Note: Streets and Highways Code Section 35700 et seq.
The City Council may from time to time designate routes within the City upon which vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons may travel. The Public Works Director, in his or her discretion, is authorized to designate such routes of official truck routes by posting appropriate signs with respect thereto.
(Ord. 2348 7-31-79; Ord. 96-21 9-24-96)
It shall be unlawful for any operator of a commercial vehicle with a gross weight over three tons to drive such vehicle upon any street other than an official truck route when so posted by the Public Works Director.
(Ord. 2090 11-19-71; Ord. 2348 7-31-79; Ord. 96-21 9-24-96)
Nothing in this Article shall prohibit the operator of any vehicle exceeding the maximum gross weight of three tons coming from a truck route having ingress and egress by direct route to and from restricted streets, when:
(1) 
Necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise, from or to any building or structure located on such restricted streets;
(2) 
Necessary for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure, for which a building permit has been previously obtained;
(3) 
Any passenger bus under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission, or owned by a bus company licensed by the City;
(4) 
Any vehicle owned by a Public Utility while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility;
(5) 
Any vehicle owned by the City while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of a City utility or street.
The following streets or portions of streets are hereby designated as routes the use of which is permitted by any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons. The traffic authority is authorized to designate the following streets as "Truck Routes" by use of appropriate signs where, in his or her opinion, such designation is required:
Arbor Vitae Street from West City Limits to La Brea Avenue;
Aviation Boulevard from Manchester Boulevard to South City Limits;
Centinela Avenue from West City Limits to Florence Avenue;
Century Boulevard from West City Limits to East City Limits;
Crenshaw Boulevard from North City Limits to South City Limits;
Eucalyptus Avenue from Florence Avenue to Juniper Street;
Florence Avenue from Manchester Boulevard to East City Limits;
Hawthorne Boulevard from Century Boulevard to South City Limits;
Hyde Park Boulevard from Hyde Park Place to East City Limits;
Hyde Park Place from Centinela Avenue to Hyde Park Boulevard;
Imperial Highway from West City Limits to East City Limits;
Juniper Street from Eucalyptus Avenue from La Brea Avenue;
La Brea Avenue from North City Limits to South City Limits;
La Cienega Boulevard from North City Limits to South City Limits;
Manchester Boulevard from West City Limits to East City Limits;
Prairie Avenue from Florence Avenue to South City Limits;
102nd Street from three hundred twenty-five feet west of the centerline of South Doty Avenue to Yukon Avenue.
(Ord. 2527 12-3-85; Ord. 20-14 7-28-20)