Hidden Hills Municipal Code Art. G Vehicle Equipment and Condition

A. The Building Official is authorized by the City Council, on the basis of an engineering and traffic survey, to erect and maintain official traffic-control devices on any streets or parts of streets as follows:

1. Gross Weight Limits: To impose gross weight limits as prescribed by the Vehicle Code. [12]

2. Truck Restriction: To prohibit the operation of trucks exceeding the limit of pounds gross weight as prescribed in the Vehicle Code; provided, that such devices shall not prohibit necessary local operation on such streets for the purpose of making a pickup or delivery.

B. The Building Official is authorized by the City Council, on the basis of an engineering and traffic survey, to determine and designate those heavily traveled streets upon which shall be prohibited any class or kind of traffic which is found to be incompatible with the normal and safe movement of traffic and shall erect appropriate official traffic-control devices giving notice thereof.

(Ord. 215, 1-19-89; 1994 Code)

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Vehicle Code § 35550, et seq.

A. Mufflers Required: No person shall operate any motor vehicle on any road within the City unless the vehicle is equipped with an adequate muffler or silencing device in constant operation and properly maintained to prevent any excessive or unusual noise, and no muffler, silencing device or exhaust system shall be equipped with a cutout, bypass or similar device.

B. Alteration of Mufflers Prohibited: No person shall modify the exhaust system of a motor vehicle in a manner which will amplify or increase the noise emitted by the motor of such vehicle above that emitted by the muffler or silencing device originally installed on the vehicle, and the original muffler or silencing device shall comply with this Section.

(Ord. 215, 1-19-89)