HomeMy WebLinkAbout1952-46 Adopting Traffic RegulationsAN ORDINANCE, ACTING UNDER AUTHORITY OF SECTION 0395 R.S.
MO. 1939, GIVING MUNICIPALITIES THE RIGHT TO REGULATE TRAFFIC,
REQUIRING POLICE OFFICERS TO ENFORCE ALL TRAFFIC LAWS AND ORD-
INANCES; REQUIRING OPERATORS OR DRIVERS OF VEHICLES IN RIVERS-
IDE, MISSOURI, TO USE CAREFUL, REASONABLE, LAWFUL AND PRUDENT
DRIVING SPEEDS AND SETTING UP PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS IN LINE
THEREWITH; DECLARING CERTAIN STREETS AND HIGHWAYS THROUGHWAYS
SETTING FORTH CERTAIN SECTIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF PEDESTR-
IANS; SCHOOLS; REGULATING THE MANNER AND PLACES OF STOPPING
AND PARKING, FORBIDDING "U" TURNS WHERE SIGNS ARE POSTED, MAK-
ING IT UNLAWFUL TO OVERTAKE AND PASS ANOTHER VEHICLE IN AN IN-
TERSECTION OR WITHIN 40 FEET OF SUCH INTERSECTION, PROVIDING FOR
UNOBSTRUCTED FREEWAYS OR TRAVELWAYS, PROVIDING CERTAIN RULES OF
THE ROAD, PROVIDING FOR NO PASSING ZONES, AUTHORIZING PLAY STREETS
REQUIRING DRIVERS OF MOTOR SCOOTERS, MOTORCYCLES, BICYCLES, AND
RIDERS AND DRIVERS OF COASTER SLEDS, ROLLER SKATES, OR OTHER
DIMINUTIVE TOYS, TO OBSERVE THE TENETS OF THIS ORDINANCE IN THE
SAME MANNER AS DRIVERS OR MOTOR VEHICLES, REGULATING THE MANNER
OF CROSSING RAILROAD CROSSINGS, MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO DISPLAY
CERTAIN UNLAWFUL SIGNS PRETENDING TO IMITATE OFFICIAL TRAFFIC
SIGNS, MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO ALTER, DEFACE, INJURE, TAKE DOWN
OR REMOVE ANY OFFICIAL SIGN, MARKING SIGNAL OR DEVIDE, AUTHOR-
IZING THE STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT, ITS EMPLOYEES, AND PROPER
OFFICIALS OR EMPLOYEES OF RIVERSIDE, MISSOURI, TO PAINT, MARK
OR ERECT OFFICIAL SIGNS, MARKINGS, SIGNALS, OR DEVICES, ESTAB-
LISHING FIELD TIME SIGNALS AND FLASHING BEACONS AT CERTAIN INTER-
SECTIONS, DEFINING CERTAIN WORDS AND PHRASES APPLICABLE THERETO
PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR CONVICTION OF INFRACTIONS THEREOF, DE-
CLARING ANY PERSON WHO DRIVES IN A MANNER AND WILFUL DISREGARD
FOR THE SAFETY OF PERSONS, PROPERTY, LIFE, LIB. AND TRAFFIC
TO BE GUILTY OF DANGEROUS AND RECKLESS DRIVING AND PROVIDING A
PENALTY UPON CONVICTION THEREOF, PROHIBITING PARKING IN DESIG-
NATED AREAS, AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANC-
ES IN CONFLICT WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF
RIVERSIDE, PLATTE COUNTY, MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION (1) - DEFINING CERTAIN WORDS AND PHRASES
(a) MOTOR VEHICLES - Any self propelled vehicle not
operated exclusively on tracks except farm tractors.
(b) VEHICLE- Any device in, upon or by which any
person or propert is or may be transported, or
drawn upon a street, alley, or highway, except
devices moved by human power or used exclusively
upon stationary rails or tracks.
(c) TRAFFIC - Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals,
vehicles, tractors, trailers, semi-trailers,
street cars and other conveyances, either singly
or together while using any street, alley or
highway for the purpose of travel.
(d) STOP - When required, means complete cessation of movement.
