CHAPTER 1

TRAFFIC CODE; GENERAL PROVISIONS

SECTION:

7-1--1:		Traffic Code Adopted By Reference
7-1--2:		Speed Limits
7-1--3:		Traffic Control
7-1--4:		Stop And Yield Intersections
7-1--5:		Standing Or Parking Vehicles; Restrictions And Exceptions
7-1--6:		Parallel Parking
7-1--7:		Parking Of Large Commercial Vehicles
7-1--8:		Double Parking Prohibited
7-1--9:		Unlawful To Park; Restricted Areas; Red Curbs
7-1-10:		Vehicles For Sale
7-1-11:		Storage Of Vehicles Or Other Objects On Public Streets Prohibited
7-1-12:		Disabled Vehicles; Unlawful To Leave Or Dismantle On Public Streets
7-1-13:		Motor Vehicles Left Unattended
7-1-14:		Approach To Parking Space
7-1-15:		Parking In Alleys
7-1-16:		Parking On Walk Or Curbing
7-1-17:		Parking Prohibited During Snow Removal
7-1-18:		Evidence Required On Parking Violations
7-1-19:		Recreational Vehicles; Prohibited Parking
7-1-20:		Penalty !2R!

7-1-1:		TRAFFIC CODE ADOPTED BY REFERENCE:

Except insofar as the application thereof is clearly impractical or inappropriate, in view of the context of purposes or penalty as provided, all of the definitions, requirements, regulations, prohibitions, provisions and sections of the Utah traffic code^1 (or Utah motor vehicle act), as amended, are hereby adopted by the city. Any and all violations thereof shall be considered violations of this chapter, and each such violation shall subject the violator thereof to penalty provisions under this chapter if proceeded hereunder. (2004 Code)

1. UCA title 41.

7-1-2:		SPEED LIMITS:

A. When appropriate traffic control or regulatory signs giving notice of speeds are posted, the prima facie maximum speed limits designated upon said signs shall apply to the appropriate streets or portions of streets so posted.

B.	In the absence of any speed limit sign designating a speed limit applicable thereto, the prima facie speed limit shall be twenty five (25) miles per hour. (1987 Code § 8-1-2)

7-1-3:		TRAFFIC CONTROL:

The traffic control and regulation of all public streets shall be as posted, regulated or controlled by appropriate traffic control devices, signs or other regulatory devices or controls. (1987 Code § 8-1-3)

7-1-4:		STOP AND YIELD INTERSECTIONS:

When appropriate traffic control or regulatory signs are posted at entrances to intersections identifying them as stop or yield entrances, such streets are hereby declared to be stop entrances as designated by the signs. (1987 Code § 8-1-4)

7-1-5:		STANDING OR PARKING VEHICLES; RESTRICTIONS AND EXCEPTIONS^2:

2. UCA 41-6a-1401.

A.	Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with law, the directions of a peace officer, or a traffic control device, a person may not:

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 (30') of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless a different length is indicated by signs or markings;

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

g.	On any bridge or other elevated structure;

h.	Any place where a traffic control device prohibits stopping, standing, or parking; or

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 (15') of a fire hydrant;

c.	Within twenty feet (20') of a crosswalk;

d.	Within thirty feet (30') upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign, or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;

e.	Within twenty feet (20') 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 (75') of the entrance when properly signposted; or

f.	At any place where a traffic control device prohibits standing; or
3.	Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers, at any place where traffic control devices prohibit parking.

B.	A person may not move a vehicle that is not lawfully under the person's control into any prohibited area or into an unlawful distance from the curb. (Ord. 2008-8, 9-4-2008)

7-1-6:		PARALLEL PARKING:

A.	It shall be unlawful to park a motor vehicle on any street in this city that is less than ninety nine feet (99') wide other than parallel with the edge of the roadway, headed in the direction of lawful traffic movement and with the right wheels of the vehicle within twelve inches (12") of the curb or edge of the street, except as otherwise provided in this section.

B.	Angle parking shall be permitted on all Orangeville City streets except where streets are less than ninety nine feet (99') wide or where posted. (Ord. 2008-8, 9-4-2008)

7-1-7:		PARKING OF LARGE COMMERCIAL VEHICLES:

A.	It shall be lawful to park a commercial vehicle on any street or alley within Orangeville City for the purpose of relocating the personal property of a business or residence, such as in the case of a moving van or U-Haul, but such parking shall be subject to the other terms of this chapter, and provided that no commercial vehicle shall be parked or left standing at any time during the year, on any public road, street, or alley within fifty feet (50') from the intersection of any street frontage property lines. It is intended by the last provision to prohibit the parking of all commercial vehicles within fifty feet (50') of a street corner or intersection so as to assist in maintaining a clear view at intersecting streets and at street corners. No engine or refrigerator unit may be started or left running anywhere in the city between the hours of ten o'clock (10:00) P.M. and seven o'clock (7:00) A.M. the next day.

