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(A) The Chief of Police is authorized to determine and designate those heavily traveled streets upon which shall be prohibited the use of the roadway by motor-driven cycles, bicycles, or other nonmotorized traffic, and shall erect appropriate signs giving notice thereof.
(B) When signs are so erected giving notice thereof, no person shall disobey the restrictions stated on such signs.
(Ord. 306, passed 4-8-81) Penalty, see § 70.99
(A) There is hereby created and established a Cedar Lake Driver Education Program designed for those persons receiving a citation issued by a Cedar Lake Police Officer for violation of the traffic regulations of the town, and who are either first time traffic offenders or who otherwise have not accumulated more than four current points on their driving record, and who have not previously completed the Driver Education Program within the past three years to the date of issuance of the citation, with the objective of improving the driving skills of such person.
(B) The fee and charges of the program shall be in the sum of $75 to defray the cost of the program.
(C) The program shall be administered and operated by the town Police Chief.
(D) Upon successful completion of the four-hour course and program, the pending traffic charges will not be processed by the Police Department for prosecution of the same in the Lake Superior Court.
(E) The first-time offenses eligible for the program shall be all town ordinance moving violations.
(F) The program shall be operated consistent with the Cedar Lake Driver Education Program Manual containing the mission statement, eligibility/attendance, schedule of class/length/validity, instructors, and protocol, which manual is hereby specifically incorporated into this section by reference.
(G) The Chief of Police shall be and hereby is authorized in conjunction with the Clerk-Treasurer to create such forms and bulletins to effectively administer the program.
(Ord. 804, passed 8-28-01)
(A) Establishment. The town hereby establishes a Town Deferral Program pursuant to IC 34-28-5-1, as amended from time to time, to be known as the Town Deferral Program.
(B) Eligibility. An individual who has being issued a citation for a moving traffic citation in the town shall be eligible to participate in the Town Deferral Program if the individual:
(1) Has not been charged with a moving traffic violation that is associated with property damage, personal injury, or other related criminal charges;
(2) Has not been charged with any other moving violation in any state within the last year; and
(3) Has not been charged with an offense of speeding in excess of 30 miles per hour over the posted speed limit.
(C) Application. An individual who is eligible and seeks to participate in the Town Deferral Program (hereinafter Applicant) shall complete the Town Deferral Program Application Agreement located in the Police Department. The Police Department shall verify that the applicant is eligible for the Town Deferral Program.
(D) Fees.
(1) At the time of the application submission, the applicant shall pay the following:
(a) Current court costs, pursuant to the provisions of the Indiana Code, as amended from time to time,
(b) An initial user fee of $52, and
(c) Monthly user fees of $10 per month for each of the six months the applicant is in the Town Deferral Program.
(2) The total amount of the court costs and fees identified above shall be made payable to the Clerk, Lake Superior Court, in the
form of a certified check, money order, or cashier’s check. The fees paid by the applicant are non-refundable and shall not be applied to the fine in the event that the applicant fails to properly and successfully follow and complete the requirements of the Town Deferral Program. The court costs shall be distributed as required for traffic violations. Fifty percent of the initial user fee and monthly user fees shall be deposited in the Police Department Equipment Non-Reverting Fund upon proper processing.
(E) Procedure. The Police Department shall file the applicant’s citation with the Lake County Court. After assignment of a cause number and at the next regularly scheduled Town Court date, the Town Attorney shall file the executed Deferral Program Application Agreement in the Lake County Court together with the court costs and fees. The Police Department shall review the applicant’s driving record six months after the filing of said Agreement (hereinafter Review Period). In the event that no new moving traffic violations have been issued to by the applicant, the Town Attorney shall dismiss the original moving traffic violation citation. In the event that the applicant has been issued a moving traffic violation citation within the review period, or otherwise does not comply with terms of the Town Deferral Program, the Town Attorney shall institute further proceedings against the applicant based upon the original citation.
