(a) No person shall operate or move a vehicle or combination of vehicles of a size or weight or containing a load exceeding the maximums 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 improved public highways, streets, bridges or culverts of any State route, expressway or freeway within the Municipality, except pursuant to special written permit issued by the Ohio Director of Transportation, or upon any truck route. 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 for purposes of enforcement. Definitions as set forth in Ohio R.C. 4511.01 shall apply to this section and chapter.
(b) 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 improved public highways, streets, bridges or culverts within the City which is not a State route, except as provided in Section 339.02.
(ORC 4513.34)
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 96-1691. Passed 3-19-96.)