§ 486.140. Authority to weigh and require unloading.

(a) Any police officer or duly authorized person having reason to believe that the weight of vehicle and load is unlawful may require the driver to stop and submit to a weighing of the same by means of either portable or stationary scales and may require that such vehicles be driven to the nearest public scales in the event such scales are within five (5) miles.

(b)

Whenever an officer, upon weighing a vehicle and load as above provided, determines that the weight exceeds the lawful gross weight by two thousand (2,000) pounds or more, or when the weight on any group of two (2) or more consecutive axles in cases where the distance between the centers of the first and last axles of the group under consideration is ten (10) feet or less, exceeds the lawful gross weight by four thousand (4,000) pounds or more, he may require the driver to stop the vehicle in a suitable place and remain standing until such portion of the load is removed as may be necessary to reduce this gross weight of such vehicle to such limit as permitted under this article. All material so unloaded shall be cared for by the owner or driver of such vehicle at the risk of such owner or driver.

(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 upon a weighing of the vehicle to stop the vehicle and otherwise comply with the provisions of this section, shall be guilty of a violation of this Code. (Code 1960, As Amend., § 416.060)

State law reference

Similar provisions, M.S. § 169.85.