HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 355ORDINANCE NO. D[ '~NEW SERIES
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING TRAFFIC
UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS OF THE
CITY OF BAEE'_~SFIEID, AND REPEAL-
ING ALL ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT
HE REI.'~; ITH.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF TH.E CITY OF BAKERSFIELD,
as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINIT IONS .'
SECTION 1.
Whenever in this ordinance the following terms are used,
they shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this
section:
ALLEY. A public highway which does not e~ceed thirty-three
(33) feet between the property lines.
STREET. Every way set apart for public travel except
alleys, bridle paths and foot paths.
ROADWAY. That portion of a street between the regularly
established curb lines.
SIDEWALK. That portion of the street between the curb
lines and the adjacent property lines.
INTERSECTION. The area embraced within the prolongation
of the property lines of two or more streets ~ich join at an angle,
whether or not one such street crosses the other.
CROSSWALK. That portion of the ro~.~dway included within
the prolongation of curb and property lines at street intersections,
or that part of the roadway so designated by lines or other marks on
the surface of the roadway.
RESTRICTED ZONE. The space adjacent to a curb painted or
designated by signs in accordance with the provisions of this ord-
inance which is restricted as to standing, stopping or parking with-
in the meaning of the lettering thereon md subject to the provi-
sions of Article V of this ordinance.
VEHICLE. Every device or animal by which any person
or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a street, ex-
cepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon
rails. For the purpose of this ordinance s bicycle shall be deemed
a vehicle.
PERSON. Every natural person, fi~m, copartnership, asso-
ciation or corporation.
STREET CAR. Every device traveling exclusively upon rails.
PEDESTRIAN. Any person afoot.
OPERATOR. Any person who is in actual physical control
of a vehicle or street car.
TRAFFIC. The lawful and orderly use of the streets and
alleys for the purpose of travel by pedestrians, vehicles and street
cars, both singly and together.
BUSINESS DISTRICT. The territory contiguous to a street
when fifty per cent or more of the property fronting on one side
of said street for a distance of six-hundred (600) feet, or where
fifty percent or mom~e of the property fronting on both sides
collectively of said street for a distance of three hundred (300)
feet is occupied by buildings in use for retail, wholesale, and other
business; also, any territory ~'ontiguous to a street which is im-
mediately ~djacent to or in continuation of a street within a
business district when such territory is so designated by the
City ~anager.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT. A residence district for the purpose
of this act shall mean the territory contiguous to a public highway,
not comprising a business district as herein defined, when the prop-
erty fronting on one side of said highway for a distance of at least
a. quarter of a mile is occupied by thirteen or more separate dwell-
~.ng houses or business structures, or w~ere the property fronting
on both sides collectively of said highway for at least a quarter
of a mile is occupied by sixteen or more separate dwelling houses,
or 'business structures.
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RIGHT OF WAY. The privilege of the immediate use of the
street, or alley.
PARK. To stand a vehicle for a period of time greater
than is reasonably necessary for the actual loading or unloading
of persons or materials.
0FFI~IAL ~'~:ARNING AND DIRECTION SIGNS AND SIGNALS. All
warhing and direction signs and signals not inconsistent with this
o~dinance heretofQre or hereafter placed or erected under this ord-.
inance or by authority of the City Council.
CENTRAL TRAFFIC DISTRICT. All that territory included
and bounded by 1Vth Street, G Street, 22nd Street, and N Street
shall constitute the Central Traffic District.
ARTICLE II.
AUTHORITY OF POLICE, TRAFFIC SIGNS A~D SIGNALS.
SECTION 2. OBEDIENCE TO POLICE.
Officers of the Police Department are hereby authorized to
direct all traffic by means of visible or audible signal. It shall
be unla'.~.ful for any person to r"fuse or fail to comply with any
lawful order, or signal, or direction of a traffic or police officer,
or at any regularly established school crossing to refuse or fail
to comply with any order, signal or direction of any person appointed
by the' Chief of Police to control traffic at school crossings; pro-
vided that such persons giving any order, signal or direction, at
such school crossings, s_hall, at the time, be wearing some insignia
indicating such appointment. It shall be unlawful for any minor or
other person to direct or attempt to direct traffic unless authorized
to do so by the Chief of Police.
SECTION 3. SIGNS.
