§ 9.32.050. Violation of truck routes; exceptions to Section 9.32.040.

All commercial vehicles, trailers, semi-trailers and combination of vehicles shall travel through or in the town only upon the routes designated in Section 9.32.040. Provided, however, that the police chief, the fire chief, and the public works director, are each hereby given the authority, in case of emergency or necessity, to grant permission to deviate from such routes, and provided further that vehicles proceeding to freight terminals or depots or vehicles making deliveries or being driven to designations off such routes for storage or repair, may deviate from such routes by only the street intersections leading directly to such designations, and such vehicles shall return to the routes from such designations by the most direct way.

The director of streets is hereby directed to erect appropriate signs to designate such truck routes and to mark the course thereof.

The owner and the operator of any vehicle driven over or upon the streets of the town in violation of the terms of this chapter shall each be guilty of a misdemeanor, which shall be punished by imprisonment of not more than ninety (90) days, or be a fine in an amount not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or both such imprisonment and fine.

(Ord. 1278, 1989: Ord. 381 § 1 (part), 1966: Ord. 305 Art. VIII § 5, 1959)

( Ord. No. 2849 , § 1, 1-27-14)

Editor's note

Ord. No. 2849 , § 1, adopted Jan. 27, 2014, amended the catchline of § 9.23.050 to read as herein set out. Said catchline formerly read as "Exceptions to Section 9.32.040."