The Holbrook news., 1917-09-07
Ordinance Number 13

Of Holbrook.
 The Mayor and The Common Council of The Town of Holbrook Do Ordain As follows
 Section Tt shall be unlawful for any person to run, guide, drive, or propel in any manner, any steam. electric, or gasoline, automobile, wagon. bicycle, mo- torcycle. or any other vehicle. up on or along any sidewalk, in the Town of Holbrook, or to permit any vehicle to remain on any public street or walk in such manner as to obstruct the same.
 Section 2-It shall be unlawful for any person to run, guide, drive or propel, any vehicle on any street or alley in the Town of Holbrohk at a greater speed than 15 miles per hour.
 Section 3-It shall be unlawful for any person under the age of 16 years to drive any motor vehi- cle in, upon, along or over any public street. or alley in the Town of HoIbrook.
 
 Section At shall be unlawful for any person to operate any motor vehicle on the streets and alleys of the Town of Holbrook unless same shall be provided with good and sufficient brakes, and shall exhibit at least one white light visible at least 500 feet in the direction in which said motor vehicle is travelling and shall carry at the rear to the left of the center thereof a red light plainly visible for 500 feet.
 Section 5-It shall be unlawful for any person to drive upon any street or alley in the Town of Holbrook, any motor vehicle without having attached to same a gong. bell. horn or other sign al device. sufficient to give warn ing of the approach of such vehicle. and such device shall be used only when necessary to give such warning.
 Section 6-All persons driving vehicles of any kind or character upon any street or alley in the Town of Holbrook shall drive or propel such vehicle on the right hand side of the center thereof; and at street crossings shall always keep to the right of intersections of the center of such streets, when turning to the right, and pass to the right of such intersections when turn ing to the left.
 Section Whenever any per- son operating or driving a vehi- cle of any kind or character shall meet on any street or alley of the Town of Holbrook any other person driving or operating any vehicle of any description, the person so operating such vehicle shall turn the same to the right of the center of the street or alley so as to pass without inter- ference.
 Section 8--Any person operat- ing any vehicle shall on overtak- ing any other vehicle, pass to the left side thereof, and the vehicle preceding shall as soon as practicable turn to the right to permit the vehicle approach ing from the rear to pass freely to the left.
 Section 9-Any person wh O shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and | upon conviction thereof. shall be punished by a fine of not exceed ing one hundred dollars, or by | imprisonment in the Town Jail for a period not exceeding thirty days. or by both such fine and imprisonment.
 This ordinance shall take ef- feet and be in full force from and after it's passage and publication. Passed by the Mayor and the Common Council of the Town of HoIbrook, this 2Oth Day of 1917.
 Geo. W. Hennessey,
 Mayor Attest: B. B. Neel,