The City Council shall determine and d_eSignate the character
of all official warning and direction signs and signals. Subject to
this selection, the City Manager is her.eby authorized, and as to
those signs 'required hereunder, it Shall be his duty to place and
maintain or cause to be placed and maintained all official warning
and direction signs and signals°
It is the purpose of this section to reserve to the City
of Bakersfield all rights and privileges of marking, painting, or
otherwise designating restrictions pertaining to the parking and
directing of traffic and it is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor
for any person, firm or corporation to paint, mark or otherwise
designate, or cause to be painted, marked or otherwise designated,
any restrictions or directions as to traffic of any character on
any Street, curb, gutter or sidewalk, in conflict with the provisions
of this section.
No provision of this ordinance for which signs are
.re~_uired shall be enforceable against the alleged violator if at
the time and place of the alleged violation the sign herein required
is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an
ordinarily observant person.
SECTION 4. 'OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC SI. GNS.
It shall be unlawful for any operator or pedestrian to
disobey the instr~actions of any mechanical or electrical traffic
signal, traffic sign or marks upon the street placed in accordance
with the provisions of this ordinance.
No person, public utility, or department of this city
shall erect or place any barrier or sign unless of a type first
approved by the City Mansger. It shall be unlawful-for any operator
or pedestrian to disobey the instructions of any barrier or sign
approved, as above provided, erected or placed' by a public utility
or any department of this city.
SECTION 5. TRAFFIC SIGNALS.
If controlled by an officer the following signals shall
be observed:
One (1) blast of a whistle indicates that all traffic
approaching the intersection
/ shall stop. ·
Two (2) blasts of a whistle indicates that traffic shall
proceed in the direction indicated by the officer.
Three (3)..~'r more blasts of a whistle is a signal of
alarm and ind. icates the approach of a fire engine or other emer-
gency vehicle, or of danger. At such a signal, the driver· of
every vehicle shall immediately drive the same to a position as "
near as possible to the right hand edge or curb of the street,
· clear of any intersection, and shall stop and remain in such
position, unless otherwise directed by a police or traffic officer,
until fire engine, emergency vehicle, or danger has passed, or
until permitted to proceed by a police or traffic officer.
Extending the arms indicates that traffic moving parallel
to the extended arms shall proceed and traffic moving at right
angles thereto shall stop.
If controlled by mechanical devices, the following signals
for the direction of traffic are hereby authorized and shall be
observed: Whenewer traffic at any intersection is regulated by
"S p and mechanical or electrical signal, the following
to " "Go"
colors are hereby authorized and shall be used, and none other, and
those colors here in authorized shall indicate' as follows:
RED, except in flashing signals, requires that traffic
shall stop and remain standing.
GREEN, requires that traffic shall move and continue in
motion, except when stopped for the purpose of avoiding an accident,
or in the event of other emergency, 9r when stopped at the command
of a police officer.
BELLS.
The ringing of a bell in connection with any mechanical or
electrical signal shall indicate preparation for a change in direc-
tion of the traffic movement. When such bell is sounded, no traffic
shall enter the intersection until a green or "Go" signal is shown.
WH~N RIGHT TURNS M~Y BE MADE.
After making a full stop at the prolongation of the
nearer property ].ine of the intersecting street a right turn may be
· made at the intersection by the operator of any vehicle, against a
m~....]hanical traffic signal, subject to the rights of pedestrians.
SECTION 8. CITY .MANAGER REt6UIRED TO ESTABLISh.' CROSSWALKS.
"~'~ The Cit~ Manager is hereby authorized and required to
establish and maintain and to designate upon the surface of the
roadway, by appropriate devices, marks or painted lines, cross-
walks approximately equal in width to the adjacent sidewalks at
all intersections where in his opinion there is particular danger
to pedestrians crossing the roadway.
When crosswalks are establi~ed and maintained outside a
business district, the City Manager shall mark and maintain upon
the surface of the roadway an arrow not less than twelve (12)
inches wide in the shaft and not less than thirty (30) feet long,
pointing in the direction of such crosswalk, together with the word
"SLOW" in block letters not less than twenty-four (24) inches high,
with not less than four (4) inch stroke, one-hundred (lO0) feet dis-
tant from each crosswalk so established.
SECTION V. CITY MANAGER AUTHORIZED ~3 ESTABLISH TRAFFIC LANES.
