No person shall move or operate any steam engine, gas or kerosene tractor, heavy machine, structure or road roller across any curb, gutter, bridge, culvert, sidewalk, crosswalk or crossing in any unpaved street within the City without first having protected such curb, gutter, bridge, culvert, sidewalk, crosswalk or crossing with heavy plank sufficient in strength to prevent the breaking or damaging of such curb, gutter, bridge, culvert, sidewalk, crosswalk or crossing. No person shall run, drive, move, operate or convey over, across or upon any paved street in the City any truck, wagon, vehicle, machine or implement with sharp discs or sharp wheels that bear upon the pavement, or with wheels having cutting edges, or with wheels having lugs or any protruding parts or bolts thereon that extend beyond a plain tire so as to cut, mar, indent or otherwise injure or damage the curb, gutter or pavement, or any vehicle, tractor, machine or implement of such weight or proportions or carrying any load that will cut, mar, indent or otherwise injure or damage any pavement, gutter or curb within the City. However, where heavy vehicles, structures and machines move along paved or unpaved streets of the City, the Chief of Police is hereby authorized to choose the route over which the moving of such vehicles, structures or machines will be permitted.
(1958 Code § 23.33)