(a) Except as provided in this section, no person shall operate any truck, commercial tractor (with or without a semitrailer attached) or other motor vehicle, being a gross weight of 10,000 pounds or more upon any street or highway within the City, other than U.S. routes or state routes or the intersections thereof, unless the weight limit for any particular street or highway is otherwise modified by the City. When a semitrailer is attached to another and separate motor vehicle, then the gross weight shall include the motor vehicle, semitrailer and load for determining gross weight.
(b) Any truck or commercial tractor and semitrailer, which are not overloaded by state standards while on state routes, may be driven upon any street or part of a street, for the shortest possible distance from the closest U.S. route or state route only to load or unload merchandise, freight, or material to a place or location on or off the street or part thereof, and also provided there is no other means of ingress to and egress from the place or location.
(c) Nothing in subsection (a) or (b) hereof shall be construed as to limiting the City’s authority to increase or decrease weight limits on the City streets or highways. Further, it is not a violation of this section to traverse the City streets or highways with greater weight limits at the direction of a police officer or when following a posted detour. This section does not apply to any truck, commercial tractor, semitrailer vehicle, motor vehicle or other apparatus belonging to or used by the City.
(d) “Truck”, “commercial tractor”, “semitrailer”, “motor vehicle”, “vehicle”, “gross weight”, and “streets and highways” as used in this section shall have the meaning as defined in Section 4511.01 of the Ohio Revised Code. (Ord. 74-96. Passed 7-1-96.)
(e) Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.