HomeMy WebLinkAbout6.04 Local Truck Routes Ordinance CITY OF DUBLIN
AGENDA STATEMENT
City Council Meeting Date: September 28, 1987
SUBJECT: Public Hearing: Ordinance Establishing Through and Local
Truck Routes
EXHIBITS ATTACHED: Draft Ordinance
RECOMMENDATION: Open public hearing
2) Receive Staff presentation and public testimony
3) Question Staff and the public
4) Close public hearing and deliberate
5) Waive reading and adopt ordinance establishing through
and local truck routes
FINANCIAL STATEMENT: None
DESCRIPTION:
This ordinance was introduced at the September 14, 1987, City Council meeting.
This ordinance enables the City to establish certain City streets as through
and local truck routes. Streets so designated will become part of the City's Traffic
Code, and "Truck Route" signs may then be posted.
Staff is not designating any streets at this time but may do so when the
overall Traffic Code is adopted.
Staff recommends that the City Council waive the reading and adopt the
ordinance.
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ITEM NO. COPIES TO:
ORDINANCE NO. -87
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN
ESTABLISHING THROUGH AND LOCAL TRUCK ROUTES
The City Council of the City of Dublin does ordain as follows:
ARTICLE 1. DEFINITIONS
Section 1. MOTOR TRUCK AND TRUCKING COMBINATIONS. For the purpose of
this Title, a motor truck is a motor vehicle over twenty (20) feet in length or
exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of four and one-half (4 1/2) tons designed,
used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property; and a "trucking
combination" is any combination of vehicles designed, used, or maintained for the
transportation of property coupled together exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of
four and one-half (4 1/2) tons or a total length of twenty (20) feet.
Section 2. THROUGH MOTOR TRUCK OR TRUCKING COMBINATION. A through motor
truck or trucking combination is any motor truck or trucking combination as
hereinbefore defined, entering this City from any point outside of the City and
destined for any other point located outside the City of Dublin.
Section 3. LOCAL MOTOR TRUCK OR TRUCKING COMBINATION. A local motor
truck or trucking combination is any motor truck or trucking combination as
hereinabove defined which is not a through motor truck or trucking combination as
hereinabove defined.
ARTICLE 2. TRUCK ROUTES
Section 4. THROUGH TRUCK ROUTES - DESIGNATED. The through truck routes
shall be as designated by the City Council by resolution, which routes shall be
included in the Traffic Code.
Section S. LOCAL TRUCK ROUTES - DESIGNATED. The local truck routes
shall. be as designated by the City Council by resolution, which routes shall be
included in the Traffic Code.
Section 6. THROUGH AND LOCAL TRUCKS - RESTRICTIONS.
(a) THROUGH TRUCKS. When authorized signs are in place giving notice
thereof, it shall be unlawful for the operator of a through motor
truck or trucking combination to operate, stop, stand, or park such
through motor truck or trucking combination on any streets or
highways in this City other than those streets or highways listed
in the Traffic Code as Through Truck Routes.
(b) LOCAL TRUCKS. When authorized signs are in place giving notice
thereof, it shall be unlawful for the operator of a local motor
truck or trucking combination to operate, stop, stand, or park on
any streets or highways in this City other than the streets or
highways listed in the Traffic Code as Local Truck Routes.
Section 7. EFFECTIVE DATE AND POSTING OF ORDINANCE.
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force thirty (30) days from and
after the date of its passage. The City Clerk of the City of Dublin shall cause this
Ordinance to be posted in at least three (3) public places in the City of Dublin in
accordance with Section 36933 of the Government Code of the State of California.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Dublin on this 28th
day of September, 1987.
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk