A. 
Any truck having a total combined gross weight of vehicle plus load in excess of five tons shall be excluded from all streets in the City, except from those streets or parts of streets hereinafter listed or described which form a part of the system of truck routes upon which trucks are permitted to travel and operate.
B. 
The total combined gross weight of vehicle plus load shall be ascertained by computing the entire weight of the truck or vehicle plus load or, in the event that such vehicle is a tractor-trailer combination, then by computing the entire weight of a tractor and trailer plus load.
C. 
Such exclusions shall not prevent the necessary delivery of merchandise or other property along the streets from which trucks are excluded, provided that the vehicle from which any such delivery is made shall enter and leave any such designated truck route by the nearest accessible street to the place where such delivery is made, and provided that such delivery vehicles shall remain on such prohibited streets for a period of time no longer than necessary and reasonable to make such delivery or to complete a loading of such vehicle; nor shall such exclusions prevent the necessary operation of trucks while in use by the United States Postal Service or military services or by fire, police, sanitation or street maintenance services, or by public transportation corporations on franchised routes or by public service corporations while on emergency repair work.
All streets forming part of such truck route system shall be marked by conspicuous signs bearing the words "truck route" in letters not less than five inches in height, such signs to be spaced not more than 1,500 feet apart. In addition, conspicuous signs bearing lettering not less than five inches in height, adequately illuminated between sunset and sunrise or to be constructed of a reflecting material so as to be easily readable at night when lights from vehicle headlights fall upon such signs, shall be placed on each main highway entering the City, at or near the point where such highway crosses or meets the boundary line of the City, indicating that trucks having a weight in excess of five tons, including load, are excluded from all streets within the City, except those streets designated as part of the authorized truck route system.
[Amended 10-26-2009]
No person, firm or corporation shall drive or operate or cause to be driven or operated any excluded truck into, upon, along or through the streets of the City in violation of the provisions of this article unless it has first obtained a special hauling permit for over dimensional and overweight vehicles from the Director of Public Works and paid the applicable fees in accordance with § 175-3B, Licenses and Permits.
[Amended 12-21-2005]
A. 
The following listed streets or parts of streets as herein designated shall constitute the system of truck routes in the City:
(1) 
New York State touring routes (posted route number signs).
(a) 
Route 60.
(b) 
Route 394.
(c) 
Route 430.
(2) 
New York State owned reference routes (no route number signs posted).
(a) 
Washington Street from Fluvanna Avenue to West 6th Street (reference route #951C).
(b) 
Forest Avenue from Washington Street to City line (reference route #952P).
(c) 
McDaniel - Third Street Arterial from Fairmount Avenue to Monroe Street (reference route #954K).
(3) 
City streets.
(a) 
Livingston Avenue (from Fairmount Avenue to the City line).
[Amended 12-21-2005]
In addition to the above-designated system of truck routes, the following described and bounded unrestricted area of the City and the streets enclosed therein shall also constitute and be a part of the City's system of truck routes:
A. 
East Second Street from Tiffany Avenue at easterly City line to East Fourth Street; to Prendergast Avenue; to East Sixth Street; to North Main Street; to Eighth Street; to Fairmount Avenue; to Jones & Gifford Avenue; to westerly City line; along westerly City line to railroad tracks, along railroad tracks to West Sixth Street; to Whitley Avenue; to Steele Street; to West Harrison Street, to Washington Street (Bridge); along Washington Street to Arterial, to Institute Street; to Allen Street; to Tiffany Avenue at easterly City line; and to the point of beginning, namely: East Second Street at Tiffany Avenue at easterly City line.
[Amended 11-27-1995; 2-10-2006 by L.L. No. 2-2006; 8-28-2017; 11-25-2019 by L.L. No. 1-2020]
An accurate map setting out the truck route system shall be kept on file in the office of the City Clerk/Treasurer and shall be available to the public.
It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to enforce the provisions of this article. In enforcing this article, the Chief of Police shall have the authority to require any person driving or in control of any commercial vehicle proceeding over a truck route or street over which truck traffic is prohibited to proceed to any public or private scale available for the purpose of weighing and determining whether this article has been complied with.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a traffic infraction and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished pursuant to § 1800 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the state.