No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit
it to stand unattended without first stopping the engine, locking
the ignition, removing the key from the ignition and effectively setting
the brake thereon, and, when standing upon any grade, turning the
front wheels to the curb or side of the road or highway.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 13A; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1301)
On the streets in the city the operation of any motor vehicle
which will project glaring or dazzling headlights to persons in front
of such headlamps is hereby prohibited:
(1)
If the headlamps are not depressed, dimmed or tilted;
(2)
If the upper beams of multi-beam headlamps are used;
(3)
If any part of the main bright portion of the headlight beam projects
higher than a level of five (5) inches below the level of the center
of the lamp from which it comes at a distance of twenty-five (25)
feet ahead and in no case higher than forty-two (42) inches above
the level on which the vehicle stands at a distance of seventy-five
(75) feet ahead.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 13B; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1302)
The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business
shall not follow any emergency vehicles or fire apparatus traveling
on an emergency call 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 or where a police vehicle has stopped
to respond to an emergency call.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 13C; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1303)
No vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of the
fire department when laid on any street, private driveway or alley
without the consent of the fire department official in command.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 13D; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1304)
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 article. This provision shall not apply to authorized emergency
vehicles.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 13E; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1305)
Each driver in a funeral or other procession shall drive as
near to the right-hand side or edge of the roadway as practical and
shall follow the vehicle ahead as closely as is practical and safe.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 13F; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1306)
Each driver in a funeral procession shall turn the headlamps
of the vehicle on, and it shall be the duty of the undertaker having
charge of a funeral procession to notify each driver of a motor vehicle
of this method of identification.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 13G; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1307)
No person shall throw or deposit upon any street any glass bottle,
glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans or any other substance likely to injure
any person, animal or vehicle upon such street.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 13H; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1308)
No person shall mix or cause to be mixed cement on the paved
portion of any roadway in the city without first obtaining a permit
from the city manager or his/her designee, and when permitted to mix
cement on said roadway it shall be the duty of the permittee to see
that all cement, sand, gravel and other materials are immediately
removed from said roadway after said mixing operation has been completed.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 13I; Ordinance 707 adopted 6/10/03; 2004 Code, sec. 12.1309)
(a)
No person shall drive a vehicle when it is loaded with material or
passengers so as to obstruct the view of the driver to the front or
sides of the vehicle, or as to interfere with the driver’s control
over the driving mechanism of the vehicle.
(b)
No passenger in a vehicle or bus shall ride in such position as to
interfere with the driver’s or operator’s view ahead of
or to the sides, or to interfere with control over the driving mechanism
of the vehicle or bus.
(c)
The operator of a motorcycle, when in use on the streets, shall not
carry any other person upon the handlebars, frame or tank thereof,
nor shall any person ride upon any such vehicle.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 13J; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1310)
Any person riding upon any bicycle, motorcycle, coaster, sled,
roller skates, or in any toy vehicle shall not attach the same or
himself to any motor vehicle upon any roadway.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 13K; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1311)
It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to carry
thereon a load of any material which extends to the rear four (4)
feet or more beyond the bed or body of such vehicle unless a red flag,
not less than twelve (12) inches square, is displayed in the daytime
at the extreme rear end of said load, and so hung that the entire
area is visible to the driver of a vehicle approaching from the rear,
and a red light, visible under normal conditions for a distance of
at least five hundred (500) feet to the sides and rear, is displayed
at night at the point of greatest projection of such material extending
beyond the rear of said vehicle. The red light required under this
section shall be in addition to the red light required upon every
vehicle.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 13L; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1312)
The driver of a vehicle shall not operate or park any vehicle
on any sidewalk except at a permanent or temporary driveway.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 13M; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1313)
No person shall operate or park any vehicle on any street nor
shall any owner suffer or permit any vehicle belonging to him to be
operated or parked for the primary purpose of advertising.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 13N; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1314)
(a)
All territory within two hundred (200) feet of any hospital or rest
home in the city is hereby created and established as a zone of quiet.
(b)
The chief of police shall have the power to establish temporary zones
of quiet upon any street where a person is seriously ill if requested
to do so by the written statement of at least one (1) registered physician
certifying to its necessity. Said temporary zones of quiet shall embrace
all territory within a radius of two hundred (200) feet of the building
occupied by the person named in the request of said physician. Any
temporary zone of quiet and any other zone of quiet declared by ordinance
shall be designated by the chief of police by placing in a conspicuous
place in or at the curbline of the street a sign or marking bearing
the words “Quiet Zone.”
(c)
Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating a zone of quiet,
no person operating a motor vehicle within any such zone shall sound
the horn or other warning device of said vehicle, except in an emergency.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 13O; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1315)
(a)
The driver of a vehicle shall not back into an intersection or over
a crosswalk. The driver of a vehicle shall not in any event or at
any place back a vehicle unless such movement can be made in safety
and without interfering with other traffic.
(b)
Proof that the driver of a vehicle backed upon or in a street and
interfered with another vehicle or with a pedestrian shall constitute
a prima facie proof of a violation of this section.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 13P; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1316)
(a)
No motor vehicle may travel upon any portion of a city park except
roadways which are paved and improved as roadways.
(b)
Motor vehicles are prohibited from traveling over any grassy area
of said park or over any area of said park which is not based with
asphalt concrete or other concrete.
(c)
Any person who drives or propels a motor vehicle in city park in
violation of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
(1987 Code, ch. 9, sec. 13Q; 2004
Code, sec. 12.1317)
