks.
(d) In addition to any other requirements of load distribution, no person shall operate any vehicle upon a street or otherwise 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 same.
(Ord. 1341. Passed 10-15-56.)
(e) No person shall operate any vehicle so as to track mud on any public way or place.