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The following words and phrases when used in this ordinance mean:

(1) "Alley" or "alleyway", any street with a roadway of less than twenty
feet in width;

(2) "All-terrain vehicle", any motorized vehicle manufactured and used
exclusively for off-highway use which is fifty inches or less in width,
with an unladen dry weight of six hundred pounds or less, traveling on
three, four or more low pressure tires, with a seat designed to be
straddled by the operator, and handlebars for steering control;

(3) "Authorized emergency vehicle", a vehicle publicly owned and operated
as an ambulance, or a vehicle publicly owned and operated by the state
highway patrol, police or fire department, sheriff or constable or deputy
sheriff, traffic officer or any privately owned vehicle operated as an
ambulance when responding to emergency calls;

(4) "Business district", the territory contiguous to and including a
highway when within any six hundred feet along the highway there are
buildings in use for business or industrial purposes, including but not
limited to hotels, banks, or office buildings, railroad stations and
public buildings which occupy at least three hundred feet of frontage on
one side or three hundred feet collectively on both sides of the highway;

(5) "Central business (or traffic) district", all streets and portions of
streets within the area described by city ordinance as such;

(6) "Commercial vehicle", every vehicle designed, maintained, or used
primarily for the transportation of property;

(7) "Controlled access highway", every highway, street or roadway in
respect to which owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons
have no legal right of access to or from the same except at such points
only and in such manner as may be determined by the public authority
having jurisdiction over the highway, street or roadway;

(8) "Crosswalk", (a) That part of a roadway at an intersection included
within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite
sides of the highway measured from the curbs, or in the absence of curbs
from the edges of the traversable roadway;

(b) Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly
indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the
surface;

(9) "Curb loading zone", a space adjacent to a curb reserved for the
exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers
or materials;

(10) "Driver", every person who drives or is in actual physical control
of a vehicle;

(11) "Freight curb loading zone", a space adjacent to a curb for the
exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of freight (or
passengers);

(12) "Highway", the entire width between the boundary lines of every way
publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the
public for purposes of vehicular travel;

(13) "Intersection", (a) The area embraced within the prolongation or
connection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral
boundary lines of the roadways of two highways which join one another at,
or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles
traveling upon different highways joining at any other angle may come in
conflict;

(b) Where a highway includes two roadways thirty feet or more apart, then
every crossing of each roadway of such divided highway by an intersecting
highway shall be regarded as a separate intersection. In the event such
intersecting highway also includes two roadways thirty feet or more
apart, then every crossing of two roadways of such highways shall be
regarded as a separate intersection;

(14) "Laned roadway", a roadway which is divided into two or more clearly
marked lanes for vehicular traffic;

(15) "Motor vehicle", any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively
upon tracks, except farm tractors and motorized bicycles;

(16) "Motorcycle", every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the
use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in
contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor;

(17) "Motorized bicycle", any two-wheeled or three-wheeled device having
an automatic transmission and a motor with a cylinder capacity of not
more than fifty cubic centimeters, which produces less than three gross
brake horsepower, and is capable of propelling the device at a maximum
speed of not more than thirty miles per hour on level ground;

(18) "Official time standard", whenever certain hours are named herein
they shall mean standard time or daylight-saving time as may be in
current use in the city;

(19) "Official traffic control devices", all signs, signals, markings and
devices not inconsistent with this ordinance placed or erected by
authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the
purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic;

(20) "Park" or "parking", the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or
not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually
engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers;

(21) "Passenger curb loading zone", a place adjacent to a curb reserved
for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of
passengers;

(22) "Pedestrian", any person afoot;

(23) "Person", every natural person, firm, copartnership, association or
corporation;

(24) "Police officer", every officer of the municipal police department
or any officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make
arrests for violations of traffic regulations;

(25) "Private road" or "driveway", every way or place in private
ownership and used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having
express or implied permission from the owner, but not by other persons;

(26) "Railroad", a carrier of persons or property upon cars, other than
streetcars, operated upon stationary rails;

(27) "Railroad train", a steam engine, electric or other motor, with or
without cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails, except streetcars;

(28) "Residence district", the territory contiguous to and including a
highway not comprising a business district when the property on such
highway for a distance of three hundred feet or more is in the main
improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business;

(29) "Right-of-way", the right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in
a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian
approaching under such circumstances of direction, speed and proximity as
to give rise to danger of collision unless one grants precedence to the
other;

(30) "Roadway", that portion of a highway improved, designed or
ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.
In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways the term
"roadway" as used herein shall refer to any such roadway separately but
not to all such roadways collectively;

(31) "Safety zone", the area or space officially set apart within a
roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is
so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all
times while set apart as a safety zone;

(32) "Sidewalk", that portion of a street between the curb lines, or the
lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for
use of pedestrians;

(33) "Stand" or "standing", the halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or
not, otherwise than for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
receiving or discharging passengers;

(34) "Stop", when required, complete cessation from movement;

(35) "Stop" or "stopping", when prohibited, any halting even momentarily
of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid
conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a
police officer or traffic control sign or signal;

(36) "Street" or "highway", the entire width between the lines of every
way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the uses of the
public for purposes of vehicular travel. "State highway", a highway
maintained by the state of Missouri as a part of the state highway system;

(37) "Through highway", every highway or portion thereof on which
vehicular traffic is given preferential rights-of-way, and at the
entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is
required by law to yield rights-of-way to vehicles on such through
highway in obedience to either a stop sign or a yield sign, when such
signs are erected as provided in this ordinance;

(38) "Traffic", pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles,
streetcars and other conveyances either singly or together while using
any highway for purposes of travel;

(39) "Traffic control signal", any device, whether manually, electrically
or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to
stop and to proceed;

(40) "Traffic division", the traffic division of the police department of
the city, or in the event a traffic division is not established, then
said term whenever used herein shall be deemed to refer to the police
department of the city;

(41) "Vehicle", any mechanical device on wheels, designed primarily for
use, or used, on highways, except motorized bicycles, vehicles propelled
or drawn by horses or human power, or vehicles used exclusively on fixed
rails or tracks, cotton trailers or motorized wheelchairs operated by
handicapped persons. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 1, A.L. 1980 H.B. 995 & 1051, A.L.
1988 H.B. 990)

Effective 4-19-88

There is established in the police department of each city
adopting this ordinance a traffic division to be under the control of an
officer of police appointed by and directly responsible to the chief of
police. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 2)

The traffic division with such aid as may be rendered by other
members of the police department shall enforce the street traffic
regulations of the city and all of the state vehicle laws applicable to
street traffic in the city, to make arrests for traffic violations, to
investigate accidents and to cooperate with the city traffic engineer and
other officers of the city in the administration of the traffic laws and
in developing ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry
out those duties specially imposed upon the division by this ordinance
and the traffic ordinances of the city. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 3)

1. The police department or the traffic division thereof shall
keep a record of all violations of the traffic ordinances of the city or
of the state vehicle laws of which any person has been charged, together
with a record of the final disposition of all such alleged offenses. Such
record shall be so maintained as to show all types of violations and the
total of each. Said record shall accumulate during at least a five-year
period and from that time on the record shall be maintained complete for
at least the most recent five-year period.

