Chap. 60.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act providing for the pro
tection of turnpikes that have improved surface or have been treatec
with bitumen or other artificial binder from injury by traction en.
gines, tractors or motor trucks, and prescribing penalties for th
violation thereof, approved March 24, 1914.

Approved September 9, 1919.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, Tha
an act entitled an act.providing for the protection of turnpike
that have been treated with bitumen or other artificial binder
from injury by traction engines, tractors or motor trucks, and
prescribing penalties for the violation thereof, approved March
twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, be amended and
re-enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 1. That it shall be unlawful for the owner or driver of
any traction engine, tractor, or motor truck to drive or cause to
be driven, without the consent of the proper authorities, any such
traction engine, tractor.or motor truck or other motor vehicle,
except as herein provided, the wheels of which said traction en-
gine, traction motor truck or other motor vehicle are equipped
with cleats or other devices that penetrate or which cause un-
reasonable injury to the surface of said road, on or over any
section of the State highway system of the Commonwealth of
Virginia, which has been treated with bituminous or other arti-
ficial binder, or which has had placed on it any other improved
surface. ;

The provisions of this act shall not be construed to apply to
traction engines or tractors drawing their own weight, together
with threshing machines, hay-balers or other farm machinery,
excepting wagons used for transportation, if the said traction
engine or tractor is of less than twenty-five thousand (25, 000)
pounds gross weight, and one hundred and ten (110) inches in
width over all, and if such traction engines or tractors shall be
equipped with metal cleats on the driving wheels thereof of a
width not less than two and one-half (214) inches, and so placed
and kept on the driver that not less than two cleats shall touch
the ground at all times, or if the drivers are equipped with
smooth tires, and also that such traction engines or tractors shall
be so equipped as to have and maintain on the front wheels a
guide tire not less than two (2) inches in width on all traction
engines or tractors up to and including eighteen (18)-horse
power; on all traction engines or tractors up to and including
twenty-five (25)-horse power, said guide tire to be two and one-
half (214) inches in width, and on all traction engines or trac-
tors up to and including thirty (30)-horse power, or over, the
said guide tire to be at least three (3) inches.

Any violation of this act shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and
shall be punishable by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00)
or more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each offense.