[R.O. 2008 § 310.010; R.O. 2007
§ 310.010]
A.
It shall be the duty of the Officers of
the Police Department or such Officers as are assigned by the Chief
of Police to enforce all street traffic laws of the City and all of
the State vehicle laws applicable to street traffic in the City.
B.
Officers of the Police Department or such
Officers as are assigned by the Chief of Police are hereby authorized
to direct all traffic by voice, hand, or signal in conformance with
traffic laws; provided that, in the event of a fire or other emergency
or to expedite traffic or to safeguard pedestrians, Officers of the
Police Department may direct traffic as conditions may require notwithstanding
the provisions of the traffic laws.
C.
Officers of the Fire Department, when at
the scene of an incident, may direct or assist the Police in directing
traffic thereat or in the immediate vicinity.
[R.O. 2008 § 310.020; R.O. 2007
§ 310.020]
No person shall knowingly fail or
refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of a Police or
Fire Department Official.
[R.O. 2008 § 310.030; R.O. 2007
§ 310.030]
Every person propelling any push
cart or riding an animal upon a roadway, and every person driving
any animal-drawn vehicle, shall be subject to the provisions of this
Title applicable to the driver of any vehicle, except those provisions
of this Title which by their very nature can have no application.
[R.O. 2008 § 310.040; R.O. 2007
§ 310.040; Ord. No. 1509 § 2, 9-3-1987; Ord. No. 4416 § 2, 10-17-2002]
A.
No person upon roller skates, or riding
in or by means of any coaster, toy vehicle, skateboard, or similar
device, shall go upon any roadway except while crossing a street on
a crosswalk and when so crossing such person shall be granted all
of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable
to pedestrians.
B.
No person shall ride a bicycle, coaster,
roller skates, skateboard, or similar device upon a sidewalk within
a business district.
C.
The Chief of Police or City Traffic Engineer
is authorized to erect signs on any sidewalk or roadway prohibiting
the riding of bicycles, coasters, roller skates, skateboards, and
similar devices thereon by any person and when such signs are in place,
no person shall disobey the same.
D.
Whenever any person is riding a bicycle,
coaster, roller skates, skateboard or similar device upon a sidewalk
in other than a business district, such person shall yield the right-of-way
to any pedestrian and shall give audible signal before overtaking
and passing any pedestrian.
E.
No person shall ride or operate a motorized
scooter on any street, highway, roadway, sidewalk or anywhere within
the boundaries of a City park.
[R.O. 2008 § 310.050; R.O. 2007
§ 310.050]
The provisions of this Title shall
apply to the driver of any vehicle owned by or used in the service
of the United States Government, this State, County, or City and it
shall be unlawful for any said driver to violate any of the provisions
of this Title, except as otherwise permitted in this Title.
[R.O. 2008 § 310.060]
A.
Upon the immediate approach of an emergency
vehicle giving audible signal by siren or while having at least one
(1) lighted lamp exhibiting red light visible under normal atmospheric
conditions from a distance of five hundred (500) feet to the front
of such vehicle or a flashing blue light authorized by Section 307.175,
RSMo., the driver of every other vehicle shall yield the right-of-way
and shall immediately drive to a position parallel to, and as far
as possible to the right of, the traveled portion of the highway and
thereupon stop and remain in such position until such emergency vehicle
has passed, except when otherwise directed by a police or traffic
officer.
B.
Upon approaching a stationary emergency
vehicle displaying lighted red or red and blue lights, the driver
of every motor vehicle shall:
1.
Proceed with caution and yield the
right-of-way, if possible with due regard to safety and traffic conditions,
by making a lane change into a lane not adjacent to that of the stationary
vehicle, if on a roadway having at least four (4) lanes with not less
than two (2) lanes proceeding in the same direction as the approaching
vehicle; or
2.
Proceed with due caution and reduce
the speed of the vehicle, maintaining a safe speed for road conditions,
if changing lanes would be unsafe or impossible.
C.
Responsibilities Of Driver Of Emergency
Vehicle.
1.
The driver of any "emergency vehicle" defined in Section 300.010 of this Code shall not sound the siren thereon or have the front red lights or blue lights on except when such vehicle is responding to an emergency call or when in pursuit of an actual or suspected law violator, or when responding to, but not upon returning from, a fire.
2.
The driver of an emergency vehicle
may:
a.
Park or stand irrespective of the
provisions of Sections 304.014 to 304.025, RSMo., and the provisions
of this Code;
b.
Proceed past a red or stop signal
or stop sign, but only after slowing down as may be necessary for
safe operation;
c.
Exceed the prima facie speed limit
so long as the driver does not endanger life or property;
d.
Disregard regulations governing direction
of movement or turning in specified directions.
3.
The exemptions granted to an emergency vehicle pursuant to Subsection (C)(2) of this Section shall apply only when the driver of any such vehicle while in motion sounds audible signal by bell, siren, or exhaust whistle as may be reasonably necessary, and when the vehicle is equipped with at least one (1) lighted lamp displaying a red light or blue light visible under normal atmospheric conditions from a distance of five hundred (500) feet to the front of such vehicle.
