Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-12

no event shall they BIO operated at n
higher rate of speed than fifteen I5)
miles an hour. No vehicle shall cross
any car track. turn any corner. or turn
In any street At a rate exceeding one
half OF the speed permitted by this
section; provided. that vehicles men
toned in subsection l OF Section IL
hereof may proceed on any street Mt
rate OF speed not greater than twenty
(2o) miles per hour, and only then
when actually responding to calls or
alarms. And any person who shall
violate the foregoing provision us TO
tho manner in which or the speed at
which vehicles may be driven shall
be fined not less than $1,000, nor more
than $4,000. and upon tho third con-
Niction in addition to said fine. the po-
lice justice shall certify the fuct there
OF to tho chief of police IF tho civ
or Richmond. who shall thereupon re-
Voko the permit of tho person SO con-
victed.
"A vehicle. except when passing an
other vehicle ahead. shall keep as near
the right-hand curb as possible
oh all avenues and streets divided
oy parkway. walk, sunkenway, or VIA
duct. vehicles shall keep to the right
OIL Such division. Provided. that Cham
oerlayne Avenue from Graham Road
10 brookland Park Boulevard, is ex-
cepted from this provision until tho
east SIDE OF Chamberlayne Avenue is
put In such condition as to make II
passable for vehicular traffic.
"A vehicle passing around a cir
cular roadway or street shall keen 70
Ing right from entrance to exit
EMERGENCY VEHICLES ARE
ALLOWED RIGHT OF WAY
livery person in charge of a ve-
nicle shaii pull to the right side Of
the street when signaled from We
hicle behind desiring to pass.
NO morse shall be inhibited in any
street. unless secured by a halter.
NO person In any street shall re-
move wheel. pole. shaft. while tree.
spiihter par, or any part Of a vehicle.
o." any part of Il harness of the hor.a
likely to cause an accident If tho horss
should start, without first unhttchinp
enc horsesor horses attached to sa id
vehicle. @a'o
BEFORE backing, drivers of vehicles
sHaii give ample warning. and Will.
backing unceasing vigilance shall ho
exercised SO as not to iniure tb,.a
hind. oe-
'ehicles OF the police department
iire department, fire patrol, traffic
emergency repair, United States Mail
ana city ambulances, shall have the
lisht OF way at all times in any street
10 "lousn any procession; provided,
mat no vehicle other than those men
l,oned in this section shall have rho
right OF way through any funeral nro-
ceSSion. Pio
All vehicles and street cars coinr in
an easterly direction or westerly direct.
ION shall have the right Of way over all
Vehiclcs, and street cars, except those
named In the foregoing subsection. ro-
ing a northerly or southerly direction
Inc driver or person in control of
any vehicle proceeding upon a tract in
front OF street car shall immediately
turn out upon signal from the motor
man or driver of the car.
ne driver or person in control of a
Vehicie s"i.i, or the approach of a fire
engine or other apparatus. immediately
draw up said vehicle as near as prac
tcaola 70 the right. hand curb and mar
allcl thereto. and bring it to a stand
still. street cars shall be immediatoly
De brought to standstill upon the an
proach OF such engine or a paratus
from any direction; and such vehicles
and street cars shall not proceed until
such fire engine or apparatus shall have
passed.
MEETING, OVERLAPPING AND
PASSING, ACCORDING TO LAW
"A vehicle meeting another vehicle
shall pass to the right.
a vehicle overtaking another yehic,.
shall pass to the left side OF the over
taken vehicle, and shall not null over
to the right until entirely clear of the
ovcrtaken vehicle; except I'll when
orcrtaking Il street car the overtaking
vehicle shall not pass such car on tho
left but only on the right side thereof
Every vehicle shall ho hrou-,bt o.,