Weed Municipal Code Ch. 10.48 Truck Routes ,

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* For statutory provisions authorizing cities to regulate the use of city streets by commercial vehicles, see Vehicle Code §35701 et seq.

** Editor's note—Ord. No. 388-2008, § 1, adopted October 9, 2008, repealed the former Chapter 3.48, §§ 10.48.010—10.48.050, and enacted a new Chapter 3.48 as set out herein. The former Art. X pertained to similar subject matter and derived from Ord. No. 110-71, §§ 16.2, 16.3, 16.3.1, 16.6 and 16.7, 197 and Ord. No. 182-78, § 17, 1978.

A. The public works director, when authorized by an ordinance of the city council, shall appropriately sign and mark streets, or portions of streets, as a "truck route" for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of ten tons.

B. When any such truck routes are established and designated by appropriate signs and markings, the operator of any vehicle exceeding a gross weight limit of ten tons shall drive on such routes, except when necessary to traverse another street to a destination for the purpose of loading and unloading, but when only by such deviation from the nearest truck route as is necessary. The posting or marking of non-truck route streets shall not be required to prohibit travel by vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of ten tons except as otherwise provided in this paragraph.

(Ord. No. 388-2008, § 1, 10-9-2008)

The following streets, or portions of streets, are hereby declared to be truck routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of ten tons:

A. Black Butte Drive from Shastina Drive to Vista Drive;

B. Kellogg Drive from Black Butte Drive to Mary's Drive;

C. Mary's Drive from Kellogg Drive to its northern terminus;

D. Vista Drive from the South Weed Interstate 5 interchange to its easterly terminus.

E. Main Street to Lake Street, East Lake Street to Boles Street to South Weed Boulevard.

(Ord. No. 399-2010, § 1, 9-9-2010; Ord. No. 388-2008, § 1, 10-9-2008)

The prohibitions in this chapter shall not apply to:

A. Any commercial vehicle making a pickup or delivery of goods, wares or merchandise from or to any building or structure located on a restricted street;

B. Any commercial vehicle delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure that is located upon a restricted street and for which a building permit has previously been obtained;

C. Any vehicle owned by a public utility or a licensed contractor while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility located on a restricted street;

D. Any vehicle owned and operated by a government entity while engaged in government business or by a licensed contractor while being operated pursuant to government business;

E. Any commercial vehicle licensed to collect, transport or dispose of waste materials, including recyclable waste materials, from any building or structure located on a restricted street;

F. Any emergency vehicle being operated in response to an emergency; and

G. Any passenger stage vehicle subject to Sections 1031 through 1036, inclusive, of the California Public Utilities Code, or to the Siskiyou Transit and General Express (STAGE).

(Ord. No. 388-2008, § 1, 10-9-2008)

In accordance with the provisions of Section 10.48.010 of this chapter, relating to truck routes, no person shall at any time cause trucks to be parked upon any street not so designated as a truck route in accordance with Section 10.48.010 of this chapter. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 10.48.010 of this chapter the city council, by resolution, may designate on any truck route street, or portion of a truck route street, deemed to create an unsafe or hazardous condition, areas where the parking of trucks shall be prohibited. Upon such designation by resolution of the city council, and with the placement of signs prohibiting the parking of trucks on any such truck route street, or portion thereof, the parking of trucks shall be prohibited. The posting or marking of non-truck route streets shall not be required to prohibit the parking of trucks on such streets.

(Ord. No. 388-2008, § 1, 10-9-2008)