Berkeley Municipal Code Art. 8 Hazardous Materials – General Provisions

Chapter 50 of the California Fire Code is partially adopted with adopted sections below. (Sections adopted by the State Fire Marshal remain unless modified below.)

CHAPTER 50 – HAZARDOUS MATERIALS – GENERAL PROVISIONS

SECTION 5001 – GENERAL

5001.7 Hazardous materials transportation restrictions. No vehicle containing hazardous materials, including a hazardous materials transportation tank truck, trailer, semi-trailer or tank wagon containing flammable or combustible liquids, hazardous chemicals, liquefied petroleum gases, poisonous gases, or cryogenic fluids, shall be operated on any city street without a permit from the fire code official. A map showing the proposed route of the vehicle shall accompany applications for such permits. If a permit is granted, the map shall be carried at all times in the vehicle and the vehicle shall not deviate from the approved route as shown on the map. Such a permit may contain conditions, including restrictions on the hours within which certain routes may be used and limitations on the size of the vehicle allowed to travel the approved route. No route shall be approved that includes passage over or adjacent to subway entry or vent structures, through the Northbrae Tunnel, in any area designated an environmental safety residential district by the City of Berkeley's Zoning Ordinance, or in an area which may be designated as a hazardous fire area. Departure from the approved route, travel outside the permitted hours, violation of any vehicle size limitation imposed, or failure to carry a map showing route approval shall constitute a violation of this Code. The transportation of extremely hazardous materials may, in the discretion of the fire code official, require both a permit and accompaniment by a Fire Department or Police Department convoy. The following streets contain purge chamber openings which lead directly into the subway section of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) System in Berkeley and their use by tank vehicles or trailers for transportation or delivery of flammable or combustible liquids, hazardous chemicals, liquefied petroleum gases, poisonous gases, or cryogenic fluids is prohibited and a violation of this Code:

a. On Addison Street between Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Oxford Street;

b. On Shattuck Avenue between University Avenue and Dwight Way;

c. On Virginia Street between Franklin and Sacramento Streets;

d. On Sacramento Street between Virginia Street and Hearst Avenue;

e. On Hearst Avenue between McGee Avenue and Milvia Street;

f. On Adeline Street between Ward and Stuart Streets; and

g. On Adeline Street between Ashby Avenue and Woolsey Street

(Ord. 7990-NS § 1, 2025)