(a) No vehicle or combination of vehicles equipped with pneumatic tires shall be operated, unladen or with load, upon any street or alley in the City when the gross weight of the vehicle or combination of vehicles, including the weight of the vehicle or combination and its maximum load, is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
(b) No vehicle or combination of vehicles shall be operated upon the bridges over Kettering Creek on Washington and Mill Streets when the gross weight of such vehicle or combination of vehicles, including the weight of the vehicle or combination and its maximum load, is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
(c) Any police officer having reason to believe that the weight of a vehicle and load is unlawful shall require the driver to stop and submit to a weighing of the same and shall require that such vehicle be driven to the nearest public scales. Any driver of a vehicle shall, when directed by an officer, stop and submit the vehicle and load to a weighing.
(d) Subsection (a) hereof shall be in force for not more than ninety days in any calendar year, whenever any street or alley, by reason of deterioration, rain, snow or other climatic conditions, will be seriously damaged or destroyed, unless the permissible weights of vehicles thereon is reduced. Council shall cause signs designating the provision of this section to be erected and maintained at each end of that portion of any street or alley affected thereby. This section shall not be effective unless and until such signs are erected and maintained.
(e) Whenever any vehicle is operated in violation of this section, the owner or driver of such vehicle, or both, shall be deemed guilty of such violation and the owner and/or the driver of such vehicle may be prosecuted for such violation.
(Ord. 63-12-2. Passed 12-4-63.)