§ 19-293. Trucks not to travel park roads.

(a)

This section is for the purpose of protecting park roads, designed primarily for private passenger automobile traffic carrying passengers into and out of the public parks of the city for recreational purposes, from the damaging and deteriorating effects of heavy, through vehicular traffic.

(b)

All use of park roads by trucks having a combined body and weight load in excess of seven thousand, five hundred (7,500) pounds is prohibited.

(c)

This section shall not prohibit upon park roads:

(1)

Operation of emergency vehicles.

(2)

Operation of trucks or buses owned or operated by the city; public utilities, by any contractor or materialman while engaged in repair, maintenance or construction of park roads, or utilities within the park.

(3)

Operation of any truck serving a park function or performing a service for a concessionaire within a park.

(4)

School buses.

(Code 1959, § 38-63)