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hicles at all times and under all conditions of loading at <br />a speed of twenty miles per hour within the following distances: <br /> <br /> (a) Passenger motor vehicles except buses and antique <br />vehicles as defined in section 18-1, twenty-five feet. <br /> <br />(b) Buses, trucks, and tractor trucks, forty feet. <br /> <br /> (c) Motor vehicles registered or qualified to be <br />registered as antique vehicles under section 18-1 when equipped <br />with two'wheel brakes, forty-five feet; four-wheel brakes, <br />twenty-five feet. <br /> <br />(d) Ail combinations of vehicles, fifty feet. <br /> <br />(e) Motorcycles, thirty feet. <br /> <br />Section 18-238. Suspension of objects so as to obstruct view <br /> of driver. <br /> <br /> It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a <br />motor vehicle upon a highway in this city with any object or <br />objects, other than a rear vlew mirror, sun visor, or other <br />equipment of the motor vehicle approved by the superintendent, <br />suspended from any part of such motor vehicle in such a <br />manner as to obstruct the driver's clear view of the highway <br />through the windshield, the front side windows, or the rear <br />window, or to alter a passenger-carrying vehicle in such a <br />manner as to obstruct the driver's view through the windshield. <br /> <br />Section 18-243. Cleats, etc., on tires; chains; studs. <br /> <br /> No tire on a vehicle moved on a highway shall have <br />on its periphery any block, stud, flange, cleat or spike or <br />any other protuberance of any material other than rubber <br />which projects beyond the tread of the traction surface of <br />the tire, except that it shall be permissible to use farm <br />machinery having protuberances which will not injure the <br />highway and to use tire chains of reasonable proportions <br />when required for safety because of snow, ice or other con- <br />ditions tending to cause a vehicle to slide or skid. It shall <br />also be permissible to use upon any vehicle, whose gross <br />weight does no% exceed ten thousand pounds, tires with studs <br />which project not more than one sixteenth of an inch beyond <br />the tread of the traction surface of the tire when compressed <br />and which cover not more than three percent of the traction <br />surface of the tire. <br /> <br /> The use of such studded tires shall be permissible <br />from November first, nineteen hundred seventy-two, to April <br /> <br />-8- <br /> <br /> <br />