Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1955-12-29
LEGAL NOTICE

at an intersection and shall yield
the right of way to all other veh-
icles not obliged to stop.
SECTION 80. RIGHT OF WAY
ON A PUBLIC STREET.
The operator of a vehicle a
bout to enter or cross a street
from a private road, driveway,
alley or building shall stop and
yield the right of way to all
traffic approaching on said
street.
SECTION 80. EMERGENCY
VEHICLES HAVE RIGHT OF
WAY.
Upon the approach of an en-
ergency vehicle, equipped with
at least one flashing red light
visible under normal atmos-
pheric conditions from a dis
tance of five hundred feet to
the front of such vehicle and
the driver is giving audible
signal by siren, exhaust, whistle
or bell, the driver of every
other vehicle shall yield the
right of way, Immediately drive
to position parallel to, and as
close as possible to, the edge or
curb of the street clear of any
intersection, and stop and re-
main in such position until the
emergency vehicle has passed,
except when otherise directed by
a police officer.
This section does not relieve
the driver of an emergency
vehicle from the duty to drive
with due regard for the Safey
of all persons and property on
the streets.
SECTION 40. PEDESTRIAN ON
CROSSWALK HAS RIGHT OF
WAY.
The operator of any vehicle
shall yield the right of way to
a pedestrian lawfully crossing
the street within any crosswalk.
Whenever any vehicle is stop
ped at a marked crosswalk or
at any unmarked croSSwalk at
an intersection to permit a
pedestrian to cross the street,
the operator of any other veh-
icle approaching from the rear
shall not overtake and pass such
stopped vehicle.
SECTION Al. RIGHT OF WAY
YIELDED TO BLIND PER
SON.
AS used in this section Blind
person" or Blind pedestrian
means a person having not
more than 10000 visual acuity
in the better eye with correcting
lenses or visual acuity greater
than 10000 but with a limitation
in the fields of vision such that
the widest diameter of the
visual field subtends an angle
no greater than twenty degrees.
! The driver of every vehicle
shall yield the right of way to
every blind person or pedestrian
guided by a guide dog, or car
rying in a raised or extended
position a white cane or white
cane with a red tip.
No person, other than a blind
person, while on any public high
way, street, alley, or other pub
lie throughfare shall carry
in a raised or extended posi-
ton a white cane or a white
cane with a red tip.
SECTION 40. RIGHT OF WAY
YIELDED BY A PEDEST-
RIAN
Every pedestrian crossing a
street within the Village at any
point other than within a mark
ed crosSWalk or within an un-
marked croSsWalk at an inter-
section shall yield the right
of way to all traffic operating
lawfully upon the street.
This section does not relieve
the operator of a vehicle, street
car, or trackless trolley from
exercising due care to avoid
colliding with any pedestrian up
on any roadway.
SECTION 43. PEDESTRIANS
Pedestrians shall move, when
ever practicable upon the
right half of croSSwalk.
Pedestrians shall not step into
or upon a public street without
looking in both directions to
see what is approaching.
SECTION A. USE OF WALKS
BY PEDESTRIANS.
Where uSable walks or paths
parallel the street, pedestrians
shall not walk in, along or upon
the vehicular travelled portion
of such street.
Where uSable walks or paths
are not provided parallel to the
street pedestrians may walk
along or upon the travelled por-
ton of such street, and when
practicable they shall face
the approaching traffic and
shall exercise due care to avoid
approaching traffic.
No pedestrian shall cross
street within the municipal
corporation at a place other
than a crossWalk except when
croSSWalkS are an unreasonable
distance apart.
SECTION As. PROHIBITION
AGAINST SOLICITING RIDES,
RIDING ON OUTSIDE OF VEH-
ICLES.
No person while on a travelled
portion of street shall solicit
ride from the driver of any
vehicle.
No person shall hang onto, or
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