The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-07-04


operated with due care and caution,
and jockeying vehicles or running
by for position is prohibited by this
ordinance. Every vehicle upon en-
barking and discharging its load
shall Immediately move out and
away from the congested area, and
the next vehicle shall Immediately
fill the same.
Sec. 16. Patrol, police, ambulance,
fire patrol, fire engines and fire ap-
paratus shall in all cases, with due
regard to the safety of the public,
have right of way. but this shall not
protect the owner or driver of any
such vehicle from consequence in the
arbitrary exercise of this right, or
for injuries wilfully inflicted.
Sec. II. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person driving or operating any
vehicle upon the streets of the City
Of Blackfoot to drive over any fire
hose or other apparatus being used
by the fire department Of said city.
Sec. Is. A motor vehicle shall not
be driven or operated upon the
streets within the City Of Blackfoot
with trailer, except when close
coupled, and the length over all does
not exceed forty feet, and when the
trailer is disabled motor vehicle,
the vehicles shall not be more than
fifteen feet apart, and the one being
towed shall be in charge of a driver,
and shall display signal lights as re-
Quired by this ordinance. Pipe,
timbers or other material projecting
more than six feet beyond the rear
Of any motor vehicle shall have at
tached at the extreme end red flag
by day and between sunset and sun
rise red lantern.
Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful for
any person operating or in charge of
any car, train of cars, locomotive
engine, or other vehicle that runs
upon rails to stand any portion of
the same across any public street
in such manner as to prevent the
use Of such street crossing for regu-
lar street traffic for greater period
of time than five minutes.
Sec. 20. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person to drive, ride or lead
any animal or vehicle upon or across
any sidewalk in the City of Black
foot except where regular drive-ways
and crossings have been constructed
as entrances to public or private
premises and no such driveway shall
be permitted in the paved district
unless by special consent of the city
council.
Sec. 81. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person to throw, deposit, place
or allow to remain in or upon any
street of the City of Blackfoot any
nails, glass, crockery, tacks, scrap
IRON, tin, wire, bottles, boxes, wood,
boards, stones, thorns, thorny clip
pings or thorny branches of trees. or
any article or thing liable to pune
ture or injure the tire or any part
of any vehicle. This provision shall
apply to all thoroughfares, avenues,
boulevards, alleys, lanes, highways,
foot ways, sidewalks, public parks,
or other places laid out for public
use, and it is hereby made the duty
of both the owners and occupants
of adjacent property to keep such
public thoroughfares free from and
remove all distractions herein speci-
fed, or others that in any manner
tend to prevent the use of such
thoroughfares by pedestrians or We
hicles, where such distractions come
from or accumulate upon such ada
cent PREMISES
Sec. %. Tractors with wheels hav-
ing Jugs or projections shall not be
driven on any paved or hard sur
faced street within the City of Black
foot unless the operator of such We
hicle shall first plank such streets
so as to prevent any injury thereon.
Sec. %. Any person violating any
of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by fine
of not more than one hundred
$1,000 dollars, and in default of
payment thereof shall be imprisoned
in the city Jail at the rate of one day
for each $3.50 of the fine imposed.
Sec. "a. All ordinances and parts
Of ordinances in conflict herewith,
and particularly Ordinance No. 2O4
designating certain portions in the
center of the paved streets of Black
foot as parking strips, passed and
on the seventh day of
August, 1917, are hereby repealed.
Sec. Is. This ordinance lshall be
in full force and effect from and
after it's passage, approval and publ
cation as provided by law.
Passed this second day of July,
1919.
Approved this second day of July,
1919
N. J. THORsTENBERG.
Mayor.
Attest:
LEON J. CHAPMAN.
City Clerk.
l hereby certify that the above and
ordinance, consisting of
sections from to 25, inclusive,
passed and approved on the second |
lay Of July, 1919, was published in
The Idaho Republican, one Of the
official newspapers of the City of |
Blackfoot in the regular issue of
July 4, 1919, and is now in full
'orce and effect.
LEON J. CHAPMAN.
City Clerk.
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