No driver of any vehicle, including motorcycles,
all-terrain vehicles and bicycles, shall cause, by excessive and unnecessary
acceleration, the tires of such vehicle or cycle to spin and emit
loud noises or to unnecessarily throw stones or gravel, nor shall
such driver cause to be made by excessive and unnecessary acceleration
any loud noise as would disturb the public peace.
A.Â
Obstruction of railroad crossings. No person shall leave standing or stop or permit or allow to stand or stop any railroad train, engine or railroad car upon any street, alley or highway crossing within the Village so as to obstruct public travel for a greater period of time than 10 minutes without opening said street, alley, or crossing for at least 10 minutes. Any conductor, engineer, fireman or brakeman on any train or locomotive so obstructing any street, alley or railroad crossing or any yardmaster, flagman, switchman or section hand who shall allow and be responsible for such obstruction shall be subject to a penalty as provided in § 385-35 of this chapter. The corporation running or operating such train, engine or cars so obstructing any street or railroad crossing shall be subject to a penalty as provided in Chapter 1, § 1-3 of this Code.[1]
B.Â
Crossing warning by trains. No person shall operate
or permit to be operated a locomotive, railway train, engine or railway
car over any graded street or highway crossing within the limits of
the Village unless a whistle or horn shall be blown 80 rods from said
crossing and a bell rung continuously until the crossing shall be
reached. The blowing of a whistle or horn and the ringing of a bell
shall not be necessary where gates are operated automatically or a
flagman is stationed at such traveled grade crossing.
A.Â
Obedience to traffic control devices. No person shall
fail to obey the instructions of any uniform traffic control device
when traveling as a pedestrian on any highway within the Village unless
otherwise directed by a law enforcement officer.
B.Â
Prohibited pedestrian crossings. No pedestrian shall
cross between adjacent intersections, unless such crossing is permitted
by official traffic control devices.
No person shall operate or park any motor vehicle
on any pedestrianway or pedestrian overpass within the Village except
municipal or county maintenance vehicles.
A.Â
Findings. The unauthorized off-road operation of motor
vehicles has resulted in:
(1)Â
Serious damage to public and private lands, including
damage or destruction of vegetation, animal life, and improvement
to the lands;
(2)Â
The permanent scarring of land and an increase in
both erosion and air pollution;
(3)Â
Collisions and near collisions threatening the life
and safety of the operators of such vehicles as well as of other persons;
and
(4)Â
A loss of the privacy, quietude and serenity to which
the owners and users of land are rightfully entitled.
B.Â
MOTOR VEHICLE
(1)Â
(2)Â
(3)Â
OFF ROAD
OPERATION
UNAUTHORIZED
Definitions. For purposes of this section the terms
below shall be defined as follows:
Any vehicle which is self-propelled and shall include but
not be limited to automobiles, trucks, jeeps, vans, motorcycles, motorbikes,
go-karts, motorized three-wheeled vehicles, all-terrain vehicles,
mopeds, snowmobiles, dune buggies, and tractors. "Motor vehicle" shall
not mean any airplane, railroad train, boat, wheelchair or bicycle.
A vehicle which would otherwise be defined as a motor vehicle under
this section shall not be so defined while:
It is being operated solely for the purpose
of construction or maintenance of an improvement to land or solely
for access to construction or maintenance sites, provided that such
operation is by persons having legitimate business on such land or
sites.
It is being operated by or at the direction
of public employees or utility company employees as part of their
employment duties.
It is being operated by the holder of an easement
or right of access on or over the land on which operation is occurring
or the holder's employees or agents.
Any location which is not a paved or maintained public street
or alley; is not used or maintained by the owner or lessee of land
as a driveway, parking lot or other way for motor vehicles; or is
a private trail for use only by the owner or his permittees for recreational
or other vehicular use. "Off road" shall not include any creek bed,
riverbed or lake; provided, however, that this section shall not apply
to snowmobiles or other vehicles being operated on the ice covering
such creek bed, riverbed or lake.
The physical manipulation or activation of any of the controls
of a motor vehicle necessary to put it in motion.
Without the express prior consent of the owner, lessee, manager
or other person authorized to give consent by the owner or lessee
of land. Authorization shall not be implied from a failure to post
private or public land.
C.Â
Unauthorized off-road operation prohibited.
(1)Â
The unauthorized off-road operation of a motor vehicle
is prohibited.
(2)Â
It shall be unlawful to operate any minibike, go-kart,
all-terrain vehicle or any other motor-driven craft or vehicle principally
manufactured for off-highway use on the Village streets, alleys, parks,
or parking lots or on any public lands or private lands or parking
lots held open to the public. The operator shall at all times have
the consent of the owner before operation of such craft or vehicle
on private lands.
It shall be unlawful for any motor vehicle to
be driven or backed over any curbing in the Village. No person shall
park any vehicle or other piece of equipment on any tree bank in the
Village, except in such areas where stand-up curbing does not exist.
No person shall park any vehicle or other piece of equipment on any
sidewalk, or on any portion of the street right-of-way designated
as a sidewalk area, in the Village.
