(a) No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any street, highway or other public place 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 such 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 street, highway or other public place unless the load is covered with a sufficient cover to prevent the load or any part of the load from spilling onto the street, highway or other public place.
(ORC 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 City Manager or his 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 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.
(e) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 96-1691. Passed 3-19-96.)