ORDINANCE NO. 2009-5

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 (amended portion is underlined and deleted portion is struck through):

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 twenty-six six thousand (26,000 6,000) pounds or which has a gross vehicle weight rating specified by the manufacturer that exceeds twenty-six thousand pounds.  Such body and load weight shall include any trailer and its load weight that is attached to such motor vehicle.   Any motor vehicle primarily designed to pull a semi-trailer, shall be considered a truck regardless of its weight, even if it is not attached to a semi-trailer while it is located within the city.

(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. 

Dated this 7 day of December, 2009.

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Darrell Mehlhaf, Mayor

First Reading – November 2, 2009

Second Reading and Adoption – December 7, 2009

Published – December 9, 2009

Effective – December 29, 2009

ATTEST:

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Peggy Thranum, Finance Officer                                                                                  

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