The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business
shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire
alarm closer than 500 feet or drive into or park such vehicle within
the block where fire apparatus has stopped in answer to a fire alarm.
No vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of the
Fire Department when laid down on any street or private driveway to
be used at any fire or alarm of fire without the consent of the Fire
Department official in command.
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to place
or leave any vehicle of any kind upon the public highway, street or
alley within the corporate limits of the city so as to hinder or obstruct
the free use of such highway, street, alley or thoroughfare. Provided
that nothing herein contained shall prevent the proper use of any
vehicle upon or along the public highways, streets or alleys of the
city as provided by the city ordinances.
No person shall, without the consent of the owner or the person
in charge of a motor vehicle, change the position of the levers, switches
or other parts of said motor vehicle or in any way use, occupy, injure,
deface, scratch, cut, tamper with or molest any motor vehicle. Provided
that this section shall not apply in case of moving or starting of
motor vehicle by police or peace officers for lawful purposes nor
by members of the Fire Department, in case of emergency in the vicinity
of a fire, nor the changing of the position of said motor vehicle
temporarily without starting the motor of the same, by any one for
the purpose of extracting or removing another vehicle from a congested
position.
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 Chapter. This provision shall not apply at intersections where
traffic is controlled by traffic control signals or police officers.
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.
A funeral composed of a procession of vehicles shall be identified
as such by the display upon the outside of each vehicle or of a pennant
or other identifying insignia or by such other method as may be determined
and designated by the Police Department.
No funeral, procession or parade containing 200 or more persons
or 50 or more vehicles except the military forces of the United States
and the military forces of this state 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.
The driver of a vehicle shall not drive upon a sidewalk or within
any sidewalk area except at a permanent or temporary driveway.
No person shall start a vehicle which is stopped, standing or
parked unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable
safety.
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.
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.
Every person operating a motorcycle, motor scooter or a motor
bicycle 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 the vehicle unless it is designed to carry
more than one person in which event a passenger may ride only 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.
1.
No person shall drive a vehicle when it is so loaded or when there
are in the front seat such a number of persons, exceeding three, as
to obstruct the view of the driver to the front or sides of the vehicle
or as to interfere with the driver's control over the driving mechanism
of the vehicle.
2.
No passenger in a vehicle shall ride in such position as to interfere
with the driver's view ahead or to the sides or to interfere with
his control over the driving mechanism of the vehicle.
No person riding upon any bicycle, coaster, roller skates, sled
or toy vehicle shall attach the same or himself to any vehicle upon
a roadway.
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.
No person shall board or alight from any vehicle while such
vehicle is in motion.
No person shall ride on any vehicle upon any position thereof
not designed or intended for the use of passengers. This provision
shall not apply to an employee engaged in the necessary discharge
of a duty, or to persons riding within truck bodies in space intended
for merchandise.
It is 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.
No vehicle shall at any time be driven through or within a safety
zone or island.
It is unlawful for any person to place, or cause to be placed,
or let fall and remain, in or upon any street, any scrap iron, nail,
tack, glass, stick or other thing which is likely to injure persons
or damage property or to render a street unsafe for traffic.
It is unlawful for any person to operate a motor driven cycle,
including a motor scooter or motor driven bicycle, on a street in
this city during a time when state law prohibits the operation of
such vehicle.
No person shall operate, drive or move on any public road, street
or highway of the City of Weatherford any motor vehicle, including
motorcycles, trailers, semitrailers, or pole trailers or any combination
thereof unless said vehicle is bearing a valid, official inspection
sticker issued by an official inspection station licensed by the Department
of Public Safety. The provisions of this article shall not apply to
any house trailer or mobile home which requires a permit to be moved
upon the highways of the state.
[Amended 4-24-2000, Ordinance
2000-02]
1.
It shall be unlawful from and after the effective date of this article
for any driver of an automobile or other vehicle to turn such a vehicle
around so as to proceed in the opposite direction at any point on
any designated state or federal highway within the limits of this
city.
2.
It shall be unlawful from and after the effective date of this article
for the driver of any automobile or other vehicle traveling upon any
designated state or federal highway within the limits of this city
to turn such vehicle around so as to proceed in the opposite direction
by driving such automobile or vehicle off such highway onto public
or private property or driveways and driving back onto said highway,
and proceeding in the opposite direction, provided that the provisions
of this section shall not apply to the drivers of automobiles or vehicles
stopping at private property under their ownership or in their possession
or stopping at their place of business or employment or stopping to
do business at a place of business along said highway.
3.
It shall be unlawful for an operator of any vehicle to avoid any
sign, signal, police officer, or duly authorized person that is directing
traffic by entering any private drive, private road, or parking lot
with the intent to avoid such sign, signal, police officer, or duly
authorized person, that is directing traffic, within the limits of
the City of Weatherford.
4.
It shall be unlawful for an operator of any vehicle to turn such
vehicle in any manner that will allow the operator of the vehicle
to park said vehicle on the opposite side of the roadway within the
limits of the City of Weatherford.
5.
INTENT – Shall be defined as the driving of any vehicle upon
any private drive, private road, or parking lot without attempting
to stop or park in any private drive, private road, or parking lot.
Nothing in this Code shall be construed to prevent the vehicles
of the United States Postal Department, while engaged in the business
of said department, or the duly authorized and licensed operators
of such vehicles in pursuance of their duties under said department
from:
1.
Double parking such vehicles while engaged in collecting and delivering
U.S. Mail.
2.
Leaving vehicle while the motor is running in a double parked condition
without a licensed operator therein.
3.
Using areas designated as "loading zones" and "taxi zones" for the
collection and delivery of the U.S. Mail.
4.
Leaving the vehicle parked in an alley where less than 10 feet of
alley width remains for the use of through traffic.
5.
The use of designated passenger loading zones, however, such exemptions
shall apply only for the purpose of momentary stops for mail pickup
and delivery and shall not permit the use of such areas for the general
mail delivery.
[Amended 4-24-2000, Ordinance
2000-02]
It shall be unlawful for the operator of any motor vehicle to
deaccelerate said motor vehicle in any manner that will cause said
motor vehicle to create any noise that may be annoying to any person
within the limits of the City of Weatherford.
