Morro Bay Municipal Code Ch. 10.12 Enforcement and Obedience to Traffic Regulations

A. Officers, assigned employees and authorized volunteers of the police department are primarily responsible to direct all traffic by voice, hand, audible or other signals in conformance with traffic laws, except that in the event of a fire or other emergency or to expedite traffic or to safeguard pedestrians, other assigned city employees may direct traffic as conditions may require, notwithstanding that provisions to the contrary are contained in this title or the Vehicle Code. No other person shall direct traffic in any emergency situation unless so directed by the incident commander of the emergency situation.

B. During non-emergency situations such as construction, the chief of police or traffic engineer may authorize and/or require the construction firms to provide adequate and proper traffic control and direction during construction.

(Ord. No. 548, 5-26-09)

It is a misdemeanor or infraction for any person driving any vehicle or other conveyance upon any street, or any pedestrian, to do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act required as applicable to any such person under this title.

(Ord. No. 548, 5-26-09)

Every person riding a bicycle or riding or driving an animal upon a highway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this title, except those provisions which by their very nature can have no application.

(Ord. No. 548, 5-26-09)

No person shall interfere with or obstruct in any way any police officer or other officer or employee of this city in their enforcement of the provisions of this title.

(Ord. No. 548, 5-26-09)

A. The owner or operator of any motor vehicle exercising the privilege of parking a vehicle on any street or portion thereof where regulations are in effect restricting the length of time vehicles may be parked on a street or portion thereof does so on the condition that the police officers or other designated city personnel may place chalk or other removable marks on the tire of the vehicle for the purpose of enforcing such parking regulations.

B. It is unlawful for any person to erase, rub out, conceal or otherwise remove, any chalk or other mark so placed by a police officer or other designated city personnel while the marked vehicle remains parked on the street or portion thereof. For the purpose of this section, the movement of a previously marked vehicle in such a manner as to cause the tire marking to be concealed or removed, and without leaving the parking space or the block where such vehicle was parked when its tires were previously marked shall be deemed to be an erasure or removal of such chalk or other marking.

(Ord. No. 548, 5-26-09)

A. The provisions of this title regulating the operation, parking and standing of vehicles shall not apply to authorized emergency vehicles.

B. The provisions of this title regulating the parking or standing of vehicles shall not apply to any vehicle of a city department or public utility while necessarily in use for construction, repair work, or during an emergency, or any vehicle owned or operated by the United States Postal Service while in use for the collection, transportation or delivery of the United States mail.

(Ord. No. 548, 5-26-09)

The operator of any vehicle or the person in charge of any animal involved in any accident resulting in damage to any property publicly owned or owned by a public utility, including, but not limited to, any fire hydrant, parking meter, lighting post, telephone pole, electric light or power pole, or resulting in damage to any tree, traffic-control device or other property of a like nature located in or along any street, shall immediately or as soon as practical after such accident make a written report of such accident to the police department of this city.

(Ord. No. 548, 5-26-09)

A. Any police officer of the city police department may remove a vehicle as specified in Section 22650-22856 of the California Vehicle Code.

B. Any trained police volunteer may remove a vehicle as specified in Section 22651.05 of the California Vehicle Code.

(Ord. No. 548, 5-26-09)