01-80 Editing & inclusion of ordinances in Code

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-11- (a) No such vehicle shall have a width in excess of: (1) 104 inches for passenger bus type vehicles operated exclusively within municipal corporations; (2) 132 inches, excluding such safety devices as are required by law, for passenger bus type vehicles operated over freeways and such other State roads with mznimum pavement widths of twenty-two feet, except those roads or portions thereof over which operation Of 132-inch buses are prohibited by order of the Ohio Director of Transportation. (3) 132 inches for traction engines; (4)- 96 inches, including load, for all other vehicles. (b) No such vehicle shall have a length in excess of: (1) 48 feet for passenger bus type vehicles operated exclusively within municipal corporations; (2) 40 feet for all other passenger bus type vehicles; (3) 45 feet for trailers and semitrailers, with or without load; (4) 60 feet for the overall length of a commercial tractor and semitrailer combination, with or without load; (5) 65 feet for any other combination of vehicles coupled together, with or without load, except as provided in subsection (d) hereof; (6) 40 feet for all other vehicles, with or without load. (c) No such vehicle shall have a height in excess of thirteen feet six inches, with or. without load. Any combination of vehicles designed and used exclusively for the transportation of motor vehicles shall be allowed a length of sixty-five feet, except that the load thereon may extend no more than four feet beyond the rear of such combination of vehicles and may extend no more than three feet beyond the front of such combination of vehicles. The length as prescribed in subsections (b~(2) thrOugh (6) hereof shall not include safety devices or bumpers attached to the front or rear of such combination; nor shall the length as prescribed in subsection (b) (3) hereof include equipment attached to the front of trailers and semitrailers, nor portions of load extending beyond the front of trailers or semitrailers, so long as such attached equipment or load extension does not violate subsections (b) (4) or (5) hereof. In special cases vehicles whose dimensions exceed those prescribedby this section may operate in accordance with rules promulgated by the Ohio Director of Transportation. 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 vehicles, machinery or equipment not specifically enumerated in this section but the dimensions of which exceed the dimensions provided by this section, shall when operating the same on the highways and streets of the Municipality comply with the rules' of the Director governing such movement, which rules the Director may adopt and promulgate. Ohio R.C. 119.01 to 119.13 apply to any rules adopted under this section, or the amendment or recission thereof, and any person adversely affected shall have the same right of appeal as provided in such 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. (ORC 5577.05)