(e) STOP OR STOPPING - When prohibited, means any
stopping of a vehicle except when necessary to
avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compli-
ance with a police officer or traffic control
signs, signal or marking.
(f) PERSON - Every natural person, firm, partnership,
or co-partnership, association or corporation.
(g) PEDESTRIAN - Any person afoot.
(h) STREET, ALLEY AND HIGHWAY - The entire width
between the boundary lines or every way publicly
maintained when any part thereof is open to the
use of the public for the purpose of vehicular traffic.
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(i) JURISDICTION-- The legal right, authority, or
power to make and enforce police regulations for
the direction or control of vehicles and traffic
on a street, alley or hightway.
(j) INTERSECTION - Any highway, street, or alley,
which joins another, whether or not it crosses
the same.
(k) SIGNS - A lettered board, or the like, of a metal
plastic, or other materials, regardless of the
type of material it is made of, placed in a public
place to give notice.
(l) OFFICIAL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES - All signs,
signals, markings, and devices, not inconsistent
with this ordinance, placed or erected by
authority of a public body of officials having
jurisdiction for the purpose of regulating,
warning or guiding traffic.
(m) THROUGHWAY OR THROUGH HIGHWAY - Every street,
alley, or highway, or portion thereof, at the
entrance to which vehicular traffic from inter-
secting streets, alleys, or highways is required
by law to stop before entering and crossing the
same and when stop signs are erected as provided
by ordinances.
(n) POLICE OFFICER - Every officer of the municipal
police department or any officer authorized to
direct ar regulate traffic or to make arrests
for violations of traffic regulations.
(o) CROSSWALK - That part of a roadway at an inter-
section included within the connections of the
lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite
sides of the street, alley or highway, measured
from the curbs, or in the absence of curbs, from the
edges of the traversable roadway.
(p) NO PARKING - When signs are erected indicating
no parking, no person shal park in such designa-
ted place.
(q) STANDING-- Any stopping of a vehicle, whether
occupied or not.
(r) PARKING -- The standing of a vehicle, whether
occupied or not, other than temporarily, for the
purpose of, while actually engaged in loading
or unloading.
(s) DRIVER - Every person who drives or is in actual
physical control of a vehicle.
(t) RIGHT OF WAY-- The privelege of the immediate use
of the highway.
(u) NO PASSING ZONES -- Zones determined from an
engineering study and indicated by signs or
markings, where overtaking and passing is deemed
unsafe, and under this ordinance is deemed
unlawful.
(v) SPEED ZONES -- Zones determined from engineering
study, and indicated with posted prima facie
speed numeral signs or markings, which designate
maximum reasonable speeds; and travel in excess
thereof is under this ordinance unlawful.
SECTION (2)
It is unlawful, and unless otherwise declared in this
ordinance with respect to particular offenses, it is
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a misdemeanor for any person to do any act forbidden,
or fail to perform any act required in this bill or
ordinance.
SECTION (3)
It shall be the duty of the officers of the police
department, or such officers as are assigned by the
chief of police or city marshall, to enforce all
traffic regulation ordinances of this municipality
and all of the state vehicle laws applicable to
street traffic in this city.
SECTION (4)
No person shall wilfully fail or refuse to conply with
any lawful order or direction of any police officer,
invested by law, with authority, to direct, control,
or regulate traffic.
SECTION (5)
The provisions of this ordinance shall apply to the
driver of any vehicle owned by, or used in the service
of the United States Government, this state, county,
or municipality, or any other driver of a vehicle,
and it shall be unlawful for any said driver to
violate any of the provisions of this ordinance,
except as otherwise prohibited in this ordinance or
state statute.
SECTION (6) SPEEDS
(a) Any person operating a vehicle on the streets,
alleys, and highways within the corporate limits
of the city of Riverside, Platte
County, Missouri, shall be so controlled as
under the conditions and having due regard to the
actual and reasonable foreseeable hazards existing
at the time and place, shall be (1) Reasonable,
careful and prudent, and (2) necessary, so as not
to endanger any person, property, life and limb.
