(A) Permit application.
(1) Upon application and for good cause of the oversize load permit, the Village Engineer may issue a local permit authorizing an applicant to move an oversize or overweight vehicle or combination of vehicles upon local streets.
(2) No permittee shall be required to obtain a special permit from the Ohio Director of Transportation for the movement of the vehicle or combination of vehicles on streets or highways under local jurisdiction; however, the approval of the Ohio Director of Transportation shall be required for movement upon state routes.
(3) The Village Engineer may grant a permit for a single or round trip, or for such period of time, in his discretion deems advisable, or for the duration of any construction project. The Village Engineer may limit or prescribe terms or conditions of operation for such vehicle or combination of vehicles by designating the route, hours, speed or such other restrictions as may be necessary for the preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety.
(4) Violation of any of the limitations, terms or conditions of the permit shall be cause for immediate revocation or suspension of such permit, and denial of request for any future permit. Such violation shall also subject the violator to penalties.
(1) Oversize load permit application fee and deposit are required.
(2) Deposits are required to cover direct costs to the village and provide money for the village to repair any damage to village infrastructure caused by the oversized load. Refer to the Village Permits and Approvals Fee Schedule for application and deposit fees.
(3) Deposits may be increased by the village for complicated or larger projects.
(4) Unused deposits as determined by the village will be returned upon the village's approval of the work.
(C) Village standards.
(1) No person shall operate or move a vehicle or combination of vehicles of a size or weight of vehicle or load exceeding the maximum specified in R.C. §§ 5577.01 to 5577.09, inclusive, or otherwise not in conformity with R.C. §§ 4513.01 to 4513.37, inclusive, upon any state route within the village, except pursuant to special written permit issued by the Ohio Director of Transportation, or upon any local 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.
(2) 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 village.
(3) No person shall operate a vehicle exceeding a gross weight of four tons, upon any street in the village other than a state route, except those local streets designated as a truck route and marked as such by appropriate traffic signs, and except when such operation is necessary to load or unload property, to go to or from the usual place of storage of such vehicle or to perform any other legitimate business or act other than passage through the village. Operators of vehicles so deviating from either a state route or a designated truck route within the village shall confine such deviation to that required in order to accomplish the purpose of the departure.
(4) The driver of a vehicle exceeding the weight authorized under this section upon entering the village upon a street other than a state or county route, shall immediately proceed, by the shortest way possible, to the nearest state or county route leading in the direction in which such vehicle is proceeding.
(5) No such vehicle shall have a width in excess of:
(a) 102 inches, excluding such safety devices as are required by law, for passenger bus type vehicles operated over freeways, and such other state roads with minimum pavement widths of 22 feet.
(b) 132 inches for traction engines.
(c) 102 inches for recreational vehicles, excluding safety devices and retracted awnings and other appurtenances of six inches or less in width.
(d) 102 inches, including load, for all other vehicles.
(6) No such vehicle shall have a length in excess of:
(a) 66 feet for passenger bus type vehicles and articulated passenger bus type vehicles operated by a regional transit authority pursuant to R.C. §§ 306.30 to 306.54.
(b) 45 feet for all other passenger bus type vehicles.
(c) 53 feet for any semitrailer when operated in a commercial tractor-semi trailer combination, with or without load.
(d) 28.5 feet for any semitrailer or trailer when operated in a commercial tractor-semitrailer-trailer or commercial tractor-semitrailer-semitrailer combination.
(e) 97 feet for drive-away saddle mount vehicle transporter combinations and drive-away saddle mount with full mount vehicle transporter combinations when operated on any interstate, United States route, or state route, including reasonable access travel on all other roadways for a distance not to exceed one road mile from any interstate, United States route, or state route, not to exceed three saddle mounted vehicles, but which may include one foil mount.
(f) 75 feet for drive-away saddle mount vehicle transporter combinations and drive-away saddle mount with foil mount vehicle transporter combinations, when operated on any roadway not designated as an interstate, United States route, or state route, not to exceed three saddle mounted vehicles, but which may include one foil mount.
(g) 65 feet for any other combination of vehicles coupled together, with or without load, except as provided in divisions (C)(3) and (C)(4) and (C)(5) of this section.
(h) 45 feet for recreational vehicles.
(i) 40 feet for all other vehicles except trailers and semitrailers, with or without load.
(7) No such vehicle shall have a height in excess of 13 feet six inches, with or without load.
(8) An automobile transporter or boat transporter shall be allowed a length of 65 feet and a stinger-steered automobile transporter or stinger-steered boat transporter shall be allowed a length of 75 feet, except that the load thereon may extend no more than four feet beyond the rear of such vehicles and may extend no more than three feet beyond the front of such vehicles, and except farther that the Director may prohibit the operation of any stinger-steered automobile transporter or stinger-steered boat transporter or a B-train assembly on any state highway or portion thereof that the Director designates.
(9) The widths prescribed shall not include side mirrors, turn signal lamps, marker lamps, handholds for cab entry and egress, flexible fender extensions, mud flaps, splash and spray suppressant devices, and load-induced tire bulge.
