[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
No funeral procession or parade containing 200 or more persons
or 50 or more vehicles, except the forces of the United States Armed
Forces, the military forces of the 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 in this chapter which
may apply.
Each driver in a funeral or other procession shall drive as
near to the right-hand edge of the roadway as practicable and follow
the vehicle ahead as closely as is practicable and safe.
No driver of a vehicle shall drive between the vehicles comprising
a funeral or other authorized procession while they are in motion.
This provision shall not apply at intersections where traffic is controlled
by traffic-control signals or police officers.
A.
Right-of-way. Funeral processions have the right-of-way at intersections
when vehicles comprising such procession have their headlights and
hazard lights lighted, subject to the following conditions and exceptions:
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
(1)
Operators of vehicles in a funeral procession shall yield the
right-of-way upon the approach of an authorized emergency vehicle
giving an audible or visible signal;
(2)
Operators of vehicles in a funeral procession shall yield the
right-of-way when directed to do so by a traffic officer;
(3)
The operator of the leading vehicle in a funeral procession
shall comply with stop signs and traffic-control signals, but when
the leading vehicle has proceeded across an intersection in accordance
with such signal or after stopping as required by the stop sign, all
vehicles in such procession may proceed without stopping, regardless
of the sign or signal, and the leading vehicle and the vehicles in
procession shall proceed with due caution.
B.
Identification. Vehicles comprising a funeral procession may utilize
funeral pennants or flags or windshield stickers or flashing hazard
warning lights to identify the individual vehicles in such a procession.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
C.
Equipment for lead vehicle. The lead vehicle in the funeral procession
may be equipped with a flashing amber light which may be used only
when such vehicle is used as a lead vehicle in such procession.
D.
Nonparticipants.
(1)
The operator of a vehicle not in a funeral procession shall
not drive his vehicle in the funeral procession except when authorized
to do so by a traffic officer or when such vehicle is an authorized
emergency vehicle giving audible or visible signal.
(2)
Operators of vehicles not a part of a funeral procession may
not form a procession or convoy and have their headlights, or hazard
lights, or both, lighted for the purpose of securing the right-of-way
granted by this section to funeral processions.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
(3)
Overtaking.
The operator of a vehicle not in a funeral procession may overtake
and pass the vehicles in such procession if such overtaking and passing
can be accomplished without causing a traffic hazard or interfering
with such procession.
