Chapter 10.05
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sections:
10.05.020 Powers of the city council.
10.05.030 Powers of the city manager.
10.05.040 Authority of police and fire officers.
10.05.010 Definitions.
In addition to those definitions contained in the adopted sections of the Oregon Vehicle Code, the following words or phrases, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning, shall mean:
(A) “Alley” means a narrow street through the middle of a block.
(B) “Bicycle” means every device propelled by human power upon which any person may ride, having two tandem wheels either of which is over 20 inches in diameter.
(C) “Bus stand” means a fixed area in the roadway adjacent to the curb to be occupied exclusively by buses for layover in operating schedules or waiting for passengers.
(D) “Curb” means the extreme edge of the roadway.
(E) Holidays. Where used in this chapter or on signs erected in accordance with this chapter: Sundays, New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
(F) “Loading zone” means a space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials or freight.
(G) “Park” or “parking” means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when a vehicle is temporarily standing for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading.
(H) “Parkway” means that portion of a street not used as a roadway or as a sidewalk.
(I) Passenger Loading Zone. Reserved only for the loading or unloading of passengers and their luggage.
(J) “Pedestrian” means any person afoot.
(K) “Stop” means complete cessation of movement.
(L) “Taxicab stand” means a fixed area in the roadway adjacent to the curb set aside for taxicabs to stand or wait for passengers.
(M) “Traffic lane” means that portion of the roadway used for the movement of a single line of vehicles. [Code 2000 § 7.005.]
10.05.020 Powers of the city council.
The city council shall designate by resolution, subject to state law, the following:
(A) Streets, portions of streets, sides of streets or city-owned or leased land upon which parking or standing shall be prohibited, prohibited during certain hours or limited, and the angle of such parking.
(B) Through streets.
(C) One-way streets.
(D) Truck routes.
(E) Streets where trucks, machinery or any other large or heavy vehicles exceeding specified weights shall be prohibited. Such vehicles may, however, be operated on such streets for the purpose of delivering or picking up materials or merchandise but then only by entering such streets at the intersection nearest the destination of the vehicle and proceeding no farther than the nearest intersection. [Code 2000 § 7.010.]
10.05.030 Powers of the city manager.
The city manager for best use of the streets in the public interest shall exercise the following powers based on standards established by the Oregon Transportation Commission and the Oregon Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways; and subject to state law:
(A) Designate where traffic control signals shall be placed and the time of operation of such signals.
(B) Establish bus stops, bus stands, taxicab stands and stands for other passenger common-carrier vehicles.
(C) Designate the location of passenger loading zones for use in front of the entrance to any hotel, auditorium, theater, church, school or public building.
(D) Designate on each side of a block where required not more than two loading zones.
(E) Designate and let reserved parking spaces in the city parking lots to persons upon payment of the required fee, providing no more than 50 percent of the parking spaces in the city parking lots shall be let.
(F) Designate and cause to be placed or maintained appropriate signs, marks or lines for:
(1) Intersections where drivers of vehicles shall not make right, left or U turns and the times when such prohibitions shall apply.
(2) Crosswalks at intersections where deemed necessary for pedestrian safety.
(3) Safety zones of such kind and character and at such places as deemed necessary for pedestrian safety.
(4) Playstreets, or such hours when certain streets may be used as such, on which no person shall drive a vehicle upon such street or portion thereof except drivers of vehicles having business or whose residences are within such closed area, and then such driver shall exercise the greatest care in driving upon such street.
(5) Parking meters and fine boxes.
(6) Reserved parking spaces in city parking lots.
(G) Cause to be placed or marked and maintained:
(1) Traffic control signs.
(2) Parking spaces.
(3) Traffic lanes and other symbols.
(4) All other signs and markings necessary to implement traffic and parking controls enacted by the city council.
(H) Cause to be removed or reduced in height, or trim any hedge, shrubbery or tree extending over the street.
(I) Emergency and Experimental Regulations. Make and enforce temporary, experimental or emergency regulations, consistent with Chapters 10.05 through 10.50 CMC. No such regulation shall be effective and in force until and unless adequate signs, signals, or other notices are erected clearly indicating such regulation. No such regulation shall remain in effect for more than 60 days. [Code 2000 § 7.015.]
10.05.040 Authority of police and fire officers.
(A) It shall be the duty of the police department through its officers to enforce Chapters 10.05 through 10.50 CMC.
(B) In the event of a fire or other emergency or to expedite traffic or to safeguard pedestrians, officers of the police department may direct traffic as conditions may require notwithstanding Chapters 10.05 through 10.50 CMC.
(C) Members of the fire department, when at the scene of a fire, may direct or assist the police in directing traffic thereat or in the immediate vicinity. [Code 2000 § 7.020.]