8-1-4: RIGHT OF WAY FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLES:
The officers and firemen and all vehicles and apparatus of any fire department, when going to or returning from a fire, and all ambulances, whether public or private, and all other vehicles, when employed in carrying sick or injured persons to a hospital or other place for relief or treatment, and the officers, patrolmen and vehicles of the Police Department, when answering an alarm or call, shall have the right of way over all other persons and vehicles on any street and through any procession.
Upon the approach of all vehicles or apparatus of the Fire Department, Police Department or ambulance service making use of audible and/or visible signals, the driver of any vehicle shall immediately draw up said vehicle as near as practicable to the right-hand curb and bring his vehicle to a stop and shall remain stationary until the vehicle or apparatus making use of the audible and/or visible signals has passed the stationary vehicle.
No person shall drive or park within two hundred feet (200') of any vehicle or apparatus of the Fire Department, Police Department or ambulance service when that vehicle or apparatus is engaged in answering an alarm or call and has audible and/or visible signals in operation. (Ord. 1976-G, 4-8-76; renumbered Ord. 1983-N, 9-8-83, eff. 10-1-83)