Chapter 10.48
RESTRICTED USE OF STREETS
Sections:
10.48.010 Loud noises in vehicles.
10.48.040 Commercial vehicles prohibited from using certain streets.
10.48.010 LOUD NOISES IN VEHICLES.
No person shall operate or permit the operation, in or on any vehicle on any public street, alley or public parking lot, of any radio, tape recorder, or other sound-amplifying equipment or device at such volume as to be clearly audible beyond fifteen feet of such vehicle, or in such manner as to cause a hazard or annoyance to persons using said street, alley or parking lot. Emergency vehicles shall not be subject to the provisions hereof, in connection with the performance of emergency functions.
(Ord. NS 725, 1968: prior code § 3279).
10.48.030 TRUCK ROUTES.
(a) Whenever any resolution of this city designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a street the use of which is permitted by any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons, the city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to designate such street or streets by appropriate signs as “Truck Routes” for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons.
(b) When any such truck route or routes are established and designated by appropriate signs, the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons shall drive on such route or routes and none other, except that nothing in this section shall prohibit the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons coming from a “Truck Route” having ingress and egress by direct route to and from 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 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 streets for which a building permit has previously been obtained therefor.
(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to: (1) passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission; or to (2) any vehicle owned by a public utility while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility.
(d) Those streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the council are declared to be truck routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons.
(Ord. NS 725 (part), 1968: prior code § 3281).
10.48.040 COMMERCIAL VEHICLES PROHIBITED FROM USING CERTAIN STREETS.
(a) Whenever the city council by resolution designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a street the use of which is prohibited by any commercial vehicle, the city traffic engineer shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on those streets affected by such resolution. Those streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the council are declared to be streets the use of which is prohibited by any commercial vehicle.
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to the following:
(1) Any vehicle which is subject to Sections 1031 to 1036, inclusive, of the Public Utilities Code; or
(2) Commercial vehicles coming from an unrestricted street having ingress and egress by direct route to and from a restricted street when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on the restricted street, 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 the restricted street for which a building permit has previously been obtained.
(c) “Commercial vehicle,” as the term is used in this section, shall mean a vehicle of a type required to be registered under the California Vehicle Code used or maintained for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation or profit, or designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property. Passenger vehicles which are not used for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation or profit, housecars, and vanpool vehicles are not commercial vehicles.
(Ord. 95-13 § 1, 1995: Ord. NS 725 (part), 1968: prior code § 3282).