The City Manager is hereby authorized to mark traffic lanes
upon the roadway where a regular alignment of traffic is necessary.
V~here such lanes have been marked, it shall be unlawful
for any operator of a vehicle to fail to keep his vehicle within
the des ignated boundaries.
ARTICLE III.
PEDESTRIANS.
SECTION 8. PEDESTRIANS, RIGHT OF WAY AT INTERSECTION.
(a) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle
or street car to drive into any crosswalk which is marked as pro-
vided in Section V of this ordinance while there is in such cross-
walk, upon the half of the roadway upon which such vehicle or street
car is traveling, any pedestrian engaged in crossing the roadway,
until such pedestrian shall have passed beyond the course of said
vehicle or street car.
(b) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle
to drive into any unmarked crosswalk while there is in such cross-
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walk, upon the half of the roadway upon which vehicle is traveling,
any pedestrian engaged in crossing the roadway, until such pedestrian
shall have passed beyond the course of said vehicle.
(c) The operator of a vehicle shall stop before entering
any crosswalk when any other vehicle proceeding in the same direc-
tion is stopped at such crosswalk.
(d) The foregoing provisions of this section shall not
apply at intersections where traffic is being directed by' an officer
or a traffic "Stop" and "Go" signal, at which intersections the mutual
rights of pedestrians and operators of vehicles and street cars shall
be exercised under the direction of the officer or traffic signals.
SECTION 9. PEDESTRIANS' LIMITED RIGHT TO USE OF ROADWAY.
(a) ~hen within a business district, no pedestrian shall
cross a roadway other than by a crosswalk.
(b) Outside of $ business district nopedestrian shall
cross a roadway other than by s route at right angles to the curb
and when crossing at any other place other than a crosswalk, shall
yield the right of way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to stand or
walk in any roadway other than in a safety zone or crosswalk, p~ro-
vided that this provision shall not be construed to prevent the
necessary use of a roadway by a pedestrian.
(d) It shall be unlawful for any person to stand in a
roadway for the purpose of or while soliciting a ride from the
operator of any private vehicle.
SECTION lO. PEDESTRIANS TO OBEY SIGNALS.
At intersections where traffic is directed by a traffic
or police officer, or by a "Stop" and "Go" signal, it shall be un-
lawful for any pedestrian to cross the roadway other than with the
released traffic.
SECTION ll. PEDESTRIAN~ STANDING Cj~ SIDEWALK.
In any business district it shall be unlawful for any
pedestrian to stop or to stand on the wid-ewalk, except as near
as is physically possible to the building line or the ~'u~b line.
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ARTICLE. IV.
REGULATIONS AS TO 0PEHATION OF VEHICLES AND OTHER DEVICES.
SECTION 12. LOCATION OF TURNING MAR~GERS.
The City Manager is hereby authorized, and it shall be his
duty, to place or cause to be placed turning markers in intersections
as follows:
(1) Within intersections where the average roadway width
is less than sixty (80) feet and in intersections where streets
meet at other than right angles and at intersections where one street
terminates in another, a marker shall be placed at every intersection
of the roedial line of each street with the prolongation of the prop-
erty lines of the intersecting street.
(2 e6tions other than those mentioned in paragraph 1,
a single marker may be placed within such intersection at the inter-
section of the roedial lines of the intersecting streets.
SECTION. 1S. TURNING AROUND AT INTEHSECTIONS PROHIBITED.
(a) The operator of a vehicle shall not, within any business
district, between the hours of V:O0 A. M. and. 10:00 P. M. of any day,
except Sunday, turn such vehicle at an intersection in a complete re-
verse turn so as to proceed in the opposite direction.
(b) The City Manager is hereby required to establish and
maintain signs indicating that complete reverse or "U" turns are pro-
hibited under the conditions and at the places stated in paragraph
(a) of this section.
SECTION 14. LEFT TURNS.
The City Manager is hereby authorized to establish and
maintain signs indicating that Left Hand Turns are prohibited at
intersections, where such action is deemed by him to be necessary.
It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle
to make a left hand turn where such left hand turn is prohibited
by a sign or signs which have been established at an intersection,
as provided for by this section.
SECTION 15. DRIVING FROM ALLEYS.
