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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XVIII - Labor and Industrial Relations › Chapter 295 - Labor Relations › Section 295.210 - Meaning of law.

Title XVIII LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 295
Effective - 28 Aug 1947
295.210. Meaning of law. —
No employee shall be required to render labor or service without his consent; nor shall anything in this chapter be construed to making the quitting of his labor or services by an individual employee an illegal act; nor shall any court issue any process to compel the performance by an individual employee of such labor or service without his consent.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 358 § 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.015 - Police administration.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
Effective - 28 Aug 1965
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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.020 - Duty of traffic division.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
Effective - 28 Aug 1965
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 arrests for traffic violations, to investigate accidents and to cooperate with the city traffic engineer and other officers of the city in the administration of the traffic laws and in developing ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out those duties specially imposed upon the division by this ordinance and the traffic ordinances of the city.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 3)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.025 - Records of traffic violations.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
Effective - 28 Aug 1965
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 disposition of all such alleged offenses. Such record shall be so maintained as to show all types of violations and the total of each. Said record shall accumulate during at least a five-year period and from that time on the record shall be maintained complete for at least the most recent five-year period.
2. All forms for records of violations and notices of violations shall be serially numbered. For each month and year a written record shall be kept available to the public showing the disposal of all such forms.
3. All such records and reports shall be public records.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 4)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.030 - Traffic division to investigate accidents.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
Effective - 28 Aug 1965
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 causing or contributing to such accidents.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 5)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.035 - Traffic accident studies.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
Effective - 28 Aug 1965
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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 6)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.040 - Traffic accident reports.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
Effective - 28 Aug 1965
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 city traffic engineer.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 7)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.045 - Driver files to be maintained.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
Effective - 28 Aug 1965
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 of the driver concerned.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 8)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.050 - Traffic division to submit annual traffic safety report.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
Effective - 28 Aug 1965
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 accidents, the number of persons killed, the number of persons injured, and other pertinent traffic accident data;
(2) The number of traffic accidents investigated and other pertinent data on the safety activities of the police;
(3) The plans and recommendations of the division for future traffic safety activities.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 9)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.055 - Traffic division to designate method of identifying funeral processions.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
Effective - 28 Aug 1965
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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 10)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.060 - City traffic engineer.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
Effective - 28 Aug 1965
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 as provided in this ordinance.
2. The city traffic engineer shall determine the installation and proper timing and maintenance of traffic control devices, conduct engineering analyses of traffic accidents and devise remedial measures, conduct engineering investigation of traffic conditions, plan the operation of traffic on the streets and highways of the city, and cooperate with other city officials in the development of ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and carry out the additional powers and duties imposed by ordinances of the city.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 11)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.065 - Emergency and experimental regulations.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
Effective - 28 Aug 1965
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 temporary or experimental regulations to cover emergencies or special conditions. No such temporary or experimental regulation shall remain in effect for more than ninety days.
2. The city traffic engineer may test traffic control devices under actual conditions of traffic.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 12)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.070 - Traffic commission established — powers and duties.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
Effective - 28 Aug 1965
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, the chairman of the city council traffic committee, and one representative each from the city engineer's office and the city attorney's office and such number of other city officers and representatives of unofficial bodies as may be determined and appointed by the mayor. The chairman of the commission shall be appointed by the mayor and may be removed by him.
2. It shall be the duty of the traffic commission, and to this end it shall have the authority within the limits of the funds at its disposal, to coordinate traffic activities, to supervise the preparation and publication of traffic reports, to receive complaints having to do with traffic matters, and to recommend to the legislative body of the city and to the city traffic engineer, the chief of the traffic division, and other city officials ways and means for improving traffic conditions and the administration and enforcement of traffic regulations.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 13)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.075 - Authority of police and fire department officials.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
Effective - 28 Aug 2002
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 in the city.
2. Officers of the police department or such officers as are assigned by the chief of police are hereby authorized to direct all traffic by voice, hand, or signal in conformance with traffic laws; provided that, in the event of a fire or other emergency or to expedite traffic or to safeguard pedestrians, officers of the police department may direct traffic as conditions may require notwithstanding the provisions of the traffic laws.
3. Officers of the fire department, when at the scene of an incident, may direct or assist the police in directing traffic thereat or in the immediate vicinity.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 14, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.080 - Obedience to police and fire department officials.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
Effective - 28 Aug 2002
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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 16, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.085 - Persons propelling push carts or riding animals to obey traffic regulations.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
Effective - 28 Aug 1965
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 the driver of any vehicle, except those provisions of this ordinance which by their very nature can have no application.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 17)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.090 - Use of coasters, roller skates and similar devices restricted.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
Effective - 28 Aug 1965
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 person shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to pedestrians. This section shall not apply upon any street while set aside as a play street as authorized by ordinance of the city.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 18)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.095 - Public employees to obey traffic regulations.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
Effective - 28 Aug 1965
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 any of the provisions of this ordinance, except as otherwise permitted in this ordinance.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 19)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.100 - Authorized emergency vehicles — permitted acts of drivers.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
Effective - 28 Aug 2002
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 fire alarm, may exercise the privileges set forth in this section, but subject to the conditions herein stated.
