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No vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of the Fire Department when laid down on any street or private driveway to be used at any fire or alarm of fire, without the consent of the Fire Department official in command.
(Ord. 306, passed 4-8-81) Penalty, see § 70.99
(A) A person may not drive a vehicle when any of the following conditions exist:
(1) The vehicle is loaded in a manner or has more than three persons in the front seat so as to obstruct the view of the person who drives the vehicle to the front or sides of the vehicle.
(2) The vehicle is loaded in a manner or has more than three persons in the front seat so as to interfere with the person’s control over the driving mechanism of the vehicle.
(B) A passenger in a vehicle shall not ride in a position that interferes with the view ahead or to the sides of the person who drives the vehicle, or interfere with the person’s control over the driving mechanism of the vehicle.
(IC 9-21-8-43) (Ord. 306, passed 4-8-81) Penalty, see § 70.99
A person upon a bicycle, coaster, roller skates, or toy vehicle shall not attach the bicycle, coaster, roller skates, or toy vehicle to a vehicle upon a roadway.
(Ord. 306, passed 4-8-81) Penalty, see § 70.99
(A) Upon the immediate approach of an authorized emergency vehicle, when the person who drives the authorized emergency vehicle is giving audible signal by siren or displaying alternately flashing red, red and white, or red and blue lights, a person who drives another vehicle shall do the following unless otherwise directed by a law enforcement officer:
(1) Yield the right-of-way.
(2) Immediately drive to a position parallel to and as close as possible to the right-hand edge or curb of the highway clear of any intersection.
(3) Stop and remain in the position until the authorized emergency vehicle has passed.
(B) Upon approaching a stationary authorized emergency vehicle, when the authorized emergency vehicle is giving a signal by displaying alternatively flashing red, red and white, or red and blue lights, a person who drives an approaching vehicle shall:
(1) Proceeding with due caution, yield the right-of-way by making a lane change into a lane not adjacent to that of the authorized emergency vehicle, if possible with due regard to safety and traffic conditions, if on a highway having at least four lanes with not less than two lanes proceeding in the same direction as the approaching vehicle; or
(2) Proceeding with due caution, reduce the speed of the vehicle*, maintaining a safe speed for road conditions, if changing lanes would be impossible or unsafe.
* Editor’s note:
IC 9-21-8-35 currently reads “reduce the speed of the vehicle to a speed at least ten miles per hour less than the posted speed limit.”
(C) This section shall not operate to relieve the person who drives an authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons using the highway.
(IC 9-21-8-35) (Ord. 306, passed 4-8-81) Penalty, see § 70.99
The driver of a vehicle within a business or residence district emerging from an alley, driveway, or building, shall stop the vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or onto the sidewalk area extending across any alleyway or driveway, sound his horn and yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian as may be necessary to avoid collision, and upon entering the roadway shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching on the roadway.
(Ord. 306, passed 4-8-81) Penalty, see § 70.99
The driver of a vehicle intending to turn at an intersection shall do so as follows:
(A) Right turns. Both the approach for a right turn and a right turn shall be made as close as practicable to the right hand curb or edge of the roadway.
(B) Left turns. A person who drives a vehicle intending to turn at an intersection must:
(1) Make an approach for a left turn in that part of the right half of the roadway nearest the center line of the roadway. After entering the intersection, the person who drives a vehicle must make the left turn so as to leave the intersection to the right of the center line of the roadway being entered.
(2) Make an approach for a left turn from a two-way street into a one-way street in that part of the right half of the roadway nearest the center line of the roadway and pass to the right of the center line where the center line enters the intersection.
(3) Make a left turn from a one-way street into a two-way street by passing to the right of the center line of the street being entered upon leaving the intersection.
(4) Where both streets or roadways are one way, make both the approach for a left turn and a left turn as close as practicable to the left-hand curb or edge of the roadway.
(IC 9-21-8-21) (Ord. 306, passed 4-8-81) Penalty, see § 70.99
(A) When stop signs are erected as herein authorized at or near the entrance to any intersection, every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop sign shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection, or in the event there is no crosswalk, shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if none, then at the point nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway before entering the intersection, except when directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic-control signal.
(B) After the driver of a vehicle has stopped at the entrance to a through highway, the driver shall yield the right-of-way to other vehicles which have entered the intersection from the through highway, or which are approaching so closely on the through highway as to constitute an immediate hazard, but the driver having so yielded may proceed and the driver of all other vehicles approaching the intersection on the through highway shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle so proceeding into or across the through highway.
(C) After the driver of a vehicle has stopped in obedience to a stop sign at an intersection where a stop sign is erected at one or more entrances thereto, although not a part of a through highway, the driver shall proceed cautiously, yielding to vehicles not so obliged to stop which are within the intersection or approaching so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard, and may then proceed.
(Ord. 306, passed 4-8-81) Penalty, see § 70.99
Statutory reference:
Entering through highway or intersection; obedience to stop signs, see IC 9-21-8-31 and 9-21-8-32
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