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Any person operating any vehicle transporting any explosives as a cargo or part of a cargo upon a street shall at all times comply with the provisions of this Section.
Said vehicle shall be marked or placarded on each side and the rear with the word, "Explosives," in letters not less than eight inches high, or there shall be displayed on the rear of such vehicle a red flag not less than twenty-four inches square with the word, "Danger" in white letters six inches high.
Every said vehicle shall be equipped with not less than two fire extinguishers, filled and ready for immediate use and placed at a convenient point on the vehicle so used.
Every motor vehicle operated on the streets of this City shall at all times be equipped with a muffler in good working order and in constant operation to prevent excessive or unusual noises and annoying smoke, and no person shall use a muffler cut-out, bypass or similar device upon motor vehicles so operated on the streets of this City. [Ref. Iowa Code §321.436]
Every motor vehicle when operated upon a street shall be equipped with a horn in good working order and capable of emitting sound audible under normal conditions from a distance of not less than two hundred feet, but no horn or other warning device shall emit an unreasonably loud or harsh sound or a whistle. The driver of a motor vehicle shall, when reasonably necessary to insure safe operation, give audible warning with the horn but shall not otherwise use such horn when upon a street. ('91 Rev.) [Ref. Iowa Code §321.432]
A vehicle shall not be equipped with and a person shall not use upon a vehicle any siren, whistle, or bell, except as otherwise permitted in this section. It is permissible but not required that any commercial vehicle be equipped with a theft alarm signal device which is so arranged that it cannot be used by the driver as an ordinary warning signal. Any authorized emergency vehicle may be equipped with a siren, whistle, or bell, capable of emitting sound audible under normal conditions from a distance of not less than five hundred feet, but the siren, whistle, or bell shall not be used except when the vehicle is operated in response to an emergency call or in the immediate pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law, and the driver of the vehicle shall sound the siren, whistle, or bell when necessary to warn pedestrians and other drivers of the approach of the vehicle. (’99 Rev.) [Ref. Iowa Code §321.433]
Every motor vehicle shall be equipped with a mirror so located as to reflect to the driver a view of the street for the distance of at least two hundred feet to the rear of such vehicle. Any motor vehicle so loaded, or towing another vehicle in such manner as to obstruct the view in a rear view mirror located in the driver's compartment shall be equipped with a side mirror so located that the view to the rear will not be obstructed however when such vehicle is not loaded or towing another vehicle the side mirrors shall be retracted or removed. All van or van type motor vehicles shall be equipped with outside mirrors of unit magnification, each with not less than nineteen point five square inches of reflective surface, installed with stable supports on both sides of the vehicle, located so as to provide the driver a view to the rear along both sides of the vehicle, and adjustable in both the horizontal and vertical directions to view the rearward scene.
Nothwithstanding this code or Iowa Code Chapter 321E, a combination of vehicles coupled together which is used exclusively for the transportation of passenger vehicles, light deliver trucks, panel delivery trucks, pickups, boats, and recreational chassis, may permanently attach a convex-type mirror on either or both of the vertical supports, forward of the steering axle of the power unit, provided that the mirror shall not extend beyond the limit of any other rearview mirror on the vehicle. ('91 Rev.) [Ref. Iowa Code §321.437]
1. A person shall not drive a motor vehicle equipped with a windshield, sidewings, or side or rear windows which do not permit clear vision.
2. A person shall not operate on the highway a motor vehicle equipped with a front windshield, a side window to the immediate right or left of the driver or a side-wing forward of and to the left or right of the driver which is excessively dark or reflective so that it is difficult for a person outside the motor vehicle to see into the motor vehicle through the windshield, window, or sidewing. Rules adopted by the Iowa Department of Transportation establishing a minimum measurable standard of transparency shall apply to violations of this subsection.
3. Every motor vehicle except a motorcycle, or a vehicle included in the provisions of Iowa Code Section 321.383 or Section 321.115 shall be equipped with a windshield in accordance with Iowa Code Section 321.444.
(Ord. #3815, 8/12/91) [Ref. Iowa Code §321.438]
(a) Every solid rubber tire on a vehicle shall have rubber on its entire traction surface at least one inch thick above the edge of the flange of the entire periphery. Any pneumatic tire on a vehicle shall be considered unsafe if it has:
1. Any part of the ply or cord exposed;
2. Any bump, bulge or separation;
3. A tread design depth of less than one-sixteenth (1/16th) of an inch measured in any two or more adjacent tread grooves, exclusive of tire bars or, for those tires with tread wear indicators, worn to the level of the tread wear indicators in any two tread grooves;
4. A marking "not for highway use," "for racing purposes only," "unsafe for highway use;"
5. Tread or sidewall cracks, cuts or snags deep enough to expose the body cord;
6. Such other conditions as may be reasonably demonstrated to render it unsafe;
7. Been regrooved or recut below the original tread design depth, excepting special tires which have extra under tread rubber and are identified as such, or if a pneumatic tire was originally designed without grooves or tread.
(b) A vehicle, except an implement of husbandry, equipped with either solid rubber or pneumatic tires shall not be operated where the weight per inch of tire width is greater than five hundred seventy-five pounds per inch of tire width based on the tire width rating, except on a steering axle, in which case six hundred pounds per inch of tire width is permitted based on the tire width rating.
('91 Rev.; Ord. #4247 8/18/97; ’99 Rev.) [Ref. Iowa Code §321.440]
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