10.01.120 Funeral Processions.
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of City ordinance relating to traffic control devices, right-of-way provisions, pedestrians, operators of vehicles, and except as provided in subsection (b), funeral escorts may reasonably direct vehicle and pedestrian traffic to allow funeral processions to pass through intersections and disregard traffic control devices. When the funeral lead vehicle is directed by a funeral escort to lawfully enter an intersection, the remaining vehicles in the funeral procession may follow such funeral lead vehicle through the intersection regardless of any traffic control devices or right-of-way provisions prescribed by City ordinance.
(b) Funeral processions shall have the right-of-way at intersections regardless of traffic control devices, subject to the following conditions and exceptions:
(1) Operators of vehicles in a funeral procession shall yield the right-of-way to an approaching authorized emergency vehicle, as defined in Section 10.01.001 using an audible signal meeting the requirements of Section 10.01.174(D);
(2) Operators of vehicles in a funeral procession shall yield the right-of-way when directed by a police officer;
(3) Operators of vehicles in a funeral procession shall exercise due care when participating in a funeral procession and avoid colliding with any other vehicle or pedestrian in accordance with Section 10.01.066; and
(4) An operator of a vehicle in a funeral procession shall not have the right-of-way at an intersection if the vehicle is more than three hundred feet (300') behind the immediately preceding vehicle in the funeral procession.
(c) All vehicles comprising a funeral procession shall follow the preceding vehicle in the funeral procession as closely as is practical and safe.
(d) Section 10.01.047 shall not be applicable to funeral processions.
(e) Each vehicle that is a part of a funeral procession shall have such vehicle’s headlights, either high beam or low beam, and taillights lighted and may also use flashing hazard lights if the vehicle is so equipped.
(f) Nothing in subsections (a) through (e) shall be construed to prohibit the City from requiring:
(1) A law enforcement or nonlaw enforcement funeral lead vehicle or funeral escort for a funeral procession. The City may require prior notice of a planned funeral procession be given to the City Police Department; or
(2) Compliance with any other City ordinance not in conflict with the provisions of subsections (a) through (e).
(g) It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to drive between the vehicles comprising a funeral or other authorized procession while they are in motion provided such vehicles are conspicuously so designated. This section shall not apply at intersections where traffic is controlled by traffic-control devices or police officers. (Ord. 21-33 § 5, 2021; Ord. 01-89 § 2, 2001.)