(a) Purposes of Way. No person shall use any portion of the Park for purposes of way except drives, roadways, paths, walks, and trails established for such purposes. Foot paths or bicycle paths shall not be used for any form of vehicular traffic including, but not limited to mopeds, motorcycles, three-wheeled vehicles and all terrain vehicles.
(b) Driving on Closed Roads or Drives. No person shall drive upon or along any park road or drive which has been closed and posted with appropriate signs or barricades. The Minerva Park, Recreation and Cemetery Committee shall have authority to order roads closed during the process of construction, reconstruction, or repair, or when on the basis of engineering investigation, weather conditions render travel either unsafe or unduly destructive on the road.
(c) Speed Limit. No person shall drive or propel or cause to be driven or propelled along or over any road or drive within the Park, any vehicle at a greater rate of speed than fifteen miles per hour.
(d) Reduced Speed Limits. Whenever the Park, Recreation and Cemetery Committee shall determine, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, that the speed of fifteen miles per hour is greater than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist at any intersection, playground, picnic area, or other place upon any part of the roads or drives within the Park, such Park, Recreation, and Cemetery Committee shall determine and declare a reasonable and safe prima facie speed limit there at which declaration and determination so made shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected at such intersections, playgrounds, picnic areas, and other places upon the Park roads and drives.
(e) Reckless Driving. No person shall operate a vehicle along or over any road or drive within the Park in a reckless manner or without due respect for the safety and the rights of pedestrian and drivers and occupants of all other vehicles, so as to endanger the life, limb, or property of any person while in the lawful use of such Park drives or roads.
(f) Drag Racing. No person shall participate in a drag race upon any Park drive or Park property. "Drag racing" is defined as the operation of two or more vehicles from a point side by side at accelerating speeds in a competitive attempt to out-distance each other, or the operation of one or more vehicles over a common course from the same point wherein timing is made of the participating vehicles involving competive accelerating of speeds. The operation of two or more vehicles side by side either at speeds in excess of permitted speeds on park drives or rapidly accelerating from a common starting point to a speed in excess of such permitted speeds, shall be prima facie evidence of drag racing.
(g) Driving Without a License. No person shall drive a motor vehicle within the Park unless such a person has been licensed as an operator or chauffeur, or cause or permit a minor under eighteen years of age to drive a motor vehicle within the Park unless such a minor has first obtained a license or permit to drive a motor vehicle.
(h) Driving Without License Plates. No persons shall drive a motor vehicle within the Park who is the owner or operator of such motor vehicle unless such vehicle displays the distinctive number and registration marks of license plates, legally issued for the current year, securely fastened to the vehicle.
(i) Driving Vehicle in Unsafe Condition. No person shall drive or move, or cause to knowingly permit to be driven or moved within the Park, any vehicle or combination of vehicles which is in unsafe condition.
(j) Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol and/or any Drug of Abuse.
(1) No person shall operate any vehicle within the Park(s) if any of the following apply:
A. The person is under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, or the combined influence of alcohol and any drug of abuse.
B. The person has a concentration of ten-hundredths of one percent or more by weight of alcohol in his/her blood.
C. The person has a concentration of ten-hundredths of one gram or more by weight of alcohol per two hundred ten liters of his/her breath.
D. The person has a concentration of fourteen-hundredths of one gram or more by weight of alcohol per one hundred milliliters of his/her urine.
(2) In any criminal prosecution for a violation of this section or of an ordinance of this Municipality relating to operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, the court may admit evidence on the concentration of alcohol in the defendant's blood, breath, or urine at the time of the alleged violation as shown by chemical analysis of the defendant's blood, breath, or other bodily substance withdrawn within two hours of the time of such alleged violation. When a person submits to a blood test at the request of a police officer under Ohio R. C. 5411.191 only a physician or a registered nurse, or a qualified technician or chemist shall withdraw blood for the purpose of determining its alcoholic content. This limitation does not apply to the taking of breath or urine specimens. A physician, a registered nurse, or a qualified technician or chemist may refuse to withdraw blood for the purpose of determining the alcohol content of the blood, if in his opinion the physical welfare of the person would be endangered by the withdrawing of blood.
Such bodily substances shall be analyzed in accordance with methods approved by the Director of Health by an individual possessing a valid permit issued by the Director of Health pursuant to Ohio R. C. 3701.143.
If there was at the time bodily substance was withdrawn a concentration of less than ten-hundredths of one percent by weight of alcohol in the defendant's blood, less than ten-hundredths of one gram by weight of alcohol per two hundred liters of his breath, or less than fourteen-hundredths of one gram by weight of alcohol per one hundred milliliters of his urine, such fact may be considered with other competent evidence in determining the guilt or innocence of the defendant.
Upon request of the person who was tested, the results of such test shall be made available to that person, their attorney or agent, immediately upon completion of the test analysis.
The person tested may have a physician, a registered nurse, or a qualified technician or chemist of their own choosing administer a chemical test or tests in addition to any administered at the direction of a police officer, and shall be so advised. The failure or inability to obtain an additional test by a person shall not preclude the admission of evidence relating to the test or tests taken at the direction of a police officer.
Any physician, registered nurse, or qualified technician or chemist who withdraws blood from a person pursuant to this section, and any hospital, first aid station, or clinic at which blood is withdrawn from a person pursuant to this section, is immune from criminal liability, and from civil liability that is based upon a claim of assault and battery or based upon any other claim that is not in the nature of a claim of malpractice, for any act performed in withdrawing blood from the person.
(k) Stop Signs. All public highways crossing or intersecting Park roads or drives, and all main Park roads or drives crossing or intersecting other roads or drives, are declared to be through highways or through Park roads or drives as the case may be, and shall be posted with "STOP" signs. Such signs shall bear the word "STOP" in letters not less than six inches high, and shall be created as near as practicable to the line of the highway or to the line of the main Park road or drive. All operators or vehicles shall come to a full and complete stop at all posted "STOP" signs.
(l) Parking.
(1) No person shall park or store any motor car, motor vehicle, bicycle, wagon, or other vehicle within any traveled roadway in the Park or at any location where posted signs prohibit parking except in emergencies.
(2) No person shall park on grass areas of the Park except when directed to do so by Park officials or their representatives.
(m) Lights on Vehicles. Every motor vehicle operating upon any road or drive or within any part of the Park during the period from one half hour after sunset to one half hour before sunrise shall be equipped with and use the following minimum lights:
(1) Automobiles:
A. Headlights. Two headlights in the front, one on either side of the vehicle and emitting a white light.
B. Taillights. One taillight in the rear emitting a red light.
(2) Motorcycles or motorbikes.
A. Headlight. One headlight in the front emitting a white light.
B. Taillights. One taillight in the rear emitting a red light.
(n) Spotlights. No person shall use or shine spotlights or unnecessary or continuously shine automobile headlights onto Park lands, except under the direction of a police officer or Park employee, or except where necessary for the preservation of life or property.
(o) Mufflers. Every motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine shall at all times be equipped with a muffler in good working order and in constant operation, and no person shall use a muffler cut-out, bypass or similar device upon a vehicle in the Parks.
(p) Washing Vehicles. No person shall wash any vehicle within the Park, using the Municipal Water system, without the permission of the Minerva Park, Recreation and Cemetery Committee or its designee.
(q) (1) Whoever violates subsection (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (k), (l), (m), (n), (o), (p), of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(2) Whoever violates subsection (j) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, in addition to the license suspension or revocation provided in Ohio R. C. 507.16. At least three days imprisonment is mandatory under this section.
(Ord. 53-84. Passed 11-13-84.)