Escondido Municipal Code Art. 4 Operation Generally

Cross reference—Exhaust emission regulated, § 17-43.

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, sign, cone marker or other warning device is in place warning persons not to drive over or across such pavement or marking, or when any such device is in place indicating that the street or any portion thereof is closed.

(Code 1957, § 6084)

Unless properly authorized by the council, no person shall ride an animal or drive an animal-drawn vehicle in the central business district.

No person shall operate or drive a motor vehicle, motorcycle, mini-bike, trail bike, dune buggy, motor scooter, jeep or other form of motorized transportation upon the private property of another or upon any public property, which is not held open to the public for any vehicular use and which is not subject to the provisions of the Vehicle Code, without having, and upon request of a peace officer, displaying written permission from the owner of such property, or his agent, or the person in lawful possession thereof; provided, however, the provisions of this section shall not apply to emergency vehicles, governmental agencies or to other persons driving upon such property with the written consent of the owner or person in lawful possession of such property, or to the owner himself, his family, employees, agents or lessees.

**Editor's note—**Ord. No. 1501 did not expressly amend this Code, hence codification of § 1 as superseding former § 28-122 pertaining to the same subject matter was at the discretion of the editors.

(Ord. No. 1501, § 1, 4-5-72)

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

(Code 1957, § 6081)

The operator of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway or building shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or into the sidewalk area extending across any alleyway or driveway.

(Code 1957, § 6045)

(a) No person shall leave a motor vehicle, except a commercial vehicle, unattended on any street, alley, used car lot or unattended parking lot without first stopping the engine, locking the ignition and removing the ignition key therefrom.

(b) Any officer of the police force, upon finding a motor vehicle unlocked and unattended as described above with the keys left therein, may remove said keys and deliver them forthwith to the police station where they will be impounded and held until called for by the owner thereof or his duly authorized agent.

(c) Any violation of this section shall not mitigate the offense of stealing such vehicle, nor shall such violation be used to effect a recovery in any civil action for theft of such vehicle, or the insurance thereon, or have any other bearing in any civil action.

(Code 1957, § 6069.4)

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.

(Code 1957, § 6085)

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 section 332 of the Vehicle Code.

(Code 1957, § 6091)

(a) When truck routes are established by the council and designated by appropriate signs, the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of 10 tons shall drive on such routes and none other, except that nothing in this section shall prohibit the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of 10 tons coming from a "Truck Route" having ingress and egress by direct route to and from restricted streets when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on such restricted streets or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure upon such restricted streets for which a building permit has previously been obtained therefor.

(b) The provisions of subsection (a) shall not apply to any vehicle owned by a public utility or a licensed contractor while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility.

(c) It is unlawful to operate a vehicle with a maximum gross vehicle weight of 10 tons on city streets unless on a designated truck route or unless otherwise exempt from this requirement.

(Code 1957, §§ 6094.1, 6094.2; Ord. No. 2013-06, §§ 1—3, 8-28-13)

No person shall operate any train or train of cars, or permit the same to remain standing, so as to block the movement of traffic upon any street for a period of time longer than five minutes.

(Code 1957, § 6096)

§ 28-130. through § 28-139. (Reserved)