(a)
Use of designated truck route required.
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 inter-city travel, without a local destination or point of origin,
except on streets designated truck routes by this article.
(b)
Leaving designated truck route.
Where it becomes necessary
to leave designated truck routes, the vehicles shall remain on streets
designated commercial delivery routes unless to proceed to or return
from a point of destination or service facility by the quickest possible
route.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 25A; 2004
Code, sec. 12.2401)
(a)
Truck routes.
The following streets are designated truck
routes under this article:
(b)
Commercial delivery routes.
The following streets are
designated commercial delivery routes under this article:
(c)
Posting of signs.
The city manager or his/her designee
shall erect appropriate signs and markings to designate the routes
described herein.
(d)
Temporary alternate 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 manager or his/her designee
is hereby authorized to designate alternate routes for such period
as might be necessary.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 25B; Ordinance 707 adopted 6/10/03; 2004 Code, sec. 12.2402)
(a)
Generally.
Except as otherwise provided herein, it shall
be unlawful and a violation of this article for anyone to operate
or move, on any public street within the corporate limits of the city,
any commercial motor vehicle, with or without the load, contrary to
any regulation contained in this section.
(b)
Size restrictions.
The restrictions as to size stated
in this article shall not apply to farm implements, machinery used
for the drilling of water wells, or highway building or maintenance
machinery owned or operated by or for the state or any political subdivisions
thereof.
(c)
Weight limitations.
No commercial motor vehicle or combination
thereof shall be operated on any public street within the corporate
limits of the city having a weight in excess of any one or more of
the following limitations:
(1)
The restrictions and limits on truck routes which are designated
in this article as being state highways shall be under the jurisdiction
and control of the state department of transportation.
(2)
In no event shall the total gross weight, with load, of any vehicle
or combination of vehicles exceed 16,000 pounds of [for] a vehicle
traveling on city streets without origin or destination within the
city.
(3)
Vehicles used exclusively to transport ready-mix concrete, other
building materials or materials manufactured or delivered within the
city may operate upon the public streets of the city while making
deliveries with a gross load not to exceed 48,000 pounds.
(e)
Permit for overweight or oversize equipment.
Upon application
made by any person or corporation which desires to operate or cause
to be operated on the public streets within the corporate limits of
the city, overweight and/or oversize equipment for the transportation
of commodities which cannot be dismantled where the total gross weight
or size of the vehicle or its load exceed the limits allowed by this
article, the city shall issue a permit for the operation of such equipment
or fleets of equipment for a specified period of time over a designated
route.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 25C; 2004
Code, sec. 12.2403; Ordinance adopting 2021 Code)
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or cause to be
operated any commercial motor vehicle on a public street of the city
in such manner as to permit any portion of its cargo, either liquid
or solid, to fall out of, spill from, or blow out of such vehicle.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 25D; 2004
Code, sec. 12.2404)
All of the regulations provided in this article are hereby declared
to be governmental and for the health, safety and welfare of the general
public. Any member of the city council, or any city official or employee
charged with the enforcement of this article, acting for the city
in the discharge of his duties, shall not thereby render himself personally
liable, and he is hereby relieved from all personal liability for
any damage that might accrue to persons or property as a result of
any act required or permitted in the discharge of his said duties.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 25E; 2004
Code, sec. 12.2405)
Any violation of this article can be enjoined by a suit filed
in the name of the city in a court of competent jurisdiction, and
this remedy shall be in addition to any penal provision in this article
or in the city code.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 25F; 2004
Code, sec. 12.2406)
The following special regulations limiting the load weight limit
to eight (8) tons on the streets and highways respectively designated
are hereby continued in force and effect as fully and completely as
if they were incorporated in full in this Code of Ordinances:
(1)
Ordinance 118A, passed January 10, 1967: Hodgkins Road from Highway
199 north to the city limits.
(2)
Ordinance 155, passed May 26, 1970: Roberts Cutoff Road from Lake
Worth Boulevard (Highway 199) north to Azle Avenue; Boat Club Road
from Lake Worth Boulevard (State Highway 199) north to Azle Avenue;
and Williams Spring Road from Lake Worth Boulevard (State Highway
199) north to the city limits.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 24; 2004
Code, art. 12.2300)
