Tulare County Municipal Code § 3-13 General Provisions

This Chapter is adopted pursuant to the authority set forth in Sections 35100, 35401, and 35401.5 of the Vehicle Code of the State of California.

(a) It is the purpose of this Chapter to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the residents of this County by setting minimum standards for the use of County roads by certain interstate trucks. To that end, this Chapter and the provisions there under shall be liberally construed.

(b) It is additionally the intention of the Board of Supervisors to minimize the wear and tear on County roadways with increased usage by certain interstate trucks while still providing the fullest possible access for the County residents and businesses utilizing the benefits and services of such traffic.

This Chapter is not the exclusive regulation of County roadways. It shall supplement and be in addition to the other regulating statutes and ordinances heretofore or hereinafter enacted by the State, County, or any other legal entity or agency having jurisdiction.

Except as otherwise provided, this Chapter shall be administered and enforced by the Public Works Director of Tulare County.

This Chapter applies to all County controlled and maintained roadways and any truck traffic, local or interstate, using such roadways.

Except where the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall govern the construction of this Chapter:

(a)

"Board"

means the Board of Supervisors of Tulare County.

(b)

"Public Works Director"

means the Public Works Director of Tulare County or his duly authorized agents.

(c)

"Terminal"

means a facility at which freight is consolidated to be shipped, where shipments may be loaded or unloaded, or at which truck and trailer combinations are regularly maintained, stored or manufactured.

(d)

"Interstate truck"

means a combination of vehicles consisting of a truck tractor and semitrailer, with or without an additional trailer, which conforms to the conditions of section 35401.5 of the Vehicle Code of California. Any licensed carrier of household goods when directly enroute to or from a point of loading or unloading of household goods, whose travel on highways other than those designated through this ordinance is necessary and incidental to the shipment of the household goods, is specifically excluded from this definition.

(e)

"CALTRANS"

means the State of California Department of Transportation.

(f)

"Point of decision"

means any intersection, junction or other point on a roadway where a driver must decide to proceed straight, turn, exit or enter (driveway entrances are excluded).