(A) All-terrain vehicles, etc. No person shall, in or upon any Department property, operate any all-terrain vehicle, golf cart, off highway motorcycle or go-kart. The provisions of this division (A) shall be inapplicable to the use of any of the foregoing when used by the village or the Department.
(B) Motor vehicle operation locations. No motor vehicles shall be operated on Department property except upon areas thereof surfaced with asphalt, concrete or comparable hard surfaced pavement contained within an area of Department property designed, designated, intended and held out for motor vehicle operation, including roads, streets, parking areas and driveways, to the exclusion of all hard surfaced areas not so designed, designated, intended or held out, including but not limited to recreational trails. The provisions of this division (B) shall not apply to any village or Department motor vehicle operation, or to any operation or parking of a motor vehicle as directed by a village or Department employee.
(C) Motor vehicle operator responsibility in event of accident. No operator of any motor vehicle involved in any accident involving such motor vehicle resulting in any damage to property or injury to persons shall leave the scene of the same without first providing his name and residence address to any injured person or affected party and the Romeoville Police Department.
(D) Emergency vehicles.
(1) For purposes of this section, emergency vehicles shall include all ambulances, fire trucks, police, fire, and other vehicles used to protect and promote the public health, safety, and welfare.
(2) The provisions of this division (D) regulating the movement or parking of vehicles on Department property shall not apply to the operator of any emergency vehicle when responding to an emergency call or pursuing an actual or suspected violator of the law.
(3) Every person operating a vehicle on Department property shall, at the immediate approach of an emergency vehicle making use of its warning system signals, yield the right-of-way and shall stop, if possible, and pull to the side of the road and remain in such position until the emergency vehicle has passed, unless otherwise directed by a member of the Village Police Department.
(E) Obedience to traffic controls. No person shall fail to comply with any posted traffic control device or sign on Department property, or fail to comply with the order or direction of any village or Department employee directing traffic or the movement or location of motor vehicles on Department property.
(F) Application of state statues and village ordinances. No person shall operate any motor vehicle upon Department property in any manner that would violate the provisions of Chapters 6, 11, or 12 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, which provisions are hereby specifically incorporated into this chapter, or the provisions of Chapters 72, 73, 74 or 75 of the Village Code of Ordinances, provided, however, that in establishing a violation of any of such provisions of the Illinois Vehicle Code or the indicated chapters of the Village Code of Ordinances, it shall be sufficient in connection therewith to allege and prove that a motor vehicle was operated upon Department property, in lieu of alleging and proving that the motor vehicle was operated upon any public highway or road.
(G) Minibike and trailbike operation. No person shall operate any two wheeled vehicles powered by internal combustion engines on Department property, except that motorcycles otherwise lawful to be operated on highways or public streets within the State of Illinois may be operated in the areas designated by this section for motor vehicle operation.
(H) Motor vehicle parking.
(1) No person shall park a vehicle on Department property in other than areas improved and established for vehicle parking or in areas otherwise designated by the Department for parking, and all parking shall be in accordance with the posted directions and markings or with the directions of any village or Department employee who may be present.
(2) (a) No person shall park any vehicle or allow any vehicle to remain parked in any area of Department property beyond the normal closing hour of the park system, except when a different closing hour has been designated by the Department for that area or unless permission therefor has first been obtained from the Department. In no event shall any vehicle except Department vehicles be parked on Department property later than 12:00 a.m., except with the approval of the Department, which approval shall automatically be deemed given in connection with activities or events conducted by the Department.
(b) Except as otherwise authorized in connection with the conduct of village or Department programming or events, no person shall at any time park any recreational vehicle on any roadway, street, parking lot or area located on property administered by the Department or on any other property administered by the Department, nor shall any person occupy any recreational vehicle on any roadway, street, parking lot or area located on property administered by the Department or on any other property administered by the Department for purposes of residing, living, sleeping, camping or habitation, or connect any such vehicle to any utility facilities on any property administered by the Department, including but not limited to water, sewer or electric facilities.
(3) No person shall stop, park, or place any vehicle on Department property so as to obstruct or interfere with traffic or travel or endanger the public safety, and no person shall stop, park, or place any vehicle in any of the following places except when otherwise designated, or when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or when in compliance with the instructions of a member of the Romeoville Police Department:
(a) On the left side of any roadway;
(b) On parkways, lawn areas, and grounds;
(c) In front of a public or private driveway;
(d) Within any intersection;
(e) Within any crosswalk;
(f) Within 20 feet of any intersection or crosswalk;
(g) Within 30 feet of any stop sign or traffic control signal, other than in a marked parking space;
(h) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of the roadway (“double parking”);
(i) In a position to block another vehicle lawfully parked;
(j) On any sidewalk;
(k) At any place where official signs or other markings prohibit parking, or where curbs have been painted yellow;
(l) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
(m) In a fire lane or within eight feet of the entrance to a fire lane;
(n) At any place or time where a permit or sticker is required by the Department for parking unless the required permit or sticker has been obtained and is displayed on the vehicle; or
(o) At any marked parking space NOT entirely within the designated lines.