D.
No person shall purchase an emergency light
as described in this Section without furnishing the seller of such
light an affidavit stating that the light will be used exclusively
for emergency vehicle purposes.
E.
Violation of this Section shall be deemed
an ordinance violation.
A.
Motor vehicles and equipment, not otherwise defined in this Title as an authorized emergency vehicle, which are operated by any member of an organized Fire Department, ambulance association or rescue squad, whether paid or volunteer, may be operated on streets and highways in this City as an emergency vehicle under the provisions of Section 310.060 of this Chapter, while responding to a fire call or ambulance call or at the scene of a fire call or ambulance call and while using or sounding a warning siren and using or displaying thereon fixed, flashing or rotating blue lights, but sirens and blue lights shall be used only in bona fide emergencies.
B.
Use
Of Other Authorized Lights.
1.
Notwithstanding Subsection (A) of this Section, the following vehicles may use or display fixed, flashing, or rotating red or red and blue lights:
a.
Emergency vehicles, as defined in Section 304.022, RSMo., when responding
to an emergency.
c.
Vehicles and equipment owned or leased by a contractor or subcontractor
performing work for the Department of Transportation, except that
the red or red and blue lights shall be displayed on vehicles or equipment
described in this Subsection only between dusk and dawn, when such
vehicles or equipment are stationary, such vehicles or equipment are
located in a work zone as defined in Section 304.580, RSMo., highway
workers, as defined in Section 304.580, RSMo., are present, and such
work zone is designated by a sign or signs. No more than two (2) vehicles
or pieces of equipment in a work zone may display fixed, flashing
or rotating lights under this Subsection.
d.
Vehicles and equipment owned, leased, or operated by a Coroner, Medical
Examiner, or Forensic Investigator of the County Medical Examiner's
Office or a similar entity, when responding to a crime scene, motor
vehicle accident, workplace accident, or any location at which the
services of such professionals have been requested by a Law Enforcement
Officer.
2.
The following vehicles and equipment may use or display fixed, flashing,
or rotating amber or amber and white lights:
a.
Vehicles and equipment owned or leased by the State Highways and
Transportation Commission and operated by an authorized employee of
the Department of Transportation.
b.
Vehicles and equipment owned or leased by a contractor or subcontractor
performing work for the Department of Transportation, except that
the amber or amber and white lights shall be displayed on vehicles
described in this Subsection only when such vehicles or equipment
are located in a work zone, as defined in Section 304.580, RSMo.,
highway workers, as defined in Section 304.580, RSMo., are present,
and such work zone is designated by a sign or signs.
c.
Vehicles and equipment operated by a utility worker performing work
for the utility, except that the amber or amber and white lights shall
be displayed on vehicles described in this Subsection only when such
vehicles are stationary, such vehicles or equipment are located in
a work zone, as defined in Section 304.580, RSMo., a utility worker
is present, and such work zone is designated by a sign or signs. As
used in this Subsection, the term "utility worker" means any employee
while in performance of his or her job duties, including any person
employed under contract of a utility that provides gas, heat, electricity,
water, steam, telecommunications or cable services, or sewer services,
whether privately, municipally, or cooperatively owned.
C.
Permits
for the operation of such vehicles equipped with sirens or blue lights
shall be in writing and shall be issued and may be revoked by the
Chief of an organized Fire Department, organized Ambulance Association,
Rescue Squad, or the State Highways and Transportation Commission
and no person shall use or display a siren or blue lights on a motor
vehicle, fire, ambulance, or rescue equipment without a valid permit
authorizing the use. A permit to use a siren or lights as heretofore
set out does not relieve the operator of the vehicle so equipped with
complying with all other traffic laws and regulations. Violation of
this Section constitutes an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 2008 § 310.070]
The driver of a vehicle involved
in an accident within the City resulting in injury to or death of
any person or total property damage to an apparent extent of five
hundred dollars ($500.00) or more to one (1) person shall give or
cause to be given notice of such accident to the Police Department
as soon as reasonably possible.
[R.O. 2008 § 310.080; R.O. 2007
§ 310.090]
The driver of a vehicle which is
in any manner involved in an accident resulting in bodily injury to
or death of any person or total property damage to an apparent extent
of five hundred dollars ($500.00) or more to one (1) person shall,
within five (5) days after such accident, forward a written report
of such accident to the Police Department. The provisions of this
Section shall not be applicable when the accident has been investigated
at the scene by a Police Officer while such driver was present thereat.
[R.O. 2008 § 310.090; R.O. 2007
§ 310.100]
A.
Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of giving immediate notice of an accident as required in Section 310.070 and there was another occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident capable of doing so, such occupant shall give, or cause to be given, the notice not given by the driver.
B.
