§ 486.50. Length of vehicles.

(a) No vehicle shall exceed a length of fifty-five (55) feet extreme overall dimensions, inclusive of front and rear bumper. A truck-tractor and semi-trailer shall be regarded as one vehicle for the purpose of determining lawful length.

(b)

No combination of vehicles coupled together including truck-tractors and semitrailers shall consist of more than two (2) units, and no such combination of vehicles shall exceed a total length of fifty-five (55) feet, provided that such vehicles shall not use the area bounded by Third Street, First Avenue North, Tenth Street, and Park Avenue between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. and between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. This limitation as to length and hours when such vehicles are prohibited from using the streets, shall not apply to the transportation of telegraph poles, telephone poles, electric light and power poles, or piling, or pole length pulpwood. Said length limitations shall not apply to:

(1)

Vehicles when transporting pipe or other objects by a public utility when required for emergency or repair of public service facilities or when operated under special permit as provided in Article II of this chapter, but in respect to night transportation every such vehicle and load thereon shall be equipped with a sufficient number of clearance lamps and marker lamps on both sides and upon the extreme ends of any projecting load to clearly mark the dimensions of such load;

(2)

House trailers or mobile homes when coupled with a motor vehicle, but such combinations shall not exceed fifty-five (55) feet in length; provided further that two (2) vehicles in transit by the drive-away method in saddle mount combinations may be drawn, but such combinations may not exceed fifty (50) feet in length.

(c)

The load upon any vehicle operated alone, or the load upon the front vehicle of a combination of vehicles, shall not extend more than three (3) feet beyond the front wheels of such vehicle or the front bumper of such vehicle if it is equipped with such a bumper, nor shall such load extend more than ten (10) feet to the rear beyond the bed or body of such vehicle, except under the conditions of a special permit issued as provided in Article II of this chapter. (Code 1960, As Amend., § 415.050)