335.01 Oversize or overweight vehicle operation on State routes; State permits.
335.02 Oversize or overweight vehicle operation on local streets.
335.03 Special weight and tire restrictions designated by traffic sign.
335.04 Maximum width, height and length.
335.05 Vehicles transporting explosives; requirements.
335.06 Limitation of load extension on left side.
335.07 Loads dropping, sifting, leaking.
335.08 Shifting load.
335.09 Towing vehicles.
335.10 Wheel protectors.
335.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
See sectional histories for similar State law
Drivers of commercial cars - see TRAF. Ch. 337
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 Ohio R.C. 5577.01 to 5577.09, inclusive, or otherwise not in conformity with Ohio R.C. 4513.01 to 4513.37, inclusive, upon any State route within the Municipality, except pursuant to special written permit issued by the Ohio Director of Highways. 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.
No holder of a permit issued by the Ohio Director of Highways 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 Municipality, however, it shall be unlawful to operate any such vehicle or combination of vehicles upon any roadway within the Municipality which is not a State route, except upon permission granted by the City Manager and except for movement necessitated by an emergency or for purposes of local delivery or pickup, provided such person shall compensate for any damage to a roadway or road structure.
(ORC 4513.34; Ord. 7-83. Passed 3-21-83.)
No person shall operate, move or park a vehicle or combination of vehicles exceeding a size as specified in Section 335.04, or exceeding a gross weight of five tons, upon any street or highway under local jurisdiction, other than State routes, except pursuant to permission granted by the City Manager. Permission need not be obtained for any movement or parking necessitated by an emergency or for the purposes of making deliveries to or pickups from premises not located on State routes, provided such movement is conducted by the shortest route possible or by a route designated by the City Manager.
No person granted permission by the City Manager shall be required to obtain a special permit from the Ohio Director of Highways for the movement of the vehicle or combination of vehicles on streets or highways under local jurisdiction; however, the approval of the Ohio Director of Highways shall be required for movement upon State routes as provided in Section 335.01.
The City Manager may grant permission for a single or round trip, or for such period of time, not to exceed one year, as the City Manager in his discretion deems advisable, or for the duration of any construction project. The City Manager may limit or prescribe terms or conditions of operation for such vehicle or combination of vehicles by designating the route, hours, speed or such other restrictions as may be necessary for the preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety. The City Manager may require the posting of bond or other security necessary to compensate for any damage to a roadway or road structure.
Streets or highways under local jurisdiction shall be posted with signs indicating "no thru trucks - gross weight 5 tons", or words of similar import to apprise drivers of the limitations imposed by this section. No driver shall disobey the instructions indicated on any such sign.
Violation of any of the limitations, terms or conditions of the permission granted by the City Manager shall be cause for immediate revocation or suspension of such permission and denial of request for any future permission.
(Ord. 85-84. Passed 12-3-84.)
(Ord. 85-84. Passed 12-3-84.)
Whenever, in the judgment of the City Manager, any street or part thereof would be injured or damaged by general use of vehicles having solid tires or by vehicles exceeding in gross weight or in weight per inch of tire width the limits which he shall determine to be safe for such highway, or part thereof, he shall erect appropriate traffic signs prohibiting the operation of vehicles having solid tires, or indicating and designating such weight limits, and it shall be unlawful to operate over any such highway, or part thereof, any vehicle having solid tires or exceeding such weight limits.
(Ord. 7-83. Passed 3-21-83.)
(Ord. 7-83. Passed 3-21-83.)
(a) No vehicle shall be operated upon the public highways, streets, bridges and culverts within the Municipality, whose dimensions exceed those specified in this section.
(b) No such vehicle shall have a width in excess of:
(1) 104 inches for passenger bus type vehicles operated exclusively within municipal corporations;
(2) 102 inches, excluding such safety devices as are required by law, for passenger bus type vehicles operated over freeways, and such other State roads with minimum pavement widths of twenty-two feet, except those roads or portions of roads over which operation of 102-inch buses is prohibited by order of the Ohio Director of Transportation;
(3) 132 inches for traction engines;
(4) 102 inches for recreational vehicles, excluding safety devices and retracted awnings and other appurtenances of six inches or less in width and except that the Director may prohibit the operation of 102-inch recreational vehicles on designated State highways or portions of highways;
(5) 102 inches, including load, for all other vehicles, except that the Director may prohibit the operation of 102-inch vehicles on such State highways or portions of State highways as the Director designates.
