(A) R.I. Gen. Laws § 31-12-12 authorizes the Council to designate particular highways upon which the operation of vehicles is to be prohibited or upon which the weight of vehicles is to be restricted for a total period not to exceed 90 days in any one calendar year whenever any such highway, by reason of deterioration, rain, snow or other climatic conditions will be seriously damaged or destroyed unless the use of vehicles thereon is prohibited or the permissible weights thereof reduced.
(B) When appropriate signs, giving notice of such prohibition or restriction, are in place at the entrances to or along any such highway, no person shall drive a vehicle upon such highway in violation of the notice.
('73 Code, § 15-7) Penalty, see § 70.99