(b) Any speed of a vehicle in excess of the following,
(Which shall never be conclusive nor have the
effect of shifting the burden of proof), shall be
considered prima facie evidence of driving at a
rate of speed which is not reasonable, careful,
prudent and unlawful: (35) Thirty-Five miles per hour on
U.S. Highways 71, 69, and 169, and on State highway
number 45.
THE SPEED ZONING BY MARY D. GRIFFITH, PARTS I AND II.
On all other streets and alleys within the corporate
limits of Riverside, MIssouri, thirty-five (35)
miles per hour, except at such points of hazard which the Board
of Aldermen have declared critical zones of hazard and at such
so declared critical zones of hazard a speed of fifteen (15)
miles per hour, shall apply as maximum driving speed.
It is further declared that no fifteen (15) mile per hour
speed zones shall placed on any state or federal marked
highways, except where approval has been granted by the proper
officials of the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
(c) Except (1), when due to a condition of the vehicle
which was not reasonably foreseeable when entering upon
the street, alley or highway, and while removing said vehicle
off the street or highway in the shortest reasonable time and
distance, or (2) when reasonably necessary under the conditions
existing at the time and place, no person shall drive a vehicle
at a rate of speed as slow as to impede, block or endanger the
normal, usual and reasonable movement of other traffic in the
street, alley or highway.
SECTION (7) THROUGHWAYS
By this ordinance all state and federal marked
highways, and such other streets and highways as
may be declared by the Board of Aldermen
within the corporate limits of Riverside,
Missouri, are hereby declared throughways, and all
traffic operating in the city of Riverside,
shall come to a complete stop, before operating onto
or across such declared throughway.
SECTION (8) NO PASSING ZONES.
The State Highway Department of Missouri, its employees
and the proper officials and employees, of Riverside,
Missouri, are hereby authorized to determine those
portions of any street, alley, or highway in the
city of Riverside, where overtaking and passing
or driving to the left in the opposing lane or lanes
of travel, would be especially hazardous and may be appro-
priate signs or markings indicate, the begning and end
of, NO PASSING ZONES, and when such signs and markings
are in place and clearly visible to an ordinaary
observant person, every driver of a vehicle shall
obey the directions thereof.
SECTION (9) NO RIGHT, LEFT OR "U" TURNS
Where signs are posted stating, NO RIGHT TURN, NO
LEFT TURNS, OR NO "U" TURNS, OR WORDS TO THAT EFFECT,
it shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle
to make a right turn, left turn, or "U" turn, within the
intersection, marked by such sign adjacent to or
between any intersections marked by a a "U" turn sign.
SECTION (10)
The driver of every vehicle shall, consistent with the
requirements of Sections 6 and 7, drive at an appropri-
ate reduced speed when approaching and crossing an
intersection with railroad crossing, when approaching
and going around a curve or right, angle turn, when
approaching a hillcrest, when traveling upon any
narrow or winding roadway and when special hazards
exist with respect to pedestrians or other traffic or
by reason of wheather or highway and street conditions;
infractions thereof shall come under the heading of
dangerous and reckless driving.
SECTION (11)
BY THIS ACT IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR ANY DRIVER OF A
VEHICLE TO OVERTAKE AND PASS ANOTHER VEHICLE DRIVING
IN THE SAME DIRECTIONAL MOVEMENT WITHIN AN INTERSECTION
OR WITHIN 40 FEET OF SUCH INTERSECTION.
SECTION (12)
Parking, unpari ad the driving of all vehiclse
operating with the corporate limits of Riverside,
Missouri, shall be so regulated, controlled, and in
such manner as to permit of a clear, free, and un-
impeded freeway or travelway of not less than the certain
widths of such freeways described for certain streets
or highways, or portions therof, in Schedule (B) attached
hereto and made a part of this ordinance, and any one so
parking or unparking and who shall obstruct the free and
unimpeded directional movement of travel in the said width,
so described and scheduled under Schedule (B), as freeways
or travelways shall by these provisions be guilty of
a traffic nuisance. Anyone deemed guilty of a traffic
nuisance, as heretofore described, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and punished in accordance with the provisions
describing punishment for a misdemeanor. Provided further,
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that the Board of Aldermen may from time to time
with the approval of the State Highway Department for state
and US. marked highways, in their discretion, and
by the minutes of their meeting, change and revise
said Schedule (B) without impairing or conflicting
with the tenets of this section, above set forth.
