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MO Rev Stat § 300.115 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.115 - Written report of accident.

Effective - 28 Aug 1979   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 after such accident, forward a written report of such accident to the police department. The provisions of this section shall not be applicable when the accident has been investigated at the scene by a police officer while such driver was present thereat. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 23, A.L. 1979 H.B. 167)
MO Rev Stat § 300.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.120 - When driver unable to report.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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 occupant shall give, or cause to be given, the notice not given by the driver.  2. Whenever the driver is physically incapable of making a written report of an accident as required in section 300.115 and such driver is not the owner of the vehicle, then the owner of the vehicle involved in such accident shall within five days after the accident make such report not made by the driver. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 24)
MO Rev Stat § 300.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.130 - Authority to install traffic control devices.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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 and maintain such additional traffic control devices as he may deem necessary to regulate traffic under the traffic ordinances of the city or under state law or to guide or warn traffic. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 26)
MO Rev Stat § 300.135 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.135 - Manual and specifications for traffic control devices.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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. All signs or signals required hereunder for a particular purpose shall so far as practicable be uniform as to type and location throughout the city. All traffic control devices so erected and not inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance shall be official traffic control devices. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 27)
MO Rev Stat § 300.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.140 - Obedience to traffic control devices.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle in this ordinance. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 28)
MO Rev Stat § 300.145 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.145 - When official traffic control devices required for enforcement purposes.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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 device is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person. Whenever a particular section does not state that official traffic control devices are required, such section shall be effective even though no devices are erected or in place. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 29)
MO Rev Stat § 300.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.150 - Official traffic control devices — presumption of legality.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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 direction of lawful authority, unless the contrary shall be established by competent evidence.  2. Any official traffic control device placed pursuant to the provisions of this ordinance and purporting to conform to the lawful requirements pertaining to such devices shall be presumed to comply with the requirements of this ordinance, unless the contrary shall be established by competent evidence. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 30)
MO Rev Stat § 300.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.160 - Pedestrian control signals.

Effective - 28 Aug 2002   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 in the direction of the signal and shall be given the right-of-way by the drivers of all vehicles;  (2) "Wait" or "Don't Walk", no pedestrian shall start to cross the roadway in the direction of such signal, but any pedestrian who has partially completed his crossing on the walk signal shall proceed to a sidewalk or safety zone while the wait signal is showing. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 32, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)
MO Rev Stat § 300.165 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.165 - Flashing signals.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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, drivers of vehicles shall stop before entering the nearest crosswalk at an intersection or at a limit line when marked, or if none, then before entering the intersection, and the right to proceed shall be subject to the rules applicable after making a stop at a stop sign;  (2) Flashing yellow (caution signal), when a yellow lens is illuminated with rapid intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles may proceed through the intersection or past such signal only with caution.  2. This section shall not apply at railroad grade crossings. Conduct of drivers of vehicles approaching railroad grade crossings shall be governed by the rules as set forth in section 300.295 of this ordinance. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 33)
MO Rev Stat § 300.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.170 - Lane direction control signals.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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 signal is shown. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 34)
MO Rev Stat § 300.175 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.175 - Display of unauthorized signs, signals or markings.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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 railroad sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic, or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of any official traffic control device or any railroad sign or signal. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 35)
MO Rev Stat § 300.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.180 - Interference with official traffic control devices or railroad signs or signals.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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 inscription, shield or insignia thereon, or any other part thereof. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 36)
MO Rev Stat § 300.185 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.185 - Authority to establish play streets.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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)
MO Rev Stat § 300.190 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.190 - Play streets.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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 area, and then any said driver shall exercise the greatest care in driving upon any such street or portion thereof. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 38)
MO Rev Stat § 300.195 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.195 - City traffic engineer to designate crosswalks and establish safety zones.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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 opinion there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway, and at such other places as he may deem necessary;  (2) To establish safety zones of such kind and character and at such places as he may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 39)
MO Rev Stat § 300.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.200 - Traffic lanes.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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 any vehicle to fail or refuse to keep such vehicle within the boundaries of any such lane except when lawfully passing another vehicle or preparatory to making* a lawful turning movement. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 40)  *Word "marking" appears in original rolls.
MO Rev Stat § 300.205 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.205 - State speed laws applicable.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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 speed regulations shall be applicable upon specified streets or in certain areas, in which event it shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle at a speed in excess of any speed so declared when signs are in place giving notice thereof, but no city ordinance shall regulate the speed of vehicles upon controlled access highways of the state. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 41)
MO Rev Stat § 300.210 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.210 - Regulation of speed by traffic signals.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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 the district or at intersections and shall erect appropriate signs giving notice thereof. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 42)
MO Rev Stat § 300.215 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.215 - Required position and method of turning at intersection.

