§ 46-53. Requirements and exceptions.

(a)

Requirements. Except as otherwise provided herein, no person shall operate or cause to be operated upon any public street within the corporate limits of the city any commercial motor vehicle, truck-tractor, trailer, semi-trailer, or any combination thereof, in excess of the allowable maximum load, size, etc., except on such street or streets as are designated as truck routes by this article.

(b)

Exceptions. The provisions of this section shall not apply:

(1)

To a vehicle traveling to a place of performing a service, or to a place of unloading, over the shortest practicable route from a point on a truck route. Any such vehicle shall be permitted to proceed from one such point not on a truck route to another such point without returning to a truck route if to so return would unreasonably increase the distance to be traveled between such points over non-truck route streets; the operators of any such vehicle shall carry evidence of the location of its last stop and of its immediate destination in order for this exception to apply;

(2)

To emergency vehicles operating in response to any emergency call;

(3)

To vehicles operated by a public utility while cruising in an assigned area for the purpose of inspecting the facilities of the public utility and/or providing maintenance service to the facilities.

(Code 1994, § 10.203; Ord. No. 37, § 3, 9-11-1972)