Irwindale Municipal Code Ch. 10.40 Restricted Use of Certain Streets

Footnotes:

--- (11) ---

* For statutory provisions authorizing cities to permit or prohibit commercial vehicles of certain weight limits from the normal use of certain city streets, see Vehicle Code §§ 35700 et seq.; for provisions on local regulation of speed limits, see Vehicle Code § 22357 et seq.

No person shall drive any animal-drawn vehicle into or within a business district between the hours of four-thirty p.m. and six p.m. of any day.

(Ord. 62 § 1(part), 1959: prior code § 3178).

A. Whenever this code 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 of three tons, the city traffic engineer is authorized to designate such street or portion by appropriate signs as truck traffic routes for movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons.

B. When any such truck traffic route or routes are established and designated by appropriate signs, no person shall drive, stand or park any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons on any street, or portion of a street, except those so designated as truck traffic routes; provided, however, that this section shall not prohibit the uses set forth in § 35703 and § 35704 of the California Vehicle Code. The provisions of this section shall not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission.

C. The following streets and parts of streets are declared to be truck traffic routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons:

D. A violation of this section shall constitute an infraction and shall be punishable as provided in this code.

(Ord. 498 § 1, 1995: Ord. 330 § 49, 1979; Ord. 130 § 1, 1963; Ord. 123 § 1, 1962; Ord. 62 § 1(part), 1959: prior code § 3179).

A. Whenever this code designates and describes any street, or portion thereof, as a street the use of which is prohibited by commercial vehicles exceeding a maximum weight of three tons, the city traffic engineer shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on the streets, or portions thereof, affected thereby.

B. The following streets, or portions thereof, are declared to be streets the use of which is prohibited for driving, standing or parking by any commercial vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons:

C. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections A and B of this section, the provisions thereof shall not prohibit the use of said streets by commercial vehicles for the uses specified in § 35703 and § 35704 of the California Vehicle Code.

D. A violation of this section shall constitute an infraction and shall be punishable as provided in this code.

(Ord. 498 § 2(part), 1995: Ord. 62 § 1(part), 1959: prior code § 3180).

It is determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that the speed permitted by state law outside of business and residence districts, as applicable upon the following streets, is greater than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist upon such streets and it is declared that the prima facie speed limit shall be as set forth in this section on those streets or parts of streets designated below when signs are erected giving notice thereof:

(Ord. 495 § 1, 1995: Ord. 376 § 1, 1984; Ord. 254 § 1, 1972; Ord. 183 § 1, 1966: Ord. 155 § 1, 1964; Ord. 138 § 1, 1963; Ord. 134 § 2, 1963; Ord. 84 § 1, 1960; Ord. 82 § 1, 1959: Ord. 71 § 1, 1959: Ord. 68 § 1, 1959: prior code § 3182).

(Ord. No. 792, § 2, 2-26-25)

A. No person shall drive a motor vehicle upon any privately owned street, road, or vehicle easement serving or providing vehicle access to three or more separately owned parcels of real property at a speed greater than fifteen miles per hour.

B. As used in this section, the phrase "separately owned parcels of real property" includes any separate parcels, whether a separate parcel in a recorded subdivision or by reason of a metes and bounds description.

(Ord. 85 § 1, 1960: prior code § 3183).

It is the intention of the city to provide reasonable traffic and parking rules, regulations and laws. All intersections, safety zones, crosswalks, roadway or curb parking, loading, standing, regulation markings, stop signs, boulevard stop signs, warning signs, traffic signals, and all other traffic-control signs and devices, parking limit signs, roadway markings relative to traffic direction and control, and also relative to parking, now painted or marked or posted or in place or designated or authorized by existing county ordinances, or by county road commission, or by county sheriff or by State Highway Patrol, or by other agencies to whom such authority was delegated by the state or county shall so continue as if founded, established or designated by the city council and shall be enforced pursuant to this title as part of the traffic regulations of the city until the city council adopts rules or regulations, or laws to the contrary. No person shall drive, stand, or park a vehicle in violation thereof. The foregoing shall remain enforceable as long as they conform with the provisions of the Vehicle Code of the state or until changed by the city council. Hereafter, future designations relative to the foregoing shall be done pursuant to authorization given or granted by the city council to any person, agency, or organization.

(Ord. 62 § 1 (part),1959: prior code § 3181).