37-17 Amend Traffic Code to Align with ORC

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(1) "Passenger car" means any motor vehicle with motive power, designed for carrying ten persons or less, except a multi- purpose passenger vehicle or motorcycle. (2) "Multipurpose passenger vehicle" means a motor vehicle with motive power, except a motorcycle, designed to carry ten per- sons or less, that is constructed either on a truck chassis or with special features for occasional off -load operation. (3) "Truck" means every motor vehicle, except trailers and semitrailers, designed and used to carry propelty and having a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less. (4) "Manufacturer" has the same meaning as in Olio R.C. 4501.01. (5) "Gross vehicle weight rating" means the manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating established for the vehicle. (6) "Body floor height" means the vertical distance between top of the frame rail and the bottom of the passenger compartment (cab) floor, In the event that the vehicle is a truck body, floor height will be measured by the vertical distance between the pas- senger compartment (cab) floor and the floor of the truck bed. (7) `Bumper height" means the vertical distance between the ground and the highest point of the bottom of the bumper, meas- ured when the vehicle is laden on a level surface with the vebicle fires inflated to the manufacturer's recommended pressure. (8) "Frame" means the main longitudinal structural members of the chassis of the vehicle or, for vehicles with unitized body construction, the lowest main longitudinal structural members of the body of the vehicle. (9) "Wheel track distance" means the distance on the ground between the centers of the tire tread on one side of the vehicle and the center of the tire tread on the opposite side. (OAC 4501 -43- 02) (b) Prohibitions; Application. (1) No person shall operate upon a street or highway any pas- senger car, multipurpose passenger vehicle, or truck registered in this State that does not confornl to the requirements of this sec- tion. (2) No person shall modify any motor vehicle registered in this State in such a manner as to cause the vehicle body or chassis to come in contact with the ground, expose the fuel tank to damage from collision, or cause the wheels to come in contact with the body under normal operation, and no person shall disconnect any part of the Oliginal suspension system of the vehicle to defeat the safe operation of that system including the installation of inverted, altered or modified suspension system component parts which re- sults in (1) Elevation of the height of the vehicle bumper or frame unit which is not in compliance with this section. No person shall operate upon a street or highway any passenger car, multipurpose passenger vehicle or truck registered in this State without a bumper on the front and rear of the vehicle if such vehicle was equipped with bumpers as standard equipment by the manufactur- er.