(A) Following fire apparatus prohibited. The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire alarm closer than 500 feet or drive into or park such vehicle within the block where fire apparatus has stopped in answer to a fire alarm.
(B) Crossing fire hose. It shall be unlawful for any vehicle to be driven over any unprotected hose of the Fire Department when laid down on any street or private driveway, to be used at any fire or alarm of fire, without the consent of the Fire Department official in command.
(C) Driving through funeral or other procession. It shall be unlawful for any person of a vehicle to drive between the vehicles comprising a funeral or other authorized procession while they are in motion and when such vehicles are conspicuously designated as required in this chapter. This provision shall not apply at intersections where traffic is controlled by traffic-control signals or police officers.
(D) Driver in procession. Each driver in a funeral or other procession shall drive as near to the right edge of the roadway as practicable and shall follow the vehicle ahead as close as practicable and safe.
(E) Funeral processions to be identified. A funeral composed of a procession of vehicles shall be identified as such by the lighting of the headlights of all vehicles in said procession or by such other method as may be determined and designated by the Traffic Division.
(F) When permits required for parades and processions. It shall be unlawful for any funeral procession or parade containing 200 or more persons or 50 or more vehicles, excepting the forces of the United States Army or Navy, the military forces of the state, and the forces of the Police and Fire Departments, to occupy, march or proceed along any street, except in accordance with a permit issued by the Chief of Police and such other regulations as are set forth herein which may apply.
(G) Vehicles shall not be driven on a sidewalk. The driver of a vehicle shall not drive within any sidewalk area, except at a permanent driveway, or upon a temporary driveway when a permit therefor has been secured from the Chief of Police.
(H) Limitations on backing. A vehicle shall not back up or down a public highway, except insofar as it is necessary in getting away from the curb where it has been standing or parked.
(I) Riding on motorcycles. A person operating a motorcycle shall not ride other than upon the permanent and regular seat attached thereto or carry any other person, nor shall any person ride upon such motorcycle other than upon a firmly attached seat to the rear or side of the operator.
(J) Clinging to moving vehicles. Any person riding upon any bicycle, motorcycle, coaster, sled, roller skates or toy vehicles shall not attach the same or himself or herself to any moving vehicle upon any roadway, nor shall the driver of such moving vehicle permit any person so to attach himself or herself to said vehicle.
(K) Restricted access. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle onto or from any limited access roadway, except at such entrances and exits as are established by public authority.
(L) Boarding or alighting from vehicles. It shall be unlawful for any person to board or alight from any vehicle while such vehicle is in motion.
(M) Unlawful riding. It shall be unlawful for any person to ride on any vehicle or portion thereof not designed or intended for the use of passengers. This provision shall not apply to an employee engaged in the necessary discharge of a duty or to persons riding within truck bodies in space intended for merchandise.
(N) Railroad trains not to block streets. It shall be unlawful for the directing officer or the operator of any railroad train to direct the operation of or to operate the same in such a manner as to prevent the use of any street for purposes of travel for a period of time longer than five minutes; except that, this provision shall not apply to trains in motion other than those engaged in switching.
(O) Motor vehicles left unattended brakes to be set and engine stopped. It shall be unlawful for any person having control charge of a motor vehicle to allow such vehicle to stand on any street unattended without first setting the brakes thereon and stopping the motor of said vehicle; and when standing upon a perceptible grade without turning the wheel of such vehicle to the curb or the side of the street or highway.
(P) Obstruction to driver’s view or driving mechanism. It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to drive the same when such vehicle is so loaded or when there are in the front seat of such vehicle such number of persons as to obstruct the view of the driver to the front or sides or to interfere with the driver’s control over the driving mechanism of the vehicle. It shall be unlawful for any passenger in a vehicle to ride in such position as to interfere with the driver’s control over the driving mechanism of the vehicle.
(Q) Driving by certain persons unlawful. It shall be unlawful for any person, unless such person has been issued and is in possession of a driving authorization permit from the Montana Highway Patrol, to drive any motor vehicle on the streets of the city.
(R) Minors driving. No person shall knowingly authorize a minor to drive a motor vehicle without a valid driver’s license within the city.
(S) Hauling. No person shall drag or haul any timber or any article along or over any public highway in such a manner that a portion of the same shall rest upon or come in contact with that surface of such public highway; nor shall any person on any planked, paved or macadamized public highway, lock the wheel or any vehicle by the method commonly known as “rough lock”; nor by any method whereby anything other than the tire of such wheel or a smooth shoe shall come in contact with the surface of the public highway.
(1992 Code, § 8-1-306)