Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1956-01-05
LEGAL NOTICE

a public body or official or by
a railroad and intended to
give notice of the presence of
railroad tracks or the approach
of railroad train.
(MM) Traffic" means pedes-
trians, ridden or herded ami
mails, vehicles, and other di-
vices. either singly or together
while using any street for pur-
pose of travel.
(NN) Right of way means
the right of a vehicle or ped
estrian to proceed uninterupt-
edly in a lawful manner in
the direction in which it or
he is moving in preference to
another vehicle or pedestrian
approaching from different
direction into it's or his path.
ECTION 2. COMPLIANCE
WITH ORDER OF POLICE OF
FICER:
No person shall fail to COM
ply with any lawful order or
direction of any police officer
invested with the authority to
direct, control, or regulate traf-
fic.
SECTION 3. EMERGENCY We
HICLES TO PROCEED CAU-
TIOUSLY PAST RED OR STOP
SIGNAL:
The driver of any emergency
vehicle, when responding to an
emergency call, upon approach
ing a red or stop signal or any
stop signal or any stop sign
shall slow down as necessary
for safety to traffic, but may
proceed cautiously past such red
or stop sign or signal with due
regard for the safety of all per-
sons using the streets.
SECTION 4. EXCEPTIONS:
Sections l to 81, inclusive, sec
tions IS to 81, inclusive and
section los of this traffic or
dinance does not apply to per
sons, teams, motor vehicles,
and other equipment while act
ually engaged in work upon
the surface of a highway within
an area designated by traffic
control devices, but apply tt
such persons and vehicles wher
travelling to or from such work
SECTION 5. PERSONS RID
ING OR DRIVING ANIMALS
UPON STREETS.
Every person riding, driving
or leading an animal upon
street is subject to sections
to 62, inclusive, of this ordinance
applicable to the driver of
vehicle, except those provision
/ of such sections which b!
: their nature are inapplicable
, SECTION 6. UNIFORM SYS-
5 TEN OF TRAFFIC CONTROL
DEVICES.
The street department Shal
. adopt a manual and specifi
! cations for a uniform system
. of traffic control devices. in
r Cluding signs denoting name
? of streets and highways, for us
upon the streets within thi
S village. Such uniform syster
= shall cOrrelate with, and SO ia
/ as possible conform to, the SyS
. tenn approved by the State High
- way Patrol an American Assoc
2 iatiOn of State Highway OffiC
- ials.
= SECTION 7. RADAR WARN
i INGS SIGNS.
(a) Whenever the village safe
{ ty committee or any law enfOl
e cement officer uses radar for tn
S determination Of the speed {
t a motor vehicle, or uses an
e mechanical or electrical timin
device for the determination {
S the speed of a motor vehcile oN
s er a measured distance of tn
y highway rectangular sig
? apprising drivers of motor vel
icles of the presence of such RI
S dar or mechanical or electic;
# timing device shall be posted Q
l. or as near as Is practicabI
G to the highway or street and nt
o less than $50 feet nor MOI
g than 1900 feet in advance
such radar transmitter or an
S component part of such mecl
e anical or electrical timing d.
l. vice.
S (b) The street departme1
shall adopt a uniform sign fc
the purposes of this section
It which sign shall be so design
l. ed as to be legible to the oper;
u tors of approaching vehicles.
J. Any officer arresting or pa
u ticipating, or assisting, in tn
e Arrest Of a person charged wit
S violating any of the speed pr'
visions of the motor vehicle {
t traffic laws of this village
G incompetent to testify as a wi
- ness in any prosecution of sue
T arrested person if such test
mony is based upon or is d.
" lived from readings obtaine
J. from a radar service or a me-
t, hanical or electrical timing d,
IS vice which is obtained cOntrar
y to the provisions of this section
e SECTION 8. TRAFFIC CON
: TROL DEVICES.
s The Safety Committee of sal
f. Village may place and mah
t. tain traffic control devices upC
/ highways under their jurisdi'
d ton as are necessary to il
S, dicate and to carry out SECTIO
= TO II, inclusive, and l3 of tn
Il Ordinance, to regulate, war
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