10.16.080 Exemptions – Designated.
The provisions of this title regulating the operation, parking and standing of vehicles shall not apply to the following authorized emergency vehicles when operated in the manner specified herein pursuant to the requirements of the Vehicle Code, as amended. An authorized emergency vehicle is:
A. Any publicly owned ambulance, lifeguard or lifesaving equipment; and
B. Any publicly owned vehicle operated by the following persons, agencies or organizations:
1. Any forestry or fire department of any public agency or fire department organized as provided in the Health and Safety Code,
2. Any police department, sheriff’s department or the California Highway Patrol,
3. The district attorney of any county or any district attorney investigator,
4. Any constable or deputy constable engaged in law enforcement work,
5. Peace officer personnel of the Department of Justice; and
C. Any vehicle owned by the state, or any bridge and highway district, equipped and used either for fighting fires, or towing or servicing other vehicles, caring for injured persons, or repairing damaged lighting or electrical equipment; and
D. Any state-owned vehicle used in responding to emergency fire, rescue or communications calls and operated either by the California Disaster Office or by any public agency or industrial fire department to which the California Disaster Office has assigned such vehicle; and
E. Any state-owned vehicle operated by a fish and game warden; and
F. Any vehicle owned or operated by any department or agency of the United States government, when such department or agency is engaged primarily in law enforcement work and the vehicle is used in responding to emergency calls, or when such vehicle is used in responding to emergency fire, ambulance or lifesaving calls. (Cite Vehicle Code Section 165.) (Ord. 2670 § 1, 1996; Ord. 973 § 1, 1966; prior code § 19.3.3(A)).