The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-07-14

AND TO PROVIDE PENALTIES
FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF.
BE it Ordained by the Mayor and
Aldermen of the Town of Manning in
Council assembled and by authority of
the same:
Section 1. That the term "vehice"
as used in this Ordinance shall mean,
and be construed to apply to, wagons,
buggics, carts, motor cars and trucks,
motor cycles and all other conveyan-
ces, except baby carriages and other
riding devices used solely by children
Section 2. All vehicles shall be
driven or operated upon the streets in
a careful manner, having due regard
for the rights of others, and it shall be
unlawful for any vehicle to be driven
or operated in disorderly, careless
reckless or dangerous manner, or in
a manner to put any person in fear
OF bodily hurt, or damage to the pro-
perty of another; but under no circum-
stances shall any vehicle move at a
greater speed than fifteen miles per
hour
Section g. All vehicles shall be
driven to the right of the center of
the street, and in turning to the right
into an intersccting street, such
vehicle shall keep as near to the curb
ing as possible, and in turning to the
left into an intersectng street said
vehicle shall cross beyond the center
of the intersecting street before maxi
ing said turn.
Section d. No vehicle shall tenn
porarily stop upon any street unless
the right wheels Of said vehicle are
within at least twelve inches of the
curbing, but no vehicle shall stop at
any street corner.
Section 5. 1t shall be unlawful for
any vehicle to be parked upon the
street in the business section Of the
Town unless same is placed at an
angle of approximately forty-fve de-
grccs to the street, with the right
front wheel of the vehicle within at
least six inches of the curbing. Upon
all other streets all vehicles shall
park with the vehicle parallel to the
street, the right wheels being within
six inches of the curbing.
Section 6. 1t shai lbo unlawful to
use any automobile, motor car, motor
truck, motorcycle, or other motor
vehicle, within the Incorporated limits
Of the Town of Manning, without a
muller or other silencing device, or
"cut out" open, or imperative to pre-
vent unnecessary noise, or to use such
vehicles upon any of the streets at
night without adequate lights, to in
sure the safety of the occupants Of
said vehicle, as well as the safety of
others using the streets Of the Town.
Section z. No vehicle, machine or
any other appliance shall be driven,
operated, parked or placed upon any
street of the town which will in any
manner damage or in jurc any of the
paved streets, whether by cutting,
tearing up, or digging into said pave
mcnt, or by gasoline or other injur-
ious substances being spilled or
thrown upon the street, or leaking
thereon from defective vehi ,ie.
Section 8. That it shall :, unlaw-
ful for any driver of an, kind of
vehicle to follow the fire truck or en-
ginc on it's way to a fire at distance
less than 200 feet from such fire truck
or engine, nor shall any vehicle after
such fire truck has stopped at fire
approach within 200 feet of the fire
truck, or drive over any Of .he hrel
hose stretched at fire.
Section O. Any person or persons
any Of the provisions Of this
Ordinance shall be guilty Of misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined not less than one dolls !.
nor more than One Hundred Dollars
or be imprisoned upon the County
Chain-gang for not less than one day
nor more than thirty days.
Section 10. This Ordinace shall 20
into effect Immediately upon being
ratified, and all Ordinances or parts
of Ordinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed
Done and ratified in Council AS
sembled this 9Th day Of July 1920.
w. G. DAVIS,
Mayor.