§ 20-61. Designation of truck route.

(a)

The board of county commissioners is authorized to designate by resolution certain roads, streets, highways, or bridges as truck routes and to place appropriate signage on a designated truck route. The designation of truck routes might include, without limitation, restrictions on the weight, size, or type of truck able to travel on any road street, highway, or bridge designated as a truck route. Before such designation is made by the board, it shall receive a report from the county engineer with input from other appropriate county departments regarding the suitability of designated roads, streets, highways, and bridges as truck routes and any limitations on such designations that should be considered by the board.

(b)

If the board designates truck routes, all trucks as defined herein within the unincorporated areas of the county for commercial purposes only that have as a point of origin or destination a location which is off an officially designated truck route shall proceed to or from the nearest officially designated truck route by the shortest possible route using any regular county roads not posted with signs expressly prohibiting truck traffic.

(c)

All trucks as defined herein that leave or enter the nearest point of an officially designated truck route to or from the destination or origin off an officially designated truck route using regular county roads shall have a bill of lading, a delivery slip, or other evidence to show the actual point of destination or origin. Each driver must exhibit such evidence to any law enforcement officer on demand of that law enforcement officer. Failure to do so creates a presumption that the driver is violating this article.

(d)

Until the board adopts officially designated truck routes, where necessary for the conduct of business, trucks shall enter residential streets and roads using the shortest route possible from a road or street suitable for truck traffic and shall not travel on any road prohibiting truck traffic to accomplish their legitimate business. Each truck having business on residential streets or roads shall have a bill of lading, a delivery slip, or other evidence to show the actual point of destination or origin. Each driver must exhibit such evidence to any law enforcement officer on demand of that law enforcement officer. Failure to do so creates presumption that the driver is violating this article.

(Ord. No. 96-07, § 2, 4-2-96)