A. Compliance Required: No person shall move or cause to be moved over or upon any of the streets, sidewalks or other public grounds of the city, either paved or unpaved, any ditching machine, traction engine, or any other heavy piece of machinery of an extreme or abnormal weight, except as herein provided. (1980 Code § 19-24)
B. Permit Required; Application:
1. Before such person shall move any such ditching machine, traction engine, or other heavy piece of machinery on, or upon or over any of the streets, alleys, avenues, sidewalks or other public grounds, an application shall be made to the city clerk for a permit to do so.
2. Such application shall give all necessary details in connection with the desired move, the date and exact time of day or night when such move is to be made, a full description of the route to be traversed during such move, the exact beginning and ending points and the number or some particular identifying mark of the piece of machinery so moved.
3. The city clerk shall issue a permit to move such machinery in accordance with this chapter. Such application and permit shall be made on a form to be supplied by the city and shall be approved by the street superintendent. (1980 Code § 19-25)
C. Manner Of Moving Such Vehicles: If the wheels on any traction engine, ditching machine, oil well drilling machine, heavy truck, or any other heavy machine, or vehicle of abnormal or unusually heavy type shall have lugs or projections on the face of the tires thereof, or if such tires are sufficiently wide, or are not of such style or construction to prevent the marring or causing damage to any of the streets, crossings, or paved streets, avenues, alleys or other public grounds along the route to be traversed, a good and sufficient plank flooring shall be laid so as to protect the pavement from any and all damage, and from being marred by any such machine. (1980 Code § 19-26; amd. 2002 Code)