(A) Required. The use of truck and hazardous materials truck routes are required except as provided in this section.
(B) Exceptions. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the following.
(1) To a vehicle traveling to or from a truck terminal, garage, place of repair, place of performing a service or a place of loading or unloading, providing it is traveling over the shortest practicable route to a point on a truck route; any such vehicle shall be permitted to proceed from one such point not on a truck route to another such point without returning to a truck route if to so return would unreasonably increase the distance to be traveled between such points; the operator of any such vehicle shall carry evidence of the location of its last stop and of its immediate destination in order for this exception to apply.
(2) To a vehicle carrying hazardous materials in inter-city travel, which may travel to or from the hazardous materials truck route by using the shortest practical route to or from the duly licensed place of loading or unloading such hazardous materials. The operator of any vehicle carrying hazardous materials shall carry evidence of the location of its last stop and of its immediate destination, and shall provide such evidence to any officer authorized to enforce this subchapter upon request of the officer.
(3) To emergency vehicles operating in response to any emergency call.
(4) To vehicles operated by a public utility while cruising in an assigned area for the purpose of inspecting the facilities of the public utility and/or providing maintenance service to the facilities.
('78 Code, § 16-22) (Ord. 182, passed 10-12-65; Ord. 896, passed 4-22-91) Penalty, see § 70.99