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Alva, OK Code of Ordinances
ALVA, OKLAHOMA CODE OF ORDINANCES
CHAPTER 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 2: ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 3: RESERVED
CHAPTER 4: ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
CHAPTER 5: RESERVED
CHAPTER 6: ANIMALS
CHAPTER 7: RESERVED
CHAPTER 8: AVIATION
CHAPTER 9: RESERVED
CHAPTER 10: BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 11: RESERVED
CHAPTER 12: BUSINESSES
CHAPTER 13: RESERVED
CHAPTER 14: CIVIL EMERGENCIES
CHAPTER 15: RESERVED
CHAPTER 16: EMERGENCY SERVICES
CHAPTER 17: RESERVED
CHAPTER 18: ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER 19: RESERVED
CHAPTER 20: FINANCE AND TAXATION
CHAPTER 21: RESERVED
CHAPTER 22: FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION
CHAPTER 23: RESERVED
CHAPTER 24: FLOODS
CHAPTER 25: RESERVED
CHAPTER 26: HEALTH
CHAPTER 27: RESERVED
CHAPTER 28: HUMAN RELATIONS
CHAPTER 29: RESERVED
CHAPTER 30: LAW ENFORCEMENT
CHAPTER 31: RESERVED
CHAPTER 32: MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES
CHAPTER 33: RESERVED
CHAPTER 34: MUNICIPAL COURT
CHAPTER 35: RESERVED
CHAPTER 36: PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 37: RESERVED
CHAPTER 38: PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PLACES
CHAPTER 39: RESERVED
CHAPTER 40: STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
CHAPTER 41: RESERVED
CHAPTER 42: TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES
ARTICLE I: IN GENERAL
ARTICLE II: ENFORCEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
ARTICLE III: VEHICLE EQUIPMENT; INSPECTION
ARTICLE IV: SPEED REGULATIONS
ARTICLE V: DRIVING; OVERTAKING; PASSING
§ 42-145. CHANGING LANES.
§ 42-146. DRIVING ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROADWAY REQUIRED; EXCEPTIONS.
§ 42-147. WHEN OVERTAKING ON THE RIGHT IS PERMITTED.
§ 42-148. OVERTAKING A VEHICLE ON THE LEFT.
§ 42-149. LIMITATIONS ON OVERTAKING ON THE LEFT; EXCEPTION.
§ 42-150. OVERTAKING AND PASSING BICYCLE.
§ 42-151. PASSING VEHICLES PROCEEDING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS.
§ 42-152. ONE-WAY ROADWAYS AND ROTARY TRAFFIC ISLANDS.
§ 42-153. FOLLOWING TOO CLOSELY.
§ 42-154. NO PASSING ZONES.
§ 42-155. DRIVING THROUGH FUNERAL OR OTHER PROCESSION PROHIBITED; EXCEPTIONS.
§ 42-156. DRIVERS IN A PROCESSION.
§ 42-157. FUNERAL PROCESSIONS TO BE IDENTIFIED.
§ 42-158. OVERTAKING AND PASSING IN SCHOOL ZONES.
§ 42-159. OVERTAKING AND PASSING SCHOOL BUS.
§ 42-160. SCHOOL BUS REQUIREMENTS; LIGHTS; SIGNS; PAINTING.
§ 42-161. DRIVING OF VEHICLES ON SIDEWALK PROHIBITED; EXCEPTION.
§ 42-162. LIMITATIONS ON BACKING VEHICLE.
§ 42-163. LIMITATION ON USE OF MOTORCYCLES, BICYCLES, AND MOTOR SCOOTERS.
§ 42-164. REQUIRED MOTORCYCLE EQUIPMENT, HEADGEAR.
§ 42-165. SPECIAL NEED LIMITATION ON MOTORCYCLES AND MOTOR SCOOTERS.
§ 42-166. CLINGING TO VEHICLES PROHIBITED.
§ 42-167. ENTERING AND LEAVING CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAYS.
§ 42-168. RECKLESS DRIVING.