2. All forms for records of violations and notices of violations shall be
serially numbered. For each month and year a written record shall be kept
available to the public showing the disposal of all such forms.

3. All such records and reports shall be public records. (L. 1965 p. 445
§ 4)

It shall be the duty of the traffic division, assisted by other
police officers of the department, to investigate traffic accidents, to
arrest and to assist in the prosecution of those persons charged with
violations of law causing or contributing to such accidents. (L. 1965 p.
445 § 5)

Whenever the accidents at any particular location become
numerous, the traffic division shall cooperate with the city traffic
engineer in conducting studies of such accidents and determining remedial
measures. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 6)

The traffic division shall maintain a suitable system of filing
traffic accident reports. Accident reports or cards referring to them
shall be filed alphabetically by location. Such reports shall be
available for the use and information of the city traffic engineer. (L.
1965 p. 445 § 7)

The police department or the traffic division thereof shall
maintain a suitable record of all traffic accidents, warnings, arrests,
convictions, and complaints reported for each driver, which shall be
filed alphabetically under the name of the driver concerned. (L. 1965 p.
445 § 8)

The traffic division shall annually prepare a traffic report
which shall be filed with the mayor. Such report shall contain
information on traffic matters in the city as follows:

(1) The number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed, the
number of persons injured, and other pertinent traffic accident data;

(2) The number of traffic accidents investigated and other pertinent data
on the safety activities of the police;

(3) The plans and recommendations of the division for future traffic
safety activities. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 9)

The traffic division shall designate a type of pennant or other
identifying insignia to be displayed upon, or other method to be employed
to identify, the vehicles in funeral processions. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 10)

1. The office of city traffic engineer is established. The city
engineer or other designated city official shall serve as city traffic
engineer in addition to his other functions, and shall exercise the
powers and duties with respect to traffic as provided in this ordinance.

2. The city traffic engineer shall determine the installation and proper
timing and maintenance of traffic control devices, conduct engineering
analyses of traffic accidents and devise remedial measures, conduct
engineering investigation of traffic conditions, plan the operation of
traffic on the streets and highways of the city, and cooperate with other
city officials in the development of ways and means to improve traffic
conditions, and carry out the additional powers and duties imposed by
ordinances of the city. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 11)

1. The chief of police by and with the approval of the city
traffic engineer is hereby empowered to make regulations necessary to
make effective the provisions of the traffic ordinances of the city and
to make and enforce temporary or experimental regulations to cover
emergencies or special conditions. No such temporary or experimental
regulation shall remain in effect for more than ninety days.

2. The city traffic engineer may test traffic control devices under
actual conditions of traffic. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 12)

1. There is established a traffic commission to serve without
compensation, consisting of the city traffic engineer, the chief of
police or in his discretion as his representative the chief of the
traffic division, the chairman of the city council traffic committee, and
one representative each from the city engineer's office and the city
attorney's office and such number of other city officers and
representatives of unofficial bodies as may be determined and appointed
by the mayor. The chairman of the commission shall be appointed by the
mayor and may be removed by him.

2. It shall be the duty of the traffic commission, and to this end it
shall have the authority within the limits of the funds at its disposal,
to coordinate traffic activities, to supervise the preparation and
publication of traffic reports, to receive complaints having to do with
traffic matters, and to recommend to the legislative body of the city and
to the city traffic engineer, the chief of the traffic division, and
other city officials ways and means for improving traffic conditions and
the administration and enforcement of traffic regulations. (L. 1965 p.
445 § 13)

1. It shall be the duty of the officers of the police department
or such officers as are assigned by the chief of police to enforce all
traffic laws of the city and all of the state vehicle laws applicable to
traffic in the city.

2. Officers of the police department or such officers as are assigned by
the chief of police are hereby authorized to direct all traffic by voice,
hand, or signal in conformance with traffic laws; provided that, in the
event of a fire or other emergency or to expedite traffic or to safeguard
pedestrians, officers of the police department may direct traffic as
conditions may require notwithstanding the provisions of the traffic laws.

3. Officers of the fire department, when at the scene of an incident, may
direct or assist the police in directing traffic thereat or in the
immediate vicinity. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 14, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B.
2032)

No person shall knowingly fail or refuse to comply with any
lawful order or direction of a police officer or fire department
official. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 16, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)

Every person propelling any push cart or riding an animal upon a
roadway, and every person driving any animal-drawn vehicle, shall be
subject to the provisions of this ordinance applicable to the driver of
any vehicle, except those provisions of this ordinance which by their
very nature can have no application. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 17)

No person upon roller skates, or riding in or by means of any
coaster, toy vehicle, or similar device, shall go upon any roadway except
while crossing a street on a crosswalk and when so crossing such person
shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the
duties applicable to pedestrians. This section shall not apply upon any
street while set aside as a play street as authorized by ordinance of the
city. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 18)

The provisions of this ordinance shall apply to the driver of
any vehicle owned by or used in the service of the United States
government, this state, county, or city, and it shall be unlawful for any
said driver to violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, except as
otherwise permitted in this ordinance. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 19)

1. The driver of an authorized emergency vehicle, when
responding to an emergency call or when in the pursuit of an actual or
suspected violator of the law or when responding to but not upon
returning from a fire alarm, may exercise the privileges set forth in
this section, but subject to the conditions herein stated.

2. The driver of an authorized emergency vehicle may:

(1) Park or stand, irrespective of the provisions of this ordinance;

(2) Proceed past a red or stop signal or stop sign, but only after
slowing down as may be necessary for safe operation;

(3) Exceed the maximum speed limits so long as he does not endanger life
or property;

(4) Disregard regulations governing direction of movement or turning in
specified directions.

3. The exemptions herein granted to an authorized emergency vehicle shall
apply only when the driver of any said vehicle while in motion sounds
audible signal by siren or while having at least one lighted lamp
exhibiting a red light visible under normal atmospheric conditions from a
distance of five hundred feet to the front of such vehicle or a flashing
blue light authorized by section 307.175, RSMo.

