The Winslow mail., 1924-03-28

proceed in the opposite direction
: except at an intersection. In so
J turning, vehicles shall pass beyond
and around the center Of the inter
section.
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SIRENS = BY WHOM USED:
Police and Fire Department vehicles
and ambulances shall at all times
be equipped with Siren, and it shall
be unlawful for any other vehicle to
be so equipped with, or to use, such
, device.
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RIGHT OF WAY BY AMBUL-
ANCES, POLICE AND FIRE DE-
PARTMENT: Ambulances and vehic-
les of the Police or Fire Department
shall in all cases, while being oper-
ated as such, have the right of way
over all other vehicles with due regard
to the safety of the public; but this
provision shall not protect the driver
or operator of such vehicle from the
consequences of the arbitrary exer-
else of this right, nor shall it be
construed as permitting the violation
by the operator of any such vehicle
of any Of the provisions of Section 2
of this Ordinance except the opera
tors of police vehicles when such
Evehicles are being operated in the
pursuit or apprehension of violators
of the law or persons charged with
or suspected of any such violation.
(N)
| Upon the approach of any police
OF fire department vehicle or arnbul-
ance, It shall be the duty of the
operator of any vehicle to inmediat-
ely move to a position as near as
possible and parallel to the right
hand curb and shall remain in such
position until the police or fire de-
Ipartment apparatus or ambulance has
passed such vehicle; and provided
that no vehicle be driven to or per-
mitted to stand within a distance
of one block in any direction of any
block on which there may be fire
or where any apparatus of the fire
department is situated for the purpose
of extinguishing any fire or guarding
any premises on which there may
have been a fire
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REPAIRING VEHICLES ON
STREETS: No person shall leave
standing or cause or permit to be
left standing upon the main travelled
4 portion of any public street vehicle
undergoing repair or which has been
stopped for the purpose of having
repairs made threon; provided, how
ever, that this provision shall not
apply to a vehicle which shall be dis
abled while on such main travelled
portion Of the street, in such manner
impossible to avoid stopping such
vehicle on such main travelled portion
of such street and impracticable to
remove the same until repairs shall
have been made.
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TO PREVENT LEAKINGS: No
vehicle shall be operated on any
public street unless it is so construct
ed as to prevent the contents from
dropping, sitting leaking or other
wise escaping from such vehicle.
SECTION III.
SPEED LIMIT: Any person oper-
ating or driving a motor or other
vehicle on the public streets shall
operate or drive the same in a care
full and prudent manner and at a
rate of speed not greater than is
reasonable and proper, having regard
to the traffic and the use of the
street, and no person shall operate
or drive any vehicle on street at
such rate of speed as to endanger
: the life or limb of any person or the
safety Of any property; provided,
that it shall be unlawful to operate
or drive any motor vehicle within
the business district at rate OF
speed in excess of IS miles per hour,
and in all other parts of the town
at a rate of speed in excess Of
twenty miles an hour; and no person
. shall operate or drive motor or
other vehicle upon any street at
greater rate of speed than 10 miles
an hour in traversing a railroad
, crossing at grade or a street inter