Lodi Municipal Code Ch. 10.52 Regulation of Commercial Vehicle Travel and Parking

A. Whenever the traffic resolution of the city designates and describes any street, portion thereof as a street or particular highway, the use of which is prohibited by certain vehicles, any commercial vehicle and/or by any vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight as is therein specified, the public works director shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on those streets affected.

B. No vehicle weight limit or restriction shall be established under this section without a public hearing. (Vehicle Code Section 21101.)

(Ord. 1567 § 1, 1993: Ord. 1410 § 1 (part), 1987)

A. Whenever the traffic resolution of the city designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a street, the use of which is permitted by vehicles within the length limitations described in Section 35401.5 of the Vehicle Code, the public works director is authorized to designate such street by appropriate signs as a route for the movement of such vehicles.

B. When signs are erected giving notice thereof, streets or portions of streets are declared to be routes for the movement of vehicles within the maximum lengths allowed by Section 35401.5 of the Vehicle Code. (Vehicle Code § 35401.5)

(Ord. 1410 § 1 (part), 1987)

A. When any commercial vehicle and/or maximum gross weight limit restrictions are established and designated by appropriate signs, the operator of any vehicle not in compliance with the specified restrictions shall not drive on such street except as otherwise provided by city ordinance or in the Vehicle Code. (Vehicle Code § 21101)

B. Nothing in the ordinance codified in this title shall prohibit any vehicle exceeding the limits established under this chapter coming from an unrestricted street having ingress and egress by direct route to and from a restricted street 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. (Vehicle Code §§ 35703, 35704)

C. When any truck length route is established under this chapter and designated by appropriate signs, the operator of any vehicle not in compliance with the specified limits shall drive on such routes and none other except as otherwise provided by city ordinance or in the Vehicle Code. (Vehicle Code § 35401.5)

(Ord. 1410 § 1 (part), 1987)

The public works director may issue permits in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Vehicle Code for the operation of vehicles exceeding the weight/length limitations imposed by this chapter and the Vehicle Code. (Vehicle Code §§ 35401.5, 35780 et seq.)

(Ord. 1410 § 1 (part), 1987)

A. It is unlawful to park a commercial vehicle exceeding a maximum gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of ten thousand pounds on any street in a residential district. For the purposes of this section, "residential district" means residentially zoned areas designated by the city zoning code (any "R" district) and includes schools, parks, playgrounds, community centers, churches, museums, golf courses (excluding miniature golf courses) and similar recreational uses of a noncommercial nature, and public utility service buildings where they are located in a residential district.

B. It is unlawful to park a commercial vehicle exceeding a maximum gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of ten thousand pounds on any street in a commercial or industrial zone except where specifically signed to allow commercial vehicle parking between the hours of seven p.m. and seven a.m. unless otherwise indicated. This subsection shall remain in effect until January 1, 2003, or until a private parking lot is developed or located in or near the city limits, at which time subsection C of this section shall become effective.

C. It is unlawful to park a commercial vehicle exceeding a maximum gross vehicle weight rating (GWR) of ten thousand pounds on any street in a commercial or industrial zone.

D. This section shall not prohibit parking of commercial vehicles in the process of being loaded or unloaded.

(Ord. 1697 § 1, 2000; Ord. 1680 § 3, 1999)

A. No person who owns or has possession, custody or control of any trailer or semitrailer shall park such trailer or semitrailer upon any street, alley, public way or public place, unless such trailer or semitrailer, at all such times it is so parked, is attached to a motor vehicle capable of providing the motive power for moving the trailer or semitrailer upon the street, alley, public way or public place.

B. This section shall not prohibit the parking of a trailer or semitrailer in the process of being loaded or unloaded, nor of a trailer or semitrailer which is disabled in such a manner and to such an extent that it requires some vehicle or facility other than its normal means of motivation to move the same along such street, alley, public way or public place; provided, however, such trailer or semitrailer so disabled may remain so parked while unattached to the motor vehicle described in this section only for the time necessary for the vehicle or facility to be provided for its removal, and in no event longer than two hours.

C. This section shall not apply to utility trailers as defined in this code or trailer coaches (travel trailers) as defined in the Vehicle Code.

(Ord. 1752 § 2, 2004; Ord. 1410 § 1 (part), 1987)

The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to school buses and buses under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission, or to any vehicle owned by a public utility or licensed contractor while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility. (Vehicle Code §§ 22512, 35704.)

(Ord. 1410 § 1 (part), 1987)

A. It is unlawful on any public right-of-way to stop, park or leave standing for more than five consecutive minutes, a commercial vehicle exceeding a maximum gross vehicle weight rating of ten thousand pounds within two hundred fifty feet of a residential district while operating diesel and/or auxiliary engines between the hours of ten p.m. and seven a.m. Auxiliary engines include but are not limited to refrigerator units. This distance shall be measured in a straight line within the public right-of-way from the engine to the nearest point on the district boundary (i.e., not around corners or through private property). The term "residential district" is as defined in Section 10.52.050(A). (Vehicle Code 22507)

B. This section shall not prohibit parking of commercial vehicles in the process of being loaded or unloaded.

C. This section shall not apply to parking on state highways.

(Ord. 1581 § 1 (part), 1993)