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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5577 | Load Limits on Highways › Section 5577.041 | Maximum Axle Load, Wheel Load, and Gross Weights for Solid-Tired Vehicles.

Effective:
November 21, 1967
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 679 - 107th General Assembly
No vehicle, trackless trolley, load, object, or structure having a maximum axle load greater than sixteen thousand pounds when such vehicle is equipped with solid rubber tires shall be operated or moved upon the improved public highways, streets, bridges, or culverts. The maximum wheel load of any one wheel of any such vehicle shall not exceed six hundred fifty pounds per inch width of tire, measured as prescribed by section 5577.03 of the Revised Code, nor shall any solid tire of rubber or other resilient material, on any wheel of any such vehicle, be less than one inch thick when measured from the top of the flanges of the tire channel.
The weight of vehicle and load imposed upon the road surface by any two successive axles, spaced four feet or less apart, shall not exceed nineteen thousand pounds for solid tires; or by any two successive axles spaced more than four feet but less than eight feet apart shall not exceed twenty-four thousand pounds for solid tires; or by any two successive axles, spaced eight feet or more apart, shall not exceed twenty-eight thousand pounds for solid tires; nor shall the total weight of vehicle and load exceed, for solid rubber tires, twenty-eight thousand pounds plus an additional six hundred pounds for each foot or fraction thereof of spacing between the front axle and the rearmost axle of the vehicle; nor shall the weight of vehicle and load imposed upon the road surface by any vehicle equipped with solid rubber tires, exceed eighty per cent of the permissible weight of vehicle and load as provided for pneumatic tires.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when a vehicle is towing another vehicle, such drawbar or other connection shall be of a length such as will limit the spacing between nearest axles of the respective vehicles to a distance not in excess of twelve feet and six inches. If the provisions of this section are held to exceed the weight limitations or other provisions set forth in the "Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1958," 72 Stat. 902, 23 U.S.C. 127, this section shall become null and void to the extent of such inconsistency.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5577 | Load Limits on Highways › Section 5577.043 | Permissible Weight Variations for Certain Vehicles.

Effective:
July 27, 2011
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 187 - 129th General Assembly
(A) Notwithstanding sections 5577.02 and 5577.04 of the Revised Code, the following vehicles under the described conditions may exceed by no more than seven and one-half per cent the weight provisions of sections 5577.01 to 5577.09 of the Revised Code and no penalty prescribed in section 5577.99 of the Revised Code shall be imposed:
(1) A surface mining truck transporting minerals from the place where the minerals are loaded to any of the following:
(a) The construction site where the minerals are discharged;
(b) The place where title to the minerals is transferred;
(c) The place of processing.
(2) A vehicle transporting hot mix asphalt material from the place where the material is first mixed to the paving site where the material is discharged;
(3) A vehicle transporting concrete from the place where the material is first mixed to the site where the material is discharged;
(4) A vehicle transporting manure, turf, sod, or silage from the site where the material is first produced to the first place of delivery;
(5) A vehicle transporting chips, sawdust, mulch, bark, pulpwood, biomass, or firewood from the site where the product is first produced or harvested to the first point where the product is transferred.
(B) In addition, if any of the vehicles listed in division (A) of this section and operated under the conditions described in that division do not exceed by more than seven and one-half per cent the gross vehicle weight provisions of sections 5577.01 to 5577.09 of the Revised Code and do not exceed the wheel or axle load limits of those sections by more than seven and one-half per cent, no penalty prescribed in section 5577.99 of the Revised Code for a wheel or axle overload shall be imposed.
(C) If any of the vehicles listed in division (A) of this section and operated under the conditions described in that division exceed the weight provisions of sections 5577.01 to 5577.09 of the Revised Code by more than the percentage allowance of either division (A) or (B) of this section, both of the following apply without regard to the allowance provided by division (A) or (B) of this section:
(1) The applicable penalty prescribed in section 5577.99 of the Revised Code;
(2) The civil liability imposed by section 5577.12 of the Revised Code.
(D) Divisions (A) and (B) of this section do not apply to the operation of a vehicle listed in division (A) of this section on either of the following:
(1) A highway that is part of the interstate system;
(2) A highway, road, or bridge that is subject to reduced maximum weights under section 4513.33, 5577.07, 5577.071, 5577.08, 5577.09, or 5591.42 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5577 | Load Limits on Highways › Section 5577.044 | Weight Restrictions for Vehicles Fueled by Natural Gas.

