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Editor’s note(s)–An ordinance passed and approved July 21, 1981, secs. 1–5 and 7, was not enacted as a specific amendment or addition to the Code, but has been included herein as a new Art. IV within Ch. 25 at the discretion of the editor. A map, attached to this ordinance, showing the truck and hazardous wastes routes has not been included herein, but can be found on file for inspection by the public in the office of the city secretary.
Whenever used in this article, the following terms shall be defined as follows:
Hazardous material
is defined as a substance or material in a quantity and form which may pose an unreasonable risk to health and safety or property. Hazardous materials may include products which are described as explosive, radioactive, etiologic agents, flammable or combustible liquids or solids, poisons, oxidizing or corrosive and compressed gases.
Motor vehicle.
Every device in, or by, which any person or property may be transported or drawn upon a public highway and which device is self-propelled.
Road tractor.
Every motor vehicle designed or used for drawing other vehicles or loads, and not so constructed as to carry a load independently or any part of the weight of the drawn load or vehicle.
Semitrailer.
Vehicles of the trailer type so designed or used in conjunction with a motor vehicle that some part of its own weight and that of its load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle.
Truck.
Any motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property with a manufacturer’s-rated carrying capacity exceeding two thousand (2,000) pounds, and is not intended to include those trucks commonly known as pickup trucks, panel delivery trucks and carryall trucks unless they are carrying hazardous material.
Truck tractor.
Every motor vehicle designed or used for drawing other vehicles, and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load as drawn.
(Ordinance adopted 7/21/81, sec. 1)
There is hereby established and created certain truck and hazardous materials routes in, through and around the City of Brenham, Texas, for all trucks, semitrailers, road tractors and truck tractors or any vehicle or conveyance carrying hazardous materials entering or exiting the city, as follows:
(a) 
U.S. Highway No. 290;
(b) 
State Highway No. 36;
(c) 
F.M. Road No. 577;
(d) 
State Highway No. 105 (northeast side of city) from where it enters the city limits to where it intersects with F.M. Road No. 577 (Horton Street);
(e) 
Farm to Market Road No. 2935 (north side of city) from where it enters the city limits to where it intersects with F.M. Road No. 577 (Horton Street);
(f) 
State Highway Loop No. 283 (north side of city) from where it enters the city limits to where it intersects with F.M. Road No. 577 (Horton Street);
(g) 
State Highway No. 36 (south) from where it enters the city limits to where it intersects with U.S. Highway No. 290.
(Ordinance adopted 7/21/81, sec. 2)
Through traffic of any truck, semitrailer, road tractor, truck tractor or hazardous material carrier on any street within the City of Brenham, Texas, other than those streets or highways specifically designated in section 25-91 hereof, is expressly prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
(Ordinance adopted 7/21/81, sec. 3)
The terms, provisions and regulations set forth in this article do not, and are not intended to, apply to trucks, semitrailers, road tractors, truck tractors, or hazardous materials carriers entering the City of Brenham and traveling on streets other than those designated herein for the purposes of pickup and delivery to a specific location, or to obtain service, repairs, lodging, fuel or other legitimate purposes requiring a stop within the city. All vehicles departing from an established truck and hazardous materials route under one of the stated exceptions herein shall return to said route by the most direct means practical.
(Ordinance adopted 7/21/81, sec. 4)
The director of public works of the city is hereby directed to appropriate signs upon the streets indicated herein and may, at his discretion, place signs upon other local streets notifying the public that no truck or hazardous material traffic is allowed thereon.
(Ordinance adopted 7/21/81, sec. 5)
Any person violating, disobeying or refusing to comply with any of the provisions of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be punishable by a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00) for each offense.
(Ordinance adopted 7/21/81, sec. 7)