2012-32 AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 34 - TRAFFIC AND PARKING

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12. NON-MOTOR VEHICLES. Every person propelling, operating or making use of any push cart, bicycle, skateboard, roller skates, roller blades, or other similar devices propelled by human power but excluding wheelchairs, strollers or baby carriages or riding on any animal upon a roadway, and every person driving any animal-drawn vehicle, shall be subject to the provisions of this Chapter applicable to the driver of any vehicle, except those provisions which by their very nature can have no application. 13. TRAFFIC SIGNS. It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to disobey the instructions of any traffic sign or signal placed in view by authority of the City Manager or in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois, excepting on direction of a police officer, member of the Fire and Police Departments or auxiliary police officer assigned to such duty, or Public Works Department employee during the course of employment. 14. PLACEMENT OF SIGNS. The Public Works Director shall place and maintain all traffic control devices, signs and all other markings for the control of traffic and parking, as determined and directed by the City Manager or as required by this Chapter to make effective the provisions hereof. 15. TURNS. Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no right, left or "U" turn is permitted, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign, and when authorized marks, buttons, or other indications are placed within an intersection or within the streets approaching the intersection indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning thereat, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of such indications. 16. UNLAWFUL SIGNS OR OBSTRUCTIONS. No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any street or highway any unauthorized sign, signal, parking payment device, marking, speed bump or device which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an