(A) No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any highway unless the vehicle is so constructed, loaded, or covered as to prevent any of its load from dropping, sifting, leaking, or otherwise escaping therefrom, except that sand or other substances may be dropped for the purpose of securing traction, or water or other substances may be sprinkled on a roadway in cleaning or maintaining the roadway.
(B) Except for a farm vehicle used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials or a rubbish vehicle in the process of acquiring its load, no vehicle loaded with garbage, swill, cans, bottles, waste paper, ashes, refuse, trash, rubbish, waste, wire, paper, cartons, boxes, glass, solid waste, or any other material of an unsanitary nature that is susceptible to blowing or bouncing from a moving vehicle shall be driven or moved on any highway unless the load is covered with a sufficient cover to prevent the load or any part of the load from spilling onto the highway.
(R.C. § 4513.31)
(C) No person shall operate on any street, alley, or other public place a vehicle with mud, dirt, sticky substances, litter, or foreign matter on its wheels or other parts if such operation results in the depositing or tracking of such mud, dirt, substances, litter, or foreign matter on any street, alley, or other public place. No person being owner of real property or a prime contractor in charge of a construction site shall maintain such property or construction site so that vehicles upon such property or construction site pick up mud, dirt, sticky substances, litter, or foreign matter on the wheels or other parts and deposit or track such mud, dirt, sticky substances, litter, or foreign matter onto any street, alley, or other public place.
(D) Where mud, dirt, sticky substances, litter, or foreign matter has been tracked or deposited on any street, alley, or other public place in violation of this section, the Police Chief or his or her designee is authorized to cause such mud, dirt, substances, litter, or foreign matter to be cleaned from such street and to charge the cost thereof to person or persons responsible. The cost of cleaning shall be collected by civil suit. The term
RESPONSIBLE PERSON as used in this section means the driver of the vehicle which deposited or tracked the mud, dirt, substances, litter, or foreign matter on the street or his or her employer or the owner of the real property or prime contractor in charge of a construction site from where the deposited or tracked mud, dirt, substances, litter, or foreign matter on the street, alley, or other public place originated.
(2000 Code, § 77.08) (Ord. O-19-90, passed 9-10-1990) Penalty, see § 77.99