(a) No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any highway unless such 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.
(ORC 4513.31)
(c) No person shall operate any vehicle so as to track mud on any public way or place.
(d) It shall be the duty of the driver of a vehicle who unlawfully drops or deposits mud or permits the load or any portion thereof to be dropped or deposited upon any public way or place to immediately remove the same or cause it to be removed.
(Adopting Ordinance)
(e) No person shall operate a vehicle unless such vehicle is so loaded as to prevent any of its load from shifting or otherwise unbalancing the vehicle in such a manner as to interfere with the safe operation of such vehicle or become a hazard to the other users of the street.
(Ord. 1961-71. Passed 11-14-61.)