CHAPTER 71: TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
Section
General Provisions
   71.001   Short title
   71.002   Applicability of state traffic laws
   71.003   Definitions
Administration
   71.020   Powers of the Council
   71.021   Delegation of powers
   71.022   Public danger
   71.023   Standards
   71.024   Authority of law enforcement and fire officers
   71.025   Clinging to vehicles
   71.026   Sleds on streets
   71.027   Damaging roads, sidewalks and curbs
   71.028   Obstructing streets
   71.029   Hazards to public
   71.030   Prohibited uses of streets and alleys
   71.031   Parallel parking and angle parking
   71.032   Prohibited parking and standing
   71.033   Storage
   71.034   Use of loading zone
   71.035   Action by law enforcement
   71.036   Standing or parking of buses and taxicabs
   71.037   Restricted use of bus and taxicab stands
   71.038   Extension of parking time
   71.039   Unnecessary noise
   71.040   Exemption
Bicycles
   71.055   Bicycle operating rules
   71.056   Impounding of bicycles
Pedestrians
   71.070   Use of sidewalks
   71.071   Pedestrians must use crosswalks
   71.072   Right angles
   71.073   Obedience to traffic lights, bridge and railroad signals
Processions
   71.090   Funeral processions and parades
Parking Citations and Owner Responsibility
   71.105   Citation on illegally parked vehicle
   71.106   Failure to comply with traffic citation attached to parked vehicle
   71.107   Owner responsibility
   71.108   Registered owner presumption
Impoundment and Penalties
   71.125   Impoundment of vehicles
Editor’s Note:
   Ord. 424, passed 11-19-1990, which amends current code §§ 71.002, 71.032, 71.055 and 71.070, was ratified, affirmed and re-adopted by Ord. 498, passed 12-12-2005.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 71.001 SHORT TITLE.
   This chapter may be cited as the “Union Uniform Traffic Ordinance”.
(Ord. 523, passed 9-13-2010)
§ 71.002 APPLICABILITY OF STATE TRAFFIC LAWS.
   Violation of provisions in O.R.S. Chapters 802, 803, 805, 806, 807, 809, 810, 811, 814, 815, 816, 818, 819, 820, 823 and O.R.S. Chapters 153 and 649.080, as now or hereafter constituted, shall be an offense against the city.
(Ord. 378, passed 3-11-1985; Ord. 424, passed 11-19-1990; Ord. 523, passed 9-13-2010)
§ 71.003 DEFINITIONS.
   (A)   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
      ABANDONED VEHICLES. Vehicles left unoccupied, unclaimed, damaged, or dismantled condition on the street right of way or alleys of the city or on any other public or private property within the city.
      BUS STOP. A space on the edge of a roadway designated by sign for use by buses loading or unloading passengers.
      DISCARDED VEHICLES. Any vehicle which does not have lawfully affixed thereto an unexpired license plate and is in one or more of the following conditions: inoperative, wrecked, dismantled, partially dismantled, abandoned, junked. DISCARDED VEHICLES may be deemed to include major parts thereof, including but not limited to, bodies, engines, transmissions and rear ends.
      HOLIDAY. New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and any other day proclaimed by the Council to be a holiday.
      LOADING ZONE. A space on the edge of a roadway designated by sign for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers or materials during specified hours of specified days.
      MOTOR VEHICLE. Every vehicle that is self propelled, including tractors, fork lift trucks, motorcycles, road building equipment, street cleaning equipment and any other vehicle capable of moving under its own power, notwithstanding that the vehicle may be exempt from licensing under the motor vehicle laws of Oregon.
      PARK or PARKING. The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers.
      PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot or confined to a wheelchair.
      PERSON. A natural person, firm, partnership, association or corporation.
      RIGHT-OF-WAY. The area between the edge of the traffic lane and the boundary of the adjacent private property.
      STAND or STANDING. The halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily, for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
      STOP. Complete cessation from movement.
      STREET and OTHER PROPERTY OPEN TO PUBLIC TRAVEL.
