[Ord. No. 252 §1; Ord. No. 1065 §1, 7-6-1993; Ord. No. 1645 §1, 9-17-2002]
(a)
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 street traffic in the City.
(b)
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.
(c)
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.
(d)
Authority To Enforce Traffic Regulations On Private Property. The Mayor, with the approval of the Board of Aldermen, upon application
of an owner or lessor of land, either publicly or privately owned,
open to vehicular traffic to the public and used by the public as
a thoroughfare with such thoroughfare paved, marked and delineated,
may enter into an agreement with such owner or lessor to extend the
enforcement of traffic regulations to such thoroughfares within the
City limits of Eureka without requiring the owner to dedicate public
right-of-way to the City; provided that the City of Eureka shall not
be responsible for the maintenance or condition of such private thoroughfare
and shall retain the power to terminate said agreement at will.
[Ord. No. 252 §1]
No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any
lawful order or direction of a Police Officer or Fire Department official.
[Ord. No. 252 §1]
Every person propelling any pushcart or riding an animal upon
a roadway, and every person driving any animal-drawn vehicle, shall
be subject to the provisions of this Chapter applicable to the driver
of any vehicle, except those provisions of this Chapter which by their
very nature can have no application.
[Ord. No. 252 §1; Ord. No. 1323 §1, 11-18-1997]
(a)
No person upon roller skates, or riding in or by means of any coaster,
skateboard, toy vehicle or similar device, shall go upon any roadway
in any zoning district 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.
(b)
No person shall use, operate or permit the use or operation of any
coaster, roller skates, skateboard or like instrument on any sidewalk,
street, parking lot or other public place within commercial or industrial
districts of the City.
(c)
No person shall use, operate or permit the use or operation of any
coaster, roller skates, skateboard or like instrument on any sidewalk,
street, parking lot or other public place within residential districts
of the City if such activity presents a traffic, safety or other hazard.
(d)
The Police Officers of the City are hereby authorized to impound
the roller skates, coaster, skateboard, toy vehicle or similar device
of such person and to retain possession of same until such time as
the parent or guardian of the violator shall appear at the Police
Department and claim such.
[Ord. No. 252 §1]
The provisions of this Chapter 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 such
driver to violate any of the provisions of this Chapter, except as
otherwise permitted in this Chapter.
[Ord. No. 252 §1; Ord. No. 1078 §§1 — 2, 1-18-1994; Ord. No. 1651 §1, 10-1-2002]
Upon the immediate approach of an emergency vehicle giving audible
signal by siren and having at least one (1) lighted lamp exhibiting
a red light visible under normal atmospheric conditions from a distance
of five hundred (500) feet to the front of such vehicle or a flashing
blue light authorized by Section 307.175, RSMo., the driver of every
other vehicle shall yield the right-of-way and shall immediately drive
to a position parallel to, and as far as possible to the right of,
the traveled portion of the highway or roadway and thereupon stop
and remain in such position until such emergency vehicle has passed,
except when otherwise directed by a Police or Traffic Officer.
Upon approaching a stationary emergency vehicle displaying lighted
red or red and blue lights, the driver of every motor vehicle shall:
(1)
Proceed with caution and yield the right-of-way, if possible with
due regard to safety and traffic conditions, by making a lane change
into a lane not adjacent to that of the stationary vehicle if on a
roadway having at least four (4) lanes with not less than two (2)
lanes proceeding in the same direction as the approaching vehicle;
or
(2)
Proceed with due caution and reduce the speed of the vehicle, maintaining
a safe speed for road conditions, if changing lanes would be unsafe
or impossible.
(3)
An "emergency vehicle" is a vehicle of any of the
following types:
(a)
A vehicle operated by the State Highway Patrol, those vehicles
operated by enforcement personnel by the Division of Transportation
of the Department of Economic Development, Police or Fire Department,
Sheriff, Constable or Deputy Sheriff, Federal Law Enforcement Officer
authorized to carry firearms and to make arrests for violations of
the laws of the United States, traffic officer or Coroner, or by a
privately owned emergency vehicle company.
