61-12 Amend 339.03 Vehicle Requirements

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(4) 102 inches, including load, for all other vehicles, except that the Director may, by journal entry, prohibit the operation of 102-inch vehicles on such State highways or portions thereof as the Director designates. (b) No such vehicle shall have a length in excess of: (1) Sixty feet for passenger bus-type vehicles operated by a regional transit authority pursuant to Ohio R.C. 306.30 tluough 306.54; (2) Forty feet for all other passenger bus-type vehicles (3) Fifty-three feet for any semitrailer when operated in a commercial tr•actor- semitrailer combination, with or without load, except that the Director may, by journal entry, prohibit the operation of any such commercial trac- tor- semitrailer combination on such State highways or portions thereof as the Director designates (4) Twenty-eight and one-half feet for any semitrailer or trailer when operated in a commercial tractor-semitrailer-trailer or commercial tractor- semitrailer- seniihailer combination, except that the Director may, by jdumal entry, prohibit the operation of any such commercial hactor- semitrailer-trailer or cmmmercial tractor-semitrailer-semitrailer combina- tion on such State highways or portions thereof as the Director designates; (5) Seventy-five feet for drive-away saddlemouut vehicle trans(orter combina- tions and drive-away saddlemount with fullmount vehicle transporter combinations, not to exceed three saddlemounted vehicles, but which may include one fullmount; (6) Sixty-five feet for any other combination of vehicles coupled together, with or without load, except as provided in subsections (b)(3) and (4) and in subsection (d) hereof; (7) Forty feet for all other vehicles except trailers and semitrailers, with or without load. (c) No such vehicle shall have a height in excess of thirteen feet six inches, with or without load (d) Auy automobile transporter shall be allowed a length of sixty-five feet, and airy stinger-steered automobile transporter shall be allowed a length of seventy-five feet, except that the load thereon may extend not more than four feet beyond the rear of such vehicles and may extend not more than three feet beyond the front of such vehicles, and except further, that the Director may, by journal entry, prohibit the operation of any stinger-steered automobile transporter or a B-train assembly on any State highway, or portion thereof, that the Director designates. The lengths prescribed in paragraphs (b)(2) to (7) hereof shall not include safety devices, bumpers attached to the front or rear of such bus or combination, B-train assembly used between the first and second semitrailer of a carnmercial tractor-semitrailer-semitrailer combination, energy conservation devices as pro- vided in any regulations adopted by the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation, or any noncargo-carrying refiigeration 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 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 depart- ment of any municipal corporation or used by such department in the discharge of its fimctions. 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 op- erator of any vehicle, machinery or equipment not specifically enumerated in this section but the dimensions of which exceed the dimensions provided in this sec- tion, shall when operating the same on the highways and streets of the Municipal- ity 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, inclusive,