Effective:
June 30, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 23 - 135th General Assembly
(A) Notwithstanding sections 5577.02 and 5577.04 of the Revised Code, a vehicle fueled solely by compressed natural gas or liquid natural gas or powered primarily by means of an electric battery may exceed by not more than two thousand pounds the gross vehicle weight provisions of sections 5577.01 to 5577.09 of the Revised Code or the axle load limits of those sections.
(B) If a vehicle described in division (A) of this section exceeds the weight provisions of sections 5577.01 to 5577.09 of the Revised Code by more than the allowance provided for in division (A) of this section, both of the following apply:
(1) The applicable penalty prescribed in section 5577.99 of the Revised Code;
(2) The civil liability imposed by section 5577.12 of the Revised Code.
(C) Division (A) of this section does not apply to the operation of a vehicle on a highway, road, or bridge that is subject to reduced maximum weights under section 4513.33, 5577.07, 5577.071, 5577.08, 5577.09, or 5591.42 of the Revised Code.
Last updated April 27, 2023 at 12:12 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5577 | Load Limits on Highways › Section 5577.045 | Fire Engine Weight Exemptions; Permits for Overweight Vehicles.

Effective:
June 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 74 - 134th General Assembly
(A) As used in this section, "fire engine" means a fire engine, fire truck, or other vehicle or apparatus belonging to or used by any municipal, township, or volunteer fire department, while in the discharge of its functions.
(B) Notwithstanding sections 5577.02 and 5577.04 of the Revised Code, a person may do both of the following without a written permit issued under section 4513.34 of the Revised Code:
(1) Operate a two-axle fire engine, with a front axle maximum weight of twenty-four thousand pounds and a rear axle maximum weight of thirty-three thousand five hundred pounds and a minimum wheelbase of fifteen feet, on all roadways in the state;
(2) Operate a fire engine with a maximum gross vehicle weight of eighty-six thousand pounds on the interstate highway system and within one road mile of an interstate highway system entrance or exit ramp.
(C) Notwithstanding section 4513.34 of the Revised Code, for any fire engine that requires a permit, the director of transportation or local authority shall do both of the following:
(1) Issue the permit at no cost to the municipal, township, or volunteer fire department;
(2) Issue a permit that expires five years after the date of issuance.
Last updated April 13, 2021 at 4:52 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5577 | Load Limits on Highways › Section 5577.06 | Prohibition Against Violation.

Effective:
September 28, 1973
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly
No person shall violate any rule or regulation promulgated by the director of transportation in accordance with section 5577.05 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5577 | Load Limits on Highways › Section 5577.07 | Reduction of Weight and Speed During Times of Thaws and Moisture.

Effective:
September 28, 1973
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly
When thaws or excessive moisture render the improved highways of this state or any sections of them insufficient to bear the traffic thereon, or when such highways would be damaged or destroyed by heavy traffic during the period of thawing or excessive moisture, the maximum weight of vehicle and load, or the maximum speed, or both, for motor vehicles, as prescribed by law shall be reduced in the following manner:
(A) On state highways, the director of transportation shall prescribe such reduction which shall not be more than twenty-five per cent;
(B) On improved highways and all other roads in the county, other than state highways, the board of county commissioners shall prescribe such reduction as the condition of the road or highway justifies, but in no case shall the reduction be more than fifty per cent.
The schedule of the reduction of maximum weights and speeds shall be filed, for the information of the public, in the office of the board of each county in which the schedule is operative and in the office of the director. The director or board, at least one day before such reduction becomes effective, shall cause to be placed and retained on such highways, at both ends and at the points of intersections by principal roads, during the period of such reduced limitation of weight, speed, or both, signs, of substantial construction, which will conspicuously indicate the limitations of weight and speed, which are allowed on the highway and the date on which such limitations shall go into effect. No person shall operate upon any such highway, a motor vehicle whose maximum weight or speed is in excess of the limitations prescribed. The expense of the purchase and erection of signs, provided for in this section, shall be paid from funds for the maintenance and repair of roads.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5577 | Load Limits on Highways › Section 5577.071 | Reduction of Weight of Vehicle or Load or Speed on Deteriorated or Vulnerable Bridge.

