(a) When thaws or excessive moisture render the improved streets or other streets or alleys of the Municipality, or any sections thereof, insufficient to bear the traffic thereon, or when such streets or alleys would be damaged or destroyed by heavy traffic during a period of thawing or excessive moisture, the maximum weight of vehicle and load or the maximum speed or both, for motor vehicles as prescribed by law, shall be reduced in the following manner: on improved streets and all other streets or alleys in the Municipality, other than State routes, Council shall prescribe such reduction as the conditions of the street or alley justifies, but in no case shall the reduction be more than fifty percent.
(b) The schedule of the reduction of maximum weights and speeds shall be filed, for the information of the public, in the office of the Clerk. At least one day before such reduction becomes effective, Council shall cause to be placed and maintained on such street signs which will conspicuously indicate the limitations of weight and speed, which are allowed on the street or alley and the date on which such limitations shall go into effect. Signs shall be placed at both ends of such street and at the points of intersection by principal streets during the period of such reduced limitation of weight, speed or both. No person shall operate a motor vehicle whose maximum weight or speed is in excess of the limitations prescribed upon any such street or alley.
(Ord. 377. Passed 3-7-63.)