ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURES AND PENALTIES General Procedures
Stopping At Stationary Scale Locations
STOPPING AT STATIONARY SCALE LOCATIONS
1. All commercial vehicles rated one ton or greater, except automobiles, private passenger pickup trucks, private passenger vans, recreational vehicles, buses, utility vehicles convoying to or from emergency service restoration due to a natural disaster, and tow trucks unless the tow truck has a gross vehicle weight rating in excess of twenty-six thousand pounds or is hauling or carrying a vehicle not exempt from the provisions of this Section, shall be required to stop at a stationary weight enforcement scales location.
2. Each Vehicle that is required to stop at a department stationary weight enforcement scale location and which fails to stop shall be assessed the following penalty:
a. Vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of less than twenty-six thousand pounds shall be fined one hundred dollars for failure to stop at the department stationary weight scales. This fine shall be in addition to any other fines which may be assessed for other violations.
b. Vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of twenty-six thousand pounds or more shall be fined five hundred dollars for failure to stop at the department stationary weight scales. This fine shall be in addition to any other fines which may be assessed for other violations.
c. Any vehicle which inadvertently bypasses the department stationary weight scales and returns to the scales voluntarily without the assistance of law enforcement shall not be assessed any penalty for by-passing the scales.
3. ALL PERMIT LOADS MUST ENTER EVERY SCALE INCLUDING SCALES WITH WIM (WEIGH-IN-MOTION) AND/OR PREPASS.
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