The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-09-02
ORDINANCE No. 4
THE COUNTY BOARD OF sUPERvIS-
ORS OF THE COUNTY OF KENOSHA.
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do ordain as follows:
Section One. No person under the age
of sixteen years, unless accompanied by
parent, guardian or other adult person,
and no Intoxicated person shall operate.
ride or drive any automobile, motorcycle
or other similar motor vehicle along or
upon any public highway of the county of
KenOsha. No person shall operate or drive
any automobile, motorcycle or other si1mil-
ar motor vehicle recklessIy or at q rate of
speed greater than Is reasonable and prop
er having regard to the width, traffic and use
of the highways and the general and usual
rules of the road, or so as to endanger the
property, life or limb of any person, and
no person shall operate or drive any auto
mobile, motorcycle or other similar motor
vehicle, along any public highway. within
the corporate limits of any city or village
in the county of Kenosha at a speed ex-
ceeding fifteen miles per hour, nor on any
OF the public highways within the county
of Kenosha and outside of the corporate
ceeding twenty five miles per hour: and
provided further, that no person shall oper-
ate or drive any automobile, motorcycle or
other similar motor vehicle through any
hospital or poor farm grounds or through
any park or in passing any school ground
where persons are or may be in said high
way at speed exceeding eight miles per
hour; and provided further, that in turn
ing corners, in going around curves at
sharp declines, at the intersection of any
street or crossroad, and where for any
cause the view in the direction in which
the vehicle is proceeding, shall be OBJ
structed, the speed shall be reduced to
such rate as will tend to avoid danger
of accident; the operator, when such au-
tomobile, motorcycle or other similar mo-
tor vehicle is in motion, shall observe the
rules of the road by keeping to the right
upon meeting vehicles and by passing to
the left of all vehicles overtaken on any
public highway of this county, and at all
in3N Ciyy incr 20 l0 vnn infn no or
taken one-half of the road. AT the inter-
section of any public street or highway
with any other public street or highway
of this county, the operator or driver of
any vehicle shall have the right OF way
over the operator or driver of any other
vehicle approaching him on such cross
street or highway from the left, excepting
only in cases in cities where police Off
Ger shall be in actual charge of the regu-
lation of traffic at such intersection Of
streets. The operator or driver of any
vehicle, when any street car is actually
taking on or discharging passengers at
the crossings or intersections of any pub
lie streets or highways, shall stop such
automobile, motorcycle or other similar
motor vehicle, until such passengers shall
have been taken on or discharged from
such car.
1t shall be unlawful for any person to
operate any automobile, motorcycle or
other similar motor vehicle without suf-
fctent modern and improved muller to pre-
or along any public street within the cor
porate limits Of any city or village of this
county. ...,g.4l
Section Two l. 1t shall be unlawful
for any person to drive or operate an auto
mobile, motorcycle, or other similar motor
vehicle upon or along any public highway
of this county at rate of speed exceeding
ten miles per hour while within one hum
dred fifty feet and passing upon the same
travelled track of said highway any other
automobile, motorcycle or other vehicle
going in an opposite direction; and it
shall likewise be unlawful in passing to go
within three feet OF any other automobile,
motorcycle, or other vehicle going in the
same direction upon any single track of
any such highway at a greater rate of
speed than ten miles per hour.
2 1t shall be unlawful for any person
when travelling on the left of the center
line of the travelled portion of any public
highway of this county, to drive or operate
any automobile, motorcycle, or other SIM
liar motor vehicle upon and along any
such highway containing more than one
travelled track at a greater rate of speed
than ten miles per hour when approaching
within one hundred and fifty feet and
passing within four feet of any vehicle,
motor or otherwise; nor shall any person
driving or operating any automobile, mo-
torcycle, or other similar motor vehicle
upon any public highway containing more
than one travelled track pass within four
feet OF any vehicle, motor or otherwise,
at greater rate of speed than ten miles
per hour when passing any other vehicle,
motor or otherwise, which is travelling in
the same direction and to the right of the
center line of the travelled portion of said
highway.
g. Any person violating any Of the pro-
visions of this section shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon convic-
ton thereof shall be punished by fine of
not less than five dollars nor more than
one hundred dollars and in default Of pay
ment of such fine by Imprisonment in the
county jail not less than ten days nor
more than three months, or both such
fine and Imprisonment in the discretion of
the court.
Section Three. j. Whenever a person
operating a motor vehicle shall meet on a
public highway any other person riding or
driving horse or other draft animal, or
any other vehicle, the person so operating
or driving a horse or other draft animal,
shall each seasonably turn to the right of
the center Of the beaten track of such
highway so as to pass without Interior
ence. Any such person so operating a
motor vehicle or motorcycle SHALL on over
taking any such horse, draft animal or
other vehicle, pass on the left side thereof,
and the rider or driver of such horse draft
animal or other vehicle SHALL as soon as
possible and with all convenient speed,
upon signal, turn to the right of the cen
ter of the beaten track Of such highway so
as to allow free passage on the left and if
necessary on account of road condition,
such driver of said draft animal or other
vehicle shall stop for sufficient length of
time to allow said automobile to pass. Any
such person so operating a motor vehicle
shall, at the intersectio nof public high
ways, keep to the right of the center OF
such intersection of such highway when
turning to the right and pass to the right
Of the center of such intersection when
turning to the left.
2. Any person violating any OF the pro-