         (a)   OTHER PROPERTY OPEN TO PUBLIC TRAVEL. Property, whether publicly or privately owned and whether publicly or privately maintained, upon which the public operates motor vehicles either by express or implied invitation, other than streets as defined above, and excepting public school property, county property or property under the jurisdiction of the State Board of Higher Education. Property open to public travel shall include but not be limited to parking lots, service station lots, shopping center and supermarket parking lots and other access ways and parking areas open to general vehicular traffic, whether or not periodically closed to public use.
         (b)   STREET. As defined in the ordinance and the O.R.S. Chapters incorporated by reference herein, includes alleys, sidewalks, right-of-way, parking areas and access ways owned or maintained by the city.
      TAXICAB STAND. A space on the edge of a roadway designated by sign for use by taxicabs.
      TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE. A device to direct vehicular or pedestrian traffic and parking, including but not limited to a sign, signaling mechanism, barricade, button or street or curb marking installed by the city or other authority.
      TRAFFIC LANE. That area of the roadway used for the movement of a single line of traffic.
      TRAILER. A towed devise.
      TRUCK TRACTOR. A motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and constructed so as not to carry any load other than a part of the weigh of the vehicle or load, or both, as drawn, as defined in O.R.S. 801.575.
      TRUCK TRAILER. Any trailer designed and used primarily for carrying loads other than passengers whether designed as a balance trailer, pole trailer, semi-trailer or self-supporting trailer as defined in O.R.S. 801.580.
      VEHICLE. Means any device, including animal drawn, in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported upon any road, street, highway or parking lot.
   (B)   As used in this chapter, the singular includes the plural, and the masculine includes the feminine.
(Ord. 378, passed 3-11-1985; Ord. 523, passed 9-13-2010)
ADMINISTRATION
§ 71.020 POWERS OF THE COUNCIL.
   (A)   Subject to state laws, the City Council shall exercise all municipal traffic authority for the city, except those powers specifically and expressly delegated herein or by another ordinance.
   (B)   The powers of the Council shall include but not be limited to:
      (1)   Designation of through streets;
      (2)   Designation of one-way streets;
      (3)   Designation of truck routes;
      (4)   Designation of city owned or leased lots, right-of-way or property on which public parking will be permitted;
      (5)   Designation of parking meter zones;
      (6)   Restriction of the use of certain streets by any class or kind of vehicle to protect the streets from damage;
      (7)   Authorization of greater maximum weights or lengths for vehicles using city streets than specified by state law;
      (8)   Initiation of proceedings to change speed zones; and
      (9)   Revision of speed limits in parks.
   (C)   The City Council shall, by resolution:
      (1)   Install traffic control devices to implement this chapter and other traffic control measures. The installations shall be based on the standards contained in the Oregon Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways;
      (2)   Establish remove or alter the following classes of traffic controls:
         (a)   Crosswalks, safety zones and traffic lanes;
         (b)   Intersection channelization and areas where drivers of vehicles shall not make right, left or U-turns, and the time when the prohibition applies; and
         (c)   Parking areas and time limitations, including the form of permissible parking (e.g., parallel or diagonal).
      (3)   Issue parking permit for oversize or overweight vehicle permits;
      (4)   Establish, maintain, remove or alter traffic control signals;
      (5)   Establish, maintain, remove or alter loading zones and stops for all vehicles;
      (6)   Designate certain streets as bridle paths and prohibit horses and animals on other streets; and
      (7)   Temporarily block or close streets.
(Ord. 523, passed 9-13-2010)
§ 71.021 DELEGATION OF POWERS.
   (A)   The City Council may delegate powers set forth in § 71.020 at its discretion. Duties exercised thereafter by law enforcement or his or her designate shall be reported to the Council at the regular meeting immediately following their implementation, and the Council may reject or modify the action.
   (B)   This reporting requirement may be dispensed with when the Council so orders.
(Ord. 523, passed 9-13-2010)
§ 71.022 PUBLIC DANGER.
   Under conditions constituting a danger to the public, law enforcement or his or her designate may install temporary control devices deemed by him or her to be necessary.
(Ord. 523, passed 9-13-2010)
§ 71.023 STANDARDS.
   The regulations of law enforcement or his or her designate shall be based upon:
   (A)   Traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations;
   (B)   Standards, limitations and rules promulgated by the State Highway Commission; and
   (C)   Other recognized traffic control standards.
(Ord. 523, passed 9-13-2010)
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