Chapter 10.08
SIZE AND WEIGHT LIMITS
Sections:
10.08.010 Vehicles exceeding fourteen thousand pounds gross weight—Truck route designated.
10.08.020 Authority to impose additional weight limitations.
10.08.030 Restrictions on use of streets by certain nonmotorized vehicles.
10.08.040 Liability for damage to streets and bridges—Due to excess weight.
10.08.010 Vehicles exceeding fourteen thousand pounds gross weight—Truck route designated.
By reason of the construction of certain streets and their weight-bearing capacity, it has been determined that vehicles with a rated gross weight exceeding fourteen thousand pounds will cause serious damage to such streets. No vehicle rated in excess of fourteen thousand pounds gross weight or thirty feet overall length shall be operated or parked upon any city streets, except for those streets designated as truck routes and properly signed; provided, that those vehicles exceeding fourteen thousand pounds gross weight or thirty feet in overall length making intra-city deliveries or pick-ups 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 routes. The city streets designated as forming a part of the city truck route shall be designated by the city engineer. The city engineer will maintain a map of all truck routes. (Ord. 3675 § 1, 2008; Ord. 3434 §§ 1, 2, 1999; Ord. 3045 § 3(A), 1986; prior code § 12.64.010)
10.08.020 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; provided, 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 restriction, limitations or prohibition or reduction in permissible weights 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. (Prior code § 12.64.020)
10.08.030 Restrictions on use of streets by certain nonmotorized vehicles.
A. The director of public works, subject to the approval of the city manager, is authorized to determine and designate those heavily traveled streets upon which shall be prohibited the use of the roadway for bicycles, horsedrawn vehicles, or other nonmotorized traffic and shall erect appropriate signs giving notice thereof.
B. When signs are so erected giving notice thereof, no person shall disobey the restrictions stated on such signs.
C. The moving or relocation of any building shall require a permit from the director of public works and a 24-hour advance notice shall be given to the department of public works prior to using any street, highway or right-of-way for such purpose. The required permit fee shall be as determined by council resolution. (Prior code § 12.64.030)
10.08.040 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 a 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. (Prior code § 12.64.040)
10.08.050 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 the amount of damage caused thereby and shall be presumed to be the amount recoverable in any civil action therefor. (Prior code § 12.64.050)