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Every motor vehicle operated within the city shall be provided with a muffler in good working order to prevent excessive or unusual noise or smoke. No person shall modify or change the exhaust muffler, intake muffler, or any other noise abatement device of a motor vehicle in a manner such that the noise emitted by the motor vehicle is increased above that emitted by the vehicle as originally manufactured. It shall be unlawful to use a “muffler cut-out” on any motor vehicle upon any street; provided, the provisions of this section shall not apply to authorized emergency vehicles.
(Neb. RS 60-6,286, 60-6,370) (Prior Code, § 5-321) Penalty, see § 71.999
Whoever wrongfully takes any automobile or motorcycle from a garage or any other place where the same may have been lawfully placed without the consent of the owner or who shall use any motor vehicle in bailment beyond that use which was originally intended or agreed upon with intent to wrongfully use the automobile or motorcycle so taken, shall be guilty of wrongful taking of a motor vehicle and shall be punished as provided by law.
(Neb. RS 28-516) (Prior Code, § 5-322) Penalty, see § 71.999
(A) Enforcement. The police are hereby authorized, empowered, and ordered to exercise all powers and duties with relation to the management of street traffic and to direct, control, stop, restrict, regulate, and, when necessary, temporarily divert or exclude in the interest of public safety, health, and convenience the movement of pedestrian, animal, and vehicular traffic of every kind in streets, parks, and on bridges. The driver of any vehicle shall stop upon the signal of any police officer.
(Neb. RS 60-683) (Prior Code, § 5-324)
(B) Refusal to obey. It shall be unlawful for any person to refuse or fail to comply with any lawful order, signal, or direction of a police officer.
(Prior Code, § 5-325)
(C) Traffic officers. The governing body or the Municipal Police may at any time detail officers to be known as “traffic officers” at street intersections. All traffic officers shall be vested with the authority to regulate and control traffic at the intersections to which they are assigned. It shall be their duty to direct the movement of traffic and prevent congestion and accidents. It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any order or signal of any such traffic officer, notwithstanding the directive of a stop sign or signal device which may have been placed at any such intersection.
(Neb. RS 60-683, 60-6,222) (Prior Code, § 5-326)
Penalty, see § 71.999
(A) Projecting. When any vehicle shall be loaded in such a manner that any portion of the load extends more than four feet beyond the rear of the bed or the body of such vehicle, a red flag of not less than 12 inches, both in length and width, shall be carried by day and red light after sunset at the extreme rear end of such load.
(Neb. RS 60-6,243) (Prior Code, § 5-327)
(B) Spilling. All vehicles used for carrying coal, earth, cinders, sand, gravel, rock, asphalt, tar, or any similar substance shall be so constructed as to prevent the sifting or spilling of any of the contents.
(Neb. RS 60-6,304) (Prior Code, § 5-328)
A person commits the offense of engine braking if the person is operating a motor vehicle on a street or highway and uses an unmuffled engine brake. The offense described in this section, engine braking, is a traffic infraction. A person is not in violation of this section if the person uses an unmuffled engine brake in an emergency situation to avoid imminent danger to a person or to property.
(Ord. 701, passed 2-5-2020) Penalty, see § 71.999
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