[1961 Code, § 13.1; Ord. 653]
This title shall be known and may be cited as the “Indio Traffic Ordinance.”
[1961 Code, § 13.2; Ord. 653]
The provisions of this title relating to the operation of vehicles refers exclusively to the operation of vehicles upon highways except where a different place is specifically referred to in a given section.
[1961 Code, § 13.3; Ord. 653; Ord. 684]
(A) 
When any words and phrases used herein are not defined herein but are defined in the Vehicle Code [of the state] regulating the operation of vehicles, any such definition therein shall be deemed to apply to the words and phrases used herein, except when the context otherwise requires.
(B) 
For the purpose of this title, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BICYCLE
Every device propelled by human power upon which any person may ride, having two or three wheels, each of which is 20 inches or more in diameter.
CENTRAL TRAFFIC DISTRICT
All streets and portions of streets within the area described as follows:
Beginning at the intersection of the northerly right-of-way line of Highway 86 - East Valley Parkway with the northerly prolongation of the centerline of the first alley west of and parallel with Oasis Street; thence southerly along the centerline of the alley extended to the south right-of-way line of Highway 111; thence easterly along the south right-of-way line of Highway 111 extended to its intersection with the north right-of-way line of Highway 86 - East Valley Parkway; thence northwesterly along the right-of-way line of Highway 111 - East Valley Parkway to the point of beginning.
HOLIDAYS
The following days are holidays. New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving Day and day after, Christmas Eve Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve Day. If any one of these "holidays" should fall on a Sunday, the following Monday also is a holiday and if it should fall on a Saturday, the preceding Friday is also a holiday.
LOADING ZONE
A space reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
MUNICIPAL PARKING LOT
A lot or parcel of land owned, purchased or leased by the city or in which the city has a possessory right of interest and which is designated as a municipal parking lot for the off-street parking of vehicles.
OFFICIAL TIME STANDARDS
When certain hours are named herein, they shall mean Standard Time or Daylight Saving Time as may be in current use in the city.
PARKWAY
That portion of a street other than a roadway, sidewalk or median.
PASSENGER LOADING ZONE
A place reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers.
POLICE OFFICER
Every officer of the Police Department of the city or any officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
STAND or STANDING
The halting of a vehicle whether occupied or not otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
STOP
When required, the term means a complete cessation of movement.
TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES WARRANTS
A set of warrants setting out the criteria for the evaluation of the needs for traffic control devices based upon standard traffic engineering principals.
TRAFFIC SIGNAL
Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed.
[1961 Code, § 13.6; Ord. 653]
When accidents at any particular location become numerous, the traffic officers shall cooperate with the City Traffic Engineer in conducting studies of those accidents and determining remedial measures.
[1961 Code, § 13.7; Ord. 653]
The Police Department shall maintain a suitable system of filing traffic accident reports. These reports shall be available for the use and information of any member of the Police Department and other city officers and employees interested in effecting the administration of traffic laws and the improvement of traffic conditions.
[1961 Code, § 13.13; Ord. 653]
(A) 
Every person propelling any pushcart upon a roadway 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 and by the rules of the road portion of the Vehicle Code, except those provisions of the title which, by their very nature, can have no application.
(B) 
Every person riding an animal or driving any animal-drawn vehicle upon a roadway 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 of this title which, by their very nature, can have no application.
[1961 Code, § 13.15; Ord. 653]
The provisions of this title shall apply to the driver of any vehicle owned by or used in the service of the United States government, the state, any county or city and it is unlawful for any said driver to violate any of the provisions of this title except as otherwise permitted in this title or by the Vehicle Code.
[1961 Code, § 13.16; Ord. 653]
(A) 
The provisions of this title regulating the operation, parking and standing of vehicles shall not apply to any vehicle of the Police Department or Fire Department, any public ambulance or any public utility vehicle or any private ambulance, which public utility vehicle or private ambulance has qualified as an authorized emergency vehicle, when any vehicle mentioned in this section is operated in the manner specified in the Vehicle Code in response to an emergency call.
