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ORD''`_?A:?CE NO. 2041
' AN ORDINANCE Or THE CITY OF RENTQNd,� V,9§HINGTON,
RELATING TO AND REGULATING-116TOR VEHICLES, TRAFFIC, a01/7
TRAVEL, AND TRANSPC?ttTATION AND THEIR INCIDENTS UPON
THE PUBLJ_C--&'4x-kE_ETS, BICY _LE PATHS, AND OTHER WAYS
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC; PRESCRIBING THE POWERS AND DUTIES
OF OFFICERS AND OTHERS IN RELATION THERETO: DEFINING
OFFENSES; PROVIDING PENALTIES, AND REPEALING THE
CITY'S TRAFFIC COLE K10WN AS CHAPTER I OF TITLE X
(TRAFFIC), EXCEPT SECTION 10-1-207 RE SPEED LIMITS
THEREOF, OF ORDINANCE NO. 1628, KNOWN AS "CODE OF
GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF RENTON" AND ALL
OTHER ORDINANCES AND SECTIONS OF ORDINANCES INSOFAR
AS SAME ARE IN CONFLICT THEREWITH.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AT'D T7.: -'E CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
RENTON AS FOLLOWS:
ARTICLE I_: ORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED
SECTION I: Definition of words and phrases. The following words
and phrases when used in this ordinance shall for the purpose of this
ordinance have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this article,
unless where used the context thereof shall clearly indicate to the con-
trary.
Subdivision I. Vehicles, Traffic, etc., Defined.
SECTION II: P.icht-of-way. The privilege of the immediate use of
the roadway.
SECTION III: (a) Ston. When required, means complete cessation of
movement.
(b) Stop, stopping, or standing When prohibited, means any
whether
stopping or standing of a vehicle/occupied or not, except when necessary
to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions
of a police officer or traffic -control sign or signal.
(c) Park. When prohibited means the standing of a vehicle, whether
occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while
actually engaged in loading or unloading.
SECTION IV: Official time standard.. Wherever certain hours are named
herein, they shall mean standard time or daylight-saving time as may be
in current use in this City.
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Subdivision II. Persons, etc. Defined
SECTION V: (a) Police Officer. Every officer of the municipal
police department or any officer authorized to direct or regulate
traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
(b) Traffic Division. The traffic division of the police
department of this City, or in the event a traffic division is
not established, then said term, whenever used herein, shall be
deemed to refer to the police department of this City.
Subdivision III. Streets, etc., Defined.
SECTION VI: (a) Curb Loading Zone. A space adjacent to a
curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the load-
ing or unloading of passengers or materials.
(b) Passenqer Curb Loadinq Zone. A place adjacent to a
curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the load-
ing or unloading of passengers.
(c) Freiqht Curb Loading Zone A space adjacent to a curb
for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading
of freight.
SECTION VII: Central business (or traffic) district All
streets and portions of streets *eithin the area described as
follows: All that area abounded by Second Avenue on the North,
Fourth Avenue on the South, Main Street on the East and Burnett
Street on the West,
ARTICLE II. ENFORCEMENT AND OBEDIENCE TO
TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
SECTION VIII: Authority of Police and Fire Department Officials.
(a) It shall be the duty of the officers of the police depart-
ment or such officers as are assigned by the chief of police to
enforce this traffic ordinance.
(b) Officers of the police department or such officers as
are assigned by the chief of police are hereby authorized to
direct all traffic by voice, hand, or signal in conformance with
traffic laws, provided that, in the event of a fire or other
emergency or to expedite traffic or to safeguard pedestrians,
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officers of the police department may direct traffic as conditions
may require notwithstanding the provisions of the traffic laws.
(c) Officers of the fire department, when at the scene of a
fire, may direct or assist the police in directing traffic thereat
or in the immediate vicinity.
SECTION IX: Required Obedience to traffic ordinance. It is
unlawful for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to perform
any act required in this ordinance.
SECTION X: Obedience to police and fire department officials.
No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful
order or direction of a police officer or fire department official.
SECTION XI: Use of coasters, roller skates and similar
devices restricted. No person upon roller skates, or riding in
or by means of any coaster, toy vehicle,.or similar device, shall
go upon any roadway except while crossing a street on a crosswalk
and when so crossing, such person shall be granted all of the rights
and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to pedestrians.
This section shall not apply upon any street while set aside as a
play street as authorized by ordinance of this City.
SECTION XII: Authorized emergency vehicles. (a) The driver of
an -authorized emergency vehicle, when responding to an emergency
call or when in the pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of
the law or when responding to but not upon returning from a fire
alarm, may exercise the privileges set forth in this section, but
subject to.the conditions herein stated.
(b) The driver of an authorized emergency vehicle may:
1. Park or stand, irrespective of the prdvisions of this
ordinance;
2. Proceed past a red or stop signal or stop sign, but
only after slowing down as may be necessary for safe
operation;
3. Exceed the speed limits prescribed herein so long as
he does not endanger life or property;
4. Disregard regulations governing direction of movement
or turning in specified directions.
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(c) The exemptions herein granted to an authorized emergency
vehicle shall apply only when the driver of any said vehicle while
in motion sounds audible signal by bell, siren, or exhaust whistle
as may be reasonably necessary, and when the vehicle is equipped
with at least one lighted lamp displaying a red light visible under
normal atmospheric conditions from a distance of 500 feet to the
front of such vehicle, except that an authorized emergency vehicle
operated as a police vehicle need not be equipped with or display
a red light visible from in front of the vehicle; PROVIDED FURTHER
that emergency vehicles shall not exceed the posted speed limit by
more than five miles per hour and shall not proceed through stop
signs or red traffic signal lights without first making a full stop
and permitting traffic to clear the intersection.
The following vehicles while on emergency calls shall in the
order named have the right-of-way over all other traffic:
Vehicles and apparatus of the Fire Department.
Vehicles of the Police Department, Sheriff's
Office, Washington State Patrol
Vehicles of the Coroner and Prosecuting Attorney
Ambulances, and other authorized emergency vehicles.
ARTICLE III: TRAFFIC -CONTROL DEVICES AND SIGNALS
SECTION XIII: Authority to install traffic -control devices
(a) The City Engineer shall place and maintain traffic -control
signs, signals, and devices when as required under the traffic ordi-
nances of this City to make effective the provisions of said ordinances,
and may place and maintain such additional traffic -control devices
as he may deem necessary to regulate traffic under the traffic ordi-
nances of this City or under State law, or to guide or warn traffic.
