City of Buffalo, NY
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2023-11-15
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The Code
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Part II, General Legislation
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Chapter 413 Streets and Sidewalks
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Article VI Vehicle Size and Weight Limits
- The Charter
- Ch C The Charter
- Ch CDL Disposition of Charter Legislation
- The Code
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 6 Boards, Committees, Agencies and Commissions
- Ch 12 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 16 Finance
- Ch 24 Libraries
- Ch 27 Notice, Publication of
- Ch 30 Office Hours and Holidays
- Ch 35 Personnel Policies
- Ch 37 Police Department
- Ch 44 Seal
- Ch 46 Telecommunications, Office of
- Ch 48 Time, Official
- Ch 53 Vehicles, City-Owned
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 63 Aircraft
- Ch 66 Air Pollution
- Ch 69 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 72 Ambulances and Ambulance Drivers
- Ch 75 Amusements
- Ch 78 Animals
- Ch 81 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 85 Bait Dippers
- Ch 88 Bakers and Confectioners
- Ch 91 Bicycle Paths
- Ch 92 Billiard and Pool Rooms and Bowling Alleys
- Ch 94 Boilers and Engines; Engineers
- Ch 96 Bonds and Contracts
- Ch 98 (Reserved)
- Ch 101 Buildings, Cleaning of
- Ch 103 Building Construction and Demolition; Fire Prevention
- Ch 105 (Reserved)
- Ch 107 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 109 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 111 Buildings, Public
- Ch 113 Buildings, Unsafe
- Ch 116 Burials
- Ch 119 Burning, Open
- Ch 120 Bureau of Administrative Adjudication
- Ch 122 Business Identification and Registration
- Ch 129 Certificates of Occupancy
- Ch 130 Sales of Cannabis and Products Containing Cannabis
- Ch 131 Certificate of Operation
- Ch 132 Tobacco/Hookah/Vaping Establishments
- Ch 133 City Property
- Ch 137 Code Enforcement
- Ch 140 Collection Agencies
- Ch 141 Collection of Arrears
- Ch 142 Collection Boxes
- Ch 143 Consumer Electronics Installation and Repair
- Ch 144 Contractors
- Ch 150 Dances and Dance Halls
- Ch 154 Discrimination
- Ch 158 Diseases, Infectious
- Ch 159 Dentistry
- Ch 160 Domestic Partnership Registry
- Ch 161 Drugs
- Ch 165 Electricity
- Ch 167 Elevators and Conveyances
- Ch 168 Environmental Review
- Ch 169 Excavations and Quarries
- Ch 175 Fees
- Ch 180 Firearms, Arrows and Other Weapons
- Ch 183 Flags
- Ch 186 Flammable Liquids
- Ch 189 (Reserved)
- Ch 193 Food and Drugs
- Ch 194 Food Stores
- Ch 196 (Reserved)
- Ch 199 Fruits and Vegetables
- Ch 203 Fumigation
- Ch 209 Gambling
- Ch 213 Games of Chance
- Ch 216 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 219 Gasoline
- Ch 222 (Reserved)
- Ch 226 Grain
- Ch 232 Handbills and Other Publications
- Ch 235 Hazardous Materials and Wastes
- Ch 238 Heating
- Ch 242 Housing Standards
- Ch 249 Inspections
- Ch 254 Junk Dealers and Pawnbrokers
- Ch 259 Laundries and Clothes Cleaners
- Ch 261 Lead-Based Paint Abatement
- Ch 263 Licenses
- Ch 264 Rental Dwelling Unit Registration
- Ch 265 Property Managers
- Ch 266 Liquefied Petroleum Gas
- Ch 269 Lodging Houses
- Ch 270 Eviction for Illegal Drug Use and Possession
- Ch 275 Markets
- Ch 277 Mortgage in Default Property Registry
- Ch 278 Motion Pictures
- Ch 281 Multiple Housing
- Ch 286 Naming of Streets, Parks and Public Buildings
- Ch 288 Natural Gas Extraction
- Ch 289 Newsstands
- Ch 293 Noise
- Ch 294 Nuisance Abatement
- Ch 295 Nuisance Party
- Ch 299 Obscenity
- Ch 302 Oil and Gas Wells
- Ch 307 Parking and Parking Lots
- Ch 309 Parks and Other Open Spaces
- Ch 313 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 316 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 317 Aggressive Panhandling
- Ch 319 Performers, Outdoor
- Ch 322 (Reserved)
- Ch 326 Plumbing
- Ch 330 Poles and Wires
- Ch 333 Police Shields, Use of
- Ch 337 Preservation Standards
- Ch 341 Property Maintenance
- Ch 343 Promoting General Welfare of Minors in Public Places
- Ch 345 Public Safety, Obstruction of
- Ch 352 Railroads
- Ch 356 Rat Control
- Ch 361 Records
- Ch 365 Refrigerators
- Ch 370 Restaurants
- Ch 372 Bouncers
- Ch 378 Sanitation
- Ch 383 Shortwave Broadcasts
- Ch 387 (Reserved)
- Ch 391 Slaughterhouses
- Ch 395 Smoke Detectors
- Ch 399 Smoking
- Ch 404 (Reserved)
- Ch 409 Statues and Monuments; Public Art
- Ch 413 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 413 Art VI Vehicle Size and Weight Limits
- § 413-41 Operation of vehicles exceeding size or weight limits.
