No person shall knowingly fail or refuse to comply with any
lawful order or direction of a Police Officer or Fire Department official
or other designated official.
Every person propelling any pushcart 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. 2005 §26-6; Ord. No. 2731 §1, 12-7-2005]
A. No person
upon roller skates or roller blades, or riding in or by means of any
coaster, skateboard, scooter, toy vehicle or similar device, shall
go upon any public 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.
For purposes of this Section, a "scooter" shall be
defined as a device that typically has one (1) front and one (1) rear
wheel with a low footboard between, is steered by a handlebar, and
is propelled either by pushing one (1) foot against the ground while
resting the other foot on the footboard or by a motor. A scooter may
have more than two (2) wheels. This Section shall not apply upon any
street while set aside as a play street as authorized by ordinance
of the City.
B. No person
shall use, operate or permit the use or operation of any coasters,
roller skates, roller blades, skateboard, scooter or like instrument
on any sidewalk, street, parking lot or other public place within
the commercial districts of the City.
C. Any person violating the provisions of this Section shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section
100.110 of Municipal Code of the City of Ellisville, except that in the event the person violating the provisions of this Section is, by reason of age, not subject to the jurisdiction of the Municipal Court, then:
1. Said
person may be prosecuted through the St. Louis County Juvenile Court,
and
2. The
Police Officers of the City are hereby authorized to impound the roller
skates, roller blades, coaster, skateboard, scooter, toy vehicle or
similar device of such person and to retain possession of same until
such time as the parent or guardian of the violator shall appear at
the Police Department and claim such.
D. It shall
be unlawful for a parent or guardian to permit a child under the age
of seventeen (17) years to operate or be a passenger on a scooter,
skateboard, roller blades or roller skates unless the child shall
wear protective headgear which properly fits and is fastened securely
upon the head of the operator or passenger. The headgear shall meet
or exceed the impact standard for protective bicycle helmets set be
the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission, the American National
Standards Institute (ANSI), the Snell Memorial Foundation or the American
Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM).
E. Any parent or guardian found to be in violation of Section
310.040(D) may be issued a violation notice, which violation may be dismissed if the parent or guardian brings an approved helmet to the Ellisville Police Department within twenty-five (25) working days of receipt of the violation.
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.
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
304.022, RSMo., 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. 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 or rescue squad and no person shall
use or display a siren or rotating blue lights on a motor vehicle,
fire, ambulance or rescue equipment without a valid permit authorizing
the use. 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.