(b) No Passing Zones. The City may, under the direction of
it's Engineer whenever it is deemed necessary for safe vehicle opera-
tion, install no passing zones by means of a solid barrier paint line
of contrasting color parallel, adjacent, and to the right of the
painted barrier line of the traffic lane in which the vehicle is opera-
ting and which shall be visible to the vehicle operator to designate
points between which vehicles may not lawfully overtake and pass.
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SECTION,XIV:Design for traffic -control devises. All traffic
control signals, signs, and traffic control devices to be erected
or maintained upon any city street designated as forming a part of
the route of a primary state highway or secondary state highway
must be approved by the state highway commission prior to their in-
stallation. Provided, however, in cities having a population in ex-
cess of fifteen thousand according to the latest Federal census,
traffic -control signals, signs, and traffic -control devices are
subject to approval of the state highway commission for installation
and type only. All signs and signals required hereunder for a parti-
cular purpose shall so far as practicable be uniform as to type and
location throughout the City. All traffic -control devices so erect-
ed and not inconsistent with the provisions of State law or this
ordinance shall be official traffic -control devices.
SECTION XV: When traffic devices required for enforcement pur-
poses. No provision of this ordinance for which signs are required
shall be enforced against any alleged violator if at the time and
place of the alleged violation an official sign is not in proper
position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily prudent
person. Whenever a particular section does not state that signs are
required, such section shall be effective even though no signs are
erected or in place.
SECTION XVI. Display of unauthorized signs, signals, or markings.
(a) No person shall place, maintain, or display upon or in view
of any highway any unauthorized sign, signal, marking, or device
which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official
traffic -control device or railroad sign or signal, or which attempts
to direct the movement of traffic, or which hides from view or inter-
feres with the effectiveness of any official traffic -control device
or any railroad sign or signal.
(b) No person shall place or maintain nor shall any public
authority permit upon any highway any traffic sign or signal bearing
thereon any commercial advertising.
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(c) This section shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection
upon private property adjacent to highways of signs giving useful
directional information and of a type that cannot be mistaken for
official signs.
(d) Every such prohibited sign, signal, or marking is hereby
declared to be a public nuisance and the authority having jurisdict-
ion over the highway is hereby empowered to remove the same or cause
it to be removed without notice.
SECTION XVII: Interference with official traffic -control devices
or railroad signs or signals. No person!€ shall without lawful author-
ity attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down, or remove
any official traffic -control device or any railroad sign or signal
or any inscription shield, or insignia thereon, or any other part
thereof.
SECTION XVIII: Authority to establish play streets. The City
Engineer shall have authority to declare any street or part thereof
a play street and to place appropriate signs or devices in the road-
way indicating and helping to protect the same.
SECTION XIX: Play streets. Whenever authorized signs are erected
indicating any street or part thereof as a play street, no person
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shall drive a vehicle upon any such street or portion thereof except
operators of vehicles having business or whose residences are within
such closed area, and then any said operator shall exercise the
greatest care in driving upon any such street or portion thereof.
SECTION XX: City Engineer to designate crosswalk, establish
safety zones. The City Engineer is hereby authorized --
(a) To designate and maintain, by appropriate devices, marks, or
lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections
where in his opinion there is particular danger to pedestrians cross-
ing the roadway, and at such other places as he may deem necessary.
(b) To establish safety ,-ones of such kind and character and
at such places as he may deem necessary for the protection of ped-
estrians.
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SECTION XXI: Traffic Lanes. (a) The City Engineer is hereby
authorized to mark traffic lanes upon the roadway of any street
or highway where a regular alignment of traffic is necessary.
(b) Where such traffic lanes have been marked, it shall be
unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to fail or refuse to
keep such vehicle within the boundaries of any such lane except
when lawfully passing another vehicle or preparatory to making
a lawful turning movement.
ARTICLE IV. SPEED REGULATIONS
SECTION XXII: State Speed laws applicable. The state traffic
laws regulating the speed of vehicles shall be applicable upon all
streets within this City, and as may be established, as authorized
by state law, by separate ordinance of this City, upon the basis
of engineering and traffic investigation providing that certain
speed regulations shall be applicable upon specified streets or
in certain areas, in which event it shall be unlawful for any
person to drive a vehicle at a speed in excess of any speed so
declared in any such ordinance when signs are in place giving
notice thereof. The provisions of Section 10-1-207 entitled
"Speed Limits" of TITLE X (TRAFFIC) of Ordinance No. 1628, shall
be complied with.
SECTION XXIII: The City Engineer is hereby authori2ed to
regulate the timing of traffic signals so as to permit the move-
ment of traffic in an orderly and safe manner.
ARTICLE V. TURNING MOVEMENTS
SECTION XXIV: Authority to place and obedience to turning
markers. (a) The City Engineer is authorized to place markers,
buttons, or signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating
the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections
in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance and R.C.W.
47.36.060.
(b) When authorized markers, buttons, or other.indications
are placed within an intersection indicating the course to be
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traveled by vehicles turning thereat, no operator of a vehicle shall
disobey the directions of such indications.
SECTION ;FXV: Authority to place restricted turn signs. The City
Engineer is hereby authorized to determine those intersections at which
operators of vehicles shall not make a right, left, or U turn, and
shall place proper signs at such intersections. The making of such
turns may be prohibited beteaeen certain hours of any day and per-
mitted at other hours, in which event, the same shall be plainly
indicated on the signs, or they may be removed when such turns are
permitted.
SECTION X -WI: Obedience to no -turn signs. .(a) Whenever author-
ized signs are erected indicating that no right or left or U turn
is permitted, no operator of a vehicle shall disobey the directions
of any such sign.
(b) "Yield Right-of-way" Signs. The driver of a vehicle
approaching a "Yield Right-of-way" sign shall reduce speed or stop
if necessary in order to yield the right-of-way to all traffic on
the intersecting street which is so close as to constitute an im-
mediate hazard. A motorist proceeding past such a sign with a re-
sultan- collision or other interferences with traffic on an inter-
secting street shall be prima facie evidence that the motorist had
not obeyed the sign and yielded the right-of-way as provided by this
statute.
(c) Left Turns on other than Two -Way Roadways At any inter-
section, including alleys and driveways, where traffic is restricted
to one direction on one or more of the roadways, the driver of a
vehicle intending to turn left at any such intersection shall approach
the intersection in the extreme left-hand lane lawfully available to
traffic moving in the direction of travel of such vehicle and after
entering the intersection, alley or driveway, the left turn shall
be made so as to leave the intersection, as nearly as practicable,
in the left-hand lane lawfully available to traffic moving in such
direction upon the roadway being entered.