4. The foregoing provisions shall not relieve the driver of an authorized
emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety
of all persons, nor shall such provisions protect the driver from the
consequences of his reckless disregard for the safety of others. (L. 1965
p. 445 § 20, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)

1. Upon the immediate approach of an authorized emergency
vehicle making use of audible and visual signals meeting the requirements
of the laws of this state, or of a police vehicle properly and lawfully
making use of an audible signal only the driver of every other vehicle
shall yield the right-of-way and shall immediately drive to a position
parallel to, and as close as possible to, the right-hand edge or curb of
the roadway clear of any intersection and shall stop and remain in such
position until the authorized emergency vehicle has passed, except when
otherwise directed by a police officer.

2. This section shall not operate to relieve the driver of an authorized
emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety
of all persons using the highway. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 21, A.L. 2002 H.B.
1270 and H.B. 2032)

The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident within the city
resulting in injury to or death of any person or total property damage to
an apparent extent of five hundred dollars or more to one person shall
give, or cause to be given, notice of such accident to the police
department as soon as reasonably possible. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 22, A.L.
1979 H.B. 167, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)

The driver of a vehicle which is in any manner involved in an
accident resulting in bodily injury to or death of any person or total
property damage to an apparent extent of five hundred dollars or more to
one person shall, within five days after such accident, forward a written
report of such accident to the police department. The provisions of this
section shall not be applicable when the accident has been investigated
at the scene by a police officer while such driver was present thereat.
(L. 1965 p. 445 § 23, A.L. 1979 H.B. 167)

1. Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of
giving immediate notice of an accident as required in section 300.110 and
there was another occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident
capable of doing so, such occupant shall give, or cause to be given, the
notice not given by the driver.

2. Whenever the driver is physically incapable of making a written report
of an accident as required in section 300.115 and such driver is not the
owner of the vehicle, then the owner of the vehicle involved in such
accident shall within five days after the accident make such report not
made by the driver. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 24)

The city traffic engineer shall place and maintain traffic
control signs, signals, and devices when and as required under the
traffic ordinances of the city to make effective the provisions of said
ordinances, and may place and maintain such additional traffic control
devices as he may deem necessary to regulate traffic under the traffic
ordinances of the city or under state law or to guide or warn traffic.
(L. 1965 p. 445 § 26)

All traffic control signs, signals and devices shall conform to
the manual and specifications approved by the state highways and
transportation commission or resolution adopted by the legislative body
of the city. All signs or signals required hereunder for a particular
purpose shall so far as practicable be uniform as to type and location
throughout the city. All traffic control devices so erected and not
inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance shall be official
traffic control devices. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 27)

The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any
official traffic control device applicable thereto placed in accordance
with the provisions of this ordinance, unless otherwise directed by a
traffic or police officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver
of an authorized emergency vehicle in this ordinance. (L. 1965 p. 445 §
28)

No provision of this ordinance for which official traffic
control devices are required shall be enforced against an alleged
violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation an official
device is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by
an ordinarily observant person. Whenever a particular section does not
state that official traffic control devices are required, such section
shall be effective even though no devices are erected or in place. (L.
1965 p. 445 § 29)

1. Whenever official traffic control devices are placed in
position approximately conforming to the requirements of this ordinance,
such devices shall be presumed to have been so placed by the official act
or direction of lawful authority, unless the contrary shall be
established by competent evidence.

2. Any official traffic control device placed pursuant to the provisions
of this ordinance and purporting to conform to the lawful requirements
pertaining to such devices shall be presumed to comply with the
requirements of this ordinance, unless the contrary shall be established
by competent evidence. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 30)

Whenever traffic is controlled by traffic control signals
exhibiting different colored lights, or colored lighted arrows,
successively one at a time or in combination, only the colors green, red
and yellow shall be used, except for special pedestrian signals carrying
a word legend, and said lights shall indicate and apply to drivers of
vehicles and pedestrians as follows:

(1) Green indication

(a) Vehicular traffic facing a circular green signal may proceed straight
through or turn right or left unless a sign at such place prohibits
either such turn. But vehicular traffic, including vehicles turning right
or left, shall yield the right-of-way to other vehicles and to
pedestrians lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk at
the time such signal is exhibited;

(b) Vehicular traffic facing a green arrow signal, shown alone or in
combination with another indication, may cautiously enter the
intersection only to make the movement indicated by such arrow, or such
other movement as is permitted by other indications shown at the same
time. Such vehicular traffic shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians
lawfully within an adjacent crosswalk and to other traffic lawfully using
the intersection;

(c) Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian control signal as provided
in section 300.160, pedestrians facing any green signal, except when the
sole green signal is a turn arrow, may proceed across the roadway within
any marked or unmarked crosswalk.

(2) Steady yellow indication

(a) Vehicular traffic facing a steady yellow signal is thereby warned
that the related green movement is being terminated or that a red
indication will be exhibited immediately thereafter when vehicular
traffic shall not enter the intersection;

(b) Pedestrians facing a steady yellow signal, unless otherwise directed
by a pedestrian control signal as provided in section 300.160, are
thereby advised that there is insufficient time to cross the roadway
before a red indication is shown and no pedestrian shall then start to
cross the roadway.

(3) Steady red indication

(a) Vehicular traffic facing a steady red signal alone shall stop before
entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none,
then before entering the intersection and shall remain standing until a
green indication is shown except as provided in paragraph (b) of this
subdivision;

(b) The driver of a vehicle which is stopped as close as practicable at
the entrance to the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if
none, then at the entrance to the intersection in obedience to a red
signal, may cautiously enter the intersection to make a right turn but
shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and other traffic proceeding
as directed by the signal at the intersection, except that the state
highways and transportation commission with reference to an intersection
involving a state highway, and local authorities with reference to an
intersection involving other highways under their jurisdiction, may
prohibit any such right turn against a red signal at any intersection
where safety conditions so require, said prohibition shall be effective
when a sign is erected at such intersection giving notice thereof;

(c) Unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian control signal as provided
in section 300.160, pedestrians facing a steady red signal alone shall
not enter the roadway.

(4) In the event an official traffic control signal is erected and
maintained at a place other than an intersection, the provisions of this
section shall be applicable except as to those provisions which by their
nature can have no application. Any stop required shall be made at a sign
or marking on the pavement indicating where the stop shall be made, but
in the absence of any such sign or marking the stop shall be made at the
signal. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 31, A.L. 1973 1st Ex. Sess. H.B. 26)

Effective 2-28-74

Whenever special pedestrian control signals exhibiting the words
"Walk" or "Don't Walk", or appropriate symbols, are in place, such
signals shall indicate as follows:

(1) "Walk", pedestrians facing such signal may proceed across the roadway
in the direction of the signal and shall be given the right-of-way by the
drivers of all vehicles;

(2) "Wait" or "Don't Walk", no pedestrian shall start to cross the
roadway in the direction of such signal, but any pedestrian who has
partially completed his crossing on the walk signal shall proceed to a
sidewalk or safety zone while the wait signal is showing. (L. 1965 p. 445
§ 32, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)

1. Whenever an illuminated flashing red or yellow signal is used
in a traffic sign or signal it shall require obedience by vehicular
traffic as follows:

(1) Flashing red (stop signal), when a red lens is illuminated with rapid
intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles shall stop before entering the
nearest crosswalk at an intersection or at a limit line when marked, or
if none, then before entering the intersection, and the right to proceed
shall be subject to the rules applicable after making a stop at a stop
sign;

(2) Flashing yellow (caution signal), when a yellow lens is illuminated
with rapid intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles may proceed through
the intersection or past such signal only with caution.

