The Republican journal., 1917-08-16
Automobile Speeding.

i During the summer frequent COM
plants have been made against speeding,
which is claimed to have seriously in
jured our State highways, made travel
needlessly dangerous and resulted in
many casualties and fatalities For the
benefit Of our readers we publish below
the law relating to the legal rate of
speed established by the last legislature
of this State.
Revised Statutes, Chap. 26, Sec. 16.
Section 16. The rate of speed upon
any highway, town way, public street,
avenue, driveway, park or parkway, by
any person operating motor vehicle in
this State Shall not be greater than
twenty-five miles an hour in open coun-
try outside of cities and villages and
within the compact or built up portions
OF any city, town or village, not greater
than fifteen miles an hour. The COM
pact or built up portion of any city,
town or village shall mean the territory
OF city, town or village contiguous to
any way, which is built up with struc-
| lures devoted to business or where the
dwelling houses are situated less than
one hundred fifty feet apart for a dis
lance OF at least one-quarter of a mile
No person shall be convicted of exceed
ing the rate of speed hereby established
Tor any compact or built up portions, I'M
less said city, town or village shall cause
the words Speed Limit, Fifteen Miles,
to be conspicuously displayed on sign
boards along each highway, townway,
public street, driveway or parkway, and
such other signs as will clearly designate
such compact or built up portion No
person shall be convicted of exceeding in
the open country, outside of cities and
villages, the rate of speed hereby estab-
llshed unless the average speed for at
least one-half mile exceeds the rate of
twenty-five miles per hour. No NUM-
clpal officer or other person shall erect or
cause to be erected speed limit signs con-
trary to those contemplated by this sec
ton and if any such signs now exist the
municipal officers of cities and tow ms
Shall cause their removal Any person
arrested for violation of any of the speed
regulations of this chapter, except those
OF Sections thirty-eight and thirty-nine,
shall be given an immediate trial, if he
shall so demand of the officer making the
arrest, but if for any reason it is imprac-
ticable to do so, the officer making the ar
rest shall Immediately take the prisoner
before some bail commissioner, who be-
fore admitting him to bail, shall require
him to give his name, his place of resi-
dence, the number of his license to oper-
ate motor vehicle, and the registration
number of the motor vehicle operated at
the time of his arrest, and shall make
record thereof on the bail bond, and may
take his personal recognizance for his ap-
pearance in court on specified day, not
less than two days thereafter If such
person fails to appear in court on the day
specified, either in person or by counsel,
the court shall notify the secretary of
State, who, in case the person is a resi-
dent OF the State, shall Immediately re-
woke his license, and also annul the regis
tratlon of the motor vehicle driven by
such person when arrested; and in case
the person is nonresident, or said
motor vehicle is registered by some other
State or country, all rights of said person
to operate in this State, or of the owner
OF said vehicle to have same operated
IN this State, shall forthwith terminate