Truckee Municipal Code Ch. 10.15 Regulating Classes & Kinds of Traffic on Certain Highways

Truck routes shall be adopted by resolution. After signs are erected giving notice of the adopted routes, those streets or portions of streets are hereby declared to be truck routes for movement of commercial vehicles exceeding the maximum gross weight of three tons.

(ORD 95-04 03-02-95 replaced ORD 93-23)

(a) Whenever any ordinance of this Town 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 traffic engineer is hereby authorized to designate such street 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 routes are established and designed by appropriate signs, the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons shall not park said vehicle on such routes and none other except for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on streets not designated truck routes 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 streets not designated truck routes 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.

(ORD 93-23 09-29-93)

The County of Nevada restriction on gross weight exceeding 14,000 pounds is hereby adopted for the southerly direction of travel on Northwoods Boulevard (downgrade or western lane) in that portion extending from the intersection of Donner Pass Road for a distance of 3,700 feet plus or minus northerly to Station 9 plus 100. The Nevada County code reference is Section G-IV3.B.3 F No. 18 as authorized by Section 35715 of the California Vehicle Code.

(ORD 95-05 06-04-95)

Truck routes shall be adopted by resolution. After signs are erected giving notice of the adopted routes, those streets or portions of streets are hereby declared to be truck routes for movement of commercial vehicles exceeding the maximum gross weight of three tons.

In accordance with California Vehicle Code Section 21115, the Town finds that the Tahoe Donner Planned Community Development is a "real estate development offering golf facilities" which allows golf carts as defined in Section 345 of the California Vehicle Code to be operated on public streets subject to the following regulations:

(a) Golf carts shall only be operated to and from the golf course.

(b) Golf carts shall be operated on public streets only between Sunrise and Sunset.

In accordance with California Vehicle Code Section 21115.1, the following golf cart crossing zones shall be established:

(a) Reynolds Way between Hole 9 and Hole 1;

(b) Reynolds Way between Hole 2 and Hole 3;

(c) Sierra Glen Way between Hole 8 and Hole 9;

(d) Snowpeak Way between Hole 6 and Hole 7;

(e) Swiss Lane between Hole 17 and Hole 18.

(ORD 95-04 03-02-95)