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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1961-196-1 - Repeal Ordinance 196BILL NO. ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 196 AND ENACTING IN LIEU THEREOF AN ORDINANCE SPECIFYING REQUIREMENTS FOR LIGHTS ON MOTOR VEHICLES AND -~ TRAILERS OPERATED IN THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE AND SPECIFYING THE TIMES OF DAY AND NIGHT WHEN SUCH LIGHTS MUST BE USED AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE, MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. For the purpose of revealing its position and direction, a motor vehicle, while on the highway, whether in operation or at rest during the period when the street lights are turned on, and in any event from 30 minutes after sunset to 30 minutes before sunrise, and all times when for or other atmospheric conditions render the operation of motor vehicles dangerous on the highway, shall carry lighted signal lamps as herein required. Motor vehicle and motor tricycles shall display at least two white lamps mounted at the front and directed forward and one red light mounted at the back and directed toward the rear. Trailers being towed shall display one red light mounted at the back and directed toward the rear. No person shall drive or move a vehicle or equipment ~ upon any street with any lamp device thereon displaying a red light visible from directly in front, except as required by State Statute or Interstate Commerce Regulation. This shall not apply to authorized emergency vehicles. Flashing lights are prohibited on motor vehicles except as a means of indicating right or left turn. No vehicle shall display at the back, or project toward the rear, any other than a red light, excepting on motor vehicles and trailers which are required to carry number places on the rear, the rear lamp shall be so constructed, mounted and adjusted as to project from its sides, top, bottom or front,. sufficient white light upon such plate to make the number plainly visible from a distance of twenty-five (25) feet; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the use of additional red rear lights carried for added safety or such white lights of low intensity as may be required in the operation of a mechanical rear signaling device, but no motor vehicle shall have mounted at its back any lamp projecting toward the rnar, a light of sufficient intensity to conceal the number or to in- terfere with the vision of anyone following. Section 2. Except as hereinafter provided, the head lamps or the ~' auxiliary driving lamps or combinations thereof, on motor vehicles shall be so arranged that the driver may select at will between distributions of light projected to different elevations, subject to the following requirements and limitations: (a) 't`here shall be an uppermost distribution of light, or com- posite beam, so aimed and of such intensity as to reveal persons and vehicle at a distance of at least 350 feet ahead for all conditions of loading. The maximum intensity of this uppermost distribution of light or com- posite beam one (1) degree of arc or more above the horizontal leval of the lamps when the vehicle is not loaded shall not exceed 8,000 apparent candle power, nor at composite beam shall there be an intensity of more than 75,000 apparent candle power in both head lamps at the lens nor shall there be less than 15,000 apparent candle power in both head lamps at the lens. (b) When the vehicle is loaded none of the high intensity por- tion of the light which is directed forward shall at a distance of 25 feet ahead, project higher than the level of the center lamps from which ' it comes. (c) There shall be a lower most distribution of light or com- posite beam so aimed that when the vehicle is not loaded, none of the high intssity portion of the light which is directed to the left of the prolongation of the extreme left side of the vehicle shall at a distance of 25 feet ahead, project higher than a level of 5 inches below the level o f the center, of the lamp from which it comes. When the vehicle is not loaded, none of the high intensity portion of the left which is directed to the "right of the prolongation of the extreme left side of the vehicle, shall at a distance of 25 feet ahead, project higher than a level of 5 inches below the level of the center of the lamp from which it comes. In no event shall any of the high intensity of such lower most distri- bution of light or composite beam, project higher than the level of 42 inches above the level on wlich the vehicle stands at a distance of 75 feet ahead. All road lighting beams shall be so aimed and of sufficient intensity to reveal a person or vehicle at a distance of at least 100 feet ahead. (d) Whenever a motor vehicle is being operated on any street during the time specified, the dri ver shall use a distribution of light or composite beam directed high enough and of sufficient intensity to reveal persons and vehicles at a safe distance in advance of the vehicle, provided, however, that whenever the driver of a vehicle approaches an oncoming vehicle within 500 feet, such driver shall use a distribution of light or composite beam so aimed that the glaring rays are not pro- jected into the eyes of the oncoming driver, and in no case shall the high intensity portion, which is projected to the left of the prolongation of the extreme left side of the vehicle be aimed higher than the center of the lamp from which it comes at a distance of 25 feet ahead, and in no case higher than a level of 42 inches above the level upon which the vehicle stands at a distance of 75 feet ahead. The lower most distri- bution of light shall avoid glare at all times regardless of the road contour and loading. (e) Headlamps arranged to provide a single distribution of light not supplemented by auxiliary driving lamps shall be permitted on motor vehicles manufactured and sold prior to one year after the effective date of this act in lieu of multiple-beam road lighting equipment herein specified if the single distribution of light complies with the following requirements and limitations: The headlamps shall be so aimed that when the vehicle is not loaded none of the high intensity portion of the light shall at a distance is not loaded none of the high intensity portion of the light shall at a distance of 25 feet project higher than a level of 5 inches below the level of the center of the lamp from which it comes, and in no case higher than 42 inches above the level on which the vehicle stands at a distance of 75 feet ahead. The intensity shall be sufficient to reveal persons and vehicles at a distance of at least 200 feet. (f) Any lighted lamp or illuminating devices upon a motor vehicle other than head lamps, spot lamps or atnciLiary driving lamps which project a beam or light of an intensity greater than 300 candle- power shall be so directed that no part of the beam will strike the level of the roadway on which the vehicle at a distance of more than 75 feet from the vehicle. (g) No search light or spot light shall be equipped with bulb stronger than twenty-one candlepower and shall not be used on the public highway except in emergency, or when the headlights are in- adequate owing to rain, fog, etc, and then only provided their shaft of condensed light is directed well downward below the level of the lamp and at no time into the eyes of other persons. Section 3. Any person vimlating the terms of this ordinance shall be subject to a fine of not more than $100.00 or imprisonment -2- in jail for not more than 90 days or both such fine and imprisonment and costs. PASSED this ~" day of , 1961. A~PTEST City Clerk -~ Approved this ~ day of . 1961. Mayor -3-