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Not more than three (3) persons shall occupy the front or driver’s seat of a motor vehicle, unless it is specifically built and intended by the manufacturer to seat more than three persons; and no person, adult or minor, shall be seated in the lap of the driver, nor shall the driver be seated in the lap of any person when the motor vehicle is in motion.
(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950; Ord. 1710, passed 3-18-1963)
Statutory reference:
Similar State law, see MCLA 257.677
(a) No City of Flint employee shall use a hand-held cellular telephone while operating a moving motor vehicle that is owned by the City or used in conducting any business for or on behalf of the City.
(b) No operator of a school bus, taxi, or other common carrier shall use a hand-held cellular telephone while operating a moving motor vehicle.
(c) This section shall not be construed to prohibit the use of a cellular telephone to call for emergency medical assistance, to report a traffic accident or traffic hazard, to report a crime, or to make similar emergency calls.
(Ord. 3672, passed 12-21-2005)
No person about to operate or operating a motor vehicle on the roadway of any street in the City of Flint shall permit any minor to attach himself or herself to any such motor vehicle while such minor person is riding, propelling or operating any bicycle, roller skates, wagon, sled, ice skates, toboggan, or any other vehicle or device similarly propelled or operated on wheels or rollers.
Any person riding upon a bicycle, motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, coaster, wagon, sled, roller or ice skates, or any toy vehicle, shall not attach the same or himself or herself to any moving vehicle upon any street or highway.
(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950)
(a) No person upon roller skates, or riding in or by means of any coaster, toy vehicle or similar devices shall go upon any roadway, except while crossing a street at a crosswalk.
(b) No person shall permit any child under ten years of age, for the actions of which child such person is legally responsible, to ride, push, propel or operate any bicycle, tricycle, roller skates, wagon, sled, scooter, so called ice skates, toboggan or other vehicle or device similarly propelled or operated on wheels or runners, on the roadway of any street in the City.
(c) Any person upon roller skates, or riding in or by means of any skateboard, coaster, toy vehicle or similar devices on any sidewalk, public right-of-way or area commonly frequented by pedestrians shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian and shall give an audible signal before overtaking and passing such pedestrian.
(d) Violation of this section shall be a civil infraction punishable by a fine of not more than thirty-five dollars ($35.00).
(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950; Ord. 3006, passed 7-28-1986)
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