[Prior Code, Chapter 20]
This chapter and all amendments hereto may be cited or referred
to as the "Traffic Code, City of Tahlequah" and may so appear upon
all official documents, records or instruments.
[Prior Code, Chapter 20]
Except as specifically provided by law as set forth in this
chapter, the traffic code shall be controlling in the use of City
streets, alleys, thoroughfares, parks, parkways or any other public
right of way or Municipally owned land, by pedestrians and by vehicles
of every kind whether self-propelled or otherwise and whether moving
or at rest.
[Prior Code, Chapter 20]
As used herein:
Any narrow highway ordinarily located in the interior portion
of platted blocks and ordinarily used for service or delivery purposes
at the rear of stores, dwellings, or buildings.
A motor vehicle constructed, reconstructed or arranged for
the purpose of transporting ill, sick, or injured persons.
A device propelled by human power upon which any person may
ride, having two tandem wheels.
Every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than 10 passengers
and used for the transportation of persons, and every motor vehicle,
other than a taxicab, designed and used for the transportation of
persons for compensation.
The territory contiguous to, and including a highway if there
are buildings within 600 feet of the highway 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 300 feet of frontage on one side or 300 feet collectively
on both sides of the highway.
Any clearly marked center lane. If the center lane is not
marked and no cars are parked on the roadway, then the center lane
is equally distanced between the curbs or travelled portion of the
roadway. In the event a vehicle or vehicles are parked on one side
of the roadway only, then the center lane is equally distanced from
the side of the parked vehicle or vehicles toward the street and curb
on the opposite roadway. If vehicles are parked on each side of the
roadway, then the center lane is equally distanced from the edges
of the parked vehicles.
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 such 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 street, 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.
Parking or stopping a vehicle on the roadway side of another
vehicle already parked adjacent to the edge or curbing of the roadway.
A person who drives or is in actual physical control of a
vehicle.
An unforeseeable occurrence of temporary duration causing
or resulting in an abnormal increase in traffic volume, cessation
or stoppage of traffic movement, or creation of conditions hazardous
to normal traffic movement, including fire, storm, accident, riot,
or spontaneous assembly of large numbers of pedestrians in such a
manner as to impede the flow of traffic.
Vehicles of the Fire Department, Police Department and ambulances.
See definition of Street or Highway.
The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the
lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of
the roadway of two streets, which join one another at, or approximately
at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon
different streets join at any other angle, may come in conflict; or
Where a street includes two roadways 30 feet or more apart,
then every crossing of each roadway of such divided street by an intersecting
street, shall be regarded as a separate intersection. In the event
such intersecting street also includes two roadways 30 feet or more
apart, then every crossing of two roadways of such streets shall be
regarded as separate intersections.
A roadway which is divided into two or more clearly marked
lanes for vehicular traffic.
Boundaries of parking areas, loading zones and nontraffic
areas and lines indicating the proper place for stopping where stops
are required.
See definition of Controlled-Access Highway.
A space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use
of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or material.
A freight curb loading zone is a loading zone for the exclusive use
of vehicles during the loading or unloading of freight; a passenger
curb loading zone is a loading zone for the exclusive use of vehicles
during the loading or unloading of passengers.
Every vehicle which is self-propelled.
A motor vehicle, other than a tractor, having a seat or saddle
for the use of the driver and designed to travel on not more than
three wheels in contact with the ground. Motor-driven cycle means
every motorcycle, including every motor scooter or bicycle, equipped
with a motor which produces not more than five brake horsepower at
full throttle without a governor as determined by dynamometer test.
Whenever certain hours are named herein they shall mean Central
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 ordinance, 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, providing such loading
and unloading is in an authorized place.
Any person afoot.
Every officer of the Municipal Police Department, or any
officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic, or to make arrests
for violation of traffic regulations.
A way or place in private ownership or leading to property
in private ownership and used for vehicular traffic by the owner and
those having express or implied permission from the owner.
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.
The right of one 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 street improved, designed, ordinarily used
for vehicular travel, exclusive of the shoulders. In the event a street
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.
All streets or portions of streets immediately adjacent to
a school, or school ground, where same is adjacent and for a distance
of 300 feet in each direction.
That portion of a street between the curb lines or at lateral
lines of the roadway and adjacent property lines, intended for use
of pedestrians.
Any stopping of a vehicle whether occupied or not.
The entire width between the boundary lines of every way
publicly maintained when any part thereof is opened to the use of
the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
A street, or boulevard or highway or portion thereof at the
entrances to which:
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other
conveyances, either singularly or together, while using any highway
or street for purpose of travel.
Any device legally authorized and used for the purpose of
regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
A turn by which a vehicle reverses its course of travel on
the same street.
The territory contiguous to and including any street which
is built up with structures devoted to business, industry, or dwelling
houses situated at intervals of less than 100 feet for a distance
of a quarter mile or more.
Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property
is, or may be transported, or drawn, upon a highway or street, except
devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails
or tracks.
[Prior Code, Chapter 20]
The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to sell copies
of the traffic code to the public at a price to be determined from
time to time by motion or resolution of the City Council.
[Prior Code, Chapter 20]
The provisions of the State Motor Vehicle Code, Section 1-101 et seq., of Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes, and the Rules of the Road, Section 10-101 et seq., of Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes, are hereby adopted and incorporated herein by reference, and are enforceable by the City within the City limits as fully as if set out at length herein.
[Ord. 641, 11-28-1983]
A.
The operators of any vehicle upon the streets of the City shall carry
in such vehicle at all times a current owner's security verification
form listing the vehicle, or an equivalent form which has been issued
by the Department of Public Safety, and produce such form upon request
for inspection by any police officer of the City, or in case of a
collision, upon request to any person affected by the collision. This
security form shall be in accordance with the requirements of the
laws of the State.
B.
The following shall not be required to carry an owner's or operator's
security verification form during operation of the vehicle:
1.
Any vehicle owned or listed by the Federal or State government or
any agency or political subdivision thereof;
2.
Any vehicle bearing the name, symbol or logo of a business, corporation
or utility on the exterior which complies with the laws of the State
of Oklahoma, relative to self-insurance, a deposit, bond, or fleet
policy;
3.
Any vehicle authorized for operation pursuant to a permit number
issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission or the Corporation Commission
of the State of Oklahoma;
4.
Any licensed taxicab; or
5.
Any vehicle owned by a licensed motor vehicle dealer.
C.
Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions hereof by
failing to carry such certification of security in the operation of
such motor vehicle shall be guilty of an offense against the City.
