10-16-08 Regular Meeting and Public Hearing of the La Porte Planning and Zoning Commission

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(c) Any person driving or operating a truck on the designated portion of State Highway 225 during peak traffic hours on any workday shall not utilize any controlled access lane other than the authorized lanes. (d) That enforcement ofthis section is subject to Section 545.0651 of the Texas Transportation Code, and the prohibition established in subsection (c) of this section shall not be effective during any period of suspension or revision of approval by the Executive Director of the Texas Department of Transportation or the director's designee as provided in subsection (f) of Section 545.0651 or during any period when traffic control devices that are required to be erected and maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation pursuant to Section 545.0651 are not in place, nor shall the provisions of this section be construed to prohibit operation of a truck in a lane other than an authorized lane for the purpose of passing another vehicle or for the purpose of entering and exiting the highway. The provisions established under subsection (d) shall constitute defenses to prosecution under this section. (e) Any person, as provided in Subchapter D of Chapter 542 of the Texas Transportation Code, who shall violate any provision of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $200.00. (Ord. No. 2203-2618, SS 1--5,3-24-03) Secs. 70-239--70-255. Reserved. DIVISION 3. WEIGHT LIMITS Sec. 70-256. Enumeration. Except as otherwise provided by law, no commercial motor vehicle, truck-trailer, trailer or semitrailer, nor combination of such vehicles, shall be operated over, on or upon the public streets and highways within the corporate limits, having a weight in excess of one or more of the following limitations: (1) No such vehicle nor combination of vehicles shall have a greater weight than 20,000 pounds carried on anyone axle, including all enforcement tolerances; or a tandem axle weight in excess of 34,000 pounds, including all enforcement tolerances; or an overall gross weight on a group of two or more consecutive axles in excess of that produced by application of the following formula: TABLE INSET: I w ~ 500 I ( I N11f I ) I + 12N + 36 where W equals overall gross weight on any group of two or more consecutive axles to the nearest 500 pounds, L equals distance in feet between the extreme of any group of two or more consecutive axles, and N equals number of axles in group under consideration, except that two consecutive sets of tandem axles may carry a gross load of 34,000 pounds each, providing the overall distance between the first and last axles of such consecutive sets of tandem axles is 36 feet or more; provided, however, that such overall gross weight may not exceed 80,000 pounds, including all enforcement tolerances.