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CA Veh Code § 35706 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 4 - Local Authorities|Section 35706.

35706.  Boards of supervisors in their respective counties may by ordinance reduce the permissible weight of vehicles and loads upon unimproved county highways or upon county bridges.(Enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3.)
CA Veh Code § 35707 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 4 - Local Authorities|Section 35707.

35707.  Boards of supervisors in their respective counties may by ordinance reduce the permissible weights upon improved highways only which by reason of deterioration will be destroyed unless the weight limits are reduced, but no such reduction shall extend for a period of more than 90 days unless actual repair of the highway is begun within that time and thereafter continuously carried on to completion.For the purposes of this section, an improved county highway means a highway paved with cement concrete or asphaltic concrete, or a highway with a roadway of hard surface not less than four inches thick made up of a mixture of rock, sand, or gravel bound together by an artificial binder other than natural soil.(Enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3.)
CA Veh Code § 35708 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 4 - Local Authorities|Section 35708.

35708.  In the event any person protests in writing to the clerk of the board of supervisors within 15 days after the adoption of an ordinance reducing the permissible gross weight upon an improved highway, the reduction in weight shall not become final until the Department of Transportation after a hearing approves the action of the board of supervisors in making such reduction.(Amended by Stats. 1974, Ch. 545.)
CA Veh Code § 35709 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 4 - Local Authorities|Section 35709.

35709.  The hearing shall be held in the county in which the highway is located within 25 days after a request therefor, and shall be conducted by one or more engineers of the Department of Transportation to be designated by the Director of Transportation. The engineers shall hear all evidence presented and report their findings in writing to the director. Such director shall, upon the basis of the findings, declare in writing the approval or disapproval of the reduction.(Amended by Stats. 1974, Ch. 545.)
CA Veh Code § 35710 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 4 - Local Authorities|Section 35710.

35710.  Whenever any weight limit different from those specified in this code is fixed in accordance with Section 35706 or 35707, the board of supervisors shall cause signs indicating the weight so fixed to be erected at all entrances to the highway upon which the permissible gross weight is altered.(Enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3.)
CA Veh Code § 35711 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 4 - Local Authorities|Section 35711.

35711.  No ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 35706 or 35707 or 35712 shall prohibit any commercial vehicle from using any county highway by direct route to or from a state highway for the purpose of delivering or loading for transportation goods, wares, or merchandise.(Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1598.)
CA Veh Code § 35712 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 4 - Local Authorities|Section 35712.

35712.  (a) Any county may, by ordinance, prohibit the use of any highway located in an unincorporated residential or subdivision area by any commercial vehicle exceeding a gross weight of 14,000 pounds.(b) Any county of the third class, as defined by Section 28024 of the Government Code, or of the ninth class, as defined by Section 28030 of the Government Code, may, by ordinance, prohibit the use of any highway located in an unincorporated residential or subdivision area by any commercial vehicle exceeding a gross weight of 5,000 pounds.(c) This section does not apply to a vehicle operated by, or on behalf of, a public utility in connection with the installation, operation, maintenance, or repair of its facilities.(Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 877, Sec. 72. Effective January 1, 1999.)
CA Veh Code § 35713 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 4 - Local Authorities|Section 35713.

35713.  No ordinance closing a highway under Section 35712 or 35715 is effective until appropriate signs are erected indicating either the highways affected by the ordinance or the highways not affected as the county may determine will best serve to give notice of the ordinance, nor shall any ordinance be effective with respect to any county highway unless the board of supervisors designates in the ordinance an alternate route for the use of the vehicles which shall remain unrestricted by any local regulation as to commercial vehicles so long as the ordinance proposed shall remain in effect.(Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 660.)
CA Veh Code § 35714 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 4 - Local Authorities|Section 35714.

