(A) Definitions. As used herein, the following words or designations shall have the following meanings ascribed to them respectively unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) As used herein, the term “ROUTE #8” means that state maintained highway running in an east-west direction through town, and also being sometimes referred to as Fifth Street, and Rural Route 2, and more recently being named or known as Mary Ingles Highway West, as a result of 911 mapping, and a portion thereof then being named Heather Renee French Boulevard, per City Ordinance # 99-5.
(2) “LARGE OR HEAVY VEHICLES” shall include any:
(a) House trailer, herein being defined as any vehicle or similar portable structure designed for use as a conveyance and also designed to permit the occupancy thereof as a dwelling place for one (1) or more persons; and
(b) Motor truck, herein being defined as being any motor-propelled vehicle designed for carrying freight or merchandise; and
(c) Semi-trailer, herein being defined as being a vehicle designed to be attached to, and having its front end supported by, a motor truck, or truck tractor, intended for the carrying of freight or merchandise; and
(d) Semi-trailer truck, herein being defined as any vehicle designed to be drawn by a motor truck or truck-tractor, but supported wholly upon its own wheels, intended for the carriage of freight or merchandise; and
(e) Truck tractor, herein being defined as any motor-propelled vehicle designed to draw a trailer.
(B) Prohibition against parking of certain vehicles along Route #8. No person shall park any house-trailer, motor truck, semi-trailer, semi-trailer truck, trailer, or truck-tractor, on or along Route #8 within the City limits of Augusta.
(C) Exceptions. This section shall not apply to:
(1) A vehicle that has been genuinely disabled on the right-of-way of such road in such a manner and to such extent that it is impossible to avoid the occupation of the shoulder of Route #8 or impracticable to remove it from the shoulder of the highway until repairs have been made or sufficient help obtained for its removal. In such cases, the maximum amount of time a genuinely disabled vehicle shall be permitted to remain on the shoulder of Route #8 shall be twenty-four (24) hours;
(2) Vehicles which are parked, for up to one hour, for the purpose of loading and unloading freight or merchandise;
(3) Vehicles when required to stop in obedience to the provisions of any section of the Kentucky Revised Statutes or any other traffic ordinance, regulation or sign or the command of any peace officers;
(4) Vehicles owned and operated by the Augusta Fire Department or an assisting Fire Department, or any Emergency Management Vehicles or Hazmat Vehicles; and
(5) Vehicles owned for personal, non-commercial use.
(Ord. 2013-02, passed 3-20-13) Penalty, see § 72.99