The Standard Traffic Ordinance as adopted is hereby modified by adding thereto the following: The governing body may, by resolution, establish and fix the location of such traffic control devices as may be deemed necessary to guide and warn traffic under the provisions of this chapter, other traffic ordinances and the state laws. The city shall place and maintain such traffic control signs, signals and devices when and as may be required by the authority of the governing body to make effective the provisions of this chapter and other ordinances for the regulation of traffic. Any official traffic control device placed pursuant to this section shall be marked and labeled on a map of the City of Montezuma for the purpose of displaying all such traffic control devices and shall be filed with the city clerk to be open to inspection and available to the public at all reasonable hours of business.

(Code 1995)

(a)   Parking on Public Property. No commercial truck with a registered gross weight in excess of 24,000 pounds and no commercial semi-trailer shall park upon an public street, alley or parking lots except in those areas designated as truck parking zones.

(b)   Parking on Private Property Zoned Residential. The trailer portion of a semi-tractor-trailer shall not be parked at a time upon private property zoned residential. Commercial trucks in excess of 24,000 pounds registered gross weight may be parked on private property zoned residential except that the engine shall not be turned on or allowed to run during the hours between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. each night. A truck may arrive and have the engine turned off immediately but a truck may not start up and leave during those hours, except that, commercial trucks may park in exception to this section while actually engaged in the process of loading or unloading their wares, merchandise, cargo, commodities, etc., but only for a reasonable period of time.

(Ord. 331, Sec. 1)

Speed limits shall be as posted.

(Code 1999)

No tire on a motor vehicle, tractor, farm machinery or other vehicle operating or moving upon or across any street or avenue in the city shall have on or its periphery any block, stud, flange, cleat, or spike or any other protuberance of any material other than rubber which projects beyond the tread of the traction surface of the tire, except that it shall be permissible to use farm machinery with tires having protuberances which shall not injure the surface of the streets or avenues, and that it shall be permissible to use tire chains or reasonable proportions upon any vehicle when required for safety because of snow, ice, or other conditions tending to cause a vehicle to skid.

(Ord. 199, Sec. 1)

No person shall park or store any dead, damaged, inoperable or disabled automobile or vehicle or farm machinery, trailer or semi-trailer of any kind or parts of the same, or any junk automobile or vehicles or farm machinery or trailers or semi-trailers in the roadway of any street, alley or between the property line or sidewalk and curb line of any street in excess of 36 hours.

(Ord. 271, Sec. 3)

(a)   It shall be unlawful for any person to park, cause to be parked or permit to remain parked on any of the streets of the city which are surfaced with asphalt type paving or with bituminous oil mats, any type of motor vehicle other than a regular passenger vehicle, commonly known as an automobile, or a truck with a manufacturer’s rated carrying capacity of one ton or less. Any truck of a rated capacity over one ton, a truck trailer, a trailer, a semi-trailer or a semi-trailer truck, is expressly prohibited from parking on streets or public property.

(b)   It shall be unlawful for any person to park, cause to be parked or permit to remain parked upon any of the public streets of the city for a period in excess of 24 hours, any motor vehicle or trailer equipped for the temporary or permanent occupancy by persons; by way of illustration and not limitation this section applies to pick up campers or coaches, cases or boxes used for transportation recreational equipment, whether occupied by such equipment or not, and to home campers, buses or vehicles of bus configuration converted or manufactured to provide for the transportation of persons and for the temporary or permanent living of persons inside of such vehicle and to boats and boat trailers.

(c)   Any commercial mobile equipment will be subject to subsection (b). Commercial mobile equipment includes oversized vans used in business and cargo trucks and trailers with boxes used for storing tools, equipment or merchandise. Pickup trucks and passenger vans are not prohibited.

(d)   Nothing in this section shall prohibit any of the vehicles, hereinbefore described, from parking temporarily for the purposes of loading or unloading.

(e)   The governing body declares that it is its intention in enacting this section to preserve the streets of the city for vehicular traffic and to remove therefrom motor vehicles and mobile equipment of such size and weight as will contribute to the rapid deterioration of the public streets or to impede the normal flow of traffic or to obstruct the vision of motorists upon the streets. It is further the express purpose of this article to prevent persons from utilizing the streets of the city for the storage of camping and sporting equipment, other than as may be required for loading and unloading.

(Ord. 331, Sec: 3)

The driver of any truck or truck-tractor shall not cause the deceleration of such motor vehicle by the use of a Jacob’s Engine Brake, being the use of a low gear for deceleration by engine compression created by the engine brake, on the streets or highways of city. This provision shall not prevent the use a Jacob’s Engine Brake for the deceleration of any truck or truck tractor upon the failure of any other braking system such truck or truck-tractor may possess.

(Ord. 343, Sec. 1)