(a) 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 Transportation. 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 Transportation 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 as provided in Section 339.02. (ORC 4513.34)
(b) Whoever violates the weight provisions of Section 339.01 shall be fined twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for the first 2,000 pounds, or fraction thereof, of overload; for overloads in excess of 2,000 pounds but not in excess of 5,000 pounds, he/she shall be fined twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and in addition hereto one dollar ($1.00) per 100 pounds of overload; for overloads in excess of 5,000 pounds but not in excess of 10,000 pounds, he/she shall be fined twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and in addition thereto two dollars ($2.00) per 100 pounds of overload, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both; for over-loads in excess of 10,000 pounds, he/she shall be fined twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and in addition thereto three dollars ($3.00) per 100 pounds of overload, or imprisoned not more than thirty days or both; provided, however, that whoever violates the weight provisions of vehicle and load relating to gross load limits shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00). No penalty prescribed in this section shall be imposed on any vehicle in combination if:
(1) The overload on any axle does not exceed 1,000 pounds, and
(2) The immediately preceding or following axle, excepting the front axle of the vehicle combination is underloaded by the same or greater amount For purposes of this section two axles on one vehicle less than eight feet apart, shall be considered as one axle.