The following streets and portions of streets in the city are
hereby designated as truck routes for all trucks and motor vehicles
having a gross tonnage in excess of one ton:
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Street
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Extent
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Columbia Street
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Entire length
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Date Street (FM 400)
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Entire length
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Dimmitt Road, Northwest (U.S. Highway 194)
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Entire length
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Milwee Street
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U.S. 70 to E. 9th Street
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Quincy Street
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Industrial Blvd. to S.W. 3rd Street
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11th Street
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Date St. to Columbia St.
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5th Street and U.S. Highway 70
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Yonkers Street to east city limits
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Olton Road (U.S. Highway 70)
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Yonkers Street to west city limits
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16th Street
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Date St. to east city limits
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24th Street
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Date St. to State Hwy. 194
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Industrial Blvd.
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Entire length
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Farm Market 3466
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Entire length
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(2000 Code, sec. 24-251)
The use of all streets in the city by the operators or drivers
of any truck, tractor, truck-tractor, trailer, or combination truck
and trailer having a carrying capacity in excess of one ton, or the
driving of any of said vehicles on any street or streets in the city,
except in accordance with the terms and provisions of this article,
is hereby prohibited.
(2000 Code, sec. 24-252)
Any person driving or operating a truck, tractor, truck-tractor,
trailer, or combination truck and trailer, having a carrying capacity
in excess of one ton, when traveling through the city, shall drive
same on the street or streets designated as a truck route, and shall
not operate said truck, tractor, truck-tractor, trailer, or combination
truck and trailer on any other street or highway in the city.
(2000 Code, sec. 24-253)
The city secretary shall keep and maintain accurate maps setting
out truck routes and streets upon which truck traffic is permitted.
The maps shall be kept on file in the office of the city secretary
and shall be available to the public.
(2000 Code, sec. 24-254)
(a)
It shall be a defense to prosecution that a person drives or operates
a truck, tractor, truck-tractor, trailer, or combination truck and
trailer, having a carrying capacity in excess of one ton, upon a street
or streets not designated as a truck route in order to accomplish
a commercial purpose.
(b)
The defense provided herein shall not be applicable if the commercial
purpose could have been accomplished without deviation from the truck
route.
(c)
“Commercial purpose” as used herein shall mean for the
purpose of loading or unloading or for the purpose of making deliveries
to a destination within the city, whether for hire or not.
(d)
The word “person” as used in this section shall be construed
to import the singular and plural as the case demands and shall include
individuals, partnerships, corporations, societies, associations,
and all other legal entities.
(2000 Code, sec. 24-255)
The chief of police and city policemen shall have the authority
to require the person driving or in control of any commercial vehicle
not proceeding over a truck route or street over which truck traffic
is permitted to proceed to any public or private scale available for
the purpose of weighing and determining whether this article has been
complied with, and such person’s failure or refusal to proceed
as required shall be deemed a misdemeanor.
(2000 Code, sec. 24-256)
(a)
It shall be unlawful to drive or operate, on or over any street in
the city, a vehicle transporting ready-mix concrete of a weight exceeding
twelve thousand (12,000) pounds on a single axle, or exceeding thirty-six
thousand (36,000) pounds on a tandem axle, or exceeding forty-eight
thousand (48,000) pounds gross vehicle weight.
(2000 Code, sec. 24-257)
