HomeMy WebLinkAbout002 - 02/13/1958 - AMENDING THE MODEL TRAFFIC CODE ORDINANCE NO 2, f 1958
AMENDING ORDINANCE NO 7 1953 BEING AN ORDINANCE FOR
THE REGULATION OF TRAFFIC UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS OF THE
CITY OF FORT COLLINS, COLORADO
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
Section 1 Section 66 of the Model Traffic Ordinance for Colo-
rado Municipalities as adopted by reference by Ordinance No 7 1953 is
hereby amended to read as follows
Section 66 School buses-stops-signs-passing-(l) The driver
of a vehicle upon any highway road or street inside the city limits
of the City of Fort Collins upon meeting or overtaking from either di-
rection any school bus which has stopped for the purpose of receiving
or discharging a school child or school children shall stop his vehicle
before reaching such school bus if there is in operation on said school
bus visual signal lights as specified in subsection (2) of this section
and said driver shall not proceed until such school bus resumes motion
or until the driver of such vehicle is signaled by the school bus driver
to proceed or until the visual signal lights are no longer being actu-
ated
(2) Every school bus used for the transportation of school
children shall bear upon the front and rear thereof plainly visible and
legible signs containing the words "SCHOOL BUS' in letters not less than
eight inches in height and shall display four visual signal lights which
shall be two alternating flashing red lights visible to the drivers of
vehicles approaching from the front of the bus and two alternating flash-
ing red lights visible to the drivers of vehicles approaching from the
rear of such bus said visual signal lights shall be mounted as high as _
practicable be as widely spaced laterally as practicable and shall be
located on the same level Said lights shall have sufficient intensity
to be visible at five hundred feet in normal sunlight and such signal
shall be actuated by the driver of said school bus whenever such ve-
hicle is stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging school
children and at no other time
(3) When a school bus is being operated for purposes other
than the actual transportation of children either to or from school
all markings thereon indicating that the vehicle is a 'school bus'
shall be covered or concealed,
(4) The driver of a vehicle upon a highway with separate
roadways need not stop upon meeting or passing a school bus which is
on a different roadway,
(5) Every school bus shall stop as far to the right off the
highway road or street as possible before discharging or loading pas-
sengers and when possible shall not stop where the visibility is
obscured for a distance of two hundred feet either way from the bus
Introduced considered favorably on first reading and ordered pub-
lished this 9th day of January A D 1958 and to be presented for final
passage on the ]3th day of February A D 58
ATTEST
Mayor
7 City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading thisl3th day of February A D
1958
ATTEST
Mayor
City Clerk
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