Mendota Municipal Code Ch. 10.20 Miscellaneous Traffic Regulations

It is unlawful for any person, except members of the fire, police, health and electrical departments and executives of the city government or other duly authorized person, to be or to drive or to park any vehicle on any street or alley within one block of a fire or catastrophe or reputed fire or catastrophe on which either or both the police and fire departments are in attendance, or to refuse to obey the orders of either a police officer or a member of the fire department to remove himself or any vehicle in his charge to a greater distance if required by the necessities of a police or fire department.

(Prior code § 8.06.005)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 19-05, § 9, adopted May 28, 2019, repealed former § 10.20.020 which pertained to parking of temporary facilities, and derived from Prior code § 8.06.009.

It is unlawful for an operator of any passenger or freight vehicle to stand any such vehicle for a period of time longer than is necessary for the loading or unloading of passengers or freight.

(Prior code § 8.06.008)

It is unlawful for any person to drive, propel or cause to be propelled in, along or upon any street, any vehicle in a backward direction, or to drive a parked vehicle away from the curb, if by so doing the free and uninterrupted passage of any traffic is impeded, or if by so doing the life, limb and property of any person is endangered.

(Prior code § 8.06.002)

It is unlawful for any person to drive or propel any vehicle, railroad train or street car over any unprotected hose of the fire department, or any oil or water hose while the same is being used by any department of the city unless authorized to do so by the person in charge of such hose.

(Prior code § 8.06.001)

• Washing, repairing, or greasing vehicles on public property, streets, public-use sidewalks, and highways.

It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to construct or cause to be constructed, to repair or cause to be repaired, to grease or cause to be greased, or to wash or cause to be washed any vehicle or any part thereof (except temporary emergency repairs not lasting more than twenty-four (24) hours in the case of accident) upon any public property, public street, public-use sidewalks, public park, or highways. This section shall not apply to:

A. Vehicles operated by the police or fire departments, public ambulances, or other public utility vehicles; and

B. Any private ambulance that has qualified as an authorized emergency vehicle, when operated in response to an emergency call and in accordance with the Vehicle Code; and

C. Any vehicle of a city department or public utility while in use for the public benefit.

The foregoing exemption shall not, however, relieve the operator of any such vehicle from their obligation to exercise due care for the safety of others or the consequences of his or her willful disregard for the safety of others.

(Prior code § 8.06.003)

(Ord. No. 20-02, § 2, 3-24-2020)

The person in charge of any garage or repair shop to which is brought any motor vehicle which shows evidence of having been involved in an accident (serious or otherwise) or struck by a bullet, shall, as soon as possible thereafter, report such damaged vehicle to the police department, giving the engine number, registration number and the name and address of the owner or operator of such vehicle, as well as a description of the person bringing such vehicle into said garage or repair shop. In no case shall the period of time within which to make such report be in excess of twenty-four (24) hours after receiving such vehicle.

(Prior code § 8.06.006)

It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to use or occupy for the display, advertising or sale of goods, wares or merchandise, any street, portion of any street, sidewalk or portion of any sidewalk, or to leave any goods, wares, merchandise, boxes, barrels, trucks, scales, weighing machines, vending machines, advertising matter, signs, bicycles or other articles or things thereon, except while actually engaged in loading or unloading the same. This section shall not be construed to prohibit the placing of barriers or other signs of warning in the street by any person when such place is provided for by the ordinance codified in this section or any other ordinance, or where the life, limb or property of any person is in danger. Any goods, wares, merchandise, boxes, barrels, trucks, scales, weighing machines, vending machines or other articles or things placed or permitted to remain on any street, or portion of any street, or on any sidewalk or portion of any sidewalk, in violation of the terms of this chapter, is declared to constitute a nuisance, and the police department is authorized and empowered to abate such nuisance by removing the same to the police department of the city.

(Prior code § 8.06.004)

Any itinerant vender serving from a temporary facility shall have the service window opposite from the street side of the temporary facility.

(Prior code § 8.06.010)