Indio Municipal Code § 70.100 Certain vehicles prohibited in the Central Business District

[Ord. 1235, 11-18-1998]

(A) No person shall operate any of the following vehicles in the Central Business District between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day:

(1) Any freight vehicle more than eight and one half feet in width with load or any freight vehicle so loaded that any part of its load extends more than 20 feet to the front or rear of the vehicle;

(2) Any vehicle carrying building material that has not been loaded or is not to be unloaded at some point within the Central Business District;

(B) The City Engineer or designee may by written permit authorize the operation of any such vehicle for the purpose of making necessary emergency deliveries to or from points within the Central Business District.

[Ord. 1235, 11-18-1998]

(A) No person shall operate or drive any vehicle used for advertising and equipped with a sound amplifying or loud speaking device upon any street or alley at any time within the Central Business District.

(B) The City Engineer or designee may by written permit authorize the operation of any such vehicle.

[Ord. 1235, 11-18-1998]

(A) Whenever any resolution of the City Council designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a street the use of which is permitted by any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons, the City Engineer or designee is authorized to designate such street or streets by appropriate signs as truck routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons.

(B) When any such truck route or routes are established and designated by appropriate signs, the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons shall drive on such route or routes and no other route, except that nothing in this section shall prohibit the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons coming from a truck 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, if a building permit has previously been obtained.

(C) 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 used in the construction, installation, repair, operation or maintenance of any public utility.

(D) The City Council may by resolution declare certain streets and/or parts of streets to be truck routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons.

[Ord. 1235, 11-18-1998]

(A) Whenever any resolution of the City Council designates and describes any streets or portion thereof as a street, the use of which is prohibited by any commercial vehicle, the City Engineer or designee shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on these streets affected by such resolution.

(B) The City Council may by resolution prohibit certain streets and/or parts of streets to be used by any commercial vehicle. The provisions of the section shall not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of Public Utilities Commission.