(F) Implementation. The Town Attorney, Police Department, and Clerk-Treasurer are hereby authorized to develop the appropriate forms and related materials necessary to facilitate the Town Deferral Program.
(Ord. 997, passed 4-10-07)
TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES
(A) Whenever traffic is controlled by traffic-control signals exhibiting different colored lights or colored lighted arrows successively, one at a time or in combination, only the colors green, red, or yellow may be used, except for special pedestrian signals under IC 9-21-18.
(B) The lights indicate and apply to drivers of vehicles and pedestrians as follows:
(1) Green indication.
(a) Vehicular traffic facing a circular green signal may proceed straight through or turn right or left, unless a sign at the place prohibits either turn;
(b) Vehicular traffic, including vehicles turning right or left, shall yield right-of-way to other vehicles and to pedestrians lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent sidewalk at the time such signal is exhibited;
(c) Vehicular traffic facing a green arrow signal, shown alone or in combination with another indication, may cautiously enter the intersection only to make the movement indicated by the green arrow or other movement permitted by other indications shown at the same time;
(d) Vehicular traffic shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within an adjacent crosswalk and to other traffic lawfully using the intersection; and
(e) Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian-control signal, pedestrians facing any green signal, except when the sole green signal is a turn arrow, may proceed across the roadway within a marked or unmarked crosswalk.
(2) Steady yellow indication.
(a) Vehicular traffic facing a steady circular yellow or yellow arrow signal is thereby warned that the related green movement is being terminated and that a red indication will be exhibited immediately thereafter; and
(b) Pedestrians facing a steady circular yellow or yellow arrow signal, unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian-control signal, are thereby advised that there is insufficient time to cross the roadway before a red indication is shown, and a pedestrian may not start to cross the roadway at that time.
(3) Steady red indication.
(a) Except as provided in division (B)(3)(b) and (d), vehicular traffic facing a steady circular red signal alone shall stop at clearly marked stop line. However, if there is no clearly marked stop line, vehicular traffic shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection. If there is no crosswalk, vehicular traffic shall stop before entering the intersection and shall remain standing until an indication to proceed is shown;
(b) 1. Except when a sign is in place prohibiting a turn described in this subdivision, vehicular traffic facing a steady red signal, after coming to a complete stop, may cautiously enter the intersection to:
a. Make a right turn; or
b. Make a left turn if turning from the left lane of a one-way street into another one-way street with the flow of traffic.
2. Vehicular traffic making a turn described in this subdivision shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within an adjacent crosswalk and to other traffic using the inter- section.
(c) Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian-control signal, pedestrians facing a steady circular red signal alone shall not enter the roadway.
(d) This provision does not apply to the operation of an autocycle. If the operator of a motorcycle, motor driven cycle, or bicycle approaches an intersection that is controlled by a traffic control signal, the operator may proceed through the intersection on a steady red signal only if the operator:
1. Comes to a complete stop at the intersection for at least 120 seconds; and
2. Exercises due caution as provided by law, otherwise treats the traffic control signal as a stop sign, and determines that it is safe to proceed.
(4) No indication or conflicting indications:
(a) Vehicular traffic facing an intersection having a signal that displays no indication or conflicting indications, where no other control is present, shall stop before entering the intersection; and
(b) After stopping, vehicular traffic may proceed with caution through the intersection and shall yield the right-of-way to traffic within the intersection, or approaching so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard.
(5) This section applies to traffic-control signals located at a place other than an intersection. A stop required under this subdivision must be made at the signal, except when the signal is supplemented by a sign or pavement marking indicating where the stop must be made.
(C) The motorman of any street car shall obey traffic-control signals as applicable to vehicles.
(D) The following schedule of public ways, roadways, streets, and highways of the town upon which four-way automatic traffic-control devices at one or more of the intersections shall be placed where specifically designated, namely:
Wicker Ave. and W-133 Ave.;
Parrish Ave. and W-133 Ave.;
Morse St. and W-145 Ave.
