Title XIX — MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
8 chapters · 953 sections in this title.
§ 300.010 RSMo Definitions
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300.010. Definitions. — The following words and phrases when used in this ordinance mean: (1) "Alley" or "alleyway", any street with a roadway of less than twenty feet in width; (2) "All-terrain vehicle", any motorized vehicle manufactured and used exclusively for off-highway use…
§ 300.015 RSMo Police administration
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300.015. Police administration. — There is established in the police department of each city adopting this ordinance a traffic division to be under the control of an officer of police appointed by and directly responsible to the chief of police. -------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 2)
§ 300.020 RSMo Duty of traffic division
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300.020. Duty of traffic division. — The traffic division with such aid as may be rendered by other members of the police department shall enforce the street traffic regulations of the city and all of the state vehicle laws applicable to street traffic in the city, to make arrest…
§ 300.025 RSMo Records of traffic violations
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300.025. Records of traffic violations. — 1. The police department or the traffic division thereof shall keep a record of all violations of the traffic ordinances of the city or of the state vehicle laws of which any person has been charged, together with a record of the final di…
§ 300.030 RSMo Traffic division to investigate accidents
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300.030. Traffic division to investigate accidents. — It shall be the duty of the traffic division, assisted by other police officers of the department, to investigate traffic accidents, to arrest and to assist in the prosecution of those persons charged with violations of law ca…
§ 300.035 RSMo Traffic accident studies
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300.035. Traffic accident studies. — Whenever the accidents at any particular location become numerous, the traffic division shall cooperate with the city traffic engineer in conducting studies of such accidents and determining remedial measures. -------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 6)
§ 300.040 RSMo Traffic accident reports
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300.040. Traffic accident reports. — The traffic division shall maintain a suitable system of filing traffic accident reports. Accident reports or cards referring to them shall be filed alphabetically by location. Such reports shall be available for the use and information of the…
§ 300.045 RSMo Driver files to be maintained
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300.045. Driver files to be maintained. — The police department or the traffic division thereof shall maintain a suitable record of all traffic accidents, warnings, arrests, convictions, and complaints reported for each driver, which shall be filed alphabetically under the name o…
§ 300.050 RSMo Traffic division to submit annual traffic safety report
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300.050. Traffic division to submit annual traffic safety report. — The traffic division shall annually prepare a traffic report which shall be filed with the mayor. Such report shall contain information on traffic matters in the city as follows: (1) The number of traffic acciden…
§ 300.055 RSMo Traffic division to designate method of identifying funeral processions
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300.055. Traffic division to designate method of identifying funeral processions. — The traffic division shall designate a type of pennant or other identifying insignia to be displayed upon, or other method to be employed to identify, the vehicles in funeral processions. ------…
§ 300.060 RSMo City traffic engineer
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300.060. City traffic engineer. — 1. The office of city traffic engineer is established. The city engineer or other designated city official shall serve as city traffic engineer in addition to his other functions, and shall exercise the powers and duties with respect to traffic a…
§ 300.065 RSMo Emergency and experimental regulations
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300.065. Emergency and experimental regulations. — 1. The chief of police by and with the approval of the city traffic engineer is hereby empowered to make regulations necessary to make effective the provisions of the traffic ordinances of the city and to make and enforce tempora…
§ 300.070 RSMo Traffic commission established — powers and duties
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300.070. Traffic commission established — powers and duties. — 1. There is established a traffic commission to serve without compensation, consisting of the city traffic engineer, the chief of police or in his discretion as his representative the chief of the traffic division, th…
§ 300.075 RSMo Authority of police and fire department officials
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300.075. Authority of police and fire department officials. — 1. It shall be the duty of the officers of the police department or such officers as are assigned by the chief of police to enforce all traffic laws of the city and all of the state vehicle laws applicable to traffic i…
§ 300.080 RSMo Obedience to police and fire department officials
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300.080. Obedience to police and fire department officials. — No person shall knowingly fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of a police officer or fire department official. -------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 16, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)
§ 300.085 RSMo Persons propelling push carts or riding animals to obey traffic regulations
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300.085. Persons propelling push carts or riding animals to obey traffic regulations. — Every person propelling any push cart or riding an animal upon a roadway, and every person driving any animal-drawn vehicle, shall be subject to the provisions of this ordinance applicable to …
