A.
Except as set forth in Section 10.52.050 of this chapter "vehicle" or "commercial vehicle" as used in this chapter shall mean a commercial motor vehicle as that term is defined in Section 260 of the California Vehicle Code.
B.
No
vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of eight thousand pounds
shall drive on or use any street in the city of Manteca except as
otherwise provided in this chapter.
C.
The
maximum gross weight limits shall not apply to the entire length of
Moffat Boulevard and Lathrop Road, South Main Street between Moffat
Boulevard and the southerly city limit. Grant Street between Moffat
Boulevard and the public scales, nor to any vehicle exempted by Section
35701, 35703 and 35704 of the California Vehicle Code.
(Prior code § 12-13; Ord. 1212 § 1, 2002)
A.
No
person shall move or operate upon any of the city streets any vehicle
with a load or loads in excess of those permitted by the Vehicle Code
without a written permit from the city traffic engineer.
B.
The
city traffic engineer may, by written permit, authorize a load or
loads in excess of those allowed for in the Vehicle Code, if, in his
or her judgment, the streets upon which such vehicle is to be operated
can safely withstand the additional weight, or if the applicant will
guarantee to the city that all costs of repair to the streets or to
the public property of the city damaged by the movement of such load
or loads will be paid in full. Such permit shall be granted upon such
conditions and upon depositing such bond as the city traffic engineer
in his or her discretion may require.
(Prior code § 12-107)
A.
Whenever
any resolution of this city designates and described any street or
portion thereof as a street the use of which is unlawful and not permitted
by any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of four tons,
the city traffic engineer is authorized to erect appropriate "Not
a Truck Route" signs prohibiting the movement of vehicles exceeding
a maximum gross weight limit of four tons.
B.
When
any such truck route or routes are established and designated by appropriate
signs the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight
limit of four tons shall drive on such route or routes and none other
except that nothing in this section shall prohibit the operator of
any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of four tons coming from
a truck route having ingress and egress by direct route to and from
restricted streets when 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 or 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 streets for which a building permit has previously
been obtained therefor.
D.
Those
streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the council
are declared to be truck routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding
a maximum gross weight of four tons.
(Prior code § 12-102; Ord. 1212 § 1, 2002)
A.
Whenever
any resolution of this city designates and described any street or
portion thereof as a street the use of which is prohibited by any
commercial vehicles, the city traffic engineer shall erect and maintain
appropriate signs on those streets affected by such resolution.
B.
Those
streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the council
are declared to be streets, the use of which is prohibited by any
commercial vehicle. The provisions of this section shall not apply
to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the public utilities
commission.
(Prior code § 12-103; Ord. 1212 § 1, 2002)
A.
No
person shall operate or drive a commercial vehicle in, or across any
private driveway approach or sidewalk area or the driveway itself
without the consent of the owner or occupant of the property, if a
sign or markings are in place indicating that the use of such driveway
is prohibited.
B.
For
the purpose of this section a "commercial vehicle" means a vehicle
having a rated capacity in excess of one-half ton.
(Prior code § 12-54)
A.
It
is unlawful on any public right-of-way or off-street public parking
facility (as defined in the California Vehicle Code Section 4000(a)(2))
to stop, park or leave standing for more than five consecutive minutes,
a commercial vehicle exceeding a maximum gross vehicle weight rating
of ten thousand pounds within two hundred fifty feet of a residential
district while operating diesel and/or auxiliary engines between the
hours of ten p.m. and seven a.m. Auxiliary engines include, but are
not limited to, refrigerator units. This distance shall be measured
in a straight line within the public right-of-way from the engine
to the nearest point on the district boundary (i.e., not around corners
or through private property).
B.
This
section shall not prohibit parking of commercial vehicles in the process
of being loaded or unloaded.
C.
This
section shall not apply to parking on state highways.
(Ord. O2021-09 § 1)
