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For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. A public highway which does not exceed 20 feet between the property lines.
BUSINESS DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to a street when 50% or more of the frontage thereon for a distance of 300 feet or more is occupied by buildings in use for retail or wholesale business; also any territory contiguous to a street which is immediately adjacent to or a continuation of a street within a business district when such territory is so designated by the Chief of Police.
CENTRAL TRAFFIC DISTRICT. That portion of the city bounded and described as follows:
1. All of Front Street;
2. All of Third Street from State Highway 99 to D Street, inclusive, and one block west on lateral streets leading west, and one block east on all lateral streets leading east from Third Street, between the State Highway 99 and D Street, inclusive; and
3. All of State Highway 99 from and including Stefani Street on the west and Simpson Street on the east, and one block north on all lateral streets leading north from State Highway 99 between Stefani and Simpson, inclusive.
INTERSECTION. The area embraced within the prolongation of the property lines of two or more streets which join at an angle whether or not one such street crosses the other.
LOADING ZONE. That space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading of passengers or materials.
OFFICIAL WARNING, DIRECTION SIGNS AND SIGNALS. All warning and direction signs and signals not inconsistent with this title, placed or erected under this title or by authority of the City Council.
OPERATOR. Any person who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
PARK. To stand a vehicle for a period of time greater than is reasonably necessary for the actual loading or unloading of persons or material.
PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. The privilege of the immediate use of the street.
ROADWAY. That portion of a street between the regularly established curb lines.
SAFETY ZONE. That marked portion of a roadway reserved for the exclusive use of pedestrians.
SIDEWALK. That portion of a street between the curb lines and the adjacent property lines.
STREET. Every way set apart for public travel except alleyways, bridle paths and footpaths.
TRAFFIC. Pedestrians, vehicles and streetcars, either singly or together, while using any street for purposes of travel.
VEHICLE.
1. Every device or animal by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a street, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon rails.
2. For the purpose of this title, a bicycle shall be deemed a
VEHICLE.
(Ord. 15, passed 8-8-1927)
(A) Officers of the Police Department are hereby authorized to direct all traffic by means of visible or audible signal, and it shall be unlawful for any person to refuse or fail to comply with any lawful order, signal or direction of a traffic or police officer.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any minor to direct or attempt to direct traffic unless authorized to do so by order of the Chief of Police or Mayor.
(Ord. 15, passed 8-8-1927)
(A) The City Council shall by resolution determine and designate the character of all official warning and direction signs and signals. Subject to this selection, the Chief of Police is hereby authorized, and as to those signs required hereunder, it shall be his or her duty after consultation with the Director of Public Works, to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained all official warning and direction signs and signals. All signs authorized and required hereunder for a particular purpose shall be uniform.
(B) No provision of this title for which signs are required shall be enforceable against the alleged violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation the sign herein required is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person.
(Ord. 15, passed 8-8-1927)
(A) It shall be unlawful for any operator or pedestrian to disobey the instructions of any mechanical or electrical traffic signal, traffic sign or marks upon the street placed in accordance with the provisions of this title, provided every sign or mark made by the use of paint upon the curb shall bear thereon the official emblem of the Police Department.
(B) 1. No public utility or department in the city shall erect or place any barrier or sign unless of a type first approved by the Chief of Police.
2. It shall be unlawful for any operator or pedestrian to disobey the instructions of any barrier or sign approved as above provided, erected or placed by public utility or by any department of the city.
(Ord. 15, passed 8-8-1927)
Whenever traffic at any intersection is regulated by a stop and go mechanical or electrical signal, the following colors may be used, and none other, and those colors herein authorized shall indicate as follows:
(A) Red. Except in flashing signals, this requires that traffic shall stop and remain standing;
(B) Green. Requires that traffic shall move and continue in motion except when stopped for the purpose of avoiding an accident or in the event of other emergency or when stopped at the command of a police officer;
(C) Amber. Shall indicate preparation for a change in the direction of traffic movement. When amber is shown, no traffic shall enter the intersection until green or “Go” signal is shown; and
(Ord. 15, passed 8-8-1927)
(A) The Chief of Police and the Director of Public Works are hereby authorized and required to establish and maintain and to designate upon the surface of the roadway appropriate devices, marks or white lines as crosswalks approximately equal in width to the adjacent sidewalk at all intersections where in their opinions there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway.
(B) When crosswalks are established and maintained outside the central traffic district or a business district, the Director of Public Works shall by appropriate devices, marks or white lines mark and maintain along the surface of the roadway an arrow not less than 12 inches wide in the shaft and not less than 30 feet long, pointing in the direction of such crosswalk, together with the word “SLOW” in block letters not less than 24 inches long and not less than four inches wide, 100 feet distant from each crosswalk so established.
(Ord. 15, passed 8-8-1927)
It shall be unlawful for any person to place or maintain or to display any device, other than an official warning or direction sign or signal erected under competent authority, upon or in view of a street which purports to be, or is an imitation of, or resembles an official warning or direction sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic or the actions of operators, and any such prohibited device shall be a public nuisance, and the Chief of Police may remove it or cause it to be removed, without notice.
(Ord. 15, passed 8-8-1927)
The provisions of this title regulating the movements, parking and standing of vehicles shall not apply to emergency vehicles of the police or sheriff’s office or of the Fire Department or of a public utility, while the driver of any such vehicle is engaged in the necessary performance of public emergency duties.
(Ord. 15, passed 8-8-1927)
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