Title 10 VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
Chapter 10.75 SNOWMOBILES
10.75.040 Operation and route designation.
A. No person shall operate a snowmobile upon a controlled
access highway or facility.
B. No person shall operate a snowmobile in the city on any
private or public property, including all parks, playgrounds and designated
streets, other than the defined areas in this chapter, without the expressed
permission the owner of such property.
C. No person shall operate a snowmobile on any sidewalks,
boulevards, driveways or parking lots except for the purpose of directly
removing or returning a snowmobile to its place of storage.
D. It is forbidden to operate a snowmobile on any streets or
avenues of the city. Snowmobiles may be taken to and from the place where the
same is stored by proceeding on the shortest route from such place to the
nearest alley and thence following the alley to the edge of the city. Lateral
movements from one alley to another may be made when doing so is necessary to
reach an alley leading to the city limits.
E. A snowmobile may make a direct crossing of a street on
highway, where such crossings are necessary to get to another authorized area of
operation. All crossings by snowmobiles shall be made at an angle of
approximately ninety degrees to the direction of the street, and at a place
where no obstruction prevents a quick and safe crossing. The snowmobile shall
make a complete stop before entering upon any part of the highway, street or
road, and the operator shall yield the right-of-way to oncoming
traffic.
F. The owner or operator of a snowmobile, which is involved
in an accident, collision or upset upon a public street or highway where
personal injury occurs to any person on when property damage exceeds one hundred
dollars, shall report the accident on occurrence to a state or local enforcement
agency responsible for collecting reports of accidents involving motor
vehicles.
G. No snowmobile shall be operated upon a public street when
permitted to do so by this chapter, unless equipped with at least one head lamp
and one tail lamp, which shall be lighted at all times during such operation,
and unless it is equipped with a suitable braking device which may be operated
by either hand or foot.
H. Curfew. No snowmobiling shall be done between the hours of
ten p.m. and seven a.m. except in going to and returning from a ride.
I. All snowmobile operations within the city shall be as fan
to the right side of the alley as possible, and shall yield the night-of-way to
all pedestrians and vehicular traffic, and shall ride in single file if there is
more than one snowmobile. (Ord. 393 § 4, 1980)