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Areas with intense traffic means any road posted 120 km/h (75 mph) or higher, any city or village, or any spot where three or more civilian vehicles are in the immediate vicinity. Overwatch is the highest internal authority in BugsVille, is not police, and does not answer to the BPD's restrictions or chain of command. High-value cargo means Terra for sale or delivery, 50MVA and 20MVA transformers, the 250kl tank, and steel coils.

Any citizen may operate a motor vehicle safely. A suspended licence or a learner permit still allows vehicles under 5t gross weight and under 300hp, and also medium and heavy-duty trucks, buses and special equipment under 50t gross weight.

No charge type exists for unlicensed or suspended driving; suspensions are tracked separately

A citizen travels freely unless a law is broken, may safely pass an unattended obstruction (a barrier, wreck, stopped vehicle or roadblock with no officer at it), and may leave a box-in caused by another citizen by the safest route.

A roadblock or checkpoint with an officer present and signalling is a lawful stop and must be obeyed.

File: Fleeing Law Enforcement

Lack of proof means the citizen is innocent.

Local BugsVille time is the recognised clock for every report, citation and hearing, whatever time zone anyone is in.

Conduct the code does not name is cited under the nearest clause that governs conduct like it. A gap is an instruction to find the closest fit, not a free pass.

Every citizen keeps full and complete control of their vehicle at all times.

File: Reckless Driving

Speed limits are safety suggestions, so speed alone is not the charge. A citizen or an officer who believes a speeding vehicle creates a hazard may act on it, and any accident involving a speeding vehicle is chargeable.

File: Traffic Violation, escalating to Reckless Driving

Stop signs carry the force of yield signs. Inside cities, and where one is posted ahead of a blind turn, the driver slows and confirms it is safe. Any accident involving a missed stop sign is chargeable.

File: Traffic Violation

Mandatory in busy areas. Any accident involving an unsignalled manoeuvre is chargeable. Emergency vehicles running sirens on a call are exempt.

File: Traffic Violation

BMWs are immune to the use of turn signals. There are no BMWs in BugsVille. We have Cora and Zino.

Jake brakes are banned in cities and villages at all times, and near residential property at night. I4 engines above 4,000 rpm and V6 or V12 engines above 3,000 rpm are banned in cities and villages at all times.

File: Noise Disturbance

Covers private and government property alike, including stop signs, fences, poles and similar municipal fixtures. Hit and run is property damage by a vehicle.

File: Property Damage; Hit and Run for 2.6.1

Five or more distinct traffic violations in one incident, or any failure to maintain control under 2.1.

File: Reckless Driving

An overtake is allowed only when the lane used is clear of obvious hazards. It is forbidden in cities and intense traffic unless there is room to pass without crossing into the opposite lane, and forbidden on the right. Exception: the vehicle being passed is 20 km/h or more under the limit.

File: Traffic Violation, escalating to Reckless Driving

A passed vehicle that accelerates, blocks the safe route or otherwise wrecks an overtake already under way is chargeable.

File: Traffic Violation, Reckless Driving, or Physical Altercation for a deliberate ram, by severity

Every vehicle must be of proper width, size and lighting for public roads. Not road legal: a factory-standard vehicle built without headlights, taillights or turn signals; a factory-standard vehicle built to use a heavy-machinery engine; any lighting modification that makes the vehicle harder to spot at night or in rain.

File: Improper Vehicle Equipment

It may be transported by rollback, carry, lomax or SPT1 with its axles off the road, and it may be operated away from public roads in the areas it was designed for.

On while moving on public roads from 19:20 to 07:00 and in fog or rain. An accident that the missing lights caused, or that they would have prevented, lies on the driver.

File: Improper Vehicle Equipment, plus the accident charge

Colours communicate, and none of the single colours communicates alone. Abuse of protection-giving lights is a moderate violation. A driver running them produces photographic evidence of the delivered urgent cargo on request, taken when payment is issued, and an officer’s reasonable suspicion that there is no destination removes the protection. The trucker follows the route to the delivery point.

File: Improper Vehicle Equipment for the lights; the protection itself is a Part 3 matter, see 3.4

BugsVille is right-hand traffic. With no sign or traffic control present, yield to the right. Every citizen is equal in the right and freedom of travel. On-duty emergency vehicles have priority during an active response or official matter, and that priority is not a defence: the emergency vehicle is legally at fault for a collision it causes, or for manoeuvring so suddenly that nobody could react.

Traffic control has no right of way. It may close or partly close a road only when absolutely necessary, and 1.3 comes first. BPD officers on active duty outrank a road closure.

A road closure that is unlawful or thinly justified is chargeable.

File: Impeding Traffic

Good sportsmanship is mandatory. No metagaming, and no using the city map to locate a suspect. Roleplay logic holds at all times: if an interaction departs from it, every piece of evidence collected in it is deemed fabricated. A citizen who establishes they were in a stolen or rented vehicle, where the officer never confirmed identity through roleplay, puts the BOLO on the registered owner instead. Act on Ordinance §11 of the Municipal Code of Conduct.

