(a) Mobile communication device use within City vehicles, whether the employee is on-duty or off-duty, or in personal vehicles while doing City business shall be governed by the highest standards of safety and reasonableness.
(b) Personnel who receive in-coming phone calls while driving shall only answer the call when that can be accomplished safely. Employees shall not continue that call until they are able to safely and legally pull off the traveled portion of the roadway and stop. This may require that the caller is placed on hold or advised to call back.
(c) Out-going calls shall be initiated by drivers only when the vehicle is safely and legally stopped and off the traveled portion of the roadway. Outgoing cell phone calls for the purpose of contacting E911, Police, Fire, or EMS during an emergency is permitted, while stopping a vehicle to place these calls is impractical.
(d) Police vehicles, Street Department vehicles, Fire Department vehicles and wastewater vehicles should use their radios as the primary means of communication and should be used by the highest standards of safety described above.
(e) There shall be no texting while operating a vehicle at any time.
(Ord. 3263. Passed 11-25-19.)