Sacramento Municipal Code Ch. 10.12 Traffic Control Regulations Generally

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. (Prior code § 25.01.013)

The driver of a vehicle shall not drive within any sidewalk area or any parkway, except at a permanent or temporary driveway. (Prior code § 25.01.014)

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. (Prior code § 25.01.015)

Unless authorized by the city traffic engineer, no person shall move, tamper with, or damage in any way, any traffic counting device which has been located within the city streets or adjacent thereof. (Prior code § 25.01.016)

No vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of a fire department without the consent of the fire department official in command. (Prior code § 25.01.017)

It is unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle upon or across any privately-owned property in the city without the consent of the owner thereof. (Prior code § 25.01.018)

A. No person upon a skateboard, roller skates, in-line skates, a coaster, toy vehicle, or similar device, shall go upon any privately owned property in the city without the prior consent of the owner thereof.

B. Violation of this section is an infraction. The penalty for a first violation is a twenty-five dollars ($25.00) fine; for a second violation within one year, the penalty is a seventy-five dollars ($75.00) fine; for each additional violation within one year of any preceding violation, the penalty is a one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) fine. (Prior code § 25.01.019)

No person shall ride any animal or drive any animal-drawn vehicle into or within the central traffic district between the hours of seven a.m. and nine a.m. or four p.m. and six p.m. of any day. This prohibition shall not apply in Old Sacramento or to horse-drawn vehicles carrying school groups to and from Old Sacramento and other points of historical or educational interest. (Ord. 98-005 § 2; prior code § 25.04.060)

A. No person shall use or operate a radio, tape player, CD player, tape recorder, record player, television or similar device in a vehicle on a street, or on or in any publicly owned property or place, or in a vehicle in an off-street parking facility, in a manner which results in sound from the device being audible to a person of normal hearing sensitivity more than twenty-five (25) feet from said vehicle.

B. As used in subsection A of this section, "off-street parking facility" means any off-street facility held open for use by the public for parking vehicles and includes publicly owned facilities for off-street parking and privately owned facilities for off-street parking where no fee is charged for the privilege to park and which are held open for the common public use of retail customers.

C. As used in subsection A of this section, "person of normal hearing sensitivity" means a person who has a hearing threshold level of between zero decibels and twenty-five (25) decibels HL averaged over the frequencies five hundred (500), one thousand (1,000) and two thousand (2,000) Hertz.

D. Sound associated with outdoor gatherings including, but not limited to, shows and entertainment events, shall be exempted from the provisions of this section provided said gathering or event is (1) lawfully approved and permitted by the private or public owner of the place or parking facility and (2) the vehicle(s) are located on or at the place or parking facility which is the site of the gathering or event.

E. Violation of this section is an infraction. The penalty for a first violation is a one hundred dollar ($100.00) fine; for a second violation within one year, the penalty is a two hundred dollar ($200.00) fine; for each additional violation within one year, the penalty is a five hundred dollar ($500.00) fine.

F. This section shall apply only to vehicles and the use or operation of the devices identified in subsection A of this section.

G. Nothing in this section shall supersede or exempt any person from any provisions of Chapter 8.68 of this code. (Ord. 98-029 § 1; prior code § 25.01.019-1)