Ordinance - 165ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE MENDING ORDINANCE NO. 103
OF THE -CITY OF WEST COVINA REGUTATING
TRAFFIC AT INTERSECTIONS
The City Council of the City of West Covina do ordain as
follows : _ .. _ _ . .
Section 1: Ordinance -No. 103 entitled"An Ordinance
of the City of West Covina,,'California, making -certain
provisions relating to public streets -and public places
Within said City: Regulating traffic in and upon such public
streets and places, and -repealing all ordinances and parts.
of ordinances in conflict therewith" is hereby amended by
adding thereto a new Section; to be numbered Article IV,
Section 1.5,. to read as follows:
Article IV, Section 1.5,:: At any intersection within
the City of West Covina, where mechanical traffic control
devices. *shall' have- been installed $ or- mad hereafter be- in-
s:talled, the traffic authority may erect.,place or maintain
signs prohibiting the' making of right turns --by drivers of
vehicles against the red light -or other means employed by
said mechanical controlled devices: -indicating that'the
drivers of vehicles, traveling in one or more general di-
rections, shall stop whenever the -said traffic authority
determines that such right turns cause traffic congestion
or traffic hazard:
During the tune such signs are'so'erected or placed,
no right hand -turn shall be permitted against the red signal
or stop signal or other means used to -indicate that traffic
approaching the intersection in one general direction shall
stop, and it shall be unlawful for operators or drivers of
any vehicle to make any right hand turn in such intersection
at such times.
-PENALTIES. That any person violating any of the pro-
visions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a
fine of not less than $10.00-and not more than $300.00 or
by imprisonment in the City jail of West Covina, California,
or in -the County jail of the County of Los Angeles, Calif- -
ornia, as the committing magistrate may direct -,"for a period
of not more than three months or by both such fine and im-
prisonment in the discretion of the Court.
This Ordinance shall take effect thirty days after the
date of its adoption, and prior to the expiration of fifteen
days from the passage hereof shall be published once in the
West Covina Tribune; a newspaper I printed and published in the -
City of West Covina, County of Los Angeles, ,9:tate of California.
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First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of
said City held on the 23Ed day of -March , 1949-, and -
finally adopted and ordered published at a regular meeting-'
of said Council held on the jgth day of March I , 1949.
AYES: Van Horn, DeLay, Mossberg, Flotten
NOES : n on e
ABSENT: Hurst
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Mayor of the City of West Covina
ATTEST.
City Cleric of the Ci of West Covina