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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 2041Y T Ca ) V 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. 14 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, -2- n Y t I I 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. -3- 11 3- J r ,'' • f lam` � ,. 4 i (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. -4- 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. -5- a - r (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 4 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. -6- ft 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 -7- � t � 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. -8- � c C 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. -9- _i Y 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 -10- `r 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 -10- 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 -11- 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 -12- f Z "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 -13- 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. -14- f 11 4 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 -•15- 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. -16- c 4• (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. -17- 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. -18- a Y (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. -19- 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 IMM 1 I � 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. -21- 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 -22- 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 -23- . 1 . X Y' 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. -24- 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. -25- s 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 -26- 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. -27- s 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 -28- 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. -29- -30- s 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 -30- 41 A 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 -30- ORIGINAL 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