Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-16
AUTOS & OTHERS
Police Department Promulgates Rules
to Govern Motor and Horse Drawn
Vehicles in Streets of Chicago.

Sec. 8. No vehicle or street car
shall SO occupy any street as to in.
terfere with or intercept the passage
Of other cars or vehicles.
Sec. 4. During blockades or stop.
pages clear space Of ten feet shall
be kept open between cars opposite
the alley or the center Of the block
II there be no alley.
Article vii-spsed.
Section 1. No vehicle shall proceed
at any time at greater speed than
the law allows and which Is safe and
proper under the conditions then OBJ.
tanning.
Sec. 2. No vehicle shall cross any
street or avenue or make any turn at
speed rate exceeding one.half its
legal speed.
Sec. 8. No vehicle shall emerge
from an alley. stable or garage at a
pace faster than a walk; at the lat.
ter places an attendant should pre-.
cede the vehicle to give warning.
Sec. 4. Horse.drawn vehicles and
pedestrians should habitually cross
as circumstances permit. Teams NOV.
ing at an unnecessarily slow walk
across street intersections greatly i'm.
pede traffic. ~
Sec. 8. On all thoroughfares the
heavy and slow moving vehicles shall,
as far as conditions permit, keep to
the right, in order to allow the rapid
moving and lighter traffic to proceed
independently.
Ordinance Regulating Speed Of We.
hicles Near Schools, Public Play.
grounds and Churches - Passed
July IS, 1915.
Section 1868. No motor, electric or
animal drawn vehicle Of any kind
shall proceed, while within four hun.
dred (40O) feet of any schoolhouse in
the city, at a greater speed than Ave
(5) miles an hour, between the hours
| Of s o'clock q. m. and o'clock p. m.
on any day during which school is in
session in such schoolhouse;
Sec. 1963a. or within four
hundred (400) feet Of any public play.
! ground in the city, between the hours
Of s o'clock a. IN. and o'clock p. m.
on any day during which playground
is open and in operation;
Sec. 1864. - or while within
four hundred (4O0) feet Of any church
in the city during the time or times
that persons are customarily entering
or leaving churches on Sundays or
holidays. or any other day set apart
by such church for religious worship.
Article vIil-ksspine 70 the Right,
Passing, Turning, Crossing and q.
stopping.
Section I. A vehicle. except when
passing vehicle ahead, shall habit.
ually keep az near the right hand curb
as possible.
Sec. 2. A vehicle meeting another
shall pass to the right.
Sec. 3. On an avenue or street d..
vided longitudinally by parkway,
walk, sunken way or viaduct. vehicles
should keep to the right OF such di.
visions.
Sec. 4. A vehicle turning into an
other street to the right shall turn the
corner as near the right hand curb as
practicable.
Sec. s. A vehicle turning into an
other street to the left shall circle
around the center of the street inter
section.
Sec. 8. A vehicle crossing from one
side Of the street to the other side
shall In doing 80 keep to the right.
Sec. Z. No vehicle shall stop with
left side to the curb.
Sec. 8. No vehicle shall stand
backed up to the curb. except when
actually loading or unloading. and II
said vehicle IL horse.drawn and has
four wheels. the horse or horses must
stand parallel to the curb and faced
In the direction Of the trafIlc.
Sec. 8. A vehicle waiting at the