(A) No person shall operate any vehicle or combination of vehicles having a total gross weight, with load, in excess of 20,000 pounds, over, upon or across any county highway unless and except the person first obtains a written permit from the County Highway Department.
(B) Any person granted a road permit shall operate its vehicles and transport the permitted weight loads only upon the roads and highways of the county system on the route and as specified in the permit.
(C) As a part of the permit, and prior to traveling any county highway designated in the permit, any person seeking to operate a vehicle or combination of vehicles having a total gross weight, with a load in excess of 20,000 pounds, may be required by the County Highway Superintendent to file a bond for gravel, chip-and-seal, asphalt or black-top roads in a sum established pursuant to a schedule adopted by the Highway Superintendent from time to time.
(D) All operators of vehicles or combinations of vehicles having a total gross weight, with a load in excess of 20,000 pounds, shall carry the permit issued by the County Highway Department (or a true and exact copy of the same) within the vehicle all times when the operators are operating the vehicle upon, along or across any county road or highway.
(Ord. 1996-01, passed 2-14-1996)