ORDINANCE NO. 14,116
AN ORDINANCE to amend the Municipal Code of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, 2000, adopted by Ordinance No. 13,827, passed June 5, 2000, and amended by Ordinance No. 13,893, passed December 4, 2000, and amended by Ordinance No. 14,039, passed January 7, 2002, by repealing Section 114-460.03 thereof and enacting a new Section 114-460.03, relating to maximum load limits for certain designated bridges and viaducts.
Be It Ordained by the City Council of the City of Des Moines, Iowa:
Section 1. That the Municipal Code of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, 2000, adopted by Ordinance No. 13,827, passed June 5, 2000, and amended by Ordinance No. 13,893, passed December 4, 2000, and amended by Ordinance No. 14,039, passed January 7, 2002, is hereby amended by repealing Section 114-460.03 thereof and enacting a new Section 114-460.03, relating to maximum load limits for certain designated bridges and viaducts, as follows:
Sec. 114-460.03. Maximum load limit for certain designated bridges and viaducts.
(a) There is fixed for users of the following bridges and viaducts the maximum load limit, including the weight of the vehicle, together with trailer or other attachments thereto, designated for each bridge or viaduct:
1) East Payton Avenue, over the creek south of Easter Lake, a maximum load limit of 14 tons per straight truck, 20 tons per truck plus semitrailer, and 25 tons per truck plus trailer.
2) Southwest Ninth Street Bridge, over the Raccoon River, a maximum load limit of twenty tons.
3) Southwest Ninth Street Viaduct, over Martin Luther King, Jr. Parkway, a maximum load limit of twenty tons.
(b) The city engineer shall post adequate warning signs at each end of the bridge. This notice shall state the maximum load limit permitted by this section.
(c) When official signs are erected giving notice thereof, it shall be unlawful for any person to drive, pull or otherwise propel any vehicle exceeding the maximum load limit provided in this section onto the bridges and viaducts.
Sec. 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication as provided by law.
FORM APPROVED:
Terrence L. Timmins, Deputy City Attorney
Preston A. Daniels, Mayor
Attest:
I, Donna V. Boetel-Baker, City Clerk of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true copy of an ordinance (Roll Call No. 02-1718), passed by the City Council of said City at a meeting held July 8, 2002 signed by the Mayor on July 8, 2002 and published as provided by law in the Polk County Press Citizen on July 19, 2002 Authorized by Publication Order No. 3334.
Donna V. Boetel-Baker, City Clerk