The Standard Traffic Ordinance as adopted is hereby modified by adding thereto the following:

The governing body may, by resolution, establish and fix the location of such traffic control devices as may be deemed necessary to guide and warn traffic under the provisions of this chapter, other traffic ordinances and the state laws. The city shall place and maintain such traffic control signs, signals and devices when and as may be required by the authority of the governing body to make effective the provisions of this chapter and other ordinances for the regulation of traffic. Any official traffic control device placed pursuant to this section shall be marked and labeled on a map of the City of St. John for the purpose of displaying all such traffic control devices and shall be filed with the city clerk to be open to inspection and available to the public at all reasonable hours of business.

(Code 1991)

It is hereby declared unlawful for any person to park, stop, or stand any motor vehicle, trailer or semi­ trailer on any highway, street, or alley within the city for a period exceeding 72 consecutive hours.

(Code 2006, 14-203; Code 2015)

(a)   Overweight vehicles for the purpose of this section shall be defined as trucks, trailers and other conveyances, whether loaded or unloaded, with a registered gross weight in excess of 26,000 pounds.

(b)   Designation of Truck Routes:  It is unlawful for any person to operate any overweight vehicle upon any street or alley within the City, except:

(1)   West Street

(2)   1st Avenue

(3)   Broadway South of 1st Ave. to Kendall Ave

(4)   Kendall Ave. East of Broadway to Prairie Street

(5)   Prairie Street North of Kendall to 1st Ave

(6)   4th Ave to West Street

(c)   Destination Access:  All such overweight vehicles shall be required to follow the truck routes but may leave the truck route at that point on the truck route nearest its destination in the city for the delivery or pickup of materials, goods and merchandise at a destination not on the marked truck route and the same shall return to the marked truck route by the most direct route. 

(d)   Exclusions:  School Busses; those trucks engaged in repairing, maintaining, or constructing streets, alleys, or utility services;  city-owned trucks; and solid waste haulers providing service to customers within the corporate city limits that may exceed a registered gross weight in excess of 20,000 pounds.

(e)   The streets designated in subsection (b) shall be properly identified and posted as truck routes within the City.

(f)   Any police officer or properly designated City employee having reason to believe that the gross weight of a vehicle or combination of vehicles or the gross weight on any axle or tandem axles is unlawful is authorized to require the driver to stop and submit to a weighing of the same by means of either portable scales or stationary scales and may require that such vehicle be driven to any scales suitable for this purpose in or within a one (1) mile radius of the city limits.  Portable scales shall be utilized only when stationary scales in or within one (1) mile radius of the city limits, whose accuracy is certified in accordance with law, are unavailable for use.

(g)   Penalty:  Violator of any provision in this section shall guilty of a misdemeanor.  Upon conviction of this offense, the violator shall be subject to a jail term not to exceed 30 days and a fine of not less than $100 or more than $500.  Additionally, the violator shall be required to pay court costs and reimburse the City for any damage to the street.  Damages may be assessed at the cost of repair.

(Ord. 1063)