§ 42-169. CARELESS OR NEGLIGENT DRIVING, STOPPING, OR PARKING.
§ 42-170. REQUIREMENT OF ANY PERSON DRIVING A VEHICLE ON A PUBLIC WAY TO OPERATE SAME IN A CAREFUL AND PRUDENT MANNER.
§ 42-171. DRIVING WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF INTOXICATING SUBSTANCES.
§ 42-172. TRANSPORTING OF LOW-POINT BEER EXCEPT IN ORIGINAL, UNOPENED CONTAINER PROHIBITED; EXCEPTION.
§ 42-173. UNLAWFUL TRANSPORTATION OF INTOXICATING BEVERAGE; PENALTY.
§ 42-174. ATTENTION TO DRIVING REQUIRED.
§ 42-175. SPEED CONTEST PROHIBITED.
§ 42-176. PERMITS REQUIRED FOR PARADES AND PROCESSIONS.
§ 42-177. DRIVING THROUGH SAFETY ZONE.
§ 42-178. STARTING PARKED VEHICLE.
§ 42-179. OPENING AND CLOSING VEHICLE DOORS.
§ 42-180. OBSTRUCTIONS TO DRIVER’S VIEW OR DRIVING MECHANISM.
§ 42-181. BOARDING OR ALIGHTING FROM VEHICLES.
§ 42-182. UNLAWFUL RIDING.
§ 42-183. RAILROAD TRAINS NOT TO BLOCK STREETS.
§ 42-184. PRIVATE SERVICE DRIVES.
§ 42-185. TRUCK WEIGHTS, DRIVING AND ROUTE RESTRICTIONS.
§ 42-186. LOADS ON VEHICLES.
§ 42-187. VEHICLE APPROACHING OR ENTERING INTERSECTION.
§ 42-188. VEHICLE TURNING LEFT AT INTERSECTION.
§ 42-189. VEHICLE APPROACHING A YIELD RIGHT-OF-WAY SIGN.
§ 42-190. VEHICLE ENTERING THROUGH HIGHWAY.
§ 42-191. VEHICLES FACING STOP, SLOW, WARNING, OR CAUTION SIGNAL.
§ 42-192. THROUGH STREETS.
§ 42-193. INTERSECTIONS WHERE STOP OR YIELD REQUIRED.
§ 42-194. RESERVED.
§ 42-195. VEHICLE ENTERING STOP INTERSECTION.
§ 42-196. VEHICLE ENTERING YIELD INTERSECTION.
§ 42-197. VEHICLE ENTERING HIGHWAY FROM PRIVATE ROAD OR DRIVEWAY.
§ 42-198. VEHICLES ENTERING TRAFFIC FROM PARKING.
§ 42-199. EMERGING FROM ALLEY, DRIVEWAY, OR BUILDING.
§ 42-200. STOP WHEN TRAFFIC OBSTRUCTED.
§ 42-201. OBEDIENCE TO SIGNAL INDICATING APPROACH OF TRAIN.
§ 42-202. CERTAIN VEHICLES TO STOP AT ALL RAILROAD GRADE CROSSINGS.
§ 42-203. MANDATORY USE OF SEAT BELTS.
§ 42-204. CHILD PASSENGER RESTRAINT SYSTEM REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN VEHICLES; EXEMPTIONS.
§§ 42-205 THROUGH 42-313. RESERVED.
ARTICLE VI: TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES
ARTICLE VII: STOPPING, STANDING, AND PARKING
ARTICLE VIII: LOADING
ARTICLE IX: TURNING MOVEMENTS
ARTICLE X: PEDESTRIANS
ARTICLE XI: BICYCLES AND MOTORIZED SCOOTERS
ARTICLE XII: IMPOUNDMENT OF VEHICLES
ARTICLE XIII: RAILROADS
ARTICLE XIV: VEHICLES FOR HIRE
CHAPTER 43: RESERVED
CHAPTER 44: UTILITIES
APPENDIX A: SUBDIVISIONS
APPENDIX B: ZONING
APPENDIX C: FRANCHISES
PARALLEL REFERENCES
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§ 42-151. PASSING VEHICLES PROCEEDING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS.
