HomeMy WebLinkAbout0431 Truck Routes 1994CITY OF CHUBBUCK, IDAHO
ORDINANCE NO. 4 3
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CHUBBUCK, IDAHO, ENACTING
CHAPTER 10.24 TRUCK ROUTES; DEFINING THOSE STREETS NAMELY
YELLOWSTONE HIGHWAY AND SIPHON ROAD WITHIN THE CITY
UPON WHICH TRUCKS MAY TRAVEL; REPEALING PRIOR
CONFLICTING ORDINANCES; PROVIDING FOR THE SEVERABILITY OF
THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE; AND PROVIDING WHEN THIS
ORDINANCE SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CHUBBUCK, IDAHO:
Section 1. Chapter 10.24. The following Chapter 10.24, "Truck Routes", is
hereby adopted:
Chapter 10.24
TRUCK ROUTES
Sections:
10.24.010
Definitions
10.24.020
Applications of regulation.
10.24.030
Truck routes established.
10.24.040
Truck traffic within the city.
10.24.050
Enforcement.
10.24.010 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms,
phrases, and their derivations shall have the meaning given in this section:
A. ''Deviating truck" is a trick which leaves and departs from a truck
route while traveling within the city.
B. 'Person" is a person, firm partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
C. "Truck" is any vehicle designed or operated for the purpose of
transportation of property, and whose licensed vehicle weight exceeds twenty-six
thousand pounds but does not include a semi -tractor which weighs less than
twenty-six thousand pounds and is separated at the time of operation from the
trailer.
D. "Truck route" is a way over certain streets as designated in this
chapter, over and along which trucks coming into and going out of the city must
operate.
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E. "Oversized truck or load" is any truck or load on a truck which
would be prohibited on the roads of the state by Idaho Code Section 49-1010, or
which may only travel on state roads by permit, pursuant to Idaho Code Section
49-1004.
F. 'Destination point" is any lawful business premises for the loading or
unloading of cargo or the final lawful parking place.
10.24.020 Application of regulation.
A. All trucks within the city shall be operated in accordance with the
regulations set forth in this chapter.
B. Exceptions. This chapter shall not prohibit:
1. Emergency Vehicles. The operation of emergency vehicles upon
any street in the city;
2. Public Utility Trucks. The operation of trucks owned or operated
by the city, public utilities, any contractor or materialman, while engaged in the
repair, maintenance or construction of streets, street improvements or street
utilities within the city;
3. Detoured Trucks. The operation of trucks upon any officially
established detour; and
4. Residentially parked semi -tractors. The operation of semi -tractors
on residential streets solely for the purpose of temporarily parking the tractor
portion on private residential property with the permission of the property owner,
in compliance with other laws and ordinances, including Section 10.08.020. The
engine of such tractors cannot be left running while the tractor is parked.
10.24.030 Truck Routes Established. There is established within the city the
following truck routes upon these parts of the named streets lying within the City of
Chubbuck:
A. Yellowstone Avenue (U.S. Highway 91)
B. Siphon Road from Yellowstone West to the city limits.
10.24.040 Truck Traffic Within the City.
A. Outside Origin.
1. Outside Destination Point. All trucks entering the city for
destination points outside the city shall operate over a designated truck
route.
2. Inside Destination Point. 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 nearest to the destination
point. Upon leaving the destination point, the deviating truck shall return
to the truck route by the shortest permissible route.
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3. Multiple Inside Destination Points. All trucks entering the
city for multiple destination points shall proceed only over the established
truck routes and shall deviate only at the intersection with the street
nearest to the first destination point. Upon leaving the first destination
point, the deviating truck shall proceed to other destination points by the
shortest route. Upon leaving the last destination point, a deviating truck
shall return to the truck route by the shortest route possible.
B. Inside Origin.
1. Outside Destination Point. 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 route to a truck route as established in this
chapter.
2. Inside Destination Points. All trucks on a trip originating in
the city and traveling in the city for destination points within the city shall
proceed to their destination points by the shortest route possible, using
truck routes established in this chapter wherever possible.
C. Oversized Trucks or Loads. Any truck or load which meets the
definition of oversized truck or load as set forth in this chapter, regardless of
point of origin or destination, shall be limited to travel on a route specified upon
application for a permit as required by Idaho Code or Chapter 15.20 of this Code.
10.24.050 Enforcement.
A. Clerk Maintains Maps. Accurate maps setting out truck routes
defined in this title or hereafter amended shall be kept on file in the office of the
city clerk and shall be available to the public.
B. Street Department to Maintain Signs. The street department shall
cause all truck routes upon which truck traffic is required to travel to be clearly
signposted.
C. Weigh In. The chief of police shall have the authority to require
any person driving or in control of any commercial vehicle not proceeding in
accordance with the regulations in this chapter to proceed to any public or private
scale available for the purpose of weighing and determining whether this chapter
has been complied with.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Section 1. Repeal of Conflicting Ordinances. The provisions of any Ordinance of
the City of Chubbuck, Idaho, and any provision of the Chubbuck Municipal Code which
are in conflict with the provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed to the extent of
such conflict.
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Section 2. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance is held invalid, for any
reason, by any court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the validity
or enforceability of any of the remaining provisions.
Section 3. Effective Date. The rule requiring an ordinance to be read on three
separate days, one of which shall be a reading in full, is hereby dispensed with, and this
Ordinance shall become effective upon its passage, approval and publication as provided
by law.
PASSED BY THE COUNCIL AND APPROVED BY THE MAYOR OF THE
CITY OF CHUBBUCK, IDAHO, this 8th. day of NOVEMBER , 1994.
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SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 431
An ordinance of the City of Chubbuck, a municipal corporation of the state of
Idaho, adding Chapter 10.24 to provide for truck routes within the City of Chubbuck,
Idaho providing definitions; providing exceptions of vehicles that are not covered by
Chapter 10.24; providing that Yellowstone Avenue and Siphon Road from Yellowstone
Avenue west to the city limits shall be the truck routes lying within the City of Chubbuck
for use by trucks as defined by the ordinance; providing for regulation of truck traffic
within the City; providing for the enforcement of the ordinance; providing for the repeal
of conflicting ordinances; providing for the severability of the provisions of this
ordinance; providing that this ordinance shall be in full force and effect after its passage,
approval and publication as allowed by law.
The full text of this ordinance is available at the City Clerk's Office, Chubbuck
City Offices, 5160 Yellowstone, Chubbuck, ID 83202
I have reviewed the foregoing summary and believe it provides a true and correct
summary of Ordinance No. 431 and that the summary provides adequate notice to the
public of the contents of this ordinance.
DATED this 16 day of l Vf .✓«, 1994.
Thomas J. Holmes, t Attorney
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