2. The driver of an authorized emergency vehicle may:
(1) Park or stand, irrespective of the provisions of this ordinance;
(2) Proceed past a red or stop signal or stop sign, but only after slowing down as may be necessary for safe operation;
(3) Exceed the maximum speed limits so long as he does not endanger life or property;
(4) Disregard regulations governing direction of movement or turning in specified directions.
3. The exemptions herein granted to an authorized emergency vehicle shall apply only when the driver of any said vehicle while in motion sounds audible signal by siren or while having at least one lighted lamp exhibiting a red light visible under normal atmospheric conditions from a distance of five hundred feet to the front of such vehicle or a flashing blue light authorized by section 307.175.
4. The foregoing provisions shall not relieve the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons, nor shall such provisions protect the driver from the consequences of his reckless disregard for the safety of others.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 20, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.105 - Operation of vehicles on approach of authorized emergency vehicles.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
Effective - 28 Aug 2002
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 lawfully making use of an audible signal only the driver of every other vehicle shall yield the right-of-way and shall immediately drive to a position parallel to, and as close as possible to, the right-hand edge or curb of the roadway clear of any intersection and shall stop and remain in such position until the authorized emergency vehicle has passed, except when otherwise directed by a police officer.
2. This section shall not operate to relieve the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons using the highway.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 21, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.110 - Immediate notice of accident within city.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• Effective - 28 Aug 2002
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 be given, notice of such accident to the police department as soon as reasonably possible.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 22, A.L. 1979 H.B. 167, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.115 - Written report of accident.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 23, A.L. 1979 H.B. 167)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.120 - When driver unable to report.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 24)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.130 - Authority to install traffic control devices.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 26)
2023 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.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 27)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.140 - Obedience to traffic control devices.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 28)
2023 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.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 29)
2023 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.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 30)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.160 - Pedestrian control signals.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 32, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.165 - Flashing signals.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 33)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.170 - Lane direction control signals.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 34)
2023 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.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 35)
2023 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.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 36)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.185 - Authority to establish play streets.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 37)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.190 - Play streets.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 38)
2023 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.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 39)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.200 - Traffic lanes.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 40)
*Word "marking" appears in original rolls.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.205 - State speed laws applicable.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 41)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.210 - Regulation of speed by traffic signals.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 42)
2023 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.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 43, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)
2023 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.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 44)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.225 - Authority to place restricted turn signs.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 45)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.230 - Obedience to no-turn signs.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 46)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.235 - Limitations on turning around.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 47)
2023 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.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 48)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.245 - One-way streets and alleys.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 49)
2023 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.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 50)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.255 - Through streets designated.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 51)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.260 - Signs required at through streets.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 52)
2023 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.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• 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.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 53)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.270 - Stop and yield signs.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• Effective - 28 Aug 1965
300.270. Stop and yield signs. —
1. The driver of a vehicle approaching a yield sign if required for safety to stop shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, in the event there is no crosswalk, at a clearly marked stop line, but if none, then at the point nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway.
2. Except when directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic control signal, every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop intersection indicated by a stop sign shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, in the event there is no crosswalk, shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if none, then at the point nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway before entering the intersection.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 54)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.275 - Vehicle entering stop intersection.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• Effective - 28 Aug 1965
300.275. Vehicle entering stop intersection. —
Except when directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic control signal, every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop intersection indicated by a stop sign shall stop as required by subsection 2 of section 300.270, and after having stopped shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle which has entered the intersection from another highway or which is approaching so closely on said highway as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time when such driver is moving across or within the intersection.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 55)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.280 - Vehicle entering yield intersection.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• Effective - 28 Aug 1965
300.280. Vehicle entering yield intersection. —
The driver of a vehicle approaching a yield sign shall in obedience to such sign slow down to a speed reasonable for the existing conditions and shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on another highway so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time such driver is moving across or within the intersection; provided, however, that if such a driver is involved in a collision with a vehicle in the intersection, after driving past a yield sign without stopping, such collision shall be deemed prima facie evidence of his failure to yield right-of-way.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 56)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.285 - Emerging from alley, driveway or building.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• Effective - 28 Aug 1965
300.285. Emerging from alley, driveway or building. —
The driver of a vehicle within a business or residence district emerging from an alley, driveway or building shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or onto the sidewalk area extending across any alleyway or driveway, and shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian as may be necessary to avoid collision, and upon entering the roadway shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching on said roadway.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 58)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XIX - Motor Vehicles, Watercraft and Aviation › Chapter 300 - Model Traffic Ordinance › Section 300.290 - Stop when traffic obstructed.

Title XIX MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION
Chapter 300
• Effective - 28 Aug 1965
300.290. Stop when traffic obstructed. —
No driver shall enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle he is operating without obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding any traffic control signal indication to proceed.
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(L. 1965 p. 445 § 59)