§ 10.08.015. Truck routes.

A.

Motor Truck Traffic Prohibited.

1.

Except as provided in subsection 2., no person shall operate any motor truck upon any public street or alley within the city unless such street or alley has been designated as a truck route.

2.

Motor trucks being operated on public streets for the following specific purposes are exempt from the restriction imposed by subsection 1. above:

a.

Picking up or discharging goods at any business establishment or residence in the city;

b.

Going to or from a business in the city for the purpose of fuel, service, or repair;

c.

Servicing utility facilities or construction sites in the city; or

d.

Traveling to or from the driver's residence while unloaded.

Such exempted vehicles shall depart from and return to the nearest available truck route for each exempted trip, they shall not cut through non-truck route areas between stops.

3.

For purposes of this section, "motor truck" means every motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property and having a gross weight in excess of twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds, excluding emergency governmental vehicles and city franchised vehicles.

B.

Truck Routes Established. Those streets, roads, and highways located within the limits of the City of Coquille are hereby designated as truck routes:

1.

Mill Street;

2.

Adams Street from Highway 42 to Third Street;

3.

Third Street from Adams Street to Central Avenue/Boulevard;

4.

Central Avenue/Boulevard from Third Street to the Coquille city limits;

5.

Fairview Road from Central Avenue to the Coquille city limits.

C.

Other Requirements. In addition to the state motor vehicle laws prohibiting parking, no person shall park or stand:

1.

A vehicle in an alley other than for the expeditious loading or unloading of persons or materials, and in no case for a period in excess of thirty (30) consecutive minutes.

2.

Any loaded motor truck on any street within a residential district within the city; excepting, however, certain service vehicles, utility company trucks when actually going to, performing or coming from work which normally falls within the scope of the utility companies' construction, maintenance and repair work, and moving vans when actually engaged in moving or transporting goods.

3.

Within that area between the curb or the curb line and the abutting property line commonly known as the planting strip, or on or over a sidewalk.

(Ord. No. 1489, § 1(Exh. A), 10-7-2013)