Ordinance - 59r ,
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An Ordinance of the City' of '.7est Covina regulating
traffic upon the public streets within
said City.
The City Council of the City of ?Nest Covina do ordain as follows:
ARTICLE I.
D.jF DITIOLS
Sect ion 1.
STREET- Every way set apart for public travel except alleyways,
bridle paths and foot paths.
• ROADWAY- That portion of a street between the regularly established
• curb 1 ine s.
ALLEY- A public highway which does not exceed twenty (20)
feet between property lines.
SIDEIALK- That port ion of a street between the curb lire s and t he
adjacent property lines.
UTERSECTIOE- The area embraced within the prolongation of the property
lines of two or more streets which. join at an angle,
whether or not one such street c orsses the other.
CROSSWALK - That portion of the roadway included within the prolong-
ation of curb and property lines at street intersections.
VEHICLE - Every device or animal by which any person or property
is or may b,e transported or drawn upon a street,
excepting devices moved by human power or used exclus-
ively upon rails. For the purpose of this ordinance
a bicycle shall be deemed a vehicle.
PEP.ESTRIAB- Any person afoot.
OPERATOR- Any person who is; in actual physical control of a veh icL
or street car.
0 TRAFFIC- Pedestrians, vehicles and street cars, either singly or
together, while using any street for purposes of travel.
RIGHT-OF-WAY - The privilege of the immediate use of the street.
PARK.- To stand a vehicle fo,r a period of time greater t han is
reasonable necessary for the actual loading or urilbading
of persons or materials.
- ARTICLE II -
_1U'THOR IT'Y OF POLICE
Section 2. OB3DI314CE TO POLICE -
The City Council of the City of ;Nest Covina shall appoint
a Chief of Police and such assistants as are necessary. The
Chief of Police is hereby authorized to direct traffic in th6
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City of West Covina., and it shall be unlawful for any person
to refuse or fail to comply with any lawful order, sighal, or
direction of such police officer.
Section 3. SIGTTS-
The City Council shall by resolution determine and designate the
character of traffic signs and signals and to place and maintain
or cause to be placed and maintained all such signs, warnings,
and direction signs and signals. 1,11 signs authorized and
required hereunder for a particular purpose shall be uniform.
No provision of this ordinance for which sighs are required
shall be enforceable against the alleged violator if at the
time and place of the alleged violator the sign herein required
is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen
by an ordinarily observant person.
Sect ion 4. OBEUIJNCE TO TRAFFIC SIGT`S-
It shall be unlawful for any operator of any vehicle or
pedestrian to disobey the traffic signs along or upon. the
highway in the City of West Covina placed within t he provisions
of this Ordinance.
Section 5. POLICE A,I D FIRE VEHICLES EXB11PT FRO11 CERT.AIId RULS'S-
The provisions of this ordinance regulet ing the movement, parkin
and standing of vehicles shall not apply t o emergency vehicles
of the police or sheriff's office or of the fire department or
of a. public utility while the driver of any such vehicle is
engaged in t he necessary performance of public emergency duties.
- ARTICLE III -
RUL.-+S FOR DRIVING
Section G. BOULEVARD STOPS -
Every operator of a vehicle traversing any street intersecting
any boulevard shall bring such vehicle to a full stop before
entering such boulevard at the prolongs.tion of the nearer
property line of such boulevard; provided the prolongation of
such property lire if clearly marked or s ignposted.
City City Council shall place and maintain or cause to
be placed and maintained upon each and every street intersecting
a boulevard and at or near the property line of the boulevard
appropriate signs upon the street or devices or marks in t he
roadway, such signs, devices or marks to bear the word "STOP"
or the words "BOUL ;YARD STOP" in such position and with letters
of a size to be clearly legible from a distance of fifty (50)
feet along the street intersecting the boulevard.
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RULES AIM P71414ALTIES
Section 7-
This traffic laws of the Vehicle Code of the State of
California as enacted and amended by the 1935 legislatur°e s.hall
be enforced in the City of ,'lest Covina.
Section 8- PENALTY -
Any person violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance,
or any rule or regulation made by the City Council of the City
• of ,,'lest Covina pursuant thereto, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, End upon conviction thereof shall be, punished for t he
• first offense by a fins not to exceed Fifty (50.00) Dollars,
or by imprisonment in the City Jail for riot more than five
(5) days; for second violation within a period of one (1)
year by a fine not to exceed One Hundred (�4�100.00) Dollars,
or by imprisonment in the City Jail for not more than ten (10)
days, or by both such f ine and imprisonment; for a third and
each additional offence committed within one (1) year by a
fine not to Gceed '�hree Hundred (0,000.00) Dollars, or by
imprisonment in the City Jail for not more than three (3)
months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
COUNTY OF 103 ANGELES, ( as.
CITY OF WEST COVIN49
I, C. C. TOLAND, City Clerk of the City of
do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was
the City Council of the City of West Covina at the
meeting of the said City Council on the Sth day of
and signed by the Mayor of said Council, and that
Ordinance was adopted by the following vote:
AYES:
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ABSERT :
STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) as
COUMY OF 103 ANGELES )
West Covi na,
adopted by
re guls-r
January, 1936,
the said"
City Clerk
I, C. C. TOLAND, being first duly swo na , says: That he is- the
City Clerk of the City of Vest Covina, and is a citizen of
the United State nd over the age of twenty-one years; that on
tohe�7 day of � .y, �, he posted . three copies of Ordinwc e
' e City of West Covina, entitled An Ordinance of t hs-
City of Writ Covina regulating traffic upon the public streets
within said City," in three public places in said c it.y, to —wit,
one at the dog or of the 'West Covina Club House, the same being t1a
place where the regular meetings of the City Council of the said
City are held, one on Sunset Avenue in front of the `'-lest Covim-
School House, and one at the Nw-thweat corrner of Puente Street and
Lark Ellen Boulevard.
SUBSCRIBED AND SW _ '1o before me
t h i s_,� day of
l g3
Notary Public in and for :he Coup y
of Los Angeles,. State of California