No. 84 Regulating Street Traffic

TOWN OF NEWELL

Ordinance 84

 

Regulating Street Traffic

 

Section 1. Passing to the right: The driver of any horse, vehicle or motor vehicle meeting the river of another horse, vehicle or motor vehicle shall pass to the right.

 

Section 2.Overtaking: The driver of any horse, vehicle or motor overtaking another shall pas to the left and shall not putt over to the right until clear of the overtaken horse, vehicle or motor vehicle.

 

Section 3. Turning corners:

A.    The driver of a horse, vehicle or motor vehicle turning into a street to the right shall turn the corner as near the right hand curb as practicable.

B.    The driver of a horse, vehicle or motor vehicle turning into a street to the right shall before turning pas at least fifteen (15) feet from the left hand curb or the right of the street marker.

C.    No vehicle or motor vehicle shall be turned around on any arterial highway, except at street intersections where U turns are not forbidden as hereinafter provided.

D.    The driver of a vehicle or motor vehicle to turn shall give timely signal by hand or by sounding his horn.

 

Section 4. Vehicle leaving curbs:

 

No parked vehicle or motor vehicle shall enter traffic upon any street without the operator or driver of such vehicle or motor vehicle giving proper signal of the intention of the driver to enter this line of traffic.

 

Section 5. Right side of the street:

 

Every person using any vehicle or motor vehicle on any street shall operate, ride or drive such vehicle or motor vehicle on the portion of the street to the right of the center of the street, and shall keep over as near as practicable to the right hand curb.

 

Section 6: Arterial highways:

 

Federal highways No.212 and No.79 are hereby designated as arterial highways and it shall be the duty of the operator or driver of any horse, vehicle or motor vehicle to bring such horse, vehicle or motor vehicle to a full stop before entering upon any such arterial highway.

 

Section 7. Use of street by garage owners:

 

It shall be unlawful for the owner of any garage or any dealer in machinery, automobiles or other motor propelled vehicles to use the streets of the City of Newell as a place of display of such machinery, or motor vehicles held in stock or offered for sale or to use the streets of this City of Newell as a place to park such machinery or motor vehicles so held in stock or offered for sale.

 

Section 8. Parking of Trucks and With Trailers:

 

  1. It shall be unlawful for any truck exceeding in length of 16 feet to park upon Girard Avenue in the City of Newell.
  2. It shall be unlawful for any cars with trailers to park upon Girard Avenue in the City of Newell

 

Section 9. Use of horns:

 

It shall be unlawful for the operator or driver of any motor vehicle to use his horn in an unseemly manner after the hour of 9:00 o’clock P.M. or before the hour of 8:00 o’clock A.M.

 

Section 10. Stopping:

 

  1. No vehicle or motor vehicle shall stop with its left side to the curb.
  2. No horse, vehicle or motor vehicle shall be allowed to stand upon any street within fifteen (15) feet from the line of an intersecting street
  3. A horse, vehicle or motor vehicle shall not be stopped or left within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant, nor in such a position as to obstruct street crossing.
  4. No horse, vehicle or motor vehicle shall be stopped or left standing in front of any theater within the City of Newell, or within designated spaces marked off as prohibited stopping or parking spaces.
  5. No double parking or double stopping of any vehicle or motor vehicle, shall be permitted anywhere in the City of Newell unless driver remains in vehicle.
  6. No truck or wagon shall be allowed to back the rear and of such or unload for  the period of time greater than twenty minutes and any truck or wagon backing up to the curb shall be immediately removed upon direction of the Mayor, or any member of the Police Department.
  7. Passenger buses operating on regular schedule desiring to stop for the purpose of taking on or letting off passengers, on any street, may stop for such purpose at street intersections.

 

Section 11. Pedestrians crossing streets:

 

It shall be unlawful for any person to cross any street within the City of Newell, except at pedestrian traffic lines or at a street intersection and only by walking at right angles across said street.

