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Danville, KY Code of Ordinances
CODE OF ORDINANCES CITY OF DANVILLE, KENTUCKY
Chapter 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 2 ADMINISTRATION*
Chapter 2.5 ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Chapter 3 ANIMALS*
Chapter 4 BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS*
Chapter 4.5 CABLE TELEVISION
Chapter 5 CEMETERIES*
Chapter 5.5 FAIR HOUSING, PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS AND EMPLOYMENT
Chapter 6 FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION*
Chapter 6.5 FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION AND CONTROL*
Chapter 7 GARBAGE, TRASH AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS*
Chapter 8 NUISANCES*
Chapter 9 OFFENSES*
Chapter 10 PARKS AND RECREATION*
Chapter 10.5 REPORTING TRANSACTIONS OF PAWNBROKERS AND PRECIOUS METAL DEALERS
Chapter 11 PEDDLERS AND SOLICITORS*
Chapter 12 PLANNING*
Chapter 13 MOBILE FOOD SALES
Chapter 14 STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES*
Chapter 15 SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS*
Chapter 16 TAXATION*
Chapter 17 TRAFFIC AND MOTOR VEHICLES*
Chapter 17.5 TREES AND SHRUBBERY*
Chapter 18 UTILITIES*
Chapter 19 ZONING*
ORDINANCE DISPOSITION TABLE FOR 1977 CODE OF ORDINANCES
ORDINANCE DISPOSITION TABLE FOR THIS CODE OF ORDINANCES
CODE COMPARATIVE TABLE 1977 CODE
CODE COMPARATIVE TABLE ORDINANCES
STATUTORY REFERENCE TABLE
Chapter 17 TRAFFIC AND MOTOR VEHICLES*
   *Cross-references--Any ordinance prescribing traffic regulations for specific locations or streets saved from repeal, §§ 1-7(14); use of vehicles in cemeteries, § 5-8; abandoned, junked and inoperative motor vehicles and appliances, § 8-21 et. seq.; offenses, Ch. 9; traffic city parks, § 10-1; streets, sidewalks and other public places, Ch. 14; special events, § 14-101 et seq.
   State law references--Licensing of motor vehicles, operators and trailers, KRS Ch. 186; automated motor vehicle registration, KRS Ch. 186A; financial responsibility law, KRS Ch. 187; nonresident motorists, service of process, KRS Ch. 188; traffic regulations and vehicle equipment and storage, KRS Ch. 189; a motor vehicle sales, KRS Ch. 190.
ARTICLE I. IN GENERAL
§ 17-1. Definitions.
   The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them:
   Funeral Procession means two (2) or more vehicles accompanying the body of a deceased person when each vehicle has its headlights on or is displaying a pennant attached in such a manner as to be clearly visible to approaching traffic.
   Parking means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon a roadway, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading, or in obedience to traffic regulations or traffic signs or signals.
   Private road or driveway means every road or driveway not open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
   Sidewalk means that portion of a street between the curb lines and the adjacent property lines or that part devoted to pedestrian traffic.
   Street or highway means the entire width between property lines of every way or place, of whatsoever nature, when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, for the purpose of vehicular traffic.
   Traffic means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other conveyances either singly or together while using any street for purposes of travel, and the persons operating and/or controlling such vehicles or conveyances.
   Vehicle. Includes all agencies for the transportation of persons or property over or upon the public highways of the Commonwealth and all vehicles passing over or upon the highways. Motor Vehicle. Includes all vehicles, as defined above except, road rollers; road graders; farm tractors; vehicles on which power shovels are mounted; construction equipment customarily used only on the site of construction and which is not practical for the transportation of persons or property upon the highways; vehicles that travel exclusively upon rails; vehicles propelled by electric power obtained from overhead wires while being operated within any municipality or where the vehicles do not travel more than five (5) miles beyond the city limits of any municipality; vehicles propelled by muscular power; and electric low-speed scooters. (KRS 189.010 (19))
   Any other words shall have the meanings prescribed in KRS Ch. 189.
(Code 1977, § 50.010)
   Cross reference--Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-2.
§ 17-2. State law.
   In all other matters relating to the regulation of traffic, the law of the state shall apply.
(Code 1977, § 50.240)
§ 17-3. Administrative regulation.
   Any administrative regulation under this chapter provided by any police officer and approved by the chief of police or the mayor of the city shall be deemed a regulation of the police department for the purposes of this chapter.
(Code 1977, § 50.010(18))
§ 17-4. Authority of police and fire department officials.
   (a)   The officers of the police department, and all such officers as are assigned by the chief of police, shall enforce all street traffic laws of this city and all of the state vehicle laws applicable to street traffic in this city.
   (b)   Officers of the police department and all such officers as are assigned by the chief of police are hereby authorized to direct all traffic by voice, hand or signal in conformity with traffic laws, provided that in the event of a fire or other emergency, or to expedite traffic, or to safeguard pedestrians, officers of the police department may direct traffic as conditions may require notwithstanding the provisions of the traffic laws.
   (c)   Officers of the fire department, when at the scene of a fire, may direct or assist the police in directing traffic in the immediate vicinity.
(Code 1977, § 50.030(1), (2), (3))
   Cross reference--Police and fire departments generally, § 2-111 et seq.
§ 17-5. Traffic-control devices.
   (a)   The city manager shall cause to be directed and maintained traffic control signs, signals and devices when and as required under this chapter and any traffic ordinances of this city to make effective the provisions of this chapter and such ordinances, and may place and maintain such additional traffic-control devices as he may deem necessary to regulate traffic under this chapter or under state law or to guide or warn traffic.
   (b)   All traffic-control signs, signals and devices existing on the effective date of this Code are hereby ratified and approved and shall be considered as having been lawfully installed.
(Code 1977, §§ 50.030(4), 50.060(1)(a))
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