CHAPTER 01 Title 9 Traffic Regulations
CHAPTER 1
TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
SECTION:
9-1-1: Applicability of Regulations
9-1-2: Adoption of Idaho Motor Vehicle Laws
9-1-3: Copies
9-1-4: Enforcement
9-1-5: Obedience to Police Officers
9-1-6: Construction Crews
9-1-7: Following Fire Engine
9-1-8: Parking Near Emergency Vehicles
9-1-9: Crossing Fire Hose
9-1-10: Regulatory Adoption
9-1-11: Swales
9-1-1: APPLICABILITY OF REGULATIONS: The provisions of this title shall
apply to the operation of all vehicles upon the streets, alleys, and places within the City.
9-1-2: ADOPTION OF IDAHO MOTOR VEHICLE LAWS: There is hereby
adopted for the purpose of establishing rules and regulations for the use of all streets
and public thoroughfares of the City of Ammon, and as the ordinances of the City of
Ammon, that certain code identified as the Idaho Motor Vehicle Laws, Rules of the
Road, Title 49, Idaho Code, published by the Department of Law Enforcement, and as
the same may hereafter be revised or amended by the Idaho legislature or amended by
a governing body. The same is hereby adopted and incorporated as an ordinance of the
City of Ammon as fully as though set forth at length herein.
9-1-3: COPIES: One (1) copy, which may be electronic, of the Idaho Motor
Vehicle Laws, Rules of the Road, Title 49, Idaho Code, published by the Department of
Law Enforcement, and as the same may hereafter be revised or amended by the Idaho
legislature, duly certified, kept and made available by request, by the City Clerk.
9-1-4: ENFORCEMENT: Any person who violates any traffic or motor vehicle
law within the City shall be guilty of an infraction and shall be punishable in accordance
with the provisions of Title 49, Chapter 15, Idaho Code, as the same now exists or as
amended hereafter. All peace officers shall follow the procedures set forth in such
chapter when issuing citations for infractions.
9-1-5: OBEDIENCE TO POLICE OFFICERS: Any person who fails or refuses
to comply with any lawful order or direction of any duly designated officer of the City, or
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any other police officer of Bonneville County or the State of Idaho, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
9-1-6: CONSTRUCTION CREWS: This chapter shall not apply to the operation
of any vehicle while the operator is actually engaged in the construction, repair, or
maintenance of any street, alley, sidewalk, curb, gutter, or any utility located therein, if
such operator is an employee of the City or has a permit or is otherwise lawfully
authorized to perform such work.
9-1-7: FOLLOWING FIRE ENGINE: Any person, who operates a vehicle within
500 feet of any fire engine, equipment, or vehicle responding to a fire alarm, except
persons operating a police, fire, or public safety vehicle, shall be guilty of an infraction.
9-1-8: PARKING NEAR EMERGENCY VEHICLES: Any person who parks any
vehicle within 500 feet of any police, fire, or emergency vehicle responding to a fire
alarm shall be guilty of an infraction.
9-1-9: CROSSING FIRE HOSE: Any person who drives any vehicle over any
fire hose while such hose is being used to suppress any fire, without the consent of a
police officer or the fire official in command, shall be guilty of an infraction.
9-1-10: REGULATORY ADOPTION:
(A) The City Council of the City of Ammon, on the basis of an engineering or traffic
investigation or the residential character of the neighborhood abutting a state
highway in an urban district may provide, by ordinance or resolution, that the
speed limit permitted under the Idaho statutes in Title 49, Idaho Code, is greater
or less than is reasonable and safe under the conditions found to exist upon such
state highway or part of a highway, or because of the residential character of the
neighborhood abutting the highway in an urban district, and may determine and
declare a reasonable and safe maximum limit which:
1. Decreases the limit within an urban district; or
2. Increases the limit within a non-residential area of an urban district, but
not to more than 55 miles per hour; or
3. Decreases the limit outside an urban district.
(B) The City Council of the City of Ammon shall determine, by an engineering or
traffic investigation, the proper maximum speed not exceeding a maximum limit
of 55 miles per hour for all arterial highways and shall declare a reasonable and
safe maximum limit which may be greater or less than the limit permitted under
Title 49, Idaho Code, for an urban district.
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(C) Any altered limit established shall be effective at all times or during hours of
darkness or at other times as may be determined when appropriate signs giving
notice are erected upon the highway. Any alteration of maximum limits on state
highways or extensions in the municipality by the local authorities shall not be
effective until the alteration has been approved by the Department of
Transportation of the State of Idaho.
(D) The City Council of the City of Ammon may, with respect to highways under the
jurisdiction of the City of Ammon, and within the reasonable exercise of police
power upon the passage of any ordinance or resolution, adopt a regulation:
1. Regulating or prohibiting stopping, standing, or parking;
2. Regulating traffic by means of peace officers or traffic control devices;
3. Regulating or prohibiting processions or assemblages on the highways;
4. Designating particular highways for use by traffic moving in one direction;
5. Establishing speed limits for vehicles in public parks;
6. Designating any highway as a through highway or designating any
intersection or junction on highways as a stop or yield intersection or
junction;
7. Restricting the use of highways as authorized in Chapter 10, Title 49,
Idaho Code;
8. Regulating or prohibiting the turning of vehicles or specified types of
vehicles;
9. Altering or establishing speed limits;
10. Designating no-passing zones;
11. Prohibiting or regulating the use of controlled-access highways by any
class or kind of traffic;
12. Prohibiting or regulating the use of heavily-traveled highways by any
class or kind of traffic found to be incompatible with the normal and safe
movement of traffic;
13. Establishing minimum speed limits;
14. Prohibiting pedestrians from crossing a highway in a business district or
any designated highway except in a crosswalk;
15. Restricting pedestrian crossings at unmarked crosswalks;
16. Establishing the maximum speed of vehicles on a bridge or other
elevated structure;
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17. Requiring written accident reports;
18. Regulating persons propelling pushcarts;
19. Regulating persons upon skates, coasters, sleds, and other toy vehicles;
20. Adopting and enforcing temporary or experimental regulations as may be
necessary to cover emergencies or special conditions;
21. Prohibiting drivers of ambulances from exceeding maximum speed limits;
22. Adopting such other traffic regulations as are specifically authorized by
Title 49, Idaho Code.
(E) The City Council of the City of Ammon may adopt such regulations as are
provided in paragraph (D) of this ordinance upon consideration of the reports of
the officers of the City of Ammon or upon the basis of their own investigation or
other reports which shall be considered in making such regulations either by
ordinance or resolution.
(F) No ordinance or resolution enacted under subparagraphs 4 and 16 of paragraph
(D) shall be effective until traffic control devices giving notice of local traffic
regulations are erected upon or at the entrances to the highway or the part
thereof affected as may be most appropriate.
9-1-11: SWALES: It shall be unlawful for any person to park, drive or operate
a motorized vehicle within any designated right of way dedicated as a swale within the
City of Ammon. Any violation of the provisions of this section shall be deemed an
infraction and subject to section 1-4-2 of the Ammon City Code.
9-1-12: PENALTY:
INFRACTION: Any violation of the provisions of this chapter deemed an infraction shall
be subject to penalties prescribed for such violations under section 1-4-2 of this code,
subject to the provisions of Idaho Code 18-111 and 18-113A. Each day of the violation
shall be considered a separate offense and shall be punishable by separate fines as
provided for herein.
MISDEMEANOR: Any violation of the provisions of this chapter deemed to be a
misdemeanor shall be subject to penalties prescribed for such violations under section
1-4-1 of this code, subject to the provisions of Idaho Code 18-111 and 18-113.
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