Ord 1641 - Newspaper: filed away 5/11/1953ORDINANCE NO. ) L�)
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING TRAFFIC UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS OF T':,IE CITY
OF WIC,"ITA FALLS, TEXAS, AND REPEALING ALL OTHER ORDINANCES AND SECTIONS OF
ORDINAI\iCES IN CONFLICT HE104ITH.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERtiEN OF THE CITY OF WICHITA FALLS
AS FOLLOWS %
ARTICLE I - WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED
SECTION 1 (a) Definition of words and phrases - The following words
and phrases when used in this ordinance shall for the purpose of this ordinance
have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this article.
(b) Whenever any words and phrases used herein are not
defined herein but are defined in the State laws regulating the operation of
vehicles, any such definition therein shall be deemed to apply to such words
and phrases used herein.
Subdivision I - Vehicles, Traffic, Etc., Defined
SECTION 2 (a) Vehicle - Every device in, upon, or by which any person
or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices
moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
(b) Motor Vehicle - Every vehicle which is self-propelled.
(c) Commercial Vehicle - Every vehicle licensed, or law-
fully used for the transportation of property.
(d) Authorized emergency vehicle - Vehicles of the fire
department, police vehicles, and_suc a�u�ces an7`emergency vehicles of
municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated or
authorized by the chief of police of this city.
SECTION 3 (a) Bicycle - Every device propelled by human power upon
which any person may rideT-Fa—ving two tandem wheels.
(b) Motorcycle - Every motor vehicle having a saddle or
seat for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels
in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor.
SECTION 4 (a) Railroad - A carrier of persons or property upon cars,
operated upon stationary rails.
(b) Railroad train - A steam engine, electric or other motor,
with or without cars coupled thtreto, operated upon rails.
SECTION 5. Traffic - Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals,
vehicles, motor busses, and other, conveyances either singly or together while
using any street for purposes of travel.
SECTION 6. Right of Way - The privilege of the immediate use of
the roadway.
SECTION 7 (a) Stop - When required means complete cessation of
movement.
(b) Stop, stopping, or standing - When prohibited means
any stopping or standing ova vehic e whither occupied or not, except when
necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the
directions of a police officer or traffic --control sign or sigrial.
(c) Park - When prohibited means the stropping or standing
vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose
of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading.
SECTION 8 (a) Official time standard - Whenever certain hours are
named herein they shall mean cent ral-stan ar ime.
(b) Public Holidays - Whenever the term holiday is used
herein, it shall include h�cl owing dates: the lst day of January, the
19th day of January, the 22d day of February, the 2d day of march, the 21st
day of April, the 3d day of June, the 4th day of July, the 1st 11,ionday :in
September, the 12th day of October, the llth day of November, the 25th day
of December, of each year, and all days appointed by the President of the
United States or by the Governor of Texas, as days of fasting and Thanks-
giving, together with May 30th and February 12th of each year, and every
day on which an election is held throughout the State of Texas,are hereby
declared legal holidays.
Subdivision II - Persons, Etc., Defined
SECTION 9 (a) Person - Every natural person, firm, copartnership
association, or corporation.
(b) Driver - Every person who drives or is in actual
physical control of a vehicle.
(c) Pedestrian - Any person afoot.
SECTION 10 (a) Police Officer - Every officer of the police de-
partment or any officer autllorizedd to direct or regulate traffic or to make
arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
(b) Traffic division - The traffic division of the
police department of this city, or in the event a traffic division is not
established, then said term whenever used herein shall oe deemed to refer to
the police department of this city.
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Subdivision III - Streets, Etc., Defined
SECTION 11 (a) Street or .'Iighway - The entire width between the
boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open
to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
(b) Private road or driveway - Every way or place in
private ownership and use or velli cular travel by the owner and ticse having
express or implied permission from the owner, but not by other persons.
(c) Roadway - That portion of a street or highway im-
proved, designed, or ordinari y used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the
curb or shoulder. In the event a highway includes two or more separate road-
ways the term "roadway" as used herein shall refer to any such roadway sepa-
rately but not to all such roadways collectively.
(d) Sidewalk - That portion of a street between the
curb lines, or the lateralines—of a roadway, and the adjacent property
lines intended for the use of pedestrians.
(e) Alley - A public road other than a street or high-
way being a division within a block running parallel with, and/or connecting
with one or more streets.
SECTION 12 (a) Laned roadway - A roadway which is divided into
two or more clearly marked-1anes for ve icular traffic.
(b) Through highway - Every street or highway or portion
thereof at the entrances to wh cY ve Icu ar traffic from intersecting streets
or highways is reg1ired by law to stop before entering or crossing the same
and when stop signs are erected as provided in this sue. cool._
(c) Controlled -access highway - Every highway, street,
or roadway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting property or
lands and other persons have no legal right of access to or from the same,
except at such points only and in such manner as may be deten.iined by the
public authority having jurisdiction over such highway, street, or roadway.
SECTION 13. Intersection - (a) The area embraced within the
prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the
lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two highways which join one another
at or approximately at right angles, or the area within which vehicles travel-
ing upon different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict.
(b) Where a highway includes two roadways thirty (30)
feet or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of such divided
highway by an intersecting highway shall be regarded as a separate intersec-
tion. In the event such intersecting highway also includes two roadways
thirty (30) feet or more apart, then every crossing of two roadways of such
highways shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
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SECTION 14. Crosswalk - (a) That part of a roadway at an intersec-
tion included within the connec ions of the lateral lines of the sidewalks
on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curbs, or in the absence
of curbs from the edges of the traversable roadway.
(b) Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or
elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other
markings on the surface.
SECTION 15 (a) Safety zone - The area or space officially set
apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is
protected or is so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly
visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone.
(b) Curb loading zone - A space adjacent to a curb
reserved for the exclusive use of es during the loading or unloading
of passengers or materials.
(c) Passenger curb loading zone - A place adjacent to
a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or un-
loading of passengers.
(d) Freight curb loading zone - A space adjacent to
a curb for the exclusive use of Vehicles during the loading or unloading of
freight.
SECTION 16 (a) Official traffic -control devices - All signs,
signals, markings, and devices not 1�nconsistent with this ordinance placed
or erected by authority of the traffic engineer of the City of Wichita Falls
for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic.
(b) Traffic -control signal - Any device, whether
manually, electrically, orr mecHa`rica y operated, by which traffic is alter-
nately directed to stop and to proceed.
SECTION 17 (a) Business district - The territory contiguous to
and including a highway when within any six hundred (600) feet along such
highway there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes, in-
cluding but not limited to hotels, banks or office buildings, railroad sta-
tions, and public buildings which occupy at least three hundred (300) feet
of frontage on one side or three hundred (300) feet collectively on both
sides of the highway.
(b) Residence district - The territory contiguous to
and including a highway not business district when the property
on such highway for a distance of three hundred (300) feet or more is in the
main improved with residence or residences and buildings in use for business.
SECTION 18. Central business district - All streets and portions
of streets within the area described as follows: Beginning at Wichita Valley
R. R. track at Thirteenth Street; thence running North with the idichita Valley
R. R. track connecting with the Fort lJorth & Denver R. R. track; thence run-
ning north with the Fort 1,Jorth & Denver R. R. track to Fifth Street; thence
west on Fifth Street to Scott :venue; thence south on Scott Avenue to Sixth
Street; thence west on Sixth Street to the alley between Travis and Eustin
Streets; thence south on alley to Eleventh Street; thence east on Eleventh
Street to Travis Street; thence sou-Uz on Travis Street to Thirteenth Str;;,-t;
thence east on Thirteenth Street to the place of beginning.
ARTICLE II - TRAiTFIC ADl`M11ISTRATIGN
SECTION 19. Police admirdstration - There is hereby established
in the police department of this city a traffic division to be under the
control of an officer of police appointed by and directly responsible to the
chief of police.
SECTION 20. Duty of traffic division - It shall be the duty of the
traffic division with such aid as may be rendered by other members of the
police department to enforce the street traffic regulations of this city and
all of the State vehicle laws ap;)licable to street traffic in this city, to
make arrests for traffic violations, to investigate accidents and to cooperate
with the city traffic engineer and other officers of the city in the adminis-
tration of the traffic laws and in developing ways and means to improve traffic
conditions, and to carry out those duties specially imposed upon said divis-
ion by this ordinance and the traffic ordinances of this city.
SECTION 21. Records of traffic violations - (a) The police depart-
ment or the traffic division thereoof shall keep record of all violat-ions of
the traffic ordinances of this city or of the State vehicle laws of which any
person has been charged, together with a record of the final disposition of
all such alleged offenses. Such .record shall be so maintained as to show all
types of violations and the total of each. Said record shall accumulate dur-
ing at least a 5-year period and from that time on the record shall be main-
tained complete for at least the most recent 5-year period.
(b) All forms for records of violations and notices of
violations shall be serially numbered.
(c) All such records and reports shall be public records.
SECTION 22. Traffic division to investigate accidents - It shall
be the duty of the traf is divisioonn,— assisted''by other po ice officers of the
department to investigate traffic accidents, to arrest and to assist in the
prosecution of those persons charged with violations of law causing or con-
tributing to such accidents.
SECTION 23. Traffic accident studies - Whenever the accidents at
any particular location become rumerous, the traffic division shall cooperate
with the city traffic engineer in conducting studies of such accidents and
determining remedial measures.
SECTION 24. Traffic accident reports - The traffic division shall
maintain a suitable system of filing Traffic accident reports. Accident re-
ports or cards referring to them shall be filed alphabetically by location.
Such reports shall be available for the use and information of the city traf-
fic engineer.
SECTION 25. Drivers files to be maintained - (a) The police de-
partment or the traffic d�ivis n thereof shall maintain a suitable record of
all traffic accidents, arrests, convictions, and complaints reported for each
driver, which shall be filed alphabetically under the name of the driver con-
cerned.
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(b) Said division shall study the cases of all the
drivers charged with frequent or serious violations of the traffic laws or
involved in frequent traffic accidents or any serious accident, and shall
attempt to discover the reasons therefor, and shall take whatever steps are
lawful and reasonable to prevent the same or to have the licenses of such
persons suspended or revoked.
(c) Such records shall accumulate during at least a
5-year period and from that time on such records shall be maintained complete
for at least the most recent 5-year period.
SECTION 26. Traffic division to submit annual traffic -safety
report - The traffic d!V sion shall annually prepare a traffic -report which
shall be filed with the city clerk. Such report shall contain information
on traffic matters in this city as follows;
1) The number of traffic accidents, the number of
persons killed, the number of persons injured, and other pertinent traffic
accident data;
2) The number of traffic accidents investigated and
other pertinent data on the safety activitiesof the police;
3) The plans and recommendations of the division for
future traffic safety activities.
SECTION 27. Traffic division to designate method of identifying
funeral processions - The traf iic division shall' designate a type of pennant
or other identifying insignia to be displayed upon, or other method to be
employed to identify, the vehicles in funeral processions.
SECTION 28. City traffic engineer - The office of city traffic
engineer having heretofore been e blisFied n the Department of Public Works,
and with a division of traffic engineering in the Department of Public vlorks,
shall be continued and shall be supervised by a qualified traffic engineer.
(b) It shall be the general duty of the cit7/r traffic
engineer to determine the installation and proper timing and maintenance of
traffic -control devices, to conduct engineering analyses of traffic accidents
and to devise remedial measures, to conduct engineering investigation of
traffic conditions, to plan the operation of traffic on the streets and
highways of this city, to cooperate with other city officials in the develop-
ment of ways and means to improve traffic conditions, and to carry out the
additional powers and duties imposed by ordinances of this city.
SECTION 29. Emergency and experimental regulations - (a) The chief
of police is hereby empowered to make regu ations necessary to make effective
the provisions of the traffic ordinances of this city and to make and enforce
temporary or experimental regulations to cover emergencies or special condi-
tions. No such temporary or experimental regulation shall remain in affect
for more than 90 days.
