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(A) The City Manager, or his designee, shall classify the improved roads within the city limits, except state highways, with reference to the maximum weights and speeds permitted on such roads.
(B) The classifications made by the City Manager, or his designee, under this section shall not apply to vehicles of a weight of five tons or less for vehicle and load or 30 feet or less for vehicle length.
(C) In making this classification the City Manager, or his designee, shall take into consideration the nature of the roadbed, construction and any other factors which are material in the proper classification of such roads.
(D) The City Manager, or his designee, shall make rules and regulations governing the weight of vehicle and load, the length of vehicle and the speed permitted on the several classes of roads.
(R.C. § 5577.08) (Ord. 2-1998, passed 2-4-98)
(A) All rules and regulations as provided by § 74.62 shall be kept on file at the Municipal and Safety Center and open for inspection by the public.
(B) At least two days before such rules and regulations become effective, the City Manager, or his designee, shall cause to be placed and retained on such improved highways or sections thereof, at both ends and at the points of intersection, signs, of substantial construction, which shall conspicuously indicate the limitations of weight of vehicle and load, length or speed which shall be allowed on such highways.
(C) It shall be unlawful to operate upon such highway a vehicle whose maximum weight, length or speed is in excess of the limitations prescribed.
(R.C. § 5577.09) (Ord. 2-1998, passed 2-4-98)
(D) Whoever violates the weight provisions of R.C. § 5577.071 or R.C. § 5577.08 or the weight provisions in regard to bridges under R.C. § 5577.09, and whoever exceeds the carrying capacity specified under R.C. § 5591.42, or their comparable section in this Traffic Code, shall be fined $80 for the first 2,000 pounds, or fraction thereof, of overload; for overloads in excess of 2,000 pounds, but not in excess of 5,000 pounds, the person shall be fined $100, and in addition thereto $1 per 100 pounds of overload; for overloads in excess of 5,000 pounds, but not in excess of 10,000 pounds, the person shall be fined $130, and in addition thereto $2 per 100 pounds of overload, or imprisoned not more than 30 days, or both. For all overloads in excess of 10,000 pounds, the person shall be fined $160 and in addition thereto $3 per 100 pounds of overload, or imprisoned not more than 30 days, or both. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code that specifies a procedure for the distribution of fines, all fines collected pursuant to this section shall be paid into the treasury of the county and credited to any fund for the maintenance and repair of roads, highways, bridges or culverts.
(E) Whoever violates any other provision of R.C. §§ 5577.01 to 5577.09 or their comparable section in this Traffic Code shall be fined not more than $25 for the first offense; for a second offense within one year thereafter, such person shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than $100, or imprisoned not more than ten days, or both; for a subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, such person shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $200, or imprisoned not more than 30 days, or both.
Whenever the driver or operator of any truck, trailer, semitrailer, commercial tractor or any other commercial vehicle used for the transportation of goods or property, the gross weight of which, with load, exceeds three tons, has been arrested for a violation of any provision of this Traffic Code, or R.C. §§ 4511.01 to 4511.76, and R.C. §§ 4513.01 to 4513.40, or R.C. §§ 5577.01 to 5577.09, the officer making such arrest shall immediately notify, in writing, the person, firm, association or corporation holding the certificate of public convenience and necessity or permit under which such vehicle is being driven or operated, and in whose name the vehicle is registered with a license by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, of the fact of such arrest. Such notification shall describe the vehicle involved, the name of the driver or operator thereof, and the time, place and nature of the offense committed. Copies of such notification shall be immediately transmitted by the arresting officer to the Public Utilities Commission and to the Superintendent of the State Highway Patrol.
(R.C. § 5577.14) (Ord. 2-1998, passed 2-4-98)
A fuel use permit identification device shall be displayed on the commercial car or commercial tractor for which it was issued at all times in the manner as the State of Ohio Tax Commissioner prescribes. The fuel use permits and the identification device shall not be transferable.
(R.C. § 5728.02) (Ord. 2-1998, passed 2-4-98)
(A) It is unlawful for any person to operate a commercial car or a commercial tractor that is subject to the tax imposed by R.C. § 5728.06 on a public highway in two or more jurisdictions under either of the following circumstances:
(1) Without a fuel use permit or single trip fuel use permit for such commercial car or commercial tractor.
(2) With a suspended or surrendered fuel use permit for such commercial car or commercial tractor.
(B) The judge or magistrate, finding any person guilty of unlawfully operating a commercial car or commercial tractor as provided for in this section, shall immediately notify the State of Ohio Tax Commissioner of such violation and shall transmit to the him or her the name and the permanent address of the owner of the commercial car or commercial tractor operated in violation of this section, the registration number, the state of registration, and the certificate of title number of the commercial car or commercial tractor. The commercial car or commercial tractor involved in a violation of division (A)(1) or (A)(2) of this section may be detained until a valid fuel use permit is obtained or reinstated.
(R.C. § 5728.04) (Ord. 2-1998, passed 2-4-98)
(C) (1) Whoever violates division (A)(1) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(2) Whoever violates division (A)(2) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(R.C. § 5728.99(B))
The City Manager, or his designee, shall cause appropriate signs to be erected to notify the public of the passage of any section contained in this chapter, and shall request the assistance of the State Department of Transportation in carrying out the prohibitions contained herein.
(Ord. 2-1998, passed 2-4-98)
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