The provisions of this Title prohibiting the standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those times herein specified or as indicated on official signs except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a Police Officer or official traffic control device.
The provisions of this Title imposing a time limit on parking shall not relieve any person from the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions prohibiting or limiting the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.
When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle at any time upon any of the streets described by ordinance.
When signs are erected in each block giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle between the hours specified by ordinance on any day except Sunday and public holidays within the districts or upon any of the streets described by ordinance.
When signs are erected in each block giving notice thereof, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle between the hours specified by ordinance on any day except Sundays and public holidays within the district or upon any of the streets described by ordinance.
Whenever by this Title or any ordinance of the City any parking time limit is imposed or parking is prohibited on designated streets, it shall be the duty of the City Traffic Engineer to erect appropriate signs giving notice thereof and no such regulations shall be effective unless said signs are erected and in place at the time of any alleged offense.
In cases where an equally direct and convenient alternate route is provided, an ordinance may describe and signs may be erected giving notice thereof that no persons shall operate any commercial vehicle upon streets or parts of streets so described except those commercial vehicles making deliveries thereon.
[Ord. No. 960812 §1, 8-12-1996; Ord. No. 961014-C §§1 — 7, 10-14-1996; Ord. No. 120409I §2, 4-9-2012]
A. 
For purposes of this Section, "truck or trucks" shall be defined as follows: Any vehicle, machine, tractor, trailer or semi-trailer or any combination thereof propelled or drawn by mechanical power and designated or used in the transportation of property upon roads, alleys, streets or highways.
B. 
No commercial vehicle or truck having a gross weight in excess of ten (10) tons shall be driven on those streets, roads, alleys or highways within the City limits of Willard, Missouri except as otherwise specified herein.
C. 
Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary, commercial vehicles or trucks having a gross weight in excess of ten (10) tons shall be permitted on those streets, roads, highways and alleys under the following circumstances:
1. 
While making deliveries or picking up specific products or items at or to a specific location on the street, road, alley or highway for the time required to make said delivery or pickup of said goods or products;
2. 
When engaged in the picking up of trash, rubbish, recyclables or other products for purposes of disposal;
3. 
When said vehicle is authorized road equipment utilized for maintenance, repair, cleaning or plowing said streets and when said vehicle is an emergency vehicle or a vehicle owned and operated by local, State or Federal government agency;
4. 
When said vehicle is utilized in the normal cause of the farming business and is being used for those purposes to move from one location to another or to deliver or transport goods produced on the farm.
D. 
No person shall operate or drive or cause to be operated or driven any truck or commercial vehicle having a gross weight in excess of ten (10) tons on any residential street in the City of Willard, except as otherwise provided herein and as reflected in Subsections (C) and (F).
E. 
If any truck or commercial vehicle is found on any street, road, alley or highway in violation of the provisions of this Section, and the identity of the driver or operator cannot be found or determined, the owner or person in whose name such vehicle is registered shall be held prima facie responsible for such violation. However, in the case of an owner-lessor/lessee motor vehicle, Section 304.120(4), RSMo., shall dictate the establishment of who shall be held responsible for any violation of this Section.
F. 
Trucks or commercial vehicles as described and unless otherwise specified herein shall not be operated in any area of Willard which is designated as a residential zoning district. Except trucks or commercial vehicles with a gross weight in excess of ten (10) tons shall be permitted on Farmer Street (also known as AB Highway), Jackson Street and Highway 160 (Olympian Boulevard). Trucks or commercial vehicles with a gross weight in excess of ten (10) tons may be operated in any area of Willard which is designated commercial or industrial.
G. 
Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary, the City of Willard may post signs designating areas where trucks or commercial vehicles are prohibited or limited in access by the vehicle's gross weight. However, failure to post said signs shall not be a defense for violation of this Section.