§ 440.01  LOAD LIMITS.
   (a)   State routes.
      (1)   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. Chapter 5577, or otherwise not in conformity with Ohio R.C. Chapter 4513, 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.
      (2)   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, no person shall operate any such vehicle or combination of vehicles upon any roadway within the municipality which is not a state route, except as may be otherwise provided in any local ordinance or regulation or elsewhere in this Traffic Code.
(Adopting Ordinance)
   (b)   Local streets.
      (1)   No person shall operate a vehicle exceeding a size as specified in § 440.02, or exceeding a gross weight of 15 tons, upon any street in the municipality other than state routes, except those local streets designated as truck routes and marked as such by appropriate traffic signs, and except when such operation is necessary to load or unload property, to go to or from the usual place of storage of such vehicle or to perform any other legitimate business or act other than passage through the municipality. Operators of vehicles so deviating from either a state route or a designated truck route in the municipality shall confine such deviation to that required in order to accomplish the purpose of the departure.
      (2)   The 15-ton gross weight limit shall be reduced to seven and one-half tons between January 1 and April 30 of each year.
(Ord. 96-O-43, passed 8-19-1996)
   (c)   Local permit and conditions. Upon application and for good cause, the Police Chief may issue a local permit authorizing an applicant to move an oversize or overweight vehicle or combination of vehicles upon local streets and highways.
      (1)   No permittee shall be required to obtain a special permit from the Ohio Director of Transportation 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 Transportation shall be required for movement upon state routes as provided in subsection (a) of this section.
      (2)   The Police Chief may grant a permit for a single or round trip, or for such period of time, not to exceed one year, as the Police Chief in his or her discretion deems advisable, or for the duration of any construction project. The Police Chief 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 Police Chief may require the posting of bond or other security necessary to compensate for any damage to a roadway or road structure.
      (3)   For each such permit, the Police Chief shall charge a fee as stated in the Fee Schedule in § 236.07 of the City of Kirtland Codified Ordinances, and for each hour of time or any part thereof spent by the Police Division in supervising the movement of such vehicle, the applicant shall pay a fee as stated in the Fee Schedule in § 236.07 of the City of Kirtland Codified Ordinances.
      (4)   Except as provided in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, streets and highways shall be posted with signs indicating "no thru trucks - gross weight 15 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.
      (5)   Violation of any of the limitations, terms or conditions of the permit granted by the Police Chief shall be cause for immediate revocation or suspension of such permit and denial of request for any future permit. Such violation shall also subject the violator to the penalties prescribed by §§ 408.01 and 408.02.
(Adopting Ordinance)
   (d)   Emergency conditions. When, in the opinion of the Director of Public Service, an emergency has developed and operation of through truck traffic will damage and destroy a local street, the Director shall cause such roadway to be properly posted and no person shall operate  a truck which has a gross weight that exceeds that of a three-quarter ton loaded pick-up truck, over and upon such roadway.
(Ord. 77-O-44, passed 4-4-1977; Am. Ord. 17-O-20, passed 7-3-2017)