(a)
Designated truck routes.
The following streets or portions
of streets are established as “designated truck routes”:
(1)
Mockingbird Lane from west Town limits to Roland Avenue;
(2)
Mockingbird Lane from Hillcrest Avenue to east Town limits;
(3)
Hillcrest Avenue from north Town limits to Armstrong Parkway;
(4)
Preston Road from north Town limits to Armstrong Parkway; and
(5)
Oak Lawn Avenue from Armstrong Parkway to south Town limits.
(b)
Violation.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate
a truck, tractor, trailer, or other commercial vehicle with a gross
combination weight rating or gross vehicle weight rating greater than
ten thousand (10,000) pounds on a street other than a designated truck
route, as defined in this section.
(c)
Exceptions.
This section does not apply to:
(1)
The operation of an authorized emergency vehicle responding to an
emergency call;
(2)
The operation of a vehicle for the purpose of constructing, maintaining,
or inspecting a public utility or street in the Town; or
(3)
The operation of a passenger motorbus upon regularly established
schedules under licenses and franchises expressly granted or that
may hereafter be granted by the Town.
(d)
Defenses.
It is a defense to prosecution of this section
that the vehicle was operated off of a designated truck route for
the purpose of performing a service or making a delivery, using the
shortest practicable route from and back to the designated truck route.
The operators of such vehicles shall carry evidence of the location
of the place of performing a service or the place of loading or unloading
in order for this affirmative defense to apply.
(e)
Signs.
The Town Engineer has the authority to erect
appropriate signs and markings as deemed necessary to notify motorists
of the designated truck routes established by this section.
(Ordinance 1977, sec. 3, adopted 5/11/15)
No commercial motor vehicle, truck, truck-tractor, farm-tractor,
road-tractor, trailer or semitrailer shall be parked or left standing
on any street, highway or other public way within the corporate limits
of the Town during the day or at night, except for a reasonable time
in which to make delivery of goods, wares, merchandise, building materials
or other commodities or to perform services requiring the use of such
vehicle.
(1971 Code, sec. 15-205)
(a)
Every bus operated within the corporate limits of the Town shall
follow its regular designated route through the Town.
(b)
The operator of a bus shall not stand or park such vehicle upon any
street at any place other than at a designated bus stop.
(c)
The operator of a bus shall not stop such vehicle upon any street
at any place for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers or
their baggage, other than at a designated bus stop.
(d)
The operator of a bus shall enter a bus stop on a public street in
such a manner that the bus, when stopped to load or unload passengers
or baggage, shall be in a position with the right front wheel of such
vehicle not further than eighteen (18) inches from the curb and the
bus approximately parallel to the curb, so as not to unduly impede
the movement of other vehicular traffic.
(1971 Code, sec. 15-206)
