(a) When thaws or excessive moisture render the improved streets of the City or any section of such streets insufficient to bear traffic thereon, or when any such streets or sections thereof would be damaged or destroyed by heavy traffic, the City Manager may reduce the maximum weight of vehicles and loads. The improved streets or sections thereof which are so restricted shall be properly posted with conspicuous signs indicating the maximum loads permitted within the restricted sections, and no person shall operate any vehicle in violation of such maximum loads.
(1977 Code Sec. 15-20.)
(b) 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.