35714.  No ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 35712 shall be effective with respect to:(a) Any vehicle which is subject to the provisions of Article 2 (commencing with Section 1031) of Chapter 5 of Part 1 of Division 1 of the Public Utilities Code.(b) Any highway, any portion of which is also under the jurisdiction of a city, unless the consent of the governing body of the city is first obtained.(c) Any commercial vehicle coming from an unrestricted highway having ingress and egress by direct route to and from the restricted highway when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares, and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on the restricted highway or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling, or construction of any building or structure upon the restricted highway for which a building permit has previously been obtained.(d) The operation of ambulances or hearses.(e) Any vehicle owned, operated, controlled, or used by a public utility in connection with the construction, installation, operation, maintenance, or repair of any public utility facilities.(f) Any state highway, until the proposed ordinance has been submitted by the board of supervisors of the county to and approved in writing by the Department of Transportation. In submitting a proposed ordinance to the department for approval, the board of supervisors shall designate therein, an alternate route for the use of the vehicles which shall remain unrestricted by any local regulation as to commercial vehicles so long as the ordinance proposed shall remain in effect. The approval of the proposed ordinance by the Department of Transportation shall constitute an approval by the department of the alternate route so designated.(g) Vehicles operated as an incident to any industrial, commercial or agricultural enterprise conducted within the boundaries of the unincorporated residential subdivision area.(Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 877, Sec. 73. Effective January 1, 1999.)
CA Veh Code § 35715 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 4 - Local Authorities|Section 35715.

35715.  (a) The County of Nevada may by ordinance prohibit the use of Northwoods Boulevard in such county by any commercial vehicle exceeding a gross weight specified in the ordinance.(b) No ordinance adopted pursuant to this section shall be effective with respect to:(1) Any commercial vehicle coming from an unrestricted highway having ingress and egress by direct route to and from the restricted highway when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares, and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on the restricted highway or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling, or construction of any building or structure upon the restricted highway for which a building permit has previously been obtained.(2) The operation of ambulances or hearses.(3) Any vehicle owned, operated, controlled, or used by a public utility in connection with the construction, installation, operation, maintenance, or repair of any public utility facilities.(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 660.)
CA Veh Code § 35715.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 4 - Local Authorities|Section 35715.1.

35715.1.  (a) The County of Tuolumne may by ordinance prohibit the use of Old Priest Grade in that county by a vehicle or combination of vehicles that exceeds a weight limit of 7,500 pounds or more. The weight limit shall be determined by the County Board of Supervisors and specified in the ordinance.(b) An ordinance adopted pursuant to this section is not effective with respect to the following:(1) A vehicle or combination of vehicles coming from an unrestricted highway having ingress and egress by direct route to and from the restricted highway when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares, and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on the restricted highway or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling, or construction of a building or structure upon the restricted highway for which a building permit has previously been obtained.(2) The operation of ambulances, hearses, or vehicles providing emergency roadside services or roadside assistance.(3) A vehicle or combination of vehicles owned, operated, controlled, or used by a public utility in connection with the construction, installation, operation, maintenance, or repair of a public utility facility.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 15, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Veh Code § 35716 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 4 - Local Authorities|Section 35716.

35716.  No ordinance adopted by a city to decrease weight limits shall apply to any vehicle owned, leased, operated or controlled by any licensed contractor while necessarily in use in the construction, maintenance, or repair of a public works project, or by any highway carrier regulated by the Public Utilities Commission while transporting any materials to or from a public works project, when the bids were opened prior to the adoption of the ordinance unless an alternate direct route is provided substantially within and by the city enacting the ordinance.(Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 393.)
CA Veh Code § 35717 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 4 - Local Authorities|Section 35717.

35717.  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, any county may by ordinance prohibit the use of any street, road or highway by any commercial vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of 14,000 pounds if, by accepted engineering standards, the street, road or highway cannot support such vehicle.(Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1732.)
CA Veh Code § 35718 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 4 - Local Authorities|Section 35718.

