The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business
shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire
alarm closer than five hundred (500) feet or drive into or park such
vehicle within the block where fire apparatus has stopped in answer
to a fire alarm.
No vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of a Fire
Department when laid down on any street, private driveway or streetcar
track, to be used at any fire or alarm of fire, without the consent
of the Fire Department Official in command.
No driver of a vehicle shall drive between the vehicles comprising
a funeral or other authorized procession while they are in motion
and when such vehicles are conspicuously designated as required in
this Title. This provision shall not apply at intersections where
traffic is controlled by traffic control signals or Police Officers.
Each driver in a funeral or other procession shall drive as
near to the right-hand edge of the roadway as practicable and shall
follow the vehicle ahead as close as is practicable and safe.
A funeral composed of a procession of vehicles shall be identified
as such by the display upon the outside of each vehicle of a pennant
or other identifying insignia or by such other method as may be determined
and designated by the Police Department.
No funeral, procession or parade containing two hundred (200)
or more persons or fifty (50) or more vehicles except the forces of
the United States Army or Navy, the military forces of this State
and the forces of the Police and Fire Departments, shall occupy, march
or proceed along any street except in accordance with a permit issued
by the Chief of Police and such other regulations as are set forth
herein which may apply.
The driver of a vehicle shall not drive within any sidewalk
area except on a permanent or temporary driveway.
The driver of a vehicle shall not back the same unless such
movement can be made with reasonable safety and without interfering
with other traffic.
No person shall open the door of a motor vehicle on the side
available to moving traffic unless and until it is reasonably safe
to do so, nor shall any person leave a door open on the side of a
motor vehicle available to moving traffic for a period of time longer
than necessary to load or unload passengers.
[Ord. No. A-307 §1, 3-15-1999]
A. No
person shall ride a bicycle, roller blade, roller skate or skateboard
upon a sidewalk within a business district.
B. Whenever
any person is riding a bicycle, roller blading, roller skating or
skateboarding upon a sidewalk, such person shall yield the right-of-way
to any pedestrian and shall give audible signal before overtaking
and passing such pedestrian.
C. No
person shall ride a motorized bicycle upon a sidewalk.
No person riding upon any bicycle, motorized bicycle, coaster,
roller skates, sled or toy vehicle shall attach the same or himself/herself
to any vehicle upon a roadway.
No person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any controlled
access roadway except at such entrances and exits as are established
by public authority.
It shall be unlawful for the directing Officer or the operator
of any railroad train to direct the operation of or to operate the
same in such a manner as to prevent the use of any street for purposes
of travel for a period of time longer than five (5) minutes; provided
that this Section shall not apply to a moving train or to one stopped
because of an emergency or for repairs necessary before it can proceed
safely.
No vehicle shall at any time be driven through or within a safety
zone.
Every person operating a motor vehicle on the highways of this
City shall drive the vehicle in a careful and prudent manner and at
a rate of speed so as not to endanger the property of another or the
life or limb of any person and shall exercise the highest degree of
care.
[Ord. No. A-256 §1(76.101), 5-15-1995; Ord. No. A-376 §1, 10-15-2007]
A. "Reckless operation" for the purpose of this Section shall
mean the operation of a motor vehicle under the conditions then and
there existing so as to cause danger or the threat of danger to the
person or property of any person including the operator of such vehicle
or in such a manner as to cause excessive noise or disturbance.
B. Reckless
operation of a motor vehicle within the City of Lockwood, Missouri,
is prohibited on both public and private property.
C. Any
person convicted of reckless operation shall be punished by a fine
in accordance with the schedule of fines of the Lockwood Violations
Bureau as amended from time to time.