(a) There is hereby created and established a Weight Limit Board consisting of the Mayor, Village Engineer and Village Administrator.
(b) When thaws or excessive moisture render the improved highways or streets of the Village or any parts thereof insufficient to bear the traffic thereon, or when such highways or streets would be damaged or destroyed by heavy traffic during the period of thawing or excessive 0moisture, the maximum weight of vehicle and load, or the maximum speed or both, for motor vehicles, as prescribed by law, shall be reduced by the Board prescribing such reduction as the condition of the highway or street justifies, but in no case shall the reduction be more than fifty percent (50%).
(c) The schedule of the reduction of maximum weights and speeds shall be filed, for the information of the public, in the office of the Mayor. The Board, at least one day before such reduction becomes effective, shall cause to be placed and retained on such streets and highways, at both ends and at the points of intersection by principal roads, during the period of such reduced limitation of weight, speed or both, signs, of substantial construction, which will conspicuously indicate the limitations of weight and speed, which are allowed on such highways and streets and the date on which such limitations shall go into effect.
(d) No person shall operate upon any such highways or streets, a vehicle whose maximum weight or speed exceeds the prescribed limitations as authorized herein.
(Ord. 1604. Passed 3-27-73.)
(e) 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.