§ 10.08.010. Permit required.

Every person or entity, (hereafter called "person" or "permittee"), except as otherwise provided in this chapter, is required to obtain a permit from the road commissioner, before he or she moves or causes to be moved any load along or across any county road. "Load" means any object or thing, including a vehicle or combination of vehicles which, when traveling along or across any county road, is required to have a special permit pursuant to the Vehicle Code, and includes, but is not limited to, any oversize or overweight vehicle, house, vessel, machine, equipment, transformer, tree, boat, airplane and mobilehome.

It is not intended that the road commissioner issue a permit to move any load when the weight and/or size of the load plus the weight and/or size of the vehicle or other equipment exceeds limitations of the Vehicle Code, except where it is impractical to change the physical characteristics of the load. The road commissioner may issue a permit to move such load, where he or she has determined that it is not in conflict with the public interest to do so.

The fact that an oversize vehicle is duly registered does not imply that a permit must be issued, or exempt such load from the necessity of securing a permit to operate on any county road. The permits must be secured and in possession of the operator before the vehicle may be legally operated.

(Ord. 524.1 § 1, 1989)