(A) (1) No person shall operate a vehicle exceeding a size as specified below or exceeding a gross weight of five tons, upon any street in the town, except when the operation is necessary to load or unload property, and further except as hereinafter designated, other than passage through the town on a state or federal route.
(2) Operators of vehicles so deviating from either a state route or a route within the town shall confine the deviation to the shortest and smallest use as possible of the town’s streets in order to accomplish the purpose of the departure.
(B) No vehicle shall be operated upon the public streets, highways, bridges and culverts within the town whose dimensions exceed those specified below.
(1) Width:
(a) 104 inches for passenger bus-type vehicles operated exclusively within municipal corporations;
(b) 132 inches for traction engines; or
(c) 102 inches, including load, for all other vehicles.
(2) Length:
(a) 48 feet for passenger bus-type vehicles operated exclusively within municipal corporations;
(b) 40 feet for all other passenger bus-type vehicles;
(c) 65 feet in overall length of a tractor and semi-trailer combination, with or without load;
(d) 65 feet for any other combination of vehicles coupled together, with or without load; or
(e) 40 feet for all other vehicles.
(3) Height: no vehicle shall have a height in excess of 13 feet, six inches, with or without load.
(4) This section does not apply to fire engines, fire trucks or other vehicles or apparatus belonging to any municipal corporation or to the vehicles or apparatus belonging to any municipal corporation or to the Volunteer Fire Department of any municipal corporation.
(5) This section does not require the state, the municipality, county, townships or any railroad or other private corporation to provide sufficient vertical clearance to permit the operation of the vehicle, or make any changes in or about existing structures now crossing streets, roads and other public thoroughfares in the town.
(C) (1) All motor trucks, buses, commercial tractors and trailers passing through the town and not making local delivery or pick-up goods or persons, or making local service stops, are hereby required to use only the streets of the town as designated and marked federal, state or truck routes in the passage of the same through the town.
(2) The Town Council is hereby authorized and directed to erect at the town limits, signs indicating that through trucks are required to use federal, state or truck routes.
(D) (1) No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any street, highway or other public place unless the vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any of its load from dropping, shifting, leaking or otherwise escaping therefrom, except that sand or other substances may be dropped for the purpose of securing traction, or water or other substances may be sprinkled on a roadway in cleaning or maintaining the roadway.
(2) No person shall operate any vehicle so as to track or drop litter, mud, stones, gravel or other similar material on any street, highway or other public place.
(3) It shall be the duty of the driver of a vehicle who unlawfully drops or deposits mud, stones, gravel or other similar material or permits the load or any portion thereof to be dropped or deposited upon any street, highway or other public place to immediately remove the same or cause it to be removed.
(E) (1) No person shall be able to park a commercial semi-trailer on residential property within the municipality unless there is immediate access from a state route or the property is located on Brownsville Avenue and only if he or she meets all the conditions that are specified below.
(2) A person shall be able to park a motor truck, commercial tractor, bus or an RV on private residential property for a maximum of 72 consecutive hours only if he or she meets all the conditions that are specified below.
(a) No person shall let the vehicle set with the engine running at any time.
(b) The vehicle shall be parked within the confines of the property.
(c) The vehicle shall have a proper base to be parked on, such as stone, concrete, or asphalt.
(d) The vehicle shall not be parked on any private property in a manner so that the vehicle will protrude out over any sidewalk.
(e) The property must be of sufficient size to allow the vehicle to be driven onto the property and turned around within the property boundaries
(f) No vehicle shall be backed onto the property from the street and no vehicle shall be backed from the property onto the street.
(g) Maintenance on the vehicle may only be performed by the owner and only if such maintenance is conducted inside and enclosed building; washing and cleaning are excepted.
(h) The private property that the vehicle is parked on must be the operator’s or owner’s of the vehicle, who must be a resident within the town.
(i) If private property has been rented or permission has been given by someone else besides the owner or operator, the vehicle can be parked on this property, provided the vehicle owner or operator is a resident of this town.
(3) If a vehicle is parked for more than 72 consecutive hours, the vehicle must be parked inside and enclosed building.
(Ord. 1985-2, passed 8-5-1985; Am. Ord. 2015-5, passed 9-21-2015) Penalty, see § 10.99
Cross-reference:
Parking Regulations, see Chapter 72