37-17 Amend Traffic Code to Align with ORC

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shall be and hereby is repealed, and new Section 337.09, Lights on Parked or Stopped Vehicles, of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances is enacted to read as follows: 337.09 LIGHTS ON PARKED OR STOPPED VFMCLES. (a) Except in case of an emergency, whenever a vehicle is parked or stopped upon a roadway open to traffic or shoulder adjacent thereto, whether attended or unattended dining the times mentioned in Section 337.02, such vehicle shall be equipped with one or more lights which shall exhibit a white or amber light on the roadway side visible from a distance of 500 feet to the front of such vehicle, and a red light visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear. No lights need be displayed upon any such vehicle when it is stopped or parked where there is sufficient light to reveal any person or substantial object within a distance of 500 feet upon such street. Any lighted headlights upon a parked vehicle shall be depressed or dimmed (ORC 4513.10) (b) whoever violates this section is guilty of a motor misdemeanor. en- a- fir.,t. ^per €eAS A-i •....: i..,,. r.....', dytnesaa ^..�.r.of ^,�r.degre�- on -eaek -pQrse mss__ psrsen -is b •:�r�a- �ri�dCtAeaAO f I. 1.'. .t�dz -c2� (ORC 4513.1099) V SECTION 11. Section 337.16, Number of Lights; Limita- tions on Flashing, Oscillating, or Rotating Lights, of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances, currently reading as fol- lows: 337.16 NUMBER OF LIGHTS; LIMITATIONS ON FLASHING, OSCILLATING OR ROTA'T'ING LIGH'T'S. (a) whenever a motor vehicle equipped with headlights also is equipped with any auxiliary lights or spotlight or any other light on the front thereof projecting a beam of an intensity greater than 300 candle power, not more than a total of five of any such lights on the front of a vehicle shall be lighted at any one time when the vehicle is upon a hi ghway. (b) Any lighted light or illuminating device upon a motor vehi- cle, other than headlights, spotlights, signal lights or auxiliaty driving lights, that projects a beam of light of an intensity greater than 300 candle power, shall be so directed that no part of the beam will strike the level of the roadway on which the vehicle stands at a distance of more than seventy-five feet from the vehicle. (c) (1) Flashing lights are prohibited on motor vehicles, except as a means for indicating a right or a left turn, or in the presence of a vehicular traffic hazard requiring unusual care in approaching, or overtaking or passing. This prohibition does not apply to emergency vehicles, road service vehicles servicing or towing a disabled vehicle, traffic line stripers, snow plows, rural mail delivery vehicles, vehi- cles transporting preschool children as provided in Ohio R.C. 4513.182, Ohio Department of Transportation maintenance vehicles,