(A) Whenever any resolution of the City Council designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a street the use of which is permitted by any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons, the City Engineer or designee is authorized to designate such street or streets by appropriate signs as truck routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons.
(B) When any such truck route or routes are established and designate.d by appropriate signs, the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons shall drive on such route or routes and no other route, except that nothing in this section shall prohibit the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons coming from a truck route having ingress and egress by direct route to and from restricted streets when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on such restricted streets, or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building, if a building permit has previously been obtained.
(C) The provisions of this section shall not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission or to any vehicle owned by a public utility while used in the construction, installation, repair, operation or maintenance of any public utility.
(D) The City Council may by resolution declare certain streets and/or parts of streets to be truck routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons.
(Ord. 1235, passed 11-18-98)