CIVIL TRAFFIC ORDINANCE
RULES OF THE ROAD
OBEDIENCE
TO AND EFFECT OF TRAFFIC LAWS
8.61.005 Chapter
Refers to Vehicles Upon Highways - Exceptions
8.61.015 Obedience
to Police Officers, Flagmen, or Fire Fighters
8.61.022 Failure to Obey Officer - Penalty
8.61.025 Persons Riding Animals or Driving
Animal-Drawn Vehicles
8.61.030 Persons Working on Highway Right of
Way - Exceptions
8.61.035 Authorized Emergency Vehicles
TRAFFIC SIGNS, SIGNALS, AND MARKINGS
8.61.050 Obedience to and Required Traffic
Control Devices
8.61.075 Display of Unauthorized Signs,
Signals, or Markings
8.61.080 Interference with Official
Traffic-Control Devices, Signs or Signals
DRIVING ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROADWAY-- OVERTAKING AND PASSING--USE OF ROADWAY
8.61.100 Keep Right Except When Passing, etc.
8.61.105 Passing Vehicles Proceeding in
Opposite Directions
8.61.110 Overtaking a Vehicle on the Left
8.61.115 When Overtaking on the Right is
Permitted
8.61.120 Limitations on Overtaking on the
Left
8.61.125 Further Limitations on Driving to
Left of Center of Roadway
8.61.130 No-passing Zones
8.61.135 One-way Roadways and Rotary Traffic
Islands
8.61.140 Driving on Roadways Laned for
Traffic
8.61.145 Following too Closely
RIGHT OF WAY
8.61.180 Vehicle Approaching Intersection
8.61.185 Vehicle Turning Left
8.61.190 Vehicle Entering Stop or Yield
Intersection
8.61.195 Arterial Highways Designated -
Stopping on Entering
8.61.200 Stop Intersections Other than
Arterial May Be Designated
8.61.202 Stopping When Traffic Obstructed
8.61.205 Vehicle Entering Highway from
Private Road or Driveway
8.61.210 Operation of Vehicles on Approach of
Authorized Emergency Vehicles
8.61.215 Highway Construction and Maintenance
8.61.220 Transit Vehicles
PEDESTRIANS' RIGHTS AND DUTIES
8.61.230 Pedestrians Subject to Traffic
Regulations
8.61.235 Stopping for Pedestrians in
Crosswalks
8.61.240 Crossing at Other than Crosswalks
8.61.245 Drivers to Exercise Care
8.61.250 Pedestrians on Roadways
8.61.255 Pedestrians Soliciting Rides or
Business
8.61.261 Pedestrians' Right of Way on
Sidewalk
8.61.264 Pedestrians Yield to Emergency
Vehicles
8.61.266 Pedestrians Under the Influence of
Alcohol or Drugs
TURNING AND STARTING AND SIGNALS ON
STOPPING AND TURNING
8.61.290 Required Position and Method of
Turning at Intersections.
8.61.295 "U" Turns
8.61.300 Starting Parked Vehicle
8.61.305 Turning, Stopping, Moving Right or
Left - Signals Required - Improper Use Prohibited
8.61.310 Signals by Hand and Arm or Signal
Lamps
8.61.315 Method of Giving Hand and Arm
Signals
SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED
8.61.365 Emerging from Alley, Driveway, or
Building
8.61.370 Overtaking or Meeting School Bus -
Duties of Bus Driver
8.61.371 Violators of School Bus Stop Sign
Laws - Identification by Vehicle Owner
8.61.372 Violators of School Bus Stop Sign
Laws - Report by Bus Driver - Law Enforcement Investigation
8.61.375 Overtaking or Meeting Private
Carrier Bus - Duties of Bus Driver
SPEED RESTRICTIONS
8.61.400 Basic rule and maximum limits
8.61.425 Minimum speed regulation - Passing
slow moving vehicle
8.61.427 Slow moving vehicle to pull off
roadway
8.61.440 Maximum speed limit when passing
school or playground crosswalks
8.61.445 Due care required
8.61.455 Vehicles with solid or hollow
cushion tires
8.61.460 Special speed limitation on
motor-driven cycle
8.61.465 Exceeding speed limit evidence of
reckless driving
8.61.470 Speed traps defined, certain types
permitted - Measured courses, speed measuring devices, timing from aircraft.
