15-210: MAINTENANCE AND CONSTRUCTION ZONES:

   A.   City personnel or contractors, while repairing or improving the streets of the City, and City personnel and utility companies, when installing, improving, or repairing lines or other utility facilities in the streets, are hereby authorized as necessary, subject to control by the City Clerk, to close any street or section thereof to traffic during such repair, maintenance, or construction. In exercising this authority, the appropriate personnel, contractor or utility company shall erect or cause to be erected proper control devices and barricades to warn and notify the public that the street has been closed to traffic.

   B.   When any street has been closed to traffic under the provisions of subsection A of this Section and traffic- control devices or barricades have been erected, it is unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle through, under, over, or around such traffic-control devices or barricades, or otherwise to enter the closed area. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to persons entering the closed area or zone for the protection of lives or property. Persons having their places of residence or places of business within the closed area may travel, when possible to do so, through the area at their own risk.

   C.   Whenever construction, repair, or maintenance of any street or utility line or facility is being performed under traffic, the City personnel, contractor, or utility company concerned shall erect, or cause to be erected, traffic- control devices to warn and guide the public. Every person using the street shall obey all signs, signals, markings, flagpersons, or other traffic-control devices which are placed to regulate, control, and guide traffic through the construction or maintenance area. (Prior Code, Chapter 20)

15-211: AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES 1 :

   A.   The driver of an authorized emergency vehicle, when responding to an emergency call or when in the pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law or ordinance or when responding to but not upon returning from a fire alarm, may exercise the privileges set forth in this Section, but subject to the conditions stated in this Section.

   B.   The driver of an authorized emergency vehicle may do any of the following when in pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law or ordinance or when responding to, but not upon returning from, a fire alarm:

      1.   Park or stand, irrespective of the provisions of this Part;

      2.   Proceed past a red or stop signal or stop sign, but only after slowing down as may be necessary for safe operation;

      3.   Exceed the maximum speed limits so long as life or property is not endangered; or

      4.   Disregard regulations governing direction of movement or turning in specific directions.

   C.   The exemptions granted in this Section to an authorized emergency vehicle shall apply only when the driver of any such vehicle is making use of audible and visual signals as required by law, except that an authorized emergency vehicle operated as a police vehicle need not be equipped with or display a red light visible from in front of the vehicle.

   D.   The provisions of this Section shall not relieve the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons, nor shall such provisions protect the driver from the consequences of his reckless disregard for the safety of others.

   E.   It is the responsibility of the owner or driver of an authorized emergency vehicle, when responding to an emergency call or when in pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law, or ordinance, or when responding to, but not upon returning from, a fire alarm to notify the police dispatcher as to the location and proposed route that the emergency vehicle is to take to answer the emergency call, before the emergency run is made. (Ord. 207, 10-7-1975)

 

Notes

1	1. 47 OS § 11-106.

15-212: OPERATION OF VEHICLES ON APPROACH OF AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES 1 :

   A.   Upon the immediate approach of an authorized emergency vehicle making use of audible and visual signals meeting the requirements of the laws of this State, or of a police vehicle properly and lawfully making use of an audible signal only, the driver of every other vehicle shall yield the right of way and shall immediately drive to a position parallel to, and as close as possible to, the right-hand edge or curb of the roadway clear of any intersection, and shall stop and remain in such position until the authorized emergency vehicle has passed, except when otherwise directed by a police officer.

   B.   This Section shall not operate to relieve the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons using the highway. (Prior Code, Chapter 20)

 

Notes

1	1. 47 OS §§ 11-106, 11-405, and 12-218.

15-213: FOLLOWING FIRE APPARATUS PROHIBITED 1 :

The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire alarm closer than five hundred feet (500') or drive into or park such vehicle within the block where fire apparatus has stopped in answer to a fire alarm. (Prior Code, Chapter 20)

 

Notes

1	1. 47 OS § 11-1108(a).

15-214: CROSSING FIRE HOSE 1 :

No vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of a fire department used at any fire or alarm of fire, without the consent of the fire department official in command. (Prior Code, Chapter 20)

 

Notes

1	2. 47 OS § 11-1109.

15-215: POSSESSION OF VALID DRIVER'S LICENSE REQUIRED 1 :

   A.   No person shall operate any motor vehicle on the highways without having in his possession at all times, when operating such motor vehicle, an unrevoked or unsuspended operator's or chauffeur's license as required by the laws of the State, unless such person is specifically exempted from such laws by the provisions thereof. No person charged with violating this section shall be convicted if he produces in court an operator's or chauffeur's license issued to him and valid at the time of his arrest.

   B.   No person shall operate a motor vehicle in any manner in violation of any restriction that may be imposed in a restricted license issued to him with respect to the type of, or special mechanical control devices required on a motor vehicle or any other restriction applicable to the licensee as the State may determine. (Prior Code ch. 20)

 

Notes

1	3. 47 OS § 6-101.

15-216: OPERATION OF VEHICLE ON INVALID LICENSE PROHIBITED 1 :

No person shall operate a motor vehicle when his privilege to do so is canceled, suspended, revoked or denied. Any person convicted of violating this section shall be punished by a fine as provided in section 1-108 of this Code. Each act of driving on the streets or highways as prohibited by this section shall constitute a separate offense. (Prior Code ch. 20)

 

Notes

1	4. 47 OS § 6-303.