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Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
DISORDERLY CONDUCT WITH A MOTOR VEHICLE
The deliberate operation of a motor vehicle in a manner that is unnecessarily and unreasonably violent, abusive, loud, maneuvered or accelerated in such a manner so as to disturb, annoy or endanger any person or property in any public or private area. It includes, but is not limited to, the unnecessary and unreasonable spinning of wheels, squealing of tires, accelerating the engine or vehicle or both, raising one or more vehicles off the surface, use of the horn, loud playing of radios or audio entertainment, emission of smoke, gases or other foul orders that are disagreeable, leaving the highway to travel across property to avoid an intersection, official traffic control sign, signal or other device and deliberately causing the engine to backfire. The motor vehicle is not required to be moving at the time of commission of the disorderly conduct.
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Conduct prohibited. No person shall by or through the use of any motor vehicle, including but not limited to an automobile, truck, motorcycle, minibike, moped or snowmobile, cause or carry out disorderly conduct with a motor vehicle.
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Obstruction of railroad crossings. No person shall leave standing or stop or permit or allow to stand or stop any railroad train, engine or car upon any street, alley or highway crossing within the City so as to obstruct public travel for a period of time greater than 10 minutes without opening said street, alley or crossing for at least five minutes. Any railroad company that shall violate this section shall be subject to a fine of not more than $500, per § 192.292, Wis. Stats.
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Pedestrian obedience to traffic control devices and regulations.
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Obedience to traffic control devices. No person shall fail to obey the instructions of any official traffic control device when traveling as a pedestrian on any highway within the City of Onalaska unless otherwise directed by a law enforcement officer.
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Crossing of crosswalks. No pedestrian shall cross at a crosswalk except on the right half thereof whenever practicable. Where sidewalks are provided, no pedestrian shall walk along and upon an adjacent roadway except when the sidewalk is visibly unsafe, obstructed or closed to public travel.
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Prohibited pedestrian crossings. No pedestrian shall cross between adjacent intersections, unless such crossing is permitted by official traffic control devices.
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No person shall operate or park any motor vehicle on any pedestrianway or pedestrian overpass within the City of Onalaska except law enforcement or municipal or county maintenance vehicles.
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Authority. Adult persons appointed by the Onalaska School District or Onalaska Police Department to act as school crossing guards shall have the authority to stop vehicular traffic and to keep it stopped as long as necessary at their respective school crossings for the purpose of permitting schoolchildren to cross the street (§ 349.215, Wis. Stats.).
[Amended 4-13-2021 by Ord. No. 1703-2021]
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Driving over curbing prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any motor vehicle to be driven or backed over any curbing in the City of Onalaska.
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Parking prohibited on boulevard. No vehicles shall stand, stop or park on the boulevard/terrace portion of a public right-of-way. This section is to limit the standing, stopping or parking on the right-of-way as opposed to roadway, meaning to limit all standing, stopping or parking on the boulevard/terrace or sidewalks with the exception of vehicles with permits, utility vehicles and municipal vehicles.
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Driving over safety zones or islands prohibited. Whenever safety zones or safety islands are marked in accordance with the Wisconsin Uniform Traffic Control Device Manual, no operator of a vehicle shall at any time drive through or over a safety zone or safety island.
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The City Engineer, in cooperation with the Chief of Police, is authorized, when in their judgment the safety of the situation requires, to place official traffic control devices within or adjacent to intersections directing that a different course from that specified in § 346.31, Wis. Stats., be traveled by vehicles turning at the intersection and to mark lanes for traffic, designating separate lanes for slow-moving traffic or for traffic moving in a particular direction.
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It shall be unlawful for any person to employ any engine braking system which utilizes engine exhaust to slow the vehicle within the corporate limits of the City of Onalaska except in cases of emergency. Such braking system is commonly referred to as "compression braking" or a "Jake brake®".