The URL can be used to link to this page

Home My WebLink About019 - 06/11/1917 - RELATING TO THE REGULATION AND OPERATION OF ALL KINDS OF VEHICLES UPON THE STREETS AND ALLEYS WITHIN r ORDINANCE NO 1Q• 1917 RELATING TO THE REGULATION AND OPERATION OF ALL KINDS OF VEHICLES UPON THE STREETS AND ALLEYS WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS, AND REQUIRING A PERMIT FOR ALL OPERATORS OF MACHINES OR MOTOR DRIVEN VEHICLES BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS � \C\ Section 1 It shall be unlawful for any person to use or x operate any machine or motor driven vehicle within the corporate limits of the City of Fort Collins without a permit duly issued to the person so operating said machine or motor driven vehicle as hereinafter provided, and having a state license therefor from the State of Colorado, and provided further that non-resident owners or drivers of machines or motor driven vehicles may operate the same within the corporate limits of the City of Fort Collins, subject to all the provisions of this ordinance, save and except that such persons shall not be required to take out a permit until after ten (10) days from the time of their arrival in the city a r Section $ Any person desiring to secure a permit for the dr purpose of driving or operating any machine or motor driven vehicle within the corporate limits of the City of Fort Collins, shall make application therefor upon the blank provided by the City Clerk, which blank form of application shall require the applicant to state his name, age, street address, description of machine proposed to be operated state license number, and experience had in operating machine and that the applicant has read and is fully acquainted with the terms and provisions of this ordinance, and said application, when duly signed, shall be presented to the City Council for approval or rejection If the application shall be approved by the City Council a permit shall be issued to the applicant, signed by the Commisaoner of Safety and Ex Officio Mayor and countersigned by the City Clerk under the corporate seal, which said permit shall be duly numbered in consecutive order as issued, and shall be in the custody of the applicant at all times while operating his machine No permit shall be granted to any person who has not full use of both hands and arms, feet and legs, Provided, the City Council may on satis- factory showing, grant permits to persons prohibited in this clause No permit shall be issued to persons under the age of fifteen (15) years The City Council reserves the right to revoke any permit issued under the provisions of this ordinance for violation of the provisions of the ordinance or incompetency, inefficiency or recklessness that may be shown in the handling, operating or driving of any machine or motor driven vehicle rya ° Section 3 No machine or motor propelled vehicle shall be driven at a greater rate of speed upon the streets within the corporate limits of the City of Fort Collins than fifteen (15) miles per hour within the fire limits of said city and twenty (20) miles per hour upon all streets outside the fire limits within said city, and upon the alleys not to exceed twelve (12) miles per hour , excepting in passing from an alley to a street or from a garage across any alley crossing or sidewalk, the machine shall be brought to a full stop at the crossing or side- walk and the horn sounded at all times before making such crossing, and any kind of reckless driving at whatever rate of speed of any kind of vehicle or animal is hereby prohibited Section 4 Every motor propelled vehicle shall be equipped with an auto horn or other soft-sounding alarm that may be heard at a reasonable distance and shall be used for the purpose of -2- notifying pedestrians or others of the approach of saidmotor vehicle, sirens and other loud alarms are hereby prohibited within the corporate limits of the City of Fort Collins It is hereby made the duty of all persons operating motor vehicles within the corporate limits of said city to blow the horn upon passing from the rear of any vehicle upon the street Every motor propelled vehicle shall also be equipped with mi.** not less than three lamps two front lamps which shall show white lights, with dimmers, and a rear lamp which shall be a red light, provided, that motor-cycles shall bs required to dispLW one lamp with white light and one rear lamp which shall have a red light, which said lights shall be maintained, with dimmers on front lights, from sunset until sunrise when said motor vehicles or motor-cycles are in operation Section 5 No person operating a motor-cycle within the corporate limits of said city of Fort Collins shall permit any person to ride upon the handle bars or upon the machine in front of the driver thereof at any time, no part of any motor propelled vehicle shall be permitted to run while such vehicle is standing upon any street or alley within the corporate limits of said city more than five (5) minutes, and at no time without the attendant or driver being in charge