[Ord. No. 24, § 1, 3-30-1931[1]]
The Chief of Police is hereby empowered to make and enforce regulations necessary to make effective the provisions of this chapter and to make temporary regulations effective to cover emergencies.
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Editor's Note: Ord. No. 24, adopted 3-30-1931, was amended 7-30-1946, 1-26-1948, 10-25-1948, 12-12-1949, 11-13-1956, 2-11-1957, 4-27-1959, 4-9-1962, 10-8-1962, 10-26-1964, 12-28-1964, 7-29-1969 and 12-22-1969.
[Ord. No. 24, § 9, 3-30-1931]
The Chief of Police is hereby authorized, with the approval of the Mayor or Police Commissioner or Commission, to establish and designate by appropriate devices, marks or lines, crosswalks and traffic lanes on street pavements or surfaces at such places as he may deem advisable.
[Ord. No. 24, § 9, 3-30-1931]
The Chief of Police is empowered to determine and designate, with the approval of the Mayor or Police Commission or Commissioner, those intersections at which operators of vehicles shall not make a left turn and shall place proper signs at such intersections.
[Ord. No. 24, § 9, 3-30-1931]
The Chief of Police is empowered to determine and designate, with the approval of the Mayor or Police Commission or Police Commissioner, streets upon which vehicular traffic shall proceed in only one direction and shall place proper signs on such streets.
[Ord. No. 24, § 3, 3-30-1931]
It shall be unlawful for any person to refuse or fail to comply with any lawful order, signal or direction of a police officer or to disobey the instructions of any traffic sign or signal unless so directed by a police officer.
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Editor's Note: For purposes of classification, the editor has redesignated provisions formerly included herein as § 21-6 as a new § 21-35. Said provisions prohibited driving on sidewalks and were derived from Ord. No. 24, §§ 2, 11, adopted 3-30-1931.
[Ord. No. 24, § 4, 3-30-1931]
(a) 
The provisions of this chapter regulating the movement, parking and standing of vehicles shall not apply to ambulances, fire apparatus, police and military vehicles or emergency vehicles of a public service corporation, while in the performance of duty.
(b) 
This exemption shall not, however, protect the driver of any such vehicle from the consequences of a reckless disregard of the safety of others.
[Ord. No. 24, § 5, 3-30-1931]
Every person propelling any push cart or riding a bicycle or an animal upon a roadway and any person driving any animals shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter applicable to the operator of any vehicle, except those provisions of this chapter with reference to the equipment of vehicles and except those provisions which by their very nature can have no application.
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Cross Reference: Bicycles, Ch. 5 1/2.
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Editor's Note: For purposes of classification, the editor has redesignated provisions formerly included herein as § 21-9 as a new § 21-33.1. Said provisions pertained to restriction of commercial traffic on certain streets and were derived from Ord. No. 24, § 15, adopted 3-30-1931, and Ord. No. 35, § 1, adopted 11-8-1954.
[L.L. No. 4-2005, § 2]
(a) 
The Mayor or his designee may declare a "public emergency." A public emergency may include a "snow emergency," flood, fire or any other public emergency in the discretion of the Mayor or his designee. When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any public street or public parking lot within this Village during a public emergency which affects that portion of the public street or public parking lot upon which said vehicle is parked or abandoned and for such periods preceding or following any such public emergency as in the judgment of the Mayor or his designee may be needed to prepare for or complete governmental operations relating to the emergency, then said vehicle may be removed by the Police Department if the presence in said location of the vehicle might interfere with the operation of or access thereto by any authorized public vehicle or equipment. If at the time of the removal of the vehicle the vehicle is illegally parked in violation of any section of this Chapter 21 of the Village Code of Ordinances, then the owner of said vehicle is subject to the penalties in Subsections (b) and (c) of this section.
(b) 
The owner of any such vehicle which is towed shall be subject to a fine of up to $100 plus up to $50 for each twenty-four-hour period or portion thereof from the time of the towing.
(c) 
In addition to any fine imposed by the court, the owner of the vehicle removed shall be liable to pay any towing and storage costs charged either by the Village or any private concern for the removal and storage of the vehicle.