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(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)
(a) No person shall operate a commercial car with three or more axles when operated alone, as part of a commercial tandem, a commercial car with two axles that is to be operated as part of a commercial tandem with a gross vehicle weight or a registered gross vehicle weight exceeding 26,000 pounds, or a commercial tractor when operated alone or as part of a commercial tractor combination or commercial tandem on a public highway without a valid fuel use permit issued pursuant to Ohio R.C. 5728.02 and displayed in a manner prescribed by the Tax Commissioner, for such commercial car or commercial tractor.
(b) The judge or magistrate of the court finding any person guilty of unlawfully operating a commercial car or commercial tractor as provided for in this section shall immediately notify the Tax Commissioner of such violation and shall transmit to the Commissioner the name and the permanent address of the owner of the commercial car or commercial tractor operated in violation of this section, the registration number, the state of registration, and the certificate of title number of the commercial car or commercial tractor.
(Ord. 138-2003. Passed 6-16-03.)