The following shall be defenses to prosecutions under the provisions of § 22-112:
(a) To operate a vehicle to or from a truck terminal, garage, place of repair, place of performing a service, or a place of loading or unloading, over the shortest route to a point on a truck route or commercial delivery route; any such vehicle shall be permitted to proceed from one such point not on a truck route or commercial delivery route to another such point without returning to a truck route or commercial delivery route if to so return would increase the distance to be traveled on nondesignated streets; the operators of any such vehicles shall carry evidence of the location of its last stop and of its immediate destination in order for this defense to apply;
(b) To operate emergency vehicles in response to any emergency call;
(c) To operate vehicles of a public utility while cruising in an assigned area for the purpose of inspecting the facilities of such public utility or providing maintenance service to the facilities; and
(d) To operate motorbuses for the purpose of transporting people for hire upon a regular schedule over a defined route.
(1964 Code, § 26-75) (Ord. 8077, § 3, passed 4-1-1980)