(a) No person, firm or corporation shall drive over any local or minor collector street or alley, as they are defined in the City Subdivision Regulations, any vehicle having three (3) or more axles or a gross weight, including the weight of the vehicle and its load, which exceeds 30,000 pounds, unless said vehicles sole purpose is to pick up or deliver from said street or alley. For the purpose of this section, two axles less than 8 feet apart shall be considered one axle.
A fire truck or other vehicle owned or used by the City in the performance of a municipal function is exempt from this section.
(1969 Code 76.09)
(b) The City may, upon application in writing and for good cause shown, issue a special permit in writing authorizing the applicant to operate or move a vehicle or combination of vehicles of a size or weight of vehicle or load exceeding the maximum specified in subsection (a) hereof.
The holder of a special permit issued by the Director of Transportation under Section 339.01, may move the vehicle or combination of vehicles described in such special permit on any highway which is a part of the state highway system, when said movement is partly within and partly without the corporate limits of the City, and the City shall not require any other permit or license or charge any license fee or other charge against the holder of such permit for the movement of such vehicle or combination of vehicles on any highway which is a part of the state highway system. No holder of a permit issued by the City shall be required by the director to obtain a special permit for the movement of vehicles or combination of vehicles on highways within the jurisdiction of the City. Any such permit may be issued for such period of time, not to exceed one year, as the director in his discretion deems advisable or for the duration of any public construction project.
The application for any such permit shall be in such form as the director or City prescribes.
The City may issue or withhold such permit; or, if such permit is issued, may limit or prescribe conditions of operation for such vehicle, and require bond or other security necessary to compensate for any damage to a roadway or road surface.
Every such permit shall be carried in the vehicle or combination of vehicles to which it refers and shall be open to inspection by any police officer or authorized agent of the City. No person shall violate any of the terms of such permit.
(1969 Code 76.02)
(c) Whoever violates the weight provisions of this section shall be fined eighty dollars for the first two thousand pounds, or fraction thereof, of overload; for overloads in excess of two thousand pounds, but not in excess of five thousand pounds, such person shall be fined one hundred dollars, and in addition thereto one dollar per one hundred pounds of overload; for overloads in excess of five thousand pounds, but not in excess of ten thousand pounds, such person shall be fined one hundred thirty dollars and in addition thereto two dollars per one hundred pounds of overload, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. For all overloads in excess of ten thousand pounds such person shall be fined one hundred sixty dollars, and in addition thereto three dollars per one hundred pounds of overload, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. Whoever violates the weight provisions of vehicle and load relating to gross load limits shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars. No penalty prescribed in this division shall be imposed on any vehicle combination if the overload on any axle does not exceed one thousand pounds, and if the immediately preceding or following axle, excepting the front axle of the vehicle combination, is underloaded by the same or a greater amount. For purposes of this section, two axles on one vehicle less than eight feet apart, shall be considered as one axle.