This chapter may be known and cited as the traffic ordinance.
(1964 Code, sec. 27-1)
The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall, for the purpose of this chapter, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section:
A public thoroughfare which ordinarily affords only a second [secondary] means of access to abutting property.
Vehicles of the fire department (fire patrol), police vehicles, and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the chief of police.
The territory contiguous to and including a roadway when, within any six hundred (600) feet along such roadway, there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes which occupy three hundred (300) feet of frontage on one side or three hundred (300) feet collectively on both sides of the 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 highway measured from the curbs, or, in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway. The word “crosswalk” also means any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
A space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
A space adjacent to a curb for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of freight.
The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curblines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways, of two (2) streets which join one another at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different streets joining at any other angle may come in conflict. Where a street includes two (2) roadways, thirty (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 (2) roadways thirty (30) feet or more apart, then every crossing of two (2) roadways of such streets shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
A roadway which is divided into two (2) or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.
Every highway, street, or roadway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting property or 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.
Every motor vehicle having a saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three (3) wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor.
Every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails.
Whenever certain hours are named herein, they shall mean standard time or daylight saving time as may be in current use in this city.
All signs, signals, markings, and devices not inconsistent with this chapter placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic.
When prohibited, the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading.
A place adjacent to a curb for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers.
Any person afoot.
Every officer of the city police department or any officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
Every way or place in private ownership and used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having express or implied permission from the owner but not by other persons.
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 street or highway not comprising a business district when the property on such street or highway, for a distance of three hundred (300) feet or more, is, in the main, improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business.
The privilege of the immediate use of the roadway.
That portion of a street or highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel. In the event a highway includes two (2) or more separate roadways, the term “roadway” 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.
Each street, alley and public ground or part thereof within two hundred fifty (250) feet of the nearest property line of any school, public or private, whereabout signs or markers bearing the words “School Zone, 15 Miles Per Hour,” “Slow Down” shall have been placed by order of the chief of police and are conspicuously displayed on such street, alley or ground indicating the approach to the boundary line of such school zone, and such street crossings as are designated by the chief of police where, in the opinion of the chief of police, based upon a traffic and engineering survey, such crossings are needed to safeguard the lives and health of the schoolchildren.
That portion of a street between the curblines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for the use of pedestrians.
When required, means complete cessation of movement.
When prohibited, means any stopping or standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic-control sign or signal.
The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
Every street or highway or portion thereof at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting streets or highways is required by law to stop before entering or crossing the same and when stop signs are erected as provided in this chapter.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars, and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using any street for purposes of travel.
Any device, whether manually, electrically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to proceed.
Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a street or highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(1964 Code, sec. 27-2; Ordinance adopting Code)
No procession or parade containing twenty (20) or more persons or ten (10) or more vehicles, excepting the forces of the United States Army or Navy, the military forces of this state, the forces of the police and fire departments, and funeral processions, shall occupy, march, or proceed along any street, except in accordance with a permit issued by the chief of police.
(1964 Code, sec. 27-12)
The city shall designate a type of pennant or other identifying insignia to be displayed upon or other method to be employed to identify the vehicles in funeral processions. A funeral composed
of a procession of vehicles shall be identified as such by the display, upon the outside of each vehicle, of a pennant or other identifying insignia or by such other method as may be determined and designated by the city.
(1964 Code, sec. 27-13; Ordinance adopting Code)