SECTION (13)
No person shall start a vehicle which is stopped,
standing, or parked unless and until such moveent
can be made with reasonable safety.
SECTION (14)
(a) No person shall turna vehicle from a direct course
upon a street, alley, or highway, unless and until
such movement can be made with reasonable safety,
and then only after giving a clearly audible
signal by sounding the horn, if any pedestrian may
be affected by such movememtn or after giving an
appropriate signal in the statutory manner in the
event any other vehicle may be affected by such
covenent.
(b) A signal of intention to turn right or left shall
be given continuously during, not less than the
last 100 feet traveled by a vehicle before turning.
(c) No person shall stop or suddently decrease the
speed of a vehicle without first giving an
appropriate signal to the driver of any other
vehicle immediately to the rear when there is
opportunity to give such signal.
SECTION (15), STOP SIGNS
The driver of a vehicle shall stop as required by
this ordinance at the entrance to a throughway, or to
any other intersection when stop signs are erected,
and shall yield the right of way to other vehilces
which have entered the intersection from said through-
way or major traffic artery, or which are approaching
so closely on said throughway or major traffic artery
as to constitute an immediate hazard, but such driver
having so yielded may proceed and the drivers of all
other vehicles approaching the intersection on said
throughway, or major traffic artery, shall yield the
right of way to the vehicle so proceeding into or
across said throughway or major artery.
SECTION (16)
The driver shall likewise stop in obedience to a stop
sign, legally placed at an intersection where stop
signs or markings are placed at one or more entrances
thereto, although not a part of a throughway and shall
proceed cautiously, yielding to vehicles not so obliged
to stop which are within the intersection or approaching
so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard, but
may then proceed.
SECTION (17)
(a) When school or pedestrian crossing stop signs or
markings are in place and clearly visible to the
driver, every driver of a vehicle shall come to a
complete stop.
(b) Where school zone signs, markings, or devices are
posted or marked, every person driving a vehicle
shall slow down, observing all regulations relating
to pedestrian traffic.
(c) Noncompliance and reckless disregard of the provisions
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of this section shall be doomed careless and reckless
driving and shall be punished ill accordance theral.
SECTION (18), PEDESTRIANS
(a) When traffic control signals are not in place or
not in oporation, the driver of a vehicle shall
yield the right of way, slowing down or stopping
if need be to so yield, to a pedestrian crossing,
the roadway within a crosswalk, when the pedestrian
is upon the half of the roadway which the vehcile
is traveling or when the pedestrian is approaching
so closely from the opposit half of the roadway
as to be in danger, but no pedestrian shall
suddenly leave the curb or other place of safety
and walk or run into the path of a vehcile which
is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield.
(b) Whenever any vehicle is stolen at a marked crosswalk
or at any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to
pemit a pedestrian to cross the roadway the driver
of any other veohicle in approaching from the rear shall
not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle, as
provided in Section 10.
SECTION (19) Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point,
other than within a marked crosswalk or within an
unmarked crosswalk shall yield the right of way to
all vehicles upon the roadway within the intersection
or about to enter the intersection. It shall be
unlawful for an pedestrian to jay-walk within an
intersection or at a mid-block unless special marked
crosswalks have been provided.
SECTION (20)
(a) Where sidewalks are provided it shall be unlawful
for any pedestrian to walk along and upon an
adjacent roadway.
(b) Where sidewalks are not provided, any pedestrian
walking along and upon a roadway shall, when
practical walk only on the left side of the road-
way or its shoulder facing traffic which nay
approach from the oposite direction.
SECTION (21)
Notwithstanding the foregoing, provisions of this
ordinance, every driver of a vehcile shall exercise
due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian upon
any roadway and shall give warning by sounding the
horn, when necessary and shall exercise proper pre-
caution upon observing any child or any aged confused
or incapacitated person upon or crossing a roadway.
SECTION (22) PARKING.
