(a) Use of Local Streets. No person shall operate a vehicle exceeding a size as specified in Section 339.03
, or exceeding a gross weight of four tons, upon any street in the Municipality except:
(1) State routes; or
(2) Those local streets designated as a truck route and marked as such by appropriate traffic signs; or
(3) Bishop Road, whereupon no person shall operate a vehicle exceeding a gross weight of six tons; or
(4) When such operation is necessary to load or unload property to or from the usual place of storage of such vehicle within the City or perform any other legitimate business or act other than passage through the Municipality. Operators of vehicles so deviating from either a State route or designated truck route within the Municipality shall confine such deviation to that required in order to accomplish the purpose of the departure.
(b) Local Permit and Conditions. Upon application and for good cause, the Police Chief may issue a local permit authorizing an applicant to move an oversize or overweight vehicle or combination of vehicles upon local streets.
No permittee shall be required to obtain a special permit from the Ohio Director of Transportation for the movement of the vehicle or combination of vehicles on streets or highways under local jurisdiction; however, the approval of the Ohio Director of Transportation shall be required for movement upon State routes as provided in Section 339.01.
The Police Chief may grant a permit for a single or round trip, or for such period of time, not to exceed one year, as the Police Chief in his discretion deems advisable, or for the duration of any construction project. The Police Chief may limit or prescribe terms or conditions of operation for such vehicle or combination of vehicles by designating the route, hours, speed or such other restrictions as may be necessary for the preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety. The Police Chief may require the posting of bond or other security necessary to compensate for any damage to a roadway or road structure.
For each such permit, the Police Chief shall charge ten dollars ($10.00), and for each hour of time or any part thereof spent by each police officer in supervising the movement of such vehicle, the applicant shall pay the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per hour per officer. The charge can be prorated into fifteen minute increments.
Signs shall be posted indicating "no thru trucks - gross weight 5 tons" or words of similar import to apprise drivers of the limitations imposed by this section. No driver shall disobey the instructions indicated on any such sign.
Violation of any of the limitations, terms or conditions of the permit granted by the Police Chief shall be cause for immediate revocation or suspension of such permit, and denial of request for any future permit. Such violation shall also subject the violator to the penalty prescribed by Section 303.99.
(c) Certain Vehicles Prohibited on Worrell Road and Bishop Road.
(1) For purposes of this subsection “Commercial tractor” means every motor vehicle having motor power designed or used for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry any load thereon, or designed or used for drawing other vehicles while carrying a portion of such other vehicle or vehicles, or the load thereon or both.
“Commercial car” means every motor vehicle having motor power designed and used for carrying merchandise or freight, or for carrying more than seven persons, or used as a commercial tractor.
“Trailer” means any vehicle without motive power designed or used for carrying property or persons wholly on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle, and includes any such vehicle when formed by or operated as a combination of a semitrailer and a vehicle of the dolly type such as that commonly known as a trailer dolly, and a vehicle used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials between a local place of storage or supply and the farm when drawn or towed on a public road or highway at a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour, except the manufactured home and travel trailer.
“Semitrailer” means any vehicle of the trailer type without motive power so designed or used with another and separate motor vehicle that in operation a part of its own weight or that of its load, or both, rest upon and is carried by such other vehicle furnishing the motive power for propelling itself and the vehicle referred to herein.
(2) No person, firm or corporation shall drive any commercial tractor or commercial car designed or used for the transportation of goods, wares, merchandise, rubbish, garbage, freight, or products of any kind, upon Worrell Road, between US Route 6 and the Municipal corporation line; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall be construed to prohibit the use of Worrell Road by commercial tractors or commercial cars while receiving goods or making deliveries thereon.
(3) No person, firm or corporation shall drive, use or operate any “commercial tractor”, “trailer” or “semitrailer” alone or formed in any combination, when designed or used for the transportation of goods, wares, merchandise, rubbish, garbage, freight or products of any kind, upon Bishop Road; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall be construed to prohibit the use of Bishop Road by commercial tractors while receiving goods or making deliveries thereon.
(d) The owner of said vehicle and or the operator of said vehicle and/or any other responsible party who contributes; aids, and abets in any violation of this provision of this section on a first offense is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree; on a second offense within two years after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree; on each subsequent offense within five years after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (Ord. 2005-119. Passed 12-8-05.)