§ 6.14.050. Police officers may weigh vehicles and require removal of excess loads.

(a)

Any officer of the police department or state highway patrol having reason to believe that the weight of any load is unlawful is authorized to require the driver to stop and submit to a weighing of the same, either by means of portable or stationary scales, and may require that such vehicles be driven to the nearest public scales within the corporate limits of the city.

(b)

Whenever an officer, upon weighing a vehicle and load as provided in subsection (a) of this section, determines that the weight thereof is unlawful, such portion of the load as may be necessary shall be unloaded to reduce the gross weight of such vehicle to those limits permitted under section 6.14.020. All materials so unloaded shall be cared for by the carrier of such material and shall be cared for at the expense of the carrier. The officer may allow the driver of the inspected vehicle to continue on his journey if any overload does not exceed by more than five percent the limitations prescribed by section 6.14.020, but the penalties provided in section 6.14.060 shall be exercised for the overload violation.

(c)

Any driver of a vehicle who fails or refuses to stop and submit the vehicle and load to a weighing, or who fails or refuses, when directed by an officer of the police department or state highway patrol upon a weighing of the vehicle, to stop and otherwise comply with the provisions of this chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Code 1966, § 8.52.050)

State law reference

Similar provisions, NRS 484.755.