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Title 10 — Vehicles and Traffic›Chapter 10.05 — TRAFFIC

Point Arena Municipal Code Art. VII Miscellaneous Driving Rules

Point Arena Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Point Arena

Cite as: Point Arena Municipal Code Article VII · Text as of 2026-10-04

§ 10.05.410. 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 processions are conspicuously so designated.

(Ord. 75 § 41, 1959.)

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§ 10.05.420. Procedure to be followed upon sounding of fire alarm.

(1) Immediately upon the sounding of any fire alarm, the driver of every vehicle upon the public streets shall drive the same to a position as near as possible to the right-hand edge or curb of the street, clear of any intersection, and shall stop and remain in such position, unless otherwise directed by a police or traffic officer, for a period of not less than three minutes. All vehicles so parked along the route being travelled by any fire department vehicle answering the alarm of fire shall remain so parked until such fire department vehicle shall have passed. No vehicle shall follow any fire department vehicle answering a fire alarm, at a distance of less than 300 feet, nor shall the driver of any vehicle park the same, after a alarm has been sounded, in any block where such fire for which such alarm has been sounded is located. The provisions of this section shall not apply to vehicles being driven by members of the fire department or by police or traffic officers, nor to vehicles in which members of the fire department or traffic officers are riding as passengers.

(2) No vehicle shall be driven over an unprotected hose of a fire department when laid down on any street or private driveway, to be used at any fire or alarm of fire, without the consent of the fire department official in command.

(Ord. 75 § 42, 1959.)

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§ 10.05.430. Clinging to moving vehicles.

Any person riding upon any bicycle, motorcycle, coaster, roller skates or any toy vehicle shall not attach the same or himself to any moving vehicle upon any roadway.

(Ord. 75 § 43, 1959.)

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§ 10.05.440. Vehicles shall not be driven on the sidewalk.

The driver of a vehicle shall not drive within any sidewalk area except at a permanent or temporary driveway.

(Ord. 75 § 44, 1959.)

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§ 10.05.450. 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. 75 § 45, 1959.)

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