339.01 Oversize or overweight vehicle operation on State routes; State permit.
339.03 Maximum width, height and length.
339.04 Route and load information.
339.05 Wheel protectors.
339.06 Vehicles transporting explosives.
339.07 Towing requirements.
339.08 Loads dropping or leaking; removal required; tracking mud.
339.09 Shifting load; loose loads.
339.10 Vehicles with spikes, lugs and chains.
339.11 Use of studded tires and chains.
CROSS REFERENCES
See sectional histories for similar State law
Weighing vehicle; removal of excess load - see Ohio R.C. 4513.33
Arrest notice of driver - see Ohio R.C. 5577.14
Slower moving vehicles to be driven in right-hand lane - see TRAF. 331.01(b)
(a) No person shall operate or move a vehicle or combination of vehicles of a size or weight of vehicle or load exceeding the maximum specified in Ohio R.C. 5577.01 to 5577.09, inclusive, or otherwise not in conformity with Ohio R.C. 4513.01 to 4513.37, inclusive, upon any State route within the Municipality, except pursuant to special written permit issued by the Ohio Director of Transportation, or upon any local truck route. Every such permit shall be carried in the vehicle or combination of vehicles to which it refers and shall be open to inspection by any police officer.
No holder of a permit issued by the Ohio Director of Transportation shall be required to obtain any local permit or license or pay any local fee or charge for movement on any State route within the Municipality; however, it shall be unlawful to operate any such vehicle or combination of vehicles upon any roadway within the Municipality which is not a State route, except as provided in Section 339.02. (ORC 4513.34)
(b) (1) No person shall violate the terms of a permit issued under this section that relate to gross load limits.
(2) No person shall violate the terms of a permit issued under this section that relate to axle load by more than 2000 pounds per axle or group of axles.
(3) No person shall violate the terms of a permit issued under this section that relate to an approved route except upon order of a law enforcement officer or authorized agent of the issuing authority.
(c) Whoever violates any provision of this section for which no other penalty is provided is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (ORC 4513.99)
(a) Council hereby authorizes the Director of Public Safety and City Services to set reasonable limitations on City streets. Council believes that from time to time, there has been unnecessary and unwarranted damage to City streets with the use of heavy vehicles. Council hereby authorizes the Director of Public Safety and City Services, when in his estimation, it is necessary and prudent, to protect the well-being of the citizens and the safety of the residents of the City of Uhrichsville, to limit weight limits and axle limits of trucks and trailers coming through the City of Uhrichsville.
(b) Any person violating a limitation properly set forth by this section by the City Service Director shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in accordance with penalties set forth in the Ohio Revised Code, which currently are a first offense, a minor misdemeanor, $150.00 fine plus court costs; second offense within one year, a fourth degree misdemeanor, $250.00 fine plus court costs; third offense within one year, a third degree misdemeanor, $500.00 fine plus court costs; fourth offense within one year, a second degree misdemeanor, $750.00 fine plus court costs; and upon a fifth conviction within one year, a first degree misdemeanor, $1,000.00 fine plus court costs.
(c) Except as otherwise provided herein, no vehicle shall be operated on public highways, streets, bridges, and culverts within the City when the gross weight or axle quantity exceeds the amount set forth by the Director of Public Safety and City Services. For the purpose of making delivery to a residence or business or picking up a load from a business, such vehicle may be driving on such street for not more than the minimum distance necessary for the purpose therefore. Should such pickup or delivery occur on a regular basis, the City may require a permit as set forth herein.
(d) The Mayor may, at his discretion, upon application in writing and good cause being shown, issue a special permit in writing authorizing the applicant in writing to operate or move a vehicle or combination of vehicles with the weight of the vehicle and load exceeding the maximum tonnage or axle limitations, upon a highway, street, public right of way, culvert, or bridge in the City of Uhrichsville provided the following conditions and provisions are followed:
(1) Any such permit shall be kept in plain and open view by the user.
(2) The Mayor may, when he deems it advisable, issue special exemptions for public service vehicles, road repair vehicles, school buses, fire trucks, and any other vehicle show use or operation is necessary for the public good and safety.
(3) The Mayor may, in his discretion, upon granting an application for special permit, or as part of the terms and conditions of the permit, require a reasonable bond or other security as may be deemed necessary to compensate for any damage to any roadway or structure.
