37-17 Amend Traffic Code to Align with ORC

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intersection. The right to proceed shall be subject to the provisions that are applicable after making a stop at a stop sign. (2) Pedestrians facing any flashing red signal indication at an inter- section, unless otherwise directed by a pedestrian signal indication or other traffic control device, are pemlitted to proceed across the roadway within any marked or unmarked associated crosswalk. Pe- destrians shalt yield the right-of-way to vehicles lawfully within the intersection at the time that the flashing red signal indication is fast displayed. (3) When a flashing circular red signal indication is displayed as a beacon to supplement another traffic control device, road users are notified that there is a need to pay additional attention to the message contained thereon or that the regulatory requirements of the other traffic control device, which might not be applicable at all times, are currently applicable. Use of this signal indication shall be limited to supplementing stop, do not enter, or wrong way signs, and to appli- cations where compliance with the supplemented traffic control de- vice requires a stop at a designated point. (g) General AprLlication: In the event an official traffic - control sig- nal is erected and maintained at a place other than an intersection, the provisions of this section shall be applicable except as to those provi- sions which by their nature can have no application. Any stop re- quired shall be made at a sign or marking on the pavement indicating where the stop shall be made, but in the absence of any such sign or marking the stop shall be made at the signal. Execution. This section does not apply at railroad grade crossings. Conduct of drivers of vehicles approaching railroad grade crossings shall be governed by Ohio R.C. 4511.61 and 4511.62. SECTION 6. Section 333.031 Approaching a Stationary Public Safety, Emergen- cy, or Road Service Vehicle, of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances, currently reading as follows: 333,031 APPROACHING A STATIONARY PUBLIC SAFETY, EMERGENCY OR ROAD SERVICE VEHICLE. (a) The driver of a motor vehicle, upon approaching a stationary public safety vehicle, an emergency vehicle, or a road service vehicle that is displaying the appropriate visual signals by means of flashing, oscillat- ing or rotating lights, as prescribed in Section 337.16, shall do either of the following: (1) If the driver of the motor vehicle is traveling on a street or highway that consists of at least two lanes that carry traffic in the same direction of travel as that of the driver's motor vehicle, the driver shall proceed with due caution and, if possible with due regard to the road, weather, and traffic conditions, shall change lanes into a lane that is not adjacent to that of the stationary public safety vehicle, an emergency vehicle, or a road service vehicle. (2) If the driver is not traveling on a street or highway of a type de- scribed in subsection (a)(1) of this section, or if the driver is traveling on a highway of that type but it is not possible to change lanes or if to do so would be unsafe, the driver shall proceed with due caution, reduce the