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For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section.
MOTOR VEHICLE ESCORT GUIDE. Any person licensed to engage in the business of furnishing a private motor vehicle escort for hire who personally escorts or guides any funeral cortege or overwidth, overlength or overheight motor vehicle or any person employed by another person licensed to engage in the business of furnishing private motor vehicle escort service for hire.
OFFICIAL POLICE OFFICER’S BADGE. A badge of the size, type and design approved for the use of regular police officers.
PRIVATE MOTOR VEHICLE ESCORT AGENCY. Any person engaged in the business of furnishing private motor vehicle escorts for hire which employs one or more persons as employees, assistants, clerks or motor vehicle escort guides.
(1964 Code, § 34-48)
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Definitions and rules of construction generally, see § 1-2
Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to require licensing of or to prohibit regularly employed officers or deputies of the state department of public safety, the county sheriff or the police department from escorting funeral corteges or oversized, overlength or overwidth vehicles upon the streets and roadways of the city when assigned as an official duty by their respective departments.
(1964 Code, § 34-49)
Nothing contained in this article shall be construed as requiring funeral directors or any other persons conducting funerals to contract, hire or employ any private motor vehicle escort service to guide or escort any funeral cortege in the city.
(1964 Code, § 34-50)
(a) A funeral escort guide, while actively engaged in furnishing an escort, shall use either a two-wheel or three-wheel motorcycle which is in good condition and which is equipped with two lamps thereon that display a blue light visible from directly in front of the center thereof. These lamps shall be in addition to those required by state law. It shall be unlawful for escort vehicles to be equipped with a siren.
(b) All escort motorcycles shall be inspected prior to use at a time and place designated by the chief of police. No additional equipment may be added after such motorcycle inspection unless the motorcycle is reinspected and approved before use. Any motor vehicle used in performing such escort service shall be subject to inspection at any time by the chief of police or his or her authorized representative.
(1964 Code, § 34-67) (Ord. 8286, § 3, passed 3-10-1981)
No person engaged in the business of furnishing private motor vehicle escorts for hire or owner or employee of a private motor vehicle escort agency shall distribute, present or give away any cards, handbills or printed matter of any kind which bear the words “police,” “official” or “officer” in conjunction with advertising an escort service. No advertisement shall state, imply or falsely misrepresent that a private motor vehicle escort service is required by the police department, the city or by any city ordinances.
(1964 Code, § 34-68)
Funeral processions shall travel as close to the right edge of the roadway as practical and at a safe and prudent speed. A funeral procession shall not enter or travel upon any roadway, expressway or freeway which has a posted speed limit of 55 mph between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. or between the hours of 4:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. The above restriction shall not apply on a legal holiday. The funeral procession shall obey all traffic laws while on a roadway, expressway or freeway which has a posted speed limit of 55 mph.
(1964 Code, § 34-69) (Ord. 8286, § 4, passed 3-10-1981)
No escort guide, except regularly employed officers or deputies of the department of public safety, the county sheriff’s department of public safety, the county sheriff’s department or the city police department, who are working as off-duty escort guides, shall have on or about his or her person or escort vehicle any offensive or defensive weapon declared to be unlawful by any statutes of the state.
(1964 Code, § 34-77) (Ord. 8286, § 7, passed 3-10-1981)
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