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ARTICLE VI. ONE-WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS
SECTION XXVII: Authority to skin one-way streets and alleys.
Whenever any ordinance of this City designates any one-way
street or alley, including those streets, alleys, and parts of
streets and alleys designated in Chapter 2 of Title X (TRAFFIC)
of Ordinance No. 1628, the City Engineer shall place and maintain
signs giving notice thereof, and no such regulation shall be ef-
fective unless such signs are in place. Signs indicating the
direction of lawful traffic movement shall be placed at every
intersection where movement of traffic in the opposite direction
is prohibited.
SECTION XXVIII: One-way Streets and alleys. Upon those
streets and parts of streets and in those alleys described in the
aforesaid ordinance, or any amendments thereto and made a part
hereof, vehicular traffic shall move only in the indicated direct-
ion when signs indicating the direction of traffic are erected
and maintained at every intersection where movement in the oppos-
ite direction is prohibited, and a vehicle passing around a rotary
traffic island shall be driven only to the right of such island.
SECTION XXIX: Authority to restrict direction of movement on
streets during certain periods (a) The City Engineer may, as autho-
rized by ordinance, designate streets, parts of streets, or spec-
ific lanes thereon upon which vehicular traffic shall proceed in
one direction during one period and the opposite direction during
another period of the day and shall place and maintain appropriate
markings, signs, barriers or other devices to give notice thereof.
The City Engineer may erect signs temporarily designating lanes to
be used by traffic moving in a particular direction, regardless
of the center line of the roadway.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any vehicle
in violation of such markings, signs, barriers, or other devices
so placed in accordance with this section.
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ARTICLE VII. SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED
SECTION XXX: Emerging from alley or private driveway. It shall
be unlawful for the operator of a vehicle to emerge from any alley,
driveway, building exit, private way, or private property or from
off the roadway of any public highway, onto the roadway of any
public highway or across a sidewalk or into the sidewalk area ex-
tending across any such alley, driveway, building exit, private
way or private property without bringing such vehicle to a full
stop and yielding the right-of-way to all pedestrians upon such
sidewalk and all vehicles upon such public highway.
No vehicle shall back into or out of an alley, except when
same is obstructed.
No driver shall enter any street at any point other than a
street intersection at a rate of speed exceeding five (5) miles
an hour, nor operate a vehicle in excess of Fifteen (15) miles per
hour in any alley.
SECTION XXXI: Arterial highways designated Those streets
and parts of streets described in Chapter 11 of Title X of Ordinance
No. 1628, same being incorporated herein as if fully set forth, and
as said Ordinance may be amended from time to time, are hereby de-
clared to be arterial highways for the purpose of this section.
SECTION XXXII: Authority to erect stop signs Except on such
streets that form a part of the route of a primary or secondary
state highway upon which the state law requires the state highway
commission to install, operate, maintain, and control traffic -control
devices, whenever any ordinance of this City designates and describes
an arterial highway, it shall be the duty of the City Engineer to
place and maintain a stop sign on each and every street intersecting
such arterial highway or intersecting that portion thereof described
and designated as such by any ordinance of this City.
SECTION XXXIII: Intersections where stop required The City
Engineer is hereby authorized to determine and designate intersections
where particular ha'...ard exists upon other than arterial highways and
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ARTICLE VII. SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED
SECTION XXX: Emerging from alley or private driveway. It shall
be unlawful for the operator of a vehicle to emerge from any alley,
driveway, building exit, private way, or private property or from
off the roadway of any public highway, onto the roadway of any
public highway or across a sidewalk or into the sidewalk area ex-
tending across any such alley, driveway, building exit, private
way or private property without bringing such vehicle to a full
stop and yielding the right-of-way to all pedestrians upon such
sidewalk and all vehicles upon such public highway.
No vehicle shall back into or out of an alley, except when
same is obstructed.
No driver shall enter any street at any point other than a
street intersection at a rate of speed exceeding five (5) miles
an hour, nor operate a vehicle in excess of Fifteen (15) miles per
hour in any alley.
SECTION XXXI: Arterial highways designated Those streets
and parts of streets described in Chapter 11 of Title X of Ordinance
No. 1628, same being incorporated herein as if fully set forth, and
as said Ordinance may be amended from time to time, are hereby de-
clared to be arterial highways for the purpose of this section.
SECTION XXXII: Authority to erect stop signs Except on such
streets that form a part of the route of a primary or secondary
state highway upon which the state law requires the state highway
commission to install, operate, maintain, and control traffic -control
devices, whenever any ordinance of this City designates and describes
an arterial highway, it shall be the duty of the City Engineer to
place and maintain a stop sign on each and every street intersecting
such arterial highway or intersecting that portion thereof described
and designated as such by any ordinance of this City.
SECTION XXXIII: Intersections where stop required The City
Engineer is hereby authorized to determine and designate intersections
where particular ha'...ard exists upon other than arterial highways and
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to determine whether vehicles shall stop at one or more entrances
to any such stop intersection, and shall erect a stop sign at
every such place where a stop is required.
SECTION XXXIV: Design of "Stop" signs. Every stop sign
shall be of the standard design adopted by the State Highway
Commission.
SECTION XXXV: Stop when traffic obstructed. No operator
shall enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk unless there
is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or
crosswalk to accomodate the vehicle he is operating without ob-
structing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians, not-
withstanding any traffic control signal indication to proceed.
SECTION XXXVI: Obedience to signal indicating approach of
railroad train. No person shall drive any vehicle through,
around, or under any crossing gate or barrier at a railroad grade
crossing while such gate or barrier is closed or is being operated
or closed.
ARTICLE VIII. MISCELLANEOUS DRIVING RULES
SECTION XXXVII: Driving through funeral or other procession
No operator of a vehicle shall drive between the vehicles com-
prising a funeral or other authorized procession while they are
in motion and when such vehicles are conspicuously designated as
required in this ordinance. This provision shall not apply at
intersections where traffic is controlled by traffic -control signals
unless a police officer is present at such intersections to direct
traffic so as to preserve the continuity of the funeral procession.
SECTION XXXVIII: Operators in a procession Each operator in
a funeral or other procession shall drive as near to the right-
hand edge of the roadway as practical and shall follow the vehicle
ahead as close as is practical and safe.
SECTION XXXIX: Funeral processions to be identified A funeral
composed of a procession of vehicles shall be identified as such
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by the display upon the outside of each vehicle of a pennant or other
other
identifying insignia or by such/method as may be determined and de-
signated by the traffic division.
