(a)
No person shall operate a motor vehicle off the pavement, the main-traveled
portion of a roadway or a designated or permitted parking area onto
any property without the effective consent of the owner of such property.
(b)
It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this section that
the departure from the pavement, main-traveled portion of the roadway
or designated or permitted parking area was the result of an emergency
malfunction of the vehicle and that there was no other safe place
to operate the vehicle under such condition, or that the operator
of the vehicle was directed to do so by order of a peace officer.
(c)
This section shall not apply to a local government or public utility
vehicle performing service within an easement.
(2005 Code, sec. 10.6.03)
(a)
Identification.
A funeral procession of vehicles shall
be identified by the display of a pennant on the outside of the lead
vehicle and the hearse. All other vehicles in the procession shall
have headlamps on.
(b)
Operation of vehicles in procession.
Each driver in
a funeral procession shall drive as near to the right-hand edge of
the roadway as practical and shall follow the preceding vehicle as
closely as is safe and practical.
(c)
Driving through funeral procession.
It shall be unlawful
for a person, not a part of a funeral procession, to drive between
vehicles comprising a funeral procession while the procession is in
motion and the vehicles comprising the procession are identified as
herein provided.
(2005 Code, sec. 10.6.05)
It shall be unlawful for a person, while operating or in control
of a motor vehicle on a privately owned parking area, to suddenly
stop or rapidly accelerate the vehicle, to race another vehicle or
conduct a contest for speed, or to sound the vehicle horn when there
is no reasonable necessity therefor to protect persons or property.
(2005 Code, sec. 10.6.06)
