(A) Load Limits. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or operate any motor or horse driven vehicle designed to be used for the conveyance, transfer or delivery of freight, merchandise or other substances and materials usually hauled in such vehicles, exceeding a gross weight of 6,000 pounds or more, including the weight of the vehicle, whether loaded or unloaded, upon any street, alley or other public place in the city, except on designated and marked state and federal routes, whether temporary or permanent. And further except, that when the loaded contents of such vehicle exceeding such weights are for delivery to or such vehicle is called to remove merchandise or other material from any business house or other place located not on such state or federal routes, then such vehicles may be driven and operated on the streets, highways, alleys and other public places not designated or marked as state or federal routes, but only between the place of delivery or removal of freight and merchandise and the nearest intersecting state or federal routes.
(B) Information required to be given. The operators of such vehicles shall be required, upon request of any member of the Police Department or other person authorized by the city, to give full and true information as to the route they are following and the names of the consignor and consignee, and place of delivery or removal, and the location of any consignment being hauled or goods being removed.
(‘97 Code, § 71.38)
(C) Penalties.
(1) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second or subsequent offense, such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(R.C. § 5577.99(C))
(2) Whoever violates the weight provisions of this section shall be punished as set forth in § 74.45(B).
(D) Modification of load limits. The load limits established in this section may be modified or waived upon special permission granted as provided in R.C. § 4513.34 or a substantially similar municipal ordinance.
(‘97 Code, §71.35)