(10) The width prescribed shall not include automatic covering devices, tarp and tarp hardware, and tie down assemblies, provided these safety devices do not extend more than three inches from each side of the vehicle.
(11) The lengths prescribed shall not include safety devices, bumpers attached to the front or rear of such bus or combination, B-train assembly used between the first and second semitrailer of a commercial tractor-semitrailer-semitrailer combination, energy conservation devices as provided in any regulations adopted by the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation, or any non cargo-carrying refrigeration equipment attached to the front of trailers and semitrailers. In special cases, vehicles whose dimensions exceed those prescribed by this section may operate in accordance with rules adopted by the Ohio Director of Transportation.
(12) This section does not apply to fire engines, fire trucks or other vehicles or apparatus belonging to any municipal corporation or to the fire department of any municipal corporation or used by such department in the discharge of its functions. This section does not apply to vehicles and pole trailers used in the transportation of wooden and metal poles, nor to the transportation of pipes or well-drilling equipment, nor to farm machinery and equipment. The owner or operator of any vehicle, machinery or equipment not specifically enumerated in this section but the dimensions of which exceed the dimensions provided by this section, when operating the same on the highways and streets of this state shall comply with the rules of the Director governing such movement, which the Director may adopt. R.C. §§ 119.01 to 119.13 apply to any rules the Director adopts under this section, or the amendment or rescission thereof, and any person adversely affected shall have the same right of appeal as provided in those sections.
(13) This section does not require the state, the village, county, township or any railroad or other private corporation to provide sufficient vertical clearance to permit the operation of such vehicle, or to make any changes in or about existing structures now crossing streets, roads and other public thoroughfares in the village.
(14) As used in this section, RECREATIONAL VEHICLE has the same meaning as in R.C. § 4501.01.
(15) Drivers of vehicles described in this chapter shall be required, upon request by a police officer, to give full and true information as to the route they are following and the name of the consignor and consignee and place of delivery or removal and the location of any consignment being hauled or goods being removed, and upon a designation by such police officer of a route to be followed, shall immediately adopt and pursue such route.
(16) Any person operating any vehicle transporting explosives upon a street or highway shall at all times comply with the following requirements:
(a) Such vehicle shall be marked or placarded on each side and on the rear with the word "EXPLOSIVES" in letters not less than eight inches high, or there shall be displayed on the rear of such vehicle a red flag not less than 24 inches square marked with the word "DANGER" in white letters six inches high, or shall be marked or placarded in accordance with Section 177.823 of the United States Department of Transportation Regulations.
(b) Such vehicle shall be equipped with not less than two fire extinguishers, filled and ready for immediate use, and placed at convenient points on such vehicle.
(17) When one vehicle is towing another vehicle, the draw bar or other connection shall be of sufficient strength to pull all weight towed thereby, and such draw bar or other connection shall not exceed 15 feet from one vehicle to the other, except the connection between any two vehicles transporting poles, pipe, machinery or other objects of structural nature which cannot readily be dismembered.
(18) When one vehicle is towing another and the connection consists only of a chain, rope or cable, there shall be displayed upon such connection a white flag or cloth not less than 12 inches square.
(19) In addition to such draw bar or other connection, each trailer and each semitrailer which is not connected to a commercial tractor by means of a fifth wheel shall be coupled with stay chains or cables to the vehicle by which it is being drawn. The chains or cables shall be of sufficient size and strength to prevent the towed vehicle's parting from the drawing vehicle in case the draw bar or other connection should break or become disengaged. In case of a loaded pole trailer, the connecting pole to the drawing vehicle shall be coupled to the drawing vehicle with stay chains or cables of sufficient size and strength to prevent the towed vehicle's parting from the drawing vehicle.
(20) Every trailer or semitrailer, except pole and cable trailers and pole and cable dollies operated by a public utility, as defined in R.C. § 5727.01, shall be equipped with a coupling device which shall be so designed and constructed that the trailer will follow substantially in the path of the vehicle drawing it, without whipping or swerving from side to side. Vehicles used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials between a local place of storage and supply and the farm, when drawn or towed on a street or highway at a speed of 25 miles per hour or less, and vehicles designed and used exclusively to transport a boat between a place of storage and a marina, or in and around a marina, when drawn or towed on a street or highway for a distance of no more than ten miles and at a speed of 25 miles per hour or less shall have a draw bar or other connection, including the hitch mounted on the towing vehicle, which shall be of sufficient strength to pull all the weight towed thereby. Only one such vehicle used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials as provided in this section may be towed or drawn at one time, except as follows:
(a) An agricultural tractor may tow or draw more than one such vehicle;
(b) Pickup truck or straight truck designed by the manufacturer to carry a load of not less than one-half ton and not more than two tons may tow or draw not more than two such vehicles that are being used to transport agricultural produce from the farm to a local place of storage. No vehicle being so towed by such a pickup truck or straight truck shall be considered to be a motor vehicle.
