(A) No person shall drive or operate any vehicle designed to be used for the conveyance, transfer, or delivery of freight, merchandise, or other substances and materials usually hauled in such vehicles, exceeding a gross weight of 10,000 pounds, including the weight of the vehicle, whether loaded or unloaded, upon any street or other public place in the city; except on designated and marked state and federal routes, whether temporary or permanent; and further, except that when the loaded contents of such vehicle exceeding such weights are for delivery to, or such vehicle is called to remove merchandise or other material from any business not located on such state or federal routes, then such vehicles may be driven or operated on the streets and other public places not designated or marked as state or federal routes, but only between the place of delivery or removal of freight and merchandise and the nearest intersecting state or federal route. The operators of such vehicles shall be required, upon request of any member of the Police Department or other person authorized by the city, to give full and true information as to the route they are following, the names of the consignor and consignee, the place of delivery or removal, and the location of any consignment being hauled or goods being removed.
(B) The drivers of all such vehicles exceeding such weights entering the city upon a street other than a state or federal route shall proceed immediately by the shortest way possible to the nearest state or federal route leading in the direction in which such vehicle is proceeding.
(C) All streets and highways leading into the city shall be properly posted warning operators of vehicles exceeding such weights that they must follow state and federal routes, temporary or permanent.
(D) Whoever violates division (A) or (B) of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(1980 Code, § 74.49)