ORDINANCE NO. 2007-2
AN
ORDINANCE AMENDING THE 2005 REVISED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF MENNO, SOUTH
DAKOTA FOR THE PURPOSE OF REGULATING THE TRAVEL OF TRUCKS AND TRAILERS IN THE
CITY OF MENNO, HUTCHINSON COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF MENNO, HUTCHINSON
COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA, that the 2005 Revised Ordinances of the City of Menno,
South Dakota be amended to read as follows:
Chapter 1,
Section 1-3 shall be amended to include these additional definitions:
(a) “Deviating truck” is a
truck which leaves and departs from a truck route while traveling inside the
city.
(b) “Truck” is any vehicle
designed or operated for the transportation of property and whose body weight
or whose combined body and load weight exceeds six thousand (6,000) pounds. Such body and load weight shall include any
trailer and its load weight that is attached to such motor vehicle.
(c) “Truck route” is a way
over certain streets, as designated by map herein, over and along which trucks
coming into, going out of and traveling within the city must operate.
Chapter
36, Section 29 shall be added to provide as follows:
Section
A.
All trucks within
the city shall be operated only over and along truck routes established by
resolution of the City Council; and, except as otherwise expressly provided
herein, no truck shall be parked on any street which is not designated as a
truck route.
B.
The city finance
officer shall keep and maintain accurate maps setting out truck routes and
streets upon which truck traffic is permitted; the maps shall be kept on file
in the office of the city finance officer and shall be available to the public.
C.
Truck movement
within the city shall be restricted as follows:
(1)
All trucks
entering the city for destination points outside the city shall operate only on
streets designated on the truck route map.
(2)
All trucks
entering the city for a destination point in the city shall proceed only over
an established truck route and shall deviate only at the intersection with the
street nearest to the destination point. Upon leaving the destination point, a
deviating truck shall return to the truck route by the shortest route.
(3) All trucks entering the city for multiple destination
points shall proceed only over established truck routes and shall deviate only
at the intersection with the street, upon which such traffic is permitted,
nearest to the first destination point. Upon leaving the first designation
point a deviating truck shall proceed to other destination points by the
shortest direction. Upon leaving the last destination point, a deviating truck
shall return to the truck route by the shortest route.
(4)
All trucks on a
trip originating in the city and traveling in the city for a destination point
outside the city shall proceed by the shortest direction over streets on which
such traffic is permitted.
(5)
All trucks on a
trip originating in the city, and traveling in the city for destination points
in the city shall proceed only over an established truck route and shall
deviate only at the intersection with the street nearest to the destination
point. Upon leaving the destination point, a deviating truck shall return to
the truck route by the shortest route.
D. Exceptions: This section shall not
prohibit:
(1) The operation of
trucks upon any street where necessary to the conduct of business at a
destination point, provided streets upon which such traffic is permitted are
used until reaching the intersection nearest the destination point.
(2) The operation of trucks owned or operated
by the city, public utilities, any contractor or material man, while engaged in
the repair, maintenance or construction of streets, street improvements or
street utilities within the city.
(3) The operation of trucks by persons authorized
by the city to collect, remove, or dispose of garbage.
(4) The operation of
trucks upon any officially established detour in any case where such truck
could lawfully be operated upon the street for which such detour is
established.
(5) The operation of trucks and trailers whose
primary purpose is the transportation of people (for example buses, campers and
travel trailers).
E.
The city shall cause all truck routes to
be clearly signposted to give notice that this section is in effect.
F.
The chief of police shall have the authority
to require any person driving or in control of any commercial vehicle not proceeding over a truck route to
proceed, to any public or private scale
available for the purpose of weighing and determining whether this article has
been complied with.
Dated this 6th day of August, 2007.
Larry
Tolzin, Mayor
First
Second
Published:
Effective:
ATTEST:
Peggy Thranum, Finance Officer
(SEAL)