The following words and phrases, when used in this article,
shall for the purpose of this article have the meaning respectively
ascribed to them in this section, as follows:
Any motor vehicle designed or used for the transportation
of property, not including a passenger bus, passenger automobile,
motorcycle, panel delivery truck or pickup truck.
Every vehicle, as herein defined, which is self-propelled.
Every vehicle 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 own load rests upon or is carried by another motor
vehicle.
Every vehicle without motive power designed or used to carry
property or passengers wholly on its own structure and to be drawn
by a motor vehicle.
Every motor vehicle designed or used primarily 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 so drawn.
Every mechanical device in, upon, or by which any person
or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway,
including motor vehicles, commercial motor vehicles, truck-tractors,
trailers, and semi-trailers, severally as hereinafter defined, but
excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary
rails or tracks.
(2005 Code, sec. 10.2.01)
No person shall operate or cause to be operated any commercial
motor vehicle, truck-tractor, trailer, semi-trailer, or any combination
thereof through the city in intercity travel without a local destination
or point of origin except upon such streets as are designated as truck
routes by this article.
(2005 Code, sec. 10.2.02)
(a)
Except as otherwise provided herein, no person shall operate or cause
to be operated upon any public street within the corporate limits
of the city any commercial motor vehicle, truck-tractor, trailer,
semi-trailer, or any combination thereof except on such street or
streets as are designated as either truck routes or commercial delivery
routes by this article. Such vehicles shall be operated on a truck
route wherever reasonably practicable, and shall be operated on a
commercial delivery route only when it is not reasonably practicable
to use a truck route to fulfill the purpose for which such vehicle
is then being operated.
(b)
The provisions of this section shall not apply to:
(1)
A vehicle traveling to or from a truck terminal, garage, place of
repair, place of performing a service, or a place of loading or unloading
within the city over the shortest practicable route to a point on
a truck route or commercial delivery route. Any such vehicle shall
be permitted to proceed from one such point without returning to a
truck route or a commercial delivery route if to so return would unreasonably
increase the distance to be traveled between such points. The operator
of any such vehicle shall carry evidence of the location of its last
stop and of its immediate destination in order for this exception
to apply.
(2)
Emergency vehicles operating in response to any emergency call.
(3)
Vehicles operated by a public utility while cruising in an assigned
area for the purpose of inspecting the facilities of said public utility
and/or providing maintenance service to said facilities.
(2005 Code, sec. 10.2.03)
(a)
Truck routes.
The following streets and parts of streets
within the city are hereby designated truck routes under this article:
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Name of street
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Limits
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|---|---|
|
State Highway Spur 303
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Within city limits
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(b)
Commercial delivery routes.
The following streets and
parts of streets within the city are hereby designated commercial
delivery routes under this article:
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Name of Street
|
Limits
|
|---|---|
|
Bowen Road
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Within city limits
|
|
Arkansas Lane
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Within city limits
|
|
Roosevelt Drive
|
Within city limits
|
(c)
Posting of signs.
The city engineer shall erect appropriate
signs and markings to designate the truck routes and commercial delivery
routes described herein.
(d)
Temporary routes.
Whenever any street designated as
a truck route or commercial delivery route is being repaired or is
otherwise temporarily out of use, the city engineer is hereby authorized
to designate alternate truck routes and commercial delivery routes
for such period as might be necessary.
(2005 Code, sec. 10.2.04)
