(A) Upon written application timely made by any person who desires to operate or cause to be operated on the public streets within the overweight or oversize equipment for the transportation of such commodities as cannot be reasonably dismantled, where the total gross weight or size of the vehicle and its load exceed the limits allowed by this subchapter, the Police Department, after consulting with the office of the City Manager, shall issue a permit for the operation of such equipment or fleets of equipment for a specified period of time, over a route or routes to be designated by the designated city official if such routes can be determined at the time application for the permit is made.
(B) The application for the permit provided for in this section shall be in writing and contain the following.
(1) The kind of equipment to be operated, with a complete description of same and a statement as to its weight.
(2) The kind of commodity to be transported and a certificate as to its weight.
(3) The street or streets over which the equipment is to be operated and the dates and the approximate time of the operation, and the number of trips to be made, except when the nature, route, time or frequency of operation cannot be determined at the time the permit is issued.
(4) The application shall be dated and signed by the applicant.
(C) Before a permit is issued under this section, the applicant for same shall file with the office of the City Secretary a bond in an amount to be set and approved by the City Manager. The amount of the bond shall not exceed the product of the number of vehicles for which a permit is sought multiplied by $10,000; the bond shall be payable to the city and conditioned that the applicant will pay to the city the sum of money necessary to repair any damage which might be occasioned to any public street or publicly-owned fixture appurtenant to such street by virtue of operation of any commercial vehicle under the permit. Venue of any suit for recovery upon the bond shall be in this county, and any bond issued hereunder shall contain an unambiguous contractual provision to that effect.
(D) A fee shall be charged for each permit as follows.
Single trip permits - $10
Periods not exceeding 30 days - $15
Periods not exceeding 60 days - $20
Periods not exceeding 90 days - $25
Periods not exceeding one year - $50
(E) Any permit issued hereunder shall include at least the following.
(1) The name of the applicant, the date, a description of the equipment to be operated and a description of the commodity to be transported.
(2) The signature of an authorized member of the Police Department and any other designated city office.
(3) The time for which the permit is issued.
(4) The specified streets over which the equipment is to be operated, insofar as it can be determined at the time the permit is issued.
(‘78 Code, § 16-27) (Ord. 182, passed 10-12-65; Am. Ord. 1600, passed 11-27-06; Am. Ord. OR-1918-14, passed 9-8-14)