The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-07-21
CRY ENACTS TRAFFIC
REGULATIONS
Rules Governing Speed, Parking,
Lights, Etc, of Motor
Driven Vehicles.

| The city council Thursday evening
repealed all former ordinances govern
ing traffic in the city and in their
stead enacted most comprehensive
traffic law The ordinance, published
on another page Of this issue of The
Index, contains regulations governing
all forms Of vehicles, but especially
Of automobiles, motorcycles and trucks
Among other things the new law pres
cribes how cars are to be parked,
limits the time . car may be parked
on the two blocks of Main street be-
tween the Russell hotel and Odd Fell
| lows building to one hour, limits the
speed to IL miles, requires front and
rear lights and prohibits the driving
of motor propelled vehicles by child
rem under Is years of age. ~Jay
walking" that is, cutting across the
streets forbidden. So watch your
step.
Important sections of the ordinance
are given below:
Section 4. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person under the age of sixteen
years to drive any motor propelled
vehicle on any street or alley in the
City of Emmett, Idaho.
Section B. II shall be unlawful for
any person to drive a vehicle of any
kind on any street of the City of En-
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twelve (12) miles per hour; and it
shall be unlawful for any person to
enter, come out of or drive any We
hiHe along or IN any alley in said
City at greater speed than five t5l
miles per hour.
Section 6. Every person driving
any motor propelled vehicle on any
street or alley of the City of En-
NETT during the time in the day or
night when the street lights of said
City are burning shall have such We
hicle equipped with and shall display
and have lights burning, as follows:
Every automobile and truck and other
motor propelled vehicle with four
wheels, two white lights on its front
and one red light on its rear. Every
motor driven vehicle having less than
four wheels, one white light on its
front and one red light on its rear.
None OF said lights shall be more than
seventy-five candle power.
Section g. 1t shall be unlawful to
run or operate the engine Of any
motor propelled vehicle on any street
or alley of the City of Emmett, Idaho,
without having such vehicle equipped
with a muffler on its engine exhaust,
or without having such muffler closed
and rot cut out
Section 10. It shall be unlawful to
park any motor propelled vsilcie II
anv street of RE City Of EinTett,
Idaho, included within the fire limits
Of Sid City, in any other manner than
as follows:
The vehicle mus be placed so that
the right front wheel is within twelve
riches of the curb line with the body
of The vehicle standing at an angle
of from twenty-five to sixty degrees
from the curb line A vehicle may
only be parked at the curb on the
drivers right and on the right hand
side of the street, and driver may
not ture or cross q street, except at
in order to park his
vehicle It shall be unlawful to so
park vehicle as to prevent or inter-
fere with the removal of other vehi-
cles lawfully parked by or near It
Section II. 1t shall be unlawful
for any person to leave any vehicle
standing or parked in any alley with
in the fire limits of the City of En-
nett, Idaho, and it shall be unlawful
fer any person to leave any vehicle
or parked on Main Street,
between Commercial Avenue and
Hayes Avenue, for longer than one
hour at any time of day or night.
Section i2 It shall be unlawful for
any person to park any vehicle with
n ten feet of any fire hydrant on I
and street or alley in any part of the
City of Emmett, Idaho.
Section Is. 1t shall be unlawful for
my person to park any vehicle with '
n ten feet of any alley or street in {
.erSectlon or in such manner as 10 !
interfere with the entrance or exit to
,r from such street or alley, and 1t
;hall be unlawful for any person TO {
Dark any vehicle at any place in said !
Iity where the owner or occupant Of ;
my property ahutting on the Street !;
nay place 2 sign on the sidewalk re-
luestlng cars not 10 park.
Section IA. 1t shall be unlawful Z
or any person 70 leave any motor /;
propelled vehicle parked or standing ,
OF any length OF time whatever on :
my street or alley of said City with {
he engine of such vehicle running
md without driver.
The penalty for violation Of any
'rovision of the ordinance is fine
f not more than si00 and costs. !