A. 
It is unlawful for any person to operate or cause to be operated upon any of the streets, avenues, urban roadways, alleys, or highways within the City any vehicle or trailer or towed vehicles exceeding the limitations provided herein of the Montana Code Annotated Sections 61-10-101 through 61-10-110, 61-10-121 through 61-10-128, and 61-10-141 through 61-10-148 inclusive.
B. 
No person shall operate or cause to be operated any vehicle or trailer or towed vehicle over 16,000 GVW within the City on other than a State roadway except when necessary to traverse City roadways to a destination for purpose of loading or unloading. However, in any event, such deviation shall only be from the State highway to the destination. The deviation may not be on a roadway posted for no truck traffic or on a roadway posted with emergency load restrictions and must be by the safest and shortest route.
C. 
Any person operating a vehicle or equipment upon any City roadway, alley, street structure, or sidewalks shall be liable for all damages sustained by the street or structure as a result of driving or moving such vehicle, whether or not in violation of this or other City ordinance, except where the operator of such vehicle is authorized by special permit issued by the Director of Public Works or the Directors authorized representative.
D. 
The Director of Public Works shall have the authority to impose temporary emergency restrictive regulations as to weight of motor vehicles and loads on City roadways. Temporary weight and load restrictions must be posted on the effected roadways.
E. 
Emergency vehicles and City owned or operated vehicles will be exempt from vehicle size and weight restrictions within the City limits.
F. 
Special Permit for Excess: The operation of vehicles or combinations of vehicles having dimensions or weights in excess of the maximum limits herein designated shall be permitted only as authorized by special permit issued by the Public Works Director or the Director's authorized representative, which permit may be conditioned by the provision of protective measures by the person operating such vehicle.
G. 
Violation of this section shall be a civil infraction and prosecuted under the terms of KMC 1-11 through 1-17.
(Ord. 649 §§ 1—11; amd. Ord. 1800, 12-4-2017)
A. 
Specified: Every bus used for the transportation of school children shall be equipped with signal lamps mounted as high and as widely spaced laterally as practicable, displaying to the front two red and two amber alternating flashing lights. These lights shall have sufficient intensity to be visible at five hundred feet (500') in normal sunlight. The warning lights shall be of a type and located on each bus as prescribed by the State Board of Education and approved by the Supervisor of the Highway Patrol. Each school bus shall bear upon the front and rear thereof plainly visible signs containing the words "SCHOOL BUS" in letters not less than eight inches (8ʺ) in height.
B. 
Actuation of Lights: The amber flashing lights specified in subsection A of this section shall be actuated by the driver approximately one hundred fifty feet (150') before the bus is stopped to receive or discharge school children. Red lights shall be actuated by the driver of such school bus whenever but only whenever such vehicle is stopped on the highway for the purpose of receiving or discharging school children.
C. 
Meeting or Overtaking Bus: The driver of a vehicle upon a City street upon meeting or overtaking from either direction any school bus which has stopped or is preparing to stop on the City street for the purpose of receiving or discharging any school children shall stop the vehicle before reaching such school bus when there is in operation on such bus a visual signal as specified herein in this section, and such driver shall not proceed until such school bus resumes motion or is signaled by the school bus driver to proceed as the visual signals are not longer actuated.
(Ord. 733 §§ 1—3)
A. 
Muffler Required: No person shall operate a motor vehicle of any type, including a motorcycle, within the City, unless the same is equipped with a muffler in good working order, in constant operation and of sufficient size to prevent excessive and unusual noise.
B. 
Cut-Outs Prohibited: No person shall use a cut-out, by-pass or similar device on any motor vehicle, including a motorcycle.
(Ord. 744 §§ 1, 2)