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I won't argue that somebody might of gotten a ticket for those items, but I will argue that the ticket would of not stood up in court. As mentioned there are no specific laws against beadlocks (anywhere in the U.S.A.), and no mention of tire coverage on private vehicles in the state of Ohio.
Several years ago on the way between the gas station/parking area and the trail a highway patrol officer flagged over 3 or 4 of the vehicles in our group and started giving them the riot act and threatening to have the vehicles towed. We finally talked him into letting us go get the trailers (maybe 2 miles away) and get the vehicles. The one guy had a Toyota pickup on full-width D60's and 36" tires....yeah, looked pretty big for a Toyota but not like it had 44's and 20" of lift. Anyway, the officer wrote him up for too much lift/bumpers too high and several other items (probably for the tires sticking out also, but I forget the specifics). The others got tickets also. The officer did not even measure anything.
To get to the point, all of the people who got tickets contested them in court and immediately got them thrown out...I don't even think they had to speak to the judge. We later heard from a local that this particuliar highway patrol officer wasn't a "regular" and must of been in a bad mood the one weekend he worked the area as he gave out "dozens" of similar tickets to anyone who had loud exhaust or a lifted 4x4 (which is about half the local residents).
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