No person shall knowingly fail or refuse to comply with any
lawful order or direction of a Police Officer or Fire Department 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.
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. This Section
shall not apply upon any street while set aside as a play street as
authorized by ordinance of the City.
[R.O. 2009 §24-7; Ord. No. 2158 §§1 — 4, 11-28-1990]
A. Skateboards And Scooters Defined. For purposes of this Section,
a "skateboard" shall be defined as a single platform
mounted on wheels, which is propelled solely by human power and which
is steered by a set of trucks or other devices which aid in controlling
the movement or direction of the platform. A "scooter" shall be defined as a device with two (2) wheels or two (2) sets
of trucks or other devices of a wheel or roller nature, a footboard
between and steered by a handlebar.
B. Public Streets And Sidewalks. No person shall operate a
skateboard or scooter on the public streets or sidewalks or in any
municipal parking lot within the City of Festus, Missouri.
C. Private Property.
1. No person
shall operate a skateboard or scooter in a private driveway, on a
private lot or on private property without express consent of the
owner or other persons in lawful charge of such driveway, parking
lot or property.
2. For the purposes of Subsection
(C),
"private driveway", "private
lot" and
"private property" means any driveway,
parking lot or property other than public streets and including any
other driveway, parking lot or property, even if owned by a governmental
entity, but shall not include City parks.
D. Confiscation As Evidence. The Officers of the Police Department
of the City of Festus, Missouri, may confiscate and hold as evidence
any skateboard or scooter involved in a suspected violation of the
within ordinance, pending the issuance of a charge and/or its final
court disposition.
E. Penalty. Anyone violating any of the preceding Subsections shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation and shall, upon conviction, be punished as set out in Section
100.120.
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
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. 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.
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.
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.