The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-10-12

the service of the U. s. Governmen 1 he Territory of Alaska. or of tn City Of Juneau, and it shall be un
 lawful for any said operator t
 violate any of the provisions of thi Ordinance, except as otherwise per mittcd in this Ordinance. | (h) The provisions of this Ordi nance regulating the movement marking and standing of vehicle hall not apply to authorize emergency vehicles as defined il
 his Ordinance while the driver o
 uch vehicle is operating the sam n an emergency in the necessar, )arfcrmance of public duties. Thi
 gxelnption snail not, however, pro tect the driver of any such vehicl
 from the consequence of a reckles
 disregard of the safety of others.
 Section 6. Person propeIlins push carts or riding bicycles or ami mals to obey traffic regulations Every person propelling any pusf cart or riding a bicycle or an ami. nal upon a roadway, and everJ person driving any animal, shal be subject to the provisions of thi. Ordinance applicable to the opera tor of any vehicle, except those pro, visions of this Ordinance with re. ference to the equipment of vehicles and except those provisions whicf by their very nature can have nc application.
 Section :. Traffic signs and sig. nals.
 (a) The City Council shall b. resolution determine and designate the character or type of all off. cial traffic signs and signals. Sub ject to this selection, the Chief O. Police is hereby authorized, and a! to those signs and signals required hereunder, it shall be his duty, tt place and maintain or cause to bt placed and maintained all officia traffic signs and signals. All sign. and signals required hereunder fol particular purpose shall so fal as practicable be uniform through. out the City of Juneau.
 (b) No provision Of this Ordi- nance for which signs are required shall be enforceable against an al legged violator, if, at the time ant place of the alleged violation tht sign herein required is not 1T proper position and sufficiently leeible to be seen by an ordinary observant person.
 Section 8. Display of unauthor- ;zed signs and signals prohibited It shall be unlawful for any persor to place or maintain or to display upon or in view of any street any unofficial sign, signal or device which purports to be or is an imi- tation of or resembles any officia traffic sign or signal, or which at- tempts to direct the movement of traffic. Every such prohibited sign signal or device is hereby declared to be a public nuisance. and the Chief of Police is hereby empowered to remove the same. or cause it tc be removed without notice.
 Section 9. Interference with signs and signals prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully deface, injure, move, obstruct or in terfere with any official traffic sign or signal.
 Section 10. Chief of Police au- tilorized to designate crosswaliSs
 The Chief of Police is hereby au- thorized to establish and to desig- nate and shall thereafter maintain by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the road way, crossw approximately equal in width to the adjacent side walk at all intersections where in his opinion there is particular dan- ger to pedestrians crossing tn roadway.
 Section II. Chief of Police all thorized to designate safety zones and lanes for traffic.
 (a) The Chief of Police is here by empowered to establish safety zones of such kind and character and at such places as he may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians.
 (b) The Chief of Police is also authorized to mark lanes for traf- fic on street pavements at such places as he may deem advisable consistent with the provisions of this Ordinance.
 Co The Chief of Police is hereby empowered to determine those in- tersections at which operators of vehicles shall not make left turn and shall place proper signs at such intersections.
 Section 12. Pedestrians right-of- way.
 (a) The operator of any vehicle shall yield the right of way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk or within any unmarked crosswalk at the end of block except at inter sections where the movement of traffic is being regulated by police officers or traffic control signals.
 (b) When a pedestrian crossing or about to cross a roadway and having the right of way as above provided indicates his intention to proceed by holding up his hand palm out toward the approaching traffic, no operator of a vehicle more than the normal braking dis tance from such pedestrian shall fail to grant the right of way to said pedestrian; provided, however that failure of pedestrian to so hold up his hand shall in no way relieve the driver of vehicle from the provisions of paragraph (a) above.
 Co Whenever any vehicle has