2. This section shall not apply at railroad grade crossings. Conduct of
drivers of vehicles approaching railroad grade crossings shall be
governed by the rules as set forth in section 300.295 of this ordinance.
(L. 1965 p. 445 § 33)

When lane direction control signals are placed over the
individual lanes of a street or highway, vehicular traffic may travel in
any lane over which a green signal is shown, but shall not enter or
travel in any lane over which a red signal is shown. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 34)

No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of
any highway an unauthorized sign, signal, marking or device which
purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic
control device or railroad sign or signal, or which attempts to direct
the movement of traffic, or which hides from view or interferes with the
effectiveness of any official traffic control device or any railroad sign
or signal. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 35)

No person shall, without lawful authority, attempt to or in fact
alter, deface, injure, knock down or remove any official traffic control
device or any railroad sign or signal or any inscription, shield or
insignia thereon, or any other part thereof. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 36)

The city traffic engineer shall have authority to declare any
street or part thereof a play street and to place appropriate signs or
devices in the roadway indicating and helping to protect the same. (L.
1965 p. 445 § 37)

Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating any street or
part thereof as a play street, no person shall drive a vehicle upon any
such street or portion thereof except drivers of vehicles having business
or whose residences are within such closed area, and then any said driver
shall exercise the greatest care in driving upon any such street or
portion thereof. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 38)

The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized

(1) To designate and maintain, by appropriate devices, marks, or lines
upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections where in his
opinion there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway,
and at such other places as he may deem necessary;

(2) To establish safety zones of such kind and character and at such
places as he may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians. (L.
1965 p. 445 § 39)

1. The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to mark
traffic lanes upon the roadway of any street or highway where a regular
alignment of traffic is necessary.

2. Where such traffic lanes have been marked, it shall be unlawful for
the operator of any vehicle to fail or refuse to keep such vehicle within
the boundaries of any such lane except when lawfully passing another
vehicle or preparatory to making* a lawful turning movement. (L. 1965 p.
445 § 40)

*Word "marking" in original rolls.

The state traffic laws regulating the speed of vehicles shall be
applicable upon all streets within the city, except that the city may by
ordinance declare and determine upon the basis of engineering and traffic
investigation that certain speed regulations shall be applicable upon
specified streets or in certain areas, in which event it shall be
unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle at a speed in excess of any
speed so declared when signs are in place giving notice thereof, but no
city ordinance shall regulate the speed of vehicles upon controlled
access highways of the state. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 41)

The city traffic engineer is authorized to regulate the timing
of traffic signals so as to permit the movement of traffic in an orderly
and safe manner at speeds slightly at variance from the speeds otherwise
applicable within the district or at intersections and shall erect
appropriate signs giving notice thereof. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 42)

The driver of a vehicle intending to turn at an intersection
shall do so as follows:

(1) Right turns: Both the approach for a right turn and a right turn
shall be made as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of
the roadway, except where multiple turn lanes have been established.

(2) Left turns on two-way roadways: At any intersection where traffic is
permitted to move in both directions on each roadway entering the
intersection, an approach for a left turn shall be made in that portion
of the right half of the roadway nearest the center line thereof and by
passing to the right of such center line where it enters the intersection
and after entering the intersection the left turn shall be made so as to
leave the intersection to the right of the center line of the roadway
being entered. Whenever practicable the left turn shall be made in that
portion of the intersection to the left of the center of the intersection.

(3) Left turns on other than two-road roadways: At any intersection where
traffic is restricted to one direction on one or more of the roadways,
the driver of a vehicle intending to turn left at any such intersection
shall approach the intersection in the extreme left-hand lane lawfully
available to traffic moving in the direction of travel of such vehicle
and after entering the intersection the left turn shall be made so as to
leave the intersection, as nearly as practicable, in the left-hand lane
lawfully available to traffic moving in such direction upon the roadway
being entered, except where multiple turn lanes have been established.

(4) Designated two-way left turn lanes: Where a special lane for making
left turns by drivers proceeding in opposite directions have been
indicated by official traffic control devices:

(a) A left turn shall not be made from any other lane;

(b) A vehicle shall not be driven in the lane except when preparing for
or making a left turn from or into the roadway or when preparing for or
making a u-turn when otherwise permitted by law;

(c) A vehicle shall not be driven in the lane for a distance more than
five hundred feet. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 43, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B.
2032)

1. The city traffic engineer is authorized to place markers,
buttons, or signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the
course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections, and such
course to be traveled as so indicated may conform to or be other than as
prescribed by law or ordinance.

2. When authorized markers, buttons, or other indications are placed
within an intersection indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles
turning thereat, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of
such indications. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 44)

The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to determine
those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right,
left or U-turn, and shall place proper signs at such intersections. The
making of such turns may be prohibited between certain hours of any day
and permitted at other hours, in which event the same shall be plainly
indicated on the signs or they may be removed when such turns are
permitted. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 45)

Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no right
or left or U-turn is permitted, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the
directions of any such sign. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 46)

The driver of any vehicle shall not turn such vehicle so as to
proceed in the opposite direction upon any street in a business district
and shall not upon any other street so turn a vehicle unless such
movement can be made in safety and without interfering with other
traffic. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 47)

Whenever any ordinance of the city designates any one-way street
or alley the city traffic engineer shall place and maintain signs giving
notice thereof, and no such regulation shall be effective unless such
signs are in place. Signs indicating the direction of lawful traffic
movement shall be placed at every intersection where movement of traffic
in the opposite direction is prohibited. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 48)

Upon those streets and parts of streets and in those alleys
described and designated by ordinance, vehicular traffic shall move only
in the indicated direction when signs indicating the direction of traffic
are erected and maintained at every intersection where movement in the
opposite direction is prohibited. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 49)

1. The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to determine
and designate streets, parts of streets or specific lanes thereon upon
which vehicular traffic shall proceed in one direction during one period
and the opposite direction during another period of the day and shall
place and maintain appropriate markings, signs, barriers or other devices
to give notice thereof. The city traffic engineer may erect signs
temporarily designating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a
particular direction, regardless of the center line of the roadway.

2. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any vehicle in
violation of such markings, signs, barriers or other devices so placed in
accordance with this section. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 50)

Those streets and parts of streets described by ordinances of
the city are declared to be through streets for the purposes of sections
300.255 to 300.295. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 51)

Whenever any ordinance of the city designates and describes a
through street it shall be the duty of the city traffic engineer to place
and maintain a stop sign, or on the basis of an engineering and traffic
investigation at any intersection a yield sign, on each and every street
intersecting such through street unless traffic at any such intersection
is controlled at all times by traffic control signals; provided, however,
that at the intersection of two such through streets or at the
intersection of a through street and a heavy traffic street not so
designated, stop signs shall be erected at the approaches of either of
said streets as may be determined by the city traffic engineer upon the
basis of an engineering and traffic study. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 52)

The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to determine and
designate intersections where particular hazard exists upon other than
through streets and to determine whether vehicles shall stop at one or
more entrances to any such intersection, in which event he shall cause to
be erected a stop sign at every such place where a stop is required, or
whether vehicles shall yield the right-of-way to vehicles on a different
street at such intersection as prescribed in subsection 1 of section
300.280, in which event he shall cause to be erected a yield sign at
every place where obedience thereto is required. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 53)

1. The driver of a vehicle approaching a yield sign if required
for safety to stop shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near
side of the intersection or, in the event there is no crosswalk, at a
clearly marked stop line, but if none, then at the point nearest the
intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic
on the intersecting roadway.

2. Except when directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic control
signal, every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop intersection
indicated by a stop sign shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the
near side of the intersection or, in the event there is no crosswalk,
shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if none, then at the point
nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of
approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway before entering the
intersection. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 54)

Except when directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic
control signal, every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop intersection
indicated by a stop sign shall stop as required by subsection 2 of
section 300.270, and after having stopped shall yield the right-of-way to
any vehicle which has entered the intersection from another highway or
which is approaching so closely on said highway as to constitute an
immediate hazard during the time when such driver is moving across or
within the intersection. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 55)

The driver of a vehicle approaching a yield sign shall in
obedience to such sign slow down to a speed reasonable for the existing
conditions and shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle in the
intersection or approaching on another highway so closely as to
constitute an immediate hazard during the time such driver is moving
across or within the intersection; provided, however, that if such a
driver is involved in a collision with a vehicle in the intersection,
after driving past a yield sign without stopping, such collision shall be
deemed prima facie evidence of his failure to yield right-of-way. (L.
1965 p. 445 § 56)

The driver of a vehicle within a business or residence district
emerging from an alley, driveway or building shall stop such vehicle
immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or onto the sidewalk area
extending across any alleyway or driveway, and shall yield the
right-of-way to any pedestrian as may be necessary to avoid collision,
and upon entering the roadway shall yield the right-of-way to all
vehicles approaching on said roadway. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 58)

No driver shall enter 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, notwithstanding any traffic
control signal indication to proceed. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 59)

1. Whenever any person driving a vehicle approaches a railroad
grade crossing under any of the circumstances stated in this section, the
driver of such vehicle shall stop within fifty feet but not less than
fifteen feet from the nearest rail of such railroad, and shall not
proceed until he can do so safely. The foregoing requirements shall apply
when:

(1) A clearly visible electric or mechanical signal device gives warning
of the immediate approach of a railroad train;

(2) A crossing gate is lowered or when a human flagman gives or continues
to give a signal of the approach or passage of a railroad train;

(3) An approaching railroad train is plainly visible and is in hazardous
proximity to such crossing.

2. No person shall drive any vehicle through, around or under any
crossing gate or barrier at a railroad crossing while such gate or
barrier is closed or is being opened or closed. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 60)

The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business
shall not follow any emergency vehicle traveling in response to an
emergency call closer than five hundred feet or drive into or park such
vehicle within the block where fire apparatus has stopped in answer to a
fire alarm. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 61, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)

No vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of a fire
department when laid down on any street, private driveway or streetcar
track, to be used at any fire or alarm of fire, without the consent of
the fire department official in command. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 62)

No driver of a vehicle shall drive between the vehicles
comprising a funeral or other authorized procession while they are in
motion and when such vehicles are conspicuously designated as required in
this ordinance. This provision shall not apply at intersections where
traffic is controlled by traffic control signals or police officers. (L.
1965 p. 445 § 63)

Each driver in a funeral or other procession shall drive as near
to the right-hand edge of the roadway as practicable and shall follow the
vehicle ahead as close as is practicable and safe. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 64)

A funeral composed of a procession of vehicles shall be
identified as such by the display upon the outside of each vehicle of a
pennant or other identifying insignia or by such other method as may be
determined and designated by the traffic division. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 65)

No funeral, procession or parade containing two hundred or more
persons or fifty or more vehicles except the forces of the United States
army or navy, the military forces of this state and the forces of the
police and fire departments, shall occupy, march or proceed along any
street except in accordance with a permit issued by the chief of police
and such other regulations as are set forth herein which may apply. (L.
1965 p. 445 § 66)

The driver of a motor vehicle shall not drive within any
sidewalk area except as a permanent or temporary driveway. A designated
bicycle lane shall not be obstructed by a parked or standing motor
vehicle or other stationary object. A motor vehicle may be driven in a
designated bicycle lane only for the purpose of a lawful maneuver to
cross the lane or to provide for safe travel. In making an otherwise
lawful maneuver that requires traveling in or crossing a designated
bicycle lane, the driver of a motor vehicle shall yield to any bicycle in
the lane. As used in this section, the term "designated bicycle lane"
shall mean a portion of the roadway or highway that* has been designated
by the governing body having jurisdiction over such roadway or highway by
striping with signing or striping with pavement markings for the
preferential or exclusive use of bicycles. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 67, A.L.
2005 H.B. 487 merged with S.B. 372)

*Word "which" appears in original rolls of H.B. 487, 2005.

The driver of a vehicle shall not back the same unless such
movement can be made with reasonable safety and without interfering with
other traffic. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 68)

No person shall open the door of a motor vehicle on the side
available to moving traffic unless and until it is reasonably safe to do
so, nor shall any person leave a door open on the side of a motor vehicle
available to moving traffic for a period of time longer than necessary to
load or unload passengers. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 69)

1. A person operating a motorcycle shall ride only upon the
permanent and regular seat attached thereto, and such operator shall not
carry any other person nor shall any other person ride on a motorcycle
unless such motorcycle is designed to carry more than one person, in
which event a passenger may ride upon the permanent and regular seat if
designed for two persons, or upon another seat firmly attached to the
rear or side of the operator.

