A. Authority To Prescribe Routes: The City Council may prescribe routes through the City for the use of trucks in general, trucks of particular kinds or other vehicles which are not ordinary private passenger vehicles, passing through the City. Appropriate and adequate signs shall be placed along such routes so that drivers of such vehicles may follow the routes. When such signs are so erected and in place, the driver of a truck or other vehicle for which a route has been prescribed, as provided above, while passing through the City, shall keep on such route and shall not deviate therefrom except in case of emergency. Drivers of such vehicles shall follow such routes so far as practicable also when driving within the City and not merely through the City.
B. Routes Designated: U.S. Highway 69 and State Highway 20 are designated and prescribed as the routes through the City for use of trucks, including combinations of tractors and trailers having ten (10) or more wheels or having a gross weight in excess of ten (10) tons being driven into or through the City. It is unlawful for the driver of any truck, including any combination of tractor with trailer attached having ten (10) or more wheels or having a gross weight in excess of ten (10) tons, to deviate from the above designated truck routes or to drive such trucks upon any other streets or alleys of the City except to the extent necessary to unload and deliver freight or other cargo shipped to a point of destination within the City off the truck routes hereinabove designated, or the extent necessary to pick up and load freight or other cargo to be shipped from a point of origin within the City off the designated truck routes, or except in cases of emergency. (1988 Code § 15-537)
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| 1 | 1. See Section 7-1-10 of this Code for responsibility for damage to streets. |