(b) The city traffic engineer may test traffic -control
devices under actual conditions of traffic.
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SECTION 30. Traffic commission, its powers and duties - (a) There
is hereby established a traffic commission t serve without compensation,
consisting of the City Manager; Chief of Police; Traffic Captain from the
Police Department; Director of Public Works; City Attorney; Assistant City
Attorney; City Recorder or Traffic Court Judge; Traffic Engineer or the
individual in the Department of Public Works to whom the duties of Traffic
Engineer are assigned; ; Chairman of the Citizens
Safety Council; Supervisor of the State Highway Patrol, Department of Public
Safety; and such others as are invited by the commission to attend.
(b) It shall be the duty of the City Traffic Commission
to pass upon the desirability of all traffic studies and traffic regulation
for the City of Wichita Falls and they, in turn, shall report to the Board
of Aldermen of such City the desirability of appropriating funds, expending
funds, and passing municipal ordinances controlling traffic; it shall have
the power to conduct hearings, to take testimony, to subpoena witnesses, to
administer an oath to witnesses, and to make any and every kind and character
of investigation that in their opinion would help to solve any traffic problem
within said City.
(c) Proposals submitted by the Traffic Engineering
Division shall be subject to the consideration and approval by the City
Traffic Commission before they shall be final.
ARTICLE III - ENFORCEMENT AND OBEDIENCE
TO TTUFFTC REGULATIONS
SECTION 31. Authority of police and fire department officials -
(a) It shall be the duty of the officers of tale police department or such
officers as are assigned by the chief of police to enforce all street traffic
laws of this city and all of the State vehicle laws applicable to street
traffic in this city.
(b) Officers of the police department or such officers
as are assigned by the chief of police are hereby authorized to direct all
traffic by voice, hand, or signal in conformance with traffic laws, provided
that, in the event of a fire or other emergency or to expedite traffic or to
safeguard pedestrians, officers of the police department :nay direct traffic
as conditions may require notwithstanding the provisions of the traffic laws.
(c) Officers of the fire department, when at the scene
of a fire, may direct or assist the police in directing traffic thereat or
in the immediate vicinity.
SECTION 32. Required obedience to traffic ordinance - it is a
misdemeanor for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act
required in this ordinance.
SECTION 33. Obedience to police and fire department officials -
No person shall willfully fl ff-- a-- 1 or refuse to comply with any lawFul order or
direction of a police officer or fire department official.
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SECTION 34. Persons propelling push carts or riding animals to
obey traffic regulations - Every person propelling na y push cart or riding an
animal upon a roadway, and every person driving any animal -drawn vehicle,
shall be subject to the provisions of this ordinance applicable to the driver
of any vehicle, except those provisions of this ordinance which by their very
nature can have no application.
SECTION 35. Use of coasters, roller skates, and similar devices
restricted. - No person upon roller skates, or r d nl zz g in or by means of
any coaster, toy vehicle, or similar device, shall go upon any roadway except
while crossing a street on a crosswalk and when so crossing such person shall
be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties appli-
cable to pedestrians. This section shall not apply upon any street while
set aside as a play street as authorized by ordinance of this city.
SECTION 36. Public employees to obey traffic regulations - The
provisions of this ordinance sha11 apply to We driver of any vehicle owned by
or used in the service of the United ;Mates Government, this State, county, or
city, and it shall be unlawful for any said driver to violate any of the pro-
visions of this ordinance, except as otherwise permitted in this ordinance
or by State statute.
SECTION 37. Authorized emergency vehicles - (a) The driver of an
authorized emergency vehiclT e, when resp no ring to an emergency call or when in
the pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law or when responding
to but not upon returning from afire alarm, may exercise the privileges set
forth in this section, but subject to the conditions herein stated.
(b) The driver of an authorized emergency vehicle may:
1) Park or stand, irrespective of the provisions of
this act;
2) Proceed past a red or stop signal or stop sign.
3) Exceed the prima facie speed limits.
4) Disregard regulations governing direction of
movement or truning in specified directions.
5) Police vehicles may disregard alley regulations
and signal lights while in the performance of duty.
(c) The exemptions herein granted to an authorized emer-
gency vehicle shall apply only when the driver of any said vehicle while in
motion sounds audible signal by bell, siren, or exhaust whistle as may be
reasonably necessary, and when the vehicle is equipped with at least one
lighted lamp displaying a red light visible under normal atmospheric condi-
tions from a distance of five hundred (500) feet to the front of such vehicle,
except that an authorized emergency vehicle operated as a police vehicle need
not be so equipped.
(d) The foregoing provisions shall not relieve the
driver of an authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due
regard for the safety of all persons, nor shall such provisions protect the
driver from the consequences of his reckless disregard for the safety of
others.
SECTION 38. Operation of vehicles on approach of authorized
omergency vehicles - (a) Upon the immediate approach ofanauthorized
emergency vch�icle equipped with at )_east one li�htod lamp exhibiting red
light visible under i.ormal atmospheric conditions from a distance of five
hundred (500) feet to the front of such vehicle other than a police vehicle
when operated as an authorized emergency vehicle, and when the driver is
giving audible signal by siren, exhaust m1listle, or bell.
(1) The driver of every other vehicle shall yield the
right of way and shall immediately drive to a position parallel to, and as
close as possible to, the right-hand edge or curb of the roadway clear of
any intersection and shall stop and remain in such position until the author-
ized emergency vehicle has passed, except when otherwise directed by a police
officer.
SECTION 39. Immediate notice of accident - The driver of a vehicle
involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person or prop-
erty damage to an apparent extent of Twenty -Five ($25) Dollars or more, shall
immediately by the quickest means of communication give notice of such acci-
dent to the police department if such accident occurs within the corporate
limits of this city.
SECTION 39.1. Written reports of accidents - The driver of a
vehicle which is in any mannor in73717e7 in an accident resulting in injury
to or death of any person or total property damage to an apparent extent of
Twonty-five ($25) Dollars or more shall, within twenty-four (24) Hours after
such accident, forward a written report of such accident to the police depart-
ment. The provisions of this sect on shall not be applicable when the acci-
dent has been investigated at the scene by a police officer w:iile such driver
was present thereat.
SECTION 39.2. When driver unable to report - (a) Whenevor the
driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of giving g immediate notice of
an accident as required in section 39 and thcrc was another occupant in the
vehicle at the time of the accident capable of doing so, such occupant shall
give or cause to be given, the notice not given by the driver.
(b) Whenever the driver is physically incapable of mak-
ing a written report of an accident as required in section 39.1 andsueh driver
is not the owner of the vehicle, then the owner of the vehicle involved in
such accident shall within twenty-four (24) hours after learning of the; acci-
dent make such report not made by the driver.
SECTION 39.3. Written accident reports confidential - All written
accident reports made by drivers, o1,mers, or occupants of vehicles involved
in accidents as required in sections 39.1 and 39.2 shall be without prejudice
to the individual so reporting and shall be for the confidential use of the
police department or other governmental agencies having use for the records
for accident prevention purposes, except that the police department may dis-
close the identity of a person involved in an accident when such identity
is not otherwise known or when such person denies his presence at such acci-
dent. No such report shall be u-sed as evidence in any trial, civil or crim-
inal, arising out of an accident except that the department shall furnish
upon demand of any person who has, or claims to have, made such a report or
upon demand of any court, a certificate showing that a specified accident
report has or has not been made to the police department solely to prove
a compliance or a failure to comply with the requirements that such a report
be made to the department.
ARTICLE IV - TRAFFIC -CONTROL DEVICES
SECTION 40 - Authority to install traffic -control devices - The
city traffic engineer shall place and m- aintain tra fic-control signs, signals,
and devices when and as required under the traffic ordinances of this city to
make effective the provisions of said ordinances, and may place and maintain
such additional traffic -control devices as he may deem necessary to regulate
traffic under the traffic ordinances of this city or under State law, or to
guide or warn traffic.
SECTION 41. - Manual and specifications for traffic -control devices -
All traffic -control signs, signals, and devices shall conform to the manual
and specifications approved by the State Highway Department and Department
of Public Safety. All signs and signals required hereunder for a particular
purpose shall so far as practicable be uniform as to type and location through-
out the city. All traffic -control devices so erected and not inconsistent
with the provisions of State law or this ordinance shall be official traffic -
control devices.
SECTION 42. - Obedience to official traffic -control devices - The
driver of any vehicle shall obey the instruction- s of any official traffic -
control device applicable thereto placed in accordance with the traffic
ordinances of this city, unless otherwise directed by a police officer, sub-
ject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle
in this ordinance.
SECTION 43. - when traffic devices required for enforcement purposes -
No provision of this ordinance for which signs are required shall be enforced
against an alleged violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation
an official sign is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen
by an ordinarily observant person. Whenever a particular section doesnot
state that signs are required, such section shall be effective even though
no signs are erected or in place.
SECTION L,4, - Traffic -control signal legend - Whenever traffic is
controlled by traffic -control signals exhibiting the words "Go," "Caution,��
or "Stop," or exhibiting different colored lights successively one at a time,
or with arrows, the following colors only shall be used and said terms and
lights shall indicate and apply to drivers of vehicles and pedestrians as
follows:
(a) Green alone or t'Go.11
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(1) Vehicular traffic facing the signal, eiz--
, may proceed straight through or turn right or
left unless a sign at such place prohibits either such turn. But vehicular
traffic, including vehicles turning right or left, shall yield the right of
way to other vehicles and to pedestrians lawfully within the intersection
or an adjacent cross walk at the time such signal is exhibited.
(2) Pedestrians facing the signal may proceed across
the roadway within any marked or unmarked cross walk.
(b) Yellow alone or "Caution" when shown following the
green or ''Golf signal.
(1) Vehicular traffic facing the signal is thereby
warned that the red or "Stop" signal will be exhibited immediately there-
after and such vehicular traffic; shall not enter or be crossing the inter-
section when the red or "Stop" signal is exhibited.
(2) Vehicular traffic that has entered intersection'
shall clear such intersection; all others shall stop and await a green light.
(3) No pedestrian facing such signal shall enter
the roadway until the green or 11Go'1 is shown alone unless authorized to do
so by a pedestrian "Walk" signal.
(c) Red alone or ItStop."
(1) Vehicular traffic facing the signal shall stop
before entering the cross walk on the near side of the intersection or, if
none, then before entering the intersection and shall remain standing until
green or "go" is shown alone.
(2) No pedestrian facing such signal shall enter
the roadway until the green or "Golf is shown alone unless authorized to do
so by a pedestrian "Walk" signal.
(d) Red with green arrow.
(1) Vehicular traffic facing such signal may
cautiously enter the intersect -ion onl�T to make the movement indicated by
such arrow but shall yield the right of way to pedestrians lawfully within
a cross walk or to other traffic lawfully using the intersection.
(2) No pedestrian facing such signal shall enter
the roadway until the CJ
green or "Go" is shown alone unless authorized so to
do by a pedestrian "Walk" signal.
(e) In the event an official traffic -control signal is
erected and maintained at a place other than an intersection, the provisions
of this section shall be applicable except as to those provisions which by
their nature can have no application, Any stop required shall be made at a
sign or marking on the pavement indicating where the stop shall be made, but
in the absence of any such sign or marking the stop shall be made at the
signal.
SECTION 45. Pedestrian control signals - Whenever special pedes-
trian control signals exhiitinthe words "Walk" or "Wait' or "Don't Walk11
are in place such signals shall indicate as follows:
(a) Walk - Pedestrians facing such signal may proceed
across the roadway in the direction of the signal and shall be given the
right of way by the drivers of all vehicles.
(b) Wait or Don't Walk - No pedestrian shall start to
cross the roadway in the direction of such signal, but any pedestrian who
has partially completed his crossing on the walk signal shall proceed to a
sidewalk or safety zone while the wait signal is dh owing.
