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339.08 LOADS DROPPING OR LEAKING; REMOVAL REQUIRED; TRACKING MUD.
   (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)
339.09 SHIFTING LOAD; LOOSE LOADS.
   (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.
339.10 VEHICLES WITH SPIKES, LUGS AND CHAINS.
   (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)
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(ORC 5589.99)
339.11 USE OF STUDDED TIRES AND CHAINS.
   (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)
339.12 THROUGH TRUCK ROUTES.
   (a)   No person shall operate a commercial tractor, semitrailer, tractor-semitrailer combination or commercial truck (other than a pick-up truck) from a point outside the City to a destination outside the City other than upon a State route or designated truck route.
   (b)   A person operating a commercial tractor, semitrailer, tractor-semitrailer combination or commercial truck (other than a pick-up truck) to make deliveries or to pick up cargo within the City shall proceed by the use of state routes or designated truck routes so far as practical in reaching or leaving the actual destination within the City and shall only proceed by use of the most direct route from or to the state routes or designated truck route.
(Ord. 94-59. Passed 8-1-94.)
   (c)   The following streets are designated truck routes:
      (1)   All state routes within the City.
      (2)   Frost Parkway between North Washington Street and Miami Street
      (3)   Hudson Street between North Washington Street and North Sandusky Street
      (4)   Second Avenue
      (5)   Miami Street between Frost Parkway and Ashwood Drive
      (6)   Ashwood Drive
      (7)   Vine Street between Second Avenue and Sixth Avenue
      (8)   Heritage Drive
      (9)   Wall Street between Miami Street and Fourth Avenue
      (10)   Tyber Road between North Sandusky Street and Heritage Drive
      (11)   Tyber Road within the City between North Sandusky Street and Maule Road
      (12)   Maule Road within the City between Second Avenue and Tyber Road
         (Ord. 20-47. Passed 4-6-20.)
   (d)   A violation of this section shall be a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 94-59. Passed 8-1-94.)