(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)