Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-08-05
AUTOS q OTHERS
Police Department Promulgates Rules
to Govern Motor and Horse Drawn
Vehicles in Streets of Chicago.

Sec. 8. No vehicle or street car
shall 50 occupy any street as to in.
terfere with or intercept the passage
Of other cars or vehicles.
Sec. 4. During blockades or stop.
pages q 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 vil-Spssd.
Section 1. No vehicle shall proceed
at any time at q greater speed than
the law allows and which Is safe and
proper under the conditions then oh.
tanning.
Sec. 2. No vehicle shall cross any
street or avenue or make any turn at
q speed rate exceeding one.half its
legal speed.
Sec. 3. No vehicle shall emerge
from an alley, stable or garage at
pace faster than 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. s. 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
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Independently.
Ordinance Regulating Speed Of We.
hieles 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 (4OO) feet Of any schoolhouse in
the city, at q greater speed than five
60 miles an hour, between the hours
Of 8 o'clock a. m. and s o'clock p. m.
on any day during which school is In
session in such schoolhouse;
Sec. 1963a. or within four
hundred (4OO) feet Of any public play.
ground in the city. between the hours
Of 8 o'clock q. m. and Z o'clock p. m.
on any day during which playground
is open and in operation;
Sec. 1864. . - or while within
four hundred (40O) 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 vili-kssplns 20 the Right,
Passing, Turning, Crossing and
stopping.
Section 1. A vehicle, except when
passing o vehicle ahead. shall habit.
ually keep as near the right hand curb
a. possible.
Sec. 2. A vehicle meeting another
shall pass to the right.
Sec. g., On an avenue or street d..
vided longitudinally by O parkway.
walk. sunken way or viaduct. vehicles
should keep to the right Of such di.
visions.
Sec. I. 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. 6. A vehicle crossing from one
side OF the street to the other side
shall in doing 90 keep to the right.
Sec. Z. No vehicle shall stop with
left side to the curb.
Sec. s. No. vehicle shall stand
backed up to the curb. except when
actually loading or unloading, and II
said vehicle 10 horse.drawn and has
four wheels, the horse or horses must
stand parallel to the curb and faced
In the direction Of the trafic.
Sec. 8. A vehicle waiting at the
curb shall promptly give place to q
vehicle about to load or unload.
Sec. 10. No vehicle. unless In ar
emergency or to allow another vehicle
or pedestrian to cross its path. shall
stop in any street or highway, excep
near the right hand curb thereof. and
so not to obstruct a crossing.
Sec. II. No vehicle shall back Il
make turn In any street II by 81
doing It interferes with other vehicles
but shall 60 around the block or to ,
street sufficiently wide to turn in with
out blocking trafiic.
Sec. ~. Vehicles will enter Nortl
and South and all II" shaped or right
angled alleys from the North ant