ALCOHOL AND RECKLESS RELATED
8.61.519 Alcoholic Beverages - Drinking or
Open Container in Vehicle on Highway - Exceptions
8.61.5195 Disguising Alcoholic Beverage
Container
8.61.525 Operating Motor Vehicle in a
Negligent Manner - Penalty - Exception
8.61.527 Roadway Construction Zones
8.61.530 Racing of Vehicles on Highways -
Reckless Driving - Exception
STOPPING, STANDING, AND PARKING
8.61.560 Stopping, Standing, or Parking
Outside Business or Residence Districts
8.61.570 Stopping, Standing, or Parking
Prohibited in Specified Places - Reserving Portion of Highway Prohibited
8.61.575 Additional Parking Regulations
8.61.590 Unattended Motor Vehicle - Removal
from Highway
MISCELLANEOUS RULES
8.61.600 Unattended Motor Vehicle
8.61.605 Limitations on Backing
8.61.606 Driving on Sidewalk Prohibited -
Exception
8.61.608 Operating Motorcycles on Roadways
Laned for Traffic
8.61.610 Riding on Motorcycles
8.61.611 Motorcycles - Maximum Height for
Handlebars
8.61.612 Riding on Motorcycles - Both Feet
not to Be on Same Side
8.61.613 Motorcycles - Temporary Suspension
of Restrictions for Parades or Public Demonstrations
8.61.614 Riding on Motorcycles - Clinging to
Other Vehicles
8.61.615 Obstructions to Driver's View or
Driving Mechanism
8.61.620 Opening and Closing Vehicle Doors
8.61.625 Riding in Trailers
8.61.630 Coasting Prohibited
8.61.635 Following Fire Apparatus Prohibited
8.61.640 Crossing Fire Hose
8.61.645 Throwing Dangerous Materials on
Highway Prohibited - Removal
8.61.655 Dropping Load, Other Materials -
Covering
8.61.660 Carrying Persons or Animals on
Outside Part of Vehicle
8.61.665 Embracing Another While Driving
8.61.670 Driving with Wheels off Roadway
8.61.675 Causing or Permitting Vehicle to be
Unlawfully Operated
8.61.680 Lowering Passenger Motor Vehicle
below Legal Clearance - Penalty
8.61.685 Leaving Children Unattended in
Standing Vehicle with Motor Running - Penalty
8.61.687 Child Passenger Restraint Required -
Conditions - Exceptions - Penalty for Violation - Dismissal - Noncompliance not
Negligence
8.61.688 Safety Belts, Use Required -
Penalties - Exemptions
8.61.700 Parent or Guardian Shall Not
Authorize or Permit Violation by a Child or Ward
8.61.710 Mopeds - General Requirements and
Operation
8.61.720 Mopeds - Safety Standards
8.61.730 Wheelchair Conveyances
OPERATION OF NONMOTORIZED VEHICLES
8.61.750 Effect of Regulations - Penalty
8.61.755 Traffic Laws Apply to Persons Riding
Bicycles
8.61.758 Hand Signals
8.61.760 Riding on Bicycles
8.61.765 Clinging to Vehicles
8.61.770 Riding on Roadways and Bicycle Paths
8.61.775 Carrying Articles
8.61.780 Lamps and Other Equipment on Bicycles
Obedience
to and Effect of Traffic Laws
8.61.005 Chapter
Refers to Vehicles Upon Highways - Exceptions
The
provisions of this chapter relating to the operation of vehicles refer
exclusively to the operation of vehicles upon highways except:
(a)
Where a different place is specifically referred to in a given section.
(b) The
provisions of 8.52.010 through 8.52.090 and 8.61.5195 through 8.61.525 apply
upon highways and elsewhere throughout the Skokomish Indian Reservation.
8.61.015 Obedience
to Police Officers, Flagmen, or Fire Fighters.
No
person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or
direction of any duly authorized flagman or any police officer or fire fighter
invested by law with authority to direct, control, or regulate traffic.
8.61.022 Failure
to Obey Officer - Penalty
Any
person who willfully fails to stop when requested or signaled to do so by a
person reasonably identifiable as a law enforcement officer is guilty of a
class C criminal violation.