The operator of a vehicle emerging from an alley, drive-
way or garage shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving
onto a sidewalk and upon proceerling shall yield the right of way to
all pedestrians on the sidewalk and to all vehicles approaching on
the street or alley.
SECTION 16. VEHICLES SHALL NOT BE DRIVEN ON SIDEWALK.
The operator of a vehicle shall not drive within any side-
walk area except at a permanent or temporary driveway.
SECTION 17. SCATTERING LOAD.
It shall be unlawful to operate any vehicle so loaded or
constructed that nny pa~t of its load is dropped upon the roadway.
SECTION 18. BOULEVARD STOPS.
The following streets and parts of streets are hereby de-
clared to constitute boulevards for the purpose of this section, to-
wit:
Chester Avenue, from and including 34th Street to and in-
cluding Brundage Lane.
Union Avenue, from snd including 34th Street to and in-
cluding Brundage Lane.
California Avenue,from and including Oak Street, to and
including the southerly approach of Baker Street.
Eighteenth Street, from but not including Oak Street, to
and including Union Avenue.
East Eighteen Street, from Union Avenue to and including
the westerly approach of East Truxtun Avenue.
East Truxtun Avenue, from its intersection with East
Eighteenth Street to the Easterly City Limits.
Baker Street, from and including Bernard Street to and
including the easterly approach of California Avenue.
Niles Street, from but not including Alta Vista Drive,
to the Easterly City Limits.
F Street, from and including Eighteenth Street, to but
not' including California Avenue.
Nineteenth Street at its intersection with Ches.te~_~ue.
Ever~y operator of a vehicle or street car traversing any
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street intersecting any boulevard shall stop such vehicle or street
car at the place where such street meets the nearest property line
of the boulevard before entering such boulevard, provided the prop-
erty line is clearly marked or signposted as required in this ord-
irlanCe .
The City Manager is hereby authorized and required to
place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained upon each
and every street intersecting a boulevard and at or near the prop-
erty line of the boulevard, stop signs conforming to the require-
ments of Section ll4!
s of the California Vehicle Act~of 199-9.
SECTION 19. THE USE OF CERTAIN STL~EETS BY TRUCKS PROHIBITED.
(a) It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle
so loaded that any part of its load extends more than three (3)
feet to the front or more than ten (lO) feet to the rear of such
vehicle to drive the same in any business district between the hours
of V:O0 o'clock a. m. and 8:30 o'clock p. m. of any da'y except Sunday
and holidays, except when granted permission to do so by the Chief
of Police.
(b) The City Manager is hereby authorized to establish
over an appropriate street or streets and to designate by appropriate
signs, through traffic routes for the movement of vehicles of two (2) or
more tons capacity designed for carrying merchandise, freight or
material. When any such through traffic route or routes are estab-
lished and designated by appropriate signs, the operator of any ve-
hicle mentioned in this paragraph shall drive on such route or routes
and none other except when it is impractical to do so or when nec-
essary to traverse another street or streets to a destination for
the purpose of loading or unloading, but then only by. such deviation
from the nearest freight route as is reasonably necessary.
SECTION 20. FOLLOWING FIRE APPARATUS PROHIBITED.
It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle,
other than one on official business, to follow any fire apparatus
traveling in response to a fire alarm closer than one block or to
park any vehicle within three-hundred (300) feet of where such fire
apparatus has stopped in answer to a fire alarm.
SECTION 21. CROSSING FIRE HOSE.
No street car or vehicle shall be driven over any unpro-
tected hose of the fire department when laid down on any street, pri-
vate driveway or street car track, to be used at any fire or alarm
of fire, without the consent of the Fire Chief or the assistant in
co~lrnand.
SECTION 22. BICYCLE RIDING RESTRICTED.
It shall be unlawful to ride a bicycle upon any sidewalk
in any business district. The rider of a bicycle upon a roadway
shall ride as nearly as practicable within five (5) feet of the
right hand curb edge of the roadway except when passing a standing
or other vehicle or making a left hand turn at an intersection.
SECTION 23. RIDING ON HANDLE BARS PROHIBITED.
It shall be unlawful for the operator of any bicycle or
motorcycle, when upon a street, to carry any other person upon the
bar, handle or tank of any such vehicle, or for any person to so
ride upon sny such vehicle.
SECTION 24. UNLAWFUL TO DRIVE T_MROUGH FUNERAL PROCESSION.
