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CITY OF FLINT, MICHIGAN CODE OF ORDINANCES
PART I. CHARTER
PART II. THE CODE OF ORDINANCES
CHAPTER 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS*
CHAPTER 2: ADMINISTRATION*
CHAPTER 3: ADVERTISING AND SIGNS
CHAPTER 4: AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
CHAPTER 5: AIRPORT
CHAPTER 6: ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR SALES
CHAPTER 7: AMBULANCES
CHAPTER 8: AMUSEMENTS
CHAPTER 9: ANIMALS AND FOWL*
CHAPTER 10: AUCTIONS
CHAPTER 11: BUILDINGS
CHAPTER 12: BUSINESS AND OCCUPATIONS GENERALLY*
CHAPTER 13: CEMETERIES
CHAPTER 14: CIVIL DEFENSE AND DISASTER
CHAPTER 15: TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
CHAPTER 16: ELECTRICAL CODE
CHAPTER 17: FENCES
CHAPTER 18: TAXATION; FUNDS; PURCHASING*
CHAPTER 19: FIRE PROTECTION*
CHAPTER 20: RESERVED
CHAPTER 21: RESERVED
CHAPTER 22: HEATING
CHAPTER 23: RESERVED
CHAPTER 24: HOUSING
CHAPTER 25: RESERVED
CHAPTER 26: LICENSING FEES AND OTHER CHARGES
CHAPTER 27: RESERVED
CHAPTER 28: MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
CHAPTER 29: MUNICIPAL RETAIL AND WHOLESALE GROWERS’ MARKET
CHAPTER 30: NUISANCES*
CHAPTER 31: GENERAL OFFENSES*
CHAPTER 32: RESERVED
CHAPTER 33: PARKS
CHAPTER 34: RESERVED
CHAPTER 35: PERSONNEL*
CHAPTER 36: PLUMBING
CHAPTER 37: POLES AND WIRES
CHAPTER 38: RAILROADS
CHAPTER 39: REFUSE, GARBAGE AND WEEDS
CHAPTER 40: RESERVED
CHAPTER 41: SCHOOLS
CHAPTER 42: STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
CHAPTER 43: RESERVED
CHAPTER 44: RESERVED
CHAPTER 45: TREES AND SHRUBS
CHAPTER 46: UTILITIES*
CHAPTER 47: WARDS AND PRECINCTS
CHAPTER 48: WATERCRAFT
CHAPTER 49: WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
CHAPTER 50: ZONING*
APPENDIX: COMPILED ILLUSTRATIONS
TABLE OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES*
APPENDIX A
PART III: PARALLEL REFERENCES AND INDEX
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§ 28-63  RESTRICTIONS ON BACKING.
   (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)
§ 28-64  VEHICLE MOVING FROM CURB TO YIELD TO OTHER VEHICLES.
   A standing vehicle about to start or move away from the curb shall give moving vehicles the right-of- way.
(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950)
§ 28-65  DRAG RACING.
   (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
§ 28-65.1  MOVEMENT AND PARKING OF MOTOR VEHICLE ON AIRPORT PROPERTY.
   The City Administrator is hereby directed to have a study made by appropriate officials under his direction, of the movement and parking of motor vehicles on airport property lying generally between a line parallel with the centerline of Bristol Road and a line 350 feet south of Bristol Road. If said study results in a determination by the City Administrator that restrictions on parking and the operation of motor vehicles should be enforced, the City Administrator shall report the results of his investigation and shall recommend to the City Council the type and nature of restrictions on the operation and parking of motor vehicles which, in his opinion, will insure the greatest safety and convenience of the persons using said premises for the operation and parking of motor vehicles and pedestrian use. The proposed restrictions on the operation and parking of motor vehicles, if not rejected by the City Council within a reasonable length of time, shall become the official regulations for the operation and parking of motor vehicles in said area. Suitable signs shall be erected advising the nature of the restrictions so imposed. Thereafter anyone operating or parking a motor vehicle in violation of these restrictions, shall violate this Code by such conduct.