(4) In addition to a bond, or in lieu of, as a condition to the issuance of an overweight permit, the Mayor may require the applicant to develop and enter into a mutual agreement with the Municipality to compensate for or to repair excess damage caused to the roadway by travel under the permit.
(5) The Mayor may limit or prescribe terms or conditions of operation of the vehicle or combination of vehicles by designating the route, hours, speed, or other such restrictions as may be necessary for preservation of public peace, property, health and safety. The permit may be issued for a single or round trip, or in special instances, a certain period of time.
(6) The duration of the permit shall not exceed one year, except for permits associated with a construction project.
(7) A permit involving a construction project may be issued for any period not to exceed the duration of the construction project.
(e) The fee for the permit shall be $50.00 for a single use or round trip permit. A permit for the operation or movement of a vehicle on multiple days over a period of time shall be $100.00 for up to 30 days, and $200.00 for a year.
(f) (1) Any police officer having reason to believe that the weight or axle limit of a vehicle and its load is unlawful may require the driver of said vehicle to stop and submit to a weighing of it by means of a compact, self-contained, portable, sealed scale specially adapted to determining the wheel loads of vehicles on highways; a sealed scale permanently installed to a fixed location, having a load receiving element specially adapted to determining the combined load of all wheels on a single axle or on a success of axles of a highway vehicle, or a sealed scale adapted to weighing highway vehicles, loaded or unloaded.
(2) The driver of such vehicle shall, if necessary be directed to proceed to the nearest available set of sealed scales to accomplish the weighing, provided such scales are within a reasonable distance where such vehicle is stopped. Any vehicle stopped in accordance with this section may be held by the police officer, for reasonable times, to accomplish the weighing as prescribed by this section.
(3) All scales used in determining the lawful weight of a vehicle and its load shall be annually compared by municipality, county, or state sealer with the State’s standards or proved by the State and such scales shall not be sealed if they do not conform to the standards approved by the State.
(4) At each end of permanently installed scale, there shall be a straight approach to the same plane as the platform, sufficient length and width to insure the level positioning of the vehicles during weight determinations.
(5) During the determination of weight by compact, self-contained portable scales, they shall be used on level terrain of sufficient length and weight to accommodate the entire vehicle being weighed.
(6) Whenever such officer, upon weighing a vehicle and load, determines that the weight is unlawful, he may require the driver to stop the vehicle in a suitable place and remain until such portion of the load is removed as necessary to reduce the weight of such vehicle to the limit permitted under Sections 5577.01 and 5577.14, inclusive of the Ohio Revised Code or provisions of this Code.
(7) A police officer, upon seeing a vehicle that exceeds the maximum allowable number of axles, may be stopped and inspected by the Police or Director of Public Safety and City Services.
(g) Any determination by the Director of City Services and Public Safety can be appealed, within 30 days of the Director’s order, by submitting an application to Council indicating the reasons and concerns with the order by the Director. Council can override the Director, with a two-thirds vote of members present, if Council so chooses.
(Ord. 15-15. Passed 9-24-15.)
(a) No vehicle shall be operated upon the public highways, streets, bridges and culverts within the Municipality, whose dimensions exceed those specified in this section.
(b) No such vehicle shall have a width in excess of:
(1) 104 inches for passenger bus type vehicles operated exclusively within municipal corporations;
(2) 102 inches, excluding such safety devices as are required by law, for passenger bus type vehicles operated over freeways, and such other State roads with minimum pavement widths of twenty-two feet, except those roads or portions of roads over which operation of 102-inch buses is prohibited by order of the Ohio Director of Transportation;
(3) 132 inches for traction engines;
(4) 102 inches for recreational vehicles, excluding safety devices and retracted awnings and other appurtenances of six inches or less in width and except that the Director may prohibit the operation of 102-inch recreational vehicles on designated State highways or portions of highways;
(5) 102 inches, including load, for all other vehicles, except that the Director may prohibit the operation of 102-inch vehicles on such State highways or portions of State highways as the Director designates.
