(1) A licensee, having been issued a license under this article to engage in the business of operating horse-drawn vehicles or driving the same, shall be subject to all traffic provisions of this Code and all other ordinances, rules and regulations now in effect in the county or the commonwealth and all traffic ordinances and rules and regulations which may pertain to the operation of horse-drawn vehicles, hereinafter enacted or adopted by the urban county government or the commonwealth, and such rules and regulations formulated and promulgated under authority of this article.
(2) No horse-drawn vehicle business shall operate upon the public streets of the county prior to 6:00 p.m., prevailing local time, on any day from Monday through and including Friday, except when New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day falls on one of those days.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (2), any licensee may make application to the police chief for a special event permit to allow his horse-drawn vehicle to operate at a time other than those permitted above. Any such application shall be in writing and shall specify the day and hour requested for the special event and the route to be taken. If, after consideration and investigation, the police chief finds, with the concurrence of the fire chief and the director of traffic engineering, that the convenience of the public in the use of the county's streets would not be unduly disturbed by such special event, he shall issue the permit applied for.
(4) No horse-drawn vehicle shall operate upon any public street of the county not having streetlights from one-half hour before sunset to one-half hour before sunrise unless preceded by an escort motor vehicle. The escort motor vehicle shall operate its headlights and flashing warning lights at all times it is escorting a horse-drawn vehicle.
(Ord. No. 17-85, § 1, 2-7-85)