35718.  No ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 35717 shall be effective until appropriate signs are erected indicating either the streets, roads or highways affected by the ordinance or the streets, roads or highways not affected, as the board of supervisors may determine will best serve to give notice of the ordinance.(Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1732.)
CA Veh Code § 35719 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 4 - Local Authorities|Section 35719.

35719.  No ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 35717 shall be effective with respect to any street, road or highway which connects with, or is a continuation of, any street, road or highway of an adjoining county unless the board of supervisors of each county in which the street, road or highway is a through highway, by concurrent action and like limitation, prohibit the use of such street, road or highway pursuant to this section.(Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1732.)
CA Veh Code § 35720 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 4 - Local Authorities|Section 35720.

35720.  No ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 35717 shall be effective with respect to:(a) Any vehicle which is subject to the provisions of Article 2 (commencing with Section 1031) of Chapter 5 of Part 1 of Division 1 of the Public Utilities Code or any farm labor vehicle.(b) Any street, road or highway which is not under the exclusive jurisdiction of the board of supervisors enacting such ordinance, except as otherwise provided in Section 35719, or, in the case of any state highway, until such proposed ordinance has been submitted by the board of supervisors to and approved in writing by the Department of Transportation. In submitting such a proposed ordinance to the department for approval, the board of supervisors shall designate therein, an alternate route or routes for the use of such vehicles which shall remain unrestricted by any local regulation as to weight limits or types of vehicles so long as the ordinance proposed shall remain in effect. The approval of such proposed ordinances by the Department of Transportation shall constitute an approval by the department of such alternate route or routes so designated.(c) Any commercial vehicle coming from an unrestricted street, road or highway having ingress and egress by direct route to and from such restricted streets, roads, and highways when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on such restricted streets, roads or highways or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure upon such restricted street, road or highway for which a building permit, if required, has previously been obtained therefor, or vehicles, machinery, or construction equipment used in connection with, the construction, repair or maintenance of such restricted street or public work projects located thereon.(d) Any vehicle operated as an incident to any industrial, commercial, or agricultural enterprise conducted upon any such street, road, or highway.(e) Any vehicle owned, operated, controlled, or used by a public utility or licensed contractor in connection with the construction, installation, operation, maintenance, or repair of any public utility facilities or public works projects.(f) The operation of ambulances or hearses.(Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 676, Sec. 317.)
CA Veh Code § 35721 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 4 - Local Authorities|Section 35721.

35721.  No ordinance shall be adopted pursuant to Section 35717 except upon notice and hearing in the manner prescribed in this section.Notice of hearing shall be published as prescribed in Section 6064 of the Government Code. The notice shall advise all interested parties that they may submit written or oral objections to the proposed action and shall designate a time and place for presentation of such objections. The time for submission of objections shall not expire, and the hearing may not be held, less than 60 days after the first publication of notice. The hearing shall be held before the board of supervisors and interested parties shall be afforded an adequate opportunity to be heard with respect to their objections.(Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1732.)
CA Veh Code § 35722 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 4 - Local Authorities|Section 35722.

35722.  Prior to the execution of freeway agreements for State Highway Route 85 in Santa Clara County, with the concurrence of each city within the highway corridor, the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Clara may, after a public hearing, adopt a proposed ordinance imposing a maximum gross truck weight limit of 9,000 pounds on Route 85 from State Highway Route 280 in Cupertino south and east to State Highway Route 101 in San Jose, and submit the proposed ordinance to the Department of Transportation for approval.Upon approval of the proposed ordinance by the department, this weight limit shall be stipulated in the applicable freeway agreements with the local entities in the Route 85 corridor.If the proposed ordinance is approved by the department, the weight limit shall become effective upon opening of any portion of the new Route 85 freeway corridor as defined in this section, and the department shall post appropriate signs, similar to the signs on State Highway Route 580 in Oakland. Except as otherwise provided in this section, this article shall be applicable to an ordinance adopted pursuant to this section.(Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1250, Sec. 1.)
CA Veh Code § 35750 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 5 - Bridges and Other Structures|Section 35750.

