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ORDINANCE NO. 11 -79
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING CHAPTER 685 OF THE CODE
OF THE CITY OF CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, ENTITLED
"TRUCK TRAFFIC ORDINANCE ", AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING
TRUCK ROUTES IN THE CITY; DESIGNATING CERTAIN OTHER
STREETS IN THE CITY FOR TRUCK TRAFFIC; PROVIDING FOR
ENFORCEMENT; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION OF
PROVISIONS; REPEALING ALL PARTS OF CITY CODE OR
ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT;
ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE ITS ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Cape
Canaveral, Florida, as follows:
SECTION 1. There is hereby established Chapter 685 of the
Code of the City of Cape Canaveral, Florida, as follows:
"CHAPTER 685
TRUCK TRAFFIC
Sec. 685.01 Definitions. For the purposes of this ordinance,
the following terms, phrases, words, and their derivations shall
have the meanings given herein. When not inconsistent with the
context, words used in the present tense include the future, words
in the plural number include the singular number, and words in the
singular number include the plural number. The word "shall" is
always mandatory and not merely directory.
(1) "City" is the City of Cape Canaveral, Florida;
(2) "Deviating Truck" is a truck which leaves and .
departs from a truck route while traveling in-
side the City;
(3) "Person" is any person, firm, partnership,
association, corporation, company or organization
of any kind;
(4) "Truck" is any vehicle designed or operated for
the transportation of property, whose combined
load and body weight exceeds five (5) tons;
(5) "Truck Route" is a way over certain streets, as
designated herein over and along which trucks
coming into and going out of the City must operate.
Sec. 685.03 Application of Regulation. All trucks within
the City shall be operated only over and along the truck routes
herein established and on the other designated streets over which
truck travel is permitted.
(1) Exceptions. This ordinance shall not prohibit:
(a) Operation on street of destination. 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.
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(b) Emergency Vehicles. The operation of emergency
vehicles upon any street in the City.
(c) Public Utilities. 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.
(d) Detoured Trucks. 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.
Sec. 685.05 Truck Routes Established. There is hereby
established within the City the following "Truck Routes ":
* (1) Outside Origin
(a) Outside destination point. All trucks entering
the City for destination points outside the City
shall operate only over State Highways ALA and 401.
Cb) Inside destination point.
(i) One 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 with the street,
upon which such traffic is permitted,
nearest to the destination point. Upon
leaving the destination point, a deviating
truck shall return to the truck route by
the shortest permissible route.
(ii) 'Multiple inside destination points. 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 destination point a deviating truck
shall proceed to other destination points by
the shortest direction and only over streets
upon which such traffic is permitted. Upon
leaving the last destination point, a deviating
truck shall return to the truck route by the
shortest permissible route.
(2) Inside Origin.
(a) Outside destination point. All trucks, on a trip
originating in the City, and travelling in the City
for a destination point outside the City shall proceed
by the shortest direction over streets on which such
traffic is permitted to a truck route as herein
established.
(b) Inside destination points. All trucks, on a trip
originating in the City, and travelling in the City
for a destination point in the City shall proceed
only over streets upon which such traffic is permitted.
* Amended on Second Reading
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Sec. 685.09 Enforcement
(1) Clerk Maintains Maps. The City Clerk 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
Clerk and shall be available to the public.
(2) City to Maintain Signs. The City shall cause all truck
routes and those streets upon which truck traffic is
prohibited to be clearly sign - posted to give notice
that this ordinance is in effect.
(a) Failure to Post. No person
violating the provisions of
of operating a truck upon a
travel is prohibited unless
posted on such street.
(3) Weigh -In. The City Police agency shall have the
authority to require any person driving or in control
of any commercial vehicle not proceeding over a truck
route or street over which truck traffic is permitted
to proceed to any public or private scale available
for the purpose of weighing and determining whether
this ordinance has been complied with.
Sec. 685.11 Penalties. Any person violating any provisions
of this Chapter shall be punished in accordance with the provisions
of Section 801.01 of the Code of the City of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Sec, 685,13 Ordinances Repealed, Any Chapters or parts
thereof of the Code of the City of Cape Canaveral, or any ordinance
or parts thereof in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
shall be charged with
this ordinance by reason
street wherein truck
appropriate signs are
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall become effective immediately
upon its adoption.
ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Cape Canaveral,
August
1979.
"`''°duly 17 , 1979
First �ea�i�t' ``��.,�
P stetl: my 23, 1979
Advertise r my 30, 1979
Second Reading August 7, 1979
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