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CHAPTER 71: OPERATION OF VEHICLES
Section
Operation of Vehicles
   71.01   Stop before entering a through street
   71.02   Stop before entering certain street intersections
   71.03   Stop when traffic obstructed
   71.04   One-way streets
   71.05   Left turns at certain intersections as indicated
   71.06   No right or left turns to be made
   71.07   Limitations on turning around
   71.08   Limitations on backing
   71.09   Emerging from alley or private driveway
   71.10   Clinging to moving vehicles
   71.11   Riding on handlebars prohibited
   71.12   Riding on sidewalks, or without hands on handlebars, prohibited
   71.13   Use of coasters, roller-skates and similar devices restricted
   71.14   Lights on parked vehicles
   71.15   Speed limit on through highways
   71.16   Driving on roadways laned for traffic
   71.17   Driving over fire hose
   71.18   Heavy equipment; tires and the like causing damage to streets
   71.19   Prohibiting the unlawful use of engine and compression brakes
Miscellaneous Regulations
   71.35   Boarding or alighting from public conveyances or other vehicles
   71.36   Unlawful riding
   71.37   Entering, jumping on or riding vehicles without permission
   71.38   Persons riding must stay inside
   71.39   Not more than three persons permitted in front seat
   71.40   Prohibiting stopping vehicles on main traveled portions of streets
Cruising Prohibited
   71.55   Definitions
   71.56   Signs posted
   71.57   No cruising area
   71.58   Cruising prohibited
   71.59   Exceptions
   71.60   Enforcement
 
   71.99   Penalty
Cross-reference:
   Driving on sidewalks, see § 72.16
OPERATION OF VEHICLES
§ 71.01 STOP BEFORE ENTERING A THROUGH STREET.
   (A)   Those streets and parts of streets, as may be described in a future traffic schedule, are hereby declared to be “through streets” for the purpose of this section.
   (B)   When stop signs are placed, erected or installed upon highways intersecting a through street at the entrance thereto, or at the entrance to any intersection, every driver of a vehicle or street car, shall stop in obedience to the signs before entering the intersection and shall not proceed into or across the through street until he or she has first determined that no conflict with traffic will be involved.
(1940 Code, Ch. G, Art. VI, § 1)
§ 71.02 STOP BEFORE ENTERING CERTAIN STREET INTERSECTIONS.
   Those intersections described in Chapter 73, Schedule II are hereby declared to be stop intersections when entered from the streets first named, and when stop signs are placed, erected or installed at the intersections, every driver of a vehicle or street car shall stop in obedience to the signs before entering the intersection, and shall not proceed into or across the through street until he or she has first determined that no conflict with traffic will be involved.
(1940 Code, Ch. G, Art. VI, § 2) Penalty, see § 71.99
§ 71.03 STOP WHEN TRAFFIC OBSTRUCTED.
   No driver shall enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk, unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle he or she is operating without obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding any traffic-control signal indication to proceed.
(1940 Code, Ch. G, Art. VI, § 3) Penalty, see § 71.99
§ 71.04 ONE-WAY STREETS.
   Upon those streets, and parts of streets, described in Chapter 73, Schedule VII, vehicular traffic shall move only in the indicated direction, when signs indicating the direction of traffic are erected and maintained at every intersection where movement in the opposite direction is prohibited.
(1940 Code, Ch. G, Art. VI, § 4)
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