(A) General. In addition to other equipment required by law, every ice cream truck shall be equipped with:
(1) Signal lamps mounted at the same level and as high and as widely spaced laterally as practicable. These lamps shall be five to seven inches in diameter and shall display two alternately flashing red lights on the front of the vehicle and two alternately flashing red lights on the rear of the vehicle, both lights visible at 500 feet in normal sunlight on a straight level street.
(2) A stop signal arm that can be extended horizontally from the left side of the truck duplicating the design and size of a standard 30-inch octagonal stop sign as set forth in the state's Manual of Uniform Control Devices. This arm shall be red and white in color and contain two alternately flashing lights three to five inches in diameter at the top and bottom thereof, visible at 300 feet to the front and rear in normal sunlight on a straight level street. The color of the two lights facing to the front shall be red and the two lights facing to the rear shall be red. The bottom of the signal arm shall be 42 inches above the highway.
(3) A convex mirror mounted on the front so the driver in his or her normal seating position can see the area in front of the truck obscured by the hood.
(B) Use of required equipment.
(1) The driver of an ice cream truck stopped on the streets for the purpose of vending shall actuate the special flashing lights and extend the stop signal arm required by division (A) of this section.
(2) These lights and the stop signal arm shall not be used when the truck is in motion nor at any time the truck is stopped for a purpose other than vending.
(Ord. G-79-752, passed 7-2-1979) Penalty, see § 117.99