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No person other than an officer of the police department or members of the fire department or a person authorized by the chief of police or a person authorized by law shall direct or attempt to direct traffic by voice, hand or other signal, except that persons may operate, when and as provided in this title, any mechanical push-button signal erected by order of the public works director.
(Prior code § 11.08.090 (Ord. 581 § 3.1, 1965))
No person shall remove, obliterate or conceal any chalk mark or other distinguishing mark used by any police officer or other employee or officer of this city in connection with the enforcement of the parking regulations of this title, if done for the purpose of evading the provisions of this title.
(Ord. 80-6-848 § 7: prior code § 11.08.120 (Ord. 581 § 3.4, 1965))
The provisions of this title shall apply to the operator of any vehicle owned by or used in the service of the United States government, this state, and any county or city; and it is unlawful for any said operator to violate any of the provisions of this title except as otherwise permitted in this title or by the Vehicle Code.
(Prior code § 11.08.130 (Ord. 581 § 3.5, 1965))
A. The provisions of this title regulating the operation, parking, and standing of vehicles shall not apply to vehicles operated by the police or fire department, any public ambulance, or any public utility vehicle or any private ambulance, which public vehicle or private ambulance has qualified as an authorized emergency vehicle, when any vehicle mentioned in this section is operated in the manner specified by the Vehicle Code in response to an emergency call.
B. The exemptions of subsection A of this section shall not, however, relieve the operator of any such vehicle from the obligation to exercise due care for the safety of others or the consequences of his wilful disregard of the safety of others.
C. The provisions of this title regulating the parking or standing of vehicles shall not apply to any vehicle of a city department or public utility while necessarily in use for construction or repair work or any vehicle owned or operated by the United States Post Office Department while in use of the collection, transportation, or delivery of United States mail.
(Prior code § 11.08.140 (Ord. 581 § 3.6, 1965))
Every person riding a bicycle or riding or driving an animal upon a highway has all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this title, except those provisions which by their very nature can have no application.
(Prior code § 11.08.110 (Ord. 581 § 3.3, 1965))
A. The chief of police has the authority to implement the appropriate polices and procedures necessary to recover the "expenses of any emergency response" as the result of any incident as provided for in Government Code Section 53150. Such expenses shall include those reasonable costs directly arising because of the response to the particular incident and may include the costs of providing police, firefighting, rescue, and emergency medical services at the scene of the incident, as well as the salaries of the personnel responding to the incident as provided for in Government Code Section 53156(a).
B. A person responsible for expenses under this section includes the following:
1. Any person who is under the influence of an alcoholic beverage or any drug, or the combined influence of an alcoholic beverage and any drug, whose negligent operation of a motor vehicle caused by that influence proximately caused any incident resulting in an appropriate emergency response, is liable for the expense of the emergency response; or
2. Any person whose intentionally wrongful conduct proximately causes any incident resulting in an emergency response, is liable for the expense of the emergency response. The city shall send this person an invoice for the expense of the emergency response.
C. The direct costs shall include a labor charge for the actual time spent on the incident by emergency personnel (police, fire, public works, rescue or emergency medical service personnel) including a charge for administrative overhead. The direct costs shall also include a vehicle and equipment use rate as determined by the finance department multiplied by the actual hours of use in response to the incident and charges for supplies and materials consumed in response to the incident. However, a person's liability for the expense of an emergency response shall not exceed that permitted by state law.
D. The city's finance department shall give the responsible person a written invoice itemizing all charges. The amount stated in the invoice shall be due within thirty days after the date of the invoice therefor, and shall be delinquent thereafter. Penalties for delinquencies shall be assessed as provided in Sections 5.04.290 and 5.04.300 of the Signal Hill Municipal Code. The city may take all practical and reasonable steps to recover these costs, including instituting appropriate legal action.
(Ord.90-09-1075 § 1)
A. The operator of a vehicle or the person in charge of any animal involved in any accident resulting in damage to any property publicly owned or owned by a public utility, including but not limited to any fire hydrant, parking meter, lighting post, telephone pole, electric light or power pole, or resulting in damage to any tree, traffic-control device or other property of a like nature located in or along any street, shall within twenty-four hours after such accident make a written report of such accident to the police department of this city.
B. Every such report shall state the time when and the place where the accident took place, the name and address of the person owning and of the person operating or in charge of such vehicle or animal, the license number of every such vehicle, and shall briefly describe the property damage in such accident.
C. The operator of any vehicle involved in an accident shall not be subject to the requirements or penalties of this section if and during the time he is physically incapable of making a report, but in such event he shall make a report as required in subsection A of this section within twenty-four hours after regaining ability to make such report.
(Prior code § 11.08.150 (Ord. 581 § 3.7, 1965))
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