B.Â
The
Municipal Court shall establish a Traffic Violations Bureau to assist
the Court with the clerical work of traffic cases. The Bureau shall
be in charge of such person or persons and shall be open at such hours
as the Municipal Judge may designate. The Judge of the Municipal Court
who hears traffic cases shall designate the specified offenses under
this law or under the traffic ordinances of the City and the State
traffic laws in accordance with Supreme Court Rule No. 37.49 in respect
to which payments of fines may be accepted by the Traffic Violations
Bureau in satisfaction thereof, and shall specify suitable schedules
the amount of such fines for first (1st), second (2nd) and subsequent
offenses, provided such fines are within the limits declared by law
or ordinance, and shall further specify what number of such offenses
shall require appearance before the Court.
[CC 1976 §33-1]
The following words and phrases when used in this Title mean:
Any street with a roadway of less than twenty (20) feet in
width.
Any motorized vehicle manufactured and used exclusively for
off-highway use which is fifty (50) inches or less in width, with
an unladen dry weight of six hundred (600) pounds or less, traveling
on three (3), four (4) or more low pressure tires, with a seat designed
to be straddled by the operator, and handlebars for steering control.
A vehicle publicly owned and operated as an ambulance, or
a vehicle publicly owned and operated by the State Highway Patrol,
Police, or Fire Department, Sheriff, Constable or Deputy Sheriff,
Traffic Officer, or any privately owned vehicle operated as an ambulance
when responding to emergency calls.
The territory contiguous to and including a highway when
within any six hundred (600) feet along the highway there are buildings
in use for business or industrial purposes, including but not limited
to hotels, banks, or office buildings, railroad stations and public
buildings which occupy at least three hundred (300) feet of frontage
on one (1) side or three hundred (300) feet collectively on both sides
of the highway.
All streets and portions of streets within the area described
by City ordinance as such.
Every vehicle designed, maintained, or used primarily for
the transportation of property.
Every highway, street or roadway in respect to which owners
or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have no legal right
of access to or from the same except at such points only and in such
manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction
over the highway, street or roadway.
That part of a roadway at an intersection included within the
connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides
of the highway measured from the curbs, or in the absence of curbs
from the edges of the traversable roadway.
Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly
indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the
surface.
A space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use
of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
Every person who drives or is in actual physical control
of a vehicle.
A space adjacent to a curb for the exclusive use of vehicles
during the loading or unloading of freight (or passengers).
The entire width between the boundary lines of every way
publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the
public for purposes of vehicular travel.
The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the
lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of
the roadways of two (2) highways which join one another at, or approximately
at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon
different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict.
Where a highway includes two (2) roadways thirty (30) feet or
more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of such divided highway
by an intersecting highway shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
In the event such intersecting highway also includes two (2) roadways
thirty (30) feet or more apart, then every crossing of two (2) roadways
of such highways shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
A roadway which is divided into two (2) or more clearly marked
lanes for vehicular traffic.
Any violation of a municipal ordinance:
[Ord. No. 2938 §1, 9-15-2015]
Any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively upon
tracks, except farm tractors and motorized bicycles.
Every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of
the rider and designed to travel on not more than three (3) wheels
in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor.
Any two (2) wheeled or three (3) wheeled device having an
automatic transmission and a motor with a cylinder capacity of not
more than fifty (50) cubic centimeters, which produces less than three
(3) gross brake horsepower, and is capable of propelling the device
at a maximum speed of not more than thirty (30) miles per hour on
level ground.
Whenever certain hours are named herein they shall mean standard
time or daylight-saving time as may be in current use in the City.
All signs, signals, markings and devices not inconsistent
with this Title placed or erected by authority of a public body or
official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning
or guiding traffic.
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.
A place adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use
of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers.
Any person afoot.
Every natural person, firm, co-partnership, association or
corporation.
Every Officer of the Municipal Police Department or any Officer
authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations
of traffic regulations.
Every way or place in private ownership and used for vehicular
travel by the owner and those having express or implied permission
from the owner, but not by other persons.
A carrier of persons or property upon cars, other than streetcars,
operated upon stationary rails.
A steam engine, electric or other motor, with or without
cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails, except streetcars.
The territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising
a business district when the property on such highway for a distance
of three hundred (300) feet or more is in the main improved with residences
or residences and buildings in use for business.
The right of one (1) vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in
a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian approaching
under such circumstances of direction, speed and proximity as to give
rise to danger of collision unless one grants precedence to the other.
That portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily
used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. In the
event a highway includes two or more separate roadways the term ROADWAY
as used herein shall refer to any such roadway separately but not
to all such roadways collectively.
The area or space officially set apart within a roadway for
the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is so marked
or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times
while set apart as a safety zone.
That portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral
lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for
use of pedestrians.
The halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or
discharging passengers.
When required, complete cessation from movement.
When prohibited, any halting even momentarily of a vehicle,
whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with
other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a Police Officer
or traffic-control sign or signal.
The entire width between the lines of every way publicly
maintained when any part thereof is open to the uses of the public
for purposes of vehicular travel. "State Highway", a highway maintained by the State of Missouri as a part of the
State Highway system.
Every highway or portion thereof on which vehicular traffic
is given preferential right of way, and at the entrances to which
vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is required by law to
yield right of way to vehicles on such through highway in obedience
to either a stop sign or a yield sign, when such signs are erected
as provided in this Title.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars
and other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway
for purposes of travel.
Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically
operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to
proceed.
The Traffic Division of the Police Department of the City,
or in the event a Traffic Division is not established, then said term
whenever used herein shall be deemed to refer to the Police Department
of the City.
Any mechanical device on wheels, designed primarily for use,
or used, on highways, except motorized bicycles, vehicles propelled
or drawn by horses or human power, or vehicles used exclusively on
fixed rails or tracks, cotton trailers or motorized wheelchairs operated
by handicapped persons.
[RSMo. §302.020]
A.Â
Unless
otherwise provided for by law, it shall be unlawful for any person,
except those expressly exempted by Section 302.080, RSMo., to:
1.Â
Operate any vehicle upon any highway in this City unless he has a
valid license.
2.Â
Operate a motorcycle or motortricycle upon any highway of this City
unless such person has a valid license that shows he has successfully
passed an examination for the operation of a motorcycle or motortricycle
as prescribed by the Director. The Director may indicate such upon
a valid license issued to such person, or shall issue a license restricting
the applicant to the operation of a motorcycle or motortricycle if
the actual demonstration, required by Section 302.173, RSMo., is conducted
on such vehicle.
3.Â
Authorize or knowingly permit a motorcycle or motortricycle owned
by him or under his control to be driven upon any highway by any person
whose license does not indicate that the person as passed the examination
for the operation of a motorcycle or motortricycle or has been issued
an instruction permit therefor.
4.Â
Operate a motor vehicle with an instruction permit or license issued
to another person.
B.Â
Every
person operating or riding as a passenger on any motorcycle or motortricycle,
as defined in Section 301.010, RSMo., upon any highway of this City
shall wear protective headgear at all times the vehicle is in motion.
The protective headgear shall meet reasonable standards and specifications
established by the Director.
[Ord. No. 577 §1, 9-3-1946; CC 1976 §33-3]
A.Â
The
Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized, with the approval of the Board
of Aldermen, to close any street, alley, public place or highway and
withdraw the same from public use temporarily and during such period
as public work thereon or other public emergency or expediency shall
make action necessary. No person shall use or attempt to use such
street, alley, public place or highway so withdrawn from public use
or drive or attempt to drive any vehicle or animal thereon.
B.Â
The
Traffic Engineer shall place a sign or placard at each end of the
portion withdrawn from public use, which placard or sign shall have
the following words printed thereon in letters three (3) inches high: "Street Closed. This street is closed to public use by authority of Chapter 300 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Pacific."
[CC 1976 §33-4]
A.Â
It
shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to drive the same
when such vehicle is so loaded, or when there is in front seat of
such vehicle such number of persons as to obstruct the view of the
operator to the front or sides, or to interfere with the operator's
control over the driving mechanism of the vehicle.
B.Â
It
shall be unlawful for any passenger in a vehicle to ride in such a
position as to interfere with the operator's view ahead or to the
sides, or to interfere with the operator's control over the driving
mechanism of the vehicle.
[Ord. No. 814 §40, 8-2-1960; CC 1976 §33-7]
A.Â
It
shall be unlawful for any person to operate any motor vehicle or combination
of vehicles on the streets of the City the width, height and length
of which exceeds the specifications set forth in Section 304.170,
RSMo.
B.Â
It
shall be unlawful for any person to operate any motor vehicle or combination
of vehicles on the streets of the City the weight of which exceeds
the specifications set forth in Section 304.180, RSMo.
[CC 1976 §33-9]
It shall be unlawful for any person to ride upon the fender,
running board, hood, top, tank, luggage carrier or any portion not
designed or intended for the use of passengers, when the vehicle is
in motion, of any vehicle operated on any street, way or parking lot,
public or private, upon which the public is invited to travel, or
for the operator thereof to permit any person to so ride on any vehicle,
or to operate such vehicle when anyone is riding thereon. This Section
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.
[Ord. No. 2245 §§1 —
3, 10-16-2001]
A.Â
The
Board of Aldermen may, upon application of owner or lessor of land,
either publicly or privately owned, open the vehicular traffic to
the public and used by the public as a thoroughfare with such thoroughfare
paved, marked and delineated, may enter into an agreement with the
owner or lessor to extend the enforcement of traffic regulations to
such thoroughfares within the City limits of the City of Pacific without
requiring the owner to dedicate the public right-of-way to the City.
B.Â
By
entering into said agreement the City of Pacific shall not be responsible
for the maintenance or condition of such private thoroughfare and
shall retain the power to terminate said agreement at will by the
City of Pacific.
C.Â
The
cost of erecting signs for the enforcement of speed limits and other
traffic ordinances shall be borne by the owner or lessor of private
or public land set forth in said agreement and the Commissioner of
Public Works is hereby authorized to affix the necessary signs necessary
to enforce the ordinances of the City of Pacific.
[Ord. No. 2329 §1, 4-1-2003]
No person shall violate any restriction or disregard any traffic
control device as set forth in the traffic schedules of the City incorporated
in this Title III, and as hereinafter may be amended by ordinance
from time to time.
[Ord. No. 3326, 7-5-2022]
No person, firm, or corporation shall operate or park a motor
vehicle or trailer upon a highway, roadway, or alleyway unless the
vehicle or trailer has attached to its registration plates in accordance
with Sections 301.010 through 301.440, RSMo., providing for the registration
and licensing of motor vehicles.