Use of force is always safe and controlled. No PIT in cities or intense traffic. Exception: a suspect who deliberately drives through restricted areas to use civilian traffic or a populated zone as a shield while refusing to stop.

Outside city limits the PIT is allowed once the Academy escalation standard is met: valid pursuit conditions, lights and sirens running, and time given to comply. Country roads follow the same standard, and challenging curves or limited visibility raise the bar for safe execution. Highway areas with clear visibility are allowed. Country roads means challenging curves, limited visibility and a direct connection to villages; highway areas means fast roads and bridges, which are not country roads whatever they look like. The old speed caps on the PIT are repealed; the Academy sets no speed threshold and safe execution under 3.2 governs.

Head-on collisions and side rams during turns are restricted as unsafe.

Collateral damage to an uninvolved citizen from an officer's mistake, PIT or other unintended manoeuvre is prioritised over the chase by at least one officer, on or off duty. Sustained reasons to keep chasing instead: active AP status with no response, verbal confirmation that the citizen is willing to let it go, or the citizen's own fault. Act on Ordinance §11 of the Municipal Code of Conduct.

Clear visibility, active emergency lights (siren optional), no violation of 1.3 so the road stays partly open, and reasonable time for the suspect to react and slow down.

Place the driver's side of the cruiser away from the expected impact. No passengers in a police cruiser during a roadblock unless they got in uninvited. The cruiser never strikes the suspect: adjusting position to block is allowed, the suspect hitting the cruiser is a successful block, the cruiser hitting the suspect is misconduct.

Perfect execution means the suspect fully stopped or immediately boxed in by other units. The officer stays inside the cruiser the whole time the block is active, and removes it the moment the suspect passes or turns away, then returns to patrol, joins the pursuit, or sets the next block. Roadblocks are restricted in intense traffic, near emergency entrances and near private property, as per 3.2.1.1. An officer with a reasonable concern under 3.3.1-C keeps the cruiser stationary or removes it.

Job-Based Protection was written with Dl-Dan, who did most of the work on it. Protection exists to keep the city's logistics working, and it follows the job, not the model: any vehicle running a protected job counts, so check the work, not the body shape. The list is in the Police Academy Handbook. Protected vehicles are immune to aggressive manoeuvres. Urgent transport outranks mere comfort or fragile transport. The preferred enforcement is to follow the vehicle to its destination and make the stop, arrest or citation after the job is complete. Any use of force against a protected vehicle is well documented and justified, and goes to Internal Affairs under strict review.

Protection is presumed to hold unless the officer can justify its expiry, and the justification rises with the uncertainty and the risk. Four grounds: the job is inactive and the officer conclusively establishes and documents it (a taxi light in SEARCH, a bus with no route, a wrecker neither towing nor transporting); the job was abandoned through sustained inconsistent behaviour (repeatedly changing direction with no destination, abandoning a route, bypassing required stops); the officer holds sufficient evidence of a lack of urgency and gave adequate time to stop safely, which allows careful aggressive manoeuvres and final warnings without causing harm; or the vehicle poses an ongoing, severe threat to public safety.

With sufficient reasoning and evidence that the job could not have been completed without violating the cited charges, those charges are subject to dismissal in court. An officer who invokes 3.4 accepts the risk and the responsibility of stepping away from the handbook.

A traffic stop is a stop of a cooperative suspect. A stop that causes an impediment or a hazard is itself a traffic violation, and the officer first asks the suspect to move somewhere safer. A stop is not an arrest until the arrest is announced and committed.

A police cruiser behind a civilian with the siren on is following, and the civilian slows and pulls over. Silent following may be used to observe behaviour or collect information in confusing circumstances, and it does not satisfy 3.6.1-A on its own. If a reasonable time to pull over was given, per the Academy handbook, what follows is a chase and aggressive manoeuvres are available.

Active wanted status on a BPD-issued ALM, a traffic violation, active avoidance of commonly used roads, or a match to an active BOLO.

Detention and arrest come after an escalation beyond a standard stop. Grounds: refusal to stop under 3.5.4, property damage, hit and run, all involving unprotected vehicles; and multiple hit and run offences or other hazards to public safety that remove protection status.

Apprehend when the suspect has come to a complete stop, has switched vehicles using a parking spot, or has visited a repair shop. A suspect using a clean getaway (a rental, a vehicle prepared in advance, a designated driver) that was previously unmarked and is committing no traffic violations has disengaged, and the officer returns to patrol.

Necessary force takes the suspect into police custody. A suspect who flees in a vehicle after being apprehended has refused lawful procedure and may be processed in absentia as if the arrest had completed. A suspect who flees on foot may be met with deadly force, and is then assumed shot, transported to hospital, and placed under arrest.

A vehicle with a licensed operator in the driver's seat, nearby, or inside and asleep, stopped briefly or for the reasonable duration of official business, impeding no traffic and creating no hazard, is standing. Standing is not a charge.

A vehicle in a designated spot with engine and lights off is parked, and a parked vehicle is not an illegal parking charge. Outside city limits, pulled over parallel to but not crossing the white line, engine and lights off, is also parked.

