The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-08-17
ORDINANCE NO. 2O4


ORDINANCE NO. 2O4
Entitled: An ordinance designating
and setting apart certain portions OF
the paved streets and avenues of the
City of Blackfoot as parking, strips.
within which automobiles and other
motor driven vehicles may park, or be
left unattended, and regulating the
handling and running of motor-driven
and horse drawn vehicles within and
in connection with such parking strips
and elsewhere within the city limits
of Blackfoot; and repeating section Is,
%, and % of ordinance No. 1856, pass
ed. approved and adopted September
81, 1915.
Be it ordained by the mayor and
council of the city of Blackfoot:
ply to all streets, avenues and alleys
In the City OF Blackfoot, Idaho.
Sec. 2. This ordinance shall apply
to every kind of conveyance used for
ombiles, motorcycles, trucks wagons,
buggies and sleighs.
Sec. 3. A strip of land twenty feet
wide along the center line Of Main
street and sixteen feet wide along the
center line of all other paved STREETS
Is hereby designated and set apart
as parking strip, within which auto
mobiles and other motor driven We
hicles may park, or be left unattended,
son to leave any such vehicle standing
unattended in any paved street, alley,
or avenue in the city except it be
within the parkins strip as above
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the curb, and with at least Is inches
of clearance between such vehicle and
any other. vehicle then standing in
such , parking strip; and In no event
uously for a longer period of time
Sec. 4. No vehicle shall be left
standing, as herein provided, within
10 feet of any fire hydrant, .or in the
street opposite any alley, or in front
of any garage entrance, on In front of
the City Hall;
any team of horses standing within
said parking strip for longer period
than ..-.......... minutes; provided that
nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to. authorize, any team to stand
parking strip or elsewhere on the
streets, avenues, or alleys of the City
of Blackfoot
while in use on any of the streets or
avenues of the City of Blackfoot must
be provided with a good and service
able brake, and it shall be unlawful
for any person to leave any motor
leys or avenues of the City of Black
foot with the motor running unless
the emergency brake be set.
Sec. Z. 1t shall be unlawful for any
vehicle on or along the streets, alleys.
or avenues in the City of Blackfoot
without such vehicle being equipped
with a first-class servicable muffier.
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person to operate any motor driven
vehicle upon or along the, streets, al
leys, avenues, or public places In the
City of Blackfoot with the muffler cut
not to require the exhaust from such
motor to pass through such muffler..
Sec. g. 1t shall be unlawful to drive
any motor driven vehicle along the
of Blackfoot at speed in excess of
Is miles per hour, and when any such
motor driven vehicle shall cross any
paved street, or shall make any turn
from one street or aynue into another
trict, such vehicle shall not run at a
rate of speed exceeding one-half of
it's legal speed limit.
Sec. 10. 1t shall be unlawful for
in the streets, alleys, or avenues, of
the city of Blackfoot any glass, glass
bottles, tacks, nails, wire, boards, tin,
sheet iron, OF any other" substance
cause injury to the tire or other part
of any vehicle or to any animal.
Sec. II. 1t shall be the duty of
every driver or owner of any motor
driven vehicle who drives the same up.
the City of Blackfoot to keep such
vehicle equipped with horn in good
working condition, and when ap-
preaching the intersection of any
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turn into any street, alley or avenue,
to give a suitable warning with such
horn at a point not less than % feet
nor more than So feet, before reach.
of turning, and before backing out in
to the driveway from any parking
place, the owner or operator OF any
motor driven vehicle shall see to 1t that
signal with the horn of his intention
to back out into the highway. and IN
backing out into the highway he shall
ing strip, and shall then proceed In
the direction and along the side of
the street or avenue upon which 1t is
lawful for him to travel.
Sec. ~. 1t shall be the duty of every
person operating any motor driven
vehicle ION the streets and aveneus of
the City of Blackfoot. between one
hour after shutdown and one hour be-
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vehicle, If an automobile or auto truck,
two headlights and one rear light, and
all of said lights shall be lighted
whenever the motor on said vehicle is
running, and each motorcycle shall
have attached one headlight and one
rear light and each of said lights
shall be lighted whenever such motor
cycle is travelling upon the streets,
hours aforesaid; and all headlights
must be dimmed or turned off when
any such motor vehicle is standing I'M
used in the business section of the
city.
Sec. 49, Motor vehicles travelling
north or south on any of the streets
of the city shall have the right of
way at street intersections over We
hicles of the same kind travelling east
or west provided that such vehicles
arrive at such intersection at the same
time.
Sec. IA. Any person violating any
section or provision of this ordinance
shall be deemed guilty. Of misde:-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof,
such person shall be punished as fol-
lows:
For the first offense by a fine of not
less than 81, nor more than $40, be-
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