Effective:
May 31, 1988
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 409 - 117th General Assembly
(A) When deterioration renders any bridge or section of a bridge in a county insufficient to bear the traffic thereon, or when the bridge or section of a bridge would be damaged or destroyed by heavy traffic, the board of county commissioners may reduce the maximum weight of vehicle and load, or the maximum speed, or both, for motor vehicles, as prescribed by law, and prescribe whatever reduction the condition of the bridge or section of the bridge justifies. This section does not apply to bridges on state highways.
(B) A schedule of any reductions made pursuant to division (A) of this section shall be filed, for the information of the public, in the office of the board of county commissioners in each county in which the schedule is operative. A board of county commissioners that makes a reduction pursuant to division (A) of this section shall, at least one day before a reduction becomes effective, cause to be placed and retained on any bridge on which a reduction is made, at both ends of the bridge, during the period of a reduced limitation of weight, speed, or both, signs of substantial construction conspicuously indicating the limitations of weight or speed or both which are permitted on the bridge and the date on which these limitations go into effect. No person shall operate upon any such bridge a motor vehicle whose maximum weight or speed is in excess of the limitations prescribed. The cost of purchasing and erecting the signs provided for in this division shall be paid from any fund for the maintenance and repair of bridges and culverts.
(C) Except as otherwise provided in this division, no reduction shall be made pursuant to division (A) of this section on a joint bridge as provided in section 5591.25 of the Revised Code unless the board of county commissioners of every county sharing the joint bridge agrees to the reduction, the amount of the reduction, and how the cost of purchasing and erecting signs indicating the limitations of weight and speed is to be borne. A board of county commissioners may make a reduction pursuant to division (A) of this section on a section of a joint bridge, without the agreement any other county sharing the bridge, if the section of the bridge on which the reduction is to be made is located solely in that county.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5577 | Load Limits on Highways › Section 5577.08 | Classification of Roads and Bridges by Board of County Commissioners.

Effective:
May 31, 1988
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 409 - 117th General Assembly
The board of county commissioners may classify the county and township roads and bridges and all other roads and bridges within their respective counties, except state highways and bridges on state highways, with reference to the maximum weights and speeds permitted on such roads and bridges.
The classifications made by the board under this section shall not apply to vehicles of a weight of five tons or less for vehicle and load.
In making the classifications, the board shall take into consideration the nature of the roadbed, construction, and any other factors which are material in the proper classification of such roads and bridges.
The board shall make rules governing the weight of vehicle and load and the speed permitted on the several classes of roads and bridges.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5577 | Load Limits on Highways › Section 5577.081 | Surface Mining Vehicles Over Load Limit to Use Designated Roads.

Effective:
September 29, 2017
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly
(A) Except when transferring unfinished aggregate material between facilities that are under the control of the same owner or operator that is subject to Chapter 1514. of the Revised Code or when unloading or loading finished aggregate product within a ten-mile radius of a surface mining operation that is permitted and regulated under that chapter, all vehicles entering or leaving such an operation that have a gross vehicle weight as defined in division (JJ) of section 4501.01 of the Revised Code that is in excess of sixty-six thousand pounds shall use the specific roads designated pursuant to sections 303.14 and 303.141 or 519.14 and 519.141 of the Revised Code as the primary means of ingress to and egress from the facilities or operation.
(B) The owner or operator of a surface mining operation that is permitted under Chapter 1514. of the Revised Code and that is subject to the use of specific roads as the primary means of ingress to and egress from the operation pursuant to sections 303.14 and 303.141 or 519.14 and 519.141 of the Revised Code shall post a sign in a conspicuous location to inform the drivers of trucks entering and leaving the operation of the roads to use as the primary means of ingress to and egress from the operation.
(C)(1) Whoever violates this section shall receive a written warning in such a manner that it becomes a part of the person's permanent record that is maintained by the bureau of motor vehicles and assists in monitoring violations of this section.
(2) A person who commits a second offense within one year after committing the first offense is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(3) A person who commits a third or subsequent offense within one year after committing the first offense is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(D) Fine money that is collected under division (C) of this section shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the mining regulation and safety fund created in section 1513.30 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5577 | Load Limits on Highways › Section 5577.09 | Rules - Signs.

