(a) A person commits an offense if he operates a motor vehicle, truck-tractor, trailer or semitrailer, or a combination of such vehicles over or upon the bridges designated below, when the motor vehicle, truck- tractor, trailer or semitrailer, or combination of such vehicles has an actual load in excess of 5000 pounds per axle:
Custer Street 260 feet east of Easter Avenue
Dickerson Street 250 feet south of Hidden Creek
J. J. Lemmon Road 800 feet south of Cedardale Road
Parkdale Street 1400 feet northeast of James Street
Simpson Stuart Road 470 feet west of Locust Drive
Wagon Wheels Trail 440 feet northwest of Lancaster Road
(b) A person commits an offense if he operates a motor vehicle, truck-tractor, trailer, or semitrailer, or combination of such vehicles, over or upon the bridges designated below when the motor vehicle, truck- tractor, trailer, or semitrailer, or combination of such vehicles has an actual load in excess of 3000 pounds per axle:
Glenda Lane 200 feet east of Ables Drive
(c) A police officer, having reason to believe that the axle load or gross weight of a loaded vehicle is unlawful, is authorized to weigh the vehicle by means of portable or stationary scales, or cause it to be weighed by a public weigher, and to require that the vehicle be driven to the nearest available scales for the purpose of weighing. If the axle load or gross weight of a vehicle exceeds the axle load or maximum gross weight authorized by this article or state law, the police officer shall demand and require the operator or owner of the vehicle to unload that portion of the load necessary to decrease the axle load or gross weight of the vehicle to the maximum axle load or gross weight authorized by law; provided, however, that if the load consists of livestock, perishable merchandise, or merchandise that may be damaged or destroyed by the weather, then the operator shall be permitted to proceed to the nearest practical unloading point before discharging the excess cargo. (Ord. Nos. 14584; 19749)