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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)
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)
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)
(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)
ARTICLE IV. SPEED REGULATIONS
Any person driving a vehicle on a highway shall drive the same at a careful and prudent speed not greater than nor less than is reasonable and proper, having due regard to the traffic, surface and width of the highway and of any other conditions then existing, and no person shall drive any vehicle upon a highway in at a speed greater than will permit him to bring it to a stop within the assured, clear distance ahead.
(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950; Ord. 1850, passed 6-28-1965; Ord. 2376, passed 1-15-1973)
Editor’s note:
Ord. 2376 was passed as an emergency ordinance; therefore changes contained within were not permanent in nature.
Statutory reference:
Speed regulations, see MCLA 257.627
(a) Subject to the provisions of § 28-70 and, except in those instances where a lower speed is specified in this ordinance, it shall be prima facie lawful for the driver of a vehicle to drive the same on any highway, street, alley or thoroughfare at a speed not exceeding the maximum speed as is indicated by signs posted along said highway, street, alley or thoroughfare, but in any case when such speed would be unsafe it shall not be lawful; and on any highway, street, alley or thoroughfare along which no such speed limit signs are posted, it shall be prima facie lawful for the driver of a vehicle to drive the same at a speed not exceeding 25 miles per hour, but in any case when such speed would be unsafe it shall not be lawful.
(b) It shall be prima facie unlawful for any person to exceed any of the foregoing speed limitations.
(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950; Ord. 1850, passed 6-28-1965; Ord. 2376, passed 1-15-1973)
Editor’s note:
Ord. 2376 was passed as an emergency ordinance; therefore changes contained within were not permanent in nature.
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