City of Bell Gardens, CA Chapter 13.28 WEIGHT AND SIZE RESTRICTIONS

§ 13.28.010 Vehicles exceeding 6,000 pounds – Prohibited on city streets – Exceptions.

Any vehicle exceeding maximum gross weight limit of 6,000 pounds is hereby prohibited from using any street in the city except as provided in this chapter, other than when necessary to traverse streets to a destination for the purpose of loading or unloading, but then only by such deviation from a truck route as is reasonably necessary.

(Prior code § 3308)

§ 13.28.020 Vehicles exceeding 6,000 pounds – Permitted on certain streets.

A. Trucks exceeding the maximum gross weight limit of 6,000 pounds may use the following streets or portions of streets within the city limits:

1. Garfield Avenue;

2. Florence Avenue;

3. Gage Avenue;

4. Clara Street;

5. Florence Place, between Florence Avenue and Garfield Avenue;

6. Eastern Avenue between Gage Avenue and the north city limit.

B. The intention of this section is to provide through passage truck routes in the city for commercial vehicles exceeding 6,000 pounds on the foregoing streets only. The city shall cause appropriate signs to be posted within the city designating the streets established as truck routes in subsection (A) of this section. This section shall be effective at such time as said signs have been erected.

(prior code § 3309; Ord. 227 § 1, 1970; Ord. 237 § 1, 1970; Ord. 261 § 1, 1971; Ord. 269 § 1, 1971; Ord. 342 § 1, 1975; Ord. 540 § 3, 1987; Ord. 563 § 2, 1989)

§ 13.28.040 Vehicles exceeding 10,000 pounds – Prohibited on certain street – Exceptions.

A. Any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of 10,000 pounds is hereby prohibited from using any portion of Eastern Avenue south of Gage Avenue within the city limits.

B. This section does not prohibit any commercial vehicle, coming from an unrestricted street, from having ingress and egress by direct route to and from a restricted street, when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares, and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on the restricted street, 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 the restricted street for which a building permit has been previously obtained.

C. This section shall have no application to any vehicle subject to the provisions of Sections 1031 to 1036, inclusive, of the Public Utilities Code, nor to any vehicle owned by a public utility or by a licensed contractor while necessarily in use in the construction, installation, or repair of any public utility.

(prior code § 3309.5; Ord. 261 § 2, 1971; Ord. 275 § 1, 1971)

§ 13.28.050 Exceptions designated.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to prohibit any vehicle from traveling on a restricted street 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 street, 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 street for which a building permit has been previously obtained, nor shall any provision of this chapter apply to any vehicle owned by a public utility while necessarily in use in the construction, installation, or repair of any public utility.

(Prior code § 3310)

§ 13.28.060 Penalties – Infractions.

Unless otherwise stated in this chapter any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of an infraction.

(Ord. 540 § 4, 1987)