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I RI:ItHA CE HO. AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CODE OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, VIR- GINIA, 1973, BY AMENDING SECTION 23-395 THEREOF, PERTAINING TO MOTOR VEHICLE TIRE TREADS. ~ BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Ports- mouth, Virginia, that Section 23-395 of the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, 1973, be amended to read as follows: Section 23-395. Tire Treads. (a) Every solid rubber tire on a vehicle moved on any highway shall have rubber on its entire traction surface at least one inch thick above the edge of the flange of the entire peri- phery. No vehicle equipped with solid rubber tires shall be operated over any highway in this City unless a permit therefor first is secured from the State Highway Commission. (b) No person shall operate a motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, registered in Virginia on any highway in this City, if such motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer is equipped with one or more tires which either (1) when measured in any two .adjacent tread grooves where the tread is thinnest, at three equally spaced intervals around the corcumference of the tire and exclusive of "tiebars" by a tread depth gauge calibrated in thirty seconds of an inch, is found to have tread depth. Of' less than t%~ thirty~seconds of an inch at-such locations, or (2) when equipped with tread wear indicators, is found to have such indi- cators in contact with pavement at any two adjacent grooves at three equally spaced intervals around the circumference of the tire. (c) This section shall not apply to tires mounted on dual wheels installed on motor vehicles having seats for more than seven passengers (i) operated wholly within a municipality, or (ii) operated by urban and suburban bus lines, which are de- fined as bus lines operating over regular scheduled routes, the majority of whose passengers use the b~ses for traveling a dis- tance of not exceeding forty miles, measured one way, on the same day between their place of abode and their place of work shop- ping areas, or schools. ' ~ . Adopted by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Vir- ginia, at a meeting held January 25, 1977. Teste: City Clerk