35750.  (a) The Department of Transportation may, in the manner provided in Section 35751, determine the maximum weight of vehicle and load, lower than the maximum weight otherwise permitted under this code which a bridge or other structure with safety to itself will sustain.(b) The city council or the board of supervisors of a city or county with a population of 1,100,000 or more, as determined by the 1970 federal decennial census, may, in the manner provided in Section 35751, determine the maximum weight of vehicle and load, lower than the maximum weight otherwise permitted under this code which a bridge or other structure under its jurisdiction with safety to itself will sustain.(Amended by Stats. 1974, Ch. 545.)
CA Veh Code § 35751 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 5 - Bridges and Other Structures|Section 35751.

35751.  (a) The Department of Transportation or the city council or board of supervisors of a city or county with a population of 1,100,000 or more, as determined by the 1970 federal decennial census, as the case may be, shall make an engineering investigation and hold a public hearing whenever such a determination appears necessary.(b) Notice of the time and place of the hearing shall be posted upon the bridge or other structure at least five days before the date fixed for the hearing. Upon the basis of the investigation and all evidence presented at the hearing, the department or the city council or board of supervisors, as the case may be, shall determine by order in writing the maximum weight of vehicle and load which the bridge or other structure with safety to itself will sustain.(c) With respect to any bridge or other structure not under its jurisdiction, the department shall not proceed under subdivisions (a) and (b) unless it first receives a request to do so from the city council or the board of supervisors having jurisdiction over the bridge or other structure.(Amended by Stats. 1974, Ch. 545.)
CA Veh Code § 35752 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 5 - Bridges and Other Structures|Section 35752.

35752.  Thereupon, the authority having jurisdiction over the bridge or other structure shall erect and maintain suitable signs specifying the maximum weight so determined, at a distance of not more than 500 feet from each end of the bridge or other structure or any approach thereto.The standards and specifications for such signs shall be established in accordance with Section 21400 of this code.(Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1033.)
CA Veh Code § 35753 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 5 - Bridges and Other Structures|Section 35753.

35753.  (a) No person shall drive a vehicle over any bridge, causeway, viaduct, trestle, or dam constituting a part of a highway when the weight of the vehicle and load thereon is greater than the maximum weight which the bridge or other structure with safety to itself will sustain. Violations of this subdivision shall be punished in accordance with the schedule of fines set forth in Section 42030.(b) Upon the trial of any person charged with a violation with respect to a weight restriction sign erected pursuant to Section 35752, proof of the determination of the maximum weight by the Department of Transportation and the existence of the weight restriction signs constitute prima facie evidence of the maximum weight which the bridge or other structure with safety to itself will sustain.(Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 542, Sec. 6.)
CA Veh Code § 35754 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 5 - Bridges and Other Structures|Section 35754.

35754.  Whenever, in the opinion of a local authority, a bridge under its jurisdiction is in a dangerous or weak condition, it may temporarily erect suitable signs at all entrances to such bridge specifying the maximum weight which it believes the bridge with safety to itself will sustain. The maximum weight limit so fixed and posted shall remain in effect for not more than 90 days.(Amended by Stats. 1972, Ch. 597.)
CA Veh Code § 35755 (2021)
2021 California Code|Vehicle Code - VEH|DIVISION 15 - SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD|CHAPTER 5 - Weight|ARTICLE 5 - Bridges and Other Structures|Section 35755.

35755.  Whenever a state highway bridge is in a dangerous or weak condition, the Department of Transportation may temporarily erect suitable signs at all entrances to such bridge specifying the maximum weight which the bridge may safely sustain. Under no circumstances shall the maximum weight limit so fixed and posted pursuant to this section remain in effect for more than 90 days.(Amended by Stats. 1974, Ch. 545.)