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HomeMy WebLinkAbout018 - 08/20/1921 - AMENDING SECTION 3 OF ORDINANCE NO. 019, 1917, RELATING TO THE REGULATION AND OPERATION OF ALL KINDS ORDINANCE NO. 1921 , BEING AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE, ALIFNDTNG SECTION 3 OF ORDINANCE 110. 19, 1917, RELATING TO THE REGULATION AND OPERATION OF ALL KINDS OF VEHICLES UPON THE STREETS AND ALLEYS WITHIN THE CORPORATE LILT TS OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS, AS A:SE!JDED BY NANCE P10. 1918, PASSED AND ADOPTED DULY 1918, AP1D ROVIDING FOR RIGHT OF WAY FOR THE CITY FIRE TRU M OVER ALL TRAFFIC UPON THE STREETS IN THE EVENT OF FIRE AND THE REGULATION OF STREET CARS AND RAILWAY TRAFFIC. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THF. CITY OF FORT COLLINS: Section 1. That Section 3 of Ordinance To. 19, 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 , as amended by Ordinance No. % , passed and adopted July V 1918 , be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "Section 3 . No machine or motor propelled vehicle shall be driven at a greater rate of sped upon the streets within the corporate limits of the City of Fort Collins than fifteen miles per hour within the fire limits of said City and twenty miles per hour upon all streets outside the fire limits of said City, and not to exceed fifteen miles per hour in any of the public parks oJr Grandview cemetery, and upon the alleys not to exceed twelve 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 sidewalk 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 e vehicle or animal is hereby prohibited; provided, the city fire trucks , or machines or vehicles used for fire purposes, going to a fire , or other emergency, and any motor vehicle while carrying a police officer or officers on duty, shall be exempt from all the provisions of this ordinance and all ordinances relating to traffic upon the streets; . and fro_ vided further , that the city fire trucks, or machines or vehicles used for fire purposes, shall have the right of way over all traffic upon the streets in the event of fire and all kinds of vehicles shall immediately proceed to the curb at the right hand side of the street to avoid collision with the fire trucks, or machines or vehicles used for such purpose, and all traffic on street cars and railwav trains thruout to city shall cea e operations + �___.__.x + and all rail- way trains, where occupying street crossin s, shall imme- diately break trains to permit passage of :ta fire trucks " Section 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby re- pealed; but said repeal shall not in any manner affect any cause or causes of action which may have accrued under said ordinances in favor of the City of Fort Coillns prior to the Lakin.), effect of said repeal and shall be prosecuted as tho no repeal had been made. Section 3. In the opinion of the City Coun- cil an emergency exists for the preservation of the public health, peace and safety , and this ordinance shw_l take ef- fect upon its passage and publication, under and by virtue of the authority contained in Sections o and 7 of Article IV of the City Charter . f Introduce:, read at length and adopted by the unanimous vote of all the members of the City Council this 20th day of August , A.D . 1S21. �Lo missioner oi�v and Ex Officio :Mayor . ATTEST: City Clerk. STATE OF COLORADO ) SS. COUNTY OF LARIIAER ) I , A. J. ROSENOW, City Clerk of the City of Fort Collins, do hereby certify and declare that the fore- going ordinance, consisting of three (3) sections, was duly proposed and read at length at a regular meeting of the City Council held on MW 20th day of August , 1921 , and was duly adopted and ordered published in the Fort Collins Courier , a daily newspaper and the official newspaper of the City of Fort Collinsi by the unanimous vote of all members of the Council , as an emergency ordinance, in accordance with the provisions of Sections 6 and 7 of Article I of the City Charter; and thereafter, on towit : the 2-14 day of August , A.D . 1921, said Ordinance No. /L? , 19u1, was duly publish- ed in the Fort Collins Courier , a daily newspaper published in the City of Fort Collins, Colorado. IN WITNESS THEREOF, I have hereu -o set my hand and affixed_ the seal of said City this a� day of August , A.D. 1921. �J C City Clerk .