A. General: The City does hereby conclude the following:
1. Any vehicle or truck-trailer combination traveling on a restricted street with a maximum gross weight exceeding the prescribed weight limit constitutes an obstruction to public travel and safety and a traffic hazard by virtue of the speed and size incident to such vehicle.
2. Any vehicle or truck-trailer combination traveling on a restricted street with a maximum gross weight exceeding the prescribed weight limit constitutes a public nuisance by virtue of the noxious odors and noise incident to such vehicle.
3. Any vehicle or truck-trailer combination traversing a restricted street with a maximum gross weight exceeding the prescribed weight limit thereon constitutes a nuisance and hazard to the preservation of the pavement thereon.
B. Classification: Each, every and all streets of the City are hereby divided and classified into the following four (4) groups:
1. Unrestricted Streets: Any street or streets hereinafter designated as an unrestricted street shall have imposed no weight restriction or regulation thereon, except as contained in the State Vehicle Code. Such streets shall be as follows:
a. San Gabriel Boulevard: Within the City limits.
2. Intermediate Truck Routes: Whenever signs are erected giving notice thereof, it shall be unlawful for any person owning or operating any motor vehicle or truck-trailer combination exceeding a maximum gross weight of sixteen thousand (16,000) pounds to drive or propel the same or to cause or permit the same to be driven or propelled at any time upon, over or across any streets within the City except those designated as an intermediate or unrestricted truck route. Intermediate streets shall be as follows:
a. Huntington Drive (north and south roadways): Within the City limits. (Ord. 977, 6-13-1990; amd. 1994 Code)
3. Restricted Streets: Whenever signs are erected giving notice thereof, it shall be unlawful for any person owning or operating any motor vehicle or truck-trailer combination exceeding a maximum gross weight of six thousand (6,000) pounds to drive or propel the same or to cause or permit the same to be driven or propelled at any time upon, over or across any streets within the City, except those designated as an unrestricted truck route, an intermediate truck route or a light truck route. (Ord. 977, 6-13-1990; amd. 1994 Code; Ord. 0-17-1321, 4-12-2017)
C. Determination Of Truck Weight: Any police officer shall have the authority to require a person driving or in control of any vehicle operating on a street to proceed to any public or private scale within a radius of five (5) miles for the purpose of weighing and determining whether any portion of this section has been violated.
D. Pickup And Delivery By Trucks Exceeding Maximum Gross Weight: This chapter shall not prohibit any vehicle or truck-trailer combination exceeding the prescribed maximum gross weight limit, coming from an unrestricted or less restricted street, from having ingress and egress by direct route to and from such greater restricted streets when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on such greater restricted streets or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure upon such restricted street for which a building permit has previously been obtained therefor. Only the shortest deviation from the nearest unrestricted or less restricted street shall be permitted.
E. Exemptions: The provisions of this section shall not apply to the following:
1. Passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the State Public Utilities Commission (PUC).
2. Vehicles owned by a public utility while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility.
3. Emergency vehicles of the City.
4. Vehicles subject to the provisions of section 1033 of the Public Utilities Code.
5. School buses under the jurisdiction of the San Marino Unified School District. (Ord. 977, 6-13-1990; amd. 1994 Code)
Notes
| 1 | 1. See also section 14.06.01 of this Code. |