2. The operator of a motorized bicycle shall ride only astride the
permanent and regular seat attached thereto, and shall not permit more
than one person to ride thereon at the same time, unless the motorized
bicycle is designed to carry more than one person. Any motorized bicycle
designed to carry more than one person must be equipped with a passenger
seat and footrests for the use of a passenger. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 70, A.L.
1980 H.B. 995 & 1051)

Effective 6-20-80

1. No person shall ride a bicycle upon a sidewalk within a
business district.

2. Whenever any person is riding a bicycle upon a sidewalk, such person
shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian and shall give audible
signal before overtaking and passing such pedestrian.

3. No person shall ride a motorized bicycle upon a sidewalk. (L. 1965 p.
445 § 109, A.L. 1980 H.B. 995 & 1051)

Effective 6-20-80

1. No person shall operate an all-terrain vehicle, as defined in
section 300.010, upon the streets and highways of this city, except as
follows:

(1) All-terrain vehicles owned and operated by a governmental entity for
official use;

(2) All-terrain vehicles operated for agricultural purposes or industrial
on-premises purposes between the official sunrise and sunset on the day
of operation;

(3) All-terrain vehicles whose operators carry a special permit issued by
this city pursuant to section 304.013, RSMo.

2. No person shall operate an off-road vehicle, as defined in section
304.001, RSMo, within any stream or river in this city, except that
off-road vehicles may be operated within waterways which flow within the
boundaries of land which an off-road vehicle operator owns, or for
agricultural purposes within the boundaries of land which an off-road
vehicle operator owns or has permission to be upon, or for the purpose of
fording such stream or river of this state at such road crossings as are
customary or part of the highway system. All law enforcement officials or
peace officers of this state and its political subdivisions shall enforce
the provisions of this subsection within the geographic area of their
jurisdiction.

3. A person operating an all-terrain vehicle on a street or highway
pursuant to an exception covered in this section shall have a valid
license issued by a state authorizing such person to operate a motor
vehicle, but shall not be required to have passed an examination for the
operation of a motorcycle, and the vehicle shall be operated at speeds of
less than thirty miles per hour. When operated on a street or highway, an
all-terrain vehicle shall have a bicycle safety flag, which extends not
less than seven feet above the ground, attached to the rear of the
vehicle. The bicycle safety flag shall be triangular in shape with an
area of not less than thirty square inches and shall be day-glow in color.

4. No person shall operate an all-terrain vehicle:

(1) In any careless way so as to endanger the person or property of
another;

(2) While under the influence of alcohol or any controlled substance; or

(3) Without a securely fastened safety helmet on the head of an
individual who operates an all-terrain vehicle or who is being towed or
otherwise propelled by an all-terrain vehicle, unless the individual is
at least eighteen years of age.

5. No operator of an all-terrain vehicle shall carry a passenger, except
for agricultural purposes.

6. A violation of this section shall be a class C misdemeanor. (L. 1988
H.B. 990, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1279, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)

No person riding upon any bicycle, motorized bicycle, coaster,
roller skates, sled or toy vehicle shall attach the same or himself to
any vehicle upon a roadway. Neither shall the driver of a vehicle
knowingly pull a rider behind a vehicle. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 71, A.L. 1980
H.B. 995 & 1051, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)

No person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any controlled
access roadway except at such entrances and exits as are established by
public authority. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 72)

It shall be unlawful for the directing officer or the operator
of any railroad train to direct the operation of or to operate the same
in such a manner as to prevent the use of any street for purposes of
travel for a period of time longer than five minutes; provided that this
section shall not apply to a moving train or to one stopped because of an
emergency or for repairs necessary before it can proceed safely. (L. 1965
p. 445 § 75)

No vehicle shall at any time be driven through or within a
safety zone. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 79)

Pedestrians shall be subject to traffic control signals as
heretofore declared in sections 300.155 and 300.160 of this ordinance,
but at all other places pedestrians shall be granted those rights and be
subject to the restrictions stated in sections 300.370 to 300.410. (L.
1965 p. 445 § 81)

1. When traffic control signals are not in place or not in
operation the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way, slowing
down or stopping if need be to so yield, to a pedestrian crossing the
roadway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon the half of the
roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling, or when the pedestrian is
approaching so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in
danger.

2. No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and
walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is
impossible for the driver to yield.

3. Subsection 1 shall not apply under the conditions stated in subsection
2 of section 300.390.

4. Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk or at any
unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the
roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall
not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 82)

Pedestrians shall move, whenever practicable, upon the right
half of crosswalks. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 83)

No pedestrian shall cross a roadway at any place other than by a
route at right angles to the curb or by the shortest route to the
opposite curb except in a crosswalk. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 84)

1. Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than
within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an
intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the
roadway.

2. Any pedestrian crossing a roadway at a point where a pedestrian tunnel
or overhead pedestrian crossing has been provided shall yield the
right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.

3. The foregoing rules in this section have no application under the
conditions stated in section 300.395 when pedestrians are prohibited from
crossing at certain designated places. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 85)

1. Between adjacent intersections at which traffic control
signals are in operation, pedestrians shall not cross at any place except
in a crosswalk.

2. No pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than in a crosswalk in any
business district.

3. No pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than in a crosswalk upon any
street designated by ordinance.

4. No pedestrian shall cross a roadway intersection diagonally unless
authorized by official traffic control devices; and, when authorized to
cross diagonally, pedestrians shall cross only in accordance with the
official traffic control devices pertaining to such crossing movements.
(L. 1965 p. 445 § 86)

1. No pedestrian shall enter or remain upon any bridge or
approach thereto beyond the bridge signal, gate, or barrier after a
bridge operation signal indication has been given.

2. No pedestrian shall pass through, around, over, or under any crossing
gate or barrier at a railroad grade crossing or bridge while such gate or
barrier is closed or is being opened or closed. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 87)

1. Where sidewalks are provided it shall be unlawful for any
pedestrian to walk along and upon an adjacent roadway.

2. Where sidewalks are not provided any pedestrian walking along and upon
a highway shall when practicable walk only on the left side of the
roadway or its shoulder facing traffic which may approach from the
opposite direction. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 88)

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of sections 300.155 to
300.410, every driver of a vehicle shall exercise the highest degree of
care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian upon any roadway and shall
give warning by sounding the horn when necessary and shall exercise
proper precaution upon observing any child or any confused or
incapacitated person upon a roadway. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 90)

The operator of a motor vehicle overtaking a bicycle proceeding
in the same direction on the roadway, as defined in section 300.010,
shall leave a safe distance when passing the bicycle, and shall maintain
clearance until safely past the overtaken bicycle. (L. 2005 H.B. 487
merged with S.B. 372)

Except as otherwise provided in sections 300.415 to 300.435,
every vehicle stopped or parked upon a roadway where there are adjacent
curbs shall be so stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels of such
vehicle parallel to and within eighteen inches of the right-hand curb.
(L. 1965 p. 445 § 112)

1. The city traffic engineer shall determine upon what streets
angle parking shall be permitted and shall mark or sign such streets but
such angle parking shall not be indicated upon any federal-aid or state
highway within the city unless the state highways and transportation
commission has determined by resolution or order entered in its minutes
that the roadway is of sufficient width to permit angle parking without
interfering with the free movement of traffic.