Effective:
May 31, 1988
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 409 - 117th General Assembly
All rules as provided by section 5577.08 of the Revised Code shall be made by the board of county commissioners, at regular meetings, by a majority vote. Such rules shall be kept on file in the office of the board and open for inspection by the public.
At least two days before such rules become effective the board shall cause to be placed and retained on county and township highways classified under section 5577.08 of the Revised Code or sections thereof, and on any bridge classified under section 5577.08 of the Revised Code, at both ends and at any points of intersection, signs, of substantial construction, which will conspicuously indicate the limitations of weight of vehicle and load or speed which will be allowed on such highways or bridges.
It shall be unlawful to operate upon such highway or bridge a vehicle whose maximum weight or speed is in excess of the limitations prescribed. The expense of the purchase and erection of signs provided for in this section shall be paid from the county funds for the maintenance and repair of highways, bridges, and culverts.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5577 | Load Limits on Highways › Section 5577.10 | Statement of Gross Vehicle Weight.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No person shall issue or aid in issuing any bill of lading or other document of like nature in lieu thereof, which bill or document is to accompany a shipment of goods or property by truck, trailer, semitrailer, commercial tractor, or any other commercial vehicle used for the transportation of property, the gross weight of which, with load, exceeds three tons, with intent to defraud by misrepresenting thereon the weight of such goods or property to be so transported.
Any driver or operator of a commercial car, trailer, or semitrailer may obtain from any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association, including the owner, lessee, or operator of such commercial car, trailer, or semitrailer, owning and operating sealed scales in this state, a written "statement of gross vehicle weight" showing the gross weight of the vehicle including the cargo on the vehicle, the name and address of the person issuing the statement, and the date and place where the vehicle and its cargo were weighed. The driver or operator of the commercial car, trailer, or semitrailer shall retain such statement of gross vehicle weight on his person, and any law enforcement officer of this state may request that such driver or operator exhibit it to him. If, upon examining the statement of gross vehicle weight, the law enforcement officer has reason to believe that the information contained therein is correct in every respect, he shall indorse it with his name and the date and place where it was exhibited to him. The law enforcement officer may then permit such driver or operator to proceed without weighing by a law enforcement officer of this state. No person shall willfully issue a written statement of gross vehicle weight and knowingly give any false information in such statement.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5577 | Load Limits on Highways › Section 5577.11 | Wheel Protectors.

Effective:
September 1, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 600 - 123rd General Assembly
No person shall drive or operate, or cause to be driven or operated, any commercial car, trailer, or semitrailer, used for the transportation of goods or property, the gross weight of which, with load, exceeds three tons, upon the public highways, streets, bridges, and culverts within this state, unless such vehicle is equipped with suitable metal protectors or substantial flexible flaps on the rearmost wheels of such vehicle or combination of vehicles to prevent, as far as practicable, the wheels from throwing dirt, water, or other materials on the windshields of following vehicles. Such protectors or flaps shall have a ground clearance of not more than one third of the distance from the center of the rearmost axle to the center of the flaps under any conditions of loading of the vehicle, and they shall be at least as wide as the tires they are protecting. If the vehicle is so designed and constructed that such requirements are accomplished by means of fenders, body construction, or other means of enclosure, then no such protectors or flaps are required. Rear wheels not covered at the top by fenders, bodies, or other parts of the vehicle shall be covered at the top by protective means extending at least to the center line of the rearmost axle.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5577 | Load Limits on Highways › Section 5577.12 | Liability for Damages - Prosecution - Application of Moneys.

