330 ARTICLE 56.

Speed, Size, Weight, Construction and Equipment of Motor Vehicles.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 194. 1912, sec. 149. 1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 149.
1920, ch. 506, sec. 149. 1927, ch. 520, sec. 194.

(1) General Provisions.

194. No person shall operate a motor vehicle of any kind, as defined
in this sub-title, over any public highway of the State recklessly or at a
rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the
width, traffic and use of the highway, or so as to endanger the property
and life or limb of any person, or without due regard to wear upon said
highway, so as not unnecessarily or unreasonably to damage the same
provided that nothing contained in this sub-section shall apply to the
owner or operator of any traction engine used exclusively for propelling
agricultural or farming implements not designed for hauling purposes on
account of its driving wheels being equipped with standard cleats.

(2) Speed of Solid Tire Motor Vehicles, and Size, Weight,
Construction and Equipment of Motor Vehicles.

The maximum rate of speed for motor vehicles, equipped wholly or in
part with solid tires, weighing six tons or less, shall be twenty-five miles
per hour. The maximum rate of speed for motor vehicles, equipped
wholly or in part with solid tires, weighing in excess of six tons, shall be
twenty miles per hour. The weight of such motor vehicles shall be com-
puted by adding the weight of the vehicle and the weight of its load.
Whenever a trailer is attached to such vehicle, the weight thereof shall be
computed by adding the combined weights of such vehicle and such trailer
and the combined weights of the loads thereon; provided, however, that
when the trailer is equipped with adequate brakes, the weight shall be com-
puted by adding the weight of the vehicle and its load, or the weight of the
trailer and its load, whichever is the heavier; and provided further that
not more than one trailer shall be attached to a motor vehicle while oper-
ating along any highway of this State at a greater rate of speed than ten
miles per hour. The maximum rate of speed of all traction or other iron
tired engines, and motor vehicles or trailers equipped wholly or in part
with iron tires shall be six miles an hour. No motor vehicle in excess of
ninety-three inches in width, including the load thereon, except traction
engines, shall be operated on any highway in this State, and no traction
engine in excess of one hundred inches in width shall be operated on any
such highway, nor shall any motor vehicle equipped with solid tires be so
operated of which the total weight of vehicle and load per inch in. width
of each tire as such tires are rated by the tire manufacturers shall exceed
six hundred and fifty pounds, without the special permission of (he State
Roads Commission in the case of a road under its jurisdiction, or the
permission of the city authorities in the case of a city street, or the per-
mission of the county authorities in the case of a county highway, nor
shall any such vehicle be operated at any time on any such tires when the
rubber thereon is less than one inch in thickness, nor where a uniform