§ 22-60. Tires.

(a)

Every solid rubber tire on a vehicle shall have rubber on its entire traction surface at least one inch thick above the edge of the flange of the entire periphery.

(b)

No person shall operate or move on any street any motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer having any metal tire in contact with the roadway.

(c)

No tire on a vehicle moved on a highway shall have on its periphery any block, stud, flange, cleat or spike or any other protuberance of any material other than rubber which projects beyond the tread of the traction surface of the tire, except that it shall be permissible to use farm machinery with tires having protuberances which will not injure the street. It is also permissible to use tire chains of reasonable proportions, or pneumatic tires with traction surfaces into which have been embedded materials such as wood, wire, plastic or metal, which shall in no instance protrude more than 1/16 inch beyond the tire tread, upon any vehicle, when required for safety because of snow, ice or other conditions tending to cause a vehicle to skid. The use of pneumatic tires with materials embedded as provided in this section shall be permitted only between October 1 and May 31 of each year, except that one such tire may be used for a spare in case of tire failure. School buses equipped with such pneumatic tires may operate from August 15 through the following June 15.

(d)

The municipality may, in its discretion, issue special permits authorizing the operation upon a street of farm tractors or other farm machinery, or of traction engines or tractors having movable tracks with transverse corrugations upon the periphery of such movable tracks, the operation of which upon the street would otherwise be prohibited.

(Code 1981, § 10.24.040)

State law reference

Restrictions as to tire equipment, MCA 61-9-406.