Effective:
September 28, 1973
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly
Any person violating any law relating to or regulating the use of the improved public roads shall be liable for all damage resulting to any such street, highway, bridge, or culvert by reason of such violation. In case of any injury to such a street, highway, bridge, or culvert, such damages shall be collected by civil action, brought in the name of the state, on the relation of the director of transportation with respect to highways under his jurisdiction, and the attorney general or prosecuting attorney of any county shall institute such action, when requested by the director and prosecute it to final judgment. In case of any injury to an improved public road, bridge, or culvert of a county, by reason of the violations of any of the rules or regulations made by the board of county commissioners, the damages shall be recovered by a civil action prosecuted by the board; in case of an injury to an improved public street, highway, bridge, or culvert of a municipal corporation, it shall be the duty of the proper authorities of such municipal corporation to institute an action for the recovery of such damages; and in the case of an injury to an improved public street, road, bridge, or culvert of a township, the damages shall be recovered by a civil action prosecuted by the board of township trustees. All damages collected under this section shall be paid into the treasury of the state or proper political subdivision, and credited to any fund for the repair of streets, highways, roads, bridges, or culverts.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5577 | Load Limits on Highways › Section 5577.13 | Enforcement by Deputies.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
In those counties having forty miles or more of improved intercounty or state highways, the sheriff of each such county shall, and in all other counties may, detail one or more deputies for the work of enforcing sections 5577.01 to 5577.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The board of county commissioners shall appropriate such amount of money annually, from the road fund of the county, as is necessary to equip and compensate such deputy. The patrolmen of the county highways may be deputized by the sheriffs of the counties in which they are employed, as deputy sheriffs, but shall receive no extra compensation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5577 | Load Limits on Highways › Section 5577.14 | Notice of Arrest.

Effective:
January 9, 1961
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 104th General Assembly
Whenever the driver or operator of any truck, trailer, semitrailer, commercial tractor, or any other commercial vehicle used for the transportation of goods or property, the gross weight of which, with load, exceeds three tons, has been arrested for a violation of any provision of sections 4511.01 to 4511.76, inclusive, and 4513.01 to 4513.40, inclusive, or sections 5577.01 to 5577.09, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the officer making such arrest shall immediately notify, in writing, the person, firm, association, or corporation holding the certificate of public convenience and necessity or permit under which such vehicle is being driven or operated, and in whose name the vehicle is registered with and licensed by the bureau of motor vehicles, of the fact of such arrest. Such notification shall describe the vehicle involved, the name of the driver or operator thereof, and the time, place, and nature of the offense committed. Copies of such notification shall be immediately transmitted by the arresting officer to the public utilities commission and to the superintendent of the state highway patrol.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5577 | Load Limits on Highways › Section 5577.15 | Application of Size and Weight Provisions of Chapter.

Effective:
July 3, 2019
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 62 - 133rd General Assembly
(A) The size and weight provisions of this chapter do not apply to any of the following:
(1) A person who is engaged in the initial towing or removal of a wrecked or disabled motor vehicle from the site of an emergency on a public highway where the vehicle became wrecked or disabled to the nearest site where the vehicle can be brought into conformance with the requirements of this chapter, to the nearest storage facility, or to the nearest qualified repair facility;
(2) A person who is en route to the site of an emergency on a public highway to remove a wrecked or disabled motor vehicle;
(3) A person who is returning from delivering a wrecked or disabled motor vehicle to a site, storage facility, or repair facility as specified in division (A)(1) of this section.
(B) Any subsequent towing of a wrecked or disabled vehicle shall comply with the size and weight provisions of this chapter.
(C) No court shall impose any penalty prescribed in section 5577.99 of the Revised Code or the civil liability established in section 5577.12 of the Revised Code upon a person who is operating a vehicle in the manner described in division (A) of this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5579 | General Highway Provisions › Section 5579.01 | Appropriation of Drainage Rights or Easements.

Effective:
September 28, 1973
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly
The director of transportation, board of county commissioners, or board of township trustees, may, in connection with any road improvement, appropriate any drainage rights outside the line of a highway, or any easement, right, or interest in any property desired for any proposed improvement. In case such official or boards desire to appropriate the drainage right, easements, right, or interest in any property in connection with any existing highway, the same may be done in the manner provided by sections 5549.04 to 5549.09 of the Revised Code. Any land or property rights required for the construction of a new bridge, or for any additions or repairs to an existing bridge, may be acquired in like manner.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5579 | General Highway Provisions › Section 5579.02 | Appropriation of Right of Way, Crossing, or Lands of Railroad.