SECTION XL: When permits required for parades and processions.
With the exception of funeral processions and parades of the armed
forces of the United States or the military forces of this State,
no processions or parades shall be conducted on the city streets
and the persons or groups to *whom such permits are issued shall
only occupy, march, or proceed along any street in accordance with
a permit issued by the Chief of Police and such other regulations
as are set forth herein which may be applicable.
SECTION lXLI: Vehicles shall not be driven on a sidewalk.
(a) The operator of a vehicle shall not drive within any side-
,i,,al'c area except at a permanent or temporary driveway.
(b) Closed Street or Sidewalk. It shall be unlawful for
any re --son to disregard any notice that a roadway or sidewalk is
closed to either pedestrian or vehicular traffic or to use such
closed st__eet.., and in addition to any penalty for such violation
such person shall be liable in a civil action for any damages
occasioned to such street by such use thereof.
SECTION XIJI: C]_ingina, to moving vehicles (a) Any person
riding upon any bicycle, motorcycle, coaster, sled, roller skates,
or any toy vehicle shall not attach the same or himself: to any
streetcar or moving vehicle upon any roadway.
(b) Limitations on overtaking and Passing Whenever any
vehicle L stopped at a marked crosswalk or at any unmarked cross-
walk at an i.,ntersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway,
the operator of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall
not overtalce and pass such stopped vehicle.
(c) School Patrol. Whenever a school patrol has been duly
established as provided by P.CW 46.48.160, the members of such school
patrol shall wear a badge or other appropriate insignia marked
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"school patrol" when in performance of their duties, and they are
hereby authorized to display "Stop" or other proper traffic dir-
ectional signs or signals at school crossings or other points where
school children are crossing or about to cross a street, but such
member of the school patrol shall be subordinate to and obey the
orders of any peace officer present and having jurisdiction. It
shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to fail to stop
his vehicle when directed to do so by a school patrol sign or
signal displayed by a member of the school patrol engaged in the
performance of his duty and wearing or displaying appropriate
insignia, and it shall further be unlawful for the operator of a
vehicle to disregard any other reasonable directions of a member
of the school patrol when acting in performance of his duties as
such.
(d) Entering or Leaving Moving Vehicle. It shall be unlawful
for any person to board or alight from any moving vehicle.
(e) Entering or Leaving Vehicle. It shall be unlawful for
any person to enter, leave, or open a door on the roadway side of
any vehicle whenever such action interferes with other traffic or
constitutes a safety hazard; PROVIDED, however, that such pro-
hibition shall not apply to a vehicle angle parked, nor to author-
ized emergency vehicles.
(f) Crossing Wet Paint Lines. It shall be unlawful for any
person to operate any vehicle across or along wet paint lines
freshly applied by a paint -stripping crew when signs or devices
warning of the condition are in place.
(g) Keys in ignition. It is unlawful to stand or park a motor
vehicle unattended upon a street without first locking the ignition,
removing the key therefrom and keeping such key removed while the
vehicle is unattended.
(h) Dragging Loads Prohibited. No person shall drag or haul
any timber or any articles along or over any street in such a
manner that a portion of the material shall rest upon or come in
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contact with the surface of such street; nor shall any person lock
the wheel of any vehicle on any planked, paved or macadamized street
by the method commonly known as "rough lock", nor by any method
whereby anything other than the rubber tread of such wheel shall
come in contact with the surface of the street.
(i) Display of non -valid Operator's License. It shall be un-
lawful for any person to display or permit to be displayed or have
in possession any vehicle operator's license, knowing the same to
be fictious or to have been canceled, revoked, suspended or altered.
(j) Loaning Operator's License. It shall be unlawful for any
person to lend to, or knowingly permit the use of by one not en-
titled thereto, any vehicle operator's license issued to the person
so lending or permitting the use thereof.
(k) Display the Operator's License of Another. It shall be
unlawful for any person to display or to represent as one's own
any vehicle operator's license not issued to the person so display-
ing the same.
ARTICLE IX. VEHICLES AND SAFETY ,ONES
SECTION XLIII: Boarding or alighting from vehicles. No person
shall board or alight from any vehicle while such vehicle is in motion.
SECTION XLIV: Unlawful Riding. No person shall ride on any
vehicle upon any portion thereof not designated or intended for the
use of passengers. This provision shall not apply to an employee
engaged in the necessary discharge of a duty, or to persons riding
within truck bodies intended for merchandise.
SECTION XLV: Railroad trains not to block streets. It shall
be unlawful for the directing officer or the operator of any railroad
train to direct the operation of or 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 5 minutes, except that this pro-
vision shall not apply to trains or cars in motion other than those
engaged in switching.
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ARTCILE X. PEDESTRIANS' RIGHTS AND DUTIES
SECTION XLVI: Pedestrians subject to traffic -control signals.
Pedestrians shall be subject to traffic -control signals as
heretofore declared in Section XIX of this Ordinance and Section
8, Chapter 196, Laws of 1949, R.C.W. 46.60.240, but at all other
places pedestrians shall be granted those rights and be subject
to the restrictions stated in this article.
SECTION XLVII: Pedestrians to use right half of crosswalk.
Pedestrians shall move, whenever practicable, upon the right
half of crosswalks.
SECTION XLVT_II: Pedestrians' duties. (a) Pedestrians shall
not step into that portion of the street open to moving traffic
at any point between intersections in the Central Business
District, in any business district, on any arterial highway, or
between adjacent intersections of streets protected by stop signs,
except at crosswalks or other places specially provided.
(b) Pedestrians shall not cross street intersections dia-
gonally except at such signalized intersections that provide for
a pedestrian all -walk phase.
(c) Pedestrians crossing a roadway other than at intersection
crosswalks shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the
roadway.
SECTION XLIX: Obedience of pedestrians to bridge and railroad
signals. (a) No pedestrian shall enter or remain upon any bridge
or approach thereto beyond the bridge signal, gate, or barrier
after a bridge operation signal indication has been given.
(b) No pedestrian shall pass through, around, over, or under
any crossing gate or barrier at a railroad grade crossing or bridge
while such gate or barrier is closed or is being opened or closed.
SECTION L: Operators to exercise due care. Notwithstanding
the foregoing provisions of this article, every operator of a
vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any ped-
estrian upon any roadway and shall give warning by sounding the
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horn when necessary and shall exercise special precaution upon
observing any child or any confused or incapacitated person upon
a roadway.
