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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Honorable Mayor <br />and City Council <br /> <br />Page 3 <br />2/2/83 <br /> <br />The proposed ordinance makes several changes in the old law. These <br />changes are: <br /> <br />(1) The parking prohibitions in current Section <br />25-64 are expanded, retaining the current four <br />hour limit, but adding a prohibition of certain <br />vehicles parking on the streets of the City of <br />La Porte during any nighttime hours: <br /> <br />(2) New definitions have been provided for boat, <br />daytime, house trailer (specifically meant <br />to include recreational vehicles), nighttime, <br />ranch trailer, shipping container, shipping <br />container storage yard, truck terminal, and <br />utility trailer: <br /> <br />(3) The definition of light truck is expanded in <br />order to include one ton trucks: <br /> <br />(4) The definition of truck traffic is restricted, <br />so as to exclude from the term of the ordinance <br />boats, house trailer, ranch trailers, and <br />utility trailers: and <br /> <br />(5) As noted above, the truck terminal exception <br />to the Truck Route Ordinance has been removed, <br />and in its place the more enforceable restriction <br />of the location of truck terminals to designated <br />truck routes has been added in its place. <br /> <br />Simply put, then, the Truck Route Ordinance now requires commercial <br />motor vehicles, pull trailers, semi-trailers, shipping containers, <br />trailers, trucks, and truck trailers to travel only upon designated <br />truck routes. On the other hand, automobiles, boats, house trailers, <br />light trucks (specifically including one ton trucks), ranch trailers, <br />and utility trailers, need not stay on designated truck routes, and <br />are free to travel anywhere in the City of La Porte. Most importantly, <br />this ordinance does not restrict the use of private property in any <br />way, shape, or fashion. <br /> <br />JDA:kb <br />