(a) No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle,
except when necessary to avoid conflict with other
traffic, or in compliance with the direction of a
police officer, or traffic control device, in any
of the following places:
1. On a sidewalk.
2. In front of a public or private driveway or so near
as to obstruct same.
3. Within an intersection.
4. Within 10 feet of a fire hydrant.
5. On a crosswalk.
6. Whin twenty (20) foot of a crosswalk, at an intersection.
7. Within 40 feet upon the approach to any flashing
beacon, stop sign or traffic control signal,
located at the side of the road.
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8. Within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing.
9. Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any
fire station and on the side of the roadway opposite
the entrance to any fire station within 75 feet of
said entrance, (when properly sign -posted).
10. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or
obstruction when such stopping, standing, or
parking could obstruct traffic.
11. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or
parked at the edge or curb of the street, (double-parked).
12. Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a
highway, street, or alley, or within a highway tunnel.
13. At any place where official signs prohibit parking or stopping.
14. Within 10 feet of any mailbox used for rural free delivery.
15. Within 6 feet of the edge of the pavement on U.S. highways
71, 69, and 169, and State Highway No. 45.
b. No person shall move a vehicle not owned by such person into
any such prohibited area or away from a curb, such distance as is unlawful.
SECTION TWENTY-THREE (23), UNAUTHORIZED SIGNS, SIGNALS, LTC.
a. No person shall place, maintain, or display upon or in
view of any street, alley, or highway, any unauthorized sign,
signal, or marking, which purports to be, or is an imitation
of, or resembles an official traffic control sign, signal,
marking device or railroad sign or signal, or which attempts
to direct the movement of traffic or which hides from view
or interferes with the effectiveness of any official traffic
control device or any railroad sign or signal, and no person
shall place or maintain, nor shall any public authority permit
upon any street alle7 or highway any traffic sign, signal,
marking, or device, bearing thereon, commercial advertising.
This shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection on private
property adjacent to such streets, alleys, or highways,
"provided they do not hide from view official signs, markings,
signals, and devices", of signs giving useful directional
information and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs, signals, etc.
b. Every such prohibited sign, signal, marking, or device or
other obstruction, is hereby declared to be a public nuisance
and the authority having jurisdiction over such streets, alleys,
or highways is hereby empowered to remove the same or cause
it to be removed without due notice.
SECTION TWENTY-FOUR (24)
No person shall, without lawful authority, attempt to, or in
fact, alter, deface, injure, knock down, or remove any official
sign, signal, marking or traffic control device, or any
railroad sign or signal or any inscription, shield, or insigna
thereon or any part thereof.
SECTION TWENTY-FIVE (25)
The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of
any official signs, markings, or traffic control devices
applicable thereto and placed in accordance with the
trafffic ordinances of this municipality, unless otherwise
directed by a police officer subject to the exceptions
granted the driver of any authorized emergency vehicle.
SECTION TWENTY-SIX (26)
The State Highway Department of Missouri, its employees
and the proper officials or the employees and proper
officials of the City of Riverside, Missouri, are and
shall be authorized to paint, mark, or erect any official
signs, markings, signals, or traffic control devices,
subjoct to the provisions of the city traffic ordinances,
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on surface, suspended over Stith legal clearance,
or by the side of the rraveled portions of said streets,
alleys and highways, as a warning to all vehicle
operators and pedestrians.
Section 27 TWENTY SEVEN
The city council, board of aldermen, village trustees,
or their duly authorized agents, employees or officials
are hereby authorized:
a. To designate and maintain, by appropriate devices,
marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway,
and at such other places as it may deem necessary.
b. To establish speed and safety zones other than on
state and U.S, marked highways of such kind and
character and at such places as it may deem necessary.
e. To erect warning signs upon streets or alleys
(other than U.S. Marked or state highways) at a
distance from certain locations deemed by them
to be dangerous and hazardous.
d. To mark and declare certain 15 m.p.h. speed
hazard zones (other than state and U.S. marked
highway) which are designated by certain authorized officials.
e. To mark lanes for the traffic on streets or highway pavements
as they deem advisable, consistent with the traffic regulations.
f. To past and mark certain locations where no parking, no
double parking, no angle parking, no parallel parking
or no stopping are permitted.
