(a) When streets, roads or improved highways within the Village, or any portion of them are deemed by the Mayor to be insufficient to bear the existing traffic thereon, or when a street, road or improved highway would in the opinion of the Mayor be damaged or destroyed by heavy vehicles thereon, the maximum weight of vehicles and load or motor vehicles or the maximum speed, or both, as prescribed by law shall be reduced in the following manners:
(1) On State highways within the Village, the Director of Highways shall prescribe such reduction which shall not be more than twenty-five percent (25%).
(2) On any street, road or highway within this Village, the Mayor shall prescribe such reductions in vehicle weight and loads or the speed thereof, as the condition of said streets, roads or highways justifies.
(b) The schedule of the reduction of maximum weights and speeds shall be filed, for the information of the public, in the office of the Village Engineer. The Mayor, at least one day before the reduction becomes effective, shall cause to be placed and retained on such streets, roads or highways, at both ends and at the points of intersection of principal roads during the period of such reduced limitation of weight, speed, or both, signs of substantial construction which will conspicuously indicate the limitations of weight and speed which are allowed on the streets, roads or highways, and the date on which such limitation shall go into effect. No person shall operate upon any such highway, a motor vehicle whose maximum weight or speed is in excess of the limitations prescribed.
(Ord. 2-1981. Passed 1-13-81.)