SECTION 46. Flashing signals - Whenever an illuminated flashing
red or yellow signal is used in atra�7ic sign or signal it shall require
obedience by vehicular traffic as follows:
(1) Flashing red (stop signal) - When a red lens
is illuminated with rapid in ermit ent flasFe s, drivers of vehicles shall
stop before entering the nearest cross walk at an intersection or at a
limit line when marked, or, if none, then before entering the intersection,
and the right to proceed shall be subject to the rules applicable after
making a stop at a stop sign.
(2) Flashing yellow (caution signal) - When a yellow
lens is illuminated with rapid inter�mittenashes, drivers of vehicles
may proceed through the intersection or past such signal only with caution.
(b) This section shall not apply at railroad grade crossings.
Conduct of drivers of vehicles approaching railroad grade crossings shall
be governed by the rules set forth in section 71 of this ordinance.
SECTION 47. Display of unauthorized signs, signals, or markings -
(a) No person shall place, maintain, or display upon or in vi0-of any
highway any unauthorized sign, signal, marking, or device which pumorts
to be or is in imitation of or resembles an official traffic -contra 1 device
or railroad sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of
traffic, or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of
any official traffic -control device or any railroad sign or signal.
(b) No person shall place or maintain nor shall any public
authority permit upon any highway any sign or signal bear-_ng thereon any
commercial advertising.
(c) Mis section shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection
upon private property adjacent to highways of signs giving useful directional
information and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs.
(d) Every such prohibited sign, signal, or marking is hereby
declared to be a public nuisance and the authority having jurisdiction over
the highway is hereby empowered to remove the same or cause it to be removed
without notice.
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SECTION 48. Interference with official traffic -control devices
or railroad signs or signals - No person shal7without lawful authority
attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down, or remove any
official traffic -control device or any railroad sign or signal or any
inscription, shield or insignia thereon, or any other part thereof.
SECTION 49. Authority to establish play streets - The chief of
police shall have authority to declare any street or part thereof a play
street and to place appropriate signs or devices in the roadway indicating
and helping to protect the same.
SECTION 50. Play Streets - Whenever authorized signs are erected
indicating any street or partt thereof as a play street, no person shall drive
a vehicle upon any such street or portion thereof except drivers of vehicles
having business or whose residences are within such closed area, and then
any said driver shall exercise the highest degree of care in driving upon
any such street or portion thereof.
4ECTION 51. City traffic engineer to designate cross walks and
establish safety zones - The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized - -
(1) To designate and maintain, by appropriate devices,
marks, or lines upon the surface of the roadway, cross walks at intersec-
tions where in his opinion there is particular danger to pedestrians cross-
ing the roadway, and at such other places as he may deem necessary;
(2) To establish safety zones of such kind and character
and at such places as he may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians.
SECTION 51.1. Traffic lanes - (a) The city traffic engineer is
hereby authorized to mark traf is-ancs upon the roadway of any street or
highway where a regular alignment of traffic is necessary.
(b) Where such traffic lanes have been marked, it shall be un-
lawful for the operator of any vehicle to fail or refuse to keep such
vehicle within the boundaries of any such lane except when lawfully passing
another vehicle or preparatory to making a lawful turning movement.
ARTICLE V. - SPEED REGULATIONS
SECTION 52. State speed laws applicable. - The State traffic laws
regulating the speed of -vehicles s'i'all be applicable upon all streets within
this city, except as this ordinance, as authorized by State law, hereby de-
clares and determines upon the basis of engineer_�_ng and traffic investiga-
tion that certain speed regulations shall be applicable upon specified streets
or in certain areas, in which event it shall be prima facie unlawful for any
person to drive a vehicle at a speed in excess of any speed so declared in
this ordinance when signs are in place giving notice thereof.
SECTION 53. Increasing State speed limits in certain zones. -
It is hereby determined upon the basis of an engineering and traf-�c`investi-
gation that the speed permitted by State lawupon the following streets is
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less than is necessary for safe operation of vehicles thereon by reason of
the designation and signposting of said streets as through highways and
(or) by reason of widely spaced intersections and it is hereby declared that
the prima facie speed limit shall be as hereinafter set forth on those streets
or parts of streets herein designated at the times specified when signs are
erected giving notice thereof.
Name of street Prima facie speed limit At all times
Kell Boulevard 45 mph between Holliday and Kemp
Fifth Street 45 mph ,,tween Van Buren and the City Limits
Haynes Boulevard 12-f-I-11,
(War Highway 18) 45 mph between a- and the City Limits
SECTION 54. EstablisY:ment of Speed Zones. Whenever the city
traffic engineer shall determine upon the basis of an engineering -md
traffic investigation that the 30 miles per hour speed herein before set
forth is greater or less than is reasonable or safe under the conditions
found to exist at any intersection or other place or upon any sort of a
street or highway, said traffic engineer may determine and declare a
reasonable and safe speed limit and the change shall be effective at
all times when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected at
such intersection or other place or part of the highway or street.
SECTION 55. Regulation of speed by traf�.c signals. The city
traffic engineer is authorized to regu-fie Th-e timing oT traffic signals
so as to permit the movement of traffic in an orderly and safe manner at
speeds slightly at variance from the speeds otherwise applicable within
the district or at intersections and shall erect appropriate signs giving
notice thereof.
SECTION 56. When speed restrictions not applicable. - The speed
limitations set forth in this article are not applicable to authorized emer-
gency vehicles when responding to an emergency call, or when used in the
pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law, or when responding
to but not upon returning from a fire alarm, and the driver thereof sounds
audible signal by bell, siren or exhaust whistle. This provision shall not
relieve the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive
with due regard for the safety of all persons using the street or roadway,
nor shall it protect the driver thereof from the duty to use ordinary care
under the circumstances.
ARTICLE VI. - TURNING MOMIENTS
SECTION 57. Required position and method of turning at inter-
sections. The driver of a vehicle intending to turn at an intersection
shall do so as follows;
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(a) Right turns. - bbth the approach for a right turn and a
right turn shall be made as close as practicable to the right-hand curb
or edge of the roadway.
(b) Left turns on two-way roadways. - At any intersection
where traffic is permitte tomove in bold sections on each roadway
amtering the intersection, an approach for a left turn shall be made in
that portion of the right half of the roadway nearest the center line
thereof and by passing to the right of such center line where it enters
the intersection and after entering the intersection the left turn shall
be made so as to leave the intersection to the right of the center line
of the roadway being entered.
(c) Left turns on other than two-way roadways. - At any
intersection where traffic is restrictecTto one direction on one or more
of the roadways, the driver of a vehicle intending to turn left at any
such intersection shall approach the intersection in the extreme left-
hand lane lawfully available to traffic moving in the direction of travel
of such vehicle and after entering the intersection the left turn shall be
made so as to leave the intersection in the left-hand lane lawfully avail-
able to traffic moving in such direction upon the roadway being entered.
(d) The city traffic engineer may cause markers, buttons,
or signs to be placed within or adjacent to intersections and thereby
require and direct that a different course from that specified in this
section be traveled by vehicles turning at an intersection, and when
markers, buttons, or signs are so placed no driver of a vehicle shall
turn a vehicle at an intersection other than as directed and required by
such markers, buttons, or signs.
SECTION 58. Authority to place and obedience to turning markers.
(a) The city traffic engineer is authorized to place markers, buttons, or
signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be
traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections, and such course to be
traveled as so indicated may conform to or be other than as prescribed by
law or ordinance.
(b) When authorized markers, buttons, or other indications are
placed within an intersection indicating the course to be traveled by
vehicles turning thereat, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the direc-
tions of such indications.
SECTION 59. Authority to place restricted turn signs. - The city
traffic engineer is hereby au horizedTo-determine those intersections at
which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right, left, or U turn, and shall
place proper signs at such intersections. The making of such turns may be
prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted at other hours, in
which event the same shall be plainly indicated on the signs or they may be
removed when such turns are permitted.
SECTION 60. Obedience to no -turn signs. - Whenever authorized
signs are erected indicating that no right or le t or U turn is permitted,
no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of any such sign.
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SECTION 61. Limitations on turning around. - The driver of any
vehicle shall not turn such vehic e'so as oo proceed in the opposite direction
upon any street in a business district, in the middle of any block, or at a
signalized or controlled intersection.
ARTICLE VII - ONE-WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS
SECTION 62. Authority to sign one-way streets and alleys. - When-
ever any ordinance of this— 'city designates any one-way street--or--alley the
city traffic engineer shall place and maintain signs giving notice thereof,
and no such regulation shall be effective unless such signs are in place.
Signs indicating the direction of lawful traffic movement shall be placed
at every intersection where movement of traffic in the opposite direction
is prohibited.
SECTION 63. One-way streets and alleys. - Upon those streets and
parts of streets and in T ose a 1_6_ys descri eE d in schedule I attached hereto
and made a part hereof, vehicular traffic shall move only in the indicated
direction when siCD
gns indicating the direction of traffic are erected and
maintained at every intersection where movement in the opposite direction is
prohibited.
SECTION 63.1. Authority to restrict direction of movement on
streets during certain perio s. - -a) The city traffic engineer is hereby
authorized to determine and designate streets, parts of streets, or specific
lanes thereon upon which vehicular traffic shall proceed in one direction
during one period and the opposite direction during another period of the
day and shall place and maintain appropriate markings, signs, barriers or
other devices to give notice thereof. The city traffic engineer may erect
signs temporarily designating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a par-
ticular direction, regardless of the center line of the roadway.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any vehicle in
violation of such markings, signs, barriers, or other devices so placed in
accordance with this section.
ARTICLE VIII. - SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED
SECTION 64. Through streets designated. - Those streets and parts
of streets described in schedule TI attached hereto and made a part hereof are
hereby declared to be through streets for the purpose of this section.
SECTION 65. Authority to erect stop signs. - Whenever any ordinance
of this city designates and descrTFes a hrough street it shall be the duty of
the city traffic engineer to place and maintain a stop sign on each and every
street intersecting such through street or intersecting that portion thereof
described and designated as such by any ordinance of this city unless traffic
at any such intersection is controlled at all times by traffic -control signals
provided, however, that at the intersection of two such through streets or at
the intersection of a through street and a heavy traffic street notso desig-
nated, stop signs shall be erected at the approaches of either of said streets
as may be determined by the city traffic engineer upon the basis of an engineer-
ing and traffic study.
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SECTION 66. Intersections where stop required. - The city traffic
engineer is hereby authorized to determine and designate intersections where
particular hazard exists upon other than through streets and to determine
whether vehicles shall stop at one or more entrances to any such stop inter-
section, and shall erect a stop sign at every such place where a stop is re-
quired.
SECTION 67. Signs to bear the word "Stop." - Every sign erected
pursuant to this article shall bear the word "Stop" in letters not less than
eight (8) inches in height and such sign shall at nighttime be rendered lumi-
nous by steady or flashing internal illumination, or by a fixed floodlight
projected on the face of the sign, or by efficient reflecting elements on the
face of the sign. Every stop sign shall be located as near as practicable at
the nearest line of the cross walk on the near side of the intersection or,
if none, at the nearest line of the roadway.
SECTION 68. Vehicles to stop at stop signs. - When stop signs
are erected as herein authorized at or near e entrance to any intersection,
every driver of a vehicle shall stop before entering the ciboss walk on the
near side of the intersection or in the event there is no cross walk shall
stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if none, then at the point nearest
the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of the approaching
traffic on the intersecting roadway before entering the intersection except
when directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic -control signal.
SECTION 69. Emerging from alley, driveway, or building. - The
driver of a vehicle within a business or residence district emerging from an
alley, driveway, or building shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to
driving onto a sidewalk or onto the sidewalk area extending across any alley-
way or driveway, yielding the right of way to any pedestrian as may be neces-
sary to avoid collision, and upon entering the roadway shall yield the right
of way to all vehicles approaching on said roadway.
