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(a) When one vehicle is towing another vehicle, the drawbar or other connection shall be of sufficient strength to pull all weight towed thereby, and such drawbar or other connection shall not exceed fifteen 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.
(b) 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 twelve inches square.
(c) In addition to such drawbar 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 drawbar 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.
(d) Every trailer or semitrailer, except pole and cable trailers and pole and cable dollies operated by a public utility, as defined in Ohio 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 twenty-five 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 twenty-five miles per hour or less shall have a drawbar 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:
(1) An agricultural tractor may tow or draw more than one such vehicle;
(2) A 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. (ORC 4513.32)
(e) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(ORC 4513.99)
(a) No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any street, highway or other public place unless such 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 substances may be dropped for the purpose of securing traction, or water or other substances may be sprinkled on a roadway in cleaning or maintaining such roadway.
(b) 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, waste paper, ashes, refuse, trash, rubbish, waste, wire, paper, cartons, boxes, glass, solid waste or any other material of an unsanitary nature that is susceptible to blowing or bouncing from a moving vehicle shall be driven or moved on any street, highway or other public place unless the load is covered with a sufficient cover to prevent the load or any part of the load from spilling onto the street, highway or other public place.
(ORC 4513.31)
(c) No person shall operate any vehicle so as to track or drop mud, stones, gravel or other similar material on any street, highway or other public place.
(d) It shall be the duty of the driver of a vehicle who unlawfully drops or deposits mud, stones, gravel or other similar material or permits the load or any portion thereof to be dropped or deposited upon any street, highway or other public place to immediately remove the same or cause it to be removed. (ORC 4513.31)
(e) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(ORC 4513.99)
(a) 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.
(b) 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 as required by Section 337.08.
(c) Whoever violates 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.
(a) No person shall drive over the improved streets of this Municipality a traction engine or tractor with tires or wheels equipped with ice picks, spuds, 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 Municipality, which towed or pulled vehicle has tires or wheels equipped with ice picks, spuds, 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.
(ORC 5589.08)
(ORC 5589.08)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(ORC 5589.99)
(a) 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. "Motor vehicle," "street or highway," "public safety vehicle" and "school bus" have the same meanings as given those terms in Chapter 301.
(b) (1) Except as provided in subsection (b)(2) hereof, 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.
(2) A person may operate a motor vehicle that is equipped with retractable studded tires with the studs retracted at any time of the year, but shall operate the motor vehicle with the studs extended only as provided in subsection (b)(1) hereof.
(c) 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. (ORC 5589.081)
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (ORC 5589.99)
No person shall transport over the public streets, alleys, highways, bridges or culverts in any vehicle propelled by muscular, motor or other power, any burden, including weight of vehicle and load, greater than the following:
(a) (1) In vehicles having metal tires three inches or less in width, a load of 500 pounds for each inch of the total width of tire on all wheels;
(2) When the tires on such vehicles exceed three inches in width, an additional load of 800 pounds shall be permitted for each inch by which the total width of the tires on all wheels exceeds 12 inches.
(b) In vehicles having tires of rubber or other similar substance, for each inch of the total width of tires on all wheels, as follows:
(1) For tires three inches in width, a load of 450 pounds;
(2) For tires three and one-half inches in width, a load of 450 pounds;
(3) For tires four inches in width, a load of 500 pounds;
(4) For tires five inches in width, a load of 600 pounds;
(5) For tires six inches in width, a load of 650 pounds.
In the case of pneumatic tires of rubber or other similar substance, the total width of tires on all wheels shall be the actual width of all such tires measured at the widest portion thereof when inflated and not bearing a load.
In no event shall the load, including the proportionate weight of vehicle that can be concentrated on any wheel, exceed 650 pounds to each inch in the actual diameter of pneumatic tires measured when inflated and not bearing a load.
Signs shall be posted indicating “No Through Trucks - Gross Weight Five Tons” or words of similar import to apprise drivers of the limitations imposed by this section. No driver shall disobey the instructions indicated on any such sign.
Violation of any of the limitations, terms or conditions of the permit granted by the Director of Safety 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 the penalty prescribed by Section 303.99.
(c) Operation of Through Trucks.
