(a) Definitions. As used herein, the following terms, phrases and words shall have the following corresponding meaning:
(1) “Deviating truck” shall mean a truck which leaves and departs from a truck route while traveling inside the City.
(2) “Person” shall mean any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
(3) “Truck” shall mean any vehicle designed or operated for the transportation of property, and whose weight exceeds 26,000 pounds.
(4) “Truck route” shall mean a way over certain streets, as designated herein, over and along which trucks coming into and going out of the City must operate.
(b) Application of Regulation. All trucks within the City shall be operated only over and along the truck routes herein established and on the other designated streets over which truck travel is permitted. However, this section shall not prohibit:
(1) The operation of trucks upon any street where necessary to the conduct of business at a destination point, provided streets upon which such traffic is permitted are used until reaching the intersection nearest the destination point.
(2) The operation of emergency vehicles upon any street in the City.
(3) The operation of trucks owned or operated by the City, public utility companies, any contractor or materialman in connection with repair, maintenance or construction activities undertaken to streets or to properties located along streets upon which truck traffic is otherwise prohibited by this section.
(4) The operation of trucks upon any officially established detour in any case where such truck could lawfully be operated upon the street for which the detour is established.
(c) Truck Routes Established. There are hereby established within the City the following truck routes:
(1) Main Street (State Route 235) for north and southbound traffic;
(2) Jefferson Street (State Route 571) for east and westbound traffic.
(d) Streets Designated for Truck Use. In addition to those streets in the City designated in division (c) hereof, the following street shall be used for truck traffic:
(1) Lake Avenue;
(2) Madison Street (west of Main Street only);
(3) Church Street; and
(4) Clay Street.
(e) Truck Traffic in the City.
(1) All trucks entering the City for a destination point in the City shall proceed only over an established truck route and shall deviate therefrom only at the intersection with the street upon which truck traffic is permitted, nearest the destination point. Upon leaving the destination point, a deviating truck shall return to the truck route by the shortest possible route, unless the truck has another destination point in the City, in which case said truck shall proceed to other destination point(s) by the shortest possible route, utilizing designated truck routes and streets upon which truck traffic is permitted wherever practicable.
(2) All trucks on trips originating in the City and bound for destination points outside the City shall proceed by the shortest possible route over streets on which such traffic is permitted to an established truck route.
(3) All trucks on trips originating in the City and bound for destination points inside the City shall proceed only over streets upon which such traffic is permitted.
(f) Enforcement.
(1) The Director of Public Safety shall keep and maintain accurate maps setting out truck routes and streets upon which truck traffic is permitted, and said maps shall be available to the public.
(2) The Director of Public Safety shall cause all truck routes to be clearly posted as such with appropriate signage. It is a defense to a charge made pursuant to this section that such signage was not present.
(g) Penalties. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a minor misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00).
(Ord. 99-40. Passed 12-20-99.)