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(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)
A motor vehicle escort guide shall not engage in any escort service other than that of escorting a funeral procession, consisting of the hearse and cortege, from the place of service to the place of interment. A motor vehicle escort guide may escort overheight, overlength or overwidth vehicles or loads as defined in the state traffic code, but only after application for each individual escort has been made to the chief of police, who shall have the authority to approve or disapprove the escort and if approval is granted such approval shall designate the route and time to be upon such route.
(1964 Code, § 34-78)
(a) All funeral corteges within the city must be properly identified as such by having all vehicles in the cortege turn on their headlights.
(b) All vehicles in any unescorted funeral cortege shall obey all traffic laws on every roadway within the city. All vehicles in a funeral cortege which have been properly designated and which are being led by motor escort guides shall have the right-of-way over all other vehicles, except fire apparatus, ambulances and police vehicles, at any roadway intersection within the city, and such procession may be escorted through stop signs or signalized intersections without stopping, but the drivers of such motor vehicles shall exercise due regard for the safety of all approaching vehicles, and funeral processions being escorted hereunder shall be subject at all times to the control of police officers of the city; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to overheight, overlength or overwidth vehicles or loads as defined in the state traffic code nor to the operation of such vehicles in the city as such vehicles shall at all times be subject to the traffic laws of the city.
(c) Funeral escort guides shall not stop traffic approaching from the opposite direction or force or direct such traffic to move off the roadway, except that oncoming traffic may be stopped at intersections and other places to assist the cortege in making left turns.
(1964 Code, § 34-79) (Ord. 8286, § 8, passed 3-10-1981)
Cross-reference:
Licenses and miscellaneous business regulations, see Ch. 20
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