471.01 Right-of-way in Crosswalk
471.02 Right-of-way of Blind Person
471.03 Crossing Roadway Outside Crosswalk
471.04 Moving upon Right Half of Crosswalk
471.041 Persons Operating Motorized Wheelchairs
471.05 Walking Along Highways
471.06 Use of Highway for Soliciting; Riding in Cargo Storage Area, on Tailgate or on Outside of Vehicle
471.061 To Repeatedly Stop, Hail Down, or Beckon to Vehicles Prohibited; Exceptions; Penalties
471.07 Right-of-way on Sidewalk
471.08 Yielding to Public Safety Vehicle
471.09 Intoxicated or Drugged Pedestrian on Highway
471.10 On Bridges or Railroad Crossings
471.11 Using Ordinary Care
471.12 Designation of Pedestrian Ways; Prohibition of Private Vehicular Traffic
Statutory reference:
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(a) When traffic control signals are not in place, not in operation or are not clearly assigning the right-of-way, the driver of a vehicle, trackless trolley, or streetcar shall yield the right-of-way, slowing down or stopping if need be to so yield or if required by Section 413.11, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling, or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger.
(b) No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle, trackless trolley, or streetcar which is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard.
(c) Division (a) of this section does not apply under the conditions stated division (b) of Section 471.03.
(d) Whenever any vehicle, trackless trolley, or streetcar is stopped at a marked crosswalk or at any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, the driver of any other vehicle, trackless trolley, or streetcar approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass the stopped vehicle.
(RC 4511.46; Ord. No. 657-17. Passed 10-16-17, eff. 10-20-17)
(a) As used in this section, “blind person” or “blind pedestrian” means a person having not more than twenty/two hundred (20/200) visual acuity in the better eye with correcting lenses or visual acuity greater than twenty/two hundred (20/200) but with a limitation in the fields of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than twenty (20) degrees.
The driver of every vehicle shall yield the right-of- way to every blind pedestrian guided by a guide dog, or carrying a cane which is predominantly white or metallic in color, with or without a red tip.
(b) No person, other than a blind person, while on any public highway, street, alley or other public thoroughfare shall carry a white or metallic cane, with or without a red tip.
(RC 4511.47; Ord. No. 1684-76. Passed 6-29-76, eff. 7-6-76)
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