It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to
drive between any/J~.~icles' o£... a funeral procession, pro-
vided that such vehicles are conspicuously so designated; or auth-
orized parade, and the disposition and directing of all vehicles.
and traffic on any street over which such procession or parade
wishes to pass shall be entirely subject to the orders of the
Police Department.
SECTION 25. ACCIDENTS MUST BE REPORTED.
It shall be the duty of every person riding, driving or
in charge of any animal; or riding, driving, propelling or in charge
of any vehicle upon any public street, alley or other public place
within the City of Bakersfield that shall collide with any other
animal or with any other vehicle, or with any pedestrian or with
any fire hydrant, ornamental lighting post, telephone pole, electric
light or power pole, ornamental 'shade tree or other property.~
object of a like nature located in or along any public street alley -ll- ' ''
"'~--. or other public place within said city,. to report the same
within twenty-four (24) hours to the Chief of Police or other person
in charge' of the Police Department, in writing if said collision
results in dam-/~ogeany property or injury to any person. · Said re-
port shall state the time when, and the place where such collision
took place, the name and address of the person owning, and of the
person or persons riding, driving or in charge of the animal, or
riding, driving, propelling or in charge of the vehicle causing
such accident, the number of such vehicle, and such other information
as may be required by the Police Department. '.~...~..'~"
SECTION 26. CROWDING FRONT SEAT PRO~IBITED.
It shall be unlawf. ul for the operator of any motor vehicle
animal s,
to permit ~-soa~ ./or inanimate objects to occupy such a portion
of the driver's seat as to prevent tbe operator thereof from having
sufficient room in which to adequately operate said vehicle.
SECTION 27. CLINGING TO P~OVING VEHICLES.
It shall be unlawful for any person traveling upon any
bicycle, motorcycle or any toy vehicle,. to cling to, or attach
himself or his vehicle, to any other moving vehicle or street car
upon any roadway.
SECTION 28. USE OF COASTERS, ROLLER SKATES, AND SIMILAR DEVICES .~ESTRICTED.
It shall be unlawful for any person upon roller skates,
or riding in or by means of any coaster, toy vehicle or similar
device to go upon any sidewalk in any business district, as defined
he re in.
SECTION 29. CERTAIN COASTING DEVICES PROHIBITED IN RESIDENCE DISTRICT.
It shall be unlawful for any person to ride in or upon
any riding or coasting machine or device upon any sidewalk in the
residential district, as the same is defined by Ordinance No. 183,
New Series, as the same is now amended or may hereafter be amended,
in the City of Bakersfield, in such manner as to cause or make loud
or unusual noise, which does disturb the peace and quietude of any
person or of any neighborhood.
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ARTICLE V.
STOPPi~G, STANDING AND PARKING.
SECTION 30. STOPPING PROHIBITED l~ SPECIFIED PLACES.
(a) It shall be unlawful for the operator of a vehicle
to stop such vehicle in any of the following places except when
necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance
with the direction of a police officer or traffic sign or signal:
1. In an intersection;
2. In a c ro s swalk;
3. Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within
fifteen (18) feet of a point in the curb immediately opposite the
end of a safety zone;
4. Within twenty (20) feet of an intersecting roadway,
except busses at a designated bus stop.
Upon all streets within any business district the City
Manager shall designate the provisions of S~b~isions3 and 4 of
this section by placing and maintaining ~ ~--o.~. ~ ~-~ '~ .... ~ paint
of a suitable color
or other material/upon the entire curb surfs ce within such areas,
omitting sny crosswalk area, or by placing and maintaining appro-
priate signs directing that the stopping of~hicles is prohibited.
SECTION 31.
(a) It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle, except
commercis. 1 vehicles, in any alley in the central traffic district
between the hours of 6:00 A. M. and 6:30 P. ~A. This section limits
the use of alleys in the central traffic ~istrict to commercial
vehicles during the hours herein stated actually engaged in the
delivery and pick-up of merchandise; provided, however, that the
vehicles shall not be parked or be permitted to park for a period
of time in excess of one hour.
(b) Vehicles, other than those with truck or delivery
bodies, that is, passenger vehicles which are used for commercial
purposes, shall be accorded the parking privileges in alleys, pro-
vided such vehicle has placed thereon an appropriate sign, which
sign shall be procured from the City License Collector upon pay-
ment of a fee of $~.g~g~ . Such signs, designating a vehicle as
being used commercially, shall only be issued upon satisfactory ..... ~
evidence that such.vehicle is, in fact, used as a commercial vehicle.
