§ 18-133. Yielding right-of-way to department vehicles en route to emergency required.

All moving apparatus under the fire department shall have the paramount right-of-way through all streets, thoroughfares, lanes, alleys, places and courts of the city when en route to an emergency and such apparatus, together with all other vehicles contiguous thereto, shall take and keep to the righthand side of the street unless the same is obstructed, in order to give the apparatus of the fire department the unobstructed use of the streets for the time being.

(Code 1982, § 10-59; Ord. No. 93-20, § 9, 7-19-1993)

State law reference

Operation of emergency vehicles, V.T.C.A., Transportation Code § 546.001 et seq.; right-of-way of emergency vehicles, V.T.C.A., Transportation Code § 545.156.