Effective:
September 28, 1973
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly
The director of transportation, board of county commissioners, or board of township trustees may appropriate a right-of-way or crossing over railroad tracks and lands held by railway companies, whether operated by steam or electricity, and may appropriate the necessary property and right to construct such crossing above or below the grade of the railway. Such proceedings shall be had thereon as are provided for appropriation of property by municipal corporations. In case the grade of the road at such crossing is raised or lowered above or below the railroad tracks, by agreement or order of the court, the cost of raising or lowering such grade shall be apportioned between the board of county commissioners or board of township trustees and the company in the same proportion as in cases in which a grade is raised or lowered on a crossing already established or existing.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5579 | General Highway Provisions › Section 5579.03 | Road as Boundary Line.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
If a road is established as a part of the line or boundary of a township or municipal corporation, the board of township trustees of such adjoining townships and legislative authority of such municipal corporation, shall meet at a convenient place as soon after the first Monday of March as convenient, and apportion such road between the townships, or township and municipal corporation, as justice and equity require. The boards of the respective townships and legislative authority of the municipal corporation shall cause the road to be opened and improved accordingly, and shall thereafter cause their respective portions to be worked and kept in proper repair.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5579 | General Highway Provisions › Section 5579.04 | Destruction of Brush, Briers, Weeds, and Thistles Along Highways.

Effective:
June 11, 1991
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 176 - 119th General Assembly
(A) As used in sections 5579.04 to 5579.08 of the Revised Code, "noxious weed" means shatter cane (Sorghum bicolor), Russian thistle (Salsola kali var. tenuifolia), or any plant designated a prohibited noxious weed by the director of agriculture.
(B) A board of county commissioners, a board of township trustees, or the street commissioners of a municipal corporation, having control of and being charged with the duty of repairing macadamized, graveled, or improved roads, and county engineers, township road superintendents, and the street commissioners of each municipal corporation, between the first and twentieth days of June, the first and twentieth days of August, and, if necessary, the first and twentieth days of September of each year or whenever necessary to prevent or eliminate a safety hazard, shall destroy all brush, briers, burrs, vines, noxious weeds, and, until June 1, 1996, multiflora rose, growing within the limits of a county or township road or improved, graveled, or macadamized road, street, or alley within their jurisdiction.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5579 | General Highway Provisions › Section 5579.05 | Notice to Destroy Weeds.

Effective:
July 4, 1984
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 108 - 115th General Assembly
(A) Upon receiving written information that noxious weeds, wild parsnip, wild carrot, oxeye daisy, wild mustard, or other harmful weeds are growing on land in a township, other than land owned or managed by the department of natural resources, or park land owned or managed by the state or a political subdivision, the board of township trustees shall notify the owner, lessee, agent, or tenant having charge of the land of the receipt of the information and of the obligations imposed by this section. Within five days after the notification is given, the person notified shall cut or destroy the weeds or show the board why there is no need for doing so.
If the person in charge of the land is a resident of the township or a nonresident whose address is known, the notice shall be sent to his address by certified mail. If the person's address is unknown, it is sufficient to publish the notice once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county.
(B) Upon receiving information that wild parsnip, wild carrot, oxeye daisy, wild mustard, or noxious weeds are growing in a township on land owned or managed by the department of natural resources, or on park land owned or managed by the state or a political subdivision, the board of township trustees shall notify the county extension agent for the county in which the township is located of the receipt of the information. Within five days after the notification is given, the extension agent shall meet in committee with a person designated for this purpose by the governing authority of the land and, if the land is within a soil and water conservation district, with a supervisor of the district designated by the district supervisors, to consider ways to deal with the problem, and shall, within such five days, report the committee's findings and recommendations to the board of township trustees.
This section and sections 5579.06 and 5579.07 of the Revised Code do not apply to persons subject to section 4959.11 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5579 | General Highway Provisions › Section 5579.06 | Effect of Noncompliance With Notice.

Effective:
July 4, 1984
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 108 - 115th General Assembly
If the owner, lessee, agent, or tenant having charge of the land mentioned in division (A) of section 5579.05 of the Revised Code fails to comply with that division, the board of township trustees shall cause the weeds to be cut or destroyed and may employ the necessary labor, materials, and equipment to perform the task. All expenses incurred shall, when approved by the board, be paid out of the township general fund from moneys not otherwise appropriated.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5579 | General Highway Provisions › Section 5579.07 | Expense a Lien Upon Land.

