The Coconino sun., 1924-05-09
TOWN OF FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA
ORDINANCE NO. 256

TOWN OF FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA
ORDINANCE NO. 256
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING
TRAFFIC AND TRAVEL UPON
THE PUBLIC STREETS OF THE
TOWN OF FLAGSTAFF; RE-
PEALING ORDINANCES NUM-
BERS a, %, 135, 1872, 200, 231,
232 AND 244 OF THE TOWN OF
FLAGSTAFF AND ALL OTHER
ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF
ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT
HEREWITH; FIXING A PENAL
TY FOR VIOLATION HEREOF,
AND DECLARING AN EMER-
GENCY WHEREBY THIS Or
DINANCE SHALL BECOME Eff
FECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UPON
ITS PASSAGE AND APPROVAL.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor
and Common Council of the Town of
Flagstaff, as follows:
SECTION /.
The following terms, whenever US
ed in this Ordinance, except as other
wise specifically indicated, shall be
deemed to have and shall be held to
include each of the meanings respec-
lively set thereafter in this section:
STREET: Every street, avenue,
boulevard, highway, roadway, lane,
alley, strip, path, square or place
used by, or laid out for the use of,
vehicles.
INTERSECTING STREET: Any
street, excepting alleys, which joins
another street at an angle, whether or
not it crosses the other street
CURB: The lateral boundaries of
that portion of a street designated
and intended for the use of vehicles,
whether marked by curb construction
of stone, cement, concrete or other
material, or not so marked.
MOTOR VEHICLES: Shall include
all vehicles propelled otherwise than
by muscular power, except trailers
and such vehicles as are run upon
stationary rails or tracks.
MOTORCYCLES: Shall include all
motor vehicles designed to travel on
not more than three wheels in con-
tact with the ground and of not ex-
ceeding ten horsepower and not ex-
ceeding the weight of five hundred
pounds unladen.
VEHICLE: Shall include every
wagon, hack, coach, carriage, omni-
bus, bicycle, tricycle., automobile,
cycle car, motorcycle, truck, trailer,
traction engine, tractor or other con-
veyance, or contrivance for moving
persons, animals or things in what
or power the same may be ridden,
driven, propelled, drawn or moved,
which is ridden, driven, propelled,
drawn or moved on the public street,
including implements of husbandry
temporarily drawn, propelled or NOV
ed on the public street, and excepting
only conveyances drawn or propelled
by pedestrians, and railroad cars, Ell
gines and motors moving upon sta
tionary rails and tracks.
DRIVER: Every rider or driver of
an animal, rider of bicycle or
tricycle., the operator of motor We
hicle, the person in charge or control
of any animal or vehicle.
DRIVE: To ride, drive, propel, con-
troll or operate.
ANIMAL: Every horse, pony, dom
key, mule, burro or other animal rid
den or driven or capable of being
guided by reins or voice.
BUSINESS DISTRICT: Beginning
at the junction of Phoenix avenue
and Milton road, thence east to South
Beaver street, thence north to Birch
avenue, thence east to Agassiz street,
thence south to Railroad avenue,
thence west to North Beaver street.
SECTION II.
(A)
CAREFULNESS; BY DRIVERS
OF VEHICLES AND BY PEDES-
TRIANS: The driver or operator of
any vehicle in or upon any public
street shall drive or operate such We
hicle in careful manner with due re-
gard for the safety and convenience of
nodac+r;onc and of all vahicIec or