From the Odessa Municipal Code Sec. 14-17. Mobile street vendors.Tactical_Texan_CHL wrote:BTW? I know it's a state law not to go around buses when the sign is out or the red lights are flashing. Does the law mention ice cream vans or trucks ANYWHERE? In any law?
and(2) Special requirements. Mobile street vendors shall be required to comply, and it shall be an offense not to comply with the following special requirements:
e. Display on the rear and front of the vehicle a sign with a white background and red letters (in block form that are uniform in size and three (3) to five (5) inches in height) that provides the following warning:Warning: Watch for Child Near This Vehicle and Stop Before Passing When Stop Arm Is Extended.
Since you did stop it looks like you did OK!(5) Duty of other drivers. The driver of a vehicle meeting or overtaking from either direction a mobile street vendor stopped on the street shall stop no less than twenty-five (25) feet from the front or rear of said mobile street vendor when the flashing lights and stop signal arm described herein are in use. After stopping, a driver may proceed past such mobile street vendor at a reasonable and prudent speed not exceeding fifteen (15) miles per hour and shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian who crosses the roadway to or from the mobile street vendor. The driver of a vehicle on a street with separate roadways separated by a divider of some nature need not stop upon meeting or passing a mobile street vendor on the parallel roadway.