(A) (1) Police to direct traffic. It shall be the duty of the Police Department of the city to enforce the provisions of this traffic code. Officers of the Police Department are hereby authorized to direct all traffic either in person or by means of visible or audible signal in conformance with the provisions of this chapter, provided that in the event of a fire or other emergency or to expedite traffic or safeguard pedestrians, officers of the Police or Fire Department may direct traffic, as conditions may require, notwithstanding the provisions of this traffic code.
(2) Adoption of emergency regulations. The Chief of Police is hereby empowered to make and enforce regulations necessary to make more effective the provisions of this chapter and to make and enforce temporary regulations to cover emergencies or special conditions.
(3) Obedience to police. It shall be unlawful for any person to refuse to or fail to comply with any lawful order, signal or direction of a police officer.
(4) Public employees to obey traffic regulations. The provisions of this traffic code shall apply to the operator of any vehicle owned by or used for the service of the U.S. Government, the state, the county or the city and it shall be unlawful for any operator to violate any of the provisions of this traffic code, except as otherwise permitted in this traffic code.
(5) Exemptions to authorized emergency vehicles. The provisions of this traffic code regulating the movement, parking and standing of vehicles shall not apply to Fire Department or Police Department vehicles or to ambulances, while the operator of the vehicle if operating the same in an emergency in the necessary performance of public duties. This exception shall not, however, protect the driver of any vehicle from the consequences of a reckless disregard for the safety of others, or of the property of others.
(6) Police authorized to tow cars to pound. Any official of the city or any police officer or any agent of the city is hereby given authority to tow or cause to be towed to the city pound or other place designated as a pound any vehicle which is parked in violation of any of the provisions of this traffic code.
(B) (1) It shall be lawful for and mandatory upon the Police Department of the city to enforce the traffic-control signs which have been placed upon or adjacent to public school property designed to control traffic entering into or exiting from the public school property onto the public streets of the city. The signs must, however, be in conformity with the Uniform Traffic Safety Code concerning Traffic- Control Signs and Traffic-Control Devices and be approved by the Chief of Police.
(2) The traffic signs so installed shall have the meaning attributed to them by the Uniform Traffic Code of the state, as amended.
(3) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, to fail to obey traffic-control signs when and where installed do govern motor vehicle traffic into the public school grounds in the city and to govern motor vehicle traffic exiting from public school grounds in the city.
(Ord. 101-93, passed 12-15-92) Penalty, see § 70.99