Section
General Provisions
70.01 Definitions
70.02 Police to direct traffic
70.03 Obedience to police
70.04 Persons riding bicycles, motorcycles, or animals
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70.15 Definitions
70.16 Issuance; damage disclosure statement
Recreational Vehicles
70.30 Golf carts
70.31 Snowmobiles
70.99 Penalty
GENERAL PROVISIONS
For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Vehicles of any Fire Department, police vehicles, and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal department or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the Chief of Police or the City Council.
CROSSWALK. The portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the extension of curb and property lines at intersections, or any other portion of a roadway clearly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
INTERSECTION. The area embraced within the extension of the lateral curb lines or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of two or more streets or highways which join one another at an angle whether or not such street or highway crosses the other.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Every vehicle, as herein defined, which is self-propelled.
OPERATOR. Any person who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
PARKING. The standing of a vehicle whether attended or unattended, upon a roadway or street otherwise then temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading, or in obedience to traffic regulations or traffic signs and signals.
VEHICLE. Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(Prior Code, § 6.0101)
It shall be the duty of the City Police Department to enforce the provision of this title. Officers are hereby authorized to investigate accidents and to carry out all duties specifically covered by this title, and to direct all traffic either in person or by means of visible or audible signals in conformance with the provisions of this title, provided that in the event of a fire or other emergency or to expediate traffic or safeguard pedestrians, officers may direct traffic, as conditions may require.
(Prior Code, § 6.0102)
It shall be unlawful for any person to refuse or fail to comply with any lawful order, signal, or direction of a police officer, or refuse to submit to any lawful inspection or fail to comply with the provisions or requirements of any warning ticket issued by the police under this title.
(Prior Code, § 6.0103) Penalty, see § 70.99
Any person riding a bicycle or an animal upon a roadway, and every person driving any animal, shall be subject to the provisions of this title applicable to the operator of any vehicle, except those provisions of this title with reference to the equipment of vehicles and except those provisions which by their nature can have no application.
(Prior Code, § 6.0104) Penalty, see § 70.99
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