SECTION 70. Stop when traffic obstructed. - No driver shall enter
an intersection or a marked cross walk= unless there is sufficient space on the
other side of the intersection or cross walk to accommodate the vehicle he is
operating without obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians,
notwithstanding any traffic -control signal indication to proceed.
SECTION 71. Obedience to signal indicating approach of railroad
train. - (a) Whenever any persondrivinga vehicle approaches a railroad
grade crossing under any of the circumstances stated in this section, the
driver of such vehicle shall stop within 50 feet but not less than 15 feet
from the nearest rail of such railroad, and shall not proceed until he can
do so safely. The foregoing requirements shall apply when;
(1) A clearly visible electric or mechanical signal device
gives warning of the immediate approach of a railroad train;
(2) A crossing gate is lowered or when a human flagman gives
or continues to give a signal of the approach or passage of a railroad train;
(3) A railroad train approaching within approximately 1500 feet
of the highway crossing emits a signal audible from such distance and such
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railroad train, by reason of its speed or nearness to such crossing, is an
immediate hazard;
(4) An approaching railroad train is plainly visible and is in
hazardous proximity to such crossing.
(b) No person shall drive any vehicle through, around, or under
any crossing gate or barrier at a railroad grade crossing while such gate or
barrier is closed or is being opened or closed.
ARTICLE IX. - IJISCELLANEOUS DRIVING RULES
SECTION 72. Following fire apparatus prohibited. - The driver of
any vehicle other than one on o ficial business shall not follow any fire
apparatus traveling in response to a fire alarm closer than 500 feet or drive
into or park such vehicle within the block where fire apparatus has stopped
in answer to a fire alarm.
SECTION 73. Crossing a fire hose. - No vehicle shall be driven
over any unprotected hose of a fire department when laid down on any street,
private driveway, or railroad track, to be used at any fire or alarm of fire.
SECTION 74. Driving through funeral or other Er�oce�ssi�on_. - No
driver of a vehicle shall drive betwee the ve ic�escompris g funeral or
other authorized procession and when such vehicles are cons uously desig-
nated as required in this ordinance. This provision shall'pply at intersec-
tions where traffic: is controlled by traffic -control signals or police officers.
SECTION 75. Drivers in a procession . - Each driver in a funeral
or other procession shall drive as near to the right-hand edge of the roadway
as practical and shall follow the vehicle ahead as close as is practical and
safe.
SECTION 76. Funeral processions to be identified. - A funeral com-
posed of a procession o vef h les shall be identified d as such by thedisplay
upon the outside of each vehicle of a pennant or other identifying insignia
or by such other method as may be determined and designated by the traffic
division.
SECTION 77. When permits required for parades and processions. -
No procession,or parade excepting the forces of the United States Army or
Navy, the military forces of this State, and the forces of the police and
fire departments, shall occupy, march, or proceed along any street except
in accordance with a permit issued by the chief of police and such other
regulations as are set forth herein which may apply.
SECTION 78. Vehicles shall not be driven on a sidewalk. - The
driver of a vehicle shall not drive within any sidewalk area except at a
permanent or temporary driveway.
SECTION 79. Limitations on backing. - The driver of a vehicle
shall not back the same w less such movemen can be made with reasonable safety
and without interfering with other traffic, and in no instance for more than
thirty (30) feet.
SECTION 80. Riding on motorcycles. - (a) A person operating a
motorcycle shall ride only upoe the permanent and regular seat attached thereto,
and such operator shall not carry any other person nor shall any other person
ride on a motorcycle unless such motorcycle is designed to carry more than one
person, in which event a passenger may ride upon the permanent and regular seat
if designed for two persons, or upon another seat firmly attached to the rear
or side of the operator.
(b) No person shall ride any motorcycle or operate the same with
his feet on the bars or one -handed, or with one hand only, or with both feet
on one side of his machine, or while standing on the saddle or seat of such
machine or any part thereof.
SECTION 81. Clinging to vehicles. - No person riding upon any
bicycle, coaster, roller skates, sled, or toy vehicle shall attach the same
or himself to any vehicle upon a roadway.
SECTION 82. Controlled access. - No person shall drive a vehicle
onto or from any controTle- access roadway except at such entrances and exits
as are established by public authority.
ARTICLE X. - SAFETY ZONES
SECTION 84. Boarding or alighting from vehicles. - No person shall
board or ali fit from any vehicle while such vehicle is in motion.
SECTION 85. Unlawful riding. - No person shall ride on any vehicle
upon any portion thereof not esig en d or intended for the use of passengers.
this provision shall not apply to an employee engaged in the necessary dis-
charge of a duty, or to persons riding within truck bodies in space intended
for merchandise.
SECTION 86. Railroad trains not to block streets. - It shall be
unlawful for the directing officer or the operator of any railroad train or
trains to direct the operation of or to operate the same in such manner as to
prevent the use of any street for purposes of travel for a period of time
longer than 5 minutes, except that this provision shall not apply to trains
or cars in motion other than those engaged in switching.
SECTION 87. Trains blocking crossings shall uncouple. -- Any
passenger or other thro�train that is stopped at=e railroad station
must break so as to permit traffic to cross at any designated intersection
while such train or trains are stopped.
SECTION 88. Trains blocking crossings shall uncouple for Emergency
vehicles. - In the event of an emergency vehicle being denied a crossing by
reason of a train being stopped or being pulled across such crossing, the per-
son in charge of such train, or the brakeman, fireman or engineer, shall cause
such crossing to be cleared immediately at the request of the driver of such
emergency vehicle or any fireman or policeman.
SECTION 89. Driving on Railroad tracks prohibited. - No person
shall drive any motor ve ice upon any railroad track or rig t of way within
the corporate limits of the City of Wichita Falls, except at a lawful?y desig-
nated crossing thereof.
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SECTION 90. Driving through safety zones prohibited. - No vehicle
shall at any time be drive- n through or within _a safety zone.
ARTICLE XI. - PEDESTRIANS' RIGITS AND DUTIES
SECTION 91. Pedestrians subject to traffic -control signals. -
Pedestrians shall be subject to traff�� ic- ont'rol ssi pals as heretofore declared
in sections 44 and 45 of this ordinance, but at all other places pedestrians
shall be granted those rights and be subject to the restrictions stated in
this article.
SECTION 92. Pedestrians' right of way in cross walk. - (a) When
traffic -control signals are not in place or not in opera ion the driver of a
vehicle shall yield the right of way, slowing down or stopping if need be to
so yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a cross walk when the
pedestrian is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is travel-
ing, or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half
of the roadway as to be in danger, but no pedestrian shall suddenly leave a
curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle,
which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield. A pedes-
trian's right of way in a cross walk is modified under the condition and as
stated in section 95(b).
(b) Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked cross walk
or at any unmarked cross walk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to
cross the roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear
shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle.
SECTION 93. Pedestrians to use right half of cross walk. - Pedes-
trians shall move, whenever practicable, upon the right haMoTcross walks.
SECTION 94. Crossing at right angles. - No pedestrian shall cross
a roadway at any place other than —by a route at right angles to the curb or by
the shortest route to the opposite curb except in a cross walk.
SECTION 95. When pedestrian shall yield. - (a) Every pedestrian
crossing a roadway at ally —point other -than wi hin a marked cross walk or
within an unmarked cross walk at an intersection shall yield the right of way
to all vehicles upon the roadway.
(b) Any pedestrian crossing a roadway at a point where a pedestrian
tunnel or overhead pedestrian crossing has been provided shall yield the right
of way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
(c) The foregoing rules in this section have no application under
the conditions stated in section 96 when pedestrians are prohibited from
crossing at certain designated places.
SECTION 96. Prohibited crossing. - (a) Between adjacent intersec-
tions at which traffic -control signals are in operation, pedestrians shall
not cross at any place except in a cross walk.
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(b) No pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than in a cross walk
in any business district.
(c) No pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than in a cross walk
upon any of the follow:_ng named through streets:
Kell Boulevard, Scott Avenue and E. Scott Street, 5th Street
Highway, and Haynes Boulevard
SECTION 97. Obedience of pedestrians to railroad signals. - No
pedestrian shall pass through, around, over, or under any crossing gate or
barrier at a railroad grade crossing -While such gate or barrier is closed
or is being opened or closed, or while any other signal prohibiting crossing,
or n the event a brakeman is used, while such brakeman has indicated that
there shall be no crossing.
SECTION 98. Pedestrians walking along roadways - (a) where side-
walks are provided it shall be be— l or any pedestrian to walk along and
upon an adjacent roadway.
(b) where sidewalks are not provided any pedestrian walking along
and upon a highway shall walk only on the left side of the roadway or its
shoulder facing traffic which may approach from the opposite direction.
SECTION 98.1. Pedestrians soliciting rides or business. - (a) No
person shall stand in a roadway for tie purpose of soliciting a ride, employ-
ment, or business from the occupant of any vehicle, except at such places as
may be designated as "ride stations" by the city traffic engineer.
(b) No person shall stand on or in the proximity to a street or
highway for the purpose of soliciting the watching or guarding of any vehicle
while parked or about to be parked on a street or highway.
SECTION 99, Drivers to exercise due care. - Notwithstanding the
foregoing provisions of this artccle every driver of a vehicle shall exercise
Jue care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian upon any roadway and shall
give warning by sounding the horn when necessary and shall exercise proper
precaution upon observing any child or any confused or incapacitated person
upon a roadway.
ARTICLE XII. - REGULATIONS FOR BICYCLES
: ECTION 100. Effect of regulations. - (a) It is a ,misdemeanor
for any person to do any act forbid en or fail to perform any act required
in this article.
(b) The parent of any child and the guardian of any ward shall
not authorize or knowingly perr,Lit any such child or ward to violate any of
the provisions of this article.
(c) These regulations applicable to bicycles shall apply whenever
a bicycle is operated upon any street or upon any public path set aside for
the exclusive use of bicycles, subject to those exceptions stated herein.
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SECTION 101. Traffic laws to apply to persons riding bicycles. -
Every person riding a bicycle upon a roadway shall be granted all of the
rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver
of a vehicle by the laws of this State declaring rules of the road applicable
to vehicles or by the traffic ordinances of this city applicable to the driver
of a vehicle, except as to special regulations in this article and except as
to those provisions of laws and ordinances which by their nature can have no
application.
SECTION 102. Obedience to traffic -control devices. - (a) Any person
operating a bicycle shall oobey the instructions of off alrtraffic-control
signals, signs, and other control devices applicable to vehicles, unless
otherwise directed by a police officer.
(b) Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that no right
or left or U turn is permitted, no person operating a bicycle shall disobey
the direction of any such sign, except where such person dismounts from the
bicycle to make any such turn, in which event such person shall then obey
the regulations applicable to pedestrians.
SECTION 103. Riding on bicycles. - (a) A person propelling a
bicycle shall not ride other than astride a permanent and regular seat attached
thereto.
(b) No bicycle shall be used to carry more persons at one time
than the number for which it is designed or equipped.
SECTION 104. Riding on roadways and bicycle paths. - (a) Every
person operating a bicycle upon a roadway shall ride as near to the right-
hand side of the roadway as practicable, exercising due care when passing
a standing vehicle or one proceeding in the same direction.
(b) Persons riding bicycles upon a roadway shall not ride more
than two abreast except on paths or parts of roadways set aside for the
exclusive use of bicycles.
(c) Whenever a usable path for bicycles has been provided adjacent
to a roadway bicycle riders shall use such path and shall not use the roadway,
SECTION 105. Speed. - No person shall operate a bicycle at a speed
greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions then existing.
SECTION 106. Emerging from alley or driveway. - The operator of
a bicycle emerging from an alley, driveway or building, shall upon approaching
a sidewalk or the sidewalk area extending across any alleyway, yield the right
of way to all pedestrians approaching on said sidewalk or sidewalk area, and
upon entering the roadway shall yield the right of way to all vehicles approach-
ing on said roadway.
