As used in this chapter:
(a) "Motor vehicle" means any vehicle, including mobile homes and recreational vehicles, propelled or drawn by power other than muscular power or power collected from overhead electric trolley wires. Motor vehicle does not include motorized bicycles, road rollers, traction engines, power shovels, power cranes and other equipment used in construction work and not designed for or employed in general highway transportation, well drilling machinery, ditch digging machinery, farm machinery, trailers that are used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials between a local place of storage or supply and the farm when drawn or towed on a public road or highway at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour or less, threshing machinery, hay baling machinery, corn sheller, hammermill and agricultural tractors, machinery used in the production of horticultural, agricultural and vegetable products.
(ORC 4501.01(B))
(b) "Agricultural tractor" and "traction engine" means any self-propelling vehicle designed or used for drawing other vehicles or wheeled machinery but having no provisions for carrying loads independently of such other vehicles, and used principally for agricultural purposes.
(ORC 4501.01(C))
(c) "Commercial tractor" except as defined in division (b) of this section, means any motor vehicle that has motive power and either is designed or used for drawing other motor vehicles, or designed or used for drawing another motor vehicle while carrying a portion of the other vehicle or its load, or both.
(ORC 4501.01(D))
(d) "Trailer" means any vehicle without motive power that is designed or used for carrying property or persons wholly on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle, and includes any such vehicle that is formed by or operated as a combination of a semitrailer and a vehicle of the dolly type such as that commonly known as a trailer dolly, and a vehicle used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials between a local place of storage or supply and the farm when drawn or towed on a public road or highway at a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour. "Trailer" does not include a manufactured home or travel trailer.
(ORC 4501.01 (M))
(e) "Semitrailer" means any vehicle of the trailer type that does not have motive power and is so designed or used with another and separate motor vehicle that in operation a part of its own weight or that of its load or both, rests upon and is carried by the other vehicle furnishing the motive power for propelling itself and the vehicle referred to in this division, and includes, for the purpose only of registration and taxation under those chapters of the Ohio Revised Code listed in Section 4501.01, any vehicle of the dolly type, such as a trailer dolly, that is designed or used for the conversion of a semitrailer into a trailer.
(ORC 4501.01 (P))
(f) "Commercial truck" means every motor vehicle, except trailers and semitrailers, designed and used to carry property and having more than two axles or more than six tires or wheels.
(g) "Farm machinery" means all machines and tools that are used in the production, harvesting and care of farm products, and includes trailers that are used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials between a local place of storage or supply and the farm when drawn or towed on a public road or highway at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour, or less.
(ORC 4501.01 (U))
(h) "Operator" includes any person who drives or operates a motor vehicle upon the public highways.
(ORC 4501.01 (X))
(i) "Public roads and highways" for vehicles includes all public thoroughfares, bridges, and culverts.
(ORC 4501.01 (AA))
(j) "State route" means every highway that is designed with an official state route number and so marked.
(ORC 4511.01 (JJ))
(k) "Tow truck" means any vehicle equipped with a crane-type device for and ordinarily used to tow disabled motor vehicles by means of lifting at least one axle off of the ground. (A.O.)
(l) "Axle" means one or more load-carrying wheels mounted in a single transverse vertical plane.
(m) "Spacing between axles" means the distance between any two successive such planes.
(n) "Maximum axle load" means the gross weight of vehicle and load imposed by any axle upon the road surface.
(o) "Maximum wheel load" means the proportionate gross weight of vehicle and load imposed by any wheel upon the road surface.
(p) "Vehicle" means any single vehicle when not in combination, or any combination of vehicles.
(Ord. 99-37. Passed 2-16-99.)