§ 300.090 RSMo Use of coasters, roller skates and similar devices restricted
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300.090. Use of coasters, roller skates and similar devices restricted. — No person upon roller skates, or riding in or by means of any coaster, toy vehicle, or similar device, shall go upon any roadway except while crossing a street on a crosswalk and when so crossing such perso…
§ 300.095 RSMo Public employees to obey traffic regulations
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300.095. Public employees to obey traffic regulations. — The provisions of this ordinance shall apply to the driver of any vehicle owned by or used in the service of the United States government, this state, county, or city, and it shall be unlawful for any said driver to violate…
§ 300.100 RSMo Authorized emergency vehicles — permitted acts of drivers
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300.100. Authorized emergency vehicles — permitted acts of drivers. — 1. 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 fi…
§ 300.105 RSMo Operation of vehicles on approach of authorized emergency vehicles
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300.105. Operation of vehicles on approach of authorized emergency vehicles. — 1. Upon the immediate approach of an authorized emergency vehicle making use of audible and visual signals meeting the requirements of the laws of this state, or of a police vehicle properly and lawful…
§ 300.110 RSMo Immediate notice of accident within city
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300.110. Immediate notice of accident within city. — The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident within the city resulting in injury to or death of any person or total property damage to an apparent extent of five hundred dollars or more to one person shall give, or cause to …
§ 300.115 RSMo Written report of accident
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300.115. Written report of accident. — The driver of a vehicle which is in any manner involved in an accident resulting in bodily injury to or death of any person or total property damage to an apparent extent of five hundred dollars or more to one person shall, within five days …
§ 300.120 RSMo When driver unable to report
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300.120. When driver unable to report. — 1. Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of giving immediate notice of an accident as required in section 300.110 and there was another occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident capable of doing so, such occupa…
§ 300.130 RSMo Authority to install traffic control devices
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300.130. Authority to install traffic control devices. — The city traffic engineer shall place and maintain traffic control signs, signals, and devices when and as required under the traffic ordinances of the city to make effective the provisions of said ordinances, and may place…
§ 300.135 RSMo Manual and specifications for traffic control devices
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300.135. Manual and specifications for traffic control devices. — All traffic control signs, signals and devices shall conform to the manual and specifications approved by the state highways and transportation commission or resolution adopted by the legislative body of the city. …
§ 300.140 RSMo Obedience to traffic control devices
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300.140. Obedience to traffic control devices. — The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control device applicable thereto placed in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance, unless otherwise directed by a traffic or police officer, s…
§ 300.145 RSMo When official traffic control devices required for enforcement purposes
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300.145. When official traffic control devices required for enforcement purposes. — No provision of this ordinance for which official traffic control devices are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation an official d…
§ 300.150 RSMo Official traffic control devices — presumption of legality
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300.150. Official traffic control devices — presumption of legality. — 1. Whenever official traffic control devices are placed in position approximately conforming to the requirements of this ordinance, such devices shall be presumed to have been so placed by the official act or …
§ 300.155 RSMo Traffic control signal legend — right turn on red light, when
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300.155. Traffic control signal legend — right turn on red light, when. — Whenever traffic is controlled by traffic control signals exhibiting different colored lights, or colored lighted arrows, successively one at a time or in combination, only the colors green, red and yellow …
§ 300.160 RSMo Pedestrian control signals
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300.160. Pedestrian control signals. — Whenever special pedestrian control signals exhibiting the words "Walk" or "Don't Walk", or appropriate symbols, are in place, such signals shall indicate as follows: (1) "Walk", pedestrians facing such signal may proceed across the roadway …
§ 300.165 RSMo Flashing signals
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300.165. Flashing signals. — 1. Whenever an illuminated flashing red or yellow signal is used in a traffic sign or signal it shall require obedience by vehicular traffic as follows: (1) Flashing red (stop signal), when a red lens is illuminated with rapid intermittent flashes, dr…
§ 300.170 RSMo Lane direction control signals
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300.170. Lane direction control signals. — When lane direction control signals are placed over the individual lanes of a street or highway, vehicular traffic may travel in any lane over which a green signal is shown, but shall not enter or travel in any lane over which a red sign…
§ 300.175 RSMo Display of unauthorized signs, signals or markings
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300.175. Display of unauthorized signs, signals or markings. — No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any highway an unauthorized sign, signal, marking or device which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic control device or r…