SECTION 107. Clinging to vehicles. - No person riding upon any
bicycle shall attach the same or himself to any vehicle upon a roadway.
SECTION 108. Carrying articles - No person operating a bicycle
shall carry any package., bundle, er artic e which prevents the rider from
keeping at least one hand upon the handle bars.
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SECTION 109. Parking. - No person shall park a 'bicycle upon a street
other than upon the roadway against the curb or Upon the sidewalk in a rack
to support the bicycle or against a building or at the curb, in such manner
as to afford the least obstruction to pedestrian traffic.
SECTION 110. Riding on sidewalks. - (a) No person shall ride a
bicycle upon a sidewalk within a busin- ess district.
(b) The chief of police is authorized to erect signs on any side-
walk or roadway prohibiting the riding of bicycles thereon by any person and
when such signs are in place no person shall disobey the same.
(c) Whenever any person is riding a bicycle upon a sidewalk, such
person shall yield the right of way to any pedestrian and shall give audible
signal before overtaking and passing such pedestrian.
SECTION 111. Lamps and other equipment on bicycles. - (a) Every
bicycle when in use at nlg t ime shall be egidpped with a lamp on the front
which shall emit a white light visible from a distance of at least 500 feet
to the front and with a red reflector on the rear of a type which shall be
visible from all distances from 50 feet to 300 feet to the rear when directly
in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps on a motor vehicle. A lamp emit-
ting a red light visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear may be used
in addition to the red reflector.
(b) Every bicycle shall be equipped with a brake which will enable
the operator to make the braked 4heel skid on dry, level, clean pavement.
SECTION 112. Penalties. - Every person convicted of a violation
of any provision of this article shall be punished by a fine of not more than
One Hundred ($100) Dollars, or by impounding of such persons bicycle for a
period not to exceed ten (10) days or by any combination thereof.
ARTICLE XIII - METHOD OF PARKING
SECTION 113. Standing or parking close to curb. - No person shall
stand or park a vehicle in a roadway other than parallel with the edge of the
roadway headed in the direction of lawful traffic movement and with tiie right-
hand wheels of the vehicle within eighteen (18) inches of the curb or edge
of the roadway except as otherwise provided in this article.
SECTION 114. Signs or markings indicating angle parking. - (a) The
city traffic engineer shall determine upon what streets angle parking shall
be permitted and shall mark or sign such streets but such angle parking shall
not be indicated upon any Federal -aid or State highway within this city unless
the State Highway Commission has determined by resolution or order entered in
its minutes that the roadway is of sufficient width to permit angle parking
without interfering with the free movement of traffic.
(b) Angle parking shall not be indicated or permitted at any place
where passing traffic would thereby be caused or required to drive upon the
left side of the street.
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TIMORARY REGULATION
SAS, the City of Wich-I to. Falls, through Ordinance
No. 16" , section 54, has purported to give the City Traffic
Ingineer the power to designate the speed limits of streets to
be more or less than 30 miles per hour by erecting signs giving
notice thereof, and
MiiERELS, said Traffic Fnglneer has so designated by
proper signs many streets within the city as being safe to drive
upon at speeds ether than 30 miles par hour, and
WHERE®S, such power on the part of said Traffic
gngineer has been successfully challenged on a legal basis, and
WHLTrAS, the effect of such holding is that many
streets within the city have no enforceable speed limit what-
ever since the numerous sign designations present a oonflist'as
to allegations of notice of State speed laws, and
ygMEUS, enforcement of speed limits are vital to the
welfare and safety of aim within ta,,e city, and
WHERELS, a period of tiro will have expired before the
traffic code can be corrected to conform with legal precedent,
which presents an omergency or special condition, and
W, thy+ Chief of pal,ch is empowered, ender
Section 29 of said Ordinance to mate and to enforce tesxporary
regulations to cover brargencies or xpecial conditions, which
regulations may romatil in effect fee 90 days,
NOW, )� ,,under the author'.ty�of and pursuant
SECTION 115. Obedience to angle -parking signs or markings.
Upon those streets which have been signed or marked by the city traffic
engineer for angle parking, no person shall park or stand a vehicle other
than at the angle to the curb or edge of the roadway indicated by such signs
or markings.
SECTION 116. Permit for loading or unloading at an angle to the
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curb. _"
a) `Ihe city tra:f�ic-engineer is authorized to issue special permits
to permit the backing of a vehicle to the curb for the purpose of loading or
unloading merchandise or materials subject to the terms and conditions of such
permit. Such permits may be issued either to the owner or lessee of real
property or to the owner of the vehicle and shall grant to such person the
privilege as therein stated and authorized herein.
(b) It shall be unlawful .for any permittee or other person to
violate any of the special terms or conditions of any such permit.
:SECTION 117. Lights on parked vehicles. - (a) Whenever a vehicle
is lawfully parked at niottime spon any street within a business or residence
district no lights need be displayed upon such parked vehicle.
(b) Whenever a vehicle is parked upon a street or highway outside
of a business or residence district during the hours between one-half hour
after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise, such vehicle shall be equipped
with one or more lamps which shall exhibit a white light on the roadway side
visible from a distance of 500 feet to the front of the vehicle and a red
light visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear.
(c) Any lighted headlamps upon a parked vehicle shall be depressed
or dimmed.
ARTICLE XIV. - SMPPING, STANDING, OR PARKING
PROHIHITED IN SPECIFIED PLACES
SECTION 118. Stopping, standing, or parking prohibited. No signs
required. - (a) No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle, except when
necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with law or
the directions of a police officer or traffic -control device, in any of the
following places:
1. On a sidewalk;
2. In front of a public or private driveway;
3. 14ithin an intersection;
4. Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
5. On a cross walk;
6. Within 20 feet of a cross walk at an intersection;
7. Within 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon,
stop sign, or traffic -control signal located at the side of a roadway;
8. Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or w-°�thin 30
feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone,
unless the city traffic engineer has indicated a different length by signs
or markings;
9. Within 50 fee-t of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;
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10. Within 20 feet of a driveway entrance to any fire station
and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station within
75 feet of said entrance when properly signposted;
11. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruc-
tion when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic;
12. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at
the edge or curb of a street;
13. Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway
or within a highway tunnel;
14. At any place where official signs prohibit stopping;
15. At any place between a sidewalk and the curb or edge of
the roadway.
(b) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his control
into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is unlaw-
ful.
SECTION 119. Parking not to obstruct traffic. - No person shall
park any vehicle upon a street, or other than an a�ey, in such a manner
or under such conditions as to leave available less than 10 feet of the
width of the roadway for free movement of vehicular traffic.
SECTION 120. Parking in alleys. - No person shall park a vehicle
within an alley in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave avail-
able less than 10 feet of the width of the roadway for the free movement of
vehicular traffic, and no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle within
an alley in such position as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting
property.
SECTION 120.1. Parking in alleys prohibited. All vehiclos are
prohibited from parking in any alley 717 in the City except for the purpose
of loading and/or unloading merchandise.
SECTION 121. All-night parking prohibited. - 110 person shall
park a vehicle on any paved street for a period of time longer than 30 minutes
between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. of any day, except physicians on
emergency calls.
SECTION 122. Parking for certain purposes prohibited. - No person
shall park a vehicle upon any roadway for the principal purpose of:
(1) Displaying such vehicle for sale.
(2) Washing, greasing or repairing such veiiicle except repairs
necessitated by an emergency.
SECTION 123. Parking adjacent to schools. - (a) The city traffic
engineer is hereby authorized to erect Signs indicating no parking upon either
or both sides of any street adjacent to any school property when such parking
would, i.r, his opinion, interfere with traffic or create a hazardous situation.
(b) When official signs are erected indicating no parking upon
either side of a street adjacent to any school property as authorized herein,
no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated place.
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SECTION 124. Parking prohibited on narrow streets. - (a) The
city traffic engineer is hereby aut ora_zed to ere signs indicating no
parking upon any street when the width of the roadway does not exceed 20 feet,
or upon one side of the street as indicated by such signs when the width of
the roadway does not exceed 30 feet.
(b) When official signs prohibiting parking are erected upon
narrow streets as authorized herein, no person shall park a vehicle upon
any such street in violation of any such sign.
SECTION 125. Standing or parking on one-way streets. - The city
traffic engineer is authoriTzeld to erect g s upon the left-hand side of any
one-way street to prohibit the standing or parking of vehicles, and when such
signs are in place, no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon such left-
hand side in violation of any such sign.
SECTION 126. Standing or parking on one-way roadways. - In the
event a highway includes two or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted
to one direction upon any such roadway, no px son shall stand or park a vehicle
upon the left-hand side of such one-way roadway unless sins are erected to
permit such standing or parking. Me city traffic engineer is authorized to
determine when standing or parking may be permitted upon the left-hand side
of any such one-way roadway and to erect signs giving notice thereof.
SECTION 127. No stopping, standing, or parking near hazardous or
congested places. - (a) The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to
determine and designate by proper signs places not exceeding 100 feet in
length in which the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles would create
an especially hazardous condition or would cause unusual delay to traffic.
(b) When official signs are erected at hazardous or congested
places as authorized herein no person shall stop, stand, or park a vd-1.icle
in any such designated place.
ARTICLE XV. -LOADING ZONES
SECTION 128. D4iinitions - As used herein the following defini-
tions are given;
(2) A loading zone is defined as a space in front of a business
location to be used for the purpose of loading and unloading merchandise by
the owner of the bus_ness adjacent thereto, and may be used by any carrier
for the purposes of loading or unloading merchandise to be delivered or
shipped from such location. spage %ay also be
(2) An alley entrance is defined as a building that abutts on
or has an entranceto - al ey, _ , that provides access
to a street or other thoroughfare for vehicles used in handling and loading
and unloading merchandise.
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(3) Space as used herein is defined as an area of twenty-one (21)
feet parallel to the curb or in the event that the space is in an area where
angle parking is permitted, the same shall be eleven (11) feet parallel to
the curb.
SECTION 129. need must be determined - - Loading zones with the
space provided in Sectionn l'�3 sha11'be immediately established by the City
Traffic Eigineer for those concerns now doing business and enumerated in
Section 131. Subsequently, if other concerns of the same type are established,
such business shall be entitled to a similar amount of space as a loading zone,
but not until after a hearing before and approved 'by the City Traffic Commis-
sion, and not until the applicant therefor has shown that he handles merchan-
dise for sale or distribution, that he maintains equipment for the transpor-
tation, loading and unloading of such merchandise, and that merchandise must
be brought in or out of the building adjacent to the loading zone.
SECTION 130. Restriction as to use. - No vehicles other than those
used in the loading and unloading and in the transportation
thereof shall be parked in any loading zone.
SECTION 131. Allocation of loading zones. - Loading zones shall
be allocated by the city tra is engineer o 'ousiness establishments on the
following basis:
(1) Appliance Stores - "Tith alley entrance, no space. Without
alley entrance, one space.
(2) Army and Navy Stores - With alley entrance, no space. Without
al-2cy entrance, one space.
(3) Automobile dealers with garages in connection - Driveway only.
(4) Automobile garagos - Driveway only.
(5) Automobile storage concerns - One entrance and one exit.
(6) Auto storos - With alley entrance, no space. Without alley
entrance, one space.
(7) Bas lines - Parking space for not to e:ccecd three buses at
each authorized stop.
(8) Cleaning and Dye Works - With alley entrance, no space. Without
a y ent ante, one space.
(9) Clothing stores - With alley entrance, no space. Without
alley enti ante, one space.
(10) Departmen-c stores - With alley entrance, no space. Without
alley entrance, one space.
(11) Filling stations - One entrance and one exit.
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(12) Furniture stores - With alley entrance, one space.
Without al e� eentrance, two spaces.
(13) Hardware stores - With alley entrance, no space. Without
alley entrnc, one space.
(14) Hotels - One space for each entrance.
