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CHAPTER 6
Law Enforcement
ARTICLE I
Adoption of Model Traffic Code
Division 1
General Provisions
Sec. 6-1-30. Additions or modifications.
Additions or modifications to the Model Traffic Code are as stated in this Article, and
specifically, the following:
A. The Model Traffic Code, Section 1204, Parking, is hereby amended to add the
following subsections (6) and (7):
1204. Stopping, standing,or parking prohibited in specified places.
(6) As the unregulated parking of oversized vehicles in residence
districts within the County creates a public safety hazard and a public nuisance in
that the parking of such vehicles diminishes parking availability, inhibits through
access and sight visibility and limits access of emergency vehicles to property, no
person shall park any oversized vehicle upon any County maintained public street
or highway within any residence districts within the County, except for the
purpose of loading and unloading.
(7) For the purposes of this Section, only:
(a) "Oversized Vehicle" means any vehicle which exceeds thirty(30) feet
in length, or seven (7) feet in width, or seven(7) feet in height.
(b) "Residence District"means the territory contiguous to and including a
street, highway, public right-of-way or public property not comprising a business
district when the frontage on such highway for a distance of three hundred (300)
feet or more is mainly occupied by dwellings or by dwellings and buildings in use
for business, and includes County subdivisions and unincorporated townsites
within the County.
Sec. 6-1-40. Procedures and penalties.
Sections 1709 and 1710 of the Model Traffic Code are modified, as follows:
L. In the case of multiple traffic offenses involving aggressive driving, the
applicable penalty or penalty assessment shall be tripled for each traffic offense. For
purposes of this subsection, "aggressive driving"means committing any three or more of
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the following violations in a single act or series of acts in close proximity to another
motor vehicle: 1) exceeding the speed limits (1101); 2) following too closely(1008); 3)
failure to obey official traffic control devices (603); 4) failure to give an adequate signal
(903); 5) failure to yield right-of-way (701, 702, 703); and 6) unsafe lane change (903).
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