(a) When thaws or excessive moisture render the improved streets or highways of the City or any section of them insufficient to bear traffic thereon, or when such streets or highways would be damaged or destroyed by heavy traffic during the period of thawing or excessive moisture, the maximum weight of vehicle and load, or the maximum speed, or both, for motor vehicles, as prescribed by law, shall be reduced in the following manner:
(1) On streets bearing State highways the Director of Public Service shall prescribe such reduction which shall not be more than twenty-five percent;
(2) On improved streets other than those bearing State highways, the Director shall prescribe such reduction as the condition of the street justifies, but in no case shall the reduction be more than fifty percent.
(b) The schedule of the reduction of the maximum weights and speed shall be filed for the information of the public in the office of the Director. At least one day before such reduction becomes effective, the Director shall cause to be placed and retained on such streets and highways, at both ends and at the points of intersections by principal roads, during the period of such reduced limitation of weight, speed, or both, conspicuous signs of substantial construction, which will indicate the limitations of weight and speed allowed on the street and highway and the date on which such limitations shall go into effect. No person shall operate upon such street or highway a motor vehicle whose maximum weight or speed is in excess of the limitations prescribed. The expense of the purchase and erection of signs, provided for in this section, shall be paid from funds for the maintenance and repair of streets.
(Ord. 189-00. Passed 11-27-00.)