(15) Household storage concerns and trucking institutions - With
alley entrance, one space. Without alley entrance, one space
for each two vehicles operated, limited to two.
(16) Laundries - One space for each two vehicles operated.
(17) Liquor stores - TIith alley entrance, no space. Without
al=ey entrance, one space.
(18) Meat markets - With alley entrance, no space. Without alley
entrance, one space.
(19) Newspapers - Same as the presently existing contract.
(20) Oil Well supply houses - With alley entrance, one space,
mahout a ell y entrance, two spaces.
(21) Office supply stores - With alley entrance, no space,
Without aTley entrance, one space.
(22) Paint stores - With alley entrance, no space. Without alley
entrance, one space.
(23) Wholesale paint stores - With alley entrance, one space.
i:M out alley entrance, two spaces.
(24) Parking lots - One entrance and one exit.
(25) Restaurants - With alley entrance, no space, Without alley
entrance, one space.
(26) Theaters - In compliance with State law.
(27) Welding and repair shops _. With alley entrance, no space.
Without alley entrance, one space.
(28) Wholesale supply houses - With alley entrance, one space.
Without 'alley entrance, two spaces.
(29) Music stores - With alley entrance, no space. Without alley
entrance, one space.
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(3b) Wholesale tire dealers and repair stations - With inside
driveway and repair facieties, two spaces for driveway and
two spaces for parking cars or trucks for repair. With
no inside driveway facilities, four spaces.
(3t) Other business requiring loading zones - With alley entrance,
no space. Without alley entrance, one space.
SECTION
This article shall
presently existing
zone is paying the
such loading zone,
the same shall not
ly upon nonpayment
,32. Loading Zones will not be charged for - Miscellaneous Provisions
not abrogate the Cityts liability or duty under any
contract where the person who has obtained the loading
City of Wichita Falls a rental on a monthly basis for
provided, that upon the termination of any such contract
be renewed. Such contracts are to be terminated immediate -
of any rental due thereunder.
(b) In the event that any loading zone granted under this article
is not being used for the purpose of loading and unloading merchandise, there-
after and after a hearing thereon by the City traffic commission, such load-
ing zone may be by such commission ordered discontinued.
(c) In no instance shall additional space be granted for a
loading zone other than that set forth in Section 131 hereof unless the
applicant therefor shall show that the same is reasonably necessary for
the ordinary conduct of his business, and that it will not unduly interfere
with traffic on the city streets.
(d) No charge or fee shall be rrade for the use of loading zones
provided for in Section 131 hereof.
(e) The city traffic engineer shall arrange for the marking of all
loading zones provided for under this article.,,
SECTION 133. Standing in passenger curb loading zones. - No person
shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle for any purpose or period of time other
than for the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers in any place
marked as a passenger curb loading 2D ne during hours when the regulations
applicable to such curb loading zone are effective, and then only for a.
period not to exceed three minutes.
SECTION 134. Standing in freight curb loading zone. - (a) No
person shall stop, stand, or park a vehic e for any purpose or length of time
other than for the expeditious unloading and delivery or pick-up and loading
of materials in any place marked as a freight curb loading zone during hours
when the provisions applicable to such zones are in effect. In no case shall
the stop for loading and unloading of materials exceed thirty minutes.
SECTION 135. The city traffic engineer to designate public carrier
stops and stands. The city traffic engineer is hereby aut"norized and re-
quired_fo es a ish bus stops, bus stands, taxicab stands and stands ifor
other passenger common -carrier motor vehJcles on such public streets in such
places and in such number as he shall determine to be of the greatest benefit
and convenience to the public, and every such bus stop, bus stand, taxicab
stand, or other stand shall be designated by appropriate signs.
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SECTION 136, Stopping, standing, and parking of buses and taxicabs
regulated. - (a) The operator of a bus shall not stand or park such vehicle
upon any street at any place other than at a bus stand so designated as pro-
vided herein.'
(b) The operator of a bus shall not stop such vehicle upon any
street at any place for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers or
their baggage other than at a bus stop, bus stand, or passenger loading zone
so designated as provided herein, except in case of an emergency.
(c) The operator of a bus shall enter a bus stop, bus stand, or
passenger loading zone on a public street in such a manner that the bus when
stopped to load or unload passengers or baggage shall be in a position with
the right front wheel of such vehicle not further than 18 inches from the
curb and the bus approximately parallel to the curb so as not to unduly
impede the movement of other vehicular traffic.
(d) The operator of a taxicab shall not stand or park such vehicle
upon any street at any place other than in a taxicab stand so designated as
provided herein. This provision shall not prevent the operator of a taxicab
from temporarily stopping in accordance with other stopping or parking regu-
lations at any place for the purpose of and while actually engaged in the
expeditious loading or unloading of passengers.
SECTION 137, Restricted use of bus and taxicab stands. - No
person shall stop, stand, or park a vehlc e other than a s in a bus stop,
or other than a taxicab in a taxicab stand when any such stop or stand has
been officially designated and appropriately signed, except that the driver
of a passenger vehicle may temporarily stop therein for the purpose of and
while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers when such stopping
does not interfere with any bus or taxicab waiting to enter or about to
enter such zone.
ARTICLE XVI, - SIOPPING; STIdiDT111G, OR PARKING
RESTRICTED OR PXHIIETED ON CERTAIN STREETS
SECTION 138. Application of article. - The provisions of this
article prohibiting the standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply at all
times or at those times herein specified or as indicated on official signs
except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other
traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or official
traffic -control device.
SECTION 139, Regulations not exclusive. - The provisions of this
article imposing a time limit on parking shall not relieve any person from
the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions prohibiting or
limiting the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles in specified places
or at specified times.
SECTION 140. Parking prohibited at all times on certain streets.
When signs are erected give g notice - tylereof no person shall park a v— eh cle
at any time upon any of the streets described in schedule III attached to
and made a part of this ordinance.
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SECTION 141. Parking prohibited during certain hours on certain
streets. - When signs are erected i" each block giving note e thereof, nc
person shall park a vehicle between the hours specified in schedule IV of any
day except Sundays and public holidays within the district or upon any of the
streets described in said schedule IV attached to and made a part of this
ordinance.
SECTION 142. Stopping, standing, or parking prohibited during
certain hours on certain streets. - When signs are erected In eacli ock
giving notice thereof, person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle between
the hours specified in schedule V of any day except Sundays and public holi-
days within the district or upon any of the streets described in said schedule
V attached to and made a part of this ordinance.
SECTION 143. Parking time limited on certain streets. - When signs
are erected in each block giving notice thereof, no person shallpark a vehicle
for longer than thirty minutes at any time between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and
6:00 p.m. of any day except Sundays and public holidays within the district
or upon any of the streets described in schedule VI attached to and made a
part of this ordinance.
SECTION 144. Parking signs required. Whenever by this or any other
ordinance of this city any parking time limit is imposed or parking is pro-
hibited on designated streets it shall be the duty of the city traffic engineer
to erect appropriate signs giving notice thereof and no such regulations shall
be effective unless said signs are erected and in place at the time of any
alleged offense.
ARTICLE XVII. - IEGULATING THE FINDS MITI)
CLASSES OF TRAFFIC ON CERTAIN HIGMJAYS
SECTION 145. Load restrictions upon vehicles using certain streets.
When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall opera e any
vehicle with a gross weight in excess of the amounts specified in schedule
VII at any time upon any of the streets or parts of streets described,in
said schedule VII. attached to and made a part of this ordinance.
SECTION 146. Commercial vehicles prohibited from using certain
streets. - When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall
operate any commercial vehicle exceeding 7,000 pounds gross weight at any
time upon any of the streets or parts of streets described in schedule VIII
attached to and made a part of this ordinance, except that such vehicles may
be operated thereon for the purpose of delivering or picking up materials or
merchandise and then only by entering such street at the intersection nearest
the destination of the vehicle and proceeding thereon no farther than the
nearest intersection thereafter.
SECTION 147. Restrictions upon use of streets by certain vehicles.
(a) The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized to determine and desig-
nate those heavily traveled streets upon which shall be prohibited the use of
the roadway by motor -driven cycles, bicycles, horse -driven vehicles, or other
non -motorized traffic and shall erect appropriate signs giving notice thereof.
(b) When signs are so erected giving notice thereof, no person
shall disobey the restrictions stated on such signs.
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ARTICLE XVIII. - TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS aJRZAU
SECTION 148. Traffic violations bureau created. - (a) The chief
of police shall establish s U7afflc vio tions bureau to assist the court with
the clerical work of traffic cases. The bureau shall be in charge of such
person or persons and shall be open at such hours as the chief of police may
designate.
(b) The judge who hears traffic cases shall designate the specified
offenses under the traffic ordinances of this city and the State traffic laws
in respect to which payments of fines may be accepted by the traffic violations
bureau in satisfaction thereof., and shall specify by suitable schedules the
amount of such fines for first, second, and subsequent offenses, provided such
fixies are within the limits declared by law or ordinance, and shall further
specify what number of such offenses shall require appearance before the
corporation court.
SECTION 149. When person charged may elect to appear at bureau or
before corporation court. - (a Any person FEarged wiE an ofTense�for whic
payment of a fine may be made to the traffic violations bureau shall have the
option of paying such fine within the time specified in the notice of arrest
at the traffic violations bureau upon entering a plea of guilty and upon
warring appearance in court; or may have the option of depositing required
lawful bail and upon a plea of not guilty shall be entitled to a trial as
authorized by law.
(b) Zhe payment of a fine to the bureau shall be deemed an acknow-
ledgment of conviction of the alleged offense, and the bureau, upon accepting
the prescribed fine, shall issue a receipt to the violator acknowledging pay-
ment thereof.
SECTION 150. Duties of traffic violations bureau. - The following
duties are hereby imposed upon the raf is vio a ions-Mreau in reference to
traffic offenses;
(1) It shall accept designated fines, issue receipts, and repre-
sent in court such violators as are permitted and desire to plead guilty,
waive court appearance, and give power of attorney.
(2) It shall receive and issue receipts for cash bail from the
persons who must or wish to be heard in court, enter the time of their
appearance on the court docket, and notify the arresting officer and witnesses,
if any, to be present.
(3) It shall keep an easily accessible record of all violations of
which each person has been guilty during the preceding 12 months, whether
such guilt was established in court or in the traffic violations bureau.
SECTION 151. Traffic violations bureau to keep records. - The traf-
fic violations bureau shall keep records and submit summarized monthly reports
to the city clerk of all notices issued and arrests made for violations of the
traffic laws and ordinances in this city and of all the fines collected by the
traffic violations bureau or the court, and of the final disposition or present
status of every case of violation of the provisions of said laws and ordinances.
Such records shall be so maintained as to show all types of violations and the
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totals of each. Said records shall be public records.
SECTION 152. Additional duties of traffic violations bureau. - The
traffic violations bureau su s—�fol oow such proce ure as may be prescribed by
the traffic ordinances of this city or as may be required by any laws of this
State.
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ARTICLE XIX. - PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE
ON ARREST
SECTION 153. Penalties. - Unless another penalty is expressly pro-
vided by law, every person cononvscted of a violation of any provision of this
ordinance shall be punished by a fine of not more than Two Hundred (�200)
Dollars.
SECTION 154. Forms and records of traffic citations and arrests. -
(a) The city clerk shall provide books to include traffic citation forms for
notifying alleged violators to appear and answer to charges of violating traf-
fic laws and ordinances in the corporation court of this city. Said books
shall include serially numbered sets of citations in quadruplicate in the
form prescribed and approved jointly by the judge of the corporation court
and the chief of police.
(b) The city clerk shall issue such books to the chief of police
or his duly authorized agent and shall maintain a record of every book so
issued and shall require a written receipt for every such book.
(c) The chief of police shall be responsible for the issuance of
such books to individual members of the police department. The chief of police
shall require a written receipt for every book so issued and shall maintain a
record of every such book and each set of citations contained therein.
