4637 - 49 Amend ord 4060 & 4629 - vehicle weight

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BY Mr. McGill AN E~RGENCY ORDINANCE to amend section 59-1 of Ordinance NO. 4060 kno~n as the Traffic Ordinance, as amended and ren~abered by Ordinance Nee 4629 adopted September 6, 1949. WHERF~S, an emergency exists in that traffic hazards and conditions require constant appraisal and flexible regulations ~o meet current needs and in order to provide for the immediate preservation of the public property, health and safety and the usual daily operation of a municipal department, now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THECOUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAEEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That section 59-1 of Ordinance No. 4060 as amended and renumbered by Ordinance No. 4629 and now reading 'Section 59-1. No Vehicle shall be operated or moved upon the streets within the City of Lakewood, having a maximum axle load greater than sixteen thousand pounds when such vehicle is equipped with solid rubber tires, or greater than eighteen thous- and p~nds when such vehicle is equipped with pneumatic tires, except that such maximum axle load may be greater than eighteen thousand pounds but not greater than twenty thousand pounds on any axle of a combination of three or more axles, to compensate for unequal distribution of load, provided that the maximum ax- le load on two such successive axles shall not exceed thirty~six thousand pounds. The maximumwheel load of any one wheel of any such vehicle shall not exceed six hundred fifty pounds per inch width of tire measured as prescribed by law, nor shall any solid tire of rubber or ether resilient material on sny wheel of any such vehicle be less than one inch thick when measured from the top of the flanges of the tire channel. The weight of vehicle and load imposed upon the road sur- face by any two successive axles of a single vehicle or of a single vehicle in a combination of vehicles, shall not exceed, for pneumatic tires, ~en spaced less than nine feet apart, thirty-two thousand pounds,~nor when spaced nine feet or more apart shall not exceed thirty-six thousand pounds; nor shall the weight of vehicle and load imposed upon the road surface by any vehicle or combination of vehicles having three axles exceed, for pneumatic tires, forty-eight thousand pounds, of having four axles exceed, for pneumatic tires, sixty-three thousand pounds or having five or more axles, exceed, for pneumatic tires seventy- eight thousand pounds; nor shall such weight of vehicle and load exceed for solid tires, eighty per cent of the permissible weight of vehicle mud load as provided for pneumatic tires." be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows: "Sectien59-1. No vehicle, load, object or structure shall be operated upon the streets within the City of Lakewood, having a maximum axle load greater than sixteen thousandpounds when such vehicle is equipped with solid rubber tires, or greater than nineteen thousand pounds when such vehicle is equipped with pneumatic tires. The maximum wheel load of any one wheel of any such vehicle shall not exceed six.hundred and fifty pounds per inch width of tire measured as prescribed by law, nor shall any solid tire of rubber or other resilient material on any wheel of any such vehicle be less th~u one inch thickwhen measured £rom the top of the flanges of the tire channel. The weight of the vehicle and load imposed upon the road surface by any two successive axles, spaced four feet or less apart, shall not exceed, for solid tires, nineteen thousand pounds,