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Council amends oversize/overweight code language, moves ordinance to next meeting
Summary
Councilman Troyer introduced an amendment to section 339.01(j)(1) of the Brook Park codified ordinances to align penalty language; the law director’s office will add missing subsections and the amended ordinance will appear on next week’s council agenda.
Brook Park — Council on June 10 moved an updated ordinance on oversize and overweight vehicle operation on state routes forward for placement on next week’s council agenda after minor drafting corrections and an amendment to include subsections that were omitted from the distributed text.
Councilman Troyer said the change aligns penalty language in section 339.01(j)(1) with earlier updates made to section 339.02. “All this does is… update this penalty section to match what we just updated in 339.02,” the assistant law director (DeFore) told council. Troyer asked that the ordinance include the full related subsections (a, b and 2) that appear on a second page of the code book but were not present in the circulated legislation. The assistant law director agreed to add the missing language and said it would be ready for the next meeting.
Nut graf: the change is procedural and intended to clarify penalties for oversize/overweight vehicle operations; council also discussed enforcement and directed the law department to include the omitted subsections so the ordinance text is complete.
Council voted to amend the draft to add the missing subsections and to place the ordinance on the next council agenda as amended. Council members noted that enforcement of overweight/oversize permits remains an operational matter to be handled by relevant departments if the ordinance is adopted.
Background: the ordinance was introduced by Councilman Before (listed in meeting materials) and is intended to update local penalty language that applies to state route operations within city limits. The law department will provide the amended text for next week’s meeting.