(b)
A vehicle operated as an ambulance or operated commercially
for the purpose of transporting emergency medical supplies or organs.
(c)
Any vehicle qualifying as an emergency vehicle under Section
307.175, RSMo.
(d)
Any wrecker or tow truck or a vehicle owned and operated by
a public utility or public service corporation while performing emergency
service.
(e)
Any vehicle transporting equipment designed to extricate human
beings from the wreckage of a motor vehicle.
(4)
The driver of any vehicle referred to in Subdivisions (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) of Subsection (3) of this Section shall not sound the siren thereon or have the front red lights or blue lights on except when said vehicle is responding to an emergency call or when in pursuit of an actual or suspected law violator, or when responding to, but not upon return from, a fire.
(5)
The driver of an emergency vehicle may:
(a)
Park or stand, irrespective of the provisions of Sections 304.014
to 304.026, RSMo.
(b)
Proceed past a red stop signal or stop sign, but only after
slowing down as may be necessary for safe operation.
(c)
Exceed the prima facie speed limit so long as he does not endanger
life or property.
(d)
Disregard regulations governing direction of movement or turning
in specified directions.
(6)
The exemptions herein granted to an emergency vehicle shall apply
only when the driver of any such vehicle while in motion sounds an
audible signal by siren as may be reasonably necessary, or when the
vehicle is equipped with at least one (1) lighted lamp displaying
a red light or blue light visible under normal atmospheric conditions
from a distance of five hundred (500) feet to the front of such vehicle.
(7)
No person shall purchase an emergency light as described in this
Section without furnishing the seller of said light an affidavit stating
that the light will be used exclusively for emergency vehicle purposes.
[Ord. No. 1079 §§1 — 2, 1-18-1994]
(a)
All motor vehicles and every trailer and semi-trailer operating upon
the public roadways of this City and carrying goods or material or
farm products which may reasonably be expected to become dislodged
and fall from the vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer as a result of
wind pressure or air pressure and/or by the movement of the vehicle,
trailer or semi-trailer shall have a protective cover or be sufficiently
secured so that no portion of such goods or material can become dislodged
and fall from the vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer while being transported
or carried.
(b)
Operation of a motor vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer in violation
of this Section shall be a misdemeanor, and any person convicted thereof
shall be punished as provided by law.
[Ord. No. 252 §1]
The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in
injury to or death of any person or total damage to all property to
an apparent extent of one hundred dollars ($100.00) or more shall
immediately by the quickest means of communication give notice of
such accident to the Police Department if such accident occurs within
the City.
[Ord. No. 252 §1]
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
damage to all property to an apparent extent of one hundred dollars
($100.00) or more shall, within five (5) 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.
[Ord. No. 252 §1]
(a)
Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of giving immediate notice of an accident as required in Section 13-18 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.
(b)
Whenever the driver is physically incapable of making a written report of an accident as required in Section 13-19 and such driver is not the owner of the vehicle, then the owner of the vehicle involved in such accident shall within five (5) days after the accident make such report not made by the driver.
[Ord. No. 252, §1]
(a)
All written reports made by persons involved in accidents or by garages
shall be without prejudice to the individual so reporting and shall
be for the confidential use of the police department or other governmental
agencies having use for the records for accident prevention purposes;
except, that the police department or other governmental agency may
disclose the identity of a person involved in an accident when such
identity is not otherwise known or when such person denies his presence
at such accident.
(b)
No written reports forwarded under the provisions of this section
shall be used as evidence in any trial, civil or criminal, arising
out of an accident; except, that the police department shall furnish
upon demand of any party to such trial, or upon demand of any court,
a certificate showing that a specified accident report has or has
not been made to the department in compliance with law, and, if such
report has been made, the date, time and location of the accident,
the names and addresses of the drivers, the owners of the vehicles
involved and the investigating officers.
