(A) The City Manager or designee shall have the authority, in cases and during hours when public travel will not be greatly interfered with thereby, to close any street or portion thereof to vehicular traffic, except for that traffic requiring access to or egress from premises not accessible, except by the street.
(B) The authority shall be exercised only in cases where it is necessary or expedient to do so in order to provide safe places in which persons may congregate for any designated purpose or event, by permit or otherwise, and which shall be properly marked while so restricted.
(C) No person shall drive any vehicle upon a street designated as closed.
(1995 Code, § 10.08.060)