Trucks weighing over 26,000 pounds will only be allowed on designated truck routes in Pahrump, following the county commissioners' passage of an amendment to the Nye County Code Wednesday.

The bill makes exceptions for school buses, recreational vehicles, road construction trucks, vehicles used by public service companies and fire trucks.

If a road designated a truck route is being repaired, the public works director may designate an alternate truck route.

Violators would be subject to a fine up to $1,000. During the approval of the truck route map last November, Stantec Consultants suggested the 230 miles of arterial roads, including most section line roads, would make good candidates for truck routes.

Permanent truck routes in southern Pahrump include Gamebird Road and Homestead Road; Manse Road from Highway 160 to Homestead Road and Dandelion Street from Highway 160 to Malibou Avenue. Turner Boulevard is a permanent truck route from Indian Reservation Road to Homestead Road.

Basin Avenue and Mesquite Avenue are truck routes from Highway 160 to Higley Road. Bell Vista Avenue is a truck route the entire length, as is Simkins Road from Highway 160 to Panorama Road.

Leslie Street is a truck route; Irene Street from Highway 160 to Leslie Street; and Charleston Park Avenue from Highway 372 to Leslie Street.

Temporary truck routes, which are designated routes up to five years, include: Dandelion Street from Malibou Avenue to Homestead Road; Hafen Ranch Road from Manse Road to Turner Boulevard; Kellogg Road from Hafen Ranch Road to Homestead Road; and Blagg Road from Highway 372 to Gamebird Road and Indian Reservation Road.

Truck traffic was a topic when representatives of William Lyon Homes engaged in a discussion with the Nye County Commission about the release of securities for the Mountain Falls project.

Greg Moynahan, from William Lyon Homes, wanted 85 percent of the security released, but Nye County Public Works Director Samson Yao said that would be a threshold requiring the county to maintain Mountain Falls Parkway in one year.

"By next year this time we're going to have our boom trucks and sweeper cleaning up all the construction activity. That is the only collector road, they don't have any other alternate road they can use. That really worries me because it puts the county at a huge burden," Yao said. "There's no other road as good as this road and in a couple of years we'll have to go in and repair it."

The county commission voted to grant 84 percent of the security to William Lyon Homes. The company was able to persuade commissioners not to ban construction traffic on Clubhouse Drive, however a sign will be posted to that effect.

"That's the main entrance to that subdivision. It's going to be very difficult to keep contractors out of there. Just make sure we do a good walk-through after the one year," Williams told commissioners, following a back room discussion with William Lyons officials.