(a) The Safety Director or the Building Commissioner may, upon application in writing and for good cause shown, issue a special permit in writing, authorizing the applicant to operate or move a vehicle not designed for or employed in general highway transportation, including but not limited to the following types of machinery: Road rollers; traction engines; power shovels; power cranes; well-drilling; ditch-digging machinery; farm machinery; threshing machinery; hay-bailing machinery; tractors; bulldozers; all types of machinery with tires or wheels equipped with ice picks, spuds, spikes, cleats, lugs, chains or other projections of any kind designed to provide traction by piercing the surface of the road or earth, through, over or upon any street or public place of the City.
(b) The Safety Director or the Building Commissioner may issue or withhold such permit or, if such permit is issued, may limit or prescribe conditions of operation for such vehicle, and require bond or other security necessary to compensate for any damage to a roadway or road structure.
(c) Every such permit shall be carried on the vehicle or combination of vehicles to which it refers and shall be open to inspection by any police officer or lawful authority. No person shall violate any of the terms of such permit.
(d) The Safety Director or Building Commissioner may issue the permit upon payment of fees as follows:
(1) Single or round trip, five dollars ($5.00).
(2) Upon application, a permit may be issued on an annual basis, for which a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) shall be charged.
(Ord. 135-1964. Passed 9-28-64.)