A. Authority To Designate Truck Routes: The Board of Trustees, by motion or resolution, may prescribe routes through the Town for the use of trucks in general, or trucks of particular kinds and/or other vehicles which are not ordinary private passenger vehicles, passing through the Town.
B. Weight Restriction: No vehicle weighing more than forty thousand (40,000) pounds shall be operated upon the streets, alleys and other public ways within the Town, except as provided in this section.
C. Truck Routes Established: The Board of Trustees may prescribe northbound traffic on Houser Street from Highway 60, southbound traffic on Houser Street from Highway 34 and CR208, westbound traffic on 8th Street to Houser Street, eastbound traffic on 8th Street from Houser Street to Highway 34, northbound traffic on Wells Street to Highway 60, and southbound traffic on Wells Street to Highway 60 as routes through the Town for the use of through trucks in general, trucks of particular kinds and/or other vehicles which are not ordinary private passenger vehicles or local grain trucks passing through the Town.
D. Signs:
1. The Town shall see that appropriate and adequate signs are placed along such routes so that drivers of such vehicles may follow the routes.
2. When such signs are so erected and in place, the driver of the truck or other vehicle for which a route has been prescribed as provided above, while passing through the Town, 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 Town and not merely through the Town.
E. Semi-Trucks: With the exception of U.S. Highways 34 and 60 and designated truck routes, it is unlawful for any person to drive or transport in any way a semi-truck (tractor), with or without a semi-transport (trailer) attached, within the Town limits with the exception of State, County, or Town maintenance and emergency vehicles, passenger buses, residential moving, commercial businesses located in buildings in which someone resides, and local deliveries within the Town. Also exempt are persons whose current and legal address as property owners whose property is located within the Town limits.
1. Property owners shall operate vehicles to the owned property from a designated route, and from the owned property to a truck route without a semi-transport (trailer).
2. These vehicles shall be used to perform work within the area of the public way and that no other reasonable access exists; or
3. The vehicle shall be used to deliver goods or merchandise to some area served by the public way.
F. Sponsored Town Activities Exempt: This section shall not apply to sponsored activities of the Town, the Vici Chamber of Commerce, or the Vici school system. (Ord. 274, 6-15-2016)