ARTICLE XI. REGULATIONS FOR BICYCLES
SECTION LI: Effect of regulations, (a) The parent of any
child and the guardian of any ward shall not authorize or knowingly
permit any such child or ward to violate any of the provisions of
this article.
(b) These regulations applicable to bicycles shall apply
whenever a•bicycle is operated upon any street or upon any public
path set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles, subject to those
beYceptions stated herein.
SECTTON L.TT: License required. No person, who resides within
this City,. shall ride or propel a bicycle on any street or upon any
public path set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles unless such
bicycle has been licensed and a license plate is attached thereto
as provided herein.
`ECT.`ON LIII: License application. Application for a bicycle
license and license plate shall be made upon a form provided by the
City and shall be made to the Chief of Police. An annual license
fee of 50 cents shall be paid to the City before each license or
renewal thereof is granted. Duplicate license plates may be supplied
for the same cost of the original plate in event of loss of the
plate.
SECTION LIV: Issuance of License. (a) The Chief of Police
Capon -receiving, proper application therefor is authorized to issue
a bicycle license which shall be effective until the next succeeding
first day of July.
(b) The Chief of Police shall not issue a license for any
bici-cle when he knows or has reasonable ground to believe that the
applicant is not owner of, or entitled to the possession of such
bicvcle.
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(c) The Chief of Police shall keep a record of the number
of each license, the date issued, the name and address of the
person to whom issued, the number on the frame of the bicycle
for which issued, and a record of all bicycle license fees
collected by him.
SECTION LV: Attachment of license plate. (a) The Chief
license
of Police, upon issuing a bicycle license, shall also issue a/
plate bearing the license number assigned to the bicycle, the
name of the city, the calendar year for which issued and the
expiration date thereof.
(b) The Chief of Police shall cause such license plate to
be attached Firmly to the rear mudguard or frame of the bicycle
for which issued in such position as to be plainly visible from
the rear.
(c) No person shall remove a license plate from a bicycle
during the period for which issued except upon a transfer of
ownership or in the event the bicycle is dismantled and no longer
operated upon any street in this City.
SECTION LVI: Inspection of bicycles. The Chief of Police,
or an officer assigned such responsibility, shall inspect each
bicycle before licensing the same and shall refuse a license for
any bicycle which he determines is in unsafe mechanical condition.
SECTION LVII: Renewal of license. Upon the expiration of any
bicycle license, the same may be renewed upon application and pay-
ment of the same fee as upon an original application.
SECTION LVIII: Transfer of ownership. Upon the sale or other
transfer of a licensed bicycle, the licensee shall remove the
license plate and shall either surrender the same to the Chief of
Police or may upon proper application, but without payment of
additional fee, have said plate assigned to another bicycle owned
by the applicant.
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SECTION LIX: Rental agencies. A rental agency shall not rent
or offer any bicycle for rent unless the bicycle is licensed and
a license plate is attached thereto as provided herein and such
bicycle is equipped with the lamps and other equipment required
in this article.
SECTION LX: Bicycle dealers. Every person engaged in the
business of buying or selling new or second-hand bicycles shall
make a report to the Chief of Police of every bicycle purchased
or sold by such dealer, giving the name and address of the person
from whom purchased or to whom sold, a description of such bicycle
by name or make, the frame number thereof, and the number of
license plate, if any, found thereon.
SECTION LXI: Obedience to traffic-ccntrol devices. (a) Any
person operating a bicycle shall obey the instructions of official
traffic -control signals, signs, and other control devices applic-
able to vehicles, unless otherwise directed by a police officer.
(b) whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that
no right or left or U turn is permitted, no person operating a
bicycle shall disobey the direction of any such sign, except where
such person dismounts from the bicycle to make any such turn, in
which event, such person shall then obey the regulations applicable
to pedestrians.
SECTION LXII: Parkinq. No person shall park a bicycle upon
a street other than upon the roadway against the curb or upon the
sidewalk in a rack to support the bicycle or against a building or
at the curb, in such manner as to afford the least obstruction to
pedestrian traffic.
SECTION LXIII: Riding on sidewalks. (a) No person shall ride
a bicycle upon a sidewalk within a business district.
(b) The Chief of Police is authorized to erect signs on any
sidewalk or roadway prohibiting the riding of bicycles thereon by
any person, and when such signs are in place, no person shall dis-
obey the same.
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(c) Whenever any person is riding a bicycle upon a sidewalk,
such person shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian and
shall give audible signal before overtaking and passing such
pedestrian.
SECTION LXIV: Penalties. Every person convicted o a viola-
tion of any provision of this article shall be punished by a fine
of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprison-
ment for not more than ninety (90) days in jail or both, except
that in the case of children under 18 years of age, the juvenile
offender would be delivered over to the Juvenile Court for appro-
priate action.
ARTICLE XII. METHOD OF PARKING
SECTION LXV: Standing or parking close to curb. No person
shall stand or park a vehicle in a roadway other than parallel
with the edge of the roadway headed in the direction of lawful
traffic movement and with the wheels of the vehicle on that side
which is consistent with the lawful movement of traffic within
twelve (12) inches of the curb or edge of the roadway except as
otherwise provided in this article.
SECTION LXVI: Markings indicating angle parking. The City
Engineer shall determine upon what streets other than those form-
ing a part of the primary or secondary state highways angle park-
ing shall be permitted.
SECTION LXVII: Obedience to angle -parking signs or markings.
(a) Upon those streets which have been signed or marked for
angle parking, no person shall park or stand a vehicle other than
at the angle to the curb or edge of the roadway indicated by such
signs or markings.
(b) Parking Stalls or Spaces. Where parking stalls or spaces
are marked or painted upon the curb and/or pavement of the street,
it shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to park or
angle park so that any part of such vehicle occupies more than one
such space or protrudes beyond the markings designating such space.
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SECTION LXVIII: Permit for loading or unloading at an angle
to the curb. The City Engineer is authorized to issue special per-
mits to permit the backing of a vehicle to the curb for the purpose
of loading or unloading merchandise or materials subject to the
terms and conditions of such permit. Such permits may be issued
either to the owner or lessee of real property or to the owner of
the vehicle and shall grant to such person the privilege as herein
stated and authorized herein, and it shall be unlawful for any per-
mittee or other person to violate any of the special terms or con-
ditions of any such permit. Provided, however, that no permit issued
hereunder shall be exclusive.
ARTICLE XIII. STOPPING, STANDING, OR PARKING
PROHIBITED IN SPECIFIED PLACES.
