Any person convicted of a violation of this chapter shall be punished as prescribed in section 1.01.009 of this code.
(1990 Code, sec. 23-1)
(a)
Prohibited in downtown business district.
No person shall ride a bicycle, skateboard, or roller blades on any sidewalk located along a public street in the downtown business district of the city bounded on the north by U.S. Highway No. 59, on the south by Fannin Street, on the east by U.S. Highway No. 183, and on the west by Chilton Avenue.
(b)
Violations by minors.
Any minor who shall violate the terms and provisions of this section shall appear in the court of proper jurisdiction at the appointed time accompanied by his parent or guardian.
(1990 Code, secs. 23-51, 23-52)
(a)
It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or convey, or to be concerned in driving or conveying, any tractor or other like motor-driven vehicle over or upon any of the streets, alleys or driveways of the city with the lugs or blades to the wheels thereof exposed so that such lugs or blades will come into contact with or break up the surface of such alleys, streets or driveways.
(b)
Any person, before driving or conveying such vehicle over or upon the streets, alleys or driveways of the city, shall first place a good and sufficient band entirely around the wheels of such vehicle, or blocks of wood between the lugs or blades so that they will not come into contact with the surface of the streets, or entirely remove such lugs or blades.
(c)
The provisions of this section shall apply to all vehicles or contrivances of every nature that would materially break up or damage the surface of the streets, alleys or driveways of the city, and every person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be fined as prescribed in section 1.01.009 of this code.
(1990 Code, sec. 20-5)
(a)
Purpose.
The purpose of this section is to prohibit the operation of engine braking within the corporate limits of the city.
(b)
Prohibition; exception.
It shall be unlawful for a person to operate or permit the operation of the engine of a motor vehicle so as to assist in braking or slowing the vehicle through the use of any engine brake or engine retarding device on any street or roadway within the corporate limits of the city, unless the vehicle is an emergency services vehicle.
(c)
Penalty.
Any person violating this section, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine of not more than $500.00. Each day such violation continues is a separate offense.
(Ordinance 2011-001 adopted 1/18/11)
Upon the approach, from any direction, of any vehicle or apparatus of the fire or police department of the city or ambulance on emergency call, and sounding a siren or bell or other alarm known to be the alarm or warning of the apparatus or vehicles of the fire or police department or an ambulance, the driver of any vehicle other than a vehicle or apparatus of the aforesaid fire or police department or an ambulance on an emergency call shall immediately drive as closely as possible to the right-hand curb and stop and shall not proceed until such apparatus or vehicles of aforesaid departments or ambulance shall have passed on for a distance of six hundred (600) feet and shall not follow within six hundred (600) feet thereof.
(1990 Code, sec. 9-110)
It shall be unlawful for any person other than the members of the fire and police departments or owners and drivers of ambulances to have or use on any vehicle in the city any siren or bell of any fire apparatus or vehicle of the fire or police department or ambulances.
(1990 Code, sec. 9-113)