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Title 16 : Streets and Sidewalks, etc.
Chapter 1 : Miscellaneous

16-103 : Heavy truck traffic prohibited on certain streets.

  1. For the purpose of this section, a heavy truck is defined as any vehicle whose gross vehicle weight exceeds twenty-thousand (20,000) pounds (10 tons).
  2. All heavy trucks will be prohibited from all streets in the City of Newport except streets designated as state highways.
  3. The following categories are exempt from the prohibition of this section:
    1. The operation of heavy trucks upon any street where necessary to the conduct of business at a destination point within the city provided streets designated as truck routes are used until reaching the intersection nearest the destination point.
    2. The operation of heavy trucks owned or operated by the city, any contractor or materialman, while under contract to the city while engaged in the repair, maintenance, or construction of streets, street improvements, or street utilities within the city.
    3. The operation of school buses and buses used to transport persons to and from a place of worship, which run a designated route.
    4. The operation of emergency vehicles upon any street in the city.
  4. Signs posted. Signs shall be posted on the entrances to each of the streets listed in subsection (2) above indicating either by words or by appropriate symbols that heavy trucks are prohibited from traveling upon said streets.
  5. Penalty. Any violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00). (Ord. #2001-1-A, )