(A) No motor vehicle, or combination of motor vehicles, operating on Laurel Street from Meade Street south to the city limits may have a weight in excess of 12,000 pounds on any one axle.
(B) Any police officer having reason to believe that the weight of a vehicle and load is unlawful is authorized to weigh, or cause to have weighed, by means of a portable or stationary scales and may require that such vehicle be driven to the nearest scales in the event such scales are within five miles.
(C) Whenever an officer upon weighing a vehicle and load, as provided in division (B) above, determines that the weight is unlawful, such officer shall require the driver to stop the vehicle in a suitable place adjacent to the place of weighing. The vehicle shall there remain until such portion of the load is removed as may be necessary to reduce the weight to the maximum specified in division (A) above. The unloading of any required portion of such load shall be the duty and at the sole risk of the owner or operator of such vehicle, and all material unloaded shall be cared for by, and continue to be at the sole risk of, such owner or operator.
(Prior Code, § 93.038) Penalty, see § 151.999