8.61.025 Persons
Riding Animals or Driving Animal-Drawn Vehicles
Every
person riding an animal or driving any animal-drawn vehicle upon a roadway
shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties
applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this chapter except those provisions
of this chapter which by their very nature can have no application.
8.61.030 Persons
Working on Highway Right of Way - Exceptions
Unless
specifically made applicable, the provisions of this chapter shall not apply to
persons, motor vehicles and other equipment while legitimately engaged in work
within the right of way of any highway but shall apply to these persons and
vehicles when traveling to or from such work.
8.61.035 Authorized
Emergency Vehicles
(a) The
driver of an authorized emergency vehicle, when responding to an emergency call
or when in the pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law or when
responding to but not upon returning from a fire alarm, may exercise the
privileges set forth in this section, but subject to the conditions stated.
(b) The
driver of an authorized emergency vehicle may:
(1) Park
or stand, irrespective of the provisions of this chapter;
(2)
Proceed past a red or stop signal or stop sign, but only after slowing
down as may be necessary for safe operation;
(3)
Exceed the maximum speed limits so long as he does not endanger life or
property;
(4)
Disregard regulations governing direction of movement or turning in
specified directions.
(c) The
exemptions granted to an authorized emergency vehicle shall apply only when the
vehicle is making use of visual signals, except that:
(1) An
authorized emergency vehicle operated as a police vehicle need not be equipped
with or display a red light visible from in front of the vehicle;
(2)
authorized emergency vehicles shall use audible signals when necessary
to warn others of the emergency nature of the situation but in no case shall
they be required to use audible signals while parked or standing.
(d) The
foregoing provisions shall not relieve the driver of an authorized emergency
vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons,
nor shall these provisions protect the driver from the consequences of his
reckless disregard for the safety of others.
Traffic
Signs, Signals, and Markings
8.61.050 Obedience
to and Required Traffic Control Devices.
(a) The
driver of any vehicle, every bicyclist, and every pedestrian shall obey the
instructions of any applicable official traffic control device placed in
accordance with the provisions of this chapter, unless otherwise directed by a
police officer, subject to the exception granted the driver of an authorized
emergency vehicle in this chapter.
(b) No
provision of this chapter for which official traffic control devices are
required is enforced against an alleged violator if at the time and place of
the alleged violation an official device is not in proper position and
sufficiently legible or visible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person. Whenever a particular section does not state
that official traffic control devices are required, that section is effective
even though no devices are erected or in place.
(c)
Whenever official traffic control devices are placed in position
approximately conforming to the requirements of this chapter, the devices are
presumed to have been so placed by the official act or direction of lawful
authority, unless the contrary is established by competent evidence.
(d) Any
official traffic control device placed pursuant to the provisions of this
chapter and purporting to conform to the lawful requirements pertaining to
these devices is presumed to comply with the requirements of this chapter,
unless the contrary is established by competent evidence.
8.61.075 Display
of Unauthorized Signs, Signals, or Markings.
(a) No
person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any highway any
unauthorized sign, signal, marking or device which purports to be or is an
imitation of or resembles an official traffic-control device, sign or signal,
or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic, or which hides from view
or interferes with the effectiveness of an official traffic-control device or
any sign or signal.
(b) No
person shall place or maintain nor shall any public authority permit upon any
highway any traffic sign or signal bearing thereon any commercial advertising.
(c) This
section shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection upon private property
adjacent to highways of signs giving useful directional information and of a
type that cannot be mistaken for official signs.
(d)
Every prohibited sign, signal or marking is hereby declared to be a
public nuisance and the Skokomish Department of Public Safety is hereby
empowered to remove the same or cause it to be removed without notice.
8.61.080 Interference with Official
Traffic-Control Devices Signs or Signals.
No
person shall, without lawful authority, attempt to or in fact alter, deface,
injure, knock down or remove any official traffic-control device or any sign or
signal or any inscription, shield or insignia, or any other part.
Driving on Right Side of Roadway - Overtaking and Passing -
Use of Roadway
8.61.100 Keep
Right Except When Passing, Etc.