Effective:
July 4, 1984
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 108 - 115th General Assembly
The board of township trustees shall make a written report to the county auditor of the board's action under sections 5579.05 and 5579.06 of the Revised Code with a statement of the board's charges for its services, the amount paid for the labor, materials, and equipment, and a proper description of the premises. These amounts, when allowed, shall be entered upon the tax duplicate, shall be a lien upon the land from the date of the entry, and shall be collected as other taxes and returned to the township and placed in the township general fund.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5579 | General Highway Provisions › Section 5579.08 | Cutting of Briers, Brush, and Noxious Weeds.

Effective:
December 20, 2005
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 107 - 126th General Assembly
All brush, briers, burrs, vines, and noxious weeds growing along the public highway shall be cut or destroyed between the first and twentieth days of June, the first and twentieth days of August, and, if necessary, between the first and twentieth days of September of each year or whenever necessary to prevent or eliminate a safety hazard. This work shall be done by the board of township trustees in its respective township, or by the township highway superintendent, who may employ the necessary labor to carry out this section. All expenses incurred shall, when approved by the board, be paid from the township road fund by the township fiscal officer, upon the fiscal officer's warrant.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways › Section 5589.01 | Obstructing Public Grounds, Highway, Street, or Alley.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No person shall obstruct or encumber by fences, buildings, structures, or otherwise, a public ground, highway, street, or alley of a municipal corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways › Section 5589.02 | Altering or Injuring Marker or Monument.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No person shall alter, deface, injure, or destroy any marker or monument placed along, upon, or near a public highway, by the proper authorities, to mark the boundaries thereof, or for any other purpose.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways › Section 5589.03 | Refusal or Neglect of Officials to Perform Duty.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No county engineer, township trustee, or township highway superintendent shall willfully neglect, fail, or refuse to perform the duties of his office. Conviction for such neglect, failure, or refusal shall operate as a removal from office.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways › Section 5589.05 | Interfering With Drawbridge on Muskingum Improvement.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No person, except a commissioner, engineer, superintendent, lock tender, bridge tender, or collector and without express direction or permission from one of them, shall open or interfere with a drawbridge on the Muskingum improvement.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways › Section 5589.06 | Obstructing Ditch, Drain, or Watercourse - Duty of Superintendent.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No person shall wrongfully obstruct any ditch, drain, or watercourse along, upon, or across a public highway, or divert any water from adjacent lands to or upon a public highway. Whenever the township highway superintendent learns of any obstruction of any ditch, drain, or watercourse along, upon, or across a public highway, or diversion of any water from adjacent lands to or upon a public highway, he shall notify the board of township trustees, which shall cause written notice thereof to be personally served upon the person, firm, or corporation, or upon any agent in charge of the property of the person, firm, or corporation causing such obstruction or diversion. Notice may be served by a constable of the proper township or any person authorized and deputed therefor by the board of township trustees, and shall describe and locate said obstruction or diversion and direct its immediate removal. If the person, company, or corporation does not within five days from the receipt of written notice proceed to remove such obstruction and complete the removal within a reasonable time, the township highway superintendent, upon the order of the board of township trustees, shall remove the obstruction. The expense incurred shall be paid in the first instance out of any money levied, collected, and available for highway purposes and shall then be collected from the person, company, or corporation by civil action by the board of township trustees, and paid into the highway fund of the township.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways › Section 5589.07 | Failure to Make Levy or Furnish Estimates.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No person charged with the duty of making any levy or furnishing any estimates or budgets requesting any levy or allowance for the construction, improvement, maintenance, or repair of any public highway, bridge, or culvert shall fail to make such levy or allowance, or furnish such estimate, budget, or request.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways › Section 5589.08 | Operating Traction Engines Upon Improved Highways.

