No driver of any vehicle, including motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles and bicycles, shall cause, by excessive and unnecessary acceleration, the tires of such vehicle or cycle to spin and emit loud noises or to unnecessarily throw stones or gravel, nor shall such driver cause to be made by excessive and unnecessary acceleration any loud noise as would disturb the public peace.
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Editor's Note: See also Ch. 306, Peace and Good Order, § 306-11B.
A. 
Obstruction of railroad crossings. No person shall leave standing or stop or permit or allow to stand or stop any railroad train, engine or railroad car upon any street, alley or highway crossing within the Village so as to obstruct public travel for a greater period of time than 10 minutes without opening said street, alley, or crossing for at least 10 minutes. Any conductor, engineer, fireman or brakeman on any train or locomotive so obstructing any street, alley or railroad crossing or any yardmaster, flagman, switchman or section hand who shall allow and be responsible for such obstruction shall be subject to a penalty as provided in § 385-35 of this chapter. The corporation running or operating such train, engine or cars so obstructing any street or railroad crossing shall be subject to a penalty as provided in Chapter 1, § 1-3 of this Code.[1]
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
B. 
Crossing warning by trains. No person shall operate or permit to be operated a locomotive, railway train, engine or railway car over any graded street or highway crossing within the limits of the Village unless a whistle or horn shall be blown 80 rods from said crossing and a bell rung continuously until the crossing shall be reached. The blowing of a whistle or horn and the ringing of a bell shall not be necessary where gates are operated automatically or a flagman is stationed at such traveled grade crossing.
A. 
Obedience to traffic control devices. No person shall fail to obey the instructions of any uniform traffic control device when traveling as a pedestrian on any highway within the Village unless otherwise directed by a law enforcement officer.
B. 
Prohibited pedestrian crossings. No pedestrian shall cross between adjacent intersections, unless such crossing is permitted by official traffic control devices.
No person shall operate or park any motor vehicle on any pedestrianway or pedestrian overpass within the Village except municipal or county maintenance vehicles.
A. 
Findings. The unauthorized off-road operation of motor vehicles has resulted in:
(1) 
Serious damage to public and private lands, including damage or destruction of vegetation, animal life, and improvement to the lands;
(2) 
The permanent scarring of land and an increase in both erosion and air pollution;
(3) 
Collisions and near collisions threatening the life and safety of the operators of such vehicles as well as of other persons; and
(4) 
A loss of the privacy, quietude and serenity to which the owners and users of land are rightfully entitled.
B. 
Definitions. For purposes of this section the terms below shall be defined as follows:
MOTOR VEHICLE
Any vehicle which is self-propelled and shall include but not be limited to automobiles, trucks, jeeps, vans, motorcycles, motorbikes, go-karts, motorized three-wheeled vehicles, all-terrain vehicles, mopeds, snowmobiles, dune buggies, and tractors. "Motor vehicle" shall not mean any airplane, railroad train, boat, wheelchair or bicycle. A vehicle which would otherwise be defined as a motor vehicle under this section shall not be so defined while:
(1) 
It is being operated solely for the purpose of construction or maintenance of an improvement to land or solely for access to construction or maintenance sites, provided that such operation is by persons having legitimate business on such land or sites.
(2) 
It is being operated by or at the direction of public employees or utility company employees as part of their employment duties.
(3) 
It is being operated by the holder of an easement or right of access on or over the land on which operation is occurring or the holder's employees or agents.
OFF ROAD
Any location which is not a paved or maintained public street or alley; is not used or maintained by the owner or lessee of land as a driveway, parking lot or other way for motor vehicles; or is a private trail for use only by the owner or his permittees for recreational or other vehicular use. "Off road" shall not include any creek bed, riverbed or lake; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to snowmobiles or other vehicles being operated on the ice covering such creek bed, riverbed or lake.
OPERATION
The physical manipulation or activation of any of the controls of a motor vehicle necessary to put it in motion.
UNAUTHORIZED
Without the express prior consent of the owner, lessee, manager or other person authorized to give consent by the owner or lessee of land. Authorization shall not be implied from a failure to post private or public land.
C. 
Unauthorized off-road operation prohibited.
(1) 
The unauthorized off-road operation of a motor vehicle is prohibited.
(2) 
It shall be unlawful to operate any minibike, go-kart, all-terrain vehicle or any other motor-driven craft or vehicle principally manufactured for off-highway use on the Village streets, alleys, parks, or parking lots or on any public lands or private lands or parking lots held open to the public. The operator shall at all times have the consent of the owner before operation of such craft or vehicle on private lands.
D. 
Operation of snowmobiles, motorcycles, mopeds, minibikes or all-terrain vehicles within any parks prohibited. No person shall operate a snowmobile, motorcycle, moped, minibike or all-terrain vehicle (ATV) within any parks or athletic fields within the Village except in designated areas.[1]
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Editor's Note: See also Ch. 350, Snowmobiles.
E. 
Prohibited use of snowmobile trails. Except as provided in the definition of "motor vehicle" in Subsection B above, no person shall operate any motor vehicle other than a snowmobile on a snowmobile trail.
It shall be unlawful for any motor vehicle to be driven or backed over any curbing in the Village. No person shall park any vehicle or other piece of equipment on any tree bank in the Village, except in such areas where stand-up curbing does not exist. No person shall park any vehicle or other piece of equipment on any sidewalk, or on any portion of the street right-of-way designated as a sidewalk area, in the Village.