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(a) Section 20-15.1 does not apply to recreational vehicles.
(b) A vehicle regulated under section 20-15.1 may:
(1) Leave the truck routes by the shortest route to perform the following activities, after which it must return to the nearest designated truck route.
(i) Deliver, pick up, load, or unload merchandise, materials, or equipment, including furniture and other household goods, except as prohibited under section 20-17; or
(ii) Provide construction, repair, or similar services to a property.
(Ord. No. 7757, § 3, 1-27-92)
(a) Except as may be otherwise specifically provided in subsection (b), where it is necessary for a vehicle whose use of city streets is regulated under section 20-15.1(a) to use a street not established as a truck route pursuant to section 20-15; or for any oversize or overweight vehicle, load, or mobile home to use any street, whether established as a truck route or not, that lies within the corporate limits of the city and that is not designated as a state highway, application shall be made to the chief of police, or that officer's designee, for a permit for such use under police department supervision, and no such use of streets as is set forth in this subsection shall occur, unless and until such permit is issued.
(b) A permit pursuant to subsection (a) is not required in the following situations:
(2) Where the total maximum width of the vehicle, or of the vehicle and load, does not exceed one hundred two (102) inches, exclusive of safety equipment, and the operation or movement takes place solely on streets established as truck routes pursuant to section 20-15.
(3) Where the vehicle is exempted from size, weight and load limitations under A.R.S. section 28-1001(b), or any successor provision(s).
(c) The chief of police, or that officer's designee, is hereby authorized to issue the permits required under subsection (a). The categories of authorized permits shall be as follows: single trip permits, mobile home permits, thirty-day permits, envelope permits, and annual permits. Permits to use a street not designated as a truck route shall be issued on a single trip or thirty-day basis only. Envelope permits shall be issued on an annual basis only, and neither envelope permits nor single trip permits shall be issued for the movement of mobile homes. Any movement of a mobile home subject to the permit requirements of this section shall be undertaken as one continuous journey pursuant to a mobile home permit, which shall be valid for ninety-six (96) hours from the time of issuance.
(d) A person seeking any of the types of permits authorized under subsection (c) shall submit an application, accompanied by the corresponding fee as established in subsection (e). Such fees shall be waived for a vehicle, load or mobile home in governmental service. In addition, no fee shall be collected for a vehicle, load, or mobile home for whose operation or movement a valid permit has been issued by the state, a political subdivision of the state, or any other municipality, when the operation or movement of such vehicle, load, or mobile home terminates in or transits the city.
(e) Permit fees shall be as follows:
Type of Permit | Non Truck Route | Oversize | Overweight | Envelope |
Single trip: | $15.00 | $ 15.00 | $ 25.00 | -- |
Mobile home: | -- | $ 15.00 | $ 25.00 | -- |
Thirty-day: | $30.00 | $ 30.00 | $ 50.00 | -- |
Annual: | -- | $240.00 | $480.00 | $600.00 |
Note: The fee for annual permits issued after January 31 of a calendar year shall be reduced by one-twelfth ( 1/12) for each full calendar month that has expired prior to issuance of the permit. Where a vehicle, load, or mobile home is both oversize and overweight, the permit fee shall consist solely of the overweight fee.
(f) Upon receipt of the application, and payment of any applicable fee, the chief of police, or that officer's designee, may grant the requested permit. The permit may restrict the use of any street, whether or not established as a truck route, or the operation or movement of any oversize or overweight vehicle, load, or mobile home, by day of the week, time of the day, route, or location within the city, and may set such additional restrictions as are necessary for public safety and convenience.
(g) All annual permits issued under this section shall expire at midnight on January 1 of the next calendar year, and persons seeking an annual permit for the new calendar year shall be required to submit a new application and permit fee.
(h) Any violation of the provisions of this section, specifically including, but not limited to, the failure to obtain a required permit or to comply with permit restrictions, is declared to be a civil infraction punishable by a mandatory sanction of not less than one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00), nor more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00), no part of which shall be suspended or waived by the court.
(1953 Code, ch. 17, § 20; Ord. No. 8270, § 3, 11-21-94; Ord. No. 8958, § 7, 9-22-97)
(a) No single-unit vehicle having more than two (2) axles or having an overall length in excess of twenty-six (26) feet, and no tractor-semitrailer having more than three (3) axles or having an overall length in excess of forty (40) feet shall be permitted to load or unload any packages of merchandise within that district bounded on the north by the south and west line of Toole Avenue and Franklin Street, on the east by the east line of Fourth Avenue, on the south by the south line of Fourteenth Street and Cushing Street, and on the west by the west line of Granada Avenue, between the hours of 6:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m., and 3:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.
(b) The director of transportation, or the director's designee, may grant written variances from the provisions as set forth in subsection (a) provided:
(1) The nature of the merchandise being delivered is exceptional; or
(2) The nature of the business or service on the property is exceptional; and
(3) The applicant can conform to any required barricading and signing as set forth in section 25-24; and
(4) The variance is not against the public interest, safety, convenience or general welfare.
(1953 Code, ch. 17, § 21; Ord. No. 7157, § 1, 3-20-89; Ord. No. 10418, § 2, 6-12-07)
(1953 Code, ch. 17, § 22)
It is unlawful for the driver of a motor vehicle to drive a vehicle in or upon property of another without having in his possession the written permission of the person legally entitled to possession of the property. However, no person charged with violating this section shall be found responsible and such charge against him shall be dismissed, if he subsequently produces in court the aforesaid written permission.
(1953 Code, ch 17, § 23; Ord. No. 4115, § 1, 12-10-73; Ord. No. 5391, § 5, 8-3-81; Ord. No. 5931, § 6, 12-19-83)
Editors Note: Section 20-19.1, prohibiting parking on property of another without permission, derived from Ord. No. 5391, § 6, adopted Aug. 3, 1981, and § 20-20 providing for impounding and redemption of motor vehicles parked on property of another, derived from the 1953 Code, ch. 17, § 23, were both repealed by § 1 of Ord. No. 5931, adopted Dec. 19, 1983. See now § 20-223 for these provisions.
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