A. Gross Weight Limits: The City Manager is hereby authorized, on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, to erect and maintain official traffic-control devices on any streets or parts of streets to impose gross weight limits.
B. Signs Posted For Truck Weight Restrictions: The City Manager is hereby authorized, on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, to erect and maintain official traffic-control devices on any streets or parts of streets to prohibit the operation of trucks exceeding ten thousand (10,000) pounds gross weight; provided, that, such devices shall not prohibit necessary local operation on such streets for the purpose of making a pickup or delivery.
C. Size Restrictions: The City Manager is hereby authorized, on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, to erect and maintain official traffic-control devices on any streets or parts of streets to impose vehicle size restrictions.
D. Excluding Specified Traffic:
1. Authority To Determine Streets: The City Manager is hereby authorized, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, to determine and designate those heavily traveled streets upon which shall be prohibited any class or kind of traffic which is found to be incompatible with the normal and safe movement of traffic and shall erect appropriate official traffic-control devices giving notice thereof.
2. Exceptions: The following vehicles shall be exempted from this prohibition:
a. Commercial vehicles engaged in the making of deliveries or the furnishing of services at premises fronting on the proscribed street or premises contiguous to the proscribed street which have no other means of access.
b. School buses.
c. City emergency and service vehicles. (Ord. 9-88, 8-16-1988)