American Canyon Municipal Code Ch. 10.28 Commercial Vehicles

(A) Whenever the council of this city designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a street the use of which by any commercial vehicle is prohibited, the traffic engineer shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on those streets so designated.

(B) Those streets and parts of streets so marked are declared to be streets the use of which by any commercial vehicle is prohibited. The provisions of this section shall not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission.

Ord. 92-19 § 188, 1992

(A) When the streets in question are appropriately sign-posted no vehicle of any kind or nature whatsoever (other than passenger buses) shall be operated or moved upon or over any of the streets hereinafter in Section 10.28.030 designated without a permit as provided in this section, when the total weight of vehicle and load exceeds four and one-half tons.

(B) This section shall not apply to, and shall not prohibit any commercial vehicle as defined by the California Vehicle Code having a loaded weight in excess of the limit prescribed in this chapter from using any such streets by direct route from a street the use of which is not restricted as to such vehicles for the purpose of delivering or loading for transportation goods, warns or merchandise without such permit.

(C) The traffic engineer may, by written permit, authorize the operation of a vehicle or vehicles upon any of the streets hereinafter in Section 10.28.030 set forth, when the total weight of such vehicle or vehicles exceeds the maximum weight prescribed in this section, if, in the judgment of the traffic engineer, streets upon which such vehicle is to be operated can safely withstand the additional weight for a limited operation. Such permit shall be granted upon such conditions and upon depositing such bond as the traffic engineer, may, in his discretion, require.

Ord. 92-19 § 189, 1992

The streets referred to in Section 10.28.020 are described as follows: (Not

determined upon initial enactment of the traffic code.)

Ord. 92-19 § 190, 1992

When such

streets are appropriately sign-posted, the use of the hereinafter described portions of the hereinafter named streets or highways by any motor vehicle (other than passenger buses) when the total weight of the vehicle and loads exceeds four and one-half tons, except for the purpose of loading and unloading thereon, is prohibited, between the hours of eleven p.m. and six a.m. The streets and portions thereof referred to in subsection A of this section are: (Not determined upon initial enactment of the traffic code.)

Ord. 92-19 § 191, 1992