(a) Council hereby determines it necessary that the Director of Administration shall have the right and authority to reduce maximum weights and speed in accordance with the following conditions:
When thaws or excessive moisture render the improved highways and streets of the City or any sections of them, not sufficient to bear the traffic hereon, or when such highways and streets would be damaged or destroyed by heavy traffic during the period of thawing, or excessive moisture, or roads not constructed to carry the maximum weight of vehicular load, as prescribed by law shall be reduced in the following manner:
(1) On State highways the Director shall prescribe such reduction which shall not be more than twenty-five percent (25%).
(2) On improved highways and other streets in the City, other than State highways, the Director shall prescribe such reduction as the condition of the streets or highways justifies.
(b) The schedule of reduction of maximum weights and speeds shall be filed in the office of the Director. The Director, at least one day before such reduction becomes effective, shall cause to be placed and retained on such highways and at both ends and at the points of intersection by principal roads and streets during the period of such reduced limitation of weight, signs which will conspicuously indicate the limitations of weight which are allowed on the highway. No person shall operate upon such highways and streets a motor vehicle whose maximum weight is in excess of the limitations prescribed.
(Ord. 77-7009. Passed 4-6-77.)