West Covina Municipal Code § 22-92 Driving through funeral processions

The driver or operator of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway, building or from any private property, shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving therefrom into a sidewalk or into any public street. No stop signs need be erected, however, in the case of such alleys, driveways, buildings or other private properties.

(Code 1960, § 3132)

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

(Code 1960, § 3133)

No operator of any vehicle shall enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle he is operating without obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding any traffic-control signal indication to proceed.

(Code 1960, § 3134)

(a) The city engineer, public works director, public safety director, fire chief, and police chief shall have the right, authority and power at any time to close any street or any portion thereof temporarily to vehicular, pedestrian or other traffic when, in their opinion, the public peace, health or safety requires such temporary closing; provided, however, that, in all such cases, suitable signs shall be conspicuously posted giving notice of the fact that such street or portion thereof is closed, or a police officer or other designee is present thereat for the purpose of giving such notice.

(b) No person shall, in case any such street or portion thereof is so closed, enter into or upon such closed portion or drive any vehicle into or upon the same contrary to any such notice or order of any such police officer or person so designated.

(Code 1960, § 3139; Ord. No. 2531, § 14, 7-15-25)

Unless in compliance with the immediate direction or order of any police officer or other city representative designated to provide traffic control to the contrary, no person shall back or operate in reverse gear any vehicle on any street within the city for a greater distance than is necessary in order to place such vehicle in a position for the lawful operation thereof in a forward direction upon such street.

(Code 1960, § 3146; Ord. No. 2531, § 15, 7-15-25)

State Law reference— Similar provisions, Veh. Code, § 22106.

No person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any limited access roadway except at such entrances and exits as are lawfully established.

(Code 1960, § 3147)

(a) No person shall move or operate upon any city street any vehicle with a load or loads in excess of those permitted by the Vehicle Code without a written permit from the city or the city's authorized agent.

(b) The city or the city's authorized agent may, by written permit, authorize a load or loads in excess of those allowed for in the Vehicle Code, if, in its judgment, the streets upon which such vehicle is to be operated can safely withstand the additional weight, or if the applicant will guarantee to the city that all costs of repair to the streets or to the public property of the city damaged by the movement of such load or loads will be paid in full. Such permit shall be granted upon such conditions and upon depositing such bond as the city or the city's authorized agent in its discretion may require and upon payment of any appropriate fees.

(Code 1960, § 3148)

No person shall draw, propel or convey or cause or permit to be drawn or propelled, or conveyed over any paved or surfaced street of the city, any machinery, tools, implements of husbandry, or any equipment of any nature containing any cleats or sharp edges that tend to damage the surface of such street.

(Code 1960, § 3149)

Editor's note— Section 22-99, "Riding on motorcycles and bicycles," § 22-100, "Clinging to moving vehicle," and § 22-101, "Operation of vehicles on private property open to public," derived from Code 1960, §§ 3154, 3155, 3159, respectively, were repealed by § 2 of Ord. No. 1526, adopted Jan. 11, 1982.