As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, partnership, association or any other
form of business entity.
STREET VENDING VEHICLE
Any vehicle which is used to sell a commodity or provide a service,
which tends to attract children, and travels the various roadways within the
Village making frequent, intermittent and unscheduled stops on the roadways
or shoulder of the roadways in order to sell these commodities or provide
these services.
In addition to other equipment required by law, every street vending
vehicle operating in the Village shall be equipped with the following:
A. A swing arm that can be extended horizontally
from the left side of the vehicle. This arm shall be yellow and black in color
and contain two simultaneously flashing yellow lights on the front and two
simultaneously flashing red lights on the rear.
B. Signal lamps mounted at the same level and
as high and widely spaced laterally as practicable. These lamps shall be five
to seven inches in diameter and shall display two simultaneously flashing
red lights to the rear, both of which shall be visible at 500 feet in normal
sunlight upon a straight and level highway.
The swing arm required in §
158-14A shall be as follows:
A. An arm made of any acceptable metal material.
That part of the swing arm that is attached to the vehicle itself shall be
approximately 7 3/16 inches in height, and when extended outward and
to the side of the vehicle shall extend to a length of 18 inches and flared
to a height of 18 inches.
B. Located at the upper and lower corners of the
eighteen-inch side shall be flashing yellow lights visible from the front
and red lights visible from the rear. These lights shall be four inches in
diameter and shall flash simultaneously. The background of the sign shall
be painted yellow and shall be reflective.
C. The lettering shall be painted black. In the
middle, in letters five inches in height, shall be painted the word SLOW;
just above the word SLOW shall be printed, in two-inch letters, the word CHILDREN;
and just below the word SLOW shall be printed, in two-inch letters, the word
CROSSING. The sign shall be lettered and painted on both sides so that it
will be visible from both the front and rear.
D. The bottom of said sign shall be at a height
of not less than 42 inches above the level of the street.
Any person found to be in violation of the provisions of this article
shall be subject to punishment by a fine not to exceed $250.