(a) Upon the approach of any vehicle or apparatus of the fire department
of the city which is answering an alarm of a fire, the driver of any
vehicle, other than a vehicle of the aforesaid fire department, shall
drive as closely as possible to the right-hand curb and stop, and
shall not follow within three hundred feet (300') after the said vehicle
or apparatus of said fire department has passed. No vehicle, except
by the direction of the chief of the fire department, or other officer
of said fire department, shall approach or park within three hundred
feet (300') of a fire at any time.
(b) All vehicles pertaining to the fire department of this city shall
have prior right-of-way upon all the streets and avenues of this city,
and it shall be unlawful for any person, owner, driver, motorman,
chauffeur, engineer, conductor, or any other person in charge or control
of any buggy, wagon, carriage, streetcar, automobile, engine or train,
or any other vehicle propelled by whatever motive power, to carelessly,
wantonly, willfully or maliciously delay any fire apparatus of this
city in going to or coming from any supposed or actual fire.
(c) Any person who shall violate in any way any of the provisions of this section, or who shall fail or refuse to comply therewith, shall upon conviction be fined in any sum in accordance with the general penalty provided in section
1.01.009 of this code.
(Ordinance 124 adopted 10/3/1927; 1989 Code, secs. 19.302–19.304; Ordinance adopting 2024 Code)
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to drive any vehicle
of any kind whatsoever over and across a fire hose while the same
is stretched across the streets and alleys of the city.
(b) Any person violating this section shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and upon the conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum in accordance with the general penalty provided in section
1.01.009 of this code.
(Ordinance 52 adopted 9/6/1909; 1989 Code, sec. 14.110; Ordinance
adopting 2024 Code)