The following vehicles are exempt from the gross weight limit restrictions described and set forth in § 70.097 herein:
(A) Vehicles owned and operated by governmental agencies;
(B) Public utility vehicles owned or operated by the village, other public bodies, public utility companies, or any contractor or material man thereof, while engaged in the repair, maintenance or construction of streets or utility facilities within the village, or while traveling to or from such street repairs or public utility facilities, where the only access to such repairs or utility facilities is over streets within Elwood which have not been designated truck routes.
(C) Buses in operation of picking up or dropping off passengers.
(D) Vehicles engaged in the collection and removal of garbage or refuse.
(E) Private snow removal vehicles engaged in snow removal functions on private property or properties within the village.
(F) Vehicles registered and used as recreational vehicles.
(G) Tow trucks.
(H) Implements of husbandry.
(I) Owner-operated vehicles, including but not limited to farm vehicles, but only to the extent such vehicle is operated to and from the owner-operator's residence over a direct route to and from the closest access point to the nearest truck route, as identified on § 70.107.
(J) Emergency vehicles.
(K) Vehicles involving local destination or origination, if necessary, for the conduct of business or service to an occupant or retailer where access thereto or egress therefrom is only available over streets which have not been designated truck routes. Provided, however, any such vehicle with a gross vehicle weight in excess of 80,000 pounds which travels over any portion of a residential street or any other street not designated as a truck route, as described on § 70.107, making more than 12 trips (ingress to and egress from the occupant or retailer is equivalent to one trip) in any given month shall be required to obtain a special permit as described in § 70.099 below or otherwise be in violation of this section.
(L) Any overload vehicle to which a special permit has been issued under § 70.099 herein.
(Ord. 1004, passed 6-20-2012)