(4) No person shall park a vehicle upon any roadway or driveway or in any public off-street parking facility on Department property for any of the following purposes:
(a) To display such vehicle for sale;
(b) To perform maintenance or repair of such vehicle, except for repairs necessitated by an emergency; or
(c) To sell goods or services from such vehicle.
(5) The operator of an authorized emergency vehicle, as defined in § 94.02, may park or stand irrespective of the provisions of this section.
(6) Every person in whose name a vehicle is registered pursuant to law and who leases such vehicle to others, after receiving written notice of a violation of this section involving such vehicle, shall upon request provide the Department with a written statement of the name and address of the lessee at the time of such offense and the identifying number upon the registration plates and registration sticker or stickers of such vehicle.
(7) No person who is the lessor of a vehicle pursuant to a written lease agreement shall be liable for the violation of any parking or standing regulation of this section involving such vehicle during the period of the lease provided that upon the Department's request received within 120 days after the violation occurred, the lessor provides within 60 days after such receipt the name and address of the lessee.
(8) Except as otherwise provided, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a two-way roadway on Department property shall be stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels parallel to and within 12 inches of the right-hand curb or as close as practicable to the right edge of the right-hand shoulder.
(9) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his control into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful.
(10) Except as otherwise provided, every vehicle stopped or parked upon a one-way roadway on Department property shall be so stopped or parked parallel to the curb or edge of the roadway, in the direction of authorized traffic movement, with its right-hand wheels within 12 inches of the right-hand curb or as close as practicable to the right edge of the right-hand shoulder, or with its left-hand wheels within 12 inches of the left-hand curb or as close as practicable to the left edge of the left-hand shoulder.
(11) Enforcement provisions for parking violations:
(a) Whenever any vehicle shall have been parked in violation of any division of this section prohibiting or restricting vehicular standing or parking, the person in whose name the vehicle is registered with the Secretary of State of Illinois shall be prima facie responsible for the violation and subject to the penalty therefor.
(b) Whenever any vehicle is parked in violation of any parking provision of this section, any Romeoville Police Department officer observing such violation may issue a parking violation notice, and serve the notice on the owner of the vehicle by handing it to the operator of the vehicle, if he is present, or by affixing it to the vehicle in a conspicuous place. The issuer of the notice shall specify on the notice his identification number, the particular parking regulation allegedly violated, the make and state registration number of the cited vehicle, and the place, date, time, and nature of the alleged violation.
(c) A parking violation notice issued and served in accordance with this section, or a copy of such notice, shall be deemed prima facie correct and shall be prima facie evidence of the correctness of the facts shown therein. The notice or copy thereof shall be admissible in any subsequent administrative or legal proceeding.
(I) Riding outside vehicles. No person shall ride upon the fenders, hood, running board, trunk, bumpers, truck bed or any other exterior portion of any vehicle not designed and intended for the carriage of passengers. The preceding sentence shall not apply to Department or village vehicles or to vehicles participating in Department or village activities, including but not necessarily limited to parades or hay rides.
(J) Right-of-way.
(1) Every operator of a vehicle shall yield the right- of-way to a pedestrian at any marked crosswalk or within any unmarked crosswalk at any intersection on Department property.
(2) Every operator of a vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with pedestrians upon any roadway on Department property, shall give warning to any pedestrian in the roadway by sounding the horn when necessary, and shall exercise proper precaution upon observing any child, confused person, or disabled person upon a roadway.
(3) Every pedestrian crossing at a roadway on Department property at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at any intersection shall yield the right-of-way to vehicles upon the roadway.
(4) Except as otherwise provided herein, the operator of a vehicle approaching an intersection on Department property shall yield the right-of-way to a vehicle which has already entered the intersection from a different roadway. When two vehicles approach an unmarked intersection from different roadways at approximately the same time, the operator of the vehicle on the left shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle on the right.
(K) Vehicle speed. Except for emergency vehicles, no person shall operate any motor vehicle on any Department property at a speed which endangers the safety of persons or property, at any speed greater than what is reasonable and safe under the circumstances (such as but not limited to weather, presence of pedestrians and other vehicles and the intended use of the area on which the vehicle is being operated), or at any speed in excess of 20 miles per hour.
(L) Unattended motor vehicles. No person driving, operating, or otherwise in charge of a motor vehicle on Department property shall permit it to stand unattended without first stopping the engine, locking the ignition and removing the keys. When the motor vehicle is standing upon any perceptible grade, the person shall set the parking brake thereon and turn the front wheels to the curb or side of the roadway.
(M) Vehicles subject to tow. Any unattended vehicle parked in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to tow pursuant to Chapter 81 of the Village Code as an unlawful vehicle, where notice of the potential for such tow has been reasonably provided at the Department property where the unattended vehicle in question has been parked.
(Ord. 21-1693, passed 4-7-21; Am. Ord. 23-1838, passed 3-15-23)