Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-30

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.
tertere with or intercept the passage
of ether cars or vehicles.
Sec. 4. During blockades or stop.
pages a 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.
x Article vii-speed.
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
a 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
the street intersections as promptly
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 trafflc to proceed
independently.
Ordinance Regulating Speed Of We.
hlelss 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.
bred (40O) feet Of any schoolhouse in
the city, ut O greater speed than Ave
(5) miles an hour, between the hours
OF 8 o'clock a. m. and o'clock p. m.
on any day during which school is In
session in such schoolhouse;
Sec. 1963a. -" or within four
hundred (4O0) feet Of any public play.
ground in the city. between the hours
Of 8 o'clock a. m. and o'clock p. m.
on any day during which playground
is open and in operation;
Sec. 1864. . = or while within
four hundred (AOO) 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 ViIi-ksspins 20 the Right,
Passing, Turning, Crossing and
stopping.
Section 1. A vehicle, except when
passing 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. --.r
Sec. 3. On an avenue or street d..
vided longitudinally by q parkway.
walk. sunken way or viaduct, vehicles
should keep to the right Of such d..
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. 6. A vehicle crossing from one
side of the street to the other side
shall in doing so 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 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 an
emergency or to allow another vehicle
or pedestrian to cross its path. shall
stop in any street or highway. except
near the right hand curb thereof. and
80 not to obstruct crossing.
Sec. II. No vehicle shall back 4
make turn In any street II by o.
doing II interferes with other vehicles
but shall go around the block or to
street sufficiently wide to turn in with
out blocking trafac.
=. Sec. ~. Vehicles will enter Mort
and South and all IL" shaped or RICH
angled alleys from the North an
leave from the South; East and We,
alleys. from the East and leave frol
the West.
Sec. 2484a. Vehicles 70 stop whe
street cars discharge or take on pa
ssnesrs. II shall be unlawful for an
l person driving or having charge. po
session or control Of any vehicle b
ing driven or propelled or operate
upon the streets of the City Of Oh
cago. upon overtaking any street G.
which is stopped for the purpose
discharsing or taking on passeng'
or passengers, to permit, or cause "a
vehicle to pass or approach within t.
(10) feet Of said car as long as Il
said car Is 80 stopped or remail
standing for the purpose of dischar
Ing or taking on passenger or pa
seneers.
iii 24es. Vehicles Passlng-Motor v
hlelss Not 70 Run on Left Hal
Tracks. All vehicles shall keep
close to the right.hand curb az safe
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