(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 on any street a vehicle with mud, dirt or debris on its wheels and other parts, if such operation results in depositing or tracking mud, dirt or debris on the street or sidewalk, and no owner of real property or contractor in charge of a construction site shall maintain such property or construction site so that vehicles upon such property or construction site pick up mud, dirt or debris on their wheels or other parts and deposit or track the mud, dirt or debris onto the street or sidewalk.
(d) In the event the vehicle owner, operator or contractor causes or permits the littering of streets or sidewalks with mud, dirt or debris and fails to clean and/or remove such debris or is unable to remove such materials, then such cleaning services shall be rendered by the Sheffield Village’s Service Department at the prevailing current hourly rates for its equipment and personnel. The Service Department through the Service Director, shall render the bill for such services to the violator. (Ord. 2454. Passed 9-22-14.)