§ 300.180 RSMo Interference with official traffic control devices or railroad signs or
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300.180. Interference with official traffic control devices or railroad 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 railroad sign or signal or any inscr…
§ 300.185 RSMo Authority to establish play streets
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300.185. Authority to establish play streets. — The city traffic engineer shall have authority to declare any street or part thereof a play street and to place appropriate signs or devices in the roadway indicating and helping to protect the same. -------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 37)…
§ 300.190 RSMo Play streets
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300.190. Play streets. — Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating any street or part thereof as a play street, no person shall drive a vehicle upon any such street or portion thereof except drivers of vehicles having business or whose residences are within such closed are…
§ 300.195 RSMo City traffic engineer to designate crosswalks and establish safety zones
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300.195. City traffic engineer to designate crosswalks and establish safety zones. — The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized (1) To designate and maintain, by appropriate devices, marks, or lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections where in his opi…
§ 300.200 RSMo Traffic lanes
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300.200. Traffic lanes. — 1. The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to mark traffic lanes upon the roadway of any street or highway where a regular alignment of traffic is necessary. 2. Where such traffic lanes have been marked, it shall be unlawful for the operator of an…
§ 300.205 RSMo State speed laws applicable
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300.205. State speed laws applicable. — The state traffic laws regulating the speed of vehicles shall be applicable upon all streets within the city, except that the city may by ordinance declare and determine upon the basis of engineering and traffic investigation that certain s…
§ 300.210 RSMo Regulation of speed by traffic signals
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300.210. Regulation of speed by traffic signals. — The city traffic engineer is authorized to regulate the timing of traffic signals so as to permit the movement of traffic in an orderly and safe manner at speeds slightly at variance from the speeds otherwise applicable within th…
§ 300.215 RSMo Required position and method of turning at intersection
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300.215. Required position and method of turning at intersection. — The driver of a vehicle intending to turn at an intersection shall do so as follows: (1) Right turns: Both the approach for a right turn and a right turn shall be made as close as practicable to the right-hand cu…
§ 300.220 RSMo Authority to place and obedience to turning markers
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300.220. Authority to place and obedience to turning markers. — 1. The city traffic engineer is authorized to place markers, buttons, or signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections, and such course to be…
§ 300.225 RSMo Authority to place restricted turn signs
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300.225. Authority to place restricted turn signs. — The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right, left or U-turn, and shall place proper signs at such intersections. The making of such turns m…
§ 300.230 RSMo Obedience to no-turn signs
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300.230. Obedience to no-turn signs. — Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no right or left or U-turn is permitted, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign. -------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 46)
§ 300.235 RSMo Limitations on turning around
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300.235. Limitations on turning around. — The driver of any vehicle shall not turn such vehicle so as to proceed in the opposite direction upon any street in a business district and shall not upon any other street so turn a vehicle unless such movement can be made in safety and w…
§ 300.240 RSMo Authority to sign one-way streets and alleys
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300.240. Authority to sign one-way streets and alleys. — Whenever any ordinance of the city designates any one-way street or alley the city traffic engineer shall place and maintain signs giving notice thereof, and no such regulation shall be effective unless such signs are in pl…
§ 300.245 RSMo One-way streets and alleys
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300.245. One-way streets and alleys. — Upon those streets and parts of streets and in those alleys described and designated by ordinance, vehicular traffic shall move only in the indicated direction when signs indicating the direction of traffic are erected and maintained at ever…
§ 300.250 RSMo Authority to restrict direction of movement on streets during certain periods
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300.250. Authority to restrict direction of movement on streets during certain periods. — 1. The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to determine and designate streets, parts of streets or specific lanes thereon upon which vehicular traffic shall proceed in one direction d…
§ 300.255 RSMo Through streets designated
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300.255. Through streets designated. — Those streets and parts of streets described by ordinances of the city are declared to be through streets for the purposes of sections 300.255 to 300.295. -------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 51)
§ 300.260 RSMo Signs required at through streets
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300.260. Signs required at through streets. — Whenever any ordinance of the city designates and describes a through street it shall be the duty of the city traffic engineer to place and maintain a stop sign, or on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation at any inter…