- § 413-42 Vehicles with lugs or cleats.
- Ch 414 Special Events
- Ch 417 Strikebreakers
- Ch 421 (Reserved)
- Ch 425 (Reserved)
- Ch 430 Swimming Pools
- Ch 431 Tax Preparers, Regulation of
- Ch 437 Taxicabs, Liveries and Sightseeing Buses
- Ch 440 Telecommunications
- Ch 441 Telephone Facilities
- Ch 442 Wireless Facilities in Public Right-Of-Way
- Ch 444 (Reserved)
- Ch 449 Tires
- Ch 452 Alcohol Advertising
- Ch 454 Tow Trucks and Motor Vehicle Booting
- Ch 459 Trailers
- Ch 463 Transient Businesses; Trade Shows and Festivals
- Ch 467 Trees, Shrubs and Plants
- Ch 475 (Reserved)
- Ch 479 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 483 Vending Machines
- Ch 491 Water and Water Pollution
- Ch 495 Wharves, Harbors and Bridges
- Ch 496 Unified Development Ordinance
- Ch 501 Wood and Coal
- Ch 511 (Reserved)
- Distribution Table
- Ch DT Distribution Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Derived from Secs. 30 and 31 of Ch. IV of the Charter and
Ordinances, 1974]
A.
No person shall operate or drive or shall cause to be operated or
driven upon and over any public street or roadway, bridge or viaduct
in the City a motor vehicle or trailer or a combination of vehicles
of a size or weight exceeding the size and weight limitations provided
for in § 385, Subdivisions 1 through and including 15, of
the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York. Section 385
of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York is referred
to here only for the purpose of describing such size and weight limitations.
Vehicles exceeding such size or weight limitations which are normally
prohibited from being operated or driven over a public street or roadway
but which are specifically exempted under § 385, Subdivision
16, from the requirements of § 385 of the Vehicle and Traffic
Law are subject to the permit requirements as set out below.
[Amended 11-29-1994, effective 12-12-1994]
B.
A vehicle or a combination of vehicles shall not be operated or moved
over or through any bridge, viaduct or other structure on any street
or roadway in the City if the weight of such vehicle or combination
of vehicles and load is greater than the capacity of the structure
or exceeds the height of the posted clearance as shown by a sign placed
on said structure.
C.
Upon application, in writing, and upon good cause being shown, the
Commissioner of Public Works may grant permission, in writing, to
operate or move a vehicle or a combination of vehicles, the weights
or dimensions of which exceed the limitations provided for in § 385
of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, upon any street in the City. Every
such permit shall designate the route to be traversed and contain
any other restrictions or conditions deemed necessary by the Commissioner
of Public Works.
D.
Where permission is granted for the purposes herein set forth, an inspection fee as provided in Chapter 175, Fees, shall be paid.
E.
However, any person, partnership, firm or corporation may, in lieu of the above specified inspection fee, apply for an annual permit in the amount as provided in Chapter 175, Fees, said permit to be effective from January 1 through December 31.
F.
Nothing contained herein shall relieve any person, partnership, firm
or corporation who has obtained an annual permit as hereinbefore provided
from complying with all other provisions and requirements contained
in this section.
G.
The person to whom such permit is issued shall pay the expenses of
all repairs to pavements, bridges, viaducts, roadways, manholes, sewers
and receivers, which may be necessary by such use of the streets and
roadways.
H.
All permits issued hereunder shall be revocable by the Commissioner
of Public Works at his discretion without a hearing or the necessity
of showing cause.
No person shall operate or drive and no person shall cause to
be operated or driven upon any public highway or bridge in the City
any tractor or other vehicle having any wheel or movable track or
tread thereof equipped with metal lugs, cleats, grouser shoes or similar
devices which are designed to come in direct contact with the surface
of the roadway of any highway, unless such metal lugs, cleats, shoes,
grouser shoes or similar devices are removed or are properly covered
and guarded so as to prevent damage to the roadway of any public highway
before being operated thereon.