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(c) During the hours/. 6:30 P. M. to 6:00 A. M. other
vehicles may use the alleys in the central traffic district for
parking, provided, however, that on alleys running east and west
the parking shall be on the scuth side of alleys only, and on
alleys manning north and south parking shall be on the east side
only. It shall be unlawful to park any vehicle between the hours
mentioned in this section in any other manner than that so designated
herein.
SECTION 32. STAE~DING FOR LOADING ONLY IN CERTAiN PLACES.
(a) It shall be unlawful for the operator of a vehicle
to stop said vehicle for a period of time longer than is necessary
for the loading or unloading of passengers or materials, provided
that the loading or unloading of passengers .shall not consume more
than three (3) minutes, nor the loading or unloading of materials
more than twenty (20) minutes in any of the following places:'
1. In any Restricted Zone;
2. At any curb within twenty-five (28) feet of the
entrance to any hospital;
3. At any curb within ten feet of a fire plug;
4. In any marked bus s top.
(b) The City Manager shall determine the location of
restricted zones and shall mark by appropriate signs, or as
specifically reauired herein, those places where restrictions as
to standing, stopping and parking are deemed by him to be necessary,
subject to the following requirements and limitaticns;
Bus stops shall be designated by appropriate signs at
those places determined by the City ~anager except that a bus stop
shall not exceed fifty (O0) feet in length and shall not be placed
adjacent to a safety zone at a street car stop. Every restricted
~.one, also that portion of every curb reserved by paragraphs 9~ and
3 of subdivision (~) of this section shall be designated
of a suitable color
paint or other material/upon the entire curb surface
therein with appropriate designation of the restriction thereon.
Within any business district not more than one-q~arter of
the total curb length in any one blocR may be set apart as loading
z one s.
The restrictions imposed herein shall not apply between
the hour of 6:30 P. M. and 1:00 A. M. in spaces marked "Loading
Only."
SECTION 33. PARKING TI~E LIMITED IN SPECIFIED PLACES.
The operator of a vehicle shall not park such vehicle
for longer than one (1) hour within any business district between
the hours of 9:00 A. E. md 6:00 P. ~. of any day except Sunday
and subject to the special restrictions imposed by Sections 33 and
34. Signs shall be erected and maintained not more than one-hundred
fifty (160) feet apart in each block, designating the provisions
of this section.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to the
parking of one vehicle by any physician aud surgeon, osteopath
or chiropractor, provided such vehicle has placed thereon an
appropriate sign, which sign shall be procured from the City Lic-
ense Collector upon payment of a fee of $/,O~) ·
SECTION 34. PARKING IN ALLEYS RESTRI~'3TED.
In alleys, other than those in the Central Traffic District,
it shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle, other than on
the south side of alleys running easterly and westerly and on the
east side of alleys running northerly and southerly, subject to the
other provisions of this act; provided, however, that a vehicle may
be stopped on the north side of alleys running easterly and westerly
and on the west side of alleys running northerly and southerly, for
the purpose of unloading or loading ~.erson~. or materials, pro-
vided that the unloading or loading of ~srsons. ~ does not consume
more than three minutes, nor the loading or unloading e~-mat~rials
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does not consume more than twenty minutes.
SECTION 55. OBSTRUCTING TRAB~FIC.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or to
stand any vehicle on any street in such a manner as to obstruct
the free use of such street.
SECTION 58. EARLY MORNING PARKING LIMITED.
It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to
park said vehicle on any street or alley for a period of time
longer than one (1) hour between the hours of l:O0 A. M. and 4:00
A. M. of any day; provided, however, exceptions may be made in the
case of receptions or entertainments.
SECTION 57. STANDING (R PARKING CLOSE TO CURB.
The operator of a vehicle shall not stop, stand, or park
such vehicle in a roadway other than parallel with the curb and with
the two right-hand wheels of the vehicle within one (1) foot of the
regularly established curb line, except that upon those streets
which have been marked for angle parking, as provided in this sec-
tion, vehicles shall be parked at the angle to the curb indicated
by such marks.
