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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
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§ 17-6. Authorized signs, signals, directions.
   All traffic signs, signals, parking signs or lines, tokens, crosswalk lines or other devices placed in or on the streets or public ways of the city regulating traffic shall be presumed to have been placed in or on the streets or public ways of the city by authority of the board of commissioners or by an officer of the city duly authorized so to do, unless the contrary be clearly shown.
(Code 1977, § 50.060(1)(a))
§ 17-7. Prohibited signs.
   It shall be unlawful for any person to place, maintain or to display upon or in view of any street any unofficial sign, signal or device which purports to be or is an invitation of or resembles any official traffic sign, signal, token or device, or which may hide same from view, or which attempts to direct or control or regulate the traffic on the streets of the city; and any such prohibited sign, signal or device is declared to be a nuisance, and the chief of police is empowered to remove the same or cause same to be removed without notice.
(Code 1977, § 50.060(1)(b))
§ 17-8. Reserved.*
   *Editor's note--Section 14 of Ord. No. 1377, adopted November 25, 1986, repealed § 17-8, parades, in its entirety. Former § 17-8 derived from the Code of 1977, § 50.180.
§ 17-9. Funeral Processions.
   (a)   A vehicle in a funeral procession has the right-of-way at an intersection and may proceed through the intersection if the procession is led by an escort vehicle displaying flashing yellow, red, or blue lights, except:
      (1)   When the right-of-way is required by an emergency vehicle as defined by KRS 189.910;
      (2)   When vehicles in the procession are directed otherwise by a police or safety officer; or
      (3)   When the vehicle is a train or locomotive.
   (b)   Before assuming the right-of-way, a person who drives a vehicle in a funeral procession shall exercise due caution with regard to crossing traffic.
   (c)   A person who drives a vehicle that is not part of a funeral procession shall not drive the vehicle between the vehicles of the funeral procession or otherwise interfere with the progress of the procession, except when:
      (1)   The person is authorized to do so by a police or safety officer; or
      (2)   The vehicle is an emergency vehicle as defined by KRS 189.910.
   (d)   A person who drives a vehicle that is not a part of a funeral procession shall not illuminate the vehicle headlights or engage in any other act for the purpose of securing the right-of-way granted to funeral processions.
   (e)   The escort vehicle, hearse, or other vehicles in a procession may be equipped with flashing amber lights for the purpose of notifying the general public of the procession and gaining the right-of-way at intersections, or signaling the end of a procession.
   (f)   Persons authorized to use flashing lights as defined in KRS 189.920 may use them while accompanying a funeral procession to warn traffic that a procession is approaching or that it is in progress.
   (g)   When a funeral procession is in progress, a person driving a vehicle not in the procession shall not pass or overtake any vehicle in the procession unless:
      (1)   The person is directed to do so by a police or safety officer;
      (2)   The procession is on a street, road, or highway outside the corporate limits of a city, town, or urban-county; or
      (3)   The procession is on an interstate highway or a state parkway.
(KRS 189.378)
§ 17-10. Vehicles prohibited on sidewalks.
   No person shall drive a motor vehicle, including a motorcycle or merchandise push car, upon any sidewalk or public place intended exclusively for pedestrians.
(Code 1977, § 50.210(1))
§ 17-11. Bicycles, roller skates and skateboards prohibited in downtown area.
   (a)   No person shall ride a bicycle or skateboard or use roller skates on the sidewalks of the downtown area, and no person shall ride a skateboard or use roller skates on the streets of the downtown area, which area is bounded by Wilderness Road and Stanford Avenue to the east, Fifth Street to the west, Broadway to the north, and Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd. to the south, which shall include both sides of the of the above-enumerated boundary streets and any sidewalks located within those boundaries.
   (b)   Any parent, guardian or person having control or custody of any child, who knowingly permits such child to violate any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a violation of this section.
(Code 1977, §§ 50.210(1), (3), 90.130; Ord. No. 1383, § 1, 6-9-87; Ord. No. 1394, § 1, 4-26-88; Am. Ord. 1632, passed 9-9-02)
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