Maywood Municipal Code Art. 14 Restricted Use of Certain Streets

(a) 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:

(1) Any freight vehicle more than eight and one-half (8 ½′) feet in width, with load, or any freight vehicle so loaded that any part of its load extends more than twenty (20′) feet to the front or rear of such vehicle;

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

(3) Any vehicle conveying refuse, rubbish, garbage, or dirt.

(b) The City Traffic Engineer 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.

(§ 1, Ord. 70-71, eff. June 11, 1970)

No person shall operate or drive any vehicle used for advertising purposes or any advertising vehicle equipped with a sound-amplifying or loudspeaking device upon any street or alley at any time within the central traffic district.

(1) For the purposes of this code, "advertising vehicles" shall mean any vehicle or trailer that use illuminated lights, signs, flashing lights, television screens, sirens, bells, music or any other attention attracting or distracting lights, sounds or other attention attracting or distracting devices, unless otherwise authorized in the Zoning Ordinance or City Code.

(a) Due to the dangerous distraction that such a vehicle and device could cause to passing motorists in the central traffic district, the Maywood Police Department shall have the authority to remove and impound the violating vehicle or trailer under this section, if the violating vehicle or trailer is operated in the central traffic district without a City permit, or parked so near to the roadway, that the violating vehicle or trailer would reasonably cause a hazard by distracting or diverting the attention of passing motorists.

(§ 1, Ord. 70-71, eff. June 11, 1970, as amended by § 2, Ord. 03-492, eff. May 22, 2003)

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.

(§ 1, Ord. 70-71, eff. June 11, 1970)

(a) Whenever any resolution of the 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 (3) tons, the City Traffic Engineer is authorized to designate such streets as "Truck Routes" for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three (3) tons.

(b) When any such truck routes are established and designated by appropriate signs, the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross vehicle weight limit of three (3) tons shall drive on such routes and none other; provided however, the provisions of this section shall not prohibit the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three (3) 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, or 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.

(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to:

(1) Passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission of the State; or

(2) 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 resolution of the Council are hereby declared to be truck routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of three (3) tons.

(e) No person shall operate any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three (3) tons on any residential street or portion thereof, where an official traffic control sign has been posted prohibiting such operation. Violation of this subsection shall be a misdemeanor.

(1) Whereas the damage caused by such heavy vehicles is extensive to residential streets and whereas the costs incurred by the City to repair such damage to the residential streets is great, persons violating subsection (e) of this section shall be fined in an amount not less than One Thousand and No/100ths ($1,000.00) Dollars for the first violation and not less than Two Thousand Five Hundred and No/100ths ($2,500.00) Dollars for the second violation and not less than Five Thousand and No/100ths ($5,000.00) Dollars for the third or more violation.

(§ 1, Ord. 70-71, eff. June 11, 1970, as amended by § 1, Ord. 03-492, eff. May 22, 2003)

(a) Whenever any resolution 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 Traffic Engineer shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on those streets affected by such resolution.

(b) Those streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the Council are hereby 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 of the State.

(§ 1, Ord. 70-71, eff. June 11, 1970)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 09-01, § 2, adopted Jan. 30, 2009, repealed § 4-3.1406. Former § 4-3.1406 pertained to use of streets and sidewalks by pushcarts and derived from Ord. No. 88-341, § 2, effective Aug. 11, 1988.

Any person (except one (1) who causes or permits another to push or use a non-motorized vehicle) violating any of the provisions of Section 4-3.1406 (Use of certain streets and sidewalks by pushcarts), shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of Title 1, Chapter 2 of the Maywood Municipal Code.

(§ 2, Ord. 95-422, eff. December 14, 1995, as amended by § 2, Ord. 02-484, eff. February 12, 2002)