 

Section 12. Traffic and parking signs:

 

All traffic and parking signs on this public streets of Newell shall be placed upon such streets by the City of Newell, and no such traffic or parking signs of any description either restricting or prohibiting traffic shall be permitted to be placed anywhere upon the public streets of the City of Newell, except by or under the supervision of the City of Newell.

 

Section 13. Age of driver:

 

No person shall drive or operate a motor vehicle who is under fifteen year of age unless such person is accompanied by the owner of the vehicle being operated.

 

Section 14. Brakes and signals:

 

Every motor vehicle operated or driven upon the streets, avenues or public highways or the City of Newell shall be provided with adequate brakes in good working order and sufficient to control such motor vehicle at all times when the same is in use, and a suitable and adequate horn or other devise for signaling.

Section 15.Lights:

 

Every motor vehicle operated or driven upon the streets, avenues or public highways of this City shall during the period of one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise, display at least two lighted lamps on the front and one on the rear of such motor vehicle; which rear lamp shall display a red light plainly visible from the rear of it; provided, that each motorcycle or motor bicycle shall be required to display but one on the front. The rays of such rear lamp shall shine upon the number plate carried on the rear of such motor vehicle in such a manner as to render the numerals thereon plainly visible, and the number plates on such vehicle shall be cleaned off at all times so as to be plainly legible.

 

Section 16. Dimmers:

 

Every driver of an electrically lighted motor vehicle shall equip such vehicle with headlight lenses of such mechanical devices as will properly deflect or diffuse the light so as not to permit a glare from such headlight to be thrown into the eyes of persons using the streets. Spotlights shall not be used except when projecting their rays directly upon the ground and at a distance not exceeding fifty feet.

 

Section 17. Speed of motor vehicles:

 

It shall be unlawful for any persons to drive any motor vehicle upon the streets, alleys or public highways of the City of Newell, at a greater rare of speed than twenty-five (25) miles per hour.

 

Section 18. Care and prudence in driving motor vehicles:

 

Every person operating a motor vehicle on the streets, alleys or public highways of the City of Newell, shall drive the same in a careful and prudent manner, and at a rate of a speed so as not to endanger the life, safely or property of another person; provided, that the rate of speed in excess of that prescribed and permitted in Section 17 of this Ordinance, shall be presumptive evidence of driving at a rate of speed which is not careful and prudent in case of injury to the person or property of another.

 

 

Section 19. Careless driving:

 

No person shall drive or operate any horse, vehicle or motor vehicle upon any street wit in the City of Newell at a reckless or dangerous rate of speed or in a careless or negligent manner.

 

Section 20. Driving vehicle intoxicated:

 

It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or operate or attempt to drive any horse, vehicle or motor vehicle within the City of Newell while such person is in an intoxicated condition, or under the influence of liquor.

 

Section 21. Interfering with funeral precessions:

 

No owner or driver of any horse, vehicle or motor vehicle shall drive through or otherwise interfere with any funeral procession upon any of the streets of the City of Newell, and it shall be the duty of every person driving any horse, vehicle or motor vehicle in said City to stop when they reach a street or avenue on which is passing a funeral procession, and to wait until such funeral procession has entirely passed by.

 

Section 22. Muffler:

 

Every motor vehicle using gasoline, or other explosive mixtures a motive power, shall use a “muffler” which shall be sufficient to deaden effectively the sound of the explosion, and such muffler shall not be disconnected or cutout while such motor is being operated upon any streets, alleys or public highways of the City of Newell.

 

Section 23. Right-of-way:

 

Upon the approach of any fire apparatus or ambulance, every vehicle or motor vehicle shall draw up as near as possible to the right curb of the street, and shall remain at a stand-still until such apparatus or ambulance shall have passed. The provisions of this Ordinance shall not apply to the Fire Department, or any ambulance, or any extremely heavily loaded vehicle.

