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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances - No. 1410ORDINANCE NO. 1410 AN ORDINANCE OF THE LODI CITY COUNCIL ADDING CHAPTER 10.52, SECTIONS 10.52.010 THROUGH 10.52.070, TO THE LODI MUNICIPAL CODE, REGULATING VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC UPON THE STREETS WITHIN THE CITY OF LODI BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LODI AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1 There is hereby added to the Lodi Municipal Code, Title 10, a new Chapter 10.52 regulating commercial vehicle travel and parking upon the streets, sidewalks, and other Dublic and Drivate places within the City of TRAVEL AND PARKING Lodi, as follows: Chapter 10.52 REGULATION OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLE Section 10152.010 - Vehicle Weight Limits in C Whenever the Traffic Resolution of this C any street or portion thereof as a street, the ty Streets ty designates and describes use of which is prohibited by any commercial vehicle and/or by any vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight as is therein specified, the Public Works Director shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on those streets affected. No vehicle weight limit or restriction shall be established under this section without a public hearing. Section 10.52.020 - Vehicle Size Limits in City Streets (vc 21101) Whenever the Traffic Resolution of this City designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a street, the use of which is permitted by vehicles within the length limitations described in Section 35401.5 of the Vehicle Code, the Public Works Director is hereby authorized to designate such street by appropriate signs as a route for the movement of such vehicles. When signs are erected giving notice thereof, streets or portions of streets are hereby declared to be routes for the movement of vehicles within the maximum lengths allowed by Section 35401.5 of the Vehicle Code. (VC 35401.5) Section 10.52.030 - Route Restrictions A. When any commercial vehicle and/or maximum gross weight limit restrictions are established and designated by appropriate signs, the operator of any vehicle not in compliance with the specified restrictions shall not drive on such street except as otherwise provided by City ordinance or in the Vehicle Code. (VC 21101) B. Nothing in this ordinance shall prohibit any vehicle exceeding the limits established under Section 13.0 of this ordinance coming from an unrestricted street having ingress and egress by direct route to and from a restricted street when necessary for the purpose of making pick-ups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on such restricted streets 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 streets for which a building permit has previously been obtained therefor. (VC 35703, 35704) C. When any truck length route is established under Section 13.1 of this ordinance and designated by appropriate signs, the operator of any vehicle not in compliance with the specified limits shall drive on such routes and none other except as otherwise provided by City ordinance or in the Vehicle Code. (VC 35401.5) Section 10.52.040 - Permits The Public Works Director may issue permits in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Vehicle Code for the operation of vehicles exceeding the weight/length limitations imposed by this ordinance and the Vehicle Code. (VC 35401.5, 35780 et seq.) Section 10'.52.050 - Parking Restrictions It is unlawful to park a commercial vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of five tons on any street in a residential district. purposes of this section, "residential district" is defined as residentially zoned areas designated by the City Zoning Code (any "R-'I district) and includes schools, parks, playgrounds, community centers, churches, museums, golf courses (excluding miniature go1 f courses) and similar recreational uses of a noncommercial nature, and public utility service buildings where they are located in a residential district. For the This section shall not prohibit parking of commercial vehicles in the process of being loaded or unloaded. Section 10.52.060 - Parking of Trailers Prohibited No person who owns or has possession, custody, or control of any trailer or semitrailer shall park such trailer or semitrailer upon any street, alley, public way or public place, unless such trailer or semitrailer, at all such times it is so parked, is attached to a motor vehicle capable of providing the motive power for moving the trailer or semitrailer upon the street, alley, public way or public place. This section shall not prohibit the parking of a trailer or semitrailer in the process of being loaded or unloaded, nor of a trailer or semitrailer which is disabled in such a manner and to such an extent that it requires some vehicle or facility other than its normal means of motivation to move the same along said street, alley, public way or public place; provided, however, such trailer or semitrailer so disabled may remain so parked while unattached to'the motor vehicle described in this section only for the time necessary for the vehicle or'facility to be provided. for its removal, and in no event longer than two hours. This section shall not apply to utility trailers or trailer coaches (travel trailers) as defined in the Vehicle Code. Section 10.52.070 - Bus and Utility Vehicles The provisions of this article shall not apply to school buses and buses under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission, or to any vehicle owned by a public utility or licensed contractor while necessarily in use in (VC 2251-2, 35704). ._ - _.. __-the construction, installation, or repair--of any--publ-ic utili-ty. SECTION 2. repealed insofar as such conflict may exist. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are SECTION 3. Sentinel", a daily newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the City of Lodi and shall be in force and take effect thirty days from and after its passage and approval . This ordinance shall be published one time in the "Lodi News Approved this 2nd day of December, 1987 4 ** u/- Evelyn M. (nson Attest:. Mayor b %.p Alice M. R mche City Clerk State of California County of San Joaquin, ss. I, Alice M. Reimche, City Clerk of the City of Lodi, do hereby certify that Ordinance No. 1410 was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Lodi held November 18, 1987 and was thereafter passed, adopted and ordered to print at a regular meeting of said Council held December 2, 1987 by the following vote: Ayes: Council Members - Hinchman, Pinkerton, Reid, Snider and Olson (Mayor) Noes: Council Members - None Absent: Council Members - None Abstain : Council Members - None I further certify that Ordinance No. 1410 was approved and signed by the Mayor on the date of its passage and the same has been published pursuant to law. Alice M. Reimche City Clerk a%. AppFoved as to Ronald M. Stein City Attorney . - . . .. . - .