9-80-010 Blue lights and flashing, rotating or oscillating blue beams.

   (a)   No person shall drive or move any vehicle or equipment upon any street with any device thereon displaying a blue light visible directly in front thereof, or place, maintain, or display upon or in view of any public way a flashing, rotating or oscillating blue beam, except: (i) a vehicle operated by a police department; (ii) a city-owned or city-leased vehicle that displays such light in accordance with rules or guidelines developed by the Commissioner of Fleet and Facility Management; or (iii) a vehicle that displays such light as otherwise permitted under the Illinois Vehicle Code, codified at 625 ILCS 5/1-100, et seq.

   (b)   The Commissioner of Fleet and Facility Management may allow, by rule, the use of blue oscillating, rotating or flashing lights in combination with green oscillating, rotating or flashing lights on certain city-owned or city-leased vehicles not operated by the Department of Police.

(Added Coun. J. 7-12-90, p. 18634; Amend Coun. J. 11-26-13, p. 67481, Art. II, § 3; Amend Coun. J. 11-26-19, p. 11390, Art. III, § 16; Amend Coun. J. 11-15-23, p. 6542, Art. I, § 16)

9-80-020 Red lights and flashing lights.

   (a)   No person shall drive or move any vehicle or equipment upon any roadway with any lamp or device thereon displaying a red light visible from directly in front thereof.

   (b)   Flashing lights are prohibited on motor vehicles, except as a means for indicating a right or left turn or an emergency stop.

   (c)   This section shall not apply to: (i) authorized emergency vehicles; (ii) city-owned or city-leased vehicles that display red or flashing lights in accordance with rules or guidelines developed by the Commissioner of Fleet and Facility Management; or (iii) vehicles that display red or flashing lights as otherwise permitted under the Illinois Vehicle Code, codified at 625 ILCS 5/1-100, et seq.

(Added Coun. J. 7-12-90, p. 18634; Amend Coun. J. 11-26-13, p. 67481, Art. II, § 3; Amend Coun. J. 11-26-19, p. 11390, Art. III, § 17; Amend Coun. J. 11-15-23, p. 6542, Art. I, § 16)

9-80-030 Destructive substances on public way.

   (a)   No person shall throw or deposit upon any public way any glass bottle, glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans, or any other substance likely to injure any person, animal or vehicle upon such public way.

   (b)   Any person who drops, or permits to be dropped or thrown, upon any public way any destructive or injurious material shall immediately remove the same or cause it to be removed.

   (c)   Any person removing wrecked or damaged vehicle from a public way shall remove any glass or other injurious substance dropped upon the highway from such vehicle.

   (d)   No person shall cast, throw or deposit any litter, as defined in Section 10-8-480 of the Municipal Code, upon any public way.

   (e)   Any police officer or traffic control aide observing a violation of this section may issue a notice of violation or other appropriate citation to any person violating any of the provisions of this section.

(Added Coun. J. 7-12-90, p. 18634)

9-80-035 Opening and closing vehicle doors.

   No person shall open the door of a vehicle on the side available to moving traffic unless and until it is reasonably safe to do so, and can be done without interfering with the movement of other traffic, nor shall any person leave a door open on the side of a vehicle available to moving traffic for a period of time longer than necessary to load or unload passengers.

(Added Coun. J. 3-12-08, p. 22781, § 2)

9-80-040 Metal-tired vehicles or equipment.

   No person shall move on any public way any metal-tired vehicle or equipment having on the periphery of any wheel a block stud, flange, cleat, or spike or any other protuberance of any metal other than rubber which projects beyond the tread of the traction surface of the tire; provided, however, it shall be permissible to use tire chains of reasonable proportions upon any vehicle when required for safety because of snow, ice, mud or other conditions tending to cause a vehicle to skid.

(Added Coun. J. 7-12-90, p. 18634)

9-80-050 Unlawful moving of vehicles.

   No person other than a police officer shall move a vehicle, not lawfully under his control, into any area where stopping, standing or parking is prohibited or away from a curb or edge of roadway such distance as is unlawful or start or cause to be started the motor of any motor vehicle, or shift, change, or move the levers, brake, starting device, gears, or other mechanism, of a parked motor vehicle, to a position other than that in which it was left by the owner or driver thereof, or attempt to do so.

(Added Coun. J. 7-12-90, p. 18634)

9-80-060 Blocking of streets by railroad trains.

   (a)   It shall be unlawful for the directing officer or the operator of any railroad train to direct the operation of or to operate the same in such a manner as to prevent the use of any street for purposes of travel for a period of time longer than five minutes, except that this provision shall not apply to trains or cars in motion other than those engaged in switching.

   (b)   It shall be unlawful for the directing officer or the operator of any railroad train to direct the operation of or to operate the same in such a manner as to prevent the use of any street for purposes of travel for a period of time longer than five minutes between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. and between 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.

   (c)   Any person violating any provision of this section shall be fined $100.00 for each offense. A separate distinct offense shall be held to have been committed each day any person continues to violate any of the provisions of this section.

(Added Coun. J. 7-12-90, p. 18634)

9-80-065 Malfunctioning railroad gates.

   It shall be unlawful for any operator of a railroad crossing gate to fail to repair, so as to be in operable order, any gate upon being notified of a malfunction by any city official. Any person violating this section shall be fined $1,000.00 for each ten minutes that a gate remains inoperable following notice of a malfunction.

(Added Coun. J. 9-5-01, p. 66217, § 1)

9-80-070 Repairs to vehicles on boulevards.

   No person shall change any parts, repair, wash, grease, wax, polish or clean a vehicle on any boulevard except such repairing, cleaning or polishing as is necessary to insure good vision, or such emergency repairs as are necessary to remove such vehicle from the boulevard. Such emergency repairs shall be made only as close as possible to the right-hand edge of the roadway, with the vehicle facing in the direction of the traffic flow.

(Added Coun. J. 7-12-90, p. 18634)