2. Angle parking shall not be indicated or permitted at any place where
passing traffic would thereby be caused or required to drive upon the
left side of the street or upon any streetcar tracks. (L. 1965 p. 445 §
113)

On those streets which have been signed or marked by the city
traffic engineer for angle parking, no person shall park or stand a
vehicle other than at the angle to the curb or edge of the roadway
indicated by such signs or markings. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 114)

1. The city traffic engineer is authorized to issue special
permits to permit the backing of a vehicle to the curb for the purpose of
loading or unloading merchandise or materials subject to the terms and
conditions of such permit. Such permits may be issued either to the owner
or lessee of real property or to the owner of the vehicle and shall grant
to such person the privilege as therein stated and authorized herein.

2. It shall be unlawful for any permittee or other person to violate any
of the special terms or conditions of any such permit. (L. 1965 p. 445 §
115)

1. Whenever a vehicle is lawfully parked upon a street or
highway during the hours between a half hour after sunset and a half hour
before sunrise and in the event there is sufficient light to reveal any
person or object within a distance of five hundred feet upon such street
or highway no lights need be displayed upon such parked vehicle.

2. Whenever a vehicle is parked or stopped upon a roadway or shoulder
adjacent thereto, whether attended or unattended, during the hours
between a half hour after sunset and a half hour before sunrise and there
is not sufficient light to reveal any person or object within a distance
of five hundred feet upon such highway, such vehicle so parked or stopped
shall be equipped with one or more lamps meeting the following
requirements: At least one lamp shall display a white or amber light
visible from a distance of five hundred feet to the front of the vehicle,
and the same lamp or at least one other lamp shall display a red light
visible from a distance of five hundred feet to the rear of the vehicle,
and the location of said lamp or lamps shall always be such that at least
one lamp or combination of lamps meeting the requirements of this section
is installed as near as practicable to the side of the vehicle which is
closer to passing traffic. The foregoing provisions shall not apply to a
motor driven cycle.

3. Any lighted head lamps upon a parked vehicle shall be depressed or
dimmed. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 116)

1. Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic,
or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or
official traffic control device, no person shall:

(1) Stop, stand or park a vehicle:

(a) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or
curb of a street;

(b) On a sidewalk;

(c) Within an intersection;

(d) On a crosswalk;

(e) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty feet of
points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless
the (traffic authority) indicates a different length by signs or markings;

(f) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when
stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic;

(g) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within
a highway tunnel;

(h) On any railroad tracks;

(i) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.

(2) Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily
to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers:

(a) In front of a public or private driveway;

(b) Within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant;

(c) Within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;

(d) Within thirty feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop
sign, or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;

(e) Within twenty feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and
on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station within
seventy-five feet of said entrance (when properly signposted);

(f) At any place where official signs prohibit standing.

(3) Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the
purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise
or passengers:

(a) Within fifty feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;

(b) At any place where official signs prohibit parking.

2. No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his control into any
such prohibited area or away from a curb such a distance as is unlawful.
(L. 1965 p. 445 § 117)

No person shall park any vehicle upon a street, other than an
alley, in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available
less than ten feet of the width of the roadway for free movement of
vehicular traffic. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 118)

No person shall park a vehicle within an alley in such a manner
or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten feet of the
width of the roadway for the free movement of vehicular traffic, and no
person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle within an alley in such
position as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting property. (L.
1965 p. 445 § 119)

No person shall park a vehicle upon any roadway for the
principal purpose of:

(1) Displaying such vehicle for sale; or

(2) Repair such vehicle except repairs necessitated by an emergency. (L.
1965 p. 445 § 121)

1. The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to erect signs
indicating no parking upon either or both sides of any street adjacent to
any school property when such parking would, in his opinion, interfere
with traffic or create a hazardous situation.

2. When official signs are erected indicating no parking upon either side
of a street adjacent to any school property as authorized herein, no
person shall park a vehicle in any such designated place. (L. 1965 p. 445
§ 122)

1. The city traffic engineer is authorized to erect signs
indicating no parking upon any street when the width of the roadway does
not exceed twenty feet, or upon one side of a street as indicated by such
signs when the width of the roadway does not exceed thirty feet.

2. When official signs prohibiting parking are erected upon narrow
streets as authorized herein, no person shall park a vehicle upon any
such street in violation of any such sign. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 123)

The city traffic engineer is authorized to erect signs upon the
left-hand side of any one-way street to prohibit the standing or parking
of vehicles, and when such signs are in place, no person shall stand or
park a vehicle upon such left-hand side in violation of any such sign.
(L. 1965 p. 445 § 124)

In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways
and traffic is restricted to one direction upon any such roadway, no
person shall stand or park a vehicle upon the left-hand side of such
one-way roadway unless signs are erected to permit such standing or
parking. The city traffic engineer is authorized to determine when
standing or parking may be permitted upon the left-hand side of any such
one-way roadway and to erect signs giving notice thereof. (L. 1965 p. 445
§ 125)

1. The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to determine
and designate by proper signs places not exceeding one hundred feet in
length in which the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles would
create an especially hazardous condition or would cause unusual delay to
traffic.

2. When official signs are erected at hazardous or congested places as
authorized herein, no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle in any
such designated place. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 126)

The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to determine the
location of passenger and freight curb loading zones and shall place and
maintain appropriate signs indicating the same and stating the hours
during which the provisions of this section are applicable. (L. 1965 p.
445 § 127)

The city traffic engineer shall not designate or sign any curb
loading zone upon special request of any person unless such person makes
application for a permit for such zone and for two signs to indicate the
ends of each such zone. The city traffic engineer upon granting a permit
and issuing such signs shall collect from the applicant and deposit in
the city treasury a service fee of ten dollars per year or fraction
thereof and may by general regulations impose conditions upon the use of
such signs and for reimbursement of the city for the value thereof in the
event of their loss or damage and their return in the event of misuse or
upon expiration of permit. Every such permit shall expire at the end of
one year. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 128)

No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle for any purpose
or period of time other than for the expeditious loading or unloading of
passengers in any place marked as a passenger curb loading zone during
hours when the regulations applicable to such curb loading zone are
effective, and then only for a period not to exceed three minutes. (L.
1965 p. 445 § 129)

No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle for any purpose
or length of time other than for the expeditious unloading and delivery
or pickup and loading of materials in any place marked as a freight curb
loading zone during hours when the provisions applicable to such zones
are in effect. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 130)

The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized and required to
establish bus stops, bus stands, taxicab stands and stands for other
passenger common carrier motor vehicles on such public streets in such
places and in such number as he shall determine to be of the greatest
benefit and convenience to the public, and every such bus stop, bus
stand, taxicab stand, or other stand shall be designated by appropriate
signs. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 131)

1. The operator of a bus shall not stand or park such vehicle
upon any street at any place other than a bus stand so designated as
provided herein.

