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HomeMy WebLinkAbout008 - 08/18/1915 - RELATING TO THE REGULATION AND OPERATION OF ALL KINDS OF VEHICLES UPON THE STREETS AND ALLEYS OF THE ►. a ORDINANCE 110 1S 1915 r AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE REGULATION AND OPERATION OF ALL KINDS OF VEHICLES U20N THE STRELTS AND ALLEYS OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLA- TION THEREOF BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUP:CIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS Section 1 No machine or motor propelled vehicle shall be driven or operated upon the streets and alleys within the corporate limits of the City of Fort Collins without having a license therefor as provided by the statutes of the State of Colorado, and the license number displayed upon the ve- hicle at all times in accordance with said statutes Section 2 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 of the fire limits within said city and upon the alleys not to ex- ceed twelve (12) miles per hour and any kind of reckless driving at whatever rate of speed of any kind of vehicle or animal is hereby prohibited Section 3 Every motor propelled vehicle shall be equip- ped with an auto horn or other soft sounding alarm that may he heard at a reasonable distance and shall be used for the pur- pose of notifying pedestrians or others of the approach of said motor vehicle sirens and other loud alarms are hereby prohibit- ed 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 on passing from the rear of any vehicle upon the street ivery motor propelled vehicle shall also be equipped with not less than three lamps, two ftont lamps which shall show white lights with dimmers, and a rear lamp which shall be a red light provided that motorcycles shall be required to display one lamp with white light and a rear lamp which shall have a red light which said lights shall be maintained with dimmers on front lights from sunset OMM sunrise provided however that while standing between said times motor vehicles may have one lamp on the left side of the vehicle show- ing a white light to the front and a red light to the rear Section 4 No person operating a motorcycle 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 of said machine at any time no part of any motor propelled vehicle shall be permitted to run while such vehicle is standing on any street or alley within the corporate limits of said city more than five (5) minutes and at no time without the attendant or dr ver being in charge of the machine and the muffler shall be closed at All times while %perating within the corporate limits of said city Section 5 It shall be the duty of every person in charge of any vehicle, either motor propelled or otherwise upon any street or alley 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 du`y of the person 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 -2- r the right of the center of the street Section 6 All vehicles shall stop near the curb except in cases of emergency or for the purpose of allowing another vehicle or pedestrian to cross and no vehicle shall be permitted to stop in any street or alley vithin the corporate limits of the city except to the right and near the curb and 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 Section 7 Any person or persons who shall violate any provision or prozisions of this ordinance shall upon conviction thereof be fined for each and every offense not less than five dollars (05 oo) nor more than fifty dollars ($50 oo) or may be committed to the city jail until the fine and costs are paid but not to exceed ninety (90) days Section 8 Ordinance 1To 9 of 1913 being an ordinance "Relating to the operation of all kinds of vehicles upon the streets and alleys of the City of Fort Collins and regulating the speed of motor vehicles " be and the same is hereby repealed and all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance but said repeal shall not operate to invalidate any causes of action which may have accrued in favor of the City of Fort Collins prior to the taking effect of this ordinance but such causes of action may be prosecuted under said ordinance as tho the same had never been repealed -3- Passed and adopted this $" day of August A D 1915 Commissioner of Safety and EX Officio Tfayor AT TE C/ y Clerk -4- STATE OF COLORADO ) -ss COUITTY OF LARP2R ) I Ray Baxter City Clerk of the City of Fort Collins , do hereby certify and declare that the fore- going ordinance, consisting of eight (8) sections duly proposed and read at length at a meetin(g� of the City Council hela on the ;Z ttk day of 4 1915 ' was duly ordered by "Aye" and "IJay" vote to e published in the Fort Collins Express, a daily newspaper of the Ci`y of Fort Collins: in accordance with the provisions of Section 7 of Article IV of the City Charter that thereafter, and on to-wit the jgtL day of a 1915 at a regular meeting of the City Council Qld ordi- nance came before said Council on its final passage a period of more than ten days having elapsed since the publication as set forth and that said ordinance was upon second reading adopted as an ordinance and there- after and on to-wit , the day of _ 1915 said Ordinance No r as finally p ssed and adopted was duly published in the Fort Collins Express a daily newspaper published in the City of fort Collins, Colorado In Witness Fifhereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 204y day of 1915 li fib City Clerk