TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES
CHAPTER 60
ADMINISTRATION OF TRAFFIC CODE
 
60.01 Title
60.05 Traffic Accidents: Reports
60.02 Definitions
60.06 Peace Officer’s Authority
60.03 Administration and Enforcement
60.07 Obedience to Traffic Controllers or Devices
60.04 Power to Direct Traffic
60.08 Parades Regulated
 
60.01 TITLE.
   Chapters 60 through 69 of this Code of Ordinances may be known and cited as the “Denison Traffic Code.”
60.02 DEFINITIONS.
   Where words and phrases used in the Traffic Code are defined by State law, such definitions apply to their use in said Traffic Code and are adopted by reference. Those definitions so adopted that need further definition or are reiterated, and other words and phrases used herein, have the following meanings:
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 321.1)
      1.   “Business District” means the territory contiguous to and including the following designated streets or portions of streets:
         A.   2nd Avenue North between Avenue C and North Main Street;
         B.   1st Avenue North between Avenue C and North 14th Street;
         C.   All of Center Street;
         D.   Broadway between 11th Street and 15th Street;
         E.   1st Avenue South between South 12th and South 14th Street;
         F.   Avenue B between 1st Avenue North and Broadway;
         G.   All of Exchange Street;
         H.   South 12th Street between Broadway and 1st Avenue South;
         I.   Avenue C between 2nd Avenue North and Broadway;
         J.   Main Street between 2nd Avenue North and 2nd Avenue South;
         K.   14th Street between 2nd Avenue North and 1st Avenue South;
      2.   “Park” or “parking” means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.
      3.   “Peace officer” means every officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
      4.   “Residence district” means the territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a business, suburban, or school district, where forty percent (40%) or more of the frontage on such a highway for a distance of three hundred (300) feet or more is occupied by dwellings or by dwellings and buildings in use for business.
      5.   “School district” means the territory contiguous to and including a highway for a distance of two hundred (200) feet in either direction from a schoolhouse.
      6.   “Stand” or “standing” means the halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
      7.   “Stop” means when required, the complete cessation of movement.
      8.   “Stop” or “stopping” means when prohibited, any halting of a vehicle, even momentarily, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a peace officer or traffic control sign or signal.
      9.   “Suburban district” means all other parts of the City not included in the business, school, or residence districts.
      10.   “Traffic control device” means all signs, signals, markings, and devices not inconsistent with this chapter, lawfully placed or erected for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic.
      11.   “Vehicle” means every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, street, or alley.
60.03 ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT.
   Provisions of this Traffic Code and State law relating to motor vehicles and law of the road are enforced by the Police Chief.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 372.13[4])
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