(a)
This
article may be known and cited as the Traffic Code.
(b)
All
provisions of the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways, as now
in effect in the state and generally referred to as V.T.C.A. Transportation
Code, including all amendments to such statute as of this date, is
hereby adopted and is supplemented by the regulations set forth in
this article.
(1979 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 18, Sec. 18-1; Ordinance adopting Code)
It shall be the duty of the police department of this city to
enforce the provisions of this article. Officers of the police department
are hereby authorized to direct all traffic either in person or by
means of visible or audible signs in conformance with the provisions
of this article; provided, in event of a fire or other emergency or
to expedite traffic, as conditions may require, or to safe-guard pedestrians,
officers of the police department or the fire department may direct
traffic, notwithstanding the provisions of this article.
(1979 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 18, Sec. 18-2)
The police department and police officers are hereby empowered
to make and enforce regulations necessary to make effective the provisions
of this article and to make and enforce temporary regulations to cover
emergencies or special conditions.
(1979 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 18, Sec. 18-3)
Except in residential areas, it shall be unlawful for any person
to ride or run any bicycle, tricycle, or like vehicle on any sidewalk
within the city, or to use said sidewalks on which to push or to pull
handcarts or pushcarts or other like vehicle.
(1979 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 18, Sec. 18-4)
It shall be unlawful for any person having in his charge any
railroad car or engine in this city, to stop said car or engine on
any railroad on or across a street crossing or sidewalk and allow
the same to remain thereon for a longer time than five (5) minutes
at any one time.
(1979 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 18, Sec. 18-5)
(a)
It
shall be unlawful for any person owning or having control of any truck,
bus or trailer having a capacity in excess of three-fourths (3/4)
ton or which is more than eighteen (18) feet in length, seven (7)
feet in width or seven (7) feet in height, to park, the same upon
any street in the residential area of the city; provided however,
the provisions of this section shall not be deemed to prohibit the
parking of any such truck, bus or trailer, on any residential street
for the purpose of the actual loading and unloading of goods, wares
and merchandise when such vehicle is accompanied by a driver; and
provided further, “loading” and “unloading”
as used in this section shall be limited to the actual time necessarily
consumed in such operation.
(b)
Exceptions.
A city resident will be allowed to park a truck, recreational
vehicle, trailer, bus, farm equipment, or other oversized vehicle
with a size in excess of three-fourths (3/4) ton, eighteen (18) feet
in length, seven (7) feet in width, and seven (7) feet in height on
a residential street, with the following restrictions:
(1)
An annual parking permit has been purchased from the city at a cost
of two hundred dollars ($200.00), said permit to be valid from January
1st through December 31st, prorated accordingly, but in no case shall
a permit cost less than one hundred dollars ($100.00);
(2)
The oversized vehicle may not be parked for more than twelve (12)
hours in a seventy-two (72) hour period;
(3)
The oversized vehicle must be parked on a street directly adjacent
to the property of the owner of the vehicle;
(4)
Oversized vehicles may only be parked on streets with a minimum width
of at least sixty-four (64) feet;
(5)
The oversized vehicle must be parked in such a manner as to not interfere
with the safe flow of traffic; and
(6)
The oversized vehicle must display upon it or have placed upon both
ends of the vehicle, while parked, a clearly visible warning device,
such as a parking cone, reflector, or other similar device.
(c)
Penalty.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction in municipal court shall be fined in accordance with the general penalty provision in Section 1.109 of this code and each day of violation shall constitute a separate offense.
(Ordinance adopted 5/17/10)
It shall be unlawful for the driver or operator of a motor vehicle,
while driving and operating a motor vehicle upon a public street or
parking lot, parking area or driveway of a business place within the
city, to willfully accelerate so rapidly as to cause the tires on
said motor vehicle to spin or skid or slide upon the roadway in a
manner commonly known as “burning off” whether the motor
vehicle is being started from a parked, stopped or standing position
or in motion and whether or not said motor vehicle is traveling straight
or turning.
(1979 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 18, Sec. 18-7)
(a)
Authority
to establish.
The city council may prohibit cotton module
truck and cotton burr truck traffic on certain streets within the
city as may be necessary for the health and safety of its citizens,
proper flow of traffic through the city, and for the protection of
the city streets and neighborhoods.
(b)
Cotton module truck.
Cotton burr truck.
Municipal street.
Truck route.
Definitions.
For the purpose of this article, the following words and phrases
have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
A single motor vehicle used exclusively to transport cotton
and or seed cotton.
A single motor vehicle used exclusively to transport cotton
burrs,
Every street or roadway within the city that is not a truck
route as defined herein.
Federal highways/interstates, state highways, or state farm-to-market
roads which are located in whole or in part within the corporate limits
of the city.
(c)
Restrictions.
No person shall operate a cotton module truck or a cotton burr
truck upon any municipal street within the corporate limits of the
city. Cotton module or cotton burr trucks must use a truck route when
traveling within the corporate limits of the city, and are prohibited
from using municipal streets as shortcuts or links between truck routes.
(Ordinance 0216A adopted 2/8/16)
