Chapter 10.28
RESTRICTED STREETS

Sections:

10.28.010    Truck routes.

10.28.020    Commercial vehicles prohibited from using certain streets.

10.28.010 Truck routes.

A. Whenever any ordinance of the city designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a street the use of which is permitted by any commercial vehicle or by any vehicle exceeding the maximum gross weight limit of three tons, the council is authorized to designate such streets by appropriate signs as “truck traffic routes” for the movement of commercial vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons.

B. When any such truck traffic route or routes are established and designated by appropriate signs, the operator of any commercial vehicle or any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons shall drive on such route or routes and none other, except when necessary to traverse another street to a destination for the purpose of loading or unloading, but then only by such deviation from the nearest truck route as is reasonably necessary. The provisions of this section shall not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission. (Ord. 17, 1955; prior code § 9-245)

10.28.020 Commercial vehicles prohibited from using certain streets.

Whenever any ordinance of the city designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a street the use of which is prohibited by any commercial vehicle or by any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons, the council shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on those streets affected by such ordinances. The provisions of this section shall not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission. (Ord. 17, 1955; prior code § 9-246)