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Title 12 — Vehicles and Traffic

Cathedral City Municipal Code Ch. 12.64 Driving Rules

Cathedral City Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Cathedral City

Cite as: Cathedral City Municipal Code Chapter 12.64 · Text as of 2026-10-04

§ 12.64.010. Driving through funeral processions.

No driver of a vehicle shall drive between vehicles comprising a funeral procession while they are in motion and when the vehicles in such procession are conspicuously so designated.

(Ord. 15 § 1, 1982)

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§ 12.64.020. Controlled intersections.

Section 12.64.010 shall not apply at intersections where traffic is controlled by official traffic signals or police officers.

(Ord. 15 § 1, 1982)

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§ 12.64.030. Clinging to moving vehicles.

No person riding upon any bicycle, motorcycle, coaster, roller skates, skateboard or any toy vehicle shall attach the same or himself to any moving vehicle upon any roadway.

(Ord. 15 § 1, 1982)

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§ 12.64.040. Driving vehicles on sidewalks—Generally prohibited.

Unless otherwise expressly allowed by another provision of this title or other applicable law, no person shall drive a vehicle (including any bicycle or unicycle) within any sidewalk area or parkway except at a permanent or temporary driveway.

(Ord. 15 § 1, 1982)

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§ 12.64.042. Bicycles on sidewalks—When allowed.

A. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 12.64.040, bicycles and unicycles may be ridden along portions or segments of sidewalks wherever expressly permitted by resolution of the city council, but not until such sidewalk areas have been appropriately designated by the city engineer with signs or markings to give due notice to the pedestrian and cycling public.

B. No person shall ride, operate or use a bicycle or unicycle on a sidewalk or bikeway in a wilful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property.

(Ord. 15 § 1, 1982)

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§ 12.64.050. New pavement.

No person shall ride or drive any animal or any vehicle over or across any newly made pavement or freshly painted marking in any street when a barrier or sign is in place warning persons not to drive over or across such pavement or marking, or when a sign is in place stating that the street or any portion thereof is closed.

(Ord. 15 § 1, 1982)

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§ 12.64.060. Driving on rims of wheels.

No person shall drive, operate, tow or otherwise move any motor vehicle, equipped with rims to accommodate rubber tires, over or across any street in this city with tires removed or deflated so that the metal flanges or rims are in contact with the pavement, except to the nearest edge of the pavement from the point any such condition occurs through accident.

(Ord. 15 § 1, 1982)

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§ 12.64.070. Restricted access.

No person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any limited access roadway except at such entrances and exits as are established by public authority.

(Ord. 15 § 1, 1982)

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§ 12.64.080. Restrictions on use of freeways.

No person shall drive or operate any bicycle, motor-driven cycle, or any vehicle which is not drawn by a motor vehicle upon any street established as a freeway, as defined by state law, nor shall any pedestrian walk across or along any such street so designated and described except in space set aside for the use of pedestrians, provided official signs are in place giving notice of such restrictions.

(Ord. 15 § 1, 1982)

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§ 12.64.090. Excessive acceleration.

No person shall operate a vehicle on a street or alley in such a manner as to facilitate its speed by means of leaving rear-wheel frictional rubber marks, caused by rapid acceleration.

(Ord. 15 § 1, 1982)

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