CHAPTER 71: TRAFFIC RULES

Section

Operation Generally

   71.01   Obstructing traffic

   71.02   Reverse or U turns

   71.03   Backing vehicles

   71.04   Vehicles crossing sidewalks

   71.05   Speed limit

Accidents

   71.20   Duty of operator

   71.21   Accident report

Prohibitions

   71.35   Operator of vehicle to drive carefully

   71.36   Right-of-way of emergency vehicles; following emergency vehicles; driving over fire hose

   71.37   Smoke emission or other nuisance

   71.38   Compression release type engine brakes

   71.99   Penalty

OPERATION GENERALLY

§ 71.01 OBSTRUCTING TRAFFIC.

   (A)   It shall be unlawful to operate any vehicle or permit it to remain standing in any street in such manner as to create an obstruction thereof.

   (B)   It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to enter any intersection or crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle without obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding the indication of any traffic-control signal which may be located at the intersection or crosswalk.

   (C)   Any intersection deemed by the city to be of special or critical importance to the movement of traffic shall be marked in a distinctive manner in order to indicate its importance. Should the operator of any vehicle enter any intersection so marked when there is insufficient room on the other side of the intersection to accommodate the vehicle, the indication of any traffic-control signal notwithstanding, he or she shall be deemed to have violated this division (C) rather than division (B) above.

(2005 Code, § 71.01) Penalty, see § 71.99

§ 71.02 REVERSE OR U TURNS.

   The operator of any vehicle shall not turn such vehicle so as to proceed in the opposite direction unless such movement can be made in safety without interfering with other traffic.

(KRS 189.330(8)) (2005 Code, § 71.02) Penalty, see § 71.99