Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1956-01-05
LEGAL NOTICE
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SECTION II. PROHIBITION A
GAINST ALTERATION, DE-

SECTION ID. PROHIBITION A
GAINST ALTERATION, DE-
FACING OR REMOVAL.
No person shall without lawful
authority attempt to or willfully
alter, deface, injure, knoc
down, or remove any traffic
control device, any railroad
sign or signal, or any inscrip-
ton, shield, or insignia there
on, or any part thereof. This
prohibition includes the driv-
ing upon or over any freshly
painted center line, lane line,
letter, number, or symbol on
the surface of a roadway while
the paint is in an undried con-
dition and is marked by flags,
markers. signs, or other devices
intended to protect it.
SECTION Is. OPERATION OF
VEHICLE WHILE INTOXICA-
TED.
No person who is under the
influence of intoxicating liquor
narcotic drugs, or opiates shall
operate any vehicle within this
Village. Nor shall any person
be in actual physical control
of said vehicle while under the
influence of intoxicating liquor,
narcotics, drugs, or opiates.
SECTION 16. RECKLESS OP-
GRAFTON OF VEHICLES.
No person shall operate Ve-
hicle without due regard for the
safety and rights of pedestrians
and drivers and occupants of
all other vehicles so as to endan-
ger the life, limb and or pro-
perty of any person while in
the lawful use of the streets.
SECTION II. SPEED REGU-
LATIONS: ASSURED CLEAR
DISTANCE AHEAD.
No person shall operate a mo-
tor vehicle in and upon the
streets at a speed greater or
less than is reasonable or pro-
per, having due regard to the
traffic. surface, and width of the
street and any other conditions
and no person shall drive any
motor vehicle in and upon any
street at a greater speed than
will permit him to bring it to a
stop within the assured clear
distance ahead.
1t shall be prima facie law
full for the operator of motor
vehicle to operate the same a
a speed not exceeding the follow
ing:
ca Twenty miles per hour
when passing a school building
or the grounds thereof during
school recess and while child
rem are going to or leaving
school during the opening O.
: closing hours, and when approp
riate signs giving notice of tht
| existence of the school are e
rected:
(b) Twenty five miles pc
: hour in all other portions of tn,
, Village, except on state route
and through highways outsid
| business districts.
= (cD Thirty five miles pc
. hour on state routes or throug1
= highways within the village out
side business districts.
1t shall be the prima facie ur
| lawful for any peron to eXcee
I any of the speed limitation
. in sections l to 81, inclusive, an
section 105 Of this Ordinance. 1
S every charge of violation c
this section, the affidavit an
: warrant shall specify the timf
the place, and the speed q
/ which the defendant is allege
. to have driven and also tn
c speed which this section declare
= shall be prima facie lawful
: the time and place of sue
r alleged violation.
: SECTION 18. SLOW SPEED
No person shall operate a We
Y hicle at such a slow speed 6
to impede or block the norma
n and reasonable movement
. traffic, except when reduce
}, speed is necessary for safe OF
: Grafton or to comply with tn
= law.
SECTION 10 EMERGING
: VEHICLES EXCEPTED FROl
: SPEED LIMITATIONS.
: The prima facie speed linn
e tations set forth in section l
e Of this Ordinance do not appl
to emergency vehicles VIII
: they are responding to eme,
o gency calls, and when the driN
: ers thereof sound audible Sif
nails by bell, siren, or exhaus
! whistle. THIS section does NJ
relieve the driver of an emel
: gency vehicle from the duty t
|, drive with due regard for tn
S safety of all persons using tn
street.
: SECTION 20. DRIVING UPO.
D THE RIG HIT SIDE o.
= STREETS.
n Upon all roadways of suffit
= lent width, a vehicle shall b
e driven upon the right half of tn
g street, except as follows:
(a) When overtaking an
n passing another vehicle proceed
S ing in the same direction, c
: when making a left turn unde
y the rules governing such move
ments;
: (b) When the right half of
} roadway is closed to traffic;
tc) When driving upon a roat
: way divided into three or NOR
v marked lanes for traffic unde
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