Whenever the driver is physically incapable of making a written report of an accident as required in Section 310.080 and such driver is not the owner of the vehicle, then the owner of the vehicle involved in such accident shall within five (5) days after the accident make such report not made by the driver.
[R.O. 2008 § 310.100]
A.
A person commits the offense of leaving
the scene of a motor vehicle accident when, being the operator or
driver of a vehicle on the highways, streets or roads of the City
or on any publicly or privately owned parking lot or parking facility
within the City generally open for use by the public and knowing that
an injury has been caused to a person or damage has been caused to
property due to his/her culpability or to accident, he/she leaves
the place of the injury, damage or accident without stopping and giving
his/her name, residence, including City and street number, motor vehicle
number and driver's license number, if any, to the injured party or
to a Police Officer, or if no Police Officer is in the vicinity, then
to the nearest Police station or judicial officer.
B.
For the purposes of this Section, all Peace
Officers shall have jurisdiction, when invited by an injured person,
to enter the premises of any such privately owned parking lot or parking
facility for the purpose of investigating an accident and performing
all necessary duties regarding such accident.
[R.O. 2008 § 310.110; R.O. 2007
§ 310.120; Ord. No. 4654 §§ 1
– 6, 5-14-2004]
A.
As used in this Section, the term "construction
zone" or "work zone" means any area upon or around any highway, as
defined in Section 302.010, RSMo., which is visibly marked by the
Missouri Department of Transportation, a contractor or subcontractor
performing work for the Missouri Department of Transportation, the
City of O'Fallon, Missouri, or a contractor or subcontractor performing
work for the City of O'Fallon, Missouri, as an area where construction,
maintenance, incident removal, or other work is temporarily occurring.
The term "work zone" or "construction zone" also includes the lanes
of highway leading up to the area upon which an activity described
in this Section is being performed, beginning at the point where appropriate
signs directing motor vehicles to merge from one lane into another
lane are posted or placed. The terms "worker" or "highway worker,''
as used in Sections 304.582 and 304.585, RSMo., shall mean any person
that is working in a construction zone or work zone, or any employee
of the Department of Transportation that is performing duties under
the Department's motorist assist program on a State highway or the
right-of-way of a State highway.
B.
Upon a conviction or a plea of guilty by
any person for a moving violation as defined in Section 302.010, RSMo.,
or any offense listed in Section 302.302, RSMo., the court shall assess
a fine of thirty-five dollars ($35.00) in addition to any other fine
authorized to be imposed by law, if the offense occurred within a
construction zone or a work zone. Upon a second or subsequent such
conviction or plea of guilty, the court shall assess a fine of seventy-five
dollars ($75.00) in addition to any other fine authorized to be imposed
by law.
C.
Upon a conviction or plea of guilty by any person for a speeding violation or a passing violation pursuant to Subsection (F), the court shall assess a fine of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) in addition to any other fine authorized by law, if the offense occurred within a construction zone or a work zone and at the time the speeding or passing violation occurred there was any person in such zone who was there to perform duties related to the reason for which the area was designated a construction zone or work zone. Upon a second or subsequent such conviction or plea of guilty, the court shall assess a fine of three hundred dollars ($300.00) in addition to any other fine authorized by law. However, no person shall be assessed an additional fine pursuant to this Section if no signs have been posted pursuant to Subsection (D).
D.
The penalty authorized by Subsection (C) shall only be assessed by the court if the Missouri Department of Transportation, a contractor or subcontractor performing work for the Missouri Department of Transportation, the City of O'Fallon, Missouri, or a contractor performing work for the City of O'Fallon, Missouri, has erected signs upon or around a construction or work zone which are clearly visible from the highway and which state substantially the following message: "Warning: $250 fine for speeding or passing in this work zone when workers are present."
E.
During any day in which no person is present in a construction zone or work zone established pursuant to Subsection (A) to perform duties related to the purpose of the zone, the sign warning of additional penalties shall not be visible to motorists. During any period of two (2) hours or more in which no person is present in such zone on a day in which persons have been or will be present to perform duties related to the reason for which the area was designated as a construction zone or work zone, the sign warning of additional penalties shall not be visible to motorists. The Missouri Department of Transportation, any contractor performing work for the Missouri Department of Transportation, the City of O'Fallon, Missouri, or any contractor performing work for the City of O'Fallon, Missouri, shall be responsible for compliance with provisions of this Section. Nothing in this Section shall prohibit warning or traffic control signs necessary for public safety in the construction or work zone being visible to motorists at all times.
F.
The driver of a motor vehicle may not overtake
or pass another motor vehicle within a work zone or construction zone.
This Section applies to a construction zone or work zone located upon
a highway divided into two (2) or more marked lanes for traffic moving
in the same direction and for which motor vehicles are instructed
to merge from one lane into another lane by an appropriate sign erected
by the any contractor performing work for the Missouri Department
of Transportation, the City of O'Fallon, Missouri or any contractor
performing work for the City of O'Fallon, Missouri.
