(A) The City Manager is hereby authorized to designate, by official signs, certain streets for traffic by trucks, trailers or heavy-duty equipment entering, passing through or departing from the city. This section shall apply only to vehicles of weight capacity over one ton.
(B) The following are exceptions to this section:
(1) The operation of trucks upon any street where necessary to the conduct of business at a destination point within the city provided streets designated as truck routes are used until reaching the intersection nearest the destination point;
(2) The operation of emergency vehicles upon any street in the city;
(3) The operation of trucks owned or operated by the city, any contractor or material man, while engaged in the repair, maintenance or construction of streets, street improvements or street utilities within the city;
(4) School buses;
(5) Recreational vehicles; and
(6) If the truck has been officially detoured through the city by lawful authority so long as it is being operated upon the street over which the detour is directed.
(C) No person shall be charged to be in violation of this section unless the streets are so marked.
(D) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a citizen who lives on or about a designated street from traveling to and from his or her house, for purposes of truck deliveries, the intention of this section being to restrict and prevent through traffic on the restricted streets.
(E) Under the provisions of this section, any street designated as a truck route shall be subject to the posting of a notice on at least two occasions in a newspaper of general circulation. The notice shall be published at least 30 days prior to the posting of signage of the truck route.
(1989 Code, § 15-802)