Pinole Municipal Code Ch. 10.48 Restricted Street Use

* For statutory provisions on local regulations of advertising vehicles, see Vehicle Code § 27007. For statutory provisions authorizing cities to prohibit the use of specific streets to vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit, see Vehicle Code § 35700 et seq.

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, except when such use had been approved by the City Manager. (Ord. 432 § 2 (part), 1982).

No person shall drive any animal-drawn vehicle into or within the business district between the hours of four-thirty p.m. and six p.m. of any day. (Ord. 432 § 2(part), 1982).

Whenever any resolution 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 engineer 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. (Ord. 518 § 2(part), 1988).

A. When any such truck route or routes are established and designated by appropriate signs, the operator of any vehicle or combination of vehicles, tractor or truck tractor, exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons shall drive on such route or routes and none other except that nothing in this section prohibits the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons leaving a truck route by the shortest direct route to and from restricted streets when necessary to make pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any buildings located on such restricted streets or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure for which a building permit has previously been obtained.

B. When any such truck route or routes are established and designated by appropriate signs, no vehicle or combination of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons shall park on any street in the city not designated as a truck route. (Ord. 518 § 2(part), 1988).

The provisions of Sections 10.48.030 through 10.48.060 shall not apply to:

A. Passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission; or

B. Any vehicle owned by a public utility while used in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility. (Ord. 518 § 2(part), 1988).

The City Council may, by resolution, establish truck routes over streets and parts of streets for the movement of vehicles exceeding three tons. (Ord. 518 § 2(part), 1988).

A. Whenever any resolution of this 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 engineer shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on those streets affected by such ordinance.

B. Those streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the Council are 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. 432 § 2 (part), 1982).

A. The traffic engineer may issue a permit for short duration hauling, in writing, for the following:

1. Load or loads in excess of sizes and/or weights allowed for if, in his or her judgment the streets upon which such vehicle or vehicles is to be operated can safely withstand the loads, or if the applicant will guarantee to the city that all costs of repair to the streets or to public property of the city damaged by the movement of the load or loads will be paid in full;

2. Load or loads not in excess of the size and/or weights allowed for in the Vehicle Code desiring to use city streets other than the truck routes established for a specified period of time.

B. The permit fee shall be set forth by a resolution establishing fees for the particular prohibited street. In addition, the public works director may impose reasonable conditions on the permit necessary to protect the public health, welfare and safety and to insure that the damage to the city's streets is minimized. The city traffic engineer may also require the depositing of a bond in an amount established by the aforementioned fees and charges resolution.

C. If the use is to extend for a period of thirty days or more, the permit must be approved by the City Council . (Ord. 432 § 2(part), 1982).

A. No provision of this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the use of any street when such use is the only means of access for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries within the city of goods, wares and merchandise.

B. The prohibition contained in Section 10.48.070 shall not apply to the following types of vehicles:

1. Passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission;

2. Any vehicle owned by a public utility while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility;

3. Schools buses while carrying students to and from school;

4. Pickup trucks;

5. Motor vehicles designed by the manufacturer and actually being used for the transportation and collection of garbage, rubbish and refuse. (Ord. 518 § 2(part), 1988).

Pursuant to the authority granted by Section 21101(c) of the California Vehicle Code, the City Council finds and determines that the riding and driving of horses and horsedrawn vehicles upon certain streets of the city may conflict with automobiles and pedestrians. The public safety requires the prohibition of such use on public streets and highways as may be designated by the City Council . (Ord. 439 § 1(part), 1982).

No person shall ride or drive a horse or horsedrawn vehicle upon any street or highway where prohibited by resolution of the City Council . Such resolutions may be adopted only after a duly noticed public hearing. (Ord. 439 § 1(part), 1982).

Persons riding or driving horses and/or horsedrawn vehicles in a parade, celebration or event as may be approved by the City Council are exempt from the prohibitions of Section 10.48.110. (Ord. 439 § 1(part), 1982).

On any public street or highway where the riding of horses or horsedrawn vehicles is prohibited, there shall be erected at each end of the applicable roadway and at points along the roadway where intersected by major highways, appropriate signs to inform the public that the riding or driving of horses and horsedrawn vehicles is prohibited. Such signs shall make reference to the penalty for violation. (Ord. 439 § 1(part), 1982).