746 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. 1933, ch. 281,
sec. 194. 1935, chs. 72, 87.

194. (1) General Provisions. 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 exclu-
sively 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, Construc-
tion 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 computed 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 computed 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 operating 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-six inches in width, including

the load thereon, except traction engines, shall be operated on any such
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 the 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 permission 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 cross-section of the tire is not maintained,