Chapter 14 · Traffic

Article 4. Truck Routes

Sections 14-401 to 14-405 · 5 sections

14-401 Truck routes.

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind to operate a truck, tractor or vehicle, including trailers attached thereto, having a registered gross weight of in excess of 20,000 pounds on any street located within the City of Buffalo, Kansas, other than along the following designated truck routes:

(a)Main Street

(b)Microlite Street

(c)Fife Street

(Ord. 249; Code 2021)

14-402 Limitations on truck traffic.

All trucks or other vehicles as defined in Section 14-401 shall be operated in the city only over and along the truck routes established and set forth herein, however, this article shall not prohibit:

(a)The operation of a truck upon any street where necessary to make a commercial delivery of goods or pick up materials or merchandise, provided that such truck be operated in the shortest and the most direct route to the destination from a truck route in order to make the local delivery or pick up and then return to a truck route by the shortest and most direct route;

(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 and contractors while engaged in repair, maintenance or construction;

(d)The operation of a truck which originates within at a point not on a truck route as a means of traveling to the nearest truck route; the city

(e)The operation of a truck which is regularly used by a place of business within the city or garaged in the city and the destination of which is within the city following the route which uses the least number of non-truck route blocks from point of origin to point of destination and back;

(f)A truck garaged outside the city, but with an access road only through the city traveling to and on the nearest truck route;

(g)Recreational vehicles and church and school buses regularly housed within the city.

(Ord. 249; Code 2021)

14-403 Truck parking prohibited.

No person shall stop, stand or park a truck, as defined in this article, upon a street or public right-of-way within the city. Tractors will be allowed on private property, but trailer parking is not allowed.

(Ord. 249; Code 2021)

14-404 Signing.

All truck routes shall be clearly signed to give notice thereof.

(Ord. 249; Code 2021)

14-405 Violation; penalty.

Violation of this article will result in the truck being towed at the owner/operator’s expense. Violation of this article is a misdemeanor. Upon the first conviction of a violation of this article, a person or entity as set forth herein shall be fined not less than $100.00 plus court costs and any applicable road damage repair expenses or damage to public property. Upon a second conviction within twelve (12) calendar months, such person or entity shall be fined not less than $250.00 plus court costs and any applicable road damage repair expenses. Upon a third (3rd) or subsequent conviction within twelve (12) calendar months, such person or entity shall be fined not less than $600.00, plus court costs and any applicable road damage repair expenses.

(Ord. 249; Code 2021)