(Ord. 2144, passed 7-14-1969; Ord. 2328, passed 5-8-1972; Ord. 2611, passed 9-12-1977)
ARTICLE III. TRUCK ROUTES AND BRIDGE WEIGHT LIMITATIONS
§ 28-66  CERTAIN VEHICLES LIMITED TO TRUCK ROUTES; ROUTES ON FILE.
   No person shall drive or park, or cause to be  driven or parked, any truck or vehicle, the combined weight of which truck or vehicle, its cargo and occupants shall exceed five tons, over or upon any street or highway of the City, except such streets or highways as shall be designated as truck routes; and except that these restrictions shall not apply to buses owned and operated by public, private or parochial schools, church buses owned and operated by churches and public transportation.
   (b)   Such streets or highways designated by ordinance as truck routes are not included herein, but are on file in the office of the City Clerk.
(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950; Ord. 1349, passed 9-5-1956; Ord. 2869, passed 2-28-1983; Ord. 3221, passed 11-9-1992)
§ 28-67  DESIGNATING TEMPORARY TRUCK ROUTES.
   In the event that any truck route be obstructed to the extent that, in the opinion of the City Administrator, it shall be necessary to lay out a temporary route for such time as the obstruction shall continue, he or she is authorized so to do, providing that the temporary route shall be marked as such as soon as practicable.
(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950)
§ 28-68  LEAVING TRUCK ROUTES TO MAKE DELIVERIES.
   Trucks or vehicles or service vehicles carrying a load for delivery or making a pickup or making a service call to a destination off the truck route may leave the truck route at a point nearest the destination to make the delivery, pickup or service call, and shall return to the truck route by the most direct route available.
(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950; Ord. 1349, passed 9-5-1956; Ord. 1859, passed 7-29-1965; Ord. 2869, passed 2-28-1983)
§ 28-69  DUTY OF OPERATOR TO PERMIT WEIGHING OF VEHICLE; BRIDGE WEIGHTS ON FILE.
   (a)   It shall be the duty of any person who shall be driving, or in charge or control of any truck which may at that time be upon any street in the City other than a designated truck route, upon the demand of any police officer, to proceed to any public or private scale available for the purpose of weighing and determining whether the weight thereof is in excess of the weight limit permitted by this article.
   (b)   Ordinances specifying bridge weight limitations are not set out herein but are on file in the office of the City Clerk.
(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950)
ARTICLE IV. SPEED REGULATIONS
§ 28-70  CAREFUL AND PRUDENT SPEED; SPEED LIMITS ON FILE.
   Any person driving a vehicle on a highway shall drive the same at a careful and prudent speed not greater than nor less than is reasonable and proper, having due regard to the traffic, surface and width of the highway and of any other conditions then existing, and no person shall drive any vehicle upon a highway in at a speed greater than will permit him to bring it to a stop within the assured, clear distance ahead.
(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950; Ord. 1850, passed 6-28-1965; Ord. 2376, passed 1-15-1973)
Editor’s note:
   Ord. 2376 was passed as an emergency ordinance; therefore changes contained within were not permanent in nature.
Statutory reference:
   Speed regulations, see MCLA 257.627
§ 28-71  MAXIMUM SPEED LIMIT GENERALLY; EXCEPTIONS.
   (a)   Subject to the provisions of § 28-70 and, except in those instances where a lower speed is specified in this ordinance, it shall be prima facie lawful for the driver of a vehicle to drive the same on any highway, street, alley or thoroughfare at a speed not exceeding the maximum speed as is indicated by signs posted along said highway, street, alley or thoroughfare, but in any case when such speed would be unsafe it shall not be lawful; and on any highway, street, alley or thoroughfare along which no such speed limit signs are posted, it shall be prima facie lawful for the driver of a vehicle to drive the same at a speed not exceeding 25 miles per hour, but in any case when such speed would be unsafe it shall not be lawful.
   (b)   It shall be prima facie unlawful for any person to exceed any of the foregoing speed limitations.
(Ord. 894, passed 1-5-1950; Ord. 1850, passed 6-28-1965; Ord. 2376, passed 1-15-1973)
Editor’s note:
   Ord. 2376 was passed as an emergency ordinance; therefore changes contained within were not permanent in nature.
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