(21) No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any highway unless the 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 substance may be dropped for the purpose of securing traction, or water or other substance may be sprinkled on a roadway in cleaning or maintaining the roadway, 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, wastepaper, ashes, refuse, trash, rubbish, waste, wire, paper, cartons, boxes, glass, solid waste or any other material of any 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.
(22) In addition to any other lawful requirements of load distribution, no person shall operate any vehicle upon a street or highway unless such vehicle is so laden as to prevent its contents from shifting or otherwise unbalancing the vehicle to such an extent as to interfere with the safe operation of the same.
(23) No motor vehicle or trailer shall be driven unless the tailboard or tailgate, tarpaulins, chains (except ground or contact chains), ropes, stakes, poles, and the like, or any part of the load, are securely fastened to prevent dangling, flapping, swinging or falling from the side, end or top of the load or body. All projecting cargo shall be properly guarded by a red flag or cloth or a red light or lantern.
(24) No person shall drive over the improved streets of this village a traction engine or tractor with tires or wheels equipped with ice picks, studs, spikes, chains or other projections of any kind extending beyond the cleats, or no person shall tow or in any way pull another vehicle over the improved streets of this village, which towed or pulled vehicle has tires or wheels equipped with ice picks, studs, spikes, chains or other projections of any kind. "Traction engine" or "tractor," as used in this section, applies to all self-propelling engines equipped with metal-tired wheels operated or propelled by any form of engine, motor or mechanical power.
(25) For purposes of this section, STUDDED TIRE means any tire designed for use on a vehicle, and equipped with metal studs or studs of wear-resisting material that project beyond the tread of the traction surface of the tire. This section does not apply to the use of tire chains when there is snow or ice on the streets or highways where such chains are being used, or the immediate vicinity thereof.
(a) No person shall operate any motor vehicle, other than a public safety vehicle or bus, that is equipped with studded tires on any street or highway, except during the period extending from November 1 of each year through April 15 of the succeeding year. A person may operate a motor vehicle that is equipped with retractable studded tires with the studs retracted at any time of the year.
(26) Any police officer having reason to believe that the weight of a vehicle and its load is unlawful may require the driver of such vehicle to stop and submit to a weighing of it by means of a compact, self-contained, portable, sealed scale specially adapted to determining the wheel loads of vehicles on highways; a sealed scale permanently installed in a fixed location, having a load-receiving element specially adapted to determining the wheel loads of highway vehicles; a sealed scale permanently installed in a fixed location, having a load-receiving element specially adapted to determining the combined load of all wheels on a single axle or on successive axles of a highway vehicle, or a sealed scale adapted to weighing highway vehicles, loaded or unloaded. The driver of such vehicle shall, if necessary, be directed to proceed to the nearest available of such sealed scales to accomplish the weighing, provided such scales are within three miles of the point where such vehicle is stopped. Any vehicle stopped in accordance with this section may be held by the police officer for a reasonable time only to accomplish the weighing as prescribed by this section. Whenever such officer upon weighing a vehicle and load determines that the weight is unlawful, he may require the driver to stop the vehicle in a suitable place and remain standing until such portion of the load is removed as is necessary to reduce the weight of such vehicle to the limit permitted.
(27) The contractor shall coordinate with the village emergency dispatch regarding daily changes in the traffic patterns. Contact Village Hall at 330-628-4896 for the current dispatch phone number.
(28) Work on busy roads or bus routes may be restricted to certain hours of the day.
(29) No person shall drive or operate, or cause to be driven or operated, any commercial car, trailer or semitrailer, used for the transportation of goods or property, the gross weight of which, with load, exceeds three tons, upon the streets, bridges and culverts within this village unless such vehicle is equipped with suitable metal protectors or substantial flexible flaps on the rear most wheels of such vehicle or combination of vehicles to prevent, as far as practicable, the wheels from throwing dirt, water or other materials on the windshields of following vehicles. Such protectors or flaps shall have a ground clearance of not more than one-third of the distance from the center of the rear most axle to the center of the flaps under any conditions of loading of the vehicle, and they shall be at least as wide as the tires they are protecting. If the vehicle is so designed and constructed that such requirements are accomplished by means of fenders, body construction or other means of enclosure, then no such protectors or flaps are required. Rear wheels not covered at the top by fenders, bodies or other parts of the vehicle shall be covered at the top by protective means extending at least to the center line of the rear most axle.
(30) The contractor shall not track materials onto village roadways. If required, village street sweeping will be charged back to the owner through the deposit.
(31) Issues that are not immediately and appropriately addressed by the contractor will be addressed by village forces. The cost of which shall be deducted from the deposit.
(D) Inspections.
(1) The Village Zoning Inspector and/or the Village Engineer will inspect existing condition of the proposed haul route. If the permit is approved, at the end of the approved permit the condition of the haul route will be reevaluated. Any repairs deemed necessary by the Village Zoning Inspector or Village Engineer will be covered by the restoration deposit.
(2) Provide the village 48 hour (two business days) notice of work to allow scheduling of inspection.
(Ord. 2018-80, passed 11-20-18) Penalty, see § 150.99