(1) All motor trucks, commercial tractors and trailers passing through the City and not making local delivery or pickup of goods or persons, or making local service stops, are hereby required to use only such streets of the City as are designated and marked federal, state or truck routes in the passage of the same through the City.
(2) This subsection (c) shall not be applicable to such vehicles whose route is otherwise designated by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, the Interstate Commerce Commission or by franchise granted by the City, provided further that this section shall not be applicable to agricultural tractors and other motor powered farm equipment.
(3) The Director of Safety is hereby authorized and directed to erect at the City limits signs indicating that through trucks are required to use federal, state or truck routes.
(d) Special Weight and Tire Restrictions Designated by Traffic Sign. Whenever, in the judgment of the Director of Safety, any street or highway or part thereof would be injured or damaged by general use by vehicles having solid tires or by vehicles exceeding in gross weight or in weight per inch of tire width the limits which he determines to be safe for such street or highway or part thereof, he shall erect appropriate traffic signs prohibiting the operation of vehicles having solid tires, or indicating and designating such weight limits, and it shall be unlawful to operate over any such street or highway or part thereof any vehicle having solid tires or exceeding such weight limits without obtaining a permit therefor as provided in subsection (b) hereof.
(Ord. 2106. Passed 7-17-90.)
(Ord. 2106. Passed 7-17-90.)
No vehicle having a maximum axle load greater than 20,000 pounds shall be operated or moved upon improved public highways, streets, bridges or culverts within the Municipality. The maximum wheel load of any one wheel of any such vehicle shall not exceed 650 pounds per inch width of pneumatic tire, measured as prescribed by Oxford Code Section 339.12.
(a) The weight of vehicle and load imposed upon the road surface by vehicles with pneumatic tires shall not exceed the following:
(1) By any two successive axles, spaced more than four feet apart and weighed simultaneously, 24,000 pounds.
(2) By any two successive axles, spaced more than four feet apart and weighed simultaneously, 34,000 pounds, plus 1,000 pounds per foot or fraction thereof over four feet, not to exceed 40,000 pounds.
(b) The weight of vehicle and load imposed upon the road surface by vehicles with pneumatic tires, by any three successive load bearing axles designed to equalize the load between such axles and spaced so that each such axle of the three axle group is more than four feet from the next axle in the three axle group, and so that the spacing between the first axle and the third axle of the three axle group is no more than nine feet, shall be computed using either of the following methods:
(1) Such load bearing three axle group shall be weighed simultaneously as a unit and shall not exceed 48,000 pounds. The total weight of vehicle and load shall not exceed 38,000 pounds, plus an additional 900 pounds for each foot of spacing between the front axle and the rearmost axle of the vehicle provided that the total weight of the vehicle and load imposed upon the road surface shall not exceed 80,000 pounds.
(2) Such load bearing three axle group shall be weighed simultaneously as a unit and shall not exceed 42,500 pounds. The total weight of vehicle and load of a six axle vehicle combination, with at least 20 feet of spacing between the front axle and rearmost axles, shall not exceed 54,000 pounds, plus an additional 600 pounds for each foot of spacing between the front axle and the rearmost axle of the vehicle provided that the total weight of the vehicle and load imposed upon the road surface shall not exceed 80,000 pounds.
The total weight of vehicle and load utilizing any combination of axles, other than as provided for three axle groups in subsection (b) hereof, shall not exceed 38,000 pounds, plus an additional 900 pounds for each foot of spacing between the front axle and rearmost axle of the vehicle provided that the total weight of a vehicle and load imposed upon the road surface by vehicles with pneumatic tires shall not exceed 80,000 pounds.
(c) As used in this chapter:
(1) “Axle” means one or more load carrying wheels mounted in a single transverse verticle plane.
(2) “Spacing between axles” means the distance between any two successive such planes.
(3) “Maximum axle load” means the gross weight of vehicle imposed by any axle upon the road surface.
(4) “Maximum wheel load” means the proportionate gross weight of vehicle and load imposed by any wheel upon the road surface.
(5) “Overload pounds” means the gross weight that exceeds the legal weights set forth in this chapter.
(Ord. 2107. Passed 7-17-90.)
(Ord. 2107. Passed 7-17-90.)
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