2. The operator of a bus shall not stop such vehicle upon any street at
any place for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers or their
baggage other than at a bus stop, bus stand or passenger loading zone so
designated as provided herein, except in case of an emergency.

3. The operator of a bus shall enter a bus stop, bus stand or passenger
loading zone on a public street in such a manner that the bus when
stopped to load or unload passengers or baggage shall be in a position
with the right front wheel of such vehicle not further than eighteen
inches from the curb and the bus approximately parallel to the curb so as
not to unduly impede the movement of other vehicular traffic.

4. The operator of a taxicab shall not stand or park such vehicle upon
any street at any place other than in a taxicab stand so designated as
provided herein. This provision shall not prevent the operator of a
taxicab from temporarily stopping in accordance with other stopping or
parking regulations at any place for the purpose of and while actually
engaged in the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers. (L. 1965
p. 445 § 132)

No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle other than a bus
in a bus stop, or other than a taxicab in a taxicab stand when any such
stop or stand has been officially designated and appropriately signed,
except that the driver of a passenger vehicle may temporarily stop
therein for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or
unloading passengers when such stopping does not interfere with any bus
or taxicab waiting to enter or about to enter such zone. (L. 1965 p. 445
§ 133)

The provisions of this ordinance prohibiting the standing or
parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those times herein
specified or as indicated on official signs except when it is necessary
to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance
with the directions of a police officer or official traffic control
device. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 134)

The provisions of this ordinance imposing a time limit on
parking shall not relieve any person from the duty to observe other and
more restrictive provisions prohibiting or limiting the stopping,
standing, or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified
times. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 135)

When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall
park a vehicle at any time upon any of the streets described by
ordinance. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 136)

When signs are erected in each block giving notice thereof, no
person shall park a vehicle between the hours specified by ordinance of
any day except Sunday and public holidays within the district or upon any
of the streets described by ordinance. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 137)

When signs are erected in each block giving notice thereof, no
person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle between the hours specified
by ordinance of any day except Sundays and public holidays within the
district or upon any of the streets described by ordinance. (L. 1965 p.
445 § 138)

Whenever by this ordinance or any ordinance of the city any
parking time limit is imposed or parking is prohibited on designated
streets it shall be the duty of the city traffic engineer to erect
appropriate signs giving notice thereof and no such regulations shall be
effective unless said signs are erected and in place at the time of any
alleged offense. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 140)

In cases where an equally direct and convenient alternate route
is provided, an ordinance may describe and signs may be erected giving
notice thereof, that no persons shall operate any commercial vehicle upon
streets or parts of streets so described except those commercial vehicles
making deliveries thereon. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 141)

1. Any person charged with an offense for which payment of a
fine may be made to the traffic violations bureau shall have the option
of paying such fine within the time specified in the notice of arrest at
the traffic violations bureau upon entering a plea of guilty and upon
waiving appearance in court; or may have the option of depositing
required lawful bail, and upon a plea of not guilty shall be entitled to
a trial as authorized by law.

2. The payment of a fine to the bureau shall be deemed an acknowledgment
of conviction of the alleged offense, and the bureau, upon accepting the
prescribed fine, shall issue a receipt to the violator acknowledging
payment thereof. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 144)

The following duties are hereby imposed upon the traffic
violations bureau in reference to traffic offenses:

(1) It shall accept designated fines, issue receipts, and represent in
court such violators as are permitted and desire to plead guilty, waive
court appearance, and give power of attorney;

(2) It shall receive and issue receipts for cash bail from the persons
who must or wish to be heard in court, enter the time of their appearance
on the court docket, and notify the arresting officer and witnesses, if
any, to be present. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 145)

The traffic violations bureau shall keep records and submit to
the judges hearing violations of municipal ordinances summarized monthly
reports of all notices issued and arrests made for violations of the
traffic laws and ordinances in the city and of all the fines collected by
the traffic violations bureau or the court, and of the final disposition
or present status of every case of violation of the provisions of said
laws and ordinances. Such records shall be so maintained as to show all
types of violations and the totals of each. Said records shall be public
records. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 146, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)

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The traffic violations bureau shall follow such procedure as may
be prescribed by the traffic ordinances of the city or as may be required
by any laws of this state. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 147)

1. The municipality shall provide books containing uniform
traffic tickets as prescribed by supreme court rule no. 37.46. Said books
shall include serially numbered sets of citations in quadruplicate in the
form prescribed by supreme court rule.

2. Such books shall be issued to the chief of police or his duly
authorized agent, a record shall be maintained of every book so issued
and a written receipt shall be required for every book. The judge or
judges hearing municipal ordinance violation cases may require that a
copy of such record and receipts be filed with the court.

3. The chief of police shall be responsible for the issuance of such
books to individual members of the police department. The chief of police
shall require a written receipt for every book so issued and shall
maintain a record of every such book and each set of citations contained
therein. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 150, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)

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Except when authorized or directed under state law to
immediately take a person before the municipal judge for the violation of
any traffic laws, a police officer who halts a person for such violation
other than for the purpose of giving him a warning or warning notice and
does not take such person into custody under arrest, shall issue to him a
uniform traffic ticket which shall be proceeded upon in accordance with
supreme court rule no. 37. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 151, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)

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Whenever any motor vehicle without driver is found parked or
stopped in violation of any of the restrictions imposed by ordinance of
the city or by state law, the officer finding such vehicle shall take its
registration number and may take any other information displayed on the
vehicle which may identify its user, and shall conspicuously affix to
such vehicle a uniform traffic ticket or other citation for the driver to
answer to the charge against him within seven days during the hours and
at a place specified in the traffic ticket. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 153, A.L.
2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)

If a violator of the restrictions on stopping, standing or
parking under the traffic laws or ordinances does not appear in response
to a uniform traffic ticket affixed to such motor vehicle within a period
of five days, the traffic violations bureau shall send to the owner of
the motor vehicle to which the traffic ticket was affixed a letter
informing him of the violation and warning him that in the event such
letter is disregarded for a period of five days a warrant of arrest will
be issued. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 154)

This ordinance or any designated part thereof shall become
effective in any city of the state upon the adoption thereof by the
legislative body of the city by an ordinance appropriately describing
this ordinance or the part thereof adopted. Upon such adoption by the
city all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with or
inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed,
except that this repeal shall not affect or prevent the prosecution or
punishment of any person for any act done or committed in violation of
any ordinance hereby repealed prior to the taking effect of this
ordinance. (L. 1965 p. 445 § 157)

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