(a) No person shall drive or operate any motor vehicle designed to be used for the conveyance, transfer or delivery of freight, merchandise or other substances and materials usually hauled in such vehicles, exceeding a gross weight of 8,000 pounds, including the weight of the vehicle, whether loaded or unloaded, upon any street, alley or other public place in the City, except on designated and marked State and Federal routes, whether temporary or permanent. When the loaded contents of such vehicle exceeding such weights are for delivery to, or such vehicle is to remove merchandise or other materials from, any business or other place which is not located on a State or Federal route, then such vehicle may be driven and operated on the streets, alleys and other public places which are not designated or marked as State or Federal routes, but only between the place of delivery or removal of the freight or merchandise and the nearest intersecting State or Federal route.
(b) It shall be the duty of the drivers of all vehicles exceeding 8,000 pounds gross weight when entering the City upon a street or highway other than a State or Federal route, to immediately proceed, by the shortest way possible, to the nearest State or Federal route leading in the direction in which such vehicle is proceeding. Should a vehicle exceeding such weight limitation be of such height as to be unable to proceed through the railroad underpass on South Market Street, then such southbound vehicle shall proceed east on West Street to Union Street, then south on Union Street to U. S. Route 25; northbound vehicles shall leave U.S. Route 25 at Union Street and proceed north on Union Street to West Street, then west on West Street to U.S. Route 25.
(c) All streets and highways leading into the City shall be properly posted warning operators of vehicles exceeding such weights and heights that they must follow State and Federal routes, temporary or permanent.
(Ord. 2590. Passed 12-17-51.)
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.