(A) No person shall operate or propel on any street or public way of the city any motor vehicle with a gross weight, including load, in excess of thirty-six thousand (36,000) pounds. This provision shall not apply to motor vehicles being operated upon any state or federal highway, vehicles engaged in a bona fide occasional delivery to an address on a particular street, emergency vehicles, school buses while loading or unloading children, streets in newly developed subdivisions covered by the provisions of § 40.173; nor shall it apply to the following listed city streets:
Table 40.171 | |
EXCEPTIONS TO MAXIMUM WEIGHT LIMITS (36,000 LBS) | |
Street
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Extent |
Table 40.171 | |
EXCEPTIONS TO MAXIMUM WEIGHT LIMITS (36,000 LBS) | |
Street
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Extent |
Glades Road | U. S. 25 to Kentucky 595 |
Jefferson Street | Highway 21 to Morningview Drive |
Lester Street | Chestnut Street to Oak Street |
Maple Street | Lester Street to Lewis Street |
N. Broadway Street | Its entire extent |
Silver Creek Drive | Kentucky 21 to Dresser Industries |
(B) No person shall operate or propel on any of the following streets or public ways of the city any motor vehicle with a gross weight, including load, in excess of twenty thousand (20,000) pounds:
Oakwood Drive
(C) Any peace officer having reason to believe that the weight of any motor vehicle is in excess of the maximum limit prescribed by subsection (A) or (B) above may stop the vehicle and require the production of a verified certificate of its current weight, or require the operator of the vehicle to secure a verified certificate of its weight from any operator of a certified scale or other certified weighing device.
(Ord. No. 11.79, § 2, 5-1-79; Ord. No. 16.79, § 1, 9-4-79; Am. Ord. No. 17-96, 1-7-97)