Chapter 10.40 RIGHT-OF-WAY

10.40.010 Vehicles approaching or entering intersections.

10.40.020 Vehicles turning left at intersections or into private roads or driveways.

10.40.030 Vehicles entering through streets or stop intersections.


10.40.010 Vehicles approaching or entering intersections.

A. The driver of a vehicle approaching an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to a vehicle which has entered the intersection from a different highway.

B. When two vehicles enter an intersection from different highways at approximately the same time, the operator of the vehicle on the left shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle on the right.

C. The rules set forth in subsections A and B of this section are modified at through highways and otherwise as stated in this chapter.

D. Whenever any person driving a vehicle approaches an intersection with a yield sign facing him, he shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian within a marked or unmarked crosswalk at such intersection, or to any vehicle which is within such intersection or approaching so closely thereto as to constitute an immediate hazard. (Ord. 413.1 § 1(d), 1965: Ord. 413 § 10-11.1, 1965)

10.40.020 Vehicles turning left at intersections or into private roads or driveways.

The operator of a vehicle intending to turn to the left within an intersection, or intending to turn left into any alley, private road or driveway, shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle approaching from the opposite direction which is within the intersection or so close thereto as to constitute an immediate hazard; but the operator, having so yielded and having given a signal when and as required by this title, may make such left turn and the operator of all other vehicles approaching from the opposite direction shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle making the left turn. (Ord. 413 § 10-11.2, 1965)

10.40.030 Vehicles entering through streets or stop intersections.

A. The operator of a vehicle shall stop as required by this title at the entrance to a through street and shall yield the right-of-way to other vehicles which have entered the intersection from the through street or which are approaching so closely on the through street as to constitute an immediate hazard; but the operator having so yielded may proceed and the operator of all other vehicles, approaching the intersection on the through street shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle so proceeding into or across the through street.

B. The operator of a vehicle shall likewise stop in obedience to a stop sign as required in this title at an intersection where a stop sign is erected at one or more entrances thereto, although not a part of a through street, and shall proceed cautiously, yielding to vehicles not so obligated to stop which are within the intersection or approaching so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard. (Ord. 413 § 10-11.3, 1965)