Effective:
October 16, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 538 - 100th General Assembly
No person shall drive over the improved highways of the state, or any political subdivision thereof, a traction engine or tractor with tires or wheels equipped with ice picks, spuds, spikes, chains, or other projections of any kind extending beyond the cleats, or no person shall tow or in any way pull another vehicle over the improved highways of the state, or any political subdivision thereof, which towed or pulled vehicle has tires or wheels equipped with ice picks, spuds, spikes, chains or other projections of any kind. "Traction engine" or "tractor," as used in this section, applies to all self-propelling engines equipped with metal-tired wheels operated or propelled by any form of engine, motor, or mechanical power.
No municipal corporation, county, or township shall adopt, enforce, or maintain any ordinance, rule, or regulation contrary to or inconsistent with this section, or require of any person any license tax upon or registration fee for any traction engine, tractor, or trailer, or any permit or license to operate. Operators of traction engines or tractors shall have the same rights upon the public streets and highways as the drivers of any other vehicles, unless some other safe and convenient way is provided, and no public road open to traffic shall be closed to traction engines or tractors.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways › Section 5589.081 | Studded Tires - Prohibited Acts.

Effective:
August 22, 2008
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 44 - 127th General Assembly
(A) For purposes of this section, "studded tire" means any tire designed for use on a vehicle and equipped with metal studs or studs of wear-resisting material that project beyond the tread of the traction surface of the tire; and "motor vehicle," "street or highway," "public safety vehicle," and "school bus" have the same meanings as given those terms in section 4511.01 of the Revised Code.
(B)(1) Except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section, no person shall operate any motor vehicle, other than a public safety vehicle or school bus, that is equipped with studded tires on any street or highway in this state, except during the period extending from the first day of November of each year through the fifteenth day of April of the succeeding year.
(2) A person may operate a motor vehicle that is equipped with retractable studded tires with the studs retracted at any time of the year, but shall operate the motor vehicle with the studs extended only as provided in division (B)(1) of this section.
(C) This section does not apply to the use of tire chains when there is snow or ice on the streets or highways where such chains are being used, or the immediate vicinity thereof.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways › Section 5589.09 | Failure, Neglect or Refusal to Drag Road.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No person, charged with the duty of causing any unimproved or gravel road or part thereof to be dragged, shall willfully fail, neglect, or refuse to cause the same to be done, in such manner and within the time fixed by the sections of the Revised Code applicable thereto, or by the proper authority.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways › Section 5589.10 | Digging, Excavating, Piling Earth, or Building Fence on Highway.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No person shall dig up, remove, excavate, or place any earth or mud upon any portion of any public highway or build a fence upon the same without authority to do so. Each day that such person continues to dig up, remove, or excavate any portion of the public highway constitutes a separate offense.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways › Section 5589.11 | Failure or Neglect to Cut Weeds, Briers, or Bushes.

Effective:
July 4, 1984
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 108 - 115th General Assembly
No person, charged with the duty of cutting, destroying, or removing any weeds, briers, or bushes upon or along a public highway shall willfully fail, neglect, or refuse to cut, destroy, or remove such weeds, briers, or bushes as required in sections 5579.04 and 5579.08 of the Revised Code or on the order of the proper officials.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways › Section 5589.12 | Possession of Tools Belonging to State or County.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No person shall, without being authorized, have in his control or possession any equipment, tools, implements, or other property belonging to the state, county, or township.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways › Section 5589.13 | Fines Credited to Maintenance and Repair Fund.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
All fines collected for violations of sections 5589.02 to 5589.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be paid into the county treasury and placed to the credit of the fund for the maintenance and repair of the highways within such county.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways › Section 5589.14 | Prosecution of Offenses.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The prosecuting attorney shall prosecute all offenders under sections 5589.02 to 5589.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code, upon application of any official or individual filing any affidavit before any magistrate of the county charging an offense under such sections. This section shall not prevent the prosecuting attorney or any other official from prosecuting offenders under such sections upon his own initiative.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges › Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways › Section 5589.20 | Findings as to Improper Obstruction of Railroad Grade Crossings by Trains.

Effective:
October 27, 2000
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 207 - 123rd General Assembly
The general assembly finds that the improper obstruction of railroad grade crossings by trains is a direct threat to the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of this state inasmuch as improper obstructions create uniquely different local safety problems by preventing the timely movement of ambulances, the vehicles of law enforcement officers and firefighters, and official and unofficial vehicles transporting health care officials and professionals. It is the intent of the general assembly in amending sections 5589.21, 5589.24, and 5589.99 of the Revised Code that the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of this state be enhanced through those amendments.