Section
General Provisions
71.01 Speed limits
71.02 Turning movements
71.03 Motor vehicle requirements
71.04 Driving on streets closed for repairs and the like
71.05 One-way streets
71.06 Unlaned streets
71.07 Laned streets
71.08 Yellow lines
71.09 Miscellaneous traffic-control signs and the like
71.10 General requirements for traffic-control signs and the like
71.11 Unauthorized traffic-control signs and the like
71.12 Presumption with respect to traffic-control signs and the like
71.13 School safety patrols
71.14 Driving through funerals or other processions
71.15 Clinging to vehicles in motion
71.16 Riding on outside of vehicles
71.17 Backing vehicles
71.18 Projections from the rear of vehicles
71.19 Causing unnecessary noise
71.20 Passing
71.21 Damaging pavements
71.22 Bicycle riders and the like
71.23 Motorcycles, motor scooters and motorbikes
71.24 Operation of commercial trucks
71.25 Street crossing by pedestrians
71.26 Delivery of vehicle to unlicensed driver and the like
71.27 Compliance with financial responsibility law required
71.28 Use of safety belts in passenger vehicles
71.29 Adoption of state traffic statues
Stopping and Yielding
71.40 Upon approach of authorized emergency vehicles
71.41 When emerging from alleys and the like
71.42 To prevent obstructing an intersection
71.43 At railroad crossings
71.44 At “stop” signs
71.45 At “yield” signs
71.46 At traffic-control signals generally
71.47 At flashing traffic-control signals
71.48 Stopping for school buses
71.49 Stops to be signaled
71.99 Penalty
GENERAL PROVISIONS
(A) In general. It shall be a civil offense for any person to operate or drive a motor vehicle upon any highway or street at a rate of speed in excess of 30 mph, except where official signs have been posted indicating other speed limits, in which cases the posted speed limit shall apply.
(1994 Code, § 15-301)
(B) At intersections. It shall be a civil offense for any person to operate or drive a motor vehicle through any intersection at a rate of speed in excess of 15 mph unless such person is driving on a street regulated by traffic-control signals or signs which require traffic to stop or yield on the intersecting streets.
(1994 Code, § 15-302)
(C) In school zones.
(1) (a) Generally, pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-8-153, special speed limits in school zones shall be enacted based on an engineering investigation, shall not be less than 15 mph and shall be in effect only when proper signs are posted with a warning flasher or flashers in operation.
(b) It shall be a civil penalty for any person to violate any such special speed limit enacted and in effect in accordance with this division (C).
(2) When the City Commission has not established special speed limits as provided for above, any person who shall drive at a speed exceeding 15 mph when passing a school during a recess period when a warning flasher or flashers are in operation, or during a period of 40 minutes before the opening hour of a school or a period of 40 minutes after the closing hour of a school, while children are actually going to or leaving school, shall be prima facie guilty of reckless driving.
(1994 Code, § 15-303)
(D) In congested areas. It shall be a civil penalty for any person to operate or drive a motor vehicle through any congested area at a rate of speed in excess of any posted speed limit when such speed limit has been posted by authority of the city.
(1994 Code, § 15-304)
(E) Cruising in motor vehicles on shopping center parking areas and roadway.
(1) Owners and operators of shopping centers in the city are hereby authorized to post signs on and about the parking areas and private roadways on their properties giving notice that cruising on the property is prohibited.
(2) The term CRUISING, as used in this section, is defined as the continual, repeated and aimless operation of a motor vehicle back and forth, through, around or within the parking areas and private roadways of a shopping center after 8:00 p.m. until the following sunrise other than for the purpose of entering or leaving a parking space where the vehicle has been parked while the driver or passenger(s) is or was visiting the shopping center or business.
(3) It shall be a violation of this section and a trespass for any person to cruise on any shopping center parking area and/or private roadways that have been posted by the owner or operator as authorized in division (E)(1) above.
(1994 Code, § 15-305)
(Ord. 494, passed 9-2-1993; Ord. 498, passed 11-4-1993) Penalty, see § 71.99
(A) Generally. No person operating a motor vehicle shall make any turning movement which might affect any pedestrian or the operation of any other vehicle without first ascertaining that such movement can be made in safety and signaling his or her intention in accordance with the requirements of the state law.
(1994 Code, § 15-401)
(B) Right turns. Both the approach for a right turn and a right turn shall be made as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway.
(1994 Code, § 15-402)
(C) Left turns on two-way roadways. At any intersection where traffic is permitted to move in both directions on each roadway entering the intersection, an approach for a left turn shall be made in that portion of the right half of the roadway nearest the centerline thereof and by passing to the right of the intersection of the centerline of the two roadways.
(1994 Code, § 15-403)
(D) Left turns on other than two-way roadways. At any intersection where traffic is restricted to one direction on one or more of the roadways, the driver of a vehicle intending to turn left at any such intersection shall approach the intersection in the extreme left-hand lane lawfully available to traffic moving in the direction of travel of such vehicle and after entering the intersection the left turn shall be made so as to leave the intersection, as nearly as practicable, in the left-hand lane lawfully available to traffic moving in such direction upon the roadway being entered.
(1994 Code, § 15-404)
(E) U-turns. U-turns are prohibited.
(1994 Code, § 15-405)
Penalty, see § 71.99
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-8-143
It shall be a civil offense for any person to operate any motor vehicle within the corporate limits unless such vehicle is equipped with properly operating muffler, lights, brakes, horn and such other equipment as is prescribed and required by Tenn. Code Ann. Title 55, Ch. 9.
(1994 Code, § 15-101) (Ord. 494, passed 9-2-1993; Ord. 674, passed 6-26-2007) Penalty, see § 71.99
Except for necessary access to property abutting thereon, no motor vehicle shall be driven upon any street that is barricaded or closed for repairs or other lawful purpose.
(1994 Code, § 15-102) (Ord. 674, passed 6-26-2007) Penalty, see § 71.99
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