(A)
Certain streets or portions of street may hereafter, by amendment of this chapter or adoption of other ordinances, be declared to be truck traffic routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight certain or any vehicle exceeding an overall total length certain. When and after appropriate signs have been installed designating such streets and highways as truck routes, the driver of any vehicle which exceeds any such maximum gross weight certain (which maximum gross weight shall be determined by including the weight of any truck, trailer and load there-on) or the driver of any vehicle, which vehicle exceeds such overall length certain (which total overall length shall be determined to include any tractor, trailer or other vehicle or projection therefrom), shall drive on such route or routes, and none other, within the City, except only when necessary to traverse another street or streets to a destination for a purpose of loading or unloading freight, but then only by such deviation from the nearest truck route as is reasonably necessary to reach such destination. The provisions of this section shall not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the California State Public Utilities Commission. Certain streets or portions of streets may hereafter, by amendment of this chapter, or the adoption of other ordinances, be declared to be limited to the use of vehicles not exceeding a maximum gross weight and/or not exceeding a total overall length certain.
(B)
Certain streets or portions of streets may hereafter be designated and declared, by resolution of the City Council, to be limited to the use of vehicles not exceeding a total overall length certain, as a temporary emergency measure to protect the surface or structure of such or where the surface or structure of such streets is in such condition as to render the use thereof by vehicles in excess of such limitations so established a threat to safety of persons and/or property; provided that no such limitation so established by resolution shall be valid and enforceable for a longer period than one year. When and after appropriate signs have been installed designating such streets so limited to traffic not in excess of a weight certain or length certain, shall not drive on such streets or portions thereof, except when necessary to traverse such streets to a destination for the purpose of loading and/or unloading freight. The provisions of this section shall not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the California State Public Utilities Commission.
(Ord. 2713 § 1, 1988)