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(a) No person shall drive over the improved highways of this Municipality 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, and no person shall tow or in any way pull another vehicle over the improved highways of this Municipality 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 Municipality shall not adopt, enforce, or maintain any ordinance, rule or regulation contrary to or inconsistent with division (a), nor shall this Municipality 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.
(ORC 5589.08)
(c) 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.
(d) 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 Municipality, except during the period extending from the first day of November of each year through the fifteenth day of April of the succeeding year.
(e) Division (d) of this section does not apply to the use of tire chains when there is snow or ice on the streets or highways where such chains are being used, or the immediate vicinity thereof.
(ORC 5589.081)
(f) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(ORC 5589.99(B))
Drivers of vehicles described in this chapter are required, upon request by a police officer, to give full and true information as to the route they are following and the name of the consignor and consignee and place of delivery or removal and the location of any consignment being hauled or goods being removed, and upon a designation by such police officer of a route to be followed, shall immediately adopt and pursue such route.
(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 337.08.
(a) The operator of a chauffeured limousine shall accept passengers only on the basis of prearranged contracts, as defined in Ohio R.C. 4501.01, and shall not cruise in search of patronage unless the limousine is in compliance with any statute or ordinance governing the operation of taxicabs or other similar vehicles for hire.
(b) No person shall advertise or hold himself or herself out as doing business as a limousine service or livery service or other similar designation unless each vehicle used by the person to provide the service is registered in accordance with Ohio R.C. 4503.24 and is in compliance with Ohio R.C. 4509.80.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(ORC 4511.85)
(a) All commercial tractors, trailers, semitrailers and pole trailers and trucks in excess of 7,000 pounds gross weight shall be operated in the lane nearest the right-hand edge of the roadway upon all through highways when parking is prohibited in such traffic lane, otherwise in the lane of traffic immediately left thereof, provided that no such vehicle shall overtake and pass any other moving vehicle traveling in the same direction in the right-hand lane of any through highway, unless otherwise directed by a police officer or traffic control device or unless the lane nearest the right-hand edge of the roadway is otherwise marked.
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply when commercial tractors, trailers, semitrailers and pole trailers and trucks in excess of 7,000 pounds gross weight are making an approach for a left turn or when the lane nearest the right-hand edge of the roadway or the lane immediately left thereof upon any through highway is not available for travel.
(Ord. 40-1960. Passed 2-15-60.)
(a) That part of Chardon Road which is within the City is hereby designated as a restricted traffic thoroughfare. When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall operate thereon any tractor, truck, trailer or other vehicle designed or used to carry property, or for building or construction work, weighing in excess of 10,000 pounds, except vehicles of this City, the City of Cleveland, the County and the State, or any department thereof, while performing work or going to or from the performance of work on such street, and except station wagons and trailers designed to be attached to and propelled by passenger automobiles, and except vehicles doing work or receiving goods or making deliveries in the City in bona fide transactions, which vehicles shall enter and leave such restricted thoroughfare by the shortest route.
(Ord. 241-1961. Passed 10-2-61.)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 307.01.
(a) That part of Lake Shore Boulevard which is within the City is hereby designated as a restricted traffic thoroughfare. When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall operate thereon any tractor, truck, trailer or other vehicle designed or used to carry property, or for building or construction work, weighing in excess of 7,000 pounds, except vehicles of this City, the City of Cleveland, the County and the State, or any department thereof, while performing work or going to or from the performance of work on such street, and except station wagons and trailers designed to be attached to and propelled by passenger automobiles, and except vehicles doing work or receiving goods or making deliveries in the City in bona fide transactions, which vehicles shall enter and leave such restricted thoroughfare by the shortest route.
(Ord. 46-1960. Passed 3-7-60.)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 307.01.
(a) Any police officer having reason to believe that the weight of a vehicle and its load is unlawful may require the driver of such vehicle to stop and submit to a weighing of it by means of a compact, self-contained, portable, sealed scale specially adapted to determining the wheel loads of vehicles on highways; a sealed scale permanently installed in a fixed location, having a load-receiving element specially adapted to determining the wheel loads of highway vehicles; a sealed sale permanently installed in a fixed location, having a load-receiving element specially adapted to determining the combined load of all wheels on a single axle or on successive axles of a highway vehicle; or a sealed scale adapted to weighing highway vehicles, loaded or unloaded. The driver of such vehicle shall, if necessary, be directed to proceed to the nearest available of such sealed scales to accomplish the weighing, provided such scales are within three miles of the point where such vehicle is stopped. Any vehicle stopped in accordance with this section may be held by the police officer for a reasonable time only to accomplish the weighing as prescribed by this section.
(b) Whenever such officer, upon weighing a vehicle and load, determines that the weight is unlawful, he or she may require the driver to stop the vehicle in a suitable place and remain standing until such portion of the load is removed as is necessary to reduce the weight of such vehicle to the limit permitted under this chapter.
(ORC 4513.33)
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