SECTION LXIX: Parking not to obstruct traffic. No person
shall park any vehicle upon a street, other than an alley, in such
a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than
8 feet of the width of the roadway for free movement of vehicular
traffic.
SECTION LXX: Parking in alleys. No person shall park a
vehicle within an alley in such a manner or under such conditions
as to leave available less than 8 feet of the width of the roadway
for the free movement of vehicular traffic, and no person shall
stop, stand, or park a vehicle within an alley in such position
as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting property.
SECTION LXXI: Parking for certain purposes prohibited. No
person shall park a vehicle upon any roadway for the principal pur-
pose of:
(a) Displaying such vehicle for sale or for advertising serv-
ices for vehicles.
(b) Washing, greasing, or repairing such vehicle except re-
pairs necessitated by an emergency.
SECTION LXXII: Parking adjacent to schools. (a) The City
Engineer is hereby authorized to erect signs indicating no parking
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upon either or both sides of any street adjacent to any school
property when such parking would, in his opinion, interfere with
traffic or create a hazardous situation.
(b) When official signs are erected indicating no parking
upon that side of a street adjacent to any school property, no
person shall park a vehicle in any such designated place.
SECTION LXXIII: Parking prohibited on narrow streets
(a) The City Engineer is hereby authorized to erect signs indi-
cating no parking upon both sides of a street when the width of
the improved roadway does not exceed 20 feet, or upon one side of
a street as indicated by such signs when the width of the improved
roadway is between 20 and 28 feet.
(b) When official signs prohibiting parking are erected upon
narrow streets as authorized herein, no person shall park a
vehicle upon any such street in violation of any such sign.
SECTION LXXIV: No stopping, standing or parking near hazardous
or congested places. (a) The City Engineer is hereby authorized
to determine and designate by proper signs, places not exceeding
100 feet in length in which the stopping, standing or parking of
vehicles would create an especially hazardous condition or would
unusual
cause/delay to traffic.
(b) When official signs are erected at hazardous or congested
places as authorized herein, no person shall stop, stand, or park
a vehicle in any such designated place.
ARTICLE XIV. STOPPING FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING ONLY
SECTION LXXV: City Engineer to desiqnate curb loading zones
The City Engineer is hereby authorized to determine the location of
passenger and freight curb loading zones and shall place and main-
tain appropriate signs indicating the same and stating the hours
during which the provisions of this section are applicable. No
person shall be granted the right, use, or franchise for vehicle
parking of any portion or the surface area of any public highway
to the exclusion of any other like person.
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SECTION LXXVI: Permits for curb loading zones: -(a) The City
Engineer shall not hereafter designate or sign any curb loading zone
upon special request of any person unless such person makes appli-
cation for a permit for such zone and for two signs to indicate the
ends of each such zone, provided, however, that no permit issued
hereunder shall be exclusive. The City Engineer, upon granting a
permit and issuing such signs, shall collect from the applicant and
deposit in the city treasury a service fee of Twenty -Five Dollars
($25.00) per year or fraction thereof and may by general regulations
impose conditions upon the use of such signs and for reimbursement
of the City for the value thereof in the event of their loss or
damage and their return in the event of misuse or upon expiration
of permit. Every such permit shall expire at the end of one (1)
year.
SECTION LXXVII: Standing in passenger curb loading zone. No
person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle for any purpose or period
of time other than for the expeditious loading or unloading of pass-
engers in any place marked as a passenger curb loading zone during
hours when the regulations applicable to such curb loading zone are
effective, and then only for a period not to exceed three (3) minutes.
SECTION LXXVIII: Standing in freight curb loading zone No
person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle for any purpose or length
of time other than for the expeditious unloading and delivery or
pick-up and loading of materials in any place marked as a freight
curb loading :sone during hours when the provisions applicable to such
zones are in effect. In no case shall the stop for loading and un-
loading of materials exceed thirty (30) minutes.
SECTION LXXIX: City Engineer to designate public carrier stands
The City Engineer is hereby authorized and required to establish bus
stops, bus stands, and stands for other passenger common -carrier motor
vehicles except taxicabs, on such public streets in such places and
in such number as he shall determine to be of the greatest benefit
and convenience to the public, and every such bus stop, bus stand, or
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other stand shall be designated by appropriate signs.
SECTION LXXX: Stopping, standing, and parking of busses and
taxicabs regulated. (a) The operator of a bus shall not stand or
park such vehicle upon any street at any place other than a bus
stand so designated as provided herein.
(b) The operator of a bus shall not stop such vehicle upon any
street at any place for the purpose of loading or unloading pass-
engers or their baggage other than at a bus stand, bus stop, or
passenger loading zone so designated as provided herein, except
an
in case of/emergency.
(c) The operator of a bus shall enter a bus stop, bus stand,
or passenger loading zone on a public street in such a manner that
the bus when stopped to load or unload passengers or baggage shall
be in a position with the right front wheel of such vehicle not
further than 18 inches from .the curb and the bus approximately
parallel to the curb so as not to impede unduly the movement of
other vehicular traffic.
(d) The operator of a taxicab shall not stand or park such
vehicle upon any street at any place other than in a taxicab stand
so designated as provided by ordinance. This provision shall not
JAI prevent the operator of a taxicab from temporarily stopping in
accordance with other stopping or parking regulations at any place
for the purpose of and while actually engaged in the expeditious
loading or unloading of passengers.
ARTICLE XV. STOPPING, STANDING, OR PARKING
RESTRICTED OR PROHIBITED ON CERTAIN STREETS
SECTION LXXXI: Application of article. The provisions of this
article prohibiting the standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply
at all times or at those times herein specified or as indicated on
official signs except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to
avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direct-
ions of a police officer or official traffic -control device.
SECTION LXXXII: Regulations not exclusive. The provisions of
this article imposing a time limit on parking shall not relieve
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any person from the duty to observe other and more restrictive pro-
visions prohibiting or limiting the stopping, standing, or parking
of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.
SECTION LXXXIII: Parking prohibited at all times on certain
streets. When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person
shall park a vehicle at any time upon any of the streets described
in Chapter 5 entitled "No Parking Areas" of Title X (Traffic) of
Ordinance No. 1628.
SECTION LXXXIV: Parking prohibited during certain hours on
certain streets. When signs are erected in each block giving notice
thereof, no person shall park a vehicle between the hours specified
in Sections 10-502, 503, 504, 505 and 506, of TITLE X (TRAFFIC) of
Ordinance No. 1628. Unless otherwise posted by appropriate signs,
such parking shall not be prohibited on Sundays and Public Holidays.
