78-2(1)-Ordinance-Establishing Truck-Tractor Trailer Routes-06/19/1978ORDINANCE NO. 78-2 (1)
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING TRAFFIC ON PUBLIC
STREETS AND HIGHWAYS IN THE CITY OF SANGER,
TEXAS, CONTAINING DEFINITIONS, ESTABLISHING
TRUCK ROUTES, PROHIBITING THE USE OF TRUCKS,
TRUCK -TRACTORS, AND TRUCK OR TRUCK -TRACTOR
TRAILER OR SEMI -TRAILER COMBINATIONS ON
STREETS NOT INCLUDED WITHIN TRUCK ROUTES,
WITH CERTAIN SPECIFIED EXCEPTIONS, PROVIDING
FOR INSTALLATION OF SIGNS, PROVIDING A PENALTY
FOR VIOLATION OF THE ORDINANCE, CONTAINING
SEVERABILITY AND EMERGENCY CLAUSES, REPEALING
ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT
WITH THIS ORDINANCE, AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE
DATE.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Sanger, Texas,
has found and determined that residential streets in the City
of Sanger, Texas, outside the Central Business District, are
inadequate for the transportation of trucks, truck -tractors,
and truck or truck -tractor trailer or semi -trailer combinations,
because of excessive damage to such streets caused by the use
of such vehicles on said streets, and the City Council of the
City of Sanger, Texas, has further found that the use of such
vehicles on said streets creates significant traffic hazards
and dangers to the public, which may be avoided or reduced by
the regulation of traffic on said streets, and that it is
necessary and in the public interest that specified truck
routes be established in the City of Sanger, .Texas, for the
use of such trucks and similar vehicles, and that the use and
transportation of such vehicles be prohibited, as hereinafter
set forth, on City streets not included within said truck
routes, with the exceptions hereinafter set forth;
NOW, THEREFORE:
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS, A MUNICIPAL
CORPORATION, HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION 1.
A. DEFINITIONS
1. "Truck" means every motor vehicle designed, used, or
maintained primarily for the transportation of property.
2. "Light Truck" means any truck with a manufacturer's
rated carrying capacity not to exceed three thousand (3,000)
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s
pounds, and is intended to include -those trucks- commonly known
as pickup trucks, panel delivery trucks, carryall trucks, and
other similar vehicles.
3. "Trailer" means every vehicle with or without motive
power, designed for carrying persons or property and for being
drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of
its weight rests upon the towing vehicle.
4. "Semi -Trailer" means every vehicle with or without
motive power, designed for purposes of carrying persons or
property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so
constructed that some part of its- weight and that of its load
rests upon or is carried by another vehicle.
B. DESIGNATION OF TRUCK ROUTES.
The Following streets and highways within the City Limits
of the City of Sanger, Texas, are hereby designated as "truck
routes," to -wit:
1. Interstate Highway No. 35, including service
roads, between the North and South City Limits of the City of
Sanger, Texas.
2. Loop 138, constituting the business by-pass
route for Interstate Highway No. 35, including old United
States Highway No. 77, being 5th Street in the City of Sanger,
Texas.
3. Farm to Market Road No. 455 from the West City
Limits of Sanger, Texas, to the East City Limits of said City.
4. Streets within the Central Business District of
Sanger, and within the fire limits of the said City of Sanger,
as provided by ordinance, including Elm, Bolivar, and Cherry
Streets, between lst Street and 6th Street, and lst, Znd, 3rd,
4th, 5th, and 6th Streets, between Elm and Cherry Streets, said
district being bounded by Elm Street on the North, Cherry
Street on the South, lst Street on the East (except the closed
portion of lst street), and 6th Street on the West.
5. Second Street between its intersection with
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Wayne Drive on the South, and Farm to Market Road No. 455,
on the North.
6. Old Pilot Point Highway with its intersection
from Loop 138 to Farm to Market 455 East.
Limits.
7. Bolivar Street from lst Street to Railroad Avenue.
8. Railroad Avenue from Bolivar Street to Willow.
9. Willow Street from Second Street to the East City
10. Wayne Drive from its intersection with Second
Street to its intersection with Loop 138.
SECTION II
PROHIBITION OF USE OF TRUCKS, TRUCK -TRACTORS, TRUCK
OR TRUCK TRACTOR TRAILER OR SEMI -TRAILER COMBINATIONS, EXCEPT
LIGHT TRUCKS ON ALL STREETS WITH�T THE CITY LIMITS OF BANGER,
TEXAS, NOT INCLUDED WITH THE DESIGNATED TRUCK ROUTES, WITH
CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS.
A. The use, storage, parking, or transportation of
trucks, truck -tractors, truck -trailer, truck semi -trailer,
truck -tractor -trailer, and truck -tractor semi -trailer
combination vehicles, except light trucks, as hereinabove
defined, shall be and is hereby prohibited on all streets
within the City Limits of the City of Sanger, Texas, not
included in the designated truck routes, as set forth in
Section 1. (B) of this Ordinance above, with the exceptions
set forth below.
B. Exceptions.
1. When necessary to make deliveries of
merchandise or property to any business or residence within
the City of Sanger, Texas, the use of the most direct route
to business premises or residence by an otherwise prohibited
vehicle or vehicle combination shall be permitted for the
length of time reasonably necessary to complete such delivery.
2. School buses, church buses, and authorized
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public emergency vehicles, including fire trucks are exempt
fIL om the provisions of this Ordinance.
3. This ordinance shall not apply to private
emergency vehicles, such as wrecker trucks, and repair tow
trucks, when making emergency business calls to pick-up or
tow disabled vehicles of any description.
4. Public utility service or maintenance trucks
or vehicles are exempt from the provisions of this ordinance
when engaged in the business of service or repair of public
utility lines. Private vehicles performing the same service
to homeowners are likewise exempt from the provisions of this
ordinance when engaged in the business of making home repairs
to private utility lines, or other home repairs.
C. Parking or Storage Prohibited
The parking or storage of vehicles enumerated in Section
II A, hereinabove, on all City Streets within the City of
Sanger, Texas, not included in a designated truck route, is
hereby prohibited.
SECTION III
PENALTY FOR VIOLATION
Any person violating any provision of this Ordinance shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined
not less then
ten
Hundred ($200.00) Dollars.
SECTION IV
CIVIL ENFORCEMENT
nor more than Two
The criminal penalties -set forth hereinabove in Section
III of this Ordinance are not exclusive of other methods of
enforcement of this Ordinance authorized by law, and the terms,
provisions, and conditions of this Ordinance may be enforced by
injunction or other form of relief authorized by law.
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SECTION V
REPEALING CLAUSE
All ordinances or parts of ordinances in. express conflict
with any provision of this ordinance are hereby repealed to the
extent of such conflict.
SECTION VI
SEVERABILITY
If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause,
phrase, or word of this Ordinance, or application thereof to
any person or circumstances is held invalid by any Court of
competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the
validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance, and the
City Council of the City of Sanger, Texas, hereby declares it
would have enacted the remaining portions despite any such
invalidity.
SECTION VII
EMERGENCY CLAUSE
The City Council of the City of Sanger, Texas, further finds
as set forth in the preamble to this Ordinance, that an imperative
public need exists for the immediate passage of this ordinance
regulating truck traffic on public streets in the City of Sanger,
Texas, as set forth hereinabove, and that the placing in effect
of this Ordinance immediately constitutes an emergency.
SECTION VIII
EFFECTIVE DATE
This Ordinance shall take effect, and be in full force and
effect, from and after its passage.
APPROVED this the
ATTEST:
CitvO Sec
19th
day of
June
Mayor
A.D., 19 78 .
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