(a) Use of Local Streets. No person shall operate a vehicle exceeding a size specified in Section 339.03, or exceeding a gross weight of five tons, upon any street in the Municipality, other than a State route, except that such a vehicle shall be permitted under the following conditions:
(1) Upon local streets designated as a truck route;
(2) While receiving goods, making deliveries or providing services along a street or highway, and then only by entering and leaving by the nearest intersecting street; or
(3) When such operation is necessary to load or unload property.
(b) Local Permit and Conditions. Upon application and for good cause, the Chief of Police may issue a local permit authorizing an applicant to move an oversize or overweight vehicle or combination of vehicles upon local streets. The application for any such permit shall be in such form as the Chief of Police may prescribe.
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.
The Chief of Police may grant a permit for a single or round trip, or for such period of time, not to exceed one year, as the Chief of Police, in his discretion, deems advisable, or for the duration of any construction project. The Chief of Police may limit or prescribe terms or conditions of operation for such vehicle or combination of vehicles by designating the route, hours, speed or other restrictions as may be necessary for the preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety.
A permittee, prior to permit issuance, shall execute to the City a bond to the satisfaction of the Chief of Police to indemnify the City for any damage which may arise from the use of such roads by transporting any load as provided herein. Such bond may be waived by the Chief of Police if the Chief of Police determines that the limitations, terms, conditions of operation or other restrictions referred to herein sufficiently preserve the public peace, property, health and safety. For each such permit, the permittee shall forward to the Director of Finance the sum of five dollars ($5.00), and for each hour of time or any part thereof spent by the Police Division in supervising the movement of such vehicle, the permittee shall pay the sum of ten dollars ($10.00).
Signs shall be posted indicating “thru trucks 5 tons gross and over prohibited,” “no thru trucks” or words or symbols of similar import to apprise drivers of the limitations imposed by this section, including, but not limited to, sign R-142 of the Ohio Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices. No driver shall disobey the instructions indicated on any such sign.
A violation of any of the limitations, terms or conditions of the permit granted by the Chief of Police shall be cause for immediate revocation or suspension of such permit and for denial of a request for any future permit.
(c) Exceptions. This section shall not apply to fire engines, fire trucks, ambulances, school buses, trucks operated by any village, city, township or school district or vehicles belonging to or used by the Department of Public Service, the Fire Division or the Police Division of the City.
(d) Permits to be Carried in Vehicles. The permit referred to in subsection (b) hereof shall be carried in the vehicle or combination of vehicles to which it refers and shall be open to inspection by any police officer of the City.
(e) Penalty. In addition to the revocation or suspension of such permit, whoever violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this section shall be fined five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each offense. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation or noncompliance occurs or continues.
(Ord. 87-62. Passed 10-20-87.)