(a) (EDITOR'S NOTE: Division (a) was recodified as part of the 1990 updating and revision of these Codified Ordinances. See Section 606.165 of the General Offenses Code.)
(b) Police officers shall, whenever conditions require it, direct traffic in accordance with the provisions of this Traffic Code. Police officers and firefighters are hereby authorized, in the event of fire or other emergency or in the safeguarding or expediting of traffic, to direct traffic otherwise than as such Code specifically provides. The direction of traffic may be by word or audible signal, by gesture or visible signal, or by any combination thereof.
(Ord. 584. Passed 7-15-55.)
(c) No person shall fail to comply with any lawful order or direction of any police officer or firefighter issued pursuant to division (b) of this section.