Title 10 VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
Chapter 10.80 PEDESTRIANS
10.80.010 Right-of-way.
A. A pedestrian shall obey the instructions of any official
traffic-control device specifically applicable to him, unless otherwise directed
by a police officer.
B. Where traffic-control signals are not in place or in
operation, the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way, slowing down or
stopping if need be, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway or street within any
marked crosswalk or anywhere within any unmarked crosswalk.
C. Whenever stop signals or flashing red signals are in place
at an intersection or a marked crosswalk between intersections, the pedestrian
shall have the right-of-way over drivers of vehicles; and at such marked places,
drivers of vehicles shall stop before entering the nearest crosswalk and any
pedestrian within or entering the crosswalk at either edge of the roadway shall
have the right-of-way over any vehicle so stopped.
D. The driver of a vehicle shall stop before entering any
crosswalk when any vehicle proceeding in the same direction is stopped at such
crosswalk for the purpose of permitting a pedestrian to cross. (Ord. 1988-11
§ 1, 1988: Ord. 8-1958 § 4.01, 1958)