The Nome nugget., 1922-09-30
ORDINANCE NO. 258.

providing penalties for the violation thereof, and repeating all ordin- ances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith.
 BE IT ORDAINED and ENACT ED by the COMMON COUNCIL of the City of Nome, as Follows:
 SECTION 1. No person shall drive or operate any motor vehicle at a rate of speed faster than twelve miles per hour at any street cross ing within said city, nor within seventy-ive yards of any school house on school days. nor in any other portion of the city faster than sixteen miles per hour.
 SECTION 2. No person shall drive a vehicle while anyone is standing or sitting wholly or in part upon the step. fender or running board thereof, nor when the same i.. so loaded as to interfere with the free, full and ready access to the controlling mechanism thereof.
 SECTION 3. A vehicle meeting another shall pass to the right of such other vehicle.
 SECTION 4. A motor vehicle overtaking any other vehicle shall, before passing. give a signal by means of the sounding device.
 SECTION 5. There shall be ex- hibited upon every motor vehicle operating or being upon the public streets of the City of Nome. during the period from one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sun rise. and at all other times when fog or other atmospheric conditions rem der the presence of said vehicle dan gerous to trafi1c. two head lamps, one on each side of said vehicle showing white or yellow tinted lights. visable under normal atmos- pheric conditions at least five hun dred feet in advance of said vehicle. Such vehicle. or any trailer attached thereto. shall have attached to the rear, not less than, 1ne lamp showing l a red light vtsable at least two hun dred feet in the rear of such vehi- 1 cle.
 SECTION 6. It shall be unlawful to install or use light of mora than twenty-seven candle power in any motor vehicle headlamp equip ped with a reflector, or to use on a ! motor vehicle of any kind, operated l upon the streets of the City of Nome, any lighting device of over four candle power equipped with a reflector, unless the saE:o shall b. SO designed, defiected or rapg'd sn as to defect or diffuse tho light and produce sufficient light to reveal oD- ah .al. t, ereof and ten fe T on either | side ot the center line of sail ve- hicle measured at distance of ten l feet in front thereof, and in such | manner that the beam of light there from when measured seventy-five , feet or more ahead of the lamps shall not rise above forty-two inches from the level surface on which the vehicle stands under all conditions of the road.
 The term "Beam of Light" shall be construed to mean the reflected rays of light which are projected ap- proximately parallel to the optical axis of the reflector. A light shall be deemed diffused when produced by a headlamp which has the entire surface of the glass front etched, ground or sand blasted or so formed that the light committed therefrom shall strike the roadway at a point at least six feet to the right and not more than seventy-five feet in front thereof when approaching vehicle.
 SECTION z No driver shall en- ter upon any street without first att tracting attention of approaching pedesterians and vehicles by signal ling with sounding device.
 SECTION s. It shall be unlaw- full for any driver to park his car within fifteen feet from any fire hydrant.
 SECTION g. All ordinances and m rta or ordinances incOnsistant herewith, are hereby repealed.
 SECTION 10. Any person violat- ing the provisions of this ordinance shall be punished by fine of not more than One hundred (10O.0O) Dollars, or by imprisonment in the City jail for period of not to ex- ceed ninety (90) days. or by both such fine and Imprisonment.