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339.08 TRAFFIC CODE 42 339.08 LQADS TO BE PROPERLY SECURED. (a) No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any street, sidewalk or other public place unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any of its load from dropping, sifting, leaking, or otherwise escaping therefrom, except that sand or other substances may be dropped for the purpose of securing traction, or water or other substances may be sprinkled on a roadway in cleaning ar maintaining such roadway. (ORC 4513.31) (b) Any load or portion thereof deposited upon a street, sidewalk or other public place in violation of subsection (a) of this section shall immediately be removed by the operator of such vehicle. (c) No person shall operate a vehicle unless such vehicle is so loaded as to prevent any of its load from shifting or otherwise .unbalancing the vehicle in such a manner as to interfere with the safe operation of such vehicle or become a hazard to other users of the attest . 339.09 REMOVAL OF EXCESS LOAD; INFORMATION A5 TO CONTENTS. (a) Any police officer having reason to believe that the weight of a vehicle and its load is unlawful may require the driver of suchvehicle to atop and submit to a weighing of it by means of portable or stationary scales and may require that such vehicle be driven to the nearest public scalps . Whenever such officer upon weighing a vehicle and load determines that the weight is unlawful, he may require the driver to atop the vehicle in a suitable place and remain standing until such portion of the load is removed as is necessary to reduce the gross weight of such vehicle to the limit permitted. (ORC 4513.33) (b) All drivers of vehicles described in this chapter shall be required, upon request by any member of the Police Department, to give full and true information as to the route they aro following and the name of the consignor and consignee and place of delivery or removal and the location of any consignment being hauled or goods being removed, and upon a designation by such police officer of a route to be followed, shall immediately adopt anal ptmsue suoh route. 339.10 VEHICLES WITH SPIKES, LUGS AND CHAINS. No person shall operate upon any street any vehicle equipped with cleats, spikes, lugs, chains or similar devices injurious to the roadway except metal or other non-skid contrivances which may be used only while the streets are slippery or covered with ice and snow. (Ord. 613. Passed 7-7-42.)