(c) No such vehicle shall have a length in excess of:
(1) 66 feet for passenger bus type vehicles and articulated passenger bus type vehicles operated by a regional transit authority pursuant to Ohio R.C. 306.30 to 306.54;
(2) 45 feet for all other passenger bus type vehicles;
(3) 53 feet for any semitrailer when operated in a commercial tractor-semitrailer combination, with or without load, except that the Director may, by journal entry, prohibit the operation of any such commercial tractor-semitrailer combination on such State highways or portions of State highways as the Director designates;
(4) 28.5 feet for any semitrailer or trailer when operated in a commercial tractor-semitrailer-trailer or commercial tractor-semitrailer-semitrailer combination, except that the Director may prohibit the operation of any such commercial tractor-semitrailer-trailer or commercial tractor-semitrailer-semitrailer combination on such State highways or portions of State highways as the Director designates;
(5) A. 97 feet for drive-away saddlemount vehicle transporter combinations and drive-away saddlemount with fullmount vehicle transporter combinations when operated on any interstate, United States route, or State route, including reasonable access travel on all other roadways for a distance not to exceed one road mile from any interstate, United States route, or State route, not to exceed three saddlemounted vehicles, but which may include one fullmount;
B. 75 feet for drive-away saddlemount vehicle transporter combinations and drive-away saddlemount with fullmount vehicle transporter combinations, when operated on any roadway not designated as an interstate, United States route, or State route, not to exceed three saddlemounted vehicles, but which may include one fullmount;
(6) 65 feet for any other combination of vehicles coupled together, with or without load, except as provided in subsections (c)(3) and (4) and in subsection (e) hereof;
(7) 45 feet for recreational vehicles.
(8) 50 feet for all other vehicles except trailers and semitrailers, with or without load.
(d) No such vehicle shall have a height in excess of thirteen feet six inches, with or without load.
(e) An automobile transporter or boat transporter shall be allowed a length of sixty-five feet and a stinger-steered automobile transporter or stinger-steered boat transporter shall be allowed a length of seventy-five feet, except that the load thereon may extend no more than four feet beyond the rear of such vehicles and may extend no more than three feet beyond the front of such vehicles, and except further that the Director may prohibit the operation of any stinger-steered automobile transporter or stinger-steered boat transporter or a B-train assembly on any State highway or portion of any State highway that the Director designates.
(f) The widths prescribed in subsection (b) shall not include side mirrors, turn signal lamps, marker lamps, handholds for cab entry and egress, flexible fender extensions, mud flaps, splash and spray suppressant devices, and load-induced tire bulge.
The width prescribed in subsection (b)(5) shall not include automatic covering devices, tarp and tarp hardware, and tiedown assemblies, provided these safety devices do not extend more than three inches from each side of the vehicle.
The lengths prescribed in subsections (c)(2) to (8) hereof shall not include safety devices, bumpers attached to the front or rear of such bus or combination, nonproperty carrying devices or components that do not extend more than twenty-four inches beyond the rear of the vehicle and are needed for loading or unloading, B-train assembly used between the first and second semitrailer of a commercial tractor-semitrailer-semitrailer combination, energy conservation devices as provided in any regulations adopted by the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation, or any noncargo-carrying refrigeration equipment attached to the front of trailers and semitrailers. In special cases, vehicles whose dimensions exceed those prescribed by this section may operate in accordance with rules adopted by the Ohio Director of Transportation.
(g) This section does not apply to fire engines, fire trucks or other vehicles or apparatus belonging to any municipal corporation or to the volunteer fire department of any municipal corporation or used by such department in the discharge of its functions. This section does not apply to vehicles and pole trailers used in the transportation of wooden and metal poles, nor to the transportation of pipes or well-drilling equipment, nor to farm machinery and equipment. The owner or operator of any vehicle, machinery or equipment not specifically enumerated in this section but the dimensions of which exceed the dimensions provided by this section, when operating the same on the highways and streets of this State shall comply with the rules of the Director governing such movement, that the Director may adopt. Ohio R.C. 119.01 to 119.13 apply to any rules the Director adopts under this section, or the amendment or rescission of the rules, and any person adversely affected shall have the same right of appeal as provided in those sections.
This section does not require the State, the Municipality, County, township or any railroad or other private corporation to provide sufficient vertical clearance to permit the operation of such vehicle, or to make any changes in or about existing structures now crossing streets, roads and other public thoroughfares in the Municipality.
(h) As used in this section, "recreational vehicle" has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 4501.01.
(ORC 5577.05)
(ORC 5577.05)
(i) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense or subsequent offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(ORC 5577.99)
(ORC 5577.99)
Any person operating any vehicle transporting explosives upon a street or highway shall at all times comply with the following requirements:
(a) Such vehicle shall be marked or placarded on each side and on the rear with the word "EXPLOSIVES" in letters not less than eight inches high, or there shall be displayed on the rear of such vehicle a red flag not less than twenty-four inches square marked with the word "DANGER" in white letters six inches high, or shall be marked or placarded in accordance with Section 177.823 of the United States Department of Transportation Regulations.
(b) Such vehicle shall be equipped with not less than two fire extinguishers, filled and ready for immediate use, and placed at convenient points on such vehicle.
(ORC 4513.29)
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