   Drivers of vehicles proceeding in opposite directions shall pass each other to the right. Upon roadways having a width for not more than one line of traffic in each direction, each driver shall give to the other at least one-half the main-traveled portion of the roadway as nearly as possible.
(Prior Code, § 42-151)
§ 42-152. ONE-WAY ROADWAYS AND ROTARY TRAFFIC ISLANDS.
   (A)   The City Council, by motion or resolution, may designate any road, street, alley, or highway, or any separate roadway under its jurisdiction, for one-way traffic and shall cause appropriate signs giving notice thereof to be erected.
   (B)   Whenever the City Council designates any street or alley or part thereof as a one-way street or alley, the City Council shall have placed and maintained signs giving notice thereof; and no such regulation shall be effective unless such signs are in place. Signs indicating the direction of lawful traffic movement shall be placed at every intersection where the movement of traffic in the opposite direction is prohibited.
   (C)   Upon those streets and parts of streets and in those alleys and parts of alleys so designated as one-way streets and alleys, vehicular traffic shall move only in the direction indicated when signs indicating the direction of traffic are erected and maintained at every intersection where movement in the opposite direction is prohibited.
   (D)   Upon roadways designated and sign-posted for one-way traffic, a vehicle shall be driven only in the direction designated.
   (E)   A vehicle passing around a rotary traffic island shall be driven only to the right of such island.
(Prior Code, § 42-152)
Statutory reference:
   One-way roads and rotary islands, see 47 O.S. § 11-308
§ 42-153. FOLLOWING TOO CLOSELY.
   (A)   The driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard for the speed of such vehicles and the traffic upon and the condition of the highway.
   (B)   The driver of any truck or motor vehicle drawing another vehicle when traveling upon a roadway outside of a business or residential district and which is following another truck or motor vehicle drawing another vehicle shall, whenever conditions permit, leave sufficient space so that an overtaking vehicle may enter and occupy such space without danger, except that this shall not prevent a motor truck or motor vehicle drawing another vehicle from overtaking and passing any like vehicle or another vehicle.
   (C)   No vehicle which has more than six tires in contact with the road shall approach from the rear of another vehicle which has more than six tires in contact with the road closer than 300 feet except when passing such vehicle.
   (D)   Motor vehicles being driven upon any roadway outside of a business or residential district in a caravan or motorcade, whether or not towing other vehicles, shall be so operated as to allow sufficient space between each such vehicle or combination of vehicles so as to enable any other vehicle to enter and occupy such space without danger. The distance between such vehicles shall be a minimum of 200 feet under all conditions. This provision shall not apply to funeral processions.
(Prior Code, § 42-153)
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see 47 O.S. § 11-310
§ 42-154. NO PASSING ZONES.
   (A)   The State Department of Highways, as regards state and federal highways, and the City Council as regards all other streets, are hereby authorized to determine those portions of any highway where overtaking and passing to the left would be especially hazardous, and may, by appropriate signs or markings on the roadway, indicate the beginning and end of such zones. When such signs or markings are in place and clearly visible to an ordinarily observant person, every driver shall obey the directions thereof.
   (B)   Where signs or markings are in place to define a no-passing zone as set forth in subsection (A) above of this section, no driver shall, at any time, drive to the left side of the roadway within the no-passing zone or on the left side of any pavement striping designed to mark the no-passing zone throughout its length.
(Prior Code, § 42-154)
Statutory reference:
   No passing zones, see 47 O.S. § 11-307
§ 42-155. DRIVING THROUGH FUNERAL OR OTHER PROCESSION PROHIBITED; EXCEPTIONS.
   No driver of a vehicle shall drive between the vehicles comprising a funeral or other authorized procession while they are in motion and when such vehicles are conspicuously designated as required in § 42-157. This provision shall not apply at intersections where traffic is controlled by traffic control signals or police officers.
(Prior Code, § 42-155)
Statutory reference:
   Local powers to regulate processions, see 47 O.S. § 15-102
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