(a) No person, partnership, firm, corporation or association shall operate a commercial tractor, semitrailer or any vehicle weighing five tons or more, including its load upon any of the streets in the City, with the exception only of State routes, unless the journey of such truck shall originate or terminate upon such a City street, or unless such truck shall stop on such a City street for the purpose of picking up or making delivery of a shipment or partial load.
(b) If such a truck does not find it necessary to drive or operate on a City street because of one of the exceptions enumerated in subsection (a) hereof, it shall use the shortest possible route to enter from, and leave to, the closest State route available; and it shall not travel at a speed in excess of the posted limit while operating on City streets.
(c) In order to notify truck drivers of the existence of this section, the Service Department shall post signs at the entrance of all State routes into the City warning drivers of trucks as to the provisions of this section, but if, for any reason, there are no such signs posted of if such signs are posted and the same are removed, broken or destroyed, the absence of such signs shall not relieve any truck driver of the responsibility of complying with the terms of this section and shall not prevent the driver of such truck, if he does not comply with the terms of this section, being found guilty of violating the same.
(d) It is a minor misdemeanor for any person, partnership, firm, corporation or association to violate any provision of this section.
(Ord. 47-84. Passed 11-26-84.)
(Ord. 47-84. Passed 11-26-84.)