It is unlawful for any person to drive any motor vehicle within the corporate limits of the village without a muffler upon the motor vehicle, or drive said motor vehicle within the limits of the village with the muffler of the motor vehicle cut out.
(Prior Code, § 10.20.010A) Penalty, see § 70.99
(A) Business District. No person shall drive a motor vehicle, automobile, truck, motorbike, motorcycle, or other motorized vehicle upon any public highway within the village where the same passes through the business district of the village, at a speed in excess of 20 mph.
(Prior Code, § 10.04.010)
(B) Residential District. No person shall drive any vehicle regulated by division (A) above on any public highway within the village through any residential district of the village at a rate of speed in excess of 25 mph.
(Prior Code, § 10.04.020)
(C) Prima facie evidence of operation at unreasonable speed. Whenever any person operates any vehicle regulated by division (A) above within the village at any speed greater than that applicable according to divisions (A) and (B) above, such speed shall be prima facie evidence that the person operating such motor vehicle is operating it at a greater speed than is reasonable and proper having regard to the traffic and use of the highway, or so as to endanger the life or limb or injure the property of any person.
(Prior Code, § 10.04.040)
(D) Duty to decrease speed. The fact that the speed of a vehicle within the village is less than the speed limits established by this chapter shall not relieve the driver from the duty to decrease speed when approaching or crossing an intersection, when approaching or going around a curve, when approaching a hill crest or crossing a railroad track, or when special hazards exist with respect to pedestrians, other traffic or by reason of highway conditions; and failure to decrease speed when such conditions require it shall be violation of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 10.04.050)
Penalty, see § 70.99
The Streets and Alleys Committee of the Board of Trustees of the village shall cause appropriate stop and yield signs to be erected at intersections designated by this code, which signs shall be maintained during the term of this chapter as amended from time to time.
(Ord. 88-1, passed 4-5-1988)
(A) Erection of lights.
(1) Appropriate school crossing lights shall be erected on the west side of Long Street, also known as U.S. Route 45, north of the intersection of Long and Holden Streets, and on the east side of Long Street, south of the intersection of Long and Holden Streets in the village, which signals shall provide for all traffic driving along Long Street in the village to come to a full and complete stop at the intersection of Holden Street and to give the right-of-way to school children crossing said intersection during school hours.
(2) Such signals shall be of the type ordinarily and customarily used in cities and villages in this state for school-crossing purposes, and shall provide a red stop signal similar to that used in traffic-control at intersections protected by stop lights in cities in the state.
(Prior Code, § 10.16.010)
(B) Erection of signs. Appropriate cautionary signs shall be erected not less than 100 feet north and south of the school crossing lights ordered erected by division (A) above, indicating the presence of such a stop, and said crossing lights and signs shall be maintained by the village during the life of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 10.16.020)
(A) No person or railroad corporation shall permit any train, railroad car, or engine to obstruct public travel at a railroad-highway grade crossing within the limits of the village for a period in excess of ten minutes, except when such train, railroad car, or engine cannot be moved by reason of circumstances over which the person or railroad corporation has no control.
(B) For the purposes of this section, any grade crossing shall be deemed to be obstructed during the entire time that any warning signal, flasher, bell, automatic gate, or other device is operating or signaling whether or not any train, railroad car, or engine is actually on or obstructing the crossing.
(C) Such obstruction of railroad grade crossings within the village for a period in excess of ten minutes is a danger to the health and safety of the public and is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.
(D) Obstruction of each street within the village shall constitute a separate offense.
(Ord. 77-7, passed 11-7-1977) Penalty, see § 70.99
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