(A) General requirements.
(1) All motor vehicles and all other vehicles in tow thereof or thereunto attached operating upon any roadway shall have tires of rubber or some material of equal resiliency. Solid tires shall be considered defective and shall not be permitted to be used if the rubber or other material has been worn or otherwise reduced to a thickness of less than three-fourths of an inch or if the tires have been so worn or otherwise damaged as to cause undue vibration when the vehicle is in motion or to cause undue concentration of the wheel load on the surface of the road.
(2) All motor vehicles of the second division operating upon any roadway shall have pneumatic tires unless exempted herein.
(3) The requirements of this division do not apply to agricultural tractors or traction engines or to agricultural machinery, including wagons being used for agricultural purposes in tow thereto, or to road rollers or road building machinery operated at a speed not in excess of ten mph.
(B) Lugs, cleats, nonskid devices.
(1) No metal-tired or studded-tired vehicle, including tractors, motor vehicles of the second division, traction engines and other similar vehicles, shall be operated over or along any street in the village if the vehicle has on the periphery of any of the road wheels any block, stud, flange, cleat, ridge, lug or any projection of metal or wood which projects radially beyond the tread or traffic surface of the tire. This prohibition does not apply to pneumatic tires with metal studs between October 1 of any year and May 1 of the following year or to track-type motor vehicles when that part of the vehicle coming in contact with the road surface does not contain any projections of any kind likely to injure the surface of the road or to tractors, traction engines and similar vehicles which have upon their road wheels V-shaped, diagonal or other cleats arranged in a manner as to be continuously in contact with the road surface; provided that, the gross weight upon the wheels per inch of width of the cleats in contact with the road surface, when measured in the direction of the axle of the vehicle, does not exceed 800 pounds.
(2) In no event shall the surface of any street be used as an area or space for turning any tractor or other farm machinery in carrying on or performing any farming operations upon the adjacent land; provided that, nothing in this division contained shall prohibit the operation of tractors, traction engines or motor trucks across any street in order to reach adjacent lands if the street is protected by putting down solid planks or other suitable devices to prevent the vehicle from injuring the surface of the street.
(C) Exemptions. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit the use of tire chains of reasonable proportion upon any vehicle when required for safety because of snow, ice or other conditions tending to cause a vehicle to skid.
(D) Additional provisions. In addition to the provisions of divisions (A), (B) and (C) above, no metal-tired vehicle shall be moved on any public way having on the periphery of any wheel a block stud, flange, cleat or spike or any other protuberance of any metal other than rubber which projects beyond the tread of the traction surface of the tire; except, it shall be permissible to use tire chains of reasonable proportions upon any vehicle when required for safety because of snow, ice, mud or other conditions tending to cause a vehicle to skid.
(Prior Code, § 6-7-7) Penalty, see § 74.99