Illegally parked: two or more vehicles of one owner parked close together; a vehicle longer or wider than the spot it occupies; anything blocking or limiting access to a fire hydrant, litter receptacle, private property, factory, or a public or emergency entryway; a vehicle parked near a junction, a sign, a road curve, over the crest of a hill or in any other blind spot where it could create a hazard; and a vehicle parked on top of yellow or red flowers.

File: Illegal Parking

A vehicle left in a parking spot at least two days with no owner attending at the officer's check is abandoned. So is a vehicle parked outside city limits whose owner fails to respond to an officer under Active Engagement policy.

File: Abandoned Vehicle, or Abandoned Trailer for a trailer

Massive events are exempt from illegal parking citations.

Standard legal GVW is 40t per cargo area, rising to 140t for double or triple trailer configurations with an overweight permit. Standard legal weight per axle is 10t, rising to 15t with a permit, and axle weight is the total GVW divided equally among all axles. ChonkCheck is the only recognised tool for the number.

File: Overweight Vehicle

Wreckers are exempt from standard weight limits when the operation is an official job or follows an official request. BPD officers may stop and question a wrecker invoking the exemption where there is reasonable suspicion of abuse or fraud. Towing a third party's property with no police clearance and no owner consent may be theft. An officer first at a recovery scene keeps authority over the scene for its duration; the tow crew directs the mechanical work, not the scene.

File: Overweight Vehicle if the exemption fails; Theft for 5.1.4.3

A permit is a weight allowance that shifts part of the responsibility onto the inspector. It is issued only where the inspector has enough information to confirm the haul complies with every regulation in Part 5, and the official CAD channel is the preferred route; documentation stays in the system until it is needed. No permit is issued to a requester who has already left the loading area. An inspector may be fined for neglect of duty or wrongful issuance where the holder needed assistance that was not advised but was reasonably predictable, where the holder caused severe traffic obstruction, where the holder gave false information the inspector should have caught, or where the permit itself violates Part 5.

The economy is regulated by Overwatch. A worker who contributes to producing a material may claim it for their own haul or hand it to another hauler. Theft is documented and forwarded to the BPD, and to Overwatch as well where the resource is high-value. Any such instance is a matter of communication and the willing return of the resource, or of evidence and action involving Overwatch's authority; it is not a matter for public argument.

File: Theft

Both need an overweight permit request even where the load is under the legal weight limit. Cargo under 75kg is exempt from the manual-loading rule but not from the overloading rule.

File: Overweight Vehicle

A trucker who overloads a resource past the destination's demand or the departure station's supply restocks the departure station before leaving. Any import needs a preceding export covering at least 75% of the import's expenses before the trucker departs; containers are exempt. The daily trade report is open source and can carry a case against a trucker on its own, and the BPD may use it.

Any unconventional haul respects performance, length limit and traffic. Breaching that is a matter of communication and a review for Overwatch, as is any use of a winch for hauling or transporting.

Unstrapped cargo is unconventional hauling, and it removes any protection status under 3.4. The charge implies cargo that poses an immediate hazard, falls off, or invites a rollover through extreme weight transfer.

File: Improperly Secured Cargo

All hauling meets the specified performance standards. Single trailers have no special requirements. Double trailers need a hauling truck with at least three axles. Triple and multi-trailer configurations need orange warning lights on the configuration, a three-axle heavy-duty rigid truck or semi-trailer pulling, trailers properly and securely connected, and a traffic control escort, with any partial road closure for reattachment coordinated with an active-duty BPD officer.

File: Overweight Vehicle, or Improper Vehicle Equipment for missing warning lights

Two-axle semi-trucks are limited to 40 tonnes GVW and 20 metres, or 45 tonnes for container hauls, and a permit for length may be issued where the inspector advises the driver on stability and handling. Each additional cargo area adds 40 tonnes to the GVW limit, and none of that alters the axle weight limits.

File: Overweight Vehicle

A Goliath always needs an overweight permit, whatever its usage. Its cargo weighs at least as much as the trailer or the trailer is empty for relocation, the cargo is oversized or high-centered, it attaches directly to the semi-trailer as a single-trailer setup, and it has a traffic control escort. Per-axle limit 25 tonnes.

File: Overweight Vehicle

An oversize load is one that cannot stay inside a single marked lane. It must keep to one lane, and may only spill into the next as far as still leaves other traffic a route past it. On a road with one lane each way, a load leaving no way past is obstructing the road.

File: Impeding Traffic

A load reaching beyond its own lane needs a traffic control escort, and that escort puts warning signs on the approach in both directions where the load reaches into oncoming traffic. Traffic may only be stopped for as long as a manoeuvre genuinely needs, with an escort or an officer directing it, and any partial closure is coordinated with an active-duty officer. A haul that cannot keep to one lane arranges the escort and the coordination before it leaves the loading area. A driver doing what an escort or an officer told them is not charged for it.

File: Impeding Traffic, or Improper Vehicle Equipment where the warning signage is absent