Ordinances-1980-86

CHAPTER 3 ENFORCEMENT SECTION: 1-3-1: Obedience to Police 1-3-2: Public Employees; Traffic Regulations 1-3-3: Exemptions; Authorized Emergency Vehicles 1-3-4: Exemptions; Road Workers 1-3-5: Bicycles; Animals 1-3-1 OBEDIENCE TO POLICE: No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any police officer invested by law with authority to direct, control or regulate traffic. 1-3-2 PUBLIC EMPLOYEES; TRAFFIC REGULATIONS: The provisions of this Code applicable to the drivers of vehicles upon the streets and highways apply to the drivers of all vehicles owned or operated by the United States, the State, the County, the City or any other political subdivision of the State, subject to such specific exemptions as are set forth in this Chapter with reference to authorized emergency vehicles. 1-3-3 EXEMPTIONS; AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES: The driver of any authorized emergency vehicle, when responding to an emergency call, upon approaching a red or stop signal or any stop sign shall slow down as necessary for safety but may proceed cautiously past such red or stop sign or signal. At other times drivers of authorized emergency vehicles must stop in obedience to a stop sign or signal. The speed limitations set forth in this Code do not apply to authorized emergency vehicles when responding to emergency calls and the drivers thereof sound audible signal by bell, siren or exhaust whistle. This provision does not relieve the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons using the streets, nor does it protect the driver of any such vehicle from the consequence of his negligence. No driver of an authorized emergency vehicle may assume any special privilege under this Chapter except when such vehicle is operated in response to an emergency call or in the immediate pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law. 1-3-4 EXEMPTIONS; ROAD WORKERS: The provisions of this Chapter do not apply to persons, teams, motor vehicles or other equipment actually engaged in work upon the surface of a street or highway, but does apply to such persons and vehicles when traveling to or from such work. 1-3-5 BICYCLES; ANIMALS: Every person riding a bicycle or an animal or driving any animal drawing a vehicle upon a roadway is subject to the provisions of this Code applicable to the driver of a vehicle, except those provisions which by their nature can have no application.