For the purposes of this division, the following words and phrases
shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section,
except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
means any vehicle of the fire department or police department,
public and private ambulances for which permits have been issued by
the state board of health, emergency vehicles of municipal departments
or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by
the governing body of an incorporated city, private vehicles operated
by volunteer firefighters or certified emergency medical services
employees or volunteers while answering a fire alarm or responding
to a medical emergency, and vehicles operated by blood banks or tissue
banks, accredited or approved under the laws of this state or the
United States, while making emergency deliveries of blood, drugs,
medicines or organs.
means any location within the city limits to which a commercial
motor vehicle may travel for purposes of conducting the routine business
activities normally associated with said vehicle. The term “business
destinations” includes truck terminals, motor fuel stations,
garages, places of repair, places of performing a service and places
of loading or unloading.
means 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.
means every person who drives or is in actual physical control
of a vehicle.
means every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle
which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley
wires but not operated upon rails.
means any place within the city limits from which a commercial
motor vehicle embarks for the purpose of conducting the routine business
activities normally associated with said vehicle. The term “points
of business origin” includes truck terminals, motor fuel stations,
garages, places of repair, places of performing a service and places
of loading or unloading.
means that portion of a street or highway improved, designed,
or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or
shoulder. If a street or highway includes two or more separate roadways,
the term “roadway” refers to any such roadway separately
but not to all such roadways collectively.
means 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.
means the entire width between the boundary lines of every
way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of
the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
means 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.
means 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.
means 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 herein defined, but excepting
devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails
or tracks.
(1976 Code, sec. 31-99; 1998 Code,
sec. 126-211; 2013 Code, sec. 56-188)
(a)
No person shall operate or cause to be operated any truck or other
commercial motor vehicle on a public street in the city without a
business destination or point of business origin within the corporate
limits of the city except upon streets designated as truck routes;
provided, however, this section shall not apply to emergency vehicles
operating in response to emergency calls or to vehicles operated by
a public utility in the performance of inspection or maintenance functions.
Such truck with a business destination or point of business origin
within the corporate limits of the city shall be operated only on
truck routes or on the shortest street route between such business
destination or point of business origin and the nearest truck route.
The driver of any such truck or commercial motor vehicle shall, at
any time such truck or commercial motor vehicle is operated off a
truck route, carry with him a bill of lading or other written evidence
showing all points of business origin and business destination within
the city.
(1976 Code, sec. 31-100; 1998 Code,
sec. 126-212; 2013 Code, sec. 56-189)
All streets in this city, other than those designated as truck
route streets, are hereby designated as commercial delivery routes.
(1976 Code, sec. 31-101; 1998 Code,
sec. 126-213; 2013 Code, sec. 56-190)
The street and drainage superintendent shall erect appropriate
signs and markings to designate the truck routes described in this
division.
(1976 Code, sec. 31-102; 1998 Code,
sec. 126-214; 2013 Code, sec. 56-191)
Whenever any street designated as a truck route is being repaired
or is otherwise temporarily out of use, the street and drainage superintendent
is authorized to designate alternate truck routes for such period
as might be necessary.
(1976 Code, sec. 31-103; 1998 Code,
sec. 126-215; 2013 Code, sec. 56-192)
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 division.
(1976 Code, sec. 31-104; 1998 Code,
sec. 126-216; 2013 Code, sec. 56-193)
Except as otherwise provided herein, no person shall operate
or cause to be operated upon any public street within 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 division.
Such vehicles shall be operated on a truck route wherever reasonably
practicable; provided they may 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.
(1976 Code, sec. 31-105; 1998 Code,
sec. 126-217; 2013 Code, sec. 56-194)
The provisions of section 11.05.037 shall not apply to:
(1)
A vehicle traveling to or from a truck terminal, garage, place of
repair, place of performing a service, or place of loading or unloading,
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 not on a truck route or commercial delivery
route to another 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 operators 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 such public utility
or providing maintenance service to the facilities.
(1976 Code, sec. 31-106; 1998 Code,
sec. 126-218; 2013 Code, sec. 56-195)
