Sec. 18-146. When weight and load limits may be decreased.[285]
The city manager and the chief of police, in their discretion,
may make, promulgate and enforce rules and regulations
decreasing the weight and load limit specified in Code of Virginia,
section 46.1-339, for a total period not to exceed ninety
days in any calendar year, when operation over streets by
reason of deterioration, rain, snow or other climatic conditions
will seriously damage such streets unless such weights
are reduced. The city manager shall cause to be erected signs
stating the weight specified in such rule or regulation at each
end of the section of the street affected and no such rule or
regulation shall be effective until such signs are erected. Any
person violating such rules and regulations shall be punished
as provided in section 18-22. (Code 1959, § 18-146.)
