Hercules Municipal Code Art. 13 Restricted Use Of Certain Streets

(a) The City Council by resolution may designate streets or portions of streets as streets the use of which is permitted by any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three (3) tons. Such streets are hereby declared to be truck traffic routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of three (3) tons and the Director of Public Works shall place and maintain appropriate signs to designate such truck traffic routes.

(b) When any such truck traffic route is established and designated by appropriate signs, the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three (3) tons shall drive on such route and none other; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall prohibit the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three (3) tons coming from a truck traffic route having ingress and egress by direct route to and from restricted streets when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and 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 actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure upon such restricted streets for which a building permit has previously been obtained therefor.

(c) The exception in (b) above shall permit only such deviation as is reasonably necessary and in no event shall be construed to allow truck traffic over non-designated streets within the City of Hercules on a routine, frequent or regular basis.

(d) The provisions of this section shall not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission, or to any vehicle owned by a public utility while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility.

(Ord. 199 § 1, 1985)

The City Council by resolution may designate streets or portions of streets as streets the use of which is prohibited by any commercial vehicle. Such streets are hereby declared to be streets the use of which is prohibited by any commercial vehicle. The Director of Public Works shall place and maintain appropriate signs on those streets so designated, and commercial vehicles shall not be driven upon such streets. The provisions of this section shall not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission or to passenger buses operated by the City.