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(A) Town personnel or contractors, while repairing or improving, or repairing lines or other utility facilities in the streets, are authorized as necessary, subject to control of the Chief of the Traffic Division, to close any street or section thereof to traffic during such repair, maintenance, or construction. In exercising such authority, such person shall erect or cause to be erected proper control devices and barricades to warn and notify the public that the street has been closed to traffic.
(B) When any street has been closed to traffic under the provisions of division (A) above, and traffic-control devices or barricades have been erected, no person shall drive any vehicle through, under, over, or around such traffic-control devices or barricades, or otherwise enter the closed area. This division (B) shall not apply to persons while engaged in such construction, maintenance, and repair or to persons entering therein for the protection of lives or property. Persons having their places of residence or places of business within the closed area may travel, when possible to do so, through the area at their own risk.
(C) Whenever construction, repair, or maintenance of any street or utility line or facility is being performed under traffic, the town personnel, contractor, and utility company concerned shall erect, or cause to be erected, traffic-control devices to warn and guide the public. Every person using such street shall obey all signs, signals, markings, flagmen, or other traffic-control devices which are placed to regulate, control, and guide traffic through the construction or maintenance area.
(Prior Code, § 15-1608)
Every person propelling any pushcart or riding an animal upon a roadway, and every person driving an animal-drawn vehicle shall be subject to the provisions of this subchapter applicable to the driver of any vehicle, except those provisions of this subchapter which by their very nature can have no application.
(Prior Code, § 15-1609)
Statutory reference:
Persons riding animals or driving animal-drawn vehicles, see 47 O.S. § 11-104
IMPOUNDMENT
The impoundment of vehicles under authority of this subchapter shall be construed as an enforcement procedure for protection of the public peace, safety, and welfare, and the safeguarding of property, and shall be used generally for the prevention and removal of traffic hazards, prevention, and abatement of public nuisances arising from traffic law violations, protection of the public rights in the use of town streets and thoroughfares from obstructions placed and left in derogation of those rights, and for safeguarding and protecting recovered stolen vehicles.
(Prior Code, § 15-1701)
Members of the Police Department are hereby authorized within the authority granted by § 70.40 to impound vehicles under the provisions of this subchapter. No impoundment shall be valid unless made under order of an authorized police officer.
(Prior Code, § 15-1702)
A disabled vehicle upon a street or highway may be impounded under the following circumstances:
(A) If left unattended and improperly parked on a street or highway;
(B) If left unattended longer than 48 hours on the shoulder of any highway; or
(C) If the person in charge of the vehicle is physically incapacitated to such extent as to be unable to provide for its custody or removal.
(Prior Code, § 15-1703)
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