§ 28-66 CERTAIN VEHICLES LIMITED TO TRUCK ROUTES; ROUTES ON FILE.

   No person shall drive or park, or cause to be driven or parked, any truck or vehicle, the combined weight of which truck or vehicle, its cargo and occupants shall exceed five tons, over or upon any street or highway of the City, except such streets or highways as shall be designated as truck routes; and except that these restrictions shall not apply to buses owned and operated by public, private or parochial schools, church buses owned and operated by churches and public transportation.

   (b)   Such streets or highways designated by ordinance as truck routes are not included herein, but are on file in the office of the City Clerk.

(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950; Ord. 1349, passed 9-5-1956; Ord. 2869, passed 2-28-1983; Ord. 3221, passed 11-9-1992)

§ 28-67 DESIGNATING TEMPORARY TRUCK ROUTES.

   In the event that any truck route be obstructed to the extent that, in the opinion of the City Administrator, it shall be necessary to lay out a temporary route for such time as the obstruction shall continue, he or she is authorized so to do, providing that the temporary route shall be marked as such as soon as practicable.

(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950)

§ 28-68 LEAVING TRUCK ROUTES TO MAKE DELIVERIES.

   Trucks or vehicles or service vehicles carrying a load for delivery or making a pickup or making a service call to a destination off the truck route may leave the truck route at a point nearest the destination to make the delivery, pickup or service call, and shall return to the truck route by the most direct route available.

(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950; Ord. 1349, passed 9-5-1956; Ord. 1859, passed 7-29-1965; Ord. 2869, passed 2-28-1983)

§ 28-69 DUTY OF OPERATOR TO PERMIT WEIGHING OF VEHICLE; BRIDGE WEIGHTS ON FILE.

   (a)   It shall be the duty of any person who shall be driving, or in charge or control of any truck which may at that time be upon any street in the City other than a designated truck route, upon the demand of any police officer, to proceed to any public or private scale available for the purpose of weighing and determining whether the weight thereof is in excess of the weight limit permitted by this article.

   (b)   Ordinances specifying bridge weight limitations are not set out herein but are on file in the office of the City Clerk.

(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950)