This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as the "Traffic Ordinance."
[Amended 8-12-1987; 7-13-1988; 2-14-1990; 1991]
A. Pursuant to the authority of § 46.2-1300
of the Code of Virginia, all of the provisions and requirements of
the laws of the state contained in Title 46.2 of the Code of Virginia
and in Article 2, Chapter 7, of Title 18.2 of the Code of Virginia,
except those provisions which are contained in the chapter and except
those provisions and requirements the violation of which constitutes
a felony, and except provisions and requirements which by their very
nature can have no application to or with the Town, as the same are
in effect as of July 1, 1991, are hereby adopted and incorporated
into this chapter by reference and made applicable within the Town.
References to "highways of the state" contained in such provisions
and requirements hereby adopted shall be deemed to refer to the streets,
highways and other public ways within the Town. Such provisions and
requirements are hereby adopted, mutatis mutandis.
B. Any penalties for violations of this section, whereby
the provisions of Article 2 (§ 18.2-266 et seq.) of Chapter
7 of Title 18.2 of the Virginia State Code, as amended, pertaining
to driving while intoxicated, are incorporated by reference pursuant
to the Town's authority under Virginia Code § 15.1-1313, shall be and are the same as the penalties provided for
the same or similar offenses under general state laws, including penalties
set by the provisions of Virginia Code § 18.2-11, as amended,
anything in the Charter of the Town of Stanley to the contrary notwithstanding.
C. Any penalties for violations of this section, whereby
the provisions of Title 46.2 of the Virginia State Code, as amended,
pertaining to motor vehicles are incorporated by reference pursuant
to the Town's authority under Virginia Code § 15.1-1313, wherein the incorporated section provides no specific fine but states that the offense shall be punished as a misdemeanor (whether it be a Class 1, Class 2, Class 3 or Class 4 misdemeanor), shall be the penalties imposed for misdemeanors as set forth in §
1-16. Said penalties shall not be the penalties imposed for misdemeanors under § 18.2-11 of the Code of Virginia, as amended.
Every person riding a bicycle or an animal upon
a roadway and every person driving any animal thereon shall be subject
to the provisions of this chapter applicable to the driver of a vehicle,
except those provisions which by their very nature can have no application.
Except as provided by state law with respect
to drivers of specified emergency vehicles, no person shall drive
or propel a vehicle upon any street or public way of this Town at
a speed in excess of the speed posted in authorized traffic control
signs upon such street or public way or, in the absence of any such
signs, at a speed in excess of 25 miles per hour.
Officers of the Fire Department may direct or
assist the police in directing traffic at or in the immediate vicinity
of a fire or other emergency and, while so acting, shall have all
the authority of police officers.
Crew members of rescue squad vehicles which
qualify as authorized emergency vehicles, as specified in § 46.2-920
of the Code of Virginia, may direct or assist the police in directing
traffic at or in the immediate vicinity of an accident, fire or other
emergency and, while so acting, shall have all the authority of police
officers.
No person shall ride on any vehicle upon any
portion thereof not designed or intended for the use of passengers.
This provision shall not apply to an employee engaged in the necessary
discharge of a duty or to persons riding within truck bodies in space
intended for merchandise.
The operator of a vehicle in the Town shall
not back such vehicle unless such movement can be made with safety
and without interfering with other traffic.
No person driving a vehicle upon any public
street or way within the Town shall turn such vehicle so as to cause
it to proceed in the opposite direction or make what is commonly referred
to as a "U-turn."
No operator of a vehicle shall enter an intersection
or a marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space beyond such
intersection or crosswalk in the direction in which such vehicle is
proceeding to accommodate the vehicle without obstructing the passage
of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding any traffic control
signal indication to proceed.
Whenever a vehicle, trailer or semitrailer involved
in an accident is found upon the highways or streets in the Town and
is so located as to impede the orderly flow of traffic, the police
may, at no cost to the owner or operator, remove such vehicle, trailer
or semitrailer from the highways or streets to some point in the vicinity
where such vehicle, trailer or semitrailer will not impede the flow
of traffic.