the public streets, highways, bridges or culverts within the State except as hereinafter provided. This provision shall not apply to vehicles run upon rails or track or fire engines, fire trucks or other vehicles or apparatus belonging to any municipal or volunteer fire department or used by such department in the discharge of its functions.

Permission For Excess Weight. The county judge or the county road engineer of any county upon an application in writing by the owner or person having charge thereof, may grant permission for the movement of vehicles, objects or structures in excess of the total weight of fifteen tons, including weight of vehicle, object, contrivance, structure and load over the highways, bridges or culverts within such county and located outside of any municipal corporation. Such permission shall be in writing and the county judge or the county road engineer may grant the same, subject to such conditions and restrictions as in his judgment are necessary for the preservation and protection of such highways, bridges and culverts.

The city engineer or mayor of any city or village may in like manner grant such permission as to the public highways, streets, bridges or culverts within such city or village.

Width Of Tire.-No person, firm or corporation shall transport over the public highways, streets, bridges or culverts within this State in a vehicle propelled by either muscular or motor power, a burden, including weight of load and vehicle, greater than the following:

In vehicles having iron or steel tires two inches or less in width, a load of five hundred pounds for each inch of the total width of tire surface on all wheels, when the tires on such vehicle exceed two

inches in width the limit shall not exceed five hundred pounds per each inch width of tire, for two inches of width, plus four hundred pounds for each additional one inch of width.

In vehicles having tires of rubber or other similar substance, a load of eight hundred pounds for each inch of the total width of tire surface on all wheels. The width shall be measured at that part of the tire which comes in contact with the road. The provisions of this section shall apply to iron or steel tired horse drawn vehicles, and to rubber tired vehicles when in use upon the streets and thoroughfares of any city or village, unless such person, firm or corporation who desires to operate the vehicle on the roads or streets within any city or village shall have special permission in writing from the mayor or city engineer or other governing body of the town.

Maximum Load and Speed of Heavy Vehicles.No traction engine, trailer, steam roller, automobile truck or other power vehicle carrying a weight in excess of four tons, including weight of vehicle, shall be operated upon any of the public highways, streets, bridges or culverts within the State at a greater speed than fifteen miles per hour, and no such vehicle carrying a weight in excess of six tons, including the weight of such vehicle, shall be operated. upon any public highways, streets, bridges or culverts at a greater speed than eight miles per hour, when such vehicles are equipped with iron or steel tires, or at a speed greater than twelve miles per hour when such vehicle is equipped with tires of rubber or other similar substances.

It shall be unlawful for any owner or driver of an automobile to exceed a speed of twenty-five miles per hour.

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This shall not apply to fire departments or ambulances.

Penalties. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than $15.00 nor more than $100.00. It shall be the duty of the courts and all peace officers to see that the provisions of this act are put in force and effect, and all fines, after payment of commissions to officers legally entitled thereto, shall go to the credit of the road fund in the county or to the street fund in the city or village, dependent upon where the offense is committed.

The failure of any peace officer, when properly informed, to do his duty as prescribed in this act shall constitute a misdemeanor and he shall be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $100.00 and all such, fines shall go to the credit of the road fund in the county or the street fund in the city or village, dependent upon where the offense is committed.

All laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved March 26, 1918.

CHAPTER 23.

AN ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 4329 and 4325 and Subsections 5, 10, 12, 14, 18 and 25 of Section 4356x of Kentucky Statutes, Carroll's Edition of 1915 relating to public roads.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

1. That Section 4329 of Kentucky Statutes, Carroll's Edition, 1915, be and the same is amended by striking from line 13, as it appears in said section, the word "two" and inserting in lieu thereof, the word "three" and by adding after the period, after the word "day" in the last line of said section

the following: "Provided that a day's work shall consist of not less than eight hours of actual labor," so that said section, as amended and re-enacted, will read as follows:

"The fiscal court or county judge shall employ such agent or agents in the different road precincts of the county as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter, and may summarily discharge such employes at pleasure; such employes shall perform service upon the public roads of the county in whatever station employed, according to the direction and in manner prescribed by the fiscal court or county judge. Such employes may receive such compensation per day as may be allowed by the fiscal court. Provided, that every able-bodied man employed to do manual or day labor under the provisions of this chapter on the public roads shall receive the prevailing wages of the vicinity in which the work is to be done, which shall not be less than one dollar nor more than three dollars per day, according to services rendered, except in the case of necessary skilled labor, foremen, and assistant engineers, who shall receive not more than five dollars per day, provided that a day's work shall consist of not less than eight hours of actual labor.

§ 2. That Section 4325 of Kentucky Statutes, Carroll's Edition 1915, be and is hereby amended by striking out the word "October" wherever it appears in said section and inserting in lieu thereof the word "January," and by adding at the end of said section the following "The county road engineers, who are now in office, shall continue to serve as such until the first day of January 1919, unless sooner removed pursuant to the provisions of Section 4326 of Kentucky Statutes."

Said section when thus amended and re-enacted shall read as follows:

"There is hereby created in the several counties of the State of Kentucky the office of county road engineer. The county judge of each of the counties of this State by and with the consent of the fiscal court may within thirty days after this law becomes operative, on or before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and every two years thereafter, appoint a county road engineer, who shall be either a reputable civil engineer or a man who has had practical experience as a road supervisor or builder for two years and who shall have passed a creditable examination by the State Commissioner of Public Roads or one of his representatives.

Nothing of this section shall prevent the present county road engineers from serving the term for which they are elected or appointed. Such county road engineer, except the first, as appointed shall serve a period of two years from and after the first day of January, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. The term of the first one appointed, regardless of when the appointment was made, shall expire January 1, 1914. Vacancies in the office of county road engineer shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term by the county judge of the county, by and with the consent and approval of the fiscal court. The county road engineer shall receive as a salary not less than $600.00 per annum, to be fixed by the fiscal court, which shall be paid as provided in case of other county officials. The county surveyor of the county elected at the last preceding general election may receive such appointment; provided he be competent as provided by this chapter; and for such service he shall receive the compensation fixed by the fiscal court as provided