Section TWENTY EIGHT 28
The Board of Aldermen by motion from time to time as needed
shall establich bus stops, and license, establish, regulate
and prescribe traffic rules fey the operation of taxi -cab
stands and establish loading and unloading zones on such public
streets, alleys or highways in the municipality of Riverside
Missouri, and in such places and in such number as it shall
determine to be of the greatest benefit and convenience to
the public and every such bus atop, taxi -cab stand, loading
and unloading zone, or other stand or station shall be designated
by appropriate signs, privided, however, the proper officials
of the State Highway Department shall approve all such on all
state and federal marked highways.
Section TWNETY NINE 29
Any part of this dinance declared invalid because of conflict
with similar pro isions and regulations under the laws of the
state of Missou i, or for any other reason, shall not invalidate
or in any way ffect the remainder of this ordinance, and the
city council hereby declares it would have enacted the remainder
of this ordinance regardless of the part or parts that may be
so declared invalid.
Section THIRTY 30
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the
foregoing ordinance or parts of such ordinance shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by
a fine ofnot less than One Dollar, and not more than One Hundred
Dollars ($100.00). in addition to the costs of prosecution, unless
otherwise stated in this ordinance.
Section THIRTY-ONE 31 DANGEROUS AND RECKLESS DRIVING
a. Any person who drives in a wilful and wanton disregard
for the safety of persons, property, life, limb and traffic, is
hereby deemed and declared to be guilty of DANGEROUS AND RECKLESS
DRIVING.
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b. Every person convicted of DANGEROUS AND RECKLESS DRIVING
SHALL, be punished upon a first conviction by imprisonment,
for a period of not less than five (5) days nor more than
ninety (90) days, or by a fine of not less bhan twenty-five
(025.00) Dollars or more than 0ne Hundred (0100.00) Dollars,
or both such fine and imprisonment, and on second or subsequent
conviction shall be punished by Imprisonment for not less than
(10) days nor more than Ninety (90) days or by fine of not less
than Fifty (50.00) Dollars, or more than 0ne Hundred (0100.00)
Dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Section Thirty -Two (32)
All ordinances or parts of ordinances, inconsistent with/con-
trary to, or in conflict with the provisions of this ordinancey,
are hereby repealed.
Section Thirty -Three (33)
This ordinance shall be in full force
the date of its passage and approval.
READ THE FIRST TIME ON THE 15 DAY OF July, 1952
READ THE SECOND TIPTE ON THE 15 DAY OF July, 1952
READ THE THIRD TIME ON THE 15 DAY OF July, 1952
PASSED AND APPROVED THIS 15 DAY OF July, 1952
Signed:
/s/ F.F. Filger
Mayor
ATTEST:
/s/ Helen Brenner
CITY CLERK
Section thirty-four (34) EMERGENCY CLAUSE
Because of the immediate and great danger to the person,
property, life, limb, health, and safety of persons and
vehicles on and about the streets, alleys and highways,
of Riverside, Missouri due to traffic accidents, an emergency
is hereby declared to exist within the meaning of the Const-
itution and Section 8395 R.S. Missouri, 1939; therefore, this
ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after
its passage and approval.
Section Thirty Five (35)
All driversof motor scooters motorcycles, and riders on
bicycles shall observe the provisions of this ordinance which
are applicable therto in the same manner as vehicular, or
pedestrian traffic.
Section Thirty -Six (36)
Any vehicle parked in violation of the provisions of this ord-
inance and so as to constitute a traffic hazard or obstruction
may, at the discretion of the officers of the State Highway
Department or the city of Riverside, Missouri be removed
from the prohibited area to such a place within the limits of
the City of Riverside as may be designated by the Marshal,
to be held until claimed bytheregistered owner thereof and
delivered to him afterpayment of costs accrued for towing,
court costs, and any fine assessed upon hearing of the matter
or the posting of bond as required by the officers of the court
for the City of Riverside.
Passed this 15 day of July, 1952
/s/ F.F. Filger
Mayor
ATTEST:
/s/ Hellen Brenner
City Clerk
Passed this 15 day of July, 1952
Approved this 15 day of July, 1952