§ 10.28.130. Parking commercial vehicles weighing more than seven thousand pounds and less than ten thousand pounds.

A.

Official signs prohibiting or otherwise restricting parking of any truck, tractor, trailer, or other commercial vehicle of any kind whatsoever having a curb weight more than seven thousand (7,000) pounds but not more than ten thousand (10,000) pounds may be erected on any public street or portion of street when the City Traffic Engineer, and his or her successor in title, has determined that the parking of such vehicles is creating a nuisance, blight, or hazard.

B.

When such signs are erected upon any public street or portion of street in a residential area, no person shall park, at any restricted time, such vehicles on such restricted streets.

C.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to the driver or owner of any service vehicle owned or operated by or for or operated under contract with a utility or public utility, whether privately, or publicly owned, used in the construction, operation, removal, or repair of the utility or public utility property or facilities upon, in, over, under, or adjacent to such restricted streets, whether privately, municipally, or publicly owned, if warning devices are displayed and when the vehicle is engaged in authorized work on such restricted streets.

D.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to the driver or owner of any commercial vehicle making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares, and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on such restricted streets or highways, or to the driver of owner of any commercial vehicle used for the purpose of delivering materials in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure upon such restricted streets or highways for which a building permit or re-roofing registration is required.

E.

For the purposes of this section, "curb weight" is defined as the manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating less the payload weight carrying capacity.

(Ord. 12038 § 2, 1998: Ord. 11792-A § 1, 1995: prior traffic code § 166)