No person shall drive any vehicle or animal, or do any act,
in violation of the following:
1. Drive
through vehicles comprising a funeral procession while they are in
motion and when the vehicles in such a procession are specifically
designated;
2. No
person riding any bicycle, motorcycle, coaster, roller skates, or
any toys or toy vehicles, shall attach the same or himself to any
moving vehicle, upon any roadway, and no person driving any vehicle
shall permit the same to be done;
3. Drive
within or over any sidewalk area or any parkway except at a driveway;
4. Drive
over or across any new pavement or freshly painted marking, when any
street barrier, sign or marking is in place, warning persons not to
drive over or across the same, or when a sign is in place stating
that the street, or any portion thereof, is closed;
5. Drive
or operate a vehicle contrary to the directions or provisions of any
barrier or sign erected pursuant to the provisions of any ordinance
of the County or by any other utility, or by any department of the
County or by any public person pursuant to law or contract with the
County and no unauthorized person shall move or alter the position
of any such barrier or sign;
6. Drive
a vehicle onto or from any freeway except at such entrances and exits
as are established by public authority;
7. Drive
a vehicle into an intersection or a marked crosswalk unless there
is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or crosswalk
to accommodate the vehicle he is operating without obstructing the
passage of other vehicles or pedestrians in such intersection or crosswalks,
notwithstanding any official traffic control device or signal indication
to proceed;
8. No
tire on any vehicle upon any County street or highway shall have on
its periphery any block, stud, flange, cleat, ridge, bead, or any
other protuberance or metal or wood which projects beyond the tread
of the traction surface of the tire.
This subdivision does not apply to the following:
A. Tire
chains of reasonable size used to prevent skidding when upon wet surfaces
or when upon ice or snow.
B. Pneumatic
tires which have embedded therein wire not to exceed .075 inches in
diameter and which are so constructed that under no conditions will
the percentage of metal in contact with the roadway exceed five percent
of the total tire area in contact with the roadway, except that during
the first one thousand miles of use or operation of any such tire,
the metal in contact with the roadway may exceed five percent of the
tire area in contact with the roadway, but shall in no event exceed
twenty percent of such area.
C. Vehicles
operated upon unimproved roadways when necessary in the construction
or repair of highways.
D. Traction
engines or tractors when operated under the conditions of a permit
first obtained from the Sacramento County Department of Public Works.
(Ord. 703 § 76, 1960; Ord. 972 § 1, 1968)
No person shall operate a vehicle, or join in, or be a member
of any procession, parade or assemblage on any public highway without
a permit first having been issued by the Director. No permit shall
be valid on an arterial or through highway during the hours of four
p.m. to six p.m. or during the hours of darkness or between the tenth
of December and the twenty-sixth of December in any year.
(Ord. 703 § 77, 1960)
A bus engaged as a common carrier may stop to load or unload
passengers in front of a driveway. At no time shall the bus so stop
for a period longer than is necessary to load or unload passengers.
(Ord. 703 § 78, 1960)
Unless authorized by the Director, a person shall not move,
molest, tamper with, or damage in any way any traffic counting device
which has been located within a highway or adjacent thereto by authority
of the Director.
(Ord. 703 § 79, 1960)
A person shall not dust, wipe, wash or otherwise clean, use,
or employ any method of dusting, wiping, washing or otherwise cleaning
any vehicle or portion thereof while on any highway unless the vehicle
is owned by or under the direct control or supervision, for purposes
other than such wiping, washing, cleaning, or dusting, of the person
doing any of the acts herein enumerated.
(Ord. 703 § 80, 1960)
A person shall not repair, or make any repairs, or add or install
any part or accessory to or on any vehicle while the same is upon
any public highway or alley.
The provisions of this section do not prohibit the operator
of any vehicle which is disabled while upon any public highway or
alley to such extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping from
making or causing to be made the repairs necessary to enable the vehicle
to be removed from the public highway or alley.
(Ord. 703 § 81, 1960)
No person shall drive any vehicle around, or under, any crossing
gate or barrier at a railroad grade crossing while the gate or barrier
is closed or is being opened or closed.
(Ord. 703 § 82, 1960)
It is unlawful for any person to cause or permit any railway
train or railway cars, or similar vehicle on rails, to operate or
to be operated, in such a manner as to prevent the use of any highway
for the purpose of travel for a period of time longer than ten minutes,
except that this provision does not apply to railway trains, cars
or similar vehicles on rails while blocking or obstructing a crossing
because of an accident which requires the operator of a train, car
or similar vehicle on rails to stop at or near the scene of the accident.
(Ord. 703 § 83, 1960; Ord. 972 § 1, 1968)