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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 0150ORD INAN CE No. Ib_l% 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. -1- 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. /a 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„ THIS. 'i% _ .....19ZL ----� CITY q.E11K, President o the—Bo ad o� Trustees of the City of Burlingame.