Mexico Missouri message., 1916-06-22

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purpose of receiving and dischaTging
freight between the hours of nine
A. M. and seven P. M. whenever
there is a public alley which has con-
nection with the premises where said
freight is 20 be delivered, and such
delivery or receipt is practicable
through such alley.
Section 81. No vehicle shall
stand within the intersection of any
street within the congested district
or within ten feet from the intersect-
! ing roadway.
| Number 2S. All theatres, moving
picture shows and public gatherings
or under unusual circumstances, We
hicles shall stand or move as direct
ed by the Police.
Section 28. Vehicles shall not
stand or move or travel two or more
abreast in any street.
Section %. No horse or mule nor
any animal attached to a vehicle
shall be permitted to stand upon any
portion of any street, boulevard,
parkway, avenue, parkroad or alley
or other public highway of said city
unless the driver thereof is in
charge of and accompanying
the same, or unless such animal be
securely hitched to hitch weight or
hitching post; nor shall any vehicle,
horse, mule or animal be permitted
to stand upon any boulevard park
way, avenue, street, alley or other
public highway to the obstruction of
the same or to the inconvenience OF
travel.
Section 30. No horse shall be UNI
bitted in any street or highway un-
less secured by halter.
Section 81. No person shall in
any street or highway remove any
part of a vehicle or any part of the
harness of a horse without first un-
hitching the horse or horses at
tached to said vehicle.
Section 80. No person shall ride
or jump any vehicle without the
: consent of the driver; and no person
: when riding shall allow any part of
the body to protrude beyond the
= limits of the vehicle, nor shall any
: person hang onto any vehicle what
soever.
Section SO. No vehicle shall be
: left standing in a street or alley at
night without light or lights so dis
played as to be visible from any di-
rection.
Section "a. A vehicle shall re-
main backed up to a curb only long
e enough to be loaded or unloaded.
Section 35. No person operating
self-propelled vehicle shall permit
g the motors of same to operate in
such manner as to visibly emit an
1 unduly great amount of steam smoke
: or products of combustion from ex-
= haust pipes or openings.
e Section SO. No person when driv-
e ing a vehicle with a horse or horses
attached thereto shall cease from hold
Il ing the reinS in his hands to guide and
e retain the same; nor when not rid
d ing cease from walking by the head
0 of the shaft or wheel horse, either
holding or keeping within reach OF
J. the bride or halter thereto.
e Section 81. Every hackney, car
e riage, cab or cabiolet used for pur-
e poses of hire when driven in the
= streets between the hours of sunset
l. or sunrise, shall have fixed on some
e conspicuous part of the outside
thereof, two lighted lamps, with
II plain glass fronts and sides, or
s which shall be painted in legible
IS figures, at least one inch long, the
u registry number thereof, and shall
d also exhibit at least one red light
r visible from the rear. Every auto
mobile when operated upon any pub
g lie street, boulevard, or alley shall
n carry, between the hours of sunset
l. and sunrise, at least one lighted
lamp showing white visible at leas
1t two hundred feet in the direction
l. toward which the automobile is pro
i ceeding and shall also exhibit al
least one red light visible in the re
20 verse direction.
h Section 3S. Every automobile
J. motor vehicle or motorcycle using
a gasoline or other explosive mixture
as a motive power shall use a muf
o. fer, which shall be sufficient t
70 deaden the sound of the explosions
. and such muffler shall not be dis
m connected or cut out while such au
,r tomobile, motor vehicle or motorcy
# Gle is being operated upon any street
m Or avenue boulevard, parkway oil
park-road within the City of Mexico
IL Section SO. Every bicycle, tricy
h Gle, velocipede, automobile, motor
~ car, motor truck, motorcycle, anC
,e other horseless carriage, vehicle, car
engine or machine, except bah,
,g carts and toy wagons, in use upoI
lie the streets of Mexico, Missouri. shall
II have attached thereto a gong, bell
ar horn, or other adequate signal il
good working order and of prope
n size and character sufficient to Civ
III warning of the approach of such We
bit hicle, car, engine or machine to pc
destrians and to riders and driver
n of other vehicles; but such gongs
4 bells, horn and other signals shall
bit not be sounded except when neces
of sary to give warning; provided tina
SIS no such gong, bell, horn or othe
C. signal shall produce a sound unusu
r. ally loud, annoying or of distressin
lie character, or such as will frighte
a pedestrians or animals; or extTem
to noises as "sirens" and of similar in
OF struments that produce unusus
,e- loud, annoying or distressing sounds
ng provided further, that this sectio
shall not apply to public ambulance
lg vehicles belonging to the fire an
he police department of the City, or W
he hicles required to respond to alarm