(a) (1) No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any highway unless the 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 the roadway.
(2) 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 highway unless the load is covered with a sufficient cover to prevent the load or any part of the load from spilling onto the highway.
(ORC 4513.31)
(b) Whoever violates division (a) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree.
(c) No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any street, highway or other public place in such a manner as to track or otherwise discharge or deposit any mud, dirt, oil or grease upon the surface of such street, highway or other public place.
(d) Operators, owners or persons in charge of any vehicle from which any of the aforementioned substances has dropped, sifted, leaked, tracked or has otherwise been discharged or deposited upon the surface of a street, highway or other public place shall, on the direction of any member of the Police, Fire or Service Departments, immediately remove or cause to be removed such substance from the street, highway or other public place.
(Ord. 28-74. Passed 6-24-74.)