A. Classification.
The streets or portions thereof of the City are declared to be and
they are divided and classified into two groups, and shall henceforth
be known as and regulated as to heavy traffic by the name of such
groups, together with the regulations appertaining thereto as set
forth in this section. Such groups are designated as "unrestricted
streets" and "restricted streets."
B. Unrestricted
Streets. Any street or streets designated as follows in this subsection
shall henceforth be known and designated as unrestricted streets,
and the City imposes no weight restriction or regulation thereon,
except as is contained in the California
Vehicle Code: Foothill Boulevard,
the San Bernardino Freeway, Base Line Road, Arrow Highway, Towne Avenue
from Foothill Boulevard northerly, Indian Hill Boulevard from American
Avenue to Arrow Highway, Padua Avenue from Base Line Road to Mt. Baldy
Road, Mt. Baldy Road east of Padua Avenue, and Monte Vista Avenue
from the City/County boundary line to Base Line Road.
C. Restricted
Streets. It is unlawful for any person owning or operating any commercial
motor vehicles or truck-trailer combination exceeding a maximum gross
weight of ten thousand pounds to drive or propel the same, or to cause
or to permit the same to be driven or propelled, or to park or to
permit to be parked, at any time upon, over or across any of the following
streets designated as restricted streets: Any and all streets or portions
of streets not otherwise classified as unrestricted streets or intermediate
truck routes are classified as restricted streets.
(Prior code § 13.83; 77-12; 77-24; 79-30; 98-07)
A. Section
10.52.010 shall not prohibit any vehicle or truck-trailer combination exceeding the prescribed maximum gross weight limit, coming from an unrestricted or less-restricted street, having ingress and egress by direct route to and from such restricted streets when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or structures located on such restricted streets and 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 upon such restricted street for which a building permit has previously been obtained therefor; but then only by such deviation from the nearest unrestricted or less-restricted street as is reasonably necessary. Such vehicles when making deliveries or in the performance of a service on said restricted streets shall be restricted by the provisions of Section
10.32.080.
B. The provisions of Section
10.52.010 shall not apply to:
1. Passenger
buses under the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission;
2. Any
vehicle owned by a public utility while necessarily in use in the
construction, installation or repair of any public utility;
3. Emergency
vehicles of the City; or
4. School
buses under the jurisdiction of any school district.
(Prior code § 13.84; 77-12)
The City Council, in accordance with Section 35701 of the
Vehicle Code, determines that notice of Sections
10.52.010 through
10.52.040 will best be given by posting the specific streets affected and mentioned in this Code, and therefore the City Traffic Engineer is authorized to post appropriate signs on any street in the City, which signs shall state and declare the load limit established by Section
10.52.010.
(Prior code § 13.85)
Any police officer shall have the authority to require any person driving or in control of any vehicle proceeding over a street to proceed to any public or private scale within a radius of five miles for the purpose of weighing and determining whether Section
10.52.010 of this Code has been complied with.
(Prior code § 13.86)
No person shall operate or drive any vehicle used for advertising
purposes, or any advertising vehicle equipped with a sound-amplifying
or loud-speaking device, upon any street or alley at any time within
the central traffic district.
(Prior code § 13.81)
Other than on vehicles actually engaged at the time in construction
or repair work on public highways, no tire on any motor or other vehicle
operated on or over any public street or bridge in the City shall
have on its periphery any block, stud, flange, cleat, ridge, head
or any other protuberance of metal or wood which projects beyond the
tread or traction surface of the tire. This section shall not be so
construed as to prohibit the use of tire chains of reasonable proportions
on motor vehicles when required for safety because of snow, ice or
other conditions tending to cause such motor vehicles to slide or
skid; provided, however, that traction engines or tractors, the propulsive
power of which is exerted not through wheels resting upon the ground,
but by means of a flexible band or chain, known as a moveable track,
may be operated upon the public streets with transverse corrugations
upon the periphery of such moveable tracks, on condition that a permit
shall first have been obtained from the City Traffic Engineer.
(Prior code § 13.82)