(c) No such vehicle shall have a length in excess of:
(1) 66 feet for passenger bus type vehicles and articulated passenger bus type vehicles operated by a regional transit authority pursuant to Ohio R.C. 306.30 to 306.54;
(2) 45 feet for all other passenger bus type vehicles;
(3) 53 feet for any semitrailer when operated in a commercial tractor- semitrailer combination, with or without load, except that the Director may, by journal entry, prohibit the operation of any such commercial tractor- semitrailer combination on such State highways or portions of State highways as the Director designates;
(4) 28.5 feet for any semitrailer or trailer when operated in a commercial tractor-semitrailer-trailer or commercial tractor-semitrailer-semitrailer combination, except that the Director may prohibit the operation of any such commercial tractor-semitrailer-trailer or commercial tractor- semitrailer-semitrailer combination on such State highways or portions of State highways as the Director designates;
(5) A. 97 feet for drive-away saddlemount vehicle transporter combinations and drive-away saddlemount with fullmount vehicle transporter combinations when operated on any interstate, United States route, or State route, including reasonable access travel on all other roadways for a distance not to exceed one road mile from any interstate, United States route, or State route, not to exceed three saddlemounted vehicles, but which may include one fullmount;
B. 75 feet for drive-away saddlemount vehicle transporter combinations and drive-away saddlemount with fullmount vehicle transporter combinations, when operated on any roadway not designated as an interstate, United States route, or State route, not to exceed three saddlemounted vehicles, but which may include one fullmount;
(6) 65 feet for any other combination of vehicles coupled together, with or without load, except as provided in subsections (c)(3) and (4) and in subsection (e) hereof;
(7) 45 feet for recreational vehicles.
(8) 50 feet for all other vehicles except trailers and semitrailers, with or without load.
(d) No such vehicle shall have a height in excess of thirteen feet six inches, with or without load.
(e) An automobile transporter or boat transporter shall be allowed a length of sixty-five feet and a stinger-steered automobile transporter or stinger-steered boat transporter shall be allowed a length of seventy-five feet, except that the load thereon may extend no more than four feet beyond the rear of such vehicles and may extend no more than three feet beyond the front of such vehicles, and except further that the Director may prohibit the operation of any stinger- steered automobile transporter or stinger-steered boat transporter or a B-train assembly on any State highway or portion of any State highway that the Director designates.
(f) The widths prescribed in subsection (b) shall not include side mirrors, turn signal lamps, marker lamps, handholds for cab entry and egress, flexible fender extensions, mud flaps, splash and spray suppressant devices, and load-induced tire bulge.
The width prescribed in subsection (b)(5) shall not include automatic covering devices, tarp and tarp hardware, and tiedown assemblies, provided these safety devices do not extend more than three inches from each side of the vehicle.
The lengths prescribed in subsections (c)(2) to (8) hereof shall not include safety devices, bumpers attached to the front or rear of such bus or combination, nonproperty carrying devices or components that do not extend more than twenty-four inches beyond the rear of the vehicle and are needed for loading or unloading, B-train assembly used between the first and second semitrailer of a commercial tractor-semitrailer-semitrailer combination, energy conservation devices as provided in any regulations adopted by the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation, or any noncargo-carrying refrigeration equipment attached to the front of trailers and semitrailers. In special cases, vehicles whose dimensions exceed those prescribed by this section may operate in accordance with rules adopted by the Ohio Director of Transportation.
(g) This section does not apply to fire engines, fire trucks or other vehicles or apparatus belonging to any municipal corporation or to the volunteer fire department of any municipal corporation or used by such department in the discharge of its functions. This section does not apply to vehicles and pole trailers used in the transportation of wooden and metal poles, nor to the transportation of pipes or well-drilling equipment, nor to farm machinery and equipment. The owner or operator of any vehicle, machinery or equipment not specifically enumerated in this section but the dimensions of which exceed the dimensions provided by this section, when operating the same on the highways and streets of this State shall comply with the rules of the Director governing such movement, that the Director may adopt. Ohio R.C. 119.01 to 119.13 apply to any rules the Director adopts under this section, or the amendment or rescission of the rules, and any person adversely affected shall have the same right of appeal as provided in those sections.
This section does not require the State, the Municipality, County, township or any railroad or other private corporation to provide sufficient vertical clearance to permit the operation of such vehicle, or to make any changes in or about existing structures now crossing streets, roads and other public thoroughfares in the Municipality.
(h) As used in this section, “recreational vehicle” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 4501.01.
(ORC 5577.05)
(ORC 5577.05)
(i) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense or subsequent offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (ORC 5577.99)
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