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<br />No person shall start, drive, move or accelerate any motor vehicle with unnecessary speed or with <br />an unnecessary exhibition of speed on any public or private roadway or parking lot within the city <br />limits. Prima facie evidence of such unnecessary speed shall be unreasonable squealing or screeching <br />sounds emitted by the tires, tire marks on the pavement caused by such acceleration or the throwing of <br />sand or gravel by the tires of the vehicle. Motor vehicles for the purpose of this section shall <br />specifically include automobiles, trucks and motorcycles. <br />(Ord. 26, passed 4-22-1997L _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ J _ - -{ Deleted: Penalty. see ~ 10.99 <br /> <br />WEIGHT RESTRICTIONS <br /> <br />~ 70.20 GENERALLY. <br /> <br />Except where sign posted otherwise, no vehicle or combination of vehicles equipped with <br />pneumatic tires shall be operated upon the highways in the city: <br /> <br />(A) Where the gross weight on any wheel exceeds 7,000 pounds; and/or <br /> <br />(B) Where the gross weight on any single axle exceeds 14,000 pounds. <br />. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _1- - -{ Deleted: Penalty, see ~ 10 99 <br /> <br />~ 70.21 WEIGHING. <br /> <br />(A) Any police officer having reason to believe that the weight of a vehicle is unlawful is <br />authorized to require the driver to submit to a weighing of the vehicle either by means of portable or <br />stationary scales and may require that the vehicle be driven to the nearest scales in the event the scales <br />are within five miles. <br /> <br />(B) When an officer, upon weighing a vehicle and load as above provided, determines that the <br />weight of any axle exceeds the lawful weight or that the weight on any group of two consecutive axles <br />spaced six feet or less apart exceed their lawful weight or that the weight is unlawful on any axle or <br />group of consecutive axles on any road restricted under this chapter, the officer may require the driver <br />to stop the vehicle in a suitable place and remain standing until such portion of the load is removed as <br />may be necessary to reduce the gross weight of the vehicle to a permissible limit. All materials so <br />unloaded shall be cared for by the owner or driver of the vehicle at the risk ofthe owner or driver. <br /> <br />(C) No vehicle driver shall fail or refuse to stop and to submit the vehicle to a weighing or to <br />otherwise comply with the provisions of this section. <br />. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _1- - -{ Deleted: Penalty, see ~ 10.99 <br /> <br />~ 70.22 SPECIAL PERMITS. <br /> <br />. np, /7/17 <br /> <br />DR7 <br />