(a) No person shall drive or operate any vehicle designed to be used for the conveyance, transfer or delivery of freight, merchandise or other substances and materials usually hauled in such vehicles, exceeding a gross weight of 10,000 pounds, including the weight of the vehicle, whether loaded or unloaded, upon any street or other public place in the Municipality except on designated and marked State and Federal routes, whether temporary or permanent. However, when the loaded contents of such vehicles exceeding such weights are for delivery to, or such vehicles are called to remove merchandise or other material from any business house or other place not located on such State or Federal routes, then such vehicles may be driven and operated on the streets and other public places not designated or marked as State or Federal routes, but only between the place of delivery or removal of freight and merchandise and the nearest intersecting State or Federal route. The operators of such vehicles shall be required, upon requesr of any member of the Police Department or other person authorized by the Municipality, to give full and true information as to the route they are following and the names of the cosignor and consignee, and place of delivery or removal, and the location of any consignment being hauled or goods being removed.
(b) It shall be the duty of the drivers of all such vehicles exceeding such weights entering the Municipality upon a street other than a State or Federal route, to proceed immediately by the shortest way possible to the nearest State or Federal route leading in the direction in which such vehicle is proceeding.
(c) All streets and highways leading into the Municipality shall be properly posted warning operators of vehicles exceeding such weights that they must follow State and Federal routes, temporary or permanent.
(Ord. 59-1. Passed 1-5-59.)
(d) The Director of Public Service and Development upon application and the payment of a fee of ten dollars ($10.00) to the City by the owner or person having charge thereof, may grant permission for the moving of vehicles, objects and structures in excess of the limits set forth in this section. The Director may grant such permission subject to such conditions and restrictions as in his judgment are necessary for the preservation and protection of the streets, roadways, bridges, culverts and other public property.
(Ord. 78-6. Passed 3-20-78.)
(e) Any police officer, having reason to believe that the weight of a vehicle and load is unlawful, is authorized to require the driver to stop and submit to a weighing of the same, either by means of a portable or stationary scales, and may require that such vehicle be driven to the nearest scales. Whenever such officer, upon weighing a vehicle and load as provided herein, determines that the weight is unlawful, such officer may require the driver to stop the vehicle in a suitable place and remain standing until such portion of the load is removed as may be necessary to reduce the gross weight of such vehicle to such limit as is permitted under this section.
(Ord. 59-1. Passed 1-5-59.)
(f) Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.