SECTION 155. Procedure of police officers. - Except when authorized
or directed under State law U'1mmmediately take a person before a judge for
the violation of any traffic laws, a police officer who halts a person for
such violation other than for the purpose of giving him a warning or warning
notice and does not take such person into custody under arrestshall take
the name ,
, address, and operator's license number of said person, the registered
number of the motor vehicle involved, and such other pertinent information as
may be necessary, and shall issue to him in writing on a form provided by the
city clerk a traffic citation containing a notice to answer to the charge
against him in the corporation court of this city at a time at least five
days after such alleged violation to be specified in said citation. The offi-
cer, upon receiving a written promise of the alleged violator to answer as
specified in the citation, shall release such person from custody.
SECTION 156. Disposition and records of traffic citations, warrants,
and complaints. - (a) Every police officer upon issuing a traffic citation to
an alleged violator of any provision of the motor vehicle laws of this State
or of any traffic ordinance of this city shall deposit the original and a
duplicate copy of the citation with his immediate superior officer who shall
cause the original to be delivered to the corporation court of this city and
said duplicate copy to the central records section of the police department.
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The second duplicate copy of the citation shall be retained in the traffic
citation book and shall be delivered by such superior officer to the city
clerk together with such book when all traffic citations therein have been
used.
(b) Upon the filing of such original citation in the corporation
court of this city as aforesaid, said citation may be disposed of only by trial
in said court or by other official action by a judge of said court, including
forfeiture of bail or by payment of a fine to the traffic violations bureau
of said court.
(c) The chief of police shall require the return to him of each
traffic citation and all copies thereof, except that copy required to be
retained in the book as provided herein, which has been spoiled or upon which
any entry has been made and has not been issued to an alleged violator.
(d) The chief of police shall also maintain or cause to be main-
tained in connection with every traffic citation issued by a member of the
police department a record of the disposition of the charge by the corporation
court of this city or its traffic violations bureau.
(e) The chief of police shall also maintain or cause to be main-
tained a record of all warrants issued by the corporation court of this city
or by any other court on said traffic violation charges and which are delivered
to the police department for service, and of the final disposition of all such
warrants.
(f) It shall be unlawful and official misconduct for any member of
the police department or other officer or public employee to dispose of, alter,
or deface a traffic citation or any copy thereof, or the record of the issuance
or disposition of any traffic citation, complaint, or warrant, in a manner
other than as required in this article.
SECTION 157. Illegal cancellation of traffic citations. - It shall
be unlawful for any person to cancel or solicit the cancel a' ation of any traf-
fic citation in any manner other than as provided by this article.
SEC71ON 158. Audit of records and reports. - (a) Every record of
traffic citations, complaints thereon, and warrants issued therefor required
in this article shall be audited at least annually by the city auditing firm
who shall submit a report of such audit together with a summary thereof to
the mayor and city council. Such reports shall be public records.
(b) For the purposes of this article, the city clerk or his duly
authorized representatives shall have access at all times to all necessary
records, files, and papers of the corporation court of this city, its traffic
violations bureau, and the police department.
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SECTION 158.1. When copy of citation shall be deemed a lawful
complaint. - In the event the form of citation provided under section 154
includes information and is sworn to as required under the general laws of this
State in respect to a complaint charging commission of the offense alleged in
said citation to have been committed, then such citation when filed with a
court having jurisdiction shall be deemed to be a lawful complaint for the
purpose of prosecution under this ordinance.
SECTION 159. Failure to obey citation. - It shall be unlawful for
any person to violate his written promise to appear given to an officer upon
the issuance of a traffic citation regardless of the disposition of the charge
for which such citation was originally issued.
SECTION 160. Citation on illegally parked vehicle. - Whenever
any motor vehicle without river is found parked or stopped in violation of
any of the restrictions imposed by ordinance of this city or by State law,
the officer finding such vehicle shall take its registration number and may
take any other information displayed on the vehicle which may identify its
user, and shall conspicuously affix to such vehicle a traffic citat=on, on
a form provided by the city clerk, for the driver to answer to the charge
against him within five (5) days during the hours and at a place specified
in the citation.
SECTION 161. Failure to comply with traffic citation attached to
parked vehicle. - If a violator of the restrictions on stopping, standing,
or parking under the traffic laws or ordinances does not appear in response
to a traffic citation affixed to such motor vehicle within a period of five
(5) days the clerk of the corporation court shall send the owner of the motor
vehicle to which the traffic citation was affixed a letter informing him of
the violation and warning him that in the event such letter is disregarded for
a period of five (5) days a warrant of arrest will be issued.
SECTION 162. Presumption in reference to illegal parking. - (a) In
any prosecution charging a violation of any law on regulat on governing the
standing or parking of a vehicle proof that the particular vehicle described
in the complaint was parked in violation of any such law or regulation, to-
gether with proof that the defendant named in the complaint was at the time
of such parking the registered owner of such vehicle, shall constitute in
evidence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of such vehicle
was the person who parked or placed such vehicle at the point where, and for
the time during which, such violation occurred.
(b) The foregoing stated presumption shall apply only when the
procedure as prescribed in sections 160 and 161 has been followed.
SECTION 163. When warrant to be issued. - In the event any person
fails to comply with a tra is c� ittation given such person or attached to a
vehicle or fails to make appearance pursuant to a summons directing an appear-
ance in the corporation court, or if any person fails or refuses to deposit
bail as required and within the time permitted by ordinance, the clerk of
the corporation court shall secure and issue a warrant for his arrest.
SECTION 163.1. Record of traffic cases - report of convictions
to State department of motor vehicles. -- a)—� e y magistrate or judge of
a court shall keep on cause to be kept a record of every traffic complaint,
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traffic citation, or other legal form of traffic charge deposited with or
presented to said court or its traffic violations bureau, and shall keep a
record of every official action by said court or its traffic violations
bureau in reference thereto, including but not limited to a record of every
conviction, forfeiture of bail, judgment of acquittal, and the amount of fine
or forfeiture resulting from every said traffic complaint or citation deposited
with or presented to said court or traffic violations bureau.
(b) Within 10 days after the conviction or forfeiture of bail of
a person upon a charge of violating any provision of this ordinance or other
law regulating the operation of vehicles on highways every said magistrate
of the court or clerk of the court of record in which such conviction was
had or bail was forfeited shall prepare and immediately forward to said
State department of motor vehicles an abstract of the record of said court
covering the case in which said person was so convicted or forfeited bail,
which abstract must be certified by the person so required to prepare the
same to be true and correct. Report need not be made of any conviction
involving the illegal parking or standing of a vehicle.
(c) Said abstract must be made upon a form furnished by said
State department of motor vehicles and shall include the name and address
of the party charged, the number, if any, of his operatorls or chauffeur's
license, the registration number of the vehicle involved, the nature of the
offense, the date of hearing, the plea, the judgment, or whether bail for-
feited and the amount of fine or forfeiture as the case may be.
(d) Every court of record shall also forward a like report to said
State department of motor vehicles upon the conviction of any person of man-
slaughter or other felony in the commission of which a vehicle was used.
(e) The failure, refusal, or neglect of any such judicial officer
to comply with any of the requirements of this section shall constitute mis-
conduct in office and shall be ground for removal therefrom.
SECTION 164. Disposition of traffic fines and forfeitures. - All
fines or forfeitures collectedon conviction or upon the forfeiture of bail
of any person charged with a violation of any of the provisions of this ordi-
nance shall be paid into the city treasury and deposited in the general fund.
SECTION 165. Authority to impound vehicles - (a) Members of the
police department are herebyauthorized to remove a vehicle from a street or
highway to the nearest garage or other place of safety, or to a garage desig-
nated or maintained by the police department, or otherwise maintained by this
city under the circumstances hereinafter enumerated.
(1) When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, viaduct,
or causeway, or in any tube or tunnel where such vehicle constitutes an ob-
struction to traffic.
(2) When a vehicle upon a highway is so disabled as to constitute
an obstruction to traffic and the person or persons in charge of the vehicle
are by reason of physical injury incapacitated to such an extent as to be
unable to provide for its custody or removal.
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(3) when any vehicle is left unattended upon a street and is so
parked illegally as to constitute a definite hazard or obstruction to the
normal movement of traffic.
(4) All vehicles left in one place in a street alley for 36 hours.
(b) Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street as authorized
in this section and the officer knows or is able to ascertain from the regis-
tration records in the vehicle the name and address of the owner thereof, such
officer shall immediately give or cause to be given notice in writing to such
owner of the fact of such removal and the reasons therefor and of the place to
which such vehicle has been removed. In the event any such vehicle is stored
in a public garage, a copy of such notice shall be given to the proprietor of
such garage.
(c) whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street under this
section and does not know and is not able to ascertain the name of the owner,
or for any other reason is unable to give the notice to the owner as herein -
before provided, and in the event the vehicle is not returned to the owner
within a period of three (3) days, then and in that event the officer shall
immediately send or cause to be sent written report of such removal by mail
to the State department whose duty it is to register motor vehicles, and
shall file a copy of such notice with the proprietor of any public garage in
which the vehicle may be stored. Such notice shall include a complete descrip-
tion of the vehicle, the date, time, and place from which removed, the reasons
for such removal, the name of the garage or place where the vehicle is stored.
ARTICLE XX. - EFFECT OF AND SHORT TITLE OF
ORDINANCE
SECTION 166. Effect of ordinance. - If any part or parts of this
ordinance are for any reason held to be invalid, such decision shall not effect
the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance.
SECTION 167. Repeal. - All ordinances or parts of ordinances in
conflict with or inconsisten with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby
repealed, except that this repeal shall not affect or prevent the prosecution
or punishment of any person for any act done or committed in violation of any
ordinance hereby repealed prior -to the taking effect of this ordinance.
SECTION 168. Publication of ordinance. - The city clerk shall
certify to the passage of this ordinance and cause the same to be published
in the Wichita Falls Record News one time.
SECTION 169. Short title. - This ordinance may be known and cited
as the Traffic Ordinance.
SECTION 170, Effective date. - This ordinance shall take effect
from and after thirty (3days after passage hereof,
PASSED AND APPROVED this llth day of May, A. D. 1953.
A TIESX, C
Mayor
City Clerk " 37
ARTICLE XXI. - SCHEDULES OF DESIGNATED -STREETS
REFERRED TO IN ORDINANCE
Schedule I
SECTION 171. One-way Streets. - In accordance with Section 63
and when properly signposted, traffic shall move only in the direction indi-
cated upon the following streets:
Name of street Direction of traffic movement
Austin 5th to 18th South
Travis 5th to 18th North
Ardath Harrison 100 feet ®ash- East
Schedule II
SECTION 172. Through streets - In accordance with the provisions
of Section 64 and when signs are erected giving notice thereof drivers of
vehicles shall stop at every intersection before entering any of the following
streets or parts of streets:
Austin - 5th to 18th
Barwise - Ohio to Mississippi
Beverly Drive - Seymour Road to North City Limits
Brick - Sullivan to Granger
Bridge - Front to Wichita
Brook Avenue - 5th to Speedway
Burkburnett - Wichita to North City Limits
Burnett - North Third to llth
Eighth - Ohio to Brook
Eighteenth - Travis to Holliday Road
Eleventh - Ohio to Brook Avenue
Ellingham Drive - Grant Street to Hamilton Blvd.
