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(a) A driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass upon the right of another vehicle which is making or about to make a left turn.
(b) The driver of a vehicle may overtake and, allowing sufficient clearance, pass another vehicle proceeding from the same direction either upon the left or upon the right of a roadway with unobstructed pavement of sufficient width for four (4) or more lanes of moving traffic when such movement can be made in safety. No person shall drive off the pavement or upon the shoulder of the roadway in overtaking or passing on the right.
(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950)
Statutory reference:
Similar State law, see MCLA 257.637
(a) All motor vehicles composing a funeral procession when going to any place of burial shall have the right-of-way over all other vehicles, except fire apparatus, ambulances and police patrol vehicles, at any street or highway intersection within this City, and may proceed against traffic signs, or signals, except on one-way streets; provided, that each vehicle in such funeral procession shall have displayed on the front thereof a flag which shall be white in color and upon which shall be printed, stamped or stained a purple cross.
(b) Any person passing through a funeral procession of vehicles designated as aforesaid, with a vehicle of any kind shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
(c) Each driver in a funeral or other procession shall drive as near to the right hand edge of the roadway as practicable and follow the vehicle ahead as close as is practicable and safe.
(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950)
Statutory reference:
Similar State law, see MCLA 257.654
No person shall drive or propel any vehicle within the intersection or crosswalk of two or more streets or highways until able to clear the intersection and crosswalk on the exit side with his entire vehicle, notwithstanding any traffic-control signal indication to proceed, unless such stop is required to make a lawful turn or to yield right-of-way to pedestrians within the intersections.
(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950)
(a) The driver of a vehicle approaching an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to a vehicle which has entered the intersection from a different highway.
(b) When two vehicles enter an intersection at approximately the same time, the driver of the vehicle on the left shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle on the right.
(c) The foregoing rules are not applicable at through highways.
(d) The driver of any vehicle traveling at an unlawful speed shall forfeit any right-of-way which he might otherwise have hereunder.
(e) Where signs bearing the message “yield right-of-way” are erected upon the approach to an intersection, a driver approaching such sign shall slow to a reasonable speed for existing conditions of traffic and visibility, yielding the right-of-way to all traffic on the intersecting street which is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard.
(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950; Ord. 1311, passed 1-5-1956)
Statutory reference:
Similar State law, see MCLA 257.654
(a) The driver of any vehicle shall not back the same into an intersection or over a crosswalk thereof.
(b) The driver of any vehicle shall not back the same at any place unless such movement can be made in safety.
(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950; Ord. 1421, passed 1-27-1958)
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any vehicle upon any highway, or any other place open to the general public, including any area designated for the parking of motor vehicles, within this City, in a speed or acceleration contest or for the purpose of making a speed record, whether from a standing start or otherwise over a measured or unmeasured distance, or in a drag race as herein defined.
(b) DRAG RACING means the operation of two or more vehicles from a point side by side at accelerating speeds in a competitive attempt to out-distance each other over a common selected course or where timing is involved or where timing devices are used in a competitive acceleration of speeds by participating vehicles. Persons rendering assistance in any manner to such competitive use of vehicles shall be equally charged as participants. The operation of two or more vehicles either at speeds in excess of prima facie lawfully established speeds or rapidly accelerating from a common standing point to a speed in excess of such prima facie lawful speed is prima facie evidence of drag racing and is unlawful.
(c) As provided by law, the Police Department may provide for the immediate removal of a vehicle from public or private property to a place of safekeeping at the expense of the registered owner of the vehicle when there is reasonable cause to believe that the vehicle was used in the commission of a crime including, but not limited to, a violation of this section.
(d) Violation of this section shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment not to exceed ninety (90) days or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the Court, for each such offense.
(Ord. 1805, passed 9-30-1964; Ord. 3016, passed 11-10-1986; Ord. 3795, passed 6-27-2011)
Statutory reference:
Similar State law, see MCLA 257.626
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