B.	For the purpose of this chapter, a "commercial vehicle" shall be defined as a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer used or maintained for the transportation of persons or property that operates:

1.	As a carrier for hire, compensation, or profit; or

2.	As a carrier to transport the vehicle owner's goods or property in furtherance of the owner's commercial enterprise.

This chapter does not apply to persons, motor vehicles, and other equipment involved with the repair or construction of a highway, utility strip, sidewalks or rights of way belonging to Orangeville City during the construction period. However, the entire chapter applies to those persons and vehicles when traveling to or from the work. (Ord. 2008-8, 9-4-2008)

7-1-8:		DOUBLE PARKING PROHIBITED:

It shall be unlawful within Orangeville City to double park a motor vehicle. Double parking is parking two (2) vehicles side by side parallel to the curb. (Ord. 2008-8, 9-4-2008)

7-1-9:		UNLAWFUL TO PARK; RESTRICTED AREAS; RED CURBS:

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to park or cause to be parked any motor vehicle upon the streets in front of any curb painted red or designated "no parking" by a sign or device placed in said area. (Ord. 2008-8, 9-4-2008)

7-1-10:		VEHICLES FOR SALE:

It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle on any city property for the purpose of displaying it for sale. (Ord. 2008-8, 9-4-2008)

7-1-11:		STORAGE OF VEHICLES OR OTHER OBJECTS ON PUBLIC STREETS PROHIBITED:

It shall be an infraction and, upon conviction, subject to penalty as provided in section 1-4-1 of this code, for any person to park or leave standing on any public road, street, alley or municipal property any motor vehicle, commercial vehicle, trailer, camp trailer, mobile home, recreational vehicle, wagons, boats, or any like manner of obstructions, for forty eight (48) or more consecutive hours, and any vehicle, trailer, camp trailer, mobile home, recreational vehicle, commercial vehicle, wagons, boats, or any like manner of obstructions so parked or left standing be impounded or removed by the city. For purposes of impoundment and removal, the city may, after making a reasonable effort to locate the owner, impound and remove any motor vehicle, commercial vehicle, trailer, camp trailer, mobile home, recreational vehicle, wagon, boat, or any like obstruction which has been unmoved for forty eight (48) consecutive hours. The cost of impoundment and removal shall be charged to the owner or any person who claims the impounded motor vehicles or other obstruction. (Ord. 2008-8, 9-4-2008)

7-1-12:		DISABLED VEHICLES; UNLAWFUL TO LEAVE OR DISMANTLE ON PUBLIC STREETS:

A.	It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to park or cause to be left upon any public street in Orangeville City, any disabled vehicle for a period longer than forty eight (48) hours, unless approved by city council.

B.	It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to dismantle or cause to be dismantled any disabled vehicle upon any street in Orangeville City.

C.	The county sheriff, county officer or city is hereby empowered to remove or cause to be removed from the streets of Orangeville City, at the expense of the owner thereof, any disabled vehicle found left upon the public streets of Orangeville City contrary to the provisions of this section. (Ord. 2008-8, 9-4-2008)

7-1-13:		MOTOR VEHICLES LEFT UNATTENDED:

No driver or person in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit such vehicle to stand unattended without first stopping the engine, locking the ignition, and removing the keys, or when such motor vehicle is standing upon a perceptible grade without effectively setting the brakes thereon and turning the front wheels to the curb or side of the street. (Ord. 2008-8, 9-4-2008)

7-1-14:		APPROACH TO PARKING SPACE:

A.	No person shall move his vehicle in any manner or leave a parking space and then reenter it to avoid the intent of this chapter.
B.	Every driver about to enter a parking space being vacated shall stop his vehicle and wait to the rear of the vehicle in the actual process of vacating the parking space and having so waited, shall have prior right to the parking space over all other drivers.

C.	No driver shall stop his vehicle ahead of a parking space being vacated and attempt to interfere with a driver who has waited properly to the rear of a parking space being vacated.

D.	No driver shall stop and wait for a parking space unless the vehicle vacating the space is actually in motion of the process of vacating. (Ord. 2008-8, 9-4-2008)

7-1-15:		PARKING IN ALLEYS:

No person shall park any vehicle within an alley except during the necessary and expeditious loading and unloading of merchandise, and no person shall stop, stand, or park any vehicle within an alley in such a position as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting property or interfere with the free movement of traffic through the alley. (Ord. 2008-8, 9-4-2008)

7-1-16:		PARKING ON WALK OR CURBING:

It shall be unlawful for any person to leave or cause to be left or parked any vehicle upon, over, or across any public parking or sidewalk or that area between the sidewalk and curb. (Ord. 2008-8, 9-4-2008)

7-1-17:		PARKING PROHIBITED DURING SNOW REMOVAL:

No person shall leave any vehicle parked on the streets of Orangeville City when snow removal operations are in progress or at any other time when snow removal operations are required or being performed. (Ord. 2008-8, 9-4-2008)

7-1-18:		EVIDENCE REQUIRED ON PARKING VIOLATIONS:

The presence of any vehicle in or upon any public street in Orangeville City, parked in violation of any city ordinance relating to this chapter, shall be prima facie evidence that the person in whose name such vehicle is registered as owner, committed or authorized the commission of such violation. (Ord. 2008-8, 9-4-2008)

7-1-19:		RECREATIONAL VEHICLES; PROHIBITED PARKING:

A.	No person who owns or has possession, custody or control of any recreational vehicle shall park or leave standing, at any time during the year, any such recreational vehicle on any public road, street, alley or other municipal property, within fifty feet (50') from the intersection of any street frontage property lines. It is intended by this provision to prohibit the parking of all recreational vehicles within fifty feet (50') of a street corner or intersecting streets and street corners.

B.	For purposes of this chapter, a "recreational vehicle" shall be defined as a vehicular unit other than a mobile home, primarily designed as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational, or vacation use, which is either self-propelled or pulled by another vehicle. "Recreational vehicle" includes a travel trailer, a camping trailer, a motor home, a fifth wheel trailer, and a van. (Ord. 2008-8, 9-4-2008)

7-1-20:		PENALTY:

Except in cases where a different penalty is prescribed in this chapter or any provisions adopted or incorporated by reference, any person violating, causing or permitting a violation of any provision of this chapter or the provisions adopted or incorporated by reference shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor and, upon conviction, subject to penalty as provided in section 1-4-1 of this code. (Ord. 2008-8, 9-4-2008)