(a) The City Engineer is authorized to estimate the weight of traffic which every street and road in the City is capable of bearing with reasonable safety and in cases of streets and roads or portions of streets and roads whose load bearing capacity is insufficient to sustain with reasonable safety such loads as are liable to be hauled over and along the streets or roads of the City, he is directed to post in a prominent position on any such street or road or portion of such street or road a sign stating the safe weight capacity of the street or road and giving such orders and directions as he may think necessary pertaining to the use of any such street or road.
(b) No driver of any motor vehicle, truck or other vehicle, the weight of which exceeds the estimated capacity of any street or road so posted thereon as provided in subsection (a) hereof shall drive such motor vehicle, truck or other vehicle upon any such street or road.
(c) The weight of any motor vehicle, truck or other vehicle includes the weight of any such motor vehicle, truck or other vehicle, and the contents thereof.
(d) No person shall disobey any order or direction made by the City Engineer and posted on any street or road as provided in subsection (a) hereof.
(Ord. 553. Passed 12-27-79.)
(e) Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.