 

 

 

Section 24. Signal and stop signs: Amended by: Ordinance 161

 

That the City of Newell shall establish, upon such streets as shall be deemed necessary, signals, stop signs and other warnings for the protection of the public and as are necessary for the regulation of traffic and which are determined by the City Authorities to be needful for the regulation of the traffic, and any person who shall violate any of the said stop signs, signals or warnings shall be guilty of a violation of this Ordinance. At all stop signs, the driver and operator of the motor vehicle, or other vehicle, shall come to a full stop and that any warning or signal given, either by signs or by notice from a Police Officer of the City of Newell, shall come to a stop and ascertain the meaning of said signal, and failure to do s, shall constitute a violation of this Ordinance.

 

Section 25. Safety Zones:

 

The City of Newell may establish Safety Zones in and about School grounds, hospitals, and other places requiring modification for any purpose of regulating traffic laws, and such Safety Zones shall mark the area of space also set aside within a highway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and such institutions as require a modification, or a special care in connection with the traffic, and said Safety Zones shall be so plainly marked or indicated by proper signs so as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a Safety Zone, and within said Safety Zone all drivers, owners or operators of motor vehicles or other vehicles, shall modify their speed and drive carefully and prudently while passing in from one and of a Safety Zones until passing out the other end. Any reckless driving of any automobile, motor vehicle, or other vehicles within said Safety Zone shall constitute a violation of this Ordinance.

 

Section 26. Those Exempt from the sped limit:

 

The Speed limit set forth in this Ordinance shall not apply to vehicles or motor vehicles when operated with due regard and safety under the direction of the Police officers or other officers in the chase of apprehension of violators of the law, or persons charged with or suspected of any such violation, nor to the Fire Department, or Fire Patrolled vehicles when traveling in response to a fire alarm, nor in public or private ambulance when traveling in an emergency, nor to physicians or surgeons when traveling on emergency cases. This exception shall not, however, protect the driver of any motor vehicle from the consequences of a reckless disregard of the safely of others.

 

Section 27. Stopping on highways:

 

  1. No person shall park or leave standing, any vehicle or motor vehicle whether attended or unattended, upon the paved or improved or main traveled portion of any street within the City of Newell, outside of a Residence or Business District, when it is practicable to leave such vehicle standing off the paved or improved or main traveled portion of such highway; provided, in no event shall any person leave parked or standing any vehicle upon any street or highway unless a clear and unobstructed width of not less than fifteen (15) feet upon the main traveled portion of said highway opposite such standing vehicle shall be left for free passage of other vehicles thereon, nor; unless a clear view of such vehicle may be obtained from a distance of one hundred (100) feet in such direction upon said highway.
  2. Whenever any Peace Officer or Policeman shall find a vehicle standing on a highway or street in violation of this Provision, of the Section, he is hereby authorized to move such vehicle or require the driver or person in charge of such vehicle to move such vehicle to move such vehicle to a position permitted under this Section.

 

Section 28. Parking

 

No person having control or charge of a motor vehicle or other vehicle shall allow such vehicle to stand on any highway unattended within the City of Newell or upon any Street, Avenue or Alley within the City of Newell without first effectively setting the brakes thereon and stop the motor of such vehicle and when standing upon any grade without turning the front wheels of such vehicle to the curb or side of the highway.

 

Section 29. Accidents:

 

  1. The driver of any vehicle or motor vehicle involved in an accident, resulting in the injury or death of any person, shall immediately stop such vehicle at the scene of such accident, and any person violating
  2. This Provision shall, upon conviction, be punished for violation of this Ordinance.
  3. The driver of any vehicle or motor vehicle involved in an accident resulting in damage to property, shall immediately stop such vehicle at the scene of such accident, and any person violating this Provision shall, upon conviction, be punished in the manner provided by this Ordinance.
  4. The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury or death to any person, or damage to property, shall also give his name, address and the number of the vehicle, and shall render to any person injured in such accident, reasonable assistance, including the carrying of such person to a physician or surgeon for medical treatment, if it is apparent that such treatment is necessary, or requested by the injured person.

 

Section 30. Penalty:

 

Any person violating any of the Provisions of this Ordinance shall, upon conviction, be punished by a Fine of not to exceed one hundred ($100.00) Dollars, or by imprisonment not to exceed thirty (30) days, or by both such Fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the Court.