Ohio § 5577.071
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§ 5577.071.
(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.
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