Upon
all roadways of sufficient width a vehicle shall be driven upon the right half
of the roadway, except as follows:
(a) When
overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction under
the rules governing such movement;
(b) When
an obstruction exists making it necessary to drive to the left of the center of
the highway; provided, any person so doing shall yield the right of way to all
vehicles traveling in the proper direction upon the unobstructed portion of the
highway within such distance as to constitute an immediate hazard;
(c) Upon
a roadway divided into three marked lanes and providing for two-way movement
traffic under the rules applicable thereon; or
(d) Upon
a street or highway restricted to one-way traffic.
8.61.105 Passing
Vehicles Proceeding in Opposite Directions
Drivers
of vehicles proceeding in opposite directions shall pass each other to the
right, and upon roadways having width for not more than one line of traffic in
each direction each driver shall give to the other at least one-half of the
main-traveled portion of the roadway as nearly as possible.
8.61.110 Overtaking
a Vehicle on the Left
The
following rules shall govern the overtaking and passing of vehicles proceeding
in the same direction, subject to those limitations, exceptions and special
rules hereafter stated:
(a) The
driver of a vehicle overtaking another vehicle proceeding in the same direction
shall pass to the left at a safe distance and shall not again drive to the
right side of the roadway until safely clear of the overtaken vehicle.
(b) The
driver of an overtaken vehicle shall give way to the right in favor of the
overtaking vehicle on audible signal and shall not increase the speed of his
vehicle until completely passed by the overtaking vehicle.
8.61.115 When
Overtaking on the Right is Permitted
(a) The
driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass upon the right of another vehicle
only under the following conditions:
(1) When
the vehicle overtaken is making or about to make a left turn;
(2) Upon
a roadway with unobstructed pavement of sufficient width for two or more lines
of vehicles moving lawfully in the direction being traveled by the overtaking
vehicle.
(b) The
driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass another vehicle upon the right only
under conditions permitting the movement in safety. The movement shall not be made by driving off the roadway.
8.61.120 Limitations
on Overtaking on the Left
No
vehicle shall be driven to the left side of the center of the roadway in
overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction unless
authorized by this chapter and unless the left side is clearly visible and is
free of oncoming traffic for a sufficient distance ahead to permit the
overtaking and passing to be completely made without interfering with the
operation of any vehicle approaching from the opposite direction or any vehicle
overtaken. In every event the
overtaking vehicle must return to an authorized lane of travel as soon as
practicable and in the event the passing movement involves the use of a lane
authorized for vehicles approaching from the opposite direction, before coming
within two hundred feet of any approaching vehicle.
8.61.125 Further
Limitations on Driving to Left of Center of Roadway
(a) No
vehicle shall be driven on the left side of the roadway under the following
conditions:
(1) When
approaching or upon the crest of a grade or a curve in the highway where the
driver's view is obstructed within such distance as to create a hazard in the
event another vehicle might approach from the opposite direction;
(2) When
the view is obstructed upon approaching within one hundred feet of any bridge
or viaduct.
(b) The
foregoing limitations shall not apply upon a one-way roadway, nor under the
conditions described in 8.61.100(b), nor to the driver of a vehicle turning
left into or from an alley, private road or driveway.
8.61.130 No-passing
zones
(a) The
appropriate Tribal or state authorities shall determine those portions of any
highway under their respective jurisdictions where overtaking and passing or
driving to the left of the roadway would be especially hazardous and may by
appropriate signs or markings on the roadway indicate the beginning and end of
the zones. When the signs or markings
are in place and clearly visible to an ordinarily observant person every driver
of a vehicle shall obey their directions.
(b)
Where signs or markings are in place to define a no-passing zone as set
forth in subsection (a), no driver may at any time drive on the left side of
the roadway within the no-passing zone or on the left side of any pavement
striping designed to mark the no-passing zone throughout its length.
(c) This
section does not apply under the conditions described in 8.61.100(b) nor to the
driver of a vehicle turning left into or from an alley, private road, or
driveway.
8.61.135 One-Way Roadways and
Rotary Traffic Islands
(a) The Skokomish Tribal Council may designate any highway, roadway, part of a roadway, or specific lanes upon which vehicular traffic shall proceed in one direction as indicated by official traffic contro