D-500 Amend Weight LimitsORDINANCE D ~
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CARMEL
CITY CODE 41.21 WEIGHT LIMITS
WHEREAS, the City of Carmel, Indiana, has enacted and
codified an Ordinance regulating the weight limits of motor
vehicles on city streets, at City Code §41.21; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary that said ordinance be amended, and
it is in the best interest of the citizens of the City of Carmel,
Indiana, that the Ordinance be amended;
Now, therefore, be it ordained by the Common Council of
the City of Carmel, Indiana, that the City Code §41.21 Weight
Limits, shall be amended to read as follows:
(a) No person shall drive any vehicle on a residential
street if that vehicle has gross weight of more than five
thousand (5,000) pounds.
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to vehicles under the
following circumstances:
vehicle;
2.
3.
visiting guest;
Any public or private emergency or medical services
Regular trash removal and pickup service vehicle;
Recreational vehicles owned by Carmel residents or
4. Vehicles used for the delivery of consumer goods
customers by wholesale or retail vendors;
to
5. Moving vans engaged in removing or delivering residen-
tial or business property;
6. Construction vehicles which are entering or leaving a
construction site which cannot reasonably be accessed by another
route;
7. School buses titled to a municipal entity and used to
transport school children to and from school and to and from
athletic games, events or school functions, but not including
privately owned vehicles with the capacity of 5 passengers or
less;
8. Any vehicle(s) for which permission is granted by the
Carmel Board of Public Works and Safty to use residential streets
or establish a service route on residential streets.
However, in any such case, such vehicles shall travel over the
shortest possible route upon said street from the point of entry
and shall leave the same at the nearest available point of exit.
(c) A residential street for purposes of this section shall
mean any roadway within the City limits which is primarily used
to provide circulation of vehicular traffic within neighborhood
areas, or to provide convenient means of ingress and egress for
vehicular traffic to reach main aterioral streets, state and
federal highways.
That an emergency exists and this amendment shall be effec-
tive upon passage.
Ail of which is ordained and enacted this 27th day of
October, 1986.
Presiding 0f~'icer
ORDINANOE NO o B-6 ~
Wherea~ the streets of the Town of Csrmel
are being
-damaged b~ motor vehicles of excessive weight, and
Whereas in order to regulate the use of said streets
in the months when major damage occurs, it is necessary to
regulate the gross weight of such vehicles.
Now therefore be it ordained by the Board of Trustees of
the Town o.f. Carmel, Indiana.
Section 1. That any motor vehicle having a gross weigJat
in excess of five (5) tons shell not use the streets of the
~own of Cermsl during the months of February, March and April.
Sedton 2. The penalty for violation of this ordinance
shall be ten dollers ($10.O0) for any one offense.
Section 3, This ordinence shall be in full force and
effec~ after its passage and posting for ten (10) dayea
pursuant to law.
Dated this 2nd
of May, 1960.
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