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Section 61. It shall be uula~Tul for any person, persons, co-partnership, firm or corporation to run or drive or cause to be r~u or driven any automobile or motor- cycle iD~ any of the parks or boulevards of the City of Lakewood for the purpose of testing such vehicles. The testing within the meaning of this ordinance is hereby defined to be running or driving of any such vehicle for the purpose of ascertaining its fitness for service before its sale by a manufacturer or other owners or operators of sa~e~ Section 62. No vehicle shall be driven on the streets with chains or metal nonskid contrivances on wheels unlessthe street is slippery or covered with snow or ice~ Section 63. No pereon shall lock any vehicle except a bicycle~ or otherwise prevent its movement or locomotion, in such manner as to prevent the towing or moving the same when necessary by the police or fire division and the locking of the wheels nf vehicles shall be deemed a violation of this section. Section 6h~~ No person having control or charge of a motor vehicle shall allow such vehicle to stand on any street unattended without first setting the b~akes thereon and stopping the motor of said vehicle, and, when standing upon a perceptible grade, without turning the wheels of such vehicle to the c~rb or to the side of the street or highway. Section 6~. The Chief of Police shall have authority to cause to be towed from the street any vehicle improperly parked or whose owner or driver has ignored two or more parking violation notices~ Section 66. Riverside Aveuue from Detroit Avenue to Riverside Drive is hereby established as a one-way street aud shall be used for south-bound traffic only~ Section 6?. (a) Except for necessary delivery of materials or supplies to premises abutting any such streets in which case the vehicle will proceed by a route which will follow to or from the nearest intersection of the follo~ving specially named streets, no vehicle or vehicle with trailer or trailers~ each or either unit of which weighs in excess of six (6) tons, including the weight of the unit, shall be propelled or driven upon or over any street in the City of Lakewood, excepting Highland Avenue from clifton Boulevard to Berea Road; Detroit Avenue; B~idge Approach; ~adison Avenues Warren Road from Detroit Avenue to Franklin Boulevard; and Berea Road from Highland Avenue to Fischer Road. The Eayor as Birector of Public Safety is here- by authorized to place signs stating that no such vehicle or unit in excess of six tons in weight as herein provided is allowed tc be propelled or driven over the streets within the City of Lakewood, excepting the streets herein named~ (b) The Director of Public Safety may issue permits in special cases for the carrying of heavier loads upon and over streets. Section 65~ No vehicle, load object or structure shall be operated upon the streets within the City of La~ewood, having a maximum axle load greater than sixteen r uboer ~ or thousand pouuds when such vehicle is equipped with solid ~ tires greater than nineteen thousand po~mds 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 than one inch thick when measured from the top of the flanges of the tire channsl~ T~e weight of the vehicle and load imposed upon the road surface ~; any two successive axles~ ~spaced four feet or less apart, shall not exceed~ for solid tires~ nineteen thousand pounds, nor exceed for pneumatic tires, twent.v-four thousaud pounds; or by any two successive axles, spaced more than four feet but less than eight feet apart, shall not exceed for solid tires, twenty-four thousand pounds, nor exceed, for pneumatic tires, thirty-one thousand five hundred pounds; or by any two succes- sive axles, spaced eight feet or more apart~ shall not exceed, for solid rubber tires, twenty-eight thousand pounds, nor exceed for pneumatic tires, thirty-eight thousand pounds; nor shall the total weight of vehicle and load exceed, for solid rubber tires~ twenty-eight thousand pounds plue an additional six hundred pounds for each foot or fraction thereof of spacing between the front axle and the rear most axle of the vehicle~ nor exceed, for pneumatic tires, thirty-eight thousand po~zuds plus an addi- tional eight hundred pounds for each foot of spacing between the front axle and the rear-most axle of the vehicle; nor shall the weight of vehicle and load imposed upon