No motor vehicle, commercial motor vehicle, truck, tractor,
trailer or semi-trailer shall exceed a length of 45 feet, except it
shall be lawful for refrigeration equipment installed in a trailer
or semi-trailer for the purpose of refrigerating the cargo thereof
to overhang the front of such vehicle, even though such overhang would
make the total length of such vehicle more than 45 feet. When any
such truck, tractor and semi-trailer are operated in combination,
no such combination of truck-trailer and semi-trailer coupled together
shall exceed a total length of 65 feet, and when operated in any other
combination of such vehicles coupled together, including but not limited
to, a truck-tractor and semitrailer, truck-tractors and two semi-trailers,
truck-tractors and trailer, truck-tractors and truck-tractors, truck-tractors
and semi-trailers and trailer, truck-tractors and two trailers, then
no such other combination of such vehicles coupled together shall
exceed a length of 65 feet.
(Ordinance 86-209-5, § IV,
adopted 5/27/1986)
The limitation of length shall not apply when such vehicle,
motor vehicle, truck-tractors, trailer or semi-trailer is operated
in a tractor-semi-trailer combination, if such combination does not
exceed 65 feet in total length, and unless, in the case of any combination
of such vehicles, the same be operated by or in behalf of a municipal
corporation in adjoining suburbs wherein such municipal corporation
has heretofore been using such or like equipment in connection with
an established service to such suburbs of the city, the state or the
United States.
(Ordinance 86-209-5, § IV,
adopted 5/27/1986)
The provisions of this division shall not apply to any disabled
vehicle being towed by another vehicle to the nearest intake place
for repairs.
(Ordinance 86-209-5, § IV,
adopted 5/27/1986)
The limitations of this division shall not apply to any mobile
home or to any combination of a mobile home and a motor vehicle, but
no mobile home and motor vehicle combination shall exceed a total
length allowed by state law. The term "mobile home" means living quarters
equipped and used for sleeping and eating and which may be moved from
one location to another over a public highway by being pulled behind
a motor vehicle.
(Ordinance 86-209-5, § IV,
adopted 5/27/1986)
Upon application therefor, the chief of police may, in his discretion,
issue a permit authorizing any such applicant to operate in the city
a string of vehicles of greater length than herein limited, but in
no event longer than allowed under state law and such permit shall
be limited to a specific job or definite period of time to be therein
indicated.
(Ordinance 86-209-5, § IV,
adopted 5/27/1986)
