a.
Every
person riding a bicycle, or riding or driving an animal upon a highway
shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of
the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this title, except
those provisions which by their very nature can have no application.
b.
Notwithstanding
the provisions of subdivision (a) of this section, any person may
ride a bicycle on a sidewalk which is designated by the Director as
a part of the County bike route system and which is identified for
such use by appropriate signs giving notice thereof. A bicyclist using
a sidewalk as authorized by this subdivision shall yield the right-of-way
to any pedestrian using the sidewalk.
(Ord. 703 § 31, 1960; SCC 139 § 1, 1973)
No persons other than traffic officers or persons authorized
by law, shall direct traffic by voice, hand/or other signal, except
that a person may operate, when and/or as herein provided, a pushbutton
signal erected by the provisions of this title.
(Ord. 703 § 31, 1960)
A person designated as a flagger by a contractor working on
the County streets under a permit issued by the County or a County
employee designated as a flagger by the Director or representative,
during construction or repair of, or in, streets, may direct traffic
by use of hand signals or warning flags if the operation of special
highway construction equipment, trucks, concrete mixers, mobile cranes
or other construction equipment might interfere with the safe movement
of traffic.
(Ord. 703 § 32, 1960)
The provisions of this title, regulating the parking and standing
of vehicles shall not apply to any vehicle of the Sheriff's Office
or Fire Departments, any public or private ambulance or any public
utility vehicle which is qualified as an authorized emergency vehicle,
when such vehicle mentioned in this section operates in the manner
specified in the Vehicle Code in response to emergency calls. The
provisions of this title regulating parking or standing vehicles shall
not apply to any vehicle belonging to the government or a public utility
or its agent while necessarily in use on construction or repair work
on or in the public right-of-way. The foregoing exemption shall not,
however, protect the driver of any such vehicle from the consequences
of his willful disregard of safety of others.
(Ord. 703 § 33, 1960)
The provisions of this title where signs giving notice of the
provision are required shall not be effective until such signs are
actually placed by the Director.
(Ord. 703 § 34, 1960)
Every person driving a vehicle and every pedestrian shall comply
with and obey any indication as set forth in the Vehicle Code presented
by any official traffic control device, upon any highway placed under
the authority of this title.
(Ord. 703 § 35, 1960)
