Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1916 — Notice About Heavy Hauling; Violators Will Be Fined. [ARTICLE]

Notice About Heavy Hauling; Violators Will Be Fined.

The attention of all is called to the following section of law relating to heavy hauling on soft roads, and prescribing penalty for violation: Sec. 419. It shall be unlawful for any person to haul over any turnpike, macadam, or gravel road (the term “gravel road” to include any road graded and graveled with not less than one yard of gravel to eight feet in width and nine feet in length of such road) at any time when road is thawing through or by reason of wet weather is in conidtion to be cut up and injured by heavy hauling, a load on any vehicle with tires of less than three inches in width, the combined weight of which load and vehicle, including the driver, shall be more than twenty-five hundred pounds; or on any vehicle with tires of three inches and less than four inches in width, the combined weight of which load, Vehicle and driver, shall be more than three thousand pounds; or on any vehicle with tires of four inches and less than five inches in width, the combined weight of which load, vehicle and driver, shall be more than thirty-five hundred pounds; or on any vehicle with tires five inches or over in width, the combined weight of which load, vehicle and driver, shall be more than thirty-eight hundred pounds. Any person violating any provision of this Section shall, on con viction, be fined not less man five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each load so hauled: Provided, That any road supervisor or* gravel road superintendent shall have police power to arrest upon sight any person who is seen violating or by warrant any person who has violated, any of the provisions of this section within the county or township for which said road supervisor or gravel road superintendent is elected or appointed, and. that, on conviction of the defendant in such cause, there shall be assessed by the court trying the same, a fee of two dollars in each case, to be paid to the person making such arrest. (As amended. Acts 1907, p. 445.) Gravel road superintendents and road supervisors are enjoined to enforce this section and to cause.the arrest of violators. By order of the County Commissioners. ‘