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AN ORDINANCE REGULATING MOTOR VEHICLES ON THE STREETS
OR HIGHWAYS OF THE CITY OF BURLINGAME.
The Tjoard of Trustees of the City of Burlingame do ordain
as follows:
SECTION 1.Any person operating or driving a motor or other
vehicle on the public highways shall operate or drive the same
in a careful and prudent manner and at a rate of speed not greater
than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the traffic and
use of the highway, and no person shall operate or drive a motor
vehicle or other vehicle on a public highway at such rate of speed
as to endanger the life or limb of any person or the safety of any
property; provided, that it shall be unlawful to operate or drive
at a rate of speed in excess of thirty miles an hour, except in
the daytime and except when the operator or driver has a clear and
uninterrupted view of the highway on which he is traveling in the
direction toward which he is traveling and of all highways which
intersect such highway within fourhundred (400) feet ahead of such
operator or driver, to a distance of at least four hundred feet
from the highway on which he is traveling and there is no person,
vehicle or other object visible ahead on such highway on which
such operator or driver is traveling within four hundred feet of
such operator or driver or on any such interesecting highway within
four hundred feet df the point of the interse^tion of the center
lines of such highways; provided, also, that in no case shall any
vehicle be operated at a rate of speed in excess of thirty-five
miles an hour; and provided, further, that in any event no person
shall operate or drive a motor vehicle or other vehicle on any
public highway where the territory contiguous thereto is closely
built up, at a greater rate of speed than twenty miles an hour, or
in the business district of any incorporated city and county, city
or town, at a greater rate of speed"than fifteen miles an hour;
provided, further, that no person shall operate or drive a motor
vehicle or other vehicle on any public highway at a greater rate
of speed than fifteen miles an hour in approaching any steam, elec-
trio or other railway crossing at grade, or in approaching or tra-
versing an intersecting highway, or crossing or intersection of
highways, or in approaching or going around corners or curves in
the hifhway, when in any of the foregoing oases the operators or
driver s viewof the road or railway traffic is obstructed, but
anything to the contrary herein notwithstanding, no person shall
operate or drive a motor vehicle or other vehicle on any public
highway at a greater rate of speed than ten miles an hour in
traversing any stQam, electric or other railway crossing at grade
when the operator's or driver's view of the crossing or of any
traffic on such railway *ithin four hundred feet of such crossing
is obstructed.
SECTION 2. The driver or operator of any vehicle in or upon
any public highway shall drive or operate such vehicle in a caxefral
manner with due regard for safety and convenience of pedestrians
and all other vehicles or traffic upon such highway or street.
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SECTION 3. Any person violating any provisions of this
Ordinance shall upon conviction thereof be fined in a sum not
to exceed five hundred dollars (8500,00) or six months in the
City Jail or by both said fine and imprisonment®
SECTION 4. Any Ordinance in conflict with this Ordinance is
expressly repealed.
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Introduced the day of. June 1922 and duly and regularly
gassed this jA7Y day of m y 1922, by the followinff vote:
AYES Trustees* —;L—LIt:
/}ray
NOES, Trustees:
ABSENT,Trustees:
ATTEST:
City erk�
F)LEO IM 1 HE 0- 11+E CLERK
OF THE/ CI FY AY OF U-f-� XPi :� ''Mt , CAL„
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President o the—Bo ad o�
Trustees of the City of
Burlingame.