Commerce Municipal Code Ch. 10.52 Overweight Vehicle Restrictions

Except as herein otherwise specifically provided, no person shall operate any overweight vehicle, including the vehicle and its load, on any street in the city, except on those designated streets within the city limits, as listed herein in this title, or unless authorized by a city permit or authorization. An "overweight vehicle" is any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons or six thousand pounds.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to the following:

(1) Any passenger stage corporation, regulated by Sections 1031 through 1046 of the California Public Utilities Code, whose certificate from the California Public Utilities Commission specifically provides for travel on the streets prohibited herein.

(2) Any vehicle owned by a public utility while necessarily in use in the construction, installation, or repair of any public utility.

(3) Any vehicle operated by the city, or any employee or agent thereof, in the course of regular or official city business.

(4) Any vehicle of the military or naval forces of the United States or the duly authorized militia of the state in the proper performance of their duties.

(5) Any vehicle whose lawful business includes the loading or unloading of materials, moving vehicles, making of commercial deliveries, or the delivery or pick-up of express and parcel post packages and United States mail.

(Ord. No. 706, § 2, 2-5-2019)

There are hereby established through-passage heavy truck and overweight vehicle routes in the city for commercial and all other vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of six thousand pounds on the streets hereinafter named and described only (unless otherwise specified, any street hereinafter named is intended to be so designated for its entire length between city limits):

(1) Telegraph Road;

(2) Washington Boulevard;

(3) Bandini Boulevard, from Eastern Avenue to Greenwood Avenue;

(4) Slauson Avenue;

(5) Atlantic Boulevard;

(6) Goodrich Boulevard;

(7) Eastern Avenue south from Atlantic Boulevard to the south city limits at Randolph Street;

(8) Eastland Avenue from Eastern Avenue to Washington Boulevard;

(9) Malt Avenue from Telegraph Road to Garfield Avenue;

(10) Garfield Avenue from Gage Avenue to Telegraph Road and from Ferguson to Malt Avenue;

(11) Greenwood Avenue;

(12) Ferguson Drive from Goodrich Boulevard to Gerhard Avenue;

(13) Gerhart Avenue from Ferguson Drive to Olympic Boulevard;

(14) Olympic Boulevard from Goodrich Boulevard to the easterly city limits;

(15) Gage Avenue from Greenwood Avenue to Slauson Avenue;

(16) Union Pacific Avenue between Goodrich Boulevard and Gerhart Avenue;

(17) Pine Avenue, Oak Avenue, Elm Avenue, Arrowmill Avenue and Cobb Avenue between Washington Boulevard and Pacific Way;

(18) Pacific Way between Pine Avenue and Elm Avenue;

(19) Pacific Way between Arrowmill Avenue and Cobb Street;

(20) Flotilla Street between Saybrook Avenue and Yates Avenue;

(21) Gayhart Street between Washington Boulevard and Saybrook Avenue;

(22) Saybrook Avenue between Washington Boulevard and Flotilla Street;

(23) Yates Avenue between Malt Street and Flotilla Street;

(24) Garfield Avenue between Malt Avenue and Yates Avenue;

(25) Corsair Avenue north of Washington Boulevard to its terminus;

(26) Carrier Avenue north of Telegraph Road to its terminus;

(27) Camfield Avenue between Telegraph Road and Flotilla Street;

(28) Hoeffner Avenue between Telegraph Road and Flotilla Street;

(29) Smithway between Gaspar Avenue and Flotilla Street;

(30) Sycamore Street between Vail Avenue and the east city limits;

(31) Vail Avenue between Sycamore Street and the north city limits;

(32) Canning Avenue between Garfield Avenue and the westerly terminus;

(33) Boxford Avenue north of Slauson Avenue to its terminus;

(34) Noakes Avenue between the west city limits and Eastern Avenue;

(35) Noakes Avenue between Herbert Street and Bonnie Beach Avenue;

(36) Hicks Avenue, Rowan Avenue, and Eastman Avenue between Noakes Street and the north city limits;

(37) Herbert Avenue and Noakes Street between the north city limits; and Bonnie Beach Avenue;

(38) Union Pacific Avenue between Telegraph Road and Marianna Avenue;

(39) Jillson Street between Eastern Avenue and O'Neill Avenue.

All streets other than those designated as unrestricted streets are found by the city council to be so constructed as to constitute the same restricted streets necessitating the imposition of gross weight limits in respect to the use of such streets, subject to the exceptions discussed in this chapter.

(Ord. No. 706, § 2, 2-5-2019)

There shall be erected and maintained, appropriate signs within the city designating the gross weight limit for all vehicles on the city's streets, other than the above designated heavy truck routes. The city may likewise erect and maintain, by and at the expense of the city, appropriate signs within the city, posting and designating the streets hereinabove designated as heavy truck routes. The city council hereby determines that placing appropriate signs on the streets, which are subject to the maximum gross weight limit, will best serve to give notice of the provisions of this chapter.

(Ord. No. 706, § 2, 2-5-2019)

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, nothing herein shall be deemed to prohibit any vehicle from traveling on 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 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 a restricted street for which a building permit has previously been obtained, nor shall any provision of this chapter apply to any vehicle owned by a public utility while necessarily in use in the construction, installation, or repair of any public utility, assuming all required city approvals, permits and/ or licenses have been secured.

(Ord. No. 706, § 2, 2-5-2019)

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter nothing herein shall be deemed applicable to any city street on which money from the state highway fund has been or is used for construction or maintenance, except in such cases as the city council, after notice and hearing pursuant to Section 35705 of the vehicle code of the State of California, may, from time to time, determine to reduce weight limits.

(Ord. No. 706, § 2, 2-5-2019)