(E) The following schedule of public ways, roadways, streets, and highways of the town upon which there is a railroad crossing, and where there exists automatic traffic-control devices at said crossing which require compliance by drivers or operators of vehicles shall be applicable where specifically designated, namely:
9400 Block W-137 Ave;
9400 Block W-141 Ave.;
9400 Block W-142 Ave.;
11000 Block W-129 Ave.
(Ord. 306, passed 4-8-81; Am. Ord. 530, passed 5-22-91)
Statutory reference:
State law provisions concerning colorized traffic signals, see IC 9-21-3-7
(A) The Town Traffic Engineer shall place and maintain traffic- control signs, signals, and devices when and as required under the traffic ordinances of the town to make effective the provisions of such ordinances and may place and maintain such additional traffic-control devices as he may deem necessary to regulate traffic under the traffic ordinances of the town or under state law, or to guide or warn traffic. (Ord. 306, passed 4-8-81)
(B) All traffic-control devices shall be the same general type and all such traffic devices employed to indicate one particular warning or regulation shall be uniform and as far as possible shall be placed uniformly.
The driver or operator of every vehicle on the public ways, roadways, streets, highways or private roads or driveways in the town shall obey and comply with the instructions of any official traffic-control device applicable thereto and placed in accordance with all applicable town ordinances, as amended from time to time, unless otherwise directed by a police officer, subject to the exceptions provided the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle as described in the Traffic Code.
(Ord. 306, passed 4-8-81; Am. Ord. 530, passed 5-22-91) Penalty, see § 70.99
(A) A person may not place, maintain, or display upon or in view of any highway an unauthorized sign, signal, marking, or device that:
(1) Purports to be, is an imitation of, or resembles an official traffic-control device or railroad sign or signal; or
(2) Attempts to direct the movement of traffic; or
(3) Hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of any official traffic-control device or a railroad sign or signal. (IC 9-21-4-4)
(B) Except as provided in IC 9-21-4-5(b), a person may not place or maintain upon a highway a traffic sign or signal bearing commercial advertising. A public authority may not permit the placement of a traffic sign or signal that bears a commercial message.
(C) Under criteria to be jointly established by the State Department of Transportation and the Office of Tourism Development (before July 1, 2020) or the Indiana Destination Development Corporation (after June 30, 2020), the Department of Transportation may authorize the posting of any of the following:
(1) Limited tourist attraction signage; and
(2) Business signs on specific information panels on the interstate system of highways and other freeways.
(D) Criteria established under division (C) above for tourist attraction signage must include a category for a tourist attraction that:
(1) Is a trademarked destination brand; and
(2) Encompasses buildings, structures, sites or other facilities that are, regardless of the distance of the tourist attraction from the highway on which the tourist attraction signage is placed:
(a) Listed on the National Register of Historic Places established under 16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.; or
(b) Listed on the register of Indiana historic sites and historic structures established under IC 36-14-21; regardless of the distance of the tourist attraction from the highway on which the tourist attraction signage is placed.
(E) All costs of manufacturing, installation, and maintenance to the State Department of Transportation for a business sign posted under this section shall be paid by the business.
(F) A person may not place, maintain, or display a flashing, a rotating, or an alternating light, beacon, or other lighted device that:
(1) Is visible from a highway; and
(2) May be mistaken for or confused with a traffic-control device or for an authorized warning device on an emergency vehicle.
(G) Criteria established under division (C) for tourist attraction signage must include a category for tourist attraction that is an establishment licensed under IC 7.1-3-2-7(5).
(H) This section does not prohibit the erection, upon private property adjacent to highways, of signs giving useful directional information and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs.
(IC 9-21-4-5)
(I) Each sign, signal, or marking prohibited under this section or other state law is declared to be a public nuisance, and the authority having jurisdiction over the highway may remove or cause to be removed the prohibited sign, signal, or marking without notice.
(IC 9-21-4-6(e))
(Ord. 306, passed 4-8-81)
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