39:4-27 - Loading and operation of trailer; permittee's responsibility in damages - New Jersey Statutes

39:4-27.  Loading and operation of trailer;  permittee's responsibility in damages    In the transportation of any such road building machinery, vehicle, traction  engine, roller, structural unit incapable of dismemberment or other apparatus  or machinery in accordance with the provisions of section 39:4-26 of this  Title, such trailer or semitrailer shall be so loaded and operated as not to  cause damage to the surface of any public road, street, highway, bridge or  railroad crossing.  When operated the gross weight of the combination of  vehicle and load shall be limited to eight hundred pounds for each inch of  width of the tires on all wheels.

    Every permittee shall be responsible in money damages to the municipality, county, State Highway Commissioner or railroad company maintaining a highway, bridge or railroad crossing by reason of the failure of the permittee to comply  with the statutes or posted regulations governing the use of the said highway,  bridge or crossing or the rules and regulations governing the movement  authorized under said permit.

     Amended by L.1941, c. 260, p. 690, s. 2;  L.1952, c. 149, p. 509, s. 2.