of the machine, and the muffler shall be closed so that the machine shall operate silently at all times while within the corporate limits of said city Section 6 It shall be the duty of every person in charge of any vehicle either motor propelled or otherwise, upon any street or alley within the corporate limits tf said city, to keep to the right of the center line of such street or alley, and any vehicle overtaking another upon said street or alley shall pass on the left side of the overtaken vehicle, and it shall be the -3- duty of theperson in charge of the overtaken vehicle to turn to the right so as to allow the overtaking vehicle free passage to the left, in turning corners all vehicles shall keep to the right of the center of the street, and the driver extend the arm or hand to indicate the direction going No vehicle shall turn across any street except at street intersections No motor vehicle shall pass a street car when the same has stopped to permit the alighting or taking on of passengers, but shall come to a stop and so remain until the passengers have alighted and passed to the curb, or have boarded the car All passengers shall proceed to the car or curb without stopping, and all passengers and pedestrians shall use street crossings at street intersections only Section 7 All vehicles shall stop near the curb, except in oases of emergency, or for the purpose of allowing another vehicle or pedestrian to cross, and except as required in Section 6 of this ordinance, and no vehicle shall be permitted to stop in any street or alley within the corporate limits of said city except to the right and near the curb, and when the owner or person in charge of any vehicle may desire to leave the same upon the street for any period of time, said vehicle shall be parked, in the College Avenue Paving Districts, upon the east side of the railway track on said College Avenue at an angle of ninety degrees to said track, with front end of car distant therefrom five feet nine inches, or in line with the car line trolley poles when the owner or person in charge of any vehicle shall desire to leave the same upon the street for any period of time, said vehicle shall be placed as near as may be at an angle of forty-five degrees to the curb and not to exceed four (4) feet from the curb No car parked on the curb shall back out more than six (5) feet -4- without stopping Cars parked in the center paving in Col-Lege Avenue Improvement Districts are prohibited from backing, and shall proceed in the direction which the car is facing when moving frotr the parking All persons and corporations are hereby prohibited from transporting beet pulp over, across or upon any paving district within the corporate limits of the City of Fort Collins, or allowing any beet wagon to stand upon said pavement when loaded with beet pulp Section 8 Any person or persons or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon con- viotion thereof, be fined for each and every offense not less than five dollars (W no3/more than fifty dollars ($50), or may be committed to the city jail until the fine and costs are paid, but not to exceed ninety (90) days Section 9 Ordinance No __AL 1915, being an ordinance "Relating to the Operation of all kinds of Vehicles upon the Streets and Alleys of the City of Fort Collins, and Providing Penalties for the Violation Thereof, " and all other ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance, are hereby repealed, but saia repeal shall not in any manner affect any causes of action which may have accrued under said ordinances in favor of the City of Fort Collins prior to the taking effect of said repeal, and shall be prosecuted as though no repeal had been made May Introduced read and ordered published this Pam, day of deLka, 1977 Passed and adopted this � day X-A 1917 ommissioner of Safe y and ATTEST Ex Officio Mayor i City Clerk STATE OF COLORADO., ) -es COUNTY OF LARIMER ) I, Ray Baxter, City Clerk of the City of Fort Collins, do hereby certify and declare that the foregoing ordinance, consisting of nine (9) sections duly proposed and aajourned read at length at ax a/regular meeting of the City Council held on the 33d day of M9Y A D 1917, was duly ordered by aye and nay vote to be published in the Fort Collins Courier a daily newspaper of the City of Fort Collins, in accordance with the provisions of Section 7 of Article IV of the City Charter, that thereafter, andon, to-wit, the llt day of June, A D 1917, at a regular meeting of the City Council, said ordinance came before said Council on its final passage, a period of more than ten days having elapsed since the publica- tion as set forth, and that said ordinance was upon second reading adopted as an ordinance, and thereafter and on to-Tit, the �r.4 day of June, A D 1917, said Ordinance No .,[�1917, as finally passed and adopted, was duly published in the Fort Collins Courier, a daily newspaper published in the City of Fort Collins, Colorado /p IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 11Il A( da,y of June, A D 1917 City Clerk