Chapter 10.24
WEIGHT RESTRICTIONS
Sections:
10.24.010 Vehicles exceeding 26,000 pounds gross weight – Truck route designated.
10.24.020 Authority to impose additional weight limitations.
10.24.030 Liability for damage to streets and bridges – Due to excess weight.
Prior legislation: Ord. 86-11.
10.24.010 Vehicles exceeding 26,000 pounds gross weight – Truck route designated.
A. By reason of the construction of certain streets and their weight-bearing capacity, it has been determined that gross weights exceeding 26,000 pounds will cause serious damage to such streets. No vehicle exceeding 26,000 pounds gross weight or combination vehicles shall be operated upon any city streets, except for those streets designated as truck routes and properly signed; providing, that those vehicles exceeding 26,000 pounds gross weight making intracity deliveries or pickups, including the delivery of building material, may use the city’s streets which are not a part of the truck route, provided the most direct route is taken to and from the truck route. The city streets designated as forming a part of the city truck route shall be as designated in Table 1 of CRMC 10.24.040.
B. Except upon the truck routes designated in this section no person shall operate, permit or suffer to be operated upon the public streets and alleys of the city any vehicle or combination thereof exceeding 26,000 pounds gross weight or combination vehicles; providing, that those vehicles exceeding 26,000 pounds gross weight or combination vehicles making deliveries or pickups in the city, including the delivery of building material, will be exempted upon approval of an authorized official of the police department. Such approval may designate routes to be used which deviate from the truck routes established in this section.
C. Any person violating the provisions hereof shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding $500.00. [Ord. 89-7 § 1, 1989].
10.24.020 Authority to impose additional weight limitations.
A. The director of public works may prohibit the operation of motor trucks or other vehicles or may impose limits as to the weight thereof, or any other restrictions as may be deemed necessary whenever any street by reason of rain, snow, climatic or other conditions will be seriously damaged or destroyed unless the operation thereon be prohibited or restricted or the permissible weights thereof reduced; providing, that the authorities shall not prohibit the use of any street in the city designated by the State Highway Commission as forming a part of any restrictions or reductions in permissible weights unless such be first approved in writing by the State Highway Commission.
B. Any such restrictions or limitations or prohibiting any use or reduction of permissible weights shall be done by proper signs erected along the streets so affected in such manner as to advise the traveling public thereof. [Ord. 89-7 § 2, 1989].
10.24.030 Liability for damage to streets and bridges – Due to excess weight.
Any person operating any vehicle or moving any object or conveyance upon any street, alley or public way in the city or upon any bridge or elevated structure which is part of any such public street, alley or way of the city shall be liable for all damages which the public street, bridge or elevated structure may sustain as a result of any illegal operation of such vehicle or the moving of any such object or conveyance weighing in excess of the legal weight limits allowed by law. This section shall apply to any person operating any vehicle or moving any object or contrivance in any illegal or negligent manner or without a special permit as by law provided for vehicles, objects or contrivances of overwidth, overweight, overheight or overlength. [Ord. 89-7 § 3, 1989].
10.24.040 Liability for damage to streets and bridges – Negligent operation of vehicle – Recovery in civil action.
Any person operating any vehicle in the city shall be liable for any damage to any public street, bridge or elevated structure sustained as a result of any negligent operation of such vehicle. When such operator is not the owner of such vehicle, object or contrivance but is so operating or moving the same with the express or implied permission of the owner thereof, then the owner and the operator shall be jointly and severally liable for any such damage. Such damage to any public street or structure of the city may be recovered in a civil action instituted in the name of the city. Any measure of damage to any public street determined by the director of public works by reason of this section shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of damage caused thereby and shall be presumed to be the amount recoverable in any civil action therefor.
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Street |
From |
To |
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Huntington Avenue South |
I-5, Exit 48 |
Cowlitz Street |
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Huntington Avenue North |
Cowlitz Street |
I-5, Exit 49 |
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A Street SW |
Huntington Avenue South |
PH-10 Bridge, over Cowlitz River |
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Front Avenue (SW and NW) |
Huntington Avenue South |
Huntington Avenue North |
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Cowlitz Street (East and West) |
Powell Road |
Third Avenue SW |
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Third Avenue SW |
Cowlitz Street West |
A Street SW |
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Dougherty Drive NE |
Mt. St. Helens Way NE |
Southeast city limits |
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C Street SE |
Huntington Avenue South |
Allen Avenue SE |
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Allen Avenue SE |
C Street SE |
Cowlitz Street East |
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Jackson Street NW |
Front Avenue NW |
End of street |
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Mt. St. Helens Way NE |
I-5 Exit 49 |
North city limits |
[Ord. 2003-09, 2003; Ord. 89-7 § 4, 1989].