§ 129-22. Traffic restrictions.

A. 

Vehicles prohibited in certain areas. No person shall drive a vehicle within or upon a walk, bridle path or any part of the park not designated or customarily used for such purpose. No person shall ride a bicycle, tricycle, velocipede or motorcycle upon any walk or footpath, but persons may push such machines in single file along the same.

B. 

Obeying officers. Whenever any traffic officer or other patrolman shall indicate or direct, by gesture or otherwise, that the speed or course of a vehicle shall be changed or altered, the driver thereof shall immediately obey such directions.

C. 

Parking. No owner or driver or person exercising control over any vehicle shall cause or permit his vehicle to stand anywhere outside of the designated parking area except in an emergency or for a reasonable time to take on or discharge passengers. Nor shall any persons lie, stand or sit upon the fenders, hood, trunk or top of vehicles parked along the roadway in the parks. Nor shall they stand leaning against any vehicle parked along a roadway in the park in any manner which might expose them to possible injury from passing vehicles or which might impede the flow of traffic on such roadway.

[Amended 7-3-1974]

D. 

Exceptions. Nothing herein contained in this article shall apply to the wagons and apparatus of the Fire and Police Departments or to any ambulance or to emergency repair wagons or other vehicles of the Park Department when responding for emergency work in case of fire, accident, public disaster, impending danger or emergency or for park business.

E. 

Overnight parking. No person shall park a vehicle between 9:00 p.m. and sunrise in any park parking lot unless authorized by Chapter 183, Vehicles and Traffic.

[Added 7-21-2004]