ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1071

cess 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 the State Roads Commission in the case of a
road under its jurisdiction, or the permission of the city author-
ities 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,
and no motor vehicle, equipped with four wheels, of which the
weight of the vehicle and the load combined exceeds twenty-
five thousand (25, 000) pounds shall be operated on any high-
way of this State, and no motor vehicle, equipped with six
wheels, of which the weight of the vehicle and load combined
exceeds forty thousand (40, 000) pounds, shall be operated on
any highway of this State. Except in the case of motor vehi-
cles now owned and heretofore registered in this. State, no cer-
tificate shall be granted for the registration of any motor
vehicle, equipped with four wheels, having a rated carrying
capacity of o veer five tons, nor of any motor vehicle, equipped
with six wheels, having a rated carrying capacity of over ten
tons, and, except as aforesaid, no motor vehicle, equipped with
four wheels, having a greater rated carrying capacity than
five tons, and no motor vehicle, equipped with six wheels, hav-
ing a greater rated carrying capacity than ten tons shall be
operated over any public highway in this State, these provi-
sions being absolutely necessary in the opinion of the General
Assembly for the proper protection and continued maintenance
of the public highways of this State.

No motor vehicle shall be operated with a greater load than
that for which a registration certificate has been issued and
fee paid.

(3) Speed of Other Vehicles.

No motor vehicle shall be operated upon any public high-
way of this State at a rate of speed exceeding twenty miles an
hour in the thickly settled or business parts of cities, towns
and villages, or twenty-five miles per hour in the outlying or not