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It shall be unlawful:
(A) To park or leave standing any vehicle in a space designated with a sign pursuant to division for persons with disabilities or visually impaired persons when the vehicle does not display the distinguishing license plate or placard as provided in this division or a disabled veteran registration plate issued pursuant to G.S. § 20-79.4(b)(64);
(B) For any person not qualifying for the rights and privileges extended to persons with disabilities or visually impaired persons under this division to exercise or attempt to exercise such rights or privileges by the unauthorized use of a distinguishing license plate or placard issued pursuant to the provisions of this division;
(C) To park or leave standing any vehicle so as to obstruct a curb ramp or curb cut for persons with disabilities as provided for by the state building code or as designated in G.S. § 136-44.14.
(1989 Code, § 9-184) (Ord. passed 6-21-88) Penalty, see § 9-185
A violation of this division is an infraction which carries a penalty of $25 and whenever evidence shall be presented in any court of the fact that any automobile, truck, or other vehicle was found to be parked in a properly designated persons with disabilities parking space in violation of the provisions of this division, it shall be prima facie evidence in any court in the state that the vehicle was parked and left in the space by the person in whose name the vehicle is registered and licensed according to the records of the division of motor vehicles. No evidence tendered or presented under this authorization shall be admissible or competent in any respect in any court or tribunal except in cases concerned solely with a violation of this division.
(1989 Code, § 9-185) (Ord. passed 6-21-88)
It shall be an infraction to operate or drive any vehicle that requires the driver to hold a commercial drivers license and has a gross weight of more than 26,000 pounds on any street in the city not identified as a truck route except as follows:
(A) Driving for the purpose of making a delivery or picking up a load;
(B) (1) Single operators of such vehicles shall be permitted to drive their vehicles to their principle residence provided that the driver and vehicle are registered with the city and the vehicle displays a valid sticker as issued by the city; and
(2) Only one such vehicle shall be permitted at any given address;
(3) The vehicle must be parked on the subject property and entirely off of any public right-of-way or sidewalk and it must not present any site visibility problems for adjoining property; and
(4) Only the truck is permitted, no tandem trailers.
(A) Applicability. The heavy trucks to which this section applies are tractor and tandem tractor type trucks when pulling semitrailers or tandem semitrailers.
(B) Established. The streets or portions of streets designated in a schedule called “Truck Traffic Routes Schedule” and set out in subsection (F) are hereby established as truck traffic routes. All trucks and trailers entering the city destined to any point outside the city and not taking on or discharging within the city limits any goods, wares or merchandise, shall travel exclusively on the truck routes designated in subsection (F) and over such portions of the truck routes as shall constitute the shortest and most direct route from the point of entrance into the city and departure from the city.
(C) Use required; exceptions. It shall be an infraction to operate any such trucks or trailers for the transportation of property except along and over the routes set out in subsection (F), except when it is impracticable to do so because of street repairs or other emergency, or when necessary to travel on other streets to a destination for the purpose of loading or unloading goods, wares or merchandise, and then only by such deviation from the nearest truck route as is reasonably necessary.
(D) Out-of-city destinations. All persons operating trucks or truck trailers for the transportation of goods, wares or merchandise, whose property or cargoes are taken on or loaded within the city for transportation outside the corporate limits, shall in every instance follow such truck route out of the city.
(E) Signs. Signs shall be erected along the truck routes designated in subsection (F) at or near each intersection designating the direction of such truck routes.
(F) Truck traffic routes schedule. The following schedule delineates the routes over which trucks in the categories defined in this section are required to follow, subject to the exceptions set forth in subsection (C):
(1) First route. N.C. Highway No. 700 from its intersection with the city limits on the east running in a northerly direction over South Fieldcrest Road and Fieldcrest Road to the point where Fieldcrest Road turns in a westerly direction at its intersection with Main Street and there over Main Street to the intersection of Meadow Road and Main Street;
(2) Second route. N.C. Highway No. 770 from its intersection with the city limits on the east running thence in a westerly direction over N.C. Highway No. 770 and Meadow Road to the intersection of N.C. Highway No. 14.
(3) Third route. N.C. Highway No. 14 and Van Buren Road from the city limits on the south to the city limits on the north.
(4) Fourth route. Fieldcrest Road from its intersection with Main Street on the east to the intersection of Fieldcrest Road and Meadow Road on the west.
(G) Violation. It shall be an infraction for any person to operate a heavy truck and trailer to which this section applies on the streets in the city in violation of this section.
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