"Public Holidays" within the meaning of this section embrace only
days for the observance of the birth of George Washington on the
twenty-second day of February; for Decoration Day on the thirtieth
day of May; for the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
on the fourth day of July; for Labor Day on the first Monday in
September; for Veterans' Day on the eleventh day of November; for
Thanksgiving Day on the date so fixed for the observance thereof by
the Governor of the State of Washington; for Christmas Day on the
twenty-fifth day of December; and for New Year's Day on the first
day of each new year. If any of these public holidays falls upon
any Sunday, the day next following such date shall be the holiday
therefor.
SECTION LXXXV: Parking signs required. Whenever by this or
any other ordinance of this City any parking time limit is imposed
or parking is prohibited on designated streets, it shall be the
duty of the City Engineer to erect appropriate signs giving notice
thereof, and no such regulations shall be effective unless said signs
are erected and in place at the time of any alleged offense.
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ARTICLE XVI. REGULATING THE KINDS AND
CLASSES OF TRAFFIC ON CERTAIN HIGHWAYS
SECTION LXXXVI: Load restrictions upon vehicles using certain
streets. Whenever by this or any other ordinance of this City the
gross weight of any vehicle is limited to operate upon any of the
streets or parts of streets, no person shall operate any such
vehicle with a gross weight in excess of the amounts so specified
provided that the City Engineer has erected proper signs giving
notice thereof.
SECTION LXXXVII: Commercial vehicles prohibited from using
certain streets. When signs are erected giving notice thereof;
including the specifications of truck routes, no person shall oper-
ate any commercial vehicle exceeding 10,000 pounds gross weight
at any time upon any of the streets or parts of streets so posted,
except that such vehicles may be operated thereon for the purpose
of delivering or picking up materials or merchandise and then only
by entering such street at the intersection nearest the destination
of the vehicle and proceeding thereon no farther than the nearest
intersection thereafter.
SECTION LXXXVIII: Restrictions upon use of streets by certain
vehicles. (a) The City Engineer is hereby authorized to determine
and designate those heavily traveled streets upon which shall be
prohibited the use of the roadway by motor -driven cycles, bicycles,
horsedrawn vehicles, or other non -motorized traffic and shall erect
appropriate signs giving notice thereof.
(b) When signs are so erected giving notice thereof, no person
shall disobey the restrictions stated on such signs.
ARTICLE XVII. PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE ON ARREST
SECTION LXXXIX: Penalties. Unless another penalty is expressly
provided by law, every person convicted of a violation of any pro-
vision of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of not more
than Five Hundred Dollar s($500.00) or by imprisonment for not more
than (90) days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
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SECTION XC: Procedure of police officers (a) Whenever any
person is arrested for any violation of this ordinance, except those
mentioned in subsection (b) hereof, the arresting officer may serve
upon him a traffic citation and notice to appear in court. Such
citation and notice shall conform to the requirements of the Traffic
Rules of the "General Rules for Courts of Limited Jurisdiction" as
adopted by the Supreme Court of the State of Washington on February
13, 1963, and as same may be amended from time to time.
(b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not
apply to any person arrested and charged with an offense causing or
contributing to an accident resulting in injury or death to any
person or to any person charged with reckless driving, or to any
person charged with driving while under the influence of intoxicating
liquor or narcotic or other drugs, or to any person whom the arresting
officer shall have good cause to believe has committeed any felony,
and the arresting officer shall take such person to the police station
to be booked.
SECTION XCI: Disposition and records of traffic citations,
warrants and complaints The disposition and records of traffic citat-
ions, warrants and complaints shall be handled as set forth by the
"Traffic Rules for Courts of Limited Jurisdiction" as promulgated
by the Supreme Court of the State of Washington under date of February
13, 1963, and as same may be amended from time to time.
SECTION XCII: Notice on illegally parked vehicle Whenever any
motor vehicle without operator is found parked, angle parked, or
stopped in violation of any of the restrictions imposed by ordinance
of this City, the officer finding such vehicle shall take its reg-
istration number and may take any other information displayed on the
vehicle which may identify its user, and shall conspicuously affix
to such vehicle a notice in writing, on a form provided by the City,
for the operator to answer to the charge against him within twenty-
four hours (24), at a place specified in the notice. The officer
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shall deposit the original or a copy of each traffic citation
with the Municipal Judge of the city having jurisdiction over the
offense or with the City's traffic violations bureau.
SECTION XCIII: Failure to comply with notice attached to
parked vehicle. If a violator of the restrictions on stopping,
standing, or parking under the traffic laws or ordinances does not
appear in response to a notice affixed to such motor vehicle within
a period of twenty-four (24) hours, the clerk of the traffic court
or its violation bureau shall send to the owner of the motor vehicle
to which the notice was affixed a letter informing him of the viola-
tion and warning him that in the event such letter is disregarded
for a period of five (5) days, a complaint will be filed and
warrant of arrest issued.
SECTION XCIV: Presumption in reference to illegal parking
(a) In any prosecution charging a violation of any law or regula-
tion governing the standing or parking of a vehicle, proof that
the particular vehicle described in the complaint was parked in
violation of any such law or regulation, together with proof that
the defendant named in the complaint was at the time of such park-
ing the registered owner of such vehicle, shall constitute in evid-
ence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of such
vehicle was the person who parked or placed such vehicle at the
point where, and for the time during which, such violation occurred.
(b) The foregoing stated presumption shall apply only when the
procedure as prescribed in Sections XCII and XCIII has been followed.
SECTION XCV: When warrant to be issued. In the event any per-
son fails to comply with a traffic citation given to such person or
attached to a vehicle or fails to make appearance pursuant to a
summons directing an appearance in traffic court, or if any person
fails or refuses to deposit bail as required and within the time E-er-
mitted by ordinance, the clerk of the traffic court shall secure
and issue a warrant for his arrest.
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SECTION XCVI: Disposition of traffic fines and forfeitures All
fines or forfeitures collected upon conviction or upon the forfeiture
of bail of any person charged with a violation of any of the provis-
ions of this ordinance shall be paid into the general fund of the
City,
SECTION XCVII: Official misconduct. Failure, refusal, or neg-
lect on the part of any judicial or other officer or employee re-
ceiving or having custody of any such fine or forfeiture of bail,
either before or after a deposit in said City general fund, to com-
ply with the provisions of Section XCVI shall constitute misconduct
in office and shall be ground for removal therefrom, provided appro-
priate removal action is taken pursuant to state law relating to re-
moval of public officials.
