Arcata Municipal Code Art. 12 Restricted Use of Certain Streets

(a) Whenever any resolution or ordinance 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 five tons, the City Manager is hereby authorized to designate such street or streets by appropriate signs as "Truck Traffic Routes" for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of five tons.

(b) When any such truck traffic route or routes are established and designated by appropriate signs the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of five tons shall drive on such route or routes and none other except when necessary to traverse another street or streets 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.

(a) Whenever any resolution or ordinance of this City designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a street the use of which is prohibited by any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of five tons, the City Manager shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on those streets affected by such resolution or ordinance.

(b) Those streets and parts of those streets described in Section 3561 (a) are hereby declared to be streets the use of which is prohibited by any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of five tons. The provisions of this section shall not apply to passenger buses.