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(a) Upon a roadway designated and posted with signs for one-way traffic, a vehicle shall be driven only in the direction designated.
(b) A vehicle passing around a rotary traffic island shall be driven only to the right of the rotary traffic island.
(ORC 4511.32)
Whenever any highway has been divided into two roadways by an intervening space, or by a physical barrier, or a clearly indicated dividing section so constructed as to impede vehicular traffic, every vehicle shall be driven only upon the right-hand roadway, and no vehicle shall be driven over, across, or within any dividing space, barrier, or section, except through an opening, crossover, or intersection established by public authority. This section does not prohibit the occupancy of the dividing space, barrier, or section for the purpose of an emergency stop, or in compliance with an order of a police officer.
(ORC 4511.35)
(a) The driver of a vehicle, upon meeting or overtaking from either direction any school bus stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging any school child, person attending programs offered by community boards of mental health and county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, or child attending a program offered by a head start agency, shall stop at least ten feet from the front or rear of the school bus and shall not proceed until such school bus resumes motion, or until signaled by the school bus driver to proceed. It is no defense to a charge under this division that the school bus involved failed to display or be equipped with an automatically extended stop warning sign as required by division (b) of this section.
(b) Every school bus shall be equipped with amber and red visual signals meeting the requirements of Ohio R.C. 4511.771 or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance, and an automatically extended stop warning sign of a type approved by the State Board of Education, which shall be actuated by the driver of the bus whenever but only whenever the bus is stopped or stopping on the roadway for the purpose of receiving or discharging school children, persons attending programs offered by community boards of mental health and county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, or children attending programs offered by head start agencies. A school bus driver shall not actuate the visual signals or the stop warning sign in designated school bus loading areas where the bus is entirely off the roadway or at school buildings when children or persons attending programs offered by community boards of mental health and county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities are loading or unloading at curbside or at buildings when children attending programs offered by head start agencies are loading or unloading at curbside. The visual signals and stop warning sign shall be synchronized or otherwise operated as required by rule of the Board.
(c) Where a highway has been divided into four or more traffic lanes, a driver of a vehicle need not stop for a school bus approaching from the opposite direction which has stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging any school child, persons attending programs offered by community boards of mental health and county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, or children attending programs offered by head start agencies. The driver of any vehicle overtaking the school bus shall comply with division (a) above.
(d) School buses operating on divided highways or on highways with four or more traffic lanes shall receive and discharge all school children, persons attending programs offered by community boards of mental health and county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, and children attending programs offered by head start agencies on their residence side of the highway.
(e) No school bus driver shall start the driver's bus until after any child, person attending programs offered by community boards of mental health and county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, or child attending a program offered by a head start agency who may have alighted therefrom has reached a place of safety on the child's or person's residence side of the road.
(f) As used in this section:
(1) “Head start agency” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 3301.32.
(2) “School bus” as used in relation to children who attend a program offered by a head start agency, means a bus that is owned and operated by a head start agency, is equipped with an automatically extended stop warning sign of a type approved by the State Board of Education, is painted the color and displays the markings described in Ohio R.C. 4511.77, and is equipped with amber and red visual signals meeting the requirements of Ohio R.C. 4511.77, irrespective of whether or not the bus has 15 or more children aboard at any time. The term does not include a van owned and operated by a head start agency, irrespective of its color, lights or markings.
(ORC 4511.75)
(g) Whoever violates division (a) of this section is guilty of an unclassified misdemeanor.
(h) Whoever violates division (a) of this section may be fined an amount not to exceed seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750.00). A person who is issued a citation for a violation of division (a) of this section is not permitted to enter a written plea of guilty and waive his or her right to contest the citation in a trial, but instead must appear in person in the proper court to answer the charge.
(i) In addition to and independent of any other penalty provided by law, the court may impose upon an offender who violates this section a class seven suspension of the offender's driver's license, commercial driver's license, temporary instruction permit, probationary license or nonresident operating privilege from the range specified in Ohio R.C. 4510.02(A)(7) and/or a sentence up to 30 days in jail. When a license is suspended under this section, the court shall cause the offender to deliver the license to the court, and the court or Clerk of the Court immediately shall forward the license to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles, together with notice of the court's action.
(Ord. 106-2019. Passed 10-7-19.)
(a) (1) Whenever any person driving a vehicle approaches a railroad grade crossing, the person shall stop within 50 feet but not less than 15 feet from the nearest rail of the railroad if any of the following circumstances exist at the crossing:
A. A clearly visible electric or mechanical signal device gives warning of the immediate approach of a train.
B. A crossing gate is lowered.
C. A flagperson gives or continues to give a signal of the approach or passage of a train.
D. There is insufficient space on the other side of the railroad grade crossing to accommodate the vehicle the person is operating without obstructing the passage of other vehicles, pedestrians or railroad trains, notwithstanding any traffic control signal indication to proceed.
E. An approaching train is emitting an audible signal or is plainly visible, and is in hazardous proximity to the crossing.
F. There is insufficient undercarriage clearance to safely negotiate the crossing.
(2) A person who is driving a vehicle and who approaches a railroad grade crossing shall not proceed as long as any of the circumstances described in divisions (a)(1)A. through (a)(1)F. of this section exist at the crossing.
(b) No person shall drive any vehicle through, around, or under any crossing gate or barrier at a railroad crossing while the gate or barrier is closed, or is being opened or closed unless the person is signaled by a law enforcement officer or flagperson that it is permissible to do so.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(ORC 4511.62)
(a) The operator of any motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire, of any school bus, or of any vehicle carrying explosives or flammable liquids as a cargo or as such part of a cargo as to constitute a hazard, before crossing at grade any track of a railroad, shall stop the vehicle, and while so stopped, shall listen through an open door or open window, and look in both directions along the track for any approaching train and for signals indicating the approach of a train, and shall proceed only upon exercising due care after stopping, looking, and listening as required by this section. Upon proceeding, the operator of such a vehicle shall cross only in a gear that will ensure there will be no necessity for changing gears while traversing the crossing, and shall not shift gears while crossing the tracks.
(b) Division (a) of this section does not apply at any street railway grade crossings within the Municipality, or to abandoned tracks, spur tracks, side tracks, and industrial tracks when the Public Utilities Commission has authorized and approved the crossing of the tracks without making the stop required by division (a) of this section.
(ORC 4511.63)
(c) The Department of Transportation and local authorities, with the approval of the Department, may designate dangerous highway crossings over railroad tracks, and erect stop signs thereat. When stop signs are erected, the operator of any vehicle shall stop within 50, but not less than 15, feet from the nearest rail of the railroad tracks, and shall exercise due care before proceeding across the grade crossing.
(ORC 4511.61; Ord. 11-1994. Passed 1-18-94.)
(d) Whoever violates division (a) of this section is guilty of one of the following:
(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (d)(2) of this section, a minor misdemeanor.
(2) If the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to one or more violations of this section, or a state law or municipal ordinance that is substantially equivalent to this section, a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(ORC 4511.61(B))
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