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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
No person shall engage in the business of furnishing a private motor vehicle escort for hire within the city without first having obtained a license certificate therefor; provided, that persons engaged in such business who are employed by a duly licensed private motor vehicle escort agency shall not be required to be individually licensed.
(1964 Code, § 34-51)
Any person intending to conduct a private motor vehicle escort agency or business or furnish a private motor vehicle escort in the city shall file with the chief of police a written application duly signed and verified as follows.
(a) If the applicant is a person, the application shall be signed and verified by such person, and if the applicant is a partnership, the application shall be signed by each partner, and if the applicant is a corporation, the application shall be signed by the chief executive officer of such corporation.
(b) The application shall state the full name, age and residence of the licensee, and shall specify the trade name and the address or location from which the business or agency will operate and for which the license certificate is desired, and such further facts as may be required by the chief of police to show the good character, competency and integrity of each person so signing the application.
(1964 Code, § 34-52)
Upon filing an application for a license certificate to engage in the business of conducting a private motor vehicle escort agency or furnishing private motor vehicle escorts, the chief of police shall make or cause to be made such investigation as he or she may deem necessary to determine the fitness of the applicant for a license. Then the chief of police shall within ten days forward the application with his or her recommendations to the city manager.
(1964 Code, § 34-53)
In approving or disapproving any license certificate to engage in the business of conducting private motor vehicle escorts, the city manager shall consider the following factors:
(a) Whether the applicant has been convicted of a felony, or on renewal of license, for the violation of any of the provisions of this article, during the year next preceding the filing of this application;
(b) Whether the applicant is of good moral character and has a reputation for being a peaceable law-abiding citizen; and
(c) Such other lawful matters considered pertinent and proper in arriving at a fair and lawful consideration with respect to such application for a license.
(1964 Code, § 34-54)
(a) Before a license certificate under this division shall be issued to any owner or operator of any private motor vehicle escort agency as defined in this article, or before the renewal of such license certificate shall be granted, the holder of such license certificate shall be required to file with the city secretary and thereafter keep in full force and effect a policy of public liability and property damage insurance, to be executed by an insurance company duly and legally authorized to do business in the state and performable in the county, and to be approved by the city manager, insuring the general public and the city against any loss or damage that may result to any person or property from the operation of such motor vehicle escort service.
(b) In addition, before any such license certificate is issued the holder of such license shall agree to indemnify, hold harmless and defend the city against any losses or claims arising out of the operation of such motor vehicle escort service.
(1964 Code, § 34-55) (Ord. 8286, § 1, passed 3-10-1981)
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