For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall
apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different
meaning.
Any motor vehicle designed or used primarily for the purpose
of transporting property or materials, including but not limited to
trailers and semitrailers having a gross weight raiting equal to or
exceeding 4,000 pounds (2 tons). "Commercial Vehicle" does not include
passenger buses, motor homes, panel delivery trucks, farm equipment,
passenger cars, motorcycles pickup trucks or trailers that have a
gross weight raiting less than 4,000 pounds.
Shall mean and refer to "motor vehicle" as defined in Title
7, Subtitle A, Chapter 501 of the Texas Transportation Code, as amended.
Shall mean and refer to "semitrailer" as defined in Title
7, Subtitle A, Chapter 501 of the Texas Transportation Code, as amended.
Shall mean and refer to "semitrailer" as defined in Title
7, Subtitle A, Chapter 501 of the Texas Transportation Code, as amended.
(Ordinance 213 adopted 10/4/99; Ordinance 2014-003 adopted 7/28/14; Ordinance
2018-004 adopted 9/24/18; Ordinance 2024-001 adopted 3/25/2024)
(A)
Commercial vehicles restricted to truck routes.
Except
as otherwise provided herein, no person shall operate or cause to
be operated upon any public street or roads within the corporate limits
of the city any commercial vehicle without a local destination or
point of origin, except on such streets and roadways designated as
truck routes.
(B)
Parking of commercial vehicles prohibited in residential areas.
(1)
Except residences with drives connecting to any streets and/or
roadways designated as truck routes herein, it shall be unlawful for
any owner or person in control of a commercial vehicle to leave, park
or stand, or permit the leaving, parking or standing, of such vehicle
within any area of the city zoned residential according to the city
zoning ordinance.
(2)
Residences with drives connecting to any streets and/or roadways
designated as truck routes herein, may leave, park or stand, or permit
the leaving, parking or standing, of one commercial motor vehicle,
as defined by this chapter. A commercial truck and trailer together
are considered as one commercial motor vehicle.
(C)
Exceptions.
The provisions of this section shall not
apply to:
(1)
Any commercial vehicle traveling to or from a truck terminal,
garage place of repair, place of performing service, or a place of
loading or unloading over the shortest practical route to or from
a point on a truck route. Any such commercial vehicle shall be permitted
to proceed from one such point not on a truck route to another such
point without returning to truck route, if so return would unreasonably
increase the distance to be traveled between points. The operator
of any such commercial vehicle shall carry evidence of the location
of its last stop and of its immediate destination in order for this
exception to apply.
(2)
Any emergency motor vehicle operating in response to an emergency
call.
(3)
Commercial vehicles operated by a public utility while cruising
in an assigned area for the purpose of inspecting the facilities of
the public utility and/or providing maintenance to the facilities.
(4)
Commercial vehicles being operated for public service, i.e.,
garbage trucks, street repair motor vehicles and street repair equipment,
school buses, water service or electrical service motor vehicles.
(5)
Any farm or off-road related motor vehicles.
(6)
Commercial vehicles parked for the purpose of expeditiously
delivering or picking up merchandise to or from a specific designated
location or loading or unloading personal property to or from a specific
designated location while in the normal course of business for which
the commercial vehicle operates.
(7)
Commercial vehicles experiencing a mechanical defect making
it unsafe or impossible to proceed, for such period of time as emergency
repairs are made or, if repairs cannot be made in a timely manner,
until a tow truck arrives.
(Ordinance 213 adopted 10/4/99; Ordinance 2014-003 adopted 7/28/14; Ordinance
2018-004 adopted 9/24/18; Ordinance 2024-001 adopted 3/25/2024)
The following streets and/or roadways are designated as truck
routes:
(A)
State Highway FM 1389.
(B)
State Highway FM 3039.
(C)
Haines Road from the point of intersection with Davis Road north
to the intersection with Combine Road.
(D)
Davis Road from the point of intersection with Haines Road south
to the corporate limits of the city.
(E)
Bois d'Arc Road.
(F)
Combine Road.
(Ordinance 213 adopted 10/4/99; Ordinance 2014-003 adopted 7/28/14; Ordinance
2018-004 adopted 9/24/18; Ordinance 2024-001 adopted 3/25/2024)
The mayor and/or the city council, or their authorized designee,
shall erect appropriate signs and markings to designate the truck
routes designated by this chapter. Whenever a street designated as
a truck route is being repaired or is otherwise temporarily obstructed,
the city may designate an alternate truck route as may be necessary.
(Ordinance 213 adopted 10/4/99; Ordinance 2014-003 adopted 7/28/14; Ordinance
2018-004 adopted 9/24/18; Ordinance 2024-001 adopted 3/25/2024)
Any person, firm, corporation, agent or employee found to be
in violation of any portion of this chapter will be assessed a fine
not to exceed $500.00 per violation; each occurrence shall be considered
a separate violation.
(Ordinance 213 adopted 10/4/99; Ordinance 2014-003 adopted 7/28/14; Ordinance
2018-004 adopted 9/24/18; Ordinance 2024-001 adopted 3/25/2024)
