A.
The City Council may designate by ordinance and describe
any street or portion thereof as a street the use of which is prohibited
by any truck or commercial vehicle of the rated capacity of three
tons or more. The City Manager shall erect and maintain appropriate
signs on such streets.
B.
No person shall operate a truck or commercial vehicle
of the rated capacity of three tons or more on a street designated
and posted as established in this section.
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any vehicle designed or operated for the transportation of
property and whose body weight or whose combined body and load weight
exceeds three tons.
A way over certain streets, as designated herein, over and
along which trucks coming into and going out of the City must operate.
This article shall not prohibit the following:
A.
Operation of trucks upon any street where necessary
to conduct business at a destination point, provided that streets
upon which such traffic is permitted are used until reaching the intersection
nearest the destination point.
B.
The operation of emergency vehicles upon any street
in the City.
C.
The operation of trucks owned or operated by the City,
public utilities or any contractor or material man while engaged in
the repair, maintenance or construction of streets, street improvements
or street utilities within the City.
D.
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.
There are hereby established within the City
of Coatesville the following truck routes:
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Route 30 - Lincoln Highway
Route 82
Eighth Avenue
Blackhorse Hill Road
Coates Street between Blackhorse Hill and Third
Avenue to Chestnut Street
Valley Road from Strode Avenue westward to City
line
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In addition to those streets in the City constituting
a part of a truck route as established herein, all Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania marked highways, and no other streets, shall be used
for truck traffic.
There is hereby established within the City
of Coatesville the following Schedule of Streets Restricting Through
Truck Traffic:
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Street
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Charles Street
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Church Street
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Eighth Avenue, West
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Fifth Avenue, West
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Harmony Street, West
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Hope Avenue
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Lemon Street
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Lime Street
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Madison Street
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Ninth Avenue, West
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Seventh Avenue, West
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Sixth Avenue, West
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Union Street
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A.
Outside origin.
(1)
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.
(2)
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. Upon leaving the last destination point, a deviating
truck shall return to the truck route by the shortest permissible
route.
B.
Inside origin.
(1)
Outside destination point. All trucks, on a
trip originating in the City, traveling 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.
(2)
Inside destination points. All trucks, on a
trip originating in the City, traveling in the City for destination
points in the City shall proceed only over streets upon which such
traffic is permitted.
A.
The City Manager and Chief of Police 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
Manager's office and police station and shall be available to the
public.
B.
The City Manager of 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 article is in effect.
C.
The Chief of Police 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 article has been complied
with.
Any person or persons violating any provision
of this article shall, upon conviction in summary proceedings, be
sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $300.