Fifth Street - Broad to West city limits
Fillmore - Tenth to Fifth
Flood - Park to Rosewood
Front - Ohio to Bridge
Galveston - East Scott to Austin
Granger - Brick to Mill
Grant Street - 9th to Call Field Road
Avenue H - Seymour Road to i°ionroe
Hamilton Blvd. - Speedway to Hampstead
Hampstead Avenue - Grant to Holliday Road (Tex Hwy 79, US Hwy 281)
Harrison - 10th to Hampstead
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Hayes - 10th to aeymour Road
Holliday Road - 16th to South City Limits
Holliday Street - 5th to 16th
Indiana - 6th to Scott
Avenue J - Monroe to Taft
Jefferson - East City Limits to U. S. Hwy 287-70
Avenue K - Seymour Road to Monroe
Kell Blvd. - Kemp Blvd. to Holliday Road
Kemp Blvd, - 9th to Grant
Lamar - 6th to llth
Lincoln - North Brook to Burkburnett
Mississippi - Barwise to East Scott
Monroe - 10th to Avenue K
Ninth Street - West city limits - to Ohio
North Broadway - North Third to U, S, Hwy 287
North Third - North Burnett to North Broadway
Ohio - front to Barwise
Park - Tulsa to Granger
Rosewood - Sullivan to North City Limits
Scott - Jefferson (U.S. Hwy 287-70) to East City Limits
Seventh Street - Brook to Seymour Street
Seymour Road - Hayes to West City Limits
Seymour Street - 7th to Tulsa
Sixth Street - Ohio to Broad
Speedway - Harrison to Holliday Road
Sullivan Street - Brick to Rosewood
Taft Blvd. - Avenue J to Hampstead Avenue
Tenth Street - Beverly Drive to Ohio
Travis Street - 5th to 18th
Virginia - East Scott to South City Limits
Wenonah Blvd. - Seymour Road to York
Wichita - Bridge to Burkburnett
York - Wenonah Blvd. to Grant Street
Schedule III
SECTION 173. Parking prohibited, at all times on certain streets. -
In accordance with Section 0 and win sign's are erected giving notice
thereof no person shall at any time park a vehicle upon any of the following
described streets or parts of streets:
Kell Blvd. - Kemp to Holliday Road
Holliday Road - Kell to 18th
Eighteenth - Holliday goad to Travis
Kemp Blvd. - Kell to Grant
Tenth - (Southside) - Fillmore to Taylor
Travis (East side) - 17th to 18th
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Schedule IV
SECTION 174. Parking prohibited during certain hours on certain
streets. - In accordance with. Section 1, and when- gns are erected
giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle between the hours
specified herein of any day except Sundays and public holidays within the
district or upon any of the streets or parts of streets as follows:
Name of street or district Hours parking prohibited
Brook Avenue - 7th to Kell Blvd. West side - 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
East side - 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Schedule V
SECTION 175. Stopping, standing, or parking during certain hours
on certain streets prohibi e - In accordance with Section 142, and when
signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall stop, stand, or
park a vehicle between the hours specified herein of any day except Sundays
and public holidays within the district or upon any of the streets or parts
of streets as follows:
Name of street or district Hours stopping, standing,
or parking prohibited
None
Schedule VI
SECTION 176. Parking time limited on certain streets. - In accord-
ance with section 143 and when signs are erected giving notice thereof no per-
son shall park a vehicle for a period of time longer than thirty minutes be-
tween the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except Sundays and public
holidays within the district or upon any of the streets or parts of streets
as follows:
None
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Schedule VII
SECTION 177. Load restrictions upon vehicles using certain streets.
In accordance with Section 145=d when signs are erected giving notice thereof,
no person shall operate any vehicle with a gross weight in excess of the amounts
specified herein at any time upon any of the following streets or parts of
streets:
Kell Blvd. - Kemp to Holliday Road 7,000 pounds
Schedule VIII
SECTION 178. Commercial vehicles prohibited from using certain
streets. - When signs are erected givin nog tice thereof, no person shall
operate a commercial vehicle except as provided under section 146, upon any
of the following streets or parts of streets:
Kell Blvd. - Kemp to Holliday Road
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APPMMIX
PARKING METER ZONES
SECTION 179. Parking meter zones. - (a) Parking meter zones are
hereby established within the district or upon those streets or parts of
streets described in Schedule IX attached to and made a part of this ordi-
nance in which zones the parking of vehicles upon streets shall be regulated
by parking meters between the hours specified in said Schedule IX of any day
except Sundays and public holidays. Z�-__<.,_ I r? C R'
(b) The city traffic engineer is hereby authorized, subject to
the approval of the city council by amendment of said Schedule IX, to estab-
lish parking meter zones at other locations upon those streets or parts of
streets where it is determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic
investigation that the installation of parking meters shall be necessary
to aid in the regulation, control, and inspection of the parking of vehicles.
SECTION 180. Installation of parking meters. - (a) The city
traffic engineer shall install parking meters in the parking meter zones
established as provided in this ordinance upon the curb immediately adjacent
to each designated parking space. Said meters shall be capable of being
operated, either automatically or mechanically, upon the deposit therein of
a five cent coin of United States currency, for the full period of time for
which parking is lawfully permitted in any such parking meter zone.
(b) Each parking ra ter shall be so designed, constructed, in-
stalled, and set that upon the expiration of the time period registered by
the deposit of one or more coins, as provided herein, it will indicate by
an appropriate signal that the lawful parking meter period has expired, and
during said period of time and prior to the expiration thereof, will indicate
the interval of time which remains of such period.
(c) Each parking meter shall bear thereon a legend indicating the
days and hours when the requirement to deposit coins therein shall apply, the
value of the coins to be deposited, and the limited period of time for which
parking is lawfully permitted in the parking meter zone in which such meter
is located.
SECTION 181. Parking meter spaces. - (a) The city traffic engineer
shall designate the park'.ng ace ar�jacen to each parking meter for which
such meter is to be used by appropriate markings upon the curb and/or the
pavement of the street. Parking meter spaces so designated shall be of ap-
propriate length and iridth so as to be accessible from the traffic lanes of
such street.
(b) No person shall park a vehicle in any such designated parking
meter space during the restricted and regulated time applicable to the park-
ing meter zone in which such meter is located so that any part of such vehicle
occupies more than one such space or protrudes beyond the markings designating
such space, except that a vehicle which is of a size too large to be parked
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within a single designated parking meter zone shall be permitted to occupy
two adjoining parking meter spaces when coins shall have been deposited
in the parking meter for each space so occupied as is required in this
ordinance for the parking of other vehicles in such space.
SECTION 182. Deposit of coins and time limits. - (a) No person
shall park a vehicle in any parking space upon a street -alongside of and
next to which a parking meter has been installed during the restricted and
regulated time applicable to the parking meter zone in which such rre ter is
located unless a coin or coins of United States currency of the appropriate
denomination as provided in this ordinance shall have been deposited therein,
or shall have been previously deposited therein for an unexpired interval
of time, and said meter has been placed in operation.
(b) No person shall permit a vehicle within his control to be
parked in any such parking meter space during the restricted and regulated
time applicable to the parking meter zone in which such meter is located
while the parking meter for such space indicates by signal that the lawful
parking time in such space has expired. This provision shall not apply to
the act of parking or the necessary time which is required to deposit im-
mediately thereafter a coin or coins in such meter.
(c) No person shall park a vehicle in any such parking meter
space for a consecutive period of time longer than that limited period of
time for which parking is lawfully permitted in the parking meter zone in
which such meter is located, irrespective of the number or amounts of the
coins deposited in such meter.
(d) The provisions of this section shall not relieve any person
from the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions of this ordi-
nance and the State Vehicle Code prohibiting or limiting the stopping, stand-
ing, or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.
SECTION 183. Use of slugs prohibited. - No person shall deposit
or attempt to deposit in any park ni g meter any slug, button, or any other
device or substance as substitutes for coins of United States currency.
SECTION 184. Tampering with meter. - No person shall deface,
injure, tamper with, open, or wi ful freak, destroy, or impair the useful-
ness of any parking meter.
SECTION 185. Application of proceeds - The coins deposited in
parking meters shall be collected Fy'the duly authorized agents of the city
and shall be deposited by him in the City Depository.
SCHEDULE IX
SECTION 186. Parking meter zones. - In accordance with Section 179,
parking meter zones are hereby establi died within the district or upon those
streets or parts of streets described herein in which the parking of vehicles
upon streets shall be regulated by parking meters between the hours specified
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of any day except Sundays and public holidays as follows:
EIGHTH STREET
Block Number
Time
500
1 nickel,
1 hr.
2 nickels,
2 hrs.
600
1 nickel,
1 hr.
700
1 nickel,
30 min.
800
1 nickel,
30 min.
900
1 nickel,
1 hr.
1000
1 nickel,
1 hr.
2 nickels, 2 hrs.
ELEVENTH STREET
Block Number
Time
600
1 nickel,
1 hr.
2 nickels,
2 hrs.
70C
1 nickel,
1 hr.
2 nickels,
2 hrs.
800
1 nickel,
1 hr.
or 1 nickel,
30 min.
1 penny, 6
min.
5 pennies,
30 min.
ADIANA STREET
Block Number
Time
500
1
nickel, 1 hr.
2
nickels, 2 hrs.
600
1
nickel, 1 hr.
700
1
nickel, 1 hr (east side)
1
nickel, 30 min (west side)
800
1
nickel, 1 hr. (east side)
1
nickel, 30 min. (west side)
900
1
nickel, 1 hr.
1000
1
nickel, 1 hr.
1100
1
nickel, 1 hr.
2
nickels, 2 AM
LA 14R S TREET
Block Number
Time
600
1 nickel,
1 hr.
2 nickels,
2 hrs.
700
1 nickel,
1 hr.
800
1 nickel,
1 hr.
900
1 nickel,
1 hr.
1000
1 nickel,
30 min.
1 penny, 6
min.
5 pennies,
30 min.
1100
1 nickel,
1 hr.
2 nickels,
2 hrs.
NINTH STREET
Block Number
Time
500
1
nickel, 1 hr. (north side)
2
nickels, 2 hrs. (north side)
600
1
nickel, 1 hr.
700
1
nickel, 1 hr.
800
1
nickel, 1 hr.
900
1
nickel, 1 hr.
2
nickels, 2 hrs.
1000
1
nickel, 1 hr.
2
nickels, 2 hrs.
OHIO STREET
Block Number Time
600 1 nickel, 1 hr.
2 nickels, 2 hrs.
700 1 nickel, 1 hr.
800 1 nickel, 1 hr.
2 nickels, 2 hrs.
900 1 nickel, 1 hr.
2 nickels, 2 hrs (west side)
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OHIO STREET (Cont'd)
Block Number Time
1000 1 nickel, 1 hr.
2 nickels, 2 hrs. west side)
SCO TI' STREET
-Block Number
Time
600
1 nickel,
1 hr.
700
1 nickel,
30 min.
800
1 nickel
30 min.
900
1 nickel,
1 hr.
1000
1 nickel,
1 hr.
SEVENTH STREET
Block Number
Time
500
1 nickel, 1 hr.
2 nickels, 2 hrs.
600
1 nickel, 1 hr.
700
1 nickel, 1 hr.
800
1 nickel, 1 hr.
900
1 nickel, 1 hr.
1000
1 nickel, 1 hr.
2 nickels, 2 hrs.
SIXTH
STREET
Block Number
Time
500
1 nickel, 1 hr.
2 nickels, 2 hrs. or
1 nickel, 30 rain.
600
1 nickel, 1 hr.
2 nickels, 2 hrs.
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SI Zi
STREET (Conttd)
Block Number
Time
700
1 nickel., 1 hr.
2 nickels, 2 hrs.
800
1 nickel, 1 hr,
2 nickels, 2 hrs.
900
1 nickel, 1 hr,
2 nickels, 2 hrs.
TENTH
STREET
Block Number
Time
600
1 nickel, 1 hr,
700
1 nickel, 1 hr.
800
1 nickel, 1 hr.
900
1 nickel, 1 hr.
TRAMS
STREET
Block Number
Time
600
1 nickel, 1 hr.
2 nickels, 2 hrs.
700
.1 nickel, 1 hr.
2 nickels, 2 hrs.
800
1 nickel, 1 hr.
2 nickels, 2 hrs.
900
1 nickel, 1 hr.
2 nickels, 2 hrs.
1000
1 nickel, 1 hr.
2 nickels, 2 hrs.
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