Skip to content

Earlier editions: 2026-07

Title 10 — Vehicles and Traffic

Live Oak, Sutter County Municipal Code Ch. 10.48 Restricted Use of Certain Streets

Live Oak, Sutter County Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Live Oak, Sutter County

Cite as: Live Oak, Sutter County Municipal Code Chapter 10.48 · Text as of 2026-10-04

§ 10.48.010. Central traffic district—Certain vehicles restricted.

No person shall operate any of the following vehicles in the central traffic district between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day:

A. 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;

B. Any vehicle carrying building material that has not been loaded, or is not to be unloaded at some point within the central traffic district;

C. Any vehicle conveying refuse, rubbish, garbage or dirt; provided, that the City Traffic Committee 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 traffic district.

(Ord. 149 § 13, 1968)

Exceptions & meaning →

§ 10.48.020. Central traffic district—Advertising vehicles.

No person shall operate or drive any vehicle used for advertising purposes or any advertising vehicle equipped with a sound-amplifying or loud-speaking device upon any street or alley at any time within the central traffic district, without first obtaining a permit from the Chief of Police.

(Ord. 149 § 13, 1968)

Exceptions & meaning →

§ 10.48.030. Central traffic district—Animal-drawn vehicles.

No person shall drive any animal-drawn vehicle into or within the central traffic district between the hours of 4:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day.

(Ord. 149 § 13, 1968)

Exceptions & meaning →

§ 10.48.040. Truck routes.

A. Whenever any ordinance of this City 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 Traffic Committee 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 none other, 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 or structure upon such restricted streets for which a building permit has previously been obtained therefor.

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 necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility.

D. Those streets and parts of streets established by ordinance of the Council are declared to be truck routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons.

(Ord. 149 § 13, 1968; Ord. 289 § 1, 1984)

Exceptions & meaning →

§ 10.48.050. Commercial vehicles prohibited on certain streets.

A. Whenever any ordinance of the City designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a street the use of which is prohibited by any commercial vehicle, the City Traffic Committee shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on those streets affected by such ordinance.

B. Those streets and parts of streets established by ordinance of the Council are declared to be streets, the use of which is prohibited by any commercial vehicle. The provisions of this section shall not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission.

(Ord. 149 § 13, 1968; Ord. 289 § 1, 1984)

Exceptions & meaning →

§ 10.48.060. Truck routes designated.

A. The following streets are designated as truck routes, the use of which is permitted by any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons within the meaning of Section 10.48.040:

  1. State Route 99;

  2. Larkin Road;

  3. Pennington Road;

  4. Broadway (between Larkin Road and Elm Street);

  5. Elm Street (between Broadway and California Street);

  6. California Street (between Elm Street and Pennington Road).

B. All other streets within the City limits of the City of Live Oak, except those designated in subsection A of this section, are restricted streets as contemplated in Section 10.48.040.

(Ord. 149 § 13, 1968; Ord. 289 § 2, 1985)

Exceptions & meaning →

§ 10.48.070. Violation of Section 10.48.040—Penalty.

A violation of Section 10.48.040 of this code shall be an infraction punishable by a fine of not less than $50.00 nor more than $500.00.

(Ord. 149 § 13, 1968; Ord. 289 § 3, 1985)

Exceptions & meaning →

Get a plain-English answer with a citation back to this text.

Ask AI about this code
▸Contents — Live Oak, Sutter County Municipal Code

GoCodebook provides public access, search, citation, multilingual explanation, and practical interpretation of legally adopted building regulations. It is not a substitute for the official ICC or California code publications.