The City Manager is hereby aut~.orized to determine upon
what streets angle parking shall be permitted and to indicate such
places by the painting of white lines upon the surface of the road-
way to indicate the proper angle for parking, pr~dvided that such lines
shall not be placed upon, nor shall angle parking be permitted upon
any street where such parking would diminish the width of the road-
way available for travel to less than twenty (20) feet, nor upon
any street where there is less than thirty (30) feet between the
curb and the nearest rail of any street car track.
The City Manager is hereby authorized to prohibit the
parking of vehicles, provided appropriate signs are placed and main-
tained to give notice thereof on one side of a street in any block
where angle parking is permitted on the opposite side of the street
in such block.
SECTION 38. VEP. ICLES BACKED TO CURB.
It shall be unlawful for any vehicle to remain backed
up to any curb except when actually loading or unloading.
SECTION 39. LENGTH OF VEHICLES PARKED AT ANGLE.
It shall be unlawful to park or permit to be parked, in
angle parking districts, any vehicle whose length exceeds twenty
(20) feet and in no instance shall any vehicle with trailer attached
be parked in any angle parking district.
SECTION 40. VEHICLES FOR HIRE AND TAXICABS.
All vehicles for hire and taxicabs shall be restricted
as to parking and operation as provided in Ordinance No. 173, New
Series of ~he City of Bakers field, as adopted by the Council on the
25th day of June, 1923, and as it is or may be mended.
ARTICLE VI.
STREET CARS, DRIVEWAYS, EXEMPTIONS.
SECTION 41. WHEN VEHICLES NOT TO BE DRIVEN ON STREET CAR TRACKS.
It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle
proceeding upon any street car tracks in front of a street car
to fail to remove said vehicle from said tracks as soon as
practicable after signal from the operator of said street car.
SECTION 42. STREET CAR SPEED.
It shall be unlawful for the operator of any street car
to drive said street car at a speed exceeding the following:
( 1 ) Fifteen ( 15 ) mile s per hour:
(a) In a business district;
(b) When passing schools while persons are
entering or leaving the grounds;
(c) When traversing any railway grade crossing;
(d) When traversing curves where the operator
does not have an unobstructed view along
the tracks for a distance of two-hundred (200)
feet;
(2) Twenty-five (25) miles per hour in a residence district;
(3) Else~vhere, thirty-five (35) miles per hour.
SECTION 45. BOARDING OR ALIGHTING FRO~. STREET CARS OR VFHICLES.
It shall be unlawful for any person to board or alight
from a street car or vehicle while said street car or vehicle is
in motion.
SECTION 44. RIDING ON HU~rNING BOARDS PROHIBITED.
It shall be unlawful for any person to ride upon the
fender, running board, hood, top, tank, or luggage carrier of any
vehicle or street car, or for the operator thereof to knowingly
permit any person to so ride on any vehicle or street car.
SECTION 45. RAYLWAY TRAINS AND STREET CARS NOT TO BLOCK STREETS.
It shall be unlawful for the operator of any stem,
interurban or street railway train or car to operate the same in
such a manner as to prevent the use of any street for purposes of
travel for a period of time longer than five (5) minutes.
SECTION 46. POLICE AND FIRE VE~IICLES EXEMPT FRO~! CERTAIN RULES.
The provisions of this ordinance regulating the move-
ment, parking and standing of certain vehicles shall not apply
~o emergency vehicles of the police or sher~ff's office, or of
the fire department, or the State Highway Patrol, or of a public
utility while the driver of any such vehicle is engaged in the
necessary performance of a public emergency duty.
ARTICLE VII.
PENALTIES AND PROCEDUHE.
SECTION 4V. DRIVEWAYS.
BUSINESS DISTRICT.
(a) It shall be unlawful to construct any driveway
entering places of business, such as public or private garages,
oil stations, service stations and business of like character in
the Business District, with an entrance width in excess of twenty
(20) feet, and only one entrance on the same street will be allowed
for each place of business. ~q~en the place of business occupied is
on the corner these entrances may not be so constructed as to be
nearer the corner property lines than fifteen (15) feet.
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(b) All permits issued for driveways in the Residence
foregoing
District which do not conform to the/requirements shall
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at such time as the location is declared to be Business District as
set forth in this ordin~ce or any ~endment thereto, and upon due
notice the same Est be corrected to meet the requirements as set
forth ~der Business District he~ein.
