The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-09-09

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G.. Taylor. Lovelock. New. dbl
person to throw, deposit or place on
any street within the limits of the
town Of Winnemucca any nails, tacks,
crockery, scrapiron, tin, wire, bottles,
glass, thorns, or thorny clippings, or
thorny branches of trees or bushes, or
any other article or thing liable to
cause the tire of any vehicle TO become
p%unetured.
Sec. 10. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person to drive or propel any BIZ
cycle, tricycle., or ve~locipede, motor
cycle, automobile or other riding ma
chine, or h~orseless vehicle, within the
limits of the town of Winnemucca
without having attached to such BIZ
cycle. tricycle., ~velocipede, motor cycle,
automobile or other riding machine,
or horseless vehicle, a bell, gong or
horn, in good working order, and suffi-
cient to give warning of such vehicle
to pedestrians and to riders or drivers
of other vehicles. Said bell, gong or
horn shall be of such size only as may
be necessary to give such warning.
Sec. 20. Every motor vehicle. other
than a motor cycle, while in use, shall
carry, during the period from a half
hour after sunset to a half hour be-
fore sunrise, and at all other times
when atmospheric conditions render
the operation of vehicles unusually
dangerous to the traffic and use of the
highways, at least two lighted lamps
showing white lights visible under
normal atmospheric conditions at
least five hundred 5000 feet in the
direction toward which the said mo-
tor vehicle is proceeding; and shall
also carry at the rear of such motor
vehicle a lighted lamp exhibiting one
red light, plainly visible for a distance
of five hundred 5000 feet toward the
rear, and so placed that the number
carried OF the rear of such motor We
hicle shall be illuminated by a white
light, in such manner that such num-
Der can be plainly distinguished.
under normal atmospheric conditions,
at a distance of not less than fifty 500
feet in the reverse direction to which
such vehicle is proceeding.
Sec. 81. Every motor cycle, while
in use, shall carry, during the period
from a half hour after sunset to a half
hour before sunrise, and at all other
times when atmospheric conditions
render the operation of vehicles unu-
sually dangerous to the traffic and use
of the highways. at least one lighted
lamp showing a white light visible,
under normal atmospheric conditions,
at least two hundred (200) feet in the
direction toward which the motor cycle
is proceeding; and shall also carry at
the rear of such motor cycle one red
light, or red reflex mirror, plainly
visible from the rear.
Sec. %. All vehicles shall be driven
or propelled along and through the
streets of the town of Winnemucca in
as noiseless a manne as practicable,
and all automobiles and motor cycles
driven or ridden or operated within
the limits of the town of Winnemucca
shall be equipped with an adequate
muffler or other continuance to deaden
the sound of the engine of the said au-
tomobile or motor cycle, and it shall
be unlawful for any driver or rider of
any automobile or motor cycle to cut
out the said muffler so as to permit
the same to emit any loud noise at any
point within the limits of the town of
Winnemucca, and it is hereby made
unlawful for the operator of any au-
tomobile or motor cycle to allow the
motor thereof to run for a period of
more than five minutes while the said
automobile or motor cycle is at a
standstill, or to sound the gong or 9TH
er danger signal unless the same be
actually necessary for the safety of
pedestrians or vehicles, at n point
within the limitsso the town of Win
nemucca.
Sec. %. All Ordinances and parts
of Ordinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed, and this Ordinance
shall take effect and be in force from
and after the 18th day of September,
A. D. 1916.
Sec. 24.-Any person, firm, ~associa-
ton or corporation who shall be found
guilty of a violation of any of the pro
visions of this Ordinance shall be
punished by a fine of not to exceed
$3.50, and in default of the payment
of said fine, or any part thereof, may
be. in~carcerated in the County Jail of
the county of Humboldt, Nevada, one
day for every two dollars of said fine
remaining unpaid.
Approved this 5th day of September,
A. ID. 1916.
JAS. p. BYRNES,
Chairman,
| w. II. COOPER,