As used in this chapter:
(a) “Motor vehicle” means any vehicle, including house trailers and recreational vehicles, propelled or drawn by power, other than muscular power or power collected from overhead electric trolley wires, except motorized bicycles, road rollers, traction engines, power shovels, power cranes and other equipment used in construction work and not designed for or employed in general highway transportation, well drilling machinery, ditch digging machinery, farm machinery, trailers used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials between a local place of storage or supply and farm when drawn or towed on a public road or highway at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour or less, threshing machinery, hay baling machinery, corn sheller, hammermill arid agricultural tractors and machinery used in the production
of horticultural, agricultural and vegetable products.
(ORC 4501.01(B))
(b) “Agricultural tractor and traction engine” means any self-propelling vehicle designed or used for drawing other vehicles or wheeled machinery but having no provisions for carrying loads independently of such other vehicles, and used principally for agricultural purposes.
(ORC 4501.01(C))
(c) “Commercial tractor” except as defined in subsection (b) hereof, means any motor vehicle having motive power designed or used for drawing other vehicles, or designed or used for drawing another motor vehicle while carrying a portion of such other vehicle or its load, or both.
(ORC 4501.01(D))
(d) “Trailer” means any vehicle without motive power designed or used for carrying persons or property wholly on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle, and includes any such vehicle when formed by or operated as a combination of a semitrailer and a vehicle of the dolly type such as that commonly known as a trailer dolly, and a vehicle used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials between a local place of storage or supply and the farm when drawn or towed on a public road or highway at a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour, except a house trailer and travel trailer.
(e) “Semitrailer” means any vehicle of the trailer type without motive power so designed or used with another and separate motor vehicle that in operation, a part of its own weight or that of its load or both, rests upon and is carried by such other vehicle furnishing the motive power for propelling itself and the vehicle referred to in this subsection, and includes, for the purpose only of registration and taxation under those chapters of the Ohio Revised Code listed in Section 4501.01, any vehicle of the dolly type, such as a trailer dolly, designed or used for the conversion of a semitrailer into a trailer.
(ORC 4501.01(P))
(f) “Commercial truck” means every motor vehicle, except trailers and semitrailers, designed and used to carry property and having more than two axles or more than six tires or wheels.
(g) “Farm machinery” means all machines and tools used in the production, harvesting and care of farm products, including trailers used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials between a local place of storage or supply and the farm when drawn or towed on a public road or highway at a speed of twenty- five miles per hour, or less.
(ORC 4501.01(U))
(h) “Operator” includes any person who drives or operates a motor vehicle upon the public highways. (ORC 4501.01(X))
(i) “Public roads and highways” for vehicles includes all public thoroughfares, bridges and culverts. (ORC 4501.01(AA))
(j) “State route” means every highway which is designed with an official State route number and so marked. (ORC 4511.01(JJ))
(k) “Tow truck” means any vehicle equipped with a crane-type device for an ordinarily used to tow disabled motor vehicles by means of lifting at least one axle off of the ground.
(l) “Axle” means one or more load-carrying wheels mounted in a single transverse
vertical plane.
(m) “Spacing between axles” means the distance between any two successive such planes.
(n) “Maximum axle load” means the gross weight of vehicle and load imposed by any axle upon the road surface.
(o) “Maximum wheel load” means the proportionate gross weight of vehicle and load imposed by any wheel upon the road surface.
(p) “Vehicle” means any single vehicle when not in combination, or any combination of vehicles.
(q) “Automobile transporter” means any vehicle combination designed and used expressly for the transport of assembled motor vehicles.
(r) “Stinger-steered automobile transporter” means any automobile transporter configured as a semitrailer combination in which the fifth wheel is located on a drop frame located behind and below the rearmost axle of the power unit.
(s) “Boat transporter” means any vehicle combination, including a straight truck towing a trailer typically using a ball and socket connection, designed and used specifically for the transport of boat hulls and boats, whether the hulls or boats are assembled or partially disassembled to facilitate transportation.
(t) “Stinger-steered boat transporter” means a boat transporter configured as a semitrailer combination in which the fifth wheel is located on a drop frame located behind and below the rearmost axle of the power unit.
(u) “Assembled” means, in regard to motor vehicles, capable of being driven.
(v) “B-train assembly” means any rigid frame extension that is attached to the rear frame of one semitrailer and provides a fifth wheel connection point for a second semitrailer.
(w) “Saddlemount vehicle transporter combination” means any combination of vehicles in which a straight truck or commercial tractor tows one or more straight truck or commercial tractors, each connected by a saddle to the frame or fifth wheel of the straight truck or commercial tractor in front of it. Such a combination may include a fullmount, in which a smaller vehicle is mounted completely on the frame of either the first or last straight truck or commercial tractor in the saddlemount combination.
(Ord. 189-00. Passed 11-27-00.)