(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or move or for the owner to cause or permit to be driven or moved any vehicle, any combination of vehicles or any trailer which is in such unsafe condition mechanically, overloaded, or so loaded as to endanger any person, or which does not contain those parts or is not at all times equipped with such lamps and other equipment in proper condition and adjustment as required in this article or in state statutes, or which is equipped or loaded in any manner in violation of this article or state statutes.
(B) Presumption. Any police officer at any time when having reasonable cause to believe that any such vehicle is unsafe, or not equipped as required by law, or that its equipment is not in proper adjustment or repair, or that the vehicle is improperly loaded, may require the operator of such vehicle to stop and submit such vehicle to inspection and test as may be appropriate and reasonable. When such vehicle is being operated, failure or refusal of any operator to submit such vehicle to an inspection after a request by a uniformed police officer to inspect such vehicle shall be prima facie evidence of an unsafe vehicle within the meaning of division (A) of this section.
('74 Code, § 9-5-20.1) (Ord. 65-1974)