(B) 
The foregoing exemptions shall not protect the driver of any such vehicle from the consequences of his or her willful disregard of the safety of others.
(C) 
The provisions of Chapter 71 regulating the parking or standing of vehicles shall not apply to any vehicle of a city department or public utility while necessarily in use for construction or repair work or any vehicle owned by the United States while in use for the collection, transportation or delivery of United States mail.
[1961 Code, § 13.17; Ord. 653]
(A) 
The driver of a vehicle or the person in charge of any animal involved in any accident resulting in damage to any property publicly owned or owned by a public utility, including, but not limited to any fire hydrant, ornamental lighting post, telephone pole, electric light or power pole or resulting in damage to any ornamental shade tree, traffic control device or other property of a like nature located in or along any street, shall, immediately following the incident, make a written report of the accident to the Police Department.
(B) 
Every report required by division (A) above shall state the time when and the place where the accident took place, the name and address of the person owning and of the person driving or in charge of the vehicle and shall briefly describe the property damage in the accident.
(C) 
A driver involved in an accident shall not be subject to the requirements or penalties of this section if and during the time the driver is physically incapable of making a report but in that event the driver shall make a report as required in division (A) above within 24 hours after regaining the ability to make the report.
[1961 Code, § 13.18; Ord. 653]
When the City Traffic Engineer finds any hedge, shrubbery or tree growing in a parkway obstructs the view of any intersection, or any traffic upon the streets approaching the intersection, he or she shall cause the hedge, shrubbery or tree to be immediately removed or reduced in height.
[1961 Code, § 13.19; Ord. 653]
(A) 
When any resolution of this city designates privately owned and maintained streets within the city as generally being held open for use by the public for purposes of vehicular travel and which so connect with highways that the public cannot determine that the roads are not highways, the provisions of this title and the Vehicle Code shall apply to any such privately owned and maintained road, except as provided in division (B) below.
(B) 
Notwithstanding the provisions of division (A) above, no ordinance or resolution enacted thereunder shall apply to any road described therein on which the owner has caused to be erected a notice of the size, shape and color as to be readily legible during daylight hours from a distance of 100 feet to the effect that the road is privately owned and maintained and that it is not subject to public traffic regulations or control.
(C) 
No ordinance or resolution shall be enacted under division (A) above without a public hearing thereon and ten days' prior written notice to the owner of the privately owned and maintained road involved.
[1961 Code, § 13.47; Ord. 653]
No person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any limited access roadway except at the entrances and exits as are established by public authority.
[1961 Code, § 13.48; Ord. 653]
No person shall drive or operate any bicycle, motor-driven cycle or any vehicle which is not drawn by a motor vehicle upon any street established as a freeway, as defined by state law, nor shall any pedestrian walk across or along any such street so designated and described except in space set aside for the use of pedestrians, provided official signs are in place giving notice of the restrictions.
[1961 Code, § 13.50; Ord. 653]
(A) 
It is unlawful for any person to cause or permit any railway train, railway locomotive, railway cars or like vehicles on rails to operate or be operated in such a manner as to prevent the use of any public street, highway or street crossing for the purpose of travel along, across or upon the public street, highway or street crossing for a time longer than ten minutes, except that this provision shall not apply to any railway locomotive, railway train or railway cars in continuous motion other than those engaged in switching or while blocking or obstructing a crossing because of an accident which requires the operator of the train, car or like vehicle on rails to stop at or near the scene of the accident.
(B) 
It is unlawful for any person to cause or permit any railway train, railway locomotive, railway cars or like vehicles on rails to operate or to be operated or parked in the control zone of an automatic gate crossing device so as to cause the gate to be closed for a period of more than ten minutes.
[1961 Code, § 13.103; Ord. 653]
No person shall operate or drive any vehicle used for advertising purposes or any advertising vehicle while using any sound amplifying or loudspeaking device upon any street or alley at any time within the city except upon permission granted by the City Council.