SECTION XCVIII: Authority to impound vehicles (a) Members of
the police department are hereby authorized to remove a vehicle from
a street or highway to the nearest garage or other place of safety
or to a garage designated or maintained by the police department or
otherwise maintained by this City, under the circumstances hereinafter
enumerated.
(1) When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge,
viaduct, or causeway, or in any tunnel where such vehicle constitutes
an obstruction to traffic.
(2) When a vehicle upon a highway (or street, including tunnels,
bridges, or approaches) is so disabled as to constitute an obstruction
to traffic or when the person or persons in charge of the vehicle are
by reason of physical injury incapacitated to such an extent as to
be unable to provide for its custody or removal.
(3) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a street and is so
parked illegally as to constitute a definite hazard or obstruction
to the normal movement of traffic.
(b) Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street as
authorized in this section, he shall report the abandoned vehicle to
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the chief of the Washington State Patrol, and if the officer knows
or is able to ascertain from the registration records in the vehicle
the name and address of the registered and legal owner thereof;
such officer shall immediately give or cause personal notice to be
given in writing to such owner, if any record exists of the regis-
tered or legal owner in the State of Washington, of the fact of such
removal and the reasons therefore and to the place of which such
vehicle has been removed. The abandoned vehicle shall be taken
into the custody of the sheriff of the county where it has been
abandoned, and stored. In the event any such vehicle is stored in
a public garage, a copy of such notice shall be given to the pro-
prietor of such garage.
(c) Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street under
this section and does not know and is not able to ascertain the
name of the owner, or for any other reason is unable to give the
notice to the owner as hereinbefore provided, and in the event the
vehicle is not returned to the owner within a period of three (3)
days, then and in that event, the officer shall immediately send
or cause to be sent written report of such removal by mail to the
State Department whose duty it is to register motor vehicles, and
shall file a copy of such notice with the proprietor of any public
garage in which the vehicle may be stored. Such notice shall in -
elude a complete description of the vehicle, the date, time, and
place from which removed, the reasons for such removal, and name of
the garage or place where the vehicle is stored.
(d) Any cost incurred in the removal thereof shall be paid by
the owner of the vehicle so removed, and the same shall be a lien
upon such vehicle.
ARTICLE XVIII. ADOPTION BY REFERENCE
SECTION XCIX: Statutes adopted. The following statutes are
hereby adopted by reference.
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RCW 16.24.065
46.37.350
16.24.070
46.37.360
46.04.010
through 46.37.370
46.04.680
except 46.37.380
46.04.440
& 46.04.070 46.37.390
46.08.040
46.37.400
46.08.050
46.37.410
46.08.060
46.37.420
46.08.080
46.37.430
46.08.190
46.37.440
46.16.135
46.37.450
46.20.020
46.37.460
46.20.420
46.37.470
46.32.060
46.37.480
46.32.070
46.37.500
46.37.010
46.44.010
46.37.020
46.44.020
46.37.030
46.44.030
46.37.040
46.44.034
46.37.050
46.44.036
46.37.060
46.44.040
46.37.070
46.44.042
46.37.080
46.44.044
46.37.090
46.44.045
46.37.100
46.44.046
46.37.110
46.44.047
46.37.120
46.44.050
46.37.130
46.44.060
46.37.140
46.44.070
46.37.150
46.44.100
46.37.160
46.44.110
46.37.170
46.47.010 with the except -
46.37.180
ion of the lst sentence thereof
46.37.185
46.47.020
46.37.186
46.47.030
46.37.187
46.47.040
46.37.188
46.47.050
46.37.190
46.47.060
46.37.192
46.47.070
46.37.200
46.47.080
46.37.210
46.47.090
46.37.220
46.48.010
46.37.230
46.48.020
46.37.240
46.48.021
46.37.250
46.48.022
46.37.260
46.48.023
46.37.270
46.48.024
46.37.280
46.48.025
46.37.290
46.48.026
46.37.300
46.48.027
46.37.310
46.48.050
46.37.340
46.48.060
46.48.070
46.60.100
46.48.080
46.60.110
46.48.090
46.60.120
46.48.100
46.60.130
.J 46.48.110
46.60.140
46.48.130
46.60.150
46.48.140
46.60.160
46.48.170
46.60.170
46.48.270
46.60.180
46.48.280
46.60.190
46.52.010
46.60.200
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46.52.020
46.60.210
46.52.030
46.60.220
46.52.040
46.60.230
46.52.070
46.60,240
46.52.090
46.60.250
46.52.110
46.60..260
46.56.010
except the 46.60.270
last paragraph
thereof 46.60.280
46.56.020
46.60.290
46.56.030
46.60.300
46.56.050
46.60.310
46.56.060
46.60.320
46.56.070
46.64.010
46.56.080
46.64.020
46.56.090
46.64.030
46.56.100
47.36.130
46.56.110
47.36.140
46.56.120
47.36.170
46.56.130
47.36.180
46.56.135
47.36.200
46.56.140
47.36.220
46.56.150
47.52.010
46.56.160
47.52.011
46.56.170
47.52.040
46.56.180
47.52.110
46.56.190
47.52.120
46:56.200
46.56.210
46.56.220
46.56.230,
with the exception
of the second paragraph thereof.
46.60.010
46.60.020
46.60.040
46.60.050
46.60.070
46.60.080
ARTICLE XIX. EFFECT OF, AND SHORT TITLE OF,
ORDINANCE
SECTION C: Effect of partial invalidity. If any part or parts
of this ordinance are for any reason held to be invalid, such de-
cision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of
this ordinance.
SECTION CI: Repeal. Chapter I of Title X (TRAFFIC), except
Section 10-1-207 thereof, of Ordinance No. 1628, known as the Code
of General Ordinances of the City of Renton, is hereby repealed,
together with all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
with, or inconsistent with, the provisions of this ordinance. Pro-
vided however, that this repeal shall not affect or prevent the pro-
secution or punishment of any person for any act done or committed
in violation of any ordinance hereby repealed prior to the taking
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effect of this ordinance.
SECTION CII: Short Title. This ordinance may be known and
cited as the Traffic Ordinance.
SECTION CIII: Effective date. This ordinance shall take
effect on and after the 3rd day of July , 1963, and after its
passage, approval and legal publication.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL this 24th day of June, 1963.
HELMIE NELSON, City Clerk
APPROVED BY THE MAYOR this 24th day of , 1963.
FRANK ALIMENT, Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
VCLalU 1'1. oiielian, t.;1Ly E-�ttorney
DATE OF PUBLICATION: July 3, 1963