Sec. 20-5. Applicability to pushcarts, animals, animal-drawn vehicles.

Every person propelling any pushcart or riding an animal upon a roadway, and every person driving any animal-drawn vehicle shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter applicable to the driver of any vehicle, except those provisions which by their very nature can have no application.

(1953 Code, ch. 17, § 10)

   State Law References: Similar provisions, A.R.S. § 26-625.

Sec. 20-6. Reserved.

Sec. 20-7. Office of traffic engineer created; general powers, duties.

The office of city traffic engineer is hereby established. The duties of the traffic engineer shall be, among other things, to regulate traffic under the provisions of this chapter and the traffic ordinances of the city. It shall be the general duty of the traffic engineer to establish, change, remove or prohibit, as conditions may require, boulevard stops, pedestrian lanes, U-turns and right- and left-hand turns, traffic lanes, and other necessities of traffic, subject to the approval of the city manager, and under such regulations as he may prescribe; provided, that nothing in this section shall be construed as conferring upon the office of traffic engineer the duties or authority over traffic of the chief of police.

(1953 Code, ch. 17, § 2; Ord. No. 11400, § 2, 9-20-16)

Sec. 20-8. Enforcement duties of police.

It shall be the duty of the officers of the police department or such officers as are assigned by the chief of police to enforce all traffic laws of the city and all of the state vehicle laws applicable to traffic in the city.

(1953 Code, ch. 17, § 3)

Sec. 20-9. Police authorized to direct traffic; emergency authority.

Officers and reserve officers of the police department, community service officers, volunteers with appropriate training appointed by the chief of police to assist with traffic control, or such officers as are assigned by the chief of police are hereby authorized to direct all traffic by voice, hand or signal in conformance with state and city traffic laws; provided, that in the event of a fire or other emergency or to expedite traffic or to safeguard pedestrians, such officers may direct traffic as conditions may require notwithstanding the provisions of the traffic laws.

(1953 Code, ch. 17, § 4; Ord. No. 4605, § 1, 1-3-77; Ord. No. 12030, 1, 8-22-23)

Sec. 20-10. Authority of officers of fire department.

Officers of the fire department, when at the scene of a fire, may direct or assist the police in directing traffic thereat or in the immediate vicinity.

(1953 Code, ch. 17, § 5)

Sec. 20-11. Reserved.

   Editors Note: Section 20-11, requiring obedience to police and fire officers, derived from the 1953 Code, ch. 17, § 7, was repealed by § 1 of Ord. No. 5931, adopted Dec. 19, 1983.