American Fork citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1912-1979, 1921-07-30
An Ordinance

An Ordinance amending Sections
574 and 5s4 of Chapter IS, OF the Re
,ised Ordinances Of American Fork
CITY, Utah. and enacting additional
~ ctions TO be numbered 5S3-A to $751;.
both inclusive. and repeating Sec
tion SIS:
BE IT ORDAINED by the City
Council OF American Fork City
SECTION |. That Section 57i Of
Chapter SIS OF the Revised Ordinances
OF American Fork City, Utah. passed
on the 3lst day of December, A. d.
1919. be and the same is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Section ga. Every motor vehicle.
tractor. bicycle and motorcycle when
IN use on the highways shall be equip
ped with suitable horn or signalling
device for producing an abrupt bound
as signal OF warning Of danger
Every motor vehicle and tractor
shall be equipped with adequate
brakes In good working order.
tD Every motor vehicle and ttact-
or within the city shall have mounted
on the right and left sides OF the front
thereof pair OF lamps OF approx
mately equal candlepower. and every
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front thereof one lamp. II said ve-
hicles are so mechanically construct
ed, governed and controlled that they
cannot exceed speed OF fifteen miles
per hour they shall have front LAMPS
capable OF furnishing light Of suffi-
cient candlepower to render any sub
siantial object clearly discernible on
a level highway at least fifty feet d..
rectly ahead and at the same time at
least seven feet to the right of the
axis of such vehicle for distance of
ei least twenty-five feet. II said We
hicle can exceed IA speed of fifteen
niles per hour, then they shall have
front lamps capable OF furnishing
light OF sufficient candlepower to
render any substantial object clear
ly observable on level highway at
least two hundred feet directly ahead
and al the same time at least seven
feet to the right OF the axis OF such
vehicle for distance OF at least one
hundred feet; provided, that no front
lamp capable Of furnishing more than !
four candlepower light shall be used
II equipped with a reflector. unless so
u signed, equipped or mounted that
40 portion OF the beam OF light when
projected seventy five feet or more
mead OF the lamps shall rise above
plane forty-two inches higher than
md parallel with the level surface on
which the vehicle stands: and pro-
'ided, further, that no electric bulb
II other lighting device OF n greater
than thirty two candlepower
han be used, no matter how the
ame may be shaded covered or OBJ
(b) Every vehicle and tractor
within the city during such times as
re specified IN this section, shall
AIRY at the rear a lighted lamp exL
Iibiting red light plainly visible, un-
Ter normal atmospheric conditions.
or distance OF three hundred feet
oward the rear, and so constructed
nd placed that the entire number
late carried on the rear OF such We
icle shall be illuminated In such a
nonner that the number thereon can
g plainly distinguished under normal
tmospheric conditions at a distance
not less than one hundred feet to-
ard the rear: excepting that a mo-
Dcycle and a bicycle may use a red
eflector In lieu OF red light and
hall not be required to illuminate
he rear number plate.
All spot lights used upon motor We
icles and tractors shall be so con
'ucted or arranged that no portion
the top of the beam OF light shall
Sc or shall be capable OF being rails
4 by any person occupying any por-
en- OF such vehicle, to point above