(a) When thaws or excessive moisture render the improved highways of this City or any sections of them insufficient to bear the traffic thereon, or when such highways would be damaged or destroyed by heavy traffic during the period of thawing or excessive moisture, the maximum weight of vehicle and load, or the maximum speed, or both, for motor vehicles, as prescribed by law shall be reduced in the following manner:
(1) On State highways, within the Municipal Corporation, the Director of Transportation or City Manager or his designee shall prescribe such reduction which shall not be more than twenty-five percent (25%);
(2) On improved highways and all other roads in the City, other than State highways, the City Manager or his designee, shall prescribe such reduction as the condition of the road or highway justifies, but in no case shall the reduction be more than fifty percent (50%).
(b) The schedule of the reduction of maximum weights and speeds shall be filed, for the information of the public, in the office of the City Manager or his designee. The City Manager or his designee, at least one day before such reduction becomes effective, shall cause to be placed and retained on such highways, at both ends and at the points of intersections by principal roads, during the period of such reduced limitation of weight, speed or both, signs, of substantial construction, which shall conspicuously indicate the limitations of weight and speed, which are allowed on the highway and the date on which such limitations shall go into effect. No person shall operate upon any such highway, a motor vehicle whose maximum weight or speed is in excess of the limitations prescribed.
(ORC 5577.07)
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 96-1691. Passed 3-19-96.)