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SECTION 3224. Persons Riding Bicycles or Animals Shall Obey Traffic Requlations. Every person riding a bi.cycle or riding or driving an animal upon a highway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle as provided for by this Code, except those provisions which by their very nature can have no application. SECTION 3225. Public Employees Shall Obey Traffic Requlations. The provisions of Article III, Chapters 2 and 3 of this Code shall apply to the driver of any vehicle owned by or used in the service of the United States Government, any State, County, or City, and it shall be unlawful for any such driver to violate any of the provisions of said Chapters, except as otherwise permitted herein or by State statute. SECTION 3226. Exemptions to Certain Vehicles. The provisions of Article III, Chapters 2 and 3 of this Code, regulating the parking and standing of vehicles, shall not apply to any vehicle of the Police or Fire Departments, any public or private ambulance or any public utility vehicle which is qualified as an authorized emergency vehicle when such vehicle mentioned in this Section operates in the manner specified in the Vehicle Code in response to emergency calls. Said provisions regulating parking or standing vehicles shall not apply to any vehicle belonging to the City government or a public utility or its agent while necessarily in use on con- struction or repair work on or in the public right of way. The foregoing exemption shall not, however, protect the driver of any such vehicle from the consequences of his willful disregard of safety of others. SECTION 3227. Notice of Accident. The driver of a vehicle involved in any accident resulting in damage to property shall, within twenty-four hours after the accident, make, or cause to be made, a written report of the accident to the Police Department. SECTION 3227.1. Same. When Driver Unable to Report. Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of making a required accident report as required in Section 3227, any occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident shall make the report or cause it to be made. Part 3 - Traffic Control Devices and Turning Movements. SECTION 3230. Authority to Install Traffic Control Devices. The Director of Public Works has the power and duty to place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, official traffic control devices when they are required or authorized by State Law, or Ordinances or Resolutions of this City. NO provisions of the Vehicle Code or this Chapter, for which signs or markings are required, shall be enforced against alleged violators unless appropriate signs or markings are in place giving notice of such provisions of the traffic laws. -4-