[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Cortland 8-5-1969 as Ch. 15,
Art. II, of the 1969 Code of Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No funeral, procession or parade containing any number of persons
or vehicles, excepting the forces of the United States or of this
state, shall occupy, march on or proceed along any street, highway,
sidewalk or any other public place of any description and wherever
situate, except in accordance with a permit issued by the Chief of
Police and such other applicable regulations as are provided for or
set forth in this chapter.
Application for the permit provided for in Section 15-12 shall
be made in writing upon a suitable form prescribed and furnished by
the Police Department and shall set forth the route of the parade
or procession and the time thereof.
The Chief of Police shall, after due investigation of the application
for permit provided for herein, grant a permit for a parade, procession
or funeral subject, however, to the applicable provisions of this
chapter.
A.Â
Disorderly character. The Chief of Police shall not grant a permit
provided for herein where they have good reason to believe that the
proposed parade or procession will be disorderly in character or will
tend to disturb the public peace.
B.Â
Congestion of traffic. The Chief of Police shall not grant a permit
for the use of any street or public place, or material portion thereof,
which is ordinarily subject to great congestion or traffic and is
chiefly of a business or mercantile character, except on those holidays
or Sundays when the places of business along the proposed route are
closed, or on other days between the hours of 6:30 p.m. and 9:00 a.m.
next following.
Each permit issued as provided in this chapter shall designate
specifically the route through which the parade, procession or funeral
shall move, and may also specify the width of the roadway to be used,
and may include such rules and regulations as the Chief of Police
shall deem to be necessary.
Special permits for occasions of extraordinary public interest
not annual or customary, or not so intended to be, may be granted
by the mayor for any street or public place, and for any day or hour.
A funeral composed of a procession of vehicles shall be identified
as such by the display upon the outside of each vehicle of identifying
insignia of a type approved by the Chief of Police, or by such other
method as may be designated by the Chief of Police.
Each driver in a funeral or other procession shall drive as
near to the right edge of the roadway as practical and shall follow
the vehicle ahead as close as is practical and safe.
The chief officer in charge of any procession, parade or funeral
for which a permit has been granted hereunder shall be responsible
for the strict observance of all rules, regulations and conditions
set forth in said permit.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the ordinary
and necessary movements of the United States Army, United States Navy,
United States Air Force, National Guard, Police Department or Fire
Department.
Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall be
guilty of a violation, punishable by a fine not exceeding $25 or imprisonment
not exceeding 15 days, or both such fine and imprisonment.
