[Code 1974 § 20-18; Code 1985 § 24-336;
Code 2005 § 106-121]
It is unlawful for any person to operate a vehicle upon a street
which is not equipped as required by law. It is unlawful for any person
to fail to use such equipment in the manner required by law, or to
use it in a manner prohibited by law. It is unlawful for any person
to operate a vehicle which has equipment prohibited by law upon a
street of the City.
[Code 1974 § 20-84; Code 1985 § 24-337;
Code 2005 § 106-122]
No person shall drive or move on any highway or street any motor
vehicle, trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer, or any combination
of vehicles, unless the equipment upon any and every such vehicle
is in good working order and adjustment as required by law; and such
vehicle is in such safe mechanical condition as not to endanger the
driver or other occupant of any vehicle upon the highway.
[Code 1974 § 20-19; Code 1985 § 24-338;
Code 2005 § 106-123; Ord. No. 11-20-07-10, § 1, 11-20-2007]
A.
Every motor vehicle shall at all times be equipped with a muffler
in good working order and in constant operation to prevent excessive
or unusual noise and annoying smoke, and no person shall use a muffler
cutout, bypass or similar device upon a motor vehicle on a highway.
No person shall modify the exhaust system of a motor vehicle in any
manner which will amplify or increase the noise or sound emitted louder
than that emitted by the muffler originally installed on the vehicle.
B.
No person shall use or operate any vehicle within the City limits
with an engine compression braking device engaged or activated.
C.
An engine compression brake device (commonly referred to as jake
brakes, jacobs brakes, engine brake, compression brake, or dynamic
compression brake) means a device primarily on trucks for the conversion
of the engine from an internal combustion engine to an air compressor
for the purpose of reducing vehicle speed without the use of wheel
brakes.
[Code 1974 § 20-16; Code 1985 § 24-339;
Code 2005 § 106-124]
No vehicle or object which injures or is reasonably likely to
injure the surface of a street shall be driven or moved on any street.
[Code 1974 §§ 19-1 — 19-3; Code 1985
§ 24-340; Code 2005 § 106-125]
A.
No person shall move or cause to be moved over or upon any of the
streets, sidewalks or other public grounds of this City, either paved
or unpaved, any threshing machine, ditching machine, traction engine,
or any other heavy piece of machinery of an extreme or abnormal weight,
except as provided in this section.
B.
Before any person shall move any such threshing machine, ditching
machine, traction engine, or other heavy piece of machinery on, or
upon or over any of the streets, alleys, avenues, sidewalks or other
public grounds, an application shall be made to the City Clerk for
a permit to do so. Such application shall give all necessary details
in connection with the desired removal, the date and exact time of
day or night when such removal is to be made, a full description of
the route to be traversed during such removal, the exact beginning
and ending points and the number or some particular identifying mark
of the piece of machinery so removed. No such permit shall be issued
until the applicant pays to the City the fee established by resolution.
The City Clerk shall issue a permit to move such machinery in accordance
with this section. Such application and permit shall be made on a
form to be supplied by the City and shall be approved by the City
engineer or City Manager's designee.
C.
If the wheels on any traction engine, ditching machine, threshing
machine, oil well drilling machine, heavy automobile truck, or any
other heavy machine or wagon, or vehicle of abnormal or unusually
heavy type shall have lugs or projections on the face of the tires
thereof, or if such tires are sufficiently wide, or are not of such
style or construction to prevent the marring or causing damage to
any of the streets, crossings or paved streets, avenues, alleys or
other public grounds along the route to be traveled or traversed,
a good and sufficient plank flooring shall be laid so as to protect
the pavement from any and all damages, and from being marred by any
such machine.
[Code 1974 § 20-20; Code 1985 § 24-341;
Code 2005 § 106-126]
No person shall drive or convey through any street any vehicle
the width, height, length, weight or load of which exceeds that authorized
by state law, except in accordance with a permit issued by state authority,
or by the chief of police pursuant to uniform City standards.
[Code 1974 § 20-51; Code 1985 § 24-343;
Code 2005 § 106-128]
It is unlawful to operate a vehicle without a state vehicle
license as may be required by law or to fail to display the state
vehicle license as may be required by law.
[Code 1974 § 20-21; Code 1985 § 24-344;
Code 2005 § 106-129]
Police officers shall have authority to stop, inspect and test
any vehicle upon the streets of the City at any time to determine
whether it is safe, whether it is properly equipped, and/or whether
its equipment is in proper adjustment and repair.
