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Chapter 17 — MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC›Article II — ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT

El Centro Municipal Code Div. 2 Junior Traffic Patrol

El Centro Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · El Centro

Cite as: El Centro Municipal Code Division 2 · Text as of 2026-10-04

Sec. 17-23. - Disobeying; insignia.

It shall be unlawful for any person to refuse or fail to comply with any lawful order, signal or direction of any person appointed by the chief of police to control traffic at school crossings; provided that such person giving any order, signal or direction at such school crossing shall at the time be wearing some insignia indicating such appointment.

(Ord. No. 544, § 1)

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Sec. 17-24. - Unauthorized minors.

It shall be unlawful for any minor to direct or attempt to direct traffic unless authorized to do so by order of the chief of police.

(Ord. No. 544, § 1)

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Sec. 17-25. - Stops at school crossings.

It shall be unlawful for any person driving, operating, propelling, or causing to be propelled, any vehicle to fail to stop within fifty (50) feet of the nearest side of a school pedestrian lane where any signal, device, flagman or other person is stationed giving warning that children are about to cross or are crossing the street; and it is further declared unlawful to proceed until such signal has stopped, been raised or been removed, or the flagman or person stationed at such pedestrian lane has given a signal to go or proceed or has left the locality.

(Ord. No. 544, § 2)

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Sec. 17-26. - Reserved.

Editor's note— Former § 17-26, relative to violations, derived from Ord. No. 544, § 3. Said section was repealed by Ord. No. 80-25, § 3, adopted Dec. 17, 1980.

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Secs. 17-27—17-33. - Reserved.

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