Effective - 28 Aug 2002   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 curb or edge of the roadway, except where multiple turn lanes have been established.  (2) Left turns on two-way roadways: At any intersection where traffic is permitted to move in both directions on each roadway entering the intersection, an approach for a left turn shall be made in that portion of the right half of the roadway nearest the center line thereof and by passing to the right of such center line where it enters the intersection and after entering the intersection the left turn shall be made so as to leave the intersection to the right of the center line of the roadway being entered. Whenever practicable the left turn shall be made in that portion of the intersection to the left of the center of the intersection.  (3) Left turns on other than two-road roadways: At any intersection where traffic is restricted to one direction on one or more of the roadways, the driver of a vehicle intending to turn left at any such intersection shall approach the intersection in the extreme left-hand lane lawfully available to traffic moving in the direction of travel of such vehicle and after entering the intersection the left turn shall be made so as to leave the intersection, as nearly as practicable, in the left-hand lane lawfully available to traffic moving in such direction upon the roadway being entered, except where multiple turn lanes have been established.  (4) Designated two-way left turn lanes: Where a special lane for making left turns by drivers proceeding in opposite directions have been indicated by official traffic control devices:  (a) A left turn shall not be made from any other lane;  (b) A vehicle shall not be driven in the lane except when preparing for or making a left turn from or into the roadway or when preparing for or making a u-turn when otherwise permitted by law;  (c) A vehicle shall not be driven in the lane for a distance more than five hundred feet. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 43, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)
MO Rev Stat § 300.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.220 - Authority to place and obedience to turning markers.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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 traveled as so indicated may conform to or be other than as prescribed by law or ordinance.  2. When authorized markers, buttons, or other indications are placed within an intersection indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning thereat, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of such indications. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 44)
MO Rev Stat § 300.225 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.225 - Authority to place restricted turn signs.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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 may be prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted at other hours, in which event the same shall be plainly indicated on the signs or they may be removed when such turns are permitted. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 45)
MO Rev Stat § 300.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.230 - Obedience to no-turn signs.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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)
MO Rev Stat § 300.235 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.235 - Limitations on turning around.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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 without interfering with other traffic. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 47)
MO Rev Stat § 300.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.240 - Authority to sign one-way streets and alleys.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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 place. Signs indicating the direction of lawful traffic movement shall be placed at every intersection where movement of traffic in the opposite direction is prohibited. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 48)
MO Rev Stat § 300.245 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.245 - One-way streets and alleys.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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 every intersection where movement in the opposite direction is prohibited. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 49)
MO Rev Stat § 300.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.250 - Authority to restrict direction of movement on streets during certain periods.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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 during one period and the opposite direction during another period of the day and shall place and maintain appropriate markings, signs, barriers or other devices to give notice thereof. The city traffic engineer may erect signs temporarily designating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction, regardless of the center line of the roadway.  2. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any vehicle in violation of such markings, signs, barriers or other devices so placed in accordance with this section. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 50)
MO Rev Stat § 300.255 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.255 - Through streets designated.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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)
MO Rev Stat § 300.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.260 - Signs required at through streets.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   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 intersection a yield sign, on each and every street intersecting such through street unless traffic at any such intersection is controlled at all times by traffic control signals; provided, however, that at the intersection of two such through streets or at the intersection of a through street and a heavy traffic street not so designated, stop signs shall be erected at the approaches of either of said streets as may be determined by the city traffic engineer upon the basis of an engineering and traffic study. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 52)
MO Rev Stat § 300.265 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation|Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance|Section 300.265 - Other intersections where stop or yield required.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   300.265. Other intersections where stop or yield required. — The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to determine and designate intersections where particular hazard exists upon other than through streets and to determine whether vehicles shall stop at one or more entrances to any such intersection, in which event he shall cause to be erected a stop sign at every such place where a stop is required, or whether vehicles shall yield the right-of-way to vehicles on a different street at such intersection as prescribed in subsection 1 of section 300.280, in which event he shall cause to be erected a yield sign at every place where obedience thereto is required. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 445 § 53)