~TICLE VII.
P~ALTI ES ~D PROCEDU~.
SECT~0N 48. PEN~TIES.
~y person violating ~y of ~e provisions of this ord-
in~ce, o~ ~y rule or re~lation rode by the City M~ager pursuant
thereto, shall be guilty of a misdeme~or, ~d upon conviction thereof
shall, ~less ~other penalty is herein provided, be pmished for
the first offense by a fine not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00),
or by impriso~ent in the County Jail for not more than five (~)
days; fo~ a second violation wi~in a period of one (1) year by a
fine not to exceed one h~dred dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment
in the Co~ty Jail for not mo~e than ten (lO) days, o~ by both such
fine and ~prisonment; for a third and each additional offense
co~itted within one (1) year by a fine not exceeding five hindred
dollars ($500.00) or by impriso~ent in ~e County Jail for a period
not to exceed six (8) months, o~ by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 49. DISPOSITION 0F FEES ~D ~REITURES.
All fines or forfeitures collected uRon conviction
upon the forfei~re of bail of ~y person charged with a violation
of my of the provisions of this ordinance shall be paid into the
city t~eas~y ~d deposited into a special f~d, ~i~ is hereby
created, to be known as the Street Improvement F~d. ~ere may
be appropriated out of said f~d such moneys as from time to time
may be authorized by .~e Council for the purchase ~d maintenmce
of t~affic si~s, signals, or street equipment, lights a~ paint
marks necessary to desi~ate t~e provisions of this ordhance, ~d
· ~,..~-the balance of said ~d shall be used exclusively in thg construc-
tion, maintenance ~d improvement of public ~ treets within this
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SECTION 80. APPEARANCE UPON AN ARREST FOE VIOLATION OF ~E PROVISIONS
OF THIS ACT.
Whenever sny person is arrested for any violation of the
provisions of this act, unless such person demands the right to
an immediate appearance before a magistrate, the arresting officer
shall, upon production but without surrender of the operator's or
chauffeur's license of the person arrested, or other satisfactory
evidence of the latter's identity, take the name and address of
such person and the number of his motor vehicle and notify him in
writing to appear ~t a time and place to be specified in such notice,
such time to be et least five days after such arrest and such place
to be before the Police Court Judge of the City of Bskersfield~ where-
upon such officer shell, upon the giving by such person of his written
promise to appear at such ti~.e and place, forthwith release him from
cus to dy.
Whenever any such person refuses to give his written promise
to appear as hirein provided for or demands an immediate appearance
before a magistrate, he shall be taken forthwith before the police
court judge of the City of Bakersfield. He shall then be entitled
to at legst five days continuance of his case in which to prepare
to plead or to prepare for trial and he shall not be required to
plead or to be tried within five days unless he waives such time
in writing or in open court; provided that he gives his written
promise to appear at such time and place as the court may fix for
his further appearance or, upon his refusal to give such promise,
upon such bail as the court may fix and he shall thereupon be re-
leased from custody.
Any person who wilfully violates his promise given in
accordance with this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor re-
gardless of the disposition of the charge upon which he was originally
by
arrested. A promise to appear may be complied with/an appearance
by counsel. Any person arrested upon a charge of violating this sec-
tion may be taken immediately by the arresting officer before ~....~.e
nearest or most accessible magistrate.
SECTION 51. EFFECT OF ORDINANCE.
If any section, sub-section, sentence, clause or phrase
~of this ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional,
such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining por-
tions of this ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that
it would have passed this ordinance and each section, sub-section,
sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact
that any one or more sections, sub-sections, sentences, clauses
or phrases be declsred unconstitutional.
SECTION 52. REPEAL.
Ordinances Numbers 260, 28S, 289, 292, 500, SlO, S~8, and
840 New Series of the City of Bakersfield are hereby repealed, and all
ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with or inconsistent
with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed, except
that this repeal shall not affect or prevent the prosecution or
punishment of any perscn for any act done or committed in violation
of any ordinances hereby repealed prior to the taking effect of
this ordinance.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed
end adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield, at a regular
meeting thereof on the/~day of October, 1950, by the following
vote:
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~Y k~ City Clerk and ":x-Officio ]lerk of
( ~.' Council of the City of Bakers field.
APPR ED C cto 1950.
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