El Monte Municipal Code Ch. 10.12 Truck Routes

The streets and parts of streets within the city specified in the following subsections are declared to be truck routes for use by commercial vehicles weighing more than six thousand (6,000) pounds, laden or unladen, and the Director of Public Works is authorized and directed to so designate said streets and parts of streets by appropriate signs at each end of the streets or portions of the streets described in the following subsections, and at such other locations as he or she may deem necessary or advisable in order to give adequate notice specifying such streets or portions of streets as truck routes:

That portion of Durfee Avenue from the southerly city limits of the City of El Monte to Garvey Avenue;

Lower Azusa Road from the easterly boundary of the city to the westerly boundary of the city;

That portion of Meeker Road from Valley Boulevard to Peck Road;

All of Tyler Avenue within the city;

All of Santa Anita Avenue within the city;

That portion of Arden Drive from Valley Boulevard to Lower Azusa Road;

Baldwin Avenue from Lower Azusa Road to the San Bernardino Freeway;

Rosemead Boulevard Service Road from Flair Drive southerly to its southerly terminus;

That portion of Garvey Avenue from the westerly boundary of the city to the San Bernardino Freeway;

That portion of Asher Street from Santa Anita Avenue to Peck Road;

San Bernardino Freeway from Rosemead Boulevard to the easterly boundary of the city;

That portion of Brockway Street from Santa Anita Avenue to Meeker Road;

Ramona Boulevard from Santa Anita Avenue to Valley Boulevard;

That portion of Ramona Boulevard from Valley Boulevard to the San Gabriel River;

All of Valley Boulevard within the city;

That portion of Whitmore Street from Rosemead Boulevard to the Rio Hondo Channel;

Flair Drive from Rosemead Boulevard Service Road to Baldwin Avenue;

Peck Road from the northerly boundary of the city to the southerly boundary of the city.

(Prior code §§ 3229—3229.22)

A. When the truck traffic routes thus established are designated by appropriate signs, no person shall drive or operate any commercial vehicle or any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of five (5) tons on any street other than upon the streets or portions of streets thus established as truck traffic routes; provided further that no person shall park or leave standing any vehicle having a maximum width in excess of eighty (80) inches upon any street, improved or unimproved parkway, or other improved or unimproved property dedicated to public use, or portion thereof for a period of time exceeding one hour and any vehicle including, but not limited to, detached truck trailers found in violation of this section shall be removed from the public street, improved or unimproved property dedicated to a public use and impounded until such time as they are claimed by the registered owner or his designed representative. Said cost of removal and impounding shall be borne by the registered owner.

B. Exception. The provisions of subsection A of this section shall not prohibit any commercial vehicles coming from an unrestricted street having ingress and egress by direct route to and from such restricted streets when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares or merchandise from or to any building or structure located on such restricted streets or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the usual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure upon such restricted street for which a building permit has previously been issued therefor.

C. Exception. The provisions of subsection A of this section shall not apply to:

1. Passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission of the state;

2. Public and private school buses;

3. Any vehicle used by a municipality, public agency or public utility while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility or public way;

4. Emergency vehicles;

5. Totally unladen panel or pickup type of commercial vehicles of a rated capacity of less than one and one-half tons when used for the personal transportation of the operator thereof;

6. House cars as defined in Section 362 of the California Vehicle Code and